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Turned Away Visitors, residents barred from national park

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER hen Joe and Dolly Parker approached the entrance of the Deep Creek campground Tuesday morning, the sign read “Office Closed.”

“We can’t believe this,” Dolly said.

A retired couple from Key Largo, Fla., the Parkers spend upwards of five months each year traveling and camping around the country. Joe rides his motorcycle, with Dolly following behind in their campervan. Amid of all their stops, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of their favorites.

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This time around, they planned to stay in the Smokies outside Bryson City for a week.

But as they pulled into Deep Creek, the 70 year olds were turned away by a park ranger due to the federal shutdown.

They were disgruntled — and shocked, since they’d not been following the news from the road.

“We love this area. We love coming to the park, and we spend a lot of money in this town,” Joe added, referring to nearby Bryson City. “It’s really too bad. We’re retired, so we’re pretty flexible with our plans, but I can imagine this shutdown has

ruined many vacations.”

Scanning the Deep Creek campground, not a soul is around. Normally this time of year, the Smokies are buzzing with an enormous influx of visitors for the profitable fall tourism season. But instead of packed campgrounds, full of jovial voices, pitched tents and campfires, the sites now are empty, silent, with an eerie sense of lost possibility.

HITTING THE PARKWAY At one of the overlooks on the Blue Ridge Parkway Tuesday, Sam Hicks and his girl-

Visiting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Florida couple Joe and Dolly Parker were turned away at the Deep Creek campground, which was closed this week due to the government shutdown. Garret K. Woodward photos

friend Debbie Meredith were taking photos.

Hailing from Frankfort, Ind., the couple just started a weeklong trek through the region.

They were aware of the shutdown and weren’t happy about it.

“Well, it kind of sucks, to put it mildly,” Hicks said. “We’re paying these people in Washington D.C. to do a job that needs to get done.”

Meredith, 50, hadn’t been to the Great Smokies since she was a teenager and was looking forward to reacquainting herself with the landscape. Now, they’re aiming for Asheville, where they’ll figure out how to change their plans accordingly.

PACK IT UP At the Smokemont campground, just inside the main entrance to the Smokies on U.S. 441, Tom and Suzanne Stress were packing up their gear Tuesday morning and heading back home to Hendersonville. Like Deep Creek, the place was desolate, with a handful of weekend campers rolling out after being given their notice by the rangers to leave.

“We planned around the shutdown because we expected something like this would happen,” Tom said.

They would have stayed longer if the shutdown hadn’t happened. But, it did, and so they’re hitting the road.

“It’s pretty sad. We’ve been talking to some of the rangers, and they’re all disappointed,” Tom said. “We’re disappointed, too. We could camp in spots outside of the park, but we want to camp here, we love the rustic feel of being here in the park.”

As taxpayers, the couple is perturbed that public services they chip in for, including the park, can’t be used.

“We pay for this park, just like our parents and grandparents paid for it,” Tom said. “We’re retired, and this is supposed to be our time now to enjoy this place.”

Asked if the shutdown will put a bitter taste in her mouth about returning to the Great Smokies, Suzanne paused for a moment.

“We love this area — we’ll be back,” she said.

Shutdown irks tourism industry on the eve of leaf season

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER he tourism industry in Western North Carolina is not letting the shut down of visitor facilities on the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park or national forests in the region darken their spirits as the mountains head into the busiest tourism time of the year.

Tourism leaders — chambers of commerce directors, visitors center staffers, waitresses shop owners, and hotel workers — are busy battling misconceptions about the national park and forest closures in an attempt to keep visitors coming to the region. Some tourists believe they won’t even be able to drive through the Smokies or along the Parkway to see the leaves change, the main reason visitors come to WNC this time of year.

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closed?’” said Karen Wilmot, head of the Swain County Chamber of Commerce.

But, that’s not true. Yes, the trails are closed, as are the visitors centers, picnic areas, campgrounds and historic sites — and perhaps most importantly, the restrooms — but the main road through the Smokies, U.S. 441, can still be traversed.

“Just make sure you do all your stopping before you head across,” Katie McGugan, an employee at Quality Inn of Cherokee, is telling people.

McGugan added that the casino is the number one attraction for most of their guests anyway.

But the Smokies are certainly a main attraction for guests at the Chalet Inn in Whittier, and the shutdown could put a damper on their plans.

“That is certainly going to impact our visitors,” said

owner George Ware. “Hopefully, there is enough things that will keep guests busy.”

October is the busiest month for the bed and breakfast, and it’s nearly booked up. So far, no one has called to cancel, but it could be too early to tell the impact, especially since it is unknown how long the shutdown will last — a couple days or weeks.

Ware said he believes the biggest impact won’t be those who canceled existing reservations, since they are probably geared up and excited about their trip already, but those who had yet to finalize their plans may now stay away.

“I do think if it goes more than a day or two, it will impact people who have not made reservations,” Ware said.

The fact that leaf lookers can still drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway and through the Smokies, even though none of the facilities are open, is a big deal. And

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according to Don Barger, senior regional director of the National Parks Conservation Association’s Knoxville office.

The national park system as a whole typically sees 750,000 visitors per day during October. That visitation translates to a $30 million daily economic impact on gateway communities surrounding all those national parks. Because the Smokies is one of the most visited parks, surrounded by a ring of tourism-dependent towns, Barger said the region has a lot to lose.

“The impacts on the adjacent communities can be pretty immense for every day the government remains closed,” he said.

“The more days the parks stay closed, that impact multiplies.”

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER he impasse at the federal level will touch all areas of operation at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Blue Ridge Parkway, closing picnic areas, campgrounds, bathrooms, visitor centers and historic sites.

While people can still drive the main road through the Smokies, the roads into outlying recreation areas like Cataloochee Valley, Deep Creek and Big Creek will be gated off.

“The brief message is that all of our facilities are closed,” said Dana Soehn, a spokesWith the recent government shutdown, woman for the the Great Smoky Mountains National Great Smokies Park was closed, with many facilities, National Park. like the Oconaluftee Visitor Center, Technically, locked up until further notice. even the trails in the Smokies are closed, although keeping hikers off the 800 miles of backcountry trails would realistically be impossible.

“Are we going to go out and wrangle down people on the trail? I don’t think so,” she said.

“But the backcountry is closed along with our trail system.”

The Smokies has 325 employees, many who live in the gateway communities surrounding the park. Around shutdown all national parks are closed, and 280 were furloughed indefinitely. The the national park service web pages are not remaining skeleton crew consists of law operating.” enforcement rangers, a handful of mainteThe story of closures is similar in the nance staff and an animal caretaker for the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests. park’s backcountry horses and farm aniDozens of national forest recreation sites in mals at the Mountain Farm Museum at the WNC have been shut down, from shooting Oconaluftee Visitor Center. ranges to bathrooms to campgrounds.

With October being one of the busiest “Essentially, we’re closing down pretty months for the park, the closures will much all of our facilities,” said Stevin undoubtedly throw a wrench in the vacaWestcott, a spokesman for the forest servtion plans of many. ice.

Smokies visitation in October averages The national forest service isn’t closing about 1.1 million. The park has 820 camptrails. Backcountry camping is still allowed, sites at its many campgrounds. Of those, too. But since there’s no rangers to monitor 300 were occupied when the shut down the forests or empty trash cans, everyone is came Tuesday. The Smokemont campasked to practice “Leave No Trace” princi-

ples. The national forests, in other words, are on autopilot.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is keeping its scenic road opened but is shutting down all the other amenities — including bathroom rest areas, one of the most popular amenities along the 469-mile motorway. The popular Pisgah Inn will also close.

The Parkway sees an average of 70,000 visitors a day during the October fall leaf season.

Like in the Smokies, campers will have 48 hours to pack up and get out, but the parkway is holding off as long as possible before evacuating campers to see if the shutdown sticks.

“Say this were to resolve in a day or two,” said Parkway Chief Ranger Steve Stinnett. “We don’t want to turn people out and say ‘Get out, find someplace to stay.’”

Only 43 of the parkway’s 238 employees will stay on. Most are law enforcement personnel, plus a few maintenance staff. Even the parkway’s superintendent was furloughed.

The sum total of the national park closures will no doubt have a huge impact on a region dependant on tourism dollars,

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Before the shutdown, Western Carolina University Hospitality and Tourism professor Steve Morse was predicting an increase in tourism this October. However, he’s now tempering that forecast in light of the shutdown.

“The economic impact of the important October travel month could be jeopardized by public perception of the shutdown of Great Smoky Mountains National Park,” Morse said Nonetheless, the WCU-conducted study anticipated 3.5 percent increase in room nights this October in Haywood, Jackson and Swain counties. Macon County is expected to see a 2.1 percent increase, according to the study.

This year has already been a trying one for some in the tourism industry who rely on the traffic coming through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A landslide on U.S. 441 blocked traffic through the Smokies for four months, choking off the flow of tourists. Now, if the government shutdown hurts Smokies visitation, it will be a double whammy in one year.

“This is a hardship that we did not need at this time,” Wilmot said. “There is potentially a lot of damage to be done.”

Wilmot heard reports from the Great Smoky Mountains Association, a nonprofit that operates stores in the park, that it could lose $50,000 a week until the national park reopens.

One group that could benefit from the closure of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is private campgrounds.

Those being forced to pack up and leave national park and national forest campgrounds are now hunting for private campgrounds.

At Happy Holiday RV Village in Cherokee, Debbie Hobbs began getting calls Tuesday morning from campers being evacuated from the Smokies.

“It is going to help us. That’s for sure,” she said.

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ground, on the North Carolina side of the park, had about 45 occupied sites.

Campers were given 48 hours to vacate — with the promise of reimbursement for pre-paid sites.

Backcountry hikers, however, may not emerge from the trails for a day or two or even more. When they do, they will come off the trail to find a national park on idle.

A lockdown of Cataloochee Valley, home to the largest elk herd in the Smokies, comes at one of the peak elk viewing times.

It is the height of the elk rut, when males spar over female mating rights.

The Smokies had a constant stream of incoming calls Monday and Tuesday.

“We’ve got all our phones and our cell phones going,” Soehn said. “Obviously, it’s made an impact on people’s vacation plans and hiking and trail plans.”

But as the calls were coming in, the park staff was packing up to head for the house until further notice.

Even the park’s website has gone off line, an arguably puzzling side effect of the shutdown. Try visiting a national park website and the following error message pops up: “Because of the federal government

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there’s plenty of hiking available in the national forests alongside plenty of scenic drives on backcountry roads.

“Even on a worst case scenario, we still have plenty of scenic drives for people to do,” said Lynn Collins, executive director of the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority. “Nobody should alter their plans because of this.”

The TDA is sending out email blasts and posting to social media sites, letting people know that Western North Carolina is still open for business.

“We are just encouraging travelers to still travel,” agreed Julie Spiro, head of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce.

“There are lots of other things that we offer in this county that aren’t affected.”

Examples include fly fishing on rivers in WNC, visiting Whitewater Falls near Cashiers and boating on Lake Glenville.

And, of course, there are leaves to be seen everywhere.

“We are going to have fabulous fall color,” Wilmot said. “There is still so much to see and do, you may not even miss it.”

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A dozen candidates gunning for just four seats in Franklin town election

BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER his year’s election in Franklin is shaping up to be one of the most interesting — and crowded — the town has seen in a decade, or more.

There’s a dozen candidates in all: 10 vying for the town board and two for mayor seat.

The field of candidates is varied, too — from a former newspaper editor to an architect to a stay-at-home mom. They range in age from 27 to 77.

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took a chance to sound off on the reasons behind their candidacy. While the answers were varied, economic development was a recurring theme — although candidates

have different ideas of how to get there.

Angela Hubbs Moore, 32, wants to lower taxes and reduce town spending.

“Economic development is best served by reducing the amount of taxes,” she said at the forum.

Thomas Ritter, an architect in town, painted a bleak picture of the state of Franklin. He proposed investing in Angel Medical Center and making Franklin more attractive to job seekers as one way to remediate a sluggish local economy.

“There’s not a business in town that’s thriving,” Ritter said.

The candidate participation in this November’s Franklin election comes as a bit of a surprise in comparison to the town election two years ago, when only the incumbents ran and voter turnout was low.

Part of the attraction for candidates this year is the promise of open seats.

Long-time Mayor Joe Collins isn’t running for re-election, prompting two of the current aldermen to forsake their seats on the town board and run for mayor instead — namely Bob Scott and

Sissy Pattillo. That made the race wide-open, with newcomers guaranteed to take as least two seats on the town board. A third alderman seat is also up for election, currently held by Billy Mashburn, who is running to keep his seat.

Town Alderman Farrell Jamison, whose seat is not up for election, speculated that the two open seats might have been enticing for candidates on the fence about whether to run.

“Since two of the aldermen decided to run for mayor, that would open vacant slots for somebody to run,” Jamison said. “The last several elections, there have not been that many candidates run.”

But the issues run deeper than just an opportunity to win an up-for-grabs alderman seat, according to Matt Bateman, one of the organizers of the candidate forum and a founder of the community action group Venture Local. Though fiscal responsibility and the town’s water and sewer infrastructure are concerns of many residents, he characterized the newfound political interest in town as something bigger.

“It’s just time for change in leadership in Franklin,” he said. “And folks in Franklin are just starting to get that.”

The variety of candidates is a welcome aspect of the town election, and much better for voters than the limited participation and options they had two years ago, he added.

“I’ve been pushing and encouraging peo-

Election forum for mayor candidates The Macon County League of Women Voters will host a forum for mayoral candidates for the town of Franklin at noon Thursday, Oct. 10, at Tartan Hall.

Longtime mayor Joe Collins is stepping down, and two candidates, Sissy Pattillo and Bob Scott, have decided to run for the position. Both currently serve as aldermen on the town board. By focusing just on the mayoral candidates, the forum will provide for more in-depth discussion by Scott and Pattillo. All are invited, and attendees are welcome to bring a bag lunch.

The League of Women Voters is a nationwide non-partisan organization that focuses on voter education, voter rights, and citizen participation in government and community.

ple to try to vote and run for the board,” he said. “It’s only going to make for a more healthy, diverse election.”

At last week’s forum, candidates accused current town government of making poor property purchases, overspending on a “lavish” new town hall renovation, allowing imprudent development that threatens the environment and not promoting itself as a tourist destination or fostering a healthy small business climate.

“People go to Asheville, Sylva, Waynesville — we need to make sure we create that for Franklin,” said Adam Kimsey, the youngest candidate at 27 years old.

“We’re not those towns, but we can look at them and take some of those ideas.”

At least two candidates said aldermen needed to cooperate bet-

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Adam Kimsey — 27, entrepreneur “People go to Asheville, Sylva, Waynesville — we need to make sure we create that for Franklin. We’re not those towns, but we can look at them and take some of those ideas.”

Emmanuel Carrion — 34, business owner Carrion said he would like to improve the local economy to encourage youth to stay in Franklin and perhaps start their own business. “Without supporting the local businesses, you’re not even giving those kids a chance.”

Thomas Ritter — 52, architect Ritter said he would like to see the town invest in improving Angel Medical Center, for economic and health reasons.

“What a frightening thought that I might lose a hour and half of critical time because I have to go to Asheville.”

Barbara McRae Angela Hubbs — 70, retired Moore — 32, newspaper editor stay-at-home “I would like to mom explore expanding parks and recreation places in town, closer to more people,” like the Franklin greenway, she said. “It’s such a tremendous asset for the town.”

“Economic development is best served by reducing the amount of taxes. The free market as a whole will always make better economic decisions than the government.”

Billy Mashburn — Patti Halyburton 61 Abel — 41, “I would like to business owner retain my seat specifically because of all the water and sewer issues coming up in the future.”

“Tourism and second homes make up a large part of our local revenue.

People come here for natural beauty — we need to work with the county to preserve it.”

Mack Brogden — 62, retired Brogden said town leaders need to work to attract new businesses and promote economic growth to maintain a vibrant community. “What I want to see is jobs. You can’t thrive on just a retirement community.”

W.H. Derrick — 77, retired

Marshall Henson — 73, retired “Roads, the infra- retail sales structure — that’s the biggest.

The roads and infrastructure in this town are terrible.”

“Something that is not right I’m going to be against that — spending is the biggest thing, waste. I think we spend a lot of money foolishly.”

so many young people running and so many people that hadn’t been involved in politics before,” she said.

MAYORAL RACE

The annual Fall Fight is kicking off at MedWest-Harris/Swain/Franklin as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

It includes several events: ■ A 5K run/walk and 10K run on Oct. 5 starting at Webster Baptist Church. Visit www.medwesthealth.org or call 828.631.8924 to register. Proceeds provide funding for mammograms at Harris Regional Hospital for underserved women.

■ The Tree of Hope will be placed in the main lobby of the breast center at Harris Medical Park, 98 Doctors Dr. on Oct. 8. Everyone is invited to fill out a card honoring or remembering someone dealing with cancer of any kind and place that card on the tree.

■ The health departments in Jackson and Swain counties and the Breast and Cervical Cancer Program nurse navigator Mary Mahon, and the radiology department at Harris Regional Hospital will host an open house at Harris Medical Park from 5-7 p.m. Oct. 15.

An event at Swain County Hospital will be held from 2-4 p.m. Oct. 21. www.medwesthealth.org/fallfight.

WCU sponsoring world wars round table A former U.S. Marine Corps colonel turned historian will speak at the Carolina Round Table on the World Wars Wednesday, Oct. 9, at Western Carolina University’s instructional site at Biltmore Park Town Square in Asheville.

Joseph Alexander will deliver a presentation titled “70th Anniversary of the Battle of Tarawa” at 6 p.m. at the facility on 28 Schenck Parkway. The roundtable addresses various aspects of world wars of the 20th century.

Alexander retired from the Marines with 28 years of active service, including two combat tours of Vietnam and stints in South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, the Shetlands and Norway. He has published six books and has helped produce more than 30 television documentaries on U.S. military history.

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Though the alderman races may have a mix of candidates, young and old, the mayoral race is a match up between two of the town’s political veterans.

Candidates Sissy Pattillo and Bob Scott have served collectively for nearly two decades as aldermen. Both are 72 years old.

During that time, Scott, retired from a career in law enforcement and journalism, has earned a name for himself as an independent, willing to go against the grain. At a candidate’s forum in Franklin last week, Scott touted that record as a reason why he’d make a good mayor and leader of the town.

“I’ve been the lone vote against several issues,” Scott said. “I do not believe in groupthink.”

Though the mayor in Franklin only votes in tiebreakers, they play an important role in setting the tone of meetings and guiding the board members.

“The mayor’s jobs is to inspire and motivate,” Scott said.

Pattillo has her own ideas of what it means to lead and shared those with attendees at last week’s forum.

“I also feel like the mayor creates the atmosphere for the town,” Pattillo said.

Tracing her lineage back three generations in Macon County, she believe she would do a good job looking ahead while also acknowledging the town’s past. She sees herself as a unifier for Franklin, being able to foster collaboration for the betterment of the community.

“I feel it is very important for people to work together,” Pattillo said. “With collaboration, with all of us working together, we can move our town forward.”

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ter amongst themselves and with other entities like Macon County. Emmanuel Carrion, a local business owner running for alderman, mentioned the incident surrounding the Nikwasi Mound and discord between county commissioners and town aldermen.

“Collaboration is the key,” Carrion said.

“Instead of two bubbles, it needs to be one bubble.”

Mashburn, who is fighting to retain his seat, defended the board’s record at the forum. He said the county and the town have regular meetings and consistently collaborate on a host of issues, like lobbying for or against state legislation.

“The town board has always tried to work with the county when we could,” he said, though his primary reason for running is to improve the town’s infrastructure.

Alderman Verlin Curtis, while not running for re-election, defended the town’s current direction as well. He said some of the criticism dished out by candidates at the forum was uncalled for. He alleged that candidates who were quick to take jabs at town government were nowhere to be seen when the issues were being debated at town meetings.

“There are some folks who feel like they can do a better job,” Curtis said. “After I listened at the forum, I realized that some of them didn’t much know what they were getting into.”

It’s hard to peg whether the election will swing the board one way or another. With so many candidates to choose from, the top three vote-getters could easily be comprised of several different combinations of political ideologies and backgrounds.

That outlook was intriguing to Kristina Moe, a member of the county’s League of Women Voters, a co-organizer of the forum.

Moe noted that there are three candidates in their 20s or 30s, several candidates who own businesses and have never been in political office before.

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Meet the candidates for Bryson town board

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER andidates have lined up to run for the town board in Bryson City this November after two current aldermen have bowed out of public office, leaving two empty seats up for grabs in a wide-open race.

Five candidates are running for the two seats being vacated by outgoing alderman Tom Reidmiller and Stephanie Treadway.

The Smoky Mountain News checked in with candidates this week to find out why they are running and what issues they would tackle if elected.

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Bryson is a native of Bryson City who moved away in the 1960s and returned about two years ago. He went to school for engineering but along the way became a writer. He has written three historical fiction novels, including two involving Cherokee history, as well as articles for niche publications.

“I grew up wanting to know how things work, so I went to engineering school, Rick Bryson and somewhere in there, I found out I liked words more than I liked numbers.”

He has four daughters.

What’s his vision The town is too focused on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad and needs to attract a variety of industries, Bryson said.

“This is a town with a one legged stool.

We don’t have a balanced economy.”

Bryson would like to see Bryson City market itself as a hub for outdoor gear manufacturers, like the makers of fishing lures or

kayaks or backpacks.

He added that Western North Carolina is “the greatest playground in the East.”

Bryson would also like to make better use of town assets such as the Tuckasegee River and Island Park and make sure government operations are transparent.

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Janine Crisp, 47, tax accountant Crisp, who was born and raised in Bryson City, owns Crisp Accounting and Tax Service based out of her home office on the edge of downtown.

She is an active member of the Bryson City Church of God and has four children. Crisp served as county finance director for a couple of years Janine Crisp and as finance officer for the Swain County Health Department for several years before that.

What’s her vision Crisp has thought about running for a seat on town board before but never officially put her hat in the ring until this year.

Crisp said she will put the residents first, and as a Bryson City native, she knows well what her fellow residents deal with.

“I just want to do anything I can to help benefit the citizens. I have the same troubles and woes, aspirations and goals.”

Her experience in finance will help the town, she said. Government, no matter how big or small, is mostly about money.

“To me, government is just the allocation of scarce resources.”

Some of those resources should go toward water and sewer upgrades, Crisp said, but she also wants to focus some funding toward residential street repairs.

“They are in some bad need of attention.”

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Matthew Kirkland, 38, business owner Kirkland opened Pursenality in 2007 and It’s a Girl Thing in 2010. Both sit just across from the train depot in downtown Bryson City. He is a native of Bryson City and has a teenage daughter. He graduated from UNCAsheville but also attended Appalachian State and Western Carolina University during his college career.

What’s his vision The downtown business community in Bryson City doesn’t have a representative on the town board, which affects them greatly, according to Kirkland.

Many of the other downtown business owners don’t live in the town limits, so unlike him, they cannot Matthew Kirkland run for office.

“It just really needed a downtown voice. This is my world — downtown — whereas (the current aldermen) don’t come downtown.”

Kirkland said he never sees the current aldermen at festivals or at other events acting as ambassadors for Bryson City.

“People don’t know what the board of aldermen are.”

Kirkland would also be one of the younger aldermen if elected and would like to bring a new perspective to the board.

“I feel like it needs to be a little more progressive than it’s always been.”

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Brad Walker, 69, hotel manager Walker is general manager of Fairfield Inn & Suites and is chairman of the Swain County Tourism Development Authority. He was previously mayor of Bryson City for four years. Walker lives in secBrad Walker ond-floor loft apartment in a building he restored downtown. Walker has lived in Bryson City for about 35 years.

What’s his vision Two years ago, Walker did not run for reelection as mayor but is now raring to get back into small town political life.

“I want to get back into the town.”

Walker said he would like to get back to work on items that he focused on as mayor.

Of course, Bryson City’s aging water and sewer infrastructure will remain a priority, but residential road maintenance tops his list.

“Time to make that the number one priority.”

Infrastructure is a critical drawing card.

Walker also said he would like to partner more with the county and other entities such as the Swain County Chamber of Commerce to promote the town.

“Bryson City is a good town, and I’d like to make it even better.”

His experience as mayor can only help, he said.

“I learned a lot when I was mayor and hope to use that experience.”

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Tom Wilmot, 38, business owner Wilmot owns the Tuckasegee Tavern in downtown Bryson City.

The Atlanta native moved to town about nine years ago. His wife is Karen Wilmot, head of the Swain County Chamber of Commerce.

They have two young boys.

Tom Wilmot Wilmot also coaches Tee Ball and peewee football.

What’s his vision Wilmot has lots of ideas.

“Every time I turn around, I think of something.”

But the top three issues for him are making the board of aldermen more vocal, championing the new Swain County library project and bringing visitors to Bryson City.

Wilmot said he would like to use the board as a way to reach out to government leaders higher up, those at the county and state level that could possibly help the town.

Describing himself as a voracious reader, Wilmot is passionate about building a new, larger Marianna Black Library. He has seen what Jackson and Macon counties have done with theirs and wants something just as grand for Bryson City.

“I don’t see any reason we can’t spearhead that effort there.”

Wilmot said he would also like the aldermen to work more closely with business owners and be more proactive in attracting tourists.

Annual Coats for Folks drive this month The annual Coats for Folks collection will run through October at all Swain County government buildings and schools.

Individuals are asked to drop off gently used coats, sweaters, sweatshirts, gloves, hats or other articles of warmth. The items will be distributed to those in need by the Swain County Resource Center.

“The program has been a great success story for our citizens in Swain County. Every year, approximately 400 items are collected and re-distributed,” said Mike Clampitt, originator of the countywide program.

If donors are unable to get to a collection site, they can call Clampitt at 828.736.6222 to arrange for pick up.

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER istrict Attorney Mike Bonfoey publicly announced plans to retire next year when his current term of office expires.

Bonfoey has been the lead prosecutor for the seven western counties for 10 years, directing a team of 10 assistant district attorneys.

In the legal community, it’s been known for at least a year that Bonfoey would most likely step down after serving out his current term, but it had not been publicly confirmed

by Bonfoey until now. Bonfoey announced his pending retirement in a letter to the chair of the Haywood County Democratic Party, Janie Benson, to read at the party’s annual fall rally held in Canton last Saturday.

Two candidates have already stepped forward: Jim Moore, an assistant district attorney from Waynesville, and Bill Jones, a former assistant district attorney now in private practice, also from Waynesville. Both had planned to run for some time, but Bonfoey’s recent announcement cleared the way for Moore and Jones to make public their own intentions to run.

Both Moore and Jones are Democrats and will face off in the May primary, with a final election in November against any Republican opponent. More candidates for

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the open district attorney post will likely emerge between now and the candidate sign-up period in February.

Prior to Bonfoey, the district attorney was Charlie Hipps, who held the post from 1990 to 2003, when he died unexpectedly from a heart attack. Bonfoey was named as Hipps’ replacement by thenGov. Mike Easley and subsequently Bill Jones ran for the seat in 2006 and 2010.

Jones was an assistant district attorney for Hipps when Hipps passed away.

Despite being out of law school for just a few years at the time, Jones was seen as a rising star in the prosecutor’s office. He went Jim Moore straight to work

for Hipps promptly after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill law school and was being groomed as an eventual successor to Hipps.

When Hipps passed away, Jones put his name in the ring for the appointment.

When Bonfoey got the nod instead of Jones, Bonfoey offered to let him stay on, Jones said. But Jones opted for private practice.

In hindsight, spending the past 10 years as an attorney in private practice, including as a criminal defender, has been a good thing, Jones said.

“I’ll be honest with you, I think I am much more qualified now. Any district attorney should have been on both sides. I think I understand the whole system now that I have defended as well as prosecuted,” Jones said. “Now is the appropriate time for me to run.”

Originally from Sylva, Jones, 41, is married with two children, 7 and 3 years of age.

His wife is a supervisor at the Haywood County Department of Social Services.

Jones said he has always intended to run for the district attorney position again one day. But the time wasn’t right until now.

“First of all, life comes along. I got married. We had babies,” Jones said.

Jones said he believes he can bring efficient and effective leadership to the prosecutor’s office.

“My reason for wanting to be district

attorney is to seek justice. There’s no other right answer to that question in my opinion,” Jones said.

Moore, like Jones, has spent his legal career as a prosecutor and defender —15 years as an assistant district attorney and 12 years in various private legal practices in Waynesville, including a joint practice at one point with his wife, who is also an attorney.

Moore worked as an assistant district attorney under Hipps from 1990 to 1996, when he returned to private practice to have a more flexible schedule.

“My kids needed me to be around to coach their ball teams,” Moore said.

But Moore returned to the prosecutor’s office once more in 2003 when Bonfoey was appointed district attorney. Moore and Bonfoey are long-time friends — Bonfoey is godfather to Moore’s daughter. Moore, 52, is married and has three children: one in high school, one in college and one out of college.

He is originally from Arkansas but followed his wife back to Western North Carolina after law school in 1986. His wife now works for Legal Services as a civil attorney for victims of domestic violence.

Moore said he sees the legal profession in general and the role of district attorney in particular, as a way to help others.

“I’ve seen how the DA can help the community by prosecuting people justly and appropriately,” Moore said.

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Town manager, festival director suspended over concert debacle

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER he Maggie Valley Board of Aldermen voted unanimously last week to suspend Town Manager Tim Barth and Festival Director Audrey Hagar for a week with pay after questions arose about dubious decisions made by both leading up to a country music concert at the town’s festival grounds in August.

The suspension was only temporary until the town board could decide whether to suspend the two employees without pay, fire them or allow them to keep their jobs.

“More questions needed to be answered,” Maggie Alderman Mike Matthews said at a town meeting called expressly to discuss the controversy on Sept.

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The board will resume its internal probe with another closed session meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2.

The unanimous vote marked a rare occasion when the board’s four members agreed instead of being locked in a stalemate.

Alderman Phillip Wight said the temporary suspension was the only option the board could take that would let residents know they weren’t taking the matter lightly.

“You send them on a vacation with pay in one sense. In another sense, it seemed like there was enough there to not let the taxpayers feel like it is business as usual,” Wight said.

The whole debacle was brought to light after Maggie residents expressed displeasure over the town fronting money to a local bar and restaurant owner to put on a concert for rising country star and Sylva native Matt Stillwell. Town board members claim they knew nothing about the decision, which Hagar and Barth made unilaterally.

Wight agreed with residents who felt Hagar and Barth should have acted differently.

“I just think it was mishandled all the way around,” Wight said.

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BAD PRECEDENT Charlie Meadows, who owns Lucky Jake’s bar in Maggie, turned to the town for help putting on a concert at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds in August for Stillwell.

Since Meadows had never put on a concert before he went to the town’s festival director, Hagar, for help.

But everything went sideways. The North Carolina ABC commission denied the alcohol permit for the concert a little more than two weeks before the event. Hagar said she

spoke with a representative from the commission who told her that the only way to secure a permit for alcohol sales at the concert was if the town was the main promoter of the concert.

Without alcohol sales, the concert would be canceled, so Hagar suggested the town step in to save the concert — acting as the underwriter of the concert and applying for the alcohol permit in the town’s name. As a condition, Meadows pledged to pay the town back for any losses if ticket sales weren’t enough to cover the upfront expenses borne by the town.

Hagar said she believed it was in the best interest of the tourism-dependent town to help the concert go forward by taking it over — and paying some $15,600 in upfront costs — as long as Meadows agreed to pay the town back.

As the town festival director, it’s Hagar’s job to coordinate, schedule and promote events at the town-owned festival grounds.

She’s been tasked with booking as many events as possible at the venue over the course of a year.

Had the town not taken over the event, it would have lost the thousands it had already spent on advertising at that point.

“We had already committed to expenses at that time, so the town would have lost money,” Hagar said.

Hagar was hesitant to speak in front of the 20-person crowd at the special-called meeting last week, however.

“I would really like to talk with you about this in closed session,” Hagar said.

However, Teresa Smith, executive director of the Maggie Valley Chamber of Commerce, stood up during the meeting to say that it is simply not true that the town had to assume the costs of the festival in order to score an ABC permit. As a nonprofit, the chamber has obtained alcohol permits on behalf of other entities, as long as the chamber keeps all the revenue from the alcohol sales.

“We did not have to be the promoter,” Smith said, adding that the town as a government entity could have done the same.

The Stillwell concert was the first time that Hagar had trouble getting an alcohol permit on behalf of other entities putting on events at the festival grounds. For the last three years, Hagar had been applying for permits under the section of the law meant for nonprofits, even though the town is not one. The ABC commission had given the town the permits nonetheless but denied the most recent application after the ABC commission began following its own guidelines

“I just think it was mishandled all the way around.”

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Maggie Valley Festival Director Audrey Hagar and Maggie businessman Charlie Meadows stood before the town board of aldermen Tuesday night (Sept. 24) to answer questions about the events surrounding the Matt Stillwell concert. Caitlin Bowling photo more strictly.

“For three and a half years, I thought we were a nonprofit,” Hagar said.

So, she was perplexed when the town didn’t receive the alcohol permit for the concert.

WHO KNEW WHAT WHEN One of the bigger problems for the Maggie board members was that no one informed them that taxpayer money was going to be used pay for the concert.

“We probably would not have known anything about this if it had not blown up,” Matthews said.

At the meeting last week, Alderman Mike Matthews asked for clarification on the timeline. When exactly did Hagar and Barth know the ABC permit had been declined and when did they decided to front money to Meadows?

“I was told this didn’t have time for board approval,” Matthews said. But if the ABC permit was denied two weeks before the concert, it seems there was a two-week window when the board could have been filled in.

However, according to Barth, the ABC applications must be in at least 14 days

before an event, so a decision had to be made almost instantly.

During the meeting, Hagar apologized to the board that they did not know but said several times that it was not her job to tell the board. She said she reports to the town manager, Barth.

“It is not my responsibility to contact you,” Hagar said. “Sometimes, you make decisions — not all of them go the right way.”

As town manager, Barth is Hagar’s supervisor, and he in turn is beholden to the mayor and aldermen.

“I wasn’t sure why everybody was focused on Audrey because her boss is Tim. Her boss approved everything,” Wight said.

“I put more on the man in charge than the person under.”

Wight questioned how the town employees could get away with spending $15,600 on the Stillwell concert without any checks and balances.

“Do you have a cap on your discretionary spending?” he asked Barth.

Although the board had talked about it in the past, there is no formal cutoff for how much money the town manager can authorize if deemed necessary.

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about the decision, but there is some debate about whether or not the mayor did. Mayor Ron DeSimone was allegedly in the same room when Hagar came to Barth to tell him about the concert problems. However, DeSimone said he only heard about the ABC permit being denied and not the entire picture of the town taking over the concert.

“That is the part I was privy to and heard,” DeSimone said. “I was not aware of any other implications.”

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When Meadows pledged to pay back the town for expenses incurred putting on the festival, he didn’t expect a bill for $11,000.

But the rainy event only sold 493 tickets — a fourth of the expected ticket sales — so it didn’t bring in as much as hoped to cover the costs. But the town also spent far more in Meadow’s name than he realized.

“To me, I felt like I gave them an open checkbook,” Meadows said.

The town spent $15,600 to put on the concert, including a $3,500 payment to Stillwell, $8,000 in advertising and $1,200 on alcohol.

Meadows is on the hook for $10,800, according to Hagar, although the number from Hagar has oscillated in recent weeks.

The wild card is alcohol sales, however.

About $4,000 was made on alcohol sales, but the town planned to take that off the top. The town says it will not count what was made on alcohol sales toward the bill Meadows owes, which Meadows considered unscrupulous.

“If you do me dirty, then I will do you dirty?” he said.

Had the concert made money, Meadows said he planned to give it to the town to pay for lights at the festival grounds.

Neither Hagar nor Barth kept Meadows apprised of how much money the town was spending, and that he would ultimately be on the hook for. More than $8,000 was spent on advertising for the event.

Meadows said he thought it would only be $5,000 or $6,000.

Although Meadows said he is prepared to pay whatever amount, he said he first wants to see a line-by-line list of expenses.

He will also lobby the town to credit the alcohol sales to the expenses, which would lower his debt to less than $7,000.

“I am not going to pay a dime until they get their ducks in a row and give me a bottom line,” Meadows said.

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The festival grounds has been a thorn in Maggie’s side for some time. In the name of economic development, town taxpayers pitched in $500,000 toward purchase of the festival grounds about 10 years ago and also subsidize its annual operating costs.

The festival grounds are a vital attraction for the tourism-dependent town, providing a venue for festivals and concerts that in turn bring tourists to patronize the motels, shops and restaurants. But some residents have questioned why they should bear the costs. Supporters, however, point out that economic development is in the best interest of residents as well as the businesses.

The Stillwell concert controversy also brought up questions about why the town fronts money to event promoters for advertising — a standing practice for other events besides this one.

The town has also fronted advertising money for events such as the Popcorn Sutton Festival, Plott Fest and the Smoky Mountain Oyster & Seafood Festival. Each reimbursed the town for the promotions that were done on behalf of the event. But just because the town has done something before doesn’t mean it should continue, Matthews said, particularly since promoters get to use the venue for free.

“I don’t understand why we are paying for advertising for festivals,” he said.

Neither Hagar nor Barth could say how much money the town had lent promoters for advertising during the past few years, which may prompt the town elected officials to investigate.

“Now, we are talking about going back and auditing each event and seeing how many times it did happen,” Alderman Philip Wight said.

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Swain school officials take swift action against football player for racial insults on Facebook

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER A Swain County High School junior varsity football player was suspended from school for 10 days and kicked off the team for racially derogatory comments made to a member of the Cherokee JV football team.

The 14-year-old Swain student sent nasty and vulgar messages over Facebook to an eighth grade Cherokee football player following a game at Cherokee, which Swain won, 32-0. The Swain player sent the two raciallyloaded messages while he returned home on the school activity bus after the football game.

Swain County School officials suspended the player from school for 10 days and kicked him off the team for the rest of the season.

“This is not a representation of our school system nor of our student body. We do not condone this kind of behavior,” said Steve Claxton, a spokesperson for Swain County Schools.

Ironically, the Cherokee JV football player who was sent the messages is white. He is not Native American but grew up in Cherokee and attends school there.

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Next-door neighbors, Swain and Cherokee are historic football rivals in the Smoky Mountain Conference.

Swain County Schools have a significant number of Cherokee students who choose to attend school in Swain instead of on the reservation. In fact, the student body at Swain High is roughly 40 percent Cherokee — making it the most diverse high school in Western North Carolina, Claxton confirmed.

Swain County Schools’ sports teams, including the varsity and JV football teams, have many players who are Cherokee.

Swain County Schools’ behavior policy calls on students to show “respect for cultural and ideological differences.” School policy prohibits harassment and bullying, including “name-calling, put-downs, derogatory comments and slurs,” and applies equally to written electronic communications.

Although the incident didn’t occur during the school day, school policies still apply during school-sanctioned events, including being transported on a school activity bus.

A minor violation of student conduct codes, which prohibit “insulting and disrespectful language,” can carry a punishment

A year later, Tuscola football player charged with cross-burning still playing A Tuscola varsity football player charged with felony cross-burning in the yard of a biracial student remains on the team more than a year after the incident, pending the case coming to trial.

Ben Greene, 17, played for Tuscola’s football as recently as Friday night. His continued presence on the field is dismaying to some in the community and has been the source of a few complaints to the school system during the past year.

However, Haywood County School officials say they are following the policies they have on the books. Greene’s case has not yet been heard in court. When it does — and if he is ultimately found guilty — he would be expelled from school as a convicted felon and thus would be off the football team.

But for now, Greene’s case has been postponed every time it’s come up in court.

Greene had to sit out two games at the start of last year’s season, per school policy governing conduct of students in sports or in other extracurricular activities. Specifically, student athletes charged with a crime have to sit out for 20 percent of the games in a season and do 25 hours of community service for a first offense.

“The whole rationale is you hold your stu-

dent athletes to a higher standard because they are representing your school,” said Haywood Schools Superintendent Anne Garrett.

In Swain County, a football player was recently kicked off the team for sending racially derogatory messages to a Cherokee football player via Facebook. That incident occurred during a school-sponsored event, however, giving the school system in Swain more leeway to take disciplinary action. In Haywood County, the cross-burning allegation against a football player occurred off school property and outside any school-sanctioned activity.

Greene was one of four Tuscola students charged with a felony hate crime following the incident in May 2012. A homemade wooden cross wrapped in a gasoline soaked T-shirt was lit in the yard of a house where a bi-racial student was spending the night with a friend.

The other three students have all been convicted with guilty pleas. Greene’s case has been delayed every time it has been on the court schedule.

Greene is currently a senior. His next court appearance is scheduled for Dec. 16, meaning he will be allowed to play football the entire season.

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of short-term suspension of up to 10 days, according to school policy.

Students who violate conduct and behav-

ior codes can also be excluded from participating in school sports and other extracurricular activities under Swain school policy.

At long last, skate park vision now a concrete reality

Waynesville Alderman Gary Caldwell, the champion and visionary behind a skateboard park in Waynesville, has finally seen his dream come to fruition.

Waynesville Alderman Gary Caldwell was the man of the hour, or perhaps the man of the decade, during the official ribbon cutting of the Waynesville Skate Park last Friday.

Caldwell pushed for his dream of a skateboard park for 15 years, almost as long as he has been on the town board.

The price tag — which ultimately topped out at $445,000 — posed the biggest obstacle to the skate park during the years. Several times the vision stalled out, relegated to the back-burner indefinitely, but Caldwell kept reviving it and moving the chains a bit farther.

At the ribbon cutting last week, Caldwell recounted the ups-and-downs of the quest for a skate park, crediting myriad people and groups that stepped in at various junctures to help push the project a little closer to the finish line.

Construction of the outdoor skateboard park on Vance Street began in April and finished last month.

“Watching the weekly progress was both exciting and rewarding knowing the fruits of all involved’s efforts were showing,” Caldwell said.

The Waynesville Kiwanis Club donated $20,000 toward the project.

Skateboarders held pizza fundraisers and sold inscribed bricks, netting about $10,000 in private donations. The town landed a $60,000 grant from the N.C. Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, with another $5,000 from the foundation of professional skateboarder Tony Hawk. The Haywood Volunteer Center helped rally community buy-in and build momentum during the years.

But after an earnest stab at fundraising for the better part of the past decade, all the efforts combined scraped up just shy of $100,000. So Caldwell called on his fellow town board members last year to step in and use town funds to pay for the remaining $350,000.

Caldwell heralded the skateboard park as a positive and constructive recreation outlet for youth. It has been swarmed with skaters since it opened a few weeks ago.

VANS, a popular maker of skateboard apparel, sent a load of free merchandise to be handed out to skaters at the ribbon cutting, including shirts, caps, wallets, backpacks and neon laces.

— By Becky Johnson

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Cherokee Bear Zoo in legal crosshairs

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER Two enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians plan to sue the owners of the Cherokee Bear Zoo if they don’t make some substantial changes to their grizzly bear habitats.

Cherokee Bear Zoo owners Barry and Collette Coggins house four federally protected grizzly bears in concrete pit enclosures. Peggy Hill and Amy Walker believe that the “tiny, virtually barren concrete pits” violate the U.S. Endangered Species Act and have decided to take action.

“We love our rich heritage, but tormenting bears and displaying them like unfeeling objects violates not only our reverence for nature but also U.S. law,” said Walker in a news release. “They must be moved from this despicable facility to a place where they’ll be cared for, not abused and neglected.”

James Whitlock, a partner at the Asheville-based environmental law firm Davis & Whitlock, mailed a “letter of intent to sue” to the Cogginses on behalf of Hill and Walker. A copy of the letter was also sent the secretary of the Department of the Interior and the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

When filing a federal lawsuit, the letter of intent to sue is a required first step, giving a 60-day window for grievances to be fixed.

“If the conditions are not corrected in 60 days, we will file suit,” Whitlock said. “With grizzly bears being a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, there are certain protection built in for them, and we don’t feel the living conditions for them at the Cherokee Bear Zoos comply.”

In addition to alleging that the living conditions of the grizzly bears constitute mistreatment under the Endangered Species Act, the letter questions what the Cherokee Bear Zoo does with grizzly bear cubs born there.

“They are there for certain parts of the year, and then, they are gone,” Whitlock said.

It is illegal to sell a protected species.

The Cherokee Bear Zoo is one of three establishments in Cherokee that have come under fire in recent years for displaying bears to tourists. One of them, Chief Saunooke Bear Park, was shut down earlier this year after it repeatedly violated federal animal welfare regulations.

Federal inspectors have never fined the Cherokee Bear Zoo, though it has come under continual criticism from animal rights activists. Coggins has publicly admitted the concrete pit enclosures are not the ideal environment for the bears and has talked about building new natural habitats.

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Hundreds attended a recent art festival at the innovative Green Energy Park in Dillsboro, where methane from an old landfill is used to fuel blacksmithing, ceramics and glassblowing operations. Charles Snodgrass photo, Deep Creek Arts photo He believes, if brought to its full potential, the park could be a feather in the cap of the county. It already is in many ways.

Visitors from across the globe stop in to see the park, one of the only endeavors in existence that takes gas from a landfill and converts it into art. The Green Energy Park goes hand in glove with nearby Dillsboro, an artsy village known for its studio-lined streets. Two new artist galleries are opening in Dillsboro this month.

County Manager Chuck Wooten acknowledged that the park does have a reputation for the unique work that is done there in the fields of art and green energy.

But he expressed concern at investing heavily in expanding studio space that might not even be used. He recommended some sort of market study be conducted to see if there is public interest in renting the space.

“The worst that would happen is to build a facility, and it’s a nice facility, but there’s no interest in it,” Wooten said.

Muth said he receives numerous inquiries about studio space from artists, but that may not be enough to sway commissioners.

If not for the Green Energy Park, the methane gas seeping off the landfill would have to be captured and flared off since it is an environmental hazard.

HCC to offer Simply Worship 101 workshop Haywood Community College’s Continuing Education Department will offer a Simply Worship 101 workshop from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5 in its creative arts building.

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hire a manager who could oversee the artistic and marketing side of the operation.

Muth’s background is in engineering and project construction.

Muth pitched his long-range plan to county commissioners in September but was received with skepticism from some.

Commissioner Doug Cody said he doesn’t want to be funding a program that provides cheap studio space indefinitely for an artist.

He’d rather like to see the park as a stepping stone before artists get their own studio space in a nearby arts district.

“I think it definitely needs some incentive to move on — if not, they would have all this equipment available with nothing invested,” he said. “Basically, we’re subsidizing people.”

However, Muth pointed out that the park was never meant to be a profitable venture, rather an educational and recreational asset to the county, much like a swimming pool or gymnasium. That, in turn, has benefits that reach beyond the bottom line of the park’s budget, perhaps attracting homebuyers or vacationers.

“Everyone wants to build an indoor swimming pool and a recreation center, are the fees that people pay ever going to pay for that pool?” Muth said. “No, but that’s not the point.”

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER he future of Jackson County’s Green Energy Park may depend on county commissioners doubling down.

The innovative venture taps the methane emanating from an old county landfill to power artist kilns and forges for blacksmithing, glass blowing and ceramics, along with greenhouses for local growers.

But with financial support from the county at a fraction of what it once was, the Green Energy Park is at a crossroads, said Green Energy Park Director Timm Muth.

Historically, the county funded the park’s operations to the tune of $250,000 a year.

But, the county decided to decrease the funding, by 20 percent each year. Funding this year is at $135,000.

That’s put pressure on Muth to find a way to make the Green Energy Park financially self-supporting. Muth’s solution: spend money up front to finish out the park’s master plan, in turn creating more studio space, which in turn can be rented out to generate revenue.

“I’m caught in a quandary,” said Muth.

“On one side, I’ve got commissioners telling me this place isn’t profitable and it’s a drain on the county coffers. On the other side, we can’t become anywhere near self-supportive because the project isn’t completed.”

Muth said he needs a cash infusion from the county for an expansion, primarily for ceramics studios, to generate more rent from artists and reduce reliance on county funding.

The additional studio space was part of the park’s original master plan but was left incomplete. The $70,000 worth of kilns and crates to outfit the pottery shop was already purchased with a federal grant years ago and is waiting in storage.

Without the build-out, the park will be stuck in a sort of limbo, or may even close if the county decides not to fund it further, said Muth.

The project will cost about $900,000.

Muth asked the county for $450,000, with hopes of raising the remaining $450,000 or so in grants and donations. In all, 14 new studio spaces would be added — and rented out between $350 and $500 per month — as well as a courtyard, a lounge and a pottery shop. The park only has communal work stations now. There is no permanent, individual studio space for artists.

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Meadows should re-think vote on food for poor, elderly

BY DOUG WINGEIER G UEST COLUMNIST ack in March, my wife and I, together with a couple from Brevard, paid a visit to Congressman Mark Meadows, RCashiers, in his Washington office. We were part of an event called Ecumenical Advocacy Days, in which some 750 members of faith communities from across the country spent a long weekend learning about issues of poverty and hunger, then fanned out across Capitol Hill visiting our legislators to urge passage of a Farm Bill that would: ■ Alleviate hunger and malnutrition in the U.S. and around the world by protecting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP/food stamps) and support international food aid with improved nutritional quality.

■ Support vibrant farms and strong communities by funding programs that help beginning and minority farmers get started in agriculture.

■ Support programs that help small farmers grow their businesses and enable underserved communities get better access to healthy foods.

■ Support long-term solutions to global hunger by encouraging the purchase of food in the areas where it is consumed.

■ Prioritize funding for farm support programs that promote conservation of soil and water and protect the earth from environmental degradation.

■ Stop all funding of large agribusiness cor-

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New North Carolina ID law turns away voters To the Editor: The North Carolina Legislature has passed, and Gov. McCrory has signed, a bill requiring a photo ID in order to vote. This bill will disenfranchise a large number of voters in our state, especially the elderly (which includes the greatest generation, who saved our country for democracy) and the first-time voters. In addition, the bill eliminates one week of early voting, which has been extremely popular with older folks.

Some real examples: a friend is 94 years old. She served as a nurse in WWll, has always been very active in her church and community, her husband was a state senator for several terms. She has voted in every election since she was old enough, but now she can’t vote because she has no “valid” ID. Another friend is 87, has never driven because she is blind, she and her family have worked tirelessly for their church and community, but now she can’t vote.

The newspapers assure us that “free IDs” can be obtained at any driver’s license office.

How does a 94-year-old woman or a blind woman locate an office and get there? What about the many older folks who do not see a

porations that make huge profits, pay obscene executive salaries, drive small farmers out of business, pollute land and water with chemicals, and oppose labeling of genetically modified foods (GMOs).

We backed these requests by reminding our legislators of the following facts: 48.8 million Americans are at risk of hunger — one in six adults and one in five children. Increasing numbers live in “food deserts” where fresh food is hard to obtain and obesity rates are high. Every SNAP dollar distributed results in $1.84 in gains for local economies, so that its benefits to local communities are nearly doubled. About a billion people are experiencing hunger worldwide, due to high food prices, natural disasters, wars, and humanitarian crises. Shipping food long distances unnecessarily increases its cost, putting it out of reach for the very poor. In the last half-century, more than three billion people in 150 countries have benefitted from U.S. food aid, and this period of economic crisis is no time for the world’s wealthiest nation to stop meeting this critical need.

With a larger group of North Carolinians we also visited the offices of Senators Kay Hagan and Richard Burr, presented our case to their aides, and asked for their votes in support of these measures.

When the four of us entered the office of Rep. Meadows, we were pleasantly surprised to have him invite us into his personal office

LETTERS newspaper or who missed the announcement on the news? What about those who were not born in North Carolina, and don’t have a birth certificate?

There will be thousands who make the effort to get to the polls, only to be told they are not eligible. Few people will go through the process of casting a provisional ballot, which may, or may not, be ruled eligible by the officials. Many restrictions on absentee voting have been lifted, creating more opportunities for fraud.

Recent redistricting, with changed boundary lines and split precincts, increases the likelihood that folks will go to the wrong precinct to vote. For years, they could fill out a conditional ballot, which, after verification, would be counted.

Under the new law, these votes will be thrown out. The elderly and minorities are most likely to be in this group.

With all the distractions today, many young people are turned away by politics, not realizing that politics affect every phase of our lives, or that voting is a precious right and a responsibility.

Currently, high school civics classes provide an opportunity to get them involved, and even provide pre-registration for 16- and 17-

and meet with both him and his chief of staff.

As we made our requests, he indicated awareness of the need, nodded as if in agreement with our requests, and expressed sympathy for our cause. He identified himself as also being a person of faith whose evangelical church sent mission teams around the world to serve the very needs we were concerned about.

At the end of the interview, he asked, “Now, if we can’t afford all of this, what should we cut?” My first response was, “Defense, because that’s where all the waste is.” I then added, “But whatever you do, by all means don’t cut food stamps!” He smiled as though in agreement, then cordially ushered us out.

But now we know that this was all an act.

Because what this congressman and his Republican colleagues have done is to cut $40 billion from SNAP over the next 10 years, causing 3.8 million people to lose food stamps this year and next, and another 850,000 households to have their benefits reduced by $90 a month.

The U.S. Census has reported that 46 million Americans were living in poverty in 2012, including 16 million children. For millions of low-income families, even putting food on the table is a daily struggle. In 2012, SNAP lifted 4 million people out of poverty. Despite very modest benefits (less than $5 per day), it currently helps millions of children, working parents, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities to make ends meet each month. Yet the House voted on Sept. 19 to throw 4 mil-

lion people off SNAP, deny 210,000 lowincome children free meals at school, and cut benefits for seniors who have to choose between heating and eating.

I applaud those members who stood up to this callousness and voted no on the bill. But Congressman Meadows was not among them, arguing in an email to me explaining his vote that the $40 billion represented a savings from reforms that would “reduce waste, fraud, and abuse, and institute new drug testing and work requirements for recipients necessary to ensure those getting these benefits are those who truly need them.” In other words, if you can’t get a job, you can’t get food stamps — and your integrity is demeaned to boot!

Hopefully, Congressman Meadows will remember our conversation in his office, allow his evangelical faith to spark a genuine concern for the poor, and change his mind and his vote when a revised bill comes back from the Senate. He and his tea party colleagues can still redeem themselves by working with Senate negotiators to remove these cruel cuts in any final Farm Bill, thereby reducing hunger in America by protecting SNAP, and alleviating suffering worldwide by maintaining our current levels of international food aid. We must urge him to do so.

(Wengeier is a retired seminary professor and United Methodist minister who lives at Lake Junaluska. He can be reached at dcwing@att.net.)

year-olds. In many cases, this will be the last opportunity to reach these kids. The new legislation totally eliminates this registration.

Things get even more complicated when a college student tries to vote!

Incidentally, these free IDs are estimated to cost North Carolina $823,200 in each of the first two years, and over $24,000 annually. All of this to fix a problem that all surveys indicate does not exist.

Is it a coincidence that the elderly, the young, and minorities tend to vote Democratic?

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the three plants depicted in the metal art, are growing in the mini-park as well as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The commission would also like to thank everyone who contributed financial support, as well as all the artists who helped our fundraising efforts to bring this striking addition to our downtown collection.

The mission of the Waynesville Public Art Commission is to engage the community and enrich public spaces through original public art that celebrates Waynesville’s unique, historic, cultural, natural and human resources.

The mission statement has two words in particular — original and unique — that are the guiding force behind our decisions on the subject matter for each of our calls for artists.

Without a doubt, with your help we have fulfilled our mission and look forward to future art endeavors with you.

All of our public art is entirely funded by public donations, so they truly do belong to you, the people of Waynesville. With this artwork we have wonderful visual images of the values we wish to celebrate and cherish. If you are interested in donating, volunteering or learning more about the WPAC, call the town at 828.452.2491.

Jan Griffin former chairman, Waynesville Public Art Commission

Waynesville street art belongs to the public To the Editor: The enthusiasm was very evident!

The Waynesville Public Art Commission would like to thank everyone who came to the Friday, Sept. 6, dedication celebration for the art created by Grace Cathey for the downtown mini-park’s final piece “Wildflowers of the Smokies.” Cathey was very happy that so many were there to enjoy the unveiling of her beautiful wall panels. We would also like to note that Bee Balm and Butterfly Weed, two of

irst United Methodist Church in Sylva Between 1950 and 1978, Sylva First will celebrate its 125th anniversary United Methodist Church continued to with a Homecoming on Sunday, Oct. 6. grow. Anticipating future expansion, adjoinBishop Larry Goodpaster will deliver a sering property was purchased from the Cowan mon at a 10:30 a.m. church service in the family in 1955. The two-story home on the sanctuary, followed by a luncheon in the property provided classrooms for adults and Christian Life Center. All are invited, teenagers for a few years. whether church members or not.

By 1975, a long-range planning effort The church has been an integral part of determined that Sylva First was in need of Jackson County since 1888. In 1897, the con- additional classroom and office space as well gregation built a small white, wooden structure on Jackson First United Methodist Street in downtown Sylva. The Church in Sylva, 1897. current church is built on that same site.

In December 1888, the Rev. G.W. Spake led a revival meeting in Sylva. Afterward, a group of 11 met in the home of John and Estella Divelbiss to form the Methodist church.

During the early years of Sylva Methodist Church, the congregation met wherever space was available, but by 1897, construction of a frame

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AMMONS DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT & DAIRY BAR 1451 Dellwwod Rd., Waynesville.

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

Enjoy world famous hot dogs as well as burgers, seafood, hushpuppies, hot wings and chicken. Be sure to save room for dessert. The cobbler, pie and cake selections are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.

BLUE RIDGE BBQ COMPANY 180 N. Main St., Waynesville.

828.452.7524. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. TuesdayThursday; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. FridaySaturday; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Blue Ridge BBQ is a family owned and operated restaurant. The BBQ is slow hardwood smoked, marinated in its own juices, and seasoned with mountain recipes. All menu items made from scratch daily. Featuring homemade cornbread salad, fresh collard greens, or cornbread and milk at your request. Old-fashioned homemade banana pudding and fruit cobbler of the season.

Catering, take-out, eat-in.

BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Now open for lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dinner nightly from 4 p.m.

Closed on Sunday. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks, fresh fish, and other classic American comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available. We also feature a great selection of craft beers from local artisan brewers, and of course an extensive selection of small batch bourbons and whiskey. The Barrel is a friendly and casual neighborhood dining experience where our guests enjoy a great meal without breaking the bank.

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 to 9:30 am – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes, and always all-you-can-eat. Lunch every day from 11:30 till 2. Evening cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays (weather permitting), featuring steaks, ribs, chicken, and pork chops, to name a few. Bountiful family-style dinners on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with entrees that include prime rib, baked ham and herbbaked 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 mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Please call for reservations.

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as a larger fellowship hall. In the years following the addition of the Allison Building, the Dillsboro Methodist Church had been dissolved and many of the Dillsboro congregation started attending the Sylva church, enriching the congregation.

On the occasion of Homecoming 1978, ground was broken for the new education building. Built by Don Buchanan, a local contractor, and overseen by two members, Mr. Raymon Stovall and Mr. Asbury Carden, the construction was completed in March 1980 with only painting, laying of carpet and landscaping remaining to be done.

The fellowship hall was named The Asbury Room in honor of Carden, who had dedicated the preceding two years to acting as supervisor of the work. Within three years, the $378,000 indebtedness was retired, and Rev. Terry L. Hammill, pastor during the building process, returned for the dedication ceremony during September 1983. First United Methodist Church was able to serve the community with a new educational building, large fellowship hall with a new kitchen, and renovated children’s department.

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church started. The Ladies Aid Society was able to raise funds to get the building project underway.

In 1912, this small building housed a very active Sunday school with enrollment exceeding 100 students. The congregation quickly outgrew the original building, and in 1917, the frame church was demolished and construction of a larger, brick building began. During the construction, church services were held in the Sylva school building.

The brick structure accommodated the Methodist congregation through the decades of the 20s and 30s and continues to house the church sanctuary, which was remodeled during the summer of 1950 by volunteers. New lighting and a new heating system were installed. The interior floor plan was renovated to finish the sanctuary.

In 1942, a growing Sunday school and congregation necessitated additional classrooms for Christian learning and a larger space for Christian fellowship, so the Charles L. Allison Educational Building was erected.

The building was named after Allison who served as the Sunday school superintendent for thirty years. It is still in use today as the home of our Early Learning Center and children’s activities.

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Monday-Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 8 a.m. to 2 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.

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$30/person • 4 courses with Wine Pairing Chef Oscar Plato and Sid have prepared a wonderful Fall tasting menu to pair with two of Elk Cove’s Pinot Noirs, a Pinot Gris and a lovely Syrah.

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MINDY’S 174 East Sylva Shopping Center

Pressed Cuban Sandwiches, Cuban Food & Desserts 828.400-5638 WED-SAT 11:30-9:30PM

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

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

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

Check the web calendar at citylightscafe.com.

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

Open Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday brunch 9 a.m. to 3p.m., Full Menu 3 to 9 p.m. Serving fresh and delicious weekday morning lite fare, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Freshly prepared

menu offerings range from house-made soups & salads, lite fare & tapas, crepes, specialty sandwiches and burgers. Be sure not to miss the bold flavors and creative combinations that make up the daily Chef Supper Specials starting at 5pm every day.

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.

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

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

Tuesday-Saturday. Father and son team Frank and Louis Perrone cook up dinners steeped in Italian tradition. With recipies passed down from generations gone by, the Perrones have brought a bit of Italy to Maggie Valley. frankiestrattoria.com FRYDAY’S & SUNDAES 24 & 26 Fry St., Bryson City (Next To The Train Depot). 828.488.5379. Frydays is open; but closed on Wednesdays. Sundaes is open 7 days a week. Fryday’s is known for its Traditional English Beer Battered Fish & Chips, but also has burgers, deep fried dogs, gyro, shrimp, bangers, Chip Butty, chicken, sandwiches & a great kids menu. Price friendly, $3-$10, Everything available to go or call ahead takeout.

Sundaes has 24 rotating flavors of Hershey's Ice Cream making them into floats, splits, sundaes, shakes. Private seating inside & out for both locations right across from the train station & pet friendly.

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tasteTHEmountains FROGS LEAP PUBLIC HOUSE 44 Church St. Downtown Waynesville 828.456.1930 Serving lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Sunday lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mondays. 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. Come for the restaurant’s 4 @ 4 when you can choose a center and three sides at special prices. Offered Wed- Fri. from 4 to 6. frogsleappublichouse.org.

Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Earthfriendly foods at people-friendly prices. Daily specials, wraps, salads, pastries, breads, soups and more. Unique fare, friendly service, casual atmosphere and wireless Internet.

Organic ingredients, local produce, gourmet fair trade and organic coffees.

NEWFOUND LODGE RESTAURANT 1303 Tsali Blvd, Cherokee (Located on 441 North at entrance to GSMNP).

828.497.4590. Open 7 a.m. daily.

Established in 1946 and serving breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. Family style dining for adults and children.

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

HERREN HOUSE 94 East St., Waynesville 828.452.7837.

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

Enjoy fresh local products, created daily. Join us in our beautiful patio garden. We are your local neighborhood host for special events: business party’s, luncheons, weddings, showers and more. Private parties & catering are available 7 days a week by reservation only.

MOONSHINE GRILL 2550 Soco Road, Maggie Valley loacted in the Smoky Falls Lodge. 828.926.7440. Open Wednesday through Sunday, 4:30 to 9 p.m.

Cooking up mouth-watering, wood-fired Angus steaks, prime rib and scrumptious fresh seafood dishes. The wood-fired grill gives amazing flavor to every meal that comes off of it. Enjoy creative dishes made using moonshine. Stop by and simmer for a while and soak up the atmosphere. The best kept secret in Maggie Valley. themoonshinegrill.com

OLD STONE INN 109 Dolan Road, off Love Lane.

828.456.3333. Classic fireside dining in an historic mountain lodge with cozy, intimate bar. Dinner served nightly except Sunday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Signature dinner choices include our 8oz. filet of beef in a brandied peppercorn sauce and a garlic and herb crusted lamb rack. Carefully selected fine wines and beers plus full bar available.

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

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

MAD BATTER BAKERY & CAFÉ Located on the WCU Campus in Cullowhee.

828.293.3096. Open Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.,

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.

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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.

THE WINE BAR 20 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

828.452.6000. Underground cellar for wine and beer, served by the glass all day. Cheese and tapas served Wednesday through Saturday 4 p.m.-9 p.m. or later. info@classicwineseller.com. Also on facebook and twitter.

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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APPLE CINNAMON SPICE &

PATIO BISTRO 30 Church Street, Waynesville.

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

Outdoor and indoor dining.

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

RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 828.926.0201 Bar open Monday thru Saturday; dining room open Tuesday thru Saturday at 5 p.m. Full service restaurant serving steaks, prime rib, seafood and dinner specials. Live music Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

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Silversmith bridges Cherokee history through his hands

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER

General Grant knew from a young age he was an artist.

“I was gifted, it was a gift from The Creator,” he said. “He gave me multiple talents and I was not afraid to experiment with them. Through my experimentation, I’ve become very good at this and have able to make a living doing it.”

Grant is a skilled Cherokee silversmith and carver of wood, stone and bone. He opened his own gallery and studio in Cherokee this summer called Traditional Hands, filled with an array of jewelry and artistic pieces celebrating the Cherokee traditions.

“Each piece makes a statement about who I am, what I am, what I’m thinking, and how I General Grant specializes live my life,” the 68-year-old said. in handmade woodcarvings One of eight and stonecarvings, with a children, Grant key focus as a silversmith, grew up in eastat his gallery and studio ern Tennessee.

Traditional Hands in His mother was Cherokee. a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, while his father was a Lakota Sioux. Grant was given the name “General” in tribute to General Ulysses S. Grant. He moved to Cherokee as a teenager and immersed himself in the native culture and spirituality found on the reservation — something he’d missed out on growing up in the white, Christian A variety of handmade items world.

As an artist, Grant tried to reclaim and perat Traditional Hands. petuate part of what native people have lost.

Garret K. Woodward photos “When the Europeans came, they threw a big blanket on our native culture and identity,” Grant said.

While he loved art, he made a living when he was younger as a construction worker, until he fell on a job site and was severely injured. While recovering from his accident, he kept his hands busy carving and honing his artisan skills.

“To supplement my income, I began selling my art, which was equal to, and sometimes better than, the money I was making in construction,” Grant said.

“Each piece makes a statement about who I By 1982, he made his passion a full-time career, traveling to powwows and tradeshows am, what I’m thinking, and how I live my life.” around the country to sell his pieces. He’s won several honors and awards on the native art

am, what I — General Grant

show circuit over the years.

What Grant enjoys the most, however, is seeing the other work of other artists.

“At these shows, you can see the love and compassion that comes from each individual piece,” he said. “Sometimes it makes you want to cry because you see so much love exhibited in their work — our souls are absolutely in our work.”

When he’s creating, Grant lets his soul move his fingers. While working on one project, he may feel inspiration to do another design. This leads to him taking on numerous projects at one time, but it’s the way he’s always done it, the way his spirit directs him.

“When I start working on a particular piece, it starts developing. Then, I see something else in my mind, so I lay that first piece down and start another one,” he smiled.

“Sometimes there will be 10 pieces laying side-by-side and it’ll take months maybe to get back to that first piece.”

At the center of Grant’s happiness is his wife, Uta. Originally from Germany, Uta, 46, has held a lifelong fascination with native culture and philosophies.

In 2004, shortly after Grant’s first wife passed away, he headed for a Sundance in South Dakota. While at the event, he crossed paths with Uta, who was also grieving the recent loss of her sister. Uta is white, but was exploring native spirituality — and so the two found a kinship.

“We came together and fell in love,” he said.

During the annual Sundance ceremony, participants do not eat or drink water for four days while dancing and celebrating in blistering heat. Ultimately, the exertion and exhaustion culminate in a spiritual vision that soothes the soul and society in general.

“You govern yourself, you regulate yourself, you make your own commitment on how you’re going to treat yourself,” he said. “And when you treat yourself with the highest moral quality, your family and the community benefits.”

Grant is also a founding member of the Seven Clans Art Guild in Cherokee, where he continues to showcase his skills at guild shows and demonstrations. When someone comes into Traditional Hands, Grant notes how much of a connection patrons have with specific pieces in the shop.

“They’re not just ‘taking it home with them,’ they’re coming in to get what they were looking for,” he said. “These people are looking for something to feel real, they’re drawn to certain pieces and can’t put them down — it’s a connection with the spirit given to us by The Creator.”

He hopes to bring the success he had at trade shows into the establishment. But, ultimately, he wants to be able to have the business to give to Uta when he passes on.

“I’m not going to be here a long time with her, and the tribe won’t be able to take care of her because she isn’t a Cherokee,” he said.

“So, I’m going to have this to take care of her.

This is my gift to her for the love and devotion that she’s given me.”

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Community College in Clyde. The first hole Though my sense of direction is as starts at the bottom of the first parking lot strong as a dog’s sense of smell, I purposely on the left-hand side of the school’s wander into destinations unknown. If entrance. From there, the course meanders there’s two ways to a location, I’ll take the one I have yet to traverse. I want to cross paths with people, places and things either unnoticed by a rushed society or forgotten by the sands of time.

The final Waynesville Comedy Plenty of these things are old, Showcase will be on Oct. 2 at the some new, with many hovering Water’n Hole Bar and Grill. somewhere in between.

What I find most fascinating Slam poetry champion Matthew Cuban about these unexpected encounwill appear on Oct. 4 at ters is the mere fact of how folks Western Carolina University. seem to never know these places exist — people who literally have The “Fridays in the Gardens� will be lived around the corner or across Oct. 4 at McGuire Gardens in Sylva. town from these spots their whole lives. “Motown Downtown�

Western North Carolina is will be held on Oct. 4 filled with such places. Tucked in downtown Franklin. away in deep hollers, behind old buildings or even across the Author Bob Mustin will present his latest book street from you, there is so much Sam’s Place on Oct. 5 at City Lights Bookstore to see and do that you might not in Sylva. even know about.

So, for starters, here are a few of my favorites: ■Rough Creek Watershed (Canton) behind the campus and through dense Wait, a hiking/mountain bike trail in woods. Though the holes aren’t that long, Canton? Yep, and it’s pretty great, too. per se, the challenges found by players can Sitting on an 870-acre preserved tract that even have a veteran disc golfer scratching was once the source of Canton’s public their head as to how their throw “ended up water supply, this 10+ mile public use trail way over there.� Free course. 828.627.2821 system snakes up mountainsides, along or www.haywood.edu. ridges and into vast, open fields with clear, ■Mickey’s Pub (Bryson City) unobstructed views. The system consists of Dubbed “The Quintessential Dive Bar,� three connected loop trails, like a figure-8 most people in Western North Carolina with an extra loop. Caution: the first mile is don’t even know where this place is. Just off quite steep, so you have to be in pretty good of Everett Street in downtown Bryson City, shape or resign yourself to walking until the the establishment is one of the oldest contrail gives way to more rolling terrain. There tinuous bars in the area, with as many is no fee to use the trails, but a strong “carry friendly faces as selections of beer (which is in, carry out� policy is encouraged. a lot). Between playing pool, watching the www.cantonnc.com/rough-creek-watershed. “big game� or just having a few laughs with ■Maggie Valley Opry House friends, the location lends itself to the “real Next door to Salty Dog’s Seafood and deal� of folks in these parts. On weekends, Grill, this Mecca of mountain music is Mickey’s pulls in musical acts from around home to legendary world champion banthe Southeast and beyond. 828.488.9308. joist Raymond Fairchild. From May to ■El Lemon taco truck (Waynesville) October, Fairchild hits the stage every night Almost like “The Great Pumpkin� in at 8 p.m. sharp. He has played with everyCharlie Brown, the taco truck magically one from Johnny Cash to Bill Monroe, appears every Saturday night around 8 p.m.

Ralph Stanley to Peter Rowan. With fingers at R.E.O.S in West Waynesville, a weekend as fast and fierce as lightning, he and his dance club next to Ingles on Brown Avenue. band of talented Appalachian musicians Serving up a wide array of delicious homemesmerize audiences through a keen made Mexican food, the culinary secret is knowledge of melody and storytelling. the ultimate rite of passage for new resi828.926.9336 or dents and tourists alike, if they can find it. www.raymondfairchild.com.

Word to the wise, make sure to ask for the ■HCC disc golf course (Clyde) “green sauce� when ordering — you’ll thank Though disc golf courses are popping up me later. And just as fast as it appears, the all over the region, some tend to overlook truck soon dives back into the depths of this luscious, complex course zigzagging Southern Appalachia around 2 a.m., at least around the campus of Haywood until next weekend. 828.230.2285.

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On the streets Art After Dark returns Stroll the art galleries and studios of downtown Waynesville during Art After Dark from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4.

Galleries will feature artist demos and receptions, including jeweler Terri Lefler at Earthworks, watercolor artist Margaret Roberts at Twigs and Leaves Gallery, an exhibit opening for “The Master Artists” at Gallery 86, and glass artists Lisa Bradley and Celeste Love at Cedar Hill Studio. Twigs and Leaves will have live music to celebrate its 15th year on Main Street.

Presented by the Waynesville Gallery Association.

Sarge’s Furry Friends benefit in Waynesville Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation’s 5th annual Furry Friends Benefit Bash will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville.

The evening will feature food and live music. A silent auction will include vacation packages, special dinners and an art workshop. In addition, the auction offers golf, dining, spa packages and unique items for people and their pets. The event will be a sitdown dinner, plus a cash bar.

Tickets may be purchased for $50 per

person at Sarge’s Adoption Center in Waynesville. Table sponsorships are available for $450, for a reserved table for eight.

828.246.9050 or www.sargeandfriends.org.

Scarecrows for a good cause in Swain Homemade scarecrows will soon deck out the streets of Bryson City for the annual scarecrow festival and competition benefiting the Swain County Public Schools Foundation.

All businesses, organizations and homeowners are invited to craft a scarecrow and display it starting next week, with winners announced during Trick or Treat on Everett Street on Halloween night. Entrance fee is $25 per scarecrow. Stop by the Swain County Chamber of Commerce to register by Oct. 7. 770.315.8950.

Leaf Festival returns to Cashiers Oct. 11-13 The annual Leaf Festival will be Oct. 1113 at the Village Green and Commons in Cashiers.

Held each year as the leaves begin to change, this year’s festival will feature about

100 artisans and merchants. Visitors will find unique handcrafted wood, pottery, jewelry and much more on display and available for purchase. Food and drinks will be available in both parking lots behind the two stages of the park.

Live music will run from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday by 12 local and regional acts, ranging in genre from singer/songwriters to jazz, blues, Americana, bluegrass, rock, soul, funk, and more. Key highlights include Owner of the Sun at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, followed

by Soldier’s Heart, with special guest Darren Nicholson of Balsam Range at 3:30 p.m. www.visitcashiersvalley.com or info@visitcashiersvalley.com or 828.743.8428.

painting, hay toss, corn hole court and a petting zoo.

Free. www.maggievalleyoktoberfest.com.

Inaugural Oktoberfest to benefit VFW

• The 6th annual Blue Jean Ball will be from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Macon County Fairgrounds in Franklin. There will be barbecue, live music, dancing and a silent auction, among other activities. $15 for adults, $7 for takeout only. 828.349.6262.

The inaugural Maggie Valley Oktoberfest will be from 4 to 11 p.m. Oct. 4 and noon to 11 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds.

The objective of the festival is to benefit local charities, with one being the local VFW. There will be live music by the Hill Country Band and Caribbean Cowboys, artist booths and German cuisine and craft beer. A special “kids zone” will offer face

• The Empty Bowls Soup Dinner benefitting “Fishes and Loaves” will be from noon to 3 p.m. Oct. 6, at the Zachary-Tolbert House in Cashiers. 828.743.1770 or www.cashiershistoricalsociety.org.

• Octoberfest will be held at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8, at The Storytelling Center in Bryson City.

Celebrate the season with mountain stories, music, cowboy coffee and glazed almonds. $5 for adults, $3 for students. 828.488.5705.

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• Angel Medical Center’s Oktoberfest will be Oct. 12 at the Snow Hill Inn in Franklin. Live music, silent auction, dancing and a biergarten. $50 per person, which includes authentic German food and beverages.

Proceeds benefit outpatient medicine and chemotherapy expansion. 828.349.6887.

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On the wall HCC fiber student awarded scholarship Deanna Lynch, a Haywood Community College Professional Crafts Fiber student, is the recipient of the Handweavers Guild of America’s Dendel Scholarship. It is the second year in a row an HCC student has won this competitive national scholarship. Lynch said HCC’s program is a stand-out one for including business and marketing in the curriculum alongside the craft.

“Learning the business aspect is a way to help students be successful in the field,” Lynch said. “This program touches on things more specific and in a refined way so students learn things such as marketing concepts.”

828.627.4672.

New craft store opens in Dillsboro

Tunnel Mountain Crafts will have a grand opening during Colorfest on Oct. 5 in downtown Dillsboro.

With nine local potters, the shop specializes in handmade pottery, handcrafted soaps and botanical products, custom bags, woodcrafts, photography, jewelry, gourds, greet26 ing cards, wooden toys, baskets, oil paint-

ings and prints, fused glass, quilts, local honey, jams and dried herbs. Several of the artisans will be on hand at Colorfest to demonstrate their crafts. Refreshments will be served.

828.226.7307.

Print studio opens in Dillsboro The new printing/binding studios of SpeakEasy Press will hold an open house from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at Riverwood Studios in Dillsboro.

Run by Frank Bannon, the facility will host book arts and papermaking classes in spring 2014, with schedules to be announced at www.speakeasypress.com. The studio is also available for rental next year for experienced book artists. During the open house, there will be refreshments and old-time banjo music by Joshua Grant from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The Oaks Gallery, Riverwood Pottery, Riverwood Menagerie and Well House Deli will all be open during the event.

• The Autumn Leaves Craft Show will be Oct. 10-12 at the Wayne Proffitt Agricultural Center in Franklin.

828.349.4324 or www.franklin-chamber.com.

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Weaver Susan Leveille was recently named a recipent of a state Heritage Award. Here, she teaches a child to weave at the recent Youth Arts Festival at the Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Charles Snodgrass, Deep Creek Arts photo

Weaver honored withs N.C. Heritage Award Weaver Susan Morgan Leveille, owner of the Oaks Gallery in Dillsboro, was named one of the recipients of the North Carolina Heritage Award.

Leveille immersed herself in the culture of weaving from a young age. She first sat at a loom to weave at age 7 and quickly grew to be a skilled craftsperson. Leveille’s greataunt, Lucy Morgan, founded the Penland School of Craft and devoted herself to reviving weaving traditions in Western North Carolina. Leveille has carried on the family tradition of weaving and continues to strengthen and disseminate the art of weaving.

s a kid, everything in my house stopped for the Olympics. From the opening to the closing ceremony, any semblance of normal life was put on hold, and we spent day upon day glued to the games — a big treat since our weekly TV time was otherwise limited to the Cosby Show, Family Ties and Knight Rider.

Dutifully passing on this Olympics-obsession to my own children, I started planting seeds of excitement for the upcoming winter Olympics last weekend. My Kindergarten daughter instantly asked how old you have to be and whether she could be in them.

(Self-confidence is one of her strong suits I might add.)

While the Olympics might be a long shot, you can find a contest of just about any speed at the Cherokee Indian Fair going on this week — from a baby crawling contest and bubble gum blowing contest to the oldie’s dance contest and game show mania.

There are corn-shucking and wood-chopping contests, the greasy pig contest, an Elvis impersonator contest and the infamous “Pretty Legs” contest for guys.

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•MOVIES• Oct. 4th and 5th • 7:45

Hocus Pocus Oct. 11th • 7:45

Night of the Living Dead Friday Night Only Admission is $6 for adults & $4 for ages 12 & under

•MUSIC• Oct. 10th • 7:45

Ray Chesna Oct. 12th • 7:45

Jon Shain Admission is $12 for tickets and full calendar visit

“Jammin’ at the Millpond” will be Oct. 12 at HCC.

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‘Jammin’ at the Millpond’ returns Jammin’ at the Millpond will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Haywood Community College in Clyde.

The festivities will feature molasses making, food vendors, HCC Woodsmen’s Team demonstration, alumni booth, crafts, games for children and other displays. It will also showcase the college, its programs and alumni.

Several local bands will provide music throughout the day. In addition, there will be a vintage car show, which is limited to the first 125 cars. To register for the car show, call 828.246.4847. Admission to the festival is free.

828.627.4522 or 828.627.4544.

THURS. OCT. 17 • 6 P.M.-UNTIL OLD FRIENDS NIGHT: Kingsmen Quartet, Squire Parsons Trio and Inspirations With Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame Inductees: Martin Cook, Ray Dean Reese and Squire Parsons

FRI. OCT. 18 • 6 P.M.-UNTIL

OLD-FASHIONED NIGHT: Walking By Faith 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Chuck Wagon Gang and Inspirations 6:30 p.m.

SAT. OCT. 19 • 1 P.M.-UNTIL Jordan Family Band 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS TOUR: McKameys and Inspirations 1:30 p.m.

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Slam poet champion Matthew Cuban will hold a workshop and performance on Oct. 4 in Cullowhee. Donated photo

the Southern Fried Poetry Slam, one of the largest poetry slams in the nation. The workshop and performance is co-sponsored by WCU’s Hunter Library and Office of Intercultural Affairs. bmcdono@wcu.edu or 828.227.3423.

Acclaimed theatrical play “Nunsense” will stage Oct. 4-13 at the Highlands Playhouse.

The story begins when the Little Sisters of Hoboken discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, has accidentally poisoned 52 of the sisters, and they are in dire need of funds for the burials. The sisters decide that the best way to raise the money is to put on a variety show. They take over the school auditorium, which is currently set up for the eighth grade production of “Grease.” Featuring star turns, tap dancing and ballet, an audience quiz and comic surprises, this show has become an international phenomenon.

Tickets are $30 for adults; $12 for children under 12 years of age. Show times are 8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, with a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee.

828.526.2695 or www.highlandsplayhouse.org.

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Slam poetry champion, teacher and coach Matthew Cuban will present a spokenword workshop at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, in the Hunter Library at Western Carolina University followed by a reception and performances by Cuban and the WCU Truthwriters at 4:30 p.m.

Cuban is a three-time grand champion of

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dition. It runs through Saturday at the Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds.

Another fun event for kids this week is Star Wars family night at the Jackson County Library in Sylva at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3.

Get autographs of some of your favorite Star Wars characters and partake in Star Warsthemed snacks and games.

If you want a date away from the kids, partake in the Taste of Sylva from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5. While you stroll downtown sampling local cuisine from 20 participating restaurants, you can leave your kids at Triple Threat Performing Arts Academy for an afternoon of arts, crafts, games and music. Tickets for the Taste of Sylva are $20 in advance, and for an extra $10 per kid for the child care. www.mainstreetsylva.org.

If you live in Haywood, act fast to get your sweet “Fitness Challenge” punch card this week. For $10, you get 24 visits to a host of gyms and fitness centers. Kid-friendly sites on the list include MusicWorks Performing Arts and Fred Riley’s Martial Arts, which have classes that kids moving.

Or try the exercise classes for kids and teens at the Med-West Haywood Fitness Center, where you can work out on the side.

If nothing else, use the cards to get a ton of visits to the indoor swimming pool at the Waynesville Rec Center and to Smoky Mountain Sk8way for the next six weeks.

You can buy the pass at the Waynesville Rec Center on Thursday, Oct. 3, or at the Fitness Connection in downtown Waynesville on Friday, Oct. 4.

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On the beat Christian rock comes to Franklin Acclaimed Christian rock band Third Day will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Having sold more than 10 million albums in the U.S. alone, the group, from Marietta, Ga., has earned one platinum-certified album and eight gold-certified albums. They have won multiple Grammy awards and

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Christian rock band Third Day hits the stage in Franklin on Oct. 13. Donated photo

dozens of Dove awards. Some of their hits include, “Cry Out to Jesus,” “I Need a Miracle” and “Your Love is Like a River.”

The band’s anthems are infused with substantive, life-affirming lyrics. Third Day has spent nearly two decades in the spotlight and with more than two dozen number one hits to its credit.

Tickets are $25 each. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

Motown comes to downtown Franklin Motown Downtown will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, at the Town Square gazebo in Franklin.

Award-winning group C-Square performs vintage hits made popular by a variety of Motown acts like The Drifters, Four Tops, and Temptations, as well as works by great solo artists like Fats Domino, Ben E. King and Stevie Wonder. Band members include keyboardist Lionel Caynon, vocalists Bobbie and Mike Contino, and guest guitarist Dave Stewart.

This family-friendly event is produced by the Arts Council of Macon County, with funding support from the N.C. Arts Council. Free.

828.524.7683 or www.artscouncilofmacon.org.

WNC band wins accolades for latest album Haywood County’s own Balsam Range won album of the year for “Papertown” at the 2013 International Bluegrass Music Awards this past weekend in Raleigh. The band was nominated for seven awards, among them Entertainer of the Year and two separate songs for Song of the Year. File photo

Jazz, craft beer flow into McGuire Gardens Jazz-funk will premiere in the Fridays in the Gardens series from 6 to 10 p.m. Oct. 4 at McGuire Gardens in Sylva.

The show features Bordertown, a funky modern jazz band, featuring guitarist Michael Collings, saxophonist Tyler Kittle

and drummer Scott Lanning. Dinner from Café 107 Catering and beer from Bear Waters Brewing of Waynesville will be sold on-site.

Bring a lawn chair or blanket because of limited seating. Free, but tipping the band is encouraged. www.mcguiregardens.com or 828.226.0181 or julie@pinnacleeventswnc.com.

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• Dylan Riddle, Travers Brothers, Unawarewolves and Neal Morgan will perform at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva.

Riddle performs Oct. 3, with Travers Brothers, Oct. 4; Unawarewolves, Oct. 5; and Morgan, Oct. 10. All shows are free and begin at 9 p.m. 828.586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

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• Acoustic Mayhem and The MIXX tap into Frog Level Brewing Company in Waynesville. Acoustic Mayhem is Oct. 5, with The MIXX Oct. 11. Free.

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• The final Waynesville Comedy Showcase and Small Town Jonathan Martin hit the stage at Water’n Hole Bar and Grill in Waynesville. The showcase will be Oct. 2, with Martin Oct. 4.

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• Jimi McKenzie and Tina & Her Pony will play at City Lights Café in Sylva. McKenzie performs Oct. 4, with Tina & Her Pony Oct. 11. Both shows begin at 7 p.m. Free.

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• Guitarist Joe Cruz plays at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. $10 minimum food, drink or merchandise purchase. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• A community music jam will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer, anything unplugged, is invited to join. Held the first and third Thursday of the month.

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• The Pickin’ On The Square summer concert series continues with the rock ’n’ roll group Remenants at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at the lower level town hall in Franklin. At 6:30 p.m. the stage is opened up for anyone wanting to play a few songs. Free. 828.524.2516 or www.franklinnc.com/pickin.html.

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• The Music in the Mountains concert series continues with Lonesome Sound at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Depot in Bryson City. The group plays Americana, jazz and modern rock. The free concert series brings together local residents, visitors and musicians for an evening of melodies and mountains. The series is sponsored by the Swain County Chamber of Commerce and the Swain County Tourism Development Authority. www.greatsmokies.com.

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Jim Harrison keeps churning out quality writing im Harrison is an American phenomenon.

Not only has he written more than 30 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction — the last category includes a fine cookbook, The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand, and a memoir, Off to the Side, which is a worthwhile account of his triumphs and failures in life — but he has, during all these years of writing, maintained a standard of excellence rare among his contemporaries. His Writer books are indelibly marked by his style, which we will examine briefly below, and by certain themes: outsiders, love between men and women, failure, and America’s changing landscape and values.

Legends of the Fall, a collection of three novellas, is perhaps Harrison’s most notable book. The title story became a hit movie, and a second one of the novellas was also filmed.

Now, in his latest work, The River Swimmer (ISBN 978-0-8021-2073-1, 198 pages, $25), Harrison returns to this genre by giving us two novellas: “The Land of Unlikeness” and “The River Swimmer.”

The first tells the story of a 60-year-old art historian and teacher, Clive, who has returned to Michigan ostensibly to care for his ailing mother. Divorced, on the outs with his daughter, unhappy with his career and with life in general, Clive slowly discovers that returning to his boyhood home, immersing himself in the farm country in which he grew up, and encountering the old love of his high school years draw him back to his youth and his love of painting. This is the sweet, though not sentimental, story of a man who has the chance to regain a part of himself which he had thought forever lost. It also offers Harrison

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and the rest of us the opportunity to ponder the meaning of art and the artist in a commercial world.

the water whenever trouble takes to him — in truth we see that Thad feels most alive when swimming. He has read a small library of books on the world’s rivers and hopes to write his own books on his love of water. Embroiled in a fight with his ex-girlfriend’s father, hounded by others to live a “normal life,” befriended by some strange “water babies” which he meets in a river, Thad, like Clive, is confused about his destiny and what he is do with his life. A horrible accident near the end of the story almost kills him, but also brings him into the current of his destiny.

In both novellas, as in several of his other works, particularly Legends of the Fall, Harrison explores the tension between the past and the present, between desire and duty, between the social life and solitude.

Both Clive and Thad are caught up by their past, Clive by his visit home and the memories it evokes, Thad by the demands of the farm on which he has grown up. Both men, too, find themselves torn between their personal The River Swimmer by Jim Harrison. Grove Press, 2013. 240 pages. ambitions and the duties they owe to others. Clive The River Swimmer is also set in gave up his art in part because of this conflict, Michigan. Here we meet Thad, a young man and in the novella we see him finding his way who has become obsessed with swimming, back to painting. Thad’s dilemma is more particularly in rivers. Though the swimming immediate; the father of his new girlfriend is seems an escape from the world — he takes to putting pressure on Thad to work for him,

McDonald presents latest historical fiction Teacher, preacher and storyteller Victoria Casey McDonald will discuss her new book at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Under the Light of Darkness is a historical fictional account of her great-grandparent’s romance as slaves in the antebellum South. McDonald is the author of The African Americans of Jackson County and Just Over the Hill, books highlighting the history of the African Americans in Appalachia.

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‘Star Wars Reads Day’ returns to Sylva “Star Wars Reads Day” will be at noon Saturday, Oct. 5, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

The national event celebrates reading and Star Wars and was created by Lucasfilm and its publishing partners — Abrams, Chronicle Books, Dark Horse, Del Rey, DK Publishing, Random House Audio, Scholastic, Titan Magazines and Workman. There will be Star Wars-

and his own family considers him a hopeless romantic in his love of the water.

In Thad and Clive, Harrison also considers, as he has done in other work and as, I suspect, he does in his personal life, the solitary life versus a more extraverted social and public life. In the end, both Clive and Thad choose to follow their “loves,” but they also recognize that some part of themselves and their past brings certain responsibilities for others.

One fetching aspect of Harrison’s writing, found in every thing I’ve ever read by him, is his ability to cram all sorts of observations into a single paragraph without losing the coherence of the character making those observations. This talent is best illustrated by example. Here, for instance, is Clive on a camping trip with his daughter when he finally declares himself a painter again:

“What would become of him? But then the task of thinking about himself was tiring like trying to comprehend the chaos theory in Science Times. Behind Sabrina there was a shade of green on a moss-colored log he had never seen before. And on that first afternoon in Marquette there had been a splotch of sunlight far out on the dark stormy lake, golden light and furling white wave crests. Time was passing as his daughter read and scrambled eggs. He had had his dream of the world’s idea of success but it was surprisingly easy to give up for his first love.”

Here we have those qualities that make Harrison so valuable as a writer: impressionistic, commanding, filled with passion and thought. And like the best of writers, he creates a mirror of his prose and holds it up before us, letting us look at ourselves, at the choices we make, at the predicament and the beauty of our lives.

(Jeff Minick is a writer and teacher. He can be reached at minick0301@gmail.com.)

themed displays and activities throughout the day, including visits to the store by Star Wars characters. Free. www.citylightnc.com.

A collection of interwoven stories Asheville author Bob Mustin will present Sam’s Place at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

The book is a collection of interwoven stories that revolve around a watering hole in the Alabama town of Striven. Sam’s Place offers a memorable glimpse into the lives of people connected by a small community’s social hub. Mustin has been a North Carolina Writers Network writer-in-residence at Peace College under the late Doris Betts. In the early 1990s, he was the editor of a small literary journal, The Rural Sophisticate, based in Georgia. His work has appeared in numerous journals. A creative nonfiction piece won the North Carolina Writer’s Network Rose Post Award for Creative Non-Fiction in 2007.

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER ost people who call up Google Earth are hunting a hard-to-find address or scoping out satellite images of their next vacation destination, but the ubiquitous online mapping tool is also proving useful in navigating years of bygone Cherokee civilization.

A repository of ancient Cherokee trails and historic sites has been created in Google Earth, with the help of a $20,000 grant from Google itself. The environmental nonprofit Wild South had been amassing a landscape scale database of Cherokee settlements, agrarian lands, hunting grounds and trade routes for a few years but had nowhere to put it all. With the help of the Cherokee Preservation Foundation and a local web developer WHO, the project went live this summer with a website: Cherokee Journeys.

“The goal is to try to reconstruct a picture of Western North Carolina as it would have been,” said Lamar Marshall, the lead mapmaker for the project and cultural heritage director for Wild South.

Now, visitors can fly through 3D representations of Cherokee history, across the Appalachian landscape, along old trading and war trails, spiritual mounds, abandoned towns — even the hand built communal fishing weirs whose remnants linger in mountains rivers. The interactive maps and digital tours place towns, invasions, demographics and the story of the Cherokee people at the fingertips of users. It’s sort of a cultural geography, as Marshall calls it.

“That’s the goal through Google Earth; they can get in there and get it in 3D,” Marshall said. “It’s becoming more like virtual geography.”

Along with the Google Earth maps and tours, the website also provides historical maps, a narrative history and cultural context surrounding about 150 years of Cherokee history — from the early 1700s when the European settlers began interacting with the tribe until the brutal, forced removal of the Cherokee people in the 1830s.

The Cherokee Journey webpage allows users to seamlessly click their way through years of history and soar above a dynamic digital landscape.

But that interactive feature also has its sober moments, highlighting the tragic chapters of Cherokee history. Clicking through the decades on a map of Cherokee civilization, one can’t help but notice the plight of the tribe as the years pass and the maps change.

“It’s a pretty rough story as far as the wars,” Marshall said. “It shows a continual loss of their traditional lands as the (European) colony spread.”

The polished project is the result of years of work Marshall has done locating, plotting and researching the ancient Cherokee settlements and travel routes. Marshall has mapped more than 1,000 miles of Cherokee trails himself with Wild South. The nonprofit is more commonly known for its environmental advocacy, like saving stands of old-growth forest from logging or protecting endangered species in the path of proposed highway projects. But Cherokee historical landscapes are part of the land’s story.

“Wild South is dedicated to preserving the natural legacy of Western North Carolina and beyond,” said Ben Prater, associate executive director of Wild

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Quest for a lost landscape Mapping database reconstructs Cherokee world on grand scale Lamar Marshall charts an old Cherokee trail near Cowee Mountain with his GPS unit.

Marhsall has spent four years doing boots-on-the-ground reconnaissance for a database of Cherokee trails and settlements that has now gone live on Google Earth. Andrew Kasper photo

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“The history and culture of the Cherokee people are a part of this region’s natural landscape, and educating others through this collaborative project will inspire them to respect and appreciate the region’s historical and natural heritage.”

Many of the trails have been paved over — since the historic routes were the easiest and quickest way through the mountains, the trails

were later followed by modern-day roads trying to get between the same to places.

So, Marshall’s work can be as straightforward as driving a road and plotting GPS coordinates, like what he did for the primary Cherokee trading route between Charleston and WNC. But for some, the narrow tread of the overgrown foot and horse paths can still be found, especially if the route passes through rural farms or public lands.

“There are some that were totally abandon in the forest that were never made into a wagon road,” Marshall said.

“I have found premier remnants of trails that are like they were when the last Cherokee rode their horse across it.”

Marshall has to rely on historical data from journal entries of soldiers, court testimonies of Cherokee who had their lands stolen, surveyor notes and the work of war scouts to tip him off on where the trails are. But then it’s up to his fieldwork to find them.

Last week, Marshall pulled his truck onto the shoulder of U.S. 441 in search of the old Cherokee trade and travel route between Franklin and Webster. Later, the route became a wagon road.

Marshall scampered down the side of the hill, GPS unit in hand. When he reached the creek bed, he could make out a flattened section, probably the old roadway. He quickly began logging the waypoints into his handheld unit.

Though finding the original Cherokee trail would be a long shot, he was quite confident that was the route they would have used — at the lowest point in the gap and next to a water supply.

“This is where it would have been,” he said, surveying the wooded landscape.

Given the amount of data Marshall has accumulated, he says the website is only partially complete. In the coming six months, he’s planning on adding an even more extensive database of interactive maps and cultural sites, with Cherokee towns in Tennessee and North Carolina.

“I’ve got so much stuff and so much work to do,” he said. “Right now, the preliminary things are up.”

The next step, he said, are 3D Cherokee villages the user can fly into and get a glimpse of the traditional Cherokee life. He’s hoping the work will catch on with teachers, historians and even tourists who have an interest in visiting the area.

“It was a way to showcase this work to the world,” he said. www.cherokee.wildsouth.org

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BY DON H ENDERSHOT

Repercussions of a government shutdown

require Forest Service personnel in order to operate will be closed but it appears that trails will still be open in other areas.

Law enforcement rangers will continue to be funded, however.

The economic impact is real. The severity, of course, depends on the length of the shutdown.

Park Service plans call for the furlough of more than 21,000 employees and that means no paycheck ‘til funding is reinstat-

Haywood Community College students collect trash in Richland Creek downstream from Russ Ave.

Two tons of trash hauled out of Haywood creek More than 60 volunteers removed 3,740 pounds of trash from Richland Creek in Haywood County Saturday, Sept. 21, during this year’s Big Sweep stream clean up.

The volunteers were middle school, high school and college students. They cleaned a 2.5-mile stretch of the creek, from Frog Level in Waynesville to Lake Junaluska, removing glass, plastic bottles, clothing, shopping bags, fishing line, tires, metal and two shopping carts.

“It is amazing we are getting so much trash. We clean this reach every year,” said Tucker Hobbs, a Haywood Community College student. “It is kind of sad to see all of the trash.”

Each year, rain washes trash and other pollutants into storm drains that empty into streams. Much of the trash, particularly plastics, will take hundreds of years to decompose unless it is removed by willing citizens.

The annual stream cleanup was conducted through Haywood Waterways Association’s Adopt-A-Stream program. There are 13 groups in the county that have adopted stretches of streams and creeks. The organization is always looking for more sponsors.

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Forest Festival and planning workshop cancelled Forest Festival Day at the Cradle of Forestry planned for Saturday, Oct. 5, has been cancelled due to the government shutdown.

The event held in the Pisgah National Forest attracts a few thousand people each year to see oldtimey demonstrations, traditional craftsmen and other activities such as carriage rides and archery.

The collegiate woodsmen’s meet, previously to take place at the festival, will be relocated to the campus of Haywood Community College. The event will feature college teams competing in lumberjack-style competitions.

But Forest Festival Day was not the only U.S. Forest Service event to be affected by the shutdown.

A public input workshop scheduled for Oct. 5 at the N.C. Arboretum as part of the Nantahala and Pisgah forests management plan revision has been cancelled as well.

Even if the federal government resumes operations at this point, the forest service said the meeting will not take place.

The forest service is in the early stages of a sweeping overhaul of how the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests are managed. The meeting in Asheville was an all-day retreat style meeting to engage the public. Further information on rescheduling the meeting will be provided at a future date.

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Freedom may not ring Tuesday.

At least not from the Liberty Bell. I know, I know, the bell doesn’t ring any more, but freedom surely emanates from it — at least if it’s open to the public and the way things were looking as I wrote this column Monday night, it wouldn’t be come Tuesday.

While there are plenty of implications and repercussions of a government shutdown, the biggest thing on the minds of locals and tourists in Western North Carolina is what this all means for our beloved outdoor recreation.

It begs the question: “If a leaf turned color on the Blue Ridge Parkway and no one was there to see it, would it still be beautiful?”

While the Parkway and the Autumn on the Blue Ridge Parkway. wikimedia commons photo main road through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ed. If it’s just a short hiatus, there should be will still be open to traffic, the national little damage, but a prolonged furlough parks — along with the other 400 units of could mean tough times. The last shutdown the National Park Service nationwide — are (1995-1996) lasted 21 days and that can’t be in essence closed. easy on families, even though they eventualNo hiking, no camping, no picnicking, ly were paid retroactively. no bathrooms, no visitor centers.

But even a week or two can be bad news Outlying areas of the Smokies like for many gateway communities and others, Cataloochee and Deep Creek will be say along the Parkway. The National Parks blocked to the public with locked gates Conservation Association reported that the across the road.

‘95-‘96 shutdown cost gateway communiDitto for the 561 national wildlife ties about $14 million daily. NPCA estirefuges and the 38 wetland management mates that a shutdown now could cost closdistricts overseen by the U.S. Fish & er to $30 million a day.

Wildlife Service. They too will be closed to The Parkway got off easy last time as the the public, no fishing, no hiking, no birdshutdown occurred in December of ‘95 and ing, no hunting, no nuthin’.

January of ‘96, a time when the Parkway Yes, and the Liberty Bell, the Statue of was basically closed anyway. But October is Liberty, the Lincoln Memorial, Independence the busiest month of the year for the BRP Hall, the Smithsonian, the Holocaust and a closure could cost the region as much Museum, the National Zoo and more. as $1.4 million a day.

One may still be able to get outdoors in (Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist. He the national forests. Postings I have seen say can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.) that National Forest Recreation Areas that

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Competitors in the River Rescue Rodeo in Dillsboro complete a rescue scenario on the Tuckasegee River.

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The River Rescue Rodeo held on the Tuckasegee River in Dillsboro last weekend attracted a host of paddling teams to test their river rescue skills, including swiftwater rescues, throw rope competitions and a knot-tying rodeo. A number of local volunteers and Landmark Learning instructors, which sponsored the event, worked as judges and mock “victims” for the rescue scenarios throughout the day.

Western Carolina University was the top finisher with the Cincinnati Paddlers and Warren Wilson College following close behind. The winning teams took home more $1,000 worth of prizes.

Landmark Learning, a wilderness training school located in Cullowhee, is already planning next year’s rodeo.

WCU probes forensic DNA sequencing Research at Western Carolina University on DNA sequencing used in crime labs has gotten a $718,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice.

Mark Wilson, director of the Forensic Science Program at WCU, has been evaluating new DNA sequencing instrumentation for use in crime laboratories.

The grant will not only support the research but also provides scholarships for three graduate students working on related projects to help with the work, which builds on previous DNA sequencing done at WCU. The work is of particular interest to faculty and scientists who are involved with the global Illumina Forensic Genomics Consortium, which is led by Wilson and top scientists specializing in the area of forensic DNA analysis.

“The research we perform is discussed by the consortium and has the potential to impact forensic crime labs across the country when this technology is incorporated into casework,” said Brittania Bintz, a forensic research scientist at WCU. 828.227.3680 or bbintz@wcu.edu.

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The former Rosman Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition Facility will be open to the public Oct. 26. Donated photo

Learn about autumn colors in Highlands The Highlands Nature Center is hosting a program on fall leaf colors from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5.

Director Patrick Brannon will lead a talk about how leaves change color, differences between deciduous and coniferous trees, and winter survival strategies of each. After the presentation, visitors will tour the center’s botanical garden and learn to identify species of trees by leaf type, shape and color.

The cost for this event is $5 per person, and the program is open for all ages. Advanced registration by phone is required due to limited space.

828.526.2623.

Aldo Leopold movie showing in Highlands The Highlands Biological Foundation will host a free screening of the film, “Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Highlands Biological Station.

“Green Fire” is the first full-length, high-definition documentary film made about famous conservationist Aldo Leopold. The film explores Leopold’s life in the early part of the 20th century, his career and the ways his land ethics are still applied in conservation.

The movie is a production of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, the U.S. Forest Service and the Center for Humans and Nature. Although best known as the author of the conservation classic A Sand County Almanac, Leopold is also renowned for his work as an educator, philosopher, forester, ecologist and wilderness advocate.

828.526.2221 or www.highlandsbiological.org.

With funding from the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission, WNC AgOptions will give $153,000 to farmers in the western part of the state next year.

Farmers looking to expand and diversify their operations have until Dec. 13 to submit an application for a $3,000 or $6,000 grant.

In its 10th year, the grant program was created to help tobacco farmers branch out into other sectors of agriculture.

WNC AgOptions provides grants to a 22-county region of Western North Carolina. Since 2004, more than 350 grants, amounting to about $1.6 million, have been awarded. The grants have been used to buy greenhouses, refrigeration units and other equipment.

WNC AgOptions grants are awarded by WNC Communities, a nonprofit organization.

Applications for next year’s grant cycle are available online and at local cooperative extension centers. Applicants should contact their local extension agents by Nov. 1 for assistance and support. www.wncagoptions.org.

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This month, the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the dedication of NASA’s Rosman Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition Facility.

The 200-acre site in the Pisgah National Forest was once a NASA space station before being handed over to the U.S. Department of Defense in 1981, during the Cold War. The institute took it over in 1999. When controlled by NASA, the facility played a critical role in the pioneering days of the U.S. space effort. Some of the instruments used to communicate with the earliest space flights are still in operation.

The public will have the opportunity to tour the facility, free of charge, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 26. The facility was first opened up to the public the same day in 1963. But the open house is just one aspect of the event-filled weekend planned at the institute. A NASA veteran is scheduled to talk about early spaceflight and a night-sky viewing session is planned.

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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is holding an open house from 5 to 7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Historic Calhoun House in Bryson City, for the public to meet new Deputy Superintendent Patricia Wissinger. Wissinger served as superintendent of Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area in Atlanta before being hired by the park this year. A native of North Carolina, Wissinger has many connections to the Patricia western part of the Wissinger state. She studied at Western Carolina University and lived in Asheville for many years, where she was involved as a volunteer with many civic groups.

“Great Smoky Mountains National Park has a tradition of working cooperatively with local communities on many park issues,” said Wissinger. “I look forward to meeting our community members and begin building on the important relationships which have developed with our supporters throughout the years.”

Calhoun House is located at 135 Everett St., Bryson City.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park has established its first sister park arrangement with Khao Yai National Park in Thailand.

Smokies Park Superintendent Dale Ditmanson and Khao Yai National Park Superintendent Krissada Homsud signed the arrangement today at a ceremony in September.

The two parks share a number of similar resources, such as biodiversity, and concerns. Both parks are the most visited National Parks within their country and face challenges brought by visitor use and nearby development, poaching and pollution. Both parks are popular for wildlife viewing, streams and waterfalls, and lush mountain forests.

“We are honored to form this unique partnership with Khao Yai National Park, which shares so many similarities with the Smokies,” said Park Superintendent Ditmanson. “There has already been an incredible exchange of information.”

Currently, Homsud is traveling in the United States with a group of nine park managers from Thailand through a U.S. Department of State professional exchange program. The participants have met this week with park managers, biologists, entomologists, educators and historians.

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Mountains National Park is the recipient of the 2013 Exceptional Environmental Education Program award.

Given out each year by the Environmental Educators of North Carolina, the award recognizes a program or institute that shines in environmental education. The award committee selected the center based on its hands-on lessons in science, technology, engineering and math.

“The staff at the (center) has worked hard over the years to develop a unique program, blending scientific research occurring in the park with the science content that teachers focus on in middle and high school The Appalachian Highlands Science grades,” said the center’s Education Learning Center in the Great Smoky Coordinator Susan Sachs.

Located in Haywood County within the park, the center is part of a network of learning centers supporting science research and education in national parks.

The center, sitting at 5,000 feet in elevation, includes laboratories, a 50-person classroom and housing for Rangers and students investigate microhabitats through a program put visiting scienon by the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center. tists. the Smokies are one step ahead in public involvement in caring for the park and we look forward to learning from their staff,” said Homsud. “In Khao Yai, we still have problems with encroachment and poaching.” www.nps.gov/oia/topics/sisterparks/sis terparks.htm.

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Fishermen on the Tuckasegee River will get a boost from trout stocking this fall. Mark Haskett photo

Tuckasegee will be stocked with thousands of trout

Fishing regulations taking effect this week

Meetings to discuss state bear hunting laws The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will hold a series of public meetings in October to discuss its 10-year Black Bear Management Plan and possible changes to bear hunting laws.

The mountain region meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 9, at Haywood Community College. Comments will be used to craft the management plan, which is meant to last until 2022. There will also be a discussion on recent changes to bear hunting laws due

to legislation.

Among the changes being discussed is the possibility of extending the length of the bear hunting season, increasing bag limits and creating a bear hunting season in the Piedmont. As it stands, only eastern and western counties in the state have bear seasons.

The commission is also seeking input on the inequity between hunters with hounds and those without and the use of bear bait.

Currently, bear hunters can release hounds at bait sites, but dog-less hunters are prohibited from shooting a bear in a baiting area. www.ncwildlife.org/bear.

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Beginning Oct. 1, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will implement delayed harvest regulations on 33 trout waters in 18 counties in Western North Carolina.

Under these regulations, anglers can only practice catch-and-release fishing. No natural bait is allowed. Fishermen can use only single-hook, artificial lures that were not treated with any substance to attract fish. The seasonal regulations will be relaxed again June 6.

The commission stocks delayed-harvest waters from fall until spring with thousands of trout to increase anglers’ chances of landing a fish. The delayed harvest trout waters are posted with diamond-shaped, black-and-white signs. This year, the commission added sections on two creeks and a river, in Ashe, Clay and Graham counties, to its delayed harvest program. www.ncwildlife.org

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The delayed harvest section of the Tuckasegee River — a main stop on the Western North Carolina Fly Fishing Trail — will be stocked with 19,600 trout this fall.

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will stock in two parts, adding 9,800 trout the first week of October and 9,800 trout the first week of November. Brook and rainbow trout will account for 80 percent of the fish species, with brown trout making up the remainder.

The delayed harvest segment of the river runs from the N.C. 107 bridge in the Lovesfield community to Dillsboro. Anglers are allowed to fish this stretch of the river, year round.

However, fish caught between Oct. 1 and the first Saturday in June must be released.

Another good place to fish the trail is Scotts Creek in Sylva and Dillsboro, which received 3,000 trout in July and August. Both the creek and the delayed harvest section of the river were designated as Mountain Heritage Trout Waters by the state this year. The program allows anglers to fish with a three-day license for $5.

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BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Opportunity Initiative of Southwestern North Carolina Community Workshops: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, Swain County Technology and Training Center, Buckner Branch Road, Bryson City; 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, Multi-Purpose Room, Clay County Government Center, 261 Courthouse Drive, Hayesville; and 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 10, Regional High Technology Center Auditorium, 85 Freedlander Dr., Clyde.

• Free class, Facebook 101, 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016.

• iPad Users group, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016.

• Simply Worship 101 workshop, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 5, Haywood Community College’s Creative Arts Building. Instructor, Cathy Little. $100. Register, 627.4500.

• Free seminar “How to Price Your Product or Service,” 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, Student Center, Haywood Community College, Clyde. Register at 627.4512.

• Free 90-minute computer class on creating a Facebook home page, 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016.

• Open house, 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, Riverwood Studios, Dillsboro, to celebrate the new printing/binding and paper studios of SpeakEasy Press/Frank Brannon, http://oaksgallery.net/location.html, www.speakeasypress.com/news .

COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • “Coats for Folks” collection, through Oct. 31, Swain County. All Swain County Buildings, schools and offices are collection points for donations of gently used coats, sweaters, sweatshirts, gloves, toboggans or other articles of warmth. Distributed by the Swain County Resource Center, 100 Brendle St., Bryson City.

736.6222.

• Maggie Valley Board of Alderman candidates forum, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, Maggie Valley Pavilion. 926.1686.

• Glenville Area Historical Society general meeting, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, Glenville Community Development Club, Highway 107, Glenville. 743.1658 or historicalsocietyglenvillearea@yahoo.com.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

• Fairview School PTA 5th annual BBQ Dinner Fundraiser, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, Fairview School. Dine in or take out. $7. Proceeds to Fairview School. 586.2819.

• Backpacks of Love Benefit Fundraiser, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 5, at Sid’s on Main, 117 Main St., Canton.

Proceeds to Pisgah High School Backpacks of Love for hungry and homeless students. Hosted by St. Andrew’s on-the-Hill’s Holy Smoke BBQ Ministry Team. 648.7550, Barbara, 560.9144, or Nancy or Terry, 550.9191.

• Fundraising brunch, noon Sunday, Oct. 6, Signature Brew Café, Main Street, Sylva. Featuring locally grown vegetables and meats donated by Jackson County Farmers Market Vendors. 631.3033 or jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org.

BLOOD DRIVES Jackson • Sylva Community-Jackson Senior Blood Drive, 1:30 to5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, Jackson Senior Center, 100 County Services Park, Sylva. 800.RedCross or go to www.redcrossblood.org Keyword: Sylva.

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SENIOR ACTIVITIES • Foster Grandparents needed in Head Start, non-profit day care centers and public schools in seven county Western North Carolina Region. Meet 200% of federal poverty guidelines and receive a small tax free stipend plus annual and sick leave plus mileage. Must be 55 or older. Torrie Murphy, Mountain Projects, 356.2834.

• Meditation for Brain and Body, 10:30 a.m. or 3:45 p.m. Thursdays, through Oct. 10, Senior Resource Center, 81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville. 452.2370.

• New Memory Café, 10 a.m. to noon, second Thursday of each month, starting Thursday, Oct.10, Mission and Fellowship Center, First Baptist Church of Sylva. For people who suffer with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, or other memory disorders, and their caregivers.

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• Haywood Community College Blood Drive, 2:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, High Tech Center 112 Industrial Park Drive, Waynesville. 800.RED.CROSS.

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• Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 8, Southwestern Community College, Macon County, 149 Siler Farm Road, Franklin. 800.RedCross or go to www.redcrossblood.org Keyword: Macon.

• See chestnut burrs and fall color during a guided tour of the chestnut orchard at Cataloochee Ranch. Guided tours, 11 a.m. Wednesdays, includes lunch. $15.

Reservations, 926.1401.

• Tye Blanton Foundation Blood Drive, 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, Central United Methodist Church, 34 Church St., Canton. 800.733.2767.

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HEALTH MATTERS • Macon County Health Department flu shots, 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, Macon County Community Building, Franklin. $25. 349.2081 • Lunch and Learn, noon, Friday, Oct. 4, boardroom, second floor of Harris Regional Hospital. Dr. Martin Senicki and physician assistant Alexis Willey with Sylva Orthopedic Associates. Lunch provided.

• Trail of Tears Memorial Walk, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, starting at the Cherokee Historical Association building, 564 Tsali Blvd., Cherokee. Registration fee, $10.

Walkers 12 and under free. 497.2111.

• Tree of Hope ceremony for breast cancer noon, Tuesday, Oct. 8, first floor lobby of Harris Medical Park, 98 Doctors Drive, Sylva. 631.8100, www.medwesthealth.org/fallfight.

• Indoor Flea Market, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, Haywood County Fairgrounds, Highway 209 North, Lake Junaluska.

• Macon County Health flu shots, 1 to 4 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 9, Jane Woodruff Building at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital. $25. 349.2081

• Jackson County Genealogical Society October program, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, Community Room, Jackson County Courthouse, Sylva. Speaker, Scott Withrow, history professor at Furman University.

631.2646.

• Walk-In Flu Clinic, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11 and Saturday, Oct. 12, Haywood County Health Department, 157 Paragon Parkway, Suite 800, Clyde (old Walmart Building). For ages 19 and up. 356.1111, 452.6675, or www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS

• Aqua Zumba, 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting Oct. 1, MedWest Health & Fitness Center. 452.8080 or MedWestHealth.org.

• Home school activity, 2 to 3:15 p.m. Thursdays through Oct. 5, Waynesville Recreation Center. $27 for a family of four who are members of the WRC, $2 for each additional child, and $45 for a family of four who are nonmembers, $3 for each additional child.

456.2030 or email recprogramspecialist@townofwaynesville.org .

• Rabies vaccination clinics, Saturday, Oct. 5, Franklin and Highlands area. $5, cash only, per pet. 349.2081 for locations and times.

• 5th annual Furry Friends Benefit Bash, 6 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 3, Laurel Ridge Country Club , Waynesville. Proceeds to Sarge’s pet adoptions. Tickets, $50, includes dinner. Purchase tickets at Sarge’s Adoption Center, 256 Industrial Park Drive, Waynesville.

246.9050 or register at www.sargeandfriends.org/docs/furryfriends.pdf.

• Learn to play disc golf, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays in October, Waynesville Disc Golf Course, Vance Street, Waynesville. For ages 8 to 17. Five-week course is $24 for members of the Waynesville Recreation Center or $30 for non-members. 456.2030 or email recprogramspecialist@townofwaynesville.org.

RECREATION & FITNESS • Haywood County Recreation Youth Basketball League registration, 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3 and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, Haywood County Recreation & Parks, 1233 N. Main St., Annex II Building, Conference Room, Waynesville. Registration fees paid or postmarked by Oct. 5. 452.6789 or email Daniel Taylor danielrtaylor@haywoodnc.net, or www.haywoodnc.net.

• Children’s Story time: Apple Doll, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 2, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016.

• Mary Ann’s Book Club, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, Macon County Public Library, 524.9550.

• Family Night: Star Wars Party, 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016.

• Children’s Story time: Apples A-Z, 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 4, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016 • Children’s Story time: Ten Apples up on top, 1 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 4, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016.

• Children’s Story time: Rotary Readers, 11 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 7, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016.

• Children’s Story time: Firefighter Ted, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 8, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016.

• Lego Club, 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016.

• Children’s Story time: Fire Safety, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 9, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016.

ECA EVENTS • Extension and Community Association (ECA) groups meet throughout the county at various locations and times each month. NC Cooperative Extension Office, 586.4009.

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 • Laugh Aerobics and Bucket List, 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, Potpourri ECA, Conference Room of Community Service Center, Sylva.

• Christmas Ornament, Lunch and Learn ECA noon, Thursday, Oct. 10, Conference Room, Community Service Center, Sylva.

POLITICAL GROUP EVENTS & LOCAL GOVERNMENT • Macon County GOP Executive Board meeting, 6 p.m. dinner, 6:30 p.m. meeting, Thursday, Oct. 10, Boiler Room, Franklin.

• OccupyWNC, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, Jackson Justice Center, room 246. Working group general assembly.

SUPPORT GROUPS • Eight-week Grief Education/Support group, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesdays, through Oct. 29, Long’s Chapel United Methodist Church, Clyde in the Dugan classroom.

Register at 452.5039.

A&E FESTIVALS, SPECIAL & SEASONAL EVENTS • Cherokee Indian Fair, Oct. 2-5, Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds. Featuring a parade, carnival rides, local crafts, artwork, produce and baked goods, local performers and internationally renowned entertainers.

554.6490, travel@nc-cherokee.com, http://visitcherokeeevents.com/event/33063-cherokee-indian-fair.

• Maggie Valley Oktoberfest, 4 to 11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, and noon to 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, Maggie Valley Fairgrounds. www.maggievalleyoktoberfest.com.

• Cruisin’ in the Mountains Car, Truck and Bike Show, 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, Southwestern Community College’s Public Safety Training Center, Franklin. Saturday’s gate admission is $3 for adults, with children 12 and under admitted free. www.visitfranklinnc.com or 524.3161.

• ColorFest, Art & Taste of Appalachia, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, historic Dillsboro.

• John C. Campbell Folk School Fall Festival, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct 5-6, Brasstown. Celebrating its 40th anniversary with more than 50 artisans demonstrating traditional and contemporary crafts, music, cloggers and more.

Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for ages 12-17, and free for children under 12. www.folkschool.org/fallfestival.

• Great Pumpkin Patch Express, Oct. 5-6, 11-13, 18-20 and 25-27, Bryson City Depot. Friday departures, 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday departures, 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.

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• Leaf Festival, Oct. 11-13, Village Green and Commons, Cashiers. Schedules and concert ticket prices at www.dejavucashiers.eventbrite.com/ or 743.8428. No pets, coolers or chairs.

adults, $20 for seniors and $10 for students. Special $8 discount tickets for are available for students on Thursdays and Sundays. 456.6322 or www.harttheatre.com.

• Church Street Art & Craft Show, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 12, Main Street, Waynesville. More than 120 artists, crafters and food vendors from throughout the Southeast will line Waynesville’s Main Street.

456.3517, info@downtownwaynesville.com.

• Nunsense, Oct. 4-13, Highlands Playhouse, 362 Oak St., Highlands. 526.2695, www.highlandsplayhouse.org.

LITERARY (ADULTS) • Book discussion – Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, led

by Frank Queen, 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, Haywood County Public Library, 678 S Haywood St, Waynesville.

456.4487 or email bahnsen33@live.com.

• Free spoken-word workshop, 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, Hunter Library, Western Carolina University. Led by Matthew Cuban, a slam poetry champion, teacher and coach. Reception and performances by Cuban and the WCU Truthwriters will follow. Beth McDonough, bmcdono@wcu.edu, 227.3423.

• Musician and author Danny Ellis, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva. Ellis will present his newly released memoir, The Boy at the Gate, about his life growing up in the Dublin slums. 586.9499.

• Bob Mustin, 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva, author of Sam’s Place, a collection of interwoven stories that revolve around a watering hole in the Alabama town of Striven. 586.9499.

• Victoria Casey McDonald, 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva, to discuss her new book, Under the Light of Darkness. 586.9499.

• Local author and poet Michael Beadle will sign copies of his newest pictorial history book “Canton” during the Church Street Art & Craft Show, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, Main Street, Waynesville.

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ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Tony Award-winning puppet musical “Ave. Q,” 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4-5, and at 3 p.m. Oct. 6, Haywood Arts Regional Theatre, Waynesville. Tickets are $24 for

• American Idol winner Scotty McCreery, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 5, Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, Cherokee. Open to all ages. www.ticketmaster.com.

• Gypsy Bandwagon, 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, Swain County Center for the Arts, Bryson City. Concert followed by a meet and greet reception for the musicians and artist, James Lyle, whose artwork will be on exhibit through mid-November. Free. www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta.

• Dave Coulier, stand-up comedian, impressionist, and actor best known for his role as Joey Gladstone on the ABC sitcom Full House, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. Tickets start at $16.

GreatMountainMusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• Christian rock band Third Day, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. Tickets are $25.

GreatMountainMusic.com or 866.273.4615.

NIGHT LIFE • Live music: Tina & Her Pony, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, City Lights Café, Sylva. www.citylightscafe.com.

• Live music at Alley Kats in Waynesville.

OUTDOOR MUSIC CALENDAR • Motown Downtown, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, Franklin Town Square gazebo. Hits from the 1960s and ‘70s by award-winning group C-Square. Bring a lawn chair.

524.7683 or www.artscouncilofmacon.org.

• Old-time back porch music, 1 to 3 p.m. Saturdays, Oct. 5 and 19, and Nov. 2 and 16, Oconaluftee Visitor Center, U.S. 441 north of Cherokee.

JAMS • Community music jam, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, Marianna Black Library, downtown Bryson City.

• High Mountain Squares, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, Macon County Community Building, Georgia Road (441 South), Franklin. Ricky Simpson from Carnsville, Ga. will call. 371.4946, 342.1560, 332.0001 or www.highmountainsquare.org.

• Jammin’ at the Millpond, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 12, Haywood Community College, Clyde.

627.4522 or 627.4544.

FOOD & DRINK • Taste of Sylva, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, Sylva.

Sample foods from nearly 20 restaurants. Tickets: $20 in advance and $25 at the door. www.mainstreetsylva.org or http://www.pinnacleeventswnc.com/.

ART/GALLERY EVENTS & OPENINGS • Waynesville’s “The Master Artists” group exhibit, Oct. 2-Nov. 9, at the Haywood County Arts Council’s Gallery 86, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville.

• Green Biennial Invitational Exhibition featuring nine new sculptures, through Dec. 31, the Village Green Commons, Cashiers. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com, 743.3434.

FILM & SCREEN • Movie night, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, Jackson County Public Library, 586.2016.

• Family movie, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. Animated spooky favorite about a curious young girl named Coraline. 488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

• New movie 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 9, Meeting Room Macon County Public Library, Franklin.

Adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Long Island-set novel. Rated PG-13 for some violent images, sexual content, smoking, partying and brief language.

524.3600.

• Classic 1966 movie 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, Meeting Room Macon County Public Library, Franklin. Stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. 524.3600.

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• Ecotour, Wednesday, Oct. 2, Cataloochee Valley to see the elk. Sponsored by Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust (HCLT) $35 from new friends, includes ecotour, tailgate dinner and a one-year membership. $10 for HCLT members. Julie.hitrust@earthlink.net, www.hicashlt.org.

• Open house, 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, Historic Calhoun House, Bryson City, to welcome new Deputy Superintendent Patricia Wissinger to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

• Forest Festival Day, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, Cradle of Forestry in America, 11250 Pisgah Highway, Pisgah Forest, featuring 18th annual John G. Palmer Intercollegiate Woodsmen’s Meet, a lumberjack competition organized by Haywood Community College. $6 for adults; $3 for children and pass holders. 877.3130, http://www.cradleofforestry.com/.

• Clawhammer “For the love of Beer & Mountains” partnership hike with Highland Brewing Company and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct.

5, to the summit of Clawhammer Mountain. Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, 253.0095.

• Franklin Bird Club weekly walk, Wednesday, Oct. 9, along the Greenway. Meet at 8 a.m. at Salali Lane.

524.5234.

• Camping in the Old Style, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 12, Cradle of Forestry in America, 11250 Pisgah Highway, Pisgah Forest, featuring reenactors in a reconstructed campsite of the early 1900s. $5 for adults; free for children and pass holders. 877.3130, http://www.cradleofforestry.com/.

• Thunderstruck “For the love of Beer & Mountains” Partnership Hike with Highland Brewing Company and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, to Thunderstruck Ridge. Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, 253.0095.

• Yoga on the Mountain hike, 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, Blue Ridge Pastures, Fairview, to do yoga.

Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, 253.0095.

PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS • Primitive Black Powder Muzzleloading shoot, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5; and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, near Marshall. Hosted by French Broad Rifles. www.frenchbroadrifles.com.

• Nantahala and Pisgah national forests management plan revision workshop, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, N.C. Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, www.fs.usda.gov/goto/nfsnc/nprevision.

• Fall Leaf Colors workshop, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, Highlands Nature Center, Highlands. $5 per person; appropriate for all ages. Advanced registration required. Register at 526.2623.

• The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission public meeting to discuss the 2012-2022 Black Bear Management Plan, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, Haywood Community College auditorium, 185 Freedlander Drive, Clyde. www.ncwildlife.org/bear.

• The Highlands Biological Foundation free screening of “Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time on Thursday,” 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10.

Highlands Biological Station, Highlands. First fulllength, high definition documentary film ever made about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold, author of the conservation classic “A Sand County Almanac.”

526.2221 or visit www.highlandsbiological.org.

• Bartram Trail Conference, Oct. 11-13, Mountain Retreat and Learning Center, Scaly Mountain, Highlands. www.bartramtrail.org/pages/2013conf.html, Jim Kautz at jrkautz@frontier.com, 524.6593.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Benefit Golf Tournament, 9:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 4, Highland Falls Country Club. Proceeds to support Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which provides college educations to the surviving children of Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps special operations personnel killed in the line of duty, and financial assistance to their families. $150 per person.

Registration forms at mountaintoprotary.net, or Highlands Chamber of Commerce, the Highlands Recreation Park, The Highlander Newspaper and Mitchell’s Lodge and Cottages. Bill Zoellner, 787.2323 or 888.489.2323, bill.zoellner@wfadvisors.com.

• Chairman’s Cup Golf Tournament noon, Monday, Oct. 7, Laurel Ridge Country Club. $150 per person or $500 for a foursome. www.haywoodchamber.com.

• 15th annual Smoky Streak, Saturday, Oct. 5, Webster Baptist Church. Includes a walk, 5K and 10K. Proceeds to benefit early breast cancer detection and comprehensive women’s services through partnership with the Jackson and Swain County Health Departments. www.medwesthealth.org, 631.8924 or email andrea.robbins@haymed.org.

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MarketPlace information:

DOCTOR’S LIVING ESTATE SALE Thurs. - Sat. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Beautiful Decorator Items, 4-Post Queen Size Bed, White Iron Bed, Massage Chair, Bistro Set, Appliance & More. Rain or Shine!

255 Depot St., Waynesville, NC.

The Smoky Mountain News Marketplace has a distribution of 16,000 every week to over 500 locations across in Haywood, Jackson, Macon, and Swain counties along with the Qualla Boundary and west Buncombe County. For a link to our MarketPlace Web site, which also contains a link to all of our MarketPlace display advertisers’ Web sites, visit www.smokymountainnews.com.

Rates: ■ Free — Residential yard sale ads, lost or found pet ads.

■ Free — Non-business items that sell for less than $150.

■ $12 — Classified ads that are 50 words or less; each additional line is $2.

■ $12 — If your ad is 10 words or less, it will be displayed with a larger type.

■ $3 — Border around ad and $5 — Picture with ad.

■ $35 — Non-business items, 25 words or less. 3 month or till sold.

■ $300 — Statewide classifieds run in 117 participating newspapers with 1.6 million circulation. Up to 25 words.

■ All classified ads must be pre-paid.

HELP A CHILD SUCCEED! Become a Foster Parent with Eliada. Fall pre-service classes begin soon! Please contact Kelly for more information at: kshusko@eliada.org or 828.254.5356 ext. 318 and visit www.eliada.org to learn more.

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ABSOLUTE LIVING ESTATE ON-SITE AUCTION Sunday Oct. 6, 1:00 p.m. at 84 Berry Lane Wayesville, NC. Cagle’s Estate Services, NCFL 6146, Will Be Selling @ Absolute Auction - The Living Estate of Nelson and Gloria Davis, Preview @ 12 p.m. Items Include: The Contents of their large home, wood working shop and storage building. BRING CHAIRS, Auction Held Outside RAIN OR SHINE! View Pictures & Directions at: www.auctionzip.com Auction ID# 12430 or call 828.452.2104 for more info. Auctioneer: D. Mike Cagle NCAL 4825, Shirley Cagle CES, GPPA- NCAL 8561.

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2821 Burke Smokey Creek Road, Lenoir, NC. Liquidation of Smokey Creek Music Barn. 13 Early Vending Machines, Juke Boxes, 35+ Old Signs, 12+ Old Bicycle & Tricycles, Other Antiques. 704.791.8825. ncaf5479. ClassicAuctions.com.

AUCTION RESTAURANT EQPMNT. AUCTION Thursday, October 10 at 10 a.m.

1547 US-70, Valdese, NC. Total Liquidation of Burke Restaurant Equipment Due to Retirement.

Large Quantity of Clean, Tested Equipment. Coolers, Freezers, Gas Equipment, BBQ Choppers.

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BUILDING MATERIALS HAYWOOD BUILDERS Garage Doors, New Installations Service & Repairs, 828.456.6051 100 Charles St. Waynesville Employee Owned.

CONSTRUCTION/ REMODELING DAVE’S CUSTOM HOMES OF WNC, INC Free Estimates & Competitive rates. References avail. upon request. Specializing in: Log Homes, remodeling, decks, new construction, repairs & additions.

Owner/Builder: Dave Donaldson.

Licensed/Insured. 828.631.0747 or 828.508.0316 SULLIVAN HARDWOOD FLOORS Installation- Finish - Refinish 828.399.1847.

WANTED ONLY 5 MORE HOMES Needing siding, windows or roofs.

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Payments $89/mo. All credit accepted. Mention this ad for free door or shutters. 1.866.668.8681.

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Specialize in Removal of Carpenter Bees - Log Homes or Siding! Call Now for a Free Estimate at 828.508.9727.

STEEL BUILDINGS STEEL BUILDINGS Buy factory direct and SAVE THOUSANDS! Special offer: REPO 20x20, 25x36 & more. Hurry! Only while supplies last, call today: 866.993.0966

STEEL BUILDINGS STEEL BUILDINGS BLOWOUT! Best savings & possible clearance buildings. Used for Garages, Workshops, & Shelters. Various Sizes Available and LOW payments. CALL NOW 1.800.991.9251 Heather

AUTO PARTS DDI BUMPERS ETC. Quality on the Spot Repair & Painting. Don Hendershot 858.646.0871 cell 828.452.4569 office.

CAMPERS 2004 36’ COACHMAN CATALINA Camper: Living Room Slide-Out & BR Slide-Out, King Bedroom, Queen Sleeper-Sofa, Fully Eqpd.

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JOB OPPORTUNITY: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC OF JACKSON COUNTY The Good Samaritan Clinic of Jackson County - a non-profit, volunteerbased, adult primary care organization and free clinic based in Sylva, NC - seeks an individual experienced in non-profit administration for its part-time position of Executive Director. Duties include management of the organization’s budget and finances, personnel, fundraising, public relations, community and professional relationships, and regulatory functions (record-keeping and reporting).

Requires knowledge of health care delivery systems, human service agencies and resources, and free clinic operations; strong organizational, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills, writing and public speaking skills, computer proficiency in databases, spreadsheet and word processing, grant-writing, and the ability to work with diverse patient and professional constituencies.

A Master’s degree in a health care or human service-related discipline is preferred. (A Bachelor’s degree may be considered with appropriate administrative experience.) Salary is commensurate with education and experience.

Applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and the names and contact information for three references by October 15, 2013 to: Attention: Rosetta Gates, Business Manager Good Samaritan Clinic of Jackson County 293 Hospital Rd, Suite B Sylva, NC 28779

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1500+ RGN LOADS FROM Clayton, NC to multiple destinations. Accepting Contractors with their own RGN's or pull Company trailers AT NO COST. 800.669.6414 or www.dailyrecruiting.com ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Training Program! Become a Certified Microsoft Office Professional!

No Experienced Needed! Online training gets you job ready! HS Diploma/GED Program disclosures at careertechnical.edu/nc 1.888.926.6057.

ADMINISTRATOR/BOOKKEEPER Part-time, Sought for environmental nonprofit (Balsam Mountain Trust).

Email: mskinner@bmtrust.org for a complete job description.

AIRLINE CAREERS BEGIN HERE Get FAA Approved Maintenance Training Financial Aid For Qualified Students - Housing Available Job Placement Assistance. Call Aviation Institute Of Maintenance 1.866.724.5403 WWW.FIXJETS.COM. SAPA

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NEW TRUCKS ARRIVING! Exp Pays - up to 50 cpm. Full Benefits + Quality Hometime.

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PART-TIME JANITOR NEEDED In Cherokee. 10 - 12 hours per week - Daytime. Must have clean background. Call 423.987.2845 or email: cmsclean@aol.com ATTENTION REGIONAL & Dedicated Drivers! Averitt offers Excellent Benefits & Hometime.

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FTCC Fayetteville Technical Community College is now accepting applications for the following positions: Programmer/Analyst. Deadline: Oct 23. Fire Protection/ Emergency Management Program Instructor/ Chair. Deadline: Oct 14. For detailed information and to apply, please visit our employment portal at: https://faytechcc.peopleadmin.com/ Human Resources Office, Fayetteville Technical Community College, PO Box 35236, Fayetteville, NC 28303.

Phone: 910.678.8378. Internet: http://www.faytechcc.edu CRC Preferred Employer. An Equal Opportunity Employer WANTED: 29 Serious People to Work From Anywhere using a computer.

Potential to earn up to $1,500$5,000 PT/FT. www.improveincomenow.com

HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS HOSPITAL Positions now available: CNA I or II, Clinical Applications Analyst, Benefits available the first of the month following 60 days of full-time employment. PreEmployment screening required.

Call Human Resources.

828.526.1376, or apply online at: www.highlandscashiershospital. org NC LICENSED MASSAGE THERAPIST Needed for established & growing spa in Sylva. Pay based upon experience. Please email for more details: sandra@fusionsspa.com

HELP A CHILD SUCCEED! Become a Foster Parent with Eliada. Fall pre-service classes begin soon! Please contact Kelly for more information at: kshusko@eliada.org or 828.254.5356 ext. 318 and visit www.eliada.org to learn more.

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GET LOADED, Get Paid, Get Home. Up to 50 CPM Pay + Bonuses CDL-A Required 888.592.4752 www.ad-drivers.com SAPA NEED MEDICAL OFFICE TRAINEES! Train to become a Medical Office Assistant at CTI! No Experienced Needed! Online Training at CTI gets you job ready! HS Diploma/ GED & Computer needed. Careertechnical.edu/northcarolina.

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HEMLOCK HEALERS, INC. Dedicated to Saving Our Hemlocks. Owner/Operator Frank Varvoutis, NC Pesticide Applicator’s License #22864. 48 Spruce St. Maggie Valley, NC 828.734.7819 828.926.7883, Email: hemlockhealers@yahoo.com

MOBILE HOMES FOR SALE MOBILE HOMES With land. Ready to move in. Owner financing with approved credit.

3/BR 2/BA. No renters. Call 336.790.0162 or go to: LandHomesExpress.com

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REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCEMENT NC MOUNTAIN GETAWAYSpacious 1300sf ez to finish cabin shell on 1.5acs $67,000. Includes new well and septic, decks and porch. 828.286.2981 brkr LOG HOME SALES Territories available. Alta Log Homes - 42+ years of excellence.

800.926.2582 or go to: alta.info@altaloghomes.com FORECLOSURE - NC MTNS. 1.71 prime acres with stunning mtn views, lg hardwoods, level elevated bldg site and paved access only $34,900 financing avail.

866.738.5522 brkr WESTERN NC Owner must sacrifice 1200+ SF ready to finish cabin on 1.53 acres w/new well, septic and deeded access to beautiful creek. $62,500 call 828.286.1666 brkr.

BRUCE MCGOVERN A Full Service Realtor shamrock13@charter.net McGovern Property Management 828.283.2112.

APT. FOR RENT UNFURNISHED HAYWOOD COUNTY Basement Apartment for rent.

Exit 33 1.5 miles off Newfound Rd. 1/BR with wall to wall closet space, 1 Full Bath, living room, kitchen, 1-car garage with storage area. 4 yrs old, new paint, flooring & appliances. Private entrance, yard and road entrance Beautiful Mtn. Views from your front porch swing. Pets with pet deposit. $900/mo. includes all utilities, water, power, DirecTV, Internet Service, Non Smokers Only, 1 year lease preferred.

Ready to Move In! 828.776.1002.

APT. FOR RENT UNFURNISHED UNFURNISHED APARTMENT For rent in Hazelwood area of Waynesville. 2/BR, 1/BA, refrigerator, stove, washer-dryer hookup, carpet, good views. $650 per moth, security deposit required.

No pets. Move In Ready Oct. 15th 828.506.4112 or 828.507.8828.

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THE MAD BATTER, IN CULLOWHEE Is hiring for cook’s position. Must be available nights and weekends.

Call or come by between 2 - 4 p.m.

Mon. - Fri. Located on WCU Campus 828.293.3096.

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APT. FOR RENT FURNISHED 208-37

FULLY FURNISHED 2/BR Efficiency Apartment. With Large covered porch. $850/mo. Includes: electric, cable, water & internet.

Located in Maggie Valley. For more info call 828.776.6273.

STORAGE SPACE FOR RENT GREAT SMOKIES STORAGE Conveniently located off 19/23

by Thad Woods Auction. Available for lease now: 10’x10’ units for $55, 20’x20’ units for $160.

Get one month FREE with 12 month contract. Call 828.507.8828 or 828.506.4112 for more info.

FURNITURE COMPARE QUALITY & PRICE Shop Tupelo’s, 828.926.8778.

HAYWOOD BEDDING, INC. The best bedding at the best price!

533 Hazelwood Ave. Waynesville 828.456.4240

PETS HAYWOOD SPAY/NEUTER 828.452.1329

Appalachian Real Estate Developer Closeout Event Ocotober 11th and 12th Call our office for more information

828/488-1010

Prevent Unwanted Litters!

The Heat Is On! Spay/Neuter For Haywood Pets As Low As $10.

Operation Pit is in Effect!

Free Spay/Neuter, Microchip & Vaccines For Haywood Pitbull Types & Mixes!

Hours: Monday-Thursday, 12 Noon - 5pm 182 Richland Street, Waynesville, North Carolina

Mountain View Estates Smoky Mountain Country Club Log Cabin Development Beautiful Golf Cherokee Indian Reservation, close to Harrah s Course Community Casino - Lots Available

Ann Eavenson CRS, GRI, E-PRO

ann@mainstreetrealty.net

506-0542 CELL 208-40

101 South Main St. Waynesville

Lot Prices Starting at $20,000 More Tracts Available in Nantahala, Union Hill, Ocona Lake Great Opportunity, Prices Greatly Reduced, Some Owner Financing Available Coldwell Banker Appalachian Real Estate 199 Everett Street, Bryson City, N.C. 28713 828/488-1010 Agents Will Be Available, or Call for Appointment to View Properties.

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Bruce McGovernn Cell: 828-283-2112 McGovern Property Management 284 Haywood St, Suite B Way Waynesville NC

COMM. PROP. FOR RENT

NICOL ARMS APARTMENTS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS Licensed Real Estate Broker

SPACE FOR RENT: West Sylva Shopping Area - Next to Harold’s Supermarket. High Traffic Location. Building #26 770 sq. ft.

Call for more info 828.421.5685.

Offering 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments, Starting at $400

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OFFICE HOURS: Tues. & Wed. 10:00am - 5:00pm & Thurs. 10:00am- 12:00pm 168 E. Nicol Arms Road Sylva, NC 28779

LOTS FOR SALE 2.819 ACRE TRACT Building Lot in great location.

Build your 2nd home log cabin here. Large 2-story building near HCC, was a Hobby Shop. $71,000. Call 828.627.2342

Phone# 1.828.586.3346 TDD# 1.800.725.2962

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SATURN - IS TOTALLY ADORABLE! HE'S A CUTE LITTLE BABY WHO'S JUST BEEN NEUTERED AND IS READY TO GO HOME. HE LOVES TO PLAY WITH HIS BROTHER PLUTO, SO MAYBE YOU SHOULD TAKE HIM TOO! SALLY - WILL STEAL YOUR HEART WITH HER SWEET FACE AND GREAT DISPOSITION. WE THINK SALLY MAY BE A BASSET HOUND MIX-SHE HAS A DARK BROWN BRINDLE COAT WITH WHITE ACCENTS. SALLY IS A LOW RIDER AND A VERY AFFECTIONATE!

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18 Commerce Street, Waynvesville, NC. 828.734.3874

SCHOOLS/ INSTRUCTION AIRLINES ARE HIRING Train for hands on Aviation Career.

FAA approved program. Financial aid if qualified. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance. 877.300.9494.

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YARD SALES DOCTOR’S LIVING ESTATE SALE Thurs. - Sat. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Beautiful Decorator Items, 4-Post Queen Size Bed, White Iron Bed, Massage Chair, Bistro Set, Appliances & More Rain or Shine!

255 Depot St., Waynesville, NC.

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SOMETHING IN COMMON ACROSS 1 Move belly-up on all fours 9 Take - (do some traveling) 14 Capital of Tanzania 20 Restricted zone 21 Espresso with steamed milk 22 Reaming appliance 23 One using a spare bedroom 25 New York’s - Island 26 Minister to 27 Scottish refusal 28 Metalliferous rock 30 Quiver 31 Gloria of pop 35 Surf zone sights 39 Bicycle spokes, e.g.

41 With 3-Down, many a tax auditor 42 Inventors of new words 43 What many corporations are listed on 49 Trio after K 50 Angels’ rings 51 Poetic dusk 52 Husband of Sarah Palin 54 Droid or iPhone, e.g.

57 9-Down seaport 58 Lions lie in it 59 “Filthy” gain 61 Retro hairstyles 63 Strike and ball caller 64 It’s smart to back this up 68 19th-century king of Sweden and Norway 70 Sothern of “Maisie” 71 Butterfly’s title

72 People who call without being asked 77 Prefix with car or law 79 “Soap Talk” co-host Lisa 80 - to go (fired up) 81 Kind of PC monitor 82 Stratford’s river 83 Hang behind 84 UPI bulletin 85 Pollen carrier 86 Capitol body 88 Good bud 90 Daytona 500 entries, e.g.

94 Tiny air sacs in the lungs 98 OPEC supply 99 Toughen, as to hardship 100 Loud couple in a marching band 104 Artificial fat 108 They require double reeds 109 It’s all wet 110 Missions, for short 112 Rail supports 113 Italian-style ice cream 115 What this puzzle’s seven longest answers have in common 121 High dice roll 122 Bird claw 123 Priced separately, as 46-Down items 124 Nitrate and nitrite, e.g.

125 Actor Edward James 126 Phys ed DOWN

1 10 sawbucks 2 Gads about 3 See 41-Across 4 Abuts 5 Obi- - Kenobi 6 NPR’s Shapiro 7 Drumstick 8 Madeline of “Clue” 9 Like Casbah natives 10 Hellenic “T” 11 Hwy. 12 “There, there” 13 - dish 14 45 spinners 15 Defeat in a pool race 16 “Julia” star Carroll 17 Scale range 18 Less bold 19 James of westerns 24 Diner bill 29 Env. addition 32 Lot in life 33 Fusses 34 Actor Cage, to friends 36 Transgress 37 Request 38 Victor’s color 40 “- Forgettin’ “ (1982 pop hit) 43 “How Great - Art” 44 Goddess of concord 45 Sliding by 46 Eatery list 47 Aquatint, e.g.

48 War film, when tripled 53 Actor Mulroney 54 Of the earliest ages 55 Pigeon shed 56 Ending for enzymes 58 Chemist Mendeleev 59 Red Square honoree 60 Banquet coffeepots

61 Uses a “+” 62 Italian monk 64 Vena 65 “... - quit!”

66 Rikki-tikki- 67 Women’s patriotic org.

69 It aired “Crossfire” 72 Google find 73 Work to get 74 Actress - de Matteo 75 Wine cooler 76 Rome’s - Fountain 78 Snake eyes 82 Of one’s forebears 84 Dog relative 85 Gets bloated 86 Torah locale 87 Emerald Isle 88 Deprive (of) 89 Farm alarm?

91 Weep 92 U.S. spy org.

93 Brian of rock 94 Orbital point 95 Stereotypes 96 Bluish-purple 97 Suffix with robot or poet 101 - come (in the future) 102 Taj 103 UV ray-blocking stat 105 Pageant crown 106 Takes ten 107 Embers 111 Male caribou 114 Roll- - (deodorants) 116 A hardwood 117 “- -hoo!”

118 Bridge writer Culbertson 119 “Rambo” site 120 CL doubled

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BACK THEN midable of all the wild dogs of the world, the timber wolf can measure over 6-feet in length, stand nearly a yard at the shoulder, and weigh as much as 175-pounds.

In Cherokee lore he was the revered “Waya,” the companion of Kana’-ti, their master

George Ellison

’ve never seen a timber wolf, even though they no doubt once roamed — from time to time — across the little valley west of Bryson City where I reside.

Elk have been reintroduced in the Smokies. Based upon the numerous reported sightings, it’s likely that a few cougars still reside in the Blue Ridge. One can easily imagine a scenario whereby wood bison might be reintroduced in Cades Cove. But I really can’t contemplate Columnist any scenario whereby timber wolves might be reintroduced.

Can you imagine the uproar in the region’s newspapers if, say, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asked for public input regarding a possible timber wolf release at, say, Wayah Bald in the Nantahalas? That’s not going to happen, but we can still remember the timber wolf and the not so long ago time when it was the most formidable creature one could encounter in these hills.

Timber wolves formerly ranged over most of North America but no longer exist in the eastern United States. The most for-

hunter, and they would not normally kill a wolf. Certain hired killers who followed elaborate rituals for atonement could slay wolves that raided stock or fish traps.

The demise of the wolf began with the arrival of the colonial settlers, who brought

an inbred fear and hatred of the “bloodthirsty varmint” from Europe and could not tolerate raids upon livestock. The first wolf bounty was set in eastern North Carolina in 1748 at 10 shillings for each wolf scalp.

Bounty hunters pursued their quarry with guns, dogs and wolf pits. After the Revolution, the bounty in North Carolina climbed to $5 per scalp.

This intense pressure helped drive most of the remaining population into the mountains by the early 1800s, where skillful hunters familiar with the upcountry were required. The brothers Gideon and Nathan Lewis of Ashe County were the first of the renowned wolf hunters in WNC. They knew a good thing when they saw one. Locating a wolf den, one of the brothers would crawl in and secure the wolf pups as bounty, but somehow the female would always “escape.”

When asked why they never managed to

kill a mature female, Gideon would reply matter-of-factly, “Would you expect a man to kill his milch-cow?”

The period of the Civil War marked a resurgence of wolves as many excellent marksmen were pulled out of the mountains or otherwise occupied by the conflict so that the multiplying wolves became increasingly brazen. But by the 1880s, they had become a scarce commodity in WNC. According to Mammals in the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1985) the last gray wolf was killed in Haywood County in 1887.

That, however, seems unlikely as reports lingered on into the 20th century, and The Bryson City Times was referring to wolves being “up around Clingman’s Dome” on into the early 1890s.

George Ellison wrote the biographical introductions for the reissues of two Appalachian classics: Horace Kephart’s Our Southern Highlanders and James Mooney’s History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees.

In June 2005, a selection of his Back Then columns was published by The History Press in Charleston as Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains.

Readers can contact him at P.O. Box 1262, Bryson City, N.C., 28713, or at info@georgeellison.com.

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