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Teachers reach into own pockets for school supplies Page 4 Steam engine returns to Bryson City, Dillsboro Page 8

CONTENTS On the Cover: Cowee Mound in Macon County, as well as other native mounds around the region, represents an important part of Cherokee heritage and history.

Archeologists spent the last two weeks at the mound site searching for artifacts using non-invasive tools to help protect the landscape. Their research will hopefully help them better understand the workings of the village that once surrounded the mound. (Page 6) National Park Service archeologist Michael Seibert (right) shows a group of volunteers how to use a piece of equipment to detect underground artifacts near Cowee Mound in Macon County. Jessi Stone photo

News Property owner sees bumps in the road to MSD exit ..............................................3 Teachers reach into own pockets for school supplies ............................................4 Voter ID law struck down in NC ....................................................................................5 Restored steam engine returns to Bryson City, Dillsboro ......................................8 Sylva mulls public art program ........................................................................................9 Animal control plan presented to Swain commissioners ....................................10 Animal advocates get a boost in Jackson ................................................................11 Silence-filled service offered at Lake Junaluska ......................................................12 Former Sequoyah Fund director pleads guilty to embezzlement ......................13 Swain left out of SCC funding priorities ....................................................................16 Waynesville promotes within for assistant manager job ......................................17

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER new state law calling for more competition and transparency in how Municipal Service Districts are managed sent shudders down the collective spines of some on the Waynesville Town Board when they learned that the contracts to manage such districts would now have to go up for bid.

Waynesville’s MSD — a special district that pays an extra property tax that goes toward infrastructure improvements, marketing efforts and salaries — includes the downtown central business district and has always been managed by the Downtown Waynesville Association since its creation in 1986.

But that three-decade streak was in jeopardy throughout July. The Town Board voted 4-1 in late June to move forward with the process of accepting bids from interested organizations. In theory, that could have resulted in the DWA being outbid for the contract, leaving the organization — and its $200,000 yearly budget — as a redundant answer to a rhetorical question.

“I would like to say that you don’t have to go very far to see the benefits the DWA has provided our MSD,” said Alderman Jon Feichter, a strong DWA advocate who sits on the organization’s board.

Feichter went on to say that just that morning, he’d seen license plates from Alaska, Missouri and Rhode Island on Main Street.

“This is directly attributable to the DWA,” he said.

Despite the lack of competition for the contract, the town board agreed with Feichter and gave the DWA a further boost of confidence by awarding it a five-year contract to managed the MSD — the maximum allowed by the 2015 law.

“I’m thrilled,” said Buffy Phillips, longtime executive director of the DWA. Phillips said her goals for the DWA over the next few years include bringing more awareness to the arts, developing the residential real estate market, continuing to enhance design and infrastructure improvements and encouraging more evening entertainment.

“We want to make downtown a cool place for all ages,” she said. “We will continue to invite families and aspire to include them to visit with us during our activities and events.”

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Ferguson Plumbing Supply on Legion Drive, with South Main Street above and behind.

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lic, and that he is open to the possibility of some property owners leaving the MSD. “Obviously, we have to take each request on a case-by-case basis, but generally, unless there were some significant mitigating factor, I believe the boundaries that were set at the founding of the DWA are fair,” he said.

On the issue of whether or not he should even have a say in the matter — by virtue of his affiliation with the DWA, an organization his late father, Rex, MSD property owners pay an helped found and mother, Libba, currently serves on — Feichter said extra 20 cents per $100 he believes he’s required to vote, valuation on top of Waynesville’s unless other board members raise opposition or new information 48.57-cent rate; removal will comes to light.

“I spoke with Frayda Bluestein, save the Earleys an estimated the David M. Lawrence $692.20 in taxes each year.

Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Government at the UNC for other district businesses that may feel that School of Government. In a nutshell, aside their current state of affairs warrants not pay- from a fairly limited set of reasons, I am statuing the taxes and therefore would request torily obligated to vote. The major exception release. We continue to believe our success is would be in cases where I receive a direct perin all of us working as one unit and the bene- sonal financial benefit,” he said. “Even fits we have with the purchasing power of the though I may advocate in support of the group, staff leadership and the volunteer help DWA, I don't do so for personal financial gain. While I would obviously seek to avoid that supports the DWA.” Alderman Jon Feichter — a vocal critic of even the appearance of a conflict, that doesn't the recent state-level machinations regarding free me from my obligation to vote.”

Feichter’s I.T. business is located on Main MSDs — appears determined to remain impartial on the Earleys’ request despite serv- Street in a renovated automobile showroom purchased by his father sometime in the ing on the board of the DWA. Feichter said he thought it would be a dis- 1980s, but is also of the type that doesn’t service to form an opinion on the matter derive much business from the parades, fairs, before hearing from the Earleys and the pub- dances and concerts the DWA encourages. extra tax commitment when they bought the property, and that they could have opted to raise the elevation of the parcel to better access frontage on Main Street, but did not.

More importantly, the statement went on to say that “the success of the district is reliant upon the cumulative tax fund balance to market and advertise the district to the benefit of all. We feel this would possibly open the door

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER he same 2015 law that robs local governments of control over how and for how long they can contract with the organizations that manage their Municipal Service Districts also dictates that local governments now formally address requests from property owners who wish to be removed from an MSD. Sharon Earley, who with her husband James owns the property at 180 Legion Drive in Waynesville, sought removal almost two years ago; without that statute in place, their plans hit a red light.

But since news of the change to MSDs, Sharon Earley’s been to every town board meeting, including the one on July 26, when a motion to call for a required public hearing Aug. 9 was unanimously passed.

That public hearing will allow for supporters and detractors of Earley’s cause to be heard; once that’s complete, her request will come up for a vote at a future town board meeting. In the event it passes, it will have to be passed again before she would be allowed to leave effective the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2017.

MSD property owners pay an extra 20 cents per $100 valuation on top of Waynesville’s 48.57-cent rate; removal will save the Earleys an estimated $692.20 in taxes each year.

“I’m sure there’s going to be obstacles in the way,” said Earley.

Indeed, during discussion on the matter in the meeting, Alderman LeRoy Roberson said that the downtown benefits the entire community.

“I feel differently about that. I think that the Downtown Waynesville Association benefits Main Street, downtown,” Earley said. “It doesn’t benefit a street that’s stuck way up there.”

Earley’s building, located on the south end of the MSD and fronting Legion Drive, is far below Main Street’s grade, far from the touristy bustle of downtown, and far from the type of business that typically resides there.

It’s a plumbing supply store.

The statute tells property owners seeking removal from an MSD to state explicitly why they are not in need of the “services, facilities or functions” provided by the MSD, and Earley’s case is fairly simple.

“I have no parades, I have no Folkmoot, I have no craft fairs,” she said. “I’m sure that when the executive board of the DWA is sitting down trying to promote downtown and Waynesville, they don’t say, ‘Hey! Let’s see what we can do over on Legion Drive.’”

Even if they did, it’s unlikely Ferguson Plumbing Supply would see more customers.

Still, the president of the DWA executive board, John Keith, says the town should again deny the Earleys’ request, just like it did months ago.

A statement issued by Keith on behalf of the DWA said that the Earleys knew of the

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across state lines, the notion of a teacher slipping over to the Palmetto State to buy school supplies out of her own pocket is almost laughable — except it’s not a joke. Teachers, Brookshire said, don’t really have a choice.

“When you’re the person in the classroom with that student, you’re going to make sure that they have it. And that’s going to come out of your pocket,” she said. “It’s not OK for teachers to keep spending their personal money to bridge that gap between what the state should give us to ensure that students have the resources they need to be successful in school.”

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Across the country, teachers spend an average of $500 per year on classroom supplies.

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At a local office supply store in Waynesville, Brookshire slowly pushes a big red plastic cart over short grey Berber carpeting. She’s preparing for school this fall just as she’s done every year since 1994 — by buying school supplies for her neediest students.

According to www.census.gov, in 2014 between 26 and 32 percent of Haywood County’s children lived below the poverty line — far above the national average of 21.7 percent, but not nearly as bad as Washington County in northeastern N.C. where rates regularly top 40 percent.

Sorting through bins of packaged pencils, Brookshire’s trying to find the greatest quan4 tity for the lowest price. Rejecting a pack cost-

ing 50 cents as “too expensive,” she settles on one that costs 33 cents.

“I do love my job,” said Brookshire, an English teacher at Tuscola High School. “But no one — no one — gets into teaching for the money. A lot of students may have brothers and sisters who are starting back to school, or their parents are on a tight budget, or perhaps they need to wait for a payday, but there’s no money in family budgets sometimes for school supplies, because they can really add up.”

Brookshire would know; she said she spends about 1 percent of her yearly net income on school supplies each year, even going so far as to make targeted buying trips to score the best deals.

“Every year we vacation near Moorehead City, and they have a teacher’s store there, so I always use part of my vacation money on school supplies,” she said.

As Brookshire’s big red cart quickly fills with notebooks, notecards, post-its, pencils and tissues, she explains that it’s becoming more and more difficult to find everything she needs for what her family budget allows.

“We used to be able to deduct $250 on our taxes [for supplies], but they’ve cut that out,” she said. “And the tax-free holiday helped, but unfortunately they stopped that as well.

N.C.’s sales tax holiday was abolished in 2014, amidst a comprehensive tax overhaul by the Gov. Pat McCrory-led Republicans in the state legislature.

Neighboring states, however, still have theirs; Georgia and Tennessee held tax-free weekends July 30-31, and Virginia and South Carolina will hold theirs Aug. 5-7.

“I could probably go to South Carolina, but the price of gas to go wouldn’t be worth my while,” said Brookshire. “One of my teacher friends, that’s exactly what she’s doing — she’s going to South Carolina to buy her supplies because she lives closer to the border.”

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER f you find yourself charged with a crime and can’t afford an attorney, one will be provided to you; if you can’t afford your utility bills, support programs exist; if you can’t work, unemployment assistance is available.

But if you’re a child in North Carolina whose family can’t afford all of your school supplies, well, you’re out of luck.

Out of luck, that is, unless you have a teacher like Carla Brookshire, or one of the thousands of others across the country who spend an average of $500 a year out of their own pockets on the basics needed by every student in every school in every town in America.

Adding insult to injury, North Carolina no longer has a sales tax free holiday weekend, meaning the state is taxing the generosity of Brookshire and teachers like her.

Now, legislators and candidates in this year’s general election are struggling to define their positions on education generally, and out-of-pocket expenses specifically amidst contrasting political philosophies and continuing budget strife. What they’re finding is that there’s no easy answer.

But whose responsibility is it to pay for those notebooks, notecards, post-its, pencils and tissues?

In theory, this responsibility falls on the parents of the student; but when they can’t, don’t or won’t purchase supplies, teachers aren’t able to just press “pause” on the school year while waiting for students to show up ready to learn.

The state legislature hasn’t been much help either. According to the N.C. State Board of Education’s Department of Public Instruction, per-pupil expenditures have decreased from $8,522 in 2008 to $8,296 in 2016.

As with many things, however, the devil’s in the details. Although those figures represent only a 3 percent decrease over eight years, when adjusted for inflation 2008’s $8,296 expenditure would today be worth $9,540, meaning that expenditures in actual dollars have decreased by 12 percent.

As Brookshire begins emptying the contents of her big red cart onto the checkout counter, she asks if the store offers a teacher’s discount.

They don’t, but the cashier asks her if

she’s a member of the store’s promotions club, which would earn her points toward discounts on supplies.

She’s not, she says.

The same 2015 survey that says teachers spend an average of $500 per year on supplies for students also says that 94 percent of teachers go out of their way to shop at stores that offer such discounts, but 71 percent are unwilling to divulge their Social Security numbers to join such promotional clubs.

Scanned and bagged, the 35 items she’s purchased today — including a $5 Rubik’s Cube for her daughter and a desktop calendar she called a “luxury” because of its purpleand-lime green floral pattern — set her back $89.30, including $5.84 in sales tax.

“Teachers are making more money in North Carolina than ever — much more.

That is a simple fact,” said Rep. Michele Presnell, R-Burnsville. “A first-year teacher in Haywood County makes $50,837, including benefits.”

Presnell’s right, but her statement implies that the problem isn’t with the state’s lack of educational funding, instead suggesting that greedy teachers should be grateful to spend a small portion of their money on others — which is perplexing, coming from a party that consistently advocates for personal responsibility and rails against the “socialism” inherent in any system where taxpayers pay in but receive no direct benefit.

Presnell’s Democratic opponent in the Nov. 8 election, Rhonda Cole Schandevel, addressed the core of the issue.

“We simply cannot ask teachers to dig into their own pockets to cover the cost of basic supplies,” she said. “I will work with my colleagues in the House of Representatives to find out where we can work together to make sure that our students have the resources they need without making our

“When you’re the person in the classroom with that student, you’re going make sure that they have it. And that’s going to come out of your pocket.”

— Carla Brookshire, teacher at Tuscola High

Tuscola High School English teacher Carla Brookshire shops for supplies her students need but can't afford. Cory Vaillancourt photo

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Is it really “toxic” These days we often hear the word “toxic” thrown around in the world of food. Right now it seems like sugar is the toxic ingredient du jour.

But is it really?

Let’s look at some definitions: Toxic – (adjective) poisonous Toxin – (noun) toxic chemicals created by plants and animals, usually for their own defense.

In truth, sugar, is one of the least toxic of the chemicals we consume. Toxicity of substances is classified by measuring what happens when a single dose of the compound is fed to rats.

The lethal dose per kilogram of body weight can then be established, i.e. what dose it takes to kill half (50%) of the rats. This “lethal dose” is known as LD50 and is expressed in terms of the dose per kilogram (kg).

The lower the LD50 means the greater the toxicity (it took less of the substance to kill the rat) and conversely, the higher the LD50 means the lower the toxicity (more of the compound could be consumed without killing the rat).

(Based on rat studies) Cyanide and vitamin D (calciferol) = LD50-10 = highly toxic Caffeine= LD50-200 = very toxic Table salt (NaCl) =LD50-3,000 = slightly toxic Sugar = LD50= >15,000 = practically non-toxic

So when you hear people proclaiming an ingredient is “toxic” think about these key points: 1. The dose makes the poison. (How much is being consumed?)

2. Natural isn’t necessarily safer. Our food and water all naturally consist of chemical compounds 3. Any chemical, if consumed in inappropriate quantities, can be toxic.

THE VALUE Carla Brookshire comes from a hard-working North Carolina family. She said that in addition to her full-time teaching job, she

teaches online at night for extra cash, and that she’s lucky her husband also has a good job.

As she stands in the parking lot of the office supply store, holding four plastic bags full of supplies — and with that “luxury” calendar tucked under her arm — she says she really doesn’t mind spending the money on her students.

But she does seem frustrated that the legislature is content to let her.

“In my opinion, public education is the best bang for your taxpayer buck,” she said.

“We can invest in these students now, we can invest in these children and their futures and give them the tools they need to become productive North Carolina citizens and increase their success and help us economically, or we can not give them those tools and pay later.”

What Brookshire really wants is not the $10,000 she’s spent over the course of her career on supplies for her students; what she wants from legislators is a little respect.

“I want for our state to value public education,” she said. “I want them to value our students. I want them to value our teachers. I want them to value this investment – this obligation that we have to educate these children and give them a brighter future.”

Sources: http://www.uft.org/chapters/lab-specialists/how-toxic-is-toxichttp://ei.cornell.edu/teacher/pdf/ATR/ATR_Chapter1_X.pdf

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teachers pay for them out of their own pocket.”

Schandevel also wants to bring back N.C.’s sales tax holiday.

Mike Clampitt, R-Bryson City, — running against Rep. Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville, — said he supports the idea of bringing back the income tax deduction as well as reinstituting the state’s sales tax holiday.

Presnell does not.

“North Carolinians are paying less taxes all year, not paying more all year and getting a break on a single day — and that includes teachers,” she said.

Jane Hipps, a Waynesville Democrat running for state Senate against Franklin Republican incumbent Jim Davis, feels that eliminating the holiday hurts N.C.’s middle class.

“It’s another example of Republicans prioritizing the wealthy and the well-connected instead of hard-working North Carolina families,” she said.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER uling that North Carolina’s 2013 voter identification law purposely targets African-Americans with “almost surgical precision,” the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit struck down the measure last Friday, stating that there was evidence that “because of race, the legislature enacted one of the largest restrictions of the franchise in modern North Carolina history.”

The legislation was made possible initially by a U.S. Supreme Court rollback of parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and required that voters display ID at the polls effective this year. The new voter ID law also disallowed same-day registration and preregistration programs for 16- and 17-year-old high school students.

The law appeared to have some merit to it when, in 2014, the N.C. Republican Party said that more than 35,000 cases of possible voter fraud had been discovered in an audit.

But in 2015, executive director of the State Board of Elections Kim Strach testified that her office had presented evidence for only 31 prosecutions.

One of the plaintiffs in the suit against the bill was the North Carolina branch of the NAACP. Its president, Rev. William J. Barber II, who visited Sylva last month and gave a fiery speech at the Democratic National Convention last week, told the New York Times that the Richmond, Virginia, court’s

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ruling was “vindication” over “this extremist legislature and our extremist governor.”

State Republicans obviously felt differently.

A statement issued by Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, on June 29, called the decision by the three-judge panel “partisan” and attempted to tie their ruling to Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton and N.C. Attorney General and Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Roy Cooper, who would now be allowed to “steal the election.”

“We will obviously be appealing this politically motivated decision to the Supreme Court,” the statement read.

NCGOP Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse took a similar tack, stating that, “Roy Cooper’s lack of strong defense of North Carolina’s voter ID law has left our citizens with fewer rights than other voter ID states across the country. We all lost. Republicans will continue to fight for ballot security until the war against voter fraud is won.”

Nationally, that battle doesn’t seem to be going Republicans’ way, however. A voter ID law was struck down Aug. 1 in North Dakota, which now joins Kansas, Texas and Wisconsin as states where such voter suppression tactics have been scaled back or eliminated altogether this year alone.

Locally, Rep. Joe Sam Queen, DWaynesville, said he wasn’t surprised and was glad to hear of the decision.

“We argued during floor debate that it was unconstitutional and wouldn’t stand, and it hasn’t,” he said. “For them to waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars defending the indefensible is just ridiculous.”

Indeed, the three-judge panel that decided the appeal said the measure was “racially discriminatory.” In an email, Rep. Michele Presnell, R-Burnsville, called it a “common sense voter ID law.”

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Putting the pieces together Archeologists continue to uncover mysteries of Cowee Mound

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Pieces of Cherokee pottery are examined at the Cowee School after being discovered by archeologists at the Cowee Mound site. Jessi Stone photo details is what makes it so interesting.”

The platform-style mound at the Cowee site was built around 600 AD according to historical accounts. Sampeck said they know the village was there in the 1600s and into the 1700s, but it’s been hard to determine exactly when the village was established.

She also knows that a tribal councilhouse or townhouse was constructed on top of the mound and served as a gathering place and focal point for the village. It could have fit a couple of hundred people inside its walls. The

village was probably burned down and abandoned during the Cherokee War of 1776.

While she has worked at the site for three years, this summer was the first time she invited community volunteers to assist in the dig instead of students from the university.

It’s a large area to survey — some 18 acres with great potential for artifacts.

When looking for a field school for her students, many places aren’t safe or affordable options, but Sampeck discovered Cowee Mound through her husband, who grew up

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR hile most people come to Macon County in the summer for a relaxing mountain vacation, Kathryn Sampeck makes the trip down south with a more important mission in mind.

With a wide-rimmed straw hat to shield her face from the beaming sun and a pair of worn-in brown leather boots she’s owned for at least 20 years, Sampeck returned again this summer to walk among sacred Cherokee land along the Little Tennessee River banks.

The anthropology professor at Illinois State University is looking for small pieces of a puzzle that she hopes will eventually tell a larger story about Cherokee history. A shard of pottery or a fragment of iron may not seem like much, but each piece can unlock an important aspect of early Cherokee civilization.

It’s Sampeck’s third archeological trip to Cowee Mound and it’s surely not her last. The Cowee Mound and the surrounding open fields that once served as a large Cherokee village is one of the best-preserved sites in the region because of its isolated location. It’s an ideal place for Sampeck and her archeology students to study.

“This is my third year working here doing non-invasive excavating,” she said. “In general, we know the town here was a very important place culturally, but finding out the

in East Tennessee. After forming a partnership with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Tribal Historic Preservation Office, they were happy to have the students study Cowee Mound.

Ben Steere, anthropology professor at Western Carolina University who has done extensive research on Cherokee mounds, said invasive archeological digging in the late 19th century resulted in the decimation of several Cherokee mounds. He’s glad to see new technology that allows Sampeck and volunteers to search for clues while also respecting the consecrated cultural site. It isn’t like the old movies, where teams of archeologists dig up entire areas with the hope of finding a piece of the past.

“There’s so much you can learn now without even putting a shovel in the ground,” he said. “That’s why (Sampeck’s) research is so important — she’s trying to figure out when the village was occupied, when it was built and what kind of activities happened there.”

Michael Seibert, an archeologist for the— National Park Service, was also on hand to teach volunteers how to operate three pieces of equipment being used on the Cowee Mound site. The equipment allows the team to determine specific locations where they might want to dig instead of playing a guessing game across 18 acres.

“That’s the best thing about geophysics — it’s a cost-saving measure,” Seibert said. “We can pinpoint areas more than we could in the past and we can cover a whole area for a tenth of the price.”

One piece of equipment is called groundpenetrating radar that provides readings of two different frequencies. When the lawnmower-looking machine is pushed over the ground, it can detect irregularities up to 3 feet underground and provides a clear picture of the object. Seibert says

National Park Service archeologist Michael Seibert (center) shows a group of volunteers how to use a piece of equipment to detect underground artifacts near Cowee Mound in Macon County. Jessi Stone photo

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Kathryn Sampeck, an anthropology professor with Illinois State University, has done three archeological digs at Cowee Mound.

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“In general, we know the town here was a very important place culturally, but finding out the details is what makes it so interesting.”

— Kathryn Sampeck, anthropology professor at Illinois State University

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— Ben Steere, archeologist at Western Carolina University

Indians, the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, and the Duke Energy Foundation. The mission is to have a better historical record of the Cherokee mounds for EBCI’s records.

“We’ve tried to go out and better understand the mounds and townhouses and get a sense of their historic record of some of the poorly recorded sites,” Steere said. “We’ve been working with these other organizations to compile tribal data and archeological surveying to understand some of these mounds. Now we have great updated location data and

“We think there could have been some kind of forge based on this finding,” Sampeck said. “It was a busy town, but we don’t want to assume it was all domestic — the bits of iron slags show some level of technology and a role in the economy.”

Steere agrees that the pieces of iron could open the doors to an interesting area of research.

“We can begin to look at how did the Cherokee adapt to European contact and trade,” he said. “In a way they maintained their own life ways with things like pottery, but they were also taking on guns for warfare and hunting because they had to. And if they were doing some kind of blacksmithing it just shows how they were selectively choosing which aspects to adopt. White culture was

The Cowee Mound in Macon County is believed to be built around 600 A.D., and is one of the best preserved Cherokee mounds in the region. Jessi Stone photo

not just washing over them.”

Sampeck couldn’t think of a better way to teach community members about the local Cherokee heritage than to get them involved in the process. She was pleasantly surprised at the number of community members who contacted her about getting involved in the project following an article in the Franklin Press.

“If you’re going to ethically research someone’s past, it should be that community helping out,” she said.

On any given day during the two-week stint at Cowee Mound, a handful of volunteers surveyed areas and learned how to navigate the archeological equipment through the property in the sweltering 90-degree weather.

They sorted through the broken pieces of pot-

tery at a lab set up at the Cowee School and tried to match up the different pieces by texture and color.

So what does Sampeck do with all the data and artifacts collected? She gives a presentation each year at the Cherokee Archeology Conference and publishes articles in academic journals. Of course the data collected also provides teaching materials for her department’s curriculum.

With such a large undertaking, Sampeck said she’ll continue to study Cowee Mound — probably for years to come — and she’s happy to do so.

“My goal in the long term is to understand the nuances of how this village changed and the Cherokee’s relations to people moving in,” she said.

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it can detect irregularities up to 3 meters, but it’s a much lower-resolution picture.

“Everything we excavated last year was about a foot or two underground,” he said.

“If things are found that shallow, we have to be extra careful because any activity can mess it up.”

Another piece of equipment used is a magnetometer, which measures magnetic forces in the earth. The instrument can detect metallic items underground, like ovens or fireplaces. Sampeck didn’t think the magnetometer would produce much metal at the Cowee site, but she was excited when her team unearthed small pieces of iron. The pieces of metal could prove that the Cherokee were using some sort of metalworking during the time period.

“Mounds are really important and sacred places for the Cherokee — they contain the central, sacred fire that burns continually.”

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR ollowing the Little Tennessee River miles away from modern civilization in Franklin — past the pavement and subdivisions and through the grassy pastures that line the Cowee Valley — a large piece of Cherokee history remains.

An open field represents the remnants of a Cherokee village, but the man-made knoll in the distance represents so much more. Cowee Mound — and other platform-style mounds across the region — signifies the heart of the Cherokee people.

Ben Steere, anthropology professor at Western Carolina University, said it was common for a tribal townhouse — a community structure that could fit several hundred people — to be built on top of these sacred mounds. In a ceremonial act, the people would extinguish the fire in their homes and rekindle it using the flame from the townhouse fire on top of the mound.

“Mounds are really important and sacred places for the Cherokee — they contain the central, sacred fire that burns continually,” Steere said. “That fire makes a connection between the mound and the houses — it reinforces community. Those central fires are thought to be real and alive and mounds are seen as still having a fire inside so it’s really important to protect and not disturb them.”

Cowee Mound’s secluded location probably served its community well when it was a cultural epicenter in the 1600s and 1700s, and still protects the sacred ground to this day from human encroachment. Not all mounds in the region have been so fortunate. Western North Carolina was once home to dozens of Cherokee platform mounds, but Steere said heavy excavation in the late 19th century into the early 20th century led to the demise of several of them. The earliest archeological digs in Western North Carolina were done in the 1870s by the Valentine brothers to collect artifacts for their father Mann S. Valentine’s museum in Richmond, Virginia. At their father’s direction, the brothers pillaged through mounds in Haywood, Swain, Jackson and Cherokee counties, according to Steere’s research. In their search for Cherokee artifacts, they destructively excavated the Peachtree Mound, Garden Creek Mound, Wells Mound, Jasper Allen Mound, Kituwah Mound, Nununyi Mound, Birdtown Mound and Cullowhee Mound.

“Luckily, the Valentine brothers didn’t get out to Cowee Mound so it survived the brutal excavations, which makes it an even more important place. It didn’t suffer the same kind

chronological data.”

Having GIS mapping data of all the mounds is an important resource for the Tribal Historic Preservation Office of the EBCI, but Steere said it isn’t information that is intended for the public. Not much can be done to conceal the mounds located in plain sight like Nikwasi, but keeping exact locations secret from the public is key to keeping the remaining mounds protected from looting. You can find plenty of history about Cowee Mound online, but you won’t find directions on how to get there — and that’s the way The EBCI wants to keep it.

In 2007, the EBCI was able to purchase 70 acres along the Little Tennessee River that included Cowee Mound with the help of Mainspring Conservation Trust (formerly Land Trust for the Little Tennessee) and the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund. A conservation easement on the property will protect it from any future development.

The tribe continues to work toward purchasing property containing these scared mounds in order to preserve them for future generations. The EBCI purchased Kituwah Mound between Bryson City and Franklin in 1996 and Tallulah Mound in Robbinsville.

“They are actively looking to purchase and protect those sites,” Steere said.

Controversy has surrounded ownership of the Nikwasi Mound in downtown Franklin. The town of Franklin has owned the mound since 1946 when it was saved from development, but the EBCI has been trying to take over ownership and maintenance for a number of years. Not willing to hand the mound over, the town has tried to be more collaborative with the tribe when it comes to preserving and protecting the mound.

Mainspring also has formed a committee of Cherokee and Macon residents to work toward an educational and preservation vision for the Nikwasi Mound, hoping to mend old wounds.

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of looting earlier mounds did,” Steere said.

For all that archeologists know about Cowee and other mounds in the area, there’s still so much they have yet to discover and understand. Steere said the tradition of building mounds along the river valleys started around 100 A.D. Mounds like the Garden Creek site were low platform mounds used for special ceremonial events. The practice of building more grandiose mounds like Nikwasi Mound, which is located in the middle of downtown Franklin, started around 1000 A.D. These mounds were made to serve as the foundation for a chief ’s house.

Since 2011, Steere has been at the forefront of the Western North Carolina Mounds and Towns Project — a collaborative effort by the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research Program at the University of Georgia, the Tribal Historic Preservation Office of the Eastern Band of Cherokee

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The newly refurbished steam engine makes its debut trip to Dillsboro. Nick Breedlove/JCTDA photo

Chugging to life Renewed steam engine service excites Bryson, Dillsboro business owners

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER pirits were high in Dillsboro last week as Steam Engine No. 1702 chugged noisily to a stop on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad.

It was the engine’s inaugural run after a three-year restoration process, so the event drew a flurry of photographers, a crowd of riders and a hurry of foot traffic from downtown merchants and visitors alike.

“I’m a kid when it comes to going out and seeing it come in,” said Sue Williams who works at The Cheddar Box, located right across the street from the train tracks. She made sure to run outside and take in the moment.

“It was a beautiful sight,” agreed Pete Poppins, whose company — Poppins Electric — was doing renovations on what will become Boots Steakhouse across from the depot.

It had been 12 years since the steam engine, originally built in 1942 for service in World War II, had chugged along any length of track. The restoration project began in 2014, after finalization of a 2012 agreement in which the Swain County Commissioners voted to give the railroad a $700,000 grant to help restore the engine.

“It’s our heritage,” said Commissioner David Monteith, “and that’s what we’ve got to promote and push.”

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full-time jobs to be maintained for 15 years, run at least half of all engine trips from Bryson City for 15 years and complete the project within 36 months of the finalized agreement.

The justification for using public money for the project? Tourism, plain and simple.

“I’m glad to see it here,” Monteith said. “I think it will be a good draw for the county.”

“I think we’ll draw more people on those trains than we have in the past,” agreed Sarah Pressley, marketing manager for the railroad.

If the first run July 26 is any indication, things are off to a good start. The railroad had to add three additional train cars to the engine to accommodate all those who’d bought tickets, amounting to more than 100 extra people.

“People want to ride the steam engine,” Pressley said. “The route might not be the most important thing — they just want to ride the steam engine.”

While scenic train rides are easy to come by, working steam engines are rare. In fact, No. 1702 has the distinction of being the only train in its S-160 class that’s still operating in the United States. Many trains in that class were shipped out to Europe and Asia as part of the war effort, but No. 1702 remained stationed at Fort Bragg. The train’s also accumulated a bit of star power in its day, appearing in the 1966 film “This Property Is Condemned,” which featured Robert Redford, Natalie Wood and Charles Bronson.

“It’s a bragging right,” said Tee Angel, who owns Anthony’s Italian Restaurant in Bryson City. “We get to say we have something special and unique, and Bryson City as a whole is special and unique.”

And the more that’s special and unique about Bryson, the more people are likely to spend their tourism dollars there. When the

A short history of Engine No. 1702 • August 1942 — The engine is built by The Baldwin Locomotive Works Company in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, intended for European service during World War II. It’s part of the S-160 class, which included 2,120 locomotives, making it the largest class ever built.

• 1946 — No. 1702 remains on U.S. soil at Fort Bragg during World War II, but afterward the locomotive is sold to Warren and Saline River Railroad in Arkansas.

• 1966 — After a sale to the Reader Railroad in Arkansas, an extensive overhaul, and service on the Possum Trot Line, No. 1702 stars in Paramount Pictures’ “This Property is Condemned.”

• 1975 — Long Distributing Company in Louisiana purchases No. 1702.

• 1985 — The Eastern Nebraska Chapter of NRHS buys the engine and sells it to Don Smeal, of Snyder, Nebraska. Smeal then leases the locomotive back to the chapter for use in tourist excursions.

• 1991 — Malcom MacNeill purchases the locomotive for the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, putting it through yet another extensive overhaul. The engine is put back into service.

• 2003 — No. 1702 is returned to its original brass drive bearings.

• 2004 — After tests determine that the remaining service metal is not sufficient, the locomotive is taken out of service.

• 2014 — In collaboration with Swain County, the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad starts work to bring No. 1702 back on line. The process is documented at www.restoring1702.com.

• 2016 — The steam engine chugs to life once again.

deal was being drafted in 2012, the estimate was that the steam engine would increase ridership by 15 to 20 percent, equaling between 27,000 and 36,000 more riders each year.

That means more revenue for the railroad but also more spending in Bryson City, where the rides depart, and in downtown Dillsboro and the Nantahala Outdoor Center, where some of the routes have layovers, giving passengers a chance to explore on foot.

The expectation is that the steam engine could also encourage visitation from people who have no intention of riding the train.

Angel, for example, recalls overhearing a conversation by a couple visiting the downtown that she believes is indicative of a larger truth.

“They said, ‘Even if we don’t get to ride on it, it’s so nice to see it,’” Angel said. “I think that’s how people feel about it. Even if they don’t ride it, they like looking at it. I think more people will come and will come downtown, and that’s always a plus.”

Folks in Dillsboro are also expecting to see a boost. Excitement about the steam engine has been running high in town for months, with merchants hoping to reap the benefits of an increased passenger load and bystander excitement.

“Not only are people in Dillsboro excited about it, it looks like the general public is excited about it,” said Mike Potts, co-owner of Nancy Tut’s Christmas Shop.

Potts and his wife Lisa have owned the store for more than 20 years, and they’ve watched Dillsboro cycle through many a series of ups and downs. Perhaps the biggest down, though, came in 2008 when the little town got hit by the double whammy of a recession and the railroad’s decision to move its main depot to Bryson City. Before, all the train’s departures had left from Dillsboro, and merchants had come to depend on that automatic stream of customers to support their sales.

That’s no longer the case. Things have been on the upswing in Dillsboro for years before the steam engine’s reappearance — Potts, for example, has seen sales increase steadily for the past four years. Dillsboro is no longer just about the train.

“Our buildings have filled back up, and the town is full again,” Potts said.

For Joe Beasley, owner of Haywood Smokehouse, the train and advent of steam service certainly weren’t the deciding factors in electing to open a second location of the Smokehouse in Dillsboro, or in opening two more businesses on Front Street, just across from the railroad tracks. The Haywood Smokehouse Mercantile and Ice Cream Shop is already open, and Boots Steakhouse is expected to open sometime in September.

But he’s happy the train is there.

“The way we look at it is hopefully it’s icing on the cake,” Beasley said. “I don’t necessarily want to have to create a business model around the train, because they don’t come year-round and they don’t come seven days a week. But it’s certainly a very welcome addition when they are here.”

Angel, for one, is certainly looking forward to admiring that newly refurbished steam engine for many years to come.

“It rolled in at sunset, and it was just like seeing a piece of history coming back,” she said.

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BY HOLLY KAYS whose members serve three-year terms. The STAFF WRITER group develops proposals for projects, and here’s something missing from the once an idea for a project has been fleshed streets of Sylva, the town’s board has out, the commission sends out a call for been noticing, and lately they’ve been artists and then begins fundraising efforts. talking about how to fill the dearth of pubSylva has a perennially tight budget, lic art downtown. something that still holds true even after “When you go to downtown and you the town increased its property tax rate by can enjoy public art in a community space, 12.5 cents per $100 this year. However it’s it increases the likelihood you’ll return to executed, a public art program would have downtown,” explained Commissioner to be easy on the town budget.

David Nestler. “It increases the appeal of McPherson, himself an artist, is also downtown to tourists as well.” working on some creative solutions to the Waynesville is a prime example of public problem, which has led him to suggest partart done well, Nestler said. A stop by the metal sculptures playJordan Krutsch, a grad ing banjo and washboard bass on student in Western the corner of Main and Miller Carolina University’s has become a mandatory photo art program, has op for any downtown visitor, and offered to loan his 15many other pieces are placed foot enameled steel throughout town as well. Sylva’s piece ‘an ode to leadership has been casting eyes architectural form to over the mountain to Sylva for display. The Waynesville, envisioning a future piece is pictured at its in which their town’s public art program could perhaps be simi2014-15 location in larly strong and expressive.

Charleston. Donated photo The effort in Sylva is still in its infancy. As Commissioner Greg McPherson said, it’s still “just lots of talk.” But it’s talk that looks to be headed somewhere.

The first step, Nestler said, would be to create a public art fund — a spot to park any grants and tax-deductible donations to be used toward art installation.

Town Manager Paige Dowling is currently looking into how other towns do it and talking with Sylva’s auditor, hoping to perhaps have nership with the talent at Western Carolina the fund established at some point in University. He got an offer from Jordan September, though the task could take Krutsch, a grad student in the school’s longer.

Masters of Fine Arts program, to loan a 15Nestler has been brainstorming lately, foot steel sculpture of his for display at jotting down lists of ideas for how to get Bridge Park. money into the fund without raising taxes.

“We’re just trying to get the ball rolling a There are often grants available for such little bit in an unconventional way,” projects, but the problem with grants is that McPherson said. He said he likes the sculpthey’re typically project-specific — getting a ture, the sense of lightness it has to it, and it grant that would plop funds into the could be a good chance for the town to get account for use however and whenever the an inexpensive start on its journey into pubtown decided would be highly unlikely. lic art.

Nestler has got a couple of thoughts so Krutsch would allow the town to keep far. For instance, perhaps the town could the piece for a year or so, free of charge, but raise the rental fee for use of Bridge Park there would still be some cost to the with the intent of using the extra funds to endeavor. Installing it would cost likely $30 purchase art for Bridge Park. Or, maybe to $50, and the town would also need to downtown merchants could be convinced add the piece to its liability insurance — to start asking customers for donations to Dowling is in the midst of researching what the fund as they check out. that payment might be.

“What I was trying to figure out was a However, Nestler commented, it’s way to get recurring funds into an account important that any art displayed conwith the town without using tax dollars,” tributes toward expressing what Sylva is Nestler explained. about — he doesn’t want art installations to Getting a public art program off the appear random. ground could also involve stirring up com“One of the things we take pride in in munity members to help lead the projects.

Western North Carolina is the rich culture That’s how Waynesville does it. The town and art heritage,” Nestler said. “Why not has a 10-member Public Art Commission put that on display?”

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Animal control plan presented to Swain commissioners

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR t’s been more than a year since the Swain County commissioners charged a newly formed ad hoc committee with tackling a longstanding controversial issue — the county’s lack of animal control.

Swain County is one of the last counties in the state that doesn’t have any rules on the books when it comes to regulating stray animals, nuisance animals, dangerous dogs, farm animals or animal cruelty.

The county also has no animal shelter to house stray animals, which puts an additional strain on its only nonprofit animal shelter, PAWS. Without a county ordinance, sheriff ’s deputies have no jurisdiction to take action when a resident calls with an animal complaint. In 2014, the sheriff ’s office received 201 animal-related calls.

The ad hoc committee, led by Commissioner Ben Bushyhead and committee Chairwoman Sybil Mann, has spent the last year trying to address these issues and finally presented a draft animal control ordinance to commissioners last week. Mann said this was an assignment the committee did not take lightly, and its members did their best to prevent any controversy by keeping the process very open to the public.

“We wanted to make this as open and inclusive of a process as we could with the community,” she said.

The committee held informational meetings throughout the county — Alarka, Almond, Whittier and Bryson City — to get feedback from residents. People from all different groups, including farmers, hunters, pet owners, the health department, law enforcement officers and PAWS of Bryson City, were also a part of the discussion.

Mann said the committee also received helpful information from County Manager Kevin King about the financial challenges of trying to construct and provide manpower for an animal shelter and advice from Doyle Teague, the animal services director for Haywood County. Even the fourth-grade class at Mountain Discovery Charter School weighed in with letters to advocate for an animal shelter in Swain County.

The committee heard concerns from hunters worried about how an ordinance

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would impact their hunting dogs, from farmers about how it would impact their livestock dogs and farm animals and concerns from residents about stray animals and how a new animal shelter would affect property taxes.

“We had a lot of lively discussions,” Mann said. “We didn’t want to adopt an ordinance from somewhere else — we need one specifically for Swain County — one that takes into account the importance we place on hunting rights and privacy rights.”

Mann said state statutes already addressed many people’s concerns, which made the committee’s job a little easier. After holding 10 public meetings, the committee drafted an ordinance before returning to those same communities to get their feedback on the working document. The committee made one more round of revisions before presenting the ordinance to the commissioners.

The committee identified five purposes for needing an animal control ordinance: to protect the public health, safety and welfare of residents; prevent the abuse, neglect and abandonment of pets; enforce regulations regarding the possession or harboring of dangerous dogs; protect the public and domestic animals from rabies; and educate the public about proper care of animals.

The proposed ordinance specifically excludes hunting dogs, service animals and farm animals because of all the concerns raised during the public input sessions.

The proposed ordinance will allow the county to enforce rabies vaccination requirements for domesticated animals. If a doctor treats someone for an animal bite and the offending animal is a potential rabies carrier, the doctor must notify the health department within 24 hours and an investigation will be opened. Any animal that shows signs of rabies or bites someone will be quarantined for 10 days at the cost of the animal’s owner.

If the county adopts the ordinance, it will be unlawful to keep a dangerous or potentially dangerous animal unless it is confined to a secure building or fully enclosed pen. A dangerous animal is defined as a dog that approaches people in a vicious manner, bites someone, kills or seriously injures another domestic animal or a dog owned primarily for dog fighting. The proposed ordinance outlines the process to determine whether a

Beth Cline, executive director of PAWS of Bryson City, served on an ad hoc committee that was charged with creating Swain County’s first animal control ordinance.

Creating a county animal control department would help take some of the burden off the only nonprofit animal shelter in the area.

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Highlights from the proposed ordinance • Does not apply to hunting dogs, service dogs or livestock dogs.

• Farm animals are specifically excluded from the ordinance by state law.

• Nuisance animals are defined and procedures are established for reporting them.

• Controls for dangerous dogs and responding to dog bites are outlined.

• A community standard is established relating to the care and treatment of dogs and cats.

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dog is dangerous and an appeal process for owners.

Owners could not allow an animal to be a repeat public nuisance.

An Animal Services employee will review written nuisance animal complaints if they feel there is reasonable suspicion. If an investigation is warranted, the owner will be contacted and ordered to correct the nuisance within 48 hours.

Of course a large part of having an animal control ordinance is having the resources to pay for the enforcement. The proposed ordinance calls for the establishment of an animal services center staffed with county employees and supervised by a director, but says commissioners reserve the right to examine other options. Other options could include partnering with another county to house stray and nuisance animals or contracting with an outside company.

Jackson County is also looking at options for a new animal shelter, which could be an opportunity to share resources with Swain County.

Commissioners said they would review the proposed ordinance before their next meeting on Aug. 11. The ordinance will then be available for a 10-day public comment period and a public hearing will have to be held before the commissioners vote on it.

• Protections for property rights and privacy are included by requiring animal services officers to gain consent to come onto a landowner’s property or secure the appropriate legal authorization.

• While the personnel and operations of an animal services facility are included in the ordinance, the existence of a facility will depend on what funding, if any, is available to establish it.

• The ordinance sets out a series of graduated penalties for repeated behavior. First offense is a warning; second offense is $25; third offense is $50 and fourth offense is $100 or seizure of the animal.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER newly purchased cargo van has animal advocates in Jackson County applauding — and rolling up their sleeves to load dogs and cats for travel toward pastures green with adoptive families and nokill shelters.

The van, valued at $35,000 but purchased by the county for $23,000, will stay parked at the county animal shelter.

However, its primary purpose is to be available to animal adoption groups like ARF for long-distance trips. In North Carolina, stray animals in need of homes are all too plentiful, but in states with stricter spay/neuter laws like Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the animals are in demand. When local shelters get too full, ARF volunteers roll a rented van full of canines up north — with the van purchase, rental costs will no longer be an issue.

The homeless animals of Jackson have been reaping the reward from the trips.

“We’ve gone through another month without having to euthanize a dog,” ARF volunteer Allison Padgett told commissioners last week. “That is 19 months in a row.

That is mostly due to ARF.”

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“Right now if I had to bet — and I’m not a betting man — I’m saying most of the information would essentially be pointing toward trying to remodel,” McMahan said.

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Helping homeless animals in Jackson County is an all-hands-on-deck volunteer effort, and more hands are needed to do the work.

“We have a tremendous need right now for fostering animals. We have a tremendous need for help in general with these organizations,” said County Commission Chairman Brian McMahan during a meeting last month.

McMahan plans to put hands to the plow by driving a van of animals up to Pennsylvania for adoption later this month — help is always needed to keep animals from being euthanized due to lack of shelter space. Needs include: ■ Fostering animals so they can wait for their forever homes without taking up space ■ Driving vans of animals to states where stricter spay-and-neuter laws mean that adoptable mutts are in high demand.

■ Donating food to help out pet owners who may be having financial difficulty feeding their pets.

■ Giving money to support animal rescue efforts.

Animal rescue organizations in Jackson County include ARF (www.a-r-f.org), Catman2 Cat Shelter (www.catman2.org), the Jackson County Animal Shelter (animal.jacksonnc.org) and the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society (www.chhumanesociety.org).

about 100 employees, but currently somewhere around 60 people work there — the lower number of workers is due largely to cuts from the state, Commissioner Mark Jones said.

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With a new van equipped with cruise control and air conditioning, those long road trips will become a little bit easier for the organization’s tireless volunteers. But commissioners know that a more secure, long-term solution is needed when it comes to animal control in Jackson.

The county’s animal shelter facility has had a barrage of insults hurled against it in recent years as animal advocates have made a strong case for replacing it. It’s 35 years old with a failing septic system, a well and heating system without backup power, spotty internet service and limited space. The layout is far from ideal, office space is small and cramped, and the building is difficult to secure — it’s been subject to multiple break-ins over the years.

The current board of commissioners has voiced strong support for building a new shelter in the near future, having a needs assessment completed by Connecticutbased Design Learned Inc. However, the report came back with an estimated price tag of nearly $6 million to build an animal shelter with all the desired amenities.

That number took commissioners aback, as they’d been estimating in the $2.5 million range for planning purposes. To some, even that figure seemed too high, meaning the nearly $6 million estimate would just be too expensive.

Now, the board is once more feeling optimistic that they’ll be able to get the project done for a more reasonable price.

They’re planning to work with Ron Smith, a Jackson County native who’s an architect with South Carolina-based McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture. Smith has designed several animal shelters before, mostly in the $2-$4 million range, so he’ll be showing commissioners some examples and options to consider. Commission Chairman Brian McMahan said the Design Learned study provided a good picture of what an all-inclusive shelter would look like, but the next step will be deciding how to pare down the costs while still meeting the county’s needs.

The shelter will have to sit on the backburner for a bit, however, because Smith is currently busy helping commissioners plan another construction project: the health department.

“What happens to that will have an indirect effect on what happens to the animal shelter as far as timing goes,” McMahan said.

The health department project could also prove to be less expensive than initially anticipated. At first, commissioners were considering building a completely new structure on a new piece of property, a project guesstimated to cost in the $10 million range. However, an initial assessment Smith completed indicated that, space-wise, the existing building could work just fine. It had been planned to eventually house

Thanks to the efforts of animal advocates in Jackson County, it has been 19 months since the county animal shelter has euthanized a dog due to lack of space. Donated photo

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Coming to the water Silence-filled service puts a unique frame on spirituality

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER vening is suspended over Lake Junaluska as doors open for the 8 p.m. Taizé service, its coming fall foretold by the softsided clouds gathered over the sinking sun.

Green trees and lakeside buildings are reflected in the blue-gray lake visible through the chapel’s arches, and the peacefulness of the scene is, in turn, reflected in the service that starts to unfold indoors.

The hour begins with quiet as people file into the chapel, moments during which any noise louder than the rustle of paper or creak of a pew feels overpowering. For a few brief moments at the beginning, the room resembles a typical church setting, with a speaker at the front and the listening congregation spread in the pews below. Rev. Susan Slye Giles, chapel dean, comes up to say a few words about how the service will work, and Rev. Woody Wiggins takes a minute to coach the attendees through a couple tunes to be sung a capella, later in the service.

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melody to take it and make it yours so that it becomes your prayer.”

With that, the stage empties and the service follows an order outlined in programs handed out at the beginning. A few short, simple songs, sung repetitively so that the mind can wander toward prayer. A three-line prayer voiced simultaneously by everyone in the room. Some scripture readings, and 10 minutes of extended silence. More songs, more prayers and an open-ended ending in which participants leave, as they feel led, in silence. Most of the time, there’s no apparent leader — the transitions are guided by pastors who remain seated, as participants.

It’s an odd type of service, to be sure, and unfamiliar even to many who would consider themselves familiar with churches and their traditions. But over the past several years that Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center has held Taizé as part of the summer programming, it has become an integral part of the organization’s spiritual offering.

“For me, it’s a time of centering,” said Jack Ewing, executive director of Lake Junaluska.

“It’s the one hour each week where I feel most clearly connected to God, to the Holy Spirit.”

That’s the intent of Taizé, a type of service that’s named after its point of origin in Taizé, France. It’s all about simplicity, about meeting God by quieting the soul and focusing on stillness.

As Roger Schütz, better known as Brother

Water frames the view from Memorial Chapel at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, underlining the summer worship theme of spirituality as a coming to the water. Worship participants (below) take in the silence and song of Taizé service at Lake Junaluska. Holly Kays photos

“Coming to the water is a way to step back and slow down.

To reconnect. Sometimes I feel like my mind, body and spirit are disconnected, and it brings the connection back.”

— Rev. Susan Slye Giles

Try Taizé Taizé service will be offered 8-9 p.m.

Mondays throughout August at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, in Memorial Chapel next to Stewart Auditorium.

Originating from Taizé, France, in 1940, the service revolves around repeated songs, prayers and contemplative silence.

Further detail about Lake Junaluska’s summer worship programming is available at www.lakejunaluska.com/events/worship/summer_worship.

Roger, who founded the Taizé Community in 1940, said, “When it is not smothered by too many words, then a common prayer, far from exuding monotony and boredom awakens us to heaven’s joys on earth.”

In a world of constant content, that kind of boiled-down simplicity can be hard to come by. Indeed, the 10 minutes of silence placed in the middle of the service can be almost scary for some people.

“If you have never sat still for 10 minutes, that can seem like forever,” Giles said, “but once you get used to it it’s never enough.”

The silence is a reconnection, a chance to put

away distractions and re-center on the source of life. And that’s an idea that flows seamlessly into Lake Junaluska’s theme for its summer worship programming — “Come to the Water.”

To the folks at Lake Junaluska, water is an apt metaphor for God and spirituality. Water is a necessity for life. It creates beauty. And in order to experience the full measure of that beauty, you have to go down to it.

“Coming to the water is a way to step back and slow down. To reconnect,” Giles said.

“Sometimes I feel like my mind, body and spirit are disconnected, and it brings the connection back.”

For Giles, Taizé does just that. It’s an hour experienced internally, more than externally, knitting all those aspects of being back together again.

“In the traditional worship service you have a minster and worship team leading the worship. That’s absent in a Taizé service,” Giles said. “The leader of the Taizé service is actually, I believe, the Holy Spirit. Everybody experiences Taizé at their own level of whatever it is they’re needing at that point.”

Sometimes, in a more typical service, worries and realities from life outside are hard to keep at bay, Ewing said.

“I don’t have to do anything in the Taizé service,” he said, “other than be Jack Ewing, child of God.” This week’s service ended, as they all do, with a silence broken softly by footsteps headed either toward the door or to the altar, the glow of candles up front and the windows darkened from the recent setting of the sun. It had started to rain at some point in the last hour, and reflections of headlights and streetlamps painted the pavement outside.

The evening may have been about a symbolic coming to the water. But in a physical sense, the water itself made the journey too.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER The former director of an organization charged with spurring community development on the Qualla Boundary has pled guilty to embezzling nearly $1 million from the institution she once led, bringing almost three years of investigation and prosecution to a close.

“We’re just ready for some closure and ready to move on,” said Russ Seagle, who took over as executive director of The Sequoyah Fund after the previous director’s misconduct was discovered. “We have our brightest days ahead of us, I’m sure.”

Nell Leatherwood, who led the organization from 2006 to 2013, will be sentenced for a total 50 of federal counts related to an embezzlement scheme that began around January 2010, according to a timeline outlined by the prosecution.

From 2010 until her November 2013 resignation, Leatherwood repeatedly misused the corporate credit card for personal expenses, with the bills later paid using Sequoyah Fund dollars, unbeknownst to Sequoyah Fund board members. Overall, the credit card charges for personal expenses totaled about $900,000, according to court

documents, though that number includes “thousands of dollars” in purchases made by “another individual” — that individual is not named, but Leatherwood didn’t charge the entire $900,000 herself, the prosecution said.

She did, however, embezzle money through another means as well, according to court documents. Between December 2012 and November 2013, Leatherwood wrote approximately 47 checks to herself from the Sequoyah Fund account, forging the signatures from board members that were required to cash checks from the account.

She cashed or deposited the checks for her own personal use, court documents say, embezzling about $65,000 in this manner.

The amount taken was substantial, but the Sequoyah Fund has recovered to continue doing its work in the community, Seagle said.

“While any kind of financial fraud like this can pose a setback, it certainly didn’t threaten us or our existence,” Seagle said. “I guess the biggest issue for us was with a small staff we just wanted to make sure we could still focus on taking care of our clients and serve the community.”

Established in 1997 and reorganized in 2006, The Sequoyah Fund is a community development financial institution that falls under the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

Its goal is to issue loans and financial services on the Qualla Boundary to encourage community development, using both tribal

Nell Leatherwood funds and grants from non-tribal sources — the organization has received some sizable grants from the United States government in the past.

In 2008, for example, the organization received about $1.3 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and between 2007 and 2009 the Sequoyah Fund got $1.8 million from the U.S. Department of the treasury. Two grants totaling about $284,000 came from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2007 and 2010.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ribal Council narrowly passed a resolution last month that would shorten the term of embattled Tribal Casino Gaming Enterprise board member Angela Kephart, but when council reconvenes on Aug. 4, Kephart will be asking its members to reconsider.

“Resolution #295 was worded to manipulate my term appointment by shortening the term, therefore ‘removal without cause,’” Kephart wrote in a letter to Tribal Council outlining the reasons for her protest.

Former Principal Chief Michell Hicks appointed Kephart and Barak Myers to the board in March 2015, when both new members filled unexpired terms vacated by resigning board members. The resolution twice lists Myers’ name first and Kephart’s name second, further down stating that “the first appointment will expire on Sept. 30, 2016, and the second appointment will expire on Sept. 30, 2017.”

The resolution passed last month, submitted by current Principal Chief Patrick Lambert, reverses the order of the appointments so that Kephart’s term expires this year and Myers’ term expires in 2017.

“It is the desire of the Principal Chief to amend the Resolution and clarify that Barak Myers is the second appointment and Angie Kephart is the first appointment named in that Resolution,” the document reads.

“Both these appointments are appointments from the Principal Chief,” Lambert told council at its July meeting.

“They serve at the pleasure of the chief ’s office and can be removed for cause. I’m not asking that they be removed — I’m only asking that they serve at the pleasure of the principal chief, and that’s the terms I’m requesting council to honor.”

Council approved Lambert’s resolution, but narrowly. The vote — councilmembers’ votes are weighted based on the population of their township so that the 12 members’ votes add up to 100 — came out to 45-43 in favor of passage, with Councilmember Albert Rose, of Birdtown, abstaining with his 12 Angela Kephart votes.

According to Cherokee code, TCGE board members serve fiveyear terms subject to removal for cause by a majority vote of Tribal Council — members are appointed by the principal chief with approval from Tribal Council.

Council considered removing Kephart for cause earlier this year, after reports surfaced that she’d been consuming free alcohol at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino — TGCE board members aren’t allowed to accept gifts from the casino —

and held a party in one of the suites, in which the casino worker serving the group allegedly was sexually harassed.

The allegations also said that Kephart had verbally harassed another server at the casino. Somebody obtained portions of security footage from Harrah’s and posted it on Facebook, where it spread like wildfire.

In response, Tribal Council ordered an investigation.

However, the investigation — council would not release the report or the name of the investigator — concluded that the evidence didn’t point to any cause for Kephart’s seat being taken away. As a result, council ultimately ended up allowing Kephart to keep her position, though not without opposition.

According to Councilmember Teresa McCoy, of Big Cove, the investigation was so poorly done that “a monkey could have done it,” and after council first considered the report in June she promised that the issue would make its way back to council.

Lambert made a similar promise. He’s been working to get Kephart off the board ever since he took office in October 2015, soliciting her resignation within days of his swearingin. She refused.

Kephart alleges that she’s being unfairly targeted and harassed by Lambert. Lambert, who for 22 years before becoming chief served as executive director of the Tribal Gaming Commission — a separate board from the TCGE that is also involved with the casino — has maintained that there are very good reasons why Kephart isn’t fit to serve as a board member. After council’s June meeting, when the efforts to remove her failed, he promised to keep trying.

“I will continue to stand firmly with the Cherokee family and all employees who have had to suffer from this type of mistreatment from Ms. Kephart,” Lambert said in June. “I think she should show respect to our Tribe and the position by resigning or face further potential efforts for removal.”

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When the embezzlement came to light, Seagle said, top priority became instituting new procedures and practices so that Leatherwood’s scheme couldn’t be repeated in the future.

“In a lot of cases, when you have a small organization you just do what you do on a daily basis and you don’t really think about some of these controls that have to be in place, but we’re very much more aware of even the smallest things now than we ever were,” Seagle said. “We’re certainly not the same organization we were when all of this took place.”

For instance, whereas before the executive director had control over the writing and cashing of checks, those duties are now divided up between the organization’s three staff members. One person picks up the mail, another person writes the check and a third signs all the paperwork. Two different people must now verify all bank reconciliations. A CPA has been hired to help with the transition, and an outside accounting firm has been contracted to further split up those duties.

“There are sure a lot more hands involved in things now than there used to be,” Seagle said.

With the guilty plea accepted, all that remains is for the sentencing to be delivered, something that won’t likely happen until September or afterward.

“Now we just wait for the courts to do their work,” Seagle said.

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Swain left off SCC priority funding list

Macon questions need for new burn building While Southwestern Community College has earmarked bond revenue for a new first responder training center (burn building) in Macon County, the project isn’t a done deal unless county commissioners agree to fund a portion of the construction cost.

The Connect N.C. Bond passed by voters this spring will provide SCC with more than $7 million for infrastructure projects.

However, the bond language states that if the funding is used for new construction, the county government has to match $1 for every $3 spent from bond revenue.

The new burn building would cost about $2 million, meaning Macon County commissioners would be responsible for up to $500,000 of the project. Even though the facility is nearing the end of its life expectancy, commissioners aren’t convinced a brand new building is justified at this point.

“Wouldn’t it make sense to get an engineering firm to look at it to see what it would take to make it structurally sound for another 20 years?” asked Commission Chairman Kevin Corbin.

“The bond would provide $1.5 million but we’d have to provide $500,000, so it’s still an expensive proposition.”

As its name implies, the burn building has been subject to extreme harsh conditions for the last 26 years. It’s been set on fire countless times to help firefighters train for real emergencies. The building has also been negatively affected by flooding last Christmas. Commissioners allocated about $7,000 to replace burn panels on the building after the flood damage.

“Our burn building is 26 years old. Having multiple fire situations in it has made it start to decompose,” said Curtis Dowdle, SCC’s dean of public safety training. “Additionally, it’s in a floodplain. As recently as this past winter, we had 2 feet of water in the building twice.”

Based on an external analysis by SKA Consulting Engineers, SCC President Dr. Don Tomas said the board of trustees made the decision to prioritize the burn building project. SKA also reported that the current building needed about $29,000 worth of renovations now just to be able to use it for another year or so.

“It would be foolish to spend money renovating it if it’s useless in two years,” Corbin said.

On the other hand, Corbin said, $2 million for a burn building still sounded steep. For the sake of due diligence, the commissioners agreed to hire engineers to assess the current facility and get an independent opinion on whether its life expectancy can be extended without constructing a brand new building.

SCC has prioritized a new $16.3 million health science building for the Jackson County campus, which would require a significant match from Jackson commissioners. Jackson County voters did approve a quarter-cent sales tax increase during the June 7 primary election that will be earmarked for K-12 and higher education capital needs. While the project has yet to be approved by commissioners, revenue from the sales tax increase could potentially go toward the construction cost of the health science building.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR outhwestern Community College is receiving $7.17 million from the Connect N.C. bond to make major infrastructure improvements to its three campuses, but none of that money will be going to SCC’s small Swain County campus.

The SCC Board of Trustees recently voted on its top priorities, which include constructing a new health science building at the main Jackson County campus ($5.5 million) and in Macon County replacing the first responder training building ($1.4 million) and repaving the driving course ($300,000).

“Our recent master planning process identified more than $54 million in essential needs on all of our campuses,”

expanding Swain programming, officials say.

SCC held a number of master plan workshops in each county to gather input on what the community college’s infrastructure priorities should be. SCC officials have made it clear that the Almond School facility was a major hurdle in expanding educational programs in Swain.

Just bringing the 1950s building up to code would cost $2.2 million, and even then there is little room for growth in that location. It’s difficult for SCC to justify that expense, especially with so few students taking curriculum classes at the Swain center. Typically fewer than 20 students are taking curriculum classes at any time, but over each of the last two years about 380 Swain County residents have taken continuing education classes at the Almond facility.

“On recommendation of our administration, our board of trustees unanimously voted to address our most critical needs: a new burn building and re-paving the driving course range for public safety training in Macon County and a new health sciences building in Jackson County,” Tomas said. “We are continuing to keep the lines of communication open with Swain County Commissioners about our needs and potential sources of revenue for addressing those needs in Swain County.”

Swain County voters will have another referendum in front of them on the Nov. 8 ballot that could potentially expand education options in the future. If the referendum is approved, Swain County’s sales tax will increase by a quarter of a cent — bringing it up to 7 cents on the dollar. The additional The first responder training facility in Macon County is included on Southwestern revenue — estimated at $290,000 a year — will go to Swain County Community College’s priority list for replacement. Constructing a new facility Schools’ infrastructure needs. would cost about $2 million. Donated photo Swain County Schools Superintendent Sam Pattillo is looking said Dr. Don Tomas, president of SCC. “While we could not at fulfilling immediate needs at the schools as well as lookbe more grateful to voters for passing the Connect N.C. ing at long-term opportunities the referendum may bring. bond, which provides us with $7.17 million for capital He would like to see the high school expand so it could offer improvements, that revenue alone will not allow us to a community college education similar to the programs address all of our needs.” provided in Jackson, Macon and Haywood counties SCC’s Swain campus is located inside the former through the early colleges. High school students can choose Almond School building and offers a limited number of the early college track and graduate with an associate’s SCC programs, including outdoor leadership and heritage degree in five years. This kind of program expansion would arts. allow Swain students to get college credits at home without Swain County may feel like it gets the short end of the traveling to other counties. stick when it comes to SCC offering more local programs “There’s lots of opportunities to provide more on our for students, but many factors are at play when it comes to high school campus while working with SCC,” Pattillo said.

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“We were hoping Lake Junaluska would be merged in [to the Town of Waynesville],” she said. “Unfortunately that didn’t happen.

We lost a town manager, and we’re doing a town manager search right now.”

Former Waynesville Town Manager Marcy Onieal was abruptly fired in January after the November election changed the make-up of the town board. Mike Morgan, former Weaverville town manager, was hired in February on an interim basis.

“It’s nice to be in this position and have the opportunity to watch Mike Morgan, and to have learned from Marcy when she was here,” Owens said.

Owens plans to put that experience to good use; she says her career goal is to one day become a town manager herself.

In the meantime, she’s looking forward to working with Waynesville’s yet-to-benamed new town manager, who’s expected to be on the job sometime soon.

“I have at least two and one-half years of historical background that I can offer, and I have experience as the clerk, so if they need anything researched that’s not within my tenure I’m very able to do that,” she said. “I want to be a resource for the new town manager coming in, and I want to work together with them to make Waynesville better, because I know we’ve always got things we can do to continue to advance.”

Mayor Gavin Brown said on June 27 that the town manager search was down to two candidates and that an offer could come as soon as mid-July with the goal of having someone in place by mid-August.

However, since that time a third candidate has been interviewed, which could mean alderman were unable to come to a consensus on the original two finalists.

Swain trash site changes go into effect Sept. 1 had concerns about traffic flow in and out of the site once the fencing goes up.

“We may create another situation where employees can’t get people through the site quick enough and traffic may back up on (U.S.) 19,” he said.

King said the site can fit 10 vehicles at a time at the compactors and have four cars waiting inside the gate without traffic backing up on the road.

The county is funding these upgrades through a $132,000 grant from the state and a $250,000 loan. The five trash compactors are sealed tight, which will prevent any leakage of solid or liquid waste. The compactors will be emptied on a regular basis by a new front-loading truck purchased by the county.

Convenience site supervisor Scott Turpin told commissioners last week that the concrete pads were being poured to sit the compactors on and everything was on track to be up and running by Sept. 1.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR Beginning Sept. 1, Swain County residents will notice some big changes when they go to drop off their trash and recycling at the convenience center.

The trash and recycling drop-off site on Old U.S. 19 in Bryson City will no longer be open 24 hours a day. With the installation of five new and expensive compactors, the site will be fenced in and open to the public only from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. during daylight savings time and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the rest of the year. The site will be closed on Sundays and holidays.

County Manager Kevin King said implementing the changes would be a learning process to see what works and what doesn’t.

However, in the long run, he said the changes would save the county money, keep the trash site cleaner and cut down on illegal dumping.

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Medicare, including Part D, which covers prescription drugs; Medigap, which covers gaps in Parts A and B (in-hospital expenses, doctor services, outpatient care and some preventive services); and Part C (also known as Medicare Advantage, which is designed to replace Parts A, B, Medigap and, potentially, part D). You have several options for Part D, Medigap and Medicare Advantage, each with varying coverage and costs, so choose the plans that best fit your needs. (To learn Many of us may ignore the impact of health care more about Medicare and supplemental insurance, costs because we just assume Medicare will pay for go to www.medicare.gov.) everything. But that’s not the case. In estimating • Develop a long-term care strategy. To meet longhealth care costs during retirement, you may find that $4,000 to $6,000 per year per person for traditional term care costs, you could self-insure or purchase inmedical expenses is a good starting point, although surance coverage. To learn about long-term care the amount varies by individual. Furthermore, this fig- insurance solutions, contact your financial advisor. ure does not include the costs of long-term care, which • Invest for growth and rising income. Health care can be considerable. To illustrate: The national average for home health aide services is nearly $45,000 per costs typically rise as you move further into retirement, year, and a private room in a nursing home is nearly so make sure that a reasonable portion of your assets $84,000 per year, according to a recent survey by Gen- is allocated to investments with the potential for both growth and rising income. worth, a financial security company.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER After almost three years with the town of Waynesville, Amie Owens is out as administrative services director.

Luckily for her, she wasn’t unemployed long; the whole reason she lost her job on July 26 is because she was promoted to assistant town manager moments later.

A Pisgah High School graduate, Owens attended AshevilleBuncombe Waynesville Assistant Technical Town Manager Community Amie Owens. Donated photo College and then Montreat College before spending 17 years in the healthcare industry.

Prior to being hired as the Waynesville town clerk, she served as the executive assistant to the deputy clerk of Haywood County; last December, she earned her master’s degree in Public Administration from Western Carolina University.

“When I switched from health care to local government, I was surprisingly happy with how they were similar but different, because I enjoy statutes and regulations and research, and things like that,” said Owens.

“I’m very people-oriented. I consider myself to be very good at customer service, very customer-oriented.”

Although Owens hasn’t been with the town long, she’s already witnessed her fair share of significant events and is bound to

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Free women’s business luncheon Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center hosts a Women’s Business Networking Luncheon to provide the perfect opportunity to network with fellow women entrepreneurs.

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U.S. Constitution class starts Aug. 16 A 10-week class to learn more about the U.S. Constitution will be held from 7 to 8:15 p.m. every Tuesday starting Aug. 16 at New Covenant Church, 767 Lee Road, Clyde. Each class will begin with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then the group will go article by article through the Constitution and Bill of Rights, learn about executive orders, the Electoral College, and much more through a DVD series. $20 per person covers the cost of the spiral bound workbook. To sign up, call or text Kay Miller at 864.325.0093 or email bkstegall@hotmail.com.

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The deadline for applications is 5 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 17. Application forms may be downloaded from the Online Services section of the county website, www.haywoodnc.net or picked up from the County Manager’s Office, Haywood County Courthouse, Third Floor, 215 North Main Street, Waynesville, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Smith elected as Whittier-Cherokee precinct chair Ashford Smith, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, has been elected as the precinct chair for the Swain County Democratic Party WhittierPrecinct.

Ashford has a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Tennessee and is working on his Master’s Degree in Public Administration at UNC Charlotte. He currently is employed as training coordinator for the EBCI Public Health and Human Services Department.

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The deadline to sign up for the Macon County Safe Kids Dodgeball fundraiser tournament is Friday Aug. 5.

Five more teams to register to ensure a successful fundraiser for the tournament.

The Macon County Sheriff ’s Office has a team registered and is excited to challenge the other teams. Funds raised will enable the organization to continue providing gunlocks, car seats, and public awareness programs.

Contact Dave Linn at bringingit2life@gmail.com.

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The Republican South Jackson County office will open Monday, Aug. 8, at 71 Commons Drive in Cashiers.

The Cashiers office hours will be 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

The North Jackson County office is at 60 West Sylva Shopping Center Sylva. Signs, bumper stickers, handouts, information and other election paraphernalia are available at both offices.

Republicans, unaffiliated voters and others interested are invited to visit the offices and to attend all GOP meetings and events.

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A Couch to 5K program to help runners prep for the 10th annual Power of Pink race this fall will begin Aug. 4 at the Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center.

Join the team at 6 p.m. every Thursday for specialized sessions to prepare you for the Power of Pink 5K, which will be held at 9 a.m. Sept. 24 at Haywood Regional Medical Center.

Sign up at 828.452.8080 or www.myhaywoodregional.com/c25k. These sessions are complimentary and a fitness center membership is not required.

The Power of Pink was created in 2007 to provide mammogram screenings and follow-up procedures for underserved women of Haywood County. Since the first event 1,338 mammograms and follow-up procedures have been provided for 800 women. www.haywoodhealthcarefoundation.org.

topic of this luncheon will be Exemplary Customer Service-The New Minimum.

Get a sense of connection and community while networking at the next Women’s Business Networking Luncheon. Lunch is provided. This event is co-sponsored by The Western Women’s Business Center at The Support Center.

Visit sbc.haywood.edu or call 828.627.4512.

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WCU donates equipment to Haywood mission trip When Western Carolina University alumnus Greg Boothroyd of Haywood County issued a call for donations of soccer equipment for a church mission trip to Jamaica, the women’s soccer program at his alma mater answered.

Boothroyd, a 1995 graduate of WCU and co-owner of the Smoky Mountain News in Waynesville, was assisting daughter Molly and other members of the Long’s Chapel United Methodist Church’s high school youth group in collecting soccer balls, jerseys and other items to donate to a children’s orphanage in the Jamaican town of Bamboo.

Between donations from the WCU soccer program and the local AYSO chapter, Boothroyd found himself with 42 soccer balls, eight pairs of goal gloves, four shin pads, eight pairs of shoes, four warm-up jackets, a long-sleeve goalie shirt, two large ball bags, two air pumps and 20 ball needs.

AYSO also provided 130 uniforms, each consisting of two different-colored shirts, a pair of shorts and two pairs of socks, while WCU contributed 56 Catamount soccer jerseys. Boothroyd also collected six totes to haul the equipment and $200 in cash contributions to help pay the cost of shipping the items to Jamaica.

PAWS plans for 13th annual fundraiser PAWS of Bryson City will host the 13th annual Wine Tasting, Silent Auction and Beer Garden event from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, at Land’s Creek Cabins Harmony Hall.

Tickets cost $20 in advance and $25 at the door. All proceeds will benefit PAWS, the only animal shelter in Swain County. Purchase tickets at www.pawsbrysoncity.org, PAWS Thrift Store or send checks to P.O. Box 1814, Bryson City, NC, 28713.

To donate or sponsor the event, call 828.488.0418.

Fund for Haywood donates to conservation The Fund for Haywood County, an affiliate of The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, recently presented a check for $3,783 to Southwestern North Carolina Resource Conservation and Development Council.

The funds will support the Forest Restoration Alliance project that is working to research trees naturally resistant to invasive insects in order to restore hemlocks to their native environments and the nursery industry in WNC. The project will also improve Fraser firs for the Christmas tree industry.

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Faith-based groups support Hospice House More than 20 faith-based communities have rallied behind Hospice House Foundation of WNC’s initiative to bring a hospice inpatient facility to the mountain region. All churches providing support will be recognized on a

Western Carolina University associate soccer coach Todd Herman (right) presents Greg Boothroyd of Haywood County with a collection of surplus equipment to take to children at a Jamaican orphanage. Donated photo

plaque in the chapel that will be part of the new hospice inpatient facility.

Hospice House’s mission is to raise funds for the construction and endowment of a hospice inpatient facility that will serve the six far western counties of North Carolina (Macon, Jackson, Swain, Graham, Clay, and Cherokee) and northeast Georgia. The proposed hospice inpatient facility is a $5.2 million project.

HHFWNC has raised close to $1.2 million to date and has received two challenge grants pledging a total of $1.3 million.

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Caregiver education class offered in Haywood A caregiver education class will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 12, at the Haywood Senior Resource Center, 81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville.

The presentation “Medication Side Effects in Older Adults” teaches participants about physiological changes in older adults, the impact of medication on the mind and body, side effects, adverse drug reactions and allergic reactions. The presenter will be Brett Trull, RN. No cost. Stop by or call the center to register.

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REACH to hold volunteer training REACH will hold a volunteer training session from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 11-12 at Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Anyone interested in direct client related volunteerism or an internship must complete 20 hours of training. Training is designed for those who want to help REACH’s mission of

ending domestic violence and sexual assault in Macon and Jackson counties.

Register by Aug. 5 at www.reachofmaconcounty.org.

Library offers class on Google calendar A free Google calendar class will be held at 5:55 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Organize your life with Google calendar and find out how to share an online calendar with members of your organization or create a public calendar for your business. You must have a Gmail account and know your password to participate.

Class size is limited to the first 16 people who sign up.

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Maggie Valley Lions Club to host golf tournament The Maggie Valley Lions Club will be holding its eighth annual Four-person Captain’s Choice Scramble on Thursday, Aug. 18, at Maggie Valley Club.

Tee Time is at 9 a.m. and registration starts at 8:30 a.m. The cost is $65 per person, which includes coffee and rolls, lunch and a door prize worth at least $25. All proceeds from this event go to sight, hearing and community programs in and around Maggie Valley.

First prize is $400; second place is $200; third place is $100. Closest to the pin receives $50. Mulligans will be available for purchase. Signup sheets are available at Maggie Valley Club, Waynesville Country Club, Laurel Ridge Country Club and Lake Junaluska Golf Course.

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HCC Shine & Dine Gala planned for Sept. 16 Haywood Community College’s Foundation will hold a Shine & Dine Gala from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, at the Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville.

The event will feature a buffet dinner, jazz music by Juan Benavides, a student timbersports demonstration and a silent auction.

Proceeds from the gala will support the HCC Excels Fund, which provides support for student and campus success.

This fund enhances student experience in the classroom, a priority as the college continues to provide quality education at an affordable price.

Various sponsorship levels are available. Call 828.627.4544 or email pahardin@haywood.edu for details.

Tickets for the event are $75 per person and can be purchased online at hccgala.events or 627-4522.

• The Maggie Valley Chamber’s Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, at the Maggie Valley Club. RSVP by Aug. 3. Cost is $32 per person. Pay at the door or send a check to P.O. Box 279, Maggie Valley, NC, 28751 or drop it off at the chamber office.

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• A First Responders Dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, at Creekwood Farm RV Park in Maggie Valley. Ribs and chicken will be provided for free. Jimmy Gillis Entertainment will play live music. Creekwood is looking for additional food sponsors to help the cause. RSVP to 828.926.7977.

• The second annual WNC Regional Recovery Rally will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at the open-air gym at Lake Junaluska. Free event, open to the public, recovery walk around the lake, food and drinks, guest speaker, children’s activities and special giveaways. www.facebook.com/WesternRegional RecoveryRally.

• REACH of Macon County is looking for basic necessity donations for its new shelter, including laundry detergent pods, paper towels and toilet paper. Monetary donations are also appreciated. Drop off at 29 Meadowlark Drive in Franklin or 26 Ridgeway Street in Sylva. 828.369.5544 or 828.586.8969.

• A free acupuncture clinic for veterans will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 6 and Aug. 20 and at 7:15 p.m. Aug. 10 and Aug. 31. First come first served. Visit project5pp.strikingly.com/hiw or call 828.356.5577.

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One of the better memories from the trip, he told me, was the reaction from a Cuban artist after Tannehill gave him a digital camera. Something so simple and inexpensive to an American was monumental to this man and would allow him to expand his horizons as an artist.

The people in the habit of making such gestures usually take Editor center stage in my memories. One of the most impressionable lessons I got from taking my daughters to piano lessons all those years was one their teacher used to emphasize: sharing music is the giving of a gift to someone or to a group of people. It’s a sharing, and for them music was the bond, was the basis for the connection they made with so many people.

When you are on the receiving end of those gifts it certainly makes one feel good.

My father-in-law is a voracious reader, and

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hen Christopher Holt contacted me in March about a trip he was about to embark on to Cuba, I was fascinated.

Holt is a painter, and in recent years he has built part of his career around traveling to distant places — Egypt, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, to name a few — and doing plein air work, meeting people through his painting, and then trying to make a living off those works when he returns to Western North Carolina.

As a child — from the time I was 6 until I turned 9 — my family lived in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. My father was a career Navy guy, and the three years we spent in Cuba are probably the most idyllic memories of my childhood. The talk about Cuba struck a chord with me, and I definitely wanted to pursue this story.

When we began discussing the story package about his trip — Christopher and one of his traveling companions, Wyman Tannehill, were both raised in Waynesville — I started to learn more about Holt’s work and his artistic life. One aspect of it that hit home for me was how he spoke of giving back, of working with artists he meets and how he always finds time

nearly every time I see him he is offering up a book he thinks will interest me. For many years my brother-in-law — as big a music fiend as you’ll come across — was always passing along mix CDs or introducing my wife and me to new musicians or groups.

It’s not the book or the CD that makes these interactions so special, but the fact that someone has given you something of themselves, their time, and their thoughts. When you share that, a connection is made that is very personal.

Which brings me around to the symposium and art show at The Strand at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 4 (pre-event social at 6:30 p.m.), that The Smoky Mountain News is helping organize. “Cuba in Focus: Observations from the Ground” includes Holt’s paintings, Tannehill’s photographs, and a discussion from those two and Asheville journalist Jon Elliston. Sponsors also include The Strand at 38 Main and The Haywood County Arts Council.

For the last several years, several staff members here at SMN have been discussing starting a discussion series focusing on the

arts, history, politics, current events, literature, music and many other topics. We don’t see this as any kind of business proposition but more a way to encourage discussion and to bring the community together and foster a deeper understanding of some issue or interesting cultural event.

Newspapers large and small have played this role in their communities, and so we are looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

Anyone who knows Lorraine Conard — one of The Strand’s owners — knows she has been working for a couple of years now to host and organize events just like this and to do it for all the right reasons. Lindsey Solomon, the executive director of the Haywood County Arts Council, is also a big supporter.

So, if you’re an intellectually curious person who wants to hear first-hand about Cuba from people willing to share their experiences — and perhaps meet some like-minded souls — come out Thursday night and help us kick off what I hope will become a symposium/discussion series this community will embrace.

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

Ron Mau: the commissioner we need To the Editor: My dad, Ron Mau, is running for Jackson County Commissioner. I am voting for my dad because I know he is the best candidate for the job. Ron Mau values people above partisan politics. He is committed to doing the right thing, every time.

At least once a week, my dad asks, “Why is party even listed for local candidates?” His meaning is simple: local issues are more important than a political party. As a community, we don’t first ask, “do the Republicans or Democrats want a bridge to the backside of SCC?” or “should we fix the schools’ leaky roofs?” Instead, we ask, “does a $30 million bridge to SCC make sense?” and “why haven’t we already fixed the leaky roofs?”

Before considering an issue, Ron Mau asks two questions: • Does this make sense?

• Is this in the best interest of the people?

These two questions can take us a long way forward.

Just in the past few months, Ron Mau has worked to improve voter access, limit and prevent tax increases on the poor, and fix our school buildings. Imagine all that Ron Mau can and will do when we elect him for the next four years.

Ron Mau is a loving father, passionate educator and active member of the community. He is a registered Republican, but that is just a label. My dad will place people above partisan politics.

I am voting for Ron Mau because I know he will bring the change our community needs. Come November, I ask Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians and unaffiliated voters alike to vote your conscience and vote Ron Mau for Jackson County Commissioner.

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’ve always felt this in my gut, but I’ve learned with keen certainty lately that things we think matter actually don’t matter at all. And not only do they not matter, but they pull our thoughts, attention, and emotions away from the parts of life that do matter.

My dad used to tell me about kids of his generation getting one toy for Christmas and playing with it all year. When they Columnist got bored with that toy, they went outside and found something fun or mischievous to get into. Toys were sort of like an afterthought for children of the 1950s.

Our boys have decided they like sleeping in the bunk beds we have in our older son’s room. They call it the Boy Cave. We’re hoping to convert the other room into a playroom/office. As I try to sort through the two rooms to establish some organization, I’m in shock at the number of toys we have in the house.

Interestingly, despite all of the toys, the boys still have a few favorites that get pulled out and played with more than others. To me that says we don’t need all of this stuff and it’s time to clean house. We’re working on sorting them into “keep” and “donate” piles. If the toy hasn’t been played with in months, it’s getting donated.

A couple of weeks ago, my sister sent me a Huffington Post article titled “Are Today’s Parents Getting the Raw Deal” by writer Rhonda Stephens. On the surface, the piece is comical, but on a deeper level, it’s troubling. Stephens discusses how many kids today are overindulged, either with material items or with parents who are scared to punish them. While today’s parents think they are doing a good job, the troubling matter is children may not be developing the problem-solving skills, resilience, and patience needed to thrive and be successful in today’s world. Stephens compares herself and others her age to her parents’ generation.

In one section, she states: “At some point in the last 25 years, the tide shifted and the parents started getting the marginal cars and the cheap clothes while the kids live like rock stars. We spend enormous amounts of money on private instruction, the best sports gear money can buy, and adhere to crazy competition schedules.

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in the course of one day, and failed to even consider why.

Remember Hank Aaron? He didn’t need a $300 bat to be great. Your kid isn’t going pro and neither is mine, but you are going to retire one day — and dumpster-diving isn’t for the elderly.”

The article really made me think. While it’s obviously important our children feel safe and loved, they don’t truly need a bunch of nice stuff, nor do they need schedules that would drive any adult insane. Our older son began swimming with the Smoky Mountain Aquatic Club this summer and he loves it, but I’m determined not to break the bank or overwhelm the entire family because of it. I still want some of our Saturdays to be spent hiking, camping, or traveling. But we’ll see. I may be eating my words in a few years.

A recent life event most poignantly highlighted what’s important in this world. My sister’s father-in-law passed away on July 29.

While he wasn’t immediate family to me, we knew him well, and he was one of those individuals you don’t forget. He was kind, charismatic, wise, godly, and always had a sparkle in his eye and a laugh in his heart.

After losing his parents to tragedy when he was very young, he never again took life for granted.

Family was always number one priority to him. Growing up, it was his brother and sister. The three of them essentially raised themselves. After that, he fell in love with his high school sweetheart who eventually became his wife of 47 years. The pair raised two amazing boys, one of whom is my brother-in-law. Most recently, three grandchildren joined the family, including my two nieces, Kate and Maddie.

Before he passed away, he wrote something called, “My Blessings.” It’s a letter to his family and friends with messages from the man who meant so much to them. In the section to my sister and his other daughter-in-law, he wrote: “Daughters-in-law, Meg and Savannah, I love you and thank you for being such great wives to our boys and caring for Mac, Maddie, and Kate. It makes me happy to see smiles on your faces when you are with your husbands.

Keep life simple and family close.”

I’ve cried a lot with my sister and the family for the loss of a wonderful person who was truly salt of the earth. Despite the tears, I was inspired when I read his blessings. Inspired to let go of the material things, busy-ness, stress over work, and all the other “stuff ” that’s clogging my life.

Inspired to leave memories for my boys that include me being mindful, grateful, and present with them.

As always seems to be the case in life, parenting is about balance. On one hand, I don’t want my children to rule the roost and drain our bank account, but on the other, I want them to know they are my everything and I couldn’t possibly love them more. At the end of the day, if I follow the advice of a wise man, all be well.

So remember friends, keep life simple and family close.

(Susanna Barbee is a writer who lives in Haywood County. susanna.barbee@gmail.com.)

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

BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Lunch served 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dinner nightly from 5 p.m. Closed on Sunday. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks, fresh fish, and other classic American comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available. We also feature a great selection of craft beers from local artisan brewers, and of course an extensive selection of small batch bourbons and whiskey. The Barrel is a friendly and casual neighborhood dining

experience where our guests enjoy a great meal without breaking the bank.

BREAKING BREAD CAFÉ 6147 Hwy 276 S. Bethel (at the Mobil Gas Station) 828.648.3838 Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Chef owned and operated. Our salads are made in house using local seasonal vegetables. Fresh roasted ham, turkey and roast beef used in our hoagies. We hand make our own eggplant and chicken parmesan, pork meatballs and hamburgers. We use 1st quality fresh not pre-prepared products to make sure you get the best food for a reasonable price. We make vegetarian, gluten free and sugar free items. Call or go to Facebook (Breaking Bread Café NC) to find out what our specials are.

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 am to 9:30 am – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes, and always all-you-can-eat. Lunch every day from 12:00 till 2 pm. Evening cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays, featuring steaks, ribs, chicken, and pork chops, to name a few. Bountiful family-style dinners on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with entrees that include prime rib, baked ham and herb-baked chicken, complemented by seasonal vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts. We also offer a fine selection of wine and beer.

The evening social hour starts at 6 pm, and

dinner is served starting at 7 pm. So join us for mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Please call for reservations.

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 handcut 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.

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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 Open Wednesday and Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.; closed Monday and Tuesday. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet. Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service.

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

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

Monday-Saturday. Father and son team Frank and Louis Perrone cook up dinners steeped in Italian tradition. With recipies passed down from generations gone by, the Perrones have brought a bit of Italy to Maggie Valley. frankiestrattoria.com

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

Open nightly for dinner at 4 p.m.; Friday through Sunday 12 to 4 p.m. for lunch. Daily luncheon special at $6.99. 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.

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MAD BATTER FOOD & FILM 617 W. Main Street Downtown Sylva.

828.586.3555. Open Monday through Wednesday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Handtossed pizza, steak sandwiches, wraps, salads and desserts. All made from scratch.

Beer and wine. Free movies with showtimes at 6:30 and 9 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Visit madbatterfoodandfilm.com for this week’s shows.

11 p.m.; Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m and Sunday 7:30 a.m to 9 p.m. Full service restaurant serving steaks, prime rib, seafood and dinner specials.

SAGEBRUSH STEAKHOUSE 1941 Champion Drive. Canton 828-646-3750 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.

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

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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.

PASQUALE’S 1863 South Main Street, Waynesville. Off exit 98, 828.454.5002. Open for lunch and dinner, Tuesday through Sunday. Classic Italian dishes, exceptional steaks and seafood (available in full and lighter sizes), thin crust pizza, homemade soups, salads hand tossed at your table. Fine wine and beer selection. Casual atmosphere, dine indoors, outside on the patio or at the bar.

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PATIO BISTRO 30 Church Street, Waynesville.

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

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RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 828.926.0201 Open Monday-Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday 11:30 a.m. to

SMOKEY SHADOWS LODGE 323 Smoky Shadows Lane, Maggie Valley 828.926.0001. Check Facebook page for hours, which vary. Call early when serving because restaurant fills up fast. Remember when families joined each other at the table for a delicious homemade meal and shared stories about their day? That time is now at Smokey Shadows. The menus are customizable for your special event. Group of eight or more can schedule their own dinner.

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.

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828.456.3551. Open seven days a week serving lunch and dinner. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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VITO’S PIZZA 607 Highlands Rd., Franklin.

828.369.9890. Established here in in 1998. Come to Franklin and enjoy our laid back place, a place you can sit back, relax and enjoy our 62” HDTV. Our Pizza dough, sauce, meatballs, and sausage are all made from scratch by Vito. The recipes have been in the family for 50 years (don't ask for the recipes cuz’ you won't get it!) Each Pizza is hand tossed and made with TLC.

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‘Beacon Point’ not just another trail flick

Locally shot, genrebending sci-fi thriller draws inspiration from the region

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER he presence of breathtaking topography, ancient native lore, and centuries of American history makes the Great Smoky Mountains a mystical, mysterious place as ominous and foreboding as it is inviting and encouraging.

These conflicting spirits also make the region a haven for filmmakers, including the cast and crew of the recently released, locally shot feature film “Beacon Point.”

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The movie centers around a group of Appalachian Trail hikers on a 10-day backcountry trip guided by trail master Drake Jacobs (Second City alum Jon Briddell).

Each of the four hikers in the group — Zoe (NYU-Tisch School alum Rae Olivier), Dan (improv teacher and screen vet Eric Goins), Brian (“October Baby” Jason Burkey), and Cheese (R.J. Shearer, “Paper Towns”) — are searching for something different, but end up finding strange and terrifying secrets deep within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park that none of them could have ever expected.

“The first move was — and a lot of filmmakers don’t do this — researching genre and audience,” said director and co-writer Eric Blue, who decided that for an indie filmmaker on a tight budget, a sci-fi thriller would be both marketable and creatively satisfying.

“The horror genre has traditionally been really good, but it’s so saturated that I wanted to do something a little different, but still play in that genre,” he said. Blue’s admiration for the genre dates back to his childhood, when “Star Wars” was released.

“It literally blew my mind,” he said.

As he set about making “Beacon Point,” the Atlanta-based Blue called upon a friend who is also a writer and executive with Warner Brothers Home Entertainment in Los Angeles.

“She loved the idea,” he said of co-writer Traci Carroll. “We began working on the script

by Dropbox, Skype and email. We did it really quick, in like four months, which is fast in the screenwriting world.”

Carroll said that when she would think about the idea of writing partners, she always had a mental picture of sitting in a room, talking about ideas and then “banging them out” on an old-fashioned typewriter.

“But I also like to spend time just thinking about the story and characters, and really mulling that over,” she said. “So what was great about working via email and Dropbox is that I really had time to think about where I saw the story and characters going. At the same time, I’d be looking forward to reading a treatment or draft from Blue to see what he was thinking.”

When the script was completed, Blue created a business plan and went looking for funders.

“People really liked the screenplay, but I also had a body of work behind me to show, ‘Hey, this guy knows what he’s doing,’” said Blue, who attended film school at the University of Oregon and graduated with a degree in film and communications from Georgia State. Over the years, he’s done corporate work, music videos and short films, including the award-winning 2007 short Lost Crossing starring Melissa McBride — better known as Carol from “The Walking Dead.”

Filming in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER he Great Smoky Mountains National Park requires permits for a number of activities beyond simply camping — getting married, holding political rallies or scattering a loved one’s ashes, for example. Among those activities is commercial filming.

Designed to safeguard resources and minimize interference with ordinary tourists, the permit for commercial filming costs an initial $100, which is based on the average amount of administrative time it takes the National Park Service to process such requests. If processing takes longer, a

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The cast of ‘Beacon Point’ (left to right) R.J. Shearer, Jason Burkey, Rachel Marie Lewis, Jon Briddell and Eric Goins. www.bluelanternfilms.com photo As soon as Blue had raised the money, which he admits took “a fair amount of time,” he brought on producers Scott Salomon and Matt Ackerman and began to work on logistics, including how and where to shoot, and casting.

“So much of making a movie is good casting,” Blue said. “About 95 percent is good story, good casting. With those elements, it’s kind of hard to screw it up. So we engaged a casting agency out of Atlanta, Big Picture Casting. They do a lot of the casting for the smaller parts of ‘Walking Dead,’ and ‘Vampire Diaries,’ and a lot of the big movies that come through town.”

Blue found some of the cast in Atlanta, but the talent for the important roles of Drake and Zoe — the group’s guide who is not as he seems and the young woman looking for closure with her deceased father, respectively — was found in L.A. “Once we got it casted, it all started to come together,” he said.

The personal dynamics between the characters move the story along, creating a tightly wound, tense and relatable tale that utilizes a realistic delivery method — for who hasn’t

$50 per hour charge for extended administrative time may be incurred.

Additionally, a $50 per hour charge applies for interviews of park personnel, as well as for continuous on-site monitoring by the NPS. Location fees range from nothing for two people with just a camera and tripod on up to $750 a day for productions with more than 50 people on set.

Sounds complicated, expensive and difficult, right?

“It was actually easier than I thought,” said Eric Blue, director and co-writer of the feature film “Beacon Point,” which premiered in Hollywood June 10 after being shot primarily in the Smokies in 2015.

“We engaged the parks department and got permission to shoot up there from them,” he said. “It’s fairly straightforward, as long as you follow the process, which was filling out

been terrified and lost on a trail or even in an urban metropolis? — that owes much of its believability to a backwoods experience Blue once had.

“That experience really left a mark on me,” he said of the night he and his wife, asleep in their tents, heard something prowling about the immediate vicinity. “There’s a fear and an unknown in the woods at night, and it’s surprising how scary it can be, especially for a guy who’s pretty confident outdoors — I’m fairly athletic and I’m not afraid of anything, but the fear that grabbed hold of me that night was unexplainable. It really rattled me. If something had happened, we were 20 miles away from help. That’s the catalyst of where ‘Beacon Point’ came from, because as a writer, it’s best to write about things you know. It’s best to write scary stuff about stuff that scares you.”

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paperwork and paying for the permits.”

After signing a contract with the NPS and purchasing insurance coverage for everyone on set, Blue and his production company were ready for action.

“Once we had all of those ducks in a row, it was fairly simple. It was just a matter of playing by their rules — there’s a lot of rules there for safety, and for maintaining the environment,” he said. “So we had a park ranger that was escorting us around, making sure we were safe, making sure we weren’t bugging the tourists.”

That ranger wasn’t just Blue’s nanny; Blue said he found value in their company.

“They were giving us a lot of background in history and common knowledge, or deep knowledge about the area and the trails,” Blue said. “So it was cool to have somebody who really knew it, so we could ask questions.”

everything we wanted with it. We stopped working on it because we were finished, not because we ran out of time or money.

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GKW: With the recording process, where was the new album done? And what is the process by which y’all craft together a record? Come into the studio with songs ready, or let the energy of the space dictate the attitude of the sessions, or both?

SD: We recorded the album at the one and only Echo Mountain in Asheville, with Julian Dreyer as our engineer and co-producer. Most of the songs we put on this album had been heavily road-tested. We usually like to take songs out into the world before recording them. We can get energetic feedback from audiences and from each other, we can try different versions, jam one night, play it straight the next night, change the tempo. When it came time to record these songs, we spent about a month before going into the studio doing pre-production, figuring out what versions of the songs we wanted to do, how to arrange them for a recording versus a live show, how to really represent what we do and who we are. But, we also didn’t plan too much. We intentionally left some things unplanned, especially when it came to anything in addition to our normal trio, such as extra guitar parts, keys, crazy studio effects, extra percussion and horns. Once we recorded the music, we just really listened to the songs and let them tell us what they needed.

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As I enter my fifth year living and thriving here in Western North Carolina, I’m also sliding into a space of reference and observation where I can now The production of “All My Sons” will hit the compare and contrast those substage at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5-6, 11-13 and 18-20, jects I continually cross paths and at 2 p.m. Aug. 7, 14 and 21 at the with throughout my travels.

Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

Of which, I find myself runSoul Infusion Tea House & Bistro (Sylva) will ning around in numerous musihost The Maggie Valley Band (Americana/folk) cal circles, from Asheville to at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6.

Franklin, Hot Springs to Murphy. And when you’re writMad Anthony’s Bottle Shop & Beer Garden ing about all of these talented (Waynesville) will host The Brothers Gillespie and unique acts, one thing sticks (Americana) at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5. out — how far they’ve come.

Based out of Asheville, The The third annual “Richard’s Run 5K” will be held Get Right Band is a group I’ve at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Cataloochee been keeping tabs on for a few Guest Ranch in Maggie Valley. A gala and years now. Led by singer/guiauction will also be held under a “big white tarist Silas Durocher, the ensemtent” at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, at the ranch. ble also includes Jesse Gentry Nantahala Brewing Company (Bryson City) will (bass) and drummer J.C. Mears host Positive Mental Attitude (jam/reggae) at 8 (drums). What stands out about p.m. Friday, Aug. 5. this band is the mere fact that nobody around this region and attitudes that continue to propel them sounds like them. Period. into the next chapter of what is already Though I encourage folks to track them down, either live or by way of their albums, I amounting to a promising future. find myself, more or less, running down a Garret K. Woodward: It has been a coulist of musical genres when describing them. ple years since we last talked. How has the “Well, they’re definitely a rock band, but band evolved, professionally and musically? they also get jazzy, and down and dirty Silas Durocher: We’ve gotten significantly funky, also some reggae and folk in there for busier and, I think, significantly better. good measure. Oh, and they jump into the When I say “better,” I partially mean obvious blues and touch upon some pop aspects, stuff — we’re tighter, our songs are stronger, too,” I’ll say, as if to stop for a moment with we’re growing as individual musicians and as my next thought, “Heck, they have it all.” an ensemble. But, I mostly mean that we feel And it’s that “all” factor which puts The like we’re really creating art that we’re excitGet Right Band into a league of their own. ed about and proud of. We’re being more It’s surprising when you stand there watching them perform, where you’re trying to fig- honest and more present in our art. This album is a great reflection of that — this is a ure out just how they’re able to get that fully realized artistic vision. That doesn’t at much sound from a power trio. With their all mean it’s perfect, it just means that we latest record “Who’s in Charge?” the group put everything we’ve got into it and did once again showcases those musical tastes

GKW: As a musician these days, what are you seeing out there, as a touring act, as a group trying to find traction in an often difficult industry to properly navigate?

SD: Well, oversaturation of the market is a major factor in every single thing a band is trying to do. There are so many bands these days — it’s insane. So, any industry “gatekeeper” that we’re trying to get in touch with, they’re just being inundated with similar emails and phone calls. It’s a real challenge just to get people to give you a chance.

And it’s the same for listeners, where they have so many options of what to listen to and new music to be turned on to. Of course, the flip side of that is that it’s easier than ever to get your music directly to your fans.

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‘Songwriters’ welcomes Vandiver, Satcher, Buppert The “Songwriters in the Round” series will continue with Jerry Vandiver, Leslie Satcher and Tim Buppert at 6 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 5, at the Balsam Mountain Inn. Vandiver has seen his songs recorded

by Tim McGraw, Phil Vassar, Lonestar, Barbara Mandrell, Lee Greenwood and The Oak Ridge Boys, among others. He scored a top five single with Gene Watson’s “Don’t Waste It On The Blues,” a top 20 on Wild Rose’s “Go Down Swingin’” and a number two on Tim McGraw’s “For A Little While.”

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Entries are now being accepted for the Mountain Youth Talent Contest to be held during the 12th Annual Franklin Area Folk Festival on Aug. 20 at Cowee School, Arts & Heritage Center in Franklin. The entry deadline is Aug. 12.

All youth ages 5-18 who perform traditional mountain music, dance, or storytelling are invited to participate in this year’s Mountain Youth Talent Contest. The contests are held in three different counties in Western North Carolina. The purpose is to discover, develop, and encourage talent in youth in traditional Appalachian music and heritage and to provide an opportunity for young people to perform on stage before an audience. Performances are judged and ribbons and cash prizes are awarded.

Access the entry link online through the Jackson County 4-H Blog at jackson4h.blogspot.com. See the Guidelines, Qualifications and Rules for more information on the type of talent to present and what the judges look for. As a reminder, no recorded backup music is allowed. Sing acapella or find someone 28 to play an acoustic instrument with you.

two decades ago, Satcher met Naomi Judd, who helped her hone her songwriting skills. As the years went along, her songs have been covered by artists such as Joe Diffie, Sara Evans, Lee Ann Womack, Wade Hayes, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Pam Tillis, and Willie Nelson.

A successful songwriter and one of Nashville’s most sought after singers, Buppert has performed with Trisha Yearwood, Michael Peterson, Paul Brandt, Anita Cochran, Kevin Sharp and Meredith Edwards.

A buffet dinner is included in the $49 ticket price, and seating begins at 6 p.m.

For more information or to make a reservation, visit www.balsammountaininn.net or call 828.456.9498.

GYPSY-SOUL IN CANTON Americana act Ain’t Nothing Much will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, at the Southern Porch in Canton. Free.

828.492.8006 or www.southern-porch.com.

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Acclaimed bluegrass act Mountain Faith and Tim Zimmerman & The King’s Brass will perform at the Stuart Auditorium in Lake Junaluska.

• Mountain Faith will play at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 5. Their unique Appalachian blend of bluegrass, folk, R&B and pop music brought them to the semifinals of the NBC show “America’s Got Talent” in 2015. They have also appeared on Daystar and were nominated for the SPBGMA Bluegrass Music Awards. Since 2000, Mountain Faith has played their unique brand of music to audiences at colleges, civic centers, auditoriums, arenas, fair grounds, festivals, parks, and churches across the United States and Canada.

• Tim Zimmerman & The King’s Brass

(pop/piano) Aug. 26 and Hurricane Creek (rock/blues) Sept. 2.

All shows are free and open to the public. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

For a paper entry form, contact Kerri Rayburn at 828.586,4009 or kerri_rayburn@ncsu.edu. Contact Heather Gordon, 4-H Agent & Talent Contest Coordinator, at 828.586.4009 with additional questions.

Find the group on Facebook by searching “Heritage Alive Mountain Youth Talent Contest of WNC.” This contest is presented as a collaborative effort between Jackson County Cooperative Extension/4-H Program and Catch the Spirit of Appalachia.

The Isaacs return to Franklin

‘An Appalachian Evening’ welcomes Michael Cleveland Celebrating its 17th season, “An Appalachian Evening,” a weekly bluegrass/ Americana summer concert series, will return with Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center in Robbinsville.

The 2016 series will also include: The Walking Roots Band (Aug. 13), The Jeff Little Trio (Aug. 20) and Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen (Aug. 27). www.stecoahvalleycenter.com or 828.479.3364.

will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6. The band features three trumpets, three trombones, a tuba, percussion and keyboards. These instruments blend together to create a time of innovative worship enjoyed by all generations. The King’s Brass, formed three decades ago, is comprised of professional musicians from across the country who desire to use the instruments they love to lead others in praise and worship. Based out of Fort Wayne, Indiana, the group plays over 120 concerts per year from coast to coast as well as international destinations.

Tickets for both shows are $18. Ages 18 and under are free. Tickets are available online at www.lakejunaluska.com/concerts or by phone, 800.222.4930.

Erica Nicole at ‘Groovin’ on the Green’ The “Groovin’ on the Green” concert series will host Erica Nicole at 6:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 5, at The Village Green in Cashiers.

Other performs include: The Buchanan Boys (country/rock) Aug. 12, Julie Gribble (Americana) Aug. 19, Rockell Scott

Internationally acclaimed country and bluegrass gospel family group The Isaacs will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

The group has won multiple awards throughout a career that spans across more than 30 years. Some of the awards they have to their acclaim are Gospel Voice Song of the Year, Dove Award for Bluegrass Album of the Year and International Country Gospel Music Association award for top Bluegrass Album of the Year.

They’ve made guest appearances alongside many artists including Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, Ralph Stanley, Mark Lowry, and many others.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $12.50 for students. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER iles and miles of film have been shot in Haywood County, but it’s not just about national recognition or local prestige — it’s big business, and Haywood County wants a piece of the action.

“Movie and film productions create some good economy on a local level,” said Becky Seymour, manager of the Haywood County Film Office. Seymour also serves as Video Marketing Manager for the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority, under whose auspices the HCFO operates.

“A lot of times production companies will use locals for extras or crew,” she said, “or for things like catering, carpentry and makeup.”

According to the HCFO website, North Carolina hosted almost 6,000 production days in 2013, creating more than $250 million in associated spending.

Seymour said that such films as the 1996 Jack Lemmon-James Garner comedy “My Fellow Americans” and the Ron Rashinspired “Serena” have already brought attention to Haywood County, but a new film slated for release in September starring Wilkesboro native Zach Galifianakis

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Observations from the Ground A symposium, art show and discussion on life in Cuba featuring three WNC residents who recently visited the island nation.

Christopher Holt Waynesville native, artist, teacher

Wyman Tannehill Waynesville native, actor, cinematographer, comedy festival organizer

Jon Elliston WNC journalist who has studied the Cuban media

What’s life in Cuba like right now?

Artist Christopher Holt traveled around the island and set up his easel, painting various scenes, meeting and talking to Cubans from all walks of life.

Wyman Tannehill accompanied Holt, taking photos and video of the trip. Jon Elliston, who has been visiting Cuba for 20 years, surveyed how mass communication in Cuba has and hasn't changed amidst the recent landmark changes in CubanU.S. relations.

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1973 when it became Mann’s Chinese Theater, the TCL Chinese Theater — now named, appropriately enough, for the Chinese corporation that owns it — is a world-famous venue on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that has hosted hundreds, if not thousands of important film premieres, like Blue’s old favorite, “Star Wars,” in 1977.

“Once we did that, I decided I wanted to release the movie to the people that are in the part of the country where the movie takes place, where we shot it,” Blue said. “Before we released it, I reached out to Vice Chief Snead of the Cherokee, because we put a lot of effort into not offending anybody in the region. We tried to be very respectful of the land and the heritage, and since we put out some Cherokee legends in the movie, I just wanted to be sure that before we released it, there wasn’t anything improper in it.”

Blue said Snead loved it; accordingly, the local premiers will take place Friday, Aug. 12, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and on Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Cherokee Phoenix Theatre in Cherokee. After that, the film goes to New York, back to Los Angeles, then Atlanta, and then Houston.

Blue also spoke of a pending deal to show the film in a very appropriate type of venue — drive-in theaters — before moving on down a now-familiar distribution trail of video on demand, DVD, cable and international distribution.

“The movie turned out amazing, and we’re already looking at making another one,” Blue said.

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Mountains National Park, where both the story and much of the shooting took place.

“That was all up at Clingman’s Dome, literally right on the Appalachian Trail,” he said. “Some of the scenes are shot right on the A.T., and if you look, you’ll see some of the A.T. trail markers.”

The movie culminates in a scene with Zoe atop the iconic Clingman’s Dome Observation Deck.

“In order to get the scene on the observation deck, we obviously didn’t want lots of people walking around — it’s much more powerful just to have her out there by herself,” said Blue. “So we got up there at 3 in the morning, so that the minute the sun popped up over the horizon, we could roll.”

About half an hour after that scene with Zoe was shot, clouds rolled in, obscuring the sun and producing an ethereal mist in the immediate vicinity.

“The scene where, after she’s lost her pack and she’s alone and she’s walking through the trees, and there’s that beautiful fogginess — that was shot at 7 in the morning right there by Clingman’s Dome,” said Blue. “So that worked out perfect. We got our ‘sunset’ shots, which were gorgeous, then this came in and then we got all our creepy shots. It was excellent.”

The movie was shot in 25 days in 2015 and premiered at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood this past June. Built in 1922 and known as Grauman’s Chinese Theater until

may boost exposure even higher.

“Masterminds” is a comedic film based on the true story of the 1997 “Hillbilly Heist” of Loomis, Fargo & Co. in Charlotte by employee David Scott Ghantt. The caper grossed Ghantt (played by Galifianakis) $17.3 million and a sevenyear prison sentence.

Filmed mostly in and around Asheville, the movie includes several shots at a home in the Eagle’s Nest area of Waynesville.

Although the N.C. Department of Commerce has allocated $30 million in this year’s state budget toward a grant program that rebates production companies up to 25 percent of their qualified spending, Seymour and the HCFO have taken steps of their own to attract more productions here.

Seymour’s assembled a list of locations, support services and crew — all of which are designed to make it easy for filmmakers who wish to do business in the area. So if a producer needs to find, for example, a hotel for a gaffer working on a shoot at an emu farm, or needs to hire a dialect coach and a florist for a scene at a microbrewery, that information is readily available on the HCFO’s website.

For more information on incentives available to N.C.-shot productions, check out www.filmnc.com/incentives.html. To learn more about the Haywood County Film Commission, visit www.haywoodcounty tourismdevelopment.com/haywood-countyfilm-commission.

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The Hawk (105.7 miles) • The Trout (76.43 miles) Both covering sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

The Panther (50.8 miles) • The Rabbit (25.8 miles) All routes will begin at the Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center.

Riders will explore mountain valleys near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Pisgah National Forest and in the shadow of Cold Mountain.

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On the beat DARIN & BROOKE ALDRIDGE TO HIT THE STRAND Acclaimed bluegrass act Darin & Brooke Aldridge will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville.

“The Sweethearts of Bluegrass,” the husband and wife duo have carved out one of the fastest rising careers on the acoustic music scene today. They draw on the traditions of their native North Carolina, the savvy of a young gifted band and their own dedication to ingenuity which has placed them at the top of charts from Americana, to SiriusXM, Gospel and Bluegrass. Tickets are $18. www.38main.com.

Fines Creek Bluegrass Festival returns

• BearWaters Brewing Company (Waynesville) will have live music at 6 p.m. Aug. 4 and 11. 828.246.0602 or www.bwbrewing.com.

• The Bryson City Train Depot concert series will host Donna Hughes (singersongwriter) Aug. 13. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

Fowler will play. The Southern Appalachian Cloggers will also be dancing.

This is an outdoor event with cool breezes blowing through the tents. The new playground is fun for little ones who aren’t out on the dance floor. Dancers of all ages are encouraged to kick up their heels.

Emcee John Roten will be sharing some of the news of the Fines Creek Community Association’s activities, and the latest on the upcoming renovation of the auditorium. There will be a tour available of the old school building for those who attended school there, at a break between bands. Sound is provided by Mark VII Randy Johnston.

Tickets are $15 per night for adults. A

‘Concerts on the Creek’ goes country

Legendary country act Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 12, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets start at $25. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

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The seventh annual “Concerts on the Creek” series will host The Buchanan Boys (country/rock) at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, at the Bridge Park Pavilion in Sylva.

Other shows are as follows: Ol’ Dirty Bathtub (Americana) Aug. 12, Porch 40 (rock/funk) Aug. 19, surprise band on Aug. 26, and Erica Nicole (country) Sept. 2.

Concerts are free, with donations accepted. Chairs and blankets are allowed. www.mountainlovers.com or 828.586.2155.

Knight brings Americana, folk to Marianna Acclaimed singer-songwriter and storyteller Lee Knight will perform at 7 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 11, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Knight currently works as a folk singer, storyteller and outdoor leader, performing at concerts, workshops, Elderhostels, camps

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• Derailed Bar & Lounge (Bryson City) will have music at 7 p.m. on Saturdays.

828.488.8898.

• The First Presbyterian Church (Franklin) will host a fundraising concert for the Black Mountain Home for Children, Youth & Families at 3 p.m. Aug. 7.

828.524.4755.

• The “Friday Night Live” concert series at the Town Square in Highlands will host Mountain Dulcimer Group (bluegrass) Aug. 5 and Southern Highlands (bluegrass) Aug. 12. Both shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Bohemian Jean (rock/pop) 7 p.m.

Aug. 6 and Helena Hunt (singer-songwriter) 7 p.m. Aug. 12. All shows are free.

828.454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Heinzelmannchen Brewery (Sylva) will host Henry Wong (acoustic/folk) at 6 p.m.

Aug. 11. www.yourgnometownbrewery.com.

and schools. He leads hikes, canoe trips and guides whitewater rafts. He plays various instruments, including the five-string banjo, various guitars, the Appalachian dulcimer, the mouth bow, the Cherokee flute and the Cherokee rattle, as well as the Native American drum.

The event is free and open to the public.

828.488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Aug. 3 and 10, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Aug. 4 and 11. All events begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

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two-night ticket is $25. Children 16 and under are free with a paying adult. The barbecue is presented by Robbie Hannah and is separate from the price of the music festival tickets.

The Fines Creek Community Association supports the community with scholarships for qualifying seniors of the Fines Creek, Panther Creek, and White Oak area. FCCA also provides a MANNA Pantry, and is re-purposing the old school buildings for new uses. A produce store, crafts shop and artists studio are the first of these small businesses. A branch of the Haywood County Public Library is open Monday and Wednesdays. www.finescreek.org.

• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will host Jay Brown (pop/jazz) Aug. 5, Joe Cruz (piano/pop) Aug. 6, Sheila Gordon & Chris Minick (pop/jazz) Aug. 12 and “Speakeasy Night” with the 9th Street Stompers (gypsy jazz/ragtime) Aug. 13. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

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After a short hiatus, the Fines Creek Bluegrass and BBQ festival will once again offer two evenings of bluegrass music by local bands.

• Friday, Aug. 12, the music begins at 6 p.m. Cold Mountain Bluegrass, Hill Country Band, Old Towne, and the Fines Creek Flatfooters will be performing.

• Saturday, Aug. 13, the music begins at 4 p.m. Cold Mountain Bluegrass, Mountain Tradition, Carolina Blue, TriCounty Connection, The Weary Travelers, Carol Rifkin, Jeanette Queen, and John

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• Andrews Brewing Company will host Scott Shuttleworth (singer-songwriter) 6 p.m. Aug. 4, Troy Underwood (singersongwriter) 6 p.m. Aug. 5, Blue Revue 7 p.m. Aug. 6, Andrew Chastain (singersongwriter) 6 p.m. Aug. 12 and The Liz Nance Trio (Americana/folk) 7 p.m. Aug. 13. All shows are free. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

• The Macon County Public Library (Franklin) will host Karen “Sugar” Barnes & Dave Magill (Americana/blues) at 7 p.m. Aug. 11.

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• Mad Anthony’s Bottle Shop & Beer Garden (Waynesville) will host The Brothers Gillespie (Americana) Aug. 5, Goldie & The Screamers (soul/rock) Aug. 12 and Hunter Grigg (singer-songwriter) 9 p.m. Aug. 13.

All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 828.246.9249.

• Marianna Black Library (Bryson City) will host a community music jam from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4. 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. Free.

828.488.3030.

• No Name Sports Pub (Sylva) will host Billingsly (rock) Aug. 5, Ol’ Dirty Bathtub (Americana/TLC tribute) Aug. 6, Positive Mental Attitude (jam/reggae) Aug. 12 and Skunk Ruckus (rockabilly/Americana) Aug. 13. All shows are free and begin at 9:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nonamesportspub.com.

• The Oconaluftee Visitor Center (Cherokee) will host a back porch old-time music jam from 1 to 3 p.m. Aug. 6.

All are welcome to come play or simply sit and listen to sounds of Southern Appalachia.

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• Nantahala Brewing Company (Bryson City) will host Positive Mental Attitude (jam/reggae) Aug. 5, Fritz Beer & The Crooked Beat (rock) Aug. 12 and Rye Baby (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 13. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• The “Pickin’ On The Square” (Franklin) concert series will continue with Subject to Change (bluegrass) Aug. 6 and The Elderly Brothers (pop/oldies) Aug. 13. All shows are free and begin at 7:30 p.m. A community jam begins at 6:30 p.m. www.franklinnc.com or 828.524.2516.

• The Nantahala Outdoor Center (Bryson City) will host The Freight Hoppers (Americana/folk) Aug. 5, Asheville New Grass (Americana/jam) Aug. 6, Tellico (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 12 and The Freeway Revival (rock/jam) Aug. 13. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.noc.com.

• Pub 319 (Waynesville) will host Andrew Rickman (rock/country) Aug. 5 and Shawn Hagan (singer-songwriter) Aug. 12. All shows begin at 9 p.m. 828.456.3040.

• The Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub (Franklin) will host The 80s Flashback Aug. 6 and John Philip Brooks (singer-song-

• Sagebrush Steakhouse (Canton) will host Ben Phan (singer-songwriter) Aug. 9. All shows begin at 7 p.m. 828.646.3750.

• Salty Dog’s (Maggie Valley) will have Karaoke with Jason Wyatt on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with Mile High (rock) at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. Andrew Rickman (rock/acoustic) will also perform on Saturdays. All events begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

• Sapphire Mountain Brewing Company (Sapphire) will host a jazz brunch with Tyler Kittle & Friends from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Sundays. 828.743.0220.

• Satulah Mountain Brewing (Highlands) will host “Hoppy Hour” and an open mic with Jimandi at 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays, “Funky Friday” with Bud Davis at 7 p.m. on Fridays and Isaish Breedlove (Americana) at 7 p.m. on Saturdays. 828.482.9794 or www.satulahmountainbrewing.com.

• The “Saturday’s on the Pine” concert series at Kelsey Hutchinson Park in Highlands will host Nitrograss (bluegrass) Aug. 6 and The Broadcast (Americana/soul)

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• Sneak E Squirrel Brewing (Sylva) will host Contra Dancing on the Patio 7 p.m. Aug. 5, Deeper Well 8 p.m. Aug. 6 and Steve Turner 8 p.m. Aug. 13. There will also be a “Funk to What?” open jam at 8 p.m. every Thursday. 828.586.6440.

• The Stompin’ Ground (Maggie Valley) is now open for live mountain music and clogging at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

828.926.1288.

• Soul Infusion Tea House & Bistro (Sylva) will host The Maggie Valley Band (Americana/folk) at 6 p.m. Aug. 6.

828.586.1717 or www.soulinfusion.com.

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Cashiers) will host a “Bluegrass Mix-Up” night at 7 p.m. on Thursdays. 828.743.3000.

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Highlands) will host a weekly Appalachian music night from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Wednesdays with Nitrograss. 828.526.8364 or www.theuglydogpub.com.

• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host Gary Wylie & Friends Aug. 6. All shows begin at 9 p.m.

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Cruise-In will be held from 6 to 8 p.m.

Friday, with the car show all day Saturday.

All makes and models are welcome.

Registration forms are available at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. Barbecue experts will also be onstage throughout the weekend offering tips and techniques to add zing to your backyard grilling.

There will also be live music and dancing. Festival admission will be $5 adults ($8 for both days), with children ages 12 and under free.

For a full schedule of bands and events, www.mountainhighbbqfestival.com or 828.524.3161.

‘Richard’s Run,’ gala auction at Cataloochee

Sarge’s ‘Dog Walk’

Blueberry lovers unite in Cherokee The Blueberry Festival will be held fro 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Cherokee Indian Fair Ground.

Sponsored by the North American Indian Women’s Association (NAIWA), the event features fresh berries, delicious recipes, blueberry products, and fun activities for the whole family.

Admission is free. Vendor space available. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

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The third annual “Richard’s Run 5K” will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Cataloochee Guest Ranch in Maggie Valley.

A gala and auction will also be held under a “big white tent” at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, at the ranch.

The event is named in memory of Richard Coker, a beloved member of the ranch family, who lost his battle with brain cancer in December 2013 at the age of 55. The trail run will cross the ranch grounds near the border of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with Hemphill Bald, one of Coker’s favorite places, as a dramatic backdrop.

Registration is $10 in advance, $15 the day of the race. Proceeds from the event will benefit Duke University’s Tisch Brain Tumor Center. Participants should plan to arrive by 9 a.m.

“We’ve donated $12,000 from past races to the Tisch Center and hope to raise even more this year,” says Mary Coker, Richard’s sister and general manager of Cataloochee Ranch. “We’ve got a spectacular setting for the runners and walkers, and a great way to spend the morning.”

Tickets for the gala and auction are $75 per person. You can RSVP by calling 828.926.1401. www.richardsrun.org or www.cataloocheeranch.com.

The 11th annual Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation “Dog Walk” will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Haywood County Courthouse in Waynesville.

This fundraiser, supporting the dogs and cats of Haywood County, is a much-loved community event. Hundreds of pets and their owners attend the event every year.

The walk begins and ends at the Haywood County Courthouse on Main Street in Waynesville. Following the dog walk, there will be contests, with dogs competing in bestdressed dog, best dog trick and best tail wagging dog. Registration forms are available at www.sargeandfriends.org. There is a $15 fee for each dog walking in the event.

828.246.9050.

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The eighth Mountain High BBQ Festival and Car Show will be held Aug. 12-13 at the Wayne Proffitt Agricultural Center in Franklin. Gates will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

The event is a Kansas City BBQ Society (KCBS) sanctioned competition. Teams from all over the country will cook Friday and Saturday preparing their best barbecue hoping to be named Grand Champion earning a N.C. State Championship.

Alongside live music, food vendors and BBQ competitors, this year’s car show is being organized by the Southwestern Community College’s Automotive Club. The

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Gala to raise money for scholarships

National Model Aviation Day will be celebrated on Aug. 13 in Franklin. Donated photo

Do you want to fly model planes?

The Macon Aero Modelers will be hosting an AMA National Model Aviation Day celebration event at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Otto Aerodome on Tessentee Road in Franklin.

Activities will include RC flight simula-

• The ceremonial Cherokee bonfires will run from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday through Oct. 1 Spend an evening with the Cherokee people by a roaring fire. Listen as Cherokee storytellers in period dress from the 17th century spin tales of days gone by, myths and mysteries passed down through the ages and talk of the history. Learn Cherokee survival skills and experience the dance. Your hosts will provide light refreshments, which include marshmallows for roasting and drinks. Guests sit by the fire near the Oconaluftee riverside enjoying a unique and entertaining experience. The events are free and open to the public. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

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more than $800,000 in the bank, the SCC Foundation is closing in on its goal to raise $1 million that will primarily support student scholarships.

Sponsorship options include a $5,000 diamond-level table for eight that features frontrow, center-stage seating, four bottles of wine, an assigned server and numerous keepsakes.

Other table sponsorships range from $1,500 to $2,500. Individual tickets are $150. The evening will also include a wine pull, in which each participant pays $25 to win wine bottles valued at $30 and up.

An effort to bridge the gap between scholarship need and availability, the Student Success Campaign yielded enough funds to award full-tuition scholarships last fall to Roger Davis of Otto and Hannah White of Webster.

The addition of the proceeds from last year’s gala means more are expected to be available this fall, though the student need The Darren Nicholson Band. remains great and is growing.

More than 170 academically and and his band as well as classics sung by Steve financially eligible students apply each year Johannessen — a singer and musician who’s for scholarships through the SCC worked with artists including Ray Charles, Foundation, but less than one-third of those Christopher Cross, the Electric Light receive assistance due to limited resources.

To purchase tickets, or for more information Orchestra and Pink Floyd.

All money raised will go toward the about this year’s Gala, contact Kathy Posey at Student Success Campaign, the most-ambi- 828.339.4227 or k_posey@southwesterncc.edu tious fundraising effort in SCC’s history. With or visit www.southwesterncc.edu/gala.

Building on the success of last year’s fundraising gala, the Southwestern Community College Foundation will host a “Bluegrass, Blue Jeans & Bling” event at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort.

This year’s gala will feature the bluegrass sounds of Grammy Award nominee and fivetime International Bluegrass Music Association Award winner Darren Nicholson

• An “Italian Night” will be held by 6 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 13, at Breaking Bread Café in Bethel. Dishes will include spaghetti with meat sauce, bachoile, broccoli rabe pizza, sautéed broccoli rabe, Italian sausage with peppers, onions and potato, and fried smelt. Family style dinner at $24.95 per person. 828.646.0303.

• Stone Cutting Saturday will start at 9 a.m.

Aug. 6 at the Mason Mountain Mine in Franklin. 828.524.4570 or www.tjrocks.org.

• The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad presents The Wizard of Oz train ride at the GSMR depot in Bryson City. The 2.5-hour round-trip journey will retell the story of the beloved movie, The Wizard of Oz, on board a real train. The adventure operates Aug 4-7. Exact excursion times and ticket prices are available by calling 800.872.4681 or by visiting www.gsmr.com. Tickets begin at $48 for adults (13+) and $38 for children (2-12).

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tors, introductory RC flight training, as well as demonstrations of Aerobatic Giant Scale RC aircraft, Scale War Birds, Helicopters and Smaller Park Flyers by our member pilots. All AMA pilots are welcome to fly.

Hamburger and hot dog meals will be available for purchase. Parking fee is $5.

Proceeds go to benefit the Macon County American Legion.

• There will be a yoga class at 11 a.m. Aug. 4 at the Hudson Library in Highlands. Free.

828.526.3031.

• A bingo night will run at 5:45 p.m. on Thursdays through Sept. 1 at the Maggie Valley Pavilion. Cash prizes and concessions by Moonshine Grill. Sponsored by the Maggie Valley Civic Association.

828.926.7630.

• A wine tasting will be held from 2 to 5 p.m.

Aug. 6 and 13 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. $5 per person. www.papouswineshop.com or 828.586.6300.

• A free wine tasting will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Aug. 6 and 13 at Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville. www.waynesvillewine.com or 828.452.0120.

• A wine tasting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m.

Aug. 6 and 13 at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. Free with dinner ($15 minimum). 828.452.6000.

• 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.

• The High Mountain Squares will host their “Back to School Dance” from 6:15 to 8:45 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, at the Macon County Community Building in Franklin. All school supplies collected will be donated to the Macon Country School System. Richard Smith will be the caller. Western Style Square Dancing, main/stream and plus levels. Everyone is welcome. 828.342.1560 or 828.332.0001.

Harrah’s to showcase World Series of Poker The 12th season of the World Series of Poker Circuit wraps up under the bright lights of the television cameras with the 2016 WSOP Global Casino Championship — an official WSOP gold bracelet event and a share of over $1,000,000 in prize money on the line — from Aug. 9-11 once again at Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort.

Harrah's Cherokee will also host the first WSOP Circuit Event of the 2016-17 season from Aug. 4-16 with the championship sandwiched in between a robust WSOP Circuit series featuring 12 official gold ring events, including a $1,675 Main Event and a $2,200 High Roller tournament.

This is a historic year for the Global Casino Championship (formerly the WSOP National Championship). For the first time ever, it will welcome players from the WSOP International Circuit events. Players from venues in Morocco, Georgia, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Canada will join the contingent of qualifiers from the domestic WSOP Circuit.

A total of 100 players earn free seats to the Global Casino Championship. The Main Event winner at each stop of the 2015-2016 WSOP Circuit receives a free entry, as does the Casino Champion at each stop. An addi-

tional 12 qualifiers earned seats by winning the Main Event or becoming Casino Champion at a stop on the WSOP International Circuit.

The three-day 2015 WSOP Global Casino Championship No-Limit Hold'em tournament will get underway at noon on Tuesday, Aug. 9, in the Harrah's Cherokee Events Center with all eligible players. Television cameras will be on hand to cover the action with the final table-taking place on Thursday, Aug. 11. www.harrahscherokee.com.

Cataloochee ‘Way Back When’ dinner

The “Way Back When” trout dinner will continue at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, at the Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley.

The dinner showcases a recreation meal, music, storytelling and atmosphere of a 1930s Appalachian trout camp. Enjoy a wagon ride across the ranch property amid the authentic re-creation of Mr. Tom and Miss Judy Alexander’s first fishing camp.

Cost is $39.95 per person, plus tax and gratuity. The dinner will also be held Aug. 26, and Sept. 2 and 16.

To RSVP, call 828.926.1401 or 800.868.1401 or www.cataloocheeranch.com.

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Want to learn quilling?

• Paint Nite Waynesville will be held at 7 p.m. on Fridays at the Panacea Coffeehouse. Grab a cup of coffee, glass of wine or pint of craft beer and get creative. $20 per person. Group rates available. Sign up at Panacea or call host Robin Smathers at 828.400.9560. paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

• “Art Beats for Kids” will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4 and 11, at the Charles Heath Gallery in Bryson City. A new project every week. $20 per child, with includes lesson, materials and snack. To register, call 828.538.2054.

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• The “Painting on Metal Leaf” workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 13 at Gallery 86 in the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville. Instructor will be Sharon Sandel. Cost is $80 per person. To register, call 828.645.5338 or sharsand46@gmail.com.

• The next meeting of the Western North Carolina Woodturners Club, Inc. will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, at the Blue Ridge School in Glenville. The school is located on Bobcat Drive. Drive to the back of the school to the woodworking shop. Visitors

WORK OF PHOTOGRAPHY PIONEER ON DISPLAY AT WCU The ‘Photography of Bayard Wootten’ exhibit will be on display through Nov. 23 in the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.

Wootten was a female pioneer in the field of photography from the early 1900s to 1950s, when men dominated the field. All 35 photographs in this exhibition are of North Carolina subjects, which are on loan through from North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Waynesville’s Art After Dark

Two upcoming workshops are being offered by Dogwood Crafters in Dillsboro. Both will be held at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge.

• For the first time, Dogwood is offering an evening tatting class from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 16 and 23. The class will be a twoday event. Cost is $11, which includes supplies.

• Make a colorful tabletop decoration for fall when you attend the scarecrow workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17.

Cost for the class is $12.

Register by Aug. 10 for either class.

Register to attend by calling 828.586.2435 or emailing junettapell@hotmail.com.

Art After Dark will continue from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, in downtown Waynesville.

Enjoy a stroll through working studios and galleries on Main Street and Depot Street. Festive Art After Dark flags denote participating galleries, including the Haywood County Arts Council Gallery and Gifts, Burr Studio, Earthworks Gallery, The Jeweler’s Workbench, Studio SG, Twigs & Leaves Gallery, TPennington Art Gallery, Cedar Hill Studios, Moose Crossing Burl Wood Gallery, and the Village Framer. www.downtownwaynesville.com or www.waynesvillegalleryassociation.com.

are always welcome. The club meets the first Thursday of every month March through November.

• The Haywood County Arts Council’s “Gallery & Gifts” (formerly Gallery 86) is hosting their annual ArtShare exhibit Aug. 5-27 in downtown Waynesville. ArtShare is a fundraising exhibit of fine works of art, both original and prints, which have been donated, or consigned with the Haywood County Arts Council for the purpose of financially underwriting the ongoing operating costs of the nonprofit organization. www.haywoodarts.org.

• The Michael Moore documentary “Where to Invade Next” will be screened at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

• The Potter’s Wheel Series will feature Susan Coe from noon to 5 p.m. Aug. 5 at The Wild Fern in Bryson City. www.greatsmokies.com.

• The Dusty Pallet is the newest art gallery in Franklin. The studio is located in downtown at 52 East Main Street. Are you ready for a paint party? For only $35, the gallery provides everything you need to create your own masterpiece. Watch for our days and

times at their website, www.thedustypallet.com. Call and schedule your group at 828.524.5676. The shop is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Wednesday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• The Adult Coloring Group will meet at 2 p.m. on Fridays in the Living Room of the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. An afternoon of creativity and camaraderie.

Supplies are provided, or bring your own.

Beginners are welcome as well as those who already enjoy this new trend. kmoe@fontanalib.org or 828.524.3600.

• “Stitch,” the community gathering of those interested in crochet, knit and needlepoint, meet at 2:30 p.m. every first Sunday of the month at the Canton Public Library. All ages and skill levels welcome. www.haywoodlibrary.org.

• Mad Batter Food & Film (Sylva) will screen “Elvis & Nixon” (Aug. 4), “Miracles From Heaven” (Aug. 5), “Lego DC Comics Superheros” (Aug. 6), “The Lobster” (Aug. 11) and “Ratatouille” (Aug. 12-13). Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Fridays; and 2 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturdays. Free. www.madbatterfoodfilm.com.

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A Quilling Craft Class with instructor and paper artist Lawrie Williams will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Jackson County Extension Office in Sylva.

Quilling or paper filigree is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. The paper is wound around a quill to create a basic coil shape.

The paper is then glued at the tip and these shaped coils are arranged to form flowers, leaves, and various ornamental patterns similar to ironwork.

This is an introductory shape making class but skilled quillers will also enjoy the class. Space is limited for this class so please call the library to register. Williams is a local skilled paper artist and educator with over 35 years experience teaching. She has been a featured artist at Southwestern Community College. You can find her teaching her paper art at the Jackson County Senior Centers, the County Extension Service, ECA groups, and various other clubs.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva at 828.586.2016. This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library.

with at-risk youth, and provides them with apprenticeship opportunities in order to learn job skills and earn a livable wage.

These individuals will not only be provided with meaningful work, but will also receive hands-on job training that could lead to future employment at one of the local sawmills. HIGHTS will sell the milled lumber to support their operations. Scrap wood from the milling will be used as fuel to fire the large ceramics kiln at GEP. Residual sawdust will be collected and used in the HIGHTS plant nursery. And the sawmill itself will be powered by a small engine running on biodiesel, a clean renewable fuel made from vegetable oil.

• The GEP also received a $150 grant from the Scholarship Committee of Dogwood Crafters Cooperative in Dillsboro. These funds will be used to offset material costs accrued by the local artists who work with children at the ever-popular Youth Arts Festival in September. The artists who participate in the festival are all volunteers who generously donate their time to provide engaging art activities for the kids. The funds from the Dogwood Crafters Cooperative will make it less costly for local artists to participate.

The GEP is an award-winning renewable energy project, that uses landfill gas and other alternative fuels to provide process heat for a various art-related activities.

For more information, contact the GEP at 828.631.0271 or visit www.jcgep.org.

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The Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro was recently the recipient of two new grants, both intended to further boost the GEP’s ability to bring tangible economic benefits to members of the community.

• The GEP was awarded $7,600 from Resourceful Communities “Creating New Economies Fund” (CNEF), to expand the operations of its outdoor ceramics kiln yard.

A portion of the funding will be used to construct a “salt” kiln, which creates ceramics with a very unique texture and color. The kiln will then be fired using waste vegetable oil as a clean, renewable fuel. Few potters have access to a salt kiln, so this addition to GEP’s public-access kiln facilities will offer opportunities for students from SCC and WCU, along with other regional potters, to create new lines of work. The kilns at the GEP are available for rent to any ceramic artist. The CNEF program was made possible by the generous support of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, the Oak Foundation, and the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.

• With the remaining CNEF funds, the Green Energy Park will partner with local nonprofit HIGHTS to install a small, sustainable sawmill operation, similar to the program that HIGHTS operates in Haywood County. Trees left over from County, DOT, or utility clearing operations will be milled into lumber, using clients from HIGHTS. HIGHTS works primarily

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Sign up for the Jackson Arts Directory The Jackson County Arts Council is working on a directory to connect the public to local arts and expand visitor access to local talent.

The directory will list craftsmen and artists who sell and show their work, teach workshops, or provide services, like chair caning, sewing, or mural painting. The brochure will be available locally and at state Welcome Centers. An exhibit is planned for the Interstate 26 Welcome Center north of Asheville where, each year, more than a quarter million people come through the doors. The accompanying brochure will give visitors something to take with them to be able to contact Jackson County artists.

If you live and work in Jackson County, you can sign up to include your information and art services. For an application, contact: artistscount@gmail.com. Deadline for submitting materials is Aug. 15.

Participation is limited to professional visual artists over 18 years old. Students are not eligible. The directory is open to all visual artists in Jackson County without charge.

What’s life in Cuba like right now?

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You can get answers to that question and more first-hand information about the island nation during a symposium and art show about Cuba that will take place at 7 p.m.

Thursday, Aug 4, at The Strand at 38 Main in

downtown Waynesville.

“Cuba in Focus; Observations from the Ground” will feature artist Christopher Holt, a Waynesville native living in Asheville; videographer and photographer Wyman

Tannehill, also a Waynesville native now living and working in Asheville; and longtime Western North Carolina journalist Jon Elliston, who has visited Cuba regularly for the past 20 years.

The trio was in Cuba in March of this year, the same month President Obama and the Rolling Stones made well publicized visits to the island.

Holt traveled around the island and set up his easel and painted various scenes, meeting and talking to Cubans from all walks of life.

Tannehill, a filmmaker, accompanied Holt and took photos and video of the trip.

Elliston, meanwhile, surveyed how mass communication in Cuba has and hasn't changed amidst the recent landmark changes in Cuban-U.S. relations.

The event will include a pre-event social beginning at 6:30 p.m. The 7 p.m. symposium will include a short presentation by each, followed by an informal question-and-answer session. There will be a showing and sale of some of Holt’s paintings from Cuba, and also a showing of Tannehill’s photos and videos.

The symposium and art show are sponsored by The Haywood County Arts Council, The Strand Theater and The Smoky Mountain News.

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Renowned bluegrass act Rhonda Vincent & The Rage will be one of the performers during the Galaxy of the Stars series at WCU.

Local talent to shine in Franklin The annual talent show “Stars of Center Stage” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

This family-friendly competition is a great opportunity for local residents to show off their skills in singing, dancing, music, and more. Many talented locals will audition for a chance to compete in Stars of Center Stage later this month, and the spotlight will shine on those individuals who make the final cut. Audience members will cast their vote for their favorite act and the winner will receive a cash prize.

Tickets are $10 each. To purchase tickets to “Stars of Center Stage,” or to find out more about this or any of the other shows at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, visit www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

• Auditions will be held for the Highlands Cashiers Players production of Neil Simon’s comedy “The Sunshine Boys” from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14, at Highlands

Performing Arts Center. Parts are available for two older men, two younger men, one older woman, and one younger woman. The play concerns two vaudeville performers who quarreled, broke up their act, and after a long estrangement are asked to reenact a routine for a TV special on the history of comedy. Performances are scheduled for Oct. 13-23. Scripts are on order and will be available to read in the Hudson, Cashiers, and Macon County libraries.

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• “Steel Magnolias” will be performed Aug. 4-20 at the Highlands Playhouse. Tickets are $38 per person, $15 for children up to age 12. For complete show times and ticket information, click on www.highlandsplayhouse.org.

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Alabama and Lisa Fischer. Tucker, who will perform on Friday, Nov. 11, is currently a resident musician with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas.

• On Friday, Feb. 24, award-winning bluegrass star Rhonda Vincent & The Rage will perform. Vincent was the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year winner from 2000 to 2006, along with the IBMA Entertainer of the Year in 2001. The Society for Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America named her Entertainer of the Year from 2002 to 2006.

• The Nile Project, featuring artists from 11 countries along the Nile River, will perform on Monday, March 13. Since their debut concert, which featured a live recording of their 2013 release, ASWAN, the Nile Project has proven to be much more than a band. National Public Radio named that recording one of the five “Must Hear International Albums.”

• The series wraps up on Saturday, April 29, with Artrageous: An Interactive Art and Music Experience. Artrageous is a show where audience members participate in an experience that includes a team of artists, singers, dancers and Bunraku puppeteers.

Series subscriptions are now available at a discounted rate over individual tickets. Series subscriptions, which include all six shows, are $100 for WCU faculty/staff, $120 for adults/seniors and $45 for students/children. They can be purchased online at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or by calling the box office at 828.227.2479. Individual tickets go on sale Tuesday, Aug. 16.

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Special ticket discounts are offered for Thursday performances. For tickets or to make a reservation, call the HART box office at 828.456.6322, Tuesday through Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. or go online to www.harttheatre.org.

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The 2016-17 Galaxy of Stars Series will feature six performances beginning with “Tarocco: A Soldier’s Tale” on Thursday, Aug. 25, at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center.

The Galaxy of Stars Series, the only professional entertainment series in Jackson County, enters its 12th season this fall. It is presented by the WCU College of Fine and Performing Arts with support from the WCU Friends of the Arts organization. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m.

• “Tarocco: A Soldier’s Tale” is a combination of circus arts, dance, mask-and-puppet theater, music, animated video and dazzling special effects. Written and directed by Nat Allister, founder of Asheville’s The Fox and Beggar Theater, the story is inspired by Tarocco Piemontese, a 500-year-old card game.

• “Tzakbu: Queen of the Maya,” a theatrical performance written and directed by Hiram Marina, featuring actors from Chiapas, Mexico, will be Friday, Sept. 30. It recreates the life of Tzakbu, who was a queen, wife, mother and governor of the Mayans.

The performance will be spoken in authentic Mayan language and each audience member will receive a program booklet that includes scene synopsis translations. It is not recommended for children under the age of 6.

• Shana Tucker is a singer, songwriter and cellist whose music stems from her background in jazz and classical music, mixed with ‘80s and ‘90s pop music, movie soundtracks and world music. She has opened for such artists as Norah Jones, the Blind Boys of

The production of “All My Sons” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5-6, 11-13 and 18-20, and at 2 p.m. Aug. 7, 14 and 21 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

All My Sons opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on Jan. 29, 1947, and ran for 328 performances. It was directed by Elia Kazan (to whom it is dedicated), produced by Kazan and Harold Clurman, and won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, beating Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh. It starred Ed Begley, Beth Miller, Arthur Kennedy and Karl Malden and won both the Tony Award for Best Author and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.

All My Sons is based upon a true story, which Arthur Miller's then mother-in-law pointed out in an Ohio newspaper. The news story described how between 1941 and 1943 the Wright Aeronautical Corporation based in Ohio had conspired with army

inspection officers to approve defective aircraft engines destined for military use.

The story of defective engines had reached investigators working for Senator Harry Truman's congressional investigative board after several Wright aircraft assembly workers informed on the company; they would later testify under oath before Congress. In 1944, three Army Air Force officers, Lt. Col. Frank C. Greulich, Major Walter A. Ryan, and Major William

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• The Unto These Hills outdoor drama will run at 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday through Aug. 13 at the Mountainside Theater in Cherokee. General admission tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children ages 6-12 and free for children under age 5. Reserved tickets also available.

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Getting what you give up n a 12-round heavyweight professional boxing match, at the beginning of the twelfth round there is a bell and the referee motions the two fighters to the center of the ring to begin the final round of the contest. In the fight for life on the planet Earth, and according to a majority of noted scientists, we are in the twelfth round. And Pulitzer-winning biologist E. O. Wilson is the referee.

For most of his life Wilson has been the scientific “voice in the Writer wilderness,” feeding us important information about hazards to the well-being of the planet and sending us warnings for how we humans are destroying ecosystem balance and how we may be impeding our own health, including “low blows.”

In a book that I’m going to call required reading for everyone within the sound of my voice, Wilson discusses the premise that a huge variety of life forms on Earth still remain largely unknown to science and that the species discovered and studied well enough to assess, notably the vertebrae animals and flowering plants, are declining in number at an accelerating rate — due almost entirely to human activity. In response to this premise, Wilson very succinctly states:

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“The global conservation movement has temporarily mitigated but hardly stopped the ongoing extinction of species. The rate of loss is instead accelerating. If biodiversity is to be returned to the baseline level of extinction that existed before the spread of humanity, and thus saved for future generations, the conservation effort must be raised to a new level. The only solution to the “Sixth Extinction” is to increase the area of inviolable natural reserves to half the surface of the Earth or greater. This expansion is favored by unplanned consequences of ongoing human popu-

hence echoing the book’s title. Half of our planet saved as wilderness or wildlands seems an awful lot given the shrinking size of the planet due to global markets, global population statistics and the internet and social media, but after reading Wilson’s compilation of facts and figures and prescient logic, one can only agree with his compassionate analysis and fears for the future of all species, including humans.

His omniscient observations and study of species extinction hit hard and very close to home as he cites our own Great Smoky Mountains National Park as his primary referent example. “It is instructive to proceed to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, one of the best-studied American reserves, and to reflect briefly on the breakdown of the numbers of known species in each group of organisms. The actual number of recorded species in the Park, especially when all suspected but still unrecorded transient species Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson. and microorganisms are W.W. Norton & Co., 2016. 212 pages. added, has been estimated to lie between 60,000 and lation growth and movement and evolution of the 80,000,” says Wilson. Very impressive numeconomy now driven by the digital revolution. But bers, these are, and those of us living in these it also requires a fundamental shift in moral reaWestern North Carolina mountains are so soning concerning our relation to the living envilucky to be living in such a diverse neighborronment.” hood. Yet, we should be humbled by such numbers, or as Wilson goes on to say: The hook line phrase in the above paragraph is “increase the area of inviolable natu“The wildlands (such as the Great Smoky ral reserves (i.e., wilderness designated land Mountains National Park) and the bulk of reserves) to half the surface of the Earth,” Earth’s biodiversity protected within them are

SCC accepting art, literary submissions

same address: Attn. Bob Keeling, or via email to bkeeling@southwesterncc.edu.

828.339.4314 or 828.339.4325.

Submissions are now being accepted for the 2017 edition of Milestone, the biennial art and literary review published by Southwestern Community College. Milestone is a publication that showcases the creative expressions of local writers and visual artists. All residents of Jackson, Macon, Swain counties and the Qualla Boundary, as well as SCC students and alumni, are eligible for submission.

Literary submissions must be postmarked by Dec. 5 and sent to SCC Milestone: Attn. Toni Knott; 447 College Drive; Sylva, N.C. 28779 or via email to tknott@southwesterncc.edu. Submissions in visual art must be postmarked by the same date and sent to the

Love lost, love found Katie Rose Guest Pryal and Lauren Faulkenberry will both be presenting their new books, Chasing Chaos and Bayou My Love respectively, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, at 6:30 p.m. at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

The third book in the Entanglement series, Chasing Chaos follows the story of Daphne Saito, a character from the previous installments of the series. Daphne, a beautiful and talented Hollywood screenwriter, might look like she has the perfect life, but on the inside she’s lost. Still traumatized by an accident involving

another world from the one humanity is throwing together pell-mell. What do we receive from them?

The stabilization of the global environment they provide and their very existence are the gifts they give to us. We are their stewards, not their owners.

These wildlands of the world are not art museums. They are not gardens to be arranged and tended for our delectation. They are not recreation centers or harborers of natural resources or sanatoriums or undeveloped sites of business opportunities.”

Going further abroad, and contrary to national news sources, Wilson cites places such as the Middle East and that region’s problems of biodiversity sustainability. “In the Middle East, it is becoming clear that hatred and instability are not due so much to religious differences and the memories of historical injustice as they are to overpopulation and the severe shortage of arable lands and water.” As the saying goes “the devil is in the details,” and Wilson’s layman-friendly book is full of scientific evidence to support his predictions as well as his solutions to this very real and urgent global crisis we all seem to be ignoring, at our own peril.

Wilson is not alone with his convincing data and his dire predictions. Many esteemed scientists, economists, social scientists, artists and politicians worldwide agree with Wilson’s findings and predictions that we are, indeed, in the 12th round of this environmental prize fight. And the prize? It is the very Earth itself and our continued existence upon it.

For more information about our region’s wilderness areas and potential prospects for further designated wilderness areas, contact the Southern Appalachian region’s representative of the Wilderness Society, Brent Martin, whose office is located in Sylva. 474 W. Main St., Sylva, N.C., 28779, 828.587.9453; brent_martin@tws.org .

Thomas Crowe is a regular writer and contributor to Smoky Mountain News. His book of essays and articles on the environment in the Southern Appalachians titled The End of Eden: Writings of an Environmental Activist is available through City Lights Bookstore in Sylva or at amazon.com.

He can be reached at newnativepress@hotmail.com

her best friend, Greta, five years earlier, Daphne is afraid to love.

Danger is on the horizon for all of Daphne’s friends — and for her.

Pryal lives in Chapel Hill, where she works as a freelance journalist and a creative writing teacher at Duke University.

Bayou My Love is a story that is part love story, part mystery, and a blend of comedy and drama. It follows 31-year-old Enza Parker, a woman who is struggling to change the trajectory of her life. To prove to her overbearing father she can flip a house on her own, she takes on a project much too ambitious for her — and it puts her in the path of the most alluring man she’s ever met.

Faulkenberry is a resident of Whittier. She is a former writing instructor at Western Carolina University. She now leads workshops at Penland and at Wildacres in book arts, printmaking, and more.

To reserve copies of their books, call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

Author Kaye Lanning Minchew will present her book A President In Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt In Georgia at 3 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 6, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

Despite the fact that Franklin Roosevelt visited Georgia 41 times between 1924 and 1945, historians have paid little attention to the significance of the time the 32nd President of the U.S. spent in the Peach State. Georgia and the South helped restore his sense of well being after contracting polio and provided a launching pad for his presidential campaigns.

Here, the Harvard graduate became friends with the common man, had his active lifestyle of hunting and fishing photographed by the national press and fought with Georgia politicians like Gene Talmadge. Sadly, he died at Warm Springs in the company of his old girlfriend. Using photographs and oral histories, Minchew explores this fascinating chapter of Georgia and America’s history.

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Artist and former Western Carolina University professor Joseph Meigs will present his short story collection Artists’ Tale at 3 p.m. Aug. 13 at Blue Ridge Bookstore in Waynesville.

Artists’ Tales is a collection of short stories about fictional artists. Some are satirical, while others are sentimental, nostalgic, tragic, or romantic. Some are loosely based upon other fictional works, such as Kafka’s A Hunger Artist or Ovid’s and Marlowe’s Hero and Leander. One is a Stephen King type of story about an artist who acquires unearthly powers, while another is about a phony artist.

This is the third work of fiction for Meigs, having published Tenure Track (2002), a satiric spoof on academic life, and Death without Dignity (2010), a humorous murder mystery. He is a professor emeritus at Western Carolina University, having taught literature, including Shakespeare, and film studies. Meigs has been an artist since he was in college. He is currently an artist in residence for the Jackson County Visual Arts Association, housed in Gallery 1 in Sylva.

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The Friends of the Haywood County Library is offering additional bargains on books Aug. 5-6 at the annual Book Sale at the Waynesville Public Library.

■ On Friday, Aug. 5, all books are half price. Please bring shopping bags for Friday’s sale. The sale funs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

■ On Saturday, Aug. 6, $5 fills a bag of books. Bags will be furnished by the volunteers.

The sale runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Anyone wanting to purchase a large volume of books should contact Chair Sandy Denman beforehand at 828.627.2370. Books can be purchased as a mixture of categories or a single category.

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Messages to the future Park Service, outdoor camp work to mold diverse new generation of outdoor enthusiasts

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he air on the Cataloochee Divide Trail is heavy with humidity and the promise of an afternoon storm, but the pervading mood is contrastingly buoyant as a group of 27 teens and their leaders sets out on a sunny Thursday morning.

It’s a tone that Cassius Cash, superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, had set before anybody left the trailhead.

“This is a fun day,” he’d told the group, composed mainly of Hispanic students in the midst of a week of camp with Maggie Valleybased Outdoor Mission Camp. “I want to get a chance to meet each one of you.”

Cash who joined the group with his daughter Tasé and the park’s backcountry management specialist Christine Hoyes, was visibly working to keep his word as the group set out.

The trail undulated through the densely verdant hardwood forest that extends from the meadow-bordered parking area at Purchase Knob, and Cash moved from spot to spot in the line of hikers, chatting up the campers with questions about their families, their goals in life and their experiences at camp.

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and from a spiritual standpoint.

“I took to the trails because I got more than just good exercise,” Cash said. “I got food for the soul.”

As superintendent of the nation’s most-visited national park, Cash is using his platform to extend that experience to as many people as possible. When the Park Service was first created, half of the country’s citizens lived in rural areas. Now, only 20 percent do.

Exposure to and comfort with the outdoors — and, by extension, the national parks — is

FOOD FOR THE SOUL If it looked like he knew what he was doing, it was because he’d had some practice.

The hike’s end would bring Cash up to 64 miles for the year of hiking with groups of kids who’d had scant outdoor experience in their lives. His goal is to log 100 miles before the year is out, in recognition of the National Park Service’s centennial year. But the program is about more than honoring a governmental anniversary. For Cash, instilling kids — especially those without easy access to the outdoors — with a love for nature is a personal passion.

Cash, who grew up in Memphis thinking of the woods mainly as a setting for horror movies and Bigfoot sightings, remembers well the first night he ever spent in the woods, working his first job in the natural resources field. He also remembers the looks his friends used to give him when he’d say he was headed out to spend time in the woods — on purpose.

“They’d say, ‘Man, you crazy,’” Cash told the group.

For Cash, the park’s first African-American superintendent, those days are long gone.

Now, he credits the outdoors with saving his life, both from a medical standpoint after being diagnosed with high blood pressure,

Give OMC a boost Outdoor Mission Camp, and affiliate of Youth For Christ, offers 12 weeks each summer of outdoor camps designed to connect kids to God and to nature.

Camp themes include outdoor experiences for kids with special needs, an adventure camp for Hispanic teens, a wilderness discipleship program, and more. OMC tries to open its doors to kids regardless of economic situation through scholarships, and donations are always welcome to continue extending those opportunities. www.outdoormissioncamp.org/donate.

becoming less of a given. Fear of the unknown can be the biggest barrier to accessing these mountaintop experiences.

“It’s no different than when you learn how to drive for the first time,” Cash said.

“Someone has to tell you what to do and what not to do. The Park Service wants to be that entity for the first time kids get out in the woods.”

Where he lives in Charlotte, buildings and roads dominate pretty much every view. Rock climbing, mountain biking and canoeing have been new experiences for Cueva, but he’s discovered the peace they bring with them. The mountains have brought him closer to God, he said.

“What I like most is all the green, no buildings,” he said. “It gives you a different view — you feel better.”

There’s a comfort in the shared culture of ONDING THROUGH LANGUAGE the campers, too. La Adventura draws people from Columbia, Charlotte and everywhere in Joshué Cueva, 17, had barely set foot on a hiking trail before he came to OMC for the first between, and the chatter is a hodgepodge of Spanish and English. Cueva, who’s lived in the time last year. It was 2015, the inaugural year U.S. since he was 5, speaks English with as for La Adventura, a week of camp specifically much facility as his native Spanish, but holdaimed at getting Hispanic youth outdoors. A ing onto that first language and the culture visiting pastor at Cueva’s church had told him that comes with it is important to him. about the camp, and he signed up to go.

Cueva’s family is Ecuadorian — his parThat first time, he said, “I was nervous and excited, but coming the second time I was just ents immigrated to the U.S. in 2002, leaving Cueva and his younger brother in Ecuador excited.” with friends and family until 2005, when the children joined their parents in the U.S. Cueva started first grade in America, faced with learning a new language in addition to phonics and math facts.

But he soon found himself speaking English quite well — perhaps too well. His Spanish began to slip, and his mother was upset to see her son forgetting his native tongue.

Cueva didn’t want to forget. He began flicking on Spanish soap operas as a way to keep the language fresh.

“That’s how I got my Spanish back,” he said.

Coming to camp solidifies that bond with the language, except instead of The group sets off down the Cataloochee talking just to Ecuadorians Divide Trail (above). Smokies he gets to hear Spanish flaSuperintendent Cassius Cash (below) vored by any number of enjoys his time hiking with youth from accents — Puerto Rican, Outdoor Mission Camp. Holly Kays photos Honduran, Guatemalan and Columbian, for starters.

“I think it brings us closer together,” he said.

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OPENING OPPORTUNITIES Jamie Shackelford, who runs OMC with her husband Ruffin, is tickled to see how well La Adventura has been taking off. The camp is part of the larger organization Youth For Christ, which runs ministries all over the world — the Shackelfords have invested years into relationship with people in Latin America through their work with the organization, and they have a heart for the

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The hikers stop for a goofy photo at the trail’s end.

Not too late to hike 100 Smokies Superintendent Cassius Cash is getting his 100 miles of hiking in alongside groups of kids who lack opportunities to explore the outdoors, but anyone who enjoys the park is invited to celebrate the National Park Service’s centennial by hiking 100 miles of trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The Smokies Centennial Hike 100 Challenge aims to inspire all potential hikers — young and old, new and skilled — to experience and gain a new appreciation for their national park.

To complete the challenge, participants must hike 100 miles of maintained trail inside park boundaries by Dec. 6, whether it’s backcountry or frontcountry, all different trails or repeated hikes of the same trail.

Those who complete the challenge will earn a commemorative pin and an invitation to a celebration hosted by Cash.

Funded by an $11,000 Active Trails grant from the National Park Foundation, made possible by Coca-Cola and the Coca-Cola Foundation, and support from the Great Smoky Mountains Association and Friends of the Smokies. gsmnp_hike_100@nps.gov or www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/gsmnphike-100.htm.

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amazing, he said, breaking down his stereotype of America as the land of big cities and money and leaving him with a passion to take what he’s learned about environmental conservation back home to Columbia.

“In this place I can learn, and after I will go to my country and I can help other people,” he said. “In Columbia the people need to be more intelligent with the places because Columbia has beautiful places, and the people don’t respect those places.”

Carlos Rosil, 27, of Guatemala, also came for the summer as a group leader. He agrees with Muñoz’s observations of North Carolina’s beauty and admiration of the way the land is cared for.

“God speaks through the woods,” he said. “It’s a wonderful experience. I don’t have words to describe it.”

For Cash, nothing else could be a better outcome.

“These are messages to our future,” he said, “so I feel honored to have a part in delivering that message.”

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Hispanic community.

They also have a passion for the outdoors, and looking around they saw that there weren’t really any camps like La Adventura out there, designed to get Hispanic kids connected to God and nature. The camp’s inaugural year in 2015 was a smash hit, drawing 52 campers. This year, OMC intentionally reduced the number to 32, with camp spread out over two sessions in an effort to make the experience more relational.

“There’s a key, and that is scholarships,” Shackelford said.

More than half of the La Adventura campers come on full scholarship, with OMC operating from the belief that it can’t fulfill its mission if it turns kids away because of money. The retail value of a week at camp is hundreds of dollars, more than many families whose children would benefit from the experience can afford.

“Camps really cater to upper-class and upper middle-class kids, and those kids already have all the opportunities in the world,” Shackelford said.

Coming to camp, completing personal firsts like sleeping outside or walking in the woods with food and shelter loaded on their backs, and meeting people like Cash who have overcome the odds to do incredible things in life, has an impact on kids, Shackelford said. It’s about a lot more than just learning how to paddle a canoe.

“Being exposed to a whole new culture and a whole new world opens up new opportunities in a kid’s life,” she said.

That can happen even through very simple realities, like eating. When you’re out on a backpacking trip, you have to eat what’s in front of you, or not at all. The experience shows kids that they can try new foods, and they can survive without hamburgers and hot dogs.

Christian Torres, 19, remembers well the nervousness he felt the first time he slept outside. But it soon faded, and he was able to see the beauty of the experience.

“When you sleep, you hear the wind in the trees and you wake up with the birds,” he said.

For campers traveling from outside the U.S., the OMC experience can be even more earth-shaking.

Omar Muñoz, 27, of Columbia, had been planning to come last year but couldn’t get a visa. This year, he was successful, and he’s been with OMC all summer long for volunteer training. He’d never been to the U.S. before, and he struggles with English. But the experience has been

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Kids get out for a day on the farm

See the stars, hear their stories Summer constellations and the stories that surround them will be explained 8:309:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, at the Highlands Nature Center with “Myths and Mysteries of the Night Sky.” The program is weather-dependent, with advanced registration and a flashlight required. $3. Register at 828.526.2623.

Kids spent a day learning about gardening and raising animals — while also enjoying swimming, fishing and hay rides — with a field trip marking the 13th year running that Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center has ventured to Selah Farm, in the White Oak community, as part of its Summer Enrichment Program.

“The children who participate in the PCMDC’s summer program are among the most respectful and kind I’ve met. It has been a joy to share our life with them over these thirteen years,” said Dr. William Miller, who runs the farm with his wife Maureen.

The program’s curriculum, “Keys to My Best Me,” emphasizes character development through art, journaling, games and storytelling, encouraging children from kindergarten through high school to grow in kindness, courage, respect, responsibility and honesty. The day at Selah Farm gave kids a chance to demonstrate those qualities.

Planning is already underway for the 2017 Summer Enrichment Program, and the Pigeon Center offers many other opportunities as well.

Lin Forney, 828.452.7232.

August 3-9, 2016

Meteors galore are on the way A high-intensity meteor shower will light up the sky next week, and the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute will host an observing session 10 p.m. to midnight Thursday, Aug. 11.

Meteors can be seen with the naked eye, but weather permitting telescopes will also come out at PARI to hone in on Mars, Saturn and the waxing Moon.

The Perseids are one of the most predictable meteor showers, visible close to the same date each year. They normally peak at about 90 meteors per hour, but recent observations have noticed enhanced activity, so this year’s peak could see as many as 120 meteors per hour.

The shower will peak in the wee hours of the morning Aug. 12, but meteors will be visible for several days on either side of that date. $15, with registration open through 3 p.m. Aug. 11; children 10 and under are free.

Register at www.pari.edu or 828.862.5554.

PARI is located in Transylvania County off of N.C. 215, about 35 miles from Waynesville.

Sarah Chappell, schappell@pari.edu.

Kids explore the greenhouse at Selah Farm.

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Finish summer under the stars A family campout will close out summer the right way Aug. 13-14 at Ralph J. Andrews Campground in Glenville.

The weekend will include games, s’mores a campfire and plenty else. Camping equipment can be provided for those who don’t own it, and the cost includes all meals and snacks. $10 per family with registration open through Aug. 8 by calling 828.293.3053 or 828.631.2020. Organized by Jackson County Parks and Recreation.

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Triathletes to converge on Lake Logan

Celebrate the ‘80s with running shoes on

Reel in a big one

Photographers of all ages and skill levels have a chance to show off their stuff through the Wildlife in North Carolina Photo Competition, open through 5 p.m. Sept. 1.

Photographs must have been taken in North Carolina since Sept. 15, 2012, and fit in one of the following categories: birds, mammals, reptiles/amphibians, invertebrates, wild landscapes, wild plants and fungi, outdoor recreation and animal behavior. Youth categories for photographers 13-17 and 12 and under are also offered.

A hunter safety course will be offered 6-9 p.m. Aug. 8-9 at Haywood Community College, helping hunters get up to speed before the season starts.

In addition to firearm safety, instruction includes ethics, responsibility, conservation, wildlife management, wildlife identification, survival, first aid, specialty hunting and tree stand safety.

The course will be repeated with sessions Sept. 19-20, Oct. 17-18 and Nov. 14-15.

The course will also be offered 6-9 p.m.

Aug. 23-24 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education.

No minimum age, but the course will be taught at a sixth-grade level and tests must be completed without assistance. The certification is accepted in every state in the U.S. Free, with registration required at www.ncwildlife.org.

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out-programs-summer. membership@gsmassoc.org.

Get the inside scoop on lake fishing Tips for fishing spots and techniques on Western North Carolina’s lakes will be for the taking at a presentation 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 10, at Rendezvous Restaurant in Maggie Valley.

Austin Neary, founder and president of Dream Catcher’s guide and retail service in Sylva, will give the talk.

Part of Trout Unlimited Cataloochee’s regular monthly meeting. tucatalooche427@gmail.com.

National Trails Day breaks records The numbers are in, and this year’s National Trails Day, organized at locations across the country by the American Hiking Society on June 4, offered more trail activities than any other year since the inaugural year 1993.

Nationwide, 2,391 activities including hiking, biking, horseback riding, trail maintenance, paddling, geocaching, trail dedications and children’s activities took place in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, enticing more than 168,000 adventure-seekers to explore parks and trails.

The activities resulted in 296,400 miles hiked, 164,200 miles biked, 29,500 miles paddled and 20,900 miles traveled on horseback, as well as 25,900 trail volunteers putting in $2.8 million of sweat equity in trail projects.

Bricks may also be purchased for the Waynesville Skate Park or the Donnie Pankiw Tennis Center in Recreation Park.

THE COST IS $50 FOR ONE BRICK OR $75 FOR TWO BRICKS. For more information or an order form please call 456-2030 or email rlangston@waynesvillenc.gov

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A chance to fish some of the best wild trout streams known to man is coming up with a fly-fishing excursion 8-11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 12, near Bryson City.

Teaming up with Tuckaseigee Fly Shop, the Great Smoky Mountains Association will offer a day of fishing in the eastern slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. $125 for GSMA members and free for Hemlock members, with a fishing permit required to participate. The program is part of GSMA’s Branch Out series of outings and educational programs.

Sign up at www.smokiesinformation.org/info/branch-

Wild photography competition open

Free hunter safety courses offered

August 3-9, 2016

Costumes are encouraged at the ‘80s Flashback 8K, a 5-mile race beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, along the Little Tennessee River in Franklin.

In addition to awards for the fastest athletes, those with the best ‘80s-themed costumes will also get recognition. The post-party, held at the Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub, will feature raffle prizes, ‘80s covers from Off the Record, and games such as Pac-Man and Rubik’s Cube.

All proceeds will go to the Shriners Hospital for Childrenß in Greenville, South Carolina. $35. Register at www.active.com or beginning 5 p.m. on the day of the event.

Black bear management will be the focus of a series of public meetings the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is holding across the state over the coming weeks, with Western North Carolina served by a meeting at 7 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 15, at Southwestern Community College’s Balsam Center Auditorium.

The meeting will update the public on the status of black bear populations and discuss bear management. People will have a chance to state their opinions regarding the future direction of bear hunting and management in North Carolina. www.ncwildlife.org.

Organized by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission; photographers 18 and older must subscribe to the Commission’s Wildlife in North Carolina Magazine to enter. Employees and immediate family of the Commission may not enter.

Cash prizes of $50-$200 will be given, with the grand prize-winning photo published on the magazine’s January 2017 cover.

Enter online at www.ncwildlife.org/contest.

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Over the past decade, the event has conNearly 1,000 athletes from across the tributed to a variety of nonprofits, with U.S. and beyond will flock to Lake Logan KARE, ARC of Haywood County, Girls on Aug. 6-7 to compete in the 11th Lake Logan the Run, Multisport Festival.

Waynesville The triathlons Middle they’ll be competing in School and will require motorists Tuscola High to share the road. On School crossSaturday morning, the country Bethel area along U.S. teams and the 276 between N.C. 110 Candler Lions and Lake Logan Road Club receivwill see significant bike ing donations traffic, with cyclists this year. traveling through Most of Canton, Clyde, Lake the athletes Junaluska, Crabtree come from and Ironduff as well. out of the On Sunday morning, area to combikes will travel pete, with the through Canton and economic Bethel. Travel on N.C. Cyclists cruise along impact of 215 is discouraged as N.C. 215 at Lake Logan. spending the lake and road leadHolly Kays photo from hotels, ing to Sunburst meals and Campground will be other expenscongested with runners es estimated at $1 million since 2006. and cars through mid-afternoon Saturday www.gloryhoundevents.com. and 11 a.m. Sunday.

Public input wanted on black bear future

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Get your gleaning on The harvest is coming in, and for a contingent of growers and volunteers in Haywood County, that means gleaning season.

Haywood Gleaners, a group that works with farmers and local organizations to get food that would otherwise go to waste to people who can use it, is now gearing up for harvest season.

Anyone with produce they’re not going to use — whether an individual with a vegetable garden or a farmer who’s got some leftovers in the field after harvest — can invite the gleaners to come pick. Anyone who wants to help pick can sign up to receive notifications when there’s an opportunity. The produce gets divvied up and delivered — volunteers are also needed on the delivery aspect — to any of the long list of organizations Haywood Gleaners

Gleaners hold up the wealth of tomatoes they’ve plucked to help feed those in need. Donated photo works with.

Applications and sign-up information are online at www.haywoodgleaners.org. haywoodgleaners@gmail.com.

August 3-9, 2016

Educational booths sought at Macon Fair The Macon County Fair is around the corner, and the deadline for education booth entry applications is approaching Friday, Aug. 12.

Organizations are invited to build booths around the theme “Celebrate & Educate,” to be displayed during the fair Sept. 14-17. Booths must be constructed between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 12, to be eligible for judging, and applications are due by Friday, Aug. 12.

Download applications at macon.ces.ncsu.edu and return to 193 Thomas Heights Road, Franklin, N.C., 28734.

Macon County Extension, 828.349.2046.

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Humans have kept pets for nearly 15,000 years, but why do we feel the need to keep animal companions?

Hal Herzog, emeritus professor of psychology at Western Carolina University, will explore the question in a lecture 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 11, at the Highlands Nature Center.

For three decades, Herzog has been investigating humans’ interactions with

other species, studying the moral thinking of cockfighters and animal rights activists, gender differences on attitudes toward animals and the impact of pets on human health. He has been published in a wide variety of scientific journals and consumer magazines and newspapers, and he is the author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About Animals.

Free. Part of the Zahner Conservation Lecture Series, and sponsored by Marianne and Ben Jenkins.

818.526.2221. www.highlandsbiological.org/foundation.

Wildlife education offered in schools Mountain Wildlife Days, a weekend of wildlife-oriented fun, raised $2,600 this summer to go toward wildlife education programs in Western North Carolina Schools.

The money will fund presentations at 10 to 12 schools, a similar level to last year when programs were held in Cashiers, Sylva, Franklin, Waynesville and Asheville, reaching approximately 1,100 students.

Schools interested in hosting a presentation can contact John Edwards, blackbears66@gmail.com.

WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Working Like a Dog program is set for 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 11 at the Waynesville Library. 356.2511 or lhartzell@haywoodnc.net.

• Application deadline for educational booths at the Macon County Fair is Aug. 12. Fair is Sept. 14-17.

Macon.ces.ncsu.edu.

• Bingo is scheduled for 10 a.m.-noon on Wednesday, Aug. 17, at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center.

• Cruise in Maggie Valley event is held from 1-5 p.m. every Sunday at 2771 Soco Road. Vendors: $10 per space. Cruising@MaggieValleyAntiques.com.

• The ceremonial Cherokee bonfires will run from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday through Oct. 1. At Oconaluftee Island Park in Cherokee. The bonfires Guests sit by the fire near the Oconaluftee riverside enjoying a unique and entertaining experience. The events are free and open to the public. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

• Western Carolina University has a new free outreach program called WCU Road Works that will present theatrical, music, film and visual arts events to organizations and communities throughout the region. The first offering this summer will be a family friendly production of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged and Revised.” To book a production, call 227.7028.

• Coloring Club will be hosted on the second Wednesday of the month at 4 p.m. at Canton Library.

Color pencils and color pages supplied. For ages 8 to 108. 648.2924.

• Beginners Chess Club is held on Fridays at 4 p.m. at the Canton Public Library. Ages 8-108 invited to participate. 648.2924.

• Oconaluftee Indian Village is now opened for the 2016 season, located next to the Oconaluftee Visitors Center in Cherokee. Witness the challenges of Cherokee life at a time of rapid cultural change. Tour guides help you explore the historic events and figures of the 1760’s.

Visitors can interact with villagers as they participate in their daily activities. The village also hosts live reenactments, interactive demonstrations, and hands-on Cherokee pottery for kids classes. The village is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

• Qualla Boundary Historical Society meets at 6:30 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Everyone is welcome.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • The United States Police Canine (K-9) Field Trial Certifications will be held Aug. 8-12 in Haywood County.

Donations needed for an Aug. 10 raffle. 736.3317, 926.0867 or bgilmore@waynesvillenc.gov.

• Hunter Safety courses will be offered by Haywood Community College and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission from 6-9 p.m. on Aug. 8-9 at HCC’s Campus, Building 3300, Room 3322, in Clyde. More courses will be offered Sept. 19-20, Oct. 17-18 and Nov. 14-15. Pre-registration required: www.ncwildlife.org.

• The Maggie Valley Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Board of Directors Meeting/Annual Dinner and Award Ceremony starting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, at Maggie Valley Club. 926.1686 or www.maggievalley.org.

• A class on Google Calendar will be offered at 5:55 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 10, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Class will be led by Cynthia Gallinger with help from Laura Chapman. Co-sponsored

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

by Friends of the Jackson County Public Library. Info and register: 586.2016.

• A U.S. Constitution class will be offered from 7-8:15 p.m. on 10 consecutive Tuesdays starting Aug. 16 at New Covenant Church in Clyde. Materials fee: $20. Sign up: 864.325.0093 or bkstegall@hotmail.com.

• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a “Business Management Basics/Los Basicos de Administraction Epresarial” course from 6-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 16, at the Pigeon Community Development Center in Waynesville. Register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Registration deadline is Aug. 4 for a dodgeball tournament to benefit Safe Kids Macon County. The event starts at 10 a.m. on Aug. 20. $125 registration fee per team in the youth division; $150 for adult teams. bringingit2life@gmail.com.

• Richard’s Gala and Auction at Cataloochee Guest Ranch to Benefit Brain Cancer Research on Friday, August 5 at 5:30 pm. $75 tickets. Champagne reception, silent auction, dinner, music and fine wines, followed by an exciting live auction. Silent Auction is open for bids at www.richardsgala.org.

• The Haywood County Arts Council’s “Gallery & Gifts” (formerly Gallery 86) is hosting their annual ArtShare exhibit Aug. 5-27 in downtown Waynesville. www.haywoodarts.org.

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to raise more than $1 million that will primarily support student scholarships. Sponsorships range from $1,500$5,000, and individual tickets are $150. www.southwesterncc.edu/gala, 339.4227 or k_posey@southwesterncc.edu.

• A Dine & Donate to Duke’s Animal Haven fundraiser is scheduled for 5-10 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17, at Zaxby’s in Waynesville. www.dukesanimalhaven.org or 734.0267.

• The Maggie Valley Lions Club will be holding its 8th Annual 4-Person Captain’s Choice Scramble at Maggie Valley Club on Thursday, Aug. 18. The cost is $65.00 per person, which includes coffee and rolls before, Lunch, and a Door Prize worth at least $25.00. All proceeds from this event go to Sight, Hearing and Community programs in and around Maggie Valley.

452.1905 or colf828@hotmail.com.

• Haywood County Tourism Development Authority is now offering smaller, single replicas quilt trail blocks for purchase. A portion of the cost of each block will go to the Friends of the Haywood County Animal Shelter to construct a new, much needed animal shelter. The 16x16 inch blocks will feature either a cat or dog will be available in four background colors — blue, purple, brown, and green. The blocks are priced at $65 each with 85 percent of the proceeds being donated to raise funds to build the new Haywood County Animal Shelter.

944.0761 or stop by 1110 Soco Road in Maggie Valley.

VOLUNTEERS • Community Kitchen of Canton is looking for volunteers to serve this summer. 648.0014

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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 • A monthly grief support group sponsored by The Meditation Center meets at 7 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month at The Meditation Center at 894 East Main Street in Sylva. Info: www.meditatewnc.org or 356.1105.

• Inner Guidance from an Open Heart will meet from 68 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at The Meditation Center at 894 East Main Street in Sylva.

Info: www.meditate-wnc.org or 356.1105.

• Dogwood Insight Center presents health talks at 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.

• Free childbirth and breastfeeding classes are available at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva. Classes are offered bimonthly on an ongoing basis. Register or get more info: 586.7907.

• Angel Medical Center’s diabetes support group meets at 4 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month in the AMC dining room. 369.4166.

• STAR Rescue Ranch is seeking volunteers to help with horse care, fundraising events, barn maintenance and more at the only equine rescue in Haywood County.

505.274.9199.

• A free weekly grief support group is open to the public from 12:30-2 p.m. on Thursdays at SECU Hospice House in Franklin. Hosted by Four Seasons Compassion for Life Bereavement Team. 692.6178 or mlee@fourseasonscfl.org.

• Volunteer Opportunities are available throughout the region, call John at the Haywood Jackson Volunteer Center today and get started sharing your talents. 3562833

• A monthly grief processing support group will meet from 4-5:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at the Homestead Hospice and Palliative Care in Clyde.

452.5039.

• Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation will hold its 11th annual Downtown Dog Walk at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, in Waynesville. Supports Sarge’s work with homeless dogs and cats of Haywood County. $15 for each dog walking in the event. Registration forms: www.sargeandfriends.org. 246.1950.

• Phone Assurance Volunteers are needed to make daily or weekly wellness check-in calls for the Haywood County Senior Resource Center. 356.2816.

• A Men’s Night Out will take place at 6:30 p.m. on the third floor of the hospital.

• PAWS is accepting donations for their upcoming slient aution to be held at their 13th Annual Wine Tasting fundraiser on Sept. 3. Donations will be accepted until August 15. pawsbrysoncity@yahoo.com or 488.0418.

• Yoga at the Library is at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 4, in the Community Room of the Hudson Library in Highlands. 526.3031.

• A free, weekly grief support group will meet from 12:30-2 p.m. on Thursdays at the SECU Hospice House in Franklin. 692.6178 or mlee@fourseasonscfl.org.

• A 13-week program designed to help those affected by divorce will start at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, in the West Wing Lobby of First Baptist Church in Bryson City. The series is entitled “Divorce Care” and will be led by Steve Grissom of Wake Forest. Program meets from 6-8 p.m. each Saturday through Nov. 5. www.divorcecare.org or 488.2679.

• “ECA on the Move!” – a walking program organized

by Jackson County Extension and Community Association – meets from 9-10 a.m. on Mondays through Thursdays. It’s an effort to meet the American Heart Association’s recommendation of 10,000 steps per day. 586.4009.

• The Friends of the Haywood County Library are hosting their annual book sale on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 56, at the Waynesville Library. All books are half price on Friday; $5 fills a bag of books on Saturday. Sale is from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on Friday and from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday.

• A hot dog supper, cake walk, bluegrass singing and silent auction/raffle to benefit the Terry McCall family of six who lost everything in a house fire this summer is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13. McCall is assistant chief of the Canada Fire Department.

Donations accepted at https://www.gofundme.com/2bsg6s4 or make checks payable to Terry McCall, P.O. Box 58, Tuckasegee, NC 28783. Info: www.facebook.com/terry.mccall.102.

• A fundraiser to support area military veterans will be sponsored by Macon Aero Modelers radio controlled flying club starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13, $5 parking fee. BBQ plates are $7. $3 for additional BBQ. $5 for a hot dog plate; $2 for an extra hot dog.

• Tickets are available for the Southwestern Community College Foundation’s second annual “Bluegrass, Blue Jeans and Bling” gala, which is Aug. 13 at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. Performances by Grammy nominee and seven-time International Bluegrass Music Association Award winner Darren Nicholson and his band as well as classics singer Steve Johannessen.

Money goes to Student Success Campaign, which aims

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• Acupuncture clinics for veterans are scheduled for 10 a.m. on Aug. 6, 7:15 p.m. on Aug. 10, 10 a.m. on Aug. 20 and 7:14 p.m. on Aug. 31 at Blue Ridge Natural Health in Waynesville. First come, first served. 539.0440 or www.blueridgenaturalhealth.com.

• Participants are being sought for a clinical trial for those overweight with knee pain. Directed by Dr. Kate Queen of Mountain Medical Associates. wecan@wfu.edu or 558.0208.

• A support group for anyone with Multiple Sclerosis, family and friends meets at 2 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month in the Heritage Room at the Jackson County Senior Center in Sylva. Sponsored by Greater Carolinas Chapter of National MS Society. Info: 293.2503. Offered in cooperation with the Southwestern Commission Agency on Aging.

on the first Wednesday of each month at The Meditation Center at 894 E. Main St. in Sylva. www.meditatewnc.org or 356.1105.

• A Tuesday Meditation Group meets at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Franklin.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • A World Series of Poker Circuit Event is scheduled for Aug. 4-16 at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. www.harrahscherokee.com.

• High Mountain Squares will host their “Back to School Dance” from 6:15-8:45 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5, at the Macon County Community Building in Franklin. School supplies collected will go to the Macon County School System. Richard Smith from Gainesville, Ga., will be the caller. Western-style square dancing, mainstream and levels. Info: 342.1560, 332.0001 or www.highmountainsquares.com.

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• The Wednesday Croquet Group meets from 10 a.m.noon at the Vance Street Park across from the shelter.

For senior players ages 55 or older. 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

• Pickleball is from 1-3 p.m. on Tuesdays through Thursdays at First Methodist Church in Sylva. $1 each time you play; equipment provided. 293.3053.

• Cardio Lunch class will meet from noon-1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. For ages 16 and above. Cost is regular admission fee to the rec center or free for members.

456.2030 or tplowman@waynesvillenc.gov.

• Flexible Fitness class will meet from 4:30-5:15 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. For ages 16 and above. Cost is regular admission fee to the rec center or free for members. 456.2030 or tplowman@waynesvillenc.gov.

• Pump It Up class will meet from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. For ages 16 and above. Cost is regular admission fee to the rec center or free for members. 456.2030 or tplowman@waynesvillenc.gov.

• The Canton Armory is open to the public for walking from 8-10 a.m. on Monday through Friday unless the facility is booked. 648.2363.

• Pickle ball is offered from 8 a.m.-noon on Mondays through Fridays at the Waynesville Recreation Center.

456.2030 or www.waynesvillnc.gov.

Waynesville Library from 2-4 p.m. on the first Friday of each month. Pick any book from a chosen them; each participant gets a chance to discuss his/her book.

Sign-up required: 356.2507 or kolsen@haywoodnc.net.

• Martha Lemasters will read from and sign copies of her new memoir, “The Step: One Woman’s Journey to finding her own happiness and success during the Apollo Space Program” at 3 p.m. on Aug. 5 at Hudson Library in Highlands.

• Amy Ammons Garza will have a book signing for “Appalachian Storyteller in a Feed Sack Dress” at 3 p.m. on Aug. 6 at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

586.9499.

• Kaye Lanning Minchew will present her book “A President in Our Midst” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. Book is about President Franklin Roosevelt, who visited Georgia 41 times between 1924-45. 456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

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August 3-9, 2016

• The Maggie Valley Board of Aldermen will conduct a public hearing on a Zoning Ordinance amendment at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, August 16, in the Town Hall Boardroom.

The amendment is to enact civil penalties for zoning violations. Oral and written comments will be accepted.

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$38 for children. Exact times and ticket prices available by calling 800.872.4681 or by visiting www.gsmr.com.

• A family movie will be shown at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. Movie is a back-to-school drama about a six-year-old girl who escapes from uncaring parents and a cruel school principal by diving into books. Info, including title: 488.3030.

• A concert featuring Balsam Range (www.balsamrange.com) with opening act Tellico (www.tellicoband.com) is from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 4, at Highland Brewing Company’s Event Center in Asheville. Tickets: https://www.highlandbrewing.com/whatsup/event/feast-to-the-beat/ .

• A family movie will be shown at 2 p.m. on Aug. 14 at Canton Library. 648.2924 or kpunch@haywoodnc.net.

• A children’s animated movie about exotic animals on an African island will be shown at 1 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 15 at Macon County Public Library in Franklin. PG; 92 minutes. 524.3600.

• Katie Rose Guest Pryal and Lauren Faulkenberry will present their new books, “Chasing Chaos” and “Bayou My Love” respectively, at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. 586.9499.

• Author and artist Joseph Meigs will read from and sign his newest publication, “Artists’ Tales,” at 3 p.m. on Aug. 13 at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES • The Maggie Valley Board of Aldermen will conduct a public hearing on the question of volunteer annexation at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 16, in the Town Hall Boardroom. The property proposed for annexation is at 81 Harrell Drive. Oral and written comments accepted.

• A children’s animated movie about aircraft will be shown at 1 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 8, at Macon County Public Library in Franklin. PG; 91 minutes. 524.3600.

• A lunch picnic for seniors is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 4, at Waterrock Knob through the Haywood County Senior Resource Center. $10 includes lunch, drink and sweet treat. Meet at the center at 11 a.m.

356.2800.

• An iPhone/iPad user group meets from 2-4:30 p.m. on Aug. 30, Sept. 6 and Sept. 20 at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800 or haywoodseniors.org.

• An AARP Smart Driver program will be offered from 12:30-5 p.m. on Aug. 4 at the Jackson County Senior Center in Sylva. $15 for AARP members; $20 for nonmembers. Register: 926.8948.

A&E FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS • Art After Dark will feature metal sculptures by Grace Cathey from 6-9 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5, at the Jeweler’s Workbench in Waynesville.

• The Fines Creek Bluegrass Festival “Returning to our Roots” is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Aug. 12-13, at the Fines Creek Community Association.

Music starts at 6 p.m. Friday and at 4 p.m. Saturday.

Local bands and cloggers. Tickets are $15 per night for adults; $25 for a two-night ticket. Children 16 and under are free with a paying adult. www.FinesCreek.org.

• Reservations are being accepted for the Southwestern Community College Auto Club’s annual car show, which is Aug. 12-13 at the Wayne Proffitt Agricultural Center in Franklin in conjunction with the Mountain High BBQ Festival. Two categories: 1974 and older; 1975 and newer. Entry fees are $10 for Friday only; $20 for Friday and Saturday or $25 for Saturday. Top prize is $350; second place gets $150.

Info and reservations: 524.3161, 888.368.2328 or d_myers@southwesterncc.edu.

• Bishop Larry Goodpaster, Bishop of the WNC Conference of the United Methodist Church, will be the featured speaker at 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 7 in historic Stuart Auditorium at Lake Junaluska. Part of the Summer Worship Series. http://lakejunaluska.com/summer-worship.

• Registration is underway through Aug. 5 for fall youth soccer through the Jackson County Parks and Recreation. $55. Open to players with birth years from 2003-2012. Volunteer coaches needed. 293.3053.

• The First Presbyterian Church (Franklin) will host a fundraising concert for the Black Mountain Home for Children, Youth & Families at 3 p.m. Aug. 7.

828.524.4755.

• A field trip to Cherokee is being organized by the Macon County 4-H for 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Aug. 11.

For ages 5-18. Cost is $12 for under 12; $18 for older ages. 349.2046.

• A Blueberry Festival is scheduled for Aug. 13 in Cherokee. 359.6473 or angehern@nc-cherokee.com.

“Barnyard” Vacation Bible School will be offered for ages 4-14 from Aug. 9-14 at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Clyde. Meets from 3-5:30 p.m. on Aug. 9-12 and from 9:30-noon on Aug. 13-14. Register: 456.6493.

• Entries are now being accepted for the Mountain Youth Talent Contest to be held at the 12th Annual Franklin Area Folk Festival on Aug. 20 at Cowee School, Arts & Heritage Center. The entry deadline is Aug. 12. All youth ages 5-18 who perform traditional mountain music, dance, or storytelling are invited to participate in this year’s Mountain Youth Talent Contest. jackson4-h.blogspot.com or 586-4009 or kerri_rayburn@ncsu.edu.

• The next “Way Back When” trout dinner will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, at the Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley. The dinner showcases a recreation meal, music, storytelling and atmosphere of a 1930s Appalachian trout camp. Enjoy a wagon ride across the ranch property amid the authentic re-creation of Mr. Tom and Miss Judy Alexander’s first fishing camp. $39.95 per person, plus tax and gratuity. The dinner will also be held Aug. 12 and 26, and Sept. 2 and 16.

To RSVP, call 828.926.1401 or 800.868.1401 or www.cataloocheeranch.com.

• New Covenant Church will be hosting the Global Leadership Summit from 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. on Aug. 11-12 in Clyde. Event is designed to help Christ-following leaders and emerging leaders to recalibrate, recommit and renew their passion for leading with diligence. Broadcast live via satellite from Willow Creek Community Church in S. Barrington, Ill. Register: www.willowcreek.com/summit or 800.570.9812. Rates range from $169-209.

• Mountain Synagogue’s annual Scholar-in-Residence Luncheon to honor the memory of Doctor Judy Greene, spiritual leader and educator, is scheduled for noon on Wednesday, Aug. 17, at the Methodist Church in Highlands. Reservation deadline is Aug. 10. $20 donation. 506.0991 or 526.1816.

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• Full STEAM Ahead! Program for ages 5-12 is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Aug. 16 at Canton Library.

648.2924 or kpunch@haywoodnc.net.

• Summer Reading Pizza Wrap Party is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Aug. 17 at Canton Library. 648.2924 or kpunch@haywoodnc.net.

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• “Steel Magnolias” will be performed Aug. 4-20 at the Highlands Playhouse. Tickets are $38 per person, $15 for children up to age 12. For complete show times and ticket information, click on www.highlandsplayhouse.org.

• Mountain Faith will perform on Friday, Aug. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Stuart Auditorium, Lake Junaluska.

Tickets are $18. Ages 18 and under are free. Tickets are available online at www.lakejunaluska.com/concerts http://www.lakejunaluska.com/concerts or by phone, 800-222-4930.

• Arthur Miller’s drama “All My Sons” will be presented starting Aug. 5 at HART in Waynesville.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 5-6, 11-13 and 18-20 and at 2 p.m. on Aug. 7, 14 and 21.

Reservations: 456.6322 or www.harttheatre.org.

• The “Songwriters in the Round” series will continue with Jerry Vandiver, Tim Buppert and Leslie Satcher at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Balsam Mountain Inn. The Balsam Mountain Inn began the “Songwriters in the Round” series 15 years ago, and modeled it after similar performances at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe. A buffet dinner is included in the $49 ticket price, and seating begins at 6 p.m. For more information or to make a reservation, click on www.balsammountaininn.net or call 828.456.9498.

• Tim Zimmerman and The King’s Brass will be in concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, at Stuart Auditorium in Lake Junaluska. Tickets range from $1823. www.LakeJunaluska.com/singers-august-concert or 800.222.4930.

• Internationally acclaimed country and bluegrass gospel family group The Isaacs will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets are $25 for adults, $12.50 for students. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• 80s Flashback performs at 8 p.m. on Aug. 6 at the Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub in Franklin. www.rathskellerfranklin.com.

• Ben Phan (singer-songwriter) will perform at 7 p.m. on Aug. 9 at Sagebrush Steakhouse in Canton.

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• “A Songcatcher’s Notebook: Traditional Music and Storytelling” with Lee Knight is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 11, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity or 488.3030.

• Music with Sugar Barnes (blues singer) and Dave Magill (country musician) is at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 11, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. 524.3600.

• Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 12, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin Tickets start at $25. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• The Unto These Hills outdoor drama will run at 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday through Aug. 13 at the Mountainside Theater in Cherokee.

• John Phillip Brooks (singer-songwriter) performs at 8 p.m. on Aug. 13 at the Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub in Franklin. www.rathskellerfranklin.com.

• A teen movie rated PG-13 will be shown at 2 p.m. on Aug. 3 at Canton Library. 648.2924 or kpunch@haywoodnc.net.

General admission tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children ages 6-12 and free for children under age 5.

Reserved tickets also available. 866.554.4557 or www.visitcherokenc.com.

• The Bryson City Train Depot concert series will host Donna Hughes (singer-songwriter) at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 13. www.greatsmokies.com.

• A family movie raged G will be shown at 2 p.m. on Aug. 8 at Canton Library. 648.2924 or kpunch@haywoodnc.net.

• “THE WIZARD OF OZ™” train ride at the Great Smoky Mountain Railroads depot in Bryson City.

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• A trip to experience a matinee performance by fourtime Grammy Award-winning David Holt is being organized by the Haywood County Senior Resource Center for Tuesday, Aug. 16. Performance is in

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OUTDOOR MUSIC • The “Friday Night Live” concert series at the Town Square in Highlands will host Mountain Dulcimer Group (bluegrass) Aug. 5. Both begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• The “Pickin’ On The Square” concert series will continue with Subject to Change (bluegrass) on Aug. 6 and The Elderly Brothers (pop/oldies) on Aug. 13. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. A community jam begins at 6:30 p.m. www.franklinnc.com or 524.2516.

• The “Saturdays on the Pine” concert series at Kelsey Hutchinson Park in Highlands will host Nitrograss (bluegrass) Aug. 6 and The Broadcast (Americana/soul) on Aug. 13. Begins at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• The 7th annual “Concerts on the Creek” series will host Buchanan Boys (rock) on Aug. 5, at the Bridge Park Pavilion in Sylva.

• The Nantahala Outdoor Center (Bryson City) will host The Freight Hoppers (Americana/folk) Aug. 5 and Asheville New Grass (Americana/jam) Aug. 6. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.noc.com.

• The “Groovin’ on the Green” concert series will host Erica Nicole (pop/country) on Aug. 5 at The Village Green in Cashiers. Free. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper perform at 6 p.m. on Aug. 6 at Stecoah Valley Center as part of the Appalachian Evening series. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com/performance.html.

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• Doreyl Ammons Cain will offer an outside landscape pastel painting class from 2-5 p.m. on Aug. 6 at the Nature’s Home Preserve in Tuckasegee. 293.2239.

• An evening tatting class will be offered by Dogwood Crafters from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on consecutive Tuesdays, Aug. 16 and 23, at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge. $11 cost includes supplies. Register: 586.2435 or junettapell@hotmail.com.

• A Scarecrow Workshop for making colorful tabletop decorations will be offered by Dogwood Crafters from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17, at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge. $12. Register by Aug. 10: 586.2435 or junettapell@hotmail.com.

• The Dusty Pallet is the newest art gallery in Franklin. The studio is located in downtown at 52 East Main Street. Are you ready for a paint party? For only $35, the gallery provides everything you need to create your own masterpiece. Watch for our days and times at their website, www.thedustypallet.com. Call and schedule your group at 524.5676. The shop is open

• Stone Cutting Saturday will start at 9 a.m. Aug. 6 at the Mason Mountain Mine in Franklin. 828.524.4570 or www.tjrocks.org.

• Blacksmith and metalsmith Brock Martin will host a “Beginning Bladesmithing Class” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 6-7 at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Participants will begin by making a simple butter knife from mild steel Cost is $215, with materials included. To register, call 828.631.0271 or www.jcgep.org.

• A Creating Community workshop is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13, in the atrium of the Jackson County Public Library. Free. Quilling. Co-sponsored by Friends of the Jackson County Public Library.

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ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • “Wild Art 2016: The Show to Benefit Appalachian Wildlife Refuge” is scheduled for noon-5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Addison Farms Vineyards at 4005 New Leicester Highway, 20 minutes northwest of downtown Asheville. Raffle, wine tastings and more. kimberly@appalachianwild.org.

• A touring exhibition of work by artist Wendy Maruyama is on display at the Penland Gallery in Penland. www.penland.org.

• The graduating class of Haywood Community College’s professional crafts program is exhibiting exhibit class members’ best work at the 2016 Graduate Show, which runs through Aug. 7 at the Southern Highland Craft Guild Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville. Work includes clay, jewelry, fiber, metal and wood. The center is open from 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

FILM & SCREEN • A documentary entitled “Where to Invade Next” will be shown at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 10, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room.

Rated R; 2 hours. 524.3600.

• A classic 1944 fantasy movie will be shown at 2 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 12, in the Mac County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. Based on the Oscar Wilde story “The Canterville Ghost.” 1:35. 524.3600.

Outdoors • Knot-Tying 101 will be offered on Aug. 3 at the Jackson County Recreation Center in Cashiers.

Register: 293.3053 or 631.2020. Info: www.facebook.com/jacksonrecreationandparks.

• A bird walk along the greenway is scheduled for 8 a.m. on Aug. 3 in Franklin. Meet at Salali Lane.

Sponsored by Franklin Bird Club. Franklinbirdclub.com or 524.5234.

• A “Fly Tying for the Beginner” class will be offered for ages 12-up from 1-4 p.m. on Aug. 6 at Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/EducationCenters/ Pisgah/EventRegistration.aspx.

• The Lake Logan Multisport Festival is scheduled for Aug. 6-7. Three races. www.gloryhoundevents.com.

• A Zahner Lecture on “Night Sky Mysteries” will be presented from 8:30-9:30 p.m. on Aug. 9 at the Highlands Botanical Garden at the Highlands Biological Station. 586.2221 or www.highlandsbiological.org.

• A program entitled “Mysteries of the Night Sky” will be offered from 8:30-9:30 p.m. on Aug. 9 at the Highlands Biological Station. $3 per person. www.highlandsbiological.org.

• A bird walk along the greenway is scheduled for 8 a.m. on Aug. 10 in Franklin. Meet at Big Bear Shelter parking area. Sponsored by Franklin Bird Club.

Franklinbirdclub.com or 524.5234.

• The Leopold Education Project, aimed a educating the next generation in conservation stewardship, will meet from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 10, at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee. $20; 488.3848.

• A Zahner Lecture entitled “Why Humans (And Only Humans) Keep Pets” will be offered from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Aug. 11 at the Highlands Biological Station. $3 per person. www.highlandsbiological.org.

• A late-night observation of the Perseid meteor shower will be offered on Thursday, Aug. 11, at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman.

$15 per person; children under 10 admitted for free.

Register and pay: www.pari.edu or 862.5554. schappell@pari.edu.

• A program entitled “Into the Woods: Forests” will be offered from 10:30 a.m.-noon and from 1:30-3 p.m. on Aug. 11 at the Cradle of Forestry in Pisgah Forest.

Final meeting of the “Woodsy Owl’s Curiosity Club.” $4 per child or $2.50 per adult. Register: 877.3130. www.cradleofforestry.org.

• “Stewards of Public Lands” will be the topic of a Junior Forester program for ages 8-12 from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Aug. 11 at the Cradle of Forestry in Pisgah Forest. $4 for youth; $2.50 for adults.

Registration required: 877.3130. www.cradleofforestry.com.

• A presentation on lightning will be offered at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 12, at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman. $20 for adults; $15 for seniors/military. Children 10 and under admitted free. www.pari.edu, 862.5554 or schappell@pari.edu.

• A fly-fishing excursion to the eastern slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains Park will be offered from 8-11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 12, near Bryson City. $125 for Great Smoky Mountains Association members and free for Hemlock members. Fishing permit required.

Offered by Tuckaseigee Fly Shop and the Great Smoky Mountains Association. www.smokiesinformation.org/info/branch-out-programs-summer or membership@gsmassoc.org.

• The Walking Roots Band performs at 6 p.m. on Aug. 13 at Stecoah Valley Center as part of the Appalachian Evening series. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com/performance.html.

• A family campout is scheduled for Aug. 13-14 at Ralph J. Andrews Campground in Glenville. Games, s’mores, campfire and more. $10 per family. Register

by Aug. 8: 293.3053 or 631.2020. Organized by Jackson County Parks and Recreation.

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• Submissions are now being accepted for the 2017 edition of Milestone, the biennial art and literary review published by Southwestern Community College.

First- and second-place cash prizes will be awarded in three categories: Poetry, Prose (short story or nonfiction works) and Visual Arts, including photography.

In addition, one cash prize will be awarded for Cover Art. Open to residents of Jackson, Macon, Swain counties and the Qualla Boundary – as well as SCC students and alumni. Info and submissions (by Dec. 5): tknott@southwesterncc.edu or bkeeling@southwesterncc.edu. Info: 339.4314 or 339.4325.

• Cribbage is at 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday at the Maggie Valley Inn. 410.440.7652 or 926.3978.

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• Annual Picnic of the Swain County Genealogical and Historical Society will be at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 4 at 6:30 p.m. at Morgan Pavilion, Recreation Park, Deep Creek Road. The Society is providing BBQ and participants should bring a covered dish. Membership is $25 per year.

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• A fishing clinic will be offered from 9-11 a.m. on Aug. 4 at the Test Farm. Register or get more info: tanya.poole@ncwildlife.org or 329.3472.

• A celebration of the National Park Service Centennial is scheduled for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5, at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center at Milepost 384 in Asheville. Interactive activities, chef

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• A “Fly Tying: Level II” class will be offered from 9 a.m.-noon on Aug. 13 at Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/EducationCenters/Pi sgah/EventRegistration.aspx.

• A program entitled “May the Forest Be With You” is scheduled for 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Cradle of Forestry in Pisgah Forest. 877.3130. www.cradleofforestry.com.

• “Fly Tying: Level II” will be offered from 9 a.m.-noon on Aug. 13 at Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/EducationCenters/Pi sgah/EventRegistration.aspx.

• The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will hold a public meeting to update the public on current black bear information and to discuss bear management at 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 15, at Southwestern Community College in Sylva.

• The film “A Murder of Crows” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 15, at the Hudson Library in Highlands.

• Birds and Beer (or wine or tea) is scheduled for 5 p.m. on Aug. 16 at the Ugly Dog in Highlands.

• A bird walk along the greenway is scheduled for 8 a.m. on Aug. 17 in Franklin. Meet at Salali Lane.

Sponsored by Franklin Bird Club. Franklinbirdclub.com or 524.5234.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a nine-mile hike with a 1,700-foot elevation gain on Aug. 17 from Mount Pisgah to Beaver Dam Overlook. For info and reservations, contact leader Bruce Bente at 692.0116, 699.6296 or bbente@bellsouth.net.

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FARM AND GARDEN • A “Gardening for Pollinators” program will be offered at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 4, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. Larissa Lopez, 2016 AmeriCorps volunteer intern at the Balsam Mountain Trust, will lead the conversation. http://balsammountainpreserve.com/the-nature-center/the-trust.

FARMERS MARKET • A community tailgate market for local growers is open from 3-7 p.m. every Wednesday at The Village Green Commons in Cashiers. 734.3434, info@villagegreencashiersnc.com or www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

• Haywood Historic Farmers Market is held from 8 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the parking lot of HART Theatre in Waynesville. 280.1381 or haywoodfarmersmarket@gmail.com or waynesvillefarmersmarket.com

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• The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 171 Legion Drive in Waynesville (behind Bogart’s). 456.1830 or vrogers12@att.net.

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 • The Jackson County Farmers Market will be on Saturdays from 9 a.m.-noon at Bridge Park located in Sylva. Info: 393.5236. jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com or website jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org.

• The ‘Whee Farmer’s Market is open from 4 p.m. to dusk every Tuesday at the corner of the N. Country Club Drive and Stadium View Drive in Cullowhee, behind the entrance to the Village of Forest Hills off Highway 107 across from Western Carolina University. 476.0334.

• Franklin Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.-noon every Saturday at 203 E. Palmer Street in Franklin. Info: collins230@frontier.com.

• The Cashiers Tailgate market is open from 1 p.m.- 5 p.m. on Wednesdays at the United Community Bank on N.C. 107 South. 226.9988 or blueridgefarmers@gmail.com.

• The Franklin Farmers Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.noon on Saturdays on East Palmer Street across from Drake Software in Franklin. 349.2049 or alan_durden@ncsu.edu.

• Cowee Farmers Market is open from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays starting May 24 at Old Cowee School located at 51 Cowee School Drive. ediescookies@mail.com or www.coweefarmersmarket.com • Swain County Farmers Market will be open from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Fridays through Oct. and Tuesdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. through Aug. 16 at the barn on Island Street in Bryson City. 488.3848 or Christine_bredenkamp@ncsu.edu.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • RICHARD’S 3rd Annual 5K FUN RUN/WALK 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6. Course will across mile-high meadows and along forest trails at Cataloochee Guest Ranch in Maggie Valley. The self-timed run crosses the ranch grounds at an elevation of 5,200 feet near the border of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Lunch available for purchase afterwards. Proceeds from the event will benefit Duke University’s Tisch Brain Tumor Center. Register today for the run/walk at www.richardsrun.org. The fee is just $10 in advance and $15 the day of the race.

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• An 80s Flashback 8K to benefit Greenville Shriners Hospital is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Aug. 6 at 877 Ulco Drive in Franklin. 421.7637.

• Registration is underway for the Summer Blast Twilight Spring triathlon, which is Aug. 13 at Lake Chatuge. www.raceodysseyevents.com, tri20001@msn.com or 389.6982.

• The Path to the Breakaway, a group for women 18 and older, meets regularly in preparation for the Blue Ridge Breakaway on Saturday, Aug. 20. Offered by BicycleHaywoodNC. Registration for the race is $41 (by Aug. 1) for the shortest route. www.blueridgebreakaway.com or bobclarklaw@gmail.com.

HIKING CLUBS • An eight-mile hike in the Black Mountains near Burnsville is scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6. RSVP requested: 587.9453 or michelle_ruigrok@tws.org.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a two-mile easy hike, with an elevation change of 150 feet., on Aug. 7 to Big Laurel Falls and Mooney Falls, two easy trails along creeks in the Standing Indian Area. Meet at Westgate Plaza in Franklin at 2 p.m., drive 40 miles round trip. Call leader Mary Stone, 369.7352, for reservations. Visitors and children welcome.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have an all-day, 10.5mile hike with a 1,500-foot elevation gain on Sunday, Aug. 7, at NC 215 to Buckeye Gap and Fork Ridge. For reservations and info, contact leader Paul Benson at 273.2098 or pdbenson@charter.net.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a half-day, fivemile hike with a 790-foot descent on Aug. 7 from Mill Ridge to Hot Springs. 790-foot ascent. For info and reservations, contact leader Jack Dalton: 622.3704 or jackdalton9@gmail.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a 7.5-mile hike with a 1,000-foot ascent on Saturday, Aug. 13 at Flat Laurel Creek, Little Sam Knob and MST Loop. For info and reservations, contact leader Marcia Bromberg at 505.0471 or mwbromberg@yahoo.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a 5.1-mile hike with a 1,100-foot ascent on Aug. 14 to Mount Pisgah from Pisgah Inn. For info and reservations, contact leader Dennis Bass at 367.7792, 367.8619 or DBass3607@gmail.com.

OUTDOOR CLUBS • The Jackson County Poultry Club will hold its regular meeting on the third Thursday of each month at the Jackson County Cooperative Extension Office. The club is for adults and children and includes a monthly meeting with a program and a support network for those raising birds. For info, call 586.4009 or write heather_gordon@ncsu.edu.

• The North Carolina Catch program, a three-phase

conservation education effort focusing on aquatic environments, will be offered through May 15. The program is offered by the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department. Free for members; daily admission for non-members. 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov.

• An RV camping club, the Vagabonds, camps one weekend per month from April through November. All ages welcome. No dues or structured activities. For details, write lilnau@aol.com or call 369.6669.

• The Tuckaseigee River Chapter No. 373 of Trout Unlimited meets at 6:30 p.m. on second Tuesday of the month at United Community Bank in Sylva. Dinner is $5.

• The Cataloochee Chapter of Trout Unlimited meets the second Tuesday of the month starting with a dinner at 6:30 p.m. at Rendezvous restaurant located on the corner of Jonathan Creek Road and Soco Road in Maggie Valley. 631.5543.

• Cold Mountain Photographic Society is a camera/photography club for amateurs and professionals who want to learn about and share their knowledge of photography with others. Must be 18 or older to join.

Meetings are held at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month in the conference room of MedWest Health and Fitness Center, 262 Leroy George Drive in Clyde. More information at www.cmpsnc.org or info@cmpsnc.org.

• The Cherokee Runners meets each month on the 1st and 15th of the month (if the first falls on Sunday, the group meets on the 2nd), at the Age Link Conference Room. Group runs are being held each Tuesday and Thursday at 6 p.m. starting at the Flame. www.cherokeerunners.com.

Ongoing BUSINESS & EDUCATION • A symposium about life in modern-day Cuba will be offered at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 4, at The Strand at 38 Main in downtown Waynesville. Featuring artist Christopher Holt. Sponsored by The Haywood County Arts Council, The Strand Theater and the Smoky Mountain News.

• Carolina Readiness Supply will host a Customer Appreciation Day from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Aug. 6 in Waynesville. Food tasting, hot dogs, chips, book signing with Franklin Horton at 1 p.m. and a class on Colloidal Silver at 3 p.m.

HEALTH MATTERS • A presentation on “Medication Side Effects in Older Adults” will be offered at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 12, at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. Register: 356.2800 or stop by the center.

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The naturalist’s corner

BY DON H ENDERSHOT

A real can of DNA worms new whole-genome (the entire genetic makeup) study published in Science Advances on July 27 is giving the already muddied waters of wolf-coyote ancestry another stir.

The study, authored by Bridgett M. vanHoldt of Princeton, James A. Cahill of the University of California, Zhenxin Fan of Sichuan University, People’s Republic of China, Robert Wayne of the University of California and others suggests that the red wolf (Canis rufus) contains approximately 75 percent coyote genes and only 25 percent wolf, and that the eastern gray wolf (Canis lupus lycaon) shows 25 to 50 percent coyote ancestry.

The report is quite detailed both in its scientific regimen and its extrapolations (you can read the study here, http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/ 7/e1501714.full). The researchers believe that the gradient of coyote-wolf admixture neatly parallels the timetable of gray wolf extirpation across the Southeast, East and Great Lakes regions. Extensive habitat decimation across the Southeast as woodlands were converted to agriculture plus bounties

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on wolves beginning in the 1880s led to a quick and nearly complete demise of the wolf across the region.

That in turn would have allowed coyotes to expand into the area, increasing the odds coyote-wolf cross breeding. The same scenario played out in the Great Lakes region but at a later date (early 20th century) and a bit slower, which dovetails nicely with the coyote DNA percentage being greater in the Southeast — red wolf population — than in the northeast and/or Great Lakes — eastern gray wolf population.

The study provides an interesting look into the evolutionary biology of North American canids, but the impetus for the study is linked to a “real time” dilemma. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is charged with executing and/or administrating the Endangered Species Act (ESA.) One of the reasons for keeping the gray wolf on the ESA was the idea that the gray wolf, Canis lupus, once roamed across the Great Lakes Region and the eastern U.S. and that by allowing for ESA protections the FWS could reestablish the gray wolf in these areas. But the newly recognized eastern wolf has led the FWS to lobby for delisting the gray wolf across its current geographic

The study suggests that the strict application of taxonomy to support endangered species status is antiquated and they encourage an “ecological authenticity” concept. In such a concept, admixed (hybrid) animals that have the same or similar ecological function as the native endangered specimen are deserving of protection.

This interesting dilemma popped up on my radar screen last Sunday in the form of a “Bayou-Diversity” blog from Kelby Ouchley. Ouchley, Louisianan, natural history author and writer/narrator of Bayou-Diversity a public radio natural history program, worked as a biologist and refuge manager for FWS for 30 years and continues to promote conservation ethics and education through his writings and speaking engageRed wolf at Alligator ments.

River National I tried on Aug. 1 to get some Wildlife Refuge. feedback from NWS and NC wikimedia commons photo Defenders of Wildlife — an environmental group seeking continrange. This would leave quite a conundrum, ued protections for wolves in North America as the ESA in its current form does not probut I didn’t hear back in time for this article. vide for protection of hybrids like the eastI will follow up and, hopefully have more ern wolf leaving its blight up in the air. And insight into this dilemma by time for the on the other hand the red wolf was one of next installment of The Naturalist’s Corner. the first animals listed by the ESA despite its (Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist. admixture with coyotes.

He can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.)

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