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CONTENTS On the Cover: Released last week, a new movie chronicling the adventures of a pair of older men attempting to hike the Appalachian Trail has the tourism and conservation circles talking. ‘A Walk in the Woods,’ based on Bill Bryson’s book of the same name, is expected to cause an uptick in thru-hiker numbers for 2016, and groups are working to respond with everything from Leave No Trace education to improved trail infrastructure to marketing.

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News Waynesville candidates share vision at chamber event ..................................4 Regional recovery rally aims to offer hope .......................................................... 5 WCU moving up on the dial ..................................................................................6 Landslide win puts Lambert as new Cherokee chief ........................................8 Ghost Town asks for cell tower permit ................................................................ 9 Swain County to create more secure trash site ..............................................11 Support meetings begin for LGBTQ youth in Franklin ..................................12 Clock running out on Lake Junaluska merger bill ............................................18 Jackson signs jail health contract ........................................................................20

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Waynesville candidates share vision of an even more prosperous town

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER aynesville candidates running for the town board and mayor got an audience with the business community last week at the monthly Issues and Eggs breakfast hosted by the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce.

Candidates universally touted a desire to make Waynesville more business-friendly.

“It is my intention to increase economic development and make our town strong and our tourism and industry even better,” said Alderman Gary Caldwell, who’s running for re-election.

Pro-business talking points weren’t trotted out as mere lip service for the chamber crowd. Economic development was widely mentioned in the platforms of several candidates during earlier interviews when asked about their goals and reasons for running.

“I think the absolute top of the list of my priorities is economic development,” said challenger Jon Feichter, a small business owner.

Feichter said there’s an “unfounded perception” that Waynesville is a difficult place to do business in.

“Nevertheless the perception is out there, so what do we do to help reverse that perception?” said Feichter, a member of the town planning board. Feichter offered a concrete suggestion of helping new businesses comply with town sidewalk requirements by providing labor if the businesses paid for the materials.

Candidates were limited to only three minutes of floor time, making it difficult to convey much substance. But there were a few distinctions in the candidates’ views on improving commerce.

Phillip Gibbs, a challenger for a town board seat, emphasized the importance of creating jobs so young people can stay here rather than “have to pick up and leave.”

“A community without young people is a dying community. Growing is better than dying. If we don’t grow, we will be dying,”

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Gavin Brown.

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Jonnie Cure, a candidate for mayor, said several of her children have made their way in Waynesville by going into business for themselves.

“Talk about opportunities in Waynesville,

they are abundant,” Cure said.

But in a follow-up interview, she said they didn’t always have an easy row to hoe and had to overcome hurdles due to town policies.

“There are horror stories out there that are unforgiveable,” said Cure, who takes issue with burdensome regulations that make things more difficult for businesses.

Waynesville Mayor Gavin Brown, who has been active on various economic development boards over the past three decades, said it was “intriguing” that candidates focused on the economy at the chamber gathering.

“The town of Waynesville has an important role to play in the economic development of the community,” said Brown, citing that as one of many differences between himself and Cure. “My esteemed opponent doesn’t believe that government has any business in business. I believe government and business need to be in partnership together.”

Cure suggested that Brown survey the business owners of Waynesville and see how many are interested in “partnering” with government.

“I would bet him lunch at The Patio they will say ‘Hell no, Gavin Brown,’” Cure replied.

A couple of candidates mentioned quality of life as paramount to creating a robust economy.

“I really want to make Waynesville the best place to live, work and play,” said candidate Anthony Sutton. Sutton mentioned expanding natural gas availability and highspeed Internet as ways to improve quality of life, along with continued recreation initiatives to “broaden Waynesville’s appeal as a destination for outdoor activities.”

“Together we can make Waynesville a town of progress and vision,” Sutton said, citing “smart and sustainable growth.”

Alderwoman Julia Freeman said town board policies do impact businesses, but also pointed to the bigger picture of creating a vibrant community that in turn supports and underpins a healthy economy.

“That is why we must review current policies to ensure that they promote sustainable

Who’s up?

Ten candidates are running for five seats on the Waynesville town board this November: seven candidates for aldermen and three for mayor.

All the current officeholders are running for re-election except one, Alderman Wells Greeley.

In an interesting twist, one candidate who initially signed up to run as a challenger for mayor is telling people not to vote for him. While Lynn Bradley’s name will appear on the ballot, he changed his mind and isn’t really running, but it was too late to get his name struck. He is asking voters to throw their support the other challenger on the ballot — Jonnie Cure — instead of him.

Running for mayor are current Mayor Gavin Brown and challenger Jonnie Cure (although Bradley will be on the ballot, too.) Running for town board are current Aldermen Gary Caldwell, Leroy Roberson and Julia Freeman, and challengers John Feichter, Phillip Gibbs, Kenny Mull and Anthony Sutton.

growth, improve the quality of life of our citizens and employees, and protect town assets such as the watershed,” said Freeman in a follow-up interview.

Alderman Leroy Roberson, a long-time small business owner in town, cited the importance of sustaining locally owned businesses — a common refrain during his tenure on the board.

“As alderman I have made my priorities supporting small local business development that provide jobs and income to Waynesville,” Roberson wrote in prepared comments delivered by his wife, Gail.

There was another universal theme in the candidates’ speeches. All claimed there was nowhere better than Waynesville.

“I love our town and to me Waynesville is still one of the greatest places in the world to live. That’s the reason people want to come here. I want to do my part to keep it that way,” said Kenny Mull, a challenger for alderman.

(The Smoky Mountain News will provide more in-depth coverage of the candidates and issues as the campaign season heats up.)

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“I’m a big prevention advocate myself, but every time I go give a speech to a group of students at a school and talk about prevention, I also carry the recovery message.”

— Richie Tannerhill

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• What: The Western Regional Recovery Rally will promote and support recovery from alcohol, drugs, mental health and other life challenges in a fun, familyfriendly atmosphere. The day will include a recovery walk around Lake Junaluska, recovery champion and ally of the year awards, guest speakers, free food, children’s activities, resource information, a job fair and free giveaways.

• When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19 • Where: Lake Junaluska open air gym • Contact: Richie Tannerhill, richie.tannerhill@smokymountaincenter.com or 800.893.6246, ext. 1157 • Cost: Free.

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loon artists, we have face painting. That helps us to combat the stigma.”

Which is: people recovering from addiction are dangerous, scary, not to be trusted.

The truth, Tannerhill said, is that 23 million Americans are in successful recovery from drug abuse, and 50 million are in successful recovery from mental health issues.

So recovery is possible, and it needs to be.

“I’m a big prevention advocate myself, but every time I go give a speech to a group of students at a school and talk about prevention, I also carry the recovery message,” Tannerhill said, “because statistics tell us there’s somebody in that room who has already crossed the line.”

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER t takes a village to combat a drug addiction or mental illness, and Richie Tannerhill is hoping to see a multitude of villages turn out when the inaugural Western Regional Rally for Recovery comes to Lake Junaluska Sept. 19.

“People who do well in recovery don’t do it on their own,” he said. “We need recovery allies.”

If anyone would know, it would be Tannerhill. Now a peer and family support specialist for The Smoky Mountain Center, he was once on the other side of addiction, in and out of jail with little hope of overcoming.

“I would get released back into the community with no money, no supports, nowhere to go, and it was hard to make it,” he said. “By the grace of God I’ve been able to make it this time.”

He’s been in recovery for nine years, with support from the community a big part of that accomplishment.

The goal of the recovery rally is let others know that support exists for them, too — and not just in Haywood County. The rally’s long list of partners ranges from the Haywood County Sheriff ’s Office to the Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority to the Jackson County Health Department. The bigger the crowd, the stronger the message that support exists for people dealing with addiction and, on the flip side, that people dealing with these issues aren’t necessarily bad people.

“There’s a lot of people that are in our community that are recovering from different forms of substance abuse, and a lot of people become addicted — especially on prescription drugs — when they don’t mean to be,” said Waynesville Police Chief Bill Hollingsed, a longtime advocate for drug abuse prevention and recovery.

“They’ve started taking prescription drugs for legitimate reasons and become addicted to them.”

Often, Hollingsed said, he’s working on the front end of drug issues — preaching a message of prevention but carrying out his responsibility to lock up people who use drugs illegally. The recovery rally is a chance to show that law enforcement supports people who have already developed a problem.

“A major part of our job is to lock up people that are abusing the system, that are out there doctor shopping, and that is part of our job,” Hollingsed said. “But we think it’s also important to give people the help they need to stay away from the danger of drugs.”

Spend a few minutes speaking with Hollingsed and it’s clear that’s something he truly believes — enough so that in the awards portion of the event, he’ll be receiving the Recovery Ally of the Year award.

A job fair featuring employers who have

committed to give people in recovery a chance will show that’s an attitude that extends beyond the police department, and a recovery walk around Lake Junaluska will be another demonstration of support. The goal is to get 1,000 people to show up.

The reel of success stories will be another important feature, said Tannerhill. People in recovery will share five-minute versions of their stories, with the goal of extending hope to anyone listening.

But there will also be a lighthearted side to the event.

“It’s family-friendly,” Tannerhill said.

“We have a lot of children’s activities. We have multiple bouncy houses. We have bal-

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WCU moving up on the dial Winners and losers in the shifting world of radio frequencies

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER protracted tug-of-war over the 95.3 FM radio frequency is finally over, setting the stage for Western Carolina University’s campus-run radio station to expand its reach well beyond Jackson County’s borders.

The frequency 95.3 FM is currently home to WCQS, the primary National Public Radio station serving the mountain region. WCQS broadcasts on nearly a dozen frequencies in its daunting mission to stitch together a footprint across mountainous terrain, a hostile environment for radio signals. In Waynesville, the go-to frequency for WCQS is 95.3, along with parts of Jackson County.

But that frequency has been relicensed to WCU and WCQS will be booted off, impacting thousands of listeners in Waynesville who count on 95.3 FM for National Public Radio — whether it’s the in-depth daily news of All Things Considered or witty weekend shows like Car Talk.

WCQS Program Director Barbara Sayer is quick to point out that WCU isn’t the bad guy kicking WCQS off a spot on the dial it historically occupied.

“They weren’t going after us. This is the just the story of the broadcasting landscape,” Sayer said. “We would have lost that frequency no matter what.”

A reshuffling of radio frequency licenses by the Federal Communications Commission meant WCQS would no longer be eligible to

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Don Connley, head of the WCU communications department, in the broadcasting studio of WWCU, known as Power 90.5. broadcast on 95.3 FM regardless. Once the frequency went up for grabs, WCU merely put its name in the hat.

Sayer also assured loyal listeners in Waynesville that they wouldn’t be left high and dry with no NPR, although the specific fix for the conundrum is still in flux. But it’s nothing new: frequency dilemmas are a fact of life for the station.

“We have been tasked with moving frequencies and being vagabonds quite a few times, but if there is a station that is prepared to be agile and innovative, it’s WCQS,” Sayer said. “I have faith we can do that with all of our coverage to the west.”

While losing 95.3 FM is bad news for WCQS, it’s good news for WWCU, the university-run radio station. WWCU currently

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER The mountains are a challenging environment for radio — the ridges and rims, crests and coves, knolls and knobs all stymy the typical range of a signal.

“FM radio is line of sight. If you put a mountain in front of it, it stops the signal,” said Don Connley, head of Western Carolina University Communications Department.

Scoring a new radio frequency for the campus-run station WWCU was only half the battle. The other half was figuring out where to transmit that frequency from to maximize its reach.

Pulling up a map of the region, Connley traced the perimeter of the new signal’s range from Franklin to Waynesville, rife with crooked zigzags.

“Those are called mountains,” Connley said.

In the flat lands, the signal’s reach would be a perfect circle, spreading out like ripples on a pond.

“If we were in Kansas we would put up a tower and the signal would go — it would just go,” Connley said.

But here, the signal’s footprint looks more like a jigsaw puzzle piece every time a mountain gets in the way. And even within that outline, there’s places the signal won’t penetrate.

“We will forever have people who say my neighbor in the next valley gets you and I don’t. A signal is not like a heat seek6 ing missile seeking a receiver,” explained WCQS Station

broadcasts on 90.5 FM, with limited reach outside Jackson County. When it moves to 95.3 FM, the station will reach most of Macon County and a lot more of Haywood.

“The footprint of the radio station over 95.3 will allow the university to serve nearly 70 percent more people in the region than it is currently serving,” said Don Connley, head of WCU’s Communications Department.

Various entities vied for the 95.3 frequency, but the winner — WCU — is the most favorable for WCQS. “They will work with us and try to ameliorate how we might be able to maintain our signal in that region,” Sayer said.

Sayer met with Connley and the WCU Chancellor David Belcher two weeks ago to talk about the options.

Manager Barbara Sayer, who battles the same issue as Connley.

WCU plans to build a new transmission tower on a 360acre tract owned by the university on Brown Mountain, about 5 miles south of Cullowhee in Tuckasegee. The tract was gifted to WCU in the 1950s and isn’t used for much other than the field excursions of natural resource students.

Brown Mountain sits at 4,000 feet, and the tower would be 118 feet tall. It’s unclear whether the tower would jive with Jackson County’s tower ordinance.

Historically, WWCU transmitted from a tower on the university campus in Cullowhee.

But in a quest to expand its reach 10 years ago, WCU moved its tower to Balsam Gap near the Jackson-Haywood county line. The frequency bleeds into parts of Haywood but becomes spotty by the time it reaches the center of Waynesville before dropping off completely.

That’s by design. The frequency 90.5 FM is used by another radio station in Mars Hill, and another in Chattanooga.

They can’t overlap or encroach on each other, so its reach is intentionally reined in.

To the average radio listener in the mountains, the dial seems anything but crowded, with plenty of wide open air waves playing nothing but static.

But on paper, the dial looks far more congested than it sounds. The Federal Communications Commission calculates a safe distance between stations based on rules that don’t always apply in the mountains.

On paper, a station in Waynesville can’t share the same

For its part, WCU doesn’t want to leave WCQS listeners in Waynesville in the lurch without an NPR station.

“WCQS would lose the large coverage area they currently have on 95.3, and that would be detrimental to public radio and NPR and that type of programming,” Connley said.

WCU does not plan to carry nationally syndicated NPR programming on its own station, but has offered up its old frequency of 90.5 FM for WCQS to occupy.

Simply switching places may not be a perfect fix, however. The hole left in WCQS’ coverage by losing 95.3 FM could be a bigger hole than 90.5 would fill — 90.5 would fill in missing gaps in Jackson, but not so much in Haywood.

WCQS currently broadcasts over 95.3 FM from a tower on Mount Lynn Lowry, a peak of more than 6,000 feet in Haywood County, with ample line of sight over the greater Waynesville area. The tower for 90.5 FM is at Balsam Gap, on the Haywood-Jackson countyline, which has far more limited reach in Waynesville.

Meanwhile, 95.3 FM will no longer be transmitted from Mount Lynn Lowry, but will be broadcast from a new tower WCU is building in Tuckasegee.

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While listeners in Waynesville have long relied on 95.3 as their go-to NPR station, WCQS has never had a bona fide claim to the frequency. It’s essentially been a squatter on 95.3 FM, using it like a repeater to push signal into an area where its main transmitters don’t reach.

95.3 wasn’t previously in the offings as a formal frequency, because it was already in use by another station in North Georgia.

“There’s only 100 positions on the FM dial. The job of the FCC is to coordinate those frequencies to maintain a separation,” Connley said.

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frequency as a station in Knoxville. But in reality, the massive 6,000-foot mountain ranges between here and Tennessee block any chance that a signal from Knoxville could ever interfere with a station in Waynesville.

Still, frequencies that seem open for the taking are actually off-limits as far as the FCC is concerned, and that complicates things for WCQS as it prowls for a signal to replace the impending loss of its 95.3 FM frequency in Waynesville.

WCQS already faces challenges public radio stations in other places don’t have. The impenetrable mountains require more infrastructure to accomplish coverage, with multiple transmitters and translators leapfrogging over the ridges.

Also, there’s fewer listeners per square mile compared to more populated area.

“We have a great deal of coverage area where our listeners are squirrels,” Sayer said.

Fewer listeners means fewer donors, which are the primary funding source for the station.

Still, serving the far western counties despite the pesky mountains is WCQS’ mission.

“More than three decades ago WCQS made a decision to spend in an area we knew would be technically difficult because of the mountains, and that we would never be serving as large a population as if we had gone east,” Sayer said.

“But we are completely committed to providing all the service we can in Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain — all those counties are very important to us even though it does require more effort and more ingenuity.”

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technical capability to launch a radio station, and that any claims to the contrary by the Canary Coalition “lacked credibility.”

That argument was never taken up by the FCC, however. Instead, WCU bested the Canary Coalition on a technicality. WCU successfully claimed that the Canary Coalition lacked a physical headquarters, at least according to its application, and thus should be stripped of its local designation, a critical FCC criteria.

The Canary Coalition had listed a P.O. Box as its address in its FCC application, and a P.O. Box does not provide for “sufficient contact between the station’s decision and policy makers and the area to be served.”

The Canary Coalition countered that it indeed had a physical location, even though it wasn’t in the application. But the FCC ruled the Canary Coalition couldn’t retroactively amend the address it initially listed.

“We do not look beyond the four corners of the application. Canary’s application provided nothing more than a post office box for its physical address,” the FCC ruled.

Friedman said it was a shame.

“WCU overpowered the system. They

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER hat started as small-time campus radio station is about to hit the big leagues.

WWCU is poised to dramatically increase its footprint beyond the current confines of Jackson County within the next two to three years, once it assumes its newly awarded frequency of 95.3 FM. “We will be looking at who our new listener is. Now we are covering a new geographic area and we need to find out who lives in that area: who is the Mr. and Mrs. 95.3?” said Don Connley, the head of Western Carolina University’s Communications Department, which runs the radio station now known as Power 90.5.

WWCU’s daytime lineup is anchored by the classic rock genre. But come evening, all bets are off.

“During the day it’s targeting mom and dad and two kids in the car. But at 6 p.m. we roll into a very eclectic mix of programming,” Connley said.

The station is like a sampler platter, with jazz one night and a sports talk show the next.

“We do a balancing act so everybody gets a piece of the pie so to speak,” Connley said.

Volunteer DJs have a long leash to try programs revolving around their own interests and music tastes, and that makes for a diverse mix.

Listeners learn when to tune in for their favorites, with longstanding followings for some programs, like C.B. Roy’s Mostly Blues.

“His blues show on Sunday nights is off the charts,” Connley said.

There’s even an all-Spanish Latino show called Al Aire Libre, the only one in its genre in the region.

“How many Hispanic radio stations do we have in our area? Zero,” Connley said.

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wanted it and they got it because they were able to outspend us,” Friedman said.

But Friedman took the idea born out of his vision for a community radio station and is instead launching Mountain Stream TV, a collaboration with several nonprofits in the mountains.

“That’s more exciting actually,” Friedman said, adding that the radio dial is becoming moot. “Online TV and video is the medium most people are going to be watching anyway.”

WHAT NOW? WCU has three years to get up and running on the new frequency of 95.3 or it loses the license. WCU plans to build a new tower to transmit the station from, so it won’t happen any time soon, buying WCQS a little

ball and basketball games from the Catamount Sports Network.

It also has a two-hour student talk show twice a week and periodically features interviews on public affairs topics, often with WCU faculty and staff. Last Friday, the station was readying for an interview with WCU’s energy czar, Lauren Bishop, who has led university initiatives and campaigns to reduce energy consumption over the past decade.

But the station has more potential than it is realizing, and expectations will no doubt rise as WWCU leaves the safety of its campus cocoon. Once it moves its spot on the dial from 90.5 to its new broadcasting frequency of 95.3, it will cover an area with more than 80,000 potential listeners.

But Connley said WWCU won’t forget its mission to students and the university.

“The two are compatible,” Connley said.

Connley takes pride in the educational role the station serves.

“The station is a professional learning laboratory for students and provides an experiential learning experience,” he said.

A group of philosophy students even tried their hand at a radio program last year, selecting songs to symbolize different philosophical theories.

“These were philosophy students engaged in creating a every unique program,” Connley said.

The university, after all, is the primary funder for the station. Its annual budget from the university last year was about $60,000.

Connley gets excited about the many ways students could be engaged in conducting demographic market research of its new base, and modeling how to craft programming that appeals to as many listeners as possible.

It won’t be easy in the on-demand age of media. When people can instantly call up any song or program they fancy with the swipe of a finger, why take the gamble on a radio station that might play a song you love, but might also play one you hate?

There’s one thing about radio that supersedes all that, however.

“Radio is a very intimate experience,” Connley said.

breathing room in the meantime.

Connley said WCU wants to work with WCQS; WCU doesn’t want to kick it off 95.3 until it’s found somewhere to land.

While the option remains on the table to utilize WCU’s no-longer-needed frequency of 90.5, WCQS is no doubt trolling for other frequencies that would replace its lost signal in Waynesville.

“As the radio dial becomes crowded — and it is already very crowded — the chance of finding another one is a little more difficult and the frequency you find may not perform as well in that location as the previous one did,” Connley said.

Sayer assuaged any fear listeners may have, however.

“We will work very hard to cover as much of WNC as we can,” Sayer said.

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Unfortunately for WCQS, it wasn’t eligible to apply for the 95.3 frequency when it came up for grabs in 2010 as a bona fide licensed station.

FCC rules dictate that the station operating on a frequency must be headquartered locally, which in this case had to be Jackson County.

“We would have not gotten that frequency if we had applied for it,” Sayer said.

So they didn’t bother applying.

WCU was a natural contender, however.

New radio frequencies don’t come along often. It’s incredibly rare, in fact, making 95.3 a once-in-a-lifetime chance.

“We had watched the frequency for a number of years,” Connley said.

For 10 years, in fact, Connley had been watching and waiting. While the frequency was freed up in 2000, the FCC finally opened it up for station applications in 2010.

It was do-or-die for WCU. If it didn’t land 95.3, it may never have another chance to expand its reach with WWCU. But WCU wasn’t the only candidate in the running.

Five groups applied for the station. Three of them — religious stations — were deemed ineligible because they weren’t locally based.

“Being local is heavily weighted,” Connley said of the FCC criteria.

But the fifth candidate, like WCU, claimed the local card: an environmental advocacy group called the Canary Coalition.

“We do not look beyond the four corners of the application. Canary’s application provided nothing more than a post office box for its physical address.”

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Its leader Avram Friedman, a well-known environmental activist in Jackson County, envisioned a grassroots radio station that would give a voice to in-depth coverage of environmental and social justice issues often blacked out by mainstream corporate media.

The station would be a forum for thoughts and ideas, provide community education, feature the unsung work of local nonprofits and showcase local musicians.

The Canary Coalition was initially awarded the frequency, but not on the grounds of its proposed programming.

“The FCC is prohibited from judging a station’s programming,” Connley said.

Instead, the scales tipped in Canary Coalition’s favor because WCU already owned 90.5 FM. The FCC favors diversity on the airwaves, and all else being equal, it favored a new station over one that already had a place on the dial. Friedman said the area could use a grassroots station.

“We were a much better fit. WCU is not a community-based organization,” Friedman said. “I doubt they will serve the community in the capacity that we were.”

WCU appealed the decision, a process that ultimately took four years for the FCC to settle.

This summer, the FCC reversed its initial position and re-awarded the frequency to WCU. WCU argued in part that the Canary Coalition didn’t have the financial means or

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It’s like the antithesis of a Venn diagram — instead of the circles overlapping, they can’t be touching.

But in 2000, the Georgia station relocated its broadcasting tower further away, creating enough of a separation that 95.3 could become a bona fide station of its own in Jackson County without risk of signal interference.

WCQS realized then that its days of camping out on the 95.3 frequency were numbered.

WCQS can be picked up on nearly a dozen frequencies around the mountains, depending on where you are. Four of those — in Franklin, Murphy, Asheville and Mars Hill — are licensed to WCQS as permanent broadcasting signals.

“They are not subject to encroachment,” Sayer said.

But the rest of its signals use frequencies classified as lower-level translators.

“They are not protected even though they are assigned to us,” Sayer explained. “In the domino world of broadcasting where frequencies are reassigned, those could all be endangered. We have been in limbo for many, many years on many, many frequencies so it is not a surprise to us. You have to remain agile, and so far we have managed to do that.”

Just last month, WCQS had to switch the frequency it broadcasts on in Highlands after being bumped by a station in South Carolina.

It’s had to play musical frequencies twice in Brevard over the years for the same reason.

“They weren’t gunning for WCQS,” Sayer said. “Sometimes you have no idea what the domino effect will be for frequencies down the line.”

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER here was nothing ambiguous about Patrick Lambert’s win in the race for Cherokee Principal Chief last week. His victory came in a landslide of 71 percent.

“In tonight’s victory is a powerful truth,” Lambert said in his victory speech. “I believe this election is a clear sign from our people that they are ready for leadership with a bold new vision.”

Lambert said he was feeling confident going into Election Day but wasn’t quite prepared for the outpouring of support as election results rolled in. Voters crowded the Birdtown Gym for Lambert’s victory party afterward, and congratulations flooded his campaign’s Facebook page.

“I think it’s really our message that we just kept putting out there in the campaign,” Lambert said of the reason for his win. “What I kept hearing from people is that they were wanting to have an honest and accountable government.”

Lambert’s win wasn’t the only decisive outcome of the election. The tribe’s entire upper leadership saw a turnover. Richie Sneed took 59 percent of the vote in the vice chief ’s race against incumbent Larry Blythe and Tribal Council Chairwoman Terri Henry lost re-election.

Perry Shell, of Big Cove, and David Wolfe, who ran as a write-in for Yellowhill council after losing a primary bid for chief, won’t be returning to council either. Neither will Gene “Tunney” Crowe, of Birdtown, who ran for chief against Lambert.

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Ensley came in only four votes ahead of challenger Arizona Jane Blankenship, which means a recount will be held. Painttown Representative Tommye Saunooke and Big Cove Representative Teresa McCoy both won re-election, but neither was the top vote-getter.

“One would think that is a message to that particular person that, ‘We put out the councilmember who serves with you. We have that power. Listen to what we say,’” said Ben Bushyhead, a tribal member who serves as a Swain County commissioner.

Both Bushyhead and Lambert said the controversy over pay raises the majority of councilmembers voted themselves last year likely played a role in the election results. The council raises — salary increasess of more than $10,000, effective immediately, and as much as $33,000 in back pay for the years when the representatives supposedly should have already been earning the extra money — aroused the ire of many tribal members. The issue reignited in August, when Principal Chief Michell Hicks’ proposed budget included yet another raise for Tribal Council.

“I think it’s one of those things that is kind of an undercurrent, but it also kind of festers and the voting was the way that they (tribal members) had a way to express their feelings about it,” Bushyhead said.

Excitement is palpable in Cherokee over what some see as the beginning of a new era.

But on the other hand, those who have seen their share of political turnovers before are waiting to see results.

“It will take a little work to see where we are,” Bushyhead said. “I have high hopes, with a little caution thrown in.”

Birdtown • Albert Rose (I), 37.3 percent • Travis K. Smith, 30.2 percent • Terri Lee Taylor, 16.9 percent • Gilbert Crowe, 15.6 percent Snowbird • Brandon Jones (I), 31.7 percent • Adam Wachacha (I), 28.8 percent • Janell Rattler, 23.9 percent • Bucky Brown, 15.6 percent Painttown • Marie Junaluska, 33.1 percent • Tommye Saunooke (I), 30.1 percent • Terri Henry (I), 24.1 percent • Lu Jackson (W), 6.8 percent • Pete Taylor (W), 5.9 percent Yellowhill • Anita Welch Lossiah, 27.9 percent • Alan “B” Ensley (I), 23.1 percent • Arizona Jane Blankenship, 22.6 percent • Tom Wahnetah, 13.4 percent • David Wolfe (W), 13.1 percent

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No cross proposed for Buck Mountain

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR laska Presley has talked for years about her vision of having the tallest cross in the western hemisphere placed on top of her Buck Mountain property in Maggie Valley, but now it seems that plan will not come to fruition any time soon.

The cross was part of her long-range plan to turn part of her current Ghost Town in the Sky entertainment park into Resurrection Mountain — a Christian-themed park.

Presley has had a 220-foot cross designed and ready to go since 2013.

In anticipation of that kind of request from Presley, the town of Maggie Valley informed her months ago that the state ridgeline regulations would come into play even though the town doesn’t have any ordinances on the books to restrict the construction of the structure.

Presley also told the town she was thinking about constructing a cross that would double as a cell phone tower, which are exempt from the state ridgeline law, but then town’s ordinance limiting cell phone towers to 125 feet would kick in.

Town aldermen were concerned about whether the ridgeline law would be enough to keep the height of the cross in check. One

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option would have been to consider imposing a moratorium on the issue until the town could put regulations into place before Presley applied for a permit to construct a cross.

However, town staff was surprised to receive an application from Presley asking for a cell tower on top of Beck Mountain and nothing more.

Speak up The Maggie Valley Board of Aldermen will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, in the Town Hall boardroom on a proposal to locate a T-Mobile cell tower on Buck Mountain (Ghost Town in the Sky) near the existing “Drop Tower.” Oral and written comments are encouraged.

During a special meeting in August, Town Planner Andrew Bowen explained to the aldermen that the request was the first application the town has received asking for a cell tower to be located within the corporate limits. The proposed location is atop Buck Mountain (Ghost Town) near where the “Drop Tower” is located from the previous theme park ride area.

According to the application, the requested monopole cell tower would be 125 feet tall with a 4-foot lightning rod on top. The light-

A new 125-foot cell tower is being proposed on top of Buck Mountain, home of Ghost Town in the Sky entertainment park. The proposed cell tower would be placed near this Drop Tower ride, which is about 84 feet tall.

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ning rod would not be included in the structure’s calculations. T-Mobile has sent written documentation that it would allow other companies to co-locate on the structure.

The proposal includes a lease to T-Mobile for a 50-by-50-foot lot, which is under the 75by-75-foot town criteria for a cell tower.

The proposal already went before the Maggie Valley Planning Board in August. The board gave a positive recommendation but asked that five items be addressed before the aldermen gave final approval.

The planning board wants to see documentation of the need for exceeding the height limitation of 125 feet; a letter stating that the cell tower on Setzer Mountain has been exhausted; wants the size of lot to be 75-by-75; wants all setback requirements be met; and wants landscape screening to be provided.

Bowen did say he was told by Haywood County that the cell tower on Setzer Mountain was at full capacity. The property will be fenced and will have a long-term lease to TMobile. The area will not be parceled out.

In order to get a better understanding of the height of the proposed tower, Town Manager Nathan Clark told aldermen that the existing Drop Tower ride located where the cell tower would be placed is 87 feet tall and can be seen from the Town Hall parking lot.

Before the town board decides whether to allow the cell tower, a public hearing on the issue will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, at town hall during the next aldermen meeting. Public comments can be made at the meeting and written comments will be accepted at town hall until the meeting.

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need of a new one if the county didn’t choose to make these changes. However, the upgrades will allow the county to get rid of the 60, 8-yard containers and replace them with five trash compactors.

“When all this takes place, we’ll be downgrading all that down to five compactors, which will be a lot more efficient then our 60 dumpsters there now,” King said.

This change will also have an impact on the school system, which uses 8-yard trash containers at each of its school campuses.

Without the front-loading truck, the county will not be able to pick up and dispose of the trash from those sites anymore.

King said the school sys“We come in in the morning to find loads of tem has a couconstruction and demolition debris and we’ve ple of options — it can caught people from other counties coming choose to purchase roll-off to dump here because it costs them to take containers or it other places.” compactors that the county — Kevin King, County Manager will be able to collect with its bility — day or night people can go out new truck or it will need to begin contractthere and throw away trash, but they can ing with a private provider to pick up its also jump in the dumpsters and anything containers. else,” said County Manager Kevin King.

If the schools choose to contract with a “The state is really pushing us to make our franchise provider to pick up its trash, King site more secure and more sanitary.” said more security would be needed at the To meet the state’s standards, Swain school trash sites to prevent illegal dumping County will invest $382,000 to upgrade its by the public. The county convenience centrash drop-off and recycling center located ter site has the same problem with people on Old U.S. 19 in Bryson City. The county dumping illegally in the middle of the night received $132,000 in grant funding from because there is no fence to keep people out. the White Goods Management program “We come in in the morning to find through the N.C. Department of loads of construction and demolition debris Environment and Natural Resources and and we’ve caught people from other counthe county is taking out a loan for the ties coming to dump here because it costs remaining $250,000 needed for the project. them to take it other places,” King said.

A portion of the grant funding — about “We have a guy staffed at the site from 7 $75,000 — will help the county purchase a a.m. to 7 p.m. and if people come in with $165,000 roll-off truck, which will primarily construction demo he can point them to the be used to pick up and recycle white goods right place to get scaled and weighed, but like refrigerators and freezers. The remainwe can’t monitor it at night.” der of the grant will pay for new recycling King said the parts of the project supcompactors and a surveillance system for ported by the grant will be in place by the site.

January 2016 and the rest of the upgrades The project will change more than the will be phased in within the next four to five operating hours at the convenience center months. In the meantime, the commission— it will change the way trash and recycling ers will be discussing what the hours of is collected. The county currently has two operations should be for the new secure front-loading trucks that are used to pick up trash and recycling site. the 60 standard 8-yard trash containers “The commissioners’ big thing is that used at the site. Front-loading trucks are they want to keep as much accessibility as very expensive — about $350,000 each — possible for the public but they realize and the sanitation department would be in things have to change,” King said.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR he world can be a confusing and lonely place when you don’t know where you fit in to it and you don’t have a support system. It’s hard enough being a teenager today, but the added difficulties of struggling with gender or sexuality can easily lead youth down a dangerous path.

It’s the position Rory Philbrick, 17, found himself in more than a year ago before he started attending Youth OUTright meetings in Asheville.

“Back then I was really depressed and I didn’t really handle it well. I hid my emotions a lot, and around October last year I lost my stepfather and the meetings helped me so much,” he said. “I would be a totally different person today if I didn’t go to YO.” Youth OUTright — or YO — is a nonprofit organization with the mission of empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth to be confident and vital members of thier community by offering them a safe environment to talk about their problems.

YO has been holding weekly support meetings in the Asheville area since incorporating in 2009, and beginning this month, teenagers in Macon County will have the opportunity to attend meetings closer to home.

When two YO supporters in Macon County reached out to YO in Asheville for help, executive director Jim Faucett said he was happy to start a chapter in Franklin to meet that need.

“Youth Outright has longed hoped to establish a presence in Franklin and other communities in Macon, Jackson, Swain, Clay, Graham and Cherokee counties,” Faucett said. “The Unitarian Universalists are providing us this opportunity by opening their space to us, and we’ve received funding from Mission Health that helps to underwrite our Franklin meetings.”

YO held its first support group meeting in Franklin back in May to gauge interest.

About a dozen teens showed up and expressed interest in attending monthly, but Faucett said they decided to postpone the meetings until school started back in August to hopefully get a better crowd.

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WHAT TO EXPECT Philbrick said he was nervous about attending the first meeting in Asheville

because he was shy and didn’t know exactly what to expect.

“My friend told me about it and said ‘you should come — it’s really fun’ so we went and I just loved it,” he said. “It made me be more open and made me less ignorant of things going on in the world and how bad queer people are treated.”

Philbrick said it helped just being around other teens that were going through similar situations and sharing their experiences with

includes sharing highs and lows, a time for youth to share their struggles with the group. Faucett said the discussions also help the facilitators to know whether they need to follow up with a member after for a more private conversation about their problems.

“We want them to know this is a safe place — what you hear here stays here — confidentiality is encouraged,” he said.

For the first meeting in Franklin, Faucett said the program would include an interac-

Youth OUTright will begin holding monthly support meetings in Franklin for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth ages 14-20.

The support meetings, which will begin Sept. 12, are an extension of the organization’s mission that started in Asheville in 2009.

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one another.

Faucett said all of the support meetings will be led by two trained adult facilitators and will include introductions and an overview of the group rules.

“We start off with introductions — everyone shares their name and their preferred pronoun because we don’t make any assumptions about people’s identity,” he said. “The group rules are intended to make sure everyone is respecting themselves and others. They help to keep meetings safe and welcoming for everybody.”

Faucett said the meetings usually include a safe sex demonstration as well. While Youth OUTright doesn’t encourage teens to have sex, Faucett said the organization wants teens to know how to protect themselves and others if they do choose to have sex.

Another part of the regular program

Youth OUTRight Group Guidelines • Everyone is entitled to confidentiality.

• Don’t come intoxicated to a meeting.

• Don’t bring any weapons or drugs to the meeting.

• Respect yourself and respect others.

• Don’t make assumptions about someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

• Be supportive, not confrontational.

• Group participation is desirable but silence is acceptable for those who choose it.

• Don’t monopolize the conversation or discussion.

tive and ice breaker game to test the teens’ knowledge of LGBTQ history.

NEED IN FRANKLIN Even though Asheville and Franklin are a little more than an hour apart, the two communities couldn’t be more different.

Asheville is one of the most liberal and progressive cities in the South while Franklin is a much smaller and conservative community.

Being a LGBTQ youth anywhere can be difficult, but youth in Franklin can easily feel more isolated and more fearful to be themselves in the small town of Franklin than the big city of Asheville, which embraces its culture of weirdness.

Chris Brouwer, a financial advisor for Edward Jones in Franklin, has been involved in youth LGBTQ programming long before he moved to Franklin 15 years ago. In Houston, Texas, he was involved with PFLAG — Parents, Family, Friends and Allies United with LGBTQ People to Move Equality Forward.

As a supporter of Youth OUTright, Brouwer and a Macon County Schools high school counselor reached out to Faucett to see if they could get a chapter started there.

As a successful businessman who was also openly gay in Houston, Brouwer felt like he

had a purpose to pass his knowledge on to LGBTQ youth.

“I just enjoy being a mentor — I want to show kids you can be a part of society and you don’t have to feel like an outcast,” he said.

He hopes having a Youth OUTright chapter in Franklin will give teens a safe place to go and ask questions — even uncomfortable questions about gender and sexuality.

Faucett admits that getting a program started in Franklin may have more challenges than in Asheville. He is hoping for the best but is prepared for any push back that may occur.

“Awareness of our organization is growing in the region — we would not be going to Franklin if someone in Franklin hadn’t contacted us to get something going,” he said. “We’ve got a growing core of people that are supportive — we’ll do everything to keep our kids safe.”

YO does more than just hold support meetings. Faucett said the organization can work with its youth members to establish Gay Straight Alliances in their schools if they don’t already have one.

Philbrick said Asheville High School, where he attends, has one of the largest GSA clubs in the region and offers lots of support for LGBTQ students and straight allies.

Currently, none of the high schools in Macon County have any kind of GSA programs for students. Faucett said studies show schools that have a GSA have a more tolerable school atmosphere with less bullying and name-calling.

“Being a teen is difficult, but it’s more difficult for LGBTQ teens or even if a teen is just perceived to be gay,” Faucett said. “And it’s harder in a rural, small town — especially in the South.”

An estimated 4,000 LGBTQ youth live in the Western North Carolina region according to Faucett, but only 1,000 reside in Buncombe County, which makes it even more crucial for Youth OUTright to expand services into more rural areas.

“Whereas Asheville has the reputation as a progressive city in a conservative region, Asheville itself is not a bad place for LGBT youth, but the rest of Buncombe is not like Asheville,” Faucett said. “Hendersonville’s not so bad, Jackson County is a fairly good area because of the university and several openly gay owned businesses, but many other areas with very conservative environments are not welcoming sometimes and unfortunately are not a safe place for LGBTQ youth.”

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of a difference in the lives of LGBTQ youth? All results point to yes. Faucett said a support system could make all the difference in their day-to-day lives.

“For the first time in their life they know they are in a majority when they walk into that meeting,” he said. “That kind of an experience has a way of making them feel good about themselves — just knowing people are on their side and care about them.”

Faucett said many of these teens grow up isolated and are told the way they are is a crime against nature and against God’s will. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, LGBTQ youth are more likely to be homeless, bullied, abuse drugs, drop out of school and to attempt suicide.

“By giving them more confidence and self esteem, maybe for the first time they will believe they can have a good future and lead productive lives,” Faucett said.

Philbrick is only a sophomore in high school because he had some difficulties in school that held him back, but now he is looking forward to his future. After graduating, he would love to become a LGBTQ leader to help others in the community, but he also has an interest in working as a backstage theater technician.

That peace of mind and optimism has come with going to the YO meetings and finally understanding who he is as a person. As of just a few weeks ago, Philbrick said he finally feels at peace with who he is.

“When I first started coming to the meetings, I was still really confused — I thought I was bisexual. but I never really felt comfortable with that,” he said.

He now identifies as a “demiguy” and pansexual.

A demiguy is a born female that feels partially like a male but partially genderless as well. A pansexual can love in many forms without preference to gender, including transgender, androgynous and other gender fluid people.

Without Youth OUTright, Philbrick said he wouldn’t even be aware of many of these terms and wouldn’t have the courage to talk about it in the open without the support of others at YO. “Go to the meeting because you’ll get so much support and love even if it’s just a few meetings,” Philbrick said to encourage teens in Franklin to get involved. “It may be a little bit confusing at first and chaotic, but it’s one of the best things ever — you’ll never regret it. Everyone there is so nice and supportive. They just want you to be happy and safe.”

Faucett said it was incredibly empowering for the teens at the meeting to support one another and grow into their true selves.

“When a new youth comes in and is overwhelmed, I’ve seen them and their compassion toward other people,” he said.

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The World Methodist Museum extends an open invitation to the community at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, when the unveiling of a major gift — an item of John Wesley’s furniture — will take place. It will then be on permanent display in the Museum.

Bishop Ivan Abrahams, General Secretary of the World Methodist Council, and other Methodist dignitaries, will lead the ceremony.

The furniture has drawers and an interactive program is planned, so attendees are being asked to think about what might have been stored in these drawers almost 300 years ago.

Balfour Knight, harpist, will provide the music. Refreshments will be served throughout the afternoon.

The Museum is located at the Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, 575 North Lakeshore Drive.

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NAACP holds public education forum A rally and forum on public education will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Sept.

21, at the old Jackson County Courthouse community room in Sylva.

Penny Smith, a retired NC Teacher of the Year and longstanding NCAE leader and activist, has coordinated the forum in her capacity as a leader in the Jackson County NAACP. The program is exceptionally tight, with speakers allotted eight minutes each, speaking on every facet of public education from preschool to four year universities. East Franklin’s Carolyn Cope will be providing a vignette on how the cuts to public education have impacted her and her students.

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The North Carolina Network of Grantmakers hosts the Foundation Fair each year to provide nonprofits an opportunity to interact with and learn about foundations in North Carolina. Akin to a “college fair,” the Foundation Fair is intended to help nonprofits find and connect with foundations that have missions similar to those of their own organizations.

There will be two sessions for nonprofit representatives to visit foundation booths.

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The American Red Cross is partnering with 9/11 Day to offer individuals a chance to help others and commemorate the events of Sept. 11 by giving blood or platelets or volunteering their time with the Red Cross.

“Giving blood or platelets is a fitting way for people to remember those who lost their lives on 9/11 and to honor the first responders who rose up in response to the attacks and those who serve and protect communities every day,” said Chris Newman, spokesperson for the Red Cross Carolinas Region.

Those who would like to observe the 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance by donating blood or platelets are encouraged to make an appointment to give at one of the following locations: • Waynesville — Sept. 9 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Senior Resource Center, 81 Elmwood Way. • Sylva — Sept. 10 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at WestCare Health, 68 Hospital Drive.

Haywood Habitat to host budgeting workshop A Budgeting 101 Financial Education Class will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Sept.

23 at the Haywood County Public Library in Waynesville.

Hosted by Haywood Habitat for Humanity and the Haywood County Board of Realtors, the class will teach participants to create a realistic budget, pay down debt and manage bills. Free and open to the public. Attendees receive class materials, light meal, and are entered in a drawing for local business gift cards. Presented by On Track Financial Education & Counseling.

Register at 828.452.7960.

Extension Center offers new food service class North Carolina Cooperative Extension has a new option for North Carolina food service managers wishing to meet the NC Food Code requirement calling for the person in charge during operating hours to be a “Certified Food Safety Manager.” Managers trained in NC Safe Plates create a work environment that minimizes food safety risks in their restaurants, cafeterias, and grocery stores through best practices, open communication and thoughtful practice.

Julie Sawyer, Haywood Cooperative Extension family and consumer sciences extension agent, who assisted in the 2014 Safe Plates pilot and rollout, will be offering the two-day NC Safe Plates class on Sept. 28 and Sept. 30 and the two-hour exam on Oct. 1 at the Haywood County Center on Raccoon Road in Waynesville.

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SCC jumps the gun on building start S

Southwestern Community College was under the gun to complete a renovation of the cosmetology department during the summer break, and it took a gamble on starting construction before the state formally approved the work contract. else we’d lose the enrollment for fall. Can you update your status as to this contract?”

Allen wrote.

Murchison replied it would be up in the pecking order soon.

Once, Allen reached out to Lipke to see if he could help.

“Can you tell me if you was able to discuss with Bill the urgency of our contract?

The builder is ready to begin work,” Allen wrote in an email to Lipke in late June.

“As of yet, the contact has not been approved by the AG. However, I am in close contact with Bill Murchison, and will alert you to when the approval occurs, immediately,” Lipke wrote back.

It was a nerve-wracking conundrum for the college.

In the end, it all worked out but it was down to the wire. On the first day of class in August, SCC cosmetology students couldn’t get into their classroom because it was being inspected that day, but it was up and running by day two.

The construction work on the cosmetology building was only a small fraction of the overall renovation project.

The $2.3 million contract with Western Builders includes renovations to 15,000 square feet in Founders and Bradford Hall.

The cosmetology piece accounts for only about $200,000 of the total project.

That’s likely another reason why it seemed benign to proceed with the work.

“The project was approved, the money was approved, all our I’s were dotted and T’s crossed and ducks in a row. Then there is the follow-up letter, which I guess is the contract,” Tomas said. “I thought you could go ahead and commence at that point but I guess what you are saying is no.”

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one discussed the urgency of it,” Allen said.

Allen said Lipke alluded that he could help expedite the contract approval.

“That’s what everybody thought, but he evidentially didn’t have the connections we thought he did,” Allen said.

In an email conversation in July, Lipke asked Allen if SCC may have gone ahead and started work.

“Between us, has the GC begun work?”

Lipke wrote in an email to Allen on July 23, asking about the general contractor’s job status.

“The GC has moved in with material and equipment and plans to work as the contract hold up seems to be technicalities not so much ‘if ’ they will get it,” Allen replied. “As you know we are on a tight tight schedule...”

However, the contractor was well underway with the project by then, having started on June 24.

Allen routinely checked in with the state construction office on the status of the contract approval, based on multiple emails from Allen to the contract coordinator at the state construction office.

But the response was always the same: firstcome, first serve. SCC just had to get in line.

“Can you advise where we stand on this contract?” Allen wrote on June 28 to Bill Murchison, contract coordinator with the state construction office.

Murchison replied that he got SCC’s contract on June 23, but he was still processing applications from June 11th.

Allen checked in again on July 6.

“I hate to keep bothering you regarding the contract for Southwestern Community College but the contractor and the college have a strict timeline where we need to complete cosmetology prior to fall semester or

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ready in time for school to start,” said Tiffany Allen, SCC’s director of facility development. “Cosmetology is one of our biggest programs here and to lose that for a whole fall semester would be hard for us to take.”

Meanwhile, however, SCC couldn’t make any payments to Western Builders for the work being done. Western Builders had to float the project, including buying materials and paying subcontractors, without being able to submit invoices or draw downs from the college as it went.

While SCC and Western Builders signed the contract in June, it lacked the signature of the N.C. Attorney General, which can only happen after final vetting from the state construction office — and as a result, wasn’t a legal contract when work started.

That carried a degree of risk had there been an injury, a construction error or dispute with SCC over the scope of work.

It is unclear whether anyone with the state construction office was aware that SCC had jumped the gun on construction. A staffer with the state construction office is assigned to the mountain territory, but unless SCC mentioned it to him, he wouldn’t have known.

“Otherwise we have no clue what is going on out there,” Kaid said.

Steve Lipke, the western region project monitor with the state construction office, didn’t realize that SCC had already started construction until he showed up to do a final inspection of the project, according to Chris Meyers, a spokesperson for the N.C. Dept. of Administration.

The contract had just been approved on Aug. 10, and just four days later on Aug. 14, SCC was giving Lipke a tour of the finished renovation.

“When we were going to do the inspection, we discovered construction had occurred before a contract was in place,” Meyers said.

Lipke said he was a little surprised, but there wasn’t anything to be done about it at that point.

“Our office is not law enforcement, we aren’t police. We are engineers and architects and project managers. We don’t have any sort of policing jurisdiction,” Lipke said.

“I am more concerned with the final product. My intent was to make sure the building that was added was safe and that everything works.”

Lipke said he personally wouldn’t have advised SCC’s course of action.

“We would always recommend you have a contract executed before starting work,” Lipke said. “If you don’t have a contract in hand the risk is not worth the reward or benefit.”

Allen, SCC’s facility development director, said she was under the impression Lipke knew work was underway.

Lipke sat in on a pre-construction meeting in June between SCC and the building contractor, and knew how eager they were to start the cosmetology renovations.

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER outhwestern Community College broke state policy this summer when it launched a construction project before securing final contract authorization from the state.

SCC was eager to get underway with $2.3 million in renovation work on its Sylva campus — in particular a renovation of the cosmetology training floor. Timing for that part of the work was critical. Cosmetology students are a big business and big source of revenue for SCC. There was a tight timeframe to get the work done over the summer, when classes weren’t being held.

“This was the best time to get this done,” said Tyler Goode, SCC spokesperson.

Rather than follow state protocols, SCC started the cosmetology renovation June 24 — well before the Aug. 10 date the N.C. Office of Construction and N.C. Attorney General would officially sign off on the contract allowing work to begin.

“There would certainly be a lot of risk involved in that, so that would not be recommended,” said Latif Kaid, assistant director of the state construction office. “If they were doing work prior to the state’s approval of the contract, they were working on their own risk.”

SCC took a gamble when it decided to forge ahead with cosmetology renovations, despite not having final state approval of the building contract.

But SCC was betting that the state would approve the contract quickly, and there would be no harm in getting started while they waited. After all, the mountains are a long way from Raleigh.

SCC officials miscalculated how long it would take the state to sign off on the contract, however. The lag time wasn’t a few days, but dragged on for seven weeks.

SCC President Dr. Don Tomas said his understanding was that it was just a technicality, given that SCC had already gotten preliminary approval of the blueprints and approval of the construction bid from the state.

But Tomas said he wasn’t “100 percent involved” with “the down in the weeds part” of the construction details.

“I recall them saying ‘yeah, yeah, yeah, don’t worry about that, that will come through,’ and it kind of took longer than everybody anticipated. I don’t know all the legalese and paperwork involved with it,” Tomas said.

Goode declined to second-guess whether SCC would have done things differently had it known then what it knows now — namely how long it would take that final contract approval to come through.

“That is just a hypothetical. I really can’t answer what we would have done had we known,” Goode said.

Once work had started, there was no turning back, however.

“If you go in and tear it out, it has to be

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Amid Raleigh wrangling, ‘the clock ran out’ on Lake Junaluska merger bill

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER Any day now.

That’s what Robbie Inman has been telling himself for weeks as he cruises Raleigh news sites, trying to cipher out when an end to the budget logjam in the General Assembly would end.

Inman, the election director for Haywood County, would normally have ballots on their way to the printers by now in preparation for the four town elections happening around the county this fall.

But Inman’s been holding off, waiting to see if the General Assembly would sign off on a merger of Lake Junaluska with the town of Waynesville, contingent on approval by voters in November.

A bill has passed the Senate calling for a special election on the merger, but the issue has been in limbo in the House. Last week, Inman had a tough decision to make: whether to start readying the ballots without the Lake Junaluska merger on them.

“There comes a time I have to make a decision, and the clock has run out to wait. I don’t have a choice,” Inman said last Friday.

“I have to move forward.”

There’s no state hotline to call for a prediction of what the General Assembly will

do tomorrow, so all Inman could do was watch and read and call and email, gathering insight any way he could, hoping an answer would materialize.

Inman thinks as long as the budget standoff is still brewing, it is unlikely any other business would be taken up in the

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“We knew that was coming at some point in time,” Waynesville Mayor Gavin Brown said. “He has to say, ‘I can’t do this at this point’ even if the state legislature says ‘Here it is.’”

Brown said the window for public forums and education on the issue is narrowing as well.

“My intent was always to have several months for the people in Waynesville and Lake Junaulska to be able to look at the issue. It’s just getting shorter and shorter,” Brown said.

While early voting in town elections doesn’t start until Oct. 24, there’s much to be done before then.

Although most voters cast their ballots at a touchscreen computer terminal — which local election staff can program in-house — there are still paper ballots to be printed.

Any voter can request a paper ballot to be mailed to them, be it the elderly, disabled or people away on travel. By law, Inman must have the paper ballots ready 30 days before the election.

The ballots can’t be done in-house, but have to go through a single authorized contractor in the state for coding, formatting and printing.

Inman had to get the that process underway this week, to allow for the necessary round of proofreading at each juncture with the contractor.

“It is constant. You don’t just look at it one time,” Inman said. “It has to be right.

This one question can’t stop the process for the other municipalities.”

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Inman had already set the stage for the Now that ballots are already in the special election, ready to pull the trigger if pipeline minus the merger question, Inman state lawmakers gave the go-ahead. The legisn’t sure what would happen if the General work was too involved to take a wait-andAssembly approves it at this 11th hour. see approach. Should the ballot measure be “What is going to be the protocol and approved, Inman had to be ready. procedure if the General Assembly was to The merger election was going to be pass this at a later date? That is the answer two-fold: to pass, it had to be approved that I am waiting for,” Inman said. both by voters in the town limits and at Lake Junaluska.

If either set of voters turned “My intent was always to have it down, it wouldn’t pass.

Putting the question to several months for the people in town voters wouldn’t be all that tricky, since they were going to Waynesville and Lake Junaulska the polls anyway in November to be able to look at the issue.” for a mayor and town board race. It was merely a matter of — Gavin Brown, Waynesville Mayor adding an extra question to the ballot.

Inman said he would obviously comply But posing the question to Lake with any legislation passed by the General Junaluska voters was more complicated.

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Jackson signs jail health contract Less liability, better services a selling point

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER hen John Buchanan first took the jail captain job at the Jackson County Detention Center, one assignment quickly rose to the top of his to do list: figure out a better option for inmates’ health care.

“I really think I need to be out of hiring nurses and supervising nurses and leave that to the medical professionals,” said Sheriff Chip Hall, Buchanan’s boss.

That’s the opportunity he hopes the county’s contract with TransformHealth Correctional Services, approved by commissioners last month, will provide. The Statesboro, Georgia-based company sells itself as a one-stop shop for jail health care, offering everything from seven-day-a-week nursing to mental health services to portable equipment for doing procedures like X-rays in-house.

That’s become an appealing pitch to many counties since the company began in 2003, said Shannon Middleton, chief financial officer. Inmates have a constitutional right to health care, but providing it can be expensive and unnerving, especially when detention officers not trained as medical professionals are asked to step in.

“There’s multiple ways to provide it (medical care) but the security risk of transport and the time for the officers to take them over to the hospital and sit and wait is exorbitant, so a lot of places are going to this service,” Middleton said. “It takes a lot of the liability off the county.”

Anytime a prison inmate goes off-campus, an officer must accompany them. That includes long waits in the hospital waiting room, sitting at the patient’s bedside or travel to out-of-town hospitals.

“It is a tremendous burden,” Hall said.

“We’ve had people sit at the hospital for as many as seven days.”

The agreement with TransformHeatlh won’t replace a hospital, but it will mean that more tests can be done inside the prison. Xrays and blood work, for example, won’t require a trip outside under the new contract, and the cost for service will be far less than it would be at a hospital. For instance, at a hospital it might cost between $50 and $140 to do a complete blood count, but TransformHealth can do the same thing for less than $5.

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of Investigation report looking into the March 13 suicide death of Steve Ross, then an inmate of the jail, is now on the desk of District Attorney Ashley Welch. Ross’s death followed the November 2014 suicide of Charles “Chuckie” Moose, also an inmate at the time. Investigations by the N.C. Department of Health and Human ed to save a lot of money, but for all Resources found that in both cases deteninvolved, one of the most important benetion officers had failed to make rounds as fits of allying with TransformHealth will be often as law requires them to — the same having a nurse onsite eight hours a day, officers were on duty in both cases, and seven days a week. Jackson County had both remain employed by the sheriff ’s hired a nursing position for the jail, but it office — and pointed out that officers did was only 40 hours per week. That meant no not follow proper detoxification protocol in on-site medical professional during the the case of Ross, who was arrested on multiweekends, which in turn meant that officers ple drug-related charges nine days before his “Medical care of an inmate is just as death.

In the fallout from important as for anybody else out the two suicides — one there that needs medical care.” occurred nine days before Hall took office, — Greg Christopher, Haywood County Sheriff and the other happened four months into his administration — Hall said that he’d be wound up dispensing medication when no working to improve the jail’s detoxification nurse was available. procedures, screening for suicidal tendenReversing that reality, Buchanan said, cies and training of officers to follow these might be reason enough to look for other procedures. options.

“Lawsuits have been awarded due to a mix-up of medication by a detention offiMPROVING MENTAL cer,” he said, later adding, “It’s just a huge HEALTH SERVICE liability for them to handle medication, and with Transform our hands are out of it.”

For commissioners, an important comLately, it hasn’t been just the weekend ponent of TransformHealth’s offerings is the when Jackson officers have had to fill in the access it will provide to mental health servnurse’s role. Michelle Dillard, who had been ices. Part of the contract is a twice-monthly the jail nurse, saw her contract end Oct. 30 visit from a mental health provider, with of last year, five days after a Halloween on-call services and telecounseling available party Dillard allegedly hosted. Dillard faces on a cost-per-use basis. one felony count of obstruction of justice “When they’re booked in and we’re layfor allegedly intimidating a teenage girl who ing hands on them, within that 24-hour officers were preparing to interview as a period part of the questionnaire we ask witness — the party allegedly involved them is, ‘Have you ever tried to commit suiunderage drinking and led to the statutory cide? Has anyone in your family committed rape of two 14-year-old girls. suicide?” said Laura Busbin, clinical The position has remained empty since. accounts manager, going on to give a long Hall took his seat as sheriff one month later list of similar questions that will be part of after winning the November election and the screening. turned his eye toward making changes bigThe answers help determine how urgent ger than just filling the vacant position. the case is, and the company has the mental Meanwhile, officers have been the ones dolhealth resources to respond appropriately, ing out meds and standing watch to make Busbin said. The “worst-case scenario” for sure inmates swallow the pills they’re suphow long it might take one of the mental posed to. health providers working with the company County Commission Chairman Brian to arrive in Sylva, Busbin said, would be McMahan said working with about a one-hour drive from Asheville.

TransformHealth will put the county’s level Commissioner Vicki Greene made it of care ahead of where it was before clear that improved mental health services Dillard’s termination. would be an important feature of the com“This company is going to be able to pany’s service. provide more coverage from a nurse stand“Given some things that have happened point than we could have provided with inin our jail where perhaps clients could have house nurses on staff,” he said. “They can used mental health services sooner than only work so many days a week.” they got them, I just want to make sure that Transform, meanwhile, has similar conthose services are available just as quickly as tracts with a total of 22 counties, five of they can get them there to the jail,” she them — including Jackson — in Western said.

North Carolina. That gives it the economy of scale to hire enough nurses to provide TRACK RECORD IN staffing throughout the week.

Dillard’s firing hasn’t been the only blow While the Georgia-based company is to health care at the Jackson County fairly young, it’s not new to Detention Center recently. A State Bureau Western North Carolina. It

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Hall, County Manager Chuck Wooten and Jackson’s county commissioners expressed confidence that contracting with Transform would save the county money in the long run. But that doesn’t mean they’ll see the savings right out the gate. The county will have to make several one-time equipment purchases to comply with what Transform requires — the exact figure remains to be seen, pending an inventory of existing equipment, but would likely be

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between $10,000 and $15,000 — and as it stands now the $201,400 contract is $42,000 more expensive than the amount budgeted for jail health care in 2015-16. The county will have to pay the difference out of its contingency fund and look at increasing the sheriff ’s department’s budget going forward.

But, county leaders decided, the expanded services and the potential to save money in other areas justify the additional expense.

They unanimously approved the contract.

“Initially it looks like it might be a little more, but the fact of in the long run what they might be able to save us will actually pay for the plan,” McMahan said.

Currently, there’s a good deal of year-toyear fluctuation in the county’s jail health care costs. In the 2011-12 fiscal year, for example, they spent $187,000 on health care, but in 2014-15, that number jumped to $418,700.

“This past year we had a significant expenditure because of a terminal case where we had a person that could not be housed with us,” explained Wooten.

Contracting with Transform would not mean that, should a similar situation arise in the future, the county would get out of footing the bill for expensive medical care.

But it would mean that a good many incidents that now trigger a pricey trip to the hospital could be handled in-house for a lower rate, and that the county would have Transform’s team on its side to make sure there wasn’t another liable party before it paid the bill.

For instance, Busbin said, one of the counties Transform works with had an inmate who racked up $22,000 in medical bills. But the county didn’t pay any of it, because through some sleuthing the Transform team found that he was on Medicaid — the county didn’t have to pay the bill.

“They called us to say thank you for that new patrol car they were going to get to buy instead,” said Middleton said.

“We want to provide the best services possible in there (the jail), and this is just another step in moving that direction,” Hall said.

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began its contract with Transylvania County seven years ago, and then started working with Buncombe, Haywood and — as of July — Henderson.

It was the reviews coming back from these counties that got Hall interested in talking more with Transform, particularly his conversation with Haywood County Sheriff Greg Christopher.

“Medical care of an inmate is just as important as for anybody else out there that needs medical care,” Christopher said.

“TransformHealth, they have that same philosophy, and I like that philosophy.”

Christopher said he first signed Haywood on with Transform when the health care contract they had been holding came to an end. Calling around to some neighboring counties turned up positive reviews for Transform, and Haywood has been under contract with the company for the past two years.

It’s worked out well, Christopher said.

The seven-day-a-week nurse is invaluable, taking detention officers out of the position of having to dispense medication. More generally, having a company whose expertise is in health care managing patients’ medical needs is comforting when it comes to liability concerns.

“I’m very pleased with what we are getting in return as far as service goes,” Christopher said. “It’s not only just our nurse here that I like. It is also their company and the corporate headquarters down in Statesboro, Georgia. If we have a situation that we need to pick up the phone and give them a call, they are very, very responsive.”

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Haywood Parents as Teachers now enrolling Parents As Teachers, an evidence-based curriculum of child development information for parents of young children, prenatal to kindergarten, is now enrolling families in the program.

Participation in Haywood County’s PAT is voluntary and free, as the program is funded by SmartStart. Families who enroll receive personal, one-on-one visits with a certified parent educator in their home. These educators visit families to provide them with ideas for ageappropriate activities, developmental information and books with each parent and child.

Educators provide periodic screening for early identification of developmental delays or health, vision and hearing problems. Children who receive these screenings are referred earlier for assistance if a child shows delays.

To enroll, call 828.456.8995.

4-H delegation attends Electric Congress Haywood County 4-H’ers attended the 68th annual 4-H Electric Congress July 13-15 at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

The Haywood County Electric Congress delegation included Lindsey Wicker, Benjamin Carpenter, Holly Warren and extension agent Coley Bartholomew. 4-H’ers learned about careers, renewable energy and assembled mini solar cars and soil moisture test probes.

Fontana Homeowners donate benches to SCC Members of the Fontana Lake Estates Property Owners Association donated benches to the Southwestern Community College

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Swain Center to show their appreciation for SCC letting them hold their meetings there.

Led by Clare Wade, the group donated funds used to purchase six new outdoor benches: three lace the sidewalk leading to the SCC Swain Center’s side door while three are grouped under a strand of trees at the building’s front. www.southwesterncc.edu or 828.366.2000.

Clothes to Kids receives $2,330 Clothes To Kids of Haywood County received $2,330 from The Fund for Haywood County to provide economically disadvantaged school-age children with quality clothing so that they may attend school with the confidence and self-esteem needed to achieve success.

The Fund for Haywood County, an affiliate of The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, is a permanently endowed fund to meet local needs.

828.648.2710 or www.fundforhaywoodcounty.org.

State of Franklin Health receives $785,024 The State of Franklin Health Council, Inc. was awarded a $785,024 grant from Senior Service America, Inc. Almost 90 percent of this grant — originally from the U.S. Department of Labor — will pay wages and benefits to at least 152 low-income older adults living in Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania and Yancey counties. These older adults will participate in the Senior Community Service Employment Program where they are assigned to more than 50 local community, faith-based and public agencies.

• United Way of Haywood County will have a 60th Anniversary Celebration and Day of Caring Kickoff at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, at the Nanci Weldon Gym at Lake Junaluska. Biscuits and coffee will be provided. Volunteers will leave the kickoff and work on Day of Caring jobs all over the county. 828.356.2831 or 828.734.9970.

• The award-winning crime prevention and personal safety seminar, Refuse To Be A Victim, will be conducted from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, at the Canton Branch Library. Seminar topics address personal safety issues as well as home, automobile, telephone, technological and travel security. The program is appropriate for teenagers and up. The seminar is free but registration is encouraged. 828.648.2924.

• Volunteers are needed for a new trial program, Brain Health Workshop, which will begin this fall at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center. Participants will be invited to take part in stimulating trivia-inspired games, brief informational sessions, and other fun, thought-provoking activities. The program will run from 1-3 p.m. each Monday from Sept. 14 through Nov. 2, and attendance at each session is strongly encouraged. To

A graduation luncheon was held on July 30 for members of the 14th Senior Leadership Program. This program gives participants knowledge of area agencies, services and resources so they may become a resource for other Haywood County residents. Pictured are George Wood, (from left) class instructor Victoria Young, Karen Wood, Diane Collins, Bill Collins, Paula Eachus, David Eachus, Anna Rogers and artist Susan Livengood. Not pictured: Michelle Claytor. For more information on the Senior Leadership Program or to register for the next session, call 828.356.2813 or email mclaytor@mountainprojects.org.

Landscaping completed at Norton Center

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Landscaping the Norton Community Development Club Center is one of the first partnering projects completed between the Glenville Initiative; Jackson County Public Works, Grounds and of course NCDC volunteers headed by President Jule Coward.

All involved worked together to design the landscaping plan, share costs, plants and labor.

“The Glenville Initiative Fund has been created for exactly this type beautification project,” said Carolyn Franz, Glenville Initiative Leader.

Haywood County Sheriff Greg Christopher recently attended the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association’s 93rd Annual Training Conference held in Brunswick County with other sheriffs and law enforcement professionals from across the State.

Sheriffs discussed issues of interest to the office of sheriff, including updates on new changes to the law and procedures, as well as an update on the state budget and other actions by the 2015 General Assembly.

reserve a free spot, email mclaytor@mountainprojects.org or call 828.356.2813.

• The Haywood County Republican Party’s Fall Harvest Dinner will be held at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26, at Apple Creek Cafe in Waynesville, with an annual cake auction, live and silent auctions run Auctioneer Dodie Allen. Speakers may include N.C. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, N.C. Rep. Michele Presnell, R-Burnsville, Waynesville Mayor Candidate Jonnie Cure, plus others. $25. 828.246.2468. barbro11@aol.com.

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• Monroe Miller, a conservative activist in Haywood County, is hosting a free Pig Pickin’ from 3-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at the American Legion in Waynesville. Candidates for upcoming town elections are invited to mingle with potential voters. It is billed as non-partisan, but those hosting the event have ties to the activist arm that has taken over the Haywood County Republican Party in recent years. Conservative candidates running for Haywood County commissioner next year may be announcing their candidacy at the event.

• The Haywood County Democratic Party opened a new headquarters location at 734 North Main Street in Waynesville. “We feel like this is the perfect time for us to make this move as it will help catapult our party, and the voters of Haywood County, to help make real change happen in the coming elections,” Myrna Campbell, Haywood Democratic Party Chairwoman, said at the open house recently.

• A retreat for women will be held on Thursday, Sept. 17 through Saturday, Sept. 19, at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. Through worship, music, discussion and freetime options such as massage, yoga and spiritual counseling, conference participants will find a renewal and restoration of spirit. www.lakejunaluska.com/signature-series or call 828.454.6682.

• Drugs in Our Midst will host the third Annual Prayer Walk at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27 in Haywood County. The Walk will begin on the corner of South Main and Academy streets in Waynesville.

Wear your church shirt or bring your church banner. Bus transportation available for those who wish to participate but are unable to make the walk. 828.648.1358.

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Friday night lights still shining bright daughter, a rising freshman at Tuscola High School, made the Color Guard. I had only the vaguest notion of what the Color Guard was, and no recollection at all of whether there was such a thing when I pounded the bass drum in the marching band for Alleghany High back in the 1970s. I was a freshman myself once upon a time, adapting as fast and as well as I could to this intense new world around me. Now it is my daughter’s turn.

We were more than a little surprised when she told us that she wanted to try out, since she did not really show much interest in extracurricular activities during her middle school years. In particular, she has about as much interest in sports as I have in the pop music she is always insisting that I hear when we are going somewhere in the car.

“Isn’t that great, daddy? What do you think? It’s One Direction.”

“I think that One Direction is to the Beatles as Donald Trump is to Abraham Lincoln.”

“But what does that mean?”

“It means that I’m going with the Beatles and Lincoln.”

“I think it means you’re old.”

“That, too.”

When she came home a few months ago and announced that she was trying out, we were surprised, but also encouraged. Wouldn’t it be great if she could get a jumpstart on her new and terrifying social life by getting involved in such a big

group with such a wide range of people in it? Wouldn’t it look good on her high school record if, for example, a scholarship committee might be interested in a few years?

What we did not fully comprehend was just how much our own lives would change if she made the team.

There would be band camp and car washes and bake sales and weekend competitions in other counties and a trip to Disney, where the group will be performing in October. And football games. Lots of football games.

I hadn’t been to a high school footColumnist ball game in at least two decades before we attended the home opener with McDowell High School last Friday. We got to C.E. Weatherby Stadium two hours early to help with traffic, but there were already enough volunteers, so I took my 10-year-old son up into the stands, where we watched both teams stretch and go through a series of warm-up drills.

As the fans began to drift into the stands in small clusters and the threatening storm fell apart and drifted away, we could see the band gathering on one end of the field and the bustling concession stand on the other. I realized that in spite of the vast differences in the world outside the stadium between now and when I was in high school, some things really do never change. One of them is high school football.

On our way in, we had passed by the McDowell bus, where their players — some of them shirtless, some already in pads,

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you’re a band parent, huh? Boy, is your life about to “SMyo,change.” wife and I heard that a lot a few months ago after our

some getting taped up — were all gathered outside around the coach, who was going over the things they have been talking about all week in practice. I thought of my friends on our high school football team — the mighty Trojans — how they wore their jerseys to class on game day, how focused they were an hour before the game, how revved up they were when they tore through the huge paper banner that read “Trojans #1” before gathering on the side for the playing of the national anthem.

I thought of my daughter, who was off somewhere else finishing her own preparations with the other “guard girls” and the band. I knew she was as nervous as she’s ever been, but I also knew that she had been putting in extra hours during the week, surviving a mid-week crisis in confidence, before emerging from practice on Thursday evening with something like serenity.

On game day, she was all business, ticking off items on her list in the morning before school, gathering her gear, checking herself in the mirror for a quick once-over before bolting out the door. Suddenly, she seemed distressingly closer to 30 years old than 14. Indeed, our lives are changing.

We didn’t win the game and her performance wasn’t entirely flawless, but we all had a great night nevertheless. We’ll get ‘em next week. During high school, nothing is bigger than next Friday night.

Some things never change.

(Chris Cox is a writer and teacher who lives in Haywood County. His most recent book, The Way We Say Goodbye, is available at regional bookstores and on Amazon. jchriscox@live.com.)

A bag of stories and an oil can

BY JOHN B ECKMAN G UEST COLUMNIST orty-two years ago a very interesting man moved into the broken, haunted brick mansion two doors up from my parents’ house.

Dave had just retired from 33 years in the U.S. Army as a machinist, welder, mechanic, builder, inventor and general problem-solver in charge of keeping America’s troops and machinery moving. He had set his new sights on restoring the old place singlehandedly as a retirement project. His personal passions and areas of expertise included photography, systems design, the arts, public service, governance and sharing his skills and knowledge with many.

I didn’t know any of this at 14 years old, I just thought he was a cool, old dude who might hire me to cut his grass. And he did.

After the mowing started I found myself spending most of my time there and the jobs progressed to cleaning lumber, scraping paint, pounding nails and carrying a lot of trash.

He also spent many hours answering my questions and discussing any number of topics at length, and I ate it up. If I wasn’t home for dinner, Mom would say to the family “check the colonel’s ...” and send a sibling to

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I continued to work and learn there through high school and most of college, becoming close with the whole family before throwing myself at the world and North Carolina in 1985. Our time and discussions together were replaced with phone calls and letters, intent on sharing my successes and frustrations with this man I had come to rely on for advice and reassurance. Each year I would plan my visit north to coincide with his May 1 birthday, except for the year I flew him to North Carolina instead, always looking forward to our long and unhurried discussions.

We often took road trips to view architectural gems, natural wonders and engineering feats both large and small, as well as anything and everything along the way we found intriguing or worthy of photographing. And always we shared laughter.

I saw him this past May for his 93rd and brought him some photos I had taken of him about 30 years ago. While growing frail in body he was still sharp-minded, inquisitive of all things and as charming and gracious as anyone could be. I stopped by on my last night in town when I saw his light on at 10:30

tradition, under the porte-cochere, where the horse and carriage would have off-loaded the home’s original well-to-do occupants.

The day after his service I began packing up for the long trip back to WNC. His daughp.m. I let myself in as I always had and found ter, and my dear friend, Arianna asked me to him awake reading in the bed he spent much take some of his belongings with me for of his time in these days. I sat down on the remembrance, so I dutifully picked up one of corner of his bed and we talked until after 1 his many carpenters tool bags and walked a.m. It was to be our last face-to-face latethrough his house for the last time. I placed a night dialogue. large wooden mallet he Ironically, or perhad made in the bag I sat down on the corner haps not, I was on my along with an old way north in July for a wood plane, some of his bed and we talked rare second visit this pieces of nylon rope, a year for a family drill he never had a until after 1 a.m. It was to reunion, and to see chance to use, a box of be our last face-to-face him of course, on the O-rings and, from his night he passed. metal shop, one of his late-night dialogue.

Instead of my muchsix oil cans as another anticipated talks with forgotten collection of him, this visit would be spent with his remain- memories came forward. ing family and grandchildren, who had long The road may indeed go on forever, as the ago adopted me, sharing our grief and prepar- Allman Brothers sang, but not so for a single ing his home and ourselves for his memorial human being. Our individual time will indeed service the next week. As usual, I chose to stay run out, but the memories and stories live on in his house during my stay and spent several in those we have touched and changed forevlate nights walking the house and property, er. So if you have something squeaking that remembering our shared lives and missing needs a shot of oil, give me a call when you our conversations. have a couple of hours for some stories. I have His 28-year-old grandson came to stay at plenty to share. the house a few days later, and the two of us (John Beckman is a builder and farmer picked up where we had left off, talking into who lives in Jackson County. He can be the wee hours of the morning in keeping with reached beckmanmtn@frontier.com.)

Despite Sanders’ rhetoric, nothing is free

To the Editor: Such a nice man, this Bernie Sanders, we just love him, he just wants to help everyone!

There he is on TV with all these hollering young people cheering him after he told them that everyone in America should go to college for free. He would establish free tuition in all private and public colleges. The inexperienced young people failed to ask the question: “How much will this cost, who will pay for it, and how?” Bernie will also give everyone free health insurance. How wonderful!

The ignorance of American voters is already on display every day at the White House. With just these two actions Bernie will bankrupt the United States.

Bernie has a long history of being a socialist. In college, he was a 1960s peacenik who applied for conscientious objector status. How can he be made “Commander in Chief “ of the military? He will eliminate all ammunition from the military so nobody will get hurt. In the Senate, he voted against all the military actions. He even voted against going into Kuwait after Saddam Hussein invaded it. He thought we could “talk” them out of Kuiwait.

Bernie just loves the socialist Scandinavian countries like Finland who gives free day care to all children, and Norway which gives 42 weeks of maternity dleave at full pay. He voted against going into sIraq, voted against the use of force on terror-

ists and against the Patriot Act legislation.

And, of course, he wants to tax the rich!

That’s always popular today, even though the highest quintile of income earners pay almost 70 percent of federal taxes. Lately, I am convinced that the only people in the United States who really need a union are the rich.

Now, Social Security is broke. All those many years we had Social Security taken out of our paychecks, and social security had billions in reserve. Our elected politicians stole all the money out of the social security funds and spent it on other projects. If they left that money alone, Social Security would be solvent today.

When our founding fathers created a federal government they were really worried that they were creating a monster which would go beyond their intentions. If they could now see our tax statements, and the amount of federal taxes we pay versus state taxes, they would turn over in their graves and scream After years of borrowing 50 percent of what they spend, the national debt is outrageous.

Americans seem oblivious to it all. As long as they can buy gas, get their groceries and cash their checks, everything is good. Prominent economists are telling us that our system can collapse! Bernie Sanders will be part of the problem, not at all a solution. Read the articles on the Internet about his false notions, why Bernie Sanders is wrong about everything, and the five dumbest quotes from Bernie Sanders.

Nothing is free! Wake up folks!

Jim Sottile Franklin

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BREAKING BREAD CAFÉ 6147 Hwy 276 S. Bethel (at the Mobil Gas Station) 828.648.3838 Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturaday & Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Chef owned and operated. Our salads are made in house using local seasonal vegetables. Fresh roasted ham, turkey and roast beef used in our hoagies. We hand make our own eggplant and chicken parmesan, pork meatballs and hamburgers.

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$9.99 Country Fried Steak Breaded and fried in our house breading and topped with a white-peppered gravy. So tender it cuts with a fork! $11.99 Southern Catfish Your choice of lightly blackened or cornmeal breaded catfish filets, served with our cayenne lime tartar sauce. $7.99 Vegetable Plate Includes 5 house-made sides.

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Open Monday through Friday. Friendly and fun family atmosphere. Local, handmade Southern cuisine. Fresh-cut salads; slowsimmered soups; flame grilled burgers and steaks, and homemade signature desserts.

Blue-plates and local fresh vegetables daily.

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

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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. Followed by a tempting selection of desserts prepared daily by our chefs and other local bakers. Enjoy craft beers on tap, as well as our full bar and eclectic wine list.

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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 12 till 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,

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828.586.1985 • CLOSED MONDAYS

438 Skyland Drive • Sylva

Exit 85 to Skyland Dr., two blocks from McDonalds

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

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

CITY BAKERY 18 N. Main St. Waynesville 828.452.3881.

Monday through Friday 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.

Breakfast is made to order daily: Gourmet cheddar & scallion biscuits served with bacon, sausage and eggs; smoked trout bagel plate; quiche and fresh fruit parfait. We bake a wide variety of breads daily, specializing in traditional french breads. All of our breads are hand shaped. Lunch: Fresh salads, panini sandwiches. Enjoy outdoor dinning on the deck. Private room available for meetings.

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

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

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

CORK & CLEAVER 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

828.456.7179. Reservations recommended.

4:30-9 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Tucked away inside Waynesville Inn, Cork & Cleaver has an approachable menu designed around locally sourced, sustainable, farm-to-table ingredients. Executive Chef Corey Green prepares innovative and unique Southern fare from local, organic vegetables grown in Western North Carolina. Full bar and wine cellar. www.waynesvilleinn.com.

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

828.926.1820 Open Daily 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., closed Tuesday. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet. Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the

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kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service.

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.

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

Lunch Saturday and Sunday noon to 2:30 p.m., dinner nightly starting at 4:30 p.m.

World-famous prime rib, steaks, fresh seafood, gorgonzola cheese and salads. All ABC permits and open year-round. Children always welcome. Take-out menu. Excellent service and hospitality. Reservations appreciated.

JOEY'S PANCAKE HOUSE 4309 Soco Rd Maggie Valley.

828.926.0212. Joey’s is a family style restaurant that has been serving breakfast to the locals and visitors of Western North Carolina since 1966. Featuring a large variety of tempting pancakes, golden waffles, country style cured ham and seasonal specials spiked with flavor, Joey's is sure to please all appetites. Joey & Brenda O’Keefe invite you

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

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

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

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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 6pm, and dinner is served starting at 7pm. So join us for milehigh mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Please call for reservations.

— Real Local People, Real Local Food — 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, North Carolina Monday-Friday Open at 11am

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tasteTHEmountains JUKEBOX JUNCTION U.S. 276 and N.C. 110 intersection, Bethel. 828.648.4193. 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Monday through Saturday; Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner. The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era.

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

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

Open Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. With music at the Depot. Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Life is too short for bad coffee. We feature wonderful breakfast and lunch selections.

Bagels, wraps, soups, sandwiches, salads and quiche with a variety of specialty coffees, teas and smoothies. Various desserts.

PASQUALE’S 1863 South Main Street, Waynesville. Off exit 98, 828.454.5002. Open for lunch and dinner, Tuesday through Sunday.

Classic Italian dishes, exceptional steaks and seafood (available in full and lighter sizes), thin crust pizza, homemade soups, salads hand tossed at your table. Fine wine

RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 828.926.0201 Open Monday-Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m and Sunday 7:30 a.m to 9 p.m. Full service restaurant serving steaks, prime rib, seafood and dinner specials.

SMOKY MOUNTAIN SUB SHOP 29 Miller Street Waynesville 828.456.3400. Open from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. A Waynesville tradition, the Smoky Mountain Sub Shop has been serving great food for over 20 years. Come in and enjoy the relaxed, casual atmosphere. Sub breads are baked fresh every morning in Waynesville. Using only the freshest ingredients in home-made soups, salads and sandwiches. Come in and see for yourself why Smoky Mountain Sub Shop was voted # 1 in Haywood County. Locally owned and operated.

TAP ROOM SPORTS BAR & GRILL 176 Country Club Dr. Waynesville 828.456.5988. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. Enjoy soups, sandwiches, salads and hearty appetizers along with a full bar menu in our casual, smoke-free neighborhood grill.

TWIN MAPLES FARMHOUSE 63 North Hill Street, Waynesville.

828.452.7837. Open for Sunday brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Located just two blocks from downtown Waynesville, Twin Maples is available for weddings, receptions, family reunions, birthday parties, showers, luncheons, corporate meetings and retreats.

VITO’S PIZZA 607 Highlands Rd., Franklin.

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

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THE BEST PLACE TO EAT IN FRANKLIN.

586.3555 located in beautiful downtown Sylva

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PAPERTOWN GRILL 153 Main St., Canton. 828.648.1455 Open 7 days a week 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Serving the local community with great, scratch-made country cooking. Breakfast is served all day. Daily specials including Monday meatloaf, chicken and dumplings on Thursdays and Friday fish.

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tificate at FIU, he found Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, a spot in the mountains near and dear to his heart to pursue his master’s in teaching.

“I knew I missed the mountains,” he said. “I did the beach thing for awhile in Florida, but I wanted to be back in the mountains of Western North Carolina.”

At WCU, Duncan started teaching karate, something he still does to this day, 16 years later.

He also has taught health, wellness and fitness at WCU and Southwestern Community College in Sylva. And when he wasn’t teaching, he was a platoon leader and company commander for the National Guard’s 210th Military Police Company in WNC. Of his assignments, he notes his time spent as a peacekeeper in the Sinai Desert, on the border of Israel and Egypt, during times of tension and violence between the two countries.

CRAFTING YOUR DREAMS

Three’s Company Located on N.C. 107 between Sylva and Dillsboro, the Sneak E Squirrel Brewery is the third of its kind to open and operate in the Jackson County. Garret K. Woodward photo

Sylva welcomes third craft brewery

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER John Duncan won’t forget Aug. 19 anytime soon.

“It was damn scary,” he chuckled.

That day not only marked the opening of the Duncan’s Sneak E Squirrel Brewery in Sylva, it also marked the culmination of a dream of his that’s been almost 20 years in the making.

“Our theme here is community, and we’re going to let the community build this into what they want,” Duncan said.

Standing in the 8,000-square-foot brewery, which was once a car dealership just west of Mark Watson Park on N.C. 107, Duncan still shakes his head as to how the business finally came to fruition. As co-owner/co-brewer (along with four other investors), his blood, sweat and tears are part of the foundation of

the company who mission is to connect neighbors and promote community organizations.

“We want people to feel like they’re part of the community, and this brewery is just an extension of that,” Duncan said.

CAROLINA TO THE COAST Originally from Mebane (halfway between Greensboro and Durham), Duncan found his way to the mountains of Western North Carolina by way of attending Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa. After a year of school, he joined active duty Army for three years, only to spend another year at Warren Wilson before “doing my hippy walk the earth thing — you’ve got to.”

Duncan then entered the Coast Guard in South Florida, and eventually got a degree in creative writing from Florida International University. It was at FIU where Duncan got involved in a martial arts program specifically tailored for college students. He found a true passion for the program, and decided he wanted to teach it himself. Receiving a teaching cer-

So, with all these career paths and endeavors, where does Duncan’s love of craft beer come from?

“Well, to start, I was 15 when I took my first sip of a Budweiser and I wouldn’t touch another again until I was in my 30s,” he said.

Duncan had a serious John Duncan allergic reaction to the preservatives used in Anheuser-Busch products. Add that to his dislike of Miller or Coors brews (“They’re too weak for me.”) and Duncan was on the sidelines of beer enjoyment and enthusiasm. But, that all changed when he was in the Coast Guard down in Jamaica.

“We’d had been out on the ocean for a month, and when we came into port I was in search of a drink,” he said. “The rum was too strong, it could peel the chrome off of a bumper.

So, I tried a Red Stripe (Jamaican beer). I liked it and I didn’t get sick — I couldn’t believe it.”

It turned out, Duncan could enjoy other brews without health problems. And when he eventually discovered Samuel Adams, that was it — he wanted to learn everything there was about home brewing.

“I found Sam Adams and it was amazing,” Duncan said. “I didn’t know you could make your own beer, I didn’t know I could do all of these things.”

By 1996, Duncan has his first home brewing kit. He experimented with different types of ales, and soon opened his own home brew store, Dingleberries, in Sylva in 2001 as a way to not only get the products he needed, but also provide a social hub and outlet for other local home brewers in WNC. And all the while, Duncan had the idea in the back of his head to open his own brewery someday. But, to launch a brewery means lots of time, planning and money.

“I was a minimum wage kid and people aren’t exactly standing in line to give away stainless steel,” he said. “So, I built industry

“It’s pretty great to see someone order a beer and some food, and to see them stare at what they just sipped or took a bite of, and see that smile come across their face.”

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contacts over the years, learned all I could about craft beer, and even through the difficulty of finding investors and the recession of 2008, we were able to start work on the brewery 20 months ago.”

Throughout those last two years, Duncan and his small crew gutted and renovated the large warehouse into a modern brewery.

Running on a 7-barrel system, with four 7-barrel fermenters and seven 9-barrel holding tanks, Sneak E Squirrel now pours upwards of 10 different kinds of craft beer at any given time. To dovetail the consumer experience, the location also has a full kitchen.

“It’s about quality beer and quality food,” Duncan said. “It’s pretty great to see someone order a beer and some food, and to see them stare at what they just sipped or took a bite of, and see that smile come across their face.”

Well, what about the name — Sneak E Squirrel?

“It’s my online gaming handle. It was supposed to be ‘Secret Squirrel,’ like after the 1960s cartoon, but I messed up the registration,” Duncan laughed. “So, it stuck, and we ended up using it to name the brewery. There hasn’t been a mythical back story yet that has developed, but we hope one develops as we evolve.”

Now that the brewery is open, and folks are wandering through the door, Duncan is looking forward to having his company become another piece of the puzzle that connects the residents and visitors in the community.

“Everything Sylva and Jackson County are doing these days, from Concerts on the Creek to the Mountain Faith parade to new businesses, is an evolution of the community,” he said.

“It’s about bringing in new ideas, expanding on our successes and walking away from things that haven’t worked.”

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All that matters is what lies ahead, the unknown, a scary idea for most, but a notion, to me, that sends a chill through my body like a little kid awakening on Christmas morning.

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These memories flooded my mind when I met up with Seth and Alli at Boojum. A lot of time had passed, with much happening in our lives since then. Seth is a brewLegendary musician and founder of the Nitty er in Massachusetts (Wachusett), Gritty Dirt Band, John McEuen will perform at while Alli runs an all-natural ener8 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Martin-Lipscomb gy bar company (OWL) in Performing Arts Center in Highlands.

Vermont. They got married awhile The Dillsboro Arts & Crafts Market will be held back and now travel the country from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 19 on Front together, in search of the next big Street in downtown. adventure.

They’re happy, and so am I, BearWaters Brewing Company (Waynesville) writing and exploring the great will have Ol’ Dirty Bathtub mysteries of people, traditions and (Americana/bluegrass) at 7 p.m. Sept. 11. landscape in Southern Appalachia.

We’ve all found footing in our Renowned soul/jazz musician Shana Tucker respective endeavors. It’s an will perform at 8 p.m. Sept. 19 at The Strand incredible sense of self that only at 38 Main in Waynesville. comes with time, and age, as youth Andrews Brewing Company will have The becomes maturity, intent transiDirty Soul Revival (rock/blues) at 7 p.m. tions into reality.

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The three of us met up a couple times on their jaunt around sient and manic nature of life. If you’re not Western North Carolina. Delicious local out there skiing Targhee, mountain biking craft beer, mountain biking at Bent Creek, as the Big Holes or fly fishing the Snake River, joyous conversation rang true throughout you’re catching wild live music at the Knotty (the essence of any true friendship). We Pine Supper Club, a cold one at The Royal made plans for hanging out again come winWolf or partaking in shenanigans at an after- ter, perhaps even in Massachusetts. Another hours party on the prairie. It’s a Peter Pan adventure? And in New England? Who mentality, one where you really don’t ever knows? All that matters is what lies ahead, grow old, where old age just meant you were the unknown, a scary idea for most, but a lucky enough to have so many opportunities notion, to me, that sends a chill through my to reach for the pearl of existence — as long body like a little kid awakening on as there was somewhere to go and someChristmas morning. thing to do each day, and there always was.

Their attitude not only mirrors mine, it I met strangers, now dear friends, from also throws more fuel on the fire in what I Missouri, Georgia, South Dakota, Vermont, aim to do with my life — live it.

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It’s funny, isn’t it?

When you cross paths with folks you haven’t seen in years, and yet you are all still on the same page, where it feels no time has past since your last rendezvous.

Case in point, last Friday afternoon. I received a message from my old friend, Seth.

He and his wife, Alli, were passing through Waynesville. Was I around to meet for a beer? Of course. Heading up from our office to the Boojum Brewing taproom on Main Street, I realized it had been about seven years since I’d seen either one of them. How would the conversation go? Would they still be the happy-go-lucky, gung-ho folks I knew from back then?

I first met Seth and Alli when I was 22 years old. January 2008. I had just taken my first reporting job out of college at the Teton Valley News in Driggs, Idaho (over the Grand Teton mountain range from Jackson, Wyoming). Uprooting from New York, I didn’t know a soul when I hit the Rocky Mountain town of around 1,400 residents.

Much like my relocation here to Waynesville, I was excited and anxious, ready to claim whatever adventures and friendships presented themselves.

At that time, Seth was working for Grand Teton Brewing, Alli up at hill at Grand Targhee Ski Resort. They were somewhat dating then, as were a lot of my new friends there. I was single and ready to mingle with all the snow bunnies surrounding me — it’s all kind of a blur looking back, as is most of our memories when we reflect on our early 20s.

The thing with living in a mountain town, especially one out West, is the tran-

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Ohio and all points in-between. We were young and ambitious, with a reckless abandon to grasp whatever it was we thought we were made of when we left home for the great beyond. Although my tenure in Driggs only lasted about nine months, it justified the purpose I have chased ever since, the idea of being a writer, a journalist, trying to find footing in an uncertain job industry amid the eventual economic recession of 2008.

After I left Idaho and headed back to New York, I felt (and still do to this day) that a piece of my soul still floats around back in Driggs. And for a lot of my friends there, who also have moved on, I think the feeling is mutual. We got into the car and headed down the road, with the occasional glance in the rearview mirror to what we were leaving behind — our first steps into adulthood, our deepest dreams held and not yet shared with the world, until now.

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On the beat The Tenth Annual

SEPT. 12 • 11 A.M.-5 P.M.

Bluegrass, Dixieland, Jazz & BBQ Featuring:

Whitewater Bluegrass Co. Frog Level Philharmonic Hill Country Band A ‘Welcome Home Parade’ will be Sept. 10 for Mountain Faith. Donated photo

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Mountain Faith ‘Welcome Home Parade’

Music at the Mill is a celebration of our WNC heritage at the 128-year old Francis Grist Mill, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013! Enjoy crafts, Mama Moody’s fried pies, milling demonstrations & door prizes!

Bring your own lawn chair; service animals only.

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DIRECTIONS: Hwy. 276S from Downtown Waynesville to Hugh Massie Road. The mill is on the right.

TICKETS: $10 ON THE DAY OF THE MUSIC $7 in advance before Sept. 7

Call 828-456-6307 for advance tickets

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There will be a “Welcome Home Parade” for acclaimed bluegrass act Mountain Faith at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, in downtown Sylva.

The Sylva-based bluegrass/gospel group advanced all the way to the semifinals of NBC’s nationally televised show “America’s Got Talent.” The group performed live twice at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, before being eliminated from the competition on Sept. 2.

The parade will start at Mark Watson Park, proceed down Main Street, circle to Mill Street and conclude at Bridge Park. There will be a reception at the Bridge Park after the parade.

Refreshments will also be provided. The public is invited to attend this free event.

Mountain Faith will greet fans, sign autographs, have CDs, apparel, and other merchandise available for purchase. Entertainment will be provided by the Triple Threat Dancers, the Smoky Mountain High School (SMHS) Marching Band and SMHS cheerleaders will participate in the parade.

The parade is being organized by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, the Town of Sylva and Jackson County Parks and Recreation.

828.586.2155 or www.mountainlovers.com.

WCU Low Brass Festival Piano, viola concert is Sept. 18-19 in Franklin The second annual Low Brass Festival will take place Sept. 18-19 in the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University.

Friday’s session begins at 11:30 a.m. and includes ensemble coaching, a master class and a faculty rehearsal. Saturday session starts with registration at 8 a.m. and is highlighted by a workshop to prepare for all state/college auditions and a panel discussion.

The day concludes with a 5 p.m. recital featuring guest artists Adam Frey (euphonium soloist and adjunct professor of euphonium at Georgia State University and Emory University) and William Mann (assistant professor of trombone at Georgia State University and member of the American Trombone Quartet).

All sessions are free and open to the public. A complete schedule of events can be found on the festival’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/events/ 872340386193369.

The festival is supported in part by the WCU School of Music and the College of Fine and Performing Arts Office of the Dean.

828.227.7242.

Violist Yinzi Kong and pianist William Ransom will perform a concert of classical selections at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13, in the sanctuary of Franklin’s First Presbyterian Church.

The program will include J.S. Bach’s Suite #1 in G Major (solo viola), Frederic Chopin’s Ballade #3 and Polonaise (solo piano), and Cesar Franck’s Sonata in A Major (viola and piano). A reception will be held following the concert.

Both artists have performed in major concert halls all over the world including the stages of Carnegie Hall, and have appeared on National Public Radio and on radio and television broadcasts throughout the world. They also have collaborated with some of the finest musicians of our time including Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Stoltzman, William Preucil and Sarah Chang.

Admission is by donation; $7 is suggested.

This event is presented by the Arts Council of Macon County, with partial funding from the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

828.524.ARTS or arts4all@dnet.net.

On the beat

Soul/jazz musician Shana Tucker will perform at 8 p.m. Sept. 19 at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville.

Touted by JazzTimes Magazine as “a jazz talent...whose imprint and vitality has already been quite visible in North Carolina,” Tucker is a singer-songwriter and cellist who credits her genre-bending chamShana Tucker ber/soul style to the influences of 80s and 90s pop music, movie soundtracks, and world music, interwoven with steady nods to her classical and jazz roots.

Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 day of show. www.38main.com.

• Andrews Brewing Company will have The Dirty Soul Revival (rock/blues) Sept. 12 and Rye Baby (Americana/bluegrass) Sept.

19. Shows are $5 and begin at 7 p.m. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

chorus will perform the latest major John Rutter choral composition, The Gift of Life: Six Canticles of Creation, and Missa Carolae

by James Whitbourn.

There are no auditions, although prospective singers should be able to read music, be familiar with choral singing and be committed to the rehearsal and performance schedule. Dues are $20, payable at registration.

• Balsam Mountain Inn will have R.B. Morris, Irene Kelley and Peter Cooper as part of their Songwriters in the Round series at 6 p.m. Sept. 12. $47 per person, which includes a buffet dinner.

828.456.9498 or www.balsammountaininn.com.

City Lights to host album release party

• BearWaters Brewing Company (Waynesville) will have Ol’ Dirty Bathtub (Americana/bluegrass) 7 p.m. Sept. 11, SmokeRise 7 p.m. Sept. 12 and The Get Right Band (rock/funk) 8 p.m. Sept. 19. www.bwbrewing.com.

Traditional music act William Ritter & Sarah Ogletree will host their album release party at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

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• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will have an open mic night at 8:30 p.m. on Mondays in their downtown taproom.

Free and open to the public.

828.246.0350 or www.boojumbrewing.com.

Recently married, the couple met as students while attending Appalachian State University and have been playing traditional music together for nearly five years. In 2015, they played Merlefest and released a selftitled album. Though their music reflects many southern traditional styles, they are mostly influenced by the sights and sounds of Western North Carolina.

828.586.9499.

• Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will have Kevin Lorenz (Americana/jazz) Sept. 11, Joe Cruz (piano/pop) Sept. 12, Hope Griffin (blues/Americana) Sept. 18 and Jay Brown (blues/jazz) Sept. 19. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• The Historic Cowee School (Franklin) will host Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’Blues at 7 p.m. Sept. 19. Tickets are $15. www.coweeschool.org.

• The Bryson City Train Depot “Music in the Mountains” concert series will have Larry Barnett & Friends (bluegrass/Americana) Sept. 12 and The Kelley Family Band Sept. 19. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will have 12th Fret Sept. 12, Joe Lasher Jr. (country/rock) 6 p.m. Sept. 18 and Jacked Up Joe Sept. 19. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

828.454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Sept. 9 and 16, a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Sept. 10 and 17. All events begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

September Specials

September 9-15, 2015

The Haywood Community Chorus fall rehearsal schedule begins in September, and interested singers are invited to participate.

The first rehearsal will be at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 14, at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesville.

Now in its 18th year, the 70-plus-voice local chorus is committed to the performance and preservation of great choral music, both classical and contemporary. Repertoire embraces music from many traditions, including sacred, folk, opera, Broadway and secular compositions. The chorus is directed by David Traynham and accompanied by Kathy McNeil.

The 12-week rehearsal schedule will culminate in a late fall concert on Dec. 6. The

• City Lights Café (Sylva) will have Karen “Sugar” Barnes & Dave McGill (Americana/blues) Sept. 12. Free.

828.587.2233 or www.citylightscafe.com.

• Friday Night Live (Highlands) summer concert series will have Tallulah River Band (Americana/bluegrass) Sept. 11 and Alex Commins & Todd Prusin Sept. 18. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• Bogart’s (Waynesville) will have live bluegrass/string music with The Freight Hoppers Sept. 10 and Letters To Abigail Sept. 17. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. 828.452.1313.

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• Canton Recreation Park will have “Pickin’ in the Park” from 7 to 10 p.m. on Fridays. www.cantonnc.com or 828.648.2363.

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The Isaacs showcase gospel, bluegrass Internationally acclaimed country and bluegrass gospel family group The Isaacs will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

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

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Singer-songwriter Heidi Holton will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday Sept. 17, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Holton is turning heads with her unique take on one of America’s oldest popular musical traditions. At once authentic and yet utterly new, her take on blues standards is nothing short of a revelation. Her tasteful originals shine just as brightly, seemingly both familiar and fresh. She studied under the great Jorma Kaukonen, then disappeared to Alaska’s arctic interior to perfect her craft before

• Jackson County Public Library (Sylva) will host a community dance at 2:30 p.m. Sept.

13. Circle and contra dances. Ron Arps will be the caller, with live music by Out of the Woodwork. All styles will be taught and walked through beforehand. No previous experience needed. A community dinner will follow at 5 p.m. ronandcathy71@frontier.com.

• Mad Anthony’s Bottle Shop & Beer Garden (Waynesville) will have ‘Round the Fire (Grateful Dead tribute) Sept. 11, Hunter Grigg (singer-songwriter) Sept. 18 and Fritz Beer & The Crooked Beat (Americana) Sept.

19. All events begin at 9 p.m.

Bluegrass, barbecue at Francis Mill The Francis Mill Preservation Society will celebrate the preservation of the 128year-old mill during the 10th annual “Music at the Mill” from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, in Waynesville.

The 1887 timber frame mill operated until 1976. More than just a place of business, the mill served as the mountain community’s social hub for many of its early years. The FMPS first pioneered “Music at the Mill” at the mill site in 2006. The bluegrass and barbecue celebration will include performance by Whitewater Bluegrass Co., Hill Country Band and The Frog Level Philharmonic.

Advance tickets are $7 per person and are available at Elements Salon in Waynesville or Mountain Dreams Realty in Maggie Valley. All proceeds from this event go to the continuing preservation of the Francis Mill and educational/heritage programs. The mill is located at 14 Hugh Massie Road in Waynesville.

828.456.6307.

mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer, anything unplugged, are invited to join. Singers are also welcomed to join in or you can just stop by and listen. Free. 828.488.3030.

• Nantahala Brewing Company (Bryson City) will have The Ends (rock/funk) Sept. 11 and Carolina Blue (bluegrass) Sept. 18. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

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• Mad Batter Food & Film (Sylva) will have PMA (rock/jam) and Darren & The Buttered Toast (soul/funk) at 9 p.m. Sept. 11. $2. www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

• No Name Sports Pub (Sylva) will have Rye Baby (Americana/bluegrass) Sept. 11, Ethan Morse & Friends w/James Scott Stambough Sept. 12, Humps & The Blackouts (psychobilly) Sept. 18 and Daniel Bayer & Noah Smith Sept. 19. All shows are free and begin at 9 p.m. 828.586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

• The Maggie Valley Opry House will have legendary banjoist Raymond Fairchild at 8 p.m. nightly through October. Admission is $12. www.raymondfairchild.com or 828.926.9336.

• Papertown Country Music & Dance Parlor (Canton) will have live music and dancing from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturdays. Admission is $8. 828.736.8925.

• The Maggie Valley Pavilion will host the Haywood Community Band at 6:30 p.m.

Sept. 20. Free. www.haywoodcommunityband.org or 828.456.4880.

• The Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) summer concert series will have Caribbean Cowboys (rock/pop) Sept. 12 and Newbridge (bluegrass w/cloggers) Sept. 19. Both shows begin at 7:30 p.m. An open mic starts at 6:30 p.m. Free. www.franklinnc.com.

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828.586.2016 or www.fontanalib.org.

• Marianna Black Library (Bryson City) will hold community music jam from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17. Anyone with a guitar, banjo,

• Salty Dog’s Restaurant (Maggie Valley) will

Singer-songwriter Noah Smith will perform on Sept. 18 at the Water’n Hole Bar & Grill in Waynesville and Sept. 19 at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. Both shows begin at 9 p.m. www.noahsmithmusic.com.

Legendary musician and founder of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John McEuen will perform at 8 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Martin-Lipscomb Performing Arts Center in Highlands. The show will also feature John Carter Cash, son of Johnny and June. Tickets start at $32. www.highlandspac.net.

have North 40 Renegades at 8 p.m. Sept. 9, Randy Flack 6 p.m. and Karaoke by Jason 8 p.m. Sept. 11, Randy Mason Band 6 p.m.

Sept. 12 and Tony LaFalce 3 p.m. Sept. 13.

828.926.9105.

• Satulah Mountain Brewing (Highlands) will have Jimandi (folk/rock) every Wednesday at 7 p.m. and a rotating series of local performers on Fridays at 9 p.m. 828.482.9794 or www.satulahmountainbrewing.com.

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

828.926.1288.

• Soul Infusion (Sylva) will have Ol’ Dirty Bathtub (Americana/bluegrass), The Freeway Revival, PMA during an all-day benefit concert on Sept. 19. 828.586.1717 or www.soulinfusion.com.

• Tuck’s Tap & Grill (Cullowhee) will have DJ X 10 p.m. Sept. 10 and 17, The Freeway Revival (rock/jam) Sept. 12, Heidi Holton (blues/folk) 11 a.m. Sept. 13 and Jesse Stephens & Ben Morgan 9 p.m. Sept. 18.

• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will have My Brother the Bear (singer-songwriter) Sept. 18 and the “Pirate Party” allday with Humps & The Blackouts (psychobilly) at 10 p.m. Sept. 19. All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

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The Youth Arts Festival will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro.

The festival features local and regional artists demonstrating their skills and sharing their love for their art. In addition to glassblowing, blacksmithing, pottery, and other demonstrations, artists will once again be working with the children to make pots, weave bookmarks, create glass mosaics, paint with tennis balls, and much more.

The GEP is an award-winning project that uses landfill gas and other renewable energy resources to fuel a variety of art studios and other efforts. There is no entrance fee to attend the Youth Arts Festival and all art activities are free as well. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. www.jcgep.org.

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Classes at The Bascom

There will be an array of upcoming classes held at The Bascom in Highlands.

• After School Art Adventure — 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. every Wednesday. A wide variety of art genres and collaborative projects for children. For ages 5 to 9. Cost is $20 for a four-class package.

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• There will be an After-School Art Adventure for children and students from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. on Wednesdays starting Sept. 16 through Dec. 16 at the Uptown Gallery in Franklin. The gallery will also host a Kids’ Creative Station from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays starting

Sept. 19 through Dec. 19. Participants in both classes will work on individual and collaborative art projects. For ages 5 to 10. $5, with a four-class minimum commitment.

828.349.4607 or blrabbott@yahoo.com or www.thebascom.org.

• An art opening for photographer Carolina Anderson will be at 6 p.m. Sept. 18 at City Lights Café in Sylva. Free appetizers, with an artist meet and greet. www.citylightscafe.com.

• The Mountain Heritage Center, Western Carolina University’s museum of Appalachian culture, is back at full operation after a summertime move from H.F. Robinson Administration Building to space at WCU’s Hunter Library. The exhibit “Collecting for the Community,” an exploration of the diversity and variety to be found in Western North Carolina, is now on display in the museum’s new 1,500-square-foot gallery on the first

Highlands ‘Classic Film Festival’ There will be a “Classic Film Festival” held Sept. 18-20 at the Highlands Playhouse.

The following films will be shown during the festival — The Wizard of Oz; Stagecoach; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Mr. Smith Goes To Washington; Gone With The Wind; The Hound of The Baskervilles; and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle. www.highlandsplayhouse.org.

WCU offers ‘Art Days for Kids’ The “Art Days for Kids” program will take place from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept.

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floor of the library. Visiting hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, with extended hours until 7 p.m. on Thursdays.

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Activities include Batik Cloth making, Carved sculpture, Sound Costumery and Performance. Open to any child age 7 years and up. Students will be divided into age groups for beginning/advanced project levels. Classes are limited to 30 students. $35 per child per session or $90 for all three sessions (Oct. 30 and Nov. 11, each with different activities), with lunch included. Scholarships available for students in need. learn.wcu.edu or 828.227.7397.

through Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee also on Saturday. Free. For a full schedule of dates and times, click on www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

• The Southern Circuit Film Series presents its first film of the season, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

15, in the University Center theater at Western Carolina University. The documentary resurrects the buried history of the outrageous and brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971. Filmmaker Mary Dore is will also be present at the event. www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com

• “Far From the Madding Crowd” will be screened at 7 p.m. Sept. 9-10 at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. “Boulevard” will be shown at 7 p.m. Sept. 11, 4 and 7 p.m.

Sept. 12, 2 and 4 p.m. Sept. 13, 7 p.m. Sept.

15-16 and 18, 4 and 7 p.m. Sept. 19 and 2 and 4 p.m. Sept. 20. Tickets are $6.50, with a $3.25 matinee pass for 2 and 4 p.m. showings. www.38main.com or call 828.283.0079.

• The films “Mad Max: Fury Road” (Sept. 10, 12), “Age of Adeline” (Sept. 11-12), “Love & Mercy” (Sept. 17), “Cinderella” (Sept. 18-19) and “Furious 7” (Sept. 18-19) will be screened at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva.

Show times are 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Thursday

• The High Country Quilters will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, at the First Methodist Church in Waynesville. Meeting features small quilts from members, with the theme of “High Country Living.” New quilters welcome. Meetings are every third Thursday of the month. 828.246.0557.

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• A leaf printing on fabric workshop will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Instructor will be Carolyn Hopper. This process involves the use of natural elements such as leaves to produce an impression on fabric. There is no cost for this class and materials will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring T-Shirts or other solid color fabric objects to decorate. This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library.

828.586.2016.

• Kids’ Creation Station — 10 a.m. to noon every Saturday. Wake up and create art.

Array of artistic genres for children to experiment in. For ages 5 to 10. Cost is $5 per class.

• Anatomy Studies in Clay with Wesley Wofford will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept.

14-18. Each participant will create several water-based sculptures from a live nude model. The class focus will be specific details of the human form. Cost is $450 members, $500 non-members.

• Sip and Stroke from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 17. Learn to recreate a wellknown painting and sip while you stroke. Canvas, paint, and brushes are supplied. $36 members, $40 non-members.

• “Hypertufa” garden planters with Les Williams from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, Sept. 18.

Each participant will make a planter, and carvings and colorful procedures will be demonstrated. $90 members, $100 non-members. www.thebascom.org.

• The Golden Dragon Acrobats will bring the 2,000-year tradition of Chinese acrobatics to the stage at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept.

9, in the John W. Bardo Fine & Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University.

Tickets are $5 for students, $10 for adults. ace.wcu.edu or 828.227.2612.

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The Dillsboro Arts & Crafts Market will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

19, on Front Street in downtown.

Demonstrations and items for sale include painting flowers with watercolors, soap making, basketry, metal art, rustic furniture, porcelain jewelry, pottery, painting with oil on tiles and more. www.spiritofappalachia.org.

The Youth Arts Festival will be Sept. 19 at the Jackson County Green Energy Park. Ashley T. Evans photo

The comedy production of “The Fox On The Fairway” will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 11-12, 18-19, 25-26 and Oct. 2-3 and at 3 p.m. Sept. 13, 20, 27 and Oct. 4 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

Bingham, president of the Quail Valley Country Club is in a difficult position; the golfer he thought would play for his club has switched sides, recruited by his counterpart and opponent, and the huge bet he had foolishly wagered is now likely to be lost. Fortunately, he discovers that a new hired hand is actually quite a good golfer. He just has a few problems.

Tickets are $24 for adults, $20 seniors, $11 students, with a $7 matinee. www.harttheatre.org.

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Waynesville’s Rockin’ Block Party The last Rockin’ Block Party of the summer will be at from 6 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 19, in downtown Waynesville.

From 6 to 7 p.m., the “Kids on Main” will begin with several merchant sponsored hands-on activities, balloon twisting, face painting and a children’s area. “Kids on Main” began a few years back at the Block Party with merchants wanting to offer activities to younger families who had early curfews. These art activities are accessible on the sidewalk at the entrance to the shops.

Live music will follow at 7 p.m. on the south end and north end in front of Tipping Point Brewing. Bands include Soldier’s Heart (Americana/rock), ‘Round the Fire (Grateful Dead tribute) and the 96.5 House Band (pop/rock). There will also be food and craft vendors onsite.

The Waynesville Police Department will again host their famous barbecue fundraiser for SWAT, with Dog Squad T-shirts for sale as well. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

Cherokee festival in Hayesville The Cherokee Heritage Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Cherokee Homestead Exhibit in downtown Hayesville.

This event will provide the opportunity to observe talented Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), including award winning potter Amanda Swimmer, who is recovering from a hip fracture and stroke.

But even these inconveniences can’t keep the 94 year old from doing what she does best — demonstrate how to make beautiful handbuilt Cherokee pottery.

Swimmer was honored by the Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, which held an exhibition of her work in the early 1980s.

In 1994, she received the North Carolina Heritage Award, the state’s highest honor.

During 2002, she was instrumental in forming the Cherokee Potters Guild. In 2005, Swimmer was awarded an honorary doctorate from University of North Carolina, Asheville. Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center awarded Swimmer a Mountain Heritage Award in 2012 for demonstrating traditional pottery making at the Oconaluftee Indian Village for more than 40 years.

Western Carolina University Hunter Library professor and author Anna Fariello featured Swimmer in Cherokee Pottery:

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Other featured Cherokee will include artist and historian Davy Arch who will share stories and legends, in addition to demonstrating flint knapping and maskmaking skills. Arch served on the boards of the North Carolina Arts Council and the Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual. His work is on permanent display at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Arch served as the primary consultant and assisted in artistic design for the public art at the Cherokee Homestead Exhibit.

Hayesville’s own Dan Hollifield will share his beautiful flute music with festival attendees again this year. Hollifield, a member of the Cherokee Nation, carves the wooden flutes we have the pleasure of hearing. In addition to these outstanding artists, you’ll have the opportunity to enjoy the Oconaluftee Indian Village dancers as they recreate traditional Cherokee dances.

When not dancing, they will share their culture through beadwork, basketry, finger weaving, carving, dart making, pottery, flint knapping, and blowgun skills.

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The Smoky Mountain Model Railroaders will be hosting an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept 13, at their clubhouse at 130 Frazier Street Suite 13 in Waynesville. www.smokymountainmodelrailroaders.wordpress.com or smokymountainmodelrailroaders@hotmail.com.

The annual Mountain Life Festival in Great Smoky Mountains National Park will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

19, at the Mountain Farm Museum near Cherokee.

This event continues to preserve the legacy of Appalachian folkways and is a tribute to the many families who lived on lands that later became the national park. All activities are free and open to the public and will include demonstrations of hearth cooking, apple butter and apple cider making, blacksmithing, lye soap making, food preservation, broom making, quilting, and chair bottoming.

Artifacts and historic photographs from the national park’s collection will also be on display.

828.497.1904.

• A Hispanic Heritage Meal will be held on Friday, Sept. 11, at the Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center in Waynesville. Lunch is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at $8 per person. Dinner is 6 p.m. at $12 per person. Children ages 5 and under are $5. For reservations, 828.452.7232.

The Mountain Life Festival will be Sept. 19 in Cherokee. Donated photo

BUGGIN’ OUT VW’s in the Valley will be Sept. 18-19 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Two-day all VW car show and swap meet. All VW models and years welcome. Trophies and cash prizes. VW bus camping available for $25 each night. For more information, click on www.vwaircooledassociation.com or 276.620.1246.

• The Zonta’s Boots & Bling Fundraiser will be at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Bloemsma Farm Barn in Franklin. The event will benefit the New Centering Pregnancy Program at Angel Medical Center. www.franklin-chamber.com.

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• The Jamberry Launch Party will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Village Florist in Bryson City. Ladies Night Out with games and refreshments. 828.736.6492.

Macon County Fair returns to Franklin

A homegrown organization giving family to orphans in Bolivia is hosting a fundraiser from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at the First United Methodist Church of Waynesville.

Only one thing is required of attendees to Hog Wars 2015 — a hankering for barbecue, bluegrass and helping kids. The event will test the barbecue of a team from eastern

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North Carolina against that of the western part of the state, with attendees invited to weigh in on their favorite meat. Bluegrass band Sons of Ralph will play, and inflatables for kids and games for all will make it a party.

All proceeds will benefit Kory Wawanaca Children’s Home, a Methodist Children’s home serving abandoned and orphaned children in Bolivia that’s largely funded by individuals and churches in Western North Carolina.

The home was founded in 2005 by Carrie Blackburn Brown, of Waynesville, and it soon became a family effort when she married her husband Gavin Brown. Today, Kory Wawanaca has two campuses — a home for elementary-aged children in the tiny village

Chef Ricardo Fernandez, former owner/head chef or Lomo Grill, will host another Mountain Cooking Club class from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Fines Creek Community Kitchen in Clyde.

Alongside his wife Suzanne, the workshops are a variety of classes celebrating local, seasonal ingredients, many from their own Wildcat Ridge Farm in Clyde. The menu for Sept. 20 includes roasted grape bruschetta, vegetable tartine, hasselback pork loin roast, and fresh fig tart.

Class fee is $60 plus a $1 membership fee for the club. To reserve your space, contact Suzanne at 828.246.7465 and mail a check (payable to Ricardo Fernandez) to Ricardo & Suzanne Fernandez, 3553 Panther Creek Road, Clyde, N.C. 28721.

• The “Stars of Center Stage” local talent competition will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets are $10. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• The Rotary Club of Highlands Craft Beer Festival will be Thursday, Sept. 10, at The Farm at Old Edwards Inn. www.highlandschamber.org.

• The Thunder in the Smokies fall rally will be 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sept. 11, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sept. 12 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds.

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of Tacachia and another home for older children in the city of La Paz — and welcomes as many as seven volunteer groups every year, the lion’s share from North Carolina.

Currently, 25 children call it home.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for children ages 3 to 12 and free for children under 3.

Purchase them online at www.kwchildren.org, at FUMC of Waynesville or at the door.

828.231.8661.

• “Parent’s Night Out” will be held from 4:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Waynesville Recreation Center. This is for all students in current pre-K to seventh grade. Kids can enjoy games, movies and fun activities. Space is limited. Each participant will need to bring a bathing suit, water shoes and tennis shoes. The cost is $5 per child. 828.456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov.

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The Macon County Fair will be Sept. 17-20 at the Wayne Proffitt Agricultural Center in Franklin.

With the theme “A Wealth of Traditions,” highlights of the event include opening ceremonies (1 p.m. Sept. 17), cross-cut saw demonstration (6 p.m. Sept. 18), barbecue supper (3 p.m. Sept. 19), kids pedal tractor pull (6 p.m. Sept. 19), cake contest (11 a.m.

Sept. 14), tractor driving contest (2 p.m. Sept.

120). There will also be numerous livestock shows, entertainment and live music throughout the fair.

For a full schedule, click on www.themaconcofair.com/agricultural-fair-franklin-nc or 828.369.3523.

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Model railroad open house in Waynesville

Fall harvest festival returns to Cherokee

• The Dazzling Dahlia Festival will be Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Highlands Rec Park and Civic Center. The event will showcase local enthusiasts’ prize-winning dahlias. Public admission is $5.

Patron ticket is $125. Exhibitor fee is $10. www.highlandschamber.org.

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WNC’s African-American history his is a monumental work. Ann Miller Woodford has gathered an astonishing amount of information, including old letters, church records, unpublished and previously published histories, mementos and dairies. She has spent some seven years, visiting family elders, cemeteries and the abandoned sites of churches, factories and villages. At some point, she began to weave this awesome tapestry of an “invisible culture” that not only survived trials and tribulations of the past two hundred Writer years, but actually fostered a vital energy and grew stronger. The traces of the first African-American settlers still lingers in the remote coves and valleys and North Carolina’s “far western” counties.

The author of this work is multi-talented.

Woodford sings, paints (some of her portraits are in this book); she has built a reputation as a gifted civic leader and a spiritual guide, and her presence can be detected everywhere including the schools, churches and civic organizations.

However, in regard to this book, she is best characterized as a weaver. This book is a multihued tapestry that blends the fragmented history, the rich oral tradition and the region’s folklore with vibrant descriptions of the lives of leaders who “have gone but are not forgotten.” Some of this tapestry is stained with blood and sweat, for poverty and racial violence have touched many of God’s children.

For example, Woodford recounts the events that led to the forced migration of African-Americans to the mountains of Western North Carolina in 1912 when racial violence in Forsyth County, Georgia, led to a “cleansing” which forced all the AfricanAmericans in the county to abandon their homes and flee. Many of those disinherited people sought refuge in the coves and remote valleys of “the far western counties (Clay, Cherokee, Graham and the bordering counties of Macon, Jackson and Swain). Woodford finds the descendants of “the cleansing” throughout the region.

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singing, shouting in the spirit, calling and response singing, hand clapping, rhythmic movement and foot stomping — all were vanishing from the traditional African church and were being replaced by a more “genteel” and less emotional custom. Ann remembers that Purel often carried a tape recorder with him in order to record examples of those traditions that he often encountered. (One of the most memorable passages in this book describes an incident in which Purel wandered through the ruins of an abandoned tannery, recording what he believed to be vanquished voices, the laughter, weeping and shouts of the workers who had spent their lives there.)

Especially vivid accounts of history deal with the origin of the community of Marble which was once a thriving town where the sidewalks were made of blue marble that was locally mined. However, like some cautionary tale in the Bible, the town lost its prosperity through arrogance and poor management. The once-prosperous town vanished.

Woodford recounts the memorable local folklore about Abraham Enloe,the alleged father of Abraham Lincoln. There are marvelous bits of oral history dealing with the destruction of the Peachtree Mound — an act that Ann Miller Woodford will be discussing and reading from her angered the Cherokee spirits that book at the next Liar's Bench program at 7 p.m. on Sept. 17 resided there. There are tales of in the Mountain Heritage Center Auditorium. The book is remarkable African-Americans like available at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Aunt Til who lived to be 100 and Texana Hill McClelland, the first Black woman to live in the settlement that now pearing culture. bears her name, and Chrisenberry Howell, a Purel, like his white Appalachian neighformer slave, who was a “driver of turkeys” and bors, came to believe that his heritage was endangered by “new customs and ideas.” Purel a man who wrote the story of his life.

Some of the most vivid stories are memoencouraged his daughter to gather and save the rable recounts of the tragic consequences of old tales and songs that sometimes blended slavery. Included are a series of interviews African and Cherokee superstitions, customs with slaves in Macon County that were conand traditions. As a result, many of these stoducted by Margaret Siler. One of her most ries and music were snatched from oblivion ... memorable interviews is with a former slave, the old church songs and cadences that reflectUncle Matt Ray, who remembered standing ed the heart of African spiritual tradition. on the slave block in Franklin as a child. He Such old traditions as “lined” hymn However, it should be noted that in addition to her mission to tell her story through exhaustive research, Woodford was blessed by a source of information that seemed to be both boundless and inspired. This was her father, Purel Miller, a gifted storyteller who was filled with a passion to preserve his disap-

Journeying toward Reconciliation Blue Ridge Books will host the presentation of Journeying Toward Reconciliation: Personal Stories of Faith, Sexuality, and the Church, at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, in Waynesville.

Written by members of the Reconciling Conversations Group at First United Methodist Church in Waynesville, these stories explore the writers’ experience as gay and lesbian Christians and as parents and friends of gay and lesbian persons.

For over 10 years, some of the church’s members have gathered

in circles of prayer and conversation to share their struggles, hopes, and faith about gender identity and sexual orientation. Like so many churches, their congregation had lived largely in silence to the pain and suffering of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people in the midst of their families, friendships, and community.

Out of their experience they decided to put together this book of stories for members of their own congregation in order to promote a wider conversation. The response to these stories has been so overwhelming that they have now issued these stories as a book for the general public.

later carried the mail between “Old Webster” and Franklin for three years in freezing weather and laid the first bricks for the Franklin Courthouse. In the interview, “Uncle Matt” gave a detailed and graphic description of the town of Franklin in its beginning and his daunting trips across the Cowee mountains.

Woodford also gives an account of the tragic Cowee Tunnel disaster in which 19 black convicts drowned in the Tuckasegee River on Dec. 30, 1892. The victims were unable to save themselves when a barge capsized because they were shackled and chained. The victims were buried in unmarked graves (three trenches) on a nearby hillside, and later research established that none were guilty of serious offenses (loitering, gambling, vandalism, theft, etc.) There are also poignant stories about the nameless workers on the “Murphy to Manteo” railroad who died and were buried in unmarked graves near the tracks.

When All God’s Children Get Together pays tribute to a multitude of AfricanAmericans who made significant contributions to African-American churches and schools. Some served with distinction in the United States armed services. Others built churches, taught school, served as midwives and lead blameless lives in the service of their communities. Sometimes, the photographs and tributes may appear repetitive, but that is because the spiritual leaders are multi-talented and as a consequence, they are listed again and again. Individuals like Woodford, Purel Miller, Victoria Casey MacDonald McDonald and Josephine Burgess are honored as teachers, spiritual leaders, community spokespersons and ministers. Finally, there is the organization, One Dozen Who Care, founded by Woodford— a group of dedicated individuals that made this book a reality.

So here it is ... this great multi-hued tapestry, a history studded with ancient folklore, anecdotes, humorous tales, ghost stories, “coded” song lyrics, testimonials, descriptions of slave graveyards and a great shouting and singing multitude of African-Americans — all praising the God “who has brought them a mighty long way.” Enjoy.

(Gary Carden is a writer and storyteller who lives in Sylva. He can be reached at gcarden498@aol.com.)

As William Everett, co-convener of the Reconciling Conversations group puts it, “We hope this little book can serve as a starting point for telling your own stories as your communities and congregations struggle toward a life of more acceptance, openness, forgiveness, and vitality.” Members of the Reconciling Conversations Group will be present to share some of the stories and talk about the experiences behind the book and the process that produced it.

This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.

Books are available for purchase at Blue Ridge Books.

True crime book finds healing, hope books

Ryan Hadley and Dan Yearick will discuss their work A Thousand Fireflies at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

This is the true story of one young man’s journey from incredible darkness into the healing light of hope, aided by the power of a steadfast, unlikely friendship, after his parents were murdered at the hands of his younger brother.

828.456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

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‘Coffee with the Poet’ welcomes Garni The Coffee with the Poet series continues with Ricky Garni at 10:30 a.m.

Thursday, Sept. 17, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Garni will read from his new collection of poetry, Pinky Embrace. Ricky Garni is a graphic designer and bicycle collector living in Carrboro, North Carolina. His work has been published in Pif, The Quarterly, No Exit, The Poetry Project, Big Bridge, Stirring, Swagazine, Oyster Boy and others.

The Coffee with the Poet series gathers the third Thursday of each month and is cosponsored by the NetWest chapter of the North Carolina Writer’s Network.

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Sallie Bissell, author of the critically acclaimed Mary Crow mysteries, will read from her latest installment A Judgment of Whispers at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

In the book, whispers abound at the ancient Spanish Oak. To those who know how to listen, it tells secrets of vanquished conquistadors, Cherokee witches and the long-unsolved murder of Teresa Ewing.

Whispers also thrive in the town of Hartsville — rumors that Teresa’s killer still walks free.

While running for District Attorney, Mary Crow finds the whispers starting to swirl around her. Did one of her friends cover up that 20-year-old murder? Does her campaign have blood on its hands? As new evidence is discovered, Mary realizes that the only way to save her reputation is to find the true killer and silence the vicious gossip that has trapped so many people in a web of rumors and lies.

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More than a walk Conservation, tourism groups expect A.T. onslaught following movie release

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ill Bryson and Steven Katz didn’t really know what they were getting into when they began their Appalachian Trail journey, recounted in the newly released movie “A Walk in the Woods.” From the moment Katz shows up for the adventure — limping, overweight and prone to seizures — to the time an attempt at traversing a stream sends both men flailing in the water, ineptitude is part of the comedy.

But conservation and tourism organizations along the AT are hoping they won’t find themselves similarly unprepared when thruhiking season starts up this spring. Featuring stars such as Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson and Nick Offerman, the movie is expected to appeal to a wide audience, putting the Appalachian Trail at the forefront of many minds.

“Movies do funny things to trails — there’s no doubt about it,” said Rob Gasbarro, coowner of Outdoor 76 in Franklin.

A graph showing the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s best guesses of how many people thru-hiked in a given year — the figures are estimates rather than exact numbers, as hikers aren’t required to register anywhere — reveals definite spikes and surges in interest following releases of books and movies celebrating the trail.

“We have typically seen an increase in use following those major publications or films,” said Morgan Sommerville, regional director of the ATC. “None of those have been quite as far-reaching as ‘A Walk in the Woods.’”

That’s not just true of the A.T. When the Martin Sheen movie “The Way,” about the

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The 2,189-mile Appalachian Trail runs right through the heart of Western North Carolina.

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What’s all the fuss about?

“A Walk in the Woods” is based on Bill Bryson’s 1998 book of the same name. It’s the story of Bryson’s attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail with his old friend Stephen Katz — not the optimal thru-hiking companion, he knows even before starting out, but the only person he can get to join him.

The two men start off from Springer Mountain in Georgia and are quickly confronted by the realities of the trail. A lighthearted, witty style interspersed with informational passages on the trail’s natural and human history characterizes the book, and the movie attempts to keep the same tone.

The book was an immediate success upon its release, easily making its way to the New York Times Bestseller list, and it has seen a resurgence with the making of the movie, currently sitting at No. 10. In its opening weekend, the movie pulled in more than $8 million, according to Box Office Mojo.

Camino de Santiago in Europe, was released in 2011, American interest in the trail — a religious pilgrimage for Catholics — surged.

According to data from the Pilgrim’s Welcome Office, in 2012 more than 7,000 Americans received the compostela, a certificate acknowledging completion of the trail. That’s nearly twice the 2011 number of 3,726. The number of Americans who walked some or all of the trail is likely a good bit higher.

Then there’s “Wild,” a movie starring Reese Witherspoon about the Pacific Crest Trail in the western part of the country. The trail has reportedly seen a surge in popularity since the release of the 2012 book on which the movie was based. After the movie came out in December, the PCT Association instituted a permit system to limit the number of hikers starting on a given day.

It’s hard to say exactly what kind of impact “A Walk in the Woods” will have, but following the 1998 release of the book A Walk in the Woods, the number of people starting a thru-hike in Georgia went up more than 60 percent over two years, Sommerville said.

Most people seem to agree that 30 percent is a reasonable increase to expect in 2016, but nobody will know how it will actually shake out until spring rolls around and boots hit the ground.

And that’s just talking about thru-hikers.

There’s a whole other category of people that could affect trail use in the region — day hikers, sightseers, people who want to spend their summer vacation following the trail of their new favorite movie. That’s where chambers of commerce, tourism authorities and downtown associations take an interest, because that demographic is more apt to buy

a hotel room, eat a meal downtown and shop around for souvenirs.

“We believe that there will definitely be an increase in people visiting the trail, walking the trial — not necessarily the full length,” said Brad Walker, president of the Swain County Tourism Development Authority board.

PREPARING FOR THE WAVE The A.T. will almost certainly be carrying an extra load in 2016, and conservation groups have been getting ready for high traffic since the movie’s production was first announced.

Volunteers with the Nantahala Hiking Club, which maintains the southernmost section of the A.T. in North Carolina, have been hard at work building new campsites along the trail to accommodate overflow from the shelters, shoring up the privy facilities and improving signage.

“Everybody pretty much is just trying to refurbish the trail as much as possible with volunteers to minimize impact,” said Olga Pader, club president.

They’re not the only ones. Though increased traffic would affect the Macon and Swain county sections the most, as attrition hasn’t taken as much of a toll on hiker numbers at that point, other trail management groups are also keeping an eye on the movie’s potential impact.

“The A.T. is our highest priority, so more work is put into those 90 miles than really any other [of the club’s 400 trail miles],” said Tim Carrigan, A.T. supervisor for the Ashevillebased Carolina Mountain Club.

At an organizational level, earli-

Volunteers with the Nantahala Hiking Club work on the trail near Nantahala Outdoor Center. NHC photo

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media campaign called #ProtectYourTrail is encouraging people to share pictures of best practices outdoors and work to maintain trails’ integrity.

These efforts will only ramp up as springtime nears.

“We’re going to be doing a lot of outreach,” Sommerville said.

The plan is to continue the education effort on the trail itself. The ATC already hires a corps of Ridgerunners up and down the trail, part-time workers who are paid a stipend to hike the trail, camp out and interact with thru-hikers, giving tips, advice and instruction in outdoor ethic.

By spring, Sommerville hopes to increase the ranks, especially in the Georgia portion, which will bear the brunt of the additional traffic. This year, two people worked the Georgia section, but Sommerville’s hoping to have four or five in 2016.

He’s not planning to hire any more Ridgerunners for the North Carolina section, but that doesn’t mean that there won’t be any extra people to educate trail users. There definitely will be.

So far, the Nantahala Hiking Club has 10 people trained as A.T. Ambassadors, people who will go up on the trail for a day hike with the express purpose of interacting with hikers and educating them to minimize impact.

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while? People who have been reading A.T. lore for a long time, their desire pushed over the edge by viewing the movie? Out-of-work adults looking to fit a big accomplishment into their unemployed period? Or people who envision the A.T. as a six-month-long party that just happens to take place on the storied trail?

From his vantage point in Franklin, Gasbarro sees hikers who fit every single one of these descriptions, as he’s close enough to the beginning of the trail that the majority of those who will eventually quit are still hanging on.

“There’s people out there who just want to follow the party. They don’t give a crap about the A.T. They just want to hike with a group of modern-day hippies and pilgrimage to the state of Maine,” he said.

It’s hard to say which group the additional hikers will belong to. But the prospect that many of them could be those with little respect for the trail “I think is what the people out there that are losing sleep right now are losing sleep over,” Gasbarro said.

Sommerville’s hoping to catch these prospective hikers with the A.T. message before they start. The ATC’s been developing a curriculum to teach the basics of how to hike the A.T. in a way that’s sensitive to the surrounding natural beauty — a set of outdoor ethics called Leave No Trace. A series of 17 short videos, vignettes designed to be funny and informative, is on YouTube to promote Leave No Trace principles. A social

A swell of 30 to 60 percent more thruhikers is expected to take to the Appalachian Trail this spring, hoping to tread every step of the 2,189-mile trail. If you think you might be among their number, check out these tips and resources: ■ Plan a non-traditional hike. The first section of the trail in Georgia is the one that takes the biggest beating when an entire cohort of thru-hikers takes off at the same time, and solitude proves evasive when 50 other people share your campsite. Consider a “flip-flop hike,” which involves starting somewhere in the middle of the trail and hiking to one end before returning to tackle the second half.

■ Declare your start date. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy has a new voluntary trail registration tool, aimed at helping hikers to spread out their start dates enough that the trail won’t be overcrowded or the experience ruined. www.appalachiantrail.org/hiking/ thru-hike-registration.

■ Get educated. Before you go, read up on Leave No Trace principles for ethical use of the outdoors, and learn about what gear you’ll need for the trail. www.appalachiantrail.org/hiking/hiking-basics.

■ Go to school. The ATC has partnered with REI to offer classes on successfully hiking the A.T. Check in at www.rei.com/stores/asheville.html.

■ Get in shape. Hiking miles a day with a full pack requires some physical preparation.

Make sure you’re up to hiking 3 or 4 miles every other day with a weighted pack before starting the A.T.

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Education is also an important part of the preparation.

“We really want the Appalachian Trail hikers to take responsibility for themselves when they’re out there,” Sommerville said. “Almost every management issue we have can be solved if hikers would just leave the trail better than they found it.”

The education piece started with the movie itself. The ATC was involved with its production, ensuring that Katz wasn’t shown chucking cans and candy wrappers all along the trail like he did in the book. Several scenes show hikers using trail-friendly practices, such as burying their waste with a trowel rather than leaving “toilet paper flowers” all through the woods.

That’s all a good start, but according to Pader, the movie can also serve as a cautionary tale. Bryson, and especially Katz, were not in the best of shape when they began the trail, and that’s probably a good part of the reason they didn’t actually finish it. In fact, the two men made it only partway through North Carolina before abandoning the thru-hike idea. Actually completing the trail requires some significant physical preparation, Pader said. After all, the Appalachians are real mountains, not TV mountains. Things can go wrong, and someone’s not always there to save you when they do.

“It doesn’t show best practices of what people should prepare themselves for,” Pader said. “I think that as a society these days we are used to everything being 100 percent, totally safe. If we do something stupid or if an accident happened or accidents are about to happen, somebody is going to be out there to rescue us.”

As entertainment, she said, it’s a pretty good movie. It’s funny and certainly shows off the beauty of the region. But it is a movie, not real life, and viewers need to keep that in mind when watching it.

Which prompts the question — who will make up this expected influx of thru-hikers?

Experienced outdoorspeople who have been contemplating that next big challenge for a

Max Patch in Haywood County is a popular spot on the A.T. SMN photo

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er this year the ATC rolled out a website for thru-hikers to sign up for their start dates.

The sign-up is voluntary — nobody can forbid someone from starting on a certain date — but it allows hikers to declare their start date and lets them know if more than the recommended maximum of people have already elected to begin that same day.

The ATC has also been releasing a steady stream of educational materials and social media campaigns designed to increase awareness of responsible trail use. And a push to train more volunteers and get the message of outdoor ethic out to potential hikers will continue through the winter.

“It’s the classic park management conundrum,” said Sommerville, who hiked the trail in 1977. “You want more people to enjoy our park, but you want them to not love it to death.”

Sommerville remembers the hike as a transformative experience, an adventure that forced him to push his limits and see life through a new lens. He’s all for extending that opportunity to future generations of thru-hikers.

“It changes their whole perspective on life, and they come back better than they came,” he said.

But there’s no doubt that the A.T. experience is different now than it was in 1977. For one thing, traffic’s up. In 1977, fewer than 100 people hiked all the way to Mount Katahdin. By contrast, nearly 900 made the trip in 2013. The towns along the way are bigger, and there are more places to resupply.

Cell phones are ubiquitous, and many areas of the trail have some level of cell service.

Gear has changed drastically, and it’s a lot easier to get thru-hiking information and tips online.

“Our main objective is to get people to spread out in space and time so that increased use can be absorbed on the A.T.,” Sommerville said.

By far, the most popular way to thru-hike the A.T. is to start at Springer Mountain in Georgia sometime in March and continue north to Mount Katahdin in Maine. With trail use increasing, that’s tradition has created a bottleneck that had an effect on trail facilities at the southern end. How natural does it feel to walk a path littered with trash and discarded equipment? And does it really count as a solitary outdoor experience if you’re sharing a shelter with 70 other people?

“There just isn’t enough overnight space in Georgia for that period of time,” Sommerville said.

That’s why one of the ATC’s big marketing pushes with the movie’s release is promotion of non-traditional thru-hikes such as the “flipflop hike” — starting in the middle of the trail and hiking to one end, and then finishing the hike by starting again and heading the other direction.

That could be a tough sell for someone entranced with the notion of walking from Georgia to Maine. But Bill Van Horne — past president of NHC who now heads up the Franklin Appalachian Trail Communities Committee — can see the appeal.

“If you want solitude, I would forfeit the starting at Springer and ending at Katahdin,” Van Horne said.

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Peek into camping trips past

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A showcase of restored vintage camping trailers will raise money for Haywood Waterways Association’s youth education programs, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at Stonebridge Campground in Maggie Valley.

More than 50 trailers will be on display, with owners around to answer questions and share the trailers’ history.

The trailers are on display courtesy of Southern Vintage Trailers, with members from across the Southeast. They come together for rallies and open their trailers to the public to raise funds for local causes. The group came to Haywood County last year as well.

A breakfast of pancakes and sausage, hosted by Boy Scout Troop No. 318 to fund their activities, will precede the show from 911 a.m.

Tickets for the trailer show and breakfast are $5 each, with children under 8 admitted to the show for free. www.haywoodwaterways.org

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More than 200 acres in the Sandy Mush area — located at the convergence of Haywood, Buncombe and Madison counties — have been protected through two separate conservation projects by the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy.

“These projects continue our decadeslong commitment to conservation efforts in the Sandy Mush community,” said Carl Silverstein, SAHC Executive Director. Over the past two decades, SAHC has protected more than 10,000 acres in this area.

A conservation agreement with landowners has protected a 236-acre tract at Haywood Gap, including more than 16,000 feet of streams feeding Sandy Mush Creek. The gap is visible from downtown Asheville due to its 4,380 feet elevation.

“Protecting land feeds the future, pro-

tects the water and food supply, and feeds all of my senses,” said Evelyn Bloch, who purchased one of the Haywood Gap tracts with her husband Bill Neal in 1977. “We are so fortunate to be connected to such a beautiful, peaceful and nourishing place.”

SAHC purchased outright a 31-acre forested tract at Doubleside Knob that’s connected to the Sandy Mush Game Lands.

“For years we have walked this property and enjoyed the beauty of the trees, the animals, and the stream that runs through it,” said landowner Gloria Nelson. “For this reason we wanted this land to remain just as it is. We are very happy that the conservancy now owns it and will be able to preserve it for years to come.” www.appalachian.org.

The new conservation projects will protect water sources such as this stream on the Doubleside Knob property. Donated photo

Bird flu fears cause farm tour cancellation Fears of introducing the bird flu to North Carolina farms prompted the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project to cancel its annual Farm Tour this year, an event that was to feature more than 30 Western North Carolina farms Sept. 19-20.

“It is with great regret that that we must cancel the Farm Tour, as it offers life-changing farm experiences for locals and visitors alike and brings much-needed revenue and support to area farmers,” said ASAP’s executive director Charlie Jackson. “But the risk of inviting thousands of visitors to multiple farms during this time is too much of a threat to ignore. The potential spread of this disease could be devastating for commercial and backyard poultry flocks throughout the region.”

The bird flu is not yet present in North Carolina but has been confirmed in nearly half of the 50 states, causing about 50 million birds to die this year — the mortality rate is almost 100 percent. State officials say there’s a high likelihood the virus will reach the state this fall, as it is spread by migrating waterfowl. Once here, it’s easily spread by humans, carried on shoes, clothing and even car tires.

ASAP is offering a full refund for any passes already purchased, or the money can be converted into a donation to support local farms. Scott Bunn, scott@asapconnections.org or 828.236.1282.

Lake J’s Inspiration Point unmasked

Take tea with the llamas Llamas will come for teatime at the Cradle of Forestry in America at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 12.

Led by Challenge Adventures, participants will take an easy walk along the Forest Discovery Trail as the llamas carry lunches and snacks — with children getting the chance to lead the llamas themselves. Each walk will begin with a talk about what traits make llamas such good pack animals, trail companions and team players.

Participants should bring their own food, but cups and iced tea will be provided. The walk is about 2 miles roundtrip. The Cradle of Forestry in America is located in the Pisgah National Forest along U.S. 276, about 25 miles south of Waynesville.

Free with admission to the Cradle — $5 for adults, free for youth under 16. 828.877.3130 or www.cradleofforestry.org.

It’s fair time in Macon Fall in Macon County will kick off with a packed schedule at the Macon County Fair Sept. 16-19, this year with the theme “A Wealth of Tradition.”

The fair will include contests for everything from jams and flowers to tractors and rabbits, with events running the gamut from a cake contest to a cattle show.

Educational organizations will also have the chance to participate by entering a booth in the fair. All booths eligible for

Haywood Farmers Market offers those on food assistance more bang for their buck People on food assistance can make their money go further when buying produce at the Historic Haywood Farmers Market in Waynesville.

This year, the market launched the WiseBucks program, which gives people enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program vouchers that double the value of their food stamps on fruits and veggies, up to $10 extra per visit.

The program is funded through $14,000 in grants from the Haywood Healthcare Foundation and Appalachian Foodshed Project. There’s still funding left for the year.

“Although we are pretty satisfied with the turnout to date, we still have grant funding available,” said Carol James, chair of the market’s management team.

As the growing season winds down, offerings at the market will become more limited, so James is encouraging people enrolled in SNAP to visit soon to get the benefit. www.waynesvillefarmersmarket.com.

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Jackson County Farmers Market’s annual Taste of the Market event will return Saturday, Sept. 19, offering tasty samples and demonstrations of cooking and crafting from 10 a.m. to noon in Sylva’s Bridge Park.

Jen Pierson of Guadalupe, a tropicalfusion restaurant on Main Street, will be cooking and handing out samples using ingredients donated by Market vendors, and the vendors themselves will be handing out samples and recipes, with craft vendors demonstrating their process.

Held each Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, the farmers market is celebrating its 15th birthday this month.

Jenny, 828.399.0290 or jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com. www.jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org.

judging must be completed between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14.

Macon County Extension, 828.349.2046. www.themaconcofair.com.

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Inspiration Point — a garden on the grounds of Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center tucked away near the Lambuth Inn — will be the subject of the upcoming meeting of the Tuscola Garden Club, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15 at the Bethea Welcome Center at Lake Junaluska.

Hattie Polk, the woman behind the creation of this meditation garden, will share A large cross is the focal point of Inspiration Point’s upper her tale of vision, hard work courtyard. Donated photo and determination to see the garden through to completion. Following Polk’s talk, guests will carpool to see the spot firsthand.

828.246.0437.

Swain County, on the other hand, is taking a more head-on approach the movie. It recently launched an entire page on its webgeared more to day hikers, a group that’s site targeted to people whose interest is also expected to grow in size with the driven by the film’s release. movie’s release. The Trail Ambassador pro“You read the book, you saw the movie. gram will eventually be instituted trailwide, We have the real thing,” the page declares, with a training slated for April.

“The emphasis for the program is … not going on to give a synopsis of the movie, to go and say, ‘You’re doing this wrong,’ but seven “walks in the woods” accessible from Bryson City and a plug for Fontana Dam, where one of the movie’s scenes was shot — the majority of the film was shot in Georgia.

“I call it another piece of the puzzle,” Walker, the TDA board chair, said.

“We’ll have an increase in people on the Appalachian Trail, and most of those people are he estimated number of people to complete a thru-hike has risen looking at other outsignificantly over the years, with releases of movies and books doors sports. It just celebrating the trail corresponding with spikes in use. ATC graph shows you what a beautiful place we have.” to have people understand the effect of For Walker, the projected increase in whatever action they’re taking,” Pader said. day hikers — not thru-hikers — is the main economic opportunity the movie affords.

PLUS FOR TOURISM “Thru hikers, they don’t always necessarily stop at your place,” he said. “But the Educating hikers isn’t a job reserved for biggest thing, I believe, is that people will the ATC and its associated hiking clubs. be coming to the town, the area, and go see Becky Seymour, video production and what the trails are like.” social media manager for the Haywood More people walking the downtown, Tourism Development Authority, also eating at local restaurants and shopping in emphasized education when discussing Bryson’s mom-and-pop stores is a good what impact the movie might have on thing, Walker said, the pulse of a tourismHaywood County. driven economy like Swain’s — and the “My big thing is to make sure to promote the movie, of course, but to also make same goes for nearly all of Western North Carolina, for that matter. sure that our public or our travelers are But a statement like that should always educated,” she said. “To me, that’s the most come with a caveat, Gasbarro said. important thing — that these people are “We do we see an opportunity for our educated. It’s not just a walk through the business to grow here, obviously, but we woods.” also believe in our business in so many When someone leaves a Haywood visistewardship ways,” he said. tor center or hangs up the phone in search Introducing people to the beauty of the of a trail, she said, the goal is for them to outdoors, the Southern Appalachians and understand what they’re getting into and Western North Carolina is a good thing. what equipment they’ll need to stay safe.

She said she understands the concern of But not necessarily when they come in such droves as to drastically alter the experience groups like the ATC, but she expects the of solitude and environmental balance that movie will be a good thing for tourism in has spoken to so many generations of thruWNC. hikers in the past.

“Most hikers that are avid hikers, they “I’m deeply concerned that this does all know about the Appalachian Trail, but have an ability to negatively affect the trail considering the cast of the movie, all those experience to where one of the byproducts ladies that love Robert Redford, it may of this is that people go, ‘This is just out open their eyes to a new activity when control. I really have no interest in doing they’re here or anywhere else,” she said. this,’” Gasbarro said. “Do I think that’s She’s definitely been including “A Walk in the Woods” in her social media outreach, going to happen? No, but our love of the A.T. and our respect for it means that there sharing movie-related posts and tagging is some concern. Whenever a good resource them with Haywood County-centric tags. gets overused, it’s not a good thing.”

And though she expects to see an uptick in For now, though, any guess about what interest in the A.T., neither Seymour nor the TDA as a whole are necessarily focusing the impact might be is just that — a guess.

So for the present, there’s not much to do their marketing efforts on the movie. except prepare for what might come and, “There’s so much more to us than that, when there’s some down time, maybe catch but it is a very good tool marketing-wise,” the new Robert Redford flick. she said.

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Eagle eye A pair of young archers recently earned bragging rights at the 4-H West District Shooting Sports Tournament. Gabrianne Ivey took first in the senior air rifle division and second in senior archery for recurve shooting, while Wyatt Meister placed sec-

ond in the junior air rifle division and third in junior archery for recurve shooting. Both students are members of the Macon 4-H Sharp Shooters and will travel to the state tournament at the end of the month.

Shereen Ivey photo

Witness raptor migration It’s the season for raptor migration, and the Blue Ridge escarpment is primary flyway.

Highlands Plateau Audubon Society will hold viewing outings between Sept. 19 and Sept.

25, with exact dates depending on weather conditions. Birdwatchers will hike up Whiteside Mountain near Cashiers for a gorgeous view and — if winds are favorable — the sight of hundreds of broad-winged hawks soaring and kettling overhead.

RSVP to Brock Hutchins to stay abreast of outings. 828.787.1387.

September 9-15, 2015

Film festival to showcase extreme sports An evening of films showing high-adrenaline feats in skiing, climbing, BASE jumping and more will return to Asheville this year, in the form of the Radical Reels Film Tour at 7 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 14.

Shown at the Regal Grand Stadium at Biltmore Town Square, the film tour will raise money for MountainTrue, an environmental nonprofit formed from the merger of the Western North Carolina Alliance, Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance and Environmental Conservation Organization.

Regular admission is $17 and VIP tickets are $30. Sold at REI in Asheville or over the phone at 828.687.0918.

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People wanting to get ready for the upcoming hunting season will have a chance to get their hunter safety education out of the way with a free course offered by Haywood Community College 6-9:30 p.m. Sept. 14-15.

The college’s Department of Natural Resources will team up with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission to offer the class, with attendance at both sessions required for a hunting license.

The course will repeat Oct. 5-6 and Nov. 10 and 12.

Free, with no age limit. Online registration required at www.ncwildlife.org.

Waynesville Rec hosts competition to get outside A new program challenging families to get more involved with outdoor activities is set to launch soon at the Waynesville Recreation Center, with kickoff events planned for 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, and 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21.

The Family Adventure Recreation Challenge — or FAR Challenge — asks families to record their outings in order to gather points over the course of the year. In May, point leaders will be celebrated at the Waynesville Kiwanis Spring Fling, with

prizes awarded for top earners.

Participants will compete against families like theirs, in the following categories: single person, single with children, married, married with children and seniors over 50 with no children. Point values are scaled to the outdoor time involved in the activity.

Free. Breakfast will be provided at the morning meeting and pizza at the evening meeting. Tim Petrea, 828.456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov

All hail the monarch butterfly 828.524.3600.

■ 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Waynesville branch of the Haywood County Public Library. 828.356.2507.

Becka Walling of Balsam Mountain

Make a home for monarchs

A hands-on talk about pollinators — who they are, what they do, why they’re important and how people can help — will come to area libraries next week.

■ 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, at the Jackson County Public Library.

828.586.2016.

■ 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the Macon County Public Library.

A free seminar on growing ginseng will be offered at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, at the Swain Business/Technology Center.

Presented by the Swain Soil and Water Conservation District, the event will feature Scott Persons of Tuckasegee Valley Ginseng — a world-renowned expert on growing wild-simu-

An educational program giving adults a chance to get wet while exploring what lies below the surface of their local waterways will be offered from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, at the Canton Recreation Park.

Modeled on the successful Kids in the Creek program, the inaugural Leaders in the Creek workshop from Haywood Waterways Association is geared toward adults — specifically leaders in local business, politics and communities.

The program will address threats and solutions for local waterways with stations including fish, insects, invertebrates and stormwater.

Water, snacks, waders and snorkels will be provided, and a catered celebration will follow at 5:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce.

Free, but space is limited. RSVP by Sept. 17 to 828.476.4667 or info@haywooodwaterways.org.

Monarch butterfly. N.C. Arboretum photo Trust will lead the one-hour program, highlighting the declines of two important pollinators — monarch butterflies and honeybees. She’ll talk about the forces behind their dip in population and discuss what bug-lovers can do to help, with time for informal discussion allotted following the lecture.

The program will wrap up with a chance to make seed bombs holding native pollinator seeds, which attendees will take home.

Free and open to all ages, but geared toward adults.

Monarch Butterfly Day held at arboretum The N.C. Arboretum is holding its firstever daylong celebration of the monarch butterfly 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19.

Offered in partnership with the nonprofit Monarch Rescue, Monarch Butterfly Day will feature fun, educational programs for both adults and youth. Activities will include a monarch tag and release celebration, make-and-take milkweed seed bombs, face painting, crafts, educational presentations and a common milkweed plant sale.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Project EXPLORE, a youth education initiative of the Arboretum aimed at engaging initiative students and teachers in hands-on citizen science at their schools.

Free with $12 per-car parking fee. www.ncarboretum.org.

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Library programs call attention to pollinator decline

Grow the ‘sang

Wet, wild — and educational

September 9-15, 2015

A lesson on how to turn your backyard into a Monarch Waystation will be held at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, at the Canton Public Library.

Master Gardener Jean White will talk about the Monarchs and their plight, and Master Gardener Marcia Tate will discuss and show the Waystation located behind the library in the Giving Garden.

Monarch Waystations, a project of the nonprofit Monarch Watch, provide pesticide-free nourishment and shelter to monarchs throughout their lifecycle. These gardens hold milkweed — the only food monarch caterpillars eat — and nectarbearing plants native to the area, acting as sanctuaries for monarchs from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly.

Seven Master Gardeners in Haywood County recently had their gardens certified as Monarch Waystations — four of them were individual home gardens and three were public gardens created by master gardeners in partnership with Hazelwood Elementary School, Canton Public Library and Junaluska Elementary School.

Canton Public Library, 828.648.2924.

A chance to experience for free a new audio tour of the Mountain Farm Museum at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cherokee is available all day Saturday, Sept. 19.

The tour allows visitors to hear the music and voices of typical families on a 19th-century farm as they talk about the life of subsistence farmers — from keeping honeybees, to managing apple orchards and preserving food for winter — as well as elements of social life in the mountains from funerals to sorghum molasses making. It is a collaboration of the park and the Great Smoky Mountains Association.

Normally $2.99, the freebie will be offered in conjunction with the Mountain Life Festival, bringing the past alive at the museum that same day. www.nps.gov/grsm

lated ginseng and the author of two leading titles on the subject — American Ginseng Green Gold and Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal, and Other Woodland Botanicals.

Free. No registration necessary. Cayle Aldridge, 828.488.8803 or cayle.aldridge@nc.nacdnet.net”

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Throughout the United States, monarch butterflies are an iconic sight. Their striking orange-and-black pattern, their annual 3,000-mile flight south to Mexican wintering grounds and their absolute dependence on the unassuming milkweed plant all make this butterfly a beloved ambassador for insect-kind.

But their numbers are declining, a trend for which several factors are responsible.

“The monarch butterfly population is dangerously low and scientists fear we could lose the species altogether,” said Nina Veteo, executive director of Monarch Rescue.

With fall approaching, so is migration season — and with it an array of programs aimed at educating people and eventually saving the monarch butterfly.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • “Spice Up Your Marriage Date Night” by Heart For Families is set for 7 p.m. on Sept. 10 at Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Featuring music by Michael O’Brien and teachings by Dr. Gary Chapman (author of “The Five Love Languages”) and national speakers and humorists Jeff and Debbie McElroy. $22.50 per person. 866.273.4615 or greatmountainmusic.com.

• A “Welcome Home Parade” for the Mountain Faith Band - semifinalists on the “America’s Got Talent” show is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 10 at Mark Watson Park in Sylva. Reception and refreshments will follow at Bridge Park. Free. 586.2155 or www.mountainlovers.com.

• The Dauntless Diamond Dames Red/Pink Hatters invite the community to attend their Dutch Treat Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, at J Allen’s, 32 Macon Center Drive in Franklin. RSVP to 828.349.4195 or 828.349.0004.

• Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts hosts its annual talent show at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 12, in Franklin. Tickets: $10. 866.273.4615 or greatmountainmusic.com.

• A community dance is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Sept.

13 in the Community Room on the second floor of the old courthouse in the Jackson County Library Complex in Sylva. Circle and contra dances. Featuring live music by Out of the Woodwork. Ron Arps will call the dance.

Community dinner follows at 5 p.m.; bring covered dish, plate, cup, cutlery and a water bottle.

Ronandcathy71@frontier.com.

• American Legion’s William E. Dillard Post 104 will hold a potluck meal at 7 p.m. on Sept. 14 at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge. Military veterans in Jackson and Swain counties interested in joining Post 104 are invited to visit http://sylvalegion.com and to attend a meeting (7 p.m. on the second Monday of each month at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge). 399.0861 or 293.5835.

• A poverty simulation designed to show participants the realities of living in poverty will be held Tuesday, Sept. 15 at the Franklin United Methodist Church in Franklin, with two-hour sessions held at 4 and 7 p.m. A complimentary dinner will be given at 6 p.m. RSVP by Sept. 10 to Jennifer Trippe, jtrippe@mannafoodbank.org or 828.226.0096.

• The Macon County Fair, featuring the theme “A Wealth of Tradition,” will be held Sept. 16-19 in Franklin. To obtain an application for an educational booth, call 349.2046 or go to the Macon County Extension Office at 349.2046.

Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: ■ Complete listings of local music scene ■ Regional festivals ■ Art gallery events and openings ■ Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesdays through Nov. 17 at Western Carolina University’s Biltmore Campus in South Asheville. Free. 712.5918, wendy@cmtcoatings.com or 712.5918.

• “Is college a money pit or an investment in the future?” will be the topic for the Franklin Open Forum at 7 p.m. on Sept. 14 at the Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub, located Downtown at 58 Stewart Street, Franklin.

(Below and behind Books Unlimited.) 371.1020.

• A condensed, accelerated phlebotomy program will be offered by Southwestern Community College starting Sept. 14 in Sylva. Classes meet from 12:30-3:30 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays through Nov. 5; clinical training is from Nov. 9-Dec. 30. $185 plus books, insurance, background checks, immunizations, drug screening and uniforms. 339.4426 or ldowns@southwesterncc.edu.

• College Night is scheduled for 6-7:30 p.m. on Sept.

14 in Haywood Community College’s Auditorium in Clyde. More than 50 regional universities, colleges and trade schools will have representatives available.

565.4095.

• Applications are being accepted for the Leadership Haywood Class of 2015-16, which begins Sept. 16.

Daylong programs are scheduled the third Wednesday of each month through May. 456.3021 or info@haywoodchamber.com.

• A seminar entitled “Marketing Your Business” will be offered by the Haywood Community College Small Business Center from 9 a.m.-noon on Sept. 15 in the 1500 Student Center Auditorium in Clyde. sbc.haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• A seminar entitled “Financing Your Business” will be offered by the Haywood Community College Small Business Center from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Sept. 16 in the 1500 Student Center Auditorium in Clyde. sbc.haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Reservations are being accepted for the fall banquet of Western Carolina University’s accountancy program, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Sept. 18, at the Waynesville Inn. Contact Liz Jones at 227.3567 or lizjones@wcu.edu by Sept. 11.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • A professional office management course will meet from 4:30-7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Sept. 15 through Jan. 12 at Southwestern Community College’s Macon Campus. 339.4296 or scotts@southwesterncc.edu.

• A free, 90-minute workshop entitled “Saving Money Using Technology” will be held at 5:45 p.m. on Sept. 9 at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Register by calling 586.2016.

• A ribbon-cutting ceremony for The Imperial is scheduled for 11 a.m.-noon on Sept. 10, at 117 Main Street in Canton.

• Mast General Store in Waynesville will donate 10 percent of its Sept. 12 sales to the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation.

• Successful Entrepreneurship Series will be offered

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • A Hispanic Heritage Meal will be served on Sept. 11 at the Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center in Waynesville.. $8 for a to-go lunch (11 a.m.-3 p.m.); $12 for supper seating starting at 6 p.m. $5 for children 12 and younger. Reservations: 452.7232.

• The ninth-annual Smoky Mountain Pregnancy Care Center’s Fundraising Banquet is at 5:30 p.m. on Sept.

12 at Franklin Covenant Church. Guest speakers are Julie & Derrick: The Love Chromosome; they’ll present “Love Your Life – Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities.”

349.3200.

• Cullowhee Revitalization Endeavor will hold a fall fundraising event from 4-8 p.m. on Sept. 12, at Tuck’s Tap and Grille in Cullowhee. Raffle items include football tickets, a golf package, membership to the

Cullowhee Recreation Center. CullowheeRevitalization@gmail.com. www.gocul lowhee.org • Fourth annual Hog Wars – an Eastern vs. Western BBQ challenge – will raise money for the Kory Wawanaca Children’s Home for abandoned and orphaned children in Bolivia from 4-7 p.m. on Sept. 19.

Bluegrass music provided by Sons of Ralph; inflatables for kids, games and barbecue. $15 adults; $10 children (ages 3-12); free for children under three. www.kwchildren.com or 231.8661.

HEALTH MATTERS • Al-Anon, a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who believe their lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking, meets at 10 a.m. on Saturdays at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

356.2800.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Sept. 9 at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 800.733.2767 or www.redcrossblood.org.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 10 at WestCare Health in Sylva.

386.7130.

• A Brain Health Workshop will be offered from 1-3 p.m. on Mondays from Sept. 14-Nov. 22, at the Haywood Senior Resource Center. Older adults are invited to participate in stimulating trivia-inspired games, brief informational sessions and other activities designed to encourage communication, teamwork and a strong mind. Free. Michelle Claytor at mclaytor@mountainprojects.org or 356.2813.

• “The Anonymous People,” a free movie and training event designed to help stop the stigma around recovery, will be held from 1-5 p.m. on Sept. 14 at the University Center Theater on Western Carolina University’s campus in Cullowhee.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. on Sept. 14, at Junaluska Fire Department. 456.9934.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 2:30-7 p.m. on Sept. 17, at American Legion Post No. 47 in Waynesville. 800.733.2767 or www.redcrossblood.org.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 12:30-5 p.m. on Sept. 17 at Franklin Community First Baptist Church in Franklin. 369.9559.

RECREATION AND FITNESS

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

Informal setting for Haywood County voters to meet the candidates for municipal elections. Free food and drinks. 550.7638.

• The Jackson County NAACP Membership Meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Sept. 12 at Liberty Baptist Church in Sylva. 743.9747. jacksonncnaacp.org.

• The Maggie Valley Board of Aldermen will conduct a public hearing on two topics at 6 p.m. Sept. 14 in the Town Hall Boardroom. Oral and written comments are encouraged on the topics of a proposal to locate a TMobile Cell Tower on Buck Mountain (Ghost Town) near where the current “Drop Tower” is located; as well as a volunteer annexation request for the following parcels: 900 Jonathan Creek Road 8607-23-1844 and 910 Jonathan Creek Road 8607-23-1984.

• The Western North Carolina Civil War Round Table will feature Chris Meekins as presenter at 7 p.m. on Sept.

14 at Bogart’s in Sylva. Dinner at 5 p.m.; social hour at 6:30 p.m. Presentation is on Gen. Robert E. Lee’s friendship with Mrs. W.L. Garlick of Weldon. 648.2488 or 293.5924.

• The Jackson County Democratic Party will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 15 at 500 Mill St. in downtown Sylva.

Lisa Lovedahl-Lehman, director of the county Board of Elections, will update the group on changing voter ID and registration rules. Final planning for Sept. 19 concert and poor man’s supper in Sylva. Jacksondems.com.

• Jackson County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing on three topics starting at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 17 at the Justice & Administration Building in Sylva. At 5:30, the commissioners will hear public input concerning the proposed amendment to the “U.S. 441 Corridor Development Ordinance.” At 5:50 p.m., the public hearing purpose is to receive public input regarding the proposed “Justice Center Security Ordinance.” At 6 p.m., the public hearing purpose is to receive public input concerning the amended “Mountain Hillside Development Ordinance.” Copies of all three are available online at jacksonnc.org/planning or at the Planning Department at the Justice Center. Citizens are invited to make written or oral comments.

• The Jackson County Patriots will celebrate the anniversary of the Constitution’s signing by hosting a reading of the document at 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 19 at the Fairfield Lake Pavilion in Sapphire Valley off Highway 64. www.constitutingamerica.org.

THE SPIRITUAL SIDE

• The second round of open play bubble soccer will be held from 7-9 p.m. on Thursdays through Sept. 24 at the Cullowhee Recreation Center. Must be 18 or older.

All females from 7-7:45 p.m.; co-ed from 7:45-9 p.m. $1 per person. 293.3053 or jenniferbennett@jacksonnc.org.

• A retreat for women with Dr. Lauren Winner is scheduled for Sept. 17-19, at the Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. For info or to register, visit www.lakejunaluska.com/signature-series or call 454.6682.

• An organizational meeting for a fall adult co-ed volleyball league in Haywood County is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 9 at the Waynesville Recreation Center.

League is open to all players who are 18 and older as of Sept. 1. 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

• The World Methodist Museum will unveil a major gift, an item of John Wesley’s furniture, at 2 p.m. on Sept. 20 at the Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center.

456.7242 or jbolden@worldmethodistcouncil.org. Music and refreshments.

POLITICAL CORNER • Macon County League of Women Voters will present a forum on “Voter Rights in North Carolina: Barriers and Challenges 50 Years After Passage of the Voter Rights Act” at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 10 at Franklin Town Hall.

524.8369.

• The American Legion will host its second annual Pig Pickin’ from 3-7 p.m. on Sept. 12, in Waynesville.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS • Members of First United Methodist Church of Waynesville will present their book “Journeying Toward Reconciliation” at 3 p.m. on Sept. 12 at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. Stories in the book explore writers’ experience as gay and lesbian Christians and as parents and friends of gay and lesbian persons. 456.6000.

• Mary Joyce will present her latest book, “Underground

Military Bases Hidden in North Carolina Mountains,” at 3 p.m. on Sept. 12 at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

The book compiles information gathered over several years about secret military facilities in North Carolina.

• Coffee with the Poet series resumes with a reading

by Ricky Garni at 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 17, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. Garni will read from his new collection of poetry entitled “Pinky Embrace.”

586.9499.

• Ryan Hadley and Dan Yearick present “A Thousand Fireflies” at 3 p.m. on Sept. 19 at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. True story of a young man’s journey from darkness into healing after his parents were murdered by his younger brother. 456.6000.

• Sallie Bissell, author of the Mary Crow mysteries, will read from her latest installment “A Judgment of Whispers” at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 18, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. 586.9499.

KIDS & FAMILIES • Home-school adventure paddle sessions are offered from 1-2:45 p.m. from August to October at Lake Junaluska. $45 for members (for an eight-week session) or $55 for nonmembers. 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillnenc.gov.

• Master storyteller Charlie St. Clair will be featured at 6 p.m. on Sept. 10, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. 488.3030.

• Art Day for Kids is from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Sept.

18 at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. For ages seven and up. $35 per child/session or $90 for all three sessions (Oct. 20 and Nov. 11 are the others).

Registration includes lunch; scholarships available. http://tinyurl.com/ok83zlj.

• Kickoff sessions for Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department’s new Family Adventure Recreation program will be held at 10 a.m. on Sept.

10 and at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 21. The program is an opportunity for families to record their outings and gather points over a year. Free. 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov.

• An afternoon of storytelling is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Sept. 22 at Haywood County Public Library.

Storyteller Elena Miller will share traditional tales including Jack Tales, Grimm’s Fairy Tales and a few Aesop’s Fables. Free; all ages are invited.

• Fun Factory is presenting a Fall Family Fun Night from 3-8 p.m. every Tuesday through Nov. 17 in Franklin. Double your bonus, and $5 pizza buffet.

349.8888 or thefactory.bz.

• Maria Greene will teach a class for parents, grandparents, aunts and other family to work with a child on clay projects from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays throughout September, skipping Sept. 23, at Cowee

• William Ritter and Sarah Ogletree (traditional mountain music) will perform at 6:30 p.m. on Sept.

11, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva to celebrate the release of their new CD. Reserve a copy at 586.9499.

KIDS MOVIES • “Home” – a Dreamworks animated film – will be shown as a free kids movie at noon and 2 p.m. on Saturdays in September at The Strand in Waynesville.

• A classic drama/romance starring Jean Arthur and Robert Cummings will be shown at 2 p.m. on Sept. 11, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room. A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store but gets involved in their lives instead. 524.3600.

A&E

• Four-time Grammy-winning artists the Doobie Brothers will perform at 9 p.m. on Sept. 11, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center.www.ticketmaster.com.

• Larry Barnett & Friends (bluegrass) will perform from 6:30-8 p.m. on Sept. 12 at the Depot in Bryson City. Part of the Music in the Mountains free concert series. www.greatsmokies.com.

• “Fox on the Fairway” will be presented on weekends from Sept. 11-Oct. 4 at HART Theatre in Waynesville.

Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday; 3 p.m. on Sunday. Harttheater.org or 456.6322.

• The Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) summer concert series will have Caribbean Cowboys (Great Variety) Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Free. An open mic jam session begins at 6:30 p.m. www.franklinnc.com/pickin.html

• Karen “Sugar” Barnes and Dave MaGill perform Sept. 12 at City Lights Café in downtown Sylva.

• Alex Commins & Todd Prusin perform at 6 p.m. on Sept. 18 as part of the Friday Night Live summer concert series in Highlands. Free. www.highlandschamber.org.

• Balsam Mountain Inn will have R.B. Morris, Irene Kelley and Peter Cooper as part of their Songwriters in the Round series at 6 p.m. on Sept. 12. $47 per person, includes a buffet dinner. 456.9498 or www.balsammountaininn.com.

• Violist Yinzi Kong and pianist William Ransom will perform a concert of classical selections at 3 p.m. on Sept. 13, in the sanctuary of Franklin’s First Presbyterian Church. Admission is by donation; $7 is suggested. Presented by the Arts Council of Macon County with partial funding from the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. 524.ARTS or arts4all@dnet.net.

• The Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) summer concert series will have Newbridge (bluegrass w/cloggers) at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 19. An open mic starts at 6:30 p.m.

Free. www.franklinnc.com.

• The Kelley Family (bluegrass/gospel/country) will perform from 6:30-8 p.m. on Sept. 19 at the Depot in Bryson City. Part of the Music in the Mountains free concert series. www.greatsmokies.com.

• The Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) summer concert series will have Remenents (Great Rock & Roll) Sept.

19 at 7:30 p.m. Free. An open mic jam session begins at 6:30 p.m. www.franklinnc.com/pickin.html

• The Rotary Club of Highlands Craft Beer Festival will be Sept. 10 at The Farm at Old Edwards Inn. www.highlandschamber.org.

• Auditions for the Mountain Community Chorus’ 42nd annual Christmas season concert will be held at 6 p.m. on Sept. 14, in the Clegg Recital Hall at Young Harris College (Ga.). Membership fee is $20 per season to cover the purchase of music. www.mountaincommunitychorus.org or 706.897.4267.

• Thunder in the Smokies Fall Rally is Sept. 11-13 at Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Handlebarcorrall.com.

246.2101.

• The first rehearsal for the Haywood Community Chorus’ fall schedule starts with registration at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 14. Rehearsal starts at 7 p.m.

• The 4th annual Dazzling Dahlia Festival will be Sept. 12, at the Highlands Rec Park and Civic Center. www.highlandschamber.org.

• The Arts and Cultural Events Performance Series will feature “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” – the Southern Circuit Film Series’ first film of the season, at 7 p.m. on Sept. 15, in Western Carolina University’s University Center Theater in Cullowhee. www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com.

• DJ X will perform at 10 p.m. on Sept. 10 at Tuck’s Tap & Grill in Cullowhee.

• Singer-songwriter Heidi Holton will perform at 7 p.m. on Sept. 17 in the Community Room of the Jackson County Public Library. New take on blues standards. Free. 586.2016.

• Freight Hoppers (bluegrass/string) performs at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 10 at Bogart’s in Waynesville. Free.

452.1313.

FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS

• The 10th annual Music at the Mill will be held from 11 a.m.-5 pm. on Sept. 12 at Francis Mill in Waynesville. Event is hosted by “Francis Mill Preservation Society.” Bluegrass, Dixieland and jazz.

456.6307.

• VW’s in the Valley is Sept. 18-19 at Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Vwaircooledassociation.com or 276.1246.

• The Youth Arts Festival is scheduled for 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 19 at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Local and regional artists demonstrate their skills in glassblowing, blacksmithing, pottery and more. www.jcgep.org.

• “Block Party” with live music and dancing is scheduled for 7-10 p.m. on Sept. 19 on Main Street in Waynesville. ‘Round the Fire, the 96.5 House Band and Soldier’s Heart will all perform. There will be a Children’s Activity Hour from 6-7 p.m. www.downtownwaynesville.com or 456.3517.

VENDORS AND VOLUNTEERS • Volunteers are needed for a Brain Health Workshop that will be offered on Monday afternoons from Sept.

14-Nov. 22, at the Haywood Senior Resource Center.

Contact Michelle Claytor at mclaytor@mountainprojects.org or 356.2813.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • The Arts and Cultural Events Performance Series opens with a performance by the Golden Dragon Acrobats at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 9, in Western Carolina University’s John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee.

• The Golden Dragon Acrobats will perform at the John

• Western Carolina University will host its secondannual Low Brass Festival on Sept. 18-19. Friday’s session begins at 11:30 a.m. and includes ensemble coaching, a master class and a faculty rehearsal.

Saturday session starts with registration at 8 a.m. and is highlighted by a workshop to prepare for all state/college auditions and a panel discussion. The day concludes with a 5 p.m. recital. Free. 227.7242.

• The Isaacs will perform acoustically at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 18 at Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets are $15-20 per person.

866.273.4615 or greatmountainmusic.com.

• The Historic Cowee School (Franklin) will host Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’Blues at 7 p.m. on Sept. 19.

Tickets are $15. www.coweeschool.org.

• Shana Tucker will perform jazz at 8 p.m. on Sept.

19, at The Strand in Waynesville. $18 in advance; $20 at the door.

• Legendary musician and founder of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John McEuen will perform at 8 p.m. Sept.

19 at the Martin-Lipscomb Performing Arts Center in Highlands.

• Haywood Community Band Concert is at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 20 at Maggie Valley Pavilion.

Haywoodcommunityband.org or 456.4880.

• Larry the Cable Guy will perform at 7 and 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino. www.ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000.

NIGHTLIFE • Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night at 8 p.m. on Sept. 9 and 16. www.innovationbrewing.com.

• North 40 Renegades perform at 8 p.m. on Sept. 9 at Salty Dog’s Restaurant in Maggie Valley. 926.9105.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo at 8 p.m. on Sept. 10 and 17. All events begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• PMA (rock/jam) and Darren & The Buttered Toast (soul/funk) will perform at 9 p.m. on Sept. 11 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. $2. www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

• The Ends (rock/funk) perform at 8 p.m. on Sept. 11 at Nantahala Brewing Company in Bryson City. Free. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• ‘Round the Fire (Grateful Dead tribute) performs at 9 p.m. on Sept. 11 at Mad Anthony’s Bottle Shop & Beer Garden in Waynesville.

• Guitarist Kevin Lorenz plays at 7 p.m. on Sept. 11, at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. 452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com. Kevinonguitar.com.

• Ol’ Dirty Bathtub (Americana/bluegrass) performs at 7 p.m. on Sept. 11 at BearWaters Brewing Company in Waynesville.

• Rye Baby (Americana/bluegrass) performs at 9 p.m. on Sept. 11 at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. 586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

• Randy Flack will perform at 6 p.m., followed by Karaoke by Jason at 8 p.m. on Sept. 11 at Salty Dog’s Restaurant in Maggie Valley. 926.9105.

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• Registration is open for Haywood County Youth Recreation Basketball League. Age divisions range from 5-6 through 13-14. Age cut-off is Aug. 31.

Registration fee is $60 for the first child, and $55 per sibling. Games are Nov. 14-Jan. 23 on Saturdays.

Register at the HCRP Office in Waynesville from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Monday through Friday; Bethel United Methodist Church parking lot from 3-6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10; from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12 at Allens Creek Park. 452.6789, drtaylor@haywoodnc.net or www.haywoodnc.net.

• A class combining music, movement and community will be offered as a high-energy dance party for children ages 4-11 from 3-3:45 p.m. on Thursdays from Sept. 17-Nov. 5 at the Jackson County Recreation Center in Cullowhee. Register by Sept. 15. 293.3053 or rec.jacksonnc.org.

OUTDOOR MUSIC • Tallulah River Band (Americana/bluegrass) performs at 6 p.m. on Sept. 11 as part of the Friday Night Live summer concert series in Highlands. Free. www.highlandschamber.org.

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• Youth Outright, a regional advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth, will present a meeting for youth ages 14-20 from 6-8 p.m. on Sept. 12, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Franklin. Free; refreshments will be served.

Youthoutright.org.

W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center located at Western Carolina University at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9. bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or 227-2479.

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• Paul Worley, a WCU assistant professor of English, will discuss “Maya Book Arts on Exhibit at the WCU Fine Art Museum” at 1 p.m. on Sept. 13, as part of the “English on the Ides” series at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. pmworley@wcu.edu or more@citylightsnc.com.

Pottery School five miles north of Franklin on NC 28.

524-7690, info@CoweePotterySchool.org or www.coweepotteryschool.org.

• Randy Mason Band performs at 6 p.m. on Sept. 12 at Salty Dog’s Restaurant in Maggie Valley. 926.9105.

• Ethan Morse & Friends with James Scott Stambough perform at 9 p.m. on Sept. 12 at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. 586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

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• Dirty Soul Revival (rock/blues) performs at 7 p.m. on Sept. 12 at Andrews Brewing Company. $5. www.andrewsbrewing.com. • Joe Cruz performs songs of the Beatles, Elton John, Simon and Garfunkel and James Taylor starting at 7 p.m. on Sept. 12, at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. 452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

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• SmokeRise performs at 7 p.m. on Sept. 12 at BearWaters Brewing Company in Waynesville. www.bwbrewing.com.

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• 12th Fret performs at 7 p.m. on Sept. 12 at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Free.

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• The Freeway Revival (rock/jam) performs on Sept. 12 at Tuck’s Tap & Grill in Cullowhee. • Heidi Holton (blues/folk) performs at 11 a.m. on Sept. 13 at Tuck’s Tap & Grill in Cullowhee.

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â&#x20AC;˘ Sushi-Making Class on Monday, Sept. 14 at 4 p.m. at Canton Branch Library Learn how to make California hand rolls in this hands-on class. All skill levels welcome, and all supplies and ingredients provided. Sign-up required: 648.2924. â&#x20AC;˘ A four-week conversational Spanish course for beginners will be offered 6-7 p.m. on Mondays, Sept. 14 through Oct. 5, at Western Carolina University. $89. Sign up at conferences.wcu.edu <http://www.wcu.edu/academics/edoutreach/conted/conferences-andcommunity-classes/index.asp> or 828.227.7397. â&#x20AC;˘ DJ Berard, the Great Smoky Mountains National Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Artist-in-Residence, will present interactive painting programs throughout September at various locations throughout the park: Clingmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dome Visitor Contact Station (10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Sept. 9); Sugarlands Visitor Center (10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Sept. 19); Cades Cove Visitor Center (10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Sept.

22). â&#x20AC;˘ Deadline for enrolling in the NC Safe Plates: A New Case-Based Curriculum for Retail Food Safety Managers is Sept. 14. The program will be held on Sept. 28 & 30 followed by a twohour exam on Oct. 1. To enroll, call 456.3575 or write Julie_Sawyer@ncsu.edu.

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â&#x20AC;˘ Basic Seed-Saving Workshop on Sept. 12 at 10:30 a.m. at Waynesville Library Learn the basics of seed saving. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll save money, preserve heirloom varieties, and have fun! Signup required: 356.2507.

â&#x20AC;˘ Doris Mager, known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Eagle Ladyâ&#x20AC;? will discuss birds of prey at the monthly Beaverdam Community Center meeting 7 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 14, at the community center on North Canton Road in Canton. Judy Sellars, 828.648.0552 or judysellars1067@att.net.

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by Molly Suminski from 4-5:30 p.m. on Mondays through Sept. 26, at Cowee Pottery School five miles north of Franklin on NC 28.

524-7690, info@CoweePotterySchool.org or www.coweepotteryschool.org. â&#x20AC;˘ High Country Quilters meet at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 17 at the First Methodist Church in Waynesville. This monthly meeting will feature small quilts from the members on the theme of High Country Living. connienick@gmail.com or 246.0557. â&#x20AC;˘ The Jackson County Extension Craft Group meets from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 17, at the Jackson County Extension Center in Sylva.

Member Elaine Haskett will teach a class in the art of Enlish Smocking for a Christmas Ornament. $12 registration fee. 586.4009. â&#x20AC;˘ The Dillsboro Arts & Crafts Market will be held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Sept. 19 in Dillsboro. More than 30 arts and crafts vendors will be featured. â&#x20AC;˘ Mountain Cooking Club presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Welcome to Fall,â&#x20AC;? a class that will be held from 2-4:30 p.m. on Sept. 20, at Fines Creek Community Kitchen. Featuring Chef Ricardo Fernandez, former owner/head chef of Lomo Grill.

246.7465. â&#x20AC;˘ An Intermediate digital photography class will be taught from 3-4:50 p.m. on Tuesdays, till Sept. 15 at Jackson County Department of Aging, Senior Center, in Sylva. Must be at least 50. $50. Tony Wu at 226.3840 or tonywuphotos@hotmail.com. â&#x20AC;˘ Cowee Pottery School will offer a class on centering, throwing, trimming and glazing a variety of forms from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Tuesdays through Sept. 29 five miles north of Franklin on NC 28. 524-7690, info@CoweePotterySchool.org or www.coweepotteryschool.org. â&#x20AC;˘ A hand-building class will be taught by Hank Shuler from 6-9 p.m. on Wednesdays throughout September, skipping Sept. 9 at Cowee Pottery School five miles north of Franklin on NC 28. 524-7690, info@CoweePotterySchool.org or www.coweepotteryschool.org. â&#x20AC;˘ A hand-building pottery class entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Advanced Doowhockersâ&#x20AC;? will be taught by Hank Shuler from 1-5 p.m. on Sundays from Sept. 13-27 at Cowee Pottery School five miles north of Franklin on NC 28. 524-7690, info@CoweePotterySchool.org or www.coweepotteryschool.org. â&#x20AC;˘ A hand-building pottery class entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hand Building for Giftsâ&#x20AC;? will be taught by Hank Shuler on Thursday afternoons in September at Cowee Pottery School five miles north of Franklin on NC 28. 524-7690, info@CoweePotterySchool.org or www.coweepotteryschool.org. â&#x20AC;˘ A pottery wheel class will be taught by Doug Hubbs from 8:30-11:30 a.m. on Fridays from Sept. 11-Oct. 2 at Cowee Pottery School five miles north of Franklin on NC 28. 524-7690, info@CoweePotterySchool.org or www.coweepotteryschool.org.

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES

â&#x20AC;˘ The Jamberry Launch Party will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Village Florist in Bryson City. Ladies Night Out with games and refreshments. 736.6492.

â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wild Critter Adventuresâ&#x20AC;? photography exhibit featuring the work of Ed and Cindy Boos will be on display throughout September at the Macon County Public Library in September. 524.3600.

â&#x20AC;˘ A multi-generational, hand-building pottery class entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Play for All Agesâ&#x20AC;? will be taught

â&#x20AC;˘ An art opening for photographer Carolina Anderson will be at 6 p.m. Sept. 18 at City

Lights CafĂŠ in Sylva. Free appetizers, with an artist meet and greet. www.citylightscafe.com. â&#x20AC;˘ The Mountain Heritage Center, Western Carolina Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s museum of Appalachian culture, is back at full operation after a summertime move from H.F. Robinson Administration Building to space at WCUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hunter Library. The exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Collecting for the Community,â&#x20AC;? an exploration of the diversity and variety to be found in Western North Carolina, is now on display in the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new 1,500-square-foot gallery on the first floor of the library. Visiting hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, with extended hours until 7 p.m. on Thursdays. â&#x20AC;˘ Award-winning potter Amanda Swimmer is among artists scheduled to appear at the Cherokee Heritage Festival from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 19 at Cherokee Homestead Exhibit in downtown Hayesville. 389.3045 or www.cccra-nc.org. Free. Sponsored by Clay County Communities Revitalizations Association. â&#x20AC;˘ A display by Haywood Community Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Creative Arts Quilting and Upholstery classes entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Conversation Pieceâ&#x20AC;? is on exhibition through Sept. 24 at HCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Creative Arts Department. A closing reception with light refreshments is scheduled for 5-7 p.m. on Sept. 24. â&#x20AC;˘ A photography exhibit featuring the work of Cathryn Griffin, professor of photography at Western Carolina University, will be on display through Sept. 25, at WCUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fine Arts Museum in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee. Admission to the museum is free. Open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays, and until 7 p.m. on Thursdays. 227.3591.

FILM & SCREEN â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Far From the Madding Crowdâ&#x20AC;? will be shown at 7 p.m. Sept. 9-10 at The Strand in Waynesville. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ferguson: A Report From Occupied Territoryâ&#x20AC;? will be shown at 6 p.m. on Sept. 9 at Western Carolina Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s University Center Theater.

Free. 227.2276. â&#x20AC;˘ The Radical Reels Film Tour is set for 7 p.m. on Sept. 14 at Regal Grand Stadium in Asheville. $15 for tickets; $30 for VIP tickets.

Mountaintrue receives all proceeds. â&#x20AC;˘ The films â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mad Max: Fury Roadâ&#x20AC;? (Sept. 10, 12), â&#x20AC;&#x153;Age of Adelineâ&#x20AC;? (Sept. 11-12), â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love & Mercyâ&#x20AC;? (Sept. 17), â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cinderellaâ&#x20AC;? (Sept. 18-19) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Furious 7â&#x20AC;? (Sept. 18-19) will be screened at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Showtimes are 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee also on Saturday. Free. For a full schedule of dates and times, click on www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boulevardâ&#x20AC;? will be shown at 7 p.m. Sept.

11, 4 and 7 p.m. Sept. 12, 2 and 4 p.m. Sept.

13, 7 p.m. Sept. 15-16 and 18, 4 and 7 p.m.

Sept. 19 and 2 and 4 p.m. Sept. 20, at the Strand in Waynesville. Tickets are $6.50, with a $3.25 matinee pass for 2 and 4 p.m. showings. www.38main.com or call 828.283.0079. â&#x20AC;˘ A new musical starring Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick and Emily Blunt will be shown at 2 and 7 p.m. on Sept. 17 at Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a modern twist on the Brothers Grimm fairy tales in musical format.

524.3600. â&#x20AC;˘ The Highlands â&#x20AC;&#x153;Classic Film Festivalâ&#x20AC;? will be held from Sept. 18-20 at the Highlands Playhouse. The following films will be shown:

The Wizard of Oz; Stagecoach; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Mr. Smith Goes To Washington; Gone With The Wind; The Hound of The Baskervilles; and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle. www.highlandsplayhouse.org.

• Adult movie time, 6:30 p.m. Mondays at Jackson County Public Library. Call for title of movie.

586.2016.

Outdoors • A bird walk along the greenway is scheduled for 8 a.m. on Sept. 9. Parking is off Fox Ridge Road, just south of Franklin Flea Market on Highlands Road.

524.5234.

• Friends of Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute will host its annual meeting on Sept. 11 in Rosman.

Tour PARI’s recently enlarged Meteorite & Mineral Gallery. Register at www.pari.edu or Ken Steiner at 862.5554 or ksteiner@pari.edu.

• The Jackson County Farmers Market will celebrate its 15th year from 9 a.m.-noon on Sept. 12, featuring cooking demonstrations by Jen Pierson of Guadalupe.

Many vendors will share a taste or demonstrate a craft. www.jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org.

• The Charlie Davis Memorial Blue Ridge Parkway outing begins at 7 a.m. on Sept. 12, from the KelseyHutchinson Founders Park in Highlands. 526.1939.

• The sixth-annual Old Cullowhee Canoe Slalom, a family-friendly paddling competition on a calm section of the Tuckaseigee River near Western Carolina University’s campus, is scheduled for the morning of Sept. 12, in Cullowhee. $5 per person. Pre-register at the offices of WCU’s Base Camp Cullowhee. 227.3844, phipps@wcu.edu.

• Afternoon Tea with Llamas will be offered by the Cradle of Forestry in American at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sept. 12 in Pisgah Forest. Easy walk along the Forest Discovery Trail. 877.3130 or www.cradleof-

• The Highland-Cashiers Land Trust will lead an eco tour to Bald Rock on Sept. 17. 526.1111 or Julie.hitrust@earthlink.net.

• Haywood Community College’s Department of Arts, Sciences, and Natural Resources and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission will offer Hunter Safety courses from 6-9:30 p.m. on Sept. 1415 in Building 3300, Room 3322, at HCC in Clyde.

Participants must attend two consecutive evenings to receive their certification.

• The Highlands Plateau Greenway will conduct its monthly work day from 9 a.m.-noon on Sept. 19. To participate, email Ran Shaffner at highlandsgreenway@nctv.com or call 526.5622. Working on the new trail that connects Bowery Road to the Coker Rhododendron Trail and the Sled Run / Oak Street trail. Other work days are Oct. 17 and Nov. 21.

• An information session about planting a certifiable Monarch Waystation in Haywood County is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 15 at the Canton Public Library. www.monarchjointventure.org or 648.2924.

• Southern Vintage Trailers will hold a showcase from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 19 at Stonebridge Campground in Maggie Valley. $5 per person; free for children under 8 years old. Proceeds benefit Haywood Waterways Association’s youth education programs.

Boy Scout Troop No. 318 will host a breakfast fundraiser from 9-11 a.m.; $5 pancakes and sausage. www.southernvintagetrailers.com.

• A free ginseng workshop will be offered for anyone interested in growing “sang” at 7 p.m. on Sept. 15, at the Swain Business/Technology Center. Cayle Aldridge at 488.8803 or cayle.aldridge@nc.nacdnet.net.

• Tuscola Garden Club opens its 2015-16 season with a 9:30 a.m. meeting on Sept. 15 at Bethea Welcome Center in Lake Junaluska. 246.0437.

• A hands-on talk about pollinators will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 15 at the Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016. Becka Walling of Balsam Mountain Trust will lead the program highlighting the declines of monarch butterflies and honeybees. Free.

• A hands-on talk about pollinators will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 16, at the Macon County Public Library. 524.3600. Becka Walling of Balsam Mountain Trust will lead the program highlighting the declines of monarch butterflies and honeybees. Free.

• Friends of the Greenway is seeking volunteers to clean Greenway benches on Sept. 16. Training is at 8:30 a.m., and cleaning will take place from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. with a 30-minute break for lunch at noon.

369.6820. Rain date is Sept. 23.

• A bird walk along the Greenway, sponsored by Franklin Bird Club, is scheduled for Sept. 16. Meet at Macon County Public Library parking area at 8 a.m.

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• Haywood Waterways’ inaugural “Leaders in the Creek” workshop is scheduled for 2-5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24, at the Canton Recreation Park.

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• Kayaking paddle sessions will be offered from 9:3011:30 a.m. on Thursdays this fall at Lake Junaluska. $8 members; $12 for nonmembers. 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillnenc.gov.

• A hands-on talk about pollinators will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 17, at the Waynesville Branch of the Haywood County Public Library. 356.2507. Becka Walling of Balsam Mountain Trust will lead the pro-

• Monarch Butterfly Day is scheduled for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Sept. 19, at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville.

Educational opportunities for adults and youth to learn more about monarch’s declining population and ways to conserve their habitats. www.ncarboretum.org. Free; non-members $12 parking fee will apply.

• Haywood County Parks and Recreation will offer a daytrip from 12:30-7:30 p.m. on Sept. 20. $20 for members; $25 for nonmembers. 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillnenc.gov • Weather permitting, a Hawk Watch will be held Sept.

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• Sign-ups are underway for Haywood Community College’s Freedlander 5K, which is scheduled for Sept.

19. A half-mile fun run for kids is also on tap.

Registration fees are $30 for the 5K; $15 for the fun run. www.haywood.edu/freedlander-5k.

• Sign-ups are underway for the Red Wolf Run, a 5K fundraiser for Haywood Christian Academy’s senior class mission trip to Costa Rica. Participants will complete the mostly flat course through Clyde on Sept.

26 in original wolf costumes. Awards available for top finishers and best costumes. $25 entry fee or $10 for ages 10-under. www.active.com.

• Cycle NC – A Mountains to Coast ride – starts Sept.

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• The 10th annual Tour de Franklin is scheduled for 9 a.m. on Sept. 26 in Franklin. Proceeds benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. $35 registration fee

through Sept. 14; $45 after. www.active.com.

• The Cherokee Harvest Half-Marathon and 5K will be held Oct. 3, beginning at the Acquoni Events Center in Cherokee. Both races are USATF-certified. All finishers will receive a medal, with special awards given to top finishers. Half-marathon is $50 through Sept. 30 and $55 afterward; 5K is $30 through Sept. 30 and $35 afterward. Register at www.active.com.

FARM & GARDEN • A seed-saving class for beginners will be held from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Sept. 12, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Sign-up is required: 356. 2507.

HIKING CLUBS • Carolina Mountain Club will hold a nine-mile hike of Buckeye Gap – Haywood Gap with a 1,500-foot ascent on Sept. 9. Contact leader Laura Frisbie at 337.5845 or laurafrisbie@gmail.com.

• A nine-mile hike with a 1,500-foot elevation gain is scheduled for Sept. 9. RSVP to leader Laura Frisbie at 337.5845 or laurafrisbie@gmail.com.

• Blue Ridge Parkway rangers will lead a moderate, 2.5-mile round-trip, “Empty Graveyard” hike at 10 a.m. on Sept. 11. Meet at Graveyard Fields Parking Overlook, Milepost 418.8. 298.5330, ext. 304.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a 7-mile loop hike in Panthertown Valley Saturday, Sept. 12. No dogs. RSVP to Gail Lehman, 828.524.5298.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take 4-mile moderate hike from Wayah Crest to Siler Bald for a yoga workout on Saturday, Sept. 19. No dogs. RSVP to Evy and Marty Brow, 828.342.9274.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate 4.8-mile hike from Jones Gap to White Rock Mountain on the Bartram Trail Saturday, Sept. 19. Children and dogs welcome. RSVP to Mary Stone, 828.369.7352.

• A hands-on • Carolina Mountain Club will hold a half-day, five-mile hike with a 1,000-foot ascent on Sept. 13. Contact leader Karin Eckert at 593.8453 or karingarden@yahoo.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a 10.4-mile hike with a 3,400-foot elevation gain on Sept. 16. Contact leader Brenda Worley at 684.8658, 606.7297 or bjdworley@gmail.com.

• A hike of Joyce Kilmer park will be organized by the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sept. 16. Cost is $5 for members; $7 for non-members. 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillnenc.gov.

• A special access hike to the summit of “Old Bald” through Camp Merrie-Woode will be offered by Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust on Sept. 17. $35 for new members; $10 for existing members. Reservations required: Julie.hitrust@earthlink.net 526.1111. www.hicashlt.org.

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• Land Trust for the Little Tennessee will hold a Little Tennessee River BigSweep from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Sept. 12. Volunteers will meet at Big Bear Park in Franklin. 349.4097.

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by November 1, 2015. The drawdown would allow the licensee to make required repairs to the headgate screens and draft tube for the Queens Creek Hydroelectric Station. The drawdown would also provide safe access for divers to install a bulkhead to allow the licensee to drain and replace leaking penstock piping components and valves. Once the reservoir level reaches the target elevation of 2,985.2 feet msl the bulkhead would be installed, closing the intake structure, and the lake would begin refilling to the normal range required by Article 401. The licensee would maintain a minimum flow of one cubic feet per second in the bypassed reach during the drawdown and repairs; which the licensee plans to complete by November 30, 2015. l. Locations of the Application: A copy of the application is available for inspection and reproduction at the Commission's Public Reference Room, located at 888 First Street, NE, Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, or by calling (202) 502-8371. This filing may also be viewed on the Commission's website at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number excluding the last three digits in the docket number field to access the document. A copy is also available for inspection and reproduction at the address in item (h) above.

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70 Zsa Zsa’s sister 73 Relievable by scratchACROSS ing 1 Not live, as a TV show 77 It’s south of Can. 6 Flight in a building 79 Eyes a bull’s-eye, say 12 Nature lover’s prefix 83 Fess (up to) 15 Service station fixture 85 “Of - I Sing” 19 Old Olds 86 Hapless thugs caught 20 Chicken of - (tuna in the rain? brand) 91 Prioritize 21 Digressions 93 Mauna 23 “The Cosby Show” 94 Sweet-talk wife 95 Like Bashful 24 Wild-animal tracking 96 Writer Harper aid 97 French ecclesiastics 25 Tree-planting obser99 Drama part vance 101 - Newton 26 Try to find a figure of 103 Active types a person carved in oak?

105 Nonlocals visited by 29 Goad ghosts?

30 Architect I.M. 111 Mil. bigwig 31 Ending of sugar names 112 Viral gene material 32 Key next to F1 113 Light blow 33 Chou En- 114 Myrna of film 36 Avid fan of German 115 “... - extra cost!” computer programs?

118 New year of which 42 - effect on (impacts) there are five anagrams 44 Divine being in this puzzle 45 Compass pt.

124 More eerie 46 Singer Paula 126 Liken 47 Jurist’s org.

127 Buenos 48 Really bug 128 Promotion at the top 51 One fibbing of a Web page 54 R&B producer Gotti 129 Sled feature 56 Ballerina’s jump 130 “Johnny B. -” (1958 57 Promoter of Texas’ hit song) largest city was obse131 Abbr. before “D.A.” quious?

132 Sullivan and O’Neill 62 Foot support 133 Detects 63 “That’s show -!”

134 Pitch-dark 64 Butte’s kin 65 Pt. of SSN DOWN 66 Not lenient 1 RPM gauges 68 Sound of rebuke 2 “To sum it - ...”

3 Option for pad thai 4 African republic 5 Tim Conway’s “- on Golf” 6 Audio system 7 Deicing 8 Sleekly designed 9 “What - be done?”

10 Learn about via print 11 Most sapient 12 LGA guesses 13 Period after Ford’s presidency 14 Safely at first or second 15 Lima’s locale 16 Not duped 17 NYC bus insignia 18 -Ops 22 “You fell for it!”

27 Choose, with “for” 28 The latest 34 “What are you, some kind of -?”

35 Not in use 37 Army squad 38 By oneself 39 Hatred 40 “Not likely!”

41 Disapprove of 42 Responses to puns 43 End a mission early 49 Lowe of “Breakaway” 50 Purl’s partner 52 Munched 53 - ipsa loquitur 55 Beetles and Golfs, briefly 58 Shriveled up 59 Shih 60 Singer Carly - Jepsen 61 With 119-Down, “Absolutely not!”

67 Bounced check abbr.

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116 “- remind you that ...?”

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My favorite literary opening paragraphs

I

George Ellison

don’t like to talk or write about writing — but when forced to do so by, say, an approaching deadline, I will. I am, in fact, doing so right now. But I’ll be concise: have a beginning, have an ending, and don’t worry about the middle.

Endings are treacherous. Only blind luck or the intervention of angels will get you a halfway decent ending. If you don’t have anything else to say, then don’t. Opening paragraphs are Columnist tricky, but doable.

I’m writing one, for instance, right now. I don’t have a clue where it’s headed, but that doesn’t matter.

It’ll stop of its own accord.

You can’t necessarily tell a book by its cover, but you can by its opening paragraph.

If the opening doesn’t make your hair stand up on end, and smoke come out of your ears, forget about it. Having nothing more to say, I’ll close my part down right now with five of my favorite opening paragraphs.

Moby Dick (1851) is The coming-of-age story about a young man’s epic voyage with a demented captain in search of a demonic whale. Herman Melville crafted one of the most memorable opening paragraphs in

BACK THEN American literature.

“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.”

Even though the main story in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native (1878) focuses on the relationships between Eustacia Vye, Clym Yeobright and others, Egdon Heath — modeled on the Black Heath near Hardy’s childhood home — is the dominating force and central figure of the novel.

“A Saturday afternoon in November was

approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor.”

When Larry McMurtry is as good as he was in Lonesome Dove (1985) — the best “western” novel of all time — he is very good. The opening lines evoke the humor and sudden tragedy that take place on the long cattle drive from south Texas to Montana.

“When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake — not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.”

Bruce Chatwin opened The Song Lines (1987), his book about sacred (and profane) quests, with a one-line paragraph that gives the reader a heads-up as to the quirky nature of a trip upon which he or she is about to embark.

“In Alice Springs — a grid of scorching streets where men in long white socks were forever getting in and out of Land Rovers — I met a Russian who was mapping sacred sites of the Aboriginals.”

In the late W.G. Sebald’s magnificent semi-autobiographical tour de force The

Rings of Saturn (1995), the unnamed main character recalls a walking tour in East Anglia that led to his breakdown and hospitalization.

“In August 1992, when the dog days were drawing to an end, I set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have completed a long stint of work.

And in fact my hope was realized, up to a point; for I have seldom felt so carefree as I did then, walking for hours in the day through the thinly populated countryside, which stretches inland from the coast. I wonder now, however, whether there might be something in the old superstition that certain ailments of the spirit and of the body are particularly likely to beset us under the sign of the Dog Star. At all events, in retrospect I became preoccupied not only with the unaccustomed sense of freedom but also with the paralyzing horror that had come over me at various times when confronted with the traces of destruction, reaching far back into the past, that were evident even in that remote place. Perhaps it was because of this that, a year to the day after I began my tour, I was taken into hospital in Norwich in a state of almost total immobility. It was then that I began in my thoughts to write these pages.

(George Ellison is a naturalist and writer.

He can be reached at info@georgeellison.com.)

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