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On the Cover: It’s a big year for Western Carolina University, with the school celebrating its 125th anniversary. Through the years it has experienced many evolutions, growing from a small, rural schoolhouse to an expansive university.

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News A downtown fire in Sylva damages Main Street businesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 WNC’s fracking debate heats up in Macon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 A pair of cell phone tower applications are denied for now in Macon . . . . . 11 PETA cries foul at Haywood dairy farm, but others suspect a setup . . . . . . 12 On the heels of LifePoint’s entry, Mission has expanded in Haywood . . . . . 14 Jackson tourism officials consider hiring an executive director . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Main Street managers from around the state head to Waynesville . . . . . . . . 15 Fertilizer and free coffee no longer fair trades for Haywood schools . . . . . . 16 Lawmakers deny Canton’s paper mill $12 million for upgrades . . . . . . . . . . 18

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“My business papers, computers. At that point everything was wet.”

While the building housing Motion Makers didn’t take the direct him, Cranford expected it to be tallied as totaled along with the neighboring structure where the fire began.

“The general consensus is that our building will come down,” the business owner said Tuesday afternoon. “Most people think it’s not going to be able to stay.”

Cranford was worried that if the property neighboring his business fell it could start a chain reaction.

“If our building goes, what else goes?” he wondered. “You know, how big of a domino effect is it going to be?’

For now, Cranford is concentrating on retrieving inventory and customers’ bikes that were currently being tended to. He plans to set up shop somewhere temporarily in order to get back to work.

The fire is also giving the downA fire was reported in downtown Sylva on the morning of Aug. 16. It apparently began in Trevalino’s Restaurant and ultimately damaged neighboring town business owner a reason to businesses as well. Main Street’s fire-damaged buildings remain closed off as of press time Tuesday, due to concerns the structures could collapse. rethink his location. While he Photo by Kristin Moore (left) • Jeremy Morrison photo (right) enjoys “being a part of downtown Sylva,” much of his customer base

BY J EREMY MORRISON as quickly as possible. It’s not going to be fast, the way across backstreet, or it could only fill stems from Western Carolina University in N EWS E DITOR but we’re going to do it as fast as we can.” one lane.” nearby Cullowhee and the current location he downtown Sylva businesses housed in Downtown business owners in attendance After the emergency town meeting, Moss presents some logistical issues. the Main Street buildings impacted by a at the meeting were concerned about the rip- stood in the parking lot by his pickup and Cranford is trying to glimpse a silver linweekend fire stand with blackened bricks pling ramifications from the fire. How long pondered the situation. His store received ing in the midst of bad news. and blistered innards. It’s not a pretty sight. would traffic be routed around the affected substantial water damage as the fire was “The upside of this is there’s an opportuni“It doesn’t look salvageable to me,” Sylva area of downtown? What impact do barri- fought and he feared losing the inventory ty for us, at least temporarily, to experiment Mayor Maurice Moody told a full house cades and crime-scene tape have on business? stuck inside. with another part of town,” he said. “We’re crowd during an emergency meeting follow- Can the town do anything to advertise the fact “It’s a pool,” Moss said. “It’s just gonna gonna reopen … my gut feeling is we probably ing the fire. that downtown is still open for business? either mold or rust up.” won’t be able to be at 552 Main again.”

Early Saturday morning, firefighters Businesses owners with businesses locatAnd, of course, there’s the loss of revenue Or, maybe Main is still an option. By responded to a fire at Trevalino’s Restaurant. ed in properties neighboring Trevalino’s were as the business sits dormant. Moss is con- Tuesday after, the structural engineer had given The fire is believed to be electrical in nature, concerned about damages and inventory. cerned about his employees weathering such the fire-damaged properties a thumbs-up. perhaps beginning in an air handler, but an They wondered when they might be able to a stretch.

“The building is structurally sound, both exact cause is still being determined. By the salvage what lay behind the tape and barri“I’ve got some money set aside, they Trevalino’s and Motion Makers,” said Roberson. time the blaze was contained a early Saturday cades, but were told entering the properties don’t,” he said. “They need to work.”

While the structures are sound, the damafternoon, the damage was significant. posed too big of a liability issue.

Other businesses feeling the brunt of the age is extensive. Roberson reported that Town leaders informed the public a cou“Can I get my stuff out of my store,” said weekend fire include Southern Signs, Black Trevalino’s front and back walls, as well as its ple of days after the fire that the building Backstreet Airsoft owner Jeff Moss, explaining Rock Outdoor and Motion Makers Bike beams, were sound but that the remainder housing Trevalino’s would likely have to be that his military surplus inventory needed res- Shop. Black Rock and Motion Makers share could be chalked up to a “long remodel.” demolished; that was the report they were cuing from his Mill Street establishment. “I’m walls with Travelino’s.

That structurally-sound assessment will go getting from the insurers. Until then, the por- a big boy, I can walk through a building.”

“It’s a mess,” said Kent Cranford, owner of a ways toward easing fears along Main Street. tion of Main Street between Spring and Sylva Public Works Director Dan Motion Makers.

Business owners are being allowed to reenter Evalina streets would need to remain closed.

Schaeffer explained that it was too risky to Cranford, like other business owners, was their impacted businesses and by Wednesday, “The structural engineer is coming tomor- allow anyone in the impacted properties yet allowed to enter his impacted property initial- one lane of Main Street and one lane of Mill row, we’ll get a game plan from there,” Sylva due to the chance of the structure collapsing. ly after the fire to retrieve must-have items.

Street will open to traffic, ending the detour.

Town Manager Paige Roberson said at the “Cause you’re seeing some bowing in the “Just for a little bit, to collect anything “Much better than I was thinking,” emergency meeting. “We’re going to do this building,” Schaeffer said. “If it fell, it’d go all that was personal in nature,” he explained. Roberson said.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER racking flooded the public comments section of the Macon County commissioners’ most Bryson City has joined the growing list of local recent meeting. As the meeting governments taking a position against hydraulic opened, people unable to find a seat fracturing, a method of fossil fuel extraction known lined the back of the room and spilled as fracking. The town board voted unanimously out the doorway.

Aug. 18 to pass a resolution opposing the practice.

“I love it when it’s filled up,” said “We believe it’s dangerous, and we wanted our Commissioner Paul Higdon. “I think opinion on the record,” said Mayor Tom Sutton. it’s good for the public to be involved.”

The measure is a symbolic one, as the state law Both proponents and opponents of allowing fracking prevents local government from hydraulic fracturing, the method of fosopting out. sil fuel extraction known as fracking, Jackson County commissioners are likely to discame out in force, each asking Macon cuss passing a similar resolution at an upcoming County commissioners to consider a work session. If they did so, that would bring the resolution endorsing their point of view. growing list of local resolutions to seven.

“Fracking will be an election issue in Macon County in November,” said Susan Ervin, a Macon County FreedomWorks chapter.

Planning Board member and fracking oppoAt this point, commissioners are ready nent. “Voters will expect their candidates to for neither of those options. take a strong position.”

“That will be discussed later on down the “Since fracking has moved into the politiroad,” said Commissioner Ronnie Beale. cal realm, I ask the Republican majority on “There are still a lot more thoughts to be this board to take the bold step of issuing a gathered, but the fact is it’s already been resolution in support of fracking,” said Vic signed into law.”

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The ‘Cullowhee idea’ Journey to the 21st century Two-room school transforms to major regional university Editor’s note: This article (edited for space from its original version) appears in the just-published fall edition of The Magazine of Western Carolina University, which pays homage to the university’s 125th anniversary. The magazine can be viewed online at http://magazine.wcu.edu/.

Western Carolina University has evolved considerably since its inception in 1889. WCU photo

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t’s August, freshman move-in day, and Western Carolina University is welcoming a new class of freshmen to campus. It’s what WCU Chancellor David Belcher calls a “huge day.”

“We’ve got students coming in right and left,” says Belcher.

One of those students is Kailey Spencer. She plans to study forensics and is looking forward to the lab work.

“I love the campus,” Spencer says.

Dennis and Lori Spencer have traveled from Charlotte to bring their daughter to Cullowhee. It’s a pretty “huge day” for the Spencers. It’s also a pretty “huge day” for WCU in general — founded 125 years ago, the university is celebrating its quasquicentennial.

Over the past 125 years, the school in Cullowhee has taken many forms, from its humble beginnings to its ambitious present. While much has changed, “there’s a whole bunch,” as Belcher says, “that has remained constant.”

“It’s just changed incredibly dramatically in some ways,” the chancellor says, “but I think the thing that sort of holds us together is that our fundamental mission has not changed, and that is to serve the educational needs of the western portion of the state.”

BY RANDALL HOLCOMBE WCU he little school that was the forerunner of Western Carolina University was called Cullowhee Academy. Its location is marked by a stone memorial, erected in 1934, that sits in a garden area between the university’s steam plant and Breese Gymnasium.

The memorial honors Robert Lee Madison, who was 22 when he taught his first class of Robert Lee 18 students at the acadeMadison my on Aug. 5, 1889.

The university that has grown up around Madison’s stone memorial is a far cry from that little school. Grand buildings and a rolling campus have settled into Cullowhee’s landscape over the past 125 years. WCU’s influence, however, now extends even beyond its campus, helping to shape Western North Carolina.

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THE “CULLOWHEE IDEA” In July 1889, a young Madison was preparing to leave Western North Carolina, where he served as the editor of the Tuckaseige Democrat newspaper and principal of the Jackson Academy in Sylva. He had been offered a principal’s position in Raleigh.

Madison was working on his acceptance letter for the Raleigh position when Lewis J. Smith, a prominent citizen from Cullowhee Valley, appeared at his doorstep. A teacher at the Cullowhee Academy had recently resigned to enter to ministry, and Smith pitched the job to Madison.

Madison later wrote about those events for the Asheville Citizen newspaper in 1938: “That hot August afternoon, following my

acceptance of the invitation to visit Cullowhee, found me seated by the side of State Senator Lewis J. Smith in a topless buggy drawn by a sturdy mule en route to the ‘Valley of the white Lilies.’” Once in Cullowhee, the prospective teacher met with 40 to 50 citizens and presented a speech on education.

Hired for a salary of $40 per month by the educationally minded citizens, Madison had found a permanent home for the vision he held of opening a school to prepare teachers to serve in rural areas. In later years, he called it “the Cullowhee Idea.”

As Madison described it, his academy “consisted of one-fourth of an acre and a frame structure in the shape of an L, intended for a two-room building but having no partitions, fixed or moveable. The house was unfinished, unpainted and unfurnished except for a few long, heavy benches and a blackboard. The value of the lot and the improvement was less than $800.” As the school began a 10-month session under Madison’s leadership, 12 of the 18 pupils attending were the children of board members. But during the succeeding months, more than 100 students ranging in age from 6 years old to the mid-20s enrolled, with new students coming in from surrounding communities and counties. By the end of the year, Madison had hired his sister Marguerite to teach the younger children.

With enrollment growing, Madison began his second year in Cullowhee by gaining permission to hold classes in the nearby Baptist church, and a new music and art building was added to the site beside the schoolhouse.

The academy had no boarding facilities in its early years. Students who needed a place to live were taken in as boarders in local homes, and some rented small cabins or shacks.

Madison wrote about the environment in which the little school existed: “The Cullowhee valley and adjacent territory were at that time sparsely settled; but much of the land was fertile and the owners, most of whom lived in good homes, were intelligent, progressive and public spirited.”

In 1891, Madison and his board requested a charter from the N.C General Assembly, and the institution was renamed Cullowhee High School. The school had nine trustees, most of whom had been involved since its founding, and Madison called them the “Noble Nine.”

Two years later, he wrote to a local state representative to encourage funding for a statewide system of teacher training schools. That idea was rejected, but Cullowhee High School did receive a $1,500 appropriation to support a “normal” department — a department for training teachers. Teacher training began in Cullowhee, and by 1897 enrollment had grown to 234 students.

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The freshmen beanie tradition began in 1957 and lasted about a decade. Freshmen were allowed to take off their beanies if WCU won its Homecoming game. Otherwise, they were supposed to wear them until winter break. WCU photo “I think WCU has had quite an impact in our community, particularly the educational community,” Parker said.

The HCC president appreciates the relationship her school enjoys with WCU. University faculty members have served on various advisory boards at the community college, and HCC students are able to transfer easily to a four-year degree program in Cullowhee due to an articulation agreement between the two institutions.

“WCU is very supportive of our work here at Haywood Community College. We have ongoing dialogue between the two institutions regarding potential partnerships to enhance the experiences of our students,” Parker said.

HCC’s Vice President of Student Services Laura Leatherwood also graduated from Western. She holds three degrees from the university — a bachelor’s, a master’s and a doctoral degree.

“I did not want to leave the area to get a college education, and WCU was uniquely

WCU: A timeline

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1967 — Name changes to Western Carolina University 1970s — WCU begins ‘The Old Mountain Jug’ rivalry with Appalachian State

Davies Home, opens 1914 — Campus newspaper, “The Cullowhee Yodel,” premiers 1929 — Name changes to Western Carolina Teachers College 1932 — ‘Catamount’ narrowly beats out ‘Boomers’ to become

1957 — Levern Hamlin becomes WCU’s first African-American student

1972 — Chancellor Jack K. Carlton freezes tenure and requires freshmen to live on campus 1973 — Amid student protests, Carlton is ousted from office

1980 — Ronnie Carr makes first three-point shot in NCAA history

1998 — WCU becomes first public university in state to institute a computer requirement 2005 — WCU announces Millennial Initiative 2009 — Pride of the Mountains marching band receives Sudler Trophy 2011 — The Freshmen Run tradition begins

You’re invited to join the party Western Carolina University is opening the academic year by throwing itself a party in honor of the 125th anniversary of its founding, and all alumni, friends, students, faculty, staff and members of the surrounding community are invited to take part in the festivities.

Christened the Big Birthday Bash, the free event is scheduled from 4 until 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 26, on the A.K. Hinds University Center lawn and the adjoining Central Plaza. The afternoon will include a picnic on the lawn featuring barbecue, hamburgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, watermelon, funnel cakes, deep-fried goodies, lemonade, tea and – of course – birthday cake.

For more information about the Aug. 26 Big Birthday Bash, 828.227.3033. For more information about other 125th anniversary events, visit celebrate125.wcu.edu.

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1889 — Cullowhee Academy opens with 18 students and 1 teacher 1891 — Name changes to Cullowhee High School 1905 — Name changes to Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School 1907 — First dormitory,

mascot 1939 — The federal New Deal program funds multiple campus construction projects 1940s — Male enrollment drops below 10 percent as World War II rages 1953 — Name changes to Western Carolina College

situated to serve my educational needs,” Leatherwood said. “I am thankful every day for having WCU in our backyard.”

Leatherwood still volunteers for WCU. She feels that the local communities should support the mission of the university because the institution serves to strengthen the region.

One of the ways in which WCU impacts the area is simply by being an active participant, what Leatherwood calls an “engaged institution.”

“One of the best outreach efforts that the university has undertaken is its philosophy of being an ‘engaged institution.’ What that means to me is that we are using the resources and intellectual talent of the staff, faculty and students to solve local problems and facilitate solutions,” Leatherwood said.

Julie Spiro, the executive director of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, is another local grad who’s not shy about cheering on her alma mater.

“My blood runs purple!” she said. “I am definitely an evangelist for WCU.”

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BY J EREMY MORRISON N EWS E DITOR ackson County Manager Chuck Wooten arrived at Western Carolina University as a freshman in 1969. He remembers his college days fondly.

“My classmates and fraternity brothers all had such a great time in Cullowhee,” Wooten said. “I remember as a freshman, wearing beanies — we got to burn’em at Homecoming.”

Wooten graduated in 1973. A few years later he’d be back in Cullowhee. After seeing a job ad in the Charlotte Observer for a comptroller position at WCU, he decided he might like to return.

More recently, prior to taking his job with Jackson County, Wooten served as the university’s vice chancellor for administration and finance. He’s quick to preach the gospel of WCU, to talk about its “significant impact” and how the school is an “economic driver for our region.”

“We’re just so fortunate,” Wooten said. “In many cases folks in the west may not choose to leave the west to seek higher education.”

Wooten is just one among a large number of WCU graduates who call the area home and sing the school’s praises.

Barbara Parker, president of Haywood Community College, is a Catamount. She also stuck around after graduation, playing witness to the university’s impact on regional education.

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Spiro has deep roots at WCU. Her grandmother graduated from the school in 1917 when it was a teacher’s college. Her father graduated from Cullowhee High School, as did she.

“I graduated from Cullowhee High in the Camp Laboratory building on campus, and then later from WCU,” Spiro explained. “I grew up on the campus and have great memories of WCU from attending athletic events to summer learning programs, taking swimming lessons, as well as being a student in the classroom.”

From her job with the Chamber of Commerce, Spiro has a nice vantage point from which to view WCU’s impact on the local area. It excites her to see the university working with the Dillsboro and Sylva business communities and upstarting educational programs aimed at the area’s older, nonstudent population.

“Western has done an excellent job reaching out to the community, particularly over the past five years,” Spiro said.

Dawn Gilchrist, another WCU graduate, also appreciates the university’s contribution to the region. She graduated from the college and now teaches English at Swain County High School. She is grateful for the community involvement of WCU faculty and the cultural benefits associated with an institution of higher learning.

But she is particularly appreciative of the educational benefit that WCU offers to the region’s youth. She has seen students attend college in Cullowhee who may not have otherwise been able to pursue higher education.

“Although I have always wished that WCU did even more to fill the niche of a place-based, southern Appalachian university, perhaps their greatest impact is that they have created opportunities for intelligent students in this area who prefer not to, or cannot afford to, go far away from these mountains to seek a postsecondary education,” Gilchrist said.

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In 1901, the school at Cullowhee received its first capital improvement money from the state – $5,000 for construction of a building to house its normal department. Another $2,000 was later appropriated for the project, but local contributions of money, materials and labor were required to make the Madison Building a reality. Later known as “Old Madison,” the structure was completed in 1904. It was erected up the hill behind the original schoolhouse on three acres of land donated by David Rogers. The three-story structure represented a large expansion of facilities for the little school, and Old Madison remained in use until it was replaced by the new Madison Hall in 1939.

By 1905, Cullowhee High School had become a full-fledged public institution and its name had changed to Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School, with the campus consisting of three buildings and 4.1 aces. As enrollment grew, the state legislature approved $7,000 in funding for the school’s first residence hall, Davies Home. Built at the top of the hill above Old Madison, it was torn down and replaced by Reynolds Residence Hall in 1953. By 1910, enrollment at CNIS had stagnated and Madison was released from his duties and was replaced by Alonzo C. Reynolds, superintendent of Buncombe County schools.

Not long after Reynolds’ arrival in Cullowhee, a decision was made to construct a new classroom and administration building.

Completed in 1913, the Joyner Building was the center of campus life for many years. The school added a two-year college curriculum to its offerings during the Reynolds administration, and after he announced his resignation at the end of the school year in 1920, Madison returned to lead CNIS once again.

In 1923, the high school function of the school at Cullowhee was removed with a new state charter and the institution became Cullowhee State Normal School. Madison resigned that year but remained as an English teacher until 1937. Hiram Hunter was hired as the next president of the institution.

One of the most significant developments for the school at Cullowhee involved no new buildings, but instead was a major land acquisition that provided room for growth in the decades that followed. David Rogers, a prosperous farmer and strong supporter of the school, sold his 60-acre “Town House” farm to the institution in 1924. The tract included 20 acres in pasture and 32 acres of cropland; the rest was woodlands. Funding for the land purchase came from a state appropriation of $438,000 designated for capital improvements and operating expenses. The 1920s also brought the addition of two new residence halls, Moore and Robertson, to the campus.

As the 1920s were coming to a close, Cullowhee State Normal School was converted into a four-year institution granting bachelor’s degrees in education, and under a revised charter was renamed Western Carolina Teachers College. The college marked its 50th anniversary in 1939 with its 10 largest building program so far. The new con-

struction was noteworthy, also, as campus facilities expanded off the historic hill area and onto land that had once been part of the Rogers farm. Facilities were doubled as several federal programs were utilized for construction of a new Madison to replace Old Madison, a student union, Graham Infirmary, McKee Classroom Building, Breese Gymnasium and Hoey Auditorium.

The buildings were completed by 1939, just before World War II caused enrollment to tumble as many of the college’s men and women left to take part in the war effort.

Enrollment rebounded after the war ended, but the physical campus remained mostly unchanged until the early 1950s.

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his term of leadership was followed by the administration of Myron L. Coulter, who also served for a decade. Western Carolina became a member of the consolidated University of North Carolina system in 1972, and in 1975 the university’s Cherokee Center was established in Cherokee to connect WCU to the tribal community. Campus additions during the 1980s included the Ramsey Regional Activity Center and the Alumni Tower, which was built by the WCU Alumni Association to mark the university’s 100th anniversary in 1989.

Enrollment at WCU remained mostly in the 6,000s as the university moved through the 1990s, with John W. Bardo beginning his term as chancellor in 1994. During the last 12 years of Bardo’s administration, as WCU

the new century included the $21 million Central Drive Residence Hall, the $21 million Campus Recreation Center, the $18 million Courtyard Dining Hall, the $12 million Village housing complex, the $10 million Norton Road Residence Hall, the $50 million Balsam and Blue Ridge residence hall complex and the $46 million Health and Human Sciences Building. The Stillwell Science Building was renovated at a cost of $26 million.

Another $8 million from the federal government made possible the Center for Applied Technology, and more than $13 million went toward improvements for athletics facilities. Also, $12 million in infrastructure improvements included the relocation of Centennial Drive, a state road that formerly bisected the center of campus where the Central Plaza and fountain are now located.

A VISION FOR TOMORROW

Davies Hall was the Cullowhee High School’s first residential building. It was later demolished and replaced with the Reynolds Residence Hall. WCU photo went through another building boom as the Legislature approved $2 million for new construction. Additions in those years included the Stillwell and Natural Science buildings, Hunter Library, Reid Gymnasium, Killian Building and Reynolds and Buchanan residence halls. After Hunter’s death in 1947, the college was guided at various times over the following two decades by W. Ernest Bird or Paul A. Reid. The institution began offering its first graduate program, a master’s in education, in 1951, and it became Western Carolina College in 1953. By the mid-1950s, enrollment had risen to just over 1,100 students.

The succeeding years would bring a surge in student population, with enrollment topping 4,000 by 1968, a year after the college was elevated to university status. The 1960s was also a period of significant new construction, with additions including Brown Cafeteria, Bird Building, Killian Annex, A.K. Hinds University Center, Dodson Cafeteria and Albright/Benton, Scott, Helder and Leatherwood residence halls.

Western Carolina’s academic programs developed dramatically in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the transition from a teachers college to a regional university was completed. The 1970s brought the addition of E. J. Whitmire Stadium, Belk Building, Walker and Harrill residence halls and H.F. Robinson Administration Building, along with a new building to house English and music programs.

H. F. “Cotton” Robinson became chancellor in 1974 and held that post for 10 years, and

entered the 21st century and toughened standards for admission, enrollment surged upward from nearly 6,700 in the year 2000 to more than 7,500 in 2003, and then above 9,000 by 2007.

THE BIG BOOM On paper, the numbers are staggering.

Between 2000 and 2012, new building, renovation and infrastructure projects valued at $327 million were completed, adding more than 1.1 million square feet of new space to WCU. The match that lit the dynamite setting off the transformation of WCU’s campus was the statewide approval of a $3.1 billion higher education bond package in November 2000.

The vote cleared the way for nearly $100 million in bond-funded construction projects on the WCU campus.

Chuck Wooten, a 1973 graduate of WCU, had a front-row seat for that building boom as the university’s vice chancellor for administration and finance from 2001 through 2010. Wooten said he came back to WCU in 1980 to work with the business staff and found that “the campus was basically what it was when I left.” The funding that became available as a result of the 2000 bond vote was the “critical component” in the move to update WCU’s campus for the new century, said Wooten, who is now the Jackson County manager.

In addition to the $30 million Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, other major new facilities added during the first dozen years of

Endorsed by the Board of Trustees in December 2013, Western Carolina’s new master plan is the result of a 17-month process that included numerous public forums involving members of the campus community and local residents. It is based on enrollment projections that estimate more than 11,000 students studying on the Cullowhee campus by the year 2023 and the need for an additional 486,000 square feet of space to accommodate those students. About 7,800 of WCU’s current enrollment of approximately 10,100 students now live and study in Cullowhee.

The plan focuses on a land-use scheme that emphasizes placing new academic development in the center of campus to maximize the use of existing infrastructure, enhancing programmatic efficiencies and encouraging a pedestrian-oriented community.

While the passing decades have brought profound changes to campus, in recent years the university has reaffirmed its mission to serve the citizens of the Western North Carolina region, not just by offering higher education opportunities but also through the expertise and energy of its faculty, staff and students, who are working with local businesses and organizations to boost quality of life and the region’s economic vitality.

University officials hope to strengthen ties to communities in North Carolina’s far western counties as they also engage in initiatives to serve the fast-growing corridor along Interstate 26 in Buncombe and Henderson counties. This fall, WCU’s undergraduate engineering program will be expanded to the university’s instructional site at Biltmore Park Town Square in south Asheville.

WCU is also focusing its energies outside its campus boundaries. Through initiatives such as distance learning — web-based education — WCU is reaching students across the country and, in the cases of military students currently stationed overseas, around the world.

When the seeds that became WCU were first sown 125 years ago, Robert Lee Madison’s voice and influence went only as far as the ears and minds of his 18 students as he taught them that first year in Cullowhee.

And while WCU has grown and evolved over the years, with the voice of the modern university extending around the world, it owes its genesis to Madison’s “Cullowhee idea.”

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Two telecommunication tower proposals met with public opposition in Macon County.

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One of the towers, planned on a property along West Old Murphy Road owned by Brian Borchers, brought out a total of six speakers, with all but the company representative coming out against the tower. Though ultimately denied because the application didn’t spell out which communications company would be using it or where the antenna would be located, the owners of adjacent properties had other reasons for wanting to see the tower go elsewhere.

“The main concern I have is what it’s going to do to my property value,” said James Banks, who owns the house nearest Borchers’. “I already took a beating on it

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER pair of proposed 180-foot cell phone towers met some adamant opposition at the Aug. 20 Macon County Commissioners meeting. The applications, proposed by two separate companies for two separate locations, were both denied, but for ftechnical reasons that make it likely they’ll resurface.

“When they do all their due diligence I’m sure their application will be seen again,” said Commissioner Ronnie Beale, who chaired the meeting.

because of the banks. I bought it when it was the highest.”

The proposed tower would be located within one-tenth a mile of the road, and area residents asked why it couldn’t instead be built further up the hill, since Borchers’ property reaches back much further away from the road.

“I would like to see the details as to why that is the tower site,” said James Rehberg, an electrical engineer who lives in Macon, Georgia and regularly visits his mother-inlaw’s home in Franklin, adjacent to Borchers’ property. “I don’t know why it couldn’t be located two or 300 feet up the mountain from the same lessor.”

Rehberg also recommended that commissioners ask the company for a justification of the tower’s proposed height rather than automatically giving the go-ahead for the maximum height allowed by ordinance.

Residents told commissioners that they recognized the importance of having strong cell coverage in Macon County but asked whether there is any strategy in place to make sure that the only towers that are built are the towers that are needed.

The tower in question, for instance, had been proposed by Tower Engineering Professionals, a company that builds towers but does not provide service from them.

Though several companies have expressed interest in the tower — including Verizon, TMobile and AT&T — no one knows exactly whose antenna would be on the tower.

“Jackson County requires anybody who builds a tower to allow anybody to have that tower and pay a rent for that tower, and if that was the case I would have service and my neighbors would have service,” said Les Slater, “and I think you should require, simi-

Citizens also came out to speak their mind about a Verizon tower proposed along Bud Perry Road. Like the Tower Engineering proposal, the application met a recommendation for denial from County Planner Matt Mason, this time because of concerns about its proximity to the county airport.

“It’s almost in the flat path, and since we’ve had our runway extended 5,000 feet our jet traffic has increased tremendously,” said Macon County Airport Authority Chairman Miles Gregory. “We’re very concerned about this tower being built where they propose to build it.”

The county’s ordinance states that no tower can be so high that it requires lights or reflectors to illuminate it for airplanes, and because of the proposed location’s proximity

to the airport, reflectors would be needed even though the tower would be within the 180-foot height limit that applies elsewhere.

Gregory was also afraid that building the tower as proposed could jeopardize the airport’s Federal Aviation Administration funding.

“If they’ll get approval from FAA in black and white I don’t care if you build it halfway to heaven, but we want to see approval from FAA that they’ll put their stamp of approval on the site,” Gregory said.

Reggie and Pam Perry, who live in the area but couldn’t attend the meeting, wrote a letter to be read there noting that the road in question is maintained by residents, so if a company built a tower there they should be responsible for some of that upkeep.

“If a cell tower is put on our road, the company should be a major part of all the maintenance if they are going to be making a profit on its use,” the letter read.

“I think it’s not that we don’t need this service, but cell towers are very disruptive to a lot of neighborhoods,” Beale told George Sistrunk, the company’s representative. “I would ask you if this is not feasible just to please keep looking in that area.”

“I don’t expect them to drop it if it doesn’t work,” Sistrunk said, “but since they have spent time on this site they would like to make it work if possible.”

Commissioners voted unanimously to deny the application but invited Verizon to try again once they get the kinks worked out.

“I’m really strongly wanting to have cell phone coverage in Macon County,” Haven said.

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lar to Jackson County and other counties, that you authorize a tower that it be required that anybody can be on that tower.”

Commissioners voted unanimously to deny the application and advised Tower Engineering to consider looking for a site farther away from the neighbors.

“It’s going to be very hard for me to approve even if you come back with the study because of the houses,” said Commissioner Ron Haven. “These folks are taxpayers and highly invested in Macon County. I would encourage you to look up the hill.”

“We’d be glad to look farther up the hill if that’s what’s needed,” said company representative Justin Cosgrove.

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Having a cow PETA accuses local dairy of animal cruelty; inspectors say otherwise

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER warming flies. Cows trudging through knee-deep manure. Lame legs, an overgrown hoof, blood oozing from a nose.

Bones protruding from emaciated bodies.

There’s no denying that the picture painted in a recently released video from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was a grim one.

“PETA received a tip from someone with knowledge of the conditions for the animals and of the animals. Then we went and took a look for ourselves at the farm,” said Dan Paden, evidence analysis manager for PETA. “That shocking footage of the emaciated, lame cows trudging through their own manure was what resulted.”

The setting for this horrifying scene was Osborne Farms, a small dairy producer in the Stamey Cove area of Clyde that milks somewhere between 25 and 30 cows. According to Paden, the anonymous tip came from someone who lives locally, and the tipster, along with the PETA staffer who shot the video, gained legal access to the farm and captured evidence of what they found.

They shipped the results out to the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and Haywood County Animal Control, who all came out the next day to conduct inspections.

The farm received six violations from DENR, cumulatively carrying a potential fine of $25,000 per day.

But none of the three organizations found any evidence of animal cruelty or of milk contamination.

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According to Tony McGaha, livestock specialist for Haywood County Extension, that’s probably because the grim realities depicted in the video don’t quite qualify as “reality.”

“The video is very disturbing. Any layperson just looks at it, it’s very, very disturbing,” he said. “With that said, if you know anything about dairy or know anything about animal welfare and stuff, the whole story just starts falling apart.”

PETA’s accusations center mainly around the manure pit and surrounding alleyway, an overflowing mass of feces through which cows are made to trudge — to get food, to sleep, to reach the milking parlor. According to the video, the manure is the reason for the lame feet, the emaciation, the overgrown hoof.

“The animals have to compete while they’re sitting in that manure for the food that’s provided to them,” Paden said, pointing 12 out that the lame-footed cows are the same

ones that PETA’s veterinarian termed emaciated. “If you have lame animals trying to compete for limited food and they’re not winning that battle, emaciation is a quick result.”

Especially in the dairy industry, Paden added, because milk production takes a high caloric toll on a cow’s body.

But McGaha takes issue with nearly every part of that statement. For starters, he said, the animals don’t live in the pool of manure shown in the video, an assertion backed up in the Haywood Animal Control inspection report. In fact, that area is fenced off to keep them out of it. They stay outside, they eat outside — the animals haven’t been fed in the area depicted in the video for months, McGaha said — and they defecate in the sloped alleyway outside the pit. The waste then falls down or is scraped into the pit.

He questions how PETA even obtained video of the animals walkIn its original online article and press release, People for the ing through the Ethical Treatment of Animals had used the headline “Emaciated cows fenced-off manure found mired in manure at Harris Teeter supplier.” According to Dan pit — and he’s not Paden, evidence analysis manager for PETA, a “state-issued docusure it was entirely ment” was seen at the farm identifying the milk’s destination as an innocent acciPiedmont Milk Sales. Paden said a follow-up call to Piedmont revealed dent. that the company exclusively supplies Harris Teeter grocery stores.

“They’re staying However, PETA changed its headline to read “North Carolina dairy outside. They do farm” in place of “Harris Teeter supplier.” not come into that “Harris Teeter does not receive milk from the farm featured in this barn. Even when video,” Danna Jones, a Harris Teeter representative, wrote in an email. they’re going to be “On Thursday, Aug. 14, PETA corrected it’s story and removed our milked they were name from both the video it distributed and posted on its website, as secluded from that. well as the text on its website which accompanies the video.”` So I’d say someone’s According to Brian Jones, public relations director for the N.C. intentionally runDepartment of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the milk is sold to ning them through Piedmont and from there goes to Milkco, Inc., a distribution company that and took located in Asheville. Milkco produces Light n Lively and Sealtest milk video,” he said, products, distributed from 96 distribution centers in 10 southeastern adding, “It sure states, the company’s website says. looks like somebody set it up.”

To support that “That’s absurd,” Paden said of the suggesclaim, McGaha points back to the video itself.

Manure cakes the legs of the cows on camera, tion that the video was staged. “The video and flecks of it pepper their bellies, but their was captured earlier this month and anyone backs and tails are clean. If the cows actually who’s been at the farm in that time period can lived in the pit day and night, as the video confirm that.” claims, they’d be covered in it, McGaha said.

“The cows are very clean. They have none ULL UP WITH MANURE in their tail switch. Nowhere on their body do they have this manure,” he said.

McGaha, whose last visit to Osborne That’s a point echoed on www.dairycar- Farms was last fall, isn’t saying that Tom rie.com, a dairy blog written by a dairy farmer Osborne, the farm’s owner, runs a flawless with a Facebook following of 14,000. She operation. The pit had been left unemptied breaks the video down scene-by-scene, con- for far too long. cluding, “I feel confident that what the video is That’s something that must be rectified trying to show isn’t how things really are.” and is being addressed now. It’s also the subBut PETA stands behind its video. Paden ject of all six of the violations DENR cited the stands on the organization’s track record of farm on Aug. 13. According to the report, producing court-admissible video evidence of manure in the pit stood 4 feet, 3 inches deep, animal cruelty and points out that it had been and it was overflowing into the alleyways three-quarters of a year since McGaha had where the animals walk. A half-inch rain had visited the farm. The fence that McGaha occurred just before the inspection was conclaims was keeping the cows out of the ducted, and inspectors spotted waste runmanure wasn’t erected until after PETA’s ning out of the pit and down into Conner Mill video was released, Paden said, and it wasn’t Branch, according to the notice of violation. in place when the video was taken.

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waste on the concrete pad out there and part of it is unsheltered, so when it rained it washed that part that was unsheltered down the road and went off into the stream, but I don’t think that’s something that’s been going on a lot,” said Ed Williams, who performed the inspection for DENR. Williams said the environmental impact of the runoff is unknown, but an initial inspection didn’t reveal any dead fish or built-up solids. He also said that DENR hasn’t had a history of issues with Osborne Farms, aside from a violation in 2012 for incorrect paperwork. The problem encountered this year has been rectified, so fines are unlikely.

“They actually got some other dairy men in the county to come in and help him this weekend,” Williams said.

Typically, a dairy farmer will scrape waste from the alleyway into the pit once or twice each day and will clean out the pit once a year. Waste from the pit is used to fertilize fields or crops.

“The herdsman explained equipment issues as the reason for not removing the manure in a timely manner,” said a report from NCDACS. While McGaha called the level of the waste problem at Osborne Farms “uncommon” — excess waste storage was found in other areas of the farm, as well — he was more concerned about what he deems unfounded claims from PETA.

POINT/COUNTERPOINT

The video makes a bevy of accusations against the operation at Osborne Farms, and after it came out McGaha broke them down point-by-point:

PETA: The cows trudge through manure twice each day, and they have to stand in their own waste to eat or rest.

McGaha: The cows are not typically allowed in the waste-flooded area shown in the video. They eat and rest outside, a fact evidenced by the lack of manure shown on their backs and tails.

PETA: The manure pit has gone so long

PETA: Struggling through the manure has caused lame legs and an overgrown hoof.

McGaha: Just like a person getting a stone caught in his shoe, cows can get all kinds of debris caught in their hooves, but they can’t pick it out like a person can. Once the problem is noticed and remedied, the cows will be fine.

PETA: At least two of the cows were emaciated, with a staff veterinarian rating their body condition a one out of five, a dangerous condition for any cow. One of the emaciated cows also had a lame leg and an overgrown hoof. Emaciation probably resulted when that lame cow became unable to compete for food amid the manure-flooded living space.

McGaha: A healthy dairy cow will have visible ribs, hook bones and pin bones. The two cows shown on the video as emaciated were a little thin — McGaha rates them a two out of five — but that can happen for any number of reasons. A cow that’s recently calved or has a metabolic condition might be unusually thin through no fault of the farmer.

PETA: Manure coats the animals’ legs and splashes on their teats moments before milking, raising questions of milk contamination.

McGaha: Many of the shots in the video were likely staged, and the cows don’t walk through the area shown before milking or at any other time. State inspectors came out the day after the video was released and didn’t find anything that constituted a public health hazard.

POST-PREMIER FOLLOW-UP PETA sent its complaint letters to DENR, NCDACS and Haywood County Animal Control on Aug. 7. By Aug. 8, inspectors from all three organizations were onsite, writing their own reports.

They found some issues, but nothing that qualified as either animal cruelty or a public health hazard.

The NCDACS inspection turned up some rusted metal, loose ceiling tiles, rough areas on the milking parlor floor, broken pipes and excess manure in the cow yard where the herd waits for milking — a different part of the farm than the manure pit or alleyway flagged

by PETA. DENR found an excessively full manure pit, overflowing and stockpiled ani-

mal waste in places besides the manure pit and waste-level gauges obscured by weeds growing in the manure pit.

Some of these issues have already been addressed. Since the inspection, the broken pipes have been fixed and the excess manure removed, said Brian Long, public affairs director for NCDACS. After coming unannounced to see the afternoon milking Aug. 8, NCDACS inspectors scheduled a return Aug. 13 to witness the morning milking, Long said. Because dairy producers are inspected quarterly, the farm will likely receive another unannounced inspection in the next month or so.

“There’s not a history of any issues,” NCDACS inspector Jim Melvin said of Osborne Farms.

As for the animal control inspection, the report concluded that “it was unfounded that the cattle did not have a dry area to bed down and that they are being kept in staying excess manure at time of visit.” Jeff Richardson of NCDACS, who accompanied responding officer Jean Hazzard on a secondary visit on Aug. 13, also noted that he watched Osborne milking the cattle and “had no concerns as to the body conditions of the cattle,” according to the report.

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PETA: One of the cows is bleeding from the nose, probably the result of a foreign object wedged in her nose or a deep sinus infection gone untreated.

McGaha: He had a cow on his farm one time that did that. She had allergies and tried to “itch” her nose by ramming a briar vine up it. There are plausible explanations for cows bleeding through the nose.

Cows were turned out to pasture at Osborne Farms on Aug. 14. Holly Kays photo

Hazzard had first arrived at the farm at 11:23 a.m. the day after PETA distributed its complaints, finding Osborne’s father and agreeing to meet with his son after he finished work at 5 p.m., according to the report. She didn’t inspect the situation at that time but returned to the farm at 4:50 p.m., a little earlier than the agreed-upon 5:30 p.m..

In the 45 minutes between arriving at the barn and Osborne’s arrival, Hazzard observed the cows and spied the one with the overgrown hoof, noting that the condition didn’t affect her gait. When she later asked Osborne about it, he said he gets his cows’ hooves trimmed but hadn’t done so recently.

The report does note, as does that of the NCDACS, excess manure in the cow yard, though that area was fenced off to keep the cows from getting in.

On the morning of Aug. 14, the sun was out, the cows were grazing in the fields, and the owners of Osborne Farms were tired of answering questions about their dairy operation. Asked for a comment about the situation or some information about how PETA obtained the video, the family said only “We’ve got nothing to say,” and instructed the reporter to “get back in your little car and turn right around.”

As of now, PETA isn’t planning any legal action aside from the complaints it’s already submitted to state and county regulatory agencies. But they’re still hoping to see Osborne Farms receive more than a slap on the wrist.

“We remain deeply concerned that those animals are suffering and being denied appropriate care, and we very much hope that they can depend on Haywood Animal Services to ensure that the hoof and veterinary care they need is given to them,” Paden said.

But with the waste disposal situation now being taken care of, McGaha said, there’s no reason for any further consequence.

“He just had a test run by the milk inspectors who can show up at any time,” he said.

“It was one of the highest ones in the county.

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without being emptied that it has hardened and crusted over.

McGaha: Manure pits are supposed to crust over because dry environments make it harder for flies to breed. That’s why the pit has a roof over it — so rain won’t get in and keep it soft. But regardless, flies will be present in some capacity anywhere livestock are kept.

That said, it’s been way too long since the manure pit was emptied. But an overfull pit poses more of an environmental risk than an animal welfare one.

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Mission moving in Haywood Regional facing battle over home turf

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER ission Health plans to expand its presence in Haywood County with a large medical complex housing doctors’ offices and a line of healthcare services.

The move is unwelcome competition for Haywood Regional Medical Center. But to Mission, it’s a reflection of “the strong preference that many Haywood County residents” have already shown by traveling to Asheville.

Mission paid $1.375 million for a 23-acre site off Hospital Drive, where many of the doctors’ offices and medical facilities are clustered in Haywood County.

The announcement by Mission came just two weeks after Haywood Regional Medical Center was bought by a large national hospital network. After several years of barely breaking even — a plight shared by small hospitals everywhere — Haywood Regional determined the deeper pockets and clinical expertise of Duke LifePoint were needed to remain viable and strong.

Officials with Duke LifePoint and Haywood Regional Medical Center would not do an interview for this article but provided a written statement.

“This announcement does not impact Duke LifePoint Healthcare’s commitment to make significant investments in Haywood Regional Medical Center to grow, expand and improve services,” the statement read.

In the past, when Mission has made forays into Haywood — from Mission doctors holding rotating office hours here to billboards targeting Haywood residents on Interstate 40 — it has been criticized as encroaching on Haywood’s turf. When competing against Mission, Haywood Regional has portrayed itself as the home team and appealed to locals’ sense of loyalty as part of its pitch to keep patients from going to Mission.

But Ron Paulus, president and CEO of Mission Health, said the patients came to Mission first, and Mission is answering that demand for choice.

“We do surveys of all of our counties all the time and ask them, ‘Where do you prefer to get your care?’” Paulus said. “It is not like nobody has ever come here. We have large numbers of people who already come here.”

Mission Hospital in Asheville saw 9,000 patients from Haywood County last year — accounting for one-third of Haywood residents seeking hospital care. Haywood Regional captures less than two-thirds of the Haywood market share, according to hospital reporting data. Those 9,000 Haywood residents account for about 7 percent of Mission’s total patient load of 146,000 last year.

Others could also prefer to use Mission if not for the travel.

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there,” Paulus said.

Now, Mission is bringing that care closer to the patients who have already shown a preference for Mission, Paulus said.

The “care close to home” line has often been used as a tagline by Haywood Regional Medical Center and has been adopted by the new owners, Duke LifePoint.

“We believe that the residents of the community deserve to have access to the best possible, most comprehensive care close to home,” Duke LifePoint said in a written statement.

But Mission has challenged the assumption that Haywood Regional is the only one entitled to provide “care close to home” for Haywood residents.

“If we can contribute to keeping care close to home, that is terrific,” Paulus said.

Mission’s expanded footprint in Haywood is sending the message that it, too, considers Haywood part of its market and won’t sit on the sidelines.

Paulus said Mission values a collaborative relationship with the Haywood medical community.

“It is not possible to be collaborative when the other party doesn’t want to be. I am not noting LifePoint in that scenario, but it takes two people to dance. You can’t have one interested party and not another,” Paulus said.

In response to accusations that Mission is being overly competitive, Paulus cited Duke LifePoint’s publicly stated strategy to recapture Haywood patients who have drifted to Mission. To Paulus, it seems Duke LifePoint is the one signaling its intentions to compete with Mission.

“We want to make Haywood Regional Medical Center all it can be, so that residents can receive the care they need right here, rather than having to leave this community,” Duke LifePoint said in a written statement.

That is indeed a hallmark of LifePoint at its 65 hospitals around the country, most of them smaller community hospitals. Its modus operandi: to grow the community hospitals to profitability by providing more services and doctors, and in turn reclaim local market share lost to larger urban hospitals nearby.

LifePoint made that pledge to Haywood Regional during a reception earlier this month celebrating the hospital’s new ownership.

“We have to do things extremely well, perhaps even better than what they get somewhere else, because every small hospital fights this perception of there’s something better somewhere else,” Jeff Seraphine, president of LifePoint’s eastern group of hospitals, said in an interview as the reception opened.

Since the recent sale of Haywood Regional and WestCare in Jackson and Swain counties to the national, for-profit Duke LifePoint, Mission has been quick to trump its status as the “only locally owned, locally governed, nonprofit” health care network.

Paulus referred to Duke LifePoint as a newcomer in the healthcare landscape of Western North Carolina, meanwhile citing Mission’s service to patients in the region for over a century. Paulus added that Mission has a few hundred employees who live in Haywood, making Mission a local employer here as well.

Primary care doctors are a critical frontline for hospitals. Patients go to their family doctors first for whatever ails them. From there, they have batteries of tests and labs ordered, are referred to specialists, scheduled for outpatient procedures or admitted into a hospital.

The first point of primary care contact for patients can theoretically steer the trajec-

“It is about, ‘How can we support this region in the way we have for more than a century.’”

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tory of medical services they need. But Paulus said there is no presumption that doctors affiliated with Mission would necessarily refer patients within Mission Health’s network.

First of all, it is illegal for a hospital to require or even pressure doctors to favor a particular hospital or specialist network when making referrals.

“We believe that all physicians should refer to the most talented, thoughtful and patient-centered caregiver. That should be done in dialog with the patient,” Paulus said.

Mission Health has had a small outpatient center in Haywood County for several years, led by Dr. David Mulholland, a fulltime primary care physician affiliated with Mission. The existing center offers limited imaging and lab services, and specialty care on a rotating basis. Mulholland’s practice, Haywood Family Medicine, will be moving to the new site once completed.

“It’s wonderful to see the next stage of evolution for primary and specialty care in Haywood County with this announcement,”

said Mulholland in a written statement.

Mission’s plans call for a 30,000-squarefoot medical building with primary care doctors and specialists, but the exact specialties are still being determined, Paulus said. The goal is to have a team of doctors based exclusively in Haywood, as well as some specialists based in Asheville who would hold regular office days in Haywood. It will also house expanded imaging and lab services along with new virtual care capabilities, known as telemedicine.

Although Duke LifePoint’s written statement said it was unaware of Mission’s plans, Paulus said Mission informed Duke LifePoint last week before sending out a press release announcing the expansion.

WHY EXPAND? Paulus cited a few factors that led Mission to expand its healthcare services in Haywood County. One is a shortage of primary care physicians.

“We did an extensive study of primary care in the 18-county area we serve here in Western North Carolina. We found most are well under where we should be. Haywood rose to the top,” Paulus said.

Haywood County has 15 primary care physicians, known as family doctors, according to a survey of primary care offices in the county and internet listings.

Paulus declined to postulate why Haywood Regional has not recruited more primary care physicians to the community itself, or why he believes Mission will be any more successful in solving the shortage.

“There has certainly been a long time when it could have been done. It is not about why they did or why they didn’t, or why they will or why they won’t. It is about, ‘How can we support this region in the way we have for more than a century,’” Paulus said.

Perhaps the biggest reason for ramping up its presence in Haywood is Mission’s larger philosophy of what patient-centered healthcare should look like in the future.

“We are migrating our focus from episodic, acute hospital care into a much more robust population health management system,” Paulus said.

Paulus has been a vocal champion of a new model of healthcare known as “accountable care organizations,” in which a hospital and its affiliated team of physicians work in tandem to be accountable for the health of a given population of people.

The accountable care model is becoming the preferred approach to providing medical care in America as the nation seeks ways to make healthcare more efficient and affordable.

Mission can’t realize that goal without frontline medical providers on the ground committed to a seamless system, with a focus on preventative care rather than treating patients once a disease becomes acute, Paulus said.

“We have an ecumenical model,” Paulus said. “We don’t feel like all the doctors have to be Mission affiliated. But they do need our mindset, which is all about the patient first and keeping people out of the hospital, not putting them into the hospital.”

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The streets of downtown Waynesville will soon receive a look-see from a group of folks who really care about the streets of downtowns. The North Carolina Main Street Program is hosting its fall Main Street Managers meeting in Waynesville Aug. 20-22.

Main Street managers — who oversee downtown revitalization and marketing efforts throughout the state as part of their individual Main Street Programs — will come to Waynesville to network and attend workshops. They’ll also be paying close attention to the host town.

“They want to see what downtown Waynesville’s doing,” said Buffy Phillips, executive director of the Waynesville Downtown Association. “They definitely want to check us out.”

Liz Parham, director of the state Main Street Program, agrees.

“We’re looking for all aspects of Main Street revitalization,” she said. “Building rehabs, that kind of thing.”

This is not the first time the Main Streeters have visited Waynesville. They’ve hosted meetings here twice before.

“We move it around, from the east to west,” said Parham. “And we have not been to Waynesville in a number of years and it’s a good chance to get back and see the changes.”

The Main Street managers will begin their stay in Waynesville with a reception at the Wells Event Center. Conveniently, the event center will serve as an easy conversation piece among the revitalization crowd, as the recently renovated property previously housed a newspaper printing press and before that, a pool hall.

Work sessions will also be held at First Baptist Church. The managers will cover topics such as infrastructure and tourism, zoning and food trucks.

“A little bit of everything, really,” Parham said.

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N EWS E DITOR “Nah, they’ve got expectations,” Meads he Jackson County Tourism replied.

Development Authority is pretty sure it The resolution that established the TDA needs to start searching for an executive in Jackson requires county commissioners director to help head up the organization. to approve any move to hire, and expend “We believe we’re at the point where funds, on an executive director. Jumper and someone wakes up in the morning and this Meads have scheduled a meeting with is what they do,” said Clifford Meads, chair County Manager Chuck Wooten for next of the TDA’s marketing committee. week to discuss the matter.

TDA members discussed, during a “I suspect the TDA board now realizes recent work session, the possibility of hiring that relying completely on a volunteer on an executive director. Beyond the general board for all the administrative tasks associconsensus that the organization — which ated with travel and tourism is difficult,” oversees tourism marketing and occupancyWooten said. tax dollars — has evolved to the point of The TDA board does not expect to make needing a fulltimer, members are still feeling out just what such a leader would look like.

“We realize we need somebody, and how that person is going to fall into what we’re doing we’re not sure,” said Ken Fernandez, “But we do realize we need some type of person as a sort of hub.”

Fernandez shared with his fellow board members specifics he’d learned about tourism authorities in neighboring counties. Some were more developed than Jackson’s TDA Board members of the Jackson TDA discuss the — “you go to Haywood County and possibility of hiring a fulltime executive director durthey have 50 volunteers working for ing a work session. Donated photo them and four people in the office” — while others were more bare bones. any decisions regarding an executive direcMead suggested that the TDA broach tor when it meets this month. the subject with Jackson County officials.

“I’m really not thinking we’ll have anyHe said delving too much further into such thing to vote for on the 20th,” said Jumper. territory without getting the county’s per“I really don’t think we’re anywhere spective would be “ pedaling in the sand.” close to a vote,” agree Meads.

“I think they’re looking to us,” said TDA “Vote on what?” laughed Fernandez.

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Rules of the game Haywood firms up its facilities-use policy

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER outh sports teams will no longer be able to trade bags of fertilizer, free coffee for teachers or a fresh coat of paint on the dugout for use of the practice fields, stadiums and gyms of Haywood County Schools.

There are dozens of youth sports teams and clubs — from cheerleading teams to Bible clubs to soccer leagues — that aren’t affiliated with public schools. Yet they rely on the schools’ fields, classrooms, stadiums and gyms to meet, practice and host games.

Historically, principals cut deals with individual groups as they saw fit in exchange for the use of school facilities.

“The problem they got into was equity. It was done on in-kind agreements,” said Mark Sheppard, Haywood County Schools Academic Support Director. “It went all the way from ‘I want you to mow my yard all year long’ to ‘I want a new scoreboard.’”

Haywood County Schools has overhauled its policy for outside groups that use school facilities. Now, mandatory, uniform rates will be charged to any youth-related organization, regardless of the school.

“I think it is a move forward for fairness,” Sheppard said.

An earlier version of the policy considered last summer was rejected by some school board members, however, as being too costly for youth sports teams. The policy was sent back to the drawing board. A revised version with lower fees for local, youth-related, nonprofit groups was approved unanimously by school board members this month.

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of business. The way it came in to begin with, it was really going to be expensive for some of the youth leagues,” said Larry Henson, a school board member. “I do think they can live with what we’ve got now.”

For the Waynesville Mountaineers Youth Football and Cheerleading club, the new fees of a few hundred dollars a year will be more than they are used to. In the past, they made a monetary donation to the Haywood Schools “needy athletic fund” in exchange for holding daily practice on the Jonathan Valley Elementary field and hosting games at the stadium at Waynesville Middle.

“We had to go up on fees just a little bit for the kids, and hopefully with some fundraisers we will cover it,” said Lynn Cagle, president of the Waynesville Mountaineers.

Cagle said the fees ultimately imposed are better than the first version rolled out last year.

“If they hadn’t lowered it, there was a possibility we would not have been able to practice. It was absolutely ridiculous,” Cagle said.

The new fee schedule runs from just $3 an hour to use secondary practice fields with no amenities to as much as $200 an hour for stadiums and gyms — which can come with hourly heating bills, night lighting, concession stand use and custodian salaries.

Youth basketball leagues can expect to pay around $3,000 a season, for example, due to their high use of gyms, which are among the most costly to rent.

The cost for youth football teams could vary widely, starting at just a few hundred a year if they play games during the day and don’t use concessions. Night games, which carry a stiff hourly fee for stadium lighting, are considerably more, but to Bethel youth football, it’s worth it — and the donors will step up to support it.

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“For them it is a tradition to play in the lights, so they said if it costs them $150 a Saturday then so be it. They’ll pass the hat to do it,” Sheppard said.

Most youth sports teams made some sort of monetary donations to the schools along with in-kind contributions.

But with in-kind services now off the table as a form of payment to the schools, most groups will have to cough up more than they are accustomed to. It was often easier for parents to volunteer to mow fields after work in the evening or to paint the concession stand than to come up with cash.

“The more we have to pay for our practice fields, the more we have to increase our registration fees and that all trickles down to our parents and our kids,” said Audra Bowen, the president of AYSO in Haywood County, a

youth soccer league.

But Bowen said she understands the need for uniform rates.

“It used to be the principals had jurisdiction over how they wanted to do it. They may say ‘OK, you can use our fields this year if you buy our teachers a year’s worth of coffee,’” Bowen said. “They do have organizations that were told ‘Just get us fertilizer’ and they were making thousands of dollars off the use of their field.”

Teams that pitched in with in-kind services to help take care of fields will still be welcome to do so.

“It is not going to reduce your rate. It will just enhance your use of the field,” Sheppard said.

School Board Member Steven Kirkpatrick said some teams will likely still help spruce up fields, particularly

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“The problem [principals] got into was equity. It was done on in-kind agreements. It went all the way from ‘I want you to mow my yard all year long’ to ‘I want a new scoreboard.’”

— Mark Sheppard, Haywood County Schools Academic Support Director

cent of the fees going to the school system maintenance budget and 40 percent to the individual schools.

“That’s a point of contention,” Sheppard admitted. “Principals have enjoyed having those little bit of extra funds. But if I am maintenance director trying to maintain the schools, I want all of that. If I am a principal trying to run a small school, I want all of it.”

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Those interested in playing golf and/or attending the Gala please contact HRMC Foundation Assistant Marge Stiles at 828.452.8343 or mstiles@haymed.org, or Executive Director, Steve Brown at 828.452.8317 or steve.brown@haymed.org.

Grace Church accepting grant applications Grace Episcopal Church in Waynesville is now accepting grant applications from non-profit charitable organizations in Haywood County.

Their annual Parish Fair was held on the church grounds on July 26 and, as advertised, all proceeds from the event will benefit local charities. Grant application forms are available at the parish office, at 394 N. Haywood St., from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Thursday. The parish may be contacted at 828.456.6029.

The deadline for return of the application is Friday, September 5th.

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The HRMC Foundation is presenting its 23rd Annual Charitable Classic Golf & Gala, a two-day fundraiser that features five golf tournaments and an evening gala, will be held Aug. 26-27 in Waynesville.

This year, the HRMC Foundation is transitioning to a community health foundation which supports health needs in Haywood County. Funds raised from this year’s event will support the following: • Providing underserved women in Haywood County with mammogram screenings and follow up procedures in partnership with Haywood County Health Department • Providing 100 drug safes for Hospice and Home Health patients • Providing Scholarships for Clinical Education The HRMC Foundation Charitable Classic Golf & Gala kicks off Tuesday, Aug. 26 with Men’s Golf Tournament at 8:30 a.m. at Maggie Valley Club and Ladies’ Golf Tournament at 12:30 p.m. at Waynesville Inn Golf Resort & Spa. On Wednesday, Aug. 27, a Men’s Golf Tournament starts at 8 a.m. at Waynesville Inn Golf Resort & Spa, followed by Men’s Golf Tournaments at noon, at Laurel Ridge Country Club in

Association holds its annual beef roast at Tuscola High School, for example. The Haywood County Democratic Party has its fall rally at Pisgah’s football field. Start-up church congregations have even used school auditoriums for their Sunday services while building a permanent home.

The earlier version of the policy — the one deemed too high for youth-related organizations — had proposed the same rate for all nonprofits.

But youth teams that practice several hours a week and hold day-long tournaments several times a season are a different beast than the one-time use of a facility by a nonprofit for a special event.

In the revised version, Sheppard created a separate category for “local youth-related activities” that’s lower than the general non-profit rate. The discounted rate applies not just to youth sports but to any local youth organization.

“If I want to have a week-long camp of Junior Appalachian Musicians, then I want a decent deal on facilities as well,” Sheppard pointed out.

The new policy will allow for-profit entities to use school facilities for a fee for the first time. The old policy didn’t allow for-profit groups to use school facilities.

The fees for for-profits are three times higher than the fees for nonprofits, with a school auditorium costing $75 an hour instead of $25, for example, or a school kitchen costing $60 an hour instead of $20, not counting additional custodial rates.

The most anticipated type of for-profit entity wanting to lease school facilities will mostly likely be traveling ball tournaments.

In fact, that was one reason the school system revised its facility policy in the first place.

County commissioners wanted venues for hosting traveling tournaments, which have an economic benefit due to visiting out-oftown families.

But everything from karate studios to dance companies may want to rent gyms and auditoriums to host exhibitions, and could now do so, Sheppard said.

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The new guidelines have been almost two years in the making. It was a challenging prospect. The fees had to be high enough for the schools to cover their costs, but not so high that it was out-of-reach for volunteerrun youth sports leagues.

Calculating the costs wasn’t easy. How much electricity do stadium lights burn an hour? How do you quantify wear and tear to a gym floor? How much water does the average concession stand use during a game?

And if a gym, cafeteria or auditorium are being leased, the fee has to cover the hourly cost of a school custodian to unlock the building and remain on the grounds until the event is over.

School board members commended Sheppard for his work on the policy.

Sheppard said it was important to tackle given flaws in the old system — the biggest being the variation from school to school.

“We were seeing that within the same user group, you are charging vastly different prices,” Sheppard said.

That could make schools vulnerable to criticism of preferential treatment for some groups over others.

“We didn’t want to wait until we got sued to deal with it.”

It was also tricky to quantify a monetary value of in-kind services, which made those kinds of trades subjective.

The school system was also potentially open to criticism that county taxpayers were

subsidizing outside groups, clubs and teams.

If the deal struck with the principal wasn’t enough to cover the hard costs associated with using the facilities, it meant taxpayers were essentially footing the bill for private, outside groups to use public facilities.

School principals aren’t thrilled about the new policy, however. Before, they could funnel donations or in-kind services toward whatever specific needs they had within their school.

Now, the fees will be shared with the school maintenance department, with 60 per-

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before hosting home games.

“Most teams are still going to take care of it because they know the other team is coming in and they want it to look good,” Kirkpatrick said.

Sheri Wilson, the cheerleading coordinator for Bethel Youth Sports, said youth sports make a positive contribution to the community.

“It is about bringing together the community and the people that support the kids,” said Wilson.

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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER bill that would provide a $12 million incentive package to the Evergreen Packaging paper mill in Canton failed to garner enough votes from the state House.

“I did my best — that’s all I can say,” said Rep. Michelle Presnell, R-Haywood, on Tuesday afternoon.

Presnell sponsored the bill.

“I’m disappointed, very disappointed, she said.”

Known as House Bill 1224, the bill would have provided funds to help pay for new natural gas fired boilers at the paper mill. The need for the new boilers came from stricter industrial air pollution limits imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that go into effect in 2016.

Evergreen estimated it would cost upwards of $50 million to convert the current coal-fired boilers to natural gas.

Although an enormous economic driver in Western North Carolina, the company is also labeled as the largest industrial air polluter in the region, and one of the highest in the state, according to federal emission reporting.

“House Bill 1224 was very simple when it was introduced in May. It was for Evergreen and its more than 1,000 well-paying jobs in my district,” Presnell said in an email release. “This bill failed in the House today (Friday, Aug. 15) with 47 voting in favor and 54 against.”

Originally sponsored by state Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, the bill was brought to the floor as “Senate Bill 3.” Passed unanimously in the Senate, it was then brought to

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“But the bill that the Senate sent back over [to us] was not the bill we started with,” said Rep. Joe Sam Queen, DHaywood. “It became so loaded down with unpopular motions that didn’t make sense and we couldn’t get a majority.”

According to Queen, the bill sent back by the Senate also included a measure that

would have kept in place the current system of funding for teacher assistants next year, an issue that has been hotly contested in the legislature this year. The bill also included $20 million in economic development incentives for the state Commerce Department to attract industry.

“The portion [of the bill] that I was for was the infrastructure improvements [for the paper mill], which was sponsored in the Senate bill by Davis,” Queen said. “…

Presnell tried to hijack Davis’ bill and take credit for Joe Sam Queen it, and in the process lost complete control of the bill.”

“Yes, it was amended by the Senate, from a two-page bill, to 14, to 20, and now to a 33-page bill.

Some amendments added by the Senate were not going to affect Michelle Presnell my district,” Presnell wrote in her email. “We have our Commerce Secretary, Sharon Decker, who needed some of these amendments and now has very few tools in her toolbox to bring large manufacturing businesses to the mountains or, for that matter, anywhere in the state.

South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Virginia are all very happy right now because these businesses will go to their states due to their incentives. We only have a small amount in North Carolina.”

“There were too many hands in the cookie jar,” Queen said. “[House Speaker Thom] Tillis couldn’t deliver, McCrory couldn’t deliver, Presnell couldn’t deliver, and Queen couldn’t deliver.”

Both Presnell and Queen did note there was a possibility of the bill coming back to be voted on. “[Gov. Pat McCrory] can bring us back anytime and do a new majority consensus on the bill,” Queen said. “We could deliver a unanimous vote on the bill if the governor brought it back.”

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Kindness can make difference between ‘waving’ and ‘drowning’

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Why the raging war against fracking?

To the Editor: Have you wondered why worldwide the leftists, environmentalists, and most media are waging a war against that new dirty word — fracking?

The answer is simple, and it has nothing to do with the hyperbole, misinformation and propaganda these anti-frackers use to scare the public.

The first commercial-scale use of fracking is generally credited with starting in 1947. After 67 years and the fracking of over one million oil and gas wells, anti-frackers abruptly started their war only three or four years ago. Why not 67 years ago if it is as devastating to the environment, health and safety as anti-frackers now claim? Why were some lukewarm fracking proponents prior to the war?

Over the past 10 years, the combination of fracking and directional drilling has opened up vast new sources of natural gas and oil in formerly unproductive shale formations in the

much of good comedy seems improvised but is actually painstakingly constructed. Williams’ genius was that so much of his comedy really WAS improvised. For example, in one of his finest roles as a disc jockey in “Good Morning, Vietnam,” there were places in the script that read, simply, “Robin does his thing.”

Even in his most popular dramatic role as Professor John Keating in “Dead Poets Society,” Williams rescued an otherwise dull and overwrought film with the scenes of him teaching poetry to a group of prep school boys, where Columnist he could put his comedic gifts to good use. Williams was a force of nature, and it was easy enough to believe that his zest for life could spark an interest in poetry … or in anything, really — among a group of young men looking for something to believe in.

As a teacher of literature myself, my main complaint with the movie was what the boys really ended up loving was the professor more than the poetry, but that did not diminish my enjoyment of the scenes that included Williams. I mean, impersonating John Wayne and Marlon Brando doing Shakespeare may be shtick, but it’s really good shtick, and any honest teacher will tell you that there is an aspect of performance, even theater, in the art of teaching.

Ironically, when I heard the news that Williams had taken his own life, after absorbing the initial shock, the first thing I thought of was poetry, in particular a poem by Stevie Smith called, “Not Waving but Drowning” that I’ve been teaching for years in my college literature courses.

Chris Cox

he reason that the death of Robin Williams seemed so particularly shocking, so cruel, even so personal, very nearly like a betrayal, is that when we think of him — his body of work, his persona, everything we know about him — our very first thought is of an irrepressible life force the likes of which we have never seen on the stage or screen. It was obvious from the very first minute that he captured America’s imagination as Mork from Ork on the 1970s television sitcom “Happy Days” that Williams was that rarest of birds — a complete original. He would remain so for nearly 40 years, not only continuing to find new ways to make us laugh, but by taking unexpected turns into drama, revealing depths that we hadn’t been able to imagine, perhaps giving us a glimpse of the darkness deep inside that eventually pulled him under.

Of course, we know that it is foolish to think that we can really know what is going on in the lives of other people, especially celebrities. All we know of Williams is what we’ve seen through the camera lens, but it was easy to believe that this particular man couldn’t be that much different when the cameras weren’t rolling and the audience wasn’t watching.

His performances were almost always the ultimate high wire act — it seemed that even he didn’t know where he was going sometimes, as his mind ricocheted from one thought to the next, free associating at 180 miles per hour, veering out of control and then back in again while we tried our best to keep up as we thanked God for our VCRs because we knew we’d need them to go back and catch half the jokes we had missed.

His appearances on talk shows were thrilling for this very reason — there was no way to predict what he might say or do, but there was no doubt that it would be hilarious. So

U.S. and worldwide. These are resources potentially lasting up to 100 years.

Because of shale fracking, this year the U.S. is expected to become the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. Fracking has resulted in substantial economic benefits and improved energy security for the U.S. With this new supply of natural gas coming to market, the economics of supply and demand have come into play. Natural gas prices have fallen dramatically. Basic business sense has also come into play as companies generating electricity have begun utilizing the cheaper natural gas to replace more expensive fuels. This reduces both their generating costs and carbon dioxide emissions.

Suddenly the anti-frackers’ “green energy” agenda to replace electricity generated from fossil fuels and nuclear with expensive, unreliable and non-competitive wind, solar and biomass could be mortally in danger from the abundant and less expensive natural gas.

So there is the explanation. They must stop fracking for their own self-interests to save their “green energy” agenda from extinction by

“Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought, And not waving but drowning.”

The poem continues changing point of view from third to first person, from the watchers to the victim, as it pursues its drowning metaphor to its sad conclusion. We thought you were waving. No, I was drowning. We thought you were happy (“poor chap, he always loved larking”). No, I was miserable (“I was out much too far all of my life”).

Was there anything that anyone could have done to save Robin Williams from “drowning”? I don’t know, but maybe one thing we can do is to try harder to understand the signals we get from other people who suffer from depression, those who try to “put on a happy face” because that is what everyone expects and what society demands. As a culture, we are impatient of depression, even contemptuous of it. What do YOU have to be sad about, in the greatest country in the world, with everything you have, with all there is to live for? We tend to see the depressed as lacking focus, drive, ambition, and initiative.

They are not waving but drowning. If only we could learn to read the signals and dare to reach out.

You never know when one small act of empathy and genuine understanding might be just the lifeline that saves someone from slipping under for good.

(Chris Cox lives in Haywood County and is the author of two books, Waking Up in a Cornfield and The Way We Say Goodbye, which will be published in October. Contact him at jchriscox@live.com.)

natural gas.

Some of the anti-frackers’ arguments against fracking could also be applied to their “green energy,” which has its own environmental, health and safety issues they avoid mentioning.

Fracking, like everything, has tradeoffs.

Accidents and mistakes happen. Any actual safety, health and environmental issues should be addressed after fact-based and sciencebased study, not hysterical accusations. That 67 years of unchallenged fracking experience should allay the public’s fears. The public should also recognize fracking’s tremendous economic benefits.

Vic Drummond Franklin

Is America’s future now the past?

To the Editor: “Freedom, freedom is a hard won thing and every generation has to win it again.” This is a refrain from a civil rights song from the sixties.

My generation marched, staged sit-ins, spoke out and some even died to achieve rights for minorities, women and future generations of Americans.

Today we are old folks. We who fought so hard are tired, and what do we see happening? Young people are sitting on the sidelines while the voting rights, civil rights and women rights we fought and sacrificed for seem to be slipping away. Many of us are putting on our orthopedic shoes and marching again. We look around and see very few youthful faces.

When the older generation of activists dies away, will hard-won gains in voting and civil rights disappear with us? Will this young generation be contented living in a world where elections are bought for the benefit of the few?

Do they care if their voting rights are suppressed?

Past gains in minority and women’s rights are being eroded. Is this the future the younger generation wants to live in? Who will be left to carry freedom’s torch when we are gone?

Margery Abel Franklin

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August 20-26, 2014

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Unraveling the story of Horace Kephart’s ‘drying out’

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Editor’s note: A column published by Geroge Ellison on Nov. 6, 2013, (www.smokymountainnews.com/component/k2/item/12045) has sparked rebuttals from Swain County residents. One from Gwen Breese appeared in the July 9 edition of SMN (www.smokymountainnews.com/opinion/item/13699).

Ellison’s response to that letter appeared in the July 30 edition of SMN (www.smokymountainnews.com/news/item/13915-looking-back-at-strawberry-wine-kephart-andcalhoun). The following letter is by brothers Jim and Don Casada. I have another in my computer queue that will run in next week’s edition.

Since Calhoun and Kepart are important figures in the history of this region, we plan to continue to publish credible, relevant information pertaining to this incident.

— Scott McLeod, Publisher George Ellison’s response to Gwen Breese’s letter regarding his article on Horace Kephart and his condition when he arrived at Hazel Creek states, correctly, that as someone who is working on a biography of Horace Kephart, he is “obligated to examine, as best I can, each episode in Kephart’s life in the light of available evidence.” We wholeheartedly agree with that obligation.

However, the information and supposed evidence which Ellison offers in an effort to describe Calhoun’s story of the meeting with and “drying out” of Kephart as nothing more than the equivalent of a “tall tale spun by Mark Twain” is at best open to serious question and at worst highly suspect. Here are some of the reasons why this rewriting of history is so fraught with problems.

• Ellison has Calhoun meeting Kephart at the “Bushnell depot at the mouth of Hazel Creek.”

In his piece of July 30, 2014, as well as in earlier material he quotes (the original Smoky Mountain News piece of November 2013 and an even earlier Afterword to Gary Carden’s play, “Outlander”), Ellison repeatedly places Bushnell at the confluence of Hazel Creek and the Little Tennessee River.

In so doing he makes a serious geographical mistake. The thriving community of Bushnell, long since inundated by the waters of Fontana Lake, lay a dozen miles upstream at the juncture of the Tuckasegee and Little Tennessee Rivers.

• Ellison places considerable reliance on the index to the lost Kephart diaries.

First of all, although Kephart chose the term and it heads the handwritten version of his notations, it really isn’t an index at all.

Rather, it is a rough table of contents, and while Ellison cites the relevant dates of coverage as Nov. 1, 1904 onward, there are no actual dates with the notes. In all likelihood this index was handwritten well after Kephart first journeyed to Hazel Creek, and numerical cross-references are suggestive in this regard. A typewritten page of weather-

A snippet from a map that shows the sum of the distances from Bushnell to Medlin was 16 miles (the one from Bushnell to Forneys Creek is hard to read, but is 1.5 miles). The mouth of the Nantahala River was just below Almond and closer to Almond than this map indicates, but was also obviously beyond Bushnell on the westbound route. related observations does have dates, but the typing was clearly done after the fact — most likely in Bryson City. Accordingly, just as Ellison suggests that time may have dimmed the accuracy of Calhoun’s recollections, one could justifiably say the same was true of Kephart.

• The putative entries for the day he traveled to Medlin and the home of Granville and Lillie Calhoun includes an entry involving the “Grade at Nantahala.”

If Kephart is noting things he observed along the way as Ellison indicates, he would have certainly taken a tortuous route to reach his destination. Even the mouth of the Nantahala, where there was nothing of particular note related to the grade, was at Almond, over seven miles beyond the depot at Bushnell where Kephart disembarked — and also in exactly the opposite direction of that from Bushnell to Medlin. One simply did not go from Dillsboro to Bushnell, let alone Hazel Creek, by way of Nantahala.

• One of the diary index entries in the section cited by Ellison was “Barefoot kid (chores, barefooted in snow).”

A review of weather data from four Western North Carolina stations (courtesy of the State Climate Office of North Carolina) operating during the period from Oct. 24 until Nov. 2, 1904, was conducted to provide a frame of reference. During that 10-day period from more than a week before the date of the trip indicated by Ellison through a day after it was made, the sum of the recorded precipitation at Murphy, Bryson City, Waynesville and Hendersonville was precisely zero inches. The average daily high temperatures for Waynesville and Hendersonville during that period (Bryson City and Murphy temperatures were not recorded) were 67 degrees and 63 degrees, respectively, with the minimum daily high for the entire period being 55 degrees occurring at Hendersonville on Oc. 24. The data speak quite clearly for themselves. Further,

the mention of a barefooted boy doing chores in the snow is quite suspect. Exposure of this sort would have meant frostbite in short order.

• Ellison contends that Calhoun’s story had “all the earmarks of a tall tale out of Mark Twain.”

One of Granville Calhoun’s recollections recorded by Frome was (in response to difficulties Kephart was having riding the mule) “Pick it up! Sixteen miles to go!” The single category where exaggeration is most likely to occur with any story is that of measurements, whether in terms of inches of fish, pounds of bear, or miles walked to school.

Yet given this prime opportunity to exaggerate, Calhoun laid the story down precisely, as validated by postal route data from 1896: http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/c ollection/ncmaps/id/611/rec/1 • Ellison mentions that George Frizzell and Dan Pierce “agree with my conclusion — based on currently available documentation — that there was evidently no threeweek interval at that time of ‘torpor and tremens’ and ‘spoon-feeding.’”

After assiduous searching we have found no evidence whatsoever of such support.

Nowhere in his book, The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park, does Pierce even mention Kephart’s relationship with Calhoun. Similarly, he does not seem to have written other books or articles on the subject. Likewise, no published material from Western Carolina University archivist George Frizzell addresses this particular matter. If these scholars support Ellison’s view, he needs to provide specific documentation to that effect.

• Ellison seems to dismiss the accounts Granville Calhoun offered to Michael Frome, Carson Brewer and “regional columnists” as unreliable. He also implies that Frome’s research was shoddy, saying Frome failed to

indicate “much, if any, awareness that Kephart was not coming directly from St. Louis to Hazel Creek.”

That is simply untrue. Frome specifically mentions Kephart staying in a Sylva hotel and meeting Jack Coburn (he does not mention Coburn by name but merely refers to him as a “mining man”) prior to going to Hazel Creek. Furthermore, Frome’s research techniques were admirable. He carefully taped his interviews and clearly delved deeply into Kephart’s writings, as is indicated by his comment that “he degraded himself in his more drunken times with sloppy work for so-called adventure magazines.”

This likely refers to some of Kephart’s columns in All Outdoors, for at times that column, “Roving with Kephart,” is little more than the same sort of sensationalism which unfortunately characterizes portions of Our Southern Highlanders (particularly the chapter entitled “The People of the Hills”).

In the final analysis, the dividing line between fact and fiction when it comes to the early weeks of Kephart’s stay at Medlin boils down to whether you believe a latterday interpretation of sparse notes written by Kephart or the personal recollections of Calhoun, as he related the event to multiple parties. The point Gwen Breese clearly made in her letter was that her great-uncle was a highly reliable source. That is evidenced not only by family recollections which Ellison dismisses as “family lore” but by the fact that throughout his life he held numerous positions where honesty was an essential element in retaining community trust.

All who knew Calhoun considered him a man of impeccable integrity, someone who was a stickler for the truth (at one point late in life he reckoned he was going to have to quit talking to John Parris, a columnist for the Asheville Citizen-Times, because of the way he was inflating and romanticizing stories Granville shared with him), and an individual whose mind was as sharp as a wellhoned pocket knife at the time he was interviewed by Frome.

Kephart, on the other hand — and to his credit Ellison acknowledges as much — was a “chronic alcoholic” and “binge drinker” who remained so “until the day of his death.” That being the case, an episode of the type Calhoun recounts seems possible, indeed likely. It is also worthy of note that at least five local individuals who knew Kephart quite well (S. W. Black, Dr. Kelly Bennett, Buddy Abbott, Petie Angel and Helen Angel) recalled similar situations where Kephart went on a “toot” and subsequently required “drying out.” For our part, based in part on the respective characters of the two men but also on the myriad problems noted above, we will adhere to Calhoun’s account rather than Ellison’s startling revision.

Don Casada, Bryson City Jim Casada, Rock Hill, S.C.

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BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Lunch served 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dinner nightly from 4 p.m. Closed on Sunday. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks, fresh fish, and other classic American comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available. We also feature a great selection of craft beers from local artisan brewers, and of course an extensive selection of small batch bourbons and whiskey. The Barrel is a friendly and casual neighborhood dining

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BRYSON CITY CORK & BEAN A MOUNTAIN SOCIAL HOUSE 16 Everett St.,Bryson City. 828.488.1934.

Open Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday brunch 9 a.m. to 3p.m., Full Menu 3 to 9 p.m. Serving fresh and delicious weekday morning lite fare, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Freshly prepared menu offerings range from house-made soups & salads, lite fare & tapas, crepes, specialty sandwiches and burgers. Be sure not to miss the bold flavors and creative combinations that make up the daily Chef Supper Specials starting at 5pm every day.

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CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes, and always all-you-can-eat.

Lunch every day from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Evening cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays (weather permitting), featuring steaks, ribs, chicken, and pork chops, to name a few. Bountiful family-style dinners on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with entrees that include prime rib, baked ham and herb-baked chicken, complemented by seasonal vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts. We also offer a fine selection of wine and beer. The evening social hour starts at 6 p.m., and dinner is served starting at 7 p.m. So join us for mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Please call for reservations.

CITY BAKERY 18 N. Main St. Waynesville 828.452.3881.

Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Join us in our historic location for scratch made soups and daily specials.

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We bake a wide variety of breads daily, specializing in traditional french breads. All of our breads are hand shaped. Lunch: Fresh salads, panini sandwiches. Enjoy outdoor dinning on the deck. Private room available for meetings.

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

828.587.2233. Open Monday-Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tasty, healthy and quick. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, espresso, beer and wine.

Come taste the savory and sweet crepes, grilled paninis, fresh, organic salads, soups and more. Outside patio seating. Free Wi-Fi, pet-friendly. Live music and lots of events.

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THE CLASSIC WINESELLER 20 Church Street, Waynesville.

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

Friday and Saturday serving freshly prepared small plate and tapas-style fare.

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CORK & CLEAVER 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

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FROGS LEAP PUBLIC HOUSE 44 Church St. Downtown Waynesville 828.456.1930 Serving lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; Dinner 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Frogs Leap is a farm to table restaurant focused on local, sustainable, natural and organic products prepared in modern regional dishes. Seasonal menu focuses on Southern comfort foods with upscale flavors. www.frogsleappublichouse.com.

HERREN HOUSE 94 East St., Waynesville 828.452.7837.

Lunch: Wednesday - Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday Brunch 11 a. m. to 2 p.m.

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

Lunch Sunday noon to 2:30 p.m., dinner nightly starting at 4:30 p.m. World-famous

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

828.648.4193. 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner. The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era.

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

828.586.3555. Open Tuesday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Wednesday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Hand-tossed pizza, steak sandwiches, wraps, salads and desserts. All made from scratch. Beer and wine. Free movies with showtimes at 6:30 and 9 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Visit madbatterfoodandfilm.com for this week’s shows.

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

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

Open Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. With music at the Depot.

Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Life is too short for

bad coffee. We feature wonderful breakfast and lunch selections. Bagels, wraps, soups, sandwiches, salads and quiche with a variety of specialty coffees, teas and smoothies.

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ORGANIC BEANS COFFEE COMPANY 1110 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.668.2326. Open 7 days a week 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Happily committed to brewing and serving innovative, uniquely delicious coffees — and making the world a better place.

100% of our coffee is Fair Trade, Shade Grown, and Organic, all slow-roasted to bring out every note of indigenous flavor. Bakery offerings include cakes, muffins, cookies and more. Each one is made from scratch in Asheville using only the freshest, all natural ingredients available. We are proud to offer gluten-free and vegan options.

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

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Professional magician Michael Turco will be one of several performers during the Masters of Illusion — Believe The Impossible show that will be held on Aug. 23 at Harrah’s Cherokee.

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The Masters of Illusion “Believe The Impossible” professional magic showcase will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at Harrah’s Cherokee.

Grand illusions, levitating women, appearances and vanishes, escapes, comedy magic, sleight of hand and beautiful dancers are just some of the events during the performance.

Masters of Illusion is a huge stage phenomenon born from the multi-award winning television series Masters of Illusion and from the World Magic Awards, which is recognized as the International Academy Awards of Magic. One of the exciting features of this magical experience is that the entire audience participates in a mind-boggling illusion and some lucky individuals even get picked to assist with illusions onstage.

The award-winning cast has been brought together to perform live to its Masters of Illusion’s huge worldwide television audience.

Masters of Illusion will have 13 new TV episodes airing in 2014 on the CW network and in over 100 countries internationally.

Tickets are $15, $24.50 and $34.50. www.ticketmaster.com or www.harrahscherokee.com.

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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER hen he was just five years old, Michael Turco knew what he wanted to do with his life “All I wanted to do was be a magician,” the 29-year-old said.

Now a professional magician, Turco tours across the country and around the globe, mesmerizing and astounding audiences every night. Currently a performer with Six Flags Magic Mountain (right outside of Los Angeles), he will be one of the many worldclass magicians going on tour with Masters Of Illusion — Believe The Impossible, which will hit the stage on Aug. 23 at Harrah’s Cherokee.

“I love performing, I love telling stories and being able to keep the audience thinking,” he said. “I want you as the audience to lose yourself for that hour or two hours of the show, to let all of your worries go and have fun.”

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Turco looks back fondly on his childhood, living right outside of the Atlantic City strip in New Jersey, where he and his family would regularly catch live shows.

“We’d go to all kinds of shows — variety shows, magic shows, you name it,” he said. “I love live entertainment and live theatre. It was all about seeing as many shows as I could and

get a feel for it, and it was then I fell in love with magic.”

And at one of those shows, it was the classic “torn and restored” newspaper trick that captivated Turco, where the magician rips apart a newspaper and rolls it back together as if nothing had happened.

“I was just fascinated how you could tear up a newspaper and put it back together right in front of your eyes,” he said. “I actually still do that trick and some storytelling in every one of those show. It’s something that brings it really full circle for me as a magician.”

Like countless other kids fascinated with by a magic show, Turco went home from these shows and bought a magic set.

“Everyone does it when they’re little, they get a magic set and they play with it,” he said.

“Some people stick with it, some make it a hobby, and, for me, I knew it was something I’d never stop doing. I’ve been able to perform around the world — it’s been a dream come true for me.”

Turco practiced everyday, any trick, and always tried them out in front of friends and family.

“Every trick I learned I first performed it for my mother, and then for my family — they’ve always been supportive and encouraged me,” he said. “I’d learn a trick and do it over and over again until it was perfect, and then perform it in front of them.”

Turco went to college and studied television and film production, with a sincere love of working behind the scenes on sets, but his true love of magic never wavered.

“I was going to try to be as a magician, try to tour and try to make it,” he said. “I started touring and traveling from place to place and soon got my own show in Atlantic City.”

And with that Atlantic City stage, Turco found justification in his hard work and pursuits.

“I finally had my own show in Atlantic City at a casino,” he said. “And my parents would drive by past a billboard of me up there, something I always dreamed of, and I think that was the moment they saw I could really do it, that I could really make it.”

WELCOME TO THE BIG SHOW Pushing further into his professional career, Turco has received the Joseph Gabriel Performance Award (1997) and the Maltese Award at William Paterson University (2002), and is also a member of the Society of American Magicians and the International Brotherhood of Magicians. In 2011, he attracted national attention with his successful performance on the popular television show “America’s Got Talent.”

“Some of the people I work with are people I saw on television, people I’ve looked up to and now I’m sharing the stage with them — it’s amazing,” he said.

When designing his own stage show, Turco takes tricks — old, new and of his own creation —and tailors them to his performance. He and

his team are the only keepers of the production secrets, which is something Turco loves — the fact that in a modern world of instant information, people respect the mystery of magic.

“Magic is still an art people don’t want to dive deep down into. They want to know the secrets to the tricks, but then again, they don’t,” he said. “Our job is to trick the audience, to deceive and misdirect them. Some things happen and the audience has no clue what’s going on and you as a magician go, ‘I just tricked them and they didn’t even see it,’ and that’s what it’s all about — that ‘wow’ factor.”

With every show, Turco is trying to do what every performer, of every type of show, is trying to do, which is make a connection with an audience, and to be able to take them out of their reality and into a world of entertainment.

“I stand onstage, people look at me, people ask me for my autograph after the show. It’s great to be that celebrity-ish person onstage, but in the end we’re all the same people, and my job is to let that person in the audience forget about their job and what’s happening at home, even for just a little while, and have fun,” he said.

And each night when he hits the stage, looking into that audience, it never ceases to put a smile on Turco’s face when he sees a young child in the audience, full of wonder and excitement.

“I see a little kid watching me and I think, ‘That was me at one time,’” he said. “It makes it all complete for me, a full circle moment. With persistence and a lot of hard work, dreams do come true.”

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One of the finest actors, comedians and pop culture icons of our lifetime, Robin Williams, gone, just like that Bluegrass/Americana band Mangus Colorado — a bright flame, snuffed out. will perform as part of Concerts on the Creek at For me, being 29 years old, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 22 at Bridge Park in Sylva. how many of his films were The red carpet gala and premier of the film huge movies for my genera“Bigfoot Wars” will be at 6 p.m. Aug. 23 at the tion? Countless. I mean, all of RE/MAX Mountain Reality and The Strand at those amazing, timeless roles, 38 Main in downtown Waynesville. the genie in “Aladdin” and his starring roles in “Mrs. PAWS will be hosting a wine tasting and silent Doubtfire,” “Jumanji,” “Good auction at 7 p.m. Aug. 30 at Lands Creek Morning, Vietnam,” “Dead Cabins in Bryson City.

Poets Society,” “The Fisher Funk/rock act Porch 40 will perform at 9 p.m.

King,” “Hook,” “The Aug. 30 at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva.

Birdcage,” “Good Will Hunting,” “Patch Adams,” and the list goes on and on.

Appalachian singer/songwriter Michael Reno According to reports, Harrell will perform at part of Pickin’ on the Williams took his own life.

Square at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 23 in downtown After years of depression, Franklin. drug abuse and alcoholism, he succumbed to his pain. room with them, so they don’t feel so alone. fAnd one thing I’ve learned in my time on Over the years, I’ve had immediate family this earth, is that sometimes the loudest, members and dear friends attempt suicide. funniest, most extroverted people can also be the saddest and most in need of love and My heart shatters with each phone call I receive following their failed attempt or support. Never forget that everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle, whether emo- funeral I attend when they succeed. For those I cannot bring back, their beautiful tionally or physically. souls live on within me. For those I can reach All of us out there in society have been directly affected by suicide, either within our out to, I don’t get angry with them, I offer true compassion and a non-judgmental ear. own circles or by our admiration of folks we Depression is real, and it affects us all. hold high in esteem, who then seem to fly While plenty of us can push through it and too close to the sun in doing so, ultimately see a silver lining from our individual perfalling from grace. spectives, some never seek shelter from the In my own existence, I’ve always told my storm. As they say, suicide is a permanent friends and family members I’m there for solution to a temporary problem. them, no matter what, that if things get I actually ran into Williams once, backrough, don’t ever hesitate to call me and stage at Radio City Music Hall during a we’ll spend some time together. And there David Gilmour (of Pink Floyd) solo show in have been several times, too many, where 2006. This was right around the time folks will seek me out to just be there, in the

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Williams was going through a rough patch here, for you. And if you want someone else with addiction and rehabilitation. I rememto talk to, the National Suicide Prevention ber him walking by me, then later standing Lifeline can be reached at 800.273.8255 or in the circle of people I was among. It was www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org. crazy, me, my best college friend Ted, Radio For those of you reading this who have a City production crew, David Crosby, firm grasp on your life and aspirations, Graham Nash and Williams, who, as usual, make sure you tell the ones you love, well, was the center of attention. He was making that you love them. Remind family and all of these jokes (lovingly) about Crosby’s friends of how important they are to you, liver transplant, etc. We were all in stitches. and that life wouldn’t be the same without I remember being in such awe of them. One simple phone call or chat over a Williams’ presence, of what incredible enercup of coffee can make someone’s bad day gy and vivaciousness he possessed. He will good again. be dearly missed. The light of humanity is a Always remember, even in your darkest tad dimmer with his loss.

I’ve never before seen the "You're only given one little spark of amount of love and beloved remembrance on madness. You mustn't lose it." social media or in conversation like I have with the — Robin Williams passing of Robin Williams.

It’s simply amazing all of the lives he touched with his work. Laughter days, there is always someone out there who makes the world go round, and Williams’ loves and cares for you, and wants you to be legacy will spin this globe for eternity. happy. We all get sad and depressed, and For any of you out there, who maybe just lonely, at times, but remember to think of need a friend, I offer my time to you. Sure, how lucky you are in your own endeavors, to you may think, “What? But I don’t even be able to wake up every morning and try know this writer guy.” And I say to you, “All again, and reach for the stars. friends were strangers at one time.” So, I’m Life is beautiful, grasp for it, y’all.

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On the beat • PMA, Owner of the Sun, Johnny Hayes & The Love Seats and Porch 40 will perform at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. PMA will play Aug. 22, with Owner of the Sun Aug. 23, Hayes Aug. 28-29 and Porch 40 Aug. 30. All shows begin at 9 p.m. Free. 828.586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

• Singer-songwriter Wyatt Espalin, folk act Rye Baby and acoustic duo The Moon & You will perform at Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City. Espalin plays Aug. 22, with Rye Baby Aug. 23 and The Moon & You Aug. 29. Both performances are at 8 p.m. Free. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

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• Guitarist James Hammel, guitarist Jay Brown and pianist Joe Cruz will perform at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville.

Hammel plays Aug. 22, with Cruz Aug. 23 and 30, and Brown Aug. 29. $10 minimum purchase. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

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• The Music on the River series continues with the Eastern Blue Band, AM Superstars, Amazing Grace Ministries and The Boomers at the Oconaluftee River Stage in Cherokee.

Eastern Blue Band plays Aug. 22, with AM Superstars Aug. 23, Amazing Grace Ministries Aug. 29-30 and The Boomers Aug. 31. All shows are at 8 p.m. Free.

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Southern gospel to hit Franklin stage Acclaimed southern gospel groups The Whisnants and The Old Paths will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Based out of Morganton, The Whisnants have been singing and ministering through song across the United States and Canada for 43

Jazz duo comes to Sylva library A jazz concert featuring Jeff Savage and Michael Collings will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 26, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

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Tickets are $15. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615. play instrumental jazz standards and some originals that they have written. The duo also plays on arch-top guitars that Jeff Savage has handmade.

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

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• Folk-rockers Hurricane Creek will perform at Groovin’ on the Green at 6:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 22, at the Village Commons in Cashiers. Free. www.mountainlovers.com.

• Friday Night Jazz! with The Kittle & Collings Duo will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 22 and 29 at Lulu’s on Main. www.mountainlovers.com.

• Singer/songwriter Michael Reno Harrell and bluegrass band The Frogtown Four will perform as part of Pickin’ on the Square at the gazebo in downtown Franklin.

Harrell plays Aug. 23, with The Frogtown Four Aug. 30. All shows begin at 6:30 p.m. Free. 828.524.2516 or www.franklin-chamber.com.

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• Craig Summers & Lee Kram, Keli Nathan and Molly Fish & Ian Grady will perform at Frog Level Brewing Company in Waynesville.

Summers & Kram play Aug. 21 and 28, with Nathan Aug. 23 and Fish & Grady Aug. 29.

All shows begin at 6 p.m. Free.

828.454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Carolina Bluegrass Boys and reggae/rock group The Caribbean Cowboys will perform at the Bryson City Train Depot. Carolina Bluegrass Boys play Aug. 23, with The Caribbean Cowboys Aug. 30. Both shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Copious Jones and singer-songwriter Andrew Scotchie will perform as part of the Saturdays on Pine concert series at KelseyHutchinson Park in Highlands. Copious

• Macon Grass Band and Mountain High Dulcimer Group will perform as part of the Friday Night Live concert series at Town Square in Highlands. Macon Grass Band plays Aug. 22, with Mountain High Dulcimer Group Aug. 29. All shows begin at 6 p.m. Free.

• Bluegrass/Americana group Mangus Colorado and The Remnants will perform at Concerts on the Creek at Bridge Park in Sylva. Mangus Colorado plays Aug. 22, with The Remnants Aug. 29. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Free. 828.586.2155.

• The Bubbles & Big Band featuring the Asheville Jazz Orchestra will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29, at the Highlands Playhouse. A champagne and all-you-caneat, low-country-boil dinner. Tickets are $85 per person, which includes dinner and a cash bar. Tickets can be purchased at the playhouse or the Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Foundation Office. Proceeds benefit the playhouse and hospital foundation. pharris@hchospital.org.

• Gospel/old-time group Country Memories will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. www.fontanalib.org.

• A community music jam will be held from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer, anything unplugged, is invited to join. Singers are also welcomed to join in or you can just stop by and listen. The music jams are offered to the public each first and third Thursday of the month — year round. 828.488.3030.

• Suzuki Flute Students ages 4 to 14 from The Music Village will be performing in a recital at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Admission is free and children are welcome.

828.293.5600 or www.themusicvillage.net.

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• The Chancel Choir will perform a “Concert of Favorite Anthems” at 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24, at the First United Methodist Church in Sylva. The choir will perform anthems our congregation has enjoyed over the years. Additionally, the choir accompanists will offer a variety of instrumental solos and duets. Following the concert hors d’oeuvres will be served in the Christian Life Center. 828.399.0275.

• The Literacy Council of Highlands will host pianist Randall Atcheson in concert on Saturday, Aug. 30, at the Highlands Playhouse. Following a champagne reception at 3 p.m., the show will be from 4 to 6 p.m. $50 per person. 828.526.2695 or www.highlandsliteracy.com.

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• The Summer Live Music Series will continue with 414, Antique Firearms, Local and Ogya at the Nantahala Outdoor Center in the Nantahala Gorge. 414 plays Aug. 22, with Antique Firearms Aug. 23, Local Aug. 29 and Ogya Aug. 30. Live music, barbecue and craft beer. All performances are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

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• Bluegrass/Americana group The Henhouse Prowlers will perform as part of An Appalachian Evening concert series at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center in Robbinsville.

Cost is $15 for adults, $10 for students.

Dinner services begin at 6 p.m. in the Schoolhouse Café. Next up in the series will be Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys on Aug. 30.

828.479.3364 or www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

Jones plays Aug. 23, with Scotchie Aug 30.

All shows begin at 6 p.m. Free.

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• Amy Andrews and Liz & AJ Nance and The Freestylers will perform at City Lights Café in Sylva. Andrews plays Aug. 22, with Liz & AJ Aug. 23 and The Freestylers Aug. 29.

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Bigfoot film to premier in Waynesville Aug. 23 A red carpet release party to celebrate the release of “Bigfoot Wars,” a major motion picture based on the novel written by Canton author Eric S. Brown, will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at the RE/MAX Mountain Realty on Main Street in Waynesville.

The film will then premier following the party at 7:45 p.m. down the street at The Strand at 38 Main. Everyone at the party will walk the red carpet down to The Strand.

Brown has written more than 40 books in the horror/science-fiction genre, including a series of eight books in the “Bigfoot Wars” series. He will be on hand at the event for photo ops and to sign copies of his Bigfoot War books, provided

by Blue Ridge Books. Bigfoot himself will also make an appearance for pictures.

Food and drinks will be provided.

Tickets to the pre-party cost $25 and tickets to the movie are $6.

The film will also be showing at 2, 5 and 7:45 p.m. Aug. 24 and at 7 p.m.

Aug. 25-28 at The Strand. www.38main.com or 828.283.0079.

A botanical watercolor workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27, at the Highlands Biological Station.

Artist Fayne Ansley will teach the workshop. Students will work from fresh seasonal cuttings of native plants, and the instructor will provide an array of accessible supplies. All levels are welcome, and beginners are most welcome. Just bring yourself to enjoy and depict nature’s end-of-summer bounty. Continuing students are welcome to bring their own supplies, though the instructor strongly recommends that beginners purchase a $30-starter kit from her at the beginning of class, containing carefully selected paints, brushes and watercolor paper — everything you need to fully profit from the workshop.

Ansley was born and raised in Atlanta. She attended the Hotchkiss School, graduated from Harvard University with a degree in history, and holds an MFA from Columbia University. She has traveled widely and is fluent in both French and Italian. She has studied Botanical Art with Carol Bolt at the New York Horticultural Society, with Mary Christiansen at the New York Botanical Garden, with Helen Allen and Elaine Searle at the English Gardening School in London, and with Anne-Marie Evans.

She taught art for many years at Camp Merrie-Woode in Sapphire, as well as at The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts in Highlands.

The cost of this workshop is $65 for members of the Highlands Biological Foundation or $75 for non-members. To register, visit www.highlandsbiological.org/watercolor/ or 828.526.2221.

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Open call for artists at Shining Rock Riverfest An open call for artisans is currently underway for the Shining Rock Riverfest that will be held from noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, at Camp Hope in Cruso.

All arts and crafts must be handmade, and can include sculptures, pottery, clothing, leather, etc. Send an artist bio, photographs and/or samples of your work to the Town of Canton, Attn: Shining Rock Riverfest, 58 Park

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Looking ahead to fall, discounted spaces are available now in Penland’s eight-week session, which runs Sept. 21-Nov. 14. The workshop roster includes a pottery class focusing on innovative ceramic surfaces; a hot glass class; a class in the iron studio that will cover forging, welding, and fabrication; a jewelry class emphasizing the use of color on metal; a workshop in encaustic and mixed media painting; a class covering four fundamental printmaking techniques; and a natural dying workshop in the textiles studio.

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• An open call for crafters is currently underway for the 5th annual Balsam Crafters Arts & Crafts Show on Aug. 30 at the Balsam Fire Department. No tent needed, show is inside.

828.226.9352 or 828.269.8604.

• A landscape-painting workshop for beginners with Jon Houglum will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 2930 at the Historic Cowee School in Franklin.

828.369.7274 or houglumfineart2@frontier.com.

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• A reception and art talk with mixed media artists Gary Kachadourian will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, in the Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University. Free.

His exhibit of works, titled “Forest/City,” will be on display through Oct. 17. www.wcu.edu.

• The films “Bigfoot Wars” and “The Amazing Spiderman 2” will be screened at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. “Bigfoot Wars”

• The monthly meeting of the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers will be held at 4:30 p.m.

Aug. 25 at The Bascom in Highlands. A social gathering followed by a presentation of a professional artist. Free. www.artleagueofhighlands.com.

• Penland School of Crafts will host an auction of student and instructor work at 8 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 21, at the Northlight building on the campus in Mitchell County. The auction will feature student and instructor work in clay, glass, metals, wood, textiles, photography, printmaking and other media. No admission charged. www.penland.org or 828.765.2359.

• “Understanding our Past, Shaping our Future,” will be on view through Aug. 29 at the Snowbird Complex in Robbinsville. The exhibit focuses on Cherokee language and culture, using sound recordings as the basis for presenting a coherent story in words and text.

Rather than translating from English into Cherokee, as is often done, much of the exhibit text was excerpted from conversations originally recorded in Cherokee. The touring exhibit is sponsored by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in partnership with Cherokee Central Schools, Southwestern Community College and Western Carolina University.

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• The Village Square Art & Craft Show will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 22-23 at KelseyHutchinson Park in Highlands. Regional artisans, demonstrations, live music, food vendors and children’s activities. Free.

Sponsored by the Macon County Art Association and the Highlands Area Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center.

will play Aug. 22-24, with “The Amazing Spiderman 2” Aug. 29-31. Screenings are at 7:45 p.m. on Fridays; 2, 5 and 7:45 p.m. on Saturdays; and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $6 per person, $4 for children. Saturday morning cartoons will also be shown at 10 a.m.

The “Bigfoot Wars” gala premier event will be at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23. Cost for the gala is $25, which includes hor d’oeuvres.

828.283.0079 or www.38main.com.

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• A button basket workshop will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, at the Masonic Lodge in Dillsboro. Participants will create a unique basket that incorporates a variety of techniques. Accomplished basket maker Donna Pollock will lead the class.

Cost of class is $21. Register by Aug. 22.

828.586.2435 or junettapell@hotmail.com.

‘The Odd Couple’ to hit HART stage

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A production of Neil Simon’s Broadway hit “The Odd Couple” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 22-23, 29-20 and Sept. 5-6 and at 3 p.m. Aug. 24 and 31 and Sept. 7 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

This blockbuster opened at the Plymouth Theater in March 1965 and ran nearly a thousand performances, staring Walter Matthau and Art Carney. The 1968 film version stared Matthau and Jack Lemon. That was such a hit that a TV series followed in 1970 with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, which ran five seasons.

In the play, Felix, a fastidious man who has just separated from his wife, moves in with his friend, Oscar, a sports writer who has also separated from his wife. Oscar is something of a slob, whose idea of a great evening is poker with his buddies. The comedy situations that evolve have become classics in the theater.

Tickets are $22 for adults, $18 for seniors and $10 for students. Special $6 discount tickets are available for students on Sundays.

828.456.6322 or www.harttheatre.com.

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On the street Labor Day LakeAlooza at Fontana Village

Pigeon River Fest in Canton

The 5th annual Labor Day Weekend LakeAlooza fireworks celebration will be held Aug. 29-31 at Fontana Village Resort.

The celebration will be in full swing with a performance by the Josh Fields Band at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30. The group blends southern rock, classic and contemporary country, and bluegrass amid tight three-part harmonies.

Although the event is being held at the marina, you don’t need a boat to enjoy the festivities. Fontana Marina accommodates those who want to remain on shore with great food, dancing, music and entertainment. Enjoy lake games, paddleboard/kayak races, and even a frozen t-shirt contest.

On Saturday evening, Fastgear will perform from 7 to 10 p.m. on the Wildwood Sundeck. Guests will then be treated to Fontana’s famous fireworks starting at 9:30 p.m. in front of the Wildwood Grill on the Village Green The resort is also offering free admission to the Stone Creek Pool & Lazy River on Saturday and Sunday for guests wanting to cool off or to lounge poolside. www.fontanavillage.com or 800.849.2258.

The Pigeon River Fest will be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 23 in downtown Canton.

The festival will be a relaxing walk along the Pigeon River in historic Canton. A welcome and information area will be at the RiverView Feed Store downtown. Heritage craft vendors will be dispersed along the trail for you to enjoy between RiverView Feed and The Turner Stage. The antique tractor show and Mary Hardin Antique Show will be located between River View and Pisgah Memorial Stadium.

There will also be a car show by Sunset Cruisers at the armory, a kids’ zone, and other various activities along the river. Food vendors include McCleod Concessions, Holy Smoke BBQ, Lenoir Creek Beef and Bakery, Gigi’s ice cream and smoothies. The Lil Miss and Mr. Labor pageant will also take the stage during our festival. At 6 p.m. music will be performed by Grey Wolf and The Band of Oz at 6 p.m.

The event is coordinated by Focus On Canton and the group underwrites the cost through merchandise and food sales, along with sponsorship from businesses and individuals in the community.

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Celebrating 125 Years of the Arts at WCU

S E PT. 2 N D | 7 : 3 0 P M | B A R D O A RT S C E N T E R P E R FO R M A N C ES B Y : WCU students and faculty with special appearances by Chancellor David and Susan Belcher, The Catamount Singers and Electric Soul, Members of the Pride of the Mountains Marching Band and WCU Dancers FREE GENERAL ADMISSION — SEATING LIMITED — TICKETS REQUIRED

TICKETS Join or renew your membership now to the WCU Friends of the Arts at the $50 level or higher and you may request TWO PREMIUM RESERVED seats. For membership and reservations, call the BAC box office at 828.227.2479.

Remaining seats will be released to non-FOA members on August 22.

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Local Food Crawl served up in Haywood

en the relationship between a growing base of communityminded consumers and Haywood County farms and agripreneurs.

The event will crisscross Haywood County, showcasing the rich farming and agricultural heritage of the community.

Participating partners will create specialty menu items featuring fresh farm-to-table flavors.

Food crawlers can treat the event like a progressive dinner and visit multiple establishThe Uniquely Local Food Crawl will be Aug. 21-24 ments in a single “crawl” or dine and 28-31 throughout Haywood County. over several days. No advance tickets necessary. Payment occurs The Buy Haywood initiative will host the at each individual crawl destination, so there inaugural Uniquely Local Food Crawl around are no billing surprises.

Haywood County Aug. 21-24 and 28-31.

Crawlers are invited to enter to win a The premier culinary event of the summer Uniquely Local prize at each crawl destinaseason, the crawl will highlight Haywood’s tion The more you crawl, the greater your fresh farm-to-table flavors — from innovative chances of winning. Drawing will take place small plates to home grown libations. The on Tuesday, Sept. 9. two-week celebration is designed to strengthwww.buyhaywood.com.

Open call for Taste of Sylva The Mainstreet Sylva Association will host the 5th annual Taste of Sylva culinary tour from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4.

This year’s event will feature both downtown restaurants at their locations and other Sylva restaurants set up at McGuire Gardens. All participants will provide a “taste” of their menu or product to patrons, offering a complete experience of the incredible culinary variety in Sylva.

With close to 20 restaurants, breweries and other food and drink based establishments participating, attendees will be able to

• PAWS will be hosting their 11th annual wine tasting and silent auction from 7 to 9 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 30, in Harmony Hall at Lands Creek Cabins in Bryson City. Proceeds will benefit PAWS, Swain County’s only animal shelter. Tickets can be purchased at the PAWS Thrift Store. 828.333.4267.

• The Kitchen Showdown Competition will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, at the Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva. The event is part of the Tuesdays to Thrive series the hospital is putting on to focus on timely health topics. Attendees must sign up for the competition and submit their recipes by Thursday, Aug. 28. Full rules and information is at www.westcarehealth.org/tuesdays-tothrive/kitchen-showdown-rules.

• WNC’s Largest Fall Yard Sale will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 23 in the Ramsey Center at Western Carolina University.

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sample a delightful variety of foods provided by almost every restaurant in Sylva.

The event will also feature street musicians, children’s activities, samples from local farmers and growers from the Jackson County Farmers’ Market, and much more.

Restaurants interested in participating may contact Julie Sylvester, event planner, at 828.226.0181 or by email at julie@pinnacleeventswnc.com. All participants must be registered by August 22nd.

Tickets will be on sale at participating restaurants starting Sept. 8, and are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. All proceeds will benefit community programs and initiatives. www.mainstreetsylva.org.

• The Designer Showhouse will be held Aug. 22-31 in Cashiers. The location of the home is in Timber Ridge. A shuttle will be provided. Proceeds from the event goes to support the Cashiers Historical Society. cherietibbetts@yahoo.com.

• A block party will be held from 7 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 30, in downtown Waynesville.

Restaurants are open, with a handful expanding into the street with tables and chairs. Many downtown shops and galleries will also remain open late. There will be a handful of live bands performing around the downtown area, with funk/rock group Porch 40 performing in front of Tipping Point Brewing. An hour of Kids on Main art activities will begin early at 6 p.m. for young families to come eat and play before bedtime. info@downtownwaynesville.com or www.haywood-nc.com.

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Poems to honor the insatiable mystery of cats

BY M ICHAEL B EADLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER nyone who’s spent serious time with a cat knows there are a myriad of ways to describe the feline mystery. They are inscrutable creatures. At times, indifferent. At others, intensely focused. Adorable and affable when they want to be. Experts of stealth.

Part diva, part zen master.

The great Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott once wrote, “Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.”

Indeed.

Over the ages, writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway were devoted admirers of cats.

Raymond Chandler wrote letters in the mindset of his cat. Poet Sylvia Plath drew curious drawings of cats. Truman Capote used a nameless cat in a key role for his novella Breakfast At Tiffany’s. Prolific author Joyce Carol Oates proclaimed, “I write so much Fred Chappell because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don’t want to get up.” Playwright Andrew Lloyd Webber immortalized cats with one of the longest-running Broadway musicals, based on the T.S. Eliot book, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

Now poet, novelist and Canton native Fred Chappell delivers a splendid collection of poems about cats in Familiars (LSU Press), which muses on the enigmatic, beguiling nature of these animals we dare not stoop to call “pets.” The title of the book is a nod to the pagan tradition that cats embody a psychic connection to the spiritual realm. Poetry about cats seems fitting since both share an elusive nature. The poems in Familiars revel in that notion.

Over the years, Chappell’s writing has transcended the art form with an uncanny ability to mix his Appalachian roots with rich literary references in finely-crafted verse that plunges deep and cuts to the quick. Imagine

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the kind of literary prowess that blends the ambitious visual appetite of a painter like Picasso with the intuitive hunting skills of Daniel Boone. Chappell is one of the true deans of American literature, having spent 40 years teaching poetry and creative writing at the University of North Carolina at

dences with fellow writers.

In his 1981 masterpiece, Midquest (a Dante-esque mid-life perspective), he gathered poems thematically under the four basic elements: earth, wind, water and fire. In his 2004 book of poems, Backsass, Chappell put a modern spin on the sharp wit of Roman satirists Martial and Juvenal — the Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of their day. In Chappell’s last poetry collection, shadow box, he crafted poems embedded within poems — the kind of mind-bending wordplay equivalent to 3-D chess.

So you’d think it would be easy enough for a celebrated author to give himself a free pass on intellectual dexterity just once and wax sentimentally about warm-andfuzzy memories cuddling a favorite tabby — a book version of those kitty videos that get 10 million views on Facebook. One could imagine a host of purr-fectly amews-ing puns that await this paw-sibility.

Not a chance with Chappell, who once again delivers poems that elevate his subject with style and nuance, clever rhymes, sly humor and classical allusions.

Chappell celebrates the sublime and stately cats, the midnight marauders and temperamental toms, the ink-stained footprints left across the pages of our lives, the thieves and detectives that Fred Chappell will read from his newest book of poetry at 3 haunt our film noir dreams. p.m. on Aug. 24 at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. The In these poems, we see with event is free and open to the public, but seating is limitcats’ eyes what humans deem ed. A ticket for two reserved seats is available with advance invisible. We see what hides purchase of the book. 828.456.6000. behind walls, what glides past mirrors, what slinks through shadows.

Greensboro and garnering state, national and We linger awhile at the timeworn chair where international prizes for his poetry and fiction kitten and kin have sat for generations. We (more than two dozen books and counting). pay tribute to those cats who stand guard, He served several years as North Carolina’s who know the whispers of history, who Poet Laureate, was inducted into the N.C. explore the depths of the unknown.

Literary Hall of Fame in 2006, and has penned In “Passerby” we meet Black Margo who countless essays, book reviews and correspon- “stalks across a grave / Casting her moonlit

Powell to present new novel Writer Mark Powell will present his new novel The Sheltering at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Powell’s work has been given high praise including Ron Rash calling him “the best Appalachian novelist of his generation.” Pat Conroy had this to say in the foreword he wrote for Powell’s new novel: “The Sheltering is at once haunting and an act of pure grace.

What you notice first when you come to Mark Powell’s fourth novel is his remarkable gift for language, the bleeding edges around his dialogue, the starch and vigor of his sense of place, the sharp delin-

eation of his characters, and a stylishness all his own. He is that rarity among male writers of fiction in that his female characters are as strongly presented as any of his troubled, endangered males.”

The author of four novels, Powell has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Collegeville Center for Ecumenical Research, and the Vaclav Havel Fellowship in Playwriting to the Prague Summer Program. An Associate Professor of English at Stetson University in Florida, he will spend the coming academic year as a Fulbright Fellow in Slovakia.

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shadow on the name / Of the tenant peaceful beneath the stone / In his bony frame.” What force draws this cat to wake the dead with the touch of paw on tombstone? One dark silence brushes against another in the middle of a nameless night.

In “Ritual,” we learn the initiation for cats seeking to earn their nine lives: “Do you vow by existence One / never to utter the secret name / Of any feline wild or tame / Either in earnest or in fun?”

A whole cast of characters inhabits these pages — Jekyll-and-Hyde Emilia, regal Reginald, amorous Tom Juan, omnipotent Black Stella, and the ever-present Chloe (who, through repeated references to ol’ Fred and his wife Susan, appears to be a familiar in the Chappell household).

In “Jubilate Felis,” we ponder the paradox of cat-ness, the whims of cat genius, the wonders of cat-like observations: “For she will watch a Television machine with birds of interest in-/side the belly of it … For she does not know what I am laughing about … For she knows what Cat Nip does but not what it is.”

And yet, for all the majesty and grace these cats employ, they have their missteps and clueless episodes. Chappell illumines these imperfections as well. One famous feline star of the stage has fallen on tough times: “He hawks Kleen Kitty litter and flea collars, / Bowing to his agent’s decision. / I understand a chap must gather dollars— / But this is the saddest scandal of our age!”

These are poems worth reading again and again. Who else could rhyme sang froid with bourgeois? Who else dares to write poems embedded within poems? Who else riffs on Shakespearean stanzas, ends a homage with a jolt of slang, and then deftly delivers odes on the subtle gestures of cat tails?

Cats have enjoyed star status for millennia — from their glorious worship in ancient Egypt to their glamorous cameos in Hollywood movies. If their personalities continue to be indescribable, unfathomable, impossible for us to discern, who else but Fred Chappell would be up to the task to give them their due in poetic verse?

Michael Beadle is a poet, author and touring writer-in-residence living in Canton, NC.

Joyce presents Cherokee findings Local author and seasoned researcher Mary A. Joyce will present her newest book Cherokee Little People Were Real at 11 a.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 27, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium.

Her book contains oral transcript information originally published in 2001 but also includes photographs, maps and completely new chapters with previously unpublished material. Joyce has also written Tangible Evidence of Jesus, which looks at the wealth of information discovered about Jesus not recorded in Christian Bibles.

828.356.2507 or kolsen@haywoodnc.net.

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Reclaiming the landscape Greenhouse project to spur habitat restoration

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER nder a clear sky and afternoon sun, the winding road through Cherokee and out past Birdtown is a beautiful one. It’s a trek that employees at the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Office of Environment and Natural Resources have been making a lot over the past several months.

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be a return to the grow yard when the weather gets warm, where they’ll await planting in some tribal restoration project. Meanwhile, another batch will be growing up six months behind.

“Our goal in three to five years is for us to provide all plants, not just for environmentalbased projects but to land-based projects that need native plants,” Breedlove said.

greenhouse idea. He started looking into the dollars and cents in 2012, submitting a financial analysis to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which funds ECBI restoration projects. The funds were approved in October, with 99 percent of the money coming from the EPA, though a whole laundry list of partners donated supplies, volunteers, professional advice and the remainder of the

with it,” Breedlove said of the rainwater.

The plants in question are the thousands of pots gathered on the 1.4-acre grow yard beside the greenhouse. The greenhouse itself is empty at the moment, waiting until cooler weather comes to be filled with plants.

Five species are slated for the first round of propagation: Carolina rhododendron, Catawba rhododendron, mountain laurel, doghobble, silky dogwood and black willow.

They’ll root in the greenhouse throughout the winter. Then, once their stems grow woody, they’ll be transferred into a hoop house to be set up beside the greenhouse. A hoop house is a kind of semi-permanent greenhouse consisting of plastic stretched over a metal frame, but unlike the greenhouse it won’t be heated.

Rather, it will serve as a transition between the cozy greenhouse and seasonal elements a native plant must adapt to.

From there, they’ll be shipped out to streamsides throughout the Cherokee reservation.

The OENR is actively involved in restoring riparian zones, the name for habitats that grow up along running water. Those areas are often easy targets for invasive species, which squelch native diversity and don’t provide much for wildlife when it comes to food and cover. Riparian zones can also fall prey to erosion when the shallower roots of invasives allow stream banks to collapse or the river channel starts digging into the banks. By removing undesirable species and replanting with natives, restoration projects keep natural systems in Cherokee working like they’re supposed to.

“Our goal is to restore it before there is any impact to it, whether that be manmade or natural,” Breedlove said.

STABILIZING SNOWBIRD Patrick Breedlove and Jamie Long walk across the campus of the new plant propagation facility. (left) Breedlove inspects the plants in the grow yard.

With the ribbon now cut on a 2,200square-foot greenhouse and a black-clothed grow yard filled with 33,000 native plants representing 32 species, they’ve finally got something to show for it.

“By this fall we’ll have over 100,000 plants,” says project manager Patrick Breedlove, looking out over the yard of potted natives.

Those pots represent just the starting stock for what Breedlove eventually hopes to see covering the yard and growing along Cherokee stream banks. The department is continuing to get more species in — largely from the N.C. Forest Service, which has given the Eastern Band a reduced price — with plans to gather still more from the backcountry.

Come fall, they’ll take cuttings of all the plants and start growing those cuttings into new plants. Those baby plants will go in the greenhouse for the winter while their roots grow and their stems harden into wood, and from there they’ll move to a soon-to-be-erected cold-weather hoop house. The last stop will

The tribe doesn’t reveal cost figures for projects, but the propagation operation, with its automated greenhouse and irrigation system, soon-to-be-installed tower lights and security system and the impending renovation of a historic house onsite that will serve as an office didn’t come cheaply. But within three years, Breedlove said, the greenhouse operation will have paid for itself.

A PLUS FOR PROPAGATION The plants will mainly be used in restoration projects to improve waterside habitats and wildlife forage. Before, the Eastern Band has had to buy all those plants from some other supplier, but it’s a whole lot cheaper to grow them in-house. For instance, a rhododendron in one gallon of soil costs $3.30 to buy, but only about $0.60 to propagate.

“For some of them, we’re about 10 or 15 percent of cost,” Breedlove said.

It’s the potential for cost savings that initially sparked Breedlove’s interest in the

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cash. By January, the first ground was broken, and by July the greenhouse was ready to go.

“I detailed my whole department down here for the last two weeks,” said Jamie Long, manager of the Office of Environment and Natural Resources. “We worked every day, long hours.”

The result? A greenhouse capable of holding two batches of 80,000 plants each year.

The building has LED lighting as well as grow lights, and the roof pieces can open up to let heat out when the building gets too hot. It’s made of tempered glass, not polycarbonate, which turns yellow and starts blocking light after a few years in service. A weather station monitors metrics such as humidity and temperature, adjusting with heating, fans or irrigation as needed to meet the settings. A pair of 5,000-gallon rain barrels stand on either side of the building, ready to catch any rain running off the roof. Just one month in, they each hold 1,500 gallons.

“Once we use that in the greenhouse, once we catch it off the roof, we water the plants

This fall, Breedlove’s office is planning the largest-scale restoration project yet, involving 5,600 feet along Snowbird Creek.

“That’s the largest project we’ve ever done here on the reservation,” he said.

The project will require 100,000 native plants, well outside the normal range of 20,000 to 40,000. It will involve removing some invasives, breaking up an abandoned beaver dam that’s been degrading trout habitat and reshaping the channel to a more natural contour.

Having the greenhouse onsite will allow the OENR to do more of those kinds of projects.

The office operates on consistent funding from the EPA, so its budget won’t change as a result of the greenhouse. But because they’ll now be able to produce more plants for less money, they’ll have more capacity for restoration.

“It’s cost savings so we’ll be able to do more larger projects,” Breedlove said.

Of course, the extra plants will require some extra work to pot and propagate. The department isn’t planning to hire any extra staff, though. Rather, they’re relying on summer interns and volunteers from the Oconaluftee Job Corps. Those

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A photography program featuring images by Clay Bolt will give an inside look to the small-scale world of plants and ani-

From wasps that turn pitcher plants into cradles for their young to treehopper herding ants, the program will include lighthearted stories about nature as well as photography and philosophical talk about the need to get to know our own wild places a little better.

Bolt’s images have been featured by organizations such as National Geographic Society, The Nature Conservancy, Outdoor Photographer and A Halictus sweat bee (Halictus poeyi) prepares to land on an aster Audubon next to a metallic green bee (Agapostemon splendens). Clay Bolt photo Magazine, and his international mals, 7 p.m. Aug. 25 at the Hudson Library nature project Meet Your Neighbors has in Highlands. Natural History Photography: grown to include dozens of photographers Revealing the Unseen World Around Us will from across the globe. teach the audience how to explore their surRefreshments will be served at 7 p.m. roundings with fresh eyes and provide tips and the program will begin at 7:30 p.m. for capturing this beauty with a camera. www.highlandsaudubonsociety.org.

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View from Sam Knob. Holly Kays photo

Service Ranger, will leave from the Black Balsam parking area at the end of FR 816, Black Balsam Road, just past milepost 420.

Water, a snack, sturdy shoes and clothing for changeable weather are a must for this

Day hiking 101 A workshop and hike beginning at 2 p.m. Aug. 25 will give beginning hikers a chance to get outside while learning some of the basics for planning future outings. A day hike essentials workshop will begin at 2 p.m. at the Cashiers/Glenville Recreation Center, covering what’s necessary to pack for a day hike as well as important trail knowledge such as water purification and Leave No Trace stewardship principles.

The group will head out at 4 p.m. to hike Whiteside’s Trail Loop, a roundtrip of approximately 2.5 miles.

Surfaces will be uneven, and the trail features moderate to challenging elevation change.

Participants can attend the hike, workshop or both. $5 per person. Register through Aug. 21 at the Cullowhee or Cashiers/Glenville recreation center.

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Blueberry plants can be important food sources for a variety of native animals.

Breedlove is looking forward to the imminent multiplication of healthy habitat on the Qualla Boundary. And he’s glad that his office is on the road to making that happen.

“It was a lot of work, but we got it finished,” Long said, “and it really turned out well.”

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Maybe that’s because plant propagation isn’t just an environmental project. It’s a cultural project.

The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources has a region-byregion list of native plants to help out localities wanting to plan restoration projects, but the Eastern Band doesn’t go by that list. They have their own, which includes plants with large root masses capable of holding riparian soil in place, those producing berries tasty to wildlife and plants with especially high cultural value to the Cherokee people.

For instance, Breedlove said, when it comes to selecting species for restoration, “an oak is an oak,” but lately he’s been trying to plant a higher proportion of white oaks.

“White oaks are culturally significant to the Eastern Band,” he said. “They use them to make baskets.”

Another example is the black walnut, used for its edible nut as well as for the stain surrounding the fruit that yields black ink or dye. Berry bushes and fruit trees also appear in the species list, planted to attract game animals like grouse and turkey.

“Our list is just more specialized for tribal lands,” Breedlove said.

As the stockpile of trees and bushes outside the greenhouse grows and multiplies,

A summit hike to Sam Knob will give Blue Ridge Parkway visitors a chance to learn about wilderness areas and the species that call them home while taking in spectacular views, 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 22.

The trip, guided by a National Park

2.5-mile roundtrip hike.

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volunteers have helped out a lot already, chipping in to pot the thousands of plants that have been coming in over the summer to reside in the outdoor grow yard.

“We have a lot of volunteers,” Breedlove said.

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The three authors of Seasons in a Wildflower Refuge will be at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville, 3 p.m. Aug. 23, to meet their readers, sign books and talk about native plants. They’ll cover which species flourish in this region, the importance of the 25year-old Corneille Bryan Native Garden in Lake Junaluska and the need to include native plants in the landscape, while also sharing growing tips.

The book started as an attempt from long-time gardeners Janet Lilley and Linda McFarland to share prints by Dorothy Peacock of the native plants in the Corneille Bryan Native Garden, and they invited their friend and mentor Dan Pittillo, retired botany professor at Western Carolina University, to help.

“This handsomely illustrated guide, enhanced by botanist Dan Pittillo’s insightful descriptions, has considerable value not only as a guide to this Garden but also to the native flora in the region as well,” George Ellison observed in his comments on the book.

Janet Manning, garden director, 828.778.5938.

WCU students produce walking trail brochure Students in Western Carolina University’s Introduction to Public History course will show off the fruits of their labor during the Big Birthday Bash 4 to 7 p.m.

Aug. 26 at the A.K. Hinds University Center Lawn, an event celebrating 125 years of history at WCU. The students produced a historic walking trail and map of WCU’s points of interest, bringing meaning to the longtime structures that students pass by every day.

“The class started the project by taking a tour of campus with George Frizzell from Special Collections,” said Jessie Swigger, who taught the class. “As a class, we selected what we thought Western Carolina University. File photo were the most important historic sites on campus.”

The trail’s landmarks include: Highway 106, the first paved road in Cullowhee; Mount Zion AME Zion Church, a Methodist church established by 11 former slaves where Robertson Hall now stands; Moore Building, the oldest building still standing on campus; Madison Memorial, which honors WCU’s founder on the site of the original Cullowhee Academy; and many more. www.wcu.edu/celebrate125/history.html.

Tuck it away for the greenway Franklin’s greenway lovers will have a chance to give their green space a hand by eating out at one of three Franklin restaurants Friday, Aug. 22.

Martha’s Kitchen will give Friends of the Greenway a cut of its breakfast and lunch sales, as will Mia Casa for lunch or dinner and Hungry Bear for its Philly cheesesteak sandwich at lunch or dinner.

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The deadline for comment on the state Mining and Energy Commission’s proposed oil and gas development rules has been extended to Sept. 30. The extension of the original Sept. 15 deadline was approved to avoid confusion after a section of the rules titled Timing and Notice of Reclamation was mistakenly omitted from the version published on the N.C. Register July 15.

Comment will be taken at a public hearing 5 to 9 p.m. Sept. 12 at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University. Comments can also be submitted at http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/mining-andenergy-commission/public-comment-meetings or mailed to: DENR-Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources Attn: Oil and Gas Program 1612 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N.C. 27699.

The proposed rules can be found at www.portal.ncdenr.org.

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A home preservation workshop 1 to 4 p.m. Aug. 27 at the Jackson County Extension Office will give aspiring canners the info they need to start preserving.

Sherrie Peeler, Extension instructor, will cover the basics of pressure and water bath canning, including the appropriate methods for preserving both low and high-acid foods.

Freezing and dehydration will also be covered.

Free, but seating is limited. RSVP to 828.586.4009.

Carolina parakeet sculpture by Todd McGrain. Donated photo

The Lost Bird Project, an independent documentary telling the stories of five bird species driven to extinction in modern times, will be screened at 7 p.m. Aug. 28 at the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room. The film follows sculptor Todd McGrain’s project to memorialize the birds, which involves a search for the locations where they were last seen in the wild and negotiations for permission to install his large bronze sculptures there. The film lasts 63 minutes. www.lostbirdproject.org.

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Conservation closes out Tuckasegee Nature Series Paul Carlson, director of Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, will close out the sixweek Tuckasegee Nature Series with a talk titled Conserving the Natural and Cultural Histories of the Southern Blue Ridge, 6:30 p.m. Aug 28 at the Jackson County Library’s community room. LTLT is a non-profit dedicated to conservation in the six far-western counties of North Carolina and northern Rabun County, Georgia. Since 1999, land trust has conserved more than 23,000 acres and hundreds of river and stream miles.

Another talk, The Mountains-to-Sea Trail — 1,000 miles across NC, by Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail Executive Director Kate Dixon, is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Aug. 21 in the Jackson County Library’s Community Room.

828.524.2711 or visit www.ltlt.org.

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The 20th annual Friends Across the Mountains telethon brought in $200,000 for Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park last week. The dollars will go toward the nearly $1.6 million the park needs this year to protect black bears, heal hemlock trees and preserve historic buildings. Since 1995, the telethon has raised $3 million to support the park.

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The public will get a chance to paddle Lake Logan at 9:45 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23,

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at the Lake Logan boathouse. A tour of the lake will include information on its history and the varied ecosystems and species contained in the 300-acre preserve.

The outing is part of Haywood Waterways Association’s Get to Know Your Watershed series, featuring a lineup of hikes, lectures and paddle tours around key watershed sites in Haywood County.

The Lake Logan Episcopal Center and Waynesville Recreation Center are providing

equipment, but guests are welcome to bring their own. Minors must be accompanied by an adult. Light refreshments will be provided.

Free, but group size is limited. RSVP to Christine O’Brien at christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 828.476.4667.

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River critters to appear at River Fest Activities for kids and parents, featuring live macro invertebrates, a group of species that includes crustaceans, insects and mollusks, will be on display at Canton’s Pigeon River Fest, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 23.

Volunteers with Haywood Waterways Association will staff the booth with the aim to educate about these backboneless creatures that have a lot to say as indicators of water quality. HWA and other groups will be dispersed along the trail between RiverView Feed and Turner Stage.

Truck and tractor pulls slated for fair Mechanical muscle will be on prominent display at the Haywood County Fair Aug. 23-24.

A stock tractor pull will begin at 10 a.m. Aug. 23 in the fairgrounds’ Great Smokies Arena, with tractors from 1964 or earlier eligible to enter in a variety of weight classes. Trophies will be given for first, second and third place winners. $10 per hitch or $25 for three hitches. Apple Country Pullers Rules apply.

828.456.3575 or 828.246.5167.

A truck pull will begin at 1 p.m. Aug. 24 in the fairgrounds’ Great Smokies Arena, with vehicle registration held beforehand. The pull will feature eight pull classes, with first and second place finishers awarded to the top two finishers in each class and an overall champion awarded a special trophy. There will also be an open class with no prize awarded. $10 hookup fee and $2 gate charge for drivers and spectators. Concessions available. Damon Swanger, 828.734.1510. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

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Adult soccer sign-up is here in Haywood An adult recreational soccer league in Haywood County is accepting open team sign-ups through Friday, Aug. 22.

Games will be played on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at Allens Creek Park from Sept. 2-24.

The league is organized through the Haywood County Parks and Rec. Maximum team size is 13 people. Teams are not required to be co-ed, but can be.

The registration fee is $130 per team.

For more information or placement on a team, contact 828.452.6789 drtaylor@haywoodnc.net.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Transportation Advisory Committee of the Southwestern Rural Planning Organization (RPO), 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, Southwestern Commission office, 125 Bonnie Lane, Sylva. Philip Moore, phil@regiona.org or 339.2213.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

• OccupyWNC General Assembly will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, in room 246 of the Jackson Justice Center. This meeting is open to the public. 401 Grindstaff Rd, Sylva. 743.9747.

• Mountaintop Rotary Club, 7:30 a.m. every Wednesday, Highlands-Cashiers Hospital lower level Dining Room.

• Smoky Mountain Model Railroaders work session, 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday and public viewing session from 2 to 4 p.m. the second Sunday of the month, 130 Frazier St., in the Industrial Park near Bearwaters Brewery, Waynesville. The group runs Lionel-type 3rail O gauge trains. http://smokymountainmodelrailroaders.wordpress.com.

• P.A.W.S. Adoption Days first Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the front lawn at Charleston Station, Bryson City.

• The Smoky Mountain Chapter of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association will meet at noon on Aug. 23, for their annual picnic at Shady Grove United Methodist. U.S. 276 north of Waynesville. Exit from U.S. 19 onto U.S. 276 and travel approximately three miles. Church is on right side of highway. Cake & homemade ice cream will be provided. 456.5251.

• Fontana Village Resorts will be holding their fifth annual Labor Day Weekend LakeAlooza celebration Aug. 29-31. The Josh Fields Band will be performing, and games and contests will be available. www.fontanavillage.com. 800.849.2258.

• The Friends of the Rickman Store will be hosting a tour of local gem mines at 10 a.m. Aug. 30 at 51 Cowee School Rd., Franklin. A self-drive caravan will allow visitors and residents alike to travel together to four historic mines in the Cowee and Burningtown areas. The tour will begin with a gem mine introductory presentation. A $5 per vehicle donation is requested and carpooling is encouraged. Box lunches will also be available. 349.7467.

• Western Carolina University will be celebrating their 125th anniversary with their Big Birthday Bash from 4 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 26 on the A.K. Hinds University Center lawn. Food, games and entertainment will be provided. Event is free to the public. 227.3033. celebrate125.wcu.edu.

• Angel Medical Center Disease Management Services will be offering a lunch and learn class for the public at 11:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28. The class includes information on discussing the different classes of medications. 349.8290.

• The Haywood County Fair will be having their Stock Tractor Pull at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 23. Hitch fees are $10 or three for $25. 758 Crabtree Rd., Waynesville.

456.3575.

• Drugs in Our Midst will meet at 6 p.m. Aug. 27 at New Covenant Church. Program will include update from the Sheriff’s Department. 767 Lee Road, Clyde.

• The Transportation Advisory Committee of the Southwestern Rural Planning Organization will meet at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 21 at the Southwestern Commission office. The meeting will include a special public comment period related to final approval of the Southwestern RPO Transportation Prioritization project list. 125 Bonnie Lane, Sylva. 339.2213.

• Wildlife biologist Rob Gudger will present a program about wolves and dispel some of the myths and misconceptions at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, at The Village Green Commons in Cashiers as part of the Village Nature Series. Frank Allen Road, near the Cashiers post office. 743.3434.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • The Small Business Roundtable series will provide small business owners the opportunity to networking from 8:30 to 10 a.m. on Aug. 27 at Haywood Community College in the Library Conference room. Online registration required. 627.4512. www.haywood.edu.

• Haywood Community College will offer a series of Student Success Seminars from 1 to 2 p.m. on Aug. 2627 in building 300, room 335A. These seminars are free of charge and open to the public. 627.4646. drowland@haywood.edu.

•The Jackson County Public Library will offer a free class on making a business/contact card using MS Word Templates at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Aug 27 in Sylva. This is the intermediate level of the class. This program is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library of the Jackson County Public Library. RSVP to sign up. 586.2016.

• Business After Hours will hold their meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21. RSVP to attend. 16 Old Cashiers Square, Cashiers. 743.5191.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Haywood County Fairgrounds annual fish fry, 4 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 22, Haywood County Fairgrounds. $10.

Children under eight years of age are free. Proceeds to help the Fairgrounds with operating funds. Mehaffey, 508.2972, or the Haywood County Cooperative Extension Office, 456.3575. Tickets can be purchased at the Haywood County Cooperative Extension Office.

• Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Yard Sale, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23 Western Carolina University Ramsey Activity Center. 586.2155.

• PAWS Wine Tasting and Silent Auction, 7 to 9 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 30, Harmony Hall at Lands Creek Cabins, Swain County. Tickets, $20. 488.0418 • “Caring For Kids Yoga Class,” Mondays, By Feel Well Yoga At Uuff, 89 Sierra Dr., Franklin. 100 Percent Of All First-Time Participant Donations And 10 Percent Of All Ongoing collections go to KIDS Place. Space limited.

941.894.2898.

• A Save the Trails ride and run through DuPont State Forest will be held at 9 a.m. Aug. 23 to raise money to maintain trails mountain bikers’ use. $50 online registration through Aug. 21, $60 day-of. Children 13 and under ride free. 1400 Stanton Rd., Cedar Mountain.

740.418.4676.

• The Highlands Playhouse will be holding their Bubbles and Big Band event at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29.

All you can eat low country boil dinner. Concert will follow, featuring the Asheville Jazz Orchestra. $85 per person. Proceeds benefit The Highlands Playhouse and Highlands-Cashiers Hospital. 526.2695.

• PAWS will be having their 11th Annual Wine Tasting and Silent Auction from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30 at Harmony Hall. 3336 Balltown Rd, Bryson City.

Purchase tickets at PAWS Thrift Store. 333.4267.

• The Haywood County Citizens Against Fracking will be hosting an event at the Haywood County Library from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 27 in Waynesville. The event will be in the auditorium room on the bottom floor of the public library. haywoodcountyfracking@gmail.com.

• The Smoky Mountain Pregnancy Care Center will be having a yard sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Aug. 22-23 at their Cullowhee Clinic. All proceeds will go to the SMPCC. 4699 Little Savannah Rd, Cullowhee. 293.3600.

• The Haywood Regional Medical Center Foundation will present its 23rd Annual Charitable Class Golf and Gala Aug. 26-27. Funds raised will go towards women mammogram screenings, drug safes, scholarships and hospital remodeling. 452.8317.

• The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce will hold its third annual yard sale at 8 a.m. to 1 p.m Saturday, Aug. 23, in the Ramsey Activity Center at Western Carolina University. Spaces are $35 each, or 2 for $60.

Set-up will be from 2 to 6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 23.

586.2155.

• The Designer Showhouse will be held Aug. 22-31 in Cashiers. The location of the home is in Timber Ridge. A shuttle will be provided. Proceeds from the event goes to support the Cashiers Historical Society. cherietibbetts@yahoo.com.

BLOOD DRIVES Haywood • American Red Cross Blood Drive, noon to 4:30 p.m.

Aug. 25, Masonic Lodge Waynesville, East Marshall St., Waynesville. 800.733.2767 or visit redcrossblood.org.

Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: n Complete listings of local music scene n Regional festivals n Art gallery events and openings n Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers n Civic and social club gatherings • Canton native, novelist, poet and Professor Fred Chappell will read from his newest book of poetry at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24, at Blue Ridge Books, 152 S Main St., Waynesville. Chappell was the North Carolina Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002.

• Janet Lilley, Linda McFarland and Dan Pittillo will be discussing their book, Seasons in a Wildflower Refuge, at Blue Ridge Books. 152 Main St., Waynesville.

778.5938.

• Mark Powell will present his new novel, The Sheltering, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at City Lights Bookstore, 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva. 586.9499.

• Timm Muth will sign copies of his debut novel, Disciple of the Flames, at 3 p.m. Saturday Aug. 30, at City Lights Bookstore, 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva. 586.9499

Jackson • American Red Cross Blood Drive, noon to 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 26, Health and Human Science Building, Western Carolina University, Highway 107, Cullowhee.

800.733.2767 or visit redcrossblood.org.

• American Red Cross Blood Drive, noon to 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 27, Health and Human Science Building, Western Carolina University, Highway 107, Cullowhee. 800.733.2767 or visit redcrossblood.org.

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• American Red Cross Blood Drive, noon to 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 27, Hinds University Center, Western Carolina University, Highway 107, Cullowhee.

800.733.2767 or visit redcrossblood.org.

• New Generation Jamboree, 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22; McKayla Reece, Productive Paranoia, Ginny McAfee, Junior Appalachian musicians, and more.www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• American Red Cross Blood Drive, noon to 5:30, Thursday, Aug. 28, University Center, Western Carolina University, Highway 107, Cullowhee. 800.733.2767 or visit redcrossblood.org.

• Mountain Dell Equestrian Group, 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, Haywood County Fair, Haywood County Fairgrounds, Waynesville. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

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• K-9 demonstration with Haywood County’s law enforcement agencies, 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, Haywood County Fair, Great Smokies Arena, Haywood County Fairgrounds. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• American Red Cross Blood Drive. 1 to 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 21, Victory Baptist Church, 2175 Fontana Road, Bryson City. 488.7888, 800.733.2767 or visit redcrossblood.org.

KIDS & FAMILIES • The Charles Kidz Program will meet at 5 p.m. on Aug. 21, 26 and 28 at the Charles Heath Art Gallery. 175 Everett St., Bryson City. 538.2054. www.charlesheath.com.

• Kidz on Main will be holding their Block Party at 6 to 10 p.m. Aug. 30. Art activities, live music and food will be available. Main Street, Waynesville. 456.3517. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

• The Macon County Public Library will be hosting a frog kissing party to celebrate children’s summer reading accomplishments at 6:30 p.m. Thursday Aug. 28, in Franklin. For each child that has read for 15 minutes a day, for at least 49 days during the summer, the children’s librarians will kiss a frog that many times. Bring your own frog. 149 Siler Farm Rd, Franklin. 524.3600.

Literary (adults) • Coffee with the Poet featuring J. Robin Whitley, 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva.

586.9499.

• Cake Walk, 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, Haywood County Fair, Haywood County Fairgrounds, Waynesville. $1 per walk. Any remaining cakes will be auctioned to the highest bidder. Proceeds to benefit Haywood County Fairgrounds. Gwilli Gericheck, 627.0919 or Julie Sawyer, 456.3575. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• Naturally Breathtaking Miss and Mister Haywood Beauty Pageant, 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, Haywood County Fair, Haywood County Fairgrounds.

704.798.3739 or 704.242.2601 or pageantbrats@bellsouth.net. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• Heritage Hoedown, 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, Haywood County Fair, Haywood Country Fairgrounds.

Whitewater Bluegrass Company, Soldier’s Heart, Hill Country Band, Ross Brothers, plus clogging group and more. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• Smoky Mountain Jubilee, 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24, Haywood County Fair, Haywood County Fairgrounds.

Eddie Rose & Highway 40, The Trantham Family Band and Lorraine Conard Band. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org or 456.3575.

• Village Square Art & Craft Show, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Aug. 23-24, Kelsey-Hutchinson Park, Fifth and Pine streets, Highlands. 787.2021.

• Gospel Singing, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, Apple Orchard Event Center (Building A), Haywood County Fair, Haywood County Fairgrounds. Featuring Old Friends, Faith Under Fire, and The Inmans. Free.

• Masters of Illusion, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort Event Center, Cherokee. 777 Casino Drive, Cherokee. www.ticketmaster.com.

• The hour-long radio show Stories of Mountain Folk airs at 9 a.m. every Saturday on its home station, WRGC Jackson County Radio, 540 AM on the dial, broadcasting out of Sylva. Stories of Mountain Folk is an ongoing all-sound oral history program produced

by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia (CSA), a western North Carolina not-for-profit, for local radio and online distribution.

• Literacy Council of Highlands presents Randall Atcheson in concert at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30 at the Highlands Playhouse. $50 for general admission.

526.2695.

• Suzuki Flute Students ages 4 to 14 from “The Music Village” will be performing in a recital at 6:30 pm on Friday, Aug. 22 in the Community Room at the Jackson County Public Library. Admission is free and children are welcome. 293.5600. www.themusicvillage.net.

• Haywood Arts Regional Theater will present Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple” at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 22, 23, 29 and 30 and at 7 p.m. on Aug. 24 and 31. $22 for adults, $18 for seniors, and $10 for students. 250 Pigeon St, Waynesville. 456.6322.

• Singer-songwriter Wyatt Espalin. folk act Rye Baby and acoustic duo The Moon & You will perform at Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City. Espalin plays Aug. 22, with Rye Baby Aug. 23 and The Moon & You Aug. 29. Both performances are at 8 p.m. Free. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• Guitarist James Hammel, guitarist Jay Brown and pianist Joe Cruz will perform at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. Hammel plays Aug. 22, with Cruz Aug. 23 and 30, and Brown Aug. 29. $10 minimum purchase. 452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• Amy Andrews and Liz & AJ Nance and The Freestylers will perform at City Lights Café in Sylva.

Andrews plays Aug. 22, with Liz & AJ Aug. 23 and The Freestylers Aug. 29. Free. www.citylightscafe.com.

Folk-rockers Hurricane Creek will perform at Groovin’ on the Green at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, at the Village Commons in Cashiers. Free. www.mountainlovers.com. • Friday Night Jazz! with The Kittle & Collings Duo will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 22 and 29 at Lulu’s on Main. www.mountainlovers.com.

• Singer/songwriter Michael Reno Harrell and bluegrass band The Frogtown Four will perform as part of Pickin’ on the Square at the gazebo in downtown Franklin. Harrell plays Aug. 23, with The Frogtown Four

• The Summer Live Music Series will continue with 414, Antique Firearms, Local and Ogya at the Nantahala Outdoor Center in the Nantahala Gorge.

414 plays Aug. 22, with Antique Firearms Aug. 23, Local Aug. 29 and Ogya Aug. 30. Live music, barbecue and craft beer. All performances are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Carolina Bluegrass Boys and reggae/rock group The Caribbean Cowboys will perform at the Bryson City Train Depot. Carolina Bluegrass Boys play Aug. 23, with The Caribbean Cowboys Aug. 30. Both shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Copious Jones and singer-songwriter Andrew Scotchie will perform as part of the Saturdays on Pine concert series at Kelsey-Hutchinson Park in Highlands.

Copious Jones plays Aug. 23, with Scotchie Aug 30. All shows begin at 6 p.m. Free.

• Macon Grass Band and Mountain High Dulcimer Group will perform as part of the Friday Night Live concert series at Town Square in Highlands. Macon Grass Band plays Aug. 22, with Mountain High Dulcimer Group Aug. 29. All shows begin at 6 p.m.

Free.

• Bluegrass/Americana group Mangus Colorado and The Remnants will perform at Concerts on the Creek at Bridge Park in Sylva. Mangus Colorado plays Aug. 22, with The Remnants Aug. 29. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Free. 586.2155.

• Gospel/old-time group Country Memories will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. www.fontanalib.org.

FOOD & DRINK • Buy Haywood will be hosting their “Uniquely Local Food Crawl” event on Aug. 21-24 and Aug. 28-31.

734.9574. www.buyhaywood.com.

• All-Adult First Class Moonshine Car during the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Moonshine Experience on the new Carolina Shine. Tickets, $98 for adults (21+), through September, and $104 for adults (21+) during October. 488.7024 or 800.872.4681 ext. 7024, www.gsmr.com.

• Gathering Table, 5 to 7 p.m. Thursdays, at The Community Center, Route 64, Cashiers. Provides fresh, nutritious dinners to all members of the community regardless of ability to pay. Volunteers always needed and donations gratefully accepted. 743.9880.

FILM & SCREEN • The Macon County Public Library will be showing “The Lost Bird Project” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 28. The independent documentary explores the story of five birds driven to extinction in modern times. 149 Siler Farm Rd, Franklin. 828.524.3600.

• The films “Bigfoot Wars” and “The Amazing Spiderman 2” will be screened at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. “Bigfoot Wars” will play Aug. 2224, with “The Amazing Spiderman 2” Aug. 29-31.

Screenings are at 7:45 p.m. on Fridays; 2, 5 and 7:45 p.m. on Saturdays; and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $6

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• The Music on the River series continues with the Eastern Blue Band, AM Superstars, Amazing Grace Ministries and The Boomers at the Oconaluftee River Stage in Cherokee. Eastern Blue Band plays Aug. 22, with AM Superstars Aug. 23, Amazing Grace Ministries Aug. 29-30 and The Boomers Aug. 31. All shows are at 8 p.m. Free.

• Bluegrass/Americana group The Henhouse Prowlers will perform at part of “An Appalachian Evening” concert series at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center in Robbinsville.

Cost is $15 for adults, $10 for students. Dinner services begin at 6 p.m. in the Schoolhouse Café. Next up in the series will be Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys on Aug. 30. 479.3364 or www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

August 20-26, 2014

• PMA, Owner of the Sun, Johnny Hayes & The Love Seats and Porch 40 will perform at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. PMA will play Aug. 22, with Owner of the Sun Aug. 23, Hayes Aug. 28-29 and Porch 40 Aug. 30.

All shows begin at 9 p.m. Free. 586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

• Craig Summers & Lee Kram, Keli Nathan and Molly Fish & Ian Grady will perform at Frog Level Brewing Company in Waynesville. Summers & Kram play Aug. 21 and 28, with Nathan Aug. 23 and Fish & Grady Aug. 29. All shows begin at 6 p.m. Free. 454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

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ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Haywood Community Band free concert, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 24, at the lakefront next to Lake Junaluska Assembly’s Stuart Auditorium. Rhonda Wilson Kram, 456.4880, www.haywoodcommunityband.org.

Aug. 30. All shows begin at 6:30 p.m. Free. 524.2516 or www.franklin-chamber.com.

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per person, $4 for children. Saturday morning cartoons will also be shown at 10 a.m. The “Bigfoot Wars” gala premier event will be at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23. Cost for the gala is $25, which includes hor d’oeuvres. 828.283.0079 or www.38main.com • “Cataloochee,” 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, St. David’s Episcopal Church, Cullowhee.

PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS

Outdoors OUTINGS, HIKES & FIELDTRIPS • Biodiversity hike to Mount Le Conte, Aug. 23-24.

Meals, programming, guided hike, $275 per person.

Presented by Discover Life in America, coordinator of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) for Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Reservations at Todd at todd@dlia.org or 865.430.4757.

• Franklin Bird Club bird Walk, 8 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27, along the Greenway. Meet at Salali Lane.

524.5234.

• Haywood Waterways Association is offering a paddle tour of Lake Logan to the public on Saturday, Aug. 23.

The event is part of Haywood Waterways “Get to Know Your Watershed” series of outdoor hikes, lectures, and paddle tours. The group will meet at the Lake Logan boathouse at 9:45 a.m. RSVP by Friday, Aug. 22.

476.4667.

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• The Highlands Biological Station and the HighlandsCashiers Land Trust will be exploring salamanders with herpetologist Kyle Pursel from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 29. Bring a bag lunch and water. $15 for members and $20 for non-members. 526.2221.

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• The Nantahala Hiking Club will be meeting for their 5-mile Work Hike at 9 a.m. on Aug. 30. Bring lunch, water and snacks for the day. Wear long pants, boots and gloves. Prepare for rain. Tools and supervision will be provided. Newcomers and families welcome.

176 Carl Slagle Rd, Franklin. RSVP at 369.1983.

• Tuckasegee Nature Series “The Mountains-to-Sea Trail—1,000 Miles Across NC, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, Jackson County Public Library’s Community Room, 310 Keener St. Sylva. 524.2711 or www.ltlt.org.

• Tuckasegee Nature Series “Conserving the Natural and Cultural Histories of the Southern Blue Ridge, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, Jackson County Public Library’s Community Room, 310 Keener St. Sylva.

524.2711 or www.ltlt.org.

• Village Nature Series: Wolf Tales, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, The Village Green Commons, Frank Allen Road, Cashiers.

WATER SPORTS • Paddle tour of Lake Logan, 9:45 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, Lake Logan. Sponsored by Haywood Waterways Association, Lake Logan Episcopal Conference Center, and Waynesville Recreation Center. Part of Haywood Waterways “Get to Know Your Watershed.” Limited space. Register by Friday, Aug. 22 to Christine O’Brien at christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 476.4667.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Main Street Mile, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, downtown Waynesville. Post-race party featuring music of Fireball Coma, kids’ activities, food and local craft beer.

Proceeds to Shriners Hospitals for Children. Details and registration, www.communityfitnessevents.com.

• A weekly bike ride in Franklin meets Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. at Macon Middle School on Wells Grove Road.

Ladies and beginners’ ride. 369.2881 or www.maconcountycycling.blogspot.com.

• Twilight Rock n Roll 5K, 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, Kelsey Hutchison Park, Highlands. Registration and check-in on race day starts at 4PM. Cost is $30; $35 race day. Proceeds to benefit Highlands School running track. Michael Johnson, 526.4114 or Derek Taylor, 526.3571. www.twilightrocknroll5k.com.

• A weekly bike ride in Franklin meets Saturdays at 8 a.m., departing from South Macon Elementary School.

369.2881, www.maconcountycycling.blogspot.com.

• Haywood Regional Medical Center Foundation’s 23rd annual Charitable Classic Golf & Gala, at area golf courses Aug. 26-27. Details, HRMC Foundation Assistant Marge Stiles, 452.8343, mstiles@haymed.org or Executive Director of Foundations Steve Brown, 452.8317, steve.brown@haymed.org.

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• Registration for the 2014 Men’s Wooden Bat League will be available until Aug. 29. Entry fee is $375 with a $100 non-refundable deposit. Games will be played Tuesday Nights at Mark Watson Park beginning Sept.

16. 293.3053.

• Monthly “Girlz Ride” at Tsali, last Friday of every month. Sponsored by Nantahala Area SORBA. Meet at 6:30 p.m. in Tsali parking lot. All skill levels welcome.

Social and snacks provided after the ride. 506.115, www.facebook.com/nantahalaareasorba.

HIKING CLUBS • High Country Hikers, based out of Hendersonville but hiking throughout Western North Carolina, plans hikes every Monday and Thursday. Schedules, meeting places and more information are available on their website, www.highcountryhikers.org.

• Carolina Mountain Club hosts more than 150 hikes a year, including options for full days on weekends, full days on Wednesdays and half days on Sundays.

Non-members contact event leaders. www.carolinamountainclub.org

• Smoky Mountain Hiking Club, located in East Tennessee, makes weekly hikes in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park as well as surrounding areas. www.smhclub.org.

• Benton MacKaye Trail Association incorporates outings for hikes, trail maintenance and other work trips.

No experience is necessary to participate. www.bmta.org.

• Diamond Brand’s Women’s Hiking Group meets on the third Saturday of every month. For more information, e-mail awilliams@diamondbrand.com or call 684.6262.

BIKE RIDES

J. Chad Muri, CRPC

• A weekly bike ride in Waynesville meets Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. at Rolls Rite Bicycles on the Old Asheville Highway. Beginner to intermediate rides led by Bicycle Haywood advocacy group. Eight- to 12-mile rides.

276.6080 or gr8smokieszeke@gmail.com.

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• A weekly bike ride meets in Bryson City on Wednesdays around 6 p.m. Depart from the East Swain Elementary school in Whittier on U.S.19 off exit 69 from U.S. 23-74. All levels. 800.232.7238.

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• A weekly bike ride in Sylva meets Tuesday at 6 p.m., departing from Motion Makers bike shop for a tough 25-mile ride up to the Balsam Post office via back roads and back into Sylva. 586.6925.

52 Walnut St., Suite #6 Waynesville, NC 28786 Next to Haywood County Chamber of Commerce

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MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDES • Weekly mountain bike ride at Tsali, 6 p.m. for all levels of riders. Refreshments following. 506.0133.

• Weekly mountain bike ride at Tsali, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesdays. Hosted by Nantahala Area SORBA. Social ride, so all skill levels are welcome and encouraged to come. Meet in the Tsali parking lot. www.facebook.com/nantahalaareasorba. 488.1988.

• Mountain High Hikers, based in Young Harris, Ga., leads several hikes per week. Guests should contact hike leader. www.mountainhighhikers.org.

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• A weekly bike ride in Franklin meets Sundays at 9:30 a.m., departing from the Franklin Health and Fitness Center. 369.2881, www.maconcountycycling.blogspot.com.

• Registration for Haywood County Recreation and Park’s Open Adult Fall Soccer League is open until Aug. 22. Registration fee is $130 per team.

452.6789. www.haywoodnc.net.

• Nantahala Hiking Club based in Macon County holds weekly Saturday hikes in the Nantahala National Forest and beyond. www.nantahalahikingclub.org

828.456.7407

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• Maggie Valley Moonlight Run, 7:30 p.m. new Sunset Fun Run, 8:30 p.m. traditional 8K, Saturday, Aug. 23, Maggie Valley. www.gloryhoundevents.com/maggievalley-moonlight-run.

• A weekly bike ride in Franklin meets Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., departing from Smoky Mountain Bicycles at 179 Highlands Road. Geared for all levels. 369.2881 or www.maconcountycycling.blogspot.com.

FARM & GARDEN • Expanded Viewing Zoo at the Haywood County Fair will be open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. during the fair through Aug. 24, alongside the Fairgrounds Livestock Barn. The zoo will include farm animals and livestock as well as a variety of non-farm animals and poultry or other fowl. To exhibit, 456.3575, 734.9673 or 497.3401. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• Haywood County Fair Horse Show, 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, Haywood County Fairgrounds. Registration at 6:30 p.m. $10 to register, winner takes the pot. Janet Leatherwood, 646.9432 or visit www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• Food Preservation 101, 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27, Jackson County Extension Office. Free, but seating is limited. Register, 586.4009.

• Mountain Heritage Day’s “A Gathering In” traditional foods competition, Saturday, Sept. 27, Western Carolina University campus. Also a “Best in the West Sweet Potato Recipe Contest” adult and youth winners. www.mountainheritageday.com/Contests, or contact Peter Koch at pkoch@email.wcu.edu or 227.7129.

ONGOING CLUBS • 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 Riders, a new cycling club in Cherokee, seeks members for weekly group rides. Hugh Lambert 554.6810 or hughlamb@nc-cherokee.com.

• 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.

• Small RV Camping club is seeking additional members. We camp one weekend per month March through November. All ages are welcome. No dues, no structured activities. Just an enjoyment of the outdoors, fellowship, good conversation, pot luck dinners and a roaring campfire. Contact Lillian for more details lilnau@aol.com or 369.6669.

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SHADY GROVE UMC PRESENTS Christmas in August - Craft Fair & Bake Sale. Aug. 23. Handcrafted gifts, Christmas ornaments, carved bears, lots homemade goodies, pickles, jams & jellies; jewelry, etc. Light lunch 11 - 1pm 3570 Jonathan Valley Rd. (Hwy 276), Waynesville, NC.

The Smoky Mountain News Marketplace has a distribution of 16,000 every week to over 500 locations across in Haywood, Jackson, Macon, and Swain counties along with the Qualla Boundary and west Buncombe County. For a link to our MarketPlace Web site, which also contains a link to all of our MarketPlace display advertisers’ Web sites, visit www.smokymountainnews.com.

DAYCO PICNIC For all former employees and spouses. Time: 11:00 a.m. til 3:00 p.m., Sat. August 23. Located at Allen’s Creek Park. Drinks will be furnished. Bring covered dish or come by and fellowship and see how we’ve matured. See you there!

Rates: n Free — Residential yard sale ads, lost or found pet ads. n Free — Non-business items that sell for less than $150. n $12 — Classified ads that are 50 words or less; each additional line is $2. n $12 — If your ad is 10 words or less, it will be displayed with a larger type. n $3 — Border around ad and $5 — Picture with ad. n $50 — Non-business items, 25 words or less. 3 month or till sold. n $300 — Statewide classifieds run in 117 participating newspapers with 1.6 million circulation. Up to 25 words. n All classified ads must be pre-paid.

ARTS & CRAFTS ALLISON CREEK Iron Works & Woodworking. Crafting custom metal & woodwork in rustic, country & lodge designs with reclaimed woods! Design & consultation, Barry Downs 828.524.5763, Franklin NC

Classified Advertising: Scott Collier, phone 828.452.4251; fax 828.452.3585 | classads@smokymountainnews.com

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HARPER’S AUCTION COMPANY Friday Aug. 22nd @ 6:00 p.m.

More Great Deals: Beautiful Dining Set w/ Bench Seating Handcrafted Locally. (Proceeds will go to Macon TRACS) Outdoor Canopy, Large Office Desk Unit, Bud Lite Pool Table Light, Neon Light, Tools, Fabric, Vtg. Dress Form, Kitchen Appliances, Toby Mugs, Old Trunks, Glass and Lots More.

47 Macon Center Dr. Franklin, NC 828.369.6999.

Remember, If you can not attend we offer online bidding at: harpersauctioncompany.com Debra Harper, NCAL #9659, NCFL #9671.

REAL ESTATE AUCTION Yadkin County, NC-Hwy 67 Jonesville-Boonville, 59+/- Acres Divided, 3-Bedroom Country Home with Barn, workshop & outbuildings. Excellent Hunting Land, Saturday, August 23rd, 10:00AM. www.HallAuctionCo.com.

336.835.7653.

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AUCTION ABSOLUTE AUCTION 300 acre Alamance County (Gibsonville), NC Farm - August 29th at 5:30 pm. This is a beautiful working farm! There is a perfect combination of hay fields, crop land, grazing land and wooded forest. 2 homes, large barn, ponds, springs and creeks, offered in 12 tracts. Perfect for mini farms, estate properties or purchase it all!

Easy commute to Greensboro, Burlington, Winston Salem, PTI Airport and minutes from Elon University.

Property address 5205 NC Highway 87 North, Gibsonville, NC 24249.

Auction will be held at Altamahaw Ossipee Fire Department. View land anytime at your leisure auctioneers will be on-site Sunday, August 10; Saturday, August 16; and Sunday, August 24 from 1-5 pm. The houses and barns will be open and you can ask questions about the land and auction process. See woltz.com for more information with pictures, surveys, etc.

Call Woltz & Associates, Inc. (NCAL#7560), Real Estate Brokers & Auctioneers, 800.551.3588.

REAL ESTATE AUCTION Yadkin County, NC-Hwy 67 Jonesville-Boonville, 59+/- Acres Divided, 3-Bedroom Country Home with Barn, workshop & outbuildings. Excellent Hunting Land, Saturday, August 23rd, 10:00AM. www.HallAuctionCo.com.

336.835.7653. NCAL#4703 REAL ESTATE AUCTION 28.93+/-ACRES Zoned M-1. Sat. Sept. 6, Noon. 907 Eden Terrace.

Archdale, NC 27263.

ParcelID#7708581997 (Randolph Co.) www.HughesAuction.com RICHIE HUGHES AUCTION. 336.874.7472 NCAL6206/NCREL202693 TAX SEIZURE AUCTION Saturday, August 30 @ 10am. 201 S. Central Ave. Locust, NC. (East of Charlotte) Heavy Equipment, Vehicles, Lawn Equipment, Cat 943, Komtsu Backhoe, Kubota Tractor & Mower, Mercedes & more.

704.791.8825 ncaf5479/5508. www.ClassicAuctions.com

CEMETERY PLOTS 1 MAUSOLEUM CRYPT Inside Chapel on Floor Level.

Located at Garrett Hillcrest. $2,700/OBO, some financing available. Call for more info 828.452.2729.

PAINTING JAMISON CUSTOM PAINTING & PRESSURE WASHING Interior, exterior, all your pressure washing needs and more.

Specialize in Removal of Carpenter Bees - Cedar or Log Homes or Painted or Siding!

Call or Text Now for a Free Estimate at 828.508.9727 PROFESSIONAL PAINTING

BY FREDRICK Interior Painting, Over 40 yrs.

Exp. Specializing in Painting of Kitchen & Furniture. Located in Haywood County. For more info & Free Estimates - 561.420.9334 Where Pride & Workmanship Still Exists!

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

CONSTRUCTION/ REMODELING ALL THINGS BASEMENTY! Basement Systems Inc. Call us for all of your basement needs! Waterproofing, Finishing, Structural Repairs, Humidity and Mold Control.

FREE ESTIMATES! Call 1.800.698.9217 DAVE’S CUSTOM HOMES OF WNC, INC Free Estimates & Competitive rates. References avail. upon request. Specializing in: Log Homes, remodeling, decks, new construction, repairs & additions.

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CAMPERS 25’ TRAVEL TRAILER - EXCELLENT With new awning and carpet, central heating and cooling. Queen bedroom. Everything in top condition. Sleeps 6. $9,400, Call 813.753.9626.

CARS DONATE YOUR CAR, Truck or Boat to Heritage for the Blind. Free 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care Of. 800.337.9038.

TOP CASH FOR CARS, Call Now For An Instant Offer. Top Dollar Paid, Any Car/Truck, Any Condition. Running or Not. Free Pick-up/Tow. 1.800.761.9396 SAPA

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12k Miles & Mechanic Owned! Like to Trade for a small pickup or boat.

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FTCC Fayetteville Technical Community College is accepting applications for the following position: Maintenance Technician I. For detailed information and to apply, please visit our employment portal at: https://faytechcc.peopleadmin.com 910.678.8378.

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CAN YOU DIG IT? Heavy Equipment Operator Training! 3Wk Hands On Program. Bulldozers, Backhoes, Excavators. Lifetime Job Placement Assistance w/National Certifications. VA Benefits Eligible! 1.866.362.6497

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

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HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS HOSPITAL Positions now available: Emergency Room Registered Nurses, Clinical Coordinator, Certified Nursing Assistant, Receptionist, Dietary Aide and Maintemance Mechanic.

Benefits available the first of the month following 60 days of full-time employment. PreEmployment screening required.

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Email Resume & Contact Info to: HBoutiqueHR@gmail.com

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REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCEMENT REAL ESTATE AUCTION 28.93+/-ACRES Zoned M-1. Sat. Sept. 6, Noon. 907 Eden Terrace.

Archdale, NC 27263.

ParcelID#7708581997 (Randolph Co.) www.HughesAuction.com RICHIE HUGHES AUCTION. 336.874.7472 NCAL6206/NCREL202693

REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCEMENT LEASE TO OWN 1/2 Acre Lots with Mobile Homes & Empty 1/2 Acre + Lots!

Located Next to Cherokee Indian Reservation, 2.5 Miles from Harrah’s Cherokee Casino.

For More Information Please Call 828.506.0578

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCEMENT REAL ESTATE AUCTION Yadkin County, NC-Hwy 67 Jonesville-Boonville, 59+/- Acres Divided, 3-Bedroom Country Home with Barn, workshop & outbuildings. Excellent Hunting Land, Saturday, August 23rd, 10:00AM. www.HallAuctionCo.com.

336.835.7653. NCAL#4703

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The naturalist’s corner

BY DON H ENDERSHOT

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Laura Constance Scholarship recipients with Rick constance. Ashley Thompson (left) and Erin Campbell. $1,000 scholarships, named for his daughter Laura. The scholarships are for girls who participate in the LJGJGA and play collegiate golf. Constance thanked LJGJGA volunteers and supporters like Ray Spires and Bill and Mary Easton who help support the program and the scholarships.

The program is one of a kind — outstanding in its simplicity and clarity of mission — introducing girls aged 5-17 to the game of golf. There is a $25 dollar one-time membership fee that is good until the member graduates from high school. The program even assists in providing clubs if they are needed, and the only other cost is a $5 cart fee on play days. “We don’t want cost to be a factor,” said Constance.

The LJGJGA begins each spring with a series of clinics, where the girls get instruction on swing, putting and golf etiquette. It

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then progresses to weekly play days, where the girls go out and play “captain’s choice” for about an hour and a half, getting in as many holes as possible.

There’s never any pressure on the girls to perform — they are out there to enjoy the game. “I remind everybody that golf is what you want it to be,” Constance said.

Sure, there will be the Thompsons and the Campbells out there, the few that go on to play competitively at some level, and they benefit greatly from the program. There will also be those out there who may become weekend warriors or occasional players who see golf as good times with friends, and those girls get the same instruction and the same encouragement from someone who truly believes that golf is what you want it to be.

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist. He can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.)

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he Lake Junaluska Girls Junior Golf Association enjoyed a special play day and celebration Saturday, Aug. 9.

LJGJGA members and their parents enjoyed a fun family nine-hole play day followed by a cookout at the Lake Junaluska Pro Shop/Clubhouse to honor recipients of the Laura Constance Golf Scholarship.

The LJGJGA with its play days and clinics and the Laura Constance scholarship are testimony to the sweat, tears, laughter, hard work and encouragement of Rick Constance.

Constance’s official title at Lake Junaluska is General Manager/Golf Professional/Superintendent and Hot Dog Griller. It’s easy to see that Constance will do whatever it takes to ensure “his” girls enjoy their time on the links.

The junior program began in 2010 with a handful of girls and has seen more than 150 register for the program. While many present and past LJGJGA members credit the program for inspiring them to learn and play the game of golf, Constance said it was one of the girls who inspired him to create the program.

Constance is no stranger to junior golf.

His daughter Laura and son Christian both played golf for Tuscola High. He said he remembered watching Ashley Thompson coming out of middle school. “I was afraid she was going to put her clubs up,” he said.

Constance said he went to Thompson’s parents and asked them if Ashley liked golf and might enjoy the opportunity to play more.

“They told me, she loves golf,” said

Constance, and that spring, May 2010, the LJGJGA was born and a small group of girls began clinics and play days at Lake Junaluska. Thompson holds LJGJGA membership card No. 1.

That inaugural LJGJGA group included four girls from Pisgah High School: Thompson, a sophomore, and three seniors.

Constance had so much confidence in the girls’ games that they all “walked-on” at Pisgah High School. That school year (20102011) Constance and his LJGJGA girls began a brand new tradition at Pisgah High – Girls Golf. I think Constance had to reprint his business cards at that time to: General Manager/Golf Professional/Superintendent/Hot Dog Griller/High School Coach.

Thompson had a stellar career at Pisgah, where she set all county records for high school girls was named All-Western North Carolina Athletic Conference; won the 1A/2-A Western Regional and fifth in the state tournament.

Thompson continued to “walk,” walking on at Western Carolina University as a freshman last year and, continuing her exemplary play to earn a scholarship this year. She was also one of this year’s Laura Constance scholarship awards. The other recipient was Erin Campbell of Franklin High School. Campbell qualified three times for the 2-A North Carolina State Championship and she has been awarded a golf scholarship at North Greenville University in Tigerville, South Carolina.

Constance teared up a little when he awarded Campbell and Thompson their

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