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CONTENTS On the Cover There were high hopes for the $2 million Opportunity Initiative Study: to find out if a four-lane highway through remote Graham County, the so-called Corridor K, was needed. The project comes with an enormous price tag and environmental concerns. At the conclusion of the study answers to such questions remain elusive. (Page 8)
News Verizon warms up to camouflage cell phone towers in Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Canton officials assess possibility of proposed Gibsontown gun range . . . . . 7 Ghost Town opens after initial delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Evergreen union negotiations enter another round of talks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Lead levels at firing range revealed to be higher than safe amount . . . . . . . . . 13 Two Haywood County graders rack up a pair of wetland violations . . . . . . . . . 14 Macon kicks in a little more for education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Fracking opponents get organized in Western North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Jackson sheriff candidates head into a runoff election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Cherokee copes with sanitary system woes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Franklin’s interim town manager gets the long-term nod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Opinion Changing mind now won’t undo the damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
A&E Franklin’s Uptown Gallery struggles to survive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Outdoors NASA tries to predict the weather in the Smokies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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Jackson plays hardball with Verizon over Cashiers cell tower BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER ublic concerns over the visual blight of a proposed cell tower in the Cashiers area have prompted Verizon Wireless to alter its design for the tower, namely by disguising it to look like a very tall, very big pine tree. It is an about-face considering Verizon’s initial resistance to a pine-tree-look-alike tower. But Jackson County was poised to mandate a pine-tree design — as opposed to a single monopole tower — as a condition of the cell tower permit. The county can require socalled “stealth technology” to lessen the visual impact of a tower. It is up to the discretion of the county planning office, and that’s indeed the route the county was headed when Verizon chose to adopt the pine-tree design voluntarily last week, according to Jackson Planner Gerald Green. “Given the natural setting of the proposed site, and the views of the site from Whiteside Mountain trails and other locations, the consideration of camouflaging the tower to lessen its visual effect on the environment is required,” Green wrote to Verizon’s cell tower liaisons last Wednesday. By that afternoon, Green got word that Verizon had agreed to a pine-tree design. Residents of the Whiteside Cove area have bombarded the county planning office with emails over the proposed tower in their community. Most residents couched their criticism: they were fans of the tower in this cellservice deprived area but wanted it to blend in as much as possible. “My husband and I moved here partly because of the beautiful scenery and do not wish to see a cell phone tower sticking up from the trees,” Joan Marsden, a fulltime resident of Cashiers, wrote in an email to the county planning office last week. “If we have to have a cell phone tower, I would much prefer it to be
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A cell tower disguised as a pine tree erected in 2005 on nearby Satulah Mountain has been been heralded as a “best practice” in public comments over Verizon’s proposed Whiteside Cove tower. Donated photo Green wrote a formal letter to Verizon’s cell tower liaisons last week itemizing several deficiencies in their plan that must be addressed before it can move forward. Those included: • A written report showing “meaningful efforts” to find an existing tower or structure
to house the antennas in lieu of building a new tower. • An analysis showing why existing towers aren’t suitable to provide service to the area, or showing the absence of towers with coverage in the area. • Evidence cell service is needed in the area and why this area is being targeted for service as opposed to other high-priority areas that may also lack service. • Proof why the tower can’t be built
somewhere else, namely outside of a residential area. The county’s ordinance bans cell towers in residential areas unless it’s the only way to serve that area. • A visual impact assessment, including a “zone of visibility map,” photo simulations of before-and-after views of the tower, and a written description of the tower’s visual impact. • A plan showing how the site on the ground will be screened and equipment sheds will be built to blend in to the surroundings. • Redesign of the access road leading to the base of the tower. As currently proposed, it is too steep and does not meet county requirements to minimize disturbance. • Copy of a lease for the property where the tower will be sited. Green said the county’s cell tower requirements are fairly standard. “Jackson County’s ordinance is not unique,” Green said. The Jackson County Planning Board continues its ongoing discussion about revisions to the county’s ordinance addressing cell phone towers during its next meeting, scheduled for 6 p.m. July 10 at the Jackson County Justice Center.
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the ‘stealth technology’ tower — the one that looks more like a tree — NOT the white column that is such a visible eyesore.” More than a dozen similar emails flooded the county in a week’s time. “One of the attractions to this area are the undisturbed views of the countryside. To have any type of construction that would impact these views would be very disturbing and should not be approved,” wrote Geza and Zauzsanna Wass de Czege, property owners in Whiteside Cove. If cell service is a must, “the least would be to insure that the towers blend with the environment” to protect the views “which have been enjoyed since the first settlers moved into the cove,” the couple wrote. It’s been at least five years since a new cell tower has been proposed in Jackson County. But there have been plenty of requests from cell phone companies wanting to put their antennas on existing towers — a handful in the past month alone. “They try to maximize the use of the existing towers. It is cheaper to locate on an existing tower than construct a new tower,” Green said. Jackson, like most counties, actually requires cell phone companies to share tower space with each other. Whoever owns a particular tower is forced to lease antennae space to competing cell companies that want in on the game. And likewise, a cell company wanting to expand coverage can’t erect its own tower if there’s an existing one in the vicinity that fits the bill. “The goal is to try to minimize the number of towers and consider other options rather than just build a new tower,” Green said. Verizon is being sent back to the drawing board on other aspects of its application as well. The initial permit application didn’t pass muster, and thus won’t get a public hearing before the Jackson planning board until August.
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“Our intent is what it always was, which was just to see if there was anywhere we could build it, whether it be somewhere else in Haywood County or near Canton.” — Gail Mull, Canton alderwoman
similar sentiments. “The vote was never to pit one community against another,” he said. The goal was only to ensure “the Canton Police Department has the equipment and services they need to protect our community.” Vendler-Hoss said the police department would ultimately like a shooting range to call its own, instead of sharing the Waynesville range as it is in the interim. But, “We will find other options if that’s what we need to do,” Vendler-Hoss said. Alderman Zeb Smathers also noted the board has yet to further discuss the issue since first hearing the grievances from Gibsontown residents at the June 26 budget meeting. The next board meeting is at 6:30 p.m. July 10. “We haven’t gotten to any point to look at the pros and cons. We have heard the sides against it, and there may be other sides,” Smathers said. “Our commitment to the police department is to build a firing range — where and when that will be? I don’t know.” The next step for the town, should it decide to keep exploring the Gibsontown site for a shooting range, would be a public outreach process to gauge sentiment and input from the community. But the idea was only in its infancy, and the town simply
Officials in the town of Forest Hills in Jackson County recently explored the possibility of providing trash and recycling collection service to residents. It was a brief exploration. “We were wondering why nobody’s ever thought of garbage service and we just wanted to get a ballpark,” said Forest Hills Mayor Kolleen Begley. “It was just way too high.” Town leaders were exploring the concept of offering residents the collection service via tax dollar funding sometime in the future. “It’s $50,000 a year and we only have an $80,000 budget,” Begley said. More specifically, Forest Hills was quoted $39,000 for weekly trash pick-up, and $15,000 for bi-weekly recycling collection. If Forest Hills opted to charge its 125 households a fee to pay for the collection service, the service would have cost about $430 annually a piece, or around $36 monthly per household. — Jeremy Morrison, News Editor
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hadn’t gotten to that step yet, they said. “It was always our intention to make sure the community was aware of this and we could hear their concerns,” Smathers said. “The Gibsontown concerns were listened to, as will be the concerns of everyone else with this issue.” Hamlett and Mull said the town always intended to reach out to the community and weigh their input before making any final decisions. “We’ve got to make sure we communicate better and what we should do is encourage all members of our community to come to open meetings and address their concerns,” Hamlett said. Mull made the same pledge. “It is a community thing and it will be discussed in the community. We will have town and public meetings to discuss this. We are trying to have an open forum and involve the community moving forward — no surprises,” Mull said. The residents of Gibsontown learned of the idea after a $3,500 earmark for a firing range showed up in the town’s annual budget that was passed at the June 26 meeting. The Canton board looked at the new proposed property as the most logical
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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER fter a firestorm of public outcry over the prospect of a firing range being built in an African-American neighborhood in Canton, town board members appear to have the issue on hold. “There has been no movement on the project,” said Town Manager Seth HendlerVoss, explaining that the town has no further action planned at this time. Canton recently lost the use of its old firing range at a landfill site owned by Evergreen Packaging. On the prowl for a new site, the town eyed its old landfill on Dutch Cove Road, a busy thoroughfare for the Gibsontown community. That didn’t sit well with residents of the historically black neighborhood, who accused town leaders of discriminating against their community due to its lower socio-economic status and race makeup. An outpouring of Gibsontown residents appeared at the June 26 town board budget meeting and have mounted vocal opposition to the firing range. “The ball is still rolling. It’s still brewing. There’s a buzz going on. We can’t really trust the town, it’s all kinds of little things,” Gibsontown resident Ken Davis said this week. It appears for now, the shooting range is on the backburner, however, pending direct instructions from the town board to town staff to continue exploring the idea. Through all the controversy and hearsay, the town board has remained steadfast in their original mission: to find a place for the firing range, somewhere. “We allocated the money to pursue looking at somewhere to build one and it’s certainly still active as to where it will be built,” said Alderwoman Gail Mull. “Our intent is what it always was, which was just to see if there was anywhere we could build it, whether it be somewhere else in Haywood County or near Canton.” Alderman Dr. Ralph Hamlett echoed
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place for the range, since there’s not much else they could do with the old landfill property anyway. The board reiterated that the proposed firing range is not a race issue. Both Mull and Hamlett also noted they are members of the newly formed Haywood County chapter of the National Association for the Advancemet of Colored People. “I’m opposed to ‘isms’ of any sort — ageism, sexism and, yes, racism,” Hamlett said. But residents of Gibsontown viewed it as another community problem again pushed onto their neighborhood — an area already buffered by two landfills. “Our primary concern is the safety, noise concerns and traffic patterns with this range,” Gibsontown resident Wanda Walker told the town board at June 26 meeting. “Please consider our concerns, these people live a few steps from this proposed range.” Davis said the next step for Gibsontown would be to look into getting an attorney involved and perhaps the Haywood County chapter of the NAACP, too. And, it seems, while Gibsontown is waiting to see the next move of the town, the NAACP is waiting to see the next move of Gibsontown. “We have no plans to look into it until we hear anything more,” said Katherine Bartel, assistant secretary of the Haywood County NAACP. “They (Gibsontown) can file a grievance on the issue and we can go from there, but no one has yet to do so.”
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The road ahead Opt-In study concludes, Corridor K debate continues
BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER fter a year-long study capping off years of debate, the verdict is in on what’s next for the controversial Corridor K road project — sort of. There were high hopes for the $2 million Opportunity Initiative Study at the outset: to find a clear answer for whether a four-lane highway through the remote mountains of Graham County is worth the enormous price tag and environmental damage, whether it is in fact wanted by the majority of people, and whether it will indeed be a magic bullet to bring the rural county into the 21st century economy. But those answers remain nearly as elusive and subjective as they were before the study commenced — answers that had been bitterly fought and argued for over two decades already. The only consensus reached was that the region needs better road connectivity. But when it came to how exactly to achieve that goal, the waters got a little muddy. Graham is the only western county without a four-lane highway running through it, with winding country roads serving as the only ingress and egress. Corridor K critics suggest beefing up the existing two-lane road with wider shoulders, gentler curves and a few passing lanes — in lieu of a brand-new, four-lane, cross-country highway. “But those that don’t have access to those good, faster corridors tend to want improved infrastructure,” said Ryan Sherby, executive director of the Southwestern Commission. “It depends which county and which resident you’re talking to.” There are two major stumbling blocks to Corridor K. One is the price tag. There’s not enough state and federal money currently budgeted to build the four-lane highway. The other is state and federal environmental permits, which have thus far been held up. A survey included in the Opt-In study asked people whether they preferred a new four-lane highway or upgrades to existing two-lane roads — given the realities of funding and environmental hurdles. • 73 percent wanted to minimize environmental damage or build what’s possible within budget realities, even if that means building something smaller than the fourlane highway that the N.C. Department of Transportation wants. • Only 27 percent wanted to vigorously pursue building a four-lane highway, even if funding isn’t certain. While the regional consensus favored 8 smaller-scale road improvements, the desire
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of the people who would be most affected by the road — Graham County residents — reflected the opposite. “For a county like Graham that doesn’t have the existing infrastructure, you see a different perspective,” Sherby said. And that’s the premise behind Opt-In’s verdict: appoint a Corridor K task force. The
What is Corridor K, and what makes it so controversial that it took a $2 million study to conclude that a task force should be formed to advocate for it — without even a solid definition of what “it” should be? It all goes back to 1963, when the President’s Appalachian Regional Commission reported that the eastern mountains would never be able to develop economically until better routes of transportation replaced the narrow, winding roads that provided slow and sometimes hazardous travel corridors. Two years later, the Appalachian Development Act was passed, authorizing construction of a 3,090-mile highway system through the Appalachians. Money was appropriated, and building commenced. Fifty years later, the Appalachians have a stable of sturdy highways that have punc-
don’t have a vested interest in Graham County, they’re opposed to any improvement in Graham County. “I’ve seen good friends die because they don’t have access to a hospital. We need a better highway system in Graham County,” he said. Ambulance transport to a hospital in a neighboring county is too slow in the event of major trauma and medical emergencies, requiring a medical air lift. But helicopters can’t always land in bad weather. “I’ve heard that over and over in Graham County,” Sherby said. “For our major medical emergencies you have a small window of opportunity to save that life. If weather’s good and you can get a helicopter in there, you have success.” If the weather’s not good, not so much. All parties agree that there’s a clear need, but they don’t agree on a clear answer. Is it a bigger road? If so, what does “bigger” mean? Four lanes and a 40-foot median? Wider shoulders and climbing lanes on steep sections? Improvements to existing roads or a new path blazed across the mountainsides?
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Which leads to the real question: What, exactly, is “Corridor K?” “Building of Corridor K can mean a lot of things depending on who you are asking,” said D.J. Gerken, managing attorney at the Southern Environmental Law center in Asheville. Corridor K refers to a rough route, more than anything, connecting Stecoah Valley and Robbinsville, but no one quite agrees on how it should wind up looking. The DOT’s preferred solution is an 18-mile, four-lane highway with a 30-foot median that would provide seamless four-lane travel through Graham, a missing link the The proposed route would build a highway through some of the most rugged land in the Appalachians, highway system between Bryson granting Graham County vital access to the outside but also taking an environmental toll. City to Andrews. To avoid crossing the Appalachian Trail, the Opt-In concluded a task force comprised of tured the impassable mountain passes and DOT proposes to build a half-mile tunnel local governments, advocacy groups and civic paved the way for industry, commerce and through the mountains, thus going under the leaders should “advocate for the completion tourism. A.T. for a crossing. But not in Graham County. One of the of North Carolina’s segments of Corridor K,” But for some people, that’s a solution ensuring “timely implementation, secure most remote and topographically extreme that’s not a solution at all. funding, and fast track environmental review regions of the Appalachians, Graham “When you have a wide four-lane roadway County has no hospital, no higher educa- designed for near-interstate speeds, it can’t and design.” It’s not surprising, considering the players tion, an unemployment rate that’s always follow the terrain as much as a somewhat that commissioned the Opt-In study in the well above the state average, a high poverty more restrained and more realistic road footfirst place. It was initiated by the rate, low average household income and no print could,” Gerken said. “As a result, under Southwestern Commission, a consortium of four-lane roads. DOT’s proposal it was just simply not an According to County Manager Greg option not to climb up on any of the grades. town and county governments throughout the seven western counties. Local govern- Cable, it’s a cause and effect. Graham’s They had to blast them. The environmental ment leaders in the region have historically socioeconomic ills can be blamed on no four- impacts increase exponentially under DOT’s lined up behind Corridor K out of deference lane highway. one-size-fits-all vision for the project.” “This is a debate that’s gone on for 60 to Graham, and the idea of the task force to In other words, Gerken said, while a narcarry the Corridor K torch is in line with their years,” Cable said. “Quite honestly, a lot of rower road can adapt to the contours of the folks who don’t live in Graham County, they rugged landscape rather naturally, a four-lane the long-standing stance.
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major roads.” WaysSouth, an organization that advocates for environmentally responsible transportation development in the Appalachian South, and N.C. Alliance for Transportation Reform are in the process of shopping around a resolution against the four-lane option to counties in the region.
HIGH COSTS, SHALLOW POCKETS Roads are never cheap, but N.C. DOT’s preferred option would be about as un-cheap as you can get. The full cost of a four-lane road traversing Graham County is $800 million. DOT only has $280 million in the kitty, however, money that had accumulated in the Appalachian Development Highway System fund until Congress stopped adding to that pot in 2013. The rest of the money would probably have to come from state or federal funding.
on your side. And anyway, it’s best to start with the best-case-scenario and go down from there if necessary. “Right now it’s set up a four-lane road with a 40-foot divide in the median,” Cable said. “We’re not saying it has to be that way. We’re going to put it in the plan that’s the way it is because that’s the way it’s already been, but we’re willing to come to the table and discuss ways to do that.”
PRIORITIZING THE WISH LIST But, four-lane opponents ask, is a new road really the best way to spend $800 million anyway? “I think these folks have the idea that if they build this four-lane highway that all of their problems are going to be solved, that suddenly there’s going to be manufacturing in the area,” Mayes said. “But anyone who has been around for the last 20 or 30 years knows that most manufacturing is in China, and that’s not going to change. It’s just being set up as an argument about a four-lane or else. I think that’s a false equivalency.” Graham County is still smarting after its largest employer, Stanley Furniture, closed down its Robbinsville plant in April. The plant had employed 400 people, a large proportion of the workforce in a county of 9,000 people and an unemployment rate of 12.7 percent as of March. The company’s message is that the plant closed because it wasn’t making enough revenue, but Cable can’t help but think that things might have been different had the transportation situation been better. The Opt-In study, though, didn’t look at transportation in isolation. It looked at the Corridor K issue in connection with all the other issues and innovations that could have an effect on WNC’s future, including what kinds of businesses might find the perfect
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divided highway needs a wider berth than the mountain topography can give it. So, building the wider road means more blasting and more grading to create the space needed to construct it. And that means more disturbance, a huge swath in fact.. “If you build a road with a very large footprint, there isn’t that kind of space in this country,” said Melanie Mayes, executive director of WaysSouth. “There is in Stecoah Valley, but when you go to cross the mountains that space isn’t there. What you’re talking about are massive cuts in the mountainside.” Those cuts would hurt the water quality of streams running through the area, Mayes said, and they’d destroy habitat and connectivity between habitats for the wildlife that live there. “A lot of the impacts are going to be to public land,” Mayes said. “Those public lands are set up with the idea of preserving those lands for the future and to allow wildlife to have someplace to safely live. There are simply many species that can’t coexist next to
Corridor K would have to compete with transportation projects from all over the state and country for dollars. Convincing those that hold the purse strings to part with that kind of money for a road project in a county with a population of 9,000 could be a hard sell. “We all are going to have to be realistic about what can be afforded,” Gerken said. “One way to make this project happen is to adjust the scale of it to something that can fit Graham County’s very real transportation needs but isn’t the same as a freeway through an urban area.” Brian Burch, division construction engineer with the DOT’s office in Sylva, admits securing full funding won’t be an easy road forward, but he doesn’t think WNC has to give up on the idea before it gets off the ground. “We have to remain hopeful if this is a project the region wants and desires to have — and it appears it is — we have to be hopeful we can find the funding,” Burch said. For now, DOT is only pursuing part of Corridor K. The full 18-mile highway is divided in two sections — with Robbinsville more or less in the center. The first section DOT wants to tackle comes in to Robbinsville from the north. It would cost about $378 million, with a tunnel under the Appalachian Trail accounting for $200 million of that. The second section connects with Robbinsville from the south — but that isn’t even in the planning stages yet, let alone funding secured. And without this section, the goal of a four-lane highway all the way through Graham County wouldn’t be realized. It’s a minimum of 30 years out. “From a pragmatic perspective you have to wonder why they aren’t pushing for something that will happen a lot faster and is also affordable,” Mayes said. But affordability is relative, say Corridor K proponents: it all depends on who you can get
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a few engineering. “Through the use of retaining walls, the total area of impact may be reduced by approximately 70 percent,” the report reads. “These grading modifications will also result in substantial reductions to the total amount of forest disturbance and stream disturbance.” A major sticking point The DOT contends when considering the a faster, safer environmental impact of new road is how it transportation route any would cross the Appalachian Trail. The is also needed four-lane option blasts a through the region, half-mile tunnel underthe trail, sparing something that only neath the national scenic trail a four-lane highway from a major road crossing. Meanwhile, improvwill accomplish. ing the existing two-lane road would interrupt the trail, requiring a major trail crossing over four lanes, coupled with wide shoulders and deep cuts into the road bank, Stantec claimed. The counter study, however, says that wouldn’t have to be the case if retaining walls were used instead of extensive grading, and options such as a pedestrian bridge could make it even smaller.
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A stalemate in the debate over Corridor K boils down to a central issue: can upgrades to the existing two-lane road do the job, or is a new four-lane highway the only solution? The N.C. Department of Transportation claims a four-lane highway is the only option that would meet the goal of bringing economic development and end the rural isolation that besets Graham County. The DOT contends a faster, safer transportation route is also needed through the region, something that only a four-lane highway will accomplish. But state and federal environmental agencies claimed that the DOT had not sufficiently proved their case. Refusing to grant permits without better justification, the DOT was sent back to the drawing board in 2010 to more fully study the option of improving N.C. 143 leading into Robbinsville. The DOT countered that simply dressing up the winding twolane road through Graham County with an extra climbing lane here and there, wider shoulders and gentler curves isn’t really fixing the problem. But DOT had to “show their work” so to speak, and commissioned a study aimed at doing just that. The result was a report prepared by Raleigh-based Stantec Consulting Resources. The conclusion wasn’t surprising: improving existing N.C. 143 is not a “practicable alternative,” the report states.
The study primarily concentrated on the plethora of environmental impacts that would result from widening existing N.C. 143 — claiming the environmental damage under that option is not much better than a new four-lane highway. But the Southern Environmental Law Center cried foul. It got its hands on correspondence from the DOT to its consultants at Stantec that suggests the environmental impacts were intentionally overblown. “They specifically instructed their contractor to ignore engineering solutions that would less those impacts — so what they ended up with was the worst possible case scenario to improve the existing route,” said DJ Gerken, an attorney with SELC in Asheville. “They really loaded the scale to make improving the existing option unpalatable.” So SELC hired its own consulting company to assess improvements to the existing two-lane road and reached an entirely different conclusion. “We saw the need to look at the two-lane option in a more realistic light by taking really off-the-shelf strategies DOT uses everywhere and applying them to that two-lane footprint and see what you get,” Gerken said. The counter study was also funded in part by The Wilderness Society, the Western North Carolina Alliance, and WaysSouth. A 2012 report by Maryland-based O’Connell and Lawrence challenged assumptions in the DOT-commissioned study and found the environmental impacts on a much lesser scale with
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Though the Corridor K debate was the impetus for the Opportunity Initiative Study, Opt-In wasn’t all about transportation. The results of the year-long regional visioning study has been enlightening, unifying and awash with great ideas to improve the area’s economic and cultural landscape, said Ryan Sherby, executive director of the Southwestern Commission Council of Governments. “We know that our counties are going to have a hard time competing individually in this new global economy,” Sherby said. “We’ve been trying to coordinate some of our economic development activities already.” Through doing the study and coming up with a regional vision, the counties have agreed that they’re in favor of continuing to work together, coming up with a regional brand and working toward regional goals to improve their collective economic lot. Marketing to attract tourism is one element of that, but other, less hackneyed ideas have come out, too. • For instance, starting an angel investor fund to attract businesses. Through the study, Sherby said, it came out that small technology companies or advanced
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manufacturing companies might be great fits for the region. But sometimes people with great ideas have a hard time getting started. One thing the Southwestern Commission would like to get started on is cultivating a group of investors willing to fund the business ideas they feel are most viable. Like the TV show “Shark Tank.” “That’s like a Hollywood version of an angel fund,” Sherby said. “We are at the very early stages of running a feasibility study.” • Though a full-fledged hospital might not be economically viable for Graham County, a cooperative urgent care center could be just the ticket. That’s an idea that’s been talked about for a while, but by leveraging the skills and interest of newly united people from around the region, it could become closer to reality. • For a region to grow, there have to be places for move-ins to live. Right now, there aren’t a lot of options when it comes to apartments or townhouses suitable for singles or couples without children. Courting developers who are interested in making those dwellings a reality will also be a challenge for the future. “We have to almost sell these projects the private sector now,” Sherby said. • When it came to transportation, Corridor K was obviously the focal point. But alternative forms of transportation were also in high demand. People in WNC are asking for increased walkability and bikability.
CORRIDOR, CONTINUED FROM 9 home here in the mountains. “We think that tourism development obviously fits in there, but also small technology companies. We think can complement those sectors as well, and small advanced manufacturing, which is alive and well in a couple of our counties in our region,” Sherby said, mentioning companies such as ConMet and Moog Components Group. To attract those kinds of companies, Sherby said, we’ll have to pay attention to a whole mess of amenities that have nothing to do with asphalt. “That CEO and their spouse or their family will likely be a tourist before they’ll ever think about relocating their company here,” Sherby said. “The vibrancy of that downtown tends to be the face of the region.”
The Graham Revitalization Economic Action Team is hoping to do just that. The group of citizens, organized into seven different committees to address a spectrum of different social issues, is working to make downtown Robbinsville a more enjoyable place for residents and a more attractive location for out-oftowners who might one day become in-towners. But Graham County has other barriers to a flourishing economy. Though it has a worldclass “middle mile” infrastructure for Internet — the data equivalent of a freeway — it’s lacking those individual connections, comparable to highway exits, that would allow families and small businesses easy Internet access. There aren’t a lot of affordable apartments or other inexpensive housing for singles and couples without children and, perhaps most importantly, there’s no hospital. “They definitely want urgent care in the
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MOVING FORWARD Though both N.C. DOT and Graham County insist they’re not married to the idea of a four-lane highway, their working plans now call for one. “If we said, ‘Hey, listen, Corridor K, we’ve decided we don’t want to do it but we want to add a corridor that does something else and we’d like to use $280 million for that, a change that big would have to be approved by the whole body [of the Appalachian Regional Commission],” said Van Argabright of N.C. DOT. The ARC is made up of representatives of the 13 states in the Appalachian region. They had to vote to give the initial OK for N.C. DOT to pursue the alternative they’re working with now, so changing the plan would require them to review the new alternative if N.C. DOT were to use the $280 million. The main requirement is that the road qualify as “high-speed.” So from here, the future might be kind of an open question. Once appointed, the task force will have to decide upon which form of the road they want to advocate for and then advocate for it. Funding will have to be secured and any additional approval needed from the ARC given. But the background of the Opt-In study and the data it generated to show what the region wants and needs will help grease the wheels. For now, funding aside, the four-lane highway still aces roadblocks with securing needed state and federal environmental permits. “Whether we’re successful in getting permits or not, that’s yet to be seen. A lot of that will depend on the type of facilities that we may end up trying to construct,” Burch said. “I think everyone’s hopeful that once we get this regional vision that we can move forward and we won’t have those lingering questions we’ve had in the past of what this area wants and what they desire.” And meanwhile, the Southwestern Commission and the seven counties it represents will make use of the myriad data and ideas the study brought in to set about making the region — the whole region — a better place. “It’s gonna sound fluffy, but I was amazed and kind of proud that across the board people feel like they live in the best place in the world, mostly because of the natural environment, the cultural heritage, the strong sense of community. That was true regardless of what perspective someone was coming from,” said Stacey Guffy, Macon county resident and Opt-In project manager. “There was also a strong consensus that the region should work together.”
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The business case for Corridor K itself has been called into question. Opponents such as WaysSouth and N.C. Alliance for Transportation Reform say the traffic demands of the people who would use it don’t justify the creation of such an expensive road, and that’s just one of the points that has caused them to send out a resolution to governments in the western counties asking that they support a non-four-lane approach to Graham County’s transportation woes. So far, no one has signed on. “I was really kind of floored by that honestly, because I felt we were trying to reach out to them,” Mayes said. A counter resolution that Cable sent out in response has gained more traction, however. Macon County, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee County have all given their support to getting a four-lane Corridor K built. Swain County has no plans yet to discuss the resolution but has historically supported building the road, signing a resolution to that effect in 2010. “It would be another corridor. Another way to get to Swain County without having to go on a two-lane road, so there would be possibly new industry, possibly more accessibility
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for tourism,” King said, later continuing, “Our board has never really talked about environmental issues as far as Corridor K or any other road. They [N.C. DOT] do an environmental assessment each time they do a project.” Jackson County had only just received a copy of the resolution Tuesday, and though Haywood hasn’t been sent it, the county maintains the position endorsed in a similar resolution that then-Graham County Manager Mickey Duvall sent in 2011.
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county, and we’ve been working on that for a long while,” Sherby said. But, if you’re going to spend $800 million, Mayes argues, why not build a $280 million road with the funds already available and use the rest to subsidize a hospital? “If we’re going to subsidize something, wouldn’t a hospital be a better way?” she said. It’s not quite that simple, though, Sherby said. Sure, you could build a hospital, but how would it stay open and operating in a county whose population wouldn’t be capable of supporting it? “It’s hard for there to be a business case in areas that are so sparsely populated,” he said.
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break, another round of talks was held in early June. “It was somewhat productive,” Ferguson said, “but we still haven’t got there yet.” Mike Culbreth, from Evergreen’s human resources department, said that the ongoing nature of the negotiations shouldn’t be read as a possibility of conflicts, but it is instead routine. “No indications of anything happening, anything new,” Culbreth said. “Just people’s schedules are tied up.” Evergreen employs nearly 1,200 workers at its two Haywood County paper mill facilities. — Jeremy Morrison, News Editor
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from flowing away. The traps are made out of large rocks that act as dams, keeping soil from moving downslope. But now that the sampling results have come back, SCC has some work cut out. The college has already contacted Canton-based Mountain Environmental Services, who did the first round of testing, for a proposal on a second round to see how far downhill the contamination has spread. Then, SCC will remove any contaminated soil that is outside of the actual shooting range. They won’t, however, remove any lead from the range itself yet. Because the lead is encased in clay, it’s difficult to remove and would cost $30,000 to excavate, even after the contracting company offset the price by selling the metal. And once the lead was gone, it would just start building back up again. “Right now we’re just shooting into the dirt bank, so obviously we’re going to have an accumulation of lead and no really easy way to get it out,” said Chuck Reece, director of human resources and facilities at SCC. Before anyone thinks about taking the 60 tons out of the berm, there will have to be a better berm, which points back to the origin of the whole lead testing discussion. It began after SCC leaders came to Jackson Brian Bauer, left and Levi Bible of Mountain Environmental Services gather soil samples at County Commissioners with a request for Southwestern Community College’s firing range in Dillsboro. Donated photo money to install a new backstop at the range. The berm had gotten so full of bullets that shots says is a good thing. were beginning to ricochet back when fired. “Where these samples were collected were “The issue that we started with was we’ve got not that far from the berm itself, so it’s not too much lead in the backstop, not from an like it’s going off site at this point,” she said. environmental standpoint but just from a safety Below the sampling spot is a patch of over- standpoint,” said Daniel Manring, coordinator BY HOLLY KAYS growth, which slows down water running of administrative and facilities projects for SCC. STAFF WRITER downhill after a rain and keeps it from pickSCC came up with an array of options for esults are back from the first round of ing up as much soil. No lead was found in the fixing the problem, ranging from $368,000 to testing for lead at Southwestern water, but it could be in the sediment below install the most inexpensive bullet trap proCommunity College’s shooting range, the water, bonded to the dirt. But in any case, posed for the backstop to $725,000 for the and the conclusion is that there’s plenty of the metal is now staying stuck to the dirt, most expensive. Additional asks to fix up the lead to go around. In the area 15 to 20 feet which means it’s not moving too far. range, including a new entrance that would downslope from the range, lead levels are as “You have keep range users much as 73 times higher than the safe water running from having to “Right now we’re just shootamount, occurring in concentrations of down the stream drive through the 19,700 mg/kg 0 to 6 inches below the surface and in a really ing into the dirt bank, so obvi- Tuckasegee Water and 5,320 mg/kg 2 to 3 feet below the surface. heavy rain it gets and Sewer ously we’re going to have an “The levels are high. Those are really high really muddy, but Authority plant, levels of lead in the soil,” said Roberta all that mud settles would have upped accumulation of lead and no Proctor, an environmental chemist with the down,” Proctor the price as high as really easy way to get it out.” N.C. Department of Environment and said. “The lead is $2 million. Natural Resources who is consulting with attached to the soil SCC is still in — Chuck Reece, director of human SCC. “The good news is that the site, it’s got so it’s not moving limbo as far as resources and facilities at SCC restricted access. It’s not open to the public. off-site as far.” that’s concerned, so There’s no children running through it.” What’s more, current efforts are That’s a comfort, but 19,700 mg/kg is a lead is only toxic if it’s ingested or inhaled, so just focused on investigating the extent of the lot more than 270 mg/kg, which is the basically unless someone were actually eating contamination and addressing dangerous levels. Protection of Groundwater Preliminary Soil the dirt or plants growing in it, rubbing it into “I’ve been contacted by at least three comRemediation Goal established by the North a wound or breathing it in, they probably panies that do lead abatement, and I just told Carolina Inactive Hazardous Sites Branch. wouldn’t suffer any effects from the current lev- them to keep checking in with me when we find Lead, a heavy metal that can have lethal or els, Proctor said. Because the area is not open to out what we can do dollar-wise,” Manring said. debilitating effects when absorbed into the the general public, the groups most likely to be Though Proctor said she was not at all surbody, is also a key component in bullets. Over affected by lead exposure — children and eld- prised to see the test results, she commended 30 years of use, the clay berm that catches bul- erly people — wouldn’t come in contact with it. SCC for having them done in the first place. lets fired at the range has taken in an estimatBut that doesn’t mean that it’s all peachy. As an active shooting range, they weren’t ed 60 tons of lead, and some of that metal had “It is an exposure to the environment out required to undergo environmental testing escaped into the ground downhill from it. there, which is why it can’t just stay there,” and contacted DENR to request it. This first round of tests took samples Proctor said. “Anything that grows in it will “When you have somebody who has a confrom soil 15-20 feet uphill and downhill from pick up and incorporate the lead into it. taminated site and is working with you as the range, as well as from the water in the Different plants do it at different rates.” opposed to your forcing them to work, it Tuckaseegee River, which is just downhill After Proctor first visited the site, about makes it very different,” she said. “They’re very from the range. 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Two Haywood graders cited for wetland violations BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER n two separate incidents, graders in Haywood County bulldozed over wetlands, violating state and federal regulations that protect the environmentally-sensitive areas. Kyle Edwards encroached on a wetland when grading a 1.3-acre tract in Maggie Valley that he hoped to market for development. Meanwhile, his son Burton Edwards also encroached on wetlands while acting as the hired grading contractor on a 9-acre site in Waynesville. Both are in the earth-moving business, with each running their own grading companies and heavy-equipment fleets. Both were cited by the Army Corp of Engineers, but no fines were issued on the condition they restore the wetlands to their original condition. Kyle Edwards said he didn’t realize the wet spot on his tract was an official wetland. “When we asked him about it, he said he was trying to fill in some wet areas,” said David Brown, an inspector with the Army Corps’ Asheville office. In fact, Kyle still claims it’s not a wetland. “It’s not wetland but they are calling it wetland. It’s not fair,” Kyle said. Wetlands aren’t delineated anywhere on a master wetland map. Instead, property owners — and especially graders — who might have a wetland on their hands are supposed to invite the Army Corp out for a look-see. Or they can hire an environmental consulting firm to do an assessment. But Kyle didn’t do either. In some cases, the Army Corp would have no way of knowing if wetlands in out-of-theway hollers get covered up. But the grading in this case was highly visible from the main drag of Maggie Valley, and someone who thought the work looked fishy tipped off environmental regulators. “He came out and flagged it and said I couldn’t do anything behind the flagging tape,” Kyle recounted of the inspector’s visit. After he restored the wetland, it was put in a lockbox, hampering use of the full tract. Technically, Kyle could get a permit to monkey with the wetland — including draining it or covering it up so it can be developed over. But it would cost him.
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To offset his own environmental impacts, Kyle would have to pony up for mitigation credits. Money paid in to a mitigation bank is used for environmental restoration projects elsewhere — balancing out the environmental impacts in one place with environmental improvements in another. But Kyle said he was told he would have to pay $30,000 into the mitigation bank to make up for impacts to the 0.4-acre wetland. “It really burned me up. It’s blackmail,” Kyle said. Kyle had covered over about half the 0.4 acres of wetland on his site when work was halted, according to the Army Corp citation. He was cooperative despite disagreeing with the situation. “He was willing from the get-go to basically restore it,” said Brown. Brown said wetlands play an important balancing role in the planet’s ecosystem and water movement across the landscape. Wetlands abutting creeks filter out silt and contaminants that would otherwise wash into the creek. And during storms, wetlands slow rain runoff that can otherwise overwhelm streams. The other property in Haywood with recent wetland violations was more extensive. A 9acre site between Waynesville and Lake Junaluska behind Bojangle’s had wetlands running through it. Burton Edwards was acting as the hired grading contractor for the property owner, an LLC called Harmon Graham Properties. John Harmon of Laurel Ridge Country Club is named as the manager of the LLC and Burton is listed as the registered agent, according to N.C. Secretary of State filings. The Army Corp was once again tipped off anonymously and issued a stop-work order on the site until wetlands could be assessed. The 9-acre tract was deemed to have 3 acres of wetlands. The property owners there also had the option of buying into an environmental mitigation bank — offsetting their own environmental damage by funding environmental improvements somewhere else. But there’s another catch: they have to demonstrate a specific reason for filling it in. And wanting to make it a more marketable site for prospective developers doesn’t count. Brown said that seemed to be the only goal in this case. “If they want to make it ready for the pos-
Grading work was halted temporarily on this 9-acre tract of land after it encroached on protected wetlands, one of two wetland violations in Haywood County in recent months. Becky Johnson photo sibility of someone who might want to buy the site for a commercial or residential development, we would say that is really not a good purpose and need,” Brown said. If there was a specific buyer, and a specific plan, that would be a different story. “They have to have a design in hand of, ‘This is what we want to build.’ They can’t fill it just to fill it,” said Chuck Branford, a state inspector with the Division of Water Quality out of Asheville.
STREAM WORK CITED ALSO Back down the road in Maggie Valley, Kyle Edwards was also cited by the N.C. Division of Water Quality for violations for digging around in a stream bed without a permit. The stream banks were overgrown and the streambed seemed clogged up — at least to Kyle’s way of thinking — so he decided to scoop out the channel and reshape it some. “It just meandered around and around. It looks a lot better now. It’s clean and the water is flowing good. It was a place for mosquitoes before,” Kyle said, adding that snakes were probably in there, too. He also scooted it closer to the edge of the property line where it wouldn’t interfere as
Haywood hospital continues with fire recovery The Emergency Department at MedWest Haywood is fully online, having treated 180 patients during the Fourth of July weekend. The department, along with outpatient services and the hospital’s business offices, re-opened June 30, 11 days after a fire in the power room shut down the whole building, causing 62 patients to be evacuated to hospitals in neighboring counties. Though the fire was a small one, it knocked out the hospital’s electrical system. The emergency generators kicked in, but the hospital was still having problems with keeping the building cool. CEO and president Janie Sinacore-Jaberg decided that it would be in the patients’ best interest to close and evacuate.
To get the OK from the N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation for a partial re-opening, the hospital had to have redundant power sources and undergo extensive testing to prove that they’re working as they should. They got that done by June 30, slightly ahead of the original early July goal. “We are moving along at a rapid but methodical pace,” Sinacore-Jaberg said. “As I have said, we aren’t going to rush this.” But the hospital still doesn’t have its inpatient wing open and likely won’t until mid-to-late July. That’s because both the primary and backup power sources are generatorbased right now, and to accept inpatients the hospital has
much with potential development. Branford said what Kyle did isn’t unheard of. “That is historically how people managed their creeks,” Branford said. But, “you can’t just go dig out a stream. It is fish habitat.” The entire aquatic balance is upturned by the shower of mud, rocks and silt kicked up when excavating in a stream bed. “We are concerned with digging out a stream as well as filling wetlands because you can’t do either one without approval,” Branford said. Kyle bought the small tract just above Joey’s Pancake House in Maggie Valley on spec with the hope of grading it and marketing it for a potential development of some sort. He got it for a good deal — $50,000 for 1.3 acres at the edge of a commercial district — but his plans to flip it didn’t go as smoothly as planned. He had to spend money restoring the creek and wetlands and now has less buildable land to market. Kyle sees the environmental rules as overbearing. “Not being able to clean out your own creek on your own property — that was a little more than I could stomach,” Kyle said.
to get back on Duke Energy power. A new transfer switch must be installed, and the N.C. DHSR has to go through its battery of tests. “Safe patient care is always our highest priority, so we are doing everything correctly, in a very organized manner,” Sinacore-Jaberg said, “and in concert with our internal teams as well as external agencies.” As it works toward a full re-open, the hospital is also in the midst of an ownership transfer. Duke LifePoint has offered to buy the public hospital for $26 million, but the sale isn’t final. The original schedule had called for it to close in late March, but that timeline got moved back to late July or early August. It’s now expected to come a bit later, though reasons for the delay are unrelated to the fire, Sinacore-Jaberg said.
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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER acon County Schools got a little extra to fix up their buildings when some bids for the Parker Meadows recreational complex came in low. All of the extra money went to education, with $39,400 going to Southwestern Community College and $100,000 to MCS’ capital outlay fund. “Everybody’s familiar with the new schools Macon County built over the last few years,” County Manager Derek Roland said. “The schools aren’t new anymore, so there are things that are happening and little fixes that need to be made, and in some cases big fixes. HVAC systems going out, leaky roofs.” The first of the “new” “The schools aren’t schools built, new anymore, so South Macon Elementary, there are things was completed in 2000, so at that are happening this point it’s and little fixes that 14 years old. In its spring need to be made.” budget request, — Derek Roland, Macon MCS had asked County Manager commissioners for $700,000 in capital outlay, but the recommended budget allocated only $99,000. When extra funds became available, commissioners were happy to point them toward the schools. In an ideal world, though, the line item would be for more than $200,000, said Commission Chairman Kevin Corbin. “You should be allocating at least 1 percent of the cost of your building,” he said, “and in rough numbers the buildings are worth about $50 million, and that’s probably on the low end.” The school district hasn’t yet decided how it will use the extra funds — there’s a long list of possible projects to pick from — but they’re happy to have some extra flexibility in a year of tight budgets. “I certainly would like to thank Chairman Corbin and County Manger Derek Roland and the other commissioners for increasing our funding at all,” Superintendent Chris Baldwin said.
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Fracking opposition organizes in WNC Swain leads charge against hydraulic fracturing BY J EREMY MORRISON N EWS E DITOR andice Caldwell Day and her husband Shayne recently went to Andrews Airport in Cherokee County. “To hold up a really big sign,” she said. Day and her husband went to the airport to greet Gov. Pat McCrory as he arrived for the GOP state convention. They wanted to let him know how they felt about state lawmakers’ recent green lighting of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. The couple moved to the area from West Virginia. They are avid paddlers. And now, fledgling organizers for a stand against hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Western North Carolina. Having moved from a fracking state, Day said she was disappointed to see North Carolina open the door for the extraction method, which involves injecting explosives into the ground to create fissures before pumping a mixture of water, chemicals and sand into the cracks so that any oil or gas will make its way to the surface. “We’ve been living amongst the fracking hell that is West Virginia,” Day said. During their trip to see McCrory at the airport, the couple met about 20 other likeminded people. They found out the Canary Coalition, a Jackson County environmental organization focused on air quality issues, was organizing a protest across the street from Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, where the GOP was holding its annual convention. “So, then we went there,” said Day. At the GOP protest, they found even more people freaked out about fracking. They began to organize, and the Coalition Against Fracking in Western North Carolina was soon born in Swain County. “It’s become a huge network,” Day said. The group held its first meeting in June in Bryson City. Around 40 people showed up.
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These fracking opponents cringe at the purported specter of homes with flammable taps due to contaminated groundwater. They decry the unknown chemical make-up of the compounds used in the fracking process and question the possibility of a link between an increase in natural gas exploration and earthquakes. They encourage people to watch “Gasland,” a documentary film and staple viewing in anti-fracking circles. Fracking supporters, however, say that groundwater contamination isn’t much of a concern with wells that drill as deep as the ones proposed, and they prop up the latest technology as something of a miracle, capable of extracting valuable resources while keeping contaminants out of the environment. But groups like the Coalition are also questioning certain aspects of North Carolina’s fracking legislation — like the specification that local governments cannot disallow the practice — and they are concerned with the swiftness with which it became law, even as the regulations to govern fracking are still being hammered out. “They’re trying to hide something from people,” Day mused. “To make it sound like the sweetest deal ever.” The legislators behind it, however, claim that the fracking issue has been hashed out over the past two years and point to the opportunity legislators will have in the next session to strike down any of the specific rules the Mining and Energy Commission comes up with. As communities in North Carolina consider the particulars of the debate, the Coalition Against Fracking in WNC aims to make sure people in the western counties know what fracking is and are up to speed on what the group sees as concerning environmental issues stemming from it. Recently the fracking opponents went to a Swain County Commissioners meeting. Their message found a readily receptive audience. “I can tell you right quick I’m not for it,” Swain Commissioner Donnie Dixon says. “I’m against it 100 percent.”
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Recently, a collection of groups from Western North Carolina requested that the North Carolina’s Mining and Energy Commission schedule public hearings for the western portion of the state on oil and gas rules now being drafted. Currently, three hearings are scheduled — in Raleigh, Sanford and Reidsville — but all located are considerable distance from WNC. “We feel that since our area might be directly affected by fracking down the line, we 16 have a right to have our voices heard,” said
Sally Morgan, of Clean Water for North Carolina. The request for additional hearings in the west is signed onto by 17 organizations, including Coalition Against Fracking in Western North Carolina, regional Sierra Clubs, the Canary Coalition, Appalachian Voices, League of Women Voters of Macon County and Greenpeace of NC. Morgan received a reply from MEC Chairman Jim Womack — “We recognize the strong interest for an additional hearing in the western counties” — with an assurance that the commission would try to “coordinate a suitable event.”
Fracking opponents took to the sidewalk across from the GOP state convention in June.
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Dixon is quick to relay his take on fracking. “I’m totally against it,” the commissioner said. “It can cause cancer, it’s been on the news, it can ruin the drinking water, it can pollute the air.” Lawmakers who supported this year’s fracking legislation are summed up in short order by the Swain official. “Anyone who voted for it is in it for the money,” Dixon said. The commissioner is not alone. His cohorts on the board have publicly voiced unanimous opposition to the possibility of hydraulic fracturing in Swain County. The board’s stance didn’t surprise Swain County Manager Kevin King.
“All of ‘em have told me they’re against fracking,” King said. Swain is joined in its opposition by other communities in the region. Recently, Webster, a community in Jackson County, passed an ordinance formally declaring its position on the issue. “I must say that I am very proud of my little town for taking a stand against this big issue,” said Danell Moses, a member of Webster’s town board. Moses said board members recently began studying the issue of hydraulic fracturing. “I thought, well, I’ve heard a lot about this, I really need to brush up on this and dig into this. The further I dug, the more scared I got,” said Moses. “I think everyone was doing their own research and coming to the same conclusion.” Webster Mayor Nick Breedlove said the town passed its ordinance against fracking to protect the environment and described the measure as being “proactive” and an effort to “urge caution.” The ordinance references “documented cases of water contamination” and “potentially lethal, toxic and carcinogenic chemicals.” “I was born here, I grew up here, I plan to live here a long time so I really care a lot about the mountains and its people,” Breedlove said. “I really don’t think we know enough about fracking to green light it yet.” The mayor also questioned
“That was a week ago, and I haven’t heard anything back,” Morgan said recently. Harry Baughn, the mayor of Hayesville, in Clay County, recently wrote Breedlove about his efforts appealing for an additional hearing. “The chairman indicated that he would look at a location such as WCU, however a subsequent email stated that DENR in Raleigh stated there was no travel money to add a hearing in our region,” Baughn emailed Webster’s mayor. According to Jamie Kritzer, spokesman for the Department of Energy and Natural Resources, which houses the MEC, no additional hearings are currently being scheduled. “I don’t know if they’re planning to do so at
this point,” the spokesman said. The slated hearings, he explained, were located in areas likely to get quicker attention from natural gas efforts. “These are close to the basins where natural gas extraction is most likely to begin in North Carolina,” Kritzer said. “Right now in Western North Carolina, we have yet to even gather rocks. We’re still years from anything in the way of drilling in Western North Carolina.” The DENR spokesman noted that Western residents needn’t travel to the hearing in order to log their comments. Public comments can be submitted to the commission, he said, from July 15 to Sept. 15.
Wanna go? • Jackson County Planning Board meeting Q&A with WCU geosciences and natural resources professor Cheryl WatersTormey. Jackson County Justice Center in Sylva. 6 p.m., July 10. • Coalition Against Fracking in Western North Carolina meeting. Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. 6:30 p.m., July 15.
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experts in the field of hydraulic fracturing and arrange for public forums in an effort to educate people. “So people can learn about fracking, because there’s so much misinformation out there,” Davis said.
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‘IT JUST SHOWS WHERE WE STAND’ The folks with Coalition Against Fracking in Western North Carolina aren’t sure where this fracking opposition is going. They would like to see a legal challenge mounted against provisions of the law barring local governments from disallowing fracking. “That would be ideal, right?” said Day. And local resolutions, or anything regional Swain is able to drum up, are only for sport and for the record. “It’s really a political stance is what it is, because, you know, there’s not much the board can do,” King said. “They can’t stop anyone from coming in and doing something. It just shows where we stand.” Breedlove knows that too. But, still, he feels Webster’s ordinance was the right thing to do. “We want to go on record that we wholeheartedly oppose hydraulic fracturing,” the mayor said, adding that he’s finding support for the action among his constituents. “Everyone’s been wholly supportive of it. I have not heard one negative comment.” Day is optimistic that the swell of opposition against fracking in Western North Carolina will ultimately have some impact. She’s encouraged, at least, about the energy. “I have hope,” said Day. “People are coming together to defend this beautiful place. It’s good.”
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In Jackson County, Chuck Wooten received Swain’s invitation to consider coming out in opposition to fracking in an email. He hasn’t brought it up to his commissioners yet, but there may be something on the agenda in August. It’s just as well. Jackson County Commissioner Chairman Jack Debnam isn’t ready to wade into the fracking debate anyway. “I think you need to be educated before you make a decision,” he said. “I’m going to be a little better educated before I just jump out there and say ‘no fracking.’” The chairman said he was planning to attend a Jackson County Planning Board session later in the week, where Western Carolina University geosciences and natural resources associate professor Cheryl Waters-Tormey is scheduled to make a presentation and field questions about hydraulic fracturing. Debnam isn’t overly concerned about fracking in Western North Carolina. He’s not expecting much natural gas to be found in the region. “The chances of them finding natural gas is about zero,” the chairman said. “I think someone’s just spending some money that’s been made available to drill some test wells, but I don’t think it’ll go any further than that.” Macon County Commissioner Chairman Kevin Corbin also said he’d like to be better educated before taking a stance on the issue. His board has yet to discuss the issue. “I certainly wouldn’t mind a discussion, but it hasn’t come up,” Corbin said. “I don’t feel like I’m that well versed in. it. I probably need to be. It’s something that seems like a hot topic and I probably need to educate myself.”
Macon County Manager Derek Roland said he hadn’t heard from King yet. But he imagines his commissioners will be discussing the topic of fracking soon enough. “I’d say,” Roland said. “It’s getting pretty hot isn’t it?” In Clay, Graham and Cherokee counties, respective county managers reported that local leaders were not yet taking a formal position on hydraulic fracturing. In Haywood County, Commissioner Kevin Ensley said that he would also like more information before forming an opinion about issue. “All I’ve seen is news reports and you can’t really base it on that,” the commissioner said, describing natural gas as the “future for America.” Ensley stressed personal property rights and frowned on local governments injecting themselves — “If you have a family and they have an opportunity to do that, they ought to be able to without the government telling them they can’t” — but said he also would like to learn more about environmental concerns raised by fracking opponents. “You ask the people in the industry about it and they say this is all overblown — but those people are in the industry,” Ensley said. If he finds that fracking looks like something that can be done safely, then he’s on board — “As long as its doesn’t destroy our water table I’m all for it” — but like Debnam, he doesn’t expect hydraulic fracturing to be widespread in Western North Carolina and doesn’t want to get overly invested in the debate. “I don’t think there are pockets to be drilled,” said Ensley. “If there’s nothing in the
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g North Carolina Sen. Jim Davis, RfFranklin, sees this year’s Energy Modernization Act as a victory. He proudly ntakes ownership of helping to cruise the state’s fracking legislation through the Iprocess in Raleigh. “I not only voted for the law, I was one of dthe co-sponsors,” Davis said. “I’m really comnfortable with what they’ve done.” The senator isn’t impressed with local reseolutions passed in opposition to fracking. He onotes that the state law overrides local goveernments’ control. o “It’s a state law, so you can’t have all these sregulations in different towns and different ”communities,” he said. - Davis hears from a lot of people about the state’s recent move on fracking. e “Overwhelmingly, they’re against frackeing,” he said. “I think those people are conIcerned. My background is in science and I’m concerned as well. But as long as we can do this safely, I think it’s a good thing.” According to Davis, North Carolina doesn’t have to choose between protecting its environment and pursuing its natural resources. “It’s not an either-or situation,” the senator said. “We can do both.” And, the senator says, we should do both. Davis describes natural gas as “one thing in the quiver” of North Carolina’s energy resources and argues that it shouldn’t be left on the table, or in the ground. “Using natural gas as an energy source is a lot less of a carbon footprint than coal, for example,” Davis said. “Why would we just leave all these resources in the ground as long as we can harvest them responsibly?” The senator brushes off the mention of environmental concerns. He argues that North Carolina’s law provides for adequate
environmental protections and points out that everything has its risks. “Everything we do is a risk,” Davis said. “How many people die on North Carolina highways every year? Our job as legislators is to minimize the risk. And the risks of hydraulic fracturing are minimal.” The senator said he is concerned about what he called “misinformation” about fracking. He would like to assemble a panel of
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moving ahead on hydraulic fracturing with the regulations governing the process in North Carolina still being written. “I don’t know if we need to rush into the dark unprepared,” he said. Breedlove questioned the prudence in taking potential environmental risks for an ofttouted upside of the natural gas rush: jobs. “Would you trade job creation for your natural habitat?” he asks. “What’s the point of giving somebody a job if they come home to their wife and kids and potentially contaminated water?” Kolleen Begley, mayor of Forest Hills, another Jackson County community, said a formal declaration similar to Webster’s was in the pipes there as well. In Swain County commissioners have requested that the town manager reach out to other western counties about fracking. They’d like to be able to present a unified front of opposition. “Maybe going into a combined resolu.tion,” King said. o He’s not sure what kind of response he’ll find when he shops the no-fracking platform taround the region. “I don’t know if other counties are going rto take a stand at all,” Swain’s manager said.
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why Hodgins should win the race. Lambert has insisted he didn’t do anything wrong, but no specifics about the events leading up to the firing have come out. “We don’t need no secrets going into the office,” Hodgins said. “That’s what we’re trying to get voted out.” Sheriff ’s seats hopefuls had come out in droves this election cycle following the retirement of current sheriff Jimmy Ashe, who had caught some uncomfortable press in situations including using drug seizure funds to make donations to his children’s sports teams, riding around on a Harley Davidson motorcycle confiscated from a drug dealer and offending Latinos by setting up traffic stops that allegedly involved racial profiling. At the time of his firing, Lambert called the firing “political” — a characterization the town manager flatly denied — and said he had done nothing wrong. He said last week that he has engaged an attorney and therefore can’t talk openly about his termination — yet. “When the facts and the truth come out people will be able to see that I can lead the sheriff ’s office in the direction it needs to be moved in, and it’s time to move on,” he said. The key for Republicans, though, will be to choose a candidate capable of beating Democratic contender Chip Hall, currently a chief sheriff ’s deputy in Jackson County. In a field of six, Hall took 42 percent of the vote, coming in about 300 votes ahead of the runner up. “Let me put it this way,” Rock said. “I’m a Republican so I’d like to see a Republican win.” And in the second primary, every vote will count. Turnout is usually pretty low in second primaries, especially in non-presidential years when only one office is on the ballot, as will be the case for Jackson County next week. In 2012, the first primary brought in 9,391 votes in Jackson County, while the second primary garnered only 1,029. The numbers were even lower in 2010, when the second primary included only one race in one party. Compared to 5,163 people casting ballots in the primary, only 620 voted in the runoff. “That was still a very low turnout with the federal election on the ballot, but you never can tell,” said Lisa Lovedahl-Lehman, Jackson County Election Director. “Sometimes local brings them out more than state or federal does. It does get harder when there’s only one office on the ballot.”
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A HISTORY OF OVERFLOWS This isn’t the first time Cherokee has had trouble with its sewer system. So far this year, the tribe has reported 11 sanitary system overflows, which basically means there were 11 times when the sewer system got backed up and sewage bubbled out of where it was supposed to be. Last year, the tribe reported 14 overflows. “If it hits the water, it’s obviously not good for them,” Schiff said. “There can be all sorts of pathogens in the discharge.” Raw sewage can cause diseases ranging from mild stomach cramps and diarrhea to hepatitis and cholera, and water contamina-
After a closed session Monday, the Franklin Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to give Interim Town Manager Summer Woodard a permanent place in town hall. Woodard, who has been acting as town manager since Warren Cabe resigned in May, now has the job for good. “We were unanimously very pleased with her work,” said Alderman Barbara McRae. “She is very qualified and has been an employee for years.” Woodard, a Franklin native, received a master’s degree in public administration in 2010 and has worked for the town ever since, including serving as assistant to the town manager under three different managers. As a student, she
The tribe’s sewage struggles will likely continue for a while, too, because they’re due in large part to stresses on the system from a growing population and casino-related tourism. The original system dates back to the 1960s, and in 1997 the plant had a capacity of just 700,000 gallons per day. That’s when the Harrah’s Cherokee Casino was first built, and the plant’s capacity was expanded to 3 million gallons per day, the current amount, in conjunction with the casino’s construction. But that’s still not enough. “The biggest piece of it was the gambling enterprise growing, but at the same time there’s housing and another hotel across the road,” Green said. Right now, Cherokee is one year into a three-year, $29 million sewage treatment expansion project that will double daily capacity to 6 million gallons and do some repair and replacement of aging lines. “Inflow and infiltration is a very common problem with aging systems. As the systems get old, the pipes and the gaskets get old and deteriorate,” Green said. “We are the land of aging infrastructure.” As the project proceeds, new pieces will be installed, increasing the reliability of the system bit by bit. But the capacity of the plant won’t change until the entire project is completed. “We expect it to run really smooth and really well and handle the high flood level days,” Green projected.
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ground and through the bacterial map, it starts at the surface and by the time it gets to the groundwater, it’s all cleaned up.” But last year, Green said, there were multiple times when the river flooded over the top of trench work being done on the sewage pipes. That’s actually one possibility as to where the sand came from — the plant has been struggling with sand issues ever since — and the flooding washed some sewage into the river. Cherokee’s sanitation standard isn’t necessarily in the clear anyway. The tribe has been under an EPA enforcement action since 2009, when the agency received complaints about overflows. “As a result of that complaint we went out and did an inspection and found those complaints were valid,” Schiff said.
did an internship that gave her experience working in every town department. The board voted to award her the same contract they signed with former manager Warren Cabe, an annual salary of $85,000. They did not go through a search process for the position, agreeing that Woodward was highly qualified and up to speed on everything happening in the town. “Since she proved herself, why go through the expense of a major search when we already had a viable candiSummer Woodard date in-house?” asked Mayor Bob Scott. As part of the same discussion, the board also did some shuffling of positions in town hall, with the moves expected to save about $25,000. Woodard told the board
she did not need an assistant but did not want to serve as human resources director, since that could cause a conflict of interest. “If you get into a conflict with an employee and the HR director decides something, the employee should have the opportunity to appeal,” McRae said, “and if the town manager and the HR person are the same individual, there’s nobody that you can appeal to.” The board gave the human resources job to Chad Simon, who has been working in the front office for several months, splitting the HR job with the town clerk position. Janet Anderson had been doing that job in addition to her responsibilities as finance director but now is continuing solely as finance director. “The town has grown and we have to look periodically at positions and how we can operate more efficiently,” Scott said. — by Holly Kays, staff writer
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“Inflow and infiltration is a very common problem with aging systems. As the systems get old, the pipes and the gaskets get old and deteriorate. We are the land of aging infrastructure.”
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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ne month after low oxygen levels killed the bacteria needed to process sewage at the Cherokee Wastewater Treatment Plant, discharge flowing back into the Oconaluftee River is still on the cloudy side as employees work to get the plant fully back online. It’s not clear exactly what killed the bacteria, but the best guess is it has something to do with 8 tons of sand employees removed right around the time the bacteria crashed. “They had done something and found that a bunch of sand had built up in the splitter box,” said Ken Green, lead engineer on a current project to expand the treatment plant. “We got an excavator in there and dug it out.” Because the water is gray, not clear, no one had noticed before that where the water was supposed to be 8 feet deep it was only 18 inches deep. But once the sand was excavated, three of the four waste processing units died. The one that stayed alive had been shut off during the excavation because some new components were being installed in it at the time. That led plant workers to conclude that something in the sand likely poisoned the bacteria. f But they’re still working to right the effects. Building the bacterial population back up from near zero isn’t an overnight process, even with hauling bugs in from other plants and using bacteria-in-a-can types of products. That means that the water flowing out of the plant — and into the Oconaluftee River — is not as clean as it should be. “Basically the effluent was still really cloudy,” said Sarah Schiff, an environmental engineer for the Environmental Protection Agency. “I don’t know what else was technically in there.” The EPA does not require testing to determine what, exactly, is in the effluent, but the
plant keeps its own records as a safeguard against litigation. The plant manager declined to comment for this story, and so those records were not available to The Smoky Mountain News. According to Roger Clapp, executive director of Watershed Association of the Tuckasegee River, tests would determine how much oxygen the organisms in a water sample are using and what amount of fecal coliform bacteria is present. The biological oxygen demand number is important, Clapp said, because water contaminated with sewage will have a high number of oxygen-consuming bugs, which use up the oxygen that other organisms in a river need. “They suck up oxygen and then they starve the natural aquatic life of oxygen, and you get a degraded ecology downstream,” Clapp said. Though not all fecal coliform bacteria are harmful — the term just refers to bacteria that live in an animal’s gut — high concentrations increase the likelihood that pathogens lurk in the water. Clapp said he’s gotten complaints about unpleasant smells possibly related to sewage contamination and would like to meet with wastewater plant representatives to find out more information. “I’d like to sit down and talk with them about the condition, what can be done,” Clapp said.
Being under an enforcement action means that the EPA is keeping a closer eye on Cherokee’s sewage treatment, but 2009 wasn’t the end of its troubles. In 2011, tribal member Linda Lambert filed a lawsuit against the tribe for the overflows she had experienced on her property, listing 17 days spread over two years when raw sewage appeared on her property. The tribe later settled by purchasing her property for $350,000. However, Schiff said, none of that means that Cherokee is out of the ordinary compared to other systems under enforcement actions. “Their system is not the worst system we’ve seen,” she said. “It’s kind of in line with other systems with similar enforcement actions.”
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tion can make swimming and fishing unsafe, also affecting aquatic ecosystems. It’s not a good thing, but according to Green, Cherokee’s tally isn’t as bad as it sounds. “We weren’t very good with our documentation years ago, and we’ve swung the pendulum the other way,” he said. This year’s 11 spills were localized incidents involving smaller amounts of sewage that either leached easily into the ground or required some minimal treatment, such as an application of lime to neutralize the substance, Green said. Groundwater quality has not been an issue in these spills. “You have the same thing happening with septic systems throughout the community,” he said. “Septic systems do go through the tank, and after that they go into the leach field. By the time it moves through the
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bsolutely ridiculous.” Those are the words of Rep. Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville, to describe the actions of Rep. Michelle Presnell, R-Burnsville, who has twice in two consecutive legislative sessions stopped in its tracks a bill that would merge Lake Junaluska with Waynesville. Rep. Queen is being too kind by far. Asinine might better describe her opposition to this bill. Before we talk about Rep. Presnell’s opposition, let’s talk about the merger. Lake Junaluska’s leaders want to become part of Waynesville, partly due to aging infrastructure issues that are expected to cost $10 million to repair. If it doesn’t merge, its approximately 775 homeowners face a very expensive fix. And, according to both a petition and a mail-in survey, a fairly significant majority of residents at Lake Junaluska want this to happen. Make no mistake, there are people who oppose this merger. But the majority wants it, the leaders want it, and all the lawmakers in the General Assembly who matter support it. If this bill ends up dying in this session of the legislature, which seems likely now, it will be all on Rep. Presnell. She held
Is there a ray of hope in the stampede to frack?
To the Editor: The cage is open and the monster is on the loose. Despite promises of comprehensive safeguards for the health and safety of affected North Carolinians, Sen. Jim Davis, RFranklin, and Rep. Roger West, R-Marble, knocked the door off of the cage, turning loose the oil and gas industry in our state without provision for proper waste disposal of hazardous chemicals used in fracking operations or adequate provisions for long-term drilling site restoration. Fracking — the process of injecting under pressure, large amounts of water containing toxic chemicals into horizontally drilled wells to release natural gas — comes to North Carolina with a poor track record for health and safety, despite what proponents will tell you. Fracking requires a heavy industrial buildup, complete with giant well pads containing multiple wells, miles of tanker and heavy equipment trucks rumbling down our country roads (an estimate of 4,000 trips per well on average over the lifespan of the well), and noisy equipment that runs all night. The North Carolina Legislature has made it a crime to disclose the chemicals used in fracking. They will tell you it’s a trade secret, but is public outcry over carcinogens — which have been definitively linked to fracking operations in other states — the real reason? Then comes the most devious provision of SL-2014-4. Your legislature, through Section 14 of the new law, has silenced your voice by making it illegal for any county, town or other local entity to prohibit fracking. Does that sound like democracy in America? Hardly. What’s more, it is likely unconstitutional. Take a look at Section 2 of the North Carolina
it up last year and this. For details on how she has accomplished this feat, read the July 2 edition of The Smoky Mountain News or visit our website and read www.smokymountainnews.com/news/item/13668. Now the session is winding down and she professes a newfound support. “Rep. Presnell has told me personally she has lifted her objections to it and is not going to fight it any longer and, if we want to move it, go ahead and do it. We can move forward without her Editor objecting,” Queen said of his most recent conversation with Presnell (She is not returning phone calls from this newspaper, so we had to get that from Queen). Oh, did we say that Presnell’s district includes part of Haywood but not Lake Junaluska? It’s been common practice at the General Assembly for as long as anyone can remember
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Constitution: “All political power is vested in and derived from the people; all government of right originates from the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.” How then, can the local will of the people be subverted to the corporate interests of the oil and gas industry and the appointed (not elected) state board which oversees their operations? Our legislators who so badly want fracking to begin, and those with a monetary interest in the industry will tout “energy independence,” when, in actuality, they want to build an export terminal on the North Carolina coast to sell the liquid natural gas abroad (Part VII, Sec 22). According to ABC News in Raleigh (WTVD), $20,000 of taxpayer money has been used by the Department of Natural Resources (our regulatory agency) to market North Carolina’s LNG potential to buyers as far away as London, money that was supposed to address possible fracking problems. Is there a way out of this deep dark fracking well? Yes there is. It is a tough, long struggle against powerful corporate interests, but New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Hampshire, Ohio, New Mexico and other states are meeting with significant success. Despite state legislatures which have behaved in a similar fashion to North Carolina’s lawmakers, towns, cities and counties in these states continue to pass local laws prohibiting fracking. In the town of Dryden, N.Y., the local prohibition of fracking has been upheld by the state Supreme Court and then the state Appellate Court in a unanimous decision. But once more, the oil and gas corporations (not the State) have taken them to court. What does this mean to us in Western North Carolina? If we, as residents of these irreplaceable mountains, don’t want our countryside turned into an industrial zone, several
to not stand in the way of another lawmaker’s local bill. Queen represents Lake Junaluska and supports this measure. Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin — in the same party as Presnell — also represents Lake Junaluska and not only supports this bill but has twice shepherded it through the Senate. He has gone above and beyond to pass this bill and is still trying. Rep. Queen is the Democratic minority, so his support has not been enough. So we have Presnell, who has been out there all alone in preventing what the majority of people involved in this issue want. I think many people have refrained from talking about how ridiculous her opposition to this has been for fear of making her mad, perhaps provoking a defensive response that might slow the bill even more. But enough is enough. She says she now supports the bill. That may be the case, but it is probably too late this year to undo the senseless harm she’s already done. Crazy, but that’s what we get with Presnell as our representative in Raleigh. (Scott McLeod can be reached at info@smokymountainnews.com.)
LETTERS actions need to happen. • Our will must be made known to our county commissioners and town boards most emphatically, through personal appearances, phone calls and petitions. • Our local officials must have the courage to act on the people’s will, writing and passing the necessary ordinances to prohibit fracking. • There must be attorneys, preferably probono, who believe strongly that this is an issue of upholding the rights of ordinary citizens under the North Carolina Constitution, and who will work to see the issue through to a successful conclusion, despite lawsuits from the oil and gas industry. So, yes, may we all live to see another day of blue sky, blooming rhododendron and sparkling creeks. Doug Woodward Franklin
Time to accept reality of climate change To the Editor: Alduous Huxley once said, “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Recently, in a conversation with a friend, somehow the talk turned toward the subject of climate change. While he did not deny that climate change might be occurring, he was convinced that human activity was not the cause. I should have asked him a few questions to see how he dealt with things once considered to be actual facts. Such as: does the sun revolve around the earth? Is the earth flat? I assume that he would have answered no to all of these questions. For centuries we believed that a yes was the answer to all of
these questions, until science proved that these were not true. This climate change discussion reminded me of another more recent fight over facts. For years, the gasoline additive tetra-ethyl lead was treated as a hazardous material that caused neurological problems for workers in the factories. However, it took decades after the problem of contamination from leaded gasoline was known that laws were passed to protect human health from this toxin. Why the delay? Intense lobbying and distortion of the facts by those who were making profits from production of tetra-ethyl lead — the kind that was put into gasoline. That situation is similar to the current climate change debate. The largest economic interests are clearly aligned against efforts to address the causes of rapid climate change. On the other hand, the scientific community clearly understands that the high rate of carbon dioxide release into the atmosphere is steadily raising the air and ocean temperatures; thus changing the heat balance of the entire world. That, by definition, is climate change. So, what will it take to begin reducing carbon emissions? Will it take the predictions of the scientists coming true before we will take this problem seriously? Will it take things like persistent drought in some parts of the country with excessive storms and flooding in others? Maybe heightened awareness will come when the insurance industry begins changing rates, or the intelligence and military communities begin planning for the consequences of predicted climate changes. Oh, excuse me, those things are already happening! Maybe it’s time for all of us to accept the facts and begin taking rapid climate change seriously. John Gladden Franklin
Granville went to the depot to meet Kephart on the scheduled day of his arrival. He rode one horse and took one for Kephart to ride. However, when Kephart arrived he was passed out. Therefore, Granville tied him to one horse which he led while riding the other one until they reached the Calhoun home. Lilly gave Kephart milk and later nourishing light food all while gradually tapering his alcohol intake. I do not recall hearing strawberry wine or pale red wine mentioned. I have always assumed that he was given corn liquor as that was used by many mountain families for health-related problems. Another point of concern in Mr. Ellison's article is the way in which he referred to Granville as a mountaineer who worked as a timber cruiser, dam builder and caretaker for the mine on Little Fork. I am certain that Granville was proud to be a native of the Smokies, as most of us with that heritage are. However, the description obviously was not meant as a compliment. Also, I wonder why Mr. Ellison failed to include the following description of Granville: he was a member of the school committee (now called the school board); he was called upon by the North Carolina Park Commission as an expert witness during the original park acquisition; he was involved in numerous business propositions including banking and real estate where honesty in dealing would be essential for maintenance of reputation. These were not just on Hazel Creek but included activities in Bryson City during the early 1900s. I trust you will share this strikingly different account of the incident in an effort to set matters straight. Gwen Franks Breese
Taste the Mountains is an ever-evolving paid section of places to dine in Western North Carolina. If you would like to be included in the listing please contact our advertising department at 828.452.4251 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-
ties and within one mile of Waynesville Country Club. 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 hand-cut, all natural steaks, fresh fish, and other classic American comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available. We also feature a great selection of craft beers from local artisan brewers, and of course an extensive selection of small batch bourbons and whiskey. The Barrel is a friendly and casual neighborhood dining experience where our guests enjoy a great meal without breaking the bank. BREAKING BREAD CAFÉ 6147 Hwy 276 S. Bethel (at the Mobil Gas Station) 828.648.3838 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 customer request, so come join us and find out what all the talk is about.
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To the Editor: I have never met George Ellison, but I am appalled as a result of his referring to Granville Calhoun as an untruthful person in a column published back in November 2013. I am a great niece of Granville’s. My grandfather, William Clifford Calhoun, who died in 1929, was his brother. As a child growing up in Bryson City in the late 1940s and the 1950s, I remember Uncle Granville as honest, kind and helpful. All of our family held him in high esteem and considered his word to be his honor, not only in dealings with people but in looking at the past. We all respected him and considered him to be the patriarch of our family. In reference to Mr. Ellison's accusation that Granville lied (or maybe I should say made up a Mark Twain tale) about Horace Kephart's arrival in the Smoky Mountains and the happenings of the immediate weeks that followed, I personally never heard Granville tell about it. However, my mother, Verayle Calhoun Franks; my grandmother, Nora Lee Calhoun; and my husband, Bob Breese, did hear him give the account and he gave it to each of them at different times. I want to point out that my husband knew Granville long before he met and married me and his respect and admiration for him has no connection to my family. The following is Granville's unwavering story as told to each of them. He received a letter from a member of the Kephart family asking if Kephart could come to the mountains and stay for a period of time with him (Granville) and his wife, Lillie Hall Calhoun, as he needed a change of location and time to work on some issues. The Calhouns agreed to the request and
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CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley. 828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes, and always all-you-can-eat. Lunch every day from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Evening cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays (weather permitting), featuring steaks, ribs, chicken, and pork chops, to name a few. Bountiful family-style dinners on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with entrees that include prime rib, baked ham and herb-baked chicken, complemented by seasonal vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts. We also offer a fine selection of 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 milehigh mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Please call for reservations.
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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.
CORK & CLEAVER 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville. 828.456.7179. Reservations recommended. 4:30-9 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Tucked away inside Waynesville Inn, Cork & Cleaver has an approachable menu designed around locally sourced, sustainable, farm-to-table ingredients. Executive Chef Corey Green prepares innovative and unique Southern fare from local, organic vegetables grown in Western North Carolina. Full bar and wine cellar. www.waynesvilleinn.com. COUNTRY VITTLES: FAMILY STYLE RESTAURANT 3589 Soco Rd, Maggie Valley. 828.926.1820 Open Daily 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., closed Tuesday. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet. Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service. FRANKIE’S ITALIAN TRATTORIA 1037 Soco Rd. Maggie Valley. 828.926.6216 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Father and son team Frank and Louis Perrone cook up dinners steeped in Italian tradition. With recipies passed down from generations gone by, the Perrones have brought a bit of Italy to Maggie Valley. frankiestrattoria.com FROGS LEAP PUBLIC HOUSE 44 Church St. Downtown Waynesville 828.456.1930 Serving lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; Dinner
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PASQUALE’S 1863 South Main Street, Waynesville. Off exit 98, 828.454.5002. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Classic Italian dishes, exceptional steaks and seafood (available in full and lighter sizes), thin crust pizza, homemade soups, salads hand tossed at your table. Fine wine and beer selection. Casual atmosphere, dine indoor, outside on the patio or at the bar. PATIO BISTRO 30 Church Street, Waynesville. 828.454.0070. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Breakfast bagels and
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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER All is not well at the Uptown Gallery in Franklin. “It’s pretty bad,” said Sue Weathers. “We’re losing money, and keeping the gallery open is getting pretty hard.” Co-director of the gallery and a member of the Macon County Art Association, which runs the gallery, Weathers is putting an open call out to the local residents, visitors and greater Western North Carolina that help is needed to ensure the longevity and survival of the 52year-old nonprofit business. “We are very worried we won’t be able to continue,” Weathers said. “We’re hoping that something will materialize and people will come to help. We need volunteers and we need to get the word out. It’s important for the community to have an arts presence, especially for the kids, and the community itself is enriched as a whole by artists.”
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Founded in 1952, the association and gallery came about due to the common interest of painting held between a group of women in the area. A lot of them were summer visitors and second homeowners, who were looking for a place to meet and paint together. “They started in someone’s home, then needed more room and were in the old jail,” MCAA Membership Director Carol Rollick told The Smoky Mountain News last year. “They eventually came to the current spot on Main Street and soon made it into a nonprofit organization.” With dozens of members filling up the vast walls of the gallery, pieces of art are constantly rotated and mixed with other mediums. It’s all in an effort to hold the viewers attention and be able to properly showcase the diversity of talent in Macon County. “There is a need for this art here, and a remarkable job has been done of bringing it to the public,” Rollick said. “I’m very proud of Franklin for having it and I certainly wish we would develop it even more.” But, with the economic downturn of 2008, the disposable income of many folks simply dried up. Art is considered a luxury expense, and can be considered low-hanging fruit when tightening up budgets. “In terms of sales, we don’t get as much community support,” said Jim Smythe, an artist member and president of the MCAA. “Most of the sales comes from visitors and tourists, and that’s kind of sad. We’re trying very hard to promote ourselves as best we can to the local community.” The financial difficulties of the gallery have been going on for a few years now, with their rainy-day savings being used to pay off the more than $1,000 per month overhead of the facility, which includes rent, utilities, upkeep
Run by the Macon County Art Association, the Uptown Gallery in Franklin is in dire need of support, whether through fundraising, art purchases or volunteer help to promote awareness of the nonprofit and its community endeavors. The gallery recently launched its First Saturday Art on Main events, which include a sidewalk sale and activities. The events will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 2, Sept. 6 and Oct. 4. Garret K. Woodward photos and miscellaneous items. In past years, those costs were paid for with funds earned by the gallery from art classes and programs they put on, commission from pieces sold and from member dues. But, in recent years, the association has dipped into savings, which are quickly drying up, and they expect to drain their purse within a year and a half. “When the economy went flat, people stopped buying art,” said Ruth Goodier, an artist member and co-director of the gallery. “We used to have grants from the county and city, but the past few years they haven’t been as generous as they used to.”
FINDING A SOLUTION In order to change the fate of the gallery and avoid closure, the MCAA has put forth their latest endeavor: the First Saturday Art on Main celebration. Taking place the first Saturday of each month through October, the gallery will open its doors to downtown Franklin with a sidewalk art sale amid artist demonstrations, community activities and the nearby farmer’s market that runs simultaneously. “More outdoor sales, with the Art on Main and with our shows in Highlands will make our presence known more,” Smythe said. “I think the community will really rally behind us. [This gallery] is an important part of the community, it’s important for the diversity of downtown.”
“If this gallery closed, 40 to 50 artists wouldn’t have a place to sell or place their works and there would be no place for community and children’s programs,” Goodier added. The Uptown Gallery isn’t the only nonprofit art organization that has gone through a rough financial path. After the recession hit, and up until late 2012, the future of the Haywood County Art Council’s Gallery 86 was
tee and its volunteers went around the community and met with anyone and everyone who’d listen to them. Some donated funds, some donated their time, while others vowed their support to do whatever they could to keep Gallery 86 afloat. “You’ve just got to make sure you have a mission you feel strongly about and that you get out there, publicize it and let people know you’re there,” Irwin said. “It’s about helping artists in Western “In terms of sales, we don’t get as North Carolina, it’s about promoting art, because without it, much community support. Most of communities here don’t have a chance — art is why people are the sales comes from visitors and coming here.” tourists, and that’s kind of sad. The Uptown Gallery and MCAA are optimistic about the We’re trying very hard to promote future. But their ultimate fate will come at the hands of those who ourselves as best we can to the wander through the door for a local community.” workshop or around the showcases in search of that special piece to Jim Smythe, president of the MCAA take home. “I would not be in Franklin if it murky. The gallery found itself on the ropes. wasn’t for the gallery and the association,” “We were financially in trouble and we Weathers said. “The gallery has been such a big needed to become transparent and figure out part of my life, and I couldn’t contemplate it how we were going to make it,” said Libby closing down — it would be devastating. Irwin, former president of the HCAC board. Having been here for over 50 years, the gallery Irwin said the HCAC transition committee is something the community should be proud came into play with the departure of their exec- of. I hope everyone comes and sees all the wonutive director in December 2012. The commit- derful talent here, because there’s a lot of it.”
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SMN: What has a life playing music taught you about being a human being? VA: Being in this business and being around musicians and seeing the egos and how people think they deserved to be treated, through all that, moe. is as much, if not more, a bunch of regular guys doing this because we love it. We have wives and kids, we coach softball and lacrosse teams. I know more people in my town from being my kid’s father than I am as some “rock star certain that plays in moe.”
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about people being about gimmicks and shock and awe rather than watching pure talent onstage? VA: The music as a whole has gone in that direction, kind of American life has gone in that direction — the Internet, free this, free that, streaming. People expect the music to be free, too. It’s about instant gratification. People buy a song, not an album. [The EDM scene (electronic dance music)], it’s more the kids. The older people don’t give a shit about that. We’re an older band,
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t’s the soundtrack of my life. Growing up in the Champlain Valley (Upstate New York/Vermont), the music of The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest will be my native land echoed July 10-12 at Harrah’s Cherokee. through the albums of moe. They are North Country The 11th annual Folk Festival will be held from boys, whose central blend of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 19 in Franklin. rock, jam, funk and jazz coagulated into a unique tone. It’s a seed planted in Reggae group The Root of All will perform at 7 your head that grows and p.m. July 18 at BearWaters Brewing in blossoms with you, becomWaynesville. ing a beautiful vine of Funk/soul group Emporium will perform at melodies wrapping around Concerts on the Creek at 7:30 p.m. July 11 at your flourishing soul. Bridge Park in Sylva. All through my youth and young adulthood it was Afro-Caribbean band Sol Driven Train will about listening to their perform at 8 p.m. July 11 at Nantahala Brewing music, and also being able to in Bryson City. catch as much of it live as possible (especially live). The Smoky Mountain News: moe. can play emotional and spiritual connection of seeing almost any city in the country right now and moe. perform live will always be the litmus folks will show up. But, how much bigger do test of who I am as a person — if I’m living you want it to get? my life to the honest aspirations I had when Vinnie Amico: It’s funny. We’ve been I finally held a driver’s license at 16 and the kind of floating in this area for a while. We open road was my destination. It’s why we all keep coming back, why we haven’t had that many huge peaks and we haven’t had that many dipping valleys. keep showing up at age 20, 30, 40 and 50 to We’ve stayed at this theatre level, and that’s their shows. That chance for magic, for a nice, comfortable career. The only way to peace within their live presence, which will reach that next level of success is to break always be there, as long as we believe that into the mainstream. We’ve been doing this purity in sound lies within the hearts of as long as we have, and we have that area of those onstage that wield their power with success we always have, but the mainstream the utmost skill, grace and respect. has no idea. Personally, a little mainstream The Smoky Mountain News recently success would put an exclamation point on caught up with moe. drummer Vinnie everything for me. Amico. He spoke of the band hitting their 25th year together in 2014, their aspirations SMN: The music industry, and specififor the future, and how their brand of music cally festivals, have changed a lot, where continues to survive and thrive in a modern instant gratification can be sought after industry where instant gratification can more than musicianship. What do you think sometimes overshadow musicianship.
SMN: 25 years. What does that number mean? VA: It’s amazing to me that we’ve made a career out of music, being able to live your dream and do what you do, and have a career from it. I want to continue to do this, — Vinnie Amico and sort of have to, because none of us know how to do and our crowd has definitely gotten older. anything else. [Laughs]. But then again, who There are younger kids at our shows, but it’s wants to do anything else than what we’re mostly an older crowd. Fads come and go, doing right now? and certain things stay. You look at the span of our career and how many things have Editor’s Note: moe. will be performing at gone, and how many things haven’t, how 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 11, at Pisgah Brewing many bands in our scene are still here. Phish Company in Black Mountain. Tickets are $20, isn’t going anywhere, Widespread Panic with VIP passes available. www.moe.org or isn’t, Gov’t Mule isn’t, and we aren’t. We’re www.pisgahbrewing.com. Their new album, “No rock bands and we are still here. We’re still Guts, No Glory!,” is currently on shelves now.
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On the beat SummerVoice Camp registration now open Registration for the Voices in the Laurel SummerVoice Music Camp is now open. The camp will take place July 28 to Aug. 1 at the First Baptist Church of Waynesville. SummerVoice is open to singers in all area counties who will be entering 1st through 12th grades in the fall. They will be divided into age groups to participate in a variety of musical experiences. Children in 1st and 2nd grade can enjoy the half-day program from 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., which is $85 for the week. Rising 3rd through 12th graders will experience full days of musical fun from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at a cost of $145 for the week. Campers will learn to sing with proper vocal technique and in two and three part harmony. In addition, participants will select an instrument (piano, guitar, percussion, violin or acapella for the older kids). Some choral numbers will include choreography. The funfilled week will end with a demonstration concert on Friday. Voices in the Laurel is a Haywood Countybased nonprofit performance choir for young people ranging from 1st grade through 12th grade from Haywood, Buncombe, Jackson, Macon and Swain counties under the direction of Martha Brown. www.voicesinthelaurel.org.
Robinson duo to play Cradle of Forestry Americana duo Dana and Susan Robinson will play the Songcatchers Music Series at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 13, at the Cradle of Forestry in America. The Robinson’s are two guitar-playing, banjo-frailing, fiddle-sawing and harmonysinging interpreters of the American experience. They bring to the stage a joyful blend of Appalachian mountain music, songs and stories of the American landscape and a deep understanding of America’s musical heritage. Dana’s instrumental “Crossing the Platte” was featured in Ken Burns PBS documentary, “Our National Parks, America’s Best Idea.”
• The Barbeque Gospel Sing will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at the Maggie Valley United Methodist Church. Door prizes and live music from Angie Toomey, Children of Zion, Mike Pilgrim, Maggie Valley UMC Choir, and more. Lunch is $8 per person. All proceed will support church missions. 828.926.9794. • Keyboardist Ben Wilson will perform as part of Art After Dark from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 11, at the Mahogany House Gallery and Studio in Waynesville. Refreshments will be served.
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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 Elizabeth LaPrelle and Anna Roberts-Gevalt on July 20, and the Palmetto Gravel Scratchers on July 27. Admission for all shows is $6 for ages 16 and older, $3 for youth 15 and under and America the Beautiful and Golden Age pass holders. 828.877.3130 or www.cradleofforestry.org.
Community dance in Sylva Out of the Woodwork will perform at the community dance at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 13, at the Bridge Park Pavilion in Sylva. Dancing will include circle and square dances as well as contra dances. All dances will be taught and walked through before dancing. No previous experience is necessary and no partner is required. Barbara Groh will call the dance to the live music of Out of the Woodwork, a band made up of local musicians, who invite anyone who plays an instrument to sit in with the band, to jam and learn how to play music for dancing. There will also be a potluck dinner following the dance at 5 p.m. Please bring a covered dish, plate, cup and cutlery and a water bottle. Suggested donation of $5. ronandcathy71@frontier.com or www.da ncewnc.com.
Country Memories to play Sylva library Appalachian string band Country Memories will play at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday July 15, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. The sextet consists of guitar, banjo, fiddle and autoharp. Made up of musicians from Franklin and North Georgia, the group shares music, stories and fellowship with their audiences. They play contemporary and traditional country, gospel, and bluegrass, throwing in a little humor and even a bit of country “rap.” This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library. Free. 828.586.2016 or www.fontanalib.org.
in Waynesville. Signup at 6 p.m. Free. www.38main.com. • Dustin Martin & The Ramblers, Willie & The Boys and Chris Blaylock will perform at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. Martin plays July 11, with Willie & The Boys July 12 and Blaylock July 13. All shows begin at 9 p.m. Free. 828.586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.
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Emporium to bring the dance, funk to Sylva Funk/soul group Emporium will perform as part of Concerts on the Creek from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, July 11, at Bridge Park in Sylva. One of the region’s best party bands, the sextet is a variety dance band originally formed in 1979. The group is based in Asheville, performing primarily at wedding receptions, conventions and company functions. They also play nightclubs and outdoor festivals to stay on the cutting edge. Appealing to a wide variety of age groups and musical tastes, this band has a tone and stage presence aimed at entertaining all ages. Concerts on the Creek are held every Friday night from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Performances are free with a donation encouraged and cooperatively produced by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, the Town of Sylva and the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department. Those attending should bring a chair or blanket. Americana/folk act Soldier’s Heart will perform July 18. 828.586.2155.
Triumphant Quartet to play Franklin Acclaimed southern gospel group The Triumphant Quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 18, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Formed in 2002, the quartet has won numerous awards, including being named The Triumphant Quartet. Donated photo Singing News Magazine’s Favorite Male Quartet of the Year, an honor they received four consecutive years. In 2009, they received a Grammy nomination for Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album for their record, “Everyday.” In 2011, Triumphant’s song, “Love Came Calling,” was Singing News Favorite Song of the Year and their album by the same name was named Album of the Year. Tickets are $15 per person. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.
with Even the Animals July 12. Both performances are at 8 p.m. Free. www.nantahalabrewing.com. • Reggae band The Root of All, Americana group The Old Guard and The Spontaneous Combustion Jam will be at BearWaters Brewing Company in Waynesville. The Root of All plays July 18, with The Old Guard July 12. Both performances are at 7 p.m. The jam runs from 8 p.m. to midnight every Monday, with all players welcome. 828.246.0602 or www.bwbrewing.com. • Karaoke with Chris Monteith, Paradise 56, Mile High Band and Josh Lane (My Highway) will perform at O’Malley’s Pub & Grill in
Sylva. Monteith will be July 11, 18 and 25, with Paradise 56 July 12, Mile High Band July 19 and Lane July 26. 828.631.0554. • The River Jordan Christian Store anniversary celebration will from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 12 in Sylva. Live music by Diana Jurss, David Young & Tommy Yates, with a book reading from Rebecca Fowler. Refreshments provided. www.theriverjordan.biz. • Country-rockers The Joe Lasher Jr. Band and The Jeff Sipe Trio will perform at Groovin’ on the Green at the Village Commons in Cashiers. Lasher plays July 11, with Sipe July 18. All shows begin at 6:30 p.m. Free. www.mountainlovers.com.
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• Country artist Earl Cowart and Appalachian bluegrass/gospel band Mountain Faith will perform as part of Pickin’ on the Square at the gazebo in downtown Franklin. Cowart plays July 12, with Mountain Faith July 19. All shows begin at 6:30 p.m. Free. 828.524.2516 or www.franklin-chamber.com.
• The Sound Awake, Captain Gene & Lucy, Craig Summers & Lee Kram, AJ Pratt and ‘Round the Fire will perform at Frog Level Brewing Company in Waynesville. The Sound Awake plays July 11, with Captain Gene & Lucy July 12, Summers & Kram July 17, Pratt July 18 and ‘Round the Fire July 19. Thursday shows begin at 6 p.m., with weekend performances starting at 7 p.m. Free. 828.454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.
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• Appalachian string/bluegrass groups The Freight Hoppers and The Snyder Family Band will perform at the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center in Robbinsville. The Freight Hoppers play July 12, with The Snyder Family Band July 19. Both performances are at 7:30 p.m. Cost is $15 (The Freight Hoppers) and $20 (The Snyder Family Band) for adults, $10 for students. Dinner services begin at 6 p.m. in the Schoolhouse Café. 828.479.3364 or www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.
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• Americana act Tina & Her Pony and dulcimer player Larry Conger will perform at City Lights Café in Sylva. Tina & Her Pony will play July 11, with Conger July 12. Free. www.citylightscafe.com or 828.587.2233.
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• Jam-rock group Porch 40 will perform as part of the Western Carolina University summer concert series at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, at the Central Plaza in Cullowhee. Free. www.wcu.edu.
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• Elvis impersonator Chris Monteith and rockers The Grove Band will perform at the Bryson City Train Depot. Monteith hits the stage July 12, with The Grove Band July 19. Both shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.
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• Soft rocker Logan Murrell, beach rock group The Caribbean Cowboys and Appalachian string band The Fontana Ramblers will perform at the Fontana Village Resort. Murrell plays July 17, with The Caribbean Cowboys July 18 and The Fontana Rambles July 19. All shows begin at 7 p.m. www.fontanavillage.com. • Appalachian bluegrass group Productive Paranoia will perform from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, at the Cowee Farmer’s Market. The market will open at 3:30 p.m. Free. www.coweefarmersmarket.com. • Jazz/blues singer Karen “Sugar” Barnes will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 10, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. Free. 828.488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org.
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• The Summer Live Music Series will continue with Paul Constantine, Jamunkatrons, Pioneer Chicken Stand Band and Porch 40 at the Nantahala Outdoor Center in the Nantahala Gorge. Constantine plays July 11, with Jamunkatrons July 12, Pioneer Chicken
Stand Band July 18 and Porch 40 July 19. Live music, barbecue and craft beer. All performances are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.
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• Friday Night Jazz! with The Kittle & Collings Duo will be from 6 to 9 p.m. July 11, 18 and 25 at Lulu’s on Main. www.mountainlovers.com.
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The Glenville Area Historical Society History Tour will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 19. This year’s tour includes the Duke Energy Thorpe Powerhouse along with the usual old homes and home sites, historic stories, photos and documents, as the tour itinerary follows N.C. 107 and up Bee Tree Road. The GAHS mission is to preserve the rich history of the Glenville area. Members interview elderly residents, conduct map research, collect documents and research history. Ultimately, after co-coordinating written material, photos and documents, the result will be a comprehensive historical publication about the greater Glenville area and Hamburg Township. The History Tour is a fundraiser to raise money for the planned publication. Tickets will be sold until 2 p.m. on tour day at the Thorpe Powerhouse and the site of the McCoy General Store at the corner of Glenville School Road. 828.743.1658 or historicalsocietyglenvillearea@yahoo.com.
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Wine & Dine Under the Stars Gala at SCC
The Southwestern Community College Foundation will host the Wine & Dine Under the Stars Gala at 6 p.m. July 19 at the Village Green Commons in Cashiers. The Student Success Campaign is Southwestern’s most ambitious scholarship fundraising effort ever. Through the community’s generosity and a federal challenge grant that matches every dollar (up to $300,000) raised by Sept. 1, the campaign aims to raise more than $1 million to help bridge the gap between scholarship need and availability. “You don’t realize just how much SCC touches Cashiers-Highlands lives every day,” said Cashiers businessman Jim Zoller, chairman of the SCC Foundation. “Emergency response from the Fire Department, Rescue Squad, EMS and police — all these folks are trained at SCC. That’s also the case for nurses, your hairdresser, cosmetologist, realtor, heating and air professional, auto mechanic and so many more.” All proceeds will go toward helping establish the Student Success Endowment. Tickets are currently available at Zoller Hardware, Scotlyn’s Yard Nursery, Tangles, Dovetail Antiques and the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce. Tickets can be purchased individually. Tables may be sponsored by individuals or businesses. 828.339.4227.
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Folk festival in Franklin The 11th annual Folk Festival will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 19, in downtown Franklin. The event includes over 100 heritage demonstrations, which include basket making, woodcarving, moonshining, weaving, spinning and more. There will also be exhibits, fireman competitions, Civil War reenactors, live bluegrass music and jam sessions, as well as children’s activities. Free. www.franklinfolkfestival.com.
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Formerly International Festival Day, ArtFest will be July 19 in Waynesville.
ArtFest to feature Folkmoot performers Sweet Corn Festival in Franklin The 17th annual Sweet Corn Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 12 at St. Cyprian’s Church in Franklin. Food, with a focus on sweet corn, can be enjoyed at tables under the shade of large trees that grace the property. Bill Crawford
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tells about the long-standing celebration of corn that existed in Franklin with the Cherokees, and continues now with the Sweet Corn Festival. The ancient Nikwasi Cherokee Mound between Main and Palmer streets in Franklin had a constant burning fire that was only extinguished just before the Green-corn dance each year. In addition to a hot meal with corn, attendees may purchase watermelon slices and baked goods. Alongside children’s activities and onsite vendors, live music will be provided by Erik Hendrix, Dave Stewart and Nikwasi Dulcimers. Two dance groups, the High Mountain Squares and Macon County Line Dancers, will take the stage midday. Proceeds from the festival this year support the All Saints Community and CareNet. Other organizations have benefited from the event in years past, including Wesley’s Playground. www.sweetcornfestivalnc.com.
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The Haywood County Arts Council will once again host ArtFest (formerly called International Festival Day) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 19 in downtown Waynesville. Over 95 artists representing a full range of media will demonstrate and sell artwork. This festival is one of the arts council’s largest events of the year and it happens to coincide with the first weekend of Folkmoot, to give the attendees a chance to see a couple of guest performances from the international dance groups. This year, Folkmoot will bring three international dance groups to perform onstage and four more groups to be on the street. Children can also enjoy the Passport to the Arts section where they will get to work with professionals to create intriguing craft projects. For more information on the Haywood County Arts Council or to determine whether vendor spaces are still available, click on www.haywoodarts.org.
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‘Hello Dolly’ to hit HART stage The 50th anniversary production of the Broadway blockbuster “Hello Dolly” will be held at 7:30 p.m. July 11-12, 17-19, 24-26, Aug. 1-2 and at 3 p.m. July 13, 20, 27 and Aug. 3 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville. The show is based on the play “The Matchmaker” by Thorton Wilder, and was created by Jerry Herman. The show debuted at the St. James Theater on Jan. 16, 1964 and became the biggest hit of the decade. “Hello Dolly” ran a then unbelievable 2844 performances. Tickets are $24 for adults, $20 for seniors, and $12 for students. A special $8 discount ticket will be available for students on Sundays. 828.456.6322 and www.harttheatre.com.
Contestants sought for youth talent contest
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The Heritage Alive! Mountain Youth Talent Contest will be held at 3 p.m. July 19 during the Franklin Folk Festival. Participants in this contest must exhibit a talent that reflects the old Appalachian ways of the region and adheres to the rules set up by the organizers of the talent contest and the Franklin Folk Festival. To register, please call 828.586.4009 or download an application at www.jackson.ces.ncsu.edu or www.spiritofappalachia.org. Fill out application form by July 14 and mail to: Jackson County 4-H, 538 Scotts Creek Rd., Suite 205, Sylva, N.C. 28779 or send to kerri_rayburn@ncsu.edu. 828.586.4009 or heather_gordon@ncsu.edu.
The “Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest” will be July 10-12 at Harrah’s Cherokee. Festivities kickoff with the Parade of Kings at 6:30 p.m. July 10 on the casino floor, followed by a contestant showcase at 7:30 p.m., where participants will perform for the public at the rotunda. • The preliminary round of competition will begin at 1 p.m. July 11 at the Essence Lounge. Free, with reserved seating available. • Former Elvis bodyguard Sam Thompson will give a public appearance at 3 p.m. July 11 at the Essence Lounge. Free, with reserved seating available. • Preliminary round two of competition will be at 4 p.m. July 11 at the Essence Lounge. Free, with reserved seating available. • The Parade of Kings will be at 7 p.m. July 12 on the casino floor. • The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest Finals will be at 7:30 p.m. July 12 at the Event Center. The top five contestants will vie for the title. Tickets are $20, $25 and $30. The winner of the Harrah’s Cherokee contest will move on to the 2014 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest in Memphis. 800.745.3000 or www.harrahscherokee.com.
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Fundraiser for Women’s Museum An Apron Making Marathon Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, July 18, at the Jackson County Extension Office in Sylva. The event is a fundraiser for the Appalachian Women’s Museum. Attendees do not need to know how to sew since we’ll also need folks to cut, press and fold. Sewing machines will be provided. They are also looking for donations of material, thread and seam binding. Located in Dillsboro, the museum is a preserved 106-year-old homestead, showcasing life in Appalachia over a century ago. Bring your lunch. No need to register. 828.586.4009.
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The 22nd annual Maggie Valley Summer Arts and Crafts Show will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 12 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 13 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Seasonal items, yard art, paintings, photography, pottery, wooden bowls, furniture, jewelry, goat milk soaps and more will be featured at the event. In addition to a wide selection of unique arts and crafts, there will be chainsaw artist Jeremy Buckner, and a variety of food vendors. Both the event and parking are free. Craft
vendor space is still available. For more information contact the Maggie Valley Chamber at 828.926.1686 or visit www.maggievalley.org. • The Come Paint with Charles Kidz Program will be at 5 p.m. July 15, 17 and 18 at the Charles Heath Gallery in Bryson City. $18 per child. Materials and snacks included. 828.538.2054. • The Summer Festival of the Arts will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 12 at the Macon Center near Mountain Hands in Franklin. Live music, artists of all mediums, crafters and vendors. Free artist participation. 828.349.2939 or www.franklin-chamber.com.
due to the Haywood County Arts Council by July 15. Send your report to director@haywoodarts.org or to P.O. Box 306, Waynesville, N.C. 28786. For a copy of the subgrant report, click on www.ncarts.org/grants/manageyouraward. Applications for 2014-2015 grants are due by Aug. 15. • The Sylva Photo Club will hold an HDR from Start to Finish presentation by Rudy Hughes from 3 to 5 p.m. July 12 at Coggins Office Park in Sylva. www.sylvaphotoclub.wordpress.com or 828.508.1107.
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• The Macon County Art Association will hold a meeting and mixed medium presentation by Camille Tuttrup at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 14, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. www.fontanalib.org.
• The films “Oculus” and “Transcendence” will be shown in the Central Plaza at Western Carolina University. “Oculus” will be screened July 17, with “Transcendence” July 24. All films begin at 9:30 p.m. Free. corelli@wcu.edu or 828.227.3618.
• A program on collecting outsider folk art will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 17, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. The event will include art collector Cindy Solesbee, artist Beryl Ruth Goodier, Debbie Boots and Brent Martin. The artists/collectors will also have a selection of their works on display at the library through the end of July.
• A landscape-painting workshop for beginners with Jon Houglum will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 18-19 at the Historic Cowee School in Franklin. $200 per person, with a $100 deposit due prior. 828.369.7274 or houglumfineart2@frontier.com. • Grassroots subgrant recipient reports are
• Potters Ed and Kari McIlvaine will demonstrate their craft from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at Tunnel Mountain Crafts in Dillsboro. From 2 to 5 p.m., silver jewelry maker Allyson Gernandt will also host a demonstration.
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Give thanks to Burroughs for telling us ‘how’ his Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More, For Young and Old Alike (Picador, 2013 reprint, $15) has minor flaws to irritate every reader. For me, the title on the dust-jacket of the original hardback was almost impossible to read, and certain sections of this “self-help” book — the chapter “How To Let A Child Writer Die” was arrogant, sentimental, and condescending — were as annoying as a stink bug circling a light bulb. And yet the more I read This is How, the more I flipped the pages, skipping here and there from one essay to the other, the more I appreciated the wisdom and experience that Augusten Burroughs brings to the reader. Author of Running With Scissors, Dry, and other memoirs, all of which describe his difficult youth, his alcoholism and drugs, and his sexuality, Burroughs here gives such honest, direct advice, cutting through much of the cant that surrounds so many issues these day, that I found myself reading parts of the book aloud to friends and sharing with others some of the many examples served up here. In “How To Finish Your Drink,” for example, Burroughs discusses alcoholism, sobriety, and Alcoholics Anonymous. Though he believes that AA has helped drunks stay sober, and though he at one point attended AA meetings during his own battle with the bottle, Burroughs tells us what many former
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Though this sounds like one of those antidrug ads that used to appear on television, those who suffer from addiction — not just drinking, but any addiction — know that Burroughs is right on the money, that other people and organizations can offer help, but in the end only the addict can beat the addiction. In the chapter “How To Identify Love By Knowing What It’s Not,” Burroughs begins with a list. Here are a few of his astute caveats: “Love doesn’t use a fist. “Love never calls you fat or lazy or ugly. “Love doesn’t laugh at you in front of your friends. “Love does not make you beg. “Love does not maintain a list of your flaws and weaknesses. “Love believes you.” In “How To Feel Sorry For Yourself,” a chapter which should be required reading for every American, Burroughs ends by with this reminder: “Self-pity is waiting to be bottle-fed your dinner. “The truth behind the truth is this: even if you are a victim, you must never be a victim. “Even if you deserve to be one. “Because while you wait for somebody to come along and set things This Is How by Augusten Burroughs. Picador, 2013 right, life has moved forward without reprint. 240 pages you. “ The chapter that most moved me live without alcohol than bury yourself with a was “How To Be Fat.” Though I myself am no bottle. He writes: “My view is that the way to longer fat, I have overweight friends, particustop drinking is to stop drinking is laughably larly females, who obsess about being fat. simplistic on the surface. It’s ‘Just say no.’” Near the end of the chapter, after writing that
Country Fair to celebrate library anniversary The Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library will celebrate its 20th anniversary with the Country Fair from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at the library. There will be children’s activities, including face painting, Go Fish, storytelling and games. Joining the festivities will be Miss P, the beloved Labrador retriever who has listened to hundreds of children read to her at the Cashiers library over the years. Also on hand will be animals from The Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society and Tooth Fairies from the Blue Ridge Free Dental Clinic. At 1:30 p.m. a ceremony honoring current and former librarians, library employees, and the many volunteers who have served the library during the past two decades, will begin with the arrival of Barbara Carlton by horse and carriage. Mrs. Carlton, who donated the land for the library in memory of her husband, Albert Carlton, and who established the Albert Carlton Cashiers Community Library Foundation to help support the library, will cut the birthday cake and welcome Jackson County commissioners, representatives from the Fontana Regional Library System and other honored guests.
Hosted by the Friends of Library, the event is free. 828.743.0215.
Davis to present new memoir Writer Tom Davis will discuss his new memoir, The Most Fun I Ever Had with My Clothes On at 3 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. In his memoir, the author relates his experiences during the 31 years spent in the U.S. Army. Twenty of those years he served with US Army Special Forces (Green Berets). This book chronicles his time in three combat zones: Vietnam, Bosnia, and Iraq/Turkey, Thomas (Tom) Hoyt Davis, III (aka The Squid), entered the Army as a private and retired as a full colonel. 828.456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.
Judaculla discussion in Sylva Cashiers author David Webb will present his book about Judaculla Rock at 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 11, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. The product of several years of research and writing,
“There is no shame in deciding you look fine just as you are. Or even better than fine. There is no shame in deciding just to be fat,” Burroughs includes a wonderful description of a woman he saw at a hotel swimming pool in Palm Springs. This woman entered the pool area wearing a sarong, high heels, and an oversized hat. She was, as Burroughs notes, what one would “typically call fat,” but he then writes: “I was astonished by her beauty and her utter command of the entire area surrounding the pool. I glanced around at the other people near me and indeed, every man was watching her. Lust is not easily mistaken for repulsion; these men wanted her. The women sitting outside were watching her, too. And their expressions were just as easy to read, as clear as words printed on a white page: how the hell was she doing that? “Because this woman was the sexiest, most sensual woman I had yet encountered in California. I expect the vast majority of those looking at her felt exactly the same way.” He then imagines the woman, at an earlier point in her life, standing before a mirror in her jeans, accepting the fact that she was fat, and after deciding that she wanted to be “sexy as hell,” did the things that made her that way. “You manufacture beauty with your mind,” Burroughs tells us, and clearly his woman knew how to do that. In the beginning of This is How, Burroughs includes a quotation from Galileo: “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered: the point is to discover them.” Here Augusten Burroughs reveals some of the truths he has discovered, and I for one am grateful that he has shared them with the rest of us. A thumbs-up on This is How.
Judaculla Speaks offers insight into the meaning behind the ancient petroglyphs featured on the rock. Webb explains that the images are arranged on a wheel and tell the story of the Garden of Life. It is widely believed that the relief on the rock is over 13,300 years old. 828.586.9499.
Writer’s workshop in Sylva A writer’s workshop with local fantasy writer Donna Glee Williams will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Williams, author of The Braided Path, is the host of the workshop titled “Write What You Don’t Know.” In this workshop, Williams will lead a short adventure in creative writing, with writing prompts to get the group started. This workshop requires no previous creative writing experience, only a willingness to try new things and share thoughts and memories with a supportive community of fellow writers. This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library. Free. www.fontanalib.org or 828.586.2016.
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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER t’s no secret that an accurate weather forecast is hard to come by in the Smokies. But after two months of intense measurements at more than 100 stations around the region, scientists working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are crunching data that could change that. “I think we’ve made an important contribution to understand the hydrology and the water cycle of the Smokies,” said Ana Barros, professor of earth and ocean science at Duke University and principal investigator on the Smokies project. Since 2007, Barros’ lab has been steadily building up its slate of science-grade monitoring stations, which include rain gauges, disdrometers to measure raindrop size and vertically pointing radars to look at how the clouds are organized at different levels of the atmosphere. These instruments, located on both public and private land throughout the Carolina Smokies, have been automatically recording data since October and will continue to do so through the coming October. But the investigation rose above ground level. An airplane flew 70,000 feet in the air, so high in the stratosphere that the pilots had to wear spacesuits, to observe the clouds from above. A smaller plane flew right through the clouds to observe the varying characteristics of water and ice particles suspended in them. The airplanes flew everywhere but focused especially on two sites, Maggie Valley Sanitary District and Purchase Knob, that were furnished with an even more complete set of monitoring equipment than the other sites during an intensive observation period in May and June. Those instruments included a trailer that measured the concentration of aerosols — nanoparticles suspended in the air — and an array of large radars to record the weather patterns from the ground. Those radars are especially important, said Anna Wilson, a member of Barros’ lab, “because in this region there’s a lot of influence in the lower levels of the atmosphere closer to the surface, and we’re trying to investigate in closer detail how that interacts with synoptic events, [which are weather] events that move across the country.” The Duke group isn’t working alone, however. The study was part of a campaign to reconcile data gleaned from a group of NASA satellites, launched in conjunction with the Japanese space agency, with actual weather patterns on the ground, a process being repeated in varying areas across the country. In February, the core observing station was launched in the constellation of 10 satellites, the first of which launched in 1999. The goal is to glean data that can be used to improve human understanding of atmospheric patterns and, therefore, weather.
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As anyone who’s had a sunny-and-70 forecast turn into a thunderstorm can tell you, weather is tricky in the mountains. Local weather forecasts come largely from radars located at the Greenville, S.C., National Weather Service Station, but their signal can’t travel through mountains. In order to get radar readings in the Smokies, the Greenville station has to point its radars high enough that the beams reach above the mountains. This allows them to come up with mountain forecasts, but the high angle means they don’t get the whole story. “Because most of the interesting weather is happening at the lower altitudes, most of the time this radar doesn’t even see what is going on the mountains because they are pointing so high,” Barros explained. “Often it’s hard to know if it rained unless you were actually there.” This low-altitude “interesting weather” frequently has to do with the multi-layered cloud systems that characterize the
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Daniel Martin, a student at University of North Carolina Asheville, checks a rain gauge. (above) A trailer loaded with aerosol instrumentation records data at its station at the Maggie Valley Sanitary District. Donated photos
Smokies. What starts out as a little drizzle coming from a high cloud picked up by radar often falls down into a lower cloud, where it picks up more moisture. Those larger raindrops can then fall down into an even lower cloud and become even bigger. Before you know it, a forecast of light drizzle has turned into the reality of a torrential downpour. Called the “seeder-feeder” effect, these interactions have important implications for wildlife as well as for forecasts. “Multi-level clouds and fog actually create different types of micro climates,” Barros said. “Small changes in climate can have huge impacts on whether the fog forms, on where the fog forms and all of that really interferes with how the plants really function. It can have implications for the stability of the forest, for biodiversity, even for the animals and of course implications for wildfires. All of these things are related to where is the moisture in the atmosphere, how is the rain falling, how is it moving.” Because, as well as feeding the raindrops seeded by higher clouds, the fog of the Smokies is actually an important water source. People might dismiss that water as “just drizzle,” but a slow and steady drizzle can add up to a lot of water, and it tends to sink into the ground a lot better than a faster, heavier rain. In the cold season, Barros said, drizzle resulting from interactions between fog and higher clouds accounts for 50 to 60 percent of all rainfall in the region. “It’s like when you leave your faucet on at home and you don’t notice it, but you wind up with a big water bill at the end of the month,” Barros said.
WHERE THE WEATHER HITS THE WOODS But weather isn’t just a product of the atmosphere. It’s a product of the terrain, too, especially when it comes to storms. Another goal of the project is to synthesize the data for a better understanding of how clouds and terrain interact to dictate severe whether, such as thunder, lightning and flash flooding.
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Get your nature ID on mens will be available, and Alsop will discuss flight patterns in various families. Afternoon and evening collecting using black lights will also be part of the class. • Insect identification, taught by Dave Alsop, will be held July 28-Aug. 2. The workshop will explore the most commonly seen insects in the area. Alsop will discuss methods for preserving and identifying insects as well as the environmental constraints that dictate where insects occur. Afternoon and evening black light collecting will demonstrate the diversity of insects around the area. Workshops meet 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and are located at Highlands Biological Station. Open to all skill levels. $350 for a full week; $300 for members at the Sagee level or above. Housing available for an additional fee. www.highlandsbiological.org/summer2014 or 828.526.2602.
Frog Level flower barrels The Frog Level area of Waynesville is looking a little greener thanks to a beautification project by the Waynesville Garden Club. Rebecca Hellman spearheaded the project, purchasing and planting seven barrels full of flowers in front of Depot Street businesses. Frog Level merchants will maintain the planters. Donated photo
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Learn how to get rid of the pests wrecking your garden with a free introductory class on integrated pest management 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, at the Canton Branch Library. Tim Mathews, coordinator of the Haywood County Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Program, will discuss techniques for keeping insects at bay while remaining environmentally sensitive. Strategies covered will address preventing crop damage from insects, weeds and diseases. Free. 828.648.2924.
“You get these very intense cells that are very localized and cause these major events in very specific locations in the mountains,” Barros said. “We’re trying to understand how these cells evolve and how do they become so intense and so heavy.” It has to do with the shape of the terrain, the direction of the wind and the stability of the atmosphere, Barros said. But in order to get raindrops at all, she said, you have to have aerosols, nanoparticles that hang suspended in the atmosphere. They’re the nuclei around which cloud droplets, which grow into raindrops, form. With no aerosols, the air can become quite humid but will never form a cloud, much the same as how with no particles to anchor to, water can become frigid but will never turn to ice. Aerosols deserve much of the credit for the Smokies’ ample clouds and fog. The question for Barros lab, then, is where do local aerosols come from? Are they arriving as blown-in pollution from some other place? Are they dust that’s been kicked up in the air? Or, are Smokies aerosols possibly a product of the trees themselves? “Forests and vegetation, when they transpire, they emit these volatile organic carbon compounds,” Barros said. “They can change phase, and they can actually become aerosols.” If the vegetation actually turns out to
be the source, that would point to a selffulfilling prophecy of life and lushness in the Southern Appalachians. “It’s basically showing how the plants themselves are creating the conditions to harvesting water resources,” Barros explained. It will take a year or two for the lab to run the data and reach any solid conclusions — the field stations will keep recording data through October — but they’ve already pulled out plenty of themes worth pursuing and plenty of hope for better forecasts down the road. And not just here — while the research happened in the Smokies, the world at large will reap the benefits. “It’s beautiful to study the Smokies, it’s beautiful to explain what’s going on there, it’s beautiful to explain the whole transition from fog to rain, but at the end, from a scientific point of view, it’s all about the processes,” Barros said. The “seeder-feeder” data can be used to explain precipitation patterns anywhere from the coast of California to the United Kingdom. The data gleaned about the interaction between terrain and atmosphere can be applied to low-elevation mountains ranging from the foothills of the Alps to those of the Himalayas. And the picture as a whole will likely be of great use to forecasters in tropical cloud forests throughout South America. “We’re going to really try to put all of this information together,” Barros said, “and come up with a big picture.”
Aquaponics farmer brings set-up to Waynesville Fish and farming will mix with a lesson on intermediate aquaponics at 1 p.m. Sunday, June 13, at the Waynesville branch of Haywood Public Library. Local aquaponics farmer Bear Forsyth will bring his portable aquaponics system to give participants a first-hand look at how it’s done. Aquaponics is a farming system in which the waste from farmed fish is used to fertilize plants grown hydroponically, meaning in a re-circulating system that doesn’t use soil. Free. 828.356.2507.
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A series of five-day workshops at Highlands Biological Station will help participants master the names of the plants and insects in the forest around them. The station offers these workshops each year to provide in-depth study of special topics relevant to the Southern Appalachians. • Shrub identification, taught by Larry Mellichamp, will be held July 21-25. Students will learn how to identify common and rare native shrubs and learn about their natural history and the relationships between them. • Butterfly and moth identification, taught by Dave Alsop, will also be held July 21-25. Students will explore the diversity and identification of members of the Lepidoptera insect order, which includes 179 species of butterflies and 869 of moths in North Carolina alone. Prepared speci-
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The 11th annual Mountain Wildlife Days will take over Sapphire Valley Resort near Cashiers, N.C. June 18-19, activities ranging from a presentation on with world of mammals to a raptor demonstration to bluegrass gospel music. Friday, June 18 The Highlands Plateau Audubon Society will kick off the weekend with a bird walk around the Cashiers Commons Boardwalk beginning 8 a.m. Romney Bathurst, a welltraveled birder, will lead the walk and search for both nesting migrants and yearround species. Meet at the Jackson County Recreation Center parking lot in Cashiers. RSVP to 828.743.9670. Friday morning will also feature a Gorges State Park Program and hike and a Panthertown Valley hike followed by a children’s program in the afternoon called “Creepy, Crawly Things are Wildlife, Too”. Call ahead of time to reserve a spot. Steve O’Neil, an advocate for wild lives and wild places, will give a reptile and
amphibian presentation for children at 3 p.m. in a program titled “Our Most Misunderstood Wildlife.”
Kim Delozier, author and retired National Park Service ranger, holds bear cub triplets during an on-the-job rescue. Donated photo
A silent auction, with proceeds to benefit Mountain Wildlife Days’ Western North Carolina Wildlife Outreach outdoor education opportunities, will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Sapphire Valley Community Center. The auction will continue throughout the day Saturday. The “Caring for God’s Creation” portion of the event will open with gospel music from Pinnacle Ridge at 7 p.m. Following the music, Bill Lea will give a presentation alongside his nature photography and piano music from Bryan Heller. Saturday, June 19 Michael Skinner of Balsam Mountain Nature Center will give a presentation featuring live birds of prey at 10:15 a.m. At 11:10 a.m., Kim Delozier, a retired Great Smoky Mountains National Park ranger and author, will share some of his exciting wildlife encounters. At 1 p.m., Dr. Dave Unger, biology professor at Maryville College, will give a presentation titled “What Little Red Riding Hood Didn’t Tell You About the Big, GOOD Wolf.” North Georgia Zoo will present their “Wildlife Wonders” program to get up close with a variety of unusual animals at 2 p.m. 828.743.7663.
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Parkway program explores Buck Springs Lodge history Blue Ride Parkway rangers will lead an exploration of the Buck Springs Lodge ruins beginning 10 a.m. Friday, June 11. This easy, 1.5-mile hike will include information about the Vanderbilt connection to Mount Pisgah and how they used the area as a mountain getaway. Meet at Buck Springs Gap Overlook, mile post 407.6. Bring water, hiking shoes and weather-appropriate clothing. 828.298.5330, ext. 304.
Volunteer workday to build up Tsali mountain bike trails A joint trail maintenance day involving mountain bikers, hikers and horseback riders will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 12. The work day is organized by Nantahala Area Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association and The Wilderness Society’s Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards. The group will work on the trails around Tsali Recreation Area, helping repair them from the wear and tear of use. Participants must wear long pants, boots, a hard hat and gloves. Loners are available. Lunch — barbeque or hummus and veggies on pita — will be provided, and door prizes, including a free two-night stay at Fontana Village, will be given out. Contact Stephen Benson with SORBA at Stephen@motionmakers.com or Brenna Irrer with SAWS at brenna_irrer@tws.org.
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A hike to explore the newly renovated Graveyard Fields area of the Blue Ridge Parkway will accompany Haywood Waterways Association’s annual summer picnic on Saturday, July 19. The picnic, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., will be held at Rivers Edge Park on Thickety Road in Clyde. Food and drink are provided, though it’s always OK to bring something to share. Musical instruments have also been known to appear, and there’s a walking trail, two playgrounds, horseshoe pits and a boat launch to enjoy as well. After the picnic, Haywood Waterways will carpool to Graveyard Fields for a hike. The site just underwent a major renovation, so the group will explore the new facilities and talk about the headwaters found there. A large portion of Haywood County water originates from the Graveyard Fields area. Carpool from Clyde, or meet at Music Box Junction in Bethel at 2:30 p.m., or meet at Graveyard Fields parking area at 3:15 p.m. RSVP for either or both events by July 17. Christine O’Brien, 828.550.4869 or christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com.
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Anglers test the waters on a misty morning in the Smokies. Swain County Chamber of Commerce photo
New map and website highlight Swain fishing A new website and brochure highlight all the fishing opportunities available in Swain County. With four rivers, dozens of mountain streams and two large lakes, there’s no shortage of diversity. The new publications make fishing spots easier to find and navigate. At Greatsmokiesfishing.com, visitors will find a map, fishing report and profiles of 26 Swain County fishing locations, as well as information about licenses, marinas,
public access ramps, handicapped-accessible facilities, bait shops, trout ponds and Bryson City lodging and dining. The brochure includes a map of area fishing spots and is available at many area businesses. Anglers can also request it at 800.867.9246 or through the form at greatsmokiesfishing.com. Both the website and brochure were designed by Bryson City-based Deep Creek Arts.
Trout tournament coming up in Cherokee
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July 9-15, 2014
The annual Cherokee Dog Days Fishing Tournament will be held in Cherokee again July 18-19, with $10,000 in cash prizes available. Cherokee is home to 30 miles of privately stocked freestone streams, stocked twice a week and including many trophy sizes. All waters, with the exception of 2.2 miles of catch-andrelease waters, are open for the tournament. Catches are tagged, and the tags can be redeemed for cash prizes as big as $1,000, given to the biggest fish caught. $11 entry fee. Open to all ages and Donated photo all legal fishing methods. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians fishing license required. Register anywhere fishing licenses are sold. www.fishcherokee.com.
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Nantahala Lake spawned two state fishing records within a week during the month of June. Until now, the state record for a kokanee salmon was 3 pounds, 9 ounces, set in 2009 by Swannanoa resident Ashley Swann, but Fred Mix of Rainbow Springs broke that. He landed a 3-pound, 15-ounce fish with a homemade spinner, putting his own name in the record books. But five days later, Mills River resident Jeffery Todd Smith broke Mix’s record, reeling in a 4-pound, 1-ounce kokanee salmon. Smith said he’s been trolling the lake, which
houses the only kokanee salmon in the state, for two years, hoping to break a record. On June 11, which was both his birthday and his day off work, Smith finally reached his goal after nearly nine hours of trolling. To earn an N.C. Freshwater Fish State Record, anglers must catch fish with a rod and reel or cane pole, have the fish weighed on a scale certified by the N.C. Department of Agriculture with one witness, have the fish certified by a fisheries biologist from the Commission and submit an application with a full, side-view photo of the fish. A list of North Carolina freshwater fish state records is available at www.ncwildlife.org/Fishing/FishingRecord s/ApplyforaNorthCarolinaStateFreshwaterF ishin.aspx.
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Kids program offers chance to touch bones, or delve into digestion Haywood Public Library will get more than skin deep with a forensic anthropology program at 3 p.m. Thursday, July 17, at the Waynesville branch and Tuesday, July 29, at the Canton branch. John Williams, director of Western Carolina University’s forensic anthropology program, will present the program as part of the library’s Summer Science Fun Club for children ages 9-16. He’ll talk about what it’s like to be a forensic anthropologist, and he’ll bring along some real human bones. Participants will get to handle them and see how to determine a skeleton’s age and sex. Williams is one of 72 board-certified forensic anthropologists in the nation and has worked with human skeletons for nearly 40 years. Also coming up, an interactive program on animal eating habits and digestion will be held at 11 a.m. July 10 at the library in Waynesville and again July 17 at the library in Canton, led by children’s author Dawn Cusick who will incorporate her books into the discussion. Children will be able to create a diet for their animal and make a fun dessert complete with digestive juices. 828.648.2924 for Canton or 828.452.5169 for Waynesville.
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A three-day Farm to Fork day damp for kids ages 5 to 13 focusing on Scottish Appalachian heritage will be held from July 29-31 in Haywood County through the 4-H program. Campers will get to tour a local sheep farm and Scottish Highlander Cattle farm in Haywood County, have afternoon tea at the Herron House, create Scottish crafts, make shortbread, participate in a youth version of the Scottish games, and learn about farming and preservation methods used by the early Scottish Appalachian settlers. It is put on by the Haywood County Cooperative Extension 4-H arm and sponsored by Farm Bureau. The cost is $35, which includes materials and lunches, and includes joining 4-H. 828.456.3575.
Maggie Valley Summer Arts & Crafts Festival Saturday July 12th: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday July 13th: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m Maggie Valley Festival Grounds
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Pisgah Area Southern Off-Road Biking Association is looking to fill a lineup of positions on its board of directors. Directors help plan events and trails, meeting every other month to hammer out those details, with chapter meetings held on the offmonths. Contact chris@pisgahareasorba.org for details, and read through old minutes at the club’s past minutes at www.pisgahareasorba.org/category/news/meeting-minutes.
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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Indoor Flea Market, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Haywood County Fairgrounds, Highway 209 N., Lake Junaluska. • Contestants sought for the Heritage Alive! Mountain Youth Talent Contest, 3 p.m. Saturday, July 19, Folk Festival of Franklin. Deadline for applications, July 14. http://jackson.ces.ncsu.edu, or http://spiritofappalachia.org. 586.4009 or heather_gordon@ncsu.edu.
BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Free Student Success Seminars, 1 to 2 p.m. July -10, Building 300, Room 355, Haywood Community College, Clyde. Topics: July 9, Career Exploration/Planning, 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. • Cashiers chamber Business After Hours, 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Burlingame Country Club, 19387 Rosman Highway, Sapphire. Chamber members free. Guests, $10 per person, credit applicable to annual membership. RSVP, 743.5191 or email info@cashiersareachamber.com. • Ribbon cutting to celebrate new location for Gahagan, Black & Associates PLLC, 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, July 11, 143 Main St., Clyde. • Free 90-minute photo editing class, GIMP, 5:45 p.m. Monday, July 14, Jackson County Public Library. Register, 586.2016. • 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. • Affordable Care Act workshop, 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, Conference Room, Jackson County Public Library. Free. 586.2016. www.fontanalib.org.
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. • Barbecue Gospel Sing, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Maggie Valley United Methodist Church, 4192 Soco Road, Maggie Valley. Rain or shine. Door prizes every half hour. Performers include Angie Toomey, Children of Zion, Mike Pilgrim, Subject-2-Change, T-2, and the Maggie Valley UMC choir. $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.
All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted. • American Red Cross Blood Drive, 3:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, July 14, High Street Baptist Church, 73 High St., Canton. 800-REDCROSS.
Haywood County Public Library, Waynesville branch. 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.
• 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.
• Young Entrepreneurs Boot Camp, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 14-18, Haywood Community College, Clyde.
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• 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.
Macon • 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, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, July 21, Swain County Hospital, 48 Plateau St., Bryson City. Melissa Southers, 586.7130.
RECREATION & FITNESS • Co-Rec Volleyball Tournament, 9 a.m. Saturday, July 19, Recreation Center, Cullowhee. Register through July 11. $80 per team. Jackson County Recreation Department, 293.3053. Sylva. • British Soccer Camp, July 28-Aug.1, Recreation Park, Cullowhee or Aug. 4-8, Cashiers Community Park, Cashiers. www.challengersports.com. • Youth Fall Soccer registration, 8 a.m.to 6 p.m. July 14-Aug. 1, $45. Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department, 293.3053. • Adult 4 On 4 Flag Football League registration, July 128, $130 per team. Games played at Recreation Park in Cullowhee starting in August. 293.3053.
THE SPIRITUAL SIDE • Painting Workshop/Retreat with Fr John Quigley Friday, July 11 – Sunday, July 13. 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.
SENIOR ACTIVITIES • Free Stroke Screening, 8 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, July 15, Jackson County Department on Aging in the Dining Hall, Sylva. Register, Melanie Batchelor, 586.7734. • “The Mind Body Dynamic,” with Dr. David Marn, DC of Aery Chiropractic and Acupuncture, 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, Board Room, The Department on Aging/Senior Center, 100 County Services Park, Sylva. 586.4944.
KIDS & FAMILIES • Rocks and Minerals, 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10,
• Hands in Science, Children’s Science Program, 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 16, JCPL. 586.2016. • Experimental Times, Teen Science Program, 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, JCPL. 586.2016. • Motors and Mechanics, 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 22, HCPL, Canton branch. 648.2924, www.haywoodlibrary.org. • Forensic Anthropology-The Real “Bones,” 3 p.m. Thursday, July 17, HCPL Waynesville, and 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 29, HCPL Canton. Forensic anthropologist Dr. John A. Williams, director of the Forensic Anthropology Program at Western Carolina University, guest speaker. 452.5169, Waynesville; 648.2924, www.haywoodlibrary.org.
Summer Camps • 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 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.
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 • 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. • Children’s author Anna Browning will read her book, Tanner Turbeyfill and the Moon Rocks, at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 17, Haywood County Public Library, Waynesville. • Children’s Story time, 2 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016. • Children’s Story time, 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 15, JCPL. 586.2016. • Solar Cars, 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, JCPL. 586.2016. • Use Your Noodle, 10:30 a.m. July 16, Marianna Black Library, in Bryson City. Pasta-themed stories and a science experiment with noodles. • Zombie apocalypse first aid program for teens, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, July 17, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. 488.3030 or email aplatt@fontanalib.org.
ECA EVENTS Extension and Community Association (ECA) groups meet throughout the county at various locations and times each month. 586.4009. This month’s meetings, listed by date, include: • Noon Thursday, July 10 – Nuts and Seeds, Lunch and Learn ECA, Conference Room of Community Service Center, Sylva.
• SummerVoice Music Camp, July 28 – Aug. 1, First Baptist Church of Waynesville. Open to singers in all area counties who will enter first through 12th grades in the fall. First and 2nd graders half day program, 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., $85. Rising third through 12th graders, full day program, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., $145. Register at www.voicesinthelaurel.org or call 734.9163.
• 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 15 – Craft, Cane Creek ECA, location to be announced.
• 4-H Farm to Fork Day Camp, July 29-31 for youth ages 5 to 13. Focuses on Scottish Appalachian Heritage. $35 per youth, includes materials and lunches. Haywood County Cooperative Extension Office, 456.3575.
POLITICAL GROUP EVENTS & LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Literary (children) • 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. • Experimental Times: Teen Science Program, 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, JCPL. 586.2016. • Ew! Eek! Wow! Adventures in Hands-on Science Experiments, 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 9, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. 524.3600. Grades 3 – 5. • 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.
• 9:30 a.m. Thursday, July 17 - ECA Craft Club Workshop – Pottery or Glass Project, Claymates, Dillsboro
GOP • Forum on The North Carolina Plan for Education with Jamey Falkenbury, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest’s education policy adviser, noon Monday, July 14, Jackson County GOP Headquarters, Laurel Terrace, Cashiers. Light lunch, reservations, 743.0910. Ralph Slaughter, 743.6491, email: jacksonctygop@yahoo.com or jacksoncountygop.com.
Others • Lunch With the League, noon, Thursday, July 10, Tartan Hall, First Presbyterian Church, Franklin, featuring Franklin Mayor Bob Scott and Franklin town Manager Summer Woodard. Bring a bagged lunch. The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization. • Jackson County Patriots, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 17, Ryan’s Steak House, Sylva. Featured speaker is Agenda
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• Angel Hospice: Making a Difference, One Life at a Time, 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, Angel Medical Center Dining Room. Presented by Dr. Michael Parmer, Medical Director of CarePartners of Asheville. 349.6639.
LITERARY (ADULTS) • Literacy Rotary Bingo, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Highlands Community Building, to benefit the Literacy Council of Highlands. • Lin Stepp will read from her Smoky Mountain series, Down by the River, at 3 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. 456.6000, www.blueridgebooksnc.com. • River Jordan Christian Store anniversary celebration, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 12, Sylva, featuring live music by Diana Jurss, David Young and Tommy Yates, and a book reading from Rebecca Fowler. www.theriverjordan.biz. • Cullowhee Mountain ARTS Creative Writing Summer Workshops featuring Elaine Neil Orr, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, City Lights Bookstore. 586.9499. • Writer’s Workshop with Donna Glee Williams, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, JCPL. Register, 586.2016. • Author Tom Davis will discuss his new memoir, “The Most Fun I Ever Had with My Clothes On,” at 3 p.m. Saturday, July 19, Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. 456.6000, www.blueridgebooksnc.com. • Friends of the Haywood County Library annual Book Sale, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 24, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, July 25; and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Haywood County Library, Waynesville branch.
FESTIVALS, SPECIAL & SEASONAL EVENTS • Where Shadows Walk (ghost stories) with Gregg Clark, 6 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Meeting Room, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. whereshadowswalk.com.
• Tribute Artist Contest, Elvis Presley, July 10-12, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort, Cherokee. Tickets at Ticketmaster.com, 800.745.3000. • Dulcimer U Summer Week Concert, 7 p.m. Thursday, July 17, John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. Tickets, $10 public, $5 for WCU faculty, staff and students. 227.2479 or by going online to bardoartscenter.wcu.edu. • Glenville Area Historical Society annual History Tour, 10 a.m., tickets sold until 2 p.m., Saturday, July 19 at Thorpe Powerhouse and the site of the McCoy General Store at the corner of Glenville School Road. 743.1658 or email historicalsocietyglenvillearea@yahoo.com. • Mountain Street Dance, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 11, Haywood County Courthouse, Main Street, Waynesville, featuring Trevor and Travis Stuart, JAM Students, J Creek Cloggers, Doug Trantham Family Joe
• Summer Festival of the Arts, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 12, Macon Center near Mountain Hands, Franklin. 349.2939 or www.franklin-chamber.com. • Old-fashioned Country Fair, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 12, grounds of the Albert CarltonCashiers Community Library, Cashiers. 743.0215. • ArtFest 2014 (formerly International Day), Saturday, July 19, Main St, downtown Waynesville. Featuring arts and crafts vendors, food, live music and Folkmoot USA dancers and musicians. www.haywoodarts.org. • 11th annual Folk Festival, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 19, Main Street, Franklin. www.franklinfolkfestival.com. Appalachian tales, Cherokee legends, and heritage stories in the air-conditioned Franklin Town Hall Meeting Room, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Pippin, 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday Matinee, through July 20, Highlands Playhouse. $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. General admission tickets, $20 for adults, $10, children ages 6-12 and free for children under age 5. Reserved tickets available at 866.554.4557 or www.visitcherokenc.com. • Jazz/blues singer Karen “Sugar” Barnes, 7 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. Free. 488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org. • 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. • Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 13, Performing Arts Center, 250 Shelton St., Waynesville. www.haywoodarts.org. • 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. Admission, 877.3130 or www.cradleofforestry.org. • Concert with Country Memories, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, JCPL. 586.2016. • The Snyder Family Band, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center in Robbinsville. 479.3364 or www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.
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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.
• 17th annual Sweet Corn Festival, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 12, St. Cyprian’s Church, 216 Roller Mill Road, Franklin. Sweetcornfestivalnc.com.
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• Maggie Valley Summer Arts and Crafts Show, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 12 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 13, Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Free. 926.1686 or visit www.maggievalley.org.
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SUPPORT GROUPS • Macon County Cancer Support Group, 7 p.m. Thursday, July 10, cafeteria of Angel Medical Center on Riverview Street.
Sam Queen, emcee, and Tuscola Band Boosters serving concessions.
• Appalachian bluegrass group Productive Paranoia, 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, Cowee Farmer’s Market. Market opens at 3:30 p.m. Free. www.coweefarmersmarket.com. • Triumphant Quartet, 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 18, Smoky Mountain Center For The Performing Arts, Franklin. GreatMountainMusic.com or 866.273.4615. • Songcatchers Music Series with Elizabeth LaPrelle
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and Anna Roberts-Gevalt, 4 p.m. Sunday, July 20, Cradle of Forestry in America, Pisgah National Forest. Admission. 877.3130 or www.cradleofforestry.org.
OUTDOOR MUSIC CALENDAR BRYSON CITY
HIGHLANDS • Saturdays on Pine, 6 p.m. Saturdays, KelseyHutchinson Park July 12 — Hobohemians July 19 — Telico
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• 6:30 p.m. Saturdays, Train Depot July 12 — Chris Monteith (Elvis impersonator) July 19 — The Grove Band (rock)
• Concerts on the Creek, 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Bridge Park July 11 — Emporium July 18 — Soldier’s Heart
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• Groovin’ On The Green, 6:30 p.m. Fridays, Village Commons July 11 — Joe Lasher Band (country/rock) July 18 — Jeff Sipe Trio (jazz-fusion/rock)
CHEROKEE • Music on the River, 8 p.m. select nights, Oconaluftee River Stage July 11 — Running Wolf Band July 12 — AM Superstars July 18 — Midnight Express Clogging Team July 18 — A-36 Band July 19 — Eastern Blue Band
CULLOWHEE • Western Carolina University, 7 p.m. Tuesdays, Central Plaza, 227.3618. July 15—Porch 40 July 22—Unawarewulves
• Summer Live Music Series, 6 p.m., www.greatsmokies.com July 11—Paul Constantine July 12—Jamunkatrons
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. • Community Dance, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 13, Bridge Park Pavilion on Railroad Avenue in Sylva. Circle, square and contra dances. Barbara Groh caller. Music by Out of the Woodwork. Potluck dinner at the Poteet Park picnic shelter following. Ron Arps at ronandcathy71@frontier.com.
FRANKLIN • Pickin’ on the Square, 7 p.m. Saturdays, Town Hall July 12 — Earl Cowart (country) July 19 — Mountain Faith (bluegrass/gospel)
HIGHLANDS • Friday Night Live, 6 p.m. Fridays, Town Square July 11 — Macon Grass Band July 18 — Southern Highlands
FOOD & DRINK • “Way Back When,” dinners at Cataloochee Ranch to celebrate its 80th anniversary: July 11, July 18, Aug. 1 and Aug. 15. $31.95 per person. Reservations, 926.1401 or 800.868.1401. Meet at ranch house at 5:30 pm, rain or shine, to board the wagon ride to the camp. www.cataloocheeranch.com.
ART/GALLERY EVENTS & OPENINGS • 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.
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, ½ mile north of Huddle House. Taught by Moya O’Neal and Robert Estep. Details at AppalachianArtGlass.com, 367.7610 or AppalachianArtGlass@gmail.com. • 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. • Sylva Photo Club “HDR from Start to Finish” presentation by Rudy Hughes, 3 to 5 p.m. July 12, Coggins Office Park, Sylva. www.sylvaphotoclub.wordpress.com or 508.1107.
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• Macon County Art Association, 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 14, meeting room, Fontana Regional Library. Program: “Mixed Media” by Camille Tuttrup. • Collecting Outside Folk Art, 7 p.m. Thursday, July 17, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. • Apron Making Marathon Day, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, July 18, Jackson County Extension Office, Sylva. Fundraiserfor the Appalachian Women’s Museum. 586.4009. • Landscape-painting workshop for beginners with Jon Houglum, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 18-19, Historic Cowee School, Franklin. $200 per person, with a $100 deposit due prior. 369.7274 or houglumfineart2@frontier.com.
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• Carolina Mountain Woodturners and the Southern Highlands Craft Guild woodturning demonstration by Steve Sinner, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday July 19, Folk Art Center, Blue Ridge Parkway, Asheville. 712.6644 or visit www.carolinamountainwoodturners.org.
FILM & SCREEN • 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. • “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. • Teen comedy based on Shapespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, 1 p.m. Friday, July 11, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. 488.3030.
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• Children’s Movie, 1 p.m. Monday, July 14, JCPL. 586.2016. • Adult movie, 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 14, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016. • Teen Movie, 3 p.m. Monday, July 14, JCPL. 586.2016. • Family movie, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, The Marianna Black Library, Bryson City, featuring a 12year-old orphan, Hugo, who lives behind the walls of a Parisian train station. 488.3030. • New movie based on autobiography of Nelson Mandela, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, Macon County Public Library Meeting Room, Franklin. Rated PG-13. 524.3600. • Oscar-winning 1967 drama starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, 2 p.m. Friday, July 18, Meeting Room, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. 524.3600. • “Oculus,” 9:30 p.m. July 17 and “Transcendence,” 9:30 p.m. July 24, Central Plaza at Western Carolina University. Free. corelli@wcu.edu or 227.3618.
Outdoors OUTINGS, HIKES & FIELDTRIPS • Nantahala 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. • Tsali Trail System Mega Work Day, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Tsali. Food and door prizes. Volunteers needed. stephen@motionmakers.com, brenna_irrer@tws.org. • Carolina Mountain Club/Southern Appalachian Wilderness Society hike, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, July 12, Tsali Recreation Area Loop Trails, Appalachian Wilderness Stewards Trail Maintenance. Register at http://wilderness.org/southern-appalachian-wilderness-stewards. • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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. • Franklin Bird Club bird walk, 8 a.m. Wednesday, July 16, Greenway. Meet at Salali Lane. 524.5234. • Highlands Plateau Audubon Society birding walk, 8 a.m. Friday, July 18, around the Village Green and Commons, Cashiers, in conjunction with Mountain Wildlife Days at Sapphire Valley. Meet in the parking lot of new recreation center. • Carolina Mountain Club hike, 8:30 a.m. Sunday, July 20, Shining Rock from Black Balsam. 11 miles. Leader, Jill Gottesman, 587.9453, 545.5236, jill_gottesman@tws.org.
• 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. • Forest Service plan revision public meeting, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Resort Drive, Asheville. www.fs.usda.gov/nfsnc. • “Winged Creatures of the Night,” 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Cradle of Forestry amphitheater near the Forest Discovery Center along the Forest Festival Trail, Pisgah National Forest. $6 for ages 16 and older and $3 for youth 15 and under and America the Beautiful and Golden Age pass holders. Highway 276 South, about 25 miles south of Waynesville. 877.3130 or www.cradleofforestry.com. • BioBlitz, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Twin Creeks Science and Education Center. Free. 865.430.4757. • Aquaponics: Intermediate Level (cultivation of fish and plants together in a re-circulating ecosystem) with Bear Forsyth, 1 p.m. Sunday, July 13, Haywood County Public Library, Waynesville. 356.2507. • Health Implications of Fracking, 6 p.m. July 16, Jackson County Public Library Community Room, Sylva, with Dr. Graeme Potter of Dogwood Insight Center.
• Tuckasegee Nature Series, Erika Zambello, Stanback Intern for The Conservation Fund, speaking on “Plot Balsams Business Case for Conservation,” 6:30 p.m. July 17, Community Room, Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva. Presented by Little Tennessee Land Trust and the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department. 254.2711 or www.ltlt.org. • Great Smoky Mountains Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation “Big Game Banquet,” 5 p.m. Saturday, July 19, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Event Center. Dinner, $50. Reservation deadline, July 16. No tickets at the door. 506.3308.
• “A Safari Trip to South Africa,” 7 p.m. Monday, July 21, Hudson Library, Highlands, with Jim and Ellen Shelton. Presented by Highlands Plateau Society. • Workshop, “Butterflies and Moths of the Southern Appalachians,” with Dr. Dave Alsop, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 21-25, Highlands Biological Station. $350 nonmembers, $300 for Highlands Biological Foundation members at the Sagee Level or above. Housing available at the HBS for an additional fee. www.highlandsbiological.org/summer-2014 or call 526.2602.
WATER SPORTS • 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 • 2014 Lake Logan Multisport Festival, Aug. 2-3, Lake Logan, Canton. Includes a new Half-Iron distance triathlon, in addition to the sprint triathlon, Aquathon and Aquabike. Volunteers needed. Greg Duff, Glory Hound Events, 400.5868, greg@gloryhoundevents.com. www.GloryHoundEvents.com.
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• Mountaintop Rotary of Highlands SOAR Golf Tournament to benefit Special Operations Warrior Foundation, 9:30 a.m., shotgun start, Monday, Aug. 4, Sky Valley Country club. $150 per player. Registration deadline, Wednesday, July 30. Mail form to Mountaintop Rotary Club, Bill Zoellner, PO Box 2584, Highlands, NC 28741 or call 787.2323 for details.
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MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDES • Weekly mountain bike ride at Tsali, 6 p.m. for all levels of riders. Refreshments following. 506.0133. • Ladies mountain bike ride, 6 p.m. July 11, Tsali. Barbecue following. Free camping for those able to do trail work, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 12. 506.0133. • Nantahala Area SORBA chapter will host a megawork day with the Wilderness Society on the Tsali trails, Sat. June 12. • Weekly mountain bike ride at Tsali, 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Hosted by Nantahala Area SORBA. Social ride, so all skill levels are welcome and encouraged to come. Meet in the Tsali parking lot. www.facebook.com/NantahalaAreaSORBA). Andy, 488.1988.
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• Monthly ‘Girlz Ride’ at Tsali, last Friday of every month. Sponsored by Nantahala Area SORBA. Meet at 6:30 p.m. in Tsali parking lot. All skill levels welcome. Social and snacks provided after the ride. 506.115, www.facebook.com/NantahalaAreaSORBA.
FARM & GARDEN • Miniature Gardens, 10 a.m. Saturday, July 12, Dovecote’s Porch & Gardens, 35 Flash Point Drive Cashiers, with botanist and author Mary Palmer Dargan. dargan.com/dovecote-events. • 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. • Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, Canton Branch Library. Presented by Tim Mathews, Haywood County Extension Service. 648.2924.
FARMERS & TAILGATE MARKETS Haywood County 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. 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.
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• Haywood Waterways annual summer picnic, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 19, Rivers Edge Park, Thickety Road, Clyde. RSVP by Thursday, July 17 to Christine O’Brien, 550.4869 or christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com.
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• Family Night, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Canton Recreation Park Swimming Pool. $2 per person.
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• “Seasons in the Smokies,” the second film in the Smoky Mountain Explorer Series from Great Smoky Mountains Association, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, July 17, Sugarlands Visitor Center near Gatlinburg, with filmmaker Gary Wilson. Free. www.SmokiesInformation.org.
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• Cherokee Dog Days Fishing Tournament, July 18-19. $11 entry fee. $10,000 in prizes. www.fishcherokee.com.
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PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS • Blue Ridge Parkway Family Night “Animal Talk Show,” 7 p.m. Thursday, July 10, Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center, Milepost 384. Registration required, 298.5330, ext. 304.
• French Broad River Trips, wnca.org/paddle/frenchbroad-float-trips/.
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SWEET CAROLINE - A 2 year old, female Beagle. She is tricolored and weighs about 22 lbs. She is as sweet as her name. She gets along with people and other dogs. She is housebroken and knows how to use a doggie door. She is a calm, relaxed dog. Call 828.586.5186. LOOMIS - A 3 year old, male, Terrier mix. He is black with some white and brown. Loomis weighs about 24 lbs. He is energetic and likes to play. He is a dominant dog, therefore should probably be an only dog. Call 828.586.5186. AMBER LOVE - A six month old, 20 lb., Rat Terrier mix. Very energetic, loves to play. Call 828.293.5629 BETSY - A two year old, black, 8 lb., female toy breed. Either Chihuahua or Affenpinscher, housebroken, good with people and dogs. Call 631.2676 BANDIT - An adolescent, neutered, black cat. He tries to answer the telephone. Litterbox trained. Call ARF foster home at 586.5647. HOLLY - A 14 week old, 24 lb., Basset hound mix. She is friendly with a great personality. Call 828.293.5629.
SHIRLEY - A 2-3 year old, sweet long-haired, Collie-looking dog. She is shy of other dogs. Call 1.877.273.5262. LORETTA - A young, sweet bulldog mix. She weighs about 34 lbs, is black and tan. 828.506.1013. PEPPER - A 2 year old black and white hound that looks like a German Shorthaired Pointer. He has a docked tail. He is an outdoor dog, weighs 47 lbs., good with animals and people. Very trainable. 828.506.1013. . LIL’ BIT - A mixed, brindle Hound/Boxer. He is 7-9 months old, weighs 29 lbs. He is mostly housebroken and is dog door trained. Call 507.3248.
Pit Bull Terrier Mix – tan & white, I am about 2 years old, and I’m a big, goofy, loveable guy! I would love to find a forever home in a household that will give me plenty of exercise. Adoption fees vary; if you’re interested in me, please contact Pam at adoptions@ashevillehumane.org.
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The naturalist’s corner BY DON H ENDERSHOT
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he next USDA Forest Service public meeting regarding the National Forest Plan Revision will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on July 10 at the Crowne Plaza Resort in downtown Asheville. The new plan will guide the management of the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests for the next 15 years. This meeting will cover two main topics — wildlife habitat and managing for ecosystem integrity and ecosystem diversity — with information and comment station available for “Wild and Scenic River” discussion/nomination. The wildlife session will run from 9-11:30 a.m. followed by the wild and scenic river session from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then the ecological integrity session from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. I ask if anyone is listening because a Forest Plan revision was undertaken (complete with public meetings) back around 2000 (see “The Naturalist’s Corner” 23 March 2011, www.smokymountainnews.com/component/k2/item/3588-the-devil-is-in-the-
details-%E2%80%93-again). Undoubtedly the powers that be didn’t like the direction of those efforts and the FS decided to fly solo and implement its own Planning Rule in 2005. They were sued by a group of environmental and conservation organizations and in 2009 a District Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. So everyone is back at the table. I perused some of the public comments offered to date and saw a lot of the same names and/or organizations that were part of that 2000 effort. It looked like many just dusted off their 2000 comments, changed the date and sent them in. And for many participants those comments are still valid, because many of the issues are the same and for people and/or groups that have staked out rigid positions there is probably, still little room for compromise. But I’m gonna go out on a thin and brittle optimistic limb here — I know, kinda outta my normal curmudgeony character — but I believe the 2009 court ruling may have convinced the FS to listen. And I believe that the recent move towards more “Stewardship Contracting” — a process where the FS can “enter into stewardship projects with private persons or public or private entities, by con-
tract or by agreement, to perform services to achieve land management goals for the National Forests or public lands that meet local and rural community needs,” is helping to build a better model of cooperation when it comes to forest management. You can see more about stewardship contracting by visiting www.thenaturalistscorner.com/?p=447 and at www.smokymountainnews.com/ news/item/5819-master-stewardship-on-
developing a plan that “… reduces conflict across the forest…” — and I think the Pisgah/Nantahala Plan could be a model for the country. Some of the groups in the Partnership include The Wilderness Society, David Wood, Cherokee County Commissioners, Back Country Horsemen of North Carolina, Columbia Forest Products, Banner Forest Resources, Trout Unlimited, Wild South, International Mountain Biking Association and the Western Linville Gorge Wilderness. Ken Thomas photo North Carolina Alliance, to name a few. To find out more about the NPFP go to www.npforestpartnership.org/. I better stop now before I get my hopes too high and they bottom out like a New Yorker’s first walk across Sliding Rock. But I will follow up after the July 10 meeting. And for all you the-ground. working stiffs out there, like me, who can’t Add to that, the Nantahala Pisgah Forest be at Crowne Plaza all day – you can go to Partnership — a diverse group of forest www.fs.usda.gov/detail/nfsnc/ users comprising 24 different organizations, home/?cid=STELPRDB5397660 to learn clubs, businesses and individuals that are how to comment. meeting collaboratively to come up with sug(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist. gestions for the Forest Plan in hopes of He can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.)
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