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CONTENTS On the Cover: The 36th annual Folkmoot International Dance & Music Festival will kick off this Thursday in Haywood County. This year’s festival will feature four a handful of new events, including a beer and wine festival, an Americana music showcase and a Folkmoot After Dark variety show. Patrick Parton photo

News Candidates still have time to sign up for municipal races ......................................4 Tribe to purchase 198 acres in Tennessee ................................................................7 Sports betting bill passes N.C. House ........................................................................7 Frog Level flora flap finished ............................................................................................8 Sediment violation found at WCU housing ................................................................9 Study shows benefits of river park in Bryson City ..................................................11 No negligence in Jackson jail death, DA says ........................................................12 HCC tuition help available to undocumented students ........................................13 Canton to revamp archaic pool hall ordinance ........................................................14 Survey results bode well for indoor pool in Jackson ..............................................18 Education News ................................................................................................................21

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Candidates sign up for Franklin race

Haywood candidates slow to sign up

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER With the deadline to file for municipal office fast approaching — noon on July 19 —Haywood County voters may end up with few competitive races, and even fewer candidates.

In Canton, Alderman Dr. Ralph Hamlett and Mayor Pro

but no one’s filed for that race, either.

Clyde’s Mayor Jim Trantham took office in December 2016 after the passing of longtime Mayor Jerry Walker and has filed to run for a full term. Thus far, he has no opposition. The aldermanic seats of Diane Fore, Dann Jesse and John Hemingway are all up for election this year as well; Fore and Hemmingway have filed.

Temp/Alderwoman Gail Mull have both filed for reelection as they said they would, but no one has yet filed to challenge either of them. There’s also a two-year board seat unexpectedly on the ballot after the resignation of James Markey a few weeks ago,

No one else has.

Last winter, Maggie Valley Mayor Saralyn Price announced she wouldn’t run for re-election; Aldermen Dr. Janet Banks and Mike Eveland have both filed to run for her seat, but they’re the only ones so

Only two candidates have signed up to run for four open seats in the Franklin Town Council as of Tuesday afternoon.

Incumbent councilmember and former mayor Joe Collins signed up to run for another four-year term on the board last week. Collins served 10 years as mayor before retiring in 2013, but then came out of retirement in 2015 to seek a seat on the town council. He won that election and is now seeking a second term on the board this go around.

Dinah Mashburn, who was appointed to fill the unexpired term of her late husband Billy Mashburn in January 2018, has signed up to run in order to fill the remaining two years of the term, but the other incumbents Adam Kimsey and Brandon McMahan have not yet signed up to run for a second term on the board.

The race for Franklin’s mayor will be contested with incumbent Bob Scott running against current Councilmember Barbara McRae. Scott is running for his fourth two-year term as the town’s mayor. He also served on the town board for 10 years before running for mayor.

McRae has served on the town board for two four-year terms alongside Scott, but this is the first time she’s run for mayor.

far. Banks’ aldermanic seat is now open, as is Alderman Phillip Wight’s, but no one has yet filed to run for either.

All Waynesville aldermanic seats are up for election this fall, as is the mayor’s gavel; as expected, Aldermen Jon Feichter and Julia Boyd Freeman filed for re-election. Alderman Dr. LeRoy Roberson said weeks ago he was “leaning against” running again, and as of press time on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 16, hadn’t filed.

Alderman Gary Caldwell, however, filed to run for mayor, so his seat, and possibly Roberson’s, won’t be defended by incumbents. Mayor Gavin Brown has also filed for re-election.

Waynesville Planning Board Vice Chairman and Haywood Healthcare Foundation board member Anthony Sutton filed for an aldermanic seat, and was this week joined by Joel Reece, a retired special agent in charge with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as local attorney Chuck Dickson.

As of Wednesday, July 10, Election Day is 112 days away, and will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Municipal candidate filing ends at noon on Friday, July 19. For more information, visit www.haywoodcountync.gov/173/elections.

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BRYSON CITY No one new has signed up to run for the Bryson City Board of Aldermen race since last week. The mayor and two seats on the board are up for re-election. Incumbent Mayor Tom Sutton has signed up to run for a third term in office, but neither incumbent aldermen — Heidi Woodard-Ramsey and Jim Gribble — have put their names in again. Though the incumbents have not yet signed up to reclaim their seats, newcomer Chad Smith has thrown his hat into the ring.

Candidates have until noon Friday, July 19, to sign up to run for office.

More candidates needed in Webster and Forest Hills With just three days to go before election filing closes, there is still a dearth of candidates for open seats on the Webster Town Council and Village of Forest Hills Council.

In Webster, the seats currently held by Billie Jo Bryson and Kelly Donaldson are up for election. In Forest Hills, the mayor’s seat, currently held by Kolleen Begley, and the council seats held by Niall Michelsen and Jonathan Brooks will be on the ballot.

None of those incumbents have yet signed up to run for re-election. However, in Forest Hills Timothy Eckard has filed to run for one of the councilmember seats and in Webster L. Allen Davis has signed up to run for a seat.

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Over in Highlands, three seats are open on the Board of Commissioners. Incumbent Eric Pierson has signed up to run again as well as challengers Marc Hehn and Hank Ross.

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far four people have filed to run for those positions. On July 12 incumbent Greg McPherson signed up to run for re-elec-

tion, and incumbent David Nestler will seek re-election as well. Meanwhile, longtime commissioner Harold Hensley has announced that he will leave the board this year. Also seeking a place on the board are Luther Jones and Benjamin Guiney, who currently serves on the town’s planning board.

There will not be a town board election in Dillsboro this year.

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MILLIONS AND BILLIONS — Correction from last week’s guest column

want to correct my misstatement now.

To give a quick analysis of the impact, when our legislature wastes $5 billion of our taxes, taxes paid out of our pockets, that money leaves our communities and goes to the U.S. Treasury in Washington, never to be seen again.

The jobs follow the money. Every $100,000 represents a primary job lost, and when one job follows the money we also lose a secondary job, and the secondary economic impact follows as well. So, you lose your $5 billion in taxes and a secondary $5 billion in secondary jobs and economic impact.

The real loss is $10 billion for our state’s economy! That is the consequence of denying Medicaid expansion. $10 billion lost.

That’s $10 million, 1,000 times over.

Or, we could accept our citizens’ $5 billion dollars of federal taxes paid, allowing it to return to North Carolina and serve our citizens here.

This $5 billion would provide healthcare for 500,000 of our neighbors, creating over 40,000 good North Carolina jobs in ALL of our communities. Plus, it would create an equal $5 billion in secondary employment and economic activity.

That’s a positive $10 billion impact on our North Carolina economy if we expand Medicaid now. The spread is an astounding $20 BILLION for no, I repeat, NO NEW TAXES. That, my friends, is a significant difference worth fighting for.

(Rep. Joe Sam Queen represents parts of Haywood and all of Jackson and Swain counties in the North Carolina General Assembly.)

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BY JOE SAM QUEEN When it comes to talking about millions and billions, getting tongue-tied or misquoted is a hazard of the state budget talks.

The numbers are so big that most of us don’t have a grasp of the phenomenal difference they make for real people’s lives, in the economy of our state.

In my Rep. Joe Sam Queen recent guest column I want to let you know I said, “There is $5 million over the next two years that we have already paid, but we are wasting away in this budget.”

That number should have been $5 BILLION — a thousand times larger. Whether you’re giving a stump speech or editing an op-ed, a billion or a million, “a lot” is what we mean, but the difference really matters.

We are wasting $5 billion of our citizens’ taxes, taxes that we have already paid. I

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“There’s really no accurate answer, right now,” he said. “They can play this game until the election if they want to. Without a budget, many things can’t go forward — raises, for example.”

While recurring budget items will continue to be funded, non-recurring spending like state employee and retiree raises won’t occur until a budget is passed.

“It’s not a good thing to not have a state budget,” said Queen. “The only way we move this is with public pressure. People need to call their elected representatives and tell them to negotiate with their duly elected governor.”

To that end, Queen will hold a series of town halls in his district this Saturday, July 20, to explain the situation. The Haywood County meeting begins at noon at the Historic Haywood County Courthouse, the Swain County meeting begins at 2 p.m. at the Marianna Black Library and the Jackson County meeting begins at 4 p.m. at the Southwestern Child Development Commission.

“We’ll go over it in as much detail as needed,” said Queen.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER orth Carolina’s budget standoff shows no signs of ending, weeks after Gov. Roy Cooper, D-Rocky Mount, followed through on a promise to veto a Republican-crafted budget that doesn’t include Medicaid expansion.

“They’re playing a game right now called budget garage,” said Rep. Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville, speaking from Raleigh on the afternoon of July 16.

That “game” involves calling members to the floor of the General Assembly with an eye on voting to override or sustain Cooper’s veto. Right now, around seven House Democrats like Queen would have to vote to override the veto, but if a large enough number of Democrats are absent — for any reason — Republicans could scrounge up enough votes to override the veto.

“They don’t have the votes,” Queen said.

“We will sustain the governor’s veto. We won’t cave.”

As to what happens if the budget standoff continues, Queen said it’s hard to say.

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Haywood foundation focuses on health Grant applicants, donations being sought

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR he Haywood Healthcare Foundation has put nearly half a million dollars back into the community since August 2014 when Haywood Regional Medical Center was sold to Duke LifePoint.

When the hospital transitioned from a nonprofit entity to a for-profit entity, the former hospital foundation — established in 1978 — had to decide whether to dissolve or change its mission since it could no longer raise funds directly for the for-profit hospital.

“We had to decide to disband or continue with a new mission and we decided to continue on because we felt like there was still a need in Haywood County,” said Marge Stiles, director of the foundation since 2004.

The foundation decided to broaden its mission to “improve the health status of Haywood County, its individuals and families through educational programs, grants, scholarships and leadership opportunities.”

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The community is probably familiar with the healthcare foundation’s annual fundraising events like the Power of Pink 5K, Casino Night and the 28th annual Charitable Classic Golf Tournament and Gala. These popular events are well attended and also make up much of the foundation’s budget to support local health initiatives.

Power of Pink 5K, which has been held for more than 10 years, has raised about $120,000. All those funds are used to ensure underserved women and men in Haywood County are provided with free mammogram screenings. As of May 2019, the fund had provided 1,688 mammograms and follow-up procedures to 895 Haywood County residents.

Funds from the golf tournament weekend and Casino Night help the foundation fund a number of health-related grants, scholarships and other initiatives. For example, the healthcare foundation took on the challenge of funding Waynesville Recreation Center’s Base Camp on the Go program in an effort to provide a free mobile recreation program for children all over Haywood County.

The mobile summer camp travels around to different communities in the summer and gave more than 800 children an opportunity to take part in activities like dodgeball, log rolling, fly fishing, environmental education, obstacle courses and more.

The healthcare foundation was able to raise $69,000 for Base Camp on the Go, which paid for the truck needed to travel around the county and a one-year salary for 6 the program director.

“Base Camp on the Go had a huge impact on kids in the county — that’s 800 kids being active during the summer. And it was done in partnership with the town parks and rec so we are trying to partner with people in the community to find out what the biggest needs are,” said Foundation Chairman Anthony Sutton.

In addition to fundraising, the health foundation is also able to use the interest that accumulates annually from the county fund it administers. The estimated $20 million fund was created in 2014 using the money from the hospital sale and the money can only be used for health-related causes to benefit the people of Haywood County. Haywood County Commissioners chose the healthcare foundation as the fund administrator in 2016.

HEALTH EDUCATION The foundation has also made a huge commitment to help Haywood Community College construct a new facility to train much-needed medical professionals. The new building is estimated to cost $7.2 million — $2.8 million of that will come from the Connect NC Bond revenue and the foundation has committed to paying off the $5 million debt service for the remaining cost.

For Sutton, the commitment to HCC

Donate to Haywood Healthcare Foundation Private donations are needed for the HHF to continue its mission of improving the health of people and families in Haywood County. For more information on how to donate or sponsor a HHF fundraiser, visit www.haywoodhealthcarefoundation.org/ donate-non-profit-organization/. achieves several of the board’s priorities within one project.

“In order to maintain a sustainable community, we have to have health care, jobs, education and housing,” he said. “The new HCC building will provide an education for our youth and health care benefits for the community plus we’ll have more jobs filled,” he said. “If we can keep our young people in the community after they graduate, we’ll keep the brain drain from happening.”

Sutton said the foundation hopes to be able to pay off the HCC construction debt within the next four to five years using part of the interest it collects from the hospital sale fund, but the foundation also encourages the community to get involved by making a private donation. The board is currently working on details for naming and sponsorship

opportunities for the HCC health care facility.

The HCC building isn’t the foundation’s only commitment to education — the nonprofit also has awarded local schools with grants for health education and nutrition initiatives and has awarded about $56,000 in scholarships.

Each year the foundation gives two $1,000 scholarships to graduating Haywood County students who plan to pursue a career in the medical field; two or three $2,500 scholarships to students pursuing a nursing degree at HCC and one $12,000 scholarship to a student pursuing an Associate Degree in nursing at HCC in honor of Dr. Bennie Sharpton.

GRANTS The Haywood Healthcare Foundation is in the midst of another grant cycle available for qualifying nonprofits, schools and government agencies. The deadline for Request for Proposals (RFPs) relating to unmet health care needs in Haywood County are due by 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1.

The estimated $20 million fund was created in 2014 using the money from the hospital sale and the money can only be used for health-related causes to benefit the people of Haywood County.

While grant proposals must address a specific health-related program, materials or equipment, initiatives can range broadly from maternal/infant health, chronic disease-related initiatives, nutrition, substance abuse, dental care for an underserved population, mental health care, senior health care issues or environmental health issues.

Sutton said this round of grants doesn’t have a maximum dollar amount because the board wants to see what the true need is and award funds accordingly.

Some of the grants awarded in the last several years have supported mental health needs, substance abuse and recovery, dental health needs, medical equipment for Good Samaritan Clinic (now Blue Ridge Health), fresh fruits and vegetables to students, eyeglasses for students, blood-pressure monitoring equipment for Haywood Vocational Opportunities (HVO) and much more.

Sutton said mental health and substance abuse are two of the biggest needs right now in Haywood County, but they’re also the hardest issues to get people to support sometimes because of the stigma. However, Haywood County will be hard pressed to have a healthy community if those issues aren’t supported and addressed. In the last five years, the foundation has given $33,700 to mental health initiatives and $21,200 for substance abuse programs.

“You can’t candy coat those issues and you often can’t get people to get behind substance abuse issues,” Sutton said.

‘Casino Night’ fundraiser might be illegal

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR he Haywood Healthcare Foundation relies on its annual Casino Night fundraising event to be able to support the many unmet healthcare needs in the community, but new legislation passed by the North Carolina General Assembly this year could put a stop to it.

Casino Night events are nothing new — it’s a fairly popular and lucrative fundraiser for nonprofit groups across the country.

Since it’s all for charity, participants play for chips and winners receive donated prizes.

No cash is ever exchanged during the faux gambling — the nonprofits typically make money off sponsorships, ticket sales, raffles and other donations.

The healthcare foundation’s annual Casino Night has raised an average of about $30,000 each year from the event held at Laurel Ridge Country Club. Foundation Director Marge Stiles has organized the event since it started in 2010, but this year when she called the local company that comes out to handle all the gaming tables — Dead Mans Hand Entertainment out of Maggie Valley — she was told they could no longer participate because of the recent changes to the law.

After doing some research, Stiles and the foundation board discovered that apparently it’s technically been illegal for any North Carolina nonprofit to host a casino night fundraiser while offering alcoholic beverages to patrons.

Gov. Roy Cooper signed legislation this year that lays out the regulations for nonprofits to operate such events with alcohol.

According to the Associated Press, bill supporters said the law had been “technically illegal, with uneven prosecution by district attorneys.”

The only problem is that the legislation only applies to nonprofits east of Interstate 26 because of casino exclusivity agreements for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, operators of Harrah’s Casino in Cherokee and Valley River Casino in Murphy. That means it’s still illegal for HHF to hold such an event.

When HHF and The Smoky Mountain News reached out the Harrah’s about the law, Brian Saunooke, regional vice president of marketing for Harrah’s, said he was unaware of such regulations and needed to do some research on the matter.

While Stiles was about to pull the plug on the Oct. 18 event, she said she got a call from Saunooke who is checking into whether a team from Harrah’s might be able to host the event in Haywood County to avoid breaking the law. At press time, Saunooke was still trying to find an answer and the event is still up in the air.

The Smoky Mountain News will continue to follow this issue and report any updates.

For information on how to support HHF’s Casino Night or other fundraisers, visit www.haywoodhealthcarefoundation.org.

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tribe is picking it up for about half the cost the previous owners laid out.

“Somebody was willing to put their own money at a valuation for the same property several years ago, and that area has only developed since then,” said Hubble.

Exit 407 is one of the busiest intersections, if not the busiest, in the state of Tennessee, said Hubble, and development in the area is only expected to increase. If the Tennessee Department of Transportation

were to ever build an Exit 408, then the property would become even more accessible, with a highway exit on either side of it. The land purchase could greatly aid the tribe’s efforts at economic diversification, said Hubble, as the property is expected to be lucrative regardless of whether gaming is ever a possibility in Tennessee.

Tribal Council gave its support to the plan in both words and votes.

Sports betting bill passes N.C. House Legislation awaits governor’s signature

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wagers on the outcome of professional and collegiate sports” and horse race wagering is defined as “fixed odds or pari-mutuel wagering on thoroughbred, harness or other racing of horses, including simulcasting and offtrack betting.”

However, the bill states that all sports and horse race wagers must be placed on Indian lands in North Carolina where Class III gaming activities are permitted — that is, on casino properties in Cherokee and Murphy. If enacted, the bill will not allow for online sports and horse race betting.

The tribe can’t move forward with plans to implement sports betting until Cooper signs the bill, but Sneed said it’s something that can be done fairly quickly, and plans already exist to convert the Strike Lounge connecting the UltraStar Multi-tainment Center and the main gaming floor into a sports betting area. He expects the offering will draw new customers to Harrah’s while also involving existing customers.

“Clearly there are people out there who are avid sports betters and who may or may not game in any other way, so I would expect to see an uptick in some new customers,” he

said. “But I think there will also be, and our expectation is that there will be, players who are already members of our Total Rewards who will participate in sports betting. It’s just another amenity. There’s also the offtrack betting aspect as far as the bill that just passed too, so it will be interesting to see who participates in that.”

The bill is a reaction to a May 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which said that the federal government had no power to prohibit states from allowing sports betting.

Instead, each state could now decide for itself if and how to permit sports betting in its jurisdiction. Lawmakers saw the Eastern Band as prime candidates to be granted this new ability.

“It’s going to enhance the gaming revenue that is available to the Eastern Band,” said Davis. “They have proven to be excellent stewards of the revenue that comes from gaming, and it will put them in a better position to diversify their portfolio to things other than gaming to continue the forward progress of the tribe.”

Sports wagering is expected to bring the tribe an additional $10 to $11 million per year and the state $1 to $1.5 million in additional tax revenue, said Davis. North Carolina’s total budget runs around $24 billion per year.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ports betting is likely to come to Cherokee following the N.C. House of Representatives’ July 15 vote to pass a Senate bill allowing it to occur on the Qualla Boundary.

“There’s quite a bit of excitement today after the news last night that our bill passed,” Principal Chief Richard Sneed said July 16.

The bill passed 90-27 with no debate on the floor other than a statement in favor from Rep. Kevin Corbin, R-Franklin. Corbin had introduced a House version of the bill in March, though it was the Senate version — sponsored by Rep. Jim Davis, R-Franklin — that ended up passing.

“Making it legal in North Carolina is going to be of economic benefit to Western North Carolina because we put in the bill people cannot bet remotely. They can’t bet on their cell phone or their computers, so they have to physically come to Murphy or

Cherokee to place bets,” Corbin told The Smoky Mountain News. “Again people come to the area to eat, sleep, buy gas, things like that, so yes it would be an economic benefit to the western part of the state, we think about $60 million.”

All legislative members representing the seven western counties voted in favor of the bill with the exception of Rep. Michele Presnell, R-Burnsville. Presnell’s district includes a portion of Haywood County.

The Senate passed the bill three months ago, in a 90-7 decision on April 9. Corbin said there was no significant opposition on the House side — it just took some time for the bill to work its way through various committees. To become law, it still needs a signature from Gov. Roy Cooper, which Cooper is expected to provide. According to Corbin, members of Cooper’s staff have said that the governor plans to sign it.

The legislation is short, occupying less than two pages. It adds sports and horse race wagering to the list of Class III gaming activities that the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians may offer on its casino properties.

Sports wagering is defined as “the placing of

“I think we need to start investing in land,” said Councilmember Boyd Owle, of Birdtown. “We’ve had the casino here for about 20 years, bought very little land outside Cherokee, so I think we’ll have to start looking at buying land outside for that diversification tool that we need. But I’m actually for this.”

“We all campaigned on diversifying our economy,” agreed Councilmember Tom Wahnetah, of Yellowhill. “I think this will help out as long as the Kituwah LLC board is in full support of this and are willing to take it under their leadership and run with it.”

“We’re getting both of these properties at under appraised value,” added Councilmember Bo Crowe, of Wolfetown. “We could turn around and sell the property and make money.”

Once the deal closes, the LLC board will be tasked with deciding whether to sell it or how to develop it — those decisions will not come back before Tribal Council, unless the LLC board requests tribal funding to carry out its plan for the property, in which case Council can vote to approve or deny funding.

“That’s what we created the board for too, was to make the business decisions,” Sneed said.

The resolution to enter into a contract on the property was passed unanimously. It still requires a signature from Sneed, who said he plans to sign it.

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in the name of Kituwah, LLC. The LLC can then bill the tribe up to $500,000 for contracted work to complete a marketing and development plan for the property. That plan would be presented to Tribal Council for funding consideration.

“It is what I would say is very, very prime property,” said Hubble. “That being said, the tribe needs to understand that developing this property without a comprehensive development process for it, I don’t know that would be advantageous for the tribe or the Tribal Council.

That’s why we asked for the money to put together a development plan that would be very comprehensive.”

Developing the property won’t be inexpensive, said Hubble, probably north of $60 million. However, fully developed it’s potentially worth $1 billion.

The current owners of the property have already completed a development plan for the site that’s about 30 pages long, said Sneed. Ideas discussed include mixed-use developments that that combine retail, dining and residences, as well as a pad for a big box store like a Wal-Mart.

The fact that the current owners invested so much in the property is a positive sign for Hubble. About eight or nine years ago, they paid more than $20 million for the land and then did $2.5 million worth of land development before running out of money and going into foreclosure. At $68,300 per acre, the

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will enter into a $13.5 million contract to purchase 197.62 acres of land along Interstate 40 in Tennessee following a unanimous vote from Tribal Council July 11.

“It is probably the most prime real estate over there,” said Principal Chief Richard Sneed. “It’s already flat and about $2.5 million worth of site work done to it.”

The property is located south of I-40 just east of the Exit 407 interchange and borders I-40 for about a mile. On the other side of the highway lies another piece of property recently purchased by the tribe. Tribal Council voted in February to buy the 122-acre tract for $7.5 million.

“Both properties have excellent economic development potential and were purchased at below the apprised value, so it was also a great investment for the Eastern Band,” Sneed told The Smoky Mountain News in a follow-up conversation.

Buying the Dumplin Creek property will “instantly increase” the value of the property the tribe bought in February, Mark Hubble, CEO of Kituwah, LLC, told Tribal Council July 11.

Kituwah, LLC — the tribe’ business arm created in March 2018 — will be tasked with figuring out how best to develop the land, provided that the deal closes following a due diligence period. According to the resolution enabling the purchase, funds to buy the land will come from the fund balance of Endowment Fund No. 2, and the deed will be

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER t’s been said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but after an overzealous brush-clearing operation behind Frog Level Brewing Company and Panacea Coffeehouse, apparently so are the banks of Richland Creek.

“I was shocked,” said Clark Williams, owner of FLBC in Waynesville’s Frog Level district. “I was like, ‘What are they doing?’”

Williams said on July 3 he was notified by one of his employees that a tree-trimming crew contracted by the Town of Waynesville was working its way up Richland Creek.

Williams’ brewery shares a spacious back deck with Panacea that abuts Richland Creek; it’s a popular spot, especially in summer, and especially with local bar-hoppers.

Thus Williams was understandably upset when a stand of brush and trees that lined the opposite bank of the creek right behind his deck — screening the Giles Chemical-owned lot behind it — was cut to the ground. The trimming came at the request of Giles, and was in response to some of the trees there causing a dangerous situation with overhead power lines.

That same day, Williams took to Facebook to air his grievances, saying that the noise, dust and debris made the day intolerable for customers, that the majority of what was cut wasn’t endangering the power lines, and that the privacy of nearby homeowners would also suffer.

Although he did say that he thought the aesthetic of the area would suffer somewhat, he was less concerned about his business — “people are still going to come drink beer on the deck” — than he was about possible negative effects on the ecology.

“I’m concerned about the temperature of the water, the ecosystem along the bank, and

A section of Richland Creek was recently cleared of trees and brush, much to the chagrin of brewer Clark Williams.

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the aquatic life that calls that place home,” he said.

When Waynesville Alderman Jon Feichter became aware of the situation, he immediately paid a visit to Williams.

“I’d seen his [Facebook] pictures the night before, so I went down that next day and talked with him, and my first reaction when I went out onto his back deck there was that it looked worse than the pictures did,” Feichter said.

He then ventured over to the other side of the creek, where the trimming occurred, describing it as “devastation.” The trees weren’t merely trimmed, but were clear-cut due to allegations of drug activity taking place there.

“I fully understand and support the town having to trim the trees to remove any threat to the power lines, but I do think we can and should do a better job involving the people like the folks who would be affected by those kinds of actions,” said Feichter, who also confirmed another of Williams’ complaints — that the town should have been more communicative in its intentions to local business owners.

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“We need to get with them early, as opposed to playing catch-up in this kind of situation,” he said. “A little bit of communication up front would solve a whole lot of headaches down the road.”

Feichter said that he, too, shared Williams’ environmental concerns.

“Certainly, that was a big concern of mine, in terms of what does cutting those trees down to the ground do to the ecosystem and would be,” he said. “I’m very keen to hear what Haywood Waterways has to say about that.”

Williams happens to serve on the board of the nonprofit Haywood Waterways, and on July 16 hosted a visit by the group’s executive director, Eric Romaniszyn.

“I can understand why they wanted to do it, to keep stuff out of the power lines,” Romaniszyn said. “I would have told them to try to protect what you can up against the stream bank for the shade benefits, and as far back in the buffer as they can.”

Removing the brush dramatically changed the appearance of the area, eliminating pockets of shade in the creek, but Romaniszyn doesn’t foresee any enduring

damage coming for the fauna that usually call the creek home.

“Not in the long-term,” he said. “Maybe on a short term, fish looking for better cover, or to get away from predators, or find some cooler areas, yeah, but there’s no long term damages.”

And although he didn’t notice any immediate erosion on the bank, he remains wary.

“Sediment is our number one pollutant in Haywood County,” said Romaniszyn.

“Eroding stream banks are one of the top two sources, so anything we can do to keep vegetation in place on a stream bank provides the best long-term protection for water quality, whether you’re a fisherman, recreational enthusiast or for any other number of uses.”

To remedy the situation, Romaniszyn said that this coming fall, Giles, the town and Haywood Waterways would partner to plant some low-lying vegetation — like dogwoods — that would serve both a decorative and an ecological purpose.

Williams said that they might also attempt to involve the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, and that native river cane was an option as well.

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tance of about 900 linear feet, the letter said. Removed sediment would be relocated upland to an area about 30 feet from the water. It would then be contained with a silt fence perimeter and seeded with annual rye grass, as well as a layer of straw mulch.

These measures would be implemented immediately following approval by the Division of Water Resources, the letter said.

That approval came in a second letter dated July 3, which stated that the plan must be carried out within 30 days.

The Division of Water Resources stipulated that the work be supervised by a consultant experienced with sediment removal techniques and clarified that sediment must be removed from the confluence of each unnamed tributary and Long Branch, and that workers must assess sediment migration in Long Branch during the cleanup.

Sediment is one of the biggest water quality issues affecting the Tuckasegee River, which Long Branch flows into. When rain washes loose soil down into the river, it not only carries pieces of Jackson County for permanent deposit elsewhere, but it clouds the water and makes it less hospitable for the many animals that require clear streams to thrive. Among those animals are trout, which have proven a substantial tourism draw in recent years.

The Zimmer development is a publicprivate partnership between the company and the WCU Endowment Fund. The endowment fund owns the land, but Zimmer is paying to develop it, operating through a long-term ground lease good for 40 years, with an option to renew it for another 10. When completed, the result will be apartment-style student housing just across from campus on Killian Road.

“The university does not have a role in any revised plans, other than serving as a resource to Zimmer if requested,” said Bill Studenc, chief communications officer for WCU. “Sedimentation and control plans and construction measures are the responsibility of Zimmer’s consultants, designers and construction contractor, who have already begun mitigation expectations.”

The sediment control issue is not expected to impact the project’s expected completion date in fall 2020, said Studenc.

Adherence to the fall 2020 timeline is key, because in May 2020 WCU plans to demolish two aging residence halls, Scott and Walker, in order to construct new residence halls on the sites. The buildings sleep a combined 1,150 students, meaning their temporary loss will cause a decrease in housing inventory until the new residence halls are completed in fall 2022. However, a new 600-bed upper campus residence hall is expected to open this fall; that, combined with the Zimmer development’s planned opening for the fall 2020 semester, would nearly offset the loss of beds from Scott and Walker.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER development on Western Carolina University’s Millennial Campus in Cullowhee has been cited by the state for violating North Carolina’s Sediment Pollution Control Act and the terms of the project’s construction stormwater permit.

The N.C. Division of Water Resources inspected the site — where Zimmer Development Company is building a 500bed student-housing complex slated for completion in fall 2020 — June 11 and 12.

The inspections revealed that land-disturbing activities related to the project had resulted in sediment deposits up to a foot deep in an unnamed tributary of Long Branch, a violation of state stream standards, according to letters sent to WCU and Zimmer on June 17 and 19.

The letters said that erosion control measures required in the approved plan had not been installed when inspectors visited the site, that sediment had entered Long Branch at numerous locations and that insufficient erosion control measures were in place. The developer had violated stream standard laws requiring the installation of sediment and erosion control devices sufficient to retain sediment during development, requiring developers to take “all reasonable measures” to protect property from damage by land-disturbing activities and requiring a buffer zone along waterways that is wide enough to confine visible siltation within 25 percent of the part of the buffer zone that is nearest to the land-disturbing activity. In addition, the letters said, the project did not meet requirements that it adhere to an erosion and sedimentation control plan — at the time of the inspection, the letters said, erosion control measures required in the approved plan had not been installed.

In response to the notices, Zimmer contracted with ClearWater Environmental Consultants, Inc., which sent a response to the Division of Water Resources dated June 28.

Clearwater visited the site on June 25 to evaluate the impacts, identifying and flagging areas of sediment deposition.

Following the visit, erosion control measures including silt fencing, sediment basins and geotextile silt bags were installed to prevent further sedimentation impacts, the letter said.

“An open line of communication will be maintained with the Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources and DWR as work on the progress continues,” Clearwater wrote.

Clearwater also told the state that existing sedimentation would be removed from impacted streams and wetlands by hand, using shovels and buckets. The work, expected to take one to two weeks, would begin upstream and progress downstream to the confluences with Long Branch, a dis-

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RIVER PARKS Creating a river park recreational area at Island Park in Bryson City was one of the main proposals included in the feasibility study.

The term river park refers to multi-use recreational improvements on rivers near population centers that allow public access to waterways — it can include instream improvements to create paddling opportunities, habitat enhancements and access improvements. A river park can encompass a mile of water or just a single feature but strive toward the goal of attracting people to the destination.

Many communities are looking to their

By the numbers Estimated costs of improvements on the Tuckasegee River in Bryson City: • Wave feature — $250,000 • Bank and access improvements at Island Park — $150,000-$250,000 • Habitat improvements — $200,000 • Bank and access improvements downtown — $150,000-$200,000 • Re-vegetation, bank clean-up, invasive species removal — $100,000 • Design, engineering, permitting — $125,000 • Contingency — $180,000 • Total — $975,000 to $1.2 million hydraulic jump feature could be accessed from adjacent eddies (pools of water) created by the shape of the wave structure.

Wave drops can be designed and constructed many different ways, but generally they are created using native stone boulders and grout. Each structure is designed with between 1 to 3 inches of vertical drop depending on local conditions.

“Island Park is envisioned as the anchor to the river park,” according to the study.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR he Tuckasegee River Alliance is looking at possible ways to increase access to the Tuckasegee River as it runs right through downtown Bryson City.

In collaboration with the town of Bryson City, Swain County Chamber of Commerce and the Tourism Development Authority, the Alliance contracted Recreation Engineering and Planning out of Colorado last year to explore the suitability of the Tuckasegee River corridor for recreational improvements.

REP Project Manager Mike Harvey came to Bryson City in November 2018 to tour the river, meet local stakeholders and analyze the feasibility of making improvements to access, fish habitat and potential development of a wave feature to make the corridor more attractive for multiple recreational uses.

To complete all the recommended projects and improvements along the Tuck at Island Park and the Everett Street Bridge downtown, the cost would be just over $1 million. The study is complete, but future steps will be guided by community decision making about how to best put the project into phased plans.

The Tuck runs right through the downtown business district of Bryson City and offers an excellent spot for fishing trout, smallmouth bass and steelhead. The county

has made every effort to expand on its angling tourism. The town received a Trout City designation from the state a couple of years ago and is also home to the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians and the new Appalachian Rivers Aquarium.

With the Nantahala Outdoor Center and other recreational outfitters located in Swain County as well, the county’s natural resources have made it a hotspot for outdoor recreation from hiking, tubing, kayaking, paddling and more.

“Western North Carolina is arguably the nation’s premier whitewater paddling destination. The Nantahala Gorge attracts whitewater paddlers and rafters from all over the globe. In Bryson City whitewater paddlers use the Devil’s Dip rapid at Island Park.

Instructional programs use the Tuck for teaching kayaking and slalom race training,” the feasibility report states.

The study recommends stabilizing the banks by constructing some steps down to the water — also known as terracing.

“Bank stabilization and terracing could serve to prevent future erosion and provide better access to the river. The access areas would be set behind bank contours so that they are located in eddys where fine sediment can deposit to form calm areas for wading beaches,” the report stated. “The concrete and debris along the southern banks could be cleaned up and stabilized with native rock and vegetation.”

The study found that there is an opportunity to enhance habitat along the northern channel with a series of improvements that would provide holding water for fish and angling — these improvements could include cross veins, boulder clusters or current deflectors.

The natural Devil’s Dip feature could be enhanced for whitewater paddling, but the study found that creating additional whitewater resources downtown is a better option.

Putting in a manmade wave drop structure would utilize the fall in the river below Devil’s Dip to create a multi-use whitewater feature that could be useable across a wide range of flows and by a variety of users. The

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Study shows benefits of building river park in Bryson City

river corridors, historically centers of industry, as a way to boost recreational opportunities, which in turn supports tourism and the local economy.

Rivers can serve as catalysts for economic development and accessible river corridors with recreational amenities are key anchors.

“The operation of these parks across the country has shown that these types of projects provide a number of benefits including new recreational opportunities, economic stimulus, enhanced aquatic habitat and environmental education opportunities,” the study states.

River parks tend to attract a demographic of people between the ages of 25-45 with disposable income and a love for recreational travel. For example, Golden, Colorado constructed a river park in 1996 and an economic impact report done in 2000 showed a $1.4 million to $2 million annual impact to the local community. A river park in Reno, Nevada has a projected economic impact of $18 million over the first decade and contributes $9 million impact during an annual three-day Reno River Festival.

The study analyzed the Tuck from Island Park on the upstream to the Everett Street Bridge on the downstream end for the potential river park area. Projects could include public improvements to Island Park and an ADA access ramp upstream of Everett Street.

As the study points out, the Tuck from Everett Street to Island Park already functions as a river park with multiple user groups already using the area for fishing, walking, paddling and tubing. It’s physical characteristics, existing infrastructure and proximity to downtown makes it ideal for a river park.

Island Park already has public access through a pedestrian bridge from Bryson Street. Devil’s Dip is a natural whitewater feature located along the southern side of the island used by many young paddlers for training. Fishermen use both sides of the island and walkers use the park for walking dogs or strolling along the river.

However, the island has invasive plants like privet and kudzu and is shrinking with every heavy rain and flooding. The banks of the island are showing signs of erosion with trees sitting isolated in the channel, evidence of the land already lost. The head of the island is protected by a historic bulwark (small retention wall), which is in a state of disrepair.

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A feasibility study recommends access improvements to the Tuckasegee River in Bryson City.

Upstream of the Everett Street Bridge downtown is an opportunity to improve the banks with terracing and planting pockets that would serve to beautify the banks, provide access to the Tuck and more fully integrate the river into the downtown business district.

“By laying back the bank and terracing the bank the visual connection to the river would improve. Additional habitat enhancements above the bridge should be explored as a way of attracting anglers to the river downtown,” the study said.

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No negligence in Jackson jail death, DA says

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER fter reviewing a State Bureau of Investigation probe into the January death of Melissa Middleton Rice, who at the time was in custody of the Jackson County Sheriff ’s Department, the District Attorney’s Office has decided that there are no grounds to press charges in the case.

“After a thorough review of all of the evidence in this case we have determined that there is no evidence of culpable negligence or omissions by law enforcement and there is insufficient evidence to show any officer failed to perform a duty of his or her office,” said a release sent July 16 from the office of DA Ashley Welch.

Rice, 49, was found hanging by a phone cord in the Jackson County Detention Center Jan. 16, an autopsy report said. She had been arrested earlier that day for trespassing at her ex-husband’s home in Cashiers. The 10 charges against her included breaking and entering, simple assault, larceny of a motor vehicle, burning personal property and assault on a government official, among others.

After her arrest, she was taken to the

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emergency room for evaluation and treatment of a hand injury, according to the medical examiner’s report of investigation. She was then taken to the attorney/booking room in the detention center. It was while she was there, waiting for the magistrate, that she hanged herself just outside clear range of the monitoring camera, the report said. Rice was taken to Harris Regional Hospital following a 911 call at 7:10 p.m. and then transferred to

to Rice’s arrest; the reports of responding officers; multiple eyewitness statements; surveillance video from the booking area at the magistrate’s office; witness interviews; the detention center protocols as established pursuant to the North Carolina Administrative Code; and Rice’s medical records from Harris Regional Hospital.

“The SBI investigation has been thorough, and further investigation is unlikely to

According to the release, the evidence shows that detention officers conducted checks on Rice as required by state law. Furthermore, during her visit to Harris following her arrest, Rice submitted to an evaluation with a medical doctor, who determined that Rice was not suicidal and did not require further hospital care.

Mission Hospital in Asheville. She was pronounced dead at 1:05 p.m. Jan. 18.

According to the press release from Welch’s office, the investigative file from the SBI included the events which occurred in Jackson County on January 16, 2019, leading

produce additional material information,” the release said.

According to the release, the evidence shows that detention officers conducted checks on Rice as required by state law.

Furthermore, during her visit to Harris fol-

lowing her arrest, Rice submitted to an evaluation with a medical doctor, who determined that Rice was not suicidal and did not require further hospital care. While in custody, several detention officers could see Rice on a camera installed in the bond room, the release said, and they did not notice any behavior that would indicate Rice could be a danger to herself.

“To the contrary, she appeared to be very calm and complacent,” the release said. “In fact, Ms. Rice had been incarcerated in the same detention facility the week before with no issues.”

Nevertheless, Rice did hang herself while in the bond room, later dying from her injuries despite officers beginning CPR and calling 911 immediately upon discovering her.

Rice’s death marked the third suicide in five years to occur in the Jackson County Detention Center. Charles “Chuckie” Moose died on Nov. 21, 2014, and Steve Ross died on March 13, 2015. Unlike in Rice’s case, in those instances visual checks were not performed as required by law, with gaps as large as 106 minutes. The SBI investigated Ross’s death, though not Moose’s, and Welch declined to file charges.

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Some of those applications are bound to be from undocumented students, according to Haywood County Schools Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte.

“I’m sure we have undocumented students, it’s just hard to know how many,” Nolte said. “That’s not information we collect.”

Undocumented students hoping to take advantage of the tuition-free guarantee will end up going through the same application process as any other student, but there are some important caveats.

“They would still complete the FAFSA like anybody else,” Coleman said. “Of course, undocumented students aren’t eligible for [federal] financial aid, but they still receive an EFC (expected family contribu-

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tion) on the FAFSA and we still utilize that with our scholarship application process, and they are still eligible for most of our scholarships.”

One problem with that is that some undocumented students may be wary of filling out a FAFSA, fearing the unwanted attention it could bring from immigration officials. Without a FAFSA, students aren’t eligible for HCC’s guarantee.

Another problem is that undocumented students aren’t considered residents of North Carolina or of Haywood County, even if they’ve lived here and graduated from a Haywood County high school, as the program stipulates.

That means they’re charged out-of-state tuition. Between that and the lack of federal dollars, an undocumented student’s tuition shortfall could be far larger than that of N.C. residents, meaning a larger bill for HCC. According to the Migration Policy Institute, there are approximately 11.4 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and around 320,000 in North Carolina. Of those, more than 60 percent come from Mexico, with Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and India making up most of the rest.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER aywood Community College’s “tuitionfree guarantee” seems to be off to a solid start but the school also wants residents to know that undocumented students who meet all other requirements can also take advantage of the innovative program.

“The criteria we stated was the same for everybody,” said Dr. Michael Coleman, vice president of student services at HCC. “We didn’t want to differentiate or make it different for any particular group, and with the guarantee we said we would help anybody.

So as long as they go through the process we’ve established, then we would take care of it no matter what it was.”

Announced this past February and beginning this coming fall, HCC’s guarantee means that graduates of Haywood County high schools — public, private, or homeschool — can be certain the school will cover any tuition balance that remains once financial aid determinations are made.

Graduates with at least a 2.8 GPA and enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours must first complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and then apply to HCC’s own scholarship programs. Once those results come back, HCC makes up the difference between what’s awarded and what’s charged for tuition.

The funding comes from the interest earned on HCC’s $13 million scholarship fund, endowed largely through private donations, so no taxpayer dollars are involved; for the 2019 school year, $100,000 was approved by the foundation board for the program, along with a pledge to fund two years of the guarantee.

At the time the program was announced, Coleman told The Smoky Mountain News that the impetus was to address poverty by broadening access to educational opportunities. To date, Coleman says the program appears to be working.

“We really have seen a huge uptick in school applications,” he said. “In hardline numbers, it’s hard to say right now because part of the criteria is that they complete the FAFSA and the scholarship application first, and then the tuition free guarantee would supplement whatever financial aid and scholarships did not cover, so we have a lot of individuals who have applied, but are still in processing so we’re not quite sure how many of these students are able to take advantage of the tuition-free guarantee.”

Before the implementation of the tuitionfree guarantee, Coleman said that less than 40 percent of HCC’s 2,500 students received financial aid, but at other institutions, that number is usually closer to 60 percent.

Prior to HCC’s Peak Week — an enrollment drive which began July 15 and runs through the July 19 — Coleman said projected HCC enrollment might be up as much as 20 percent over last year, and applications to

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER pair of local entrepreneurs will soon open a billiard hall in downtown Canton, so long as substantial changes are made to an outdated ordinance that depicts such establishments as a breeding ground for all manner of unsavory behavior.

“When we first started this, there were several ordinances that went against what we were aiming for,” said Alicia Putnam, who with business partner Chad Bryant is shooting for an October opening of Papertown Billiards, to be located at 151 North Main Street.

Putnam’s concerns arise from language in Canton’s 1963 ordinance that bars persons under 18 from entering billiard halls, but that’s only the beginning of the unique restrictions currently imposed on these types of businesses.

Per the existing ordinance, billiards halls must close between the hours of 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. — something Putnam says restricts her ability to bring multi-day tournaments to the facility. She also says she can’t currently sell billiards equipment or apparel, or beer.

“It’s a great economic impact,” Putnam said. “Some of the tournaments I run throughout the year, we can have anywhere from 24 up to 68 players.”

Those players, Putnam said, often come from far afield and spend money on hotel

that if a convicted felon has paid their debt to society, they shouldn’t be restricted from running or working at a billiards hall.

Alderwoman Gail Mull said employment decisions should be left to the employer.

A similar provision in the ordinance — equally unenforceable — says not to issue a

Be heard The Town of Canton will hold a public hearing to gather public input on a series of changes to Section 6-1041, et. seq. of the town’s code that deals with billiard halls.

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• Location: W.G. Stamey Municipal Building, 58 Park St., Canton license to “any person to whom the Board feels, for good and reasonable cause, that it should not issue such license.”

Such provisions hearken back to a time when billiard halls were perceived — justly or not — as dangerous, lawless, undesirable additions to a town.

Putnam insists that the billion-dollar billiards industry isn’t as seedy as the ordinance portrays it, and that her establishment will be secure and well managed.

“Here locally, in Waynesville, every year for about 30 years we have had what they call the ‘Smoky Mountain Shootout,’ a fundraiser for the ARC of Haywood,” she said. “I run and operate women’s division of that.”

Her partner, Chad Bryant, brings with him his experience in operating the former Smoky Mountain Billiards for several years.

“This is going to be managed and operated by myself and [Bryant],” she said. “We’ll have security cameras and at least two people working at all times. We’ll be very, very well managed.”

Canton’s board — a bit shorthanded at the meeting, due to an open aldermanic seat and the absence of Mayor Zeb Smathers, who was on vacation — seemed poised to give Putnam and Bryant almost everything they asked for, except for an extension of the 11 p.m. closing time.

Putnam, though, said that tournaments often run later than that, and that the tournaments would only occur roughly once a quarter. As a fix, the board may consider allowing the hall to remain open by special permit during such activities.

Alderman directed town staff to revise the proposed ordinance, and will hold a public hearing on Thursday, Aug. 8, to consider the changes requested by Putnam, as well as the other stipulations in the ordinance.

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rooms, food and other necessities during their stay.

“To run a successful billiard room the way that we want to run it, with athletes and tournaments and bringing more folks into the town, we requested some of these ordinances be changed so we could run a more successful operation,” she said.

When Canton aldermen were presented with a revised ordinance at the July 11 board meeting, they also posed a host of questions about some eyebrow-raising stipulations of the 1963 ordinance that are unrelated to Putnam’s requests and are not required of other businesses, like coffee shops, restaurants or retail stores.

For example, license applicants must currently post a $500 bond and must also submit written testimony pertaining to the “character and reliability” of the applicant that is “signed by five residents and freeholders of the Town.” Freeholder is an old-fashioned term meaning landowner.

Section 6-1049 of the ordinance says that the license required to operate a billiard hall is not to be issued any person convicted of a felony, and not to be issued to any corporate entity that has a person “who is of immoral character or who is a habitual user of intoxicating liquors or narcotic drugs.”

Alderman Dr. Ralph Hamlett wondered aloud during the meeting what the test for “immoral character” might be; he also said

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That’s not only unfair, according to Nolte, but also detrimental to the educational futures of Tuscola students who aren’t getting the looks they need to earn athletic scholarships.

Smathers raised these issues in a March 19 letter to Davis, asking for relief from the classification by saying that “ … the solution is so simple. Reclassify Tuscola to 2A, remove it from the 9 team Mountain Athletic Conference and place it with the other similar sized schools in the Mountain Six Conference.”

A month later, Smathers requested a slew of documents from the NCHSAA, which is a private entity with a self-appointed board of directors.

As of the drafting of his July 1 letter, Smathers said he hadn’t received a written response to the issues he’d raised in the March letter, nor had he received the documents he requested.

Aside from the reclassification issue, Smathers has been critical of the NCHSAA’s role in the process; a recent meeting of the NCHSAA saw just 110 of 421 member schools in attendance. Those members heard an appeal from Tuscola, but rejected it by a vote of 65 to 44, meaning that the decision was made by less than 16 percent of member schools.

“Our position is the low membership turnout is further indication off the lack of support of the NCHSAA and isolation of its governing board and administration,” Smathers said.

Smathers also said he’d continue calling for a statewide board that’s elected on a statewide basis, rather than the current process of board members appointing other board members, which he said is “ripe for self-perpetuating interest, and not consistent with the basic principles of fair member representation.”

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER aywood County Schools has begun “serious consideration” of litigation against the North Carolina High School Athletic Association in light of a recent decision that maintains what School Board Attorney Pat Smathers says is the unfair classification of Tuscola High school’s athletic programs.

“The NCHSAA is impacting the ability of schools to have fair competition and thereby affecting he experience and success of individual student athletes across the state, not only in the principal sports of football, basketball and baseball but most significantly individual student experiences and success in track and field, wrestling, tennis and other individual centered sports,” wrote Smathers in a July 1 letter Eric Davis, chair of the N.C. State Board of Education.

Smathers’ letter ushers in the latest round of discussions dating back to January, when Haywood County Schools Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte told The Smoky Mountain News that the school system would engage in a “long haul process” to exhaust every “reasonable and legal thing that we can do” to reassign Tuscola High School’s athletic programs to a more appropriate division.

Back in 2016, Haywood County’s Tuscola High School was reclassified from 2A to 3A, for the purposes of athletics. That places Tuscola’s 974 students in direct competition with much larger schools in the Mountain Athletic Conference, like T.C. Roberson, which has more than 1,600 students.

Meanwhile, Haywood’s Pisgah High School, with just under a thousand students, plays in the Mountain Six conference against schools like Franklin, Smoky Mountain and Brevard, which has less than

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the angles of road, with the goal of decreasing property loss. While the ADC can’t be in the business of recommending that one property be preserved and another sacrificed, said Joyell, the team is recommending that the DOT maintain flexibility in its design so that it can better work within the wishes of property owners. If one property owner is a willing seller while another is not, he said, the DOT should leave the door open to tweak its design to favor property acquisitions from willing sellers.

The ADC is working on some final revisions to its official report, which it plans to present to the town by the end of the month.

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The intersection of N.C. 107 and U.S. 23 is one of the more problematic areas along the congested road. Holly Kays photo

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he price tag on a project to install sidewalks along Skyland Drive in Sylva has more than doubled, with town commissioners voting July 11 to allocate an additional $175,000 for the endeavor.

The sidewalks are being installed under a cost-sharing agreement with the N.C. Department of Transportation, with the town paying 20 percent of the project cost and the DOT paying 80 percent. The original estimated cost was just under $520,000, with about $104,000 to be paid by the town, Town Manager Paige Dowling told commissioners. But the project cost has now increased to $1.4 million, meaning that the town would have to fork over a total of $278,000 — nearly $175,000 more than originally expected.

“However,” said Dowling, “$278,400 is still a good deal for the town to get a sidewalk on that stretch of road that we all know needs it. As far as pedestrian safety goes, the town’s been paying a portion over the last couple years for engineering and right-of-way.”

So far, the town is in about $17,000, she said.

“If the board wants to amend the budget, I think it is the best thing to make this project continue, because otherwise I don’t know when we would be able to do it,” she said.

The project will result in new sidewalk on both sides of Skyland Drive from the Old Asheville Highway to East Sylva Circle, a distance of about 0.4 miles, with the remaining 0.3 miles toward Chipper Curve Road paved only on the west side of the road.

“I live down that road, and I see people walking on that and it is not safe, so I think it’s something we have to do,” said Commissioner David Nestler.

However, he asked, how did the price shoot up so drastically?

“They did add more right-of-way acquisition. The cost of construction has gone up,” said Dowling. “There are several stormwater areas that needed larger pipes that hadn’t been included to begin with but they needed to tie in their cross-sections.”

Additionally, said Public Works Director Jake Scott, updated plans included a change of geometry at the Chipper Curve Road and Skyland Drive intersection to accommodate larger trucks — at a significant cost.

“If the scope of the project is for sidewalks and a large part of the expense is coming from reworking that intersection, why do we have to pay a percentage of that reworking?” asked Nestler. “It’s a state road, isn’t it?”

“Yes, but they’ve put it in the same project,” said Dowling.

“It is what it is,” said Nestler, making a motion to amend the budget.

The board unanimously agreed to fund the sidewalks. Construction is expected to begin in January.

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Because the design places bike lanes where buffers would be required anyway, little right-of-way would be saved by axing them, said Joyell. But adding a buffer between the bike and car lanes would result in the bike lanes being used more often and could be achieved by narrowing the car lanes from 12 to 11 feet, thus preventing the need to acquire more right-of-way to provide the bike buffers.

Similarly, he said, the town should urge the DOT to make an exception to its policy against planting street trees on roads with speed limits of 35 or more miles per hour so that the new sidewalk along 107 could get some shade, increasing its usefulness to the public.

Joyell also said the ADC’s written report will have a whole set of recommendations for key intersections such as the N.C. 107/U.S. 23 intersection and the N.C. 107/Webster Road intersection, aimed at making those areas safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

The recommendations will also rework

receive the DOT’s updated plans for the project. While the preliminary plans released last year were considered 25 percent complete, the upcoming version will be considered 65 percent complete and give a more accurate picture of which businesses might need to leave and which will probably get to stay.

According to Joshua Deyton, project lead for the DOT, the 65 percent plans will be released in August. The plans had previously been expected to be complete in March, with the date later moved back to June.

However, said Deyton, the project is still on schedule. The plans are complete to the 65 percent point except for utilities, and the project team is currently coordinating with utilities to get that portion completed.

Right-of-way acquisition will begin in January 2020, and the project is scheduled to let to contract in December 2022. The construction schedule will not be set until the project is advertised for contract, said Deyton, but projects this size typically take three to four years to complete.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER fter putting nearly 300 hours and just short of a year toward an effort to develop an alternative vision for the N.C. 107 project in Sylva, the Asheville Design Center presented its findings to the Sylva Board of Commissioners Thursday, July 11.

“I would love to say at this point that that resulted in a solution that will make everyone happy, but unfortunately this is a transportation project, and those are rare,” said Chris Joyell, executive director of the ADC. The N.C. 107 project has been on ADC’s radar since June 2018, when the Jackson County Smart Roads Alliance contacted the organization about the possibility of getting involved with what has proven to be a controversial and difficult process.

In August 2018, the Sylva town board agreed to accept the ADC’s offer of pro bono design services, and the nonprofit began its process in November. The goal was to meet with the public and representatives from entities spanning government, business and utility interests to come up with innovative solutions that would sidestep some of the project’s expected impacts.

The N.C. 107 plan has drawn criticism ever since preliminary plans were released last year, but traffic along the corridor has been debated for decades before that. The discussion began in the 1990s, when DOT was considering a bypass connecting Cullowhee to U.S. 74. In 2002, the Jackson County Smart Roads Alliance formed in response to that plan, decrying the astronomical expense, environmental damage and harm to Sylva’s downtown economy that it said the bypass would cause. The DOT eventually axed its bypass plans and began looking to improve existing roads instead — namely, N.C. 107.

However, the new proposal hasn’t proven any more popular than the old one.

According to preliminary plans released in April 2018, the road makeover would force roughly one-sixth of Sylva’s business community to relocate. With little available commercial property in town, it’s likely that many of the 54 businesses on the current relocation list would not reopen in Sylva — especially since state relocation funds can be spent anywhere within a 50-mile radius of the initial site.

After meetings with city staff, the N.C.

Department of Transportation, business and property owners, utilities, Smart Roads members and the public, the ADC concluded that the DOT’s proposed plan might be as good as it gets.

“I wish we were able to uncover a silver bullet, but unfortunately even with all the hours we spent on this thing we’re resigned to the fact that the design that is on the table is the alignment that is feasible and most likely to occur,” said Joyell.

Rather than arriving at an entirely new vision for N.C. 107, the ADC team instead decided to “focus on the edges” in order to make the existing proposal as good as possible.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER survey aimed at gauging support for an indoor swimming pool in Jackson County came down favorably for pool proponents, with 68 percent of respondents saying that they’d support such a project — even if it meant raising property taxes.

“There is an interest, and the interest has been expressed in years past by those who were advocates for the pool, advocates for recreation in general,” said Jackson County Commission Chairman Brian McMahan.

“That interest is still there, and it’s not diminished any. So it reaffirms that. I think the ultimate test, the ultimate reaction is going to come through the ballot box.”

Building a pool would cost millions, with a significant ongoing operational cost. For the project to be a go, voters would have to say yes to a referendum question asking them to allow the county to take out a bond in order to build the pool. Paying off the bond and supporting ongoing operational costs would require a property tax hike. But getting such a question to the ballot box bears a cost of its own, in the form of studies to determine how much money the county would need to build and maintain the facility and marketing to educate voters on what the referendum is about. So in March commissioners opted to conduct a survey — carried out in-house at little cost to the county — to feel out public opinion before committing to a referendum.

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paper surveys available at several locations in competitions, at 12.1 percent.

As far as pool features, swim lanes were the county, including the Department on Aging, the recreation centers in Cashiers and most important to respondents, with 64.3 percent saying they wanted that feature.

Cullowhee, and the library.

In total, 1,709 people responded to the Another 55.4 percent asked for a kiddie play survey, with 93.7 percent of them saying they area, 51.3 percent wanted a therapy pool, support building an indoor pool. A lower per- 50.8 percent asked for walking ramps into the centage — though still a majority, at 68.1 per- pool, 35.3 percent asked for party rooms and cent — said they would support a property 28.1 percent wanted a diving board. tax increase to get a pool built.

The vast majority of those The Jackson County respondents pay property Recreation Complex taxes, with 82.3 percent saying in Cullowhee. that they currently own real www.rec.jacksonnc.org photo property in Jackson County and 52.6 percent saying they own taxable property other than real property. Most respondents — 94.3 percent — were full-time Jackson County residents. Another 5.7 percent said they are part-time residents, and 15 people skipped the question.

Furthermore, 90.9 percent said they would use an indoor pool and 59.22 percent said they would travel 8 or more While it’s possible that many of the peomiles to use such a pool. While 49.3 percent of respondents reported a Sylva zip code, ple who were motivated to respond to the sur36.8 percent said they believed Cullowhee to vey are the same people who would be most be the best location for an indoor pool, likely to use or support an indoor pool, the despite the fact that only 19.9 percent said survey shows that there is substantial interest they live in the Cullowhee zip code. Sylva among community members in the indoor came in second place on the proposed loca- pool issue, said McMahan. The indoor pool question has a history of eliciting favorable tion question, at 35.1 percent.

Desired uses for the pool were diverse. responses from the community. In 2013, an Open swim, water fitness and lap swim were update to the county’s recreation master plan most popular, at 67.4 percent, 66.7 percent showed 86.4 percent of 638 survey responand 50.1 percent, respectively. Another 39.4 dents saying that establishing a centrally percent said they’d use the pool for therapy, located indoor swimming pool was “impor37.3 percent said pool parties, 32.2 percent tant” or “very important.”

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time Tuesday, July 16, included an agenda item to consider a contract with Ashevillebased Clark Nexsen. Under the contract, Clark Nexsen would complete a master plan for a pool on the Cullowhee Recreation Center property, outline what features and square footage the pool might include and develop an estimated budget for building it.

“I anticipate a unanimous vote tomorrow,” McMahan said July 15.

According to the proposed contract, the process should take three months to complete and cost the county $38,000 — the same cost Clark Nexsen proposed in 2018, the last time commissioners considered the pool question. After delaying a vote on the contract award multiple times, commissioners ultimately decided not to pursue a referendum question for the 2019 ballot, saying there wasn’t enough time to consider all the issues involved or talk with possible partners in the endeavor.

This time, a ballot referendum is looking more likely.

July 1, 2020, is the absolute deadline to have the referendum question complete and submitted to the Board of Elections, said County Manager Don Adams, but in reality the question should be finalized before that.

The county will need approval for the referendum from the Local Government Commission as well as plenty of time to present the issue to voters ahead of Election Day. “If the board moves forward, my goal would be to have gone through the process and to have our schematic and our construction cost estimated and our operational cost estimate completed by April,” said Adams.

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Amidst the ongoing budget stalemate in Raleigh over Medicaid expansion, Rep. Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville, will hold three town hall meetings in his district to explain the situation to constituents. On Saturday, July 20, Queen will begin his meetings in Haywood County at noon in the Historic Haywood County Courthouse, 285 N Main Street, in Waynesville. From there, he’ll move on to Swain County, where the meeting will be held at the Marianna Black Library, 33 Fryemont Street, in Bryson City, beginning at 2 p.m. Finally, he’ll head to Jackson County, where the meeting will begin at 4 p.m. at the Southwestern Child Development Commission, 1528 Webster Road, in Sylva. For more information, contact Rep. Queen’s legislative assistant Brady Blackburn, at 919.715.3005 or email him at brady.blackburn@ncleg.net.

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Construction is scheduled to begin soon on the replacement of an 80-year-old bridge in Dillsboro.

The N.C. Department of Transportation recently awarded a $14 million contract to Wright Brothers Construction of Charleston, Tenn., to replace the bridge on Haywood Road (U.S. 19 Business) over Scott Creek and Southern Railroad.

Construction may begin as early as July 29.

The contract calls for completion in February 2023. The details call for the project to maintain the existing one lane of traffic heading in each direction with limited lane closures.

The project will require marked temporary detours to help traffic flow between Dillsboro and Sylva. Traffic will be rerouted on a temporary bridge on U.S. 23 Business, another bridge connecting the two sections of Old Home Town Road.

A small bridge over the creek will be built for construction equipment and employees. The project also includes a retaining wall and a new sidewalk leading to Monteith Park. This is one of six road and bridge projects recently awarded by the Department, at a cost of nearly $53.8 million.

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The board of advisors of the Haywood County Community Foundation is currently accepting grant applications from area nonprofits that serve general needs in the local community.

Funds are available for nonprofit organizations that serve general community needs in Haywood County. Grants will be awarded from the community grantmaking fund and typically range from $500 to $1,500. Applications are available online and the application deadline is at noon Aug. 6.

Visit nccommunityfoundation.org for information about applying.

For further information, contact NCCF Regional Director Katie Crumpler at 828.538.4299 or kcrumpler@nccommunityfoundation.org or visit nccommunityfoundation.org.

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T Dr. Stephen Wall is retiring from Haywood Pediatrics To all my patients: It has been a great honor to serve the families of Western North Carolina for the past 30 years. I can never thank you enough for entrusting me with the medical care of your children.

I am retiring this summer. My last day to see patients will be July 25, 2019.

I am very confident that the staff, Pediatricians and Nurse Practitioners of Haywood Pediatrics will provide my former patients with excellent care.

However, for those who would wish to seek medical care elsewhere, medical records will be made available by contacting the office of Haywood Pediatrics in Clyde, NC.

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HCC recognizes teachers Haywood Community College recently recognized six full-time and one part-time instructor for Excellence in Teaching awards.

Those recognized for full-time instruction include Doug Cabe – Business & Industry, Helene Groarke – Health & Human Services, Emily Reason – Business & Industry, Susan Roberts – Learning Support Services and Arts, Sciences & Natural Resources, and Dr. Wally Woods – Arts, Sciences & Natural Resources.

Recognized for part-time instruction was Veronica Decker – College & Career Readiness.

HCC instructor of psychology Steve Wampler was recognized as Master Teacher.

This award is a distinguished teaching award presented to the full-time curriculum faculty member who most exemplifies excellence in teaching by demonstrating excellent teaching, leadership, and service to the college and the community.

Gilchrist named teacher of the year Jackson County Public Schools recently celebrated the annual “Excellence in Education Awards” to recognize the recipients of the Teacher of the Year and Support Employee of the Year awards.

The 2019-20 JCPS Teacher of the Year is Dawn Gilchrist from the Jackson County School of Alternatives where she is a high school English and Language Arts teacher.

Although she has been teaching for 32 years, this is her first year with Jackson County Public Schools.

Other candidates for JCPS Teacher of the Year were Tracie Holden (Blue Ridge School), Allison Hawkins (Blue Ridge Early College), Anita Coggins (Cullowhee Valley School), Pam Martin (Fairview School), Jo Ellen Hamilton (Scott Creek School), Amanda Hall (Smokey Mountain Elementary), and Kim Bryson (Smoky Mountain High).

The 2019-2020 Support Employee of the Year is Audrey Rice from Blue Ridge School and Blue Ridge Early College. Rice has been at Blue Ridge School since March 1990 when she began working as a school bus driver.

Swain custodian named N.C. School Hero Vic Bridges, a Swain County school custodian, is known for going “above and beyond” to keep his school clean and safe for students.

In February, while checking the bathrooms at Swain County Middle School, Bridges found a loaded handgun. He alerted school officials to a weapon being on campus and students were kept safe until law enforcement officers determined no threat to their safety existed.

SCC design students display work Seven students in Southwestern Community College’s Advertising & Graphic Design program formally presented their work during Portfolio Day in the Burrell Building on the college’s Jackson Campus.

Each student showed the audience of approximately 75 people examples of photography, book cover designs, magazine layouts, branding projects and more.

“These students worked extremely hard all semester on their portfolios, and I am proud of all of them,” said Bob Keeling, the program’s coordinator at SCC. “It isn’t easy to stand in front of a large group that included members of our college’s administration and potential employers, but our students did a great job. I am looking forward to following these students as they start their careers in the field.”

Bridges’ dedication to his job and to the safety of his students led to his selection as one of the 10 winners of the Education Lottery’s School Heroes program.

“I feel honored today, but I do not feel like a hero,” said Bridges. “Any employee at this school would have done the same thing. I feel every one working here, no matter what the job, can make a difference in a kid’s life if you just try and do your job to the best of our ability.”

Ten heroes were chosen with each receiving a $10,000 award and $10,000 for their school.

SCC honors high achievers The highest-achieving students at Southwestern Community College were honored in the annual Academic Awards Ceremony.

Among the honorees were 37 students who received “high honors” for maintaining a perfect 4.0 cumulative GPA. Matthew Draughon of Cullowhee was named the N.C. Community College System Academic Excellence award recipient.

The Charlie McConnell New Century Scholar Award went to Celina Nations of Whittier, and Dawn McCall of Brevard received the Dallas Herring Achievement Award — given annually in honor of one of the state’s earliest advocates for community college.

Susan Burrell of Sylva won the Bob Scott Leadership Award, named after the former N.C. governor who also served as president of the state’s community college system for 12 years.

Lily Amoon of Otto, Andrea De la Mora of Franklin, Lyle Pressley of Cashiers, Kayla Sloan of Sylva, Dereka Taylor of Sylva and Dolores Taylor of Cherokee were honored as “Students of Distinction.”

HCC program gets top ranking According to BestColleges, Haywood Community College was recently ranked among the top 12 best online certificates for the Medical Office Administration. This program prepares students for supporting roles in university hospitals, specialty health clinics and medical laboratories.

HCC’s curriculum includes foundational classes in medical legal issues and insurance billing. Students learn to perform administrative office procedures, including processing appointments, orienting patients, maintaining records and facilitating written and oral communications. The certificate program also explores patient interactions, emphasizing cultural influences and stressors that affect communication and care.

HCC also offers a diploma and associate degree in Medical Office Administration.

WCU’s Cooper a distinguished professor The Western Carolina University Board of Trustees has appointed Chris Cooper, profes-

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sor and head of WCU’s Department of Political and Public Affairs, as the next faculty member to hold the university’s Robert Lee Madison Professorship.

Cooper has been a member of the WCU faculty since 2002. Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Affairs since July 2011, he previously served as director of WCU’s Public Policy Institute from 2008 through 2011 and as director of the Master of Public Affairs Program from 2005 to 2010.

A nationally recognized scholar in American politics, with a focus on state and Southern politics, he has won numerous honors in recognition of his teaching, research and service, including the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s N.C. Professor of the Year award in 2013, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013 and WCU’s University Scholar Award in 2011.

Ducks on the Tuck winners

For the second consecutive year, Macon County swept the top prizes in the annual Ducks on the Tuck virtual race and fundraiser for New Century Scholars.

Macon County raised more money than Swain or Jackson Counties, meaning the Ducks on the Tuck trophy remains in the Macon County Schools’ administrative offices.

Franklin resident Toney May was the winner of a flat screen television provided by Custom Sound and Security of Franklin.

Established in 1995 and overseen by the SCC Foundation, the New Century Scholars program provides last-dollar tuition assistance to SCC as well as college preparation support to local students. NCS has served more than 2,400 students over the years. The program is funded through fundraisers like Ducks on the Tuck and private donations.

Shine & Dine Gala coming up

The Haywood Community College Foundation will hold its fourth annual Shine & Dine Gala from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept.13, at the Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville.

The theme of this year’s Gala is “Simple as Black and White.” The event will feature a buffet dinner, music and the opportunity to support HCC through a wine pull and auction.

Haywood Regional Medical Center is the presenting sponsor.

Proceeds from the Gala will support the advanced manufacturing and automotive programs, which produce skilled graduates who are in high demand. Sponsorships are available and donations are being accepted.

For more information, visit www.hccgalaevents.com.

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Opinion

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A festival that all of WNC should embrace t’s fascinating to watch a cultural arts organization grow up, mature, get a little long-in-the-tooth, and then redefine itself to adjust to a changing world. That’s exactly what is happening with Folkmoot, which is now in its 36th year in Western North Carolina.

And what about that mission statement above. In these times when politicized culture wars and presidential twitter tantrums divide us, here is an arts organization whose very existence is based on trying to build bridges and foster international understanding. Folkmoot avoids politics, but now more than ever its mission is relevant and necessary.

The changes to the festival over the past few years have been rapid and transformational. The board challenged Executive Director Angie Schwab to develop a year-round arts organization that didn’t solely focus on the two-week summer international dance and music festival many are familiar with, one that that has brought more than a hundred countries and thousands of dancers and musicians to WNC, a festival that has inspired a generation of youths to travel and study abroad and form bonds with people from all over the world.

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The mountains are calling To the Editor: As mid-summer escorts me past three personal milestones — the one-year anniversary of the death of my husband, David Belcher; the welcomed arrival of his successor, Chancellor Kelli Brown, and her husband, Dennis; and my recent relocation closer to family in my home state of Missouri — I cannot help but reflect upon the past eight years of life with my adopted families of the Western Carolina University and Jackson County communities.

David’s appointment as Susan Belcher chancellor of WCU in 2011 was, for us, kismet. Somehow, in the largeness of the universe, David and I found ourselves in the slice of heaven called Cullowhee. I could write reams on the good work that WCU and Jackson County together accomplished during this time, but David voiced these successes many times. I simply write to say, “Thank you for being our friends.” The WCU and Jackson County communities, as entities and as individuals, held a very special place in David’s heart, as they do in mine. I know you will welcome Chancellor Brown and Dennis as warmly as you welcomed David and me. It will now be their joy to get to know you as it was ours.

The mountains are calling — I look forward to seeing you again, Susan Brummell Belcher Springfield, Missouri

Because you know what? Folkmoot was losing money every year. Ticket sales to the performances didn’t cover costs.

For more than two decades — and I have volunteered as a Folkmoot board member, board president, foundation president, and avid supporter — we drew down money from the foundation to support the summer festival and to maintain the Folkmoot Friendship Center. Many of us who held leadership positions with the festival thought its mission so important Editor that we barreled on despite the financial losses.

There reasons why performances at some of the festivals was declining. The world has changed dramatically since Folkmoot started in 1984. Exotic languages and dancers aren’t quite as novel in this digitally-connected world as they were when the Iron Curtain was still a defining political symbol.

For years many there was talk of trying to transform Folkmoot into a year-round arts organization, something akin to the Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF). The challenge was formidable, but from all appearances Folkmoot has turned the corner. In the past year at the Folkmoot Center I’ve listened to acclaimed author Ron Rash speak about writing and even recite a new short story at the Folkmoot Center, I’ve listened to Buddy Melton of Balsam Range and songwriter Milan

Scott McLeod

“Folkmoot is an organization that fosters the vibrancy of many cultures into one community. Folkmoot programs are based on cultural exchange and designed to build global relationships, foster cultural understanding and develop community prosperity.”

— Folkmoot mission statement

Miller play and talk about their childhood in Haywood County. There’s a series called cultural conversations, programs for youth, international dinners and more happening at the Folkmoot Friendship Center all year long.

“Everything has to grow and change to be relevant. And we’re not forgetting the legacy at all,” Schwab told The Smoky Mountain News. “In fact, we’re embracing the legacy and making it more precious as we go along. Each year, we learn more about ourselves and what we need to improve, and we make those adjustments.”

The arts are vital to every culture. Singers, poets, dancers, writers, musicians, and painters ensure we preserve our past while also challenging us to view this world in new ways.

Folkmoot embodies that artistic tradition in its own unique way. The groups who come here each year during the summer festival perform traditional dances and songs that help tell the story of their country or region’s history.

At the same time, the interactions and bonds that form between the individuals from all over the world — including the audiences — who gather each year in WNC help build bridges between cultures that influence people for a lifetime.

That legacy is one that this region should be proud it has helped sustain. I would encourage anyone reading this to take in one of the Folkmoot events, visit the Folkmoot Friendship Center, take part in this unique cultural event and help support this one-of-a-kind cultural arts organization.

(Scott McLeod can be reached at info@smokymountainnews.com)

LETTERS Time to jettison elected leaders

promise and vote.

These people we hired are clearly AWOL and should be jettisoned.

Penny Wallace Waynesville

To the Editor: The dead silence of the Republican members in Congress responding to Trump’s blatantly racist comments against sitting members of Congress tells me clearly that they are not interested in representing their constituents. If they had any concern for them (you), they would have — at the very least — mumbled that they didn’t agree with Trump. They haven’t, which I interpret as dereliction of duty. Once a senator or congressional representative takes office, they are, by constitutional design, obligated to uphold the constitution and to protect the interests of all of their district’s citizens. Each one of them swore to do so when taking office.

These silent representatives are doing nothing. They seem to be trying to keep their jobs in Washington by staying silent.

They continue to sit on their hands while Sen. Mitch McConnell directs a work stoppage in the Senate, continuing the 10-plus year congressional log jam designed to thwart anything that smacks of helping any group other than the rich. What changes that have occurred in the operations of government departments have largely been by executive orders rather than by congressional debate, advice, com-

The time is now for the Earth To the Editor: The latest issue of Sierra had to be one of the most depressing in a long time.

Between the pictures of the landfill in Bekasi, Indonesia, to the book called “The Last Butterflies,” Nick Brandt’s elegy for a disappearing world and the plans for 333

new chemical manufacturing project for MORE plastic products for export, well I am at a loss for words. I have only tears for the planet.

The environment, clean air and water and climate change should be first and foremost on everyone’s agenda and ballot.

Nothing else will matter. Not health care, not immigration, not equal pay, etc., if we do not have air and water.

Ms. Shetley suggested in her column last week that “the ultimate state of our planet sits in the hands of our younger generations.” I am afraid that we cannot wait that long!

Jane Finneran Cullowhee

I’m grateful for the fleas

Susanna Shetley

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DANNY PAISLEY

& THE SOUTHERN GRASS

Danny Paisley and The Southern Grass continue to be deeply rooted in tradition, but look to the future with enthusiasm and anticipation. This coming year brings renewed excitement! Danny Paisley and The Southern Grass released their Road Into Town CD on Patuxent Music. It is filled with all the traditional sound you would expect from a Southern Grass CD. Since Danny’s father Bob Paisley (founder of Southern Grass) passed away in 2004, Danny Paisley and The Southern Grass have made their own niche in the bluegrass world.

Their album, The Room Over Mine, earned accolades and significant chart action, and the song, “Don’t Throw Mama’s Flowers Away” won the 2009 IBMA Award for Song of the Year and have garnered several IBMA nominations for Emerging Artist of The Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year. Danny Paisley and The Southern Grass are a national and international touring band who frequently get invited for return engagements. Their list of notable festivals and events include: Rocky Grass, Grey Fox, Grass Valley, Del Fest, Wind Gap, Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival and more.

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July 17-23, 2019 Smoky Mountain News

When the boys had been gone about three days, my boyfriend went upstairs in my house and came down with a look of trepidation.

“You have a major flea problem,” he told me. “We’ve got to do something.”

Not having had a cat since childhood, I wasn’t even sure how bad a “flea problem” was. I was also confused because I’d been diligent to apply my cat’s flea medicine each month; however, the last time I tried to spread the vial of flea meds along his spine, he ran off. Apparently, not enough absorbed into his blood stream.

Over the following days, the fleas grew in number. My frustration was at an alltime high. Here I was trying to clean my sons’ room and instead, they were going to come home to fleas. When my anger reached a boiling point, I had to do something physical to get it out.

Within one hour, I pulled every single thing out of their bedroom except the bed frames. I now understand how people can lift cars in dire situations. I was slinging mattresses and box springs like they weighed nothing. Once everything was removed, we could vacuum, spray and bomb the room more easily.

After performing all the flea-destroying tactics we’d learned, I carefully and deliberately put their room back together, donating numerous items to the thrift store.

Upon completion, all that was left in their room were beds, book shelves, and a few items on their dressers. Nothing on the floor and nothing under the beds. I moved all the toys into the neighboring playroom and organized that room as well.

While doing all this, an occasional flea would jump on my foot or ankle, but I tried to ignore them. In fact, I started saying, “Thank you so much, fleas.” Had it not been for them, I would never in a million years cleaned in the way I did.

The look on the boys’ faces when they returned home was irreplaceable. They were so happy and have spent more time relaxing in their bedroom than ever before because, like Rubin says, the outer order offers them inner calm.

Further, the boys were not overly concerned about the remaining fleas. My older child has become my vacuuming/spraying partner. And even though the fleas have decreased significantly, we decided to hire a professional. It’s just not worth the nuisance or worry that more pests are lurking among the carpets and baseboards. Pest control is coming this week to get rid of the fleas, once and for all.

It’s funny how God works sometimes. I think he knew how badly I wanted a clean house but also knew it would take something extreme for me to slow down my chaotic life and clean in a deep thorough way.

I would never wish a flea infestation on anyone but for me, it’s what I needed to get my jets going. And for that, I’m very grateful.

(Susanna Shetley can be reached at susanna.b@smokymountainnews.com)

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t’s important for us to name that which brings us gratitude. This week, I’m grateful for the fleas that invaded my home like a tiny insane army.

One of my favorite writers, Gretchen Rubin, often speaks and writes about a concept called outer order inner calm. In the introduction of her book with the same name, she says, “In the context of a happy life, a messy desk or a crowded coat closet is a trivial problem—yet getting control of the stuff of life often Columnist makes it easier to feel more in control of our lives generally.”

She continues by saying, “When I’m surrounded by a mess, I feel restless and unsettled. When I clean up the mess, I’m always surprised by the disproportionate energy and cheer I gain, plus I’m able to find my keys.”

Even though I fully believe Rubin’s theory and have felt that elation myself after cleaning the smallest of areas, I don’t follow her lead enough.

I live in a cabin-like house in Maggie Valley. It’s a perfect size for my boys and me. It’s cozy and full of character, nestled amongst many trees on the “shady side” of Soco Road. While my home is quaint and comfortable, there’s not a lot of room for storage.

Pair that with the life of a busy working single mom and clutter becomes the norm.

It’s exhausting to get ahead of the backpacks, toys, shoes, papers, books, toys, mail and other items that constantly make their way into the floor or on the dining room table.

My older son craves order. He’s never been one to ask for tangible things; he would rather play outside or do something experiential, so other than his prized model airplane collection, he would be fine with zero toys or trinkets. In contrast, my younger son loves toys and can play with absolutely anything. He’s imaginative and creative, and toys serve as a catalyst to release all those ideas waiting to burst forth. His toys are everywhere and as much as we try to put them away, they’ve become permanent fixtures.

My older son routinely asks to get the house more organized. He offers to help and contributes suggestions. The clutter doesn’t appear to bother my younger son, but I know an organized home would help him also. Single moms feel guilt about everything so this is another thing I feel guilty about: the inability to get my house tidy.

Last week, the boys were with their dad at the beach. I decided to clean up their bedroom and playroom while they were away. The first couple of days I put up a few books and took a box of toys to a local thrift store, but each time I entered their room, it mostly looked the same as before.

Enter the fleas.

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

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

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

BLUE ROOSTER SOUTHERN GRILL 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, Lakeside Plaza at the old Wal-Mart. 828.456.1997. Open Monday through Friday. Friendly and fun family atmosphere. Local, handmade Southern cuisine. Fresh-cut salads; slow-simmered soups; flame grilled burgers and steaks, and homemade signature desserts.

Blue-plates and local fresh vegetables daily.

Brown bagging is permitted. Private parties, catering, and take-out available. Call-ahead seating available.

BOOJUM BREWING COMPANY 50 N Main Street, Waynesville.

828.246.0350. Taproom Open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday & Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Gem Bar Open Tuesday through Sunday 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. Enjoy lunch, dinner or drinks at Boojum’s Downtown Waynesville restaurant & bar. Choose from 16 taps of our fresh, delicious & ever rotating Boojum Beer plus cider, wine & craft cocktails. The taproom features seasonal pub faire including tasty burgers, sandwiches, shareables and daily specials that pair perfectly with our beer. Cozy up inside or take in the mountain air on our back deck."

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

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

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

CHURCH STREET DEPOT 34 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

828.246.6505. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Mouthwatering all beef burgers and dogs, hand-dipped, hand-spun real ice cream shakes and floats, fresh hand-

cut fries. Locally sourced beef. Indoor and outdoor dining. facebook.com/ChurchStreetDepot, twitter.com/ChurchStDepot.

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

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

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

Outside patio seating. Free Wi-Fi, pet-friendly.

Live music and lots of events. Check the web calendar at citylightscafe.com.

THE CLASSIC WINESELLER 20 Church Street, Waynesville.

828.452.6000. Underground retail wine and craft beer shop, restaurant, and intimate live music venue. Kitchen opens at 4 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday serving freshly prepared small plates, tapas, charcuterie, desserts. Enjoy live music every Friday and Saturday night at 7pm. www.classicwineseller.com. Also on facebook and twitter.

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

828.926.1820 Winter hours: Wednesday through Sunday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet.

Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service.

EVERETT HOTEL & BISTRO 16 Everett St.,Bryson City. 828.488.1934.

Open daily for dinner at 4:30 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday Brunch from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; dinner from 4:30-9:30 p.m. Serving fresh and delicious weekday morning lite fare, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Freshly prepared menu offerings range from house-made soups & salads, lite fare & tapas, crepes, specialty sandwiches and burgers. Be sure not to miss the bold flavors and creative combinations that make up the daily Chef Supper Specials. Followed by a tempting selection of desserts prepared daily by our chefs and other local bakers. Enjoy craft beers on tap, as well as our full bar and eclectic wine list.

FERRARA PIZZA & PASTA 243 Paragon Parkway, Clyde.

828.476.5058. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 12 to 8 p.m. Real New Yorkers. Real Italians. Real Pizza. A full service authentic Italian pizzeria and restaurant from New York to the Blue Ridge. Dine in, take out, and delivery. Check out our daily lunch specials plus customer appreciation nights on Monday and Tuesday 5 to 9 p.m. with large cheese pizzas for $9.95.

FIREFLY TAPS & GRILL 128 N. Main St., Waynesville 828.454.5400. Simple, delicious food. A must experience in WNC. Located in downtown Waynesville with an atmosphere that will warm your heart and your belly! Local and regional beers on tap. Full bar, vegetarian options, kids menu, and more.

Reservations accepted. Daily specials. Live music every Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m.

Open Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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

Tuesday through Thursday. 5 to 9:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Frogs Leap is a farm to table restaurant focused on local, sustainable, natural and organic products prepared in modern regional dishes. Seasonal menu focuses on Southern comfort foods with upscale flavors.

Reservations accepted. www.frogsleappublichouse.com.

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

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

HARMON’S DEN BISTRO 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville 828.456.6322. Harmon’s Den is located in the Fangmeyer Theater at HART. Open 5:309 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday (Bistro closes at 7:30 p.m. on nights when there is a show in the Fangmeyer Theater) with Sunday brunch at 11 a.m. that includes breakfast and lunch items. Harmon’s Den offers a complete menu with cocktails, wine list, and area beers on tap. Enjoy casual dining with the guarantee of making it to the performance in time, then rub shoulders with the cast afterward with post-show food and beverage service. Reservations recommended. www.harmonsden.harttheatre.org HAZELWOOD FARMACY & SODA FOUNTAIN 429 Hazelwood Avenue, Waynesville.

828.246.6996. Open six days a week, closed Wednesday. 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Breakfast until noon, old-fashioned luncheonette and diner comfort food. Historic full service soda fountain.

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

Open for dinner at 4:30 Tuesday through Sunday. World-famous prime rib, steaks, fresh seafood, gorgonzola cheese and salads.

All ABC permits and open year-round.

Children always welcome. Take-out menu.

Excellent service and hospitality.

Reservations appreciated.

JOEY'S PANCAKE HOUSE 4309 Soco Rd Maggie Valley.

828.926.0212. Open seven days a week! 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. Joey’s is a family-friendly restaurant that has been serving breakfast to locals and visitors of Western North Carolina for decades. Featuring a large variety of tempting pancakes, golden waffles, country style cured ham and seasonal specials spiked with flavor, Joey's is sure to please all appetites. Join us for what has become a tradition in these parts, breakfast at Joey’s.

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

828.648.4193. 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday; Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner.

The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era.

tasteTHE mountains KANINI’S 1196 N. Main St., Waynesville.

828.452.5187. Lunch Monday-Saturday from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., eat in or carry out. Closed Sunday. A made-from-scratch kitchen using fresh ingredients. Offering a variety of meals to go from frozen meals to be stored and cooked later to “Dinners to Go” that are made fresh and ready to enjoyed that day. We also specialize in catering any event from from corporate lunches to weddings. kaninis.com MAD BATTER FOOD & FILM 617 W. Main Street Downtown Sylva.

828.586.3555. Open Monday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with Sunday Brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Handtossed pizza, house-ground burgers, steak sandwiches & fresh salmon all from scratch.

Casual family friendly atmosphere. Craft beer and interesting wine. Free movies Thursday through Saturday. Visit madbatterfoodfilm.com for this week’s shows & events.

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

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

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

PIGEON RIVER GRILLE 101 Park St., Canton.

828.492.1422. Open Tuesday through

RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 70 Soco Road, Maggie Valley 828.926.0201 Home of the Maggie Valley Pizzeria. We deliver after 4 p.m. daily to all of Maggie Valley, J-Creek area, and Lake Junaluska.

Monday through Wednesday: 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. country buffet and salad bar from 5 to 9 p.m. $11.95 with Steve Whiddon on piano.

Friday and Saturday: 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 to 8 p.m. 11:30 to 3 p.m. family style, fried chicken, ham, fried fish, salad bar, along with all the fixings, $11.95.

Check out our events and menu at rendezvousmaggievalley.com SAGEBRUSH STEAKHOUSE 1941 Champion Drive, Canton 828.646.3750 895 Russ Ave., Waynesville 828.452.5822. Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Carry out available.

Sagebrush features hand carved steaks, chicken and award winning BBQ ribs. We have fresh salads, seasonal vegetables and scrumptious deserts. Extensive selection of local craft beers and a full bar. Catering special events is one of our specialties.

SALTY DOG'S SEAFOOD & GRILL 3567 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.926.9105. Open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday. Full service bar and restaurant located in the center of Maggie Valley.

Featuring daily $6 lunch specials and daily dinner specials such as $1 Taco Tuesdays and 45¢ Wednesday Wings. Backyard Bar is open every weekend thru October. Join us for every NFL game.

SMOKY MOUNTAIN SUB SHOP 29 Miller Street Waynesville 828.456.3400.

Open from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. A

Waynesville tradition, the Smoky Mountain Sub Shop has been serving great food for over 20 years. Come in and enjoy the relaxed, casual atmosphere. Sub breads are baked fresh every morning in Waynesville.

Using only the freshest ingredients in homemade soups, salads and sandwiches. Come in and see for yourself why Smoky Mountain Sub Shop was voted # 1 in Haywood County.

Locally owned and operated.

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

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

Located across from the Fire Station.

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Preserving and perpetuating Appalachian craft culture New book details the history of the John C. Campbell Folk School n Craft & Community, regional author Anna Fariello presents the early history of Western North Carolina’s John C. Campbell Folk School.

Founded in 1925, the school was a dream of John and Olive Dame Campbell, a working couple who toured the Southern Appalachians in an effort to chronicle its people and their culture.

During a decade of travel, the Campbells visited schools and churches, exploring rural education, uplift work, and religion. Their work was guided by the Social Gospel, a doctrine that challenged congregations to actively demonstrate their faith through works of charity and service.

After her husband’s death in 1919, Olive Campbell took up the reins, first to complete The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, published posthumously in 1921.

Independently, Campbell studied and documented folk singing. With famed English folk song collector Cecil Sharp, she co-authored English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians, the first American songbook to capture traditional melodies along with lyrics.

But, Campbell’s primary focus was education and this interest took her to Scandinavia to study folk schools first hand. She returned to the U.S. to search for a location to build a school to serve rural communities.

In the far western corner of North Carolina, the small community of Brasstown was eager for a school. Community support was evident when over 200 people showed up for a meeting at the Little Brasstown Baptist Church. The people asked themselves, “What do we have to offer?” and answered, “Land, labor, material, and folks.” Over 100 community members, mostly farmers, donated everything from flower bulbs to farmland.

Olive Dame Campbell, along with Assistant School Director Marguerite Butler, were ambitious in their undertaking. The school soon added 100 acres to its campus.

Over the next two decades, new buildings were constructed including a springhouse, dairy barn, and co-op creamery. A mill house pumped water to an uphill reservoir, so that water was gravity fed to the school. There was even talk of straightening Brasstown Creek.

Besides the school itself, Campbell organized a number of financial and agricultural

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Anna Fariello will be presenting her book Craft & Community during the next Jackson County Genealogical Society meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8, in the Community Room at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

There will be another book signing and reception for Fariello at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Both events are free and open to the public. cooperatives to serve the farming communities immediately surrounding the school.

Her work was guided by a question she often asked herself: “How shall we keep an enlightened, progressive, and contented population on the land?” Throughout her work and her lifetime, she sought to unite school and community. “Community and school are one,” she noted in one editorial.

The first students arrived at the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1927 and students have been filling the school ever since. Its first decades were focused on Clay and Cherokee counties with an aim to build a boarding school for young adults.

Aside from their lessons, students worked to keep the school going. Girls cooked and prepared meals; boys worked on farm upkeep. In 1929, tuition, room, and board was $22.50 a month for boys and $20 per month for girls; the difference being that girls ate less.

Although today the folk school is known as a place to learn about and experience craft, the school’s initial offerings included courses like forestry, travel, history, public health, mechanical drawing, and agriculture.

It may have been Campbell’s fortuitous meeting with Allen Eaton that helped push craft to the forefront. Eaton was an author, speaker, and curator, as well as a champion of handcraft.

In 1919, he wrote a book titled Arts and Crafts of the Homelands and then organized

America’s Making, a popular touring exhibition based on the book. When the exhibit traveled, 50,000 people came to see it.

During the school’s first Handwork Week in 1928, local women arrived to card and spin wool from the school’s sheep. Within a year, as the Great Depression hit, the folk school and other regional organizations — including the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild and Penland School of Handicrafts — encouraged the home production of items that could bring much needed income to local families.

One of the school’s most successful endeavors Anna Fariello was its Brasstown Carvers, a community cooperative of local families that continues today. Beginning in the early 1930s, carvers came together on Saturday mornings to share their work, practice, and learn new things.

While in its earliest years, carvers were almost exclusively men and boys, by the 1940s, there were more women than men in the group.

The carvers continued to produce functional items, like breadboards, and decorative carvings, like animal and human figures and, today, are known for their Christmas nativities.

The school provided rough-sawn blocks of wood that were taken home and carved with a

pocketknife and returned to the school for a final polishing and marketing.

While craft making was an occupation and vocation for many, for Campbell and her colleague Allen Eaton, craft was an activity with an impact apart from financial.

Eaton often wrote of judging craft by two measures: “one by the product itself...the other by the effect of the work on the producer.” This idea was that handcraft could inspire and encourage ordinary people to work toward creativity and extraordinary skill making things that would instill pride and accomplishment.

Fariello became interested in the folk school while doing research for a presentation at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 1993, the Year of American Craft.

The museum hosted a conference on Women & Craft, where Fariello presented on the leadership that fueled the southeastern craft revival. At the time, she knew little about the school and, in fact, thought that it had been founded by John Campbell.

Fariello spent the next 10 years poking around regional archives to better understand the movement that advocated for self-sufficiency and creativity through the making of hand crafted articles.

Named a James Renwick Fellow in American Craft a few years later, the fellowship allowed her funding and free reign to conduct research at the Smithsonian Institution.

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Not the same ole song and dance Folkmoot finds success in year-round programming, preserving legacy

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER n its 36th year of cultural exchange through song and dance, Folkmoot remains a moving target, one that constantly evolves in its programming, but never once forgetting its core values.

“Everything has to grow and change to be relevant. And we’re not forgetting the legacy at all,” said Folkmoot Executive Director Angie Schwab. “In fact, we’re embracing the legacy and making it more precious as we go along. Each year, we learn more about ourselves and what we need to improve, and we make those adjustments.”

Aside for the usual Angie Schwab showcase of dozens of events featuring international performers, this year will also include two new components — Mootenanny and Folkmalt. With performances throughout Western North Carolina, the festival will run from July 18-28.

“We’ve talked to a lot of people, and we’re presenting programming that people have requested,” Schwab said. “As we expand from a singular folk festival to a yearround cultural organization, and we build the festival out to include other forms of cultural engagement, Mootananny and Folkmalt have been well-thought out.”

Taking place from 2 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 21, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center Greenspace in Waynesville, Mootenanny will include performances by acclaimed Americana/indie act Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters, legendary Appalachian singer-songwriter Jim Avett, Jackson County newgrass ensemble Ol’ Dirty Bathtub and Haywood County’s own Americana/folk act Joey Fortner & The

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The 36th annual Folkmoot International Dance & Music Festival will take place July 18-28 around venues and stages in Western North Carolina. For a full schedule of events and ticket information, click on www.folkmoot.org.

For more information of the inaugural Mootenanny and Folkmalt, go to www.folkmoot.org/mootenanny and www.folkmoot.org/folkmalt.

Folkmoot After Dark will take place at 10 p.m. Thursday, July 25, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. The variety show will be hosted by Asheville legend/drag persona Celeste Starr and Sylva performance celebrity Heather Hyatt.

Performers include Ol’ Dirty Bathtub, members of the Southern Appalachian Arts Repertory Theater, international group members and more.

Universal Sound. There will also be demonstrations by Mountain Folkways (blacksmiths, heirloom seeds, traditional medicines, bear dogs, and more).

“Our audience wanted us to celebrate more of our Appalachian culture,” Schwab said. “We have a such a beautiful and unique culture here in these mountains, and we want to complement the visiting groups with our own traditions and artistic talents.”

A craft beer festival held in downtown Canton, Folkmalt will be held from 3 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 26, at Sorrells Park. With 16 local and regional breweries (and several food trucks) in attendance pouring fine artisans ales, live music will also be provided by The Get Right Band (rock/soul) and Woody Pines (folk/blues).

“We’ve wanted a signature event in Canton for five years. It’s been considered from every angle, and we felt we needed to look into beer culture,” Schwab said. “With all the local and regional breweries here, the beer itself is influenced by international culture. It seemed like a natural fit for us, and it will also help us sell tickets, expand our identity, and now have something in Canton, which is important to us.”

A big push for these new additions to Folkmoot came from a need to attract a younger audience within the 25- to 45-yearold age bracket, where a more contempo-

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rary touch will only complement the decades of arts and culture already provided by the festival.

“Folkmoot has been 36 years in the making and little by little we’ve made a change for the last five years — we’re going to build on all of these things moving forward,” Schwab said.

And when the festival is over, Folkmoot itself continues with year-round programming: from international dinners and cultural presentations to regular live music and its popular “Southern Storytellers” series.

“Our year-round tickets sales are going to exceed our festival ticket sales. We’re selling out our musical events. We’re intending to be the premier music room for Haywood County and have music all of the time,” Schwab noted. “We have chefs work out of

our kitchen and do a level of food culture that reflects our broader identity as a cultural organization. We’ve spent years developing the programming we have, and we’re expanding the festival in a way that reflects what we’ve learned in the year-round programming.”

Now just a couple days away from its official kickoff for 2019, Folkmoot continues to be a beacon of harmonious light for cultures of the world, all brought together within these small mountain communities in our backyard.

“We’re keenly aware of who we are and what we do, and what we need to do as we grow and expand more into the region,” Schwab said. “Folkmoot has always been about working together and making life better for one another.”

“As we expand from a singular folk festival to a year-round cultural organization, and we build the festival out to include other forms of cultural engagement, Mootananny and Folkmalt have been well-thought out.”

— Angie Schwab, Folkmoot Executive Director

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Keep on the sunny side A conversation with Jim Avett

scious effort to share and radiate the unique beauty, sounds and culture of Western North Carolina and greater Southern Appalachia.

too anxious to judge on limited knowledge.

When you’re planning out your life, don’t let reality hold you back. Because what you know as “reality” probably isn’t.

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER t 72 years old, singer-songwriter Jim Avett is a modern-day Renaissance man.

Avett is a beloved Appalachian folk musician. Up at the crack of dawn farmer.

Served in the Navy during Vietnam. A social worker for a period. And a welder for almost four decades. He’s traveled across the country and around the world, and never once losing that childlike wonder that resides at the crossroads of curiosity, discovery and adventure.

He’s also the father to Scott and Seth Avett (aka: The Avett Brothers), where the apple of the massively successful sibling Americana act doesn’t fall far from the tree that is Jim Avett.

Just like his sons, he’s a lifelong musician and storyteller in every facet of human interaction — whether he realizes it or not — which is all in a subconscious and con-

Smoky Mountain News: What is the role of songwriter in the digital age?

Jim Avett: The importance of creativity — songwriting, visual art, sculpting, poems, novels — is that, that’s the way society moves ahead. That’s the way we progress. If we don’t have something new, we’ll stay right where we are. It makes absolute sense. In art, there is no good and bad — there’s only different. The way that you move ahead, sometimes it’s more valuable to learn how to not to do something as it is how to do it.

SMN: Where does the vibrancy and zest in your attitude come from?

JA: I come from a great line of storytellers — my dad, my uncles, my aunts, my neighbors. I sort of felt like I was a spectator in my young life — I did not spend a lot of time talking, I spent a lot of time watching and listening. And when I had a question, I’d ask that. And I don’t mind getting up and making a fool of out of myself — and that’s where the music comes in.

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SMN: Could you also apply that kind of logic to where we are in society these days?

We seem to be trying to navigate choppy waters.

JA: That’s exactly right. To get to the harbor, you’ve got to know how to get there. If you don’t have creative people, you’re not going anywhere. It’s important to realize we move ahead with creativity. People are way

SMN: At 72, what does it mean to you to still have music such a big part of your life?

JA: It never was my dream to get onstage. [This past] Sunday night, I sang in front of 10,000 people [at Red Rocks Amphitheatre with The Avett Brothers]. I would just assume to sing in your backyard.

I would just assume to play for 10 people who want to hear it [instead of in front of] 1,000 who don’t. There is a place for older musicians. You need to tell what you know.

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Appalachian folk singer-songwriter Jim Avett and his band will perform at Mootenanny that will take place during the Folkmoot International Dance & Music Festival from 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center Greenspace in Waynesville.

Other performers include Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters, Ol’ Dirty Bathtub, and Joey Fortner & The Universal Sound.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students. Kids ages 5 and under are free. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, click on www.folkmoot.org/mootenanny.

This past April, Avett released his latest album, “Take It From Me.” For more information on Avett and the release, go to www.jimavett.com.

You need to share. The things that have taken me 72 years to learn, I can share with a 20-something and they’ll be way farther out of the swamp than trying to figure it out on their own.

Editor’s Note: To listen to the entire audio stream of this conversation, go to YouTube and search: “Jim Avett Garret K. Woodward.”

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EGYPT Established in 1960, National Folkloric Dance Troupe of Egypt is considered a leading Egyptian folk group. They specialize in a series of traditional dances that show different aspects of daily Egyptian lives and traditional life.

Folkloric dance in Egypt is divided regionally into the dance from the Delta (fellahi), the Upper Delta (Saidi), the coastal area (Sawahili), Sinai (Bedouin), and the Nubian area.

Egypt also has a longstanding tradition of belly dancing.

Believed to have originated as a fertility dance performed by priestesses in Pharaonic times, it exists today in two main forms, as a folk dance (raqs baladi), performed by women at parties and weddings, and as a form of entertainment by professional dancers (raqs sharqi).

HUNGARY Established in 1976, the Kecskemét Folk Dance Ensemble is maintained by the Hírös Agóra Cultural and Youth Center in Kecskemét.

With around 280 dancers split up into ten groups, Kecskemét welcomes participants of all ages.

The group presents dances of the countries living in the Carpathian Basin.

ROMANIA Composed of amateurs, Martisorul is highly appreciated both for its originality and its great talent that promotes the traditional and creative spirit of the Romanian people.

Martisorul’s performances include authentic Romanian folk songs and dances from most ethnographic areas of the country.

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Rake ‘n’ scrape is a traditional Bahamian music featuring the common handsaw, accordion, and

goatskin drum. After almost disappearing entirely with tourist marketing in the 1940s, a gradual resurgence of rake-n-scrape began in 1969 along with the push for national independence.

The revival continues today, strengthening the cultural heritage that was nearly lost.

Cleophas Webb and his family have played Rake ‘n’ Scrape from the time he was a child; he learned it from his father and grandfather, and all of the children play.

It’s regularly played on Cat Island for weddings and parties, because it’s all they have — that sound of fusion of European accordion, African goatskin drum, and the saw for “that scratchy sound and the African feeling.”

SOUTHERN APPALACHIA The Folkmoot festival is a time to celebrate international cultures and to share Appalachian mountain culture. Each year, Folkmoot has showcased local Appalachian clogging groups as examples of our Smoky Mountain roots.

This year, Folkmoot welcomes six local clogging teams to alternate performances over the length of the festival. Each group is unique, but all the groups share a passion to uphold authentic clogging traditions.

Clogging is a traditional dance with origins in Wales and England that displays individual footwork. The dancers’ footwear is used percussively by striking the heel, the toe, or both against a floor or each other to create audible rhythms, and the team, in turn, keeps a rhythmic cadence.

The groups will be accompanied by The Doghouse Band from Candler for all evening performances. Founded in 1976, the band plays traditional Blue Ridge standards and originals written by band members.

Matinee performances will feature Blackberry Jam of Waynesville, whose members include Folkmoot volunteers Bill Cole & Dave Stallings and several talented friends.

The 2019 Folkmoot clogging team lineup includes Dixie Darlins, Appalachian Mountaineer Cloggers, Fines Creek Cloggers, Blue Ridge Heritage Cloggers, Green Valley Cloggers, and Cole Mountain Cloggers.

CHEROKEE Raven Rock was formed by the late Walker Calhoun. He and several relatives began teaching ceremonial dances and medicine songs to the younger generations. He also organized a dance group named Raven Rock Dancers, which continues to perform at special events and pow wows.

The preservation of elements of traditional Cherokee culture today are owed to the efforts of a few individuals like Calhoun and Will West Long, who served as Calhoun’s mentor and teacher. Long has been credited with the rescue of much of what remains of the Big Cove Community.

The Thunderbear Drum Group was formed in 2009. They sing the northern style, and although the pow wow isn’t traditional Cherokee culture, Thunderbear Drum Group enjoys performing the songs that represent the Cherokee people.

Kathi Littlejohn lives in Cherokee with her family and is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians She has been a featured storyteller at Colonial Williamsburg and the Smithsonian American Indian Museum in Washington, DC. Littlejohn has been storytelling for 30 years. “I hope to preserve the stories by encouraging others to tell them Cherokee stories have such important lessons about how we are supposed to live,” she said.

Her most recent project is telling the history and stories associated with 10 Cherokee sites in southwestern North Carolina. The videos are posted on YouTube and are called “Cherokee History and Stories, What Happened Here?”

Matt Tooni resides on the Qualla Boundary. He is a storyteller and a Nammy Nominee for flutist of the year in 2017.

Schedule of Events • July 18: Gala Under the Stars, Folkmoot Friendship Center, Waynesville. 7 to 10 p.m.

• July 19: Camp Folkmoot Hands Around the Globe, Folkmoot Friendship Center, Waynesville. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• July 19: Matinee, Queen Auditorium, Folkmoot Friendship Center, Waynesville. 2 to 4:30 p.m.

• July 19: Grand Opening Extravaganza, Stuart Auditorium, Lake Junaluska.

7 to 9:30 p.m.

• July 20: Parade of Nations, Haywood County Courthouse, Waynesville.

10 to 11:30 a.m.

• July 20: Many Cultures Day, Folkmoot Friendship Center, Waynesville.

11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• July 20: Group Performance, Haywood Community College, Clyde. 7 to 9 p.m.

• July 21: Hickory International, Salt Block Auditorium, Hickory, 2 to 4 p.m.

• July 21: Mootenanny, Folkmoot Friendship Center, Waynesville.

2 to 9 p.m.

• July 22: Cherokee World Games, Cherokee Indian Fair Grounds.

2 to 7 p.m.

• July 23: Group Performance, Colonial Theater, Canton. 7 to 9 p.m.

• July 24: Group Performance, Blue Ridge Community College, Brevard.

2 to 4 p.m.

• July 24: Group Performance, Diana Wortham Theatre, Asheville.

7 to 9:30 p.m.

• July 25: Festival Friendship Dinner, Folkmoot Friendship Center, Waynesville. 7 to 10 p.m.

• July 25: Lantern Parade, Folkmoot Friendship Center, Waynesville.

9 to 9:45 p.m.

• July 25: Folkmoot After Dark, Folkmoot Friendship Center, Waynesville.

10 p.m. to midnight.

• July 26: Matinee, Queen Auditorium, Folkmoot Friendship Center, Waynesville. 2 to 4:30 p.m.

• July 26: Folkmalt, Sorrells Street Park, Canton. 3 to 9 p.m.

• July 27: International Festival Day, Main Street, Waynesville. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• July 27: Group Performance, Haywood Community College, Clyde. 7 to 9 p.m.

• July 28: Candlelight Closing, Stuart Auditorium, Lake Junaluska, 7 to 10 p.m.

For more information and/or to purchase tickets for events, go to www.folkmoot.org and click on the “Calendar” tab.

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Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Isaiah ately, or more so in Breedlove (Americana/folk) at 7 p.m. Friday, recent years, I find the July 19. only way I can drown out the constant barrage of noise The Appalachian Heritage Festival will be held and division in our country is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 20, in when I put on my headdowntown Franklin. phones, throw on some There will be a barbecue and craft beer tasting music, and let my fingertips with Innovation Brewing from 7 to 9 p.m. flutter away on the laptop Saturday, July 19, on the Great Smoky Mountains keyboard.

Railroad, departing from Bryson City.

It’s almost like a chicken and the egg kind of thing, Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) will host Tugalo huh? What came first: the Holler (bluegrass) at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 20. noise or my awareness of differences in our society? With the recent tweets by our commander in chief America Great Again” are shot out of the funnel cloud, ultimately piercing our hearts sparking a national outcry, with fingers and souls, only to plunge further and farther seemingly pointed in every direction, where into the darkness of uncertain times in our to from here? I find myself asking that quesmodern world. tion often — either in passing or in my Regardless if you’re a participant or not, thoughts.

Folkmoot has always been an anecdote to all And just like that, through all the noise the negative political rhetoric, absurd poliand distraction, the Folkmoot International Dance & Music Festival returns, right here in cies and nonstop screaming matches on both sides of the aisles in Washington D.C. my backyard that is Waynesville.

Initially, the annual gathering was meant as to what to do with the endless stream of folks fleeing whatever monster remains back to be a geo-political bridge during the Cold War in the 1980s. But, in our current state of in their homelands — across a continent, across an ocean. affairs, though the reasons of importance of As a kid, whether I realized it or not, the Folkmoot have shifted, the message remains idea of — and actual presence of — the same — at the end of the day, we’re all American borders was an ever-present realihumans in search of love and peace, and ty in my early years and impending adultborders are simply invisible barriers. hood. Born and raised directly on the Every single day we arise into a state of Canadian Border in the tiny village of Rouses time and place where the national conversaPoint, New York, the border crossing into tion and dialogue swirls like a tornado.

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Before the Twin Towers fell on 9/11, crossing that border was never given a second thought when I was a kid in the 1990s. My parents would take my little sister and I into Canada for the weekend to go skiing or an afternoon jaunt into the rich culture and grandeur of nearby Montreal, Quebec. If we wanted fresh, local produce, my mother would make a quick trip over the invisible line and get our groceries at the IGA (Independent Grocers Alliance) in Hemmingford, Quebec.

But, when it came to the Canadian Border in my personal experience, what really stood out was watching my father work the line at the crossing in Champlain, New York.

An immigration officer and inspector for the United States government, my dad worked all along the border at several ports — big and small — and would determine would could be allowed into America. An officer for almost 30 years, he truly loved his line of work, and was damn good at it, too.

Nowadays, while crossing either border in this country, it’s a “guilty until proven innocent” approach by current officers. Back when my father held court on the car line, it was “innocent until proven guilty.” The old school nature of that approach was one where you as the foreigner would be given the benefit of the doubt until a red flag would be triggered within the questioning by the officer at hand.

And there were countless occasions where my mom, little sister and I would drive up to the crossing to bring my dad a late lunch or early dinner, and we’d see firsthand the work he did.

I’d observe illegal aliens and refugees fleeing whatever war-torn country or dictatorship they were trying to escape. The faces were filled with fear, with terror, with a sense of desperation when trying to seek asylum in the United States.

It was in those moments where it clicked in my young mind as to importance of the borders, of proper protocol implemented to help those seeking asylum, and, most of all, where the first line of compassion towards fellow human beings was tested day in and day out.

Yes, our world is much different post9/11. But, at the same time, the themes of why people immigrate to America remain the same — a new chapter for a better life.

Sure, I see both sides of the immigration argument that currently stands before us. The borders do need to be fixed, whether physically or by changes in policy. And yet, it’s the compassion for other walks of life wanting to truly be free in their pursuit of happiness that seems to get lost in all the noise.

If you find yourself in and around Western North Carolina between July 18-28, take some time to immerse yourself in what Folkmoot truly means. Takes some time to engage and interact with one or all of the international groups living and performing in our mountains.

Don’t forget: our Folkmoot visitors are just as eager to make sense of it all as we are.

For it is within conversation with others outside of your realm of understanding and experience that sets the tone for real, tangible change and positive growth on our planet.

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On the beat Groovin’ on the Green The Groovin’ on the Green summer concert series will host Hi-5 (rock) at 6:30 p.m.

Friday, July 26, at The Village Green in Cashiers.

Other performers will include: The Currys (country/blues) Aug. 2, Eat a Peach (classic rock) Aug. 9, Americana Jones (roots) Aug. 16, Andrew Beam (classic country) Aug. 23 and Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’Blues (blues) Aug. 31.

Coolers are welcome but food and beverage vendors will be on site as well. Dogs must be on a leash and under the control of their

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Concerts on the Creek Geoff McBride & Scott Baker.

The 10th season of the Concerts on the Creek summer music series continues with Geoff McBride & Scott Baker (classic hits/soul) at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 19, at Bridge Park in Sylva.

The Town of Sylva, Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department and Jackson County Chamber of Commerce team up to produce the Concerts on the Creek series at the Bridge Park gazebo in Sylva from 7 to 9 p.m. every Friday from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Concerts on the Creek events are free and open to the public with donations encouraged. Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy the show. Occasionally, these events will feature food truck vendors as well.

Carolina Blue.

‘An Appalachian Evening’ in Stecoah The “An Appalachian Evening” summer concert series will continue with Carolina Blue at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 20, at the Stecoah Valley Center in Robbinsville.

Other acts in the series will include: Fireside Collective (July 27), Jeff Little Trio (Aug. 3), Becky Buller (Aug. 10), Salt &

Light (Aug. 17), The Kruger Brothers (Aug. 24) and Wayne Henderson & Helen White (Aug. 31).

As well, the Fall Harvest Festival will feature bluegrass legends The Gibson Brothers at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Stecoah Valley Center.

For more information and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. in the air-conditioned Lynn L. Shields Auditorium.

The other performances are as follows: • July 26: Dashboard Blue (rock/classic hits) • Aug. 2: Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats (rock/blues) • Aug. 9: Tuxedo Junction (classic hits) • Aug. 16: Mama Danger (folk/newgrass) • Aug. 23: Troy Underwood (Americana/folk) • Aug. 30: Maggie Valley Band (Americana) For more information, call the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce at 828.586.2155 or visit www.mountainlovers.com. Follow the Concerts on the Creek Facebook page for series updates.

Bryson City community jam A community jam will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 18, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer, anything unplugged, are invited to join. Singers are also welcomed to join in or you can just stop by and listen. The jam is facilitated by Larry Barnett of the Sawmill Creek Porch Band.

The community jams offer a chance for musicians of all ages and levels of ability to share music they have learned over the years or learn old-time mountain songs. The music jams are offered to the public each first and third Thursday of the month — year-round.

This program received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment of the Arts.

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A new policy is in place this year with setting up for Groovin’ On the Green concerts.

Tents must be set up next to the path at the very back of the event lawn. Chairs may be set up in the lawn anytime the day of the concert, however no chairs may be set up within the wings of the Commons until after 4:30 p.m.

For a full concert schedule visit the concerts page on The Village Green website, www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

The Village Green is a 13-acre privately conserved public park in the center of Cashiers. For more information about this and other events in the park call 828.743.3434, email director@cashiersgreen.com or visit The Village Green website.

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On the beat arts & entertainment

Robert Dick.

A virtuosic flute journey sive and as free as Hendrix’s guitar sound world. He felt that for the flute, the human playing could do what electronics did for the guitar sound.

For the past quarter century, Dick has been contributing to the evolution of the flute itself. He is the inventor of the Glissando Headjoint, which does for the flute what the “whammy bar” does for the electric guitar.

Dick’s concert opens his five-day masterclass at Lake Junaluska for flutists wishing to learn contemporary flute techniques. There will be morning workshops open which will explore multiphonics, circular breathing, glissandi, microtones, whistertones, harmonics, throat tuning, and improvisation.

Evening classes will be devoted to contemporary (since 1960) flute literature.

The performance is free and open to the public. For more information on the workshops, contact Anna Thibeault at flutegoof@yahoo.com or 828.944.0786.

The Haywood Community Band will perform its sparkling “Salute to America” concert at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, July 21, in the open-air Maggie Valley Community Pavilion adjacent to the Maggie Town Hall.

Performed to enthusiastic audiences, the free concerts are held monthly on the third Sunday evening through the summer and fall with a program of new selections.

The Maggie Valley concert will be filled with songs that celebrate the United States and includes a salute to all men and women who served in the Armed Forces.

Bring a picnic and enjoy the mountain sunset as you listen. There is covered seating, but concert goers also bring lawn chairs to enjoy the fresh mountain air.

All musicians played their instruments during school years and welcome new performers to join. If you’re interested in playing with the Haywood Community Band, contact Band President Rhonda Kram at 828.456.4880. Rehearsals are held each Thursday evening from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

For more information, visit www.haywoodcommunityband.org.

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Haywood Community Band ‘Salutes America’

July 17-23, 2019

Acclaimed flutist Robert Dick will present a concert at 7 p.m. Monday, July 22, at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesville.

Dick will play his own compositions as well as music of Telemann, Paganini, and Karg-Elert and will be performing on all sizes of flutes as well as his Glissando Headjoint.

World renowned as a leader in contemporary music for the flute, Dick has utterly dispensed with preconceptions about what a flutist should sound like and what a flutist should play. He has reshaped the musical possibilities of the flute, creating many thousands of new sounds.

In his 20s, Dick’s world of music experienced its own Big Bang. He became a passionate, omnivorous listener to world music and rock, jazz and electronic music. One musician’s influence outweighed all others, and that was Jimi Hendrix. Dick wanted to create a sound world for the flute as exten-

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On the beat • Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host the “Lounge Series” at its Calaboose location with George Ausman July 18, Dana Rogers July 19, Scott Streible July 20, Chris West July 25 and Trevor Pattillo July 26. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

• Balsam Falls Brewing (Sylva) will host Jesse Black (singer-songwriter) 9 p.m. July 19. Free and open to the public. www.balsamfallsbrewing.com.

• Blue Ridge Beer Hub (Waynesville) will host an acoustic jam with Main St. NoTones from 6 to 9 p.m. July 18 and 25. Free and open to the public. www.blueridgebeerhub.com.

• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host a bluegrass open mic every Wednesday, an all-genres open mic every Thursday, John Trufant Band July 20 and ‘Round the Fire (rock/folk) July 27. All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.boojumbrewing.com.

• Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will host Joe Cruz (piano/pop) July 19 and Russ Wilson Duo (jazz/swing) July 26. Shows begin at 7 p.m. www.classicwineseller.com or call 828.452.6000.

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• First United Methodist Church (Franklin) will host the Mountain Voices Community

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Shane Meade July 26. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

Choir & The Pinnacle Brass at 3 p.m. July 21.

Free and open to the public. Donations accepted. 828.524.3010 or www.firstumcfranklin.org.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Isaiah Breedlove (Americana/folk) July 19, In Flight July 20, The Penny Pinchers July 26 and The Lighthouse Duo July 27. All shows begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Nantahala Brewing (Bryson City) will host Hearts Gone South July 27. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

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• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night July 17 and 24, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo July 18 and 25. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Isis Music Hall (West Asheville) will host Kelly Neff & Jory Lyle 7 p.m. July 17, Nickel & Rose w/SistaStrings 8:30 p.m. July 17, Lawn Series w/Fwuit (retro/soul) 6 p.m. July 18, Suzie Brown & Scot Sax (Americana/folk) 7 p.m. July 18, Stringband Supper Club (bluegrass/indie) 7 p.m. July 19, Kathryn Belle & Mickey Abraham w/Bob Sinclair & The Big Deals (Americana/bluegrass) 9 p.m. July 19, Eli Cook (blues) 7 p.m. July 20, Sylvia (Americana/country) 8:30 p.m. July 20, Greg Greenway (folk/rock) 6 p.m. July 21, Jamie Laval & Megan McConnell (classical/Celtic)

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Marshall Ballew.

‘The Roots of American Folk Music’ A performance titled “The Roots of American Folk Music” with acclaimed musician Marshall Ballew will take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 25, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

Ballew’s concert will be a musical and historical journey through the many years and forms of American Folk Music, with its roots in both the Scotch-Irish ballads and tunes of the British Isles which gave rise to old-time, folk and bluegrass; and the Mother Church of African-American Gospel which birthed jazz, swing, ragtime, and the blues.

Ballew will trace the roots and hybrids of all these forms like rockabilly, hokum, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues on a variety of stringed instruments.

The program is free and open to the public. For more information on Ballew, visit www.reverbnation.com/marshallballew.

7:30 p.m. July 21, Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions w/Mason Via & Hot Trail Mix 7:30 p.m. July 23, Lawn Series w/The Daydream Creatures (Americana) 6 p.m. July 24 and An Evening w/Aoife Clancy & Kyle Carey (Celtic/world) 7 p.m. July 24. www.isisasheville.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday, George Reeves July 26 and Chicken & Pigs July 27. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• Legends Sports Grill (Maggie Valley) will host music semi-regularly on weekends.

828.926.9464 or www.facebook.com/legendssportsgrillmaggievalley.

• Marianna Black Library (Bryson City) will host Granny’s Mason Jar (bluegrass/Americana) 7 p.m. July 25. Free and open to the public. 828.488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host the “Stone Soup” open mic night every Tuesday, Shayler’s Kitchen July 19-20 and

• Nantahala Brewing (Sylva) will host Arnold Hill (Americana) Aug. 2. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• Nantahala Outdoor Center (Nantahala Gorge) will host Soultalk July 20 and The Log Noggins July 27. All shows start at 6:30 p.m.

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

• Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) will host Tugalo Holler (bluegrass) July 20 and Tom Floyd Badn (Motown/variety) July 27. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.townoffranklinnc.com.

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

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

• Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub (Franklin) will host Gary Carter July 20, Shawn Taylor July 26 and Dirty Dave July. Shows begin at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public. www.rathskellerfranklin.com.

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

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

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

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Cashiers) will host Bluegrass Thursdays w/Benny Queen at 6:30 p.m.

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Highlands) will host Bluegrass w/Nitrograss Wednesdays at 7 p.m.

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

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• Whiteside Brewing (Cashiers) will host Jonathan Breedlove Trio 6 p.m. July 20. Free and open to the public. 828.743.6000 or www.whitesidebrewing.com.

On the street

walks and in front of businesses giving everyone easy access to them.

Many other events are planned including a fire truck display and face painting for the kids. Plus, with it being a celebration of Appalachia, you’ll be hearing a lot of music from guitar to dulcimer, banjo to flute.

There will also be a checker tournament at the Macon County Historical Museum. www.franklin-chamber.com.

Fines Creek dance, fish fry

exhibits, demonstrations, and more.

Daily admission is $2 and free for ages 12 and under. For more information, call 828.524.3161.

Sponsored by the Franklin Chamber of Commerce and the Macon County Gem & Mineral Society. www.franklin-chamber.com.

Ready for the Gemboree?

The 53nd annual Macon County Gemboree will be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

July 26-28 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 29 at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building in Franklin.

Rough and cut gems, minerals, fine jewelry, supplies, beads, door prizes, dealers,

• The “Friday Night Street Dance” will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. July 26 in front of the historic courthouse in downtown Waynesville. Live mountain music and clogging. Participation encouraged. www.downtownwaynesvilleassociation.com.

• The third annual Waynesville Charity Horse Show will be held at 6 p.m. July 18-20 at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. Sponsored

by Taylor Ford, the event will include over $25,000 in prize money. Proceeds will go to the Haywood County Meals on Wheels program.

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• The 43rd annual Antiques Benefit Show will be held July 19-21 at the Blue Ridge School in Cashiers. The event will feature 60 outstanding exhibitors and Garden Dining with delicious lunches and refreshments. There will be a Grand Prize drawing and glass and crystal repair by “Chips Away.” Admission is a $10 donation to benefit the Blue Ridge School. For more information, call 828.226.5325 or visit www.cashiersbenefitantiqueshow.com.

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The Fines Creek Community Center will be hosting two upcoming events this month at 190 Fines Creek Road in Clyde.

• Saturday, July 20: Community dance night with entertainment provided by Running Wolf and The Renegades. Food is at 6 p.m. with music starting at 7 p.m. There will be cake walks and a 50/50 raffle.

Music/dance is $5 per person.

• Saturday July 27: Fish fry from 5 to 8 p.m. There will be a choice between trout or catfish and a combination meal including hushpuppies, cole slaw, baked beans, dessert and drink. The dinner and entertainment will be $10 per person and kids 6 and under free with a paying adult. Music only will be $5 per person.

All proceeds/donations from these events will go to community needs. For more information contact FCCA President, Dale at 828.593.7042.

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The Appalachian Heritage Festival will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 20, in downtown Franklin.

A day of free fun for all ages to the mountains. Nearly 50 live demonstrations will be showcased and will feature the essence of life in Appalachia.

You’ll see quilters, wood carvers, canoe builders and even a live, working gem mining flume. They will all be setup on the side-

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On the wall

WCU ‘Cultivating Collections’ exhibit The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at the Bardo Arts Center will be highlighting its permanent collection this summer with a new exhibition “Cultivating Collections.”

The exhibition focuses on three strengths of the museum’s collection that the curatorial team expects to grow over the next five to 10 years: photography, artist books, and contemporary Native American art.

As the museum expands its holdings of more than 1,800 works of art, these concentration areas will provide a foundation for future directions in collecting.

One of the most notable galleries in the exhibition is “Cultivating Collections: Photography,” which was curated by undergraduate and graduate students taking the Exhibition Practicum course at WCU. Featuring regionally and nationallyknown photographers — many who visited, taught, studied or exhibited at WCU during their careers — this gallery brings a student perspective to the museum’s ever-expanding photography collection.

As part of the course, students selected works to display, interviewed artists, and evaluated strengths and opportunities for the collection. The works they chose for display represent a variety of photographic processes with subject matter ranging from still lifes and landscapes to emotionally charged images addressing war and personal trauma.

Featured artists include Ed Ruscha, Fran Forman, Pinky Bass, Susan Harbage Page, Drew Cameron, John Dickson, David Packer, Susan Alta Martin, Ken Abbott, Herman Goustin, Alice Sebrell, Cathryn Griffin, Ian Ward, and others.

“Cultivating Collections: Artist Books” highlights objects united by the artists’ desire to express an idea through a book-like format. The WCU Fine Art Museum holds over 100 artist books by American artists. These include altered

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from $20-$350, and a portion of the proceeds will support future SADC events through the Main Street Sylva Association.

For updates, follow us on Facebook at “Sylva Art + Design” and Instagram: @sylvaartdesigncommittee.

The monthly Creating Community Workshop will be held at 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 27, in the Atrium of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Led by Wynette Wiles, participants will learn basic macramé knots and their variations: lark’s head, clove hitch, square knot, and half knot. Ornamental beads will be used to add more depth. Participants will design their own pattern and create a wall-hanging.

All supplies are included. Free and open to the public. This class is limited to 10 participants. For more information or to sign up for the class call 828.586.2016 or stop by the reference desk.

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

Sylva Pop-Up Art Gallery

The Sylva Art + Design Committee will present its Pop-Up Art Gallery from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 26, at Black Balsam Outdoors in downtown Sylva.

This public art installation will showcase the original work of over 20 local artists and includes pottery, watercolors, masks, jewelry, woodworking, crafts, acrylics, mixed media, photography, ceramics, and more.

Wine and light hors d’oeuvres will be 36 served. All the work is for sale, prices range

Bosu’s paint and sip Join celebrated visual artist Genevieve Bagley for a relaxing afternoon of creative expression and wine sipping from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 20, at Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville.

Come for the painting and wine, stay for the gourmet snack and laughter. All are welcome. After studying art and design at the Savannah College of Art & Design, Bagley went on to distinguish her creative point of view in a number of mediums.

Under her enthusiastic tutelage, guests will create a unique piece of art to take home. The session focus will be “Kissing Fish” in acrylic, 8x10. Perfect for any space that needs a pop of color.

Ticket includes materials and gourmet snack. Wine and beer menu available.

Registration required. Cost is $45 per person plus tax and gratuity.

To RSVP, call 828.452.0120.

Waynesville Art School summer camps Registration is currently underway for summer art camps at Waynesville Art School.

books, visual narratives, conceptual books, sculptural volumes, and works that combine poetic text and imagery.

The WCU Fine Art Museum also has a strong commitment to exhibiting contempo-

• Art Sparklers camps for 7 to 9 year olds will be offered from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. daily on July 22-25. Cost is $110 for a four-day session or $35 single day camp enrollment.

• Shining Minds camps for 10 to 13 year olds will be offered from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. daily on July 29-Aug. 1. Cost is $110 for a four-day session or $35 single day camp enrollment.

• Kinder Artists camps for 5 to 6 year olds will be offered from 10 to 11 a.m. daily on Aug. 5-8. Cost is $45 for a four-day session or $15 single day camp enrollment.

For information and/or to register, call 828.246.9869 or visit www.waynesvilleartschool.com.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host a “Paint & Sip” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 22. Cost is $30 per person, which includes all supplies. To RSVP, text 828.400.9560. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

rary Native American art as a regular part of the museum’s changing exhibitions program.

Over the past 15 years, many of these exhibitions inspired purchases and donations of artwork to help the museum deepen its focus in this area. The art on view in “Cultivating Collections: Contemporary Native American Art” features a selection of the works acquired during this period.

The reception for Cultivating Collections will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. July 25 at the WCU Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee. Regular museum hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursday until 7 p.m.

For information, call 828.227.ARTS or visit bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

“Cultivating Collections” is part of an exhibition series that takes an in-depth look at growth areas of the Museum’s permanent collection as a way for the curatorial team to plan for future acquisitions.

The exhibition series will continue next summer and will culminate in the publication of a catalogue that describes the focus areas of the Museum’s collection. The catalogue is expected to be published in 2020, the 15-year anniversary of the Bardo Arts Center.

Submissions will be accepted through Aug. 1. The contest is open to everyone. Visit the council’s website www.haywoodarts.org/logocontest for the application form and additional information. Winner will be selected by the Haywood Arts Council Studio Tour committee. For more information, call 828.452.0593, email info@haywoodarts.org or visit www.haywoodarts.org.

• The Weekly Open Studio art classes will resume from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville, Instructor will be Betina Morgan. Open to all artists, at any stage of development, and in the medium of your choice. Cost is $20 per class. There will also be a Youth Art Class from 4 to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. Cost is $10 per class. Contact Morgan at 828.550.6190 or email bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

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

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

• The Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville is looking for a new identity for the annual Haywood County Studio Tour.

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

• Fiber Sunday will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at Cowee Textiles in Room 104 at The Cowee School Heritage Center located at 51 Cowee School Drive in Franklin.

Bring a textile project you are working on from spinning, knitting, weaving, rug hooking, baskets, and more. For more information, call or email Teresa Bouchonnet at 828.349.3878 or bouchonnet@coweetextiles.com.

On the table

All aboard the BBQ, craft beer train

Chef Bryan’s gourmet cuisine in The Secret Wine Bar. • Wednesday-Saturday: The Secret Wine Bar will be open for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Fridays: The Secret Wine Bar will be open for drinks and small plates from 5 to 9 p.m.

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

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

For ticketed events, there will be a Rose Seated Wine Tasting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 23.

Dog friendly patio and front garden open, weather permitting. For more information and/or to RSVP for ticketed events, call 828.452.0120 or email info@waynesvillewine.com.

There will be a barbecue and craft beer tasting with Innovation Brewing from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 19, on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, departing from Bryson City.

Board the GSMR and enjoy a steam train ride along with craft beer tastings, and your own basket of Southern-style barbecue goodness with hand-pulled pork slider, a couple pork ribs, and chicken drumstick accompanied by baked beans, house-made coleslaw, and apple cobbler.

Tickets start at $79 and include a souvenir tasting glass for three samples of finely crafted beer selections. Adults-only and family friendly seating.

For more information and/or to purchase tickets, call 800.872.4681 or visit www.gsmr.com.

Bosu’s tastings, small plates Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville will continue to host an array of wine tastings and small plates.

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

• Thursdays: Five for $5 wine tasting, with small plates available for purchase from

• A free wine tasting will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. July 20 and 27 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. www.papouswineshop.com or 828.631.3075.

• Free cooking demonstrations will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturdays at Country Traditions in Dillsboro.

Watch the demonstrations, eat samples and taste house wines for $3 a glass. All recipes posted online. www.countrytraditionsnc.com.

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together. Each participant will receive a copy of the cookbook. At 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 30, each participant will bring their dish and everyone will share food, fellowship, stories, and community.

For more information, call the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva at 828.586.2016. This cookbook is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library.

The Jackson County Public Library is a member of Fontana Regional Library (www.fontanalib.org).

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July 17-23, 2019

The Jackson County Public Library recipe swap will be a quarterly event consisting of a recipe gathering, the making of a cookbook, and finally a potluck dinner using the recipes gathered.

If anyone has a recipe they would like to participate with, please email the recipe to Danielle Duffy at dduffy@fontanalib.org, or bring your recipe to the Reference Desk on the second floor of the library. The deadline is July 23.

Once the library has all of the recipes, the summer version of the cookbook will be put

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On the stage

HART to present ‘Oliver!’

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July 17-23, 2019

The Broadway classic “Oliver!” by Lionel Bart will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m.

July 18-20, 25-27 and at 2 p.m. July 21 and 28 at Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

Based on the novel by Charles Dickens, the show has a storied past. It opened in London’s West End in 1960 and ran for over 2,000 performances. The original Artful Dodger was played by future Monkees star Davey Jones, who was followed in the role by recording star Phil Collins.

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Jones reprised his role when the show opened on Broadway in 1963 and received a Tony nomination for his performance. The movie opened in 1968 and went on to win the Oscar as “Best Picture of the Year.”

“Oliver!” is the rare instance of a show being completely created by one person. Bart wrote the book, lyrics and music for the show, officially titled “Lionel Bart’s Oliver!,” but Bart’s life didn’t go so well. He had a big hit song in 1963 with “From Russia With Love” created for the James Bond film. He wrote a string of pop hits in the 60s that have faded from memory, and two modestly successful West End musicals, “Blitz” and “Maggie Mae.” To make reservations you can go online to www.harttheatre.org or call the HART Box Office at 828.456.6322.

• “Comedy at The Gem” will be held from 9 to 11 p.m. Thursday, July 18, in The Gem downstairs taproom at Boojum Brewing in Waynesville. The showcase will feature Becca Steinhoff, Jason Webb, Ryan Cox and James Harrod. For ages 21 and over.

Admission is $5 at the door.

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Swimmer, Carden team up for play

Gary Carden.

Eddie Swimmer will perform Gary Carden’s play “Jesse Racer” at 7 p.m.

Saturday, July 20, and also at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 21, in the Community Room of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

The one-man play will take about 30 minutes and then Swimmer will show off his world-championship hoop dancing skills.

The performance is free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted.

After a long career that included 15 years as a literature and drama teacher, Carden is now a full-time storyteller. He is the author of Mason Jars in the Flood, a collection of stories which won the Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year prize. Carden’s earlier collection of stories, Belled Buzzards, Hucksters and Grieving Spirits, was coauthored with Nina Anderson.

He was the narrator of and “chief inspiration,” according to Neal Hutcheson, for the 2005 PBS documentary Mountain Talk, and collaborated with Tom Davenport on From the Brothers Grimm: A Contemporary Retelling of American Folktales and Classic Stories. He has taught at the Highlands and Lake Junaluska Elderhostels for more than 20 years.

Carden is also an award-winning playwright whose works have been produced throughout the South and across the country. His plays, including The Raindrop Waltz, Land’s End, and Birdell are based upon his stories. His play The Prince of Dark Corners is based on the life of the outlaw Major Lewis Redmond and is now a film featured on PBS. Carden’s most recent play, Outlander, is about the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and premiered at the Parkway Playhouse in 2012. Among the many other awards he has received is the 2006 Brown-Hudson Award from the North

Carolina Folklore Society and the 2012 North Carolina Award for Literature. Carden has an honorary doctorate from Western Carolina University for his work in storytelling and folklore.

Swimmer is an accomplished dancer, storyteller, and public speaker. By watching traditional dancers, he learned Cherokee dance steps. After attending Western Carolina University and Brigham Young University, he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he studied with Tony Whitecloud, founder of the modern Native American hoop dance.

For several years, Swimmer held the title of the world champion hoop dancer, and for more than 10 years, he toured the world with Native American dance groups, performing throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Swimmer performed in the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, at the 1994 World Cup Soccer Tournament in Dallas, and in the 1993 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Also in New York he choreographed a hoop dance number in the Broadway production of “Annie Get Your Gun.” He is the founder of the native dance group Native Movements. Eddie Swimmer has also toured extensively with numerous musical groups: Robbie Robertson’s “Music of the Native Americas,” Tony Hymes of the Jeff Beck Band, The Edge of U2, Joanne Shanadoah, Ulali, Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman and Buffy Sainte Marie.

After 18 years based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Swimmer has relocated to his home in Cherokee. His portrait appears on the U.S. postage stamp for the Native Dance Series. He has been working with the Cherokee Historical Association to create new, more authentically Cherokee dances for the new production of “Unto These Hills.“

Books

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A few good books about old times n 1960, when I was in elementary school, the pop group Dante & the Evergreens rocked my young ears with two hit songs on the radio: “Alley Oop” and a little later, “Time Machine.”

(Both songs are available on YouTube.

Have some fun and give them a listen.) In “Time Machine,” a young man sees a picture of Cleopatra in a Writer book, falls in love with her, and vows to build a time traveling “thingamajig.” Here is the song’s refrain:”

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and the world; family life; the conflict between desire and duty; birth and death.

Undset, whose life was as moving and as trag-

I’m gonna build a time machine, So I can go back and make the scene, I’m gonna make some time With my Egyptian Queen In my little old time machine.

That song leaped to mind today when I decided to look at some historical fiction, old books about old times, hefty tomes, what I sometimes call doorstopper books because of their weight. Summertime with its relaxed pace can be a great season to climb into one of these ink-and-paper time machines, turn our backs for a couple of hours a day on the headlines and our present-day squabbles, and slip into the past.

Today let’s look at just a few writers, some forgotten today, who can whisk us off to different places and cultures.

Sigrid Undset’s fictional trilogy, Kristin Lavransdatter, first found its way into my hands when I was 40. Set in late medieval Norway, this story follows Kristin from her girlhood to her death by the plague. For a month, and then for another month when I read her four-volume The Master of Hestviken, Undset held me in her thrall as she brought that land and its people to life.

Everything is here: the battle between faith

ic as her books, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for this one in 1928.

Closer to home, Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind recreates the antebellum plantation society of Georgia, the devastation of the Civil War and the burning of Atlanta, and the South’s attempts to rise from the conflagration it had helped create. Like Kristin Larvansdatter, Scarlett O’Hara is the central

Mills presents latest chapbook Wanda Mills will host a multimedia short story program at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 25, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Mills is from Jackson County and lives in the Ochre Hill Community in the home where she and her sister, Nelda, grew up.

She has an Associate Degree in Early Children Specialist from Southwestern Community College and has also taken classes in creative writing.

Mills began writing in her early 20s and has recently started writing poetry and short stories again. A lot of her writings reflect her experiences living with cerebral palsy. For more information about Mills, visit her at www.rollingintothefuture.com.

This program is free and open to the public. The event is cosponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library.

character in these thousand pages. In part because of the film, Scarlett, Rhett Butler, and Ashley and Melanie even today remain household names to millions.

In My Reading Life, Pat Conroy writes that Gone With The Wind is a war novel, an historical romance, a comedy of manners, a bitter lamentation, a cry of the heart, and a long, coldhearted look at the character of this lovely, Machiavellian Southern woman.” He describes at length his mother’s devotion to both the book and the film, and the influence on his own writing. (My Pennsylvania mother nearly flunked her high school chemistry class because she hid Gone With The Wind in her textbook and read while the teacher lectured.)

Next up are the novels of Kenneth Roberts, tales set in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. Arundel, Rabble In Arms, Northwest Passage, Oliver Wiswell: in my late twenties, in the space of a few months, I sailed through these fat novels and walked away with a renewed appreciation of the men and women who created our country. Having said that, my favorite of these was Oliver Wiswell, in which Roberts tells the story of the American Revolution through the eyes of a Loyalist who remained fiercely devoted to his King and to England.

If you want some hilarity along with your

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

Haywood library book sale The annual Haywood County Friends of the Library Book Sale will be held July 25-27 at the Waynesville branch located at 678 South Haywood Street in Waynesville.

Hours are from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. July 25, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 26 and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 27.

There will be a plentiful supply of classic novels, graphic novels, military, civil war, American history, business, travel, cookbooks, crafts, gardening, large print, and more.

There’s also a nice collection of vintage and modern day children’s books, home schooling, and a significant collection of magic

history, go George MacDonald Fraser’s “Flashman” novels. Here we follow the antics of Harry Flashman, soldier, sometimes spy, and always a coward, a sexual philanderer, and all-round blackguard. Along with Flashman, we ride in the charge of the Light Brigade, suffer the military disasters in Afghanistan, and do battle in China and India. Flashman even manages to become involved in American conflicts, finding himself trapped in the armory with John Brown at Harper’s Ferry and escaping near death at the Custer massacre. Begin with the first novel, simply titled Flashman, and then proceed as you will for laughs and learning.

Some novels contemporary in their setting and time with their authors become historical with the passage of time. Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls, Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, the World War II novels of Herman Wouk: the people who wrote such books did not regard them as historical novels, but age has made them so.

In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, for example, Betty Smith relates the story of an Irish immigrant family in New York City in the early 1900s. Smith, who lived this story during her childhood, takes us into the crowded tenant houses of the poor, the bars where men drank away their problems, the schoolrooms where children like Francie, the central character, hoped and dreamed of bettering themselves through education. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a fine portrait of the struggles of immigrants and of Brooklyn.

Good historical fiction not only entertains, but it also educates. It connects us to our ancestors, makes some of our own difficulties seem petty when compared to theirs, and broadens our vision of what it means to be a human being.

And if you’re looking for such novels written by today’s writers? Just Google “great historical fiction,” and you’ll find dozens of choices.

(Jeff Minick is a writer and teacher. minick0301@gmail.com.)

training and paraphernalia. Vinyl records, DVDs, CDs, puzzles, and games are available, too.

All books are individually priced and start at 50 cents. Cash, checks and credit cards are accepted. Gift certificates are also available for the sale. Bring sturdy bags and boxes. Boxes are not available at the sale: bring your own. No large strollers and no pets with exception of marked service dogs.

If you are interested in volunteering to work a shift at the sale, call Denman at 828.627.2370. Volunteers are needed for checking out, helping customers, loading purchases, cleaning up, and more.

Proceeds from the sale go to support the county libraries. The Friends of the Library book sale provides money for the varied programs for all ages: summer reading programs for children and adults, lecture and discussion series for adults, new equipment, new books and other media, movies, concerts, plays, poetry readings, craft workshops, and more.

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Evy Leibfarth trains on the water in Tacen, Slovenia, where she competed in the ICF World Cup No. 3 last month.

DREAMS ON THE WATER

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER n Friday, June 21, a 15-year-old girl from Bryson City took her place in the water for the first heat of her first run as an adult competitor on the international circuit.

The roiling World Cup course in Bratislava, Slovakia, was thousands of miles away from her home in Western North Carolina, and her competitors were veteran paddlers, some with Olympic appearances and even Olympic medals to their name.

The first competition Evy Leibfarth would have to win would be the fight against her own mind. She was nervous at that first World Cup competition, and it showed in those initial runs she made to qualify for the event semifinals.

“I was the last person to qualify, and I knew I wasn’t paddling as well as I could,” Leibfarth, who is still traveling through Europe on the competition circuit, said in an email interview. “I was able to just clear my mind and focus on my paddling for my semifinals run though, and I moved from 30th place to tenth. Having a run I felt good about made me much more confident going into the next races.”

By the end of the weekend, Leibfarth had made a total of 11 runs down the challenging course for three different events — women’s single kayak, women’s single canoe and extreme slalom. And, amazingly, she’d earned a place on the podium. Leibfarth came out as the silver medalist in extreme slalom, also ranking seventh in women’s canoe and 10th in women’s kayak.

One week later, she’d do it all again. At the International Canoe Federation World Cup No. 3, held in Tacen, Slovenia, June 28-30, Leibfarth medaled once more, this time tak-

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Bryson City paddler, age 15, wows international audience with World Cup performances

ing third in women’s single canoe as well as ninth in women’s single kayak. She’s currently at the July 16-22 Junior World Championships in Krakow, Poland, racing in the kayak, canoe, kayak team run and extreme slalom events.

“It’s completely mind blowing, I think for the entire world right now, what she’s done at her first two world cups,” said William Irving, president of Nantahala Outdoor Center.

As the Olympic National Teams Director for canoe and kayak from 2010 to 2012 and an employee of the U.S. Olympic Team’s highperformance division before that, Irving has seen a lot of paddlers come and go. He’s impressed with Leibfarth.

Her performances at the World Cup events are more than just unusually good showings.

They constitute a never-been-done-before, record-setting spectacle. She is the first U.S.

woman to medal at any world paddling event since Rebecca Giddens won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics. And she’s the first female paddler of any nationality to medal in a World Cup event at age 15, ever.

For many young athletes, said Irving, it’s hard to transition from a star-struck disbelief at the wonder of competing with the worldclass paddlers they’ve grown up idolizing to the realization that they’re now competing against those same paddlers for a place on the podium.

As Irving sees it, Leibfarth has the mental game down.

“For Evy (Leibfarth) to have that level of mental strength I think is the thing that makes her really invincible, is that when she is competing she is such a strong competitor mentally,” he said. “If she makes a mistake,

Leibfarth shows off the bronze medal she won in the extreme slalom event at the ICF World Cup No. 2 in Bratislava, Slovakia, her first ever World Cup appearance. Jean Folger photos

she can recover from that so quickly because she’s not thinking, ‘I’m out of the game.’”

“During races, I try not to pay much attention to the other paddlers or let how they are doing influence my race plan,” said Leibfarth.

“I like to listen to music with headphones and sing out loud to try and let go of nerves. In general, if I’m feeling stressed, I’ll paint or draw something. I always have a sketchbook and pencils or watercolors with me.”

While 2019 is the first year she’s been eligible to join the U.S. national team, Leibfarth has had plenty of time to learn what works best for her in a competitive setting. Her father is a former U.S. national team coach and is coaching at the World Cups and World Championships this year; her mother is a former raft guide and kayak instructor. Leibfarth began kayaking at age 4 and entered her first slalom competition at age 7.

“My parents and I were on our way to paddle the Nantahala River when I saw a small slalom race going on,” she said. “I convinced my parents to let me enter because I wanted to see what it was it was like. I got my first slalom boat less than a year later, and I’ve been hooked ever since.”

At that point, 7-year-old Leibfarth had already experienced her share of competition.

Paddling is far from being the only sport in which she’s competed over the years, and the first was gymnastics, not paddling. She was 6 years old when she participated in her first competition.

“Ironically, many of my gymnastics meets were as large as the biggest canoe slalom races in Europe,” she said. “Because I started competing so young (in gymnastics), it’s been easier to deal with the stress of racing.”

In 2016, Leibfarth competed in the Olympic Team Trials and placed sixth. The environment was “incredible,” she said, with hundreds and maybe even thousands of people lining the banks, cheering on the athletes.

That experience ignited a desire to start training seriously, with the ultimate goal of making the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team.

“I have made the U.S. Junior and Senior teams the last three years but haven’t been able (due to age) to compete in international events like the World Cups or World Championships, which has been hard,” she said. “Finally making the national team this year and knowing that now I can represent USA felt incredible and terrifying at the same time. I went into the season with the goal of making finals, and so far I have made four.

I’m going to keep training hard, and I hope to put down some good runs at the next few World Cups and World Championships.”

Leibfarth keeps a rigorous training schedule, spending one-hour training sessions on whitewater once or twice a day, along with aerobic training like running or mountain biking two days a week and strength workouts like rings, bands and body weight exercises twice a week. She also spends plenty of time on video reviews of her time on the water to learn from and correct any mistakes.

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able with. In addition to all her training and traveling and competing, the 15 year old is also a high school student. She hopes for a career in the medical field, so there’s no room to slack off in school while chasing her Olympic dreams. Because her lifestyle doesn’t lend itself to regular attendance at a typical brick-and-mortar school, she attends the online K12 International Academy, currently going into her junior year.

winter in areas of no insect availability, eventually starving to death. If Piedmont bats can feed during winter and replenish fat stores, or if hibernacula are too warm or dry, bats could avoid a WNS infection even if the fungus is present at the site.

Despite the WNS detection, bat counts in the Piedmont remain stable, although they are low — ranging from one bat found at one site to 30 bats found at another site.

Though these counts are just a fraction of

“Finally making the national team this year and knowing that now I can represent USA felt incredible and terrifying at the same time. I went into the season with the goal of making finals, and so far I have made four. make sure she hits the gym and is able to muscle her way through some of the areas that now she’s able to finesse her way through,” said Irving.

All that to say, overcoming challenges seems to be something Leibfarth is comfort-

“I have the flexibility to get ahead and fall behind in school, as long as I finish by a set end date,” she said. “Planning my training and school out ahead of time is critical for staying on top of everything.”

Despite her early success, Leibfarth has

many miles yet to travel on the road toward the 2020 Olympic Games.

The ICF Whitewater Slalom World Championships, to be held in La Seu de’Urgell, Spain, this September, will be the first of two competitions that will determine how many paddlers from each country will compete in Tokyo. First, an American paddler in either women’s canoe or kayak must have a top performance in order to qualify the USA a boat to compete at the 2020 Olympics. If Leibfarth is the athlete to qualify the USA for an Olympic boat slot, based on her placing, up to top 20, she’ll get points and a leg up in achieving her goal of making the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team. The U.S. Slalom Olympic team will be determined at the U.S. Olympic Trial races in the spring of 2020.

She’s gunning for a spot. But, regardless of the outcome this year, time is on her side.

“No matter how I do at Worlds, I want to come out feeling happy with my performance,” said Leibfarth. “I’ll be going for the 2020 Olympic spot, but I know I have a lot more years to make that dream happen.”

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Those workouts will only become more important as she matures, said Irving. At 15, Leibfarth is small, measuring 5 feet, 5 inches and weighing 110 pounds. That slight build can be an advantage in the water, allowing her to turn and maneuver faster than heavier paddlers. Most 15-yearolds haven’t completely reached their adult height, so Leibfarth could well grow taller in the coming years.

“She’s going to have to find a way to

An infected bat displays the tell-tale white fungus associated with white nose syndrome. NPS photo

what mountain hibernacula formerly held, the 30-bat site is currently the highest count of hibernating tri-colored bats in any known hibernaculum in the state. Most sites biologists have surveyed in the mountains have had over 90 percent declines in bat populations since WNS was first discovered. Some declines have been as high as 99 percent.

While WNS has a deadly effect on bats, it does not affect people — at least not directly.

Indirectly, however, it can have a huge impact on humans by reducing the number of bats in North American ecosystems. The U.S. Geological Service estimates that loss of bats in North America could lead to agricultural losses exceeding $3.7 billion annually.

Biologists will continue their long-term monitoring efforts of bats in North Carolina, concentrating their efforts on caves and mines in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain. But first they need to find hibernacula to survey — a task that is easier said than done, according to Etchison. Landowners who would be willing to have wildlife biologists survey a cave or mine on their property should contact Etchison at katherine.caldwell@ncwildlife.org.

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ters are shorter and warmer than in the mountains where WNS has been devastating, and Piedmont bats are able to arouse and feed on warm winter nights when insects are active.”

Mortality from the disease usually occurs when bats repeatedly expend energy to clean the fungus off themselves during

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There’s more bad news for bats following winter surveys that detected the deadlyto-bats white nose syndrome in four new counties — Madison, Montgomery, Rowan and Gaston.

WNS has killed millions of bats in the eastern U.S. since it was first detected in New York 13 years ago, and thousands of bats in North Carolina since it was found there in 2011.

Discouragingly, the fungus appears to be taking an eastward trajectory and spreading to more Piedmont counties. Until 2015, WNS had been found only in bats hibernating in mountain counties, presumably because the fungus that causes the disease can survive only in the cooler temperatures found in mines and caves, most of which occur in the mountains. With the four new counties where WNS’ presence was confirmed last winter, the number of counties where the fungus is found has reached 16.

Bats at the Madison County site were the only ones that showed visible signs of the fungal growth consistent with WNS, which is the telltale sign of WNS infection.

At the other three sites, bats tested positive, although they did not show the characteristic white fungus that gives the disease its name. While the survey results were disappointing, Katherine Etchison, bat biologist for the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, is somewhat encouraged by the fact that biologists saw no signs of fungal growth at any Piedmont or Coastal Plain site, even the ones that tested positive.

“The fact we did not see fungal growth, which is the typical giveaway of a WNS infection, could mean that other factors that contribute to WNS infection are not ideal,” said Etchison. “The Piedmont win-

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Adopt-A-Stream turns 10

Join the Joy Garden Tour in Cashiers

Volunteers pick up trash along Allens Creek. Donated photo ed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, Town of Waynesville, Town of Clyde and the Pigeon River Fund of the Community Foundation of

WNC. To join, contact Christine O’Brien at christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 828.476.4667, ext. 11.

Wilderness therapy provider joins Franklin chamber A wilderness therapy business that launched locally in May 2018 is now a member of the Franklin Chamber of Commerce.

New Vision Wilderness Therapy, which has an office at 673 Siler Road in Franklin, has additional locations in Wisconsin and Oregon that have been in operation since 2007 and 2013, respectively. The business has a partnership with the U.S. Forest Service and serves young adults and their parents in the Nantahala National Forest. New Vision fosters healing in the woods to treat struggles associated with anxiety, depression, adoption, developmental trauma, emotional regulation and addiction.

New Visions welcomes opportunities to partner and connect with the community. Contact Executive Director Kristina Fortner at kristina.fortner@nvwild.com or visit www.newvisionwilderness.com.

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A two-day event featuring boutique shopping and interactive workshops from flower arranging to beekeeping will be held during the Joy Garden Tour Friday, July 19, and Saturday, July 20, at the Village Green in Cashiers.

The Saturday schedule will kick off at 10 a.m. with a flower arranging workshop by The Blossom Jar, an 11 a.m. presentation on bee conservation by Tami Enright of The Savannah Bee Company, a 1 p.m. backyard beekeeping workshop from the Carolina Honey Bee Company and a 2:30 p.m. honey tasting with Sean Collinsworth of Killerbees Honey.

Shopping hours will be held both days, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., featuring a vast selection of items such as jewelry, pottery, garden items and home accessories.

Free. For more information contact 828.743.3434 or info@villagegreencashiersnc.org.

The Adopt-A-Stream program in Haywood County turned 10 this year, with 1,600 volunteers spending 4,000 hours removing more than 27 tons of trash since the program’s launch in May 2009.

Currently, 13 groups are helping in Richland Creek, Allens Creek, Jonathan Creek, Lake Junaluska and the Pigeon River, but more volunteers are needed. Groups must clean their stream section at least once a year and commit to it for two years. Signs, bags, gloves and grabbers are provided.

Removing trash from waterways improves aesthetics, prevents negative effects to the environment and benefits the economy. According to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, tourism from trout fishing brings in $384 million to Western North Carolina and supports 3,600 jobs.

Because trout depend on clean water, keeping trash, sediment and other pollutants out of the water helps fish and the economy.

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An early childhood education program that invites children to explore wildlife and the world around them will be presented during a workshop offered 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Friday, July 26, at the Cradle of Forestry in America.

For formal and non-formal educators, the workshop will be led by an N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission educator. The program, “Growing Up Wild,” provides an early foundation for developing positive impressions about the natural world and lifelong social and academic skills.

Free, with pre-registration required with Stephanie Bradley, cradleprograms@cfaia.org. The Cradle is located along U.S. 276 in the Pisgah National Forest near Brevard.

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Soccer camp around the corner

Tundra racer to speak in Sapphire

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Iditarod champion Pete Ripmaster will speak during a benefit presentation 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 20, at the Country Club of Sapphire Valley.

Ripmaster is a competitive long-distance ultra runner, adventurer and inspirational speaker. He won the 2018 Iditarod Trail Invitational, running 1,000 miles by foot with no dogs, carrying a pack and pulling survival supplies by sled. He completed an average of 38 miles per day over 26 days.

Ripmaster has also completed 50 marathons in 50 states.

Ripmaster speaks from the heart, encouraging others to chase their passions through determination and grit. He’ll talk about setting audacious goals and inspire listeners to leave ready to hear their own drummer’s beat. $10 in advance and $15 at the door, with proceeds benefiting conservation work in Panthertown Valley through Friends of Panthertown. A cash bar and light refreshments will be available. Purchase tickets at the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce or online at panthertown.org/tickets.

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A soccer camp for kids ages 3 to 14 will be offered July 22 to 26 in Waynesville.

Spots are still available for the Challenger International Soccer Camp, with prices ranging from $95 to $202, as well as a Saturday-only goalkeeper program for $35.

Campers will be divided into groups by age, with divisions for ages 3-4, 4-5 and 6-14 in the part-day program and a full-day camp for ages 8 to 14.

Register online at www.challengersports.com. For more information, contact the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department at 828.456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

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William Oliver was 12 years old when he arrived by train from Georgia, crossed Lake Junaluska by boat and spent the summer of 1919 collecting fees at the Lake Junlauska Golf Course. Lake Junaluska photo

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The Lake Junaluska golf course turns 100 on July 24, and in honor of the anniversary golfers will be able to play for the cart fee only, which is $9 for nine holes or $18 for 18 holes.

The course will feature a history display, showcasing the changes that have occurred

to the course since 1919. There will be birthday cake, and an optional closest-tothe-pin contest will be held for a $5 entry fee.

The course is open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Contact golf@lakejunaluska.com or 828.456.5777. www.lakejunaluska.com/golf.

Earn a boating safety cert A boating safety course will be offered 6-9 p.m. July 24 and 25 at Haywood Community College, giving participants a shot at a certification required to operate vessels propelled by a motor of 10 horsepower or greater.

Participants must attend both sessions and pass a written exam. The free course is offered as a partnership between HCC and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. The class will be offered again Aug. 28-29 and Sept. 18-19.

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

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Two triathlons are coming up in Asheville and Canton over the next few weeks. n The 2019 Asheville Triathlon will be held at 7:45 a.m. Sunday, July 21, at the Asheville Recreation Park. Organized by Daph Events, the race consists of an outdoor pool swim, rolling bike course and flat and fast run course, making it a good race for novice to elite levels. Register at idaph.net/asheville-triathlon. n The Lake Logan Multisport Festival will

return for its 13th year Aug. 3-4, starting with a half ironman on Saturday and two races on Sunday. The original Lake Logan International Race features a 1,500-meter swim, 24-mile bike and 10K run, and the Lake Logan Sprint includes a 500-meter swim, 12-mile bike and 5K run. The race courses offer breathtaking beauty, a wetsuit legal swim in the heat of summer, a rolling bike course and a shaded run along a scenic river.

Organized by Gloryhound Events. Sign up at www.gloryhoundevents.com/event/ lake-logan-multisport-festival.

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The 4-H Macon Archers will hold a fundraiser 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 20, at the BiLo in Franklin.

Ribs, hamburgers and hot dogs will be for sale, along with chips and drinks. Meet the team and learn about the Macon County Archers.

Environmental groups join forces will be just as proud to be members of MountainTrue.”

The discussion stemmed from MountainTrue’s Fall 2018 job posting seeking a regional director for the seven western counties. Callie Moore, executive director of HRWC, saw the job ad and thought her organization could gain more capacity by entering into a formal collaboration with MountainTrue.

HRWC will maintain its Murphy office, and its work in North Carolina and Georgia will continue under the name MountainTrue. Moore will take on the expanded role of MountainTrue’s western regional director.

“When Callie suggested working together in the western region we immediately put our hiring process on hold in order to start exploring a merger,” said Bob Wagner, who co-directs MountainTrue with Julie Mayfield.

Much of the organizations’ work is complementary, and HRWC has built up a

local grassroots constituency of volunteers and supporters to improve water quality in the Hiwassee watershed of North Georgia and North Carolina. MountainTrue has a nearly identical set of programs through their Broad, French Broad, Green and Watauga Riverkeeper programs.

For HRWC, it was clear that the merger would open new door for growth. HRWC is financially stable but has a small annual budget of only about $140,000. Many larger funders are hesitant to provide grants that would make up too large a portion of an organization’s annual budget — with 37 years of experience and a $1.7 million budget, MountainTrue is a better fit for larger institutional funders.

In 2014 MountainTrue, then called the Western North Carolina Alliance, underwent a separate merger in which it absorbed the Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance and Hendersonville-based Environmental Conservation Organization.

Deceased man found in Smokies identified

The identity of a man whose remains were found in an off-trail area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park this week has been released.

Searchers found David J. Carver, 64, of Blount County, Tennessee, near Laurel Creek Road between Townsend and Cades Cove on Monday, July 8, after receiving a tip from an off-trail hiker. His remains appeared to be several months old.

The Knox County Regional Forensic Center identified Carver by comparing medical records. The cause of death and activity at time of death are under investigation. An autopsy is being performed, and no additional details are currently available.

An invasive pest called the spotted lanternfly is causing problems in several northeastern states, and North Carolina travelers are asked to take precautions to avoid bringing it home when they travel.

Native to China, the lanternfly has been found in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and New Jersey. It is highly destructive and could cause billions of dollars in loss to agriculture, tourism and trade should it establish in North Carolina.

Because it can be easily moved long distances on vehicles, campers and outdoor equipment, travelers are asked to thoroughly wash and inspect their vehicles before leaving, and to refrain from moving firewood. All life stages of the spotted lanternfly can hitchhike, but the eggs and adults pose the greatest risk. In northern states, adults can lay their eggs on any outdoor flat surfaces from July to December.

For more information on the spotted lanternfly and where it’s been found thus far, visit www.nysipm.cornell.edu/environment/ invasive-species-exotic-pests/spottedlanternfly.

Cannabinoids are a group of closely related compunds that act on cannbinoid receptors in the body, unique to cannabis (or hemp). The body creates compounds called endocannabinoids, while hemp produces phytocannabinoids, notably cannabidiol.

Cannabinoids is traditionally used for pain, sleep, and fibermyalgia.

Alzheimer’s Migraines Asthma Breast Cancer

Diabetes Crohn’s Disease

The Endocannabinoid System is perhaps the most important physiologic systerm involved in establishing and maintaining human health. Although the endocannabinoid system affects a wide variety of biological processes, experts believe that its overall function is to regulate homeostasis.

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As of July 1, the Hiwassee River Watershed Coalition has merged with conservation nonprofit Mountain True.

The merger aims to build a single organization that can effectively advance the interests of the mountain region through grassroots organizing, community-driven planning and strategic advocacy.

The organizations have been in talks about the merger since November, with each reaching out to funders, partners and other stakeholders prior to making a decision. This exploration yielded an overwhelmingly positive response, and the boards voted on a formal merger in June.

“Both organizations recognize how important it is for HRWC’s supporters to feel their voices are heard and their concerns continue to be addressed,” said Callie Moore, executive director of HRWC. “There’s going to be a transition period where both organizations will maintain their websites, but the long-term goal is that HRWC’s volunteers and supporters

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Lake Junaluska Summer Activities Program is offered weekdays through July. The center invites the community to enjoy daily free and low -cost activities. Summer Activities Program weekly events include morning and evening yoga lessons, board game nights, morning lakeside devotionals, bonfires, indoor and outdoor movies, and live music. Visit for schedule: www.lakejunaluska.com/summeractivities.

• Registration is underway for Camp Folkmoot 2019 “Hands Around the Globe,” which will be offered from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Friday, July 19, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. One-day dance camp for grades 3-12. $30 for students and $10 for accompanying adults.

• An NC Works Job Fair is scheduled for 1:30-4:30 p.m. on Friday, July 19, in the Macon County Public Library Living Room. Get resume help and learn interview skills.

20 employers.

• Cat adoption hours are from noon-5 p.m. on Fridays and noon-4 p.m. on Saturdays at 453 Jones Cove Road in Clyde. Adoption fee: $10 for cats one-year and older.

Check out available cats at www.petharbor.com.

452.1329 or 550.3662.

• The Fines Creek Community Center will be hosting a Community dance night on July 20 with entertainment provided by Running Wolf and The Renegades. Food is at 6 p.m. with music starting at 7 p.m. There will be cake walks and a 50/50 raffle. Music/dance is $5 per person. Location at 190 Fines Creek Rd. in Clyde. All proceeds/donations from these events will go to community needs. For more information contact FCCA President, Dale at 593.7042.

• In honor of the Lake Junaluska Golf Course’s 100th birthday, golfers can play for cart fee only ($1 per hole) from 7 a.m.-6 p.m. on July 24. Historic display showcasing changes since 1919. Closest to pin contest for $5. www.lakejunaluska.com/golf, golf@lakejunaluska.com or 456.5777.

• The annual Haywood County Friends of the Library Book Sale is scheduled for July 25-27 at the Waynesville Library, 678 S. Haywood Street. Hours are from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. on Thursday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday.

• The Jackson County Planning Board will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 25, in the Heritage Room at the Department on Aging. Regarding text amendments to the Cashiers Commercial Area Ordinance, Article VII, Section 7-2 & 7-3 Setback Standards and Article IX Section 9-10 Landscaping and Buffering Standards.

• The Fines Creek Community Center will be hosting a Fish Fry on Saturday July 27 from 5 to 8 p.m. There will be a choice between trout or catfish and a combination meal including hushpuppies, cole slaw, baked beans, dessert and drink. The dinner and entertainment will be $10 per person and kids 6 and under free with a paying adult. Music only will be $5 per person. Location at 190 Fines Creek Rd. in Clyde. All proceeds/donations from these events will go to community needs. For more information contact FCCA President, Dale at 593.7042.

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

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

• First Responders Appreciation Day is set for 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10, at the Creekwood Farm RV Park, 4696 Jonathan Creek Road in Waynesville. Barbecue and concert featuring Nashville recording artists Jason Byrd and Band.

• Reservations are being accepted for a six-night package, Nov. 23-29, to join Western Carolina University’s

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

Pride of the Mountains Marching Band as it participates in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Nov. 28 in New York City. Cost: $2,199 (based on double occupancy), includes roundtrip airfare, transportation to the hotel, six nights lodging at Marriott Marquis in Times Square, two Broadway shows, admission to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, a two-day hop-on, hop-off sightseeing ticket on a double-decker bus and Thanksgiving dinner with the band. Bmarkle@superholiday.com. Donate to help the band make the trip: givemacys.wcu.edu.

• Registration is underway for Marriage Enrichment Retreats that will be offered three more times over the next year at Lake Junaluska. Led by Ned Martin, an expert in marriage counseling. Price is $699 per couple. Dates are Aug. 18-20 of 2019 and Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in 2019. Registration and info: www.lakejunaluska.com/marriage or 800.222.4930.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Resume writing assistance is available from 1-3 p.m. on the following Fridays: July 19; Aug. 2, 16; and Sept. 6 and 20 in the Waynesville Library Upstairs Conference Room. Info: Kathleen.olsen@haywoodcountync.gov or 356.2507.

• Haywood Community College will offer boating safety courses from 6-9 p.m. on July 24-25 on the campus of HCC, Building 3300, Room 3322. Must attend consecutive evenings. Future offerings are Aug. 28-29 and Sept.

18-19. Preregistration required: www.ncwildlife.org.

• Registration is underway for a “Lean Thinking Workshop” that will be offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 9, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Led by Dr. Todd Creasy, MBA director and associate professor of management and project management at WCU. Learn to improve customer experience while reducing unnecessary clutter and process steps. cost is: $279. Register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for a Five-Star Customer Service for the Hospitality Industry workshop, which will be offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Registration: $119. For info or to sign up: pdp.wcu.edu or jcthompson@wcu.edu.

• Registration is underway for a “Powerful Communications Strategies for Women Workshop” that will be offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 23, at WCU’s instructional site at Biltmore Park. Early bird registration is $139 through Aug. 1; increases to $169 after. Register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for a six-week online beginning German language course that will be offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from Sept. 4-Oct. 15 in Cullowhee. Cost: $79. Register or get more info: learn.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Waynesville Charity Horse Show is set for July 18-20 at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. Proceeds support Haywood County Meals on Wheels.

• The 43rd annual Antiques Benefit Show will be held

July 19-21 at the Blue Ridge School in Cashiers. The event will feature 60 outstanding exhibitors and Garden Dining with delicious lunches and refreshments. There will be a Grand Prize drawing and glass and crystal repair by "Chips Away.” Admission is a $10 donation to benefit the Blue Ridge School. 226.5325 or www.cashiersbenefitantiqueshow.com.

• The Outdoor Pantry Special, an opportunity to drop off toys for Christmas presents, is set for July 20 at 4077 Soco Road in Maggie Valley. Picks for Christmas presents will be from 3-6 p.m. on July 26.

• The Macon 4-H Archers will hold a fundraiser from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, July 20, at the BiLo in Franklin. Ribs, hamburgers and hot dogs are for sale, along with chips and drinks.

• Iditarod champ Pete Ripmaster will speak during a benefit presentation from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 20, at the Country Club of Sapphire Valley. Proceeds benefit conservation work in Panthertown Valley through Friends of Panthertown. Cost: $10 in advance or $15 at the door. Panthertown.org/tickets.

• Tickets are on sale now for a “Battle of the Badges” flag football game/fundraiser for affordable housing in Haywood County. Game is at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3, at Weatherby Stadium in Waynesville. Adults: $10; students: $5. Tickets available at the Mountain Projects office on 2177 Asheville Road in Waynesville; the Mountaineer Newspaper office at 220 N. Main Street in Waynesville and at mountainprojects.org.

• Ticket reservations are being accepted for Pawsitively Purrfect Part a fundraiser that will benefit the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society being held on Monday, Aug. 19, at Country Club of Sapphire Valley.

Cost is $195 per person, $390 per couple or $1,800 for a table of 10. To request an alert once tickets are available, call 743.5769 or write shannon@CHhumanesociety.org.

HEALTH MATTERS • Gentle Yoga for Cancer is offered from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Fridays at the Haywood Breast Center in Waynesville.

Info: MyHaywoodRegional.com/YogaforCancer or 452.8691.

• On the third weekend of each month, Maggie Valley Wellness Center hosts donation-based acupuncture appointments. $35-55. 944.0288 or maggievalleywellness.com.

• An Essential Oil Presentation is set for 6-7:30 p.m. on July 17 at Maggie Valley Wellness Center. 944.0288 or maggievalleywellness.com.

• “Breastfeeding A-Z” class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. on July 18, Sept. 12 and Nov. 14 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville. Focusing on techniques for proper latching and comfortable positions for a baby and mom to get started. Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

• Mountain Audiology will host its Lunch with the Doctor’s event on Thursday, July 18, at the Franklin Office Lunch from local restaurant provided. Register: 627.1950.

• The fourth-annual Cherokee Rally for Recovery is set for 3-7 p.m. on July 18 at Cherokee Central Middle School. T-shirts for first 300 people, guest speakers, food, raffles, music and vendors. Nurturing the seeds of recovery. Search for Analenisgi on Facebook.

• Mountain Audiology is offering free hearing screenings through July 19 at its Franklin Office and from July 22-26 at its Clyde Office. Schedule an appointment at either location: 627.1950.

• Sliding Scale Acupuncture is set for July 20-21 at Maggie Valley Wellness Center. 45-minute session.

Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: ■ Complete listings of local music scene ■ Regional festivals ■ Art gallery events and openings ■ Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings Sliding scale of $55-$35. Pay what you can. 944.0288 or maggievalleywellness.com.

• Relax and Restore: Sound Healing and Meditation will be offered from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 21, at Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $20. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• “Sense and Nonsense About Dementia” will be presented by Larry Reeves at 10 a.m. on July 23 at Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library in Cashiers.

586.5494.

• Haywood Health Authority Board Meeting is set for 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 25, in the second floor classroom at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Clyde.

• A “Preparation for Childbirth” class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. on Thursdays from Aug. 8-29 and Oct. 324 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville.

Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

• “Your Amazing Newborn” class will be offered from 79 p.m. on Sept. 5 and Nov. 7 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville. Focusing on abilities, behavior, appearance and reflexes of your new baby.

Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

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

RECREATION AND FITNESS • The High Mountain Squares host their 37th anniversary dance from 6:15-8:45 p.m. on Friday, July 19, at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building, 1288 Georgia Road, in Franklin. Western-style square dancing, mainstream and levels. 787.2324, 599.1440 or 706.746.5426.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will host Buti Yoga from noon-1 p.m. on Saturday, July 20, in Waynesville. Cost: $14. Soulful blend of yoga, cardio-intense movement, tribal dance and deep abdominal toning. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Yoga Basics 90-minute Crash Course, Level 1, will be offered from 2-3:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 21, at Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $20. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• An hour yoga class is offered at 9 a.m. on Wednesdays at the Maggie Valley Wellness Center. $15 for a single class, or $55 for a package of four classes.

944.0288 or maggievalleywellness.com.

• Throughout June, Dance Tonight Haywood offers weekly evening classes on Argentine Tango (Mondays), Salsa (Tuesdays), Swing (Wednesdays) and Blues (Thursday) at 61 ½ Main Street in Canton. For times and to RSVP, text your name and email to 316.1344.

SPIRITUAL • Registration is underway for Guided Personal Retreats, on July 22-24, Sept. 16-18 and Oct. 21-23 at

Lake Junaluska. Lakejunaluska.com/retreats or 800.222.4930.

POLITICAL • Haywood County NAACP will meet at 2 p.m. on July 20 at Jones Temple AME Zion, 35 Thomas Park Drive in Waynesville. Presentation is on the reason for reparations followed by a discussion.

• The Jackson County Planning Board has rescheduled its July monthly meeting to 6 p.m. on July 25 at the Department on Aging Heritage Room in Sylva. The meeting was originally set for July 11.

• “Climate Reality” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30, at Democrat Headquarters, 734 N. Main Street in Waynesville. Discussion will follow.

452.9607 or haywooddemocrats@gmail.com.

• Down Home Haywood holds its monthly community meetings at 2:30 p.m. on the third Saturday of each month at Canton Presbyterian Church. Tackling issues like healthcare, wages, housing and more. chelsea@downhomenc.org.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS • A presentation on the lives of three Smoky Mountain personalities (Horace Kephart, Harvey Broome and Joseph S. Hall) will be offered from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on July 21 at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee. Led by retired park ranger and author Butch McDade. $20 for Great Smoky Mountains Association members, $40 for nonmembers.

• Anna Fariello will be presenting her book Craft & Community during the next Jackson County Genealogical Society meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8, in the Community Room at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES • The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department is offering a senior trip to the Scottish Tartan Museum in Franklin on July 22. Leave at 8:30 a.m. from the Waynesville Recreation Center. Participants will pay their own entry into the museum and should bring their own lunch. Cost: $10. Info or to register: 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov.

KIDS & FAMILIES • Stream Investigation will be offered to ages 8-12 from 9-11 a.m. on July 19 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• A program entitled “Fyl-Tying for the Beginner” is scheduled for 9 a.m.-noon on July 20 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department

• Nature Nuts: Wild Woodlands will be offered to ages 4-7 from 9 a.m.-11 a.m. on July 26 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• Exo Explorers: Snakes will be offered to ages 8-13 from 1-3 p.m. on July 26 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• Kids’ Primitive Outdoor Skills will be taught to ages 10-15 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on July 31 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• Woodsy Owl’s Curiosity Club will be offered for ages 4-7 from 10:30 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Thursdays, through Aug. 8, at the Cradle of Forestry in America near Brevard. Learning, outdoor activities and crafts. $5 for kids and $3 for accompanying adults. Info and register: 877.3130.

• The Junior Forester Program will be offered to ages 8-12 from 10:30 a.m.-noon on Thursdays, through Aug. 8, at the Cradle of Forestry in America near Brevard. Learning, outdoor activities and crafts. $5 for kids and $3 for accompanying adults. Info and register: 877.3130.

• Base Camp on the Go, a series of outdoor and environmental education activities, will be offered at a variety of locations this summer, through the first week in August: 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Mondays at Waynesville Recreation Center; 2 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Canton Town Park; 2 p.m. on Wednesdays at Fines Creek and 10 a.m.-noon on Fridays at Waynesville Recreation Center. cmiller@waynesville.gov.

• Summer youth swim programs are being offered through July at Reid Gym on Western Carolina University’s campus in Cullowhee. Led by retired WCU professor Mike Creason. Info: swim.wcu.edu, 227.7397 or 293.5364.

SUMMER CAMPS • Waynesville Art School will offer three youth camps this summer at 303 N. Haywood Street. Kinder Artists camp is for ages 5-6 and will be offered from 10-11 a.m. on Aug. 5-8. Cost: $45 for four-day session or $15 for single-day camp enrollment. Art Sparklers camps are for ages 7-9 and are offered from 10 a.m.12:30 p.m. on July 22-25. Cost is $110 for four days or $35 for single-day enrollment. Shining Minds Camps are for ages 10-13 and are offered from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. July 29-Aug. 1. Cost is $110 for four days or $35 for single-day enrollment. 246.9869 or www.WaynesvilleArtSchool.com/programs-1.

• Discovery Camp with weekly camps are available through Aug. 16 at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville.

Open to pre-K through rising eighth graders. Register: www.ncarboretum.org/education-programs/discoverycamp.

• Registration is underway for a residential camp program scheduled for this summer at Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman: Astro Camp, for ages 11-14, from Aug. 4-9 For info, scholarship opportunities and to register: www.pari.edu or 862.5554.

• Smoky Mountain Sk8way is enrolling participants for its Summer Camp, which is for ages 6-14 years old.

Games, art and crafts, learning and group activities. $35 a day or $150 per week. Nine weeks. For info or to enroll: www.smokymountainsk8way.com or 246.9124.

• The 92nd Mountain Dance and Folk Festival is set for Aug. 1-3 in UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Hall.

KIDS FILMS • “Godzilla: King of the Monsters”, will be shown at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on July 17 at The Strand in downtown Waynesville. Visit www.38main.com for pricing & tickets. 283.0079.

• “Lion King”, will be shown at 10 a.m. on July 19-20, 1 p.m. on July 20-22 & 24, 4 p.m. on July 20, 7 p.m. on July 18-25, and 9:30 p.m. on July 19 at The Strand in downtown Waynesville. Visit www.38main.com for pricing & tickets. 283.0079.

• “Toy Story 4”, will be shown at Smoky Mountain Cinema in Waynesville Plaza. Shown at 12, 2:45, 5:15, 7:15, and 9:40 p.m. on July 17 and 12 p.m. & 2:45 p.m. on July 18. Visit www.fandango.com for pricing & tickets. Info. on Facebook or 246.0588.

• “Spider-Man: Far From”, will be shown at Smoky Mountain Cinema in Waynesville Plaza. Shown at 1, 4, 7, and 9:50 p.m. on July 17-18. Visit www.fandango.com for pricing & tickets. Info. on Facebook or 246.0588.

• “The Lion King”, will be shown at Smoky Mountain Cinema in Waynesville Plaza. Shown at 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 9:55 p.m. on July 19-25. Visit www.fandango.com for pricing & tickets. Info. on Facebook or 246.0588.

• The Highlands Biological Foundation will offer a series of nature-themed films and documentaries shown at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Thursday of March in Highlands. For info on each show, call 526.2221.

• A family movie will be shown at 10:30 a.m. every Friday at Hudson Library in Highlands.

FOOD & DRINK • Waynesville Yoga Center will host Slow Flow + Sip from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 19, in Waynesville.

Bring your favorite adult beverage to sip between yoga poses. Cost: $14. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville is offering lunch on Friday & Saturdays, “Lunch with us” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. featuring fresh seasonal menu with outdoor seating weather preminting. 452.0120 or www.waynesvillewine.com.

• Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville will host five for $5 Wine Tasting from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays. Come taste five magnificent wines and dine on Chef Bryan’s gourmet cuisine. 452.0120 or www.waynesvillewine.com.

• Secret Wine Bar is hosted by Bosu’s in Waynesville on Fridays from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Contact for more information and make reservations. 452.1020.

• A free wine tasting will be held from 1-5 p.m. on Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Bosu Wine Shop in Waynesville. 452.0120 or www.waynesvillewine.com.

Bosu’s will host a Cocktails & Lunch on Saturday’s.

Serving house-made champagne cocktails from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. www.waynesvillewine.com • A free wine tasting will be held from 2-5 p.m. on Saturdays at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. www.papouswineshop.com or 631.3075.

• The “Uncorked: Wine & Rail Pairing Experience” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, August 10, Sept. 7, 21 & 22, Nov. 2 and Dec 31 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. Full service all-adult first-class car. Wine pairings with a meal and more. 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com.

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A&E SPECIAL EVENTS & FESTIVALS • Tickets are on sale now for Folkmoot’s 36th annual festival, which will feature 24 events from July 18-28 throughout Western North Carolina: International folk dance performances, live music, parades, craft beer, food trucks and artisan vendors. Performances in Waynesville, Clyde, Lake Junaluska, Canton, Cherokee, Hickory, Asheville and Hendersonville. Full schedule and tickets: 452.2997 or folkmoot.org.

• The “Friday Night Street Dance” will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. July 26 in front of the historic courthouse in downtown Waynesville. Live mountain music and clogging. Participation encouraged. Free to attend. www.downtownwaynesvilleassociation.com.

• The 53nd annual Macon County Gemboree will be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. July 26-28 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 29 at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building in Franklin. Rough and cut gems, minerals, fine jewelry, supplies, beads, door prizes, dealers, exhibits, demonstrations, and more. Daily admission is $2 and free for ages 12 and under.

524.3161. www.franklin-chamber.com.

• The 2019 “Art After Dark” season will be held from

• The Concerts on the Creek will host Geoff McBride & Scott Baker (classic hits/soul) at 7 p.m. on July 19 at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. Free and open to the public. Occasionally there are food trucks onsite.

586.2155 or www.mountainlovers.com.

• Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) will host Tugalo Holler (bluegrass) at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 20.

• “An Appalachian Evening” summer concert series will continue with Carolina Blue at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 20, at the Stecoah Valley Center in Robbinsville.

• The Concerts on the Creek will host Dashboard Blue (rock/classic hits) at 7 p.m. on July 26 at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. Free and open to the public.

Occasionally there are food trucks onsite. 586.2155 or www.mountainlovers.com.

• The Haywood Community Band will present a concert of patriotic music at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 21, at the Maggie Valley Open Air Pavilion on Soco Road.

• Groovin’ on the Green will feature Hi-5 (rock) at 6:30 p.m. on July 26 at The Village Green in Cashiers. Free and open to the public. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com

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• Senior Tennis Time is from 9 a.m.-noon every Monday, Wednesday and Friday through Oct. 30 at the Donnie Pankiw Tennis Center at 128 W. Marshall Street in Waynesville. For ages 55-up; intermediate or higher skill level. $1 per person per day. 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

• “Growing Up Wild” – an early childhood education program that invites children to explore wildlife and the world around them – is scheduled for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Friday, July 26, at the Cradle of Forestry in America near Brevard. Preregistration required: cradleprograms@cfaia.org.

6 to 9 p.m. the first Friday of the month in downtown Waynesville. Main Street transforms into an evening of art, music, finger foods, beverages and shopping as artisan studios and galleries keep their doors open later for local residents and visitors. www.waynesvillegalleryassociation.com.

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• Wanda Mills will host a multimedia short story program at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 25, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Mills is from Jackson County and lives in the Ochre Hill Community in the home where she and her sister, Nelda, grew up. She has an Associate Degree in Early Children Specialist from Southwestern Community College and has also taken classes in creative writing. www.rollingintothefuture.com. 586.2016.

• A program on N.C. crayfish will be offered to ages 8-12 from 9-11 a.m. on July 25 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• Registration is underway for the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society’s Critter Camp, Aug. 5-9. Camp hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Fun, immersive experiences with animals at no-kill shelter for rising first-graders through sixth-graders. $300 per child. 743.5752 or info@CHhumanesociety.org.

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• Sign-ups are underway for the Festival of Wisdom & Grace, which is scheduled for Aug. 5-8 at Lake Junaluska. Theme is “Growing Deeper Roots.” Worship, workshops, Bible study and fellowship.

Lakejunaluska.com/wisdom-and-grace. 800.222.4930.

will offer the Challenger International Soccer Camp for ages 3-14 from July 22-26 at the Waynesville Recreation Center. for complete list of times and costs for different age groups: 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

• Nantahala Outdoor Center (Nantahala Gorge) will host Soultalk July 20 and The Log Noggins July 27. All shows start at 6:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. www.noc.com.

• Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) will host Tom Floyd Badn (Motown/variety) July 27. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.townoffranklinnc.com.

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ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • The Broadway classic “Oliver!” by Lionel Bart will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. July 18-20, 25-27 and at 2 p.m. July 21 and 28 at Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville. www.harttheatre.org or 456.6322.

• The String Breakers will perform from 6-8:30 p.m. on Friday, July 19, at Town & Country General Store, 14 Raggedy Lane in Cashiers. 547.1300.

• Eddie Swimmer will perform Gary Carden’s play “Jesse Racer” at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 20, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 21, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. 586.2016.

• Mountain Voices Community Choir and The Pinnacle Brass will offer a concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 21, at First United Methodist Church, 66 Harrison Ave., in Franklin. 524.3010 or firstumcfranklin.org.

• The 50th anniversary season finale for the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas will be presented at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 21, at First Methodist Church in Waynesville. Featuring the Jasper Spring Quartet; program is titled “All Those Strings!” www.cmscarolina.com.

• Flutist Robert Dick will present a concert of traditional and contemporary solo flute music at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 22, at First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. flutegoof@yahoo.com.

• New York flutist and composer Robert dick will present a workshop from July 23-27 at Lake Junaluska. For flutists wishing to learn contemporary techniques like multiphonics, circular breathing and more. flutegoof@yahoo.com.

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• “The Roots of American Folk Music” concert will be presented by Marshall Ballew at 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 26, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. www.reverbnation.com/marshallballew.

• The Cherokee Bonfire & Storytelling will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 25 at the Oconaluftee Islands Park in Cherokee. 800.438.1601 or www.visitcherokeenc.com.

• Tickets are on sale now for a concert featuring the Lake Junaluska Singers at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 2 in Stuart Auditorium at Lake Junaluska. 800.222.4930 or lakejunaluska.com/concerts.

• Tickets are on sale now for a concert featuring Paul Saik at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 3, at Lake Junaluska.

Tickets: $18. Lakejunaluska.com/associates or 800.222.4930.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • Friends of the Canton Area Historical Museum will meet at 11 a.m. every third Tuesday at the museum, 36 Park Street in Canton.

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• Waynesville Art School offers afternoon classes for children, teens and adults at 303 N. Haywood Street.

Info: 246.9869, info@waynesvilleartschool.com or WaynesvilleArtSchool.com.

• The Weekly Open Studio art classes will resume from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville, Instructor will be Betina Morgan. Open to all artists, at any stage of development, and in the medium of your choice. Cost is $20 per class. There will also be a Youth Art Class from 4 to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. Cost is $10 per class.

Contact Morgan at 550.6190 or bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

• Uptown Gallery will offer free open studio times from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Thursdays at 30 E. Main Street in Franklin.

349.4607, franklinuptowngallery@gmail.com or www.franklinuptowngallery.com.

• Bingo will be held at 6:30 p.m. on July 18 as well as Aug. 8 and 22 at the Maggie Valley Pavilion next to town hall. 956.7630.

• The Gem & Mineral Society of Franklin meets at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building, 1288 Georgia Road in Franklin.

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• Friends of the Bryson City Cemetery will present a program on the life and death of U.S. Prohibition Agent James Holland “Hol” Rose at 1 p.m. on July 18 in the conference room of United Community Bank in Bryson City. Rose is buried in the Bryson City Cemetery.

• A rummage sale is set for 8 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, July 19-20, at First United Methodist Church of Sylva. Proceeds benefit the church’s mission work.

• Registration is underway for an Armor Construction: Gothic Gauntlet Class, which will be led by Brock Martin of WarFire Forge from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, July 20-21, at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Cost: $390, materials included. Preregistration required: 631.0271. Info: www.JCGEP.org.

• Fiber Sunday will take place from 2 to 5 p.m.

Sunday, July 21, at Cowee Textiles in Room 104 at The Cowee School Heritage Center located at 51 Cowee School Drive in Franklin. Bring a textile project you are working on from spinning, knitting, weaving, rug hooking, baskets, and more. For more information, call or email Teresa Bouchonnet at 828.349.3878 or bouchonnet@coweetextiles.com.

• The Jackson County Public Library recipe swap will be a quarterly event consisting of a recipe gathering, the making of a cookbook, and finally a potluck dinner

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advanced adults are offered by the Inspired Art Ministry at the following times and dates: Drawing classes from 1-4 p.m. on Mondays; painting classes from 1-4 p.m. on Tuesdays. Info: 456.9197, charspaintings@msn.com or www.iamclasses.wbs.com.

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using the recipes gathered. If anyone has a recipe they would like to participate with, please email the recipe to Danielle Duffy at dduffy@fontanalib.org, or bring your recipe to the Reference Desk on the second floor of the library. The deadline for the summer cookbook recipe submission is July 23. Each participant will receive a copy of the cookbook. At 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 30, each participant will bring their dish and everyone will share food, fellowship, stories, and community. 586.2016.

• A chair seat weaving class is scheduled for 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on July 24-25, at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge. Registration required by July 9: 586.2248.

• The monthly Creating Community Workshop will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 27, in the Atrium of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Led by Wynette Wiles, participants will learn basic macramé knots and their variations: lark's head, clove hitch, square knot, and half knot. Ornamental beads will be used to add more depth. Based on the knots learned and the use of beads, participants will design their own pattern and create a wall-hanging. All supplies are included. Free and open to the public. This class is limited to 10 participants. 586.2016.

• Paint & Sip with Genevieve Bagley is being offered at Bosu’s Wine Shop on July 20 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesday, July 30 from 6-8 p.m. All are ticketed event so call to reserve your spot. $45 per person which includes art supplies and gourmet snack. Wine & beer are available for purchase at the event.

451.0120 or waynesvillewine.com.

• Registration is underway for a “Bladesmithing: Seax Knife Class” that will be held from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 3-4, at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Cost: $380 (includes materials). Led by Brock Martin of WarFire Forge.

Preregistration required: 631.0271. Info: www.JCGEP.org.

• Registration is underway for a Blacksmithing Fundamentals Class that will be offered from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 24-25, at the Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Cost: $275(includes materials). Preregistration required: 631.0271. Info: www.JCGEP.org.

• Registration is underway for an Intermediate Bladesmithing Class, which will be offered from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 7-8, at Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Led by Brock Martin of WarFire Forge. Produce a blade of high-carbon steel with more attention on fit and finish. Advance registration required: 631.0271 or www.JCGEP.org.

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • The Museum of the Cherokee Indian has recently opened a major new exhibit, “People of the Clay: Contemporary Cherokee Potters.” It features more

than 60 potters from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee Nation, and more than one hundred works from 1900 to the present. The exhibit will run through April 2020.

• “Rhythm Systems: Nature and Geometry” exhibition will be on display through July 21 at The Bascom in Highlands. www.thebascom.org or 787.2878.

• The exhibit “Cultivating Collections: Photography, Artist Books, Contemporary Native American” will be on display through July 26 at the Bardo Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. A reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. July 25.

• The Sylva Art & Design Committee will host its inaugural local art pop-up gallery from 6-9 p.m. on July 26 at Black Balsam Outdoors in downtown Sylva. Theme is “What does Sylva mean to you?” sylvaartdesign@gmail.com, www.facebook.com/sylvapublicart or @sylvaartdesigncommittee (Instagram).

• New artist and medium will be featured every month at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

FILM & SCREEN • “Annabelle Comes Home”, will be shown at Smoky Mountain Cinema in Waynesville Plaza. Shown at 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:45 and 10:10 p.m. on July 17 and 11:45 a.m. & 2:15 p.m. on July 18. Visit www.fandango.com for pricing & tickets. Info. on Facebook or 246.0588.

• The Second Tuesday Movie Group meets at 2 p.m. in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. For info, including movie title: 452.5169.

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• Casting for Beginners: Level I will be offered to ages 12-up from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on July 18 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• Blue Ridge Parkway rangers will lead a moderate, 2.4-mile round-trip hike at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 19, on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail from Elk Pasture Gap. Meet at Milepost 405.5 (Elk Pasture Gap). Bring water, walking shoes and be prepared for changeable weather. 298.5330, ext. 304.

• Friends of the Smokies will host the second annual Smokies Stomp Barn Party on Saturday, July 20, at Hickory Nut Gap Farm in Asheville. Gourmet farm-totable dinner, live music by Buncombe Turnpike, curated silent auction, square dancing and more. Proceeds will provide support to the park. Tickets: smokiesstomp.org.

• Advanced WILD – Mountain Streams will be offered to ages 18-up from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on July 23 at the

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Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• A Litter Pick Up Day is set for 9 a.m. on July 27 at the High Falls Access Area Visitor Center.

541.450.7097.

• A Wildlife Photo Hunt Competition is scheduled for 10 a.m.-noon on July 27 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the greenway at 8 a.m. on July 31 in Franklin. Meet at the Big Bear Shelter parking area. 524.5234 or franklinbirdclub.com.

• Through Aug. 2, Great Smoky Mountain National Park officials are holding a celebration of the Cosby Campground on the Tennessee side of the park. More info: 865.436.1257 or Katherine_corrigan@nps.gov.

FARM AND GARDEN • The Joy Garden Tour is scheduled for July 17-21 in Cashiers. Theme is “Garden and ‘Bee’ Happy. Includes box lunch at The Village Green. Ticket info: 743.9920 or KayeKeller@nctv.com. Info on events: www.VillageGreenCashiersNC.com.

• A program on natural pest management is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17, in the Macon County Public Library Community Garden on the Greenway in Franklin. Learn about managing garden pests without chemicals. 524.3600.

• A DIY @ The Library program on Preserving Carrots is set for 2-3 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, at the Waynesville Library. Registration required: 356.2507 or Kathleen.olsen@haywoodcountync.gov.

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• Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation will hold its 14th annual Downtown Dog Walk at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3, in downtown Waynesville. Register: www.sargeanimals.org.

• The Swain County Farmer’s Market is held from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Friday through October at the barn on Island Street in downtown Bryson City. 488.3848 or www.facebook.com/SwainCountyFarmersMarket.

• Backpacking course, will be offered by Landmark Learning on Aug. 12-16 and Oct. 21-25. www.landmarklearning.org.

• Jackson County Farmers Market runs from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com or www.jacksoncoutyfarmersmarket.org.

• Volunteer work days for the Trails Forever program are held every Wednesday, through August, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. For details and to volunteer: 497.1949 or adam_monroe@nps.gov.

• Friends of the Smokies is partnering with Navitat Canopy Adventures to offer one day each month through September where Navitat visitors receive a 10 percent discount, and a portion of sales will be donated to Friends of the Smokies. Dates are: Saturday, Aug. 17 and Saturday, Sept. 28. Navitat Asheville is located at 242 Poverty Branch Road in Barnardsville.

Reservations and info: 626.3700.

• A series of gatherings aimed at improving survival skills with a few useful knots will be offered from 6-7 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesdays of July at Sierra Nevada’s Brewery in Mills River. Bill Sanderson, a trail maintainer with Carolina Mountain Club, will demonstrate knots using medium-sized braided cord.

Janonan59@gmail.com.

• The ‘Whee Farmers Market is held from 3-6 p.m. on Tuesdays through the end of October at the entrance to the village of Forest Hills off North Country Club Drive in Cullowhee. 476.0334 or www.thewheemarket.org.

• Haywood Historic Farmers Market is on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon at the HART Theater parking lot and Wednesdays from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the First Baptist Church overflow parking lot beside Exxon. waynesvillefarmersmarket.com or haywoodfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

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• Registration is underway for “Picture Yourself in the Smokies” event, which is Friday through Sunday, Sept.

20-22, at the River Terrace Resort and Convention Center in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Early bird registration until July 12. Info: lisad@gsmassoc.org or 865.436.7318, ext. 257.

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• Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the greenway at 8 a.m. on July 24 in Franklin. Meet at the Macon County Public Library parking area. 524.5234 or franklinbirdclub.com.

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• The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon at 171 Legion Drive in Waynesville.

456.1830 or vrogers12@att.net.

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

• “Locally Grown on the Green,” the Cashiers farm stand market for local growers, will be held from 3-6 p.m. every Wednesday at the Village Green Commons on Frank Allen Rd. next to the Cashiers post office. info@villagegreencashiersnc.com or 743.3434.

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• The Lake Logan Multisport Festival will return for its 13th year on Aug 3-4, starting with a half ironman on Saturday and two races on Sunday. The original Lake Logan International Race features a 1,500-meter swim, 24-mile bike and 10K run, and the Lake Logan Spring includes a 500-meter swim, 12-mile bike and 5K run. The race courses offer breathtaking beauty, a wetsuit legal swim in the heat of summer, a rolling bike course and a shaded run along a scenic river.

Organized by Gloryhound Events. Sign up at www.glo-

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take an easy twomile Sunday Stroll on Sunday, July 21, at Warwoman Dell/Becky Branch Falls on the Georgia Bartram Trail.

Info and reservations: 772.233.7277.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate 1.5-mile TGIF Hike ‘n Swim on Friday, July 26, at Secret Falls near Highlands. Info and reservations: 772.233.7277.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate four-mile hike with an elevation change of 600 feet on Saturday, July 27, to see the water release from Glenville Lake dam drop over High Falls. Info and reservations: 743.1079.

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• The 2019 Asheville Triathlon will be held at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, July 21, at the Asheville Recreation Park. Organized by Daph Events, the race consists of an outdoor pool swim, rolling bike course and flat and fast run course, making it a good race for novice to elite levels. Register at idaph.net/asheville-triathlon.

HIKING CLUBS • The Nantahala Hiking club will take a moderate-tostrenuous four-mile hike with an elevation change of 100 feet on Saturday, July 20, on a forest trail along the West Fork of the Tuckasegee River to swim in several swimming holes at High Falls/Lake Glenville. Info and reservations: 772.233.7277.

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Jackson County cabin built from one poplar tree

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recently read about a log cabin built in Jackson County approximately 140 years ago. I’m interested in this particular cabin because it was reputedly constructed from a single huge tulip poplar tree. I’m devoting this installment of Back Then to that cabin in the hopes that a reader will know if it still exists.

My source is W. Clark Medford, a local historian who resided in Haywood County.

Medford wrote columns for the local newspaper, many of which were reissued in a series of books. He describes the cabin in Mountain People, Mountain Times (Asheville: Miller Printing Company, 1963).

At the end of his account, which was titled “One Tree Made One Cabin,” Medford cites “Bob Terrell in Citizen-Times”; so, it seems apparent that some of Medford’s information was garnered from one of Terrell’s columns. But Medford’s account seemingly implies that he also saw the cabin.

I’ve encountered many large poplar trees in Western North Carolina, especially at Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest near Robbinsville, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one large enough to build a cabin from. The cabin in question was two log structures connected by a dogtrot. The larger structure served as living quarters. It measured 24-by-

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BACK THEN 18 feet, with one of the wall logs standing 36 inches. It required but three logs per wall.

The inside walls were smoothed to a wallpaper-like finish via the deft use of a broadax. The windows were carved by ax and chisel and described as being “works of art, as tight-fitting as modern steel frames.”

Several small holes bored in a line were used to hold a loom.

Columnist A rock chimney chinked with mud may have been added after the original construction.

The adjoining cabin served as a kitchen.

It was originally equipped with an open fireplace, but a hole was subsequently cut in the roof so that a stove with a stovepipe could be installed. The roof was comprised of wooden shingles hued by a frow.

At least four generations of Wikles lived in the cabin, the last family of them being headed by Hix Wikle, a logger. He sold the cabin about 1960 to Ed Bumgarner, the proprietor of Sunset Farms — an old-time inn located perhaps five miles east of Whittier.

In 1963 Hix Wikle recalled that “old man

George Ellison

Editor’s note: This article first appeared in The Smoky Mountain News in July 2004.

Stance Jones helped build the cabin when he was 16. He’s the great-grandfather of Early Jones, who lives on the middle prong of the creek, and early is 56 …. My father, A.N. Wikle, lived and died in the old house, and my grandfather, John Wikle, lived and died

there, too. I’m 46 and lived in it 43 years. My grandfather bought it from Sarah Jane Sawyer. I don’t know if she was the first one to live there.

I just know it’s old, and I know it’s a mighty good house. It’s just a mite too far back and too hard to get to now.”

Utilizing this rather jumbled genealogical data, Medford calculated (I’m not sure just how) that the cabin was “something more than 100 years” old at the time his book was published. The cabin itself was described in a very general way as being situated west of Rocky Gap on the Middle Prong of Barker’s Creek. That would place it in Jackson County some miles south of the Tuckasegee River about midway between Sylva and Whittier.

I’d be obliged if someone out there could provided specific directions to the site. And I’d be thrilled if the old cabin built from one tree is still there to be examined.

George Ellison is a naturalist and writer. He can be reached at info@georgeellison.com.)

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