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Three seek two aldermanic seats in Maggie Valley

Phillip Wight

Tammy Wight

Allen Alsbrooks

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER hey’re all hotel owners, they’re all devoted volunteers in their community and they’re all running for a seat on the Maggie Valley Board of Aldermen.

That’s about where the similarities end.

Allen Alsbrooks, born in Washington, D.C., was raised in South Carolina but has been in North Carolina since leaving the Air Force in 1992 and in Western North Carolina since 2007. He has substantial experience in accounting and is currently in his second term on the town zoning board.

Phillip Wight is a two-term Maggie Valley alderman and HVAC company owner who was born just across the Haywood County line, in Buncombe County. He’s run unsuccessfully twice for the Haywood County Board of Commissioners, but has also played a big role in Maggie Valley government’s enviable financial position.

Tammy Wight is his high school sweetheart and wife.

The two of them are running for the two available seats on this board, but Tammy is more than just Phillip’s wife — using her accounting and business background, she’s been part of a number of civic and citizens

groups and is nearing the end of her second term on the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority board, all while running the hotel for the past 24 years.

Whomever ends up on the board will see a new mayor for the first time in recent memory; Saralyn Price is returning to life as a private citizen after a career in public service — she used to be the police chief — and she’ll be followed by one of two aldermen, Janet Banks or Mike Eveland.

If Eveland loses, he returns to the board to serve out the remaining two years on his term. If Banks loses, the board will entertain applications for her replacement and appoint someone.

Regardless of the outcome, change is coming to Haywood County’s westernmost municipality, and Maggie Valley will either manage that change, or that change will manage Maggie Valley.

growth like you see in Gatlinburg or Pigeon Forge and I understand that, but I think there are things here that we can add to — our nature, and our charm — that coordinated with what we have to offer with outdoor activities. That’s what we’re known for.

Allen Alsbrooks: Things are going to change. It’s only natural. Some people want change rapidly, and some don’t want change at all. We’re going to change methodically and thoughtfully and with purpose, not haphazard change.

Phillip Wight: I’ve got a patented line and it goes back years because I’ve run for office more than once — growth is coming, how quick do you want it to get here? I’m about the slow growth method. Something’s gonna come, it’s about the environment you provide for them.

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The Smoky Mountain News: The major issue in most elections boils down to progress versus stagnation, or change versus tradition.

Where do you fit on that spectrum?

Tammy Wight: I think you can have an even balance and have a little bit of both. I understand that some people don’t want the

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SMN: Perhaps the biggest change that could come to Maggie Valley is the NCDOT’s proposed “road diet” that would shrink Soco Road from four traffic lanes and a median to just three lanes — one in each direction, plus a median. How do you feel about that?

AA: We’re not going to have a one-lane road through Maggie Valley on my watch.

Everyone who knows me knows that I want

things slowed down a bit. I’ve had four wrecks right in front of my place in the last three years. Luckily no one’s died, but we can’t say the same for the rest of the road. In the last 10 years we’ve had 367 crashes and that’s just in the municipality of Maggie Valley.

PW: The people I speak to say we have a perfectly good road, so leave it alone. The road diet came along in the name of pedestrian safety, but we still haven’t done anything.

We’ve not lighted anything. We don’t have a six-foot speed bump in the middle of the road. We’ve not done anything for pedestrian safety. All we do is keep talking about the road. A two-lane road is your best way to control growth, because you will have nothing.

TW: I’m not for the road diet. I was here when we had two lanes before, and the original Ghost Town was open, and it was bumper-to-bumper traffic. I’m not for narrowing the lanes to add bicycle lanes. I think we need to work on our pedestrian crossings and work on safety issues.

SMN: What if Ghost Town never comes back? Would you still feel the same about the road?

TW: The one thing that’s not going to go away for us is our outdoor activities. We’re just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, so we’re always going to have a certain amount of traffic come through here for outdoor activities, with or without Ghost Town, and right now if there is a wreck somewhere, you have additional lanes to get around the wreck. If you narrow that down to three lanes, you’re, I think that you’re going to add to unsafe roads.

SMN: More and more, activists and citizens are calling out to their elected leaders, asking them to look at every single issue through the lens of climate change. Do you believe that climate change is a real thing?

AA: Well, everything we dump into the atmosphere is a real thing. Everything we dump into the water is a real thing. It’s just how we manage it. I’m not giving up my car but you know, I’m more careful about how I drive and make sure if I have fluid leaking, I take care of those things. If it becomes an issue, I’ll have to study it and look at the cost benefit analysis of it.

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SMN: Phillip and Tammy, you’re both registered Republicans. What kind of Republican are you? Are there people in the party that inspire you or influence you?

PW: I’m more conservative. I hate a title, because there’s no third party that can win in today’s world. I think our Democratic Party has been hijacked. You can be a Democrat in Haywood County all your life and maybe get away with it, but to believe some of the liberal agenda that’s coming out and still call yourself a Democrat, it’s not what my grandfather was. At the same time, to be a Republican to

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SMN: The Haywood County Chamber of Commerce has a staff of several people and is heavily engaged in economic development, in conjunction with the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce. Why does Maggie Valley still need its own separate chamber of commerce?

PW: I think management is everything. I do find it odd that after so many years that for

SMN: This is still a tourism-based economy, but as the Haywood and Asheville chambers help market Maggie’s economic development opportunities, are you open to investment that isn’t based on tourists?

AA: Absolutely. I voted for the robotics company that wanted to go in Carolina Nights [now Elevated Mountain Distilling Company] when it was presented to the board. At that time, they were probably the only people interested in moving to Maggie Valley, and the number of employees they would’ve brought, the number of new residents, it would’ve been foolish to say no. It was an unoccupied building.

TW: Well, I think you have to have a balance, but the number one industry in Maggie Valley is tourism. It brings a great value to our residents also and helps save tax money on the residents by the revenue that we bring in.

I don’t think that we should put ourselves in a position that we let that start sliding, but if there’s an opportunity out there that we can add some manufacturing, then I think that would be great. But we need to continue to work on our tourism and there’s more that we can be doing.

PW: We’d never turn a job away, especially since a lot of your tourism jobs don’t have a higher pay grade. So it would be nice to bring jobs in here with a little higher pay grade, even though our tourism industry needs workers as well as anybody else.

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SMN: The Town of Maggie Valley’s financial position is very strong — a fund balance above 100 percent, no debt, and the lowest taxes of any municipality in Haywood County. If you’re on that board, will you make a tax cut a goal?

TW: Yes. I think that Maggie Valley has f done an excellent job with their budget, and I do think that they’re a role model for the rest of the county. When you have a budget like we have here in Maggie Valley, if you have an opportunity to give back to the taxpayers, I think you should.

AA: Well, I don’t know. I don’t have dayto-day experience with the budget. I come from an accounting background, so budgets are important to me, and cost benefit analysis is important to me. I would have to actually get involved in the budget process and see what that looks like. If a penny can be given back, I’m all for it, but if we need to take a penny to maintain solvency, we have to look at that too.

PW: Look at the new pay classification study that’s coming out, which really could move the bar. It’s not a problem when it comes to taking care of people because we are supposed to take care of our employees, but it also goes back to the early debt payoff eight years ago when I got elected. We paid off a lot of debt early in order to have this surplus.

What did we do with it? We actually gave it back. We reduced it three cents on a hundred four years ago. The one thing about a healthy fund balance is it’s a positive, a feeling of confidence — but you have to watch how the town decides to spend it.

some reason there’s a disconnect between the TDA and our chamber and even abroad. I do think we need identification for who we are and somebody to fight for that. The chamber right now has a good group of volunteers that like to promote Maggie Valley. The management of the chamber right now seems to have some disgruntled issues with the county at large, and I think that does hurt us as a whole.

AA: I didn’t move to Haywood County. I moved to Maggie Valley. It’s unfortunate that people still want to marginalize Maggie Valley. There are opportunities for us out there and when our chamber board tells the executive director to look at those opportunities, I’m sure she will. We just have to get the board to do it. We can probably debate this all day long, but I am not going to ever say we want to get rid of the Maggie Valley Chamber of Commerce, period. I don’t care who likes it or not.

TW: I think that this is a question for the board of the directors of the Maggie Valley chamber. I am not a member of the Maggie Valley Chamber.

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PW: I think it’s an idiotic approach when it comes to the United States of America. You have the United Nations, and they’ve not done one thing to other countries. We can go back to R-12 refrigerant, which we abolished in the United States 30 years ago, but they y still have not gotten rid of it abroad — something that simple, if it’s that great of a threat.

It’s ridiculous that we put all this upon ourselves as we’re developing other parts of the world and they don’t comply. That’s why you have industry that has left the United States — so they can trade back with us for free. You should never be able to put something in another country and build it and put it on a boat and put it in a trailer, then put it in a parking lot and stock it on the shelf $10 cheaper than we can make it in United States.

TW: I believe in a certain amount of climate change. First things first, you have to stop and look at the impact. You have to do your homework. I don’t think you need to go around and just make quick decisions because then if something catastrophic hapk pens, then you’re going to be held accountable for that. We have professionals in those [town] departments now and we do have excellent water in Maggie Valley.

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me is the word “conservative.” I don’t agree with everything that they do either, so I’m not a 100 percent “rah rah rah” Republican, but I do think my agenda fits theirs more.

TW: I’m more towards the middle. There are so many people out there that you put a lot of faith into that later you find out were not quite so. I don’t really base my conservatism on any individual. I’ve been let down by some people that are out there. I try to think independently. I’m very conservative financially, but a little bit less socially maybe.

In my personal life, I base things on my Christian values and morals and things that I grew up with, but I don’t think you’re seeing a lot of that in politics today.

SMN: Allen, you used to be a registered Republican, but for several years you’ve been registered as unaffiliated. Can you describe where you’re coming from, politically?

AA: I am not afflicted by either political party. When people ask me about political party and affiliation, you know, I’m an American citizen. I don’t need a party to make my own decisions for myself and what I think is important to me.

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SMN: You’ll have a new mayor, Janet Banks or Mike Eveland, both aldermen.

Would you care to share for whom you’ll vote?

AA: No. PW: The biggest thing that’s actually helped the town was, we were actually able to get into the state healthcare plan. That is 100 percent [Burnsville Republican Rep.] Michele Presnell and me and Mike Eveland, because it took two aldermen to get that pushed through. Our health care was going way up and down and every municipality wasn’t able to get into that plan. What that did was provide stability to the town as far as not having that spike in insurance. That would be one great reason I would endorse Mike, because I can have a conversation with him.

TW: I would have to say that I’m going to personally vote for Mike Eveland for mayor because I feel that we share the same views on the road situation. I know that right now he’s not for a road diet and I know that Janet Banks has openly stated that she’s for the road diet. I think that’s a pretty big issue.

We’ve come a long way and I hate to see us go backwards.

SMN: Although it’s rare, married couples can serve on the same municipal governing board. How can you assure voters of your independence, should you both win?

TW: We oppose each other on a lot of issues, but one thing I can tell you to that is we have been operating this motel through thick and thin. We have gone from the original Ghost Town being open and being full every weekend to losing 70 percent of our business. We’ve been through the rockslide, the road widening project, and we’ve had to make decisions to survive and improve together. Because of our differences, we bring a really good balance to each other and to our business. I think that we could bring that same balance to the board.

PW: We disagree daily, even on what time for you to come over here [laughing]. She’s watched me run for election. I’ve probably won three out of five or six that I’ve run in, and it’s not that it’s not her turn to run, but for me to tell her it’s not her opportunity to run — that’s not my place. I think it’s an awesome opportunity for her to run, and it’s common sense. It’s all for the right reasons that she’s in it.

AA: I think it’s a problem. I don’t think they should be on the same board. For example, if one wanted to be on the zoning board and one on the board of alderman, I think that would be OK. If one wanted to be on the planning board and one on the zoning board, I think that would be OK. It takes the decision-making process out of the public eye and puts it in private camera. I’m not married to either one of them.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he race for a seat on Sylva’s town board is competitive this year, with six people running for election to one of the three open seats. Two of them are incumbents, one is a former town commissioner and three are seeking elected office for the first time.

Serving four-year terms extending through December 2023, the winners will govern during a pivotal time in Sylva’s history.

Right-of-way acquisition on the controversial N.C. 107 project is set to begin in January, about a month after new commissioners are sworn in, with construction expected to last three and a half years beginning in early 2023.

Many community members have spoken out against the current plans due to their expected impact on the business community, but halting the project now would require votes from the Southwestern Commission’s Transportation Advisory Commission and the N.C. Department of Transportation Board of Transportation. That would kill the project and remove its funding, meaning it would take at least 10 more years to address traffic issues on N.C. 107.

While important, the road project is not the only issue facing the next town board.

The Smoky Mountain News sat down with each candidate to talk about the years ahead.

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Guiney, 51, is an emergency room doctor at Harris Regional Hospital who has been a member of the town planning board for the

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Benjamin Guiney While Allen has not been following town politics since leaving the board in 2015, his overall impression is that the town is going in a negative direction and that current board members are focusing on their own interests rather than acting in the best interest of the people.

What are your ideas for increasing Sylva’s housing inventory?

The town currently owns a significant amount of property that could be better used for housing than for municipal purposes, said Allen. He would like to see Sylva partner with an outside contractor to invest in low-income housing.

What is your position on the proposed N.C. 107 plans?

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Allen, 63, served on the town board from 2001 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2015, 12 years total. A lifelong Sylva resident, he’s retired from a career that included 15 years as manager at Quin Theaters and seven as a security guard at the N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching.

On Oct. 7, Allen told The Smoky Mountain News that he planned to drop out of the race due to health issues, but after reconsidering that decision he now intends to continue his campaign. Allen said that, while his health is up and down, “if I’m going to leave this earth or world, let me do it doing something for the town that I love, for the people.”

Reason to run: “There’s voices that’s not being heard by some of the board members, and I just want to be a spokesperson for the people that live in Sylva.”

Top three priorities: Ensuring that the people’s voices are heard; working to increase town revenue by bringing in outside businesses; preventing future property tax increases.

What do you think of town leadership’s current direction?

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past three years. Originally from Detroit, he’s lived in Sylva for the past six years.

Reason to run: “There’s going to be a lot of changes around here, a lot of things that are going to need to be sorted out as they come up. It’s an exciting time to be in local politics here in Sylva.”

Top three priorities: Sylva’s natural assets, including cleaning up Scotts Creek and developing Pinnacle Park; expanding the tax base by increasing housing inventory; increasing pedestrian safety.

What do you think of town leadership’s current direction?

Overall, Guiney believes the board’s been doing a good job, especially regarding cleanup efforts at Scotts Creek and progress on murals and public art. However, he believes the board could do better at educating and reassuring residents about the N.C. 107 project.

What are your ideas for increasing Sylva’s housing inventory?

The town should encourage mixed residential and business development, as well as housing of a higher density than the traditional single family home.

“I’m not sure that’s what everyone is looking for nowadays,” said Guiney. “They just want to have someplace that’s easy to take care of and more focused on the town rather than on their house. It used to be everyone wanted to build a cabin on the side of the mountain, but now everybody wants to live downtown.”

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Allen understands the need for road upgrades, and because he’s been keeping a distance from town politics recently he does not have any specific ideas for improving the existing plans. However, he is against any plan that would impact the number of businesses that the proposed plan is expected to.

“My own opinion is I would be for the road if it didn’t affect all those businesses, because the town cannot afford to lose those,” he said.

What policies would you support to mitigate impacts from the 107 project?

Allen doesn’t have any specific policy ideas to mitigate the impact.

Do you foresee a property tax increase resulting from road project impacts?

While Allen does expect that some town board members will push for a tax increase due to road-related shortfalls, he will oppose any such efforts, instead fixing his efforts on bringing new businesses into town. Allen expects the road’s negative financial impact will be short-lived, however.

“I think it’s going to hurt for a while and then I think the people’s gonna see the road as an asset to bring in new businesses,” he said, “so I think in the long run it will help, but short run I think the citizens of Sylva will feel effect.”

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SYLVA, CONTINUED FROM 7 What is your position on the proposed N.C. 107 plans?

Something has to be done, and nobody — including the community-oriented Asheville Design Center — seems to be able to come up with a way to fix the safety issues on 107 that’s better than the DOT plan, Guiney said. However, the town board must help educate people about the process and advocate for fair treatment of affected businesses.

“Now is the time to really prepare to ease the pain, if you will, because it’s going to be a hard thing. There’s no two ways about it,” said Guiney. “But it will be better afterward.

It will be safer and it will be a much better place to actually do business.”

What policies would you support to mitigate impacts from the N.C. 107 project?

The town board should communicate closely with both DOT and the community, waive requirements such as sign fees for relocating businesses and advocate for reducing the road’s speed limit.

Do you foresee a property tax increase resulting from road project impacts?

Guiney believes the project’s negative economic impacts will be short term rather than long term and does not foresee a need to raise property taxes.

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Jones, 70, is retired after a career that culminated with 13 years as technical director of theater and film programs at Western Carolina University. He works part-time as a miller at Mingus Mill in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and has a history of civic engagement, including as a member of the Jackson County Historical Commission and a former member and chair of the Sylva Planning Board.

Reason to run: “If you live in a community, you should be giving back to the community. A lot of people are too busy for it because they’re struggling to make a living.

I’m retired. I have the time. I can take that time to make the community better.”

Top three priorities: Safety on Main Street, including audible pedestrian signals for hearing-impaired people; increased law

enforcement on N.C. 107 to reduce traffic accidents; assessing expected tax revenue shortfalls related to the road project.

What do you think of town leadership’s current direction?

Jones believes the town board is doing a good job but feels members tend to focus too heavily on Main Street rather than considering what’s happening on the outskirts of town.

What are your ideas for increasing Sylva’s housing inventory?

In dealing with new housing projects, the town board should be flexible and use variances to allow for projects that will be good for the town as a whole. However, Jones believes that most new housing will appear outside town limits, where there is more space to live and town taxes don’t apply.

What is your position on the proposed N.C. 107 plans?

The plans could see some tweaking on a small-scale level as the process proceeds, but overall Jones does not believe the project will be as destructive in the long run as what many people are saying. The road isn’t safe, and passing on the project will mean waiting at least 10 more years for road improvements, by which point the situation will be even worse.

“It’s highly inconvenient, especially for the persons involved, but I don’t think it’s a death knell for the town of Sylva by any means,” Jones said. “Now that road’s dangerous. Something has to be done.”

What policies would you support to mitigate impacts from the N.C. 107 project?

While he’s open to the idea of seeing the Tuckaseigee Water and Sewer Authority waive system development fees for relocating businesses, Jones believes many of those types of decisions should be made on a caseby-case basis. However, the town board should do everything it can to help relocated businesses get fair prices for their property and compensation for relocation costs.

“The individuals should not be paying the cost of that good to the public,” said Jones. “It should be borne by the public, not by the individuals.”

Do you foresee a property tax increase resulting from road project impacts?

Property taxes are high enough as they are, and any hit to tax collections will be

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CARRIE MCBANE McBane, 46, grew up in South Florida and has lived in North Carolina for the past 14 years, working as a hostess and server in the

restaurant industry for most of that time. She now works part time as western chapter organizer for the political action group Down Home N.C. She sits on the Meridian Health Board, but this is her first time as a candidate for elected office.

Reason to run: “My work with Down Home N.C. has helped me see that it’s very important to have local officials that are invested in their community, meaning that they are out in their community listening to what residents need and want. I had noticed recently with a couple different issues that does not appear to be happening on the local level.”

Top three priorities: Revising the plans for N.C. 107; addressing the lack of affordable housing, especially as it relates to Western Carolina University students; pushing for greater sensitivity to diverse residents from law enforcement.

What do you think of town leadership’s current direction?

McBane believes town leadership should be doing a better job of communicating with and listening to Sylva’s residents, especially regarding the N.C. 107 project. Overall, she describes Sylva’s current atmosphere as “stagnant.”

What are your ideas for increasing Sylva’s housing inventory?

McBane is concerned by high rent rates and lack of housing for homeless people, and she would like to see the town do more to help people with substance use issues. To help people afford their rent, she wants to ensure that residents are making a living wage and would advocate for education on the Living Wage Certification Program.

What is your position on the proposed N.C. 107 plans?

McBane is opposed to the current plans and believes the town board should make DOT come back with a more palatable proposal.

“Basically I feel like the plans they have now aren’t feasible, and they need to take into consideration residents and what they want and what they think is feasible,” she said.

“And that’s not being done right now.”

What policies would you support to mitigate impacts from the N.C. 107 project?

McBane doesn’t believe it’s time to start talking about specific policies, as commis-

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d sioners should first push DOT to go back to h the drawing board. The town should schedy ule more town meetings to better gather resie dent input — McBane can’t think of any polis cies that would make the plans, as presented, any better. s “The ones that aren’t OK with being displaced, there isn’t much that I personally s can do or say to make this better for them,” d she said. “What I can offer is the idea and o suggestion of bringing DOT back into the o picture.” o Do you foresee a property tax increase g resulting from road project impacts? n That’s a hard question to answer without an economic impact study in hand, and d McBane supports completion of such a study.

However, as of now she does foresee the road s project causing a tax increase, though she e would take care to approach the issue with - plenty of opportunity for resident input.

existing land base, and overall the board needs to be ready to say yes to people who want to invest in Sylva or build workforce housing, but no to steep slope development.

McPherson would also look for possible partnership between the town and downtown building owners who have empty upstairs spaces that could become apartments but are cost-prohibitive to renovate.

What is your position on the proposed N.C. 107 plans?

McPherson believes the board has done its due diligence on N.C. 107, choosing the least invasive option still capable of improving traffic flow and reducing collisions.

“It has already been painful, and it hasn’t even started yet. But what do you do with a road that was built without a plan?” said McPherson. “Nobody planned for this growth. Nobody planned for safe entrances and egresses to businesses. Nobody planned for this much traffic.”

What policies would you support to mitigate impacts from the N.C. 107 project?

Sylva is already on a tight budget, a town of 2,600 facilitating the movement of 40,000 cars through town. The county’s Office of Economic Development has put together a group to assist impacted parties, and that may be the best resource for people to use.

Do you foresee a property tax increase resulting from road project impacts?

That’s a question that will require more study, but as a taxpayer himself McPherson does not want to raise taxes.

“It guess we’ll have to tighten our belts collectively about some of the services that we’re offering,” he said. “I don’t think it’s fair for us to raise taxes. But that’s always an option.”

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McPherson, 49, has worked at the WCU Fine Art Museum for the past 15 years, the last three as exhibition designer. A downtown - building owner, he won his first term on the town board in 2015 and is seeking re-election. t Reason to run: “I think I’ve been pretty - effective as a board member, and I think there’s a lot left to do. I also care a lot about the town, and I care about its growing and the way that it grows.”

Top three priorities: Pedestrian safety downtown; future improvements at Bridge Park, possibly including plantings to reduce stormwater runoff, trail connectivity and a permanent structure for the farmers market; responsibly shepherding the N.C. 107 project.

What do you think of town leadership’s current direction?

The last four years have seen a cohesive board that has made significant progress on economic and aesthetic issues for the town, McPherson said. The town’s got forward momentum, and he wants to keep it going.

What are your ideas for increasing Sylva’s housing inventory?

The town should reduce minimum lot sizes so more houses could be built on the

DAVID NESTLER Nestler, 34, is seeking re-election after winning his first term on the town board in 2015. Previous to his election, he served on the Main Street Sylva Association for five years as a board member and two as president. He also joined the TWSA board in the year preceding his election and remained on it afterward. Nestler works as an electrical engineer at Duotech in Franklin.

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effects for individual properties, and he also predicts that some businesses on the relocation list will be able to relocate within the same parcel, or that the parcel will be usable for a different business in the future. Despite its impacts, DOT’s overall plan is the best Sylva’s going to get.

“I think the end result is going to be positive,” he said. “I think a lot of the narrative right now is focused on these 55 lost businesses, and they’re not lost. If things are done properly, every single one of these businesses should not close. They should not be lost to our community.”

What policies would you support to mitigate impacts from the N.C. 107 project?

First of all, TWSA should abstain from charging system development fees to any businesses forced to relocate — regardless of whether DOT may ultimately pay the fee, which Nestler is not convinced would actually happen. The town is also looking at waiving some fees, but that’s “nickels and dimes” in comparison.

Do you foresee a property tax increase resulting from road project impacts?

The town must ensure that it heads into construction with a healthy fund balance so that it can handle any dip in tax revenues after the project begins. Long term, Nestler believes that tax receipts will recover.

“My hope would be no, we don’t have to raise property taxes for the 107 fix, but we also need to remain viable as a town, and cutting services for people is unhealthy for your community,” he said. “It just depends on how well we plan.”

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Reason to run: “Volunteering for your community is always an ongoing effort. You start things that don’t just get finished all the time, like cleaning up the creek. That’s an effort you don’t ever stop once you start. You always have to stay on top of something like that. I want to continue my involvement with the town.”

Top three priorities: Developing a plan to spend the Fisher Creek Fund money designated for water quality improvements; funding a part-time Main Street director; advocating for businesses affected by the N.C. 107 project.

What do you think of town leadership’s current direction?

The town board has had “great direction” with its “heart set in all the right areas,” said Nestler, but it should do better at matching its funding decisions to its priorities, such as building a strong downtown business community.

What are your ideas for increasing Sylva’s housing inventory?

The town should reduce minimum lot sizes so that more homes can be built on the existing land base, but careful study is necessary to ensure that the new minimum number will make a difference to residents making land use decisions. The town should encourage people to renovate downtown units so that spaces now sitting empty can become dwellings.

What is your position on the proposed N.C. 107 plans?

Nestler believes some minor changes to the existing plans could have important

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER uch like this summer, a simple real estate transaction has led to important consequences for the Canton Board of Aldermen/women.

Alderman James Markey, elected in 2017, had to vacate his seat mid-way through his term because he’d moved out of the district.

Rather than appoint a successor, the board opted to wait for the November elections, so voters could fill the seat.

Two candidates, Aaron Jones and Tim Shepard, filed to run for the two-year unexpired term, but Jones recently purchased a home just outside Canton’s city limits. It’s too late to remove his name from ballots, but he won’t be able to serve if elected.

That leaves Shepard, a Franklin native and Pisgah High School science teacher, as the only viable candidate. He also has Jones’ endorsement.

“He’s a great guy from a great family, and will be a great alderman,” Jones told The Smoky Mountain News last week. “Anyone who had any support for me should vote for Tim Shepard.”

Barring an unexpected Jones “victory” or a surprise write-in campaign, Shepard will join Alderwomen Kristina Smith and Gail Mull as well as Alderman Dr. Ralph Hamlett on the board under Mayor Zeb Smathers.

The married father of two transferred from East Tennessee State to Western Carolina University, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in history and in social work.

Around that same time, he did an internship in the Haywood County Schools, and began working for SOAR, a private school program that provides programs for children with attention deficit and learning disabilities.

From there, Shepard began teaching at Waynesville Middle School, and then at Canton Middle School for 13 years until recently landing at Pisgah.

Registered as a Democrat — like every other member of the board — Shepard says he’s a centrist.

“There’s a lot of things that I look at and I identify with — the idea of trying to get people the help that they need, and making sure that we take care of different areas of society that need to be taken care of,” he said. “But then also, there’s things that I follow on to the more moderate or conservative side of things.”

The most important issue in Canton right now, as in every other Haywood County municipality, is growth, or rather, growth management. Shepard’s centrist views will help shape that.

“When I look at where Canton is in particular, we’re in a state of change right now and I feel like that’s not change for the worst,” Shepard said. “It’s change for the better. I just want to be part of it and steer it

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to where we’re moving in a good direction and making Canton a better place. Not necessarily a bigger place, but a better place. I like the fact that we’re growing. I like the fact that we’re seeing an influx of people coming in that are adding more to the community, but I would like to make sure that we’re steering it in the right direction and making sure that it’s positive growth.”

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“The way that we need to start looking at things is not just now, or the end of this generation, but the next generation and the generation after, and trying to plan our growth accordingly.”

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From an economic development standpoint, that growth needs to augment the manufacturing legacy of a town that bears the slogan, “Where the wheels of industry turn.”

“Just the nature of how our economy in this part of the state is, we have to look to try to bring in more diverse things because there’s certain industries that fit well,” he said. “Haywood County in particular is set up pretty well for industry to come in, but there’s no sense in not looking at what we have as far as all recreational activities.”

In that sense, recreation can also include entertainment; Canton’s town-owned Colonial Theater has long been the focal point of downtown doings, but it’s costly to

maintain and has probably never been fully utilized, even after a 2018 board work session held to address the theater’s bottom line. Some want it sold. Others want outside markers to promote it. Still others want the town to produce events there.

“We need to find better ways to utilize it,” said Shepard. “A good plan is, hang on to it and see if we can’t do something similar to what they do with the bandstand in the park, or maybe do something kind of like Flat Rock [The Flat Rock Playhouse] has or what HART has over in Waynesville. Do a concert series or kind of turn it into something like [Asheville music venues] Grey Eagle or the Orange Peel. That would be something that would go along with what I think we’re trying to do with the way the Labor Day celebration is moving.”

Another asset that some consider underutilized is the town’s sprawling watershed, which provides clean drinking water to Canton residents; there are virtually limitless recreational opportunities there, but increasing human activity could jeopardize the pristine condition of the water supply.

“I feel at this particular moment that we don’t want to jeopardize that because if you look at the bigger picture in other parts of the world, that’s a resource that we don’t want to compromise right now,” he said.

“The future points towards us making sure that we hang on to resources like that so that we can utilize them later.”

That ties into government recognition of, and planning in response to, climate change. S “If you look at the evidence that’s presented right now and you take the politics out of it, we’re having an effect on [climate],” said Shepard. “It’s not something that is a v future thing. It’s a thing that’s happening.

The way that we need to start looking at B things is not just now, or the end of this generation, but the next generation and the generation after, and trying to plan our growth accordingly. Now, that’s hard because we can’t predict the future, right? But we can at least lay the groundwork.”

If elected, Shepard would be replacing the only elected official in Haywood County who works as a teacher (Markey), but the fact that he’s technically unopposed doesn’t p exactly mean he’s a shoo-in; Canton has a strange predilection toward write-in candi- n dates, and with the relatively small number of residents eligible to vote in the election, Shepard said he’ll still be out campaigning v hard to ensure he’s elected.

“I’ve had opportunities to be out in pub- p lic at events to let people see me,” he said.

“This is my first time running for office, so I’ve been kind of feeling it out a little bit. The radio station contacted me to do an adver- t tisement and I thought I’ll probably do one of those on a Friday night. We know what Friday night means around here.” t

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER hen Jim Moore ran for Clerk of the Superior Court back in 2018 he did so as a Democrat, but now that he’s running for a District Court judgeship, he’ll do so as a Republican.

“Over the years, I was considering how the Republican Party had assisted my family. For example, right now my son is in Taiwan at the university of Taiwan. He got Jim Moore a national defense industry scholarship called the Boren scholarship and in part Mark Meadows helped him,” Moore said of his motivation for the change. “My daughter is a teacher and she’s gotten a number of raises over the years here in the state and that’s part of the Republican Party. And the more I’ve thought about it, a lot of my friends have said over the years that I’m far more conservative and more like a Republican than I’ve ever been as a Democrat, as far as the way in which I look at law and order.”

Moore said the Republican Party’s national profile doesn’t factor in to his

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Former Rep. Mike Clampitt, R-Bryson City, will again oppose Waynesville Democratic Rep. Joe Sam Queen for the House district 119 seat. Cory Vaillancourt photo

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“I feel that WNC counties — Swain, Jackson and Haywood — need to have a real representative in Raleigh.”

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ride and it shows you how important it is for us to get those supermajorities in both the House and the Senate,” said Whatley.

The real question is, will there be a Trump bump in 2020, and if so, how big will it be?

“I think frankly here in 2020, we’re going to see an even bigger Trump bump,” Whatley said. “The excitement and the enthusiasm that we’re seeing for the president in rural areas, it helps to turn up those numbers and be able to drive a lot more enthusiasm and that’s going to reflect all the way down the ticket.”

For his part, Clampitt wants to bring what he says is a true Western North Carolina voice back to Raleigh.

“I feel that WNC counties — Swain, Jackson and Haywood — need to have a real representative in Raleigh,” said Clampitt.

“Somebody who will take and actually do what they say they’re gonna do, and not just be a yes person to get people’s vote.”

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER hen North Carolina House District 119 voters get their ballots a little over a year from now, they’ll likely see two very familiar names.

Barring a Republican primary challenge, Bryson City Republican Mike Clampitt will oppose Waynesville Democratic Rep. Joe Sam Queen for the fifth time in a row.

“I’m announcing today that I’m officially a candidate for North Carolina House District 119, and Joe Sam Queen’s seat is in peril,” Clampitt said at an Oct. 12 Swain County GOP fundraiser at Darnell Farms in Bryson City. “Mike’s back.”

Clampitt lost to Queen in the highly competitive district — Haywood, Jackson and Swain counties — in 2012 and in 2014, but narrowly beat him in 2016 by less than 1 percent.

That victory helped Republicans gain a veto-proof supermajority, but it also came amidst a presidential election that saw the popularity of President Donald Trump boost other Republican candidates across the state and the nation.

“The Trump bump was easily worth two to three points across the state,” said NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley. “He had a good 3.5 percent margin in the 11th district in particular, where he got more votes than any-

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body else. We saw a tremendous upsurge.”

Without that “Trump bump,” in 2018, Clampitt lost the seat back to Queen, helping Democrats regain enough House seats to break the Republican supermajority and defend Rocky Mount Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto.

“I think what we’re seeing right now with the governor’s veto and the fact that he’s been able to sustain it this long shows you how important it is for you to have the veto over-

decision to change parties, because he’s always had a local focus, but the bench seat he now seeks is in a seven county district from Haywood County all the west to Cherokee County.

“Over the years, either as an assistant District Attorney for 17 years and now almost 17 years as a private attorney, I’ve worked in all seven of those counties in both criminal and in a civil type matters, domestic cases, DSS, juvenile — basically everything that a district court judge would do,” he said.

Also a non-factor for Moore is the ability of either party to turn out voters better than the other party.

“Actually, there’s not a lot of difference,” he said. “They look at prior history and voting. They look at precincts. They do calls. There’s a lot of the GOTV that’s the same. I think they’re pretty equal.”

More than party, it’s experience that matters, according to Moore.

“A lot of times, the judge is sitting there and learning the facts as they come in,” he said. “They don’t have time to study it. They have to know the law as it applies to those cases, and you’re expected to make a decision, if not right then, then pretty soon after you’ve heard everything. So if you delay, then it’s just a delay in justice.”

In addition to Moore, Haywood County attorney Kaleb Wingate and Macon County attorney Rich Cassady will also appear on Republican primary ballots this coming March.

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What it takes to be healthy Proceeds from Mission Health sale to benefit WNC communities

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR ow can $1.5 billion transform the health and wellness of Western North Carolina communities for decades to come? That’s the question Dogwood Health Trust’s Board of Directors is currently asking itself since the new foundation was tasked with spending the proceeds from Mission Health’s sale to HCA Healthcare last year.

With so many unmet health care needs in DHT’s coverage area — 18 counties and the Qualla Boundary — the process of figuring out how to divvy up grant funding each year can be an overwhelming pursuit, which is why the foundation is holding public listening sessions all across the region.

DHT hosted a listening session Oct. 10 at Southwestern Community College to hear feedback from local nonprofits, government agencies and the general public and also to introduce the foundation’s new CEO Antony Chiang.

Chiang, who officially starts the job Nov.

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1, was hired to lead the new health care foundation following a nationwide search.

Most recently Chiang, 51, served as the president of Empire Health Foundation, an organization similar to DHT located in Spokane, Washington.

Janice Brumit, chairwoman of Dogwood’s board of directors, told the audience that Chiang’s experience in designing and building a health care foundation from the ground up would no doubt be of great value as DHT works on developing its strategic plan over the next several months. Once the strategic plan is in place and the guidelines for health-related grants are established, the foundation hopes to begin awarding funds next summer.

DHT is a “non-operating” foundation, which means it won’t provide any programming or services, but it will partner with nonprofits and government agencies to provide health-related programs and services in their respective communities.

Organizations will be able to submit grant proposals to the board for funding considerations.

“We’re ready to embark on a strategic plan. We have a difficult decision in deciding where to deploy resources in the community and we want to hear from you,” Brumit said.

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HEALTH PRIORITIES Dogwood Health Trust has also committed $25 million over five years toward tackling substance use and addiction. To show how quickly that money could be divided and spent, Chiang asked the room of one hundred plus people how they thought those funds should be distributed among the counties and Qualla Boundary.

A majority of people said they thought it should be spread evenly over the coverage area, but a couple of people saw the benefit of putting more funds toward one large pilot project in one county and then expand the program into other counties if it’s successful.

While Chiang said there was no right or wrong answer, focusing on a couple of communities might make more financial sense than spreading the money out. Divide that $25 million over five years and then divide it by 19 communities — that’s only $263,000 a year to each. Then divide that $263,000 by the two main focus areas needed to address addiction — prevention and treatment. Attendees could begin to see how quickly those funds would dry up.

“These are the tough strategic decisions we’ll have to make. We have people suffering in every community,” he said. “We could increase the funding but that means something else won’t make the list.”

In addition to the funds earmarked annually for addiction, the foundation has to examine the other health care needs in each community. To do that, the board will be focused on the social determinants of health.

These determinants not only include access to health care services, but societal factors like poverty, affordable and adequate housing, transportation, food security, access to healthy foods, access to parks and greenways and education.

Some communities are ahead of others when it comes to addressing these unmet needs in WNC, but generally speaking the region has a lot of work to do. Many counties are dealing with a severe shortage of affordable and adequate housing. Rural counties west of Buncombe lack adequate public transportation. Those same counties also have the highest rates of overdose deaths in the state. Mental health resources are being reduced at the state level at the same time the legislature has failed to pass Medicaid expansion to make health care accessible for 500,000 more uninsured residents.

FROM THE EXPERTS The DHT meeting also included information from three health experts that will also be partnering with the foundation to provide valuable research data.

Rebecca Onie is the co-founder of The Health Initiative, a nationally recognized leader in population and public health. She

WNC communities represented by Dogwood Health Trust • Population of all 18 counties — 901,715 • Median Household Income — $42,670; U.S. Median, $55,322 • Persons Below Poverty Level — 15.8%; U.S. Average, 12.7% • With Disability < 65 - 11.8%; U.S. Average, 8.6% • Without Health Insurance < 65 — 13.5%; U.S. Average, 10.1% • Bachelor’s Degree or Higher — 26.5%; U.S. Average 30.3% • Civilian Labor Force — 55.4%; U.S. Average, 63.1% • Persons Age 65 and Over — 22%; U.S. Average 15.2% Source: www.dogwoodhealthtrust.org

is a MacArthur “Genius” awardee and recipient of Forbes’ Impact 30 Award for leading social entrepreneurs.

“I’ve spent 22 years obsessed with the question, ‘What do we all need to be healthy?’” she said. “We should be enabling doctors to ask patients what they need to be healthy and then connect patients to resources in their communities.”

But that’s not what’s happening. Onie said the U.S. spends the most money on health care and has the worst outcomes when compared to other countries. When studies show that social determinants account for 70 percent of outcomes and clinical visits only account for 20 percent, Onie said it shows the U.S. is not spending its health care money in the right areas.

The state of health care is a heavily debated topic, but Onie said The Health Initiative wanted to know what voters thought about their own health. Two focus groups were interviewed in Charlotte — a group of Democrat African American women and a group of Republican white women. Both groups were asked a simple question — if they had $100 to spend on their health, how would they divvy it up? To everyone’s surprise, an overwhelming majority of women in both focus groups all mentioned things outside of a hospital setting — safe and affordable housing topped the list.

“We thought it had to be a fluke but it’s not,” Onie said. “That’s very powerful. It’s about common sense and a common experience. Health care is not about changing minds or policies — it’s about changing the questions we ask and listening to the answers.”

The Health Initiative’s other co-founder, Rocco Perla, is a former director of the CMS Innovation Center, where he established the national learning system to test new delivery and payment models through the Affordable Care Act and oversaw the $1 Billion Partnership for Patients and the Million Hearts Campaign.

It was during his weekly commute to the Innovation Center

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that he realized all the work he and others were doing in Washington wasn’t making a real impact on people.

His airport shuttle driver was a 70year-old veteran who had to stop halfway through the ride to stretch because sitting that long was painful.

He needed a hip replacement, but the VA lost his paperwork and he hadn’t had time to go through the entire process again.

“It became unbearable to ignore this gaping hole that exists between the reality of people’s lives and the decisions we make as policymakers,” he said.

That’s when he joined Onie with The Health Initiative and began seeing more discrepancies between the data being analyzed in Washington and the struggles of families. He said he had never seen the data on food insecurity in the U.S. during the five years he was working on health care reform.

“I was thinking how did I not know this was available in the last five years? We didn’t even look at that data. Has anything we’ve done had an impact on hunger in the U.S. and the answer was no,” Perla said.

To his dismay, the rates of food insecurity jumped 50 percent during the recession and stayed that way over the next 10 years despite a number of important health-related legislation being passed, including the Affordable Care Act. Perla said leaders have to begin looking at the factors that lie beneath the diseases and illnesses to begin making a difference in people’s lives when it comes to being healthy.

Dr. Betsey Tilson, chief medical officer for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, spoke about the many changes happening at the state level to impact healthier outcomes.

Just like Dogwood is looking to partner with WNC communities, Tilson said the state has the same vision of partnership and aligning with communities and foundation to move the needle on health care.

“Access to high quality health care is critically important ... but how do we address the other drivers of health that make up the other 80 percent of outcomes?” she said.

She said DHHS’s top priorities when looking to improve health are food security, interpersonal violence, toxic stress, employment and transportation. The state also has plenty of strategic plans being worked on, including an Early Childhood Action Plan, Opioid Action Plan, Health NC 2030 and NC Care 360.

For more information on those plans, visit www.ncdhhs.gov/about/departmentinitiatives.

For more information about Dogwood Health Trust, visit www.dogwoodhealthtrust.org.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER $100,000 donation to the Town of Waynesville made by Waynesville resident and outdoors enthusiast Philan Medford will go a long way toward helping walkers cross Richland Creek, and will also go a long way toward helping Waynesville’s fledgling greenway go a long way.

“It’s one of the most generous private donations I’ve ever seen in my career,” said Rob Hites, Waynesville’s town manager. “It’s incredibly generous. I mean it’s not unusual for cities to get grants from the DOT, or the public recreation foundation, but for a private nonprofit group to give this type of donation is something I think is utterly amazing and incredible generous.”

Medford said she’d decided upon the project because as someone who grew up traipsing through fields and swimming in area creeks and rivers, she wanted others in the future to have access to the same type of childhood.

“Richland Creek was my connection,” said Medford. “It was my second home. Every waking moment, you’re outside. You’re not inside, ever. Physical activity is my thing, my entire life. This has been in my head since 1997.”

Hites said the donation will serve as the foundation for other fundraising efforts, and as matching money for grant applications like the one made to the Haywood Healthcare Foundation this past July.

“What we’d really like to do for Philan’s sake is to build this $347,000 bridge and put it in service so that she can see the fruits of her donation,” Hites said. “Her donation gives us the first $100,000 we need for a project that costs more than $300,000. The bridge, just the bridge, is about $150,000, but we also have to build the access roads to the bridge and they have to be built in such a way

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Once complete, the bridge will open up r access to a 9.8-acre town-owned parcel purr chased from the Schulhofers.

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t gives us the ability to extend our greenway C another 1,100 feet,” Hites said. “It also puts p us close to right of way we already have com- c mitted that could carry our greenway all the d way to Lake Junaluska. Our goal I think with t Lake Junaluska is to have a walking trail that t will eventually go all the way from the Lake to Hazelwood.” t That will likely take years, but Medford’s R donation means a substantial and expensive t part of that effort will already be complete, and will stand the test of time. a “The neat thing is, once it’s there, it’s going to take at least four generations for that e bridge to start showing problems,” she said. S “It’s a big deal.” o

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An action-packed Saturday, Oct. 26, starts off with the MAPHealth 5K at 9 a.m., with proceeds going to support Mountain Area Pro Bono Health Services, and the Chancellor’s Brunch and Alumni Awards event at 10 a.m. Tailgating will be held from noon until 3:30 p.m. at the WCU football team’s game against the Furman Paladins, the WCU African American Alumni Society postgame reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Ramsey Center, an African American alumni reception from 9 to 10:30 p.m. in Illusions at A.K. Hinds University Center, and the NPHC After Party from 10:30 p.m. to 12:45 a.m. in the Grandroom at the University Center.

Homecoming activities will end on a musical note Oct. 27 with the Inspirational Gospel Choir’s annual concert in Illusions at the University Center. A start time will be announced later. go.wcu.edu/homecoming.

“Forever a Catamount” will be the theme for Homecoming 2019 at Western Carolina University, with a schedule of public events that includes a concert by country music star Lee Brice, a parade down Main Street in Sylva, award presentations to exemplary alumni, and the traditional football game.

Brice will take the stage for a concert that begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, at Ramsey Regional Activity Center. Advance tickets are on sale at ramsey.wcu.edu.

Events on Friday, Oct. 25, include the annual Homecoming parade that begins at 6 p.m. in downtown Sylva. Later that evening, the National Pan-Hellenic Council Stroll Off will be held in Coulter Building on the WCU campus at 8 p.m.

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Thursday, Oct. 17, at Historic Camp Hope, 3112 Camp Hope Road, Canton.

Bethel native Travis Stuart and his brother will be providing the music. The event will be held inside, but bring a jacket. Octoberfest menu will include bratwurst and kraut (hotdogs for kids and those who don’t eat bratwurst).

The cost is $20 per person — no charge for kids under 12. Tickets are now on sale at Democrat Headquarters or from your precinct chair.

Yard sale to benefit Lauada Cemetery The Lauada Cemetery Association will hold a yard sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 18 and Saturday, Oct. 19, at Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, 495 Franklin Grove Church Rd, Bryson City.

The Lauada Cemetery Association was formed about 27 years ago to oversee the upkeep and maintenance of the cemetery so that the cemetery will be here for generations to come and the yard sale proceeds help them cover the primary cost of mowing, which is about $8,000 per year.

Lauada, a cemetery of approximately eight acres, is the location that so many

people were re-interred to from the cemeteries of Dorsey, Judson, Monteith, Delozier, and Hyde when Fontana Lake was built. Since its establishment, descendants of persons buried at Lauada have also been interred there.

Music jam to benefit Open Door The Open Door Ministries will be presenting its Seventh Annual Blue Ridge Music Jam from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 19 at Calvary Road Baptist Church, located at 2701 Soco Rd., Maggie Valley.

All proceeds will go to support the ministry of The Open Door, which offers a wide array of services which includes serving warm meals to the marginalized, giving financial assistance, providing warm showers, a laundry room, a salon, and pastoral support and encouragement to all who come through the doors.

Music will be provided by award-winning and nationally recognized duo Summer & Bray of The Mountain Faith Band. Since the year 2000, The Mountain Faith Band has performed their unique brand of Americana/roots music to audiences from coast to coast at fairs, festivals, colleges, universities, performing arts centers, corporate events, and churches.

The concert is free of charge. A love offering will be taken to raise proceeds.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER conditional rezoning request by developers of a 210-unit apartment complex located on the former site of a grocery store sailed through the Waynesville Planning Board on Sept. 16 with little opposition and is now moving toward a final hearing by the Waynesville Board of Aldermen on Oct. 22.

“There appears to be some citizen input on social media that’s in opposition to it, but we haven’t received anything to my knowledge in a formal written form where people are asking that we read or enter something into the formal record of the public hearing that’s coming up,” said Rob Hites, Waynesville’s town manager.

In fact, the only real concern is about people picking up after their dogs.

“I believe at the public hearing in the Planning Board, one of the adjacent property owners felt like if this apartment complex was going to be a dog friendly area that she was concerned that her property would be used as a dog walk,” Hites said.

“She indicated that people were being inconsiderate in allowing their dogs to defecate on her property.”

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As originally passed by Council, the commission would require a one-year budget of $204,000, of which $42,000 would go toward stipends for the three members who would not be serving in their official capacity as tribal leaders. The budget also included $140,000 for legal, subject matter expertise and planning assistance contracts; $20,000 for training and travel; and $2,000 for office supplies and printing.

Wilson urged Council to override the veto, saying that he’d be happy to remove compensation for all commission members and have them instead serve at will.

“In creating this, I have reached out to other Native American nations who are big role players in this, and with the established commission that has been approved we have made an effort to communicate and potentially create a partnership down the road,” he said. “I understand where you’re coming from with ‘premature in nature,’ but I also think it’s mature in nature to create a plan to be successful, and for a plan to be successful you must plan ahead.”

Councilmember Richard French, of Big Cove, pointed out that the legislation was at too late a stage to make any amendments, such as removing compensation.

However, Wilson — who as of Oct. 7 no longer sits on Tribal Council — would be welcome to walk in a new resolution during Annual Council this month bringing forward the Cannabis Commission concept once more, but this time without the stipends.

Tribal law requires a two-thirds vote to override a chief ’s veto, and Wilson’s legislation came up short, with a move to override resulting in a weighted vote of 50 in favor and 38 opposed. Supporting the override were Chairman Adam Wachacha, Vice Chairman David Wolfe and Councilmembers Tommye Saunooke, Lisa Taylor, Tom Wahnetah, Bucky Brown and Wilson. Opposed were Councilmembers Bo Crowe, Perry Shell, Albert Rose and French.

wouldn’t likely cite people who don’t clean up after their dogs, but that it shouldn’t happen nonetheless.

“It’s not a crime, per se, but I’d imagine there may be some civil remedies,” said Capt. Brian Beck. “Like a lot of things, what it comes down to is responsibility and some common decency.”

The conditional rezoning request brings with it a number of positives both for future residents of the development as well as the community at large.

The developer has offered the town a 20-foot easement that would accommodate the greenway trail along the banks of Richland Creek, and has also proposed the implementation of some stormwater management practices on the parcel, which currently has none.

A vehicle and pedestrian connection through the site, from Russ Avenue to West Marshall Street, is also proposed.

Once complete, the project’s built-up footprint on the 8.8-acre site will actually be 1.5 acres less than the previous retail/grocer’s.

The public hearing on RFLP Mountain Creek’s conditional zoning request will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22, in Waynesville’s Town Hall, 9 South Main St., in Waynesville. Copies of the plan are available for public viewing at Waynesville’s Development Services Department. For more information, visit www.waynesvillenc.gov.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER egislation creating a Cannabis Commission that would set the stage for hemp production on the Qualla Boundary has been overturned, following a veto from Principal Chief Richard Sneed and a failed attempt from Tribal Council to override that veto.

Introduced by outgoing Councilmember Jeremy Wilson, of Wolfetown, the resolution set up a sevenmember commission that would seek to develop a hemp regulation plan for submission to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, spearhead any necessary changes to Cherokee law and administrative rules to allow for the industry’s establishment, develop a long-range plan for a tribal hemp regulation entity and develop a long-term economic plan for the hemp industry.

Though Council made several amendments to Wilson’s original resolution, the legislation passed Sept. 12 with nine in favor, one opposed, one abstaining and one absent. However, on Oct. 2 Principal Chief Richard Sneed vetoed it, triggering a special-called meeting Friday, Oct. 4 — the last business day before inauguration for the new term was held Oct. 7.

During the Oct. 4 meeting, Sneed said he did not veto the resolution because he’s opposed to the idea — he just believes the resolution is “premature in nature” because the USDA has not yet released its proposed regulations for hemp production plans.

“The regulations have not yet been released by the USDA, and when we’re talking about the expenditure of funds, to create the plan in-house we have the capacity to write the plan at no additional cost,” said Sneed.

“Once the plan is approved by the USDA, then the commission could be seated to carry out anything that needs to be conducted in accordance with the plan. As I stated, I’m not opposed to it. It’s more stewardship over the tribal resources, the tribal dollars, to not start expending funds prematurely.”

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GOP should stand up to Trump To the Editor: Last week, the White House Counsel sent a letter to the House leadership that claims Trump is immune from congressional oversight and from impeachment. Trump said he can refuse to “participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry.” He will reject all requests for documents and testimony, and ignore all subpoenas because he thinks Congress is not treating him “fairly”.

Trump is not saying that he has legal grounds to refuse congressional requests. He doesn’t even claim executive privilege.

Instead, he says the entire inquiry is simply unfair, and therefore he can reject all of it.

Trump asserts the House is violating his “civil liberties” and “due process” rights. Well, the Constitution says nothing about the particular processes by which the House has to carry out impeachment. The House can establish

to investigate the Bidens, he — on national television — asked that China open an investigation into the Bidens.

These are two, well-documented instances of the president soliciting assistance — something that would be of value to his reelection campaign — from foreign countries. The crimes aside, there is also the moral dilemma of a president asking foreign nations to investigate U.S. citizens he doesn’t like or agree with.

Importantly, regardless of what your opinion of the Bidens is, whether or not crimes were committed by Hunter Biden and the company he worked for — there is not yet any evidence to suggest such crimes — Guest Columnist Trump’s actions are still a crime.

Now the White House has announced it will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry because it is “partisan and unconstitutional.” This is in itself another impeachable offense as he is acting in contempt of Congress (obstructing the work of Congress, or any of its committees). The impeachment is not partisan or unconstitutional, though one could have expected this response since Trump has shown his inability to handle dissenters. He recently described the whistle-blower who exposed the crime as treasonous. Imagine that — we are now a country in which the president calls people who disagree with him or call him out on wrongdoing treasonous. That is

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eople can disagree on whether or not Donald Trump should be removed from office. That is our right. But there can be no disagreement about the facts.

Trump would be, technically, the third president to be impeached, following Andrew Johnson — among other things for his removal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton — and Bill Clinton (for having sexual relations with that woman and then lying about it under oath). Obviously Nixon was on his way but chose to flee the scene rather than undergo trial. Of those impeached, none have been removed from office.

Impeachment is a vital aspect of the checks and balances system that has (somewhat) kept our democracy true to its primary promise of being a government for the people, by the people. Impeachment ensures that Congress has the ability to investigate the executive branch when wrongdoing is suspected. This, in turn, ensures an executive branch that can be held accountable instead of becoming tyrannical. Our nation has evolved in many ways in the 200-plus years since the creation of the Constitution, making many things our founders said and wrote then not applicable or relevant today. However, the checks and balances between branches of government, the pillars of the system itself, must remain strong in order for the nation to function in any recognizable way.

Trump has admitted to the crime that started the impeachment inquiry. According to the Federal Elections Commission it is illegal to solicit foreign assistance, or anything of value, in a United States election. Not only did Donald Trump ask President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine

not treason, it is our right, granted us in the Constitution as United States citizens.

At least two of the 11 articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson included his public speaking. The Congress then regarded it as a high crime that Johnson “make and declare, with a loud voice, certain intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous harangues, and therein utter loud threats and bitter menaces, as well against Congress as the laws of the United States … amid the cries, jeers and laughter of the multitudes then assembled in hearing.”

By this standard, if held accountable for his divisive speech (even if we didn’t consider his Twitter public speech, though we should), Donald Trump would have been impeached several times over. But we no longer hold him to the same standards to which past presidents have been held.

Let us not slip even further in upholding those standards.

As a nation we should at the very least admit and understand the crimes the president has committed. From there it is up to each person, and ultimately to Congress, to determine whether those crimes constitute removal from office. The spotlight will be trained on Republican congressmen as they must decide whether to continue blindly following Trump through the mud in exchange for the support of his base, or to put democracy above party and uphold the constitutional ability for Congress to check a president acting outside the bounds of law.

(Hannah McLeod is a 2018 graduate of Appalachian State who lives in Waynesville. mcleod828@gmail.com)

LETTERS any rules it wants. Trump demands privileges, such as being able to cross-examine witnesses, which are a matter for the trial phase of impeachment, which happens in the Senate.

If Congress cannot exercise its power of oversight or its power of impeachment, it means Trump doesn’t have to answer to anyone and that essentially makes the president a king.

So will Republicans stand up to Trump’s assault on the very idea of checks and balances? Remember when they cried “Tyranny!” when Barack Obama signed an executive order, or shouted “Stonewalling!” if the Obama administration resisted a single document request from Congress. Remember when they called out the Constitution and the rule of law so seriously when they demanded Bill Clinton’s removal from office?

Why won’t the Republicans stand up to this assault on our democratic norms? Maybe they’re cowards, afraid of backlash from

Trump himself and his most rabid supporters.

Maybe they don’t actually believe in the Constitution if it isn’t delivering the outcomes they want. In any case, they are helping

Trump drag our entire democratic system down.

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I will continue to work at finding positive solutions to issues facing Waynesville while promoting the best long-term interest of the town and its taxpayers.

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night the Dodgers clinched it. As a fairly new teaching assistant in the English Department at Appalachian State University, I couldn’t turn down an opportunity to hob-nob with professors I had revered for years, chatting amiably about Chaucer, Faulkner, Jacques Derrida, and those damned freshman comma splices.

A few of my peers, souped-up on better cocktails than we were used to, pogoed to the Talking Heads in another room. I found a little black-and-white television in the guest bedroom and kept slipping off to keep tabs on the score. Hershiser pitched a complete game, and the Dodgers were World Champions. I pogoed back into the room where the action was, shouting out, “This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco!”

“Dodgers win?” asked Kent, the only fellow TA in the department with even a mild interest in the outcome of the game.

“World Champions, son!” I yelled.

“Good then,” he said, which was accompanied by a few indifferent shrugs from colleagues who had no more interest in baseball than in the novels of Danielle Steele or the greatest hits of the Oak Ridge Boys. “Do you still have that bottle of vodka in your car?”

Please understand. I was not a normal kid. By the time I was 10 or 11 years old, I had become obsessed with the Dodgers. I begged my dad to tell me stories of watching Sandy Koufax pitch. I had baseball cards of the whole team, which I would sometimes fan out on the carpet in the positions they played on the field. I memorized their statistics. I knew where they were from.

By the time I got to high school, the Dodgers had become a contender to win a championship, but lost back-to-back World Series to the dreaded New York Yankees, or as I referred to them, “the Evil Empire.”

That was the late 1970s. I hated the Yankees like other people hated disco.

My dream finally came true in 1981, when I finally saw the Dodgers win the World Series in a strike-shortened season. I didn’t care if the championship had an asterisk attached to it or not. I wore my shiny blue Dodgers windbreaker everywhere I went that year. I gloated to my friends. I felt fully invested in it.

They didn’t win another one until 1988.

They haven’t won another one since. There have been some close calls, some awful seasons, and everything in between. A lot can happen in 31 years, and a lot has — except for the Dodgers winning a World Series.

This season, the team was knocked out in the first round of the playoffs, despite winning 106 regular season games, a franchise record. Some fans are blaming the manager, others the players. I think it may be my hat. I’m thinking of trying a new one next season, and maybe switching from Chunky Monkey to frozen yogurt.

If the team doesn’t like it, my doctor will.

(Chris Cox is a writer and teacher who lives in Haywood County. jchriscox@live.com)

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am supposed to be watching a Dodgers game tonight. At this very moment, I should be pushing one of those “mini” grocery carts up and down the aisles of Ingles, stocking up on my usual menu of snacks when the Dodgers make the playoffs: tortilla chips and salsa verde for the first three innings, red seedless grapes for innings four through six, and then the clean-up hitter, a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey in the last three innings.

If the team makes it to the World Series and gets pushed to seven games along the way, I’ll generally put on about 10 pounds of pure flab.

I can picture my doctor shaking his head.

Stupid triglycerides.

I’d tell him that I don’t have any Columnist choice. There are no more superstitious people in the world than baseball fans — unless it’s baseball players — and the team is depending on me to do my part, which is to wear my lucky hat and to eat these snacks in the correct sequence.

Everyone who plays or loves the game believes that they can exert some kind of control over specific games based on the hat they wear, the chair they sit in, or — please, doctor — the kind of food they consume. If everything is just so, the team will win. If one thing is even a tiny fraction off, the team is doomed. Some players won’t shave as long as their team is winning. That’s one reason that teams that make deep runs into the playoffs often look more like an oddly dressed assembly of Civil War generals.

I freely admit that I have not quite been able to get my mojo just exactly right. The Dodgers have been to the World Series the previous two years in a row, but lost both times, to the Astros in 2017 and the Red Sox in 2018. All that weight gained for nothing.

Nothing but heartache, as Deputy Barney Fife would say.

The last time the Dodgers won the World Series, I was in college. It was 1988.

Gas was 91 cents per gallon. The rent for my apartment in Boone was $325 per month. It was the year “Die Hard” came out, which you could see in a theater for $3.25.

More importantly, it was the year a guy named Orel Hershiser, who looked more like a college professor of Economics than a Major League pitcher, put a whole team on his back and carried it as far as the ninth inning of the first game of the World Series, when a gimpy Kirk Gibson — who could barely walk to the plate — hit a two-run walk off home run off of Dennis Eckersley, giving the Dodgers a 5-4 win over the heavily-favored Oakland Athletics.

It was Gibson’s only plate appearance in the series, which the Dodgers won four games to one. I was at a faculty party the

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Ode to Raymond Fairchild, ode to mountain music

Haywood banjo legend died this week at age 80

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER irst and foremost, Raymond Fairchild was one of the finest banjo players who ever walked the face of the earth. He had a storied reputation for incredibly strong and powerful pickin’ on the five-string instrument — a sentiment also said about his moonshine from behind closed doors.

Last Sunday afternoon, Fairchild passed away unexpectedly at the age of 80. Though his music and influence will live on for generations, the bluegrass industry and Western North Carolina have lost a true original, one of the last of his kind in rural Southern Appalachia.

He was proud of his Cherokee blood and of being a mountain man. He was a native of Haywood County and the Great Smoky Mountains, forged from the strength of humble beginnings, and always figuring out ways to survive not just life, but simply another day in a sometimes-cruel world.

He was a devoted husband and protective father. In terms of his character, he was a Godfearing man and longtime Freemason who built a life for himself through sheer hard work and stubborn grit.

He could spot a phony a mile away. He knew the difference between right and wrong.

With a handshake like a vise, his word was his bond — something that resided deep in his rugged heart and restless soul.

Raymond Fairchild was also my friend. In August 2012, when I was 27 years old, I took this position as the arts and entertainment edi-

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tor of The Smoky Mountain News. One of my first assignments was to head over to Fairchild’s Maggie Valley Opry House and interview the man himself.

Strolling up to the front entrance, Fairchild and his long-time cronies were sitting on ripped out car backseats and musty couches, pickin’ mountain melodies, perhaps even tossing around a tale or two. To the untrained eye, it was a scene where one might think you were just looking at a forgotten pile of junk and broken parts — of metal, of fabric, and of flesh.

But, to those with curiosity and an ear for pure gold, it was the center of the universe.

I sat there with Fairchild for over an hour.

We covered his entire career, from numerous onstage performances at the Grand Ole Opry to the mesmerizing nature of his hit single “Whoa Mule,” selling two million records (a rarity in the music industry, let alone in bluegrass) to the future and fate of the sounds he cherished most.

He was sincere as he was skeptical on my being there. Fairchild is a man of few words, and yet, it only takes a few words to truly understand quite possibly the most misunderstood figure in bluegrass.

“I don’t like journalists. Never have. But, I like you. You’re the only journalist I ever met that ain’t full of shit. You care. You keep it that way and you’ll do well in life,” Fairchild told me when we parted ways following that first interview, words I’ll always hold close.

Out of all the hundreds of stories I’ve written in my seven or so years with The Smoky Mountain News, my 2015 cover story on his induction in Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame in Bean Blossom, Indiana, meant the most — personally and professionally.

“I just count myself another mountain picker. I don’t think I’m no better than anybody else, but I think I’m as good as any of’em — that’s the legacy.”

— Raymond Fairchild

When news of Fairchild getting inducted broke, I knew I had to head to Indiana and be there to cover it, if anything be there for him.

In remembering the essence of Raymond Fairchild, one must never forget where they came from, the roots at the foundation of your life, personal growth, and journey as a human being in whatever time you may have on this planet.

I will miss my friend. And yet, he’s just a song away, that trademark grin of his in the midst of another fiery pickin’ session permanently stamped onto my memory.

The following are excerpts from three cover stories I wrote on Fairchild:

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, 2012 If you didn’t know where the Maggie Valley Opry House was, you’d probably pass right by it on the way to the bright lights and chance of Harrah’s Casino in Cherokee or to the hip hustle and bustle of Asheville.

The unassuming music hall is tucked

a behind a quaint motel that’s seen better days,a in a town that’s seen better years. But thatl doesn’t deter Fairchild from opening his banjob case, picking up his trusty instrument ands heading for the stage every night of the weekF e from the late spring until early fall.

After 25 years of do-or-die devotion to hisg Opry House, Fairchild struggles to stay rele-w vant, yet as he laments the dwindling crowdsf over the years, he’s unwilling to sacrifice the purity of the music.

“It’s great here, but people just don’t turn out to sit like I think they should. They got“ other music on their mind, especially thew youngsters,” he said. “Some of the old peoplet will come here and sit, but very few young peo-s ple. I think bluegrass is the greatest music inl the world, and it’s done suffered. Musica m doesn’t have to be jazzed up.”

Raised in nearby Cherokee, Fairchild holdss tightly to his Native American ancestry.r Learning how to play banjo by ear when he wasy teenager, plunking coin after coin into the juke-h box, he developed an enormous passion for theF timeless melodies of Bill Monroe or Flatt &t c Scruggs.

“When it comes down to bluegrass, the only bluegrass man that really did it and could take anybody and train them to do it, is buried six feet under in Kentucky, and that’s Bill“ t Monroe,” he said.

While perfecting his sound, aptly called thew “Fairchild Style,” the 73-year-old got by as aa moonshiner, running through the thick woods— and backcountry roads of the Appalachians,h always one step ahead of the law. “I was just toop o fast to be caught,” he chuckled.

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Remembering Raymond Fairchild (1939-2019)

“Bluegrass music has always embraced uniqueness. The first generation was chalked full of them, and right at their coat tails was ‘The Chief.’ The banjo wizardry of Raymond Fairchild took the world by storm and we’ve never seen the calm after. His hands took banjo playing to another level from the minute he picked up the instrument. As I learn that those hands are now still, I’m not sad, I’m thankful. I’m thankful for Raymond’s personality, music and life dedicated to said music. Bluegrass music has lost a true character but it inspires me today to stand for my own music and dare to be different with guns-a-blazing.”

— C.J. Lewandowski, singer/mandolinist for The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER “Raymond took the influence of Earl Scruggs and Don Reno and created his own unique style. He had impeccable timing and I heard him once say, ‘You could play a waltz, but it still has to have drive.’ As a bluegrass musician, I know exactly what he means by that, and he had it. We played quite a few shows in the 1980s and 1990s with him and enjoyed his friendship. He was always kind and shared words of wisdom and laughs with us. On a few rare occasions, Dad and Raymond would sing the Bill Monroe and Frank Buchanan duet ‘There Was Nothing We Could Do’ onstage, which was always a highlight for me. Our thoughts are with the Fairchild family. Rest in peace to the ‘King of the Smoky Mountain Five-String Banjo’ and our friend, Raymond.”

— Ronnie McCoury, singer/mandolinist for The Del McCoury Band

“Early in my life, Raymond was an inspiration to me. With admiration and respect, I watched him play his banjo many times. He achieved something few instrumentalists do — he created his own style of playing. He had the fastest thumb I ever saw. He could play dizzying sections of single notes using only his thumb and index finger. Raymond adapted complex melodies and made them fun to hear on the banjo. Respected world-

“Raymond Fairchild was a wonderful man and an eclectic banjoist within the Earl Scruggs tradition. I used to hear him on local radio when I was a kid, and his ‘Whoa Mule’ was a favorite, always inventive. Later, I met him while I was playing with Alison Krauss and he proved to be a genuinely nice guy. He was a true original and he will be truly missed.”

— Tim Stafford, guitarist for Blue Highway “We are so sad to learn of Raymond Fairchild’s passing. I admired his hard-driving and inventive style, but I have to admit that I was a little intimidated to meet him.

We had heard that he was no-nonsense and some southern musicians even told us about the time he shot a hole through a standup bass when its owner wouldn’t quit playing while Raymond and his band were trying to rehearse backstage. With that in the back of my mind, I remember Raymond’s firm handshake and how kind he was when I met him at the Cherokee Bluegrass Festival. He couldn’t have been nicer.”

— Eric Gibson, singer/banjoist for The Gibson Brothers “I love that Raymond was so innovative in his banjo style. He didn’t copy anyone — he just did his own thing. He was very kind to me as a young banjo player and loved the clawhammer style. The Maggie Valley Opry was a ‘must see’ for visitors to Haywood County.”

— Laura Boosinger, acclaimed banjoist/oldtime musician.

“Raymond Fairchild was one of North Carolina’s finest gifts to the music world. He had a tremendous right hand on the banjo, and his playing was instantly recognizable.

Rest in Peace to a North Carolina original, and a fine man.”

— Joe Newberry, banjoist/storyteller

“I would describe Raymond Fairchild’s style of five-string banjo in one word — drive.

From his early recordings with The Maggie Valley Boys and The Crowe Brothers up to his passing, Raymond Fairchild’s banjo is like a freight train tearing down the tracks, stunning and amazing all listeners. Fairchild was a rare type of banjo player. He inherited every form of mountain banjo and synthesized into a unique blend of old-time, bluegrass, two-finger and even blues picking.

One listen to one of his showpieces like ‘Whoa Mule’ or ‘Black Mountain Rag’ will tell the story. It is also worth noting his open acknowledgment of the multi-cultural roots of mountain music have created the precedent for modern interpretation of the Native American roots of old-time music. Rest well, Raymond Fairchild. Thank you for the music and for sharing the rich culture of Cherokee, North Carolina, with the world.”

— Dom Flemons, acclaimed musician/storyteller, formerly of the Carolina Chocolate Drops “I know Raymond was an icon to the bluegrass world, but, to me, he was the guy who came to Pennsylvania Avenue Elementary School when I was a little kid. He mesmerized us with that banjo and his funny stories, and help foster a love of mountain music that still endures. He always wanted to talk the Bible with me — I’ll always appreciate that. He is a bluegrass treasure, for sure, and a true Haywood County man. God bless Shirley and the kids.”

— Tim Surrett, singer/bassist for Balsam Range “We’re very blessed to have had one of the best banjo players ever, Raymond Fairchild, call Haywood County home. It was always such a treat to see Raymond perform in person. He was a tremendous influence in the world of bluegrass and inspired many musicians throughout the years. He was a great ambassador for Haywood and will truly be missed.”

— Lynn Collins, executive director of the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority

“Raymond Fairchild was quiet man of few words. He let his fingers speak for him. He was forever faithful to his music and this valley. Bluegrass has lost a legend. Maggie Valley has lost a family member.”

— Teresa Smith, executive director of the Maggie Valley Chamber of Commerce “Raymond Fairchild was a true original. He was a musician that totally had his own style. His influence on bluegrass music and the banjo is monumental. More personally, his influence on my life and my music is the same. I met Raymond when I was a kid, only 12 or 13 years old. I had the opportunity to play with him and his band several times at his Maggie Valley Opry. I learned so much from Raymond, especially about finding my own sound. He and Shirley were always so kind to me and I feel like they were a part of my family since the first time I met them.

The world has lost a musical giant and an incredibly good man. We were all very lucky to share the planet with Raymond Fairchild.”

— Trey Hensley, singer/guitarist for Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley “In 1963, when he signed with Rural Rhythm Records, Raymond’s first album of banjo music sold hundreds of thousands of copies. It was the first time many people, especially on the West Coast, heard threefinger banjo style. Raymond Fairchild was the real thing, a true mountain man. His music was mountain to the core.”

— David Holt, acclaimed storyteller/musician and host of PBS’ “David Holt’s State of Music” “I met Raymond Fairchild when I was eight years old and he was so kind to me as a young musician. My family and I became regulars at his Opry House in Maggie Valley, and he would always get me up to play a few tunes. So many of my first musical memories come from being onstage with Raymond and his great band. His music and personality will be so missed in Western North Carolina and beyond.”

— Seth Taylor, guitarist for acclaimed act Mountain Heart

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“When Raymond traveled to perform, he would hire his friends to play in his place at the Maggie Valley Opry. I loved the place, his sweet wife, Shirley, the people who came to listen and the knowledge that I was included as part of the magical experience of regional mountain music. Sitting on the car seats that served as couches in the Fairchild’s ‘green room’ was ‘making it.’ If Raymond thought you were good enough to play with or for him, well, that was an honor. Raymond Fairchild was a brilliant musician with stellar &timing. He was comfortable in his world and community, and we are less for his passing.”

— Carol Rifkin, award-winning musician and radio host on WNCW

wide, Raymond Fairchild will be missed for his sharp wit, his promotion of our mountain region, and his stylistic playing.

Bluegrass Heaven gained a good man.”

— Marc Pruett, banjoist for Balsam Range

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“The Crowe Brothers started our professional career with Raymond Fairchild in 1975 and traveled many years together. To say a lot in a little, he was one of the greatest banjo players of all-time and whenever fivestring banjo playing is mentioned, Raymond Fairchild’s name should definitely be included. His unique style was what made him so great. His playing was so different in every way from all the others. Rest in peace, friend.”

— Wallace Josh Crowe, guitarist for The Crowe Brothers

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“Raymond was a genuine master of the banjo. He could play as well as anyone, but always sounded like himself. I always respected that he did things his own way.”

— Graham Sharp, singer/banjoist for The Steep Canyon Rangers

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FAIRCHILD, CONTINUED FROM 20 Though he makes moonshine jelly that’ll cure any ailment you may have, his signature ‘shine recipe is still highly sought-after.

“You ever go through a laurel, hauling a 50-gallon barrel of moonshine in the pitchblack, without no flashlight like you have today?” he asked. “If you haven’t, I recommend you try.”

Fairchild’s Opry House is celebrating 25 years of music, memories and mountain culture. With two gold records proudly hanging on the wall, Fairchild’s resume is as long as the road out of town.

It includes his revered appearances at the Grand Ole Opry, five-time recipient of the “Banjo of the Year” award from the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America, not to mention his music (the renowned “Whoa Mule”) and image featured in numerous documentaries, articles, television and radio programs.

“Twenty-five years means I’m 25 years older. I ain’t got rich, but I could have done things and ended up a lot worse,” he chuckled.

Fairchild sits like an old tree with a few branches missing in his musty armchair, carefully positioned in the corner of a small pavilion covering the front entrance of the Opry House. Rising inch-by-inch like an unpeeled Band-Aid, he walks inside slowly, almost as if to not pull his roots out from under him if he were to move too fast.

His fingers are filled with enough grit to sand down the toughest of questions posed.

A watchful glare shoots out from his eyes, letting visitors know that though he may not say much, all it takes is a certain glance to get a point across.

“Mountain music is what this country was founded on. That’s the only pleasure they really had back then,” he said. “Most of them had to make their own instruments. That was their entertainment. And then Bill Monroe came along and put it in overdrive.”

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It’s early Saturday morning at Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame in Bean Blossom, Indiana. The sun has only been up a short while.

An old tour bus pulls to a stop. A moment later, Raymond Fairchild appears. The man of the hour has arrived. He walks with a slight limp through the morning dew of the grass, the dust of the roads surrounding the performance field.

Popping open his cases, he displays a handful of banjos, a few of which are for sale if the right price is suggested. There are boxes upon boxes of albums ready to be taken home.

Once he has set up shop, we head to the tour bus for a sit-down interview. He’s cordial, a tad feisty, with a presence that demands your attention. After about 15 minutes I turn off my recorder, but not before Fairchild introduces me to his bus driver, Bill Scoggins.

“You need to say hello to my friend Bill,” 22 Fairchild stated. “If you don’t talk to this

Fairchild and Larry Sparks backstage during Fairchild’s induction to Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame in Bean Blossom, Indiana. Garret K. Woodward photo fine man, you might as well not write about me. Bill has been with me for years. We’ve traveled hundreds of thousands of miles together.”

A long-time friend of Fairchild’s, Scoggins also played for several years with him onstage at the Maggie Valley Opry House.

“Raymond is the best banjo picker I ever saw,” Scoggins said. “He does thing most can’t, he can make it almost talk like a human being. He’s one of the last of that original generation. You don’t hear people play like that anymore. This induction is important to him, to me, to his fans, and to bluegrass music as a whole.”

“What kind of future do you think I’ve got?

Probably a short one. But, you just look back on it all, the music and the memories — if I had to do it over, I’d do it again.”

— Raymond Fairchild

A few hours later, Fairchild is sitting up onstage, in front of the entire Bean Blossom faithful. There’s a slight grin creeping up from each side of his mouth. For a man who usually plays it straight ahead and is a little rough around the edges, Fairchild is truly humbled by the induction ceremony.

Standing proudly behind him is Scoggins, with a few noticeable tears in his eyes.

Stepping up to the microphone, bluegrass legend Larry Sparks gives a speech to present Fairchild with the honor. Fairchild’s grin turns into a full-fledged smile when a letter is read to him by Sparks. It’s a letter of congratulations from another legend of the genre, another dear friend from along Fairchild’s long and sometimes arduous journey — Alison Krauss. A Hall of Famer himself (at Bean Blossom and the IBMAs), Sparks knows

just how important this award is.

“This honor is your work and your life,” Sparks said afterwards. “It’s for all those friends and family, those people and those fans who stayed with you all these years.

When you’re walking on the grounds of Bean Blossom, you’re walking on the grounds of history.”

Like many, Sparks also feels Fairchild’s induction is long overdue.

“Raymond has been with us a long time and he deserves to be in here as much as anybody who is already there,” he said. “He’s an original. When you heard him play, you knew exactly who it was.”

CAN’T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN, 2019 Though his fingers seemingly wrap around a walking cane more than his trusty banjo these days, Raymond Fairchild remains one of the finest musicians who ever picked up the five-string acoustic instrument — alive or six feet under.

“I just count myself another mountain picker. I don’t think I’m no better than anybody else, but I think I’m as good as any of ’em — that’s the legacy,” Fairchild said. “When they ask me when I’m going to retire, I say when somebody comes along and beats me at picking the banjo — and they said, ‘you’ll never retire.’”

Fairchild is sitting in a chair in front of the Maggie Valley Opry House, which he and his wife Shirley have owned and operated for 33 years. Fairchild himself recently turned 80, but shows no signs of slowing down, even with a performance schedule at the Opry House that hovers around seven nights a week in the summer months.

“The Opry House is a like a second home.

I’ve about quit the road and that gives people a chance to come see me here, you know?

Travel will kill you, man,” Fairchild said. “I play Friday and Saturday up to Memorial Day. Then, I’m going to play seven nights a week when I can. See, I’m going to run the

Opry House — it ain’t going to run me.”

Fairchild is a not only a man of his word, but someone fiercely loyal to those he calls friends and family. The only thing hard about Raymond Fairchild is his work ethic, one of tireless performing night after night, mile after mile — it’s his passion, and also his paycheck.

“I made a pretty good living. Raised three [kids]. I’ve got a pretty good little dwelling and I ain’t going hungry,” Fairchild said. “It’s just another way of making a living, but it’s more enjoyable than getting out and cutting wood or digging a hole in the ground.”

Aside from the unique dexterity in Fairchild’s fingertips, what’s just as aweinspiring is the lightning-fast speed by which he plays such intricate and complicated melodies.

“It just comes from the way I learned, I guess — I always liked to play fast. Of course, I can’t play that fast now,” Fairchild modestly stated. “And another thing, it all depends on who’s behind you. If the backup men can’t get it, you can’t either — they’ll drag you down.”

Many of the photographs and concert posters on the walls of the Opry House are yellowed and dusty. The faces and names are of bluegrass and country music legends — all friends of Fairchild, with most of which long gone from this earth.

“There are ones I really miss — The Lewis Family, Ralph Stanley, Bill Monroe,” Fairchild solemnly said. “It just brings back old memories. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, according to the mood you’re in. Sometimes you want to see them memories, sometimes you don’t. And a lot [of those faces] have done went on.”

Within the 65 years he’s played professionally, one moment sticks out more than the rest — the first time Fairchild took the stage at the Grand Ole Opry, held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.

Fairchild reckons that initial appearance was somewhere around 1977 or 1978. No matter though, because it led to several other pickin’n-grinnin’ sessions onstage at “The Mother Church of Country Music.”

“It was me and The Crowe Brothers — the greatest [three-piece] band that’s ever been together,” Fairchild reminisced. “A lot of people say their knees are shaking and they were nervous [being onstage at the Grand Ole Opry]. It didn’t bother me more than stepping out here [at the Maggie Valley Opry House]. But, I knew it was the highest you were going to go in this type of music — when you stand in front of them WSM microphones.”

Sitting back down in his chair in front of the Maggie Valley Opry House, Fairchild places his cane beside him and reaches for his banjo case. He unbuckles the latches and pulls out his old friend, those five strings that provided him with a life well-lived, one of musical glory and lore.

“Every time I pick up the banjo, I learn something. I still love a banjo guitar. I just love what I call mountain music,” Fairchild said. “What kind of future do you think I’ve got? Probably a short one. But, you just look back on it all, the music and the memories — if I had to do it over, I’d do it again.”

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Standing in the laundroTuesday, Oct. 22, in Forsyth Room 101 at mat just a block away from Western Carolina University. my apartment in Waynesville, The 23rd annual PumpkinFest will be held from I stared at Dryer #4 with a 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, in downtown puzzled look on my face. It Franklin. was 1:45 p.m. on an otherwise normal Tuesday. I Western Carolina University will host the 19th walked up to Dryer #4 and annual “Tournament of Champions” on Saturday, put my hand on the door. It Oct. 19, at E.J. Whitmire Stadium in Cullowhee. was still warm. It had hapThe next installment of “Comedy Night” will be pened: someone stole my held at 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, at Mad laundry.

Anthony’s Taproom & Restaurant in Waynesville.

Maybe I didn’t wash my clothes? Maybe it had been a figment of my imagination? around town or up a mountain, I was Back and forth to my apartment and the bummed at the thought of all that gear collaundromat confirmed my suspicions. Some lected over the last couple of years disapperson had indeed taken my clothes. pearing from my wardrobe.

My body shuttered at the notion. As a So, now what? I saw a phone number on longtime minimalist, I only do one large the wall stating, “In case of emergency, load of laundry every week. I thought of all call....” Aside from having nothing to run in my boxers and socks now gone, as were the that afternoon, there was no actual emerrock band T-shirts I was gifted from those groups that I wore on a weekly basis. So, too, gency. But, I texted the number and tried making contact. Nothing. I saw an older out of my life were pillowcases, bathing towwoman scrubbing one of the machines and els and washcloths. told her about my situation. She shrugged But, was really took the cake were all my dri-fit running clothes. That stuff ain’t cheap and said, “I’m not sure the security cameras work anymore.” being a writer and journalist in the modern Out of luck, I tossed the empty laundry world. For someone like myself who runs basket into my truck and headed back to my every day, and looks forward to those treks

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apartment. My humble abode felt a tad offkilter. Lots of empty hangers and a lack of that fresh laundry smell in the space.

In an effort to scrounge together whatever I could from the black hole that is my closet, I drudged up some old T-shirts and ill-fitting underwear. Found some stretched out (but wearable) socks, too. You know, I never thought I’d see the day where I’d actually bring my Grateful Dead tie-dyes back into my attire.

Thus, “Garret circa 2006” emerged from the small pile of old garments. Onward into the day: back to work, back to the grind.

After I posted a gripe about the whole incident on Facebook, I had a few folks reach out and ask if they could help by giving me some of their old clothes. Made me smile.

But, what was really crazy, was the fact that for the next week or so, I received several packages on my newsroom desk, all filled with T-shirts from regional bands, craft breweries, and just nice folks taking the time to make sure a friend was good to go.

There was my friend Harry from Knoxville who sent along an actual 1990 tour shirt for The Black Crowes (one of my all-time favorite bands). And T-shirts from several other kind souls, including Whiskey Foxtrot, a great outlaw country act from the Piedmont; Modern Strangers, a wild Asheville pop-rock outfit; Asheville Brewing, whose owner, Doug Riley, is a fellow music freak like myself; and Nick Dittmeier & The Sawdusters, a Kentucky alt-country band who have crashed on my apartment floor when they needed a place between shows.

That same week, I also found myself at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville.

Legendary bluegrass/jam ensemble Leftover Salmon was in town doing a recording session. And I was there to capture the scene.

After a couple of beers and hearty conversation in the studio, the banter turned to the laundry incident. Salmon’s lead singer Vince Herman, in solidarity, goes, “Ah, man.

Who does that?” A couple hours later when I was on my way out the door, I was handed a Salmon T-shirt.

But, what really threw me for a loop was a box I received in the newsroom a few days ago. It was from a company called Encore Apparel. The return address was Boston, Massachusetts.

With a slogan of, “Life is short. Play it loud,” the company connects music with fashion. What’s really cool is their “50 Makes 1” project that puts guitars into the hands of youths facing various challenges, with 10 percent of profits used for the program.

Anyhow, the shirts are packaged in these vinyl record sleeves. The package also included a handwritten card from Encore coowner Casey Paton.

It read: “Garret, We had a friend of our brand mention your recent laundry ‘situation’ — sorry to hear that man. I gotta say I loved discovering your work and appreciate your adventurous and optimistic attitude on all things life! Wanted to send down a handful of shirts, even threw in a running shirt cause you mentioned that in your post! Keep up the great creative work — hopefully our paths will cross in the future!”

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On the beat • Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host the “Lounge Series” at its Calaboose location with Maria Carrelli Band 7 p.m. Oct. 18, Nouveaux Honkies Oct. 19, Woolybooger 4 p.m. Oct. 20, A. Lee Edwards Oct. 24, Scott Streible Oct. 25, Granny’s Mason Jar 6:30 p.m. Oct. 26 and George Ausman 4 p.m. Oct. 27. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

• Blue Ridge Beer Hub (Waynesville) will host an acoustic jam with Main St. NoTones from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 17 and 24. Free and open to the public. www.blueridgebeerhub.com.

• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host a bluegrass open mic every Wednesday, an all-genres open mic every Thursday and The Halloween Bash 8:30 p.m. Oct. 26. All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.boojumbrewing.com.

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• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host The Valley Authority (bluegrass/country) Oct. 18, Joey Fortner & The Universal Sound (Americana/folk) Oct. 19, Marc Keller 3 p.m.

Oct. 20, Clark & Cole Oct. 25, Scoundrel’s Lounge Oct. 26 and Joey Fortner 3 p.m. Oct. 27. All shows begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

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• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Oct. 16 and 23, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Oct. 17 and 24. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Isis Music Hall (West Asheville) will host Lawn Series w/Queen Bee & The Honeylovers

(jazz/swing) 6 p.m. Oct. 16, Vagabond Crowe (Americana/folk) 7 p.m. Oct. 16, Lawn Series w/Fwuit (retro/soul) 6 p.m. Oct. 17, The Two Parkers (Americana/indie) 7 p.m. Oct. 17, The Wooks (Americana/bluegrass) 8:30 p.m.

Oct. 18, Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards (singer-songwriter) 7 p.m. Oct. 19, Ellis Dyson & The Shambles (jazz/old-time) 9 p.m. Oct. 19, Leav Calvert & Neal Fountain (Americana/folk) 6 p.m. Oct. 20, Fwuit (retro/soul) 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20, Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions w/The Theo & Brenna Band 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22, EG Vines & Natalie Royal (folk/soul) 7 p.m. Oct. 23 and “Life from WVL Radio Theater: The Headless Hessian of Sleepy Hollow (and other American horror stories)” (storyteller) 8:30 p.m. Oct. 23. www.isisasheville.com.

Journey tribute act in Franklin

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday, Ashley Heath & Her Heathens (rock) Oct. 19, Alex Culbreth Oct. 25 and Sol Rhythms Oct. 26. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

A tribute group to famed rock band Journey, the ensemble Departure will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Departure is the longest running and most respected Journey tribute band in all the world. They have been performing together for more than 10 years and book more than 100 shows each year.

They replicate the look, sound and feel of the original 1980s rock supergroup, who are best known for hits such as, “Don’t Stop Believin’” “Faithfully” and “Open Arms.”

Tickets start at $18 each. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, call 828.273.4615 or visit www.greatmountainmusic.com.

• Mad Anthony's Taproom & Restaurant (Waynesville) will host Bona Fide 7 p.m. Oct. 18 and Donnie & The Dry Heavers 5:30 p.m. Oct. 29. All shows are free and open to the public.

(rock/soul) Oct. 26. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host the “Stone Soup” open mic night every Tuesday, Shayler’s Kitchen Oct. 18 and 25, Somebody’s Child (Americana) Oct. 19 and Frank & Allie (Americana/old-time) Oct. 26.

All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

• Nantahala Brewing (Sylva) will host April B. & The Cool Oct. 18, Colby Deitz (Americana) Oct. 19, The Caribbean Cowboys (variety) Oct. 25 and Captain Midnight Band

• Oconaluftee Visitor Center (Cherokee) will host a back porch old-time music jam from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 19. All are welcome to come play or simply sit and listen to sounds of Southern Appalachia.

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

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

• Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub (Franklin)

will continue its Americana and songwriters showcase with Rachel Stewart Oct. 18, Blue Jazz Oct. 19, Joe Cat Oct. 25 and Gary Carter Oct. 26. Shows begin at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public. www.rathskellerfranklin.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• Whiteside Brewing (Cashiers) will host George Reeves & Dave Beasley Oct. 19. Both shows are at 6 p.m. Free and open to the public. 828.743.6000 or www.whitesidebrewing.com.

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The Haywood Community Band will present its next concert at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, at the Maggie Valley Open Air Pavilion on Soco Road.

The concert is entitled “America’s Rivers and Mountains” and features music which highlights various rivers and mountains across the country. This is the final concert of the Maggie Valley 2019 season. A November concert will be held in Waynesville.

No admission. Covered seating available or bring a lawn chair.

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Renowned bluegrass group The Gibson Brothers will headline the annual “Harvest Festival” that will be held Oct. 18-19 at the Stecoah Valley Center in Robbinsville.

• 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18: Micah Swimmer and native Cherokee dancers.

Storytelling, marshmellow roast, hot cocoa, and more.

• 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19: Artisan crafters, clogging, country fair, and quilt exhibit. Admission is $3 for adults, free for children (grades K-12).

• 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19: Performance by The Gibson Brothers. Admission is $30 for adults, $10 for students (grades K-12). Dinner will also be available for purchase in the Schoolhouse Cafe beginning at 6 p.m.

This is a contemporary bluegrass band who extend the tradition with standards and well-composed originals. Eric and Leigh Gibson are two-time IBMA “Entertainer Of The Year,” as well as “Vocal Group of the Year” and “Song of the Year.”

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

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On the street African-American history, culture in WNC The “Where We Live: History, Nature, and Culture” lecture series will host author, historian and artist Ann Woodford at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21, at the Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center in Franklin.

Woodford will be speaking on “AfricanAmerican History and Culture in Far Western North Carolina.” She has written about black history in the mountain region in her book When All God’s Children Get Together: A Celebration of the Lives and Music of African American People in Far Western North Carolina.

Folkmoot storytellers, songwriters series

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October 16-22, 2019

There will be two cultural series events this week at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville.

• Southern Storytellers Series: Americana/old-time musicians William Ritter & Sarah Ogletree will perform at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17.

Folkmoot, Blue Ridge Books and the Haywood County Public Library present the Southern Storytellers Supper Series. Tickets are $18 for adults and $10 for students.

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• Songwriters in the Round: Musicians John Wiggins, Gary Hannan, Alma Russ and Isaiah Breedlove will perform at 6 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 19. $20 for adults and $10 for students. www.folkmoot.org.

• “Travels and Tall Tales with Alan French” will present “The Viking Adventures of King Harald Harðraða & Villain Eiríkr Þorvaldsson” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Free and open to the public.

• Fines Creek Dance Night will be held on Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Fines Creek Community Center.

Food at 6 p.m. with the dance at 7 p.m. Live music by Running Wolfe & The Renegades (traditional country/rock). Admission is $5 with dinner $7.

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• The “Horror Haunted House” will be held Oct. 18-19, 25-26 and 31 at the Fines Creek Community Center. Presented by the Fines Creek Community Association and Mayhem Roller Derby. Entry is $5 per person. For more information, email fcncsmac@gmail.com.

All proceeds go to support community needs, scholarships and the MANNA Foodbank.

PumpkinFest rolls into Franklin The 23rd annual PumpkinFest will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, in downtown Franklin.

The centerpiece event of PumpkinFest is the World Famous PumpkinRoll. Who can roll a pumpkin the greatest distance down Phillips Street and vying for bragging rights and the $100 grand prize? One past winner rolled 1,021 feet.

Sign up for the Pumpkin Roll is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. with the actual “roll” from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pumpkins will be available for purchase at the event or bring your own.

Other highlights of the day include a costume parade and contest, pumpkin pie eat-

ing contest, along with more than 80 vendors featuring arts and crafts, fabulous festival food, and more.

Downtown merchants get in on the fun as well as little ones can enjoy treats with merchants from 3 to 4 p.m.

There will be two Kid’s Zones with free inflatable slides, bounce houses and more.

Free pony rides. These areas will be located at each end of Main Street. Free shuttle rides from Franklin High School.

PumpkinFest is sponsored by the Town of Franklin. For more information, visit www.townoffranklinnc.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pumpkinfestfranklin or call Franklin Town Hall at 828.524.2516.

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There you will see artists at work, creating drawings and/or paintings. Then, follow the pennants into the Ministry Activity Center Building where you will see the main part of the show.

This year, in addition to Iam’s professional and advanced student artists, they will showcase high school art students. Art teachers, Dustin Keys from Pisgah and Stephanie Kea from Tuscola, will have their students’ work displayed on the stage.

Fourth graders from First Baptist’s KidCREATE’S KidART Program will also be on display.

Aside from the Creativity Center for children to make their own art, there will also be several professional artists on-hand for those interested in learning more about Iam. For more information on Iam, contact Char Avrunin at 828.456.9197 or email charspaintings@msn.com. www.haywoodapplefest.com.

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LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD Lorraine Jordan and Carolina Road’s distinct sound and old-time flair can be attributed to the bluegrassrich area of North Carolina from which they hail and borrow their name. Bandleader Lorraine Jordan’s showmanship and chemistry with the audience make the group a perennial favorite among bluegrass fans at festivals and concerts across the country. Carolina Road’s performance is a hard driving traditional sound with invigorating instrumentals, smooth blending vocals, and all the energy that you can stand.

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The Haywood County Apple Harvest Festival will be held 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 19, in downtown Waynesville.

The annual festival is a celebration of the autumn harvest and Haywood County’s agricultural heritage. The event features handmade arts and crafts, locally grown apples and apple products for sale.

In addition, the festival will feature food vendors of all types, educational and information booths, authentic mountain music, dance groups and a children’s fun area.

The Inspired Art Ministry, Inc. is pleased to offer its 11th annual Art Show as part of the Apple Festival, which will be held in front of the First Baptist Church, Zone Section Blue, Booth #176.

p.m.; and Ardrey Kell, 3:15 p.m.

Georgia bands are their competition times are Mill Creek, 9:45 a.m.; Allatoona, 10 a.m.; Ola, 10:30 a.m.; Lassiter, 11:15 a.m.; Kennesaw Mountain, 1 p.m.; and Walton, 1:45 p.m.

Farragut is the first Tennessee school to compete at 9:15 a.m., followed by Seymour at 10:45 a.m.; Hardin Valley, 3:30 p.m.; and Dobyns-Bennett, 3:45 p.m.

Competing from South Carolina are Mauldin, 2 p.m.; and James F. Byrnes, 2:30 p.m.

Tickets for the Tournament of Champions are $15, which includes the preliminaries and the finals. Groups of 15 or more will receive a discounted price of $12 per ticket. For more ticket information, email potminfo@wcu.edu.

WCU’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band will perform at 4 p.m. To learn more about the band or to support its upcoming performance in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, visit www.prideofthemountains.com.

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Western Carolina University will host the 19th annual “Tournament of Champions” on Saturday, Oct. 19, at E.J. Whitmire Stadium in Cullowhee.

Twenty-three high school bands from North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia will compete for the Chancellor’s Award, a glass traveling trophy that is awarded to the grand champion. The highest scoring band from North Carolina will receive the Roll of Honor.

Dobyns-Bennett of Kingsport, Tennessee, is the two-time defending Chancellor’s Award winner, while Charlotte’s Ardrey Kell High School was the winner of last year’s Roll of Honor.

The bands will compete in a preliminary/finals format. Eleven bands from North Carolina will compete beginning with Wake Forest at 9 a.m.; Tuscola, 9:30 a.m.; Panther Creek, 11 a.m.; Pisgah, 11:30 a.m.; Cox Mill, 12:30 p.m.; South Caldwell, 12:45 p.m.; Enka, 1:15 p.m.; McDowell, 1:30 p.m.; Enloe, 2:45 p.m.; Green Hope, 3

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On the wall Booker exhibit at WCU The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center will present the exhibit, “Chakaia Booker: Auspicious Behavior,” which will be on display through Oct. 25.

Booker is an abstract sculptor who creates textured, layered works in both 3-D and 2-D media. Her work addresses African-American identity, racial and economic inequality, and environmental concerns.

“Auspicious Behavior” is a traveling exhibition that was organized by the Ewing Gallery at the University of Tennessee and will feature 19 of Booker’s chine collé prints and four of her sculptures made from repurposed tires.

The WCU Fine Art Museum is always free and open to the public, with free parking on site, Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursday until 7 p.m.

More details at arts.wcu.edu/exhibitions.

HCAC studio tour exhibition

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October 16-22, 2019

This October, Haywood County residents and visitors are invited to view work from artists who operate studios in the county and have participated in past open studio tours.

Exhibitors work in diverse media. You can view the work through Oct. 26 at the Haywood

County Arts Council in Waynesville.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday-Tuesday and Thursday-Saturday.

HCAC is closed on Wednesday and Sunday. www.haywoodarts.org.

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Creating Community Workshop The next Creating Community Workshop will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, in the Atrium of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Creating a small, personal altar can be a touchstone that reminds us to slow down, give attention to and stay connected.

Instructor Jennifer Ashlock lives and works in Jackson County. This community project is based on a similar workshop series she conducted as a thesis project for her MA. Participants will use simple craft supplies.

No previous art experience is required and the project is accessible to all abilities and backgrounds. Materials are provided and participants are encouraged to bring personal items/photos to apply to their altar. The workshop is limited to 12 participants. To register, call the library at 828.586.2016.

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

Cartoonist Bob Mankoff to speak at WCU Western Carolina University’s new doctor of psychology program will host the first event of its inaugural speaker series Tuesday, Oct. 22.

Cartoonist Bob Mankoff will speak at 6 p.m. in Forsyth Room 101. Mankoff has used comedy and satire during a career that has spanned more than 40 years at some of the top publications in the country, including The New Yorker and Esquire magazines.

His talk is titled “What’s So Funny and Why AI (artificial intelligence)?” and will address the intersection of artificial intelligence and humor. It will focus on the creative process, from writing a successful “New Yorker” cartoon to inspiring creativity in others and enhancing ideas with AI and big data.

For more information, contact Tom Ford at 828.227.2109 or tford@wcu.edu.

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• “Happy Hour & Hats” class will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville. Enjoy a glass of wine while painting your trucker hat. All supplies provided. Cost is $49 for HCAC members and $55 for non-members. haywoodarts.org.

• Jennifer Hawkins Hock’s exhibit “Artist Room Studies: 2D to 3D” is currently on display during the month of October at Macon County Public Library Living Room in Franklin. The exhibit features 21 of Hock’s 3-dimensional miniature assemblages depicting painted or photographed rooms from artists such as Henri Matisse, Edouard Vuillard, Frida Kahlo, and Georgia O’Keeffe.

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• The Weekly Open Studio art classes will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville, Instructor will be Betina Morgan. Open to all artists, at any stage of development, and in the medium of your choice. Cost is $25 per class. There will also be a Youth Art Class from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. on Wednesdays. Cost is $15 per class.

Contact Morgan at 828.550.6190 or email bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

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

Apply via www.haywood.edu at the jobs page or directly at governmentjobs.com/careers/haywoodedu Contact Beverly Balliot in HR at 828-627-4562 if you have any questions.

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• The Museum of the Cherokee Indian’s exhibit, “People of the Clay: Contemporary Cherokee Potters,” features more than 60 potters from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee Nation, and more than one hundred works from 1900 to the present. The exhibit will run through April.

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• The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center is pleased to present, “Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment.” This exhibition will be on display through Dec. 6. It features sound-based artwork that encourages visitors to listen more closely to the natural world and to think about how sound is being used in a time of environmental crisis. To learn more, visit bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

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• Master ceramicist Kathy Murphy will host the “Tiles & Murals” workshop as part of the Master Potters Series from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Cowee Pottery School in Franklin. www.coweepotteryschool.org.

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The next installment of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Comedy Nightâ&#x20AC;? will be held at 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, at Mad Anthonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taproom & Restaurant in Waynesville.

The evening will include feature nationally-touring and acclaimed stand-up comic Minori Hinds, as well as Berek Boskovitch, Kenny Stempien and Jake Koll.

Hinds is a stand-up comic born in Japan, yet has spent most of her life in Asheville.

From the Satellite in Los Angeles to the Bell House in Brooklyn, a dog park in Atlanta or a house show in the redwoods, she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep herself from oversharing for the entertainment of strangers everywhere.

She has featured for such comics as Judah Friedlander, Rory Scovel, Neil Hamburger, and Janeane Garofalo, who deemed her â&#x20AC;&#x153;almost too funny.â&#x20AC;? She was selected for the Cape Fear Comedy Festival, Asheville Comedy Festival, and the Limestone Comedy Festival.

HART presents â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Arsenic & Old Laceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The comedy classic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arsenic and Old Laceâ&#x20AC;? will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1819, 25-26, Nov. 1-2 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 20, 27 and Nov. 3 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

The story involves two lovely maiden aunts who have a special receipe for spicing up a glass of sherry, an uncle who thinks heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Teddy Roosevelt, a nephew who keeps finding dead bodies around the house, and a variety of colorful neighborhood characters to keep things complicated. This is a show that is suitable for the whole family.

Harmonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Den Bistro at HART will be open for dining before all performances.

Reservations can be made for the show and the bistro by calling the HART Box Office Tuesday through Saturday 1 to 5 p.m. at 828.456.6322 or by going online to www.harttheatre.org.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Sleepy Hollow Experienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The popular stage production of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sleepy Hollow Experienceâ&#x20AC;? will be held starting at 7 p.m. Thursday to Sunday through Nov. 3 at Cherokee Adventure on Tsali Boulevard.

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Admission is $5 at the door (cash or credit card accepted). Must be age 18 or older to attend.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Night of the Living Deadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; A fall production of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Night of the Living Deadâ&#x20AC;? will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18-19, 21 and 3 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Smoky Mountain Community Theatre in Bryson City.

The production is based on the 1968 cult classic movie by George Romero: this is where the zombie craze began. Viewer discretion is advised, due to scary zombies, fight scenes and blood.

Tickets are $14 for adults, $8 for students ages 6 to 18, and under 6 are free. Tickets can be purchased beforehand with credit or debit cards at SMCTheatre.eventbrite.com. The box office opens one hour prior to show time.

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‘Lost Words and Obstacles:’ a review The illustration of the lark, which Shelly, Keats, and a hundred other English poets painted with ink — how, given that history, could “lark” not make a dictionary? — flies against a background of sponge-like brown colors.

come again and my heart grows flatter — so I’m coming to find you by following your song.

Keeping on into deep space, past dying stars and exploding suns, to where at last, little astronaut, you sing your heart out at all dark matter.

Macfarlane is the author of such books as The Wild Places and The Old Ways, Jackie Morris of The Snow Leopard, West of the Moon, The Ice Bear, and other works. Both authors hope that The Lost Words will bring about a movement “to rewild childhood across Britain, Europe, and North America,” in other words, to pull our children away from their screens and introduce them to the great outdoors.

The Lost Words offers a lovely welcome step in that direction.

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“When the most recent edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary — widely used in schools around the world — was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around 40 common words concerning nature had been dropped. The words were no longer being used enough by children to merit their place in the dictionary. The list of these “lost words” includes acorn, adder, bluebell, dandelion, fern, heron kingfisher, newt, otter, and willow. Among the Writer words taking their place were attachment, blog, broadband, bullet-point, cut-andpaste, and voice-mail. The news of these substitutions — the outdoor and natural being displaced by the indoor and virtual — became seen by many as a powerful sign of the growing gulf between childhood and the natural world.”

We find this quotation on the back of the book The Lost Words: A Spell Book (Anansi International, 2017, 128 pages). Here writers Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, two of those people unhappy with the exclusion of these nature words from a dictionary, set out through poetry and beautiful illustrations to restore those words to the vocabulary, to “celebrate the wonder and importance of everyday nature,” and to encourage all of us, especially children, to reengage with woods, fields, birds, and wildlife.

The Lost Words is a large book, measuring 11-by-14 inches, and is a treasure house of words and paintings. The entry entitled “fern,” for example, includes an exquisitely drawn and colored fern, including its bulbous roots, along with this poem: Fern’s first form is furled, Each frond fast as a fiddle-head.

Reach, roll and unfold follow.

Fern flares.

Now fern is fully fanned.

Little astronaut, where have you gone, and how is your song still torrenting on?

Aren’t you short of breath as you climb higher, up there in the thin air, with your magical song still tumbling on?

Right now I need you, for my sadness has

Lyons to discuss debut work Author and storyteller Lee Lyons will read and discuss her debut novel Southern Shamrock at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, at the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin.

The book mixes threads from Lyons’ Irish ancestors with her own sorrow over the death of her son, weaving a fictional story that combines a woman’s redemption with travelogue, mystery, and romance.

A Highlands resident since 2003, Lyons volunteers on and off stage with the Highlands-Cashiers Community Players, and participates in the Highlands Writers’ Group.

Learn more about this personable, articulate, humorous, and decidedly Southern author-storyteller at leelyons.me. Refreshments

••• Though as a reviewer I am reluctant to consider books any older than The Lost Words, except for columns aimed specifically from time to time at deceased authors like Thomas Wolfe, sometimes a book smacks me upside the head with such force that it deserves notice.

One such book is The Obstacle Is The Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Penguin, 2014, 201 pages). I stumbled across The Obstacle Is The Way in my public library, finished it in two readings, and have marked with slips of paper a dozen pages to which I wish to return.

will be served, and copies of Lyons’ book will be available for purchase and signing.

This event is produced by the Arts Council of Macon County. For more information, call 828.524.ARTS or email arts4all@dnet.net.

Folk School ‘Literary Hour’ The John C. Campbell Folk School and NC Writers’ Network-West will sponsor The Literary Hour at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, at the Folk School in Brasstown.

At this event, NCWN-West members will read at the Keith House on the JCCFS campus. This event is now held in the community room. The Literary Hour is held on the third Thursday of the month

Here Ryan Holiday addresses the obstacles and the supposed failures all of us face in a lifetime, and how human beings from Amelia Earhart to Laura Ingles Wilder, from Erwin Rommel to Arthur Ashe, dealt with their own hurdles. Holiday teaches us that if we approach these barriers with an attitude of perception, looking for the good rather than the bad, seeking to learn when we fall on our faces, and disciplining our will to get us back on feet and moving forward, then we can meet these challenges and emerge triumphant. The Stoic philosophers who back this approach and whom Holiday cites — Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca — once again prove their value after 2,000 years.

The examples Holiday selects for our edification and the lessons he draws from them are excellent. My personal favorite was the story he told of Thomas Edison, who at the age of 68 was summoned from his home one evening with the news that his research and production plant was on fire. Despite the efforts of firefighters from eight nearby towns, the blaze, fueled by chemicals within the buildings, soon reached six and seven stories high.

“Edison calmly but quickly made his way to the fire, through the now hundreds of onlookers and devastated employees, looking for his son. ‘Go get your mother and all her friends,’ he told his son with childlike excitement. ‘They’ll never see a fire like this again.’”

That anecdote just cracked me up. It also reinforced an attitude within me, perhaps one accompanied by aging, that few things in life, especially material goods, are all that important.

Within a year, Edison had the plant up and running again, making greater profits than ever before and “churning out new products the world had never seen.”

In his introduction to The Obstacle Is The Way, Holiday writes “obstacles are actually opportunities to test ourselves, to try new things, and, ultimately, to triumph.”

He convinced me. This one’s a keeper.

(Jeff Minick is a writer and teacher. minick0301@gmail.com)

unless otherwise indicated.

This month’s featured readers will be Glenda Council Beall, James F. I. Davis and Mary Michelle Brodine Keller. This reading is free of charge and open to the public.

For more information regarding this event, contact Mary Ricketson at maryricketson311@hotmail.com.

• Monthly Poetry Reading at Panacea Coffeehouse in Waynesville.

Last Saturdays every month at 2 p.m. Bring your poetry, essays and writings to share.

Be sure to order drinks and snacks and tip the staff of Panacea. For more information, contact Morella Poe at poevampyre@gmail.com.

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Outdoor economy efforts continue More than 500 gather to move the industry forward

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER f the United States’ outdoor recreation industry were its own country, it would be the world’s 25th largest economy. And, while towns like Moab and Boulder and Jackson Hole might have more name recognition on a nationwide scale, Western North Carolina has everything it takes to command a large piece of that hypothetical country’s pie.

At least, that was the prevailing attitude among the 530 people who attended the second annual Outdoor Economy Conference Oct. 10, held at the Crowne Plaza Resort in Asheville.

They’ve got reason to be optimistic. WNC is home to the country’s most visited national park, one of its most visited national park units and its most renowned long-distance trail — that’s the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Appalachian Trail, respectively — with a smattering of small mountain towns full of entrepreneurs and adventurers whose livelihood depends on the mountains’ draw to tourists and residents alike.

Statewide, according to the Outdoor Industry Association, the outdoor recreation industry generates an annual $28 billion in consumer spending, $8.3 billion in wages and salaries and $1.3 billion in state and local taxes, directly supporting 260,000 jobs. And on a nationwide scale, said U.S. Forest Service Director of Recreation, Heritage and Volunteer Resources Michiko Martin during a lunchtime panel discussion at the conference, the outdoor recreation industry commands 2.2 percent of the GDP. That equates to about $20 trillion.

“What I think is one huge problem facing our recreation industry is that we don’t behave like we are the 25th most powerful country in the world,” said Martin. “We don’t do that, and we need to. We’re giving away a lot of power to other industries, and that is a huge problem facing our country because as we make decisions we’re not putting resources into areas like recreation, and I think that needs to change.”

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PROTECTING THE SUPPLY CHAIN The outdoor recreation industry contributes more to the U.S. economy than mining or pharmaceuticals or utilities, said Martin. Yet, even as the industry has grown, federal funding to support it has fallen, or stagnated.

As an example, said Martin, the Forest Service gets about $5 billion per year to fund all of its activities. In 1998, 15 percent of that

money went to fire management and the remaining 85 percent funded all other Forest Service activities. But the cost of firefighting has risen, and in 2015, the Forest Service reached a tipping point where it now spends more money on fire than on all its other areas of responsibility combined.

In terms of infrastructure, the Forest Service manages 149,000 miles of hiking trails, more than three times the length of the entire interstate highway system. But, while the highway system receives $46 billion each year, the Forest Service must maintain its trails out of its overall $5 billion allotment.

The agency currently has a maintenance backlog totaling $5.1 billion.

“Your public lands are part of your supply chain, so start thinking of that and stewarding them like your supply chain,” said Martin.

The National Park Service faces similar issues. Its 419 units share a cumulative $11.9 billion in deferred maintenance, including $235.9 million in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and $508.1 million on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Those numbers pale in comparison to the parks’ annual federal appropriations, which sit around $19 million for the Smokies and just under $16 million for the Parkway.

It will take more than simply advocating for more funding to navigate these obstacles, said Parkway Superintendent J.D. Lee during the same panel discussion.

“While we certainly have challenges, I think we also are smart enough and realize that we need to take advantage of these opportunities to develop more partnerships, certainly through the collaboration that we have with our communities along this 469mile Parkway,” said Lee. “We are exploring other ways, and we have been for some time, to see that dollar stretch and to find opportunities to be efficient. I think that’s the key word is how can we be more efficient with the dollars that we have.”

For instance, while the Parkway has more than 360 miles of trail along its length, none of its 120 full-time employees is specifically assigned to trail work. The Parkway relies on volunteer efforts from groups like the Carolina Mountain Club, Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation to raise money and keep the trails in good shape. In 2018, the Parkway received 42,000 hours of volunteer time, the equivalent of about 20 full-time employees.

“About 23 percent of our staff time is volunteer time,” said Lee. “You can see how important it is that we have partnerships and collaboration with our local communities.”

MORE THAN A CONFERENCE The Outdoor Economy Conference seeks to bring together the diverse people and organizations that make up the broader out-

door economy of WNC, in hopes of strengthening and growing that economy through increased knowledge and collaboration between all the businesses, nonprofits, community organizations, governments and academic leaders who are involved with it.

Western Carolina University held the inaugural conference on Oct. 5, 2018, with registration selling out at 250 attendees. Last year was a big one for efforts to jumpstart outdoorrelated economic efforts, with the state government establishing the N.C. Outdoor Recreation Industry Office in March 2018 and over the summer signing on, along with 11

which offered five different discussions for conference-goers to choose from. Speakers ranged from local outfitters and gear builders to people in visible positions of public responsibility, such as Superintendent Lee and Director of N.C. State Parks Dwayne Patterson.

These efforts to grow and nurture WNC’s outdoor economy extend far beyond the three days touched by conference activities. The Growing Outdoors Partnership — led by Mountain BizWorks with partners including the Outdoor Gear Builders of Western North Carolina, WCU, Burke Development Inc.,

Attendees mull the issues during a breakout session. rebel USA · www.rebelusa.com photos

other states, to a set of principles aimed at allowing states to share knowledge and best practices toward sustainable, long-term growth in the outdoor industry.

In the week after the 2018 conference, the Appalachian Regional Commission announced a $940,000 grant to Mountain BizWorks specifically aimed at furthering those efforts. Together with nearly $800,000 in local matching funds, the award created a significant pot of money to help make WNC a better breeding ground for outdoor companies.

With an eye to increasing attendance and growing the conference in the years ahead, WCU teamed up with the Growing Outdoors Partnership to hold this year’s conference in Asheville, at the Crowne Plaza Resort. While the main conference was once again a singleday event, this year’s offerings included an opening reception and outdoor business pitch competition the evening of Oct. 9, as well as an unofficial nighttime after party Oct. 10 and a half-day workshop aimed at building outdoor communities, held the morning of Oct. 11 at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company.

The main day, Oct. 10, included three sessions featuring addresses to the entire group as well as three breakout sessions, each of

Graham County Economic Development, Mitchell County Economic Development Commission, the Southwestern Commission, Natural Capital Investment Fund Inc., and the N.C. Outdoor Recreation Industry Office — is continuing to work on a set of focus areas aimed at strengthening the industry.

The group wants to create a world-class talent pipeline, support entrepreneurship and access to capital, expand national and regional markets for WNC’s offerings, connect industry members and engage with economic development partners.

Evidence of progress on the first of those fronts was shared during the lunch session when Todd Creasy, MBA program director for WCU, announced the university’s intention to begin developing a MBA program specific to the outdoor industry.

“What we’re trying to do is to offer a program to folks like yourself that can not only meet and greet like what you’re doing right now but also engage in classes that will help you with the business side of the outdoor economy,” said Creasy.

The idea is that this would be a one-year graduate degree patterned after MBA but targeted toward people who own, manage or work at busi-

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nesses that help others enjoy the wonders of nature. The program is still in the conceptual stage, with WCU gauging public interest and determining what such a program should entail.

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tains, and it’s so simple but every single hiker icon we’ve seen for our whole life is some dude, so just the fact that it’s a blue woman might make people of color or women or LGTBQ say, ‘Oh, there’s something slightly different about this company.’”

Companies can also widen their pool of potential customers by cultivating a diverse team of employees, said Kexel. That can mean rethinking the way they search for and hire applicants.

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urally going to be at. That’s how we’ve hired the folks of color that we’ve hired and the people of different backgrounds.”

As well as company-specific messages, a unified regional message is important, the panelists said.

“We have such awesome experiences and opportunities here, but it’s everybody sending out their own little message,” said Greiner. “I’ve never gotten together with these guys and said, ‘What’s the one message we could do that will bring them here, and then I’ll compete against you to try to get them to spend their money with me.

But we’ve got to get them here first. We do that, then we stop competing against Moab and all that. Now we’re just competing against ourselves.”

That starts with Western North Carolinians taking proper pride in the beauty and diversity of their home region, said Pharr Davis.

“There is so much here to do outdoors and to recreate, and we have a much longer season to do it, and the waterways are incredible,” she said. “The South has its issues, and it’s got its past, but the vibrant culture and outdoor places we call home, I don’t think we take enough pride in saying, ‘What’s up, Boulder or Bellingham or Burlington?’”

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The conference also featured input from people who are already knee-deep in the industry, learning about its joys and challenges firsthand while trying to make a go of the businesses they’re depending on to feed their families.

One such session featured a diverse trio of outdoors business owners — record-setting Appalachian Trail hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis, who founded Blue Ridge Hiking Company in Asheville 11 years ago; Jeff Greiner, who is the second generation of his family to operate the 50-year-old rafting, zipline and lodging company Wildwater; and Torin Kexel, who has been leading electric bike tours of Asheville since founding The Flying Bike in 2017.

It’s no secret that the Asheville area has grown over the past decade or so, and in Greiner’s estimation the outdoor industry has actually slipped in its relative importance to the average visitor.

“If we go back 10 or 15 years ago, we were kind of the golden child. We were what everybody was talking about that people come to Asheville for,” said Greiner.

“And we are still, I think, the reason people want that initial experience of coming to Asheville, but I think it’s easy to get lost in the shuffle of everything else that’s out there.”

One strategy would be to reach out to food, music and cultural outlets to find ways to collaborate and provide an even better experience for tourists — like, for instance, in the case of restaurants that will agree to cook food foraged during a woodland tour.

It’s also important for the outdoor companies themselves to be proactive about communicating what makes them different from their competitors — especially larger companies who have more money to spend on ads and therefore are likely to reach more prospective clients.

“It’s been a good challenge for us to say, ‘Why should people still use us, and what does differentiate us from these huge companies?’ And local knowledge is huge for us, being very inclusive and beginner-friendly,” said Pharr Davis. “Our logo itself has a female hiker icon walking into the moun-

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A discussion series featuring books and videos about people who thrive on exploring the natural word will kick off at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

Called “Pushing the Limits,” the series is open to all adults with this month’s session led by STEM coordinator Randi Neff, who recently traveled to Alaska. This month’s book is Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska by Michael D’Orso. Copies are available at the library.

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Elevate immunity with elderberry elixirs Asheville herbalist Heather Perry will deliver a seminar titled “Elderberry Elixirs and Immune-Boosting Herbs” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

The class will cover how to strengthen the immune system with herbal medicine, specific immune-boosting herbs and how to use them, recipes for creating health-boosting syrups and teas and how to create an elderberry elixir for home use.

Originally from southern California, Perry became a community herbalist through the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine in Western North Carolina. Free, and co-sponsored by Friends of the Jackson County Public Library. Space is limited — register at the library or call 828.586.2016.

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HCC Lumberjacks dominate The Lumberjack Team at Haywood Community College took first place at the 24th annual John G. Palmer Intercollegiate Woodsmen’s Meet, held Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Cradle of Forestry in the Pisgah National Forest.

In addition to HCC, teams from Western Carolina University, N.C. State University, Appalachian State University, West Virginia University, Montgomery Community College and Dabney S. Lancaster Community College competed in the event.

HCC took a close first-place finish against Dabney, which came in second. Montgomery’s strong showing earned it a third-place overall finish, with the remaining universities following closely.

HCC’s individual place winners are:

First place • Quiz bowl: Andrew Jones, Josh Anderson, Mike Gilgunn, Oliver Watts.

• Dendrology: Andrew Jones and Delaney Goforth • Archery: Trey Huffman • Jill and Jill crosscut: Taylor Mashburn and Tara Messer • Jack and Jack crosscut: Channing Watson and Trey Huffman • Men’s pole climb: Dylan Mehaffey • Men’s underhand chop: Darby Hand • Women’s underhand chop: Taylor Mashburn Second place • Women’s axe throw: Angie James • Orienteering: Delaney Goforth • Standing block chop: Darby Hand • Jack and Jill crosscut: Taylor Mashburn and Alec Parsons • Women’s single buck: Taylor Mashburn • Men’s underhand chop: Alec Parsons Third place • Women’s chain saw: Angie James • Men’s bolt split: Dylan Carswell • Men’s pole climb: Dylan Carswell

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Purchase will protect Canton water quality A newly conserved 139 acres in Haywood County will connect the Town of Canton’s Rough Creek watershed property to other tracts of protected land, permanently protecting wildlife habitat, scenic views from public trails and water quality.

The land, purchased by the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, connects to land previously protected by SAHC to form, in conjunction with the watershed property, 1,120 acres of nearly contiguous land.

The purchase will improve the surface water quality by protecting 2.5 miles of stream from development. That bodes well for Beaverdam Creek, whose water quality is considered to be on the decline. The acquisition directly supports the Beaverdam Watershed Action Plan, produced by the Haywood Waterways Association and Pigeon River Fund.

A generous seed gift from private donors, combined with support from SAHC members and $25,000 from the Pigeon River Fund of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, made the project possible.

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Bats will be in the spotlight on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Cradle of Forestry in America.

From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., information and activity tables will help children and adults alike learn more about local bats and what they can do to save them. It’s the Cradle’s contribution to celebrating Bat Week — an international celebration of the role of bats in nature.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the same day, a workshop for formal and non-formal educators will focus on N.C. bat species, conservation issues and activities to plan for programs and classrooms. The class is free, and participants are eligible for six hours of Criteria III credit toward an N.C. Environmental Education Certification.

Pre-registration is required for the workshop with Stephanie Bradley, cradleprograms@cfaia.org. The Bat Week celebration is free with regular Cradle admission, $6 for adults and $3 for youth 4 to 12. The Cradle of Forestry is located along U.S. 276 in the Pisgah National Forest near Brevard.

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The newly acquired land is currently used as pasture for beef cattle. Donated photo sloping, matting and replanting banks with native shrubs and tress.

“Our father and mother, Roger and Bobbie Seay, purchased the Tessentee tract in the early 1990s, when their beef cattle operation required more pastureland,” said Seay. “We both can remember him being

particularly proud of the hay production from this beautiful piece of land.”

The land is currently leased to a farmer and home to a herd of beef cattle; Mainspring will continue that contract on a year-to-year basis. www.mainspringconserves.org.

Macon youth hit the target Macon County youth recently placed in an archery and sharpshooting completion that included 380 4H members from across the state.

• The archery recurve team placed fourth overall, including members Morgan Simpson, Isaiah Simpson, Isabella Wilkins, Greg Tallent and Lily Powell.

• In the junior individual competition for compound bows, Wyatt Browning placed fourth and River Ball placed eighth.

• In the air rifle competition, John Cabe placed ninth in senior individual. In junior individual, Morgan Simpson placed 10th and Isaiah Simpson placed 16th.

Coaches were Brett Adams, Carol Pitts, Cliff Cyphers and Tony Begnaud.

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An additional 43 acres has been added to the Tessentee Bottomland Preserve owned by Mainspring Conservation Trust in southern Macon County.

With the new land, the Preserve now totals 112 acres. It is open to the public and has grown since its establishment in 1999 through four separate land transactions.

The new section was purchased from adjacent farmland owned by sisters Teresa Seay and Susie Seay Woleslagle.

The pasture includes 3,900 combined feet of Little Tennessee River and Tessentee Creek frontage. In 2015, Mainspring and the Seay family worked together to restore more than 2,000 feet of Tessentee Creek that lies between the property, including reconstructing the stream channel, and

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Wildlife ambassadors available for school programs

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Mountain Wildlife Outreach programs give kids the chance to see wildlife up close. Donated photo

Learn to swim Swim classes for youth and adults will be offered over the coming weeks at Western Carolina University.

Classes will be held Monday through Wednesday, Oct. 21-23 and Oct. 28-30, for a total of six nights over a two-week period. The youth refresher class will run from 6:30 to 7:20 p.m. each night with the adult beginner class following from 7:30 to 8:20 p.m. The adult class offers a supportive environment for adults who have not learned how to swim.

Cost is $59 per participant, with classes taught by Mike Creason, an instructor who has been teaching swimming lessons for more than 40 years. Sign up at swim.wcu.edu or call 828.227.7397.

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October 16-22, 2019

Enjoy fall colors in Panthertown Valley while helping to keep the trails maintained with a string of upcoming work days in the Nantahala National Forest near Cashiers.

Trail steward Charly Aurelia will lead the excursions, with trail maintenance activities occurring during a group hike from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dates are Tuesday, Oct. 22, at the Cold Mountain Gap Trailhead; Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Salt Rock Gap Trailhead; Sunday, Nov. 10, with Nantahala Area SORBA, location to be determined; and Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Salt Rock Gap Trailhead.

Tools, safety gear and a safety orientation will be provided, with volunteers expected to wear closed-toed shoes and long pants and to bring water, snacks and a bag lunch. The group will hike about 5 miles on easy-tomoderate trails while doing some trail corridor clearing and tread and drain work.

RSVPS are not necessary, but appreciated. No experience required. friends@panthertown.org or 828.269.4453.

This summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mountain Wildlife Days event in Sapphire was one of the most successful ever, and Mountain Wildlife Outreach will use the funds raised to provide live animal programs in Western North Carolina schools this academic year.

For a limited time, these programs are available free of charge. They feature live wolves, raptors, reptiles, amphibians and more, accompanied by handlers who can unlock the wonders of the wild creatures they steward for the children attending. Presentations are designed to engage students in a special way regarding wild lives and wild places.

For more information, contact John Edwards at blackbears66@gmail.com or 828.743.9648. www.mountainwildlifedays.com.

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Paddle Lake Junaluska A pair of paddle tours will explore Lake Junaluska on Sunday, Oct. 27, with the first offered from 1 to 2:30 p.m. and the second from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Tours will include a history of the lake and the ecosystems within its 200 acres, part of Haywood Waterways Association’s “Get to Know Your Watershed” series of outdoor recreation events. The Waynesville Recreation Center will provide boats, paddles and life jackets, but guests are invited to bring their own equipment. Minors must

be accompanied by an adult. Light refreshments will be provided.

Free for Haywood Waterways members with a $5 donation requested from nonmembers; memberships start at $25.

Space limited. RSVP by Thursday, Oct. 24, to Christine O’Brien at christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 828.476.4667, ext. 11. Sponsored by Haywood Waterways, Waynesville Recreation Center and Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center.

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Haywood swimmers dominate state meet

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Four Haywood County swimmers scored at the Senior Games state swim meet this fall, held Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary.

In the 65-69 age group female events, Debbie Wilson placed first in the 200 and 500-meter freestyle and in the 100 and 200meter backstroke. All four swims set State Senior Games records, one of which had stood since 1992.

In the 70-74 age group male events, Wayne Raab finished first in the 50 and 100-meter breaststroke, as well as in the 50

and 100-meter backstroke. He also placed second in the 100-meter individual medley.

In the 75-79 age group male events, Gerry Meyer placed first in the 50, 100 and 200-meter breaststroke and second in the 500-meter freestyle.

In the 65-69 age group male events, Tim Winslow finished fourth place in the 50meter freestyle.

Wilson, Raab and Meyer all train with the SMAC Master Swimmers, which meets from 10:30 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. All adult swimmers are welcome to join. For more information, contact Meyer at gerrymeyer1966@gmail.com.

October 16-22, 2019

An afternoon of fall-themed activities and prizes on and off the water will be offered free from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Nantahala Outdoor Center near Bryson City.

A highlight of NOCtoberfest will be the Great Pumpkin Pursuit, a free-for-all dash through Nantahala Falls in which participants collect as many numbered pumpkins as possible while racing to the finish. There will be pumpkin decorating, a costume contest, pumpkin patch photos and competitions in stein holding and cornhole. Face painting, henna tattoos, delicious fresh pies, local jewelry and more will also keep the day interesting.

Learn more at www.noc.com/events/noctoberfest.

Clay tourney raises money for Smokies The inaugural Smokies Cup Sporting Clay Tournament raised more than $31,000 to support the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Friday, Sept. 20.

Organized by Friends of the Smokies and held at the Biltmore Sporting Clays Club, the event drew 22 teams to compete. Proceeds will benefit several programs and projects for America’s most-visited national park. www.friendsofthesmokies.org.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • The Jackson county NCWorks Career Center and Jackson County Public Library are co-sponsoring a Career Fair from 1:30-4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at the Jackson County Public Library at 310 Keener St. in Sylva. Info on transportation to the Career Fair: www.jacksoncountytransit.com/jackson-trolley. Info on the event: 586.4063 or www.ncworks.gov.

• Rabies Vaccination Clinic will be offered from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Oct. 19, at Iotla Valley Elementary School in Macon County.

• Western Carolina University will host two listening sessions on Oct. 21 as part of the search for the next president of the University of North Carolina System.

Forums are from 1:30-3 p.m. and 4:30-6 p.m. Kimberly Strach, director of the search committee, will be joined by two other members of the committee for the WCU listening sessions. Info: www.northcarolina.edu/PresidentialSearch.

• A community meeting to discuss the Cullowhee Small Area Plan is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Center, in the hospitality room, in Cullowhee. https://tinyurl.com/y2rhdumm.

• The US 441 Gateway District Planning Council will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at the Qualla CDC for consideration of an ordinance amendment to the Golf Course Community District.

Request is by Sequoyah National Golf Club, LLC. • The Western Carolina University “Chancellor’s Welcome Tour” will make a stop at 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 28, at Boojum Brewing Co., at 50 N. Main St., in Waynesville. Event will introduce Kelli R. Brown, WCU’s new chief executive officer. Registration required one week prior to the event: 877.440.9990 or aehonbarger@wcu.edu. Info: go.wcu.edu/welcometour.

• A hiring event will be held from 1-4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. More than 20 local employers hiring for customer service and retail positions. 246.9233 or 456.6061.

• Reservations are being accepted for a Thanksgiving meal at Lake Junaluska. Thanksgiving at Lake Junaluska is Nov. 27-29. Lakejunaluska.com/thanksgiving or 800.22.4930.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • “Labor Matters for Your Business” will be presented by the Haywood Community College Small Business Center and the Western Women’s Business Center from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, in the HCC Regional High Technology Center, Room 3021, in Waynesville. Register: 627.4512 or SBC.Haywood.edu.

• Registration is underway for “Basics of Bookkeeping,” a program that will be offered by Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, in the college’s Regional High Technology Center, Room 3021, in Waynesville. For info and to register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a series of seminars for existing and aspiring business owners in October and November at the Jackson Campus in Sylva and the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. Registration required. Full listing, details and sign-ups: http://bit.ly/2ncPnyf.

• Registration is underway for a Six-Sigma Whitebelt Training, which will be offered from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Led

by Dr. Todd Creasy, professor in WCU’s College of Business. Learn how to apply the five-step methodology of Six Sigma in product, process or service industries.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

Registration: $249 (by Oct. 1) or $279 (after Oct. 1).

Info and register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for Western Carolina University’s High Impact Leadership Certificate Program that will be offered from Oct. 28-Nov. 1 at WCU’s Biltmore Park Instructional Site in Asheville. Advance registration is $759 (through Oct. 1). After Oct. 1, rate increases to $849. Nonprofit rate is $649. Info and register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for “Your Small Business Taxes,” a program that will be offered by Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center from 9-11 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29. For info and to register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Western Carolina University will hold an open house for prospective students and their families on Saturday, Nov. 2, in Cullowhee. Preregistration: openhouse.wcu.edu or 227.7317.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • A benefit yard sale is scheduled for 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 18-19, at Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, 495 Franklin Grove Church Rd., in Bryson City. Proceeds support cemetery maintenance at Lauada Cemetery, which is west of Bryson City at Almond on Highway 19.

• First Presbyterian Church of Waynesville will host Craft, Bake Sale on Saturday Oct. 19, at the corner of North Main and Walnut Streets. Parking on site is $5 all day. Proceeds are given to nonprofit organizations that meet the needs of the community.

• A fundraiser yard sale for missions will be held from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Oct. 19, at Live Forgiven Church, 45 Crown Ridge Road in Sylva. Breakfast items, clothing and household goods available.

Facebook.com/LiveForgivenChurch or 586.0199.

• Dancin’ Tyme Parent Boosters will host a Fall Market to raise money for competition fees for dance students from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 31 Allen S., in Sylva, inside LifeWay Church.

Facebook.com/DancinTyme or DancinTymeStudio@gmail.com.

VOLUNTEERS & VENDORS • Vendors are wanted for the annual Fall Market being held Nov. 2, hosted by Dancin’ Tyme Performing Arts Studio in Sylva. This event is a fundraiser, 100% of the vendor fees goes toward students competition fees. https://forms.gle/7H7Qg6ngZ6QB3UVPA to register to be a vendor.

HEALTH MATTERS • The International Essential Tremor Foundation support group will meet at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at the Jackson County Senior Center, Room No. 135, in Sylva.

Learn coping skills and available products to help; distinguish the difference between Parkinson’s and Essential Tremor. 736.3165 or teddyk1942@gmail.com.

• Macon County Public Health will hold a community influenza vaccination clinic from 2-6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21, at the Highlands Recreation Park, 600 N. 4th St., in Highlands. https://tinyurl.com/y33lsy94.

• A “Plants-for-Life” meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, above Sassy Girls shop, 280 Marsh Lily Rd., in Sylva. Theme is “Harvest Fest.” Discussion

will be on Dr. Greger’s “Daily Dozen” from his book “How Not to Die.” Bring fall plant-based dish to share.

• The Jackson County Department of Public Health is offering flu vaccines from 8:30-11:30 a.m. and 1-4:30 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays, throughout October, at the Health Department. Prices range from $35-60, based on type of vaccine administered. Questions: 587.8201 or 586.8994.

• A presentation on Parkinson’s Disease will be offered at noon on Oct. 24 at the Waynesville Recreation Center.

Led by Vaya Health Geriatric and Adult Mental Health Specialty Team. 456.2030 or tplowman@waynesvillenc.gov.

• The Jackson County Public Library’s Creating Community Workshop will be “Altar Your Space” with Jennifer Ashlock at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, in the library’s atrium in Sylva. Create a small, personal alter that can be a reminder to slow down, give attention and stay connected. 586.2016.

• This fall, Four Seasons will host a six-week support group for those who have lost loved ones to drug overdose. Sessions will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. on Fridays through Nov. 8 in Waynesville. Facilitator is Dan Yearick, MS, LPC-S. Info and registration: 692.6178. www.fourseasonscfl.org.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • The High Mountain Squares will host their “Autumn Leaves Dance” from 6:45-9:45 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 18, at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building, 441 South, in Franklin. Western-style square dancing, mainstream and levels. 787.2324, 332.0001, 727.599.1440 or check out the group on Facebook.

• A three-week Restorative Yoga Series will be offered from 4-5 p.m. on Thursdays, through Oct. 24, at Maggie Valley Wellness Center, 461 Moody Farm Rd., in Maggie Valley. Cost: $ $15 to drop-in for a single class.

Preregister: 944.0288 or maggievalleywellness.com.

• Yoga Nidra, a six-week series of guided meditation for the deepest relaxation, is set for 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Saturdays, through Nov. 16, at Sylva Yoga studio in downtown Sylva. Cost: $15 per class. Register on Facebook or www.sylvayoga.com.

• Fines Creek Dance Night is set for 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Rd. in Clyde. Traditional country and rock featuring Running Wolfe and the Renegades. 593.7042. Dance: $5.

Spaghetti Dinner: $7. Cake walk and 50-50 raffle.

Proceeds benefit the FCCA in supporting scholarships, community needs and the MANNA Food Bank. 593.7042.

SPIRITUAL • Registration is underway for Guided Personal Retreat, on Oct. 21-23 at Lake Junaluska.

Lakejunaluska.com/retreats or 800.222.4930.

• Registration is underway for an Interfaith Peace Conference that will be held Nov. 21-24 at Lake Junaluska. Theme is “The Arts of Peace” featuring an exploration of the arts of the Abrahamic faiths. Syrian violinist Mariela Shaker, Jonathan Homrighausen, Laurie Wohl and others will guide the conversations.

Lakejunaluska.com/peace or 800.222.4930.

POLITICAL • The Jackson County Planning Board will hold its regular monthly meeting at 6 p.m. on Oct. 17, one week later than usual, at the Jackson County Department on Aging’s Heritage Room in Sylva.

• The Haywood Democrats will hold a Fall Oktoberfest Rally from 4-8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17, at Historic

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 Camp Hope, 312 Camp Hope Road in Canton. $20 per person; kids under 12 are free. Bratwurst, hot dogs, live music.

• The Jackson County NAACP Membership Meeting will participate in a joint meeting with all Western NC NAACP Branches at 1 p.m. on Oct. 19 at the YMI Cultural Center on Eagle Street in Asheville. https://ymiculturalcenter.org. 743.9747.

• The “Beers, Burgers and Barn Dance” will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at Tuckaseigee Valley Acres in Tuckasegee. Presented by the Jackson County Democratic Party, N.C. State House Rep. Joe Sam Queen will be the caller. The Culloweezer will provide music. Food, including burgers and chicken, will be prepared by B & Al's in Sylva. There will be no formal campaigning at the dance. You don't even need to know how to clog. Simply join your fellow Jackson County neighbors and have a good time.Tickets are $30 for singles and $50 for two, if purchased in advance. At the door tickets are $40 for singles and $70 for two. Tickets will be available at Democratic Party meetings and from officers. 399.9119.

• The new North Jackson County Republican headquarters will open for a monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21, at 52 Front Street in Dillsboro.

813.817.7318.

• The Swain County Democratic Party Whittier-Cherokee precinct meeting is at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at the Chestnut Tree Inn, Highway 19 South, 37 Tsalagi Rd., in Cherokee. 497.9498.

• Down Home Haywood holds its monthly community meetings at 2:30 p.m. on the third Saturday of each month at Canton Presbyterian Church. Tackling issues like healthcare, wages, housing and more. chelsea@downhomenc.org.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS •Author and storyteller Lee Lyons will read and discuss her debut novel Southern Shamrock at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, at the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. Learn more about this personable, articulate, humorous, and decidedly Southern authorstoryteller at leelyons.me. Refreshments will be served, and copies of Lyons’ book will be available for purchase and signing. 524.ARTS or arts4all@dnet.net.

• A poetry reading is held at 2 p.m. on the last Saturday of each month at Panacea in Waynesville.

Bring poetry, essays and writings. poevampyre@gmail.com.

• The North Carolina Writers' Network-West will sponsor The Literary Hour at 7 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month. at the Keith House on the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown. This reading is free of charge and open to the public.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES • Senior Tennis Time is from 9 a.m.-noon every Monday, Wednesday and Friday through Oct. 30 at the Donnie

Pankiw Tennis Center at 128 W. Marshall Street in Waynesville. For ages 55-up; intermediate or higher skill level. $1 per person per day. 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

• Book Club is held at 2 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800 • A Hand & Foot card game is held at 1 p.m. on Thursdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• Senior Sale Day is on the third Friday of every month at the Friends of the Library Used Bookstore. Patrons 60 and older get 20 percent off all purchases.

Proceeds benefit the Sylva Library.

• Pinochle game is played at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• Mah Jongg is played at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• A Canasta card game is set for 1 p.m. on Mondays at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• A Parkinson’s Support Group is held at 2 p.m. on the last Wednesday of each month at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

KIDS & FAMILIES • Southwestern Community College will hold a Space Apps Challenge – a NASA innovation program – from Oct. 18-20 at the Jackson Campus in Sylva.

Presentations are set for Sunday, Oct. 20. https://tinyurl.com/yy6xqmlp. r_neff@southwesterncc.edu or 339.4357.

• STEAM Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Hands-on program to engage elementary and middle school students in the sciences, evolving technology and more. 488.3030, ext. 130.

A&E • 8 Nights of Horror Haunted House is set for 5-10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, through Oct. 26 and Thursday, Oct. 31, at the Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Rd. in Clyde. Cost $5. Proceeds benefit the FCCA in supporting scholarships, community needs and the MANNA Food Bank. 593.7042.

• A Halloween Carnival is set for 6-9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road in Clyde. Poor Man’s Supper is $8 per plate starting at 5 p.m. Games and bingo: $0.25 each. Proceeds benefit the FCCA in supporting scholarships, community needs and the MANNA Food Bank. 593.7042.

• Haywood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center will host a Trick or Treating event starting at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 31, at 516 N. Wall St. in Waynesville.

Info or to donate candy: 458.9408.

• The Haywood County Apple Harvest Festival will be held 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, in downtown Waynesville. The event features handmade arts and crafts, locally grown apples and apple products for sale. In addition, the festival will feature food vendors of all types, educational and information booths, authentic mountain music, dance groups and a children’s fun area. www.haywoodapplefest.com.

FOOD & DRINK • The 13th annual Chili Cookoff Business After Hours Season Finale is set for 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17, at Landmark Vacation Rentals at the Cashiers Crossroads. Sign up: https://tinyurl.com/y5ct23nr.

• Wine and Cheese will be offered from 6-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, at Bryson City Wine Market, 1161 Main Street in Bryson City. 538.0420.

• “Brown Bag at the Depot” – an opportunity to gather with neighbors – is at noon every Friday at Sylva’s newest park at the corner of Spring and Mill Street along Railroad Ave. For info, contact Paige Dowling at townmanager@townofsylva.org.

• Graceann’s Amazing Breakfast is 8-10 a.m. every Tuesday in the Sapphire Room at the Sapphire Valley Community Center. $8.50 for adults; $5 for children.

Includes coffee and orange juice. 743.7663.

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

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

• A game day will occur from 2-9 p.m. every third Saturday of the month at Papou’s Wine Shop & Bar in Sylva. Bring dice, cards or board games.

586.6300.

• A wine tasting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville.

Free with dinner ($15 minimum). 452.6000.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Cherokee Historical Association to presents The Sleepy Hollow Experience at Mountainside Theatre.

Fully immersive, 360 degree theatrical experience.

Show will be shown Thursday-Sundays starting Oct. 17 through Nov. 3. Tickets are $35/adult and $25/children 12 & under. www.visitcherokee.com.

• The next installment of “Comedy Night” will be held

• The play “On Golden Pond” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17-18 and 2:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Highlands Performing Arts Center. Presented by the Highlands Cashiers Players, the production focuses on the love between couples and families living on a lake in the summertime. For more information, please call the box office at 526.8084 or www.highlandscashiersplayers.org.

• The comedy classic “Arsenic and Old Lace” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18-19, 25-26, Nov. 1-2 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 20, 27 and Nov. 3 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville. Harmons’ Den Bistro at HART will be open for dining before all performances. Reservations can be made for the show and the bistro by calling the HART Box Office Tuesday through Saturday 1 to 5 p.m. at 456.6322 or online at www.harttheatre.org.

• The Highlands Performing Arts Center will present “Live via Satellite” the National Theatre of London’s production of “The Lehman Trilogy” at 1 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 19. Tickets are available online at www.highlandspac.org or at the door.

• Western Carolina University will host the 19th annual “Tournament of Champions” on Saturday, Oct. 19, at E.J. Whitmire Stadium in Cullowhee.

• The Smoky Mountain Community Theatre’s fall production of “Night of the Living Dead” will be on stage on the weekend of Oct. 18-21, at 134 Main St. in Bryson City. Show times are 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Monday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets: $14 for adults; $8 for ages 6-18; free 6-under. Tickets

• The “Uncorked: Wine & Rail Pairing Experience” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 and Dec 31 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. Full service all-adult first-class car. Wine pairings with a meal and more. 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com.

• Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville is offering lunch on Saturdays, “Lunch with us” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. featuring fresh seasonal menu with outdoor seating weather preminting. 452.0120 or www.waynesvillewine.com.

• Bryson City Wine Market offers flights from 4-7 p.m. on Fridays and from 2-5 p.m. on Saturdays. Flight of four wines for $5.

• Maggie Valley Arts & Crafts Show is from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Oct. 19-20 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Handmade arts and crafts, chainsaw art demos and festival foods. 624.4431 or maggievalleyfestivalgrounds.com.

• Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville will host five for $5 Wine Tasting from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays. Come taste five magnificent wines and dine on Chef Bryan’s gourmet cuisine. 452.0120 or www.waynesvillewine.com.

• Tickets are on sale now for the Fall Harvest Festival, which will feature bluegrass legends The Gibson Brothers at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Stecoah Valley Center. Info and tickets: www.stecoahvalleycenter.com. All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. in the air-conditioned Lynn L. Shields Auditorium.

• Secret Wine Bar is hosted by Bosu’s in Waynesville on Fridays from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Contact for more information and make reservations. 452.1020.

• A free wine tasting will be held from 1-5 p.m. on Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Bosu Wine Shop in Waynesville. 452.0120 or www.waynesvillewine.com.

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• NOCtoberfest - an afternoon of fall-themed activities and prizes on and off the water - will be offered from noon-5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Nantahala Outdoor Center near Bryson City. Great Pumpkin Pursuit, pumpkin decorating, costume contest, pumpkin patch photos and competitions and more. www.noc.com/events/noctoberfest.

• A free wine tasting will be held from 2-5 p.m. on Saturdays at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. www.papouswineshop.com or 631.3075.

at 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, at Mad Anthony’s Taproom & Restaurant in Waynesville. The evening will include feature nationally-touring and acclaimed stand-up comic Minori Hinds, as well as Berek Boskovitch, Kenny Stempien and Jake Koll. Admission is $5 at the door (cash or credit card accepted). Must be age 18 or older to attend.

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• “Nature Nuts: Squirrels” will be offered to ages 4-7 from 9-11 a.m. on Oct. 22 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

The “Ghost & Growlers” masquerade party will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at The Shelton House in Waynesville. The Shelton House will be turned into a haunted house for the event. There will be several activities including a seance, silent auction, cork pull and more. Costumes are optional. Tickets are $50. All proceeds to benefit the preservation and restoration of The Shelton House. 452.1551 or www.sheltonhouse.org.

Bosu’s will host a Cocktails & Lunch on Saturday’s.

Serving house-made champagne cocktails from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. www.waynesvillewine.com

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• The Mexican Train Dominoes Group seeks new players to join games at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• The 23rd annual PumpkinFest will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, in downtown Franklin. Pumpkin roll, costume parade, pumpkin pie eating contest, vendors, inflatables, arts & crafts, festival food. Free shuttle rides from Franklin High School. www.townoffranklinnc.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pumpkinfestfranklin or call Franklin Town Hall at 524.2516.

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488.8227.

• A tribute group to famed rock band Journey, the ensemble Departure will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets start at $18 each. 273.4615 or www.greatmountainmusic.com.

• The Haywood Community Band will present its next concert at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, at the Maggie Valley Open Air Pavilion on Soco Road. The concert is entitled "America's Rivers and Mountains" and features music which highlights various rivers and mountains across the country. This is the final concert of the Maggie Valley 2019 season. A November concert will be held in Waynesville.

No admission. Covered seating available or bring a lawn chair.

• The Cherokee Bonfire & Storytelling will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 25 at the Oconaluftee Islands Park in Cherokee. 800.438.1601 or www.visitcherokeenc.com.

• The King Family of Bryson City will sing gospel music at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, at Ela Baptist Church in Bryson City.

• The Strand on Main will host A. Lee Edwards at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 26 in downtown Wayesville. Tickets are $15. www.38main.com.

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• Tickets are available now for a performance of “A Christmas Carol,” which will be on stage at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 3, in the University Center Theater at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Tickets: $5 for WCU students, $10 for non-WCU students and WCU faculty and staff and $15 for general admission.

Available at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or 227.2479.

• Tickets are available now for Holidays at the University Center, which will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 4-5, in the University Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.

Tickets: $5 for WCU students, $10 for non-WCU students and WCU faculty and staff and $15 for general admission. Available at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or 227.2479.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • The English Language: Where it’s been and where it’s going will be presented from 2-4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Led by Dr. Peg Downes.

• Registration is underway for Choir Music Weekend, which is Oct. 18-20 at Lake Junaluska. For small and medium-sized adult choirs. Worship and specialized workshops. Lakejunaluska.com/choirmusic or 800.222.4930.

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• Happy Hour & Hats Class will be offered from 5:30-

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7:30 p.m. on Oct. 18 at the Haywood County Arts Council Gallery and Gifts, 86 N. Main St. in Waynesville. Cost: $49 for HCAC members; $55 for nonmembers. 452.0593 or haywoodarts.org.

• Fiber Sunday is set for 2-5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 20, at the Cowee School Heritage Center, 51 Cowee School Dr., in Franklin. Bring a textile project you’re working on from spinning, knitting, weaving, rug hooking, baskets, etc. 349.3878 or bouchonnet@coweetextiles.com.

• Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment will offer swim classes for adults and children starting Oct. 21 at the Reid Gym Pool on WCU’s campus in Cullowhee. Led by veteran instructor Mike Creason. Youth and adult classes are from Oct. 21-23 and Oct. 28-30. Youth refresher course from 6:30-7:20 p.m.; adult beginner swim class is from 7:30-8:20 p.m. Cost: $59 per participant. Info: swim.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Cartoonist Bob Mankoff will speak at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, in Forsyth Room 101 at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Talk is titled: “Whats so Funny and Why AI (Artificial Intelligence).”

Inaugural event of the WCU Psychology program’s speaker series. Info: 227.2109 or tford@wcu.edu.

• “Travels and Tall Tales with Alan French” will present “The Viking Adventures of King Harald Harðraða & Villain Eiríkr Þorvaldsson” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Free and open to the public.

• A “Make Your Own Hammered Sterling Ring and Earrings” class will be offered from noon-2:30 p.m. on Oct. 24, at the Haywood County Arts Council Gallery and Gifts, 86 N. Main St. in Waynesville. Cost: $45 for HCAC members; $50 for nonmembers. 452.0593 or haywoodarts.org.

• Macon County Public Library will host a reading, viewing and discussion series called “Pushing the Limits” for adults at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, in Franklin. Library is at 149 Siler Farm Road. This month’s featured book is “Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska”

by Michael D’Orso. 524.3600 or kmoe@fontanalib.org.

• The Fines Creek Flea Market is from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday Oct. 25, at the Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Rd., in Clyde. Proceeds benefit the FCCA in supporting scholarships, community needs and the MANNA Food Bank. 593.7042.

• Encouraging art classes for beginning through advanced adults are offered by the Inspired Art Ministry at the following times and dates: Drawing classes from 1-4 p.m. on Mondays; painting classes from 1-4 p.m. on Tuesdays. Info: 456.9197, charspaintings@msn.com or www.iamclasses.wbs.com.

• Waynesville Art School offers “The Joy of Drawing”, Still Life in Color: Acrylic & Pastel and “Relief Printmaking” classes for adults at 303 N. Haywood Street. Info: 246.9869, info@waynesvilleartschool.com

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

Contact Morgan at 550.6190 or bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

• Uptown Gallery will offer free open studio times from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Thursdays at 30 E. Main Street in Franklin.

349.4607, franklinuptowngallery@gmail.com or www.franklinuptowngallery.com. required: 631.0271.

Info: www.JCGEP.org.

• Open Studio Wednesdays are from 6-10 p.m. at Waynesville Art School, 303 N. Haywood Street. $15 per session. Embrace your creativity while making art alongside other artists. Registration required: 246.9869 or WaynesvilleArtSchool.com.

• Indoor Flea Market is set for 7 a.m.-2 p.m. every third Saturday at the Old Armory in Waynesville.

456.9207.

• Jackson County Public Library in Sylva is hosting craft therapy. This get-together will be the first Tuesday of each month from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. It will take place in the Atrium at the library. Craft therapy is an evening of up-cycle crafting at the library. Drop in for the whole session or as long as you would like.

Each month will have a different theme the library will supply tools and materials that you may need to create something within that theme. If you have anything craft/art related to donate, please bring it by the library or call them at 586.2016, dduffy@fontanalib.org and www.fontanalib.org.

• A variety of dance classes ranging from foxtrot and waltz to rumba and cha cha – as well as East Coast Swing and Salsa – are taught at multiple times and days weekly at Folkmoot Center and Waynesville Wellness. $10 per activity per person. No partner or experience necessary. For dates and times, and to RSVP, 316.1344 or dancetonightwaynesville@gmail.com.

• Watercolor classes are set for 1:30 p.m. every third Saturday at the Creative Thought Center on Pigeon Street in Waynesville. Cost: $25 or $20 if you bring your own equipment. theHouseArtist@gmail.com.

• The Dave Drake Studio Barn offers a variety of ceramic and raku classes by appointment as well as weekly drawing, writers and community knitters groups. Info: 787.2865.

• Second Saturday Markets take place from 6-8 p.m. at Folkmoot in Waynesville. A gathering place for friends of all ages, markets feature vendors, live music, ballroom dance lessons for $5, and a homemade meal for $10. Beer and wine are available for purchase and tables will be set up for participants to

play board and card games that they bring from home. Info: 452.2997 or info@folkmoot.org.

• The Haywood County Public Library is offering online lifelong learning courses in over 30 subject areas, many of which offer continuing education units, through Universal Class. Free for library cardholders. www.haywoodlibrary.org or 452.5169.

• A “Beginner Step-By-Step” painting class will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursdays at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Cost is $25 with all supplies provided.

For more information on paint dates and/or to RSVP, contact Robin Arramae at 400.9560 or paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

• A comedy improvisation class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. on Tuesdays at Frog Level Brewing in Haywood County. Led by improv teacher Wayne Porter, who studied at Sak Comedy Lab in Orlando and performed improv with several groups. To RSVP and get directions, call 316.8761.

• The Old Armory will host an indoor flea market from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. on every third Saturday. Booths are $10 each for selling items. 456.9207.

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • The Inspired Art Ministry, Inc. (Iam) is pleased to offer its 11th annual Art Show as part of the Apple Festival on Oct. 19, which will be held in front of the First Baptist Church, Zone Section Blue, Booth #176.

There you will see artists at work, creating drawings and/or paintings. Then, follow the pennants into the Ministry Activity Center Building where you will see the main part of the show. This year, in addition to Iam’s professional and advanced student artists, they will showcase high school art students. Art teachers, Dustin Keys from Pisgah and Stephanie Kea from Tuscola, will have their students’ work displayed on the stage. Fourth graders from First Baptist’s KidCREATE’S KidART Program will also be on display. Aside from the Creativity Center for children to make their own art, there will also be several professional artists on-hand for those interested in learning more about Iam. For more information on Iam, please contact Char Avrunin at 456.9197 or charspaintings@msn.com.

• Jennifer Hawkins Hock's exhibit "Artist Room Studies: 2D to 3D" is currently on display during the month of October at Macon County Public Library Living Room in Franklin. The exhibit features 21 of Hock's 3-dimensional miniature assemblages depicting painted or photographed rooms from artists such as Henri Matisse, Edouard Vuillard, Frida Kahlo, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

• The fiber art of Betty Cabe will be on display throughout the month of October at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

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Outdoors

• The Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the greenway at 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 16. Meet at the Macon County Public Library parking area.

Franklinbirdclub.com or 524.5234.

• The Carolina Mountain Club will host Jay Leutze, author and land conservation expert, as guest speaker for its annual meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Doubletree by Hilton in Asheville.

Registration is open through Oct. 19 and available to members only. Memberships start at $20. Register: www.carolinamountainclub.org.

• The Smokies Skiwalking School will be offered from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Mondays through Oct. 21 at Smoky Mountain Elementary School in Whittier. Register and get more info: 586.4009 or 488.3848.

• Backpacking course, will be offered by Landmark Learning on Oct. 21-25. www.landmarklearning.org.

• Jackson County Farmers Market runs from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com or www.jacksoncoutyfarmersmarket.org.

• The ‘Whee Farmers Market is held from 3-6 p.m. on Tuesdays through the end of October at the entrance to the village of Forest Hills off North Country Club Drive in Cullowhee. 476.0334 or www.thewheemarket.org.

• Haywood Historic Farmers Market is on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon at the HART Theater parking lot and Wednesdays from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the First Baptist Church overflow parking lot beside Exxon. waynesvillefarmersmarket.com or haywoodfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

• The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon at 171 Legion Drive in Waynesville. 456.1830 or vrogers12@att.net.

• Franklin Farmers Tailgate Market runs 8 a.m. to noon, on East Palmer Street across from Drake Software. 349.2049 or www.facebook.com/franklinncfarmersmarket.

• “Locally Grown on the Green,” the Cashiers farm stand market for local growers, will be held from 3-6 p.m. every Wednesday at the Village Green Commons on Frank Allen Rd. next to the Cashiers post office. info@villagegreencashiersnc.com or 743.3434.

HIKING CLUBS

• A volunteer trail day will be held from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, in Panthertown Valley. Meet at the Cold Mountain Gap Trailhead. Panthertown.org.

• The Nantahala Hiking club will take a moderate, 4.5-mile hike on Saturday, Oct. 19, to Rhapsody and Aunt Sally Falls. Total elevation change is 300 feet.

Info and reservations: 743.1079.

• “Eco Explorers: Raising Trout” will be offered from 1-3 p.m. on Oct. 22 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• Carolina Mountain Club will take a 7.3-mile hike with a 2,500-foot ascent on Sunday, Oct. 20, on Beech Gap and Hyatt Ridge Trails. Info and reservations: 628.6712 or knies06@att.net.

• Two paddle tours of Lake Junaluska are being offered on Sunday, Oct. 27. First is from 1-2:30 p.m.; second is from 3-4:30 p.m. Boats, paddles and life jackets provided by the Waynesville Recreation Center or bring your own. Free for Haywood Waterways members; $5 donation for nonmembers. RSVP by Oct. 24: Christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 476.4667, ext. 11.

• “Casting for Beginners: Level I” will be offered to ages 12-up from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Oct. 28 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• The Waterrock Knob Visitor Center is open daily through Nov. 11 for the season on Mile 451.2 of the Blue Ridge Parkway. www.nps.gov/blri/planyourvisit/hours.htm.

• The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission Hatchery Supported Trout Waters is open from 7 a.m. until onehalf-hour after sunset until last day of February. Info: https://tinyurl.com/yae8ffqn.

FARMERS MARKETS • The Swain County Farmer’s Market is held from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Friday through October at the barn on Island Street in downtown Bryson City. 488.3848 or www.facebook.com/SwainCountyFarmersMarket.

• Carolina Mountain Club will take an 11.4-mile hike with a 3,000-foot ascent on Wednesday, Oct. 23, to Mt. Cammerer from Davenport Gap. Info and reservations: 628.6712 or knies06@att.net.

• Carolina Mountain Club will take a 6.4-mile hike on Wednesday, Oct. 23, to Turkeypen and South Mills River Loop. 1,100-foot elevation gain. Info and reservations: 253.1626, 231.5785 or elfluharty@gmail.com.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate four-mile hike on Saturday, Oct. 26, to Siler Bald on the Appalachian Trail. Elevation change of 700 feet.

Info and reservations: 421.4178.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate-tostrenuous 7.5-mile hike with an elevation change of 1,500 feet on Saturday, Oct. 26, to Hemphill Bald in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Info and reservations: 456.8895.

OUTDOOR CLUBS • The Jackson County Poultry Club will hold its regular meeting on the third Thursday of each month at the Jackson County Cooperative Extension Office. The club is for adults and children and includes a monthly meeting with a program and a support network for those raising birds. For info, call 586.4009 or write heather_gordon@ncsu.edu.

• The North Carolina Catch program, a three-phase conservation education effort focusing on aquatic environments, will be offered through May 15. The program is offered by the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department. Free for members; daily admission for non-members. 456.2030

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• “Backyard Birding by Ear: For Beginners” will be offered to ages 10-up from 9 a.m.-noon on Oct. 28 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

• Carolina Mountain Club will take a 4.4-mile hike with an 800-foot ascent on Sunday, Oct. 20, on Max Patch Loop. Info and reservations: 622.3704, jckdalton9@gmail.com, 338.0443, 275.4500 or glamb46@gmail.com.

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• A program on “Women’s Intro to Fly Fishing” will be offered to ages 12-up from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Oct. 26 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5o3owwp.

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are invited to view work from Haywood County artists who operate studios in the county and have participated in past open studio tours. You can view the work of local artists through Oct. 26 at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville. Saturday artist demonstration are scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 19 applique and quilting artist Denise Seay. Free and open to the public. www.haywoodarts.org.

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Southern Mountains uses photographs to help with ID. And while they are great photos and there are 600 of them it’s easy to see

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BY DON H ENDERSHOT Editor’s note: Naturalist Don Hendershot is dealing with unexpected computer issues this week, so we are re-publishing an article that appeared in an October 2010 issue of The Smoky Mountain News.

Aster-risk* lue, white, lavender and purple corymbs, racemes and panicles will glow from shadowy woods and blaze from sunny meadows from now until the first hard, killing frost. Asters comprise a large beautiful complex and challenging group of wildflowers to pin down. More than 20 species of the genus aster have been recorded from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Because of considerable variation within species and the tendency of species to hybridize, even competent botanists are sometimes left to a “judgment” call when trying to identify certain individuals.

As a not-so-competent botanist, if I’m without a guide once I get past the half dozen or so I can recognize they are simply, “one of the asters.” That doesn’t diminish their beauty or my delight in seeing them, though.

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If you’re a botanist or botany student with a good grasp of botanical terms there is probably no better guide for asters in the region than the most current Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. But one must be really familiar with botanical terms to navigate quickly and correctly through the large dichotomous keys in the guide.

And probably not many of us weekend warriors want to carry the five-pound tome along in our backpacks.

A couple of more accessible and easier to hike with guides I always recommend are Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide and Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.

Both of these guides have a type of key that aids you in identifying the plant. The Newcomb’s key is a bit more involved — more detailed. Newcomb’s also relies on line drawings for descriptions and has only a few color plates. I actually like the line drawings, particularly when dealing with very similar characteristics that might be overlooked in a photograph.

The Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains uses a general key to group similar plants within a family or genus together and then relies on detailed descriptions to pin down the species. Wildflowers of the

that in the plant world, you are going to be left with a lot of stand-alone descriptions. I believe the guide lists 29 species of asters and has 12 plates.

There is no silver bullet, especially in field guide form, when it comes to identifying asters. Both of the last two field guides are good guides. I know some people who use the two in tandem and increase their odds of ID-ing local asters.

And while most of us will never know most of the asters of Western North Carolina at first glimpse that, as I said before, does not diminish their beauty. And they will hold forth till the killing frost. Learn the ones you can, get a key or keys you’re comfortable with and try to learn more — but most importantly get out there and see them — even if they remain always, “one of the asters.”

Scott’s Creek Overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway is usually a great place for asters. I have recorded Aster divaricatus, white wood aster, A. novaeangliae, New England aster, A. infirmus, cornel-leaved aster and A. acuninatus, whorled wood aster from this overlook.

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist.

His book, A Year From the Naturalist’s Corner, Vol. 1, is available at regional bookstores or by contacting Don at ddihen1@bellsouth.net)

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