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Dr. Sparks finds calling in naturopathy

CONTENTS On the Cover: Women owning their own businesses is nothing new, and in fact North Carolina is among the nation’s leaders in this area. Still, those we interviewed for our annual series on Women in Business illustrate their inspiring success stories and unique challenges. Dr. Linda Sparks. Jessi Stone photo Home cooking still draws crowds at Granny’s Kitchen ......................................4 Gould helps build businesses in Haywood ............................................................6 Dr. Sparks takes long-range approach to health ..................................................8 Books Unlimited owner shares love of reading ..................................................10 Mixing women and wine always a good idea ......................................................11 Creating a community at the Blue Moon Salon ..................................................12 Bug lady keeps WNC homes pest-free ................................................................13

News Students returning to Haywood from SRCA ..........................................................15 Sylva’s mayoral race nears the finish line ..................................................................16 Swain school applies for $7 million grant ................................................................19 Showdown looming over Canton brunch decision ................................................20 Cherokee run-off election results ................................................................................21 Brunch Bill stalls in Jackson amid vocal opposition ..............................................22 Haywood appoints interim manager ..........................................................................27

Opinion Gun debate a microcosm of a deeper challenge ....................................................28

A&E Halloween events in WNC ............................................................................................32

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Church garden project growing healthy food ..........................................................50

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WOMEN IN BUSINESS 2017 The family that works together Home cooking and community still draws crowds at Granny’s Kitchen

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER It’s 3 p.m. on a weekday, a time when any restaurant would be well within its rights to be all but empty. But business at Granny’s Kitchen in Cherokee is humming along steadily, the main parking lot about half full and the hostess busily engaged with fielding phone calls, ringing up customers on their way out and welcoming customers on their way in.

“It is leaf season, but still all summer long it’s been what it is,” says Dwight Williamson, kitchen manager and at 40 the youngest son of owners Ray and Teresa Williamson.

The smell of home cooking swells like a wave immediately upon opening the door to the restaurant’s homey woodpaneled dining room, the buffet line stocked with freshly made turkey and dressing, roast beef and pudding. It’s country cooking done right, tried-andtrue recipes honed to perfection over the course of 33 years.

“We do everything the hard way,” Dwight said. “When it comes to cooking, it ain’t no shortcuts. You start with the best product you can buy, and you go from there.”

Those are lessons Dwight has been learning since childhood. He was just a kid when his parents started Granny’s Kitchen in 1984, his growing-up years lived to the rhythm of the restaurant business.

“We had four little kids, and I quit my job and he (Ray) quit his job, and we didn’t really have sense enough to realize we could have failed at it,” Teresa said of the decision to become entrepreneurs.

The opportunity arose to lease the business location, which the family now owns, and the Williamsons figured they’d give it a try. Ray had been cooking professionally since age 14, earning a degree in hotel and restaurant management from AB Tech, and Teresa, who is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, had started helping with her grandmother’s restaurant — the old Sequoyah Restaurant downtown — when she was 11 years old, though her professional background is in bookkeeping.

They were restaurant people, through and through, so they figured they might as well own one.

A TEAM EFFORT It was hard at the beginning. The restaurant was open seven days a week, from about 7 in the morning until 8 or 9 at night. The family had a house, but they often stayed overnight in a little apartment inside the restaurant. If they were awake, it seemed, they were working. As far as time off, vacations pretty much had to be in the winter, when business was slower.

“We used to have to pull our kids out of school to take them places,” Teresa recalls.

Over time, things stabilized. They started closing one day a week — Mondays — to give themselves and their employees a chance to breathe.

The apartment where the family once spent so many nights is now gone, transformed into a salad room. And with her kids all grown and active in the business themselves, Ray and Teresa no longer have to spend so much time at the restaurant.

“I had hoped they would see what it was like to work like a dog and they would get a good education and they would do something else, nine-to-five and holidays off and stuff,” Teresa said. “They all got good educations, but they’re right there with us, thank God.”

Even in the middle of the afternoon, cars crowd the parking lot at Granny’s Kitchen.

Holly Kays photo

“You may be the only person that has the opportunity to make [a customer] feel better that day. So be as nice and kind and friendly as you can.

You can’t please everybody, but you can always try to make people feel better.”

— Teresa Williamson

Granny’s Kitchen is probably as true to the definition of a family business as it’s possible to be. In addition to Ray and Teresa, 11 other family members work in various aspects of the business — two sons, a daughter, sons- and daughters-inlaw and grandchildren.

“People kind of look at us wondering how we can all hang out together all the time, but we manage to do it,” Teresa laughed.

“Our family gets along very well,”

Dwight added. “We do everything together. Any event, we’re all there unless we’re here. Any family function, we’re all together.”

The key to family harmony in the midst of a fast-paced industry, Teresa said, is having a thick skin and a willingness to work.

“There’s no such thing up here as, ‘It’s not my job,’” she said.

Everyone has a job title, but in reality everyone has done all the jobs at some point along the way. Dwight, for instance, started out as a kid rolling silverware, back when the family stayed so many nights in the attached apartment and the children would wander in and out of the restaurant when they got home from school. His brother would bus tables, and his sister would run the cash register.

Though cooking is his passion, in the years since he’s tried his hand at most everything else that might need doing.

There’s no pointing at one single person to credit the success of Granny’s Kitchen. It’s a team effort, all the way.

That’s a tradition that starts with Teresa and Ray themselves.

“You have to rely on each other,” Teresa said. “I think with my strengths and his (Ray’s) strengths, I’m able to kind of think outside the box sometimes and develop new ways to do things. As far as

that you have a DIETITIAN on call?

A fresh roast in the foreground, customers load their plates with meatloaf, rolls, mashed potatoes and green beans. Holly Kays photo his goes, his is all about the work and the food. And he’s real laid-back. I’m not so laid-back.”

Teresa describes her husband as “the hardest-working person I know,” a “people pleaser” who knows the food business inside and out. Teresa is a hard worker herself but concentrates more on the bookkeeping and paperwork, making sure that the scene is set to support the hard work of all those involved in Granny’s Kitchen’s success.

DELICIOUS FAMILIARITY If Granny’s Kitchen were a movie, then the credits would feature an endless reel of supporting roles played by the countless people who have patronized the business over the years.

“Our locals have been our advertisers,” Teresa said. “When we got that place we didn’t have anything. We had to borrow money to make the down payment on the lease. We probably had $300 in the bank. But that’s just the thing is we couldn’t afford to advertise.

We couldn’t do a whole lot of stuff, so it was just our local people and word of mouth that’s helped us out.”

Developing a hallmark of friendly service and appreciation of local patrons has proven a winning business strategy, but it also stems from a belief in the power of a tasty meal or genuine smile to change the trajectory of a person’s day.

“You may be the only person that has the opportunity to make them feel better that day,” Teresa said. “So be as nice and kind and friendly as you can. You can’t please everybody, but you can always try to make people feel better.”

That concoction of delicious food, homey atmosphere and friendly service has created something that resonates with locals and visitors alike. Granny’s is a

popular lunch spot for people in Cherokee, and Dwight has no problem listing off various customers who routinely drive from much longer distances to get some of his roast turkey and dressing.

There’s lady who lived out past Hendersonville and would drive two hours every Wednesday just to have some roast beef, until she got sick last year and could no longer make the trip. And there’s another guy who lives out in Haywood County’s Jonathan Creek area and comes over almost every day for a meal.

For many of these folks, familiarity is the draw. Though Granny’s staff has grown from about 15 in the early years to 48 now, many of the same employees have stayed on year after year, and even decade after decade. The menu, too, has seen little change, though not for lack of effort.

“We’ve tried to change the menu a couple of times, and it’s almost caused a revolt,” Teresa laughed.

So, Granny’s Kitchen has kept to tradition, giving the people what they want — the comfort and stable familiarity that most people expect to find in their grandmother’s kitchen.

And Teresa is OK with that. Looking back at it she’s proud of the business that she, Ray and their children have built over the last three decades.

“The biggest thing is you’re only as good as the worst employees you’ve got, and we’ve got some pretty daggone good ones,” she said. “We couldn’t do anything if it wasn’t for the people that we have working, and we wouldn’t be able to keep them working if it weren’t for the people coming in the front door. To be able to be born and raised in Cherokee, and to be able to make my living there and give back what I can to the community — that’s about the best you can hope for.”

Leah McGrath, RDN, LDN

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Building business in Haywood County

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER ts no surprise that The Smoky Mountain News’ annual Women in Business issue highlights women who are in business, but this year, we decided to focus on something a bit more meta: the daughter of a woman in business who is a woman in the business of getting women into business.

Katy Gould, director of the Small Business Center at Haywood Community College, was raised in Haywood County by a mother who operated a data processing business with both a local office and an office in Washington, D.C. “I grew up in a small business, so I know what a good day looks like, what a bad day looks like, and what it looks like when all hands are on deck to make a business run,” Gould said. “I think that’s what really shaped my love for entrepreneurship — watching my mom.”

Gould earned her degree at Berea College in business administration, where she was introduced to a program called Entrepreneurship for the Public Good, headed by Dr. Peter Hackbert since its inception in 2007.

“It was focused on taking entrepreneurship to rural Appalachian coal mining communities where the coal mines had left environmental destruction and economic destruction,” she said. “We worked hand in hand with these communities to help entrepreneurship evolve that ecosystem.”

After college, Gould was recruited into the world of big box retail.

“That was not the best fit for me,” she said. “I really love small business. Big box retail is a major component in our economic ecosystem but I just love those small businesses.”

She returned to Haywood County to work as an events coordinator at the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce while earning her master’s degree in entrepreneurship at Western Carolina University; when the previous director of the Small Business Center retired, Gould jumped at the chance to lead the organization.

The Small Business Center is part of the N.C. Small Business Center Network; before being named the Haywood Chamber of Commerce’s Young Professional of the Year in 2016, Gould was named the NCSBC’s “Rookie of the Year” in 2015.

“I think there’s 59 across the state,” she said. “There is one Small Business Center within 30 minutes of every North Carolinian.”

Like the others, Haywood’s SBC offers free, confidential, one-on-one technical assistance, counseling, educational seminars, resource referrals and micro lending assistance for businesses in any stage — from idea to market, and beyond.

“You can be a start up, you can be an idea generator, you can be in business or in business for five years and experiencing a trouble spot where you’re not sure what to do — we are here for all of it,” she said.

As women have traditionally been underrepresented in the business community as well as in the entreprenurial community, their inclusion is of particular import in both economic development and social aspects.

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Director of the Small Business Center Katie Gould helps women – or anyone – with a small business. Cory Vaillancourt photo “I think women entrepreneurs have unique opportunity,” Gould said. “North Carolina is phenomenal — I think we’re number three as far as women-owned business startup growth.”

She feels the same way about Haywood County.

“For a rural community, it’s unlike anything I’ve seen,” Gould said. “In my opinion, it’s one of the top [counties] in North Carolina. We have vibrant downtowns. We have great subsectors throughout the community, and each municipality really has something to bring to the table, from their downtown perspective — from their merchants’ associations and their chambers of commerce.”

Another asset to female entrepreneurs in the region is the Buncombe County-based Western Women’s Business Center, which in addition to providing services like Gould’s SBC, also helps entrepreneurs interface with the Carolina Small Business loan program.

“It’s a phenomenal program doing nothing but supporting women in business,” said Gould. “They are a catalyst to help drive the women’s business economy. They ensure access to capital, additional technical experience, additional educational seminars, and they do an annual conference.”

Gould’s group partners with the organization on two yearly women in business luncheons that bring women together to make connections.

“So you’re not only learning, you’re almost in a co-

working environment for that two hours you’re together,” she said. “You’re collaborating with one another, you’re building with one another — you’re building networks.”

The local network, Gould said, is strong as well.

“I find the Haywood County women’s business economy to be very inclusive, which I appreciate. Women supporting other women. Women mentoring other women in business. Women really wanting to help one another to get a leg up, rather than being in an environment where people may be standoffish to a competitor.”

It’s all of those reasons why Gould implores anyone, but especially women, to consider starting their own business in Haywood County.

“Assuming the idea is a good fit — if it’s a unique value proposition that is a good fit for our county, and is a product or a service that is of need, or maybe something new, different, or better, my recommendation is to really revisit yourself,” she said.

Think through what impact the business will have on your self, your family, your financial situation and in your role in the community, Gould cautioned; if you still feel like it’s a good idea, the SBC can help with the first steps to planning and developing a business.

“There are so many people in your ball court, so many people there to cheer you on, or even to lend a hand if you should falter,” she said. “This diverse unique and vibrant business climate is really the perfect catalyst for women in entrepreneurship.”

“I find the Haywood County women’s business economy to be very inclusive, which I appreciate. Women supporting other women. Women mentoring other women in business. Women really wanting to help one another to get a leg up, rather than being in an environment where people may be standoffish to a competitor.”

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Dr. Linda Sparks performs a homeopathic treatment on a patient at her naturopath practice Blue Ridge Natural Health in Waynesville. Donated photo

CALIFORNIA DREAMING

Dr. Sparks takes long-range approach to personal health

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“It made me realize something was missing with this system,” Sparks said.

“My mom went to a manipulative osteopath, a naturopath and did yoga and she eventually walked again. My mom wouldn’t have danced at my brother’s wedding without that alternative doctor.”

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR Too often patients visit Dr. Linda Sparks as a last resort.

Only after years of not being able to find any answers or relief through traditional medicine, do they turn to an alternative like naturopathic medicine. Sparks has personally seen patients completely heal themselves with naturopathic medicine, which is why she decided to change her entire career to help others see those same health benefits.

“We believe the body can heal itself if you give the body what it needs and take away what it doesn’t need,” she said.

After spending years clawing her way into the film and television industry in Hollywood and ultimately finding success, Sparks made the difficult decision to go to medical school. She could have easily

become a traditional medical physician but her mother’s story inspired her to become a naturopathic doctor — a challenging yet rewarding career.

Sparks was 8 years old when her mom started falling down and ended up being confined to a wheelchair.

“No one knew what was wrong with her. She went through so much testing — even electroshock — but none of it helped. Doctors said there was no help for her and that it was in her head,” she said.

Three years later a family friend advised the family to take their mother to a manipulative osteopath doctor in Maine. They drove four hours for this doctor to perform spinal manipulations on her mom. They weren’t very hopeful after so many years without a diagnosis.

“Mom and dad were crying when they came out of his office,” Sparks recalled.

“He discovered she had scoliosis — it was hitting her sciatic nerve and making her legs jump, which was causing the falls.”

It seemed like such an easy answer, but it was one that no other medical doctor was able to determine.

Looking for work proved to be more challenging that she thought — and in 2000 she was still carrying around a pager and the internet wasn’t what it is today.

“I had a big book of names of people who worked in the industry — I literally just started calling and got to the middle of the B’s when I finally got an interview and a job on the first action series ‘The Tick’ — that lasted for six weeks,” she said.

It was while attending a Tom Jones show that Sparks’ career really turned around. The men she was chatting with at the table next to hers during the show turned out to work for ABC and knew film director JJ Abrams. She gushed about how she’d love to work with Abrams, never thinking it would lead to an interview and then a job working with him on the hit show “Alias.” She was a production assistant for a year and then was the assistant to the executive producer/director.

“It changed my life. I worked right next to JJ — he and Ken (Olin) are just crazy geniuses. They are inspiring and giving and talented,” she said. “He was the kind of guy you wanted to work 15 hours a day for because he was working 18 hours. He would be playing guitar, sculpting and editing the next episode all at the same time.”

While working on “Alias,” she also went back to school to become a massage therapist — it seemed like a good back up plan if work dried up again or for when she was ready to get out of the film business. She was working on ABC’s hit show

Long before she became a naturopathic doctor with her own blossoming practice in Waynesville, Sparks thought she was destined to work in show business.

“I wanted to be an actress — I was really into musical theater and dance — so I attended an arts and college prep high school,” she said.

After high school, Sparks decided she didn’t want to “sell herself ” in Hollywood to be an actress so she decided that working behind the scenes would be a better fit. She attended the University of Miami where she earned a degree in theater design and production.

“I went for palm trees and sun and ended up spending 90 percent of my time in a dark theater,” Sparks joked. “But Miami didn’t have a large theater community and there weren’t many internships available so I minored in film to get an internship.”

In addition to interning as a set dresser for a B movie for a month, Sparks said she did plenty of other free work during her senior year in college.

The only way she knew how to land jobs after graduation was to just show up to commercial sets, start helping and hope they’d “It made me realize something was pay her when it was all said and done. missing with this system. My mom “I didn’t have any conwent to a manipulative osteopath, nections — I just kept showing up and helping a naturopath and did yoga and she people until they paid eventually walked again.” me,” she said.

That strategy did — Dr. Linda Sparks work out for her though — it wasn’t long before “Brothers & Sisters” in 2007 when the she was hired to work on a movie set as a writers’ strike happened and she had a prop assistant in the Caribbean for six chance to try her hand at massage therapy. weeks. While the movie — “Life’s A “It was hard to get clients and it was Beach” — wasn’t a box office smash, it did taxing because people just wanted you to star Christopher Walken, Morgan make them feel good,” Sparks said. “And I Fairchild and Robert Wagner and helped realized I don’t want to just help people Sparks make new connections that would feel good — if I’m really going to help ultimately lead her to Los Angeles. people, I need an education.”

Without much of a plan, Sparks moved to L.A. and lived with the art director of “Life’s A Beach” while she ACK TO SCHOOL looked for work.

“I moved out with two suitcases and I Sparks swore she’d never go back to lived in a closet under the stairs like Harry school — she squeaked by in high school Potter,” she said. and college — but the need to help people

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— Dr. Linda Sparks

they’re changing the way they practice, but the problem is, our philosophy of health is a lot different than the standard way of looking at health right now so being a resident just wouldn’t work for me,” Sparks said.

Naturopathic medicine involves taking a long-range holistic approach to health and that involves a much deeper look at a patient’s life than the standard 30-minute physical exam once a year. It involves getting to the root of a person’s medical issue and using natural remedies that will help a patient heal themselves. It also involves working with a patient to change their unhealthy behaviors.

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Dr. Linda Sparks sells homemade salves and teas at her booth at the Historic Farmers Market in Waynesville. Donated photo in a real way kept nagging at her. She now knows her hesitancy to go back to school was because she never believed in herself — never thought she was smart enough to succeed academically.

Maybe she had more to prove when she went back to massage school. Still working full-time on “Alias,” her employers sponsored her tuition and she aced the program.

However, taking pre-med courses was going to be her greatest challenge yet.

While working on “Brothers & Sisters” during the day, she attended classes at night. She aced physics and her first-ever chemistry classes.

“That was the first time I thought I may be smart after all,” she said.

“Brothers & Sisters” was unexpectedly canceled, which allowed Sparks to go to school full time to finish her pre-med classes. Then she had to decide what path she would take next — stay in Hollywood or pursue her dream of becoming a doctor.

“My soul felt so squashed in L.A. with

the whole keeping up with Jones mentality — even though I worked with great people,” Sparks said. “The idea of becoming an MD was so worthy, but the system is so broken and I didn’t think I could handle it.”

NATUROPATH PATH Then she thought back to her mother’s medical issues when she was younger and how an alternative doctor saved her quality of life.

Sparks was admitted to Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Phoenix and completed four years of graduate school with clinical training. With a 4.0 grade average after her first year, she set her sights on becoming a naturopathic resident, but residencies are few and far between in that field. She also realized that being a resident would once again box her into the mainstream thinking that failed her mother and so many others.

“There’s a split in our profession — one side wants to be treated like an MD so

Being from Massachusetts, Sparks was always drawn to more warm and sunny locations — Miami, Los Angeles, Phoenix — but a visit to see a friend in Waynesville would soon bring her back to a place with four seasons and a much slower pace. At first she thought opening her own naturopathic practice in Asheville would be the best plan, but she kept being drawn back to Waynesville.

“I met doctors in Asheville but I quickly realized I wanted to be in Waynesville — a smaller community where people know each other and look out for each other,” she said. “There’s a lot of history and beautiful hills — I wanted a higher tree-to-person ratio.”

Sparks moved to Waynesville in 2015 and started Blue Ridge Natural Health inside of Waynesville Wellness, but being a naturopathic doctor in North Carolina has its disadvantages. There is currently no certification process for naturopathic doctors in North Carolina, which means they are limited in how they can operate a practice and what services they can perform.

“If I still lived in Phoenix, I would be considered a primary care physician and could have a full scope practice — chiropractic, minor surgery, gynecological issues, IV therapy, phlebotomy, men’s health and physical exams,” Sparks said.

“But in this state I have to work as more of a health coach helping people with lifestyle choices and natural remedies.”

Besides not being able to practice all the skills she acquired during four years of medical school, the state laws also keep her from being able to accept insurance

payments from her patients. However, patients with a Health Savings Account plan can choose to use HSA savings toward naturopathic visits and treatments. Sparks also offers special annual memberships that allow patients to pay a reasonable monthly fee.

“I can hands down tell you the people who join the membership program see better results,” she said. “They’re paying a monthly fee so they’re more likely to come to their follow-up visits and do the therapies at home.”

Another challenge is trying to educate patients on the difference between a naturopathic doctor and a traditional naturopath.

“I’m having to compete with people who call themselves naturopath doctors but weren’t trained the same way I was,” Sparks said. “Traditional naturopaths can do online correspondence classes to earn a degree but they don’t have the same clinical supervised training — that’s the biggest thing — and they’re not as trained in the basic sciences, clinical diagnosis and pathology.”

There has been legislation before the General Assembly to change the laws, but for now Sparks is focused on operating within the current system by working in consultation with her patients and their primary physicians. She can offer patients lifestyle and nutrition counseling, which she says is the foundation for everything. Sparks can also offer homeopathic remedies, botanical medicine, hydrotherapy and cleansing programs.

Sparks also makes organic teas that can be used for many common ailments.

She’s helped her patients with thyroid issues, digestion problems, hot flashes, respiratory and allergy issues, hypertension and anxiety.

Sparks has gone back to school once again to earn a master’s degree in acupuncture, another service she’ll be able to add to her practice when her degree is complete in 2019. Right now she is performing acupuncture clinics in Asheville as part of her training.

For more information about Dr. Sparks and Blue Ridge Natural Health, visit www.blueridgenaturalhealth.com or call 828.539.0440. Sparks can also be found each Saturday morning at Waynesville’s Historic Farmers Market from 8 a.m. to noon in the HART Theatre parking lot offering salves and teas.

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“I met doctors in Asheville but I quickly realized I wanted to be in Waynesville — a smaller community where people know each other and look out for each other. There’s a lot of history and beautiful hills — I wanted a higher tree-to-person ratio.”

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In the book business WOMEN IN BUSINESS 2017

Books Unlimited owner shares love of reading

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR The book business is rebounding thanks to people like Suzanne Harouff who’ve never given up on it.

Books Unlimited has been a mainstay in downtown Franklin for more than 30 years.

Other shops and restaurants have come and gone over the years as the downtown has gone through changes, but Books Unlimited has been able to outlive most even during a time when new technologies are constantly threatening its relevance.

With more people attached to their smartphones, tablets or an electronic reader, everyone was convinced the print industry would suffer and eventually die off, but Harouff said she’s seen a turn around recently.

“It’s building back up — that’s what I see and what I hear from my sales reps,” she said. “The future of the book business is bright — I see it as a growing future for women in business — probably at its best place ever.”

Books Unlimited was opened in 1983

under the ownership of Donna and Randy Wolf. Harouff worked in the used books section of the store for years and when the owners were ready to retire, she decided to buy the business in 2003. Being her own boss was a dream come true, but she’s also found it to be a double-edged sword. She’s the only full-time employee at the store and has six part-time employees.

“It’s a two way street being your own boss — I like being my own boss but sometimes I wish someone else could make decisions instead of me,” Harouff joked. “It’s definitely not what people think — I can’t just take off to go play golf — but I love what I do and I love my costumers and I demand we offer great customer service.”

Anyone who owns a bookstore will tell you they’re not in it to get rich — one truly has to have an appreciation for books to be sustainable. Preserving and growing a love of reading hasn’t been easy for Harouff, but her love of reading keeps her going.

“It’s been very difficult but reading real books is back on the rise,” she said. “Many people stare at a computer screen all day long and the very last thing they want to do when it’s time to relax is stare at a computer screen at home.”

“It seems impossible until it is done.”

—Nelson Mandela As women, to get the most out of our days, it seems our nerves must be made of steel. We have so many roles and must be able to switch gears fast and be focused at home and on the job. This is why I am so glad chiropractic found me. Chiropractic has a way to remove stress and interference from nerves allowing the body to move better, think better, and feel better.

This is why I love getting adjusted.

Suzanne Harouff, owner of Books Unlimited in Franklin, picks up a recommended read from her staff. Jessi Stone photo Several years ago there was a big push from the American Book Sellers Association to offer electronic books, and Books Unlimited did it for a while, but Harouff felt it was going against what she was trying to do. Her goal is to encourage reading among adults and especially children.

“Teaching the younger generations to love reading — that’s what it’s all about.

It doesn’t matter if they’re reading comic books as long as they’re reading,” she said. “Kids who say they don’t like to read just haven’t found that special book yet.”

To that end, Harouff opened up Kids Books Unlimited next door in 2016 to make more room for kids reading and related activities. Now Harouff has space for children’s story time events, puppet shows, games and performances. She said it’s been a great way to engage more children as well as their parents.

“We’ve seen a big difference in the summer when kids come here with their grandparents. They come in to find

books on identifying trees, flowers and birds. They’re not sitting in front of a screen while they’re here,” Harouff said.

For her adult customers, Books Unlimited has something for everyone — new releases, recommended reading from staff, used books, calendars and gifts.

Even though she didn’t have any business ownership experience before taking over the bookstore, Harouff has the skills that come naturally for many women and mothers, including resilience and the ability to multi-task with managing a household, raising children and working within a limited budget.

“You just have to realize you’re going to be married to it and you’ll work harder at owning a business than you probably have at any marriage,” she joked.

“The best advice I can give women in business is to just be patient with yourself and those around you. You can’t do it in a day or week month or even a year.

It’s a gradual process — you’ve got to earn your customers respect to make them want to do business with you.”

Chiropractic allows me more possibility. As a wife, a mom of 3, a woman professional, to function in all my many roles, I know chiropractic helps me get things done.

For stress relief, for function, for a better quality of life.

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Kids Books Unlimited opened in 2016 to give children more reading options along with space to offer special reading activities. Jessi Stone photo

Recipe for success grocery stores and wine shops. I handle marketing and sales, manage inventory and do all the paperwork and billing.”

Making the product is also a two-person job when it comes to bottling and labeling the wine — and of course no winery would be complete without an enthusiastic wine taster to make sure it’s suitable for the public. Heather said she actually wasn’t a huge wine drinker until she met Rob.

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR Heather and Robert Acton have it all figured out. Living on the outskirts of Swain County near the national park boundaries, they have found a perfect balance of business and pleasure.

The couple bought a piece of property just above their home off of Galbraith Creek Road and retrofitted an old barn into a winery and tasting room. It’s definitely off the beaten path, but well worth the journey.

Enjoy the creek flowing and the winding narrow roads as you follow the signs to Deep Creek Winery. You’ll know you made it when a German Sheppard named Roi — after one of the Deep Creek’s wines — greets you at the barn doors.

Deep Creek Winery was born out of Robert’s love of making wine and Heather’s desire to do something different with her life.

“I was burnt out on my Heather Acton, co-owner of Deep Creek Winery job as a physical therapy outside of Bryson City, pours a red wine tasting for assistant and having his own a visitor. Jessi Stone photo winery has always been a dream of Rob’s so we part“I just never found anything I liked nered together and I jumped on the until I met him — he got me into good bandwagon,” Heather said. wine,” she said. “There’s definitely a big Before opening the tasting room for sampling and events last year, the Actons difference in having something made in a small batch instead of mass production.” ran Deep Creek Winery as a wholesale And that’s what Deep Creek Winery business reaching many grocery stores is about. All 10 wines offered — five and wine shops across the region. As a white and five red — are made in handwinery and not a vineyard, they import crafted small batches. They offer a varisome of the best grape juices from all ety of wines ranging from sweet to dry over the world to Bryson City so Robert and from light, easy drinking to full-bodcan figure out the tastiest recipes to suit ied. And the response so far has been any wine drinkers’ palette. positive, Heather said. The more fruity “Rob has made wine for over a decade. He started at home with a wine wines like the Southern Hospitality — a peach infused California chardonnay — kit and then did an apprenticeship and the Sweet Summer Bliss — a strawwith a professional wine maker to be berry infused white zinfandel perfect for able to put his own touch on recipes,” spritzers and mimosas — have been Heather said. popular sellers this summer.

While Rob has the big responsibility “It’s been a very lucrative business so of making the wines, there’s a lot more to far — no regrets about quitting my job to running a winery after the product is do this,” she said. “For me personally I just complete. Heather is instrumental in marketing and advertising, planning tast- love the independence of owning my own business — it’s demanding working for ings and events at the barn and getting other people. If you have a dream or hope their product into the right retailers. in something step out and try it — noth“I’m a very good assistant — just like ing changes if you don’t make a change.” every good chef needs a Sui chef,” she For more information, visit said. “My organizational skills come in handy with marketing and wholesaling to www.deepcreekwinery.com.

After graduation from Harvard Divinity School in 2008, Stephany knew she wanted to come home to her community to give back. Pink Regalia was founded in the summer of 2010 to care for the needs of postbreast surgery women. It was Stephany’s mission to create a space that was positive, empowering and met real needs of the women that graced her door. With the same mission Pink Regalia has grown it’s customer base to include ALL women not just those who have undergone breast surgery and has grown to two locations. Stephany is always looking for new products to better serve the women in her community. Stop by just to find out what their tagline “An Enlightening Bra Shopping Experience.” Is all about! You may see Stephany or one of her two amazing Fitters: Crystal-in Waynesville or Kimberly- in Asheville. Regardless, Stephany’s mission of making a difference and giving back is coming true with each bra fit.

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Creating a community at the Blue Moon Salon

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER When you’ve done something for as long as Mitzi Cope has, you tend to learn a thing or two — not just about business, but about life.

“We’ve done hair 24 years, and we’ve had this business for 11 years in this location,” said Cope, referring to her sister Denise Harmon-Finger.

And as they’ve watched the world go by, outside the window of their Blue Moon Salon tucked away in the plaza at 300 Haywood Road in Waynesville, they say their success comes not just from cutting hair, but from creating a sense of community.

“We’ve done great,” Cope said. “The salon is thriving right now.”

Cope’s busy salon doesn’t really have a “slow season,” even when the secondhome crowd dwindles during the winter.

“We do a lot of Florida people, but we do a lot of locals — that’s what keeps you going,” she said.

In a female-dominated industry such as this, Cope must differentiate herself from other woman-owned salons, and does so by striving for that sense of community created when she gives personal attention to her clientele.

“We try to make our experiences with our clients more personal, and get to know them better so we know if they’ve got the right style, or the right cut or whatever they need,” she said. “We try to help people, and it seems like more people enjoy coming here than they do other salons. They can have a good time and a good experience.”

The relationships built at Blue Moon Salon don’t end at the door; in fact, that’s only where they start.

“We like to help people,” she said. “If people are disabled, we help them get in and out. I have a blind lady we help, we have crippled people in wheelchairs — we try to help everybody.”

The salon boasts a budding social scene, where more than just cuts and curls are dispensed.

“A lot of clients come in here, and if they need some help with a job, or finding someone, we usually know someone, a local,” Cope said. “We can hook them up with someone, and get them a better deal.”

But sometimes it’s not about action — often, Cope said, it’s about reaction.

“I sat out here one day, and I heard someone hollerin’ over by the church and couldn’t figure out what it was. Somebody

Serio serious about self-defense

Mu Do is a fighting system based on balance — it stresses a balance between high positions and low positions, a balance between self and surroundings, a balance between intellectual and physical development, and a generally optimistic attitude.

In addition to the mental and physical conditioning inherent in all martial arts, Han Mu Do places special emphasis on technique whilst utilizing chokes, grappling, hand strikes, joint locks, kicks, throws and even weapons.

“It’s very traditional,” she said. “We meditate, we practice breathing, we do stuff that goes along with martial arts that’s not just how to fight — it’s about how to practice self-control and self-discipline. The best fight is the one that’s avoided.”

This is Serio’s first venture of this kind into the business world; she still works part time at Maggie Mountain Fitness in Maggie Valley, but decided to move her instruction to Waynesville because of the larger population.

Her space, a former salon, is in a highly visible location close to popular restaurants, just off South Main Street on Church Street — perfect, she says, for parents who want to slip off for a snack during a child’s class, or, for the classes them-

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER The story of every small business is different and unique, but some follow an economic development narrative being heard more and more in Western North Carolina — an entrepreneur with professional skills decided to open a business in Haywood County because they wanted to be here.

Jillian Serio is one such businesswoman; her Serio Self Defense opened in downtown Waynesville earlier this summer.

“I wanted to live in the mountains,” Serio said.

From the Baton Rouge area, this former LSU Tiger earned her degree in anthropology but is the daughter of two martial arts instructors; she practices a form of Korean martial arts called Han Mu Do. Created by Dr. He-Young Kimm, Han

Mitzi Cope (left) and sister Denise Harmon-Finger have created more than just a hair salon. Cory Vaillancourt photo had locked themself out of the church on the patio, so I kept going around, made a bunch of phone calls, and we finally got them out,” she laughed.

And as the world passes by that window, sometimes Cope and her crew see opportunities to contribute to the community that has sustained them for so long.

“We see people wreck, we see them fall out here, and we run out the door and help them, get them calmed down so EMS can help them,” she said. “The more cred-

Jillian Serio brings Korean martial arts to downtown Waynesville. Cory Vaillancourt photo selves to socialize afterwards.

“Right now I have classes for 4, 5 and 6 year-olds, and juniors — which is about 7 through age 14 depending on maturity —

its you get here on earth, you get that many in heaven.”

But being part of the woman-owned business community not only comes with rewards, it also comes with obligations.

“It means you’ve got to be on your game — you can’t afford to be there and not know what you’re doing. You want to have a good clean area for people to come into,” Cope said. “We try to make it feel like home so they can come in here whether they’re rich or they’re not so they can feel like they belong.”

and then I have classes for adults,” she said.

What students of all ages learn is much more than the fantastical fighting seen in popular movies of today.

“It’s more than just being able to defend oneself. It’s learning the confidence to avoid confrontation in the first place, or the ability of self-control,” Serio said.

Part of that includes plans to one day offer, among other things, a women’s selfdefense class.

“Sort of a ladies night out thing,” she said. “And then a class that’s more like tai chi, where it’s more meditative and flowing, and that might be for an earlier morning crowd.”

Kids, especially, can benefit from Serio’s experience as they take the discipline they learn on the mat and turn it into a way of life.

“One of the things we really focus on especially with the kids is goal setting,” said Serio. “Both short-term and longterm. The belt system and the rank system kind of illustrate what we mean, but I also have students who have set goals for flexibility, or goals for improving their grades in school — different goals that extend beyond our school here, into life.”

One house at a time

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER Before Karen Walston began running her first extermination route 16 years ago, she had no plans to become The Bug Lady of WNC. At the time, she was doing a part-time office job for a bigger pest control company, but when she asked for more hours she got more than she bargained for.

“They said, ‘Women will pay more attention to detail. We’ll put you on a route,’” Walston recalled.

Turns out, she loves the work, and something about the way she did her job resonated with clients. Before she knew it, her route had just about outgrown her.

Walston stayed at that job for just shy of 10 years, until a series of circumstances led her to launch her own business. She’s owned The Bug Lady of WNC, Inc, for the past seven years and hasn’t looked back.

“I’m on the road. My scenery changes every day,” she said. “I service four counties — Jackson, Macon, Swain and Haywood. I’m around Fontana Lake. I’m above the clouds. I see all four seasons every day, just about. Everything is great about my job.”

Walston’s day starts at her home in Sylva, where she feeds her dogs and sets out in her bright red truck — nicknamed “Elmo” and adorned with a stuffed animal version of its namesake — for whatever route she’s planned the night before.

Much of her work is preventative, quarterly treatments to keep the roaches or termites or what-have-you from making an appearance. But Walston tries to plan her schedule loosely enough so that if she gets a panicked emergency call from someone with an infestation in the same area that she’s working that day, she can fit it in.

Walston loves her job, but she also loves the fact that as a business owner she’s in control of her own hours. She’s home by 3:30 p.m. most days, and she has the time to spend many of her evenings over at Western Carolina University, cheering on her beloved Catamount teams. Being from the eastern part of the state, Walston didn’t attend WCU, but she makes up for that fact with her enthusiastic support of today’s teams.

“The other teams were getting mad because I wasn’t yelling at their sports like I was yelling at women’s basketball,” Walston laughed. She took that to heart and started expanding her attendance.

People tend to panic over infesta-

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Bug lady keeps WNC homes pest-free

tions, but part of Walston’s job is to be the calmest person in the room, bringing with her expertise the assurance that the problem will soon be just a memory.

“People freak out over roaches, and it’s never as bad as they think it is,” she said. “It’s always fixable. I just did a big cleanout and was out of there in three months. If you spend enough time upfront the first time you go, you start seeing them die off. Three months and I’m done.”

Walston’s work takes her to houses owned by wealthy second-homeowners and to the dwellings of people who can barely afford her services. She’s outside in the fresh air and squeezing through crawl

Karen Walston stands with her work truck, affectionately nicknamed “Elmo.”

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Call the Bug Lady Karen Walston lives in Sylva but services a four-county area for residential and commercial pest control. She is available at 828.243.9318 and thebugladyofwnc@gmail.com. spaces. She treats empty homes owned by absent homeowners and knocks on doors opened by clients who have become friends over the course of years.

At this point, it’s hard to surprise her.

“There’s really nothing that strikes me as being out of the ordinary,” she said. “It’s all work. It’s part of my job to do what I do, which is look at the houses, make sure they’re doing what they need to be doing.”

Another part of Walston’s job description? Making friends with all the dogs she comes across.

“They call me the dog whisperer,” she said.

She comes with pockets full of treats and keeps extensive notes on which dogs live at which house, which animals get scared if she wears a hat and who is frightened by her flip-up sunglasses.

“I will sit down and get to know the dogs as much as I will get to know the customers,” she said. “They know I come with cookies.”

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After completing her degree in 1990, Kim returned to her hometown to serve her community as a pharmacist. She is a lifelong resident of Waynesville and has deep roots in the community. Kim is also actively involved with Altrusa of Waynesville, DSS Christmas and Foster Child Program, and Relay for life.

Kim’s Pharmacy is proud to have been selected favorite pharmacy by the readers of The Mountaineer 6 years running and is grateful to the residents of Haywood County for patronizing an independent pharmacy in this age of big box chain stores. Kim’s Pharmacy is honored to have been selected 2013 Business of the Year by the Haywood Chamber of Commerce.

As the only compounding pharmacy west of Asheville, the pharmacy’s patients range from newborns to geriatrics and everything in between. It does a lot of compounding for vets in the area, and the animal patients range from cats, to dogs, to horses and squirrels.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER hen Shining Rock Classical Academy opened in 2015, the public charter school was hailed as a victory for local proponents of school choice and promised to provide an academically rigorous, comprehensive college preparatory curriculum.

Instead, the school is underperforming compared to other local schools and is seeing a number of students returning to Haywood County Public Schools, where staff cuts instituted in the wake of Shining Rock’s inception are making it increasingly difficult for at least one school to handle them.

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sixth-grade teacher due to increased enrollment,” Putnam said; the HCS data shows six sixth-graders, seven seventh-graders, and seven eighth-graders who initially went to Shining Rock now attend his school.

That potential hire would be an aboutface from the downsizing that occurred around the time Shining Rock opened and Waynesville’s Central Elementary closed; many attribute the closure of the school to the emergence of Shining Rock.

“I know there were cuts that had to occur — some of that was decreased class size, some of it was from the funding formula, and a contributing factor was decreased

— Ben Butler, Shining Rock Classical Academy Director

enrollment,” Putnam said.

Two sixth-graders and two eighthgraders formerly at Shining Rock now attend Canton Middle School, and there’s no shortage of elementary school students leaving Shining Rock, either; from kindergarten through fifth grade, Bethel and Clyde have two former Shining Rock students each, Hazelwood and Jonathan Valley have three each, North Canton has five students and Lake Junaluska has six.

SCHOOL RANKINGS While the social atmosphere of a kindergarten through seventh-grade school — as opposed to the kindergarten through fifthgrade elementary and sixth- through eighthgrade middle schools prevalent in the Haywood County system — can’t easily be quantified, academic performance can.

DOLLARS AND SENSE Shining Rock Director Ben Butler said that last year’s enrollment was about 350 students; this year’s enrollment is about 403, and the school has a capacity of about 420 kids.

While students changing schools isn’t unusual, the 45 students who didn’t return to — or left — Shining Rock represent a sizeable chunk of its enrollment.

“I think that number goes back into the last school year, as it seemingly bears no relation to our transfer numbers so far this year,” Butler said. “We have had some movement in our rolls this fall, but nothing that is out of the ordinary.”

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Even worse for Haywood County Schools, the state funding that would have normally accompanied those students who left Shining Rock after the tenth day of the school year doesn’t come with them.

According to data compiled Oct. 2 and provided by Haywood County Schools, 45 students chose not to return to Shining Rock this year, or entered Shining Rock this year when school started but have since left.

“When we start the year, we pretty much have evenly balanced class sizes and equal skill sets,” said Waynesville Middle School Principal Trevor Putnam. “Doing it after school starts makes it challenging.”

Putnam stressed that the school wasn’t having trouble integrating the 20 former Shining Rock students that are currently at Waynesville Middle School, but he may run into capacity issues if that trend continues.

“We are having to potentially hire a

Butler gives as an example families that moved out of the area for job opportunities, or homeschoolers, in addition to those who have returned to HCS. “Ultimately families have to make the choice that works best for them, and we support our families always,” Butler said. “We are also very happy that we are at 95 percent of our capacity here, and find that families were eager to move off the wait list and enroll once they were made the offer.”

Butler says there is a continuing effort to improve the quality of instruction at Shining Rock.

“One of our primary goals last year was to improve the way we delivered our Core Knowledge curriculum, and we saw a dramatic improvement in our second year site visit from the Core Knowledge Foundation,” Butler said, adding that he and faculty are working to determine and address needs at the school. “The goal at Shining Rock is always to improve academically.”

If it doesn’t and the departures continue, it’s taxpayers and HCS who’ll be left holding the bag.

Assistant Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte of HCS said that Haywood Commissioners make a bulk allotment of about $13 million to HCS for what’s called “local current expense funding,” which can be used for almost anything except capital costs. That amount is $2,064.92 per student.

That allotment is first paid to HCS, which then must disburse to Shining Rock that same per-pupil amount for each enrolled student. That amount is billed monthly by Shining Rock, but Haywood County School Board Chairman Chuck Francis said that fluctuations in Shining Rock’s enrollment are reconciled each month, so overpayments or underpayments ultimately come out in the wash.

But that’s not so at the state level.

HCS receives $5,272.32 per student from the state; Francis said the total amount of funding is calculated based on the average number of students in class on the tenth day of the school year.

When students show up in HCS on day 11 — or on any other day after that — the state doesn’t supply the $5,272.32 it would have if the students had enrolled prior to day 10.

“I was joking in the finance committee meeting the other day that we should turn around and bill Shining Rock,” Francis said, adding that it probably wasn’t legal or possible to do so.

It is, however, important that Shining Rock succeed — if it doesn’t, HCS could quickly be faced with an influx of students, but not an influx of funding.

Nevertheless, Waynesville Middle School’s Putnam said that no matter which schools Haywood students attend, the students themselves are what’s most important.

“We’re glad to have them,” he said of the former Shining Rock kids. “And they seem to be adjusting well.”

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“We have had some movement in our rolls this fall, but nothing that is out of the ordinary.”

Of 17 major performance benchmarks measuring grade level proficiencies in math, reading and science for elementary and middle school students, Shining Rock finished last in nine of them — far more than any other Haywood County school, according to data released by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction earlier this year.

By comparison, Meadowbrook Elementary finished last in two categories, and Hazelwood elementary one. Canton Middle School finished last four times. No other schools did. The district’s highest scores of late come from Riverbend Elementary, which was first in every single category, except for fifth-grade science, where Riverbend was edged out narrowly by Clyde.

For the 2016-17 school year, Shining Rock earned an overall score of 65; because the school uniquely offers grades K through 7, no insight can be gained as to how it measures up against HCS’ elementary or middle schools in that sense, although every HCS elementary and middle school scored higher than Shining Rock.

However, grade level proficiencies show the strengths and weaknesses of each individual school in the district.

Shining Rock’s fifth-grade science students and its sixth- and seventh-grade readers are far and away the best in the county, but that’s where the accolades end.

Despite finishing near the top in reading, the school finished last among HCS middle schools in overall math score.

Of those math scores, Shining Rock finished last in grade level proficiency for third through fifth grades as well as seventh grade; Canton scored lowest for sixth grade.

For the reading scores, Shining Rock bested only Hazelwood in third grade, was last in fourth grade, and was near the middle of the pack in fifth grade.

County schools as a whole, however, remained 11th in the state out of 115 districts, for the second year in a row; HCS composite score growth of 1.8 percent outpaced the state’s 1.54 percent growth, and of the 11 westernmost counties in North Carolina, only two scored better.

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Sylva’s mayoral race nears the finish line Sossamon and Allen to rematch for mayor’s seat

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ylva voters might feel a bit of déjà vu when they enter the polling place this year, with both names on the ballot for the mayor’s seat repeats from the 2015 election.

Last time around, Lynda Sossamon, Danny Allen and Barbara Hamilton — who were all sitting as town commissioners at the time — ran for the office, with Sossamon winning the seat by a razor-thin margin. She beat Allen by just three votes, and Hamilton came in a mere 12 votes below Sossamon.

This year, Hamilton will seek re-election to her seat as a commissioner, but Sossamon and Allen will again vie for the mayor’s seat.

The two candidates come with different goals for the next four-year term and different perceptions of how things have gone over the last two.

In Allen’s view, he’s the better candidate for voters who are looking for someone who will listen to and speak for the interests of the people.

“I don’t really want to say anything negative about anybody, but they (town residents) have come to me and said we cannot get any answers from any questions they’ve asked, and they wanted me to run again because they feel comfortable coming to me and speaking with me,” Allen said.

Allen, a lifelong Sylva resident, has previously served 12 years on the Sylva town board under two mayors.

For her part, Sossamon believes she’s worked hard over the past two years to learn the mayor’s role, further develop her leadership skills and help the board build momentum toward its goals.

“I think the leadership role is the key. I’ve tried to educate myself. I just think I’ve been able to lead the board positively these past two years and we’ve all worked well together,” Sossamon said. “I would like to continue that relationship.”

Sossamon is proud of the work the board has done since 2015. It’s not always easy to move forward when you’re a small town with a tiny tax base that often struggles to cover basic services such as police protection and road maintenance, but she feels that the town has made major strides in the right direction.

There’s a new electric vehicle charging station downtown, as well as a water fountain.

New stencils on the sidewalk down Main Street identify Sylva as being part of the cross-state Mountains-to-Sea Trail. Muchneeded sidewalks will soon go in along Skyland Drive, a long-discussed traffic project has been completed on Mill Street and the newly formed Public Art Commission is looking into ways to make downtown more aesthetically appealing.

“I want to continue working on increasing Sylva’s tax base without raising taxes,” 16 Sossamon said. “The ways I feel we could do

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that is by attracting new businesses and making sure our ordinances allow for growth and housing — apartments and single-family. I want us to continue finding grants to continue making improvements to the town.”

REFLECTIONS ON THE TAX HIKE Sylva did raise taxes in 2016, for the first time in 12 years. The increase was significant, a 41.7 percent rate increase to boost town taxes from 30 cents per $100 of property value to 42.5 cents per $100. Multiple factors were responsible for the increase — a reduction in overall property values meant that the same rate would yield less revenue than it had before, and meanwhile the cost of running the town was rising. In addition, Duke LifePoint’s decision to dispute its property valuation took another bite out of the town’s projected revenue.

“I just think I’ve been able to lead the board positively these past two years and we’ve all worked well together. I would like to continue that relationship.”

— Lynda Sossamon, Sylva mayor

In the end, the large tax rate increase provided the town with little wiggle room outside of its basic budgetary needs, its main effect being that the town no longer had to take from its savings account, called a fund balance, to stay in the black. During a February planning meeting, Town Manager Paige Dowling called the budget resulting from the tax increase “the town’s single biggest accomplishment” of the past year.

While Allen allowed that he hadn’t been keeping close track of town business since leaving the board, he indicated that he might not have voted for the tax increase had he been in office at the time.

“What really hurt and gave the board a bad name is when you have a 12.5-cent increase and then you want to put art downtown,” he said. “How do you think the taxpaying citizens feel about that? They were really irate. A lot of upset people.”

The town did form a Public Art Commission after passing the tax rate increase. However, as of now no town funds are going into the commission’s activities.

The volunteer board members are charged with identifying places downtown conducive to art installations and then seeking funding to see those projects through.

While some board members had stated their support for budgeting some town funds to support the effort, no funds have been allocated and Sossamon has not publicly advocated for or against such funding. She is, how-

Two candidates are on the ballot for Sylva mayor this year, with the winner to serve a four-year term ending in 2021.

Leadership Jackson program in the 1990s.

• Reason to run: “There is a learning curve to learning how to handle a board. I’m just beginning to feel really comfortable in the role. I want to continue the progress we’ve been making.”

LYNDA SOSSAMON • Age: 70 • Background: Sossamon co-owns the Sylva Radio Shack franchise with her husband Boyd. Having first arrived in Jackson County as a student at Western Carolina University, Sossamon has called Sylva home ever since.

• Political experience: Served as Sylva town commissioner 1997-2001 and 2011-2015 and as mayor 2015-2017; has served on or chaired numerous boards including Mountain Projects, the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, TWSA, Sylva Partners in Renewal and the Arts Advancement Council at Western Carolina University, among others; finished the N.C. Rural Center’s three-day Homegrown Leaders program in 2016 and the six-month

DANNY ALLEN • Age: 61 • Background: Allen is a lifelong Sylva resident. Currently retired, he’s previously worked as a security guard at N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching and manager at Quin Theaters. During this fall season he’s been volunteering his time at Barber’s Orchard in Waynesville.

• Political experience: Served as a Sylva town commissioner 2001-2007 and 20092015; was a mayoral candidate in 2015.

• Reason to run: “I was born and raised here. I’ve lived my whole life in Sylva. I worked under two previous mayors. I think a little bit of that has rubbed off, and bottom line is I think I have something to offer to the people. I am a spokesman for the people.”

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ever, an enthusiastic supporter of the commission’s first project, a mural that will be funded with a $10,000 state grant if the application is approved.

For his part, Allen feels that the board could have looked at other solutions before raising taxes by such a large amount. In fact, he’d like to see the town consider getting rid of its police department to instead contract with the Jackson County Sheriff ’s Department for law enforcement services.

Currently, the Sylva Police Department’s budget includes $1.2 million of the town’s total $3.1 million budget.

“I think maybe that would save the town some money, and also it would put more officers out on each shift to protect,” Allen said. “Right now the citizens in Sylva are paying double taxation. That’s double for the use of any and all the county. I don’t know of too many instances where the county would come inside the city limits and enforce the law.”

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Allen also said he’d like to work on getting more businesses into town in order to build up the tax base from which the town draws its revenue, forestalling any future tax increases.

“There’s outside businesses that are interested in coming into town, and I really don’t think the town was behind it, getting other people, other revenue from outside businesses,” Allen said.

He mentioned conversations he’d had while in office with interested corporations such as Fatz, Steak ‘n Shake and Big Lots, noting that they ultimately had decided not to locate in Sylva. He said the town’s small population was probably part of that decisionmaking process.

Sossamon concurred that getting new businesses into town should continue to be a priority. But the exact method of doing so, she said, is hard to say. It’s a struggle for nearly every small town in Western North Carolina.

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For business that use large amounts of water dand sewer, such as restaurants, the up-front sfee can be in the tens of thousands of dollars.

-Those costs have been blamed for hampering oeconomic development. Some local leaders -have voiced support for eliminating impact -fees altogether.

“The control is out of our hands. We just whave to encourage TWSA to fix those things,” aSossamon said, adding that, while some eTWSA policies are “challenges,” she knows ythey need the revenue and isn’t sure whether eliminating impact fees is the best path.

LOOKING FORWARD Both candidates have things they like about the way the town is running and things they’d like to work on going forward. Allen would like to see Spring Street — which was diminished to one lane this year as part of a traffic flow project on Mill Street — closed completely and a public bathroom installed there to keep tourists in town longer. And Sossamon would like to continue work on implementing Sylva’s Economic Development Strategic Plan, adopted in May. She’s also excited about efforts to clean up Scotts Creek, which runs right through downtown. The town landed a grant to fund a study that will develop a plan for cleanup.

However, as Allen pointed out, the mayor is just one person on a six-member board, so getting anything done requires the willingness and cooperation of the majority.

“If I say to you, ‘I’m going to cut taxes,’ I can’t do that,” he said. “I can just make a motion. One person cannot get anything accomplished. It’s going to take the majority.”

And in the mayor’s case, that power is diminished even further. In Sylva the mayor votes only in case of a tie.

“I think it all boils down to a good leader,” Sossamon said.

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“There’s outside businesses that are interested in coming into town, and I really don’t N think the town was g behind it, getting other d s people, other revenue . from outside businesses.”

Allen agreed that impact fees can present a challenge but worries that eliminating them would adversely affect residents who would find themselves paying a higher bill to make up the difference. He feels that the best solution for now is just to get better about educating prospective businesses about the options available to navigate impact fees, such as the allocation rental option that allows businesses to pay a monthly fee rather than coming up with a large up-front cost.

“I do think that impact fees are hindering businesses that are coming, and I think the town, the county, TWSA and even the university should publicize more information about the impact fees,” he said.

BARBARA HAMILTON • Age: 73 • Background: Hamilton has lived in Sylva for 46 years, 25 of them working as a nurse at Harris Regional Hospital.

Her career included 38 years in nursing. She and her husband Joe raised both their children in Sylva.

• Political experience: Five years on the Sylva town board after being appointed to a vacancy in 2012 and winning election in 2013. Serves on a variety of boards, including the Main Street Sylva Association, Jackson Neighbors in Need, Jackson County Library and Fontana Regional Library.

• Reason to run: “I really feel like this is public service and it’s giving back to my community. We’ve lived here a long time,

MARY GELBAUGH • Age: 38 • Background: Gelbaugh works as office manager for Wilson Family Chiropractic and serves as an elder at First Presbyterian Church of Sylva, with an educational background in travel and tourism and holistic nutrition.

Downtown Sylva has been part of her life since her parents started Livingston’s Photo on Main Street in 1971. She is married with two small children.

• Political experience: Has served as a Sylva commissioner since her election in 2013 and previously served as an appointed member of the Sylva Planning Board 2008-2012.

• Reason to run: “I have enjoyed serving on the town board. Sylva is my community. I work, play and live in Sylva. To be a voice for Sylva, to feel heard and to make a positive difference has me motivated to seek re-election.”

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“I don’t really know the answer to that,” she said. “We are in a good location. We have a lot of tourists that like the area, so that should make it attractive to business. It’s just some of the infrastructure problems that are there right now.”

Principally, water and sewer. Those services are the purview of the Tuckaseigee Water and Sewer Authority, a cross-jurisdictional organization that manages water and sewer infrastructure throughout the county.

Recently, TWSA’s impact fees have been a topic of discussion when it comes to economic development. When new users want to tap into the system, they have to pay an impact fee intended to offset the cost of handling the

While the mayoral race is the only contested election on Sylva’s ballot, two commissioner seats are also up for election. Incumbents Mary Gelbaugh and Barbara Hamilton will run unopposed.

raised our family here and we love Sylva.

Anything I can do to make it a better place for other people I’d like to do.”

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Details emerge surrounding Jacob Ray’s death

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER harges against two Charlotte teens arrested following the shooting of 21year-old Jacob Alexander Ray, of Hendersonville, have been upgraded from attempted murder to first-degree murder as of Monday, Oct. 16.

Aja Makalo, 19, and Zavion Southerland, 17, are accused of shooting Ray just before midnight Friday, Oct. 6, near Tuck’s Tap & Grille in Cullowhee. Initial charges of attempted murder were upgraded after Ray succumbed to his injuries and died Monday, Oct. 9.

Law enforcement arrived at the scene in response to a call about what the caller initially believed to be a car wreck.

“I’m right across from Tuck’s, there’s a car that looks like it just wrecked right across from Tuck’s on Old Cullowhee and I’m hearing somebody yell, ‘Get off of me’ over there, so I need a deputy deployed, please,” the caller said.

“Can you tell what kind of vehicle it is?” asked the dispatcher.

“No, but where the old sign is,” the caller said. “You need to send someone now — Oh my God there was a gunshot.”

That’s the moment that Ray was allegedly shot, in the back of the head according to a GoFundMe page set up by his family.

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that Ray and Makalo were riding in the same car before the shooting occurred, indicating that they knew each other beforehand. Investigating officers got a vehicle description and partial registration plate number from interviews with witnesses, but Makalo, the vehicle’s owner, fled when officers arrived on the scene.

“While attempting Aja Makalo to investigate further, a subject in the immediate location fled the scene in what appears to be an attempt to flee from authorities,” a search warrant reads.

“The CharlotteMecklenberg officer was able to identify the owner of the vehicle Zavion Southerland and noted that she had what appears to be blood on her shoes.”

Ray, who was a junior computer information science major at Western Carolina University, was immediately taken to Mission Hospital in Asheville but never overcame his injuries. He was removed from life support Monday, Oct. 9.

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“My heart is forever scarred,” his father Victor wrote on social media that night.

“How it will heal I cannot ever fathom, but God’s Grace is sufficient. Thank you all for the prayers, but Jesus wants him home.”

In the days following the shooting, police executed a total of 10 search warrants in Cullowhee and Charlotte. They searched Ray’s dorm room, phone and car, as well as Makalo’s apartment, phone, computer, car and home in Charlotte. Searches also gave law enforcement access to cell phone communications between Makalo and Southerland, and between Ray and Makalo.

Court documents indicate that drugs may have been a factor in the shooting. A search warrant states that “the victim has been involved with the sale of controlled substances in the past,” and searches of Ray’s phone and dorm room looked for evidence of any such activity.

In addition to records from the phones and laptop, the searches turned up some physical evidence as well.

From Ray’s dorm room, investigators seized a digital scale, gun box, flashlight, ammunition, magazine, notepad, holster bag, shatter, money straps and Dell laptop.

From Makalo’s car, a 2009 Chevrolet Impala, investigators took a toboggan hat, swabbings, green plant material, gel lifter and a vehicle door, recovering a cell phone and one empty shell from Ray’s car, a 2014

Subaru Impreza. When they searched Makalo’s home in Charlotte, they took a single pair of blue jeans.

The defendants are currently incarcerated at the Jackson County Jail, Makalo on a $500,000 bond and Southerland on a $1,000,000 bond. Makalo has retained attorney Joseph Carroll Bowman, of Marshall, as her attorney, while Southerland will be represented by court-appointed attorney Jim Moore of Waynesville.

The investigation is ongoing, with a long list of agencies involved. The Western Carolina University Police Department, the State Bureau of Investigation, the Jackson County Sheriff ’s Office, the N.C. Highway Patrol and the District Attorney’s Office are coordinating efforts.

“We would ask the community to please exercise patience and understanding about the serious nature of this event and recognize our obligation to seek justice for the victim, the victim’s family, our community and all involved in these tragic circumstances,” said WCUPD Chief Ernie Hudson.

“So far, the investigation indicates that this incident was isolated and not a random act.”

Ray’s funeral was held Saturday, Oct. 14, in Hendersonville. He leaves behind a long list of family members, including parents Victor and Beth Ray, his brother Levi, two grandmothers, a

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The school system will be requesting $7 million to complete two phases of construction work at Swain High School. Phase one would include adding STEM classrooms, a guidance suite, entrance, lobby, administrative offices and a new kitchen and dining area in the cafeteria for a total of $5.47 million. The second phase would include $3.9 million for a new addition to the gymnasium, lobby and restrooms.

The North Carolina General Assembly passed Senate Bill 582 this year, which allocates more than $100 million over the next two years to assist low-wealth counties with their critical public school building capital needs. The General Assembly recently clarified that the funds could only be used for new school construction and not renovations.

“We had previously submitted our application Monday, Oct. 10, which included renovations in addition to the new construction and additions,” said Toby Burrell, a spokesperson for the school system. “We later received the news release that the technical correction had been passed. We are currently in the process of updating our application to remove the costs of renovations and preparing to resubmit.”

For this year and next year, funding will be available only to counties that fall into the Tier 1 category. In later years, Tier 2 counties will also be eligible. Swain has been designated a Tier 1 county consecu-

tively for the last five years while surrounding counties have bounced around between Tier 1, 2 and 3.

The N.C. Department of Commerce annually ranks the state’s 100 counties based on economic well-being and assigns each a tier designation. The 40 most distressed counties are designated as Tier 1, the next 40 as Tier 2 and the 20 least distressed as Tier 3. This Tier system is incorporated into various state programs to encourage economic activity in the less prosperous areas of the state.

The funds are capped at $15 million per project in Tier 1 counties, and the law requires a local match of $1 for every $3 in grant funds, which means Swain County would have to kick in about $2.4 million if the school system receives the grant. The fund will be provided by revenue from the state lottery. The fund totals $30 million this fiscal year and $75 million in fiscal year 2018-19.

Based on the criteria established, it appears Swain County Schools is well positioned to receive the grant. To qualify, counties have to show a greater need and low ability to generate sales and/or property tax revenue, have a high debt-to-tax revenue ratio and the project must address critical deficiencies in adequately serving the current and future student population.

Swain has a low tax base due to the amount of federally-owned property in the county and is struggling to keep up with infrastructure with a growing student population and aging schools.

However, if Swain receives the grant, one of the stipulations would keep the county from collecting any other lottery funds for the next five years. For Swain County, that would be a loss of about $650,000.

The school district anticipates hearing a response on the grant award by Nov. 1.

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Showdown looming over Canton brunch ordinance

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER highly anticipated public hearing that drew double the usual crowd to a Canton Town Board meeting wasn’t as contentious as it could have been, but the fight over a proposed Brunch Bill ordinance isn’t finished yet.

“All attempts at legislating morality have failed, that I’m aware of,” longtime Canton resident and frequent meeting attendee Roland Osborne told the board Oct. 12.

Osborne’s comment came at the end of the 15-minute hearing held to solicit public input on the “Brunch Bill” recently passed by the North Carolina General Assembly.

That bill allows both on-premise and off-premise alcohol sales on Sundays beginning at 10 a.m. instead of the current noon start time, but local governments must pass an ordinance before service can begin.

“They are giving municipalities the chance to decide what’s best for them,” Canton Mayor Mike Ray said at the outset of the hearing, which featured only four speakers.

Were it any other time, on any other day, adding two hours a week to the hours already available for alcohol service wouldn’t cause much of a fuss.

But the fact that it’s 10 a.m. on a Sunday is what’s generated controversy; despite its status as the (illegal) moonshine capital of the world, Western North Carolina’s tolerance for retail alcohol sales has historically been far less than in other parts of the state, the region and the country.

Churches and pastors, in particular, have voiced the greatest concerns.

At a similar hearing in Maggie Valley Oct. 9, Wayne Burgess, representing the

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First Baptist Church of Maggie Valley, told the town board, “At 10 a.m., we feel like it’s God’s time.”

And during a preliminary discussion of a proposed brunch ordinance Sept. 14, Bethel Baptist Rev. Roy Kilby warned that those who support such an ordinance “become party to those” who are addicted to alcohol.

Kilby wasn’t at the formal public hearing Oct. 12, but one religious opponent was — Pastor David Vos of Canton Wesleyan Church.

“I get it,” Vos told the board. “Alcohol sales is big business.”

Vos admitted he was probably in the minority on the issue, and has said previously that a brunch ordinance would place the town’s prosperity and the town’s moral values into conflict.

But if the ordinance was passed, Vos said “I won’t take my ball and go home,” but that he would instead devote time to working with others to develop “family friendly, progressive economic development ideas.”

Canton has few establishments that would benefit from the ordinance at present; while no one from BearWaters Brewing — which recently snagged a prestigious award from the Great American Beer Festival — attended the hearing, Canton’s other major bar showed up in force.

“I think the town of Canton is doing a phenomenal job with the so-called ‘Canton comeback,’” said Nathan Lowe, owner of Southern Porch. “Since we opened our business in April 2016 we’ve gotten to see about 10 new businesses either move to Canton or start their business here in Canton. It’s something that we are very excited about.”

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“We’re obviously right in the middle and I believe as a town we would benefit,” he said. “It’s not something that’s going to catapult our business to the next step but it is going to benefit our business whether you’re a churchgoer or not. More and more people are coming to Canton.”

One man who came to Canton — and to Maggie Valley, and to Waynesville — was Dave Angel; Angel owns a new craft distillery in Maggie Valley and has been advocating for the measure everywhere it’s been heard in Haywood County.

Although a brunch ordinance in any of the municipalities wouldn’t benefit his business much, Angel’s been building a strong business case for the ordinances, citing stats about the statewide and regional economic growth attributable to brewing, wine and spirit manufacturing, and retailing.

“The signal you send to the industry with the Brunch Bill says a lot more than you think,” he said, echoing comments he made in Waynesville and Maggie Valley, where the issue is yet unresolved.

But in Canton, Angel for the first time directly addressed the religious arguments against the bill.

“Read your Bible,” Angel, a regular churchgoer, told the board. “Read the whole Bible. God explains the purpose of alcohol in our lives is moderation.”

It was this comment that prompted Osborne’s prescient statement about legislating morality, just as the hearing drew to a close.

The board has moved slowly on the proposed brunch ordinance, to allow for a substantial period of public discussion; the public hearing Oct. 12 wasn’t the last step in the process, but it was an important one.

No action was taken on the ordinance, nor was any expected; at the hearing’s conclusion, no alderman or alderwoman made any comments on what had been said, or what they were thinking — other than Alderman Zeb Smathers, who agreed with the postponement and hoped the board would vote at the next meeting, scheduled for Oct. 26. Smathers wasn’t at the meeting but was listening in by phone.

“I’m sure this will be reprinted in our newspapers, and give people a chance to contact us,” said Mayor Ray.

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early votes, 63 percent more than the 57 that Rose received. Rose received two absentee votes.

The election issue has been a contentious one in the mist of an already tense political climate in Cherokee. During the controversial impeachment of former Principal Chief Patrick Lambert in May, Rose had been consistently pro-impeachment, voting to remove Lambert from office and also testifying during the hearing. Sessions, meanwhile, had been vocally anti-impeachment.

The General Election Sept. 7 swept many pro-impeachment candidates out of office.

Rose is one of only three pro-impeachment incumbents who regained a seat on Tribal Council. Seven of the nine pro-impeachment councilmembers had run for re-election.

Meanwhile, of the two anti-impeachment councilmembers who ran for re-election, both were the top vote-getters in their communities.

Sessions called her experience running for office as “the biggest roller coaster ride,” and said, while she does plan to remain an active voice in tribal government she’s not sure if she will put her name out there as a candidate in 2019.

“It’s definitely going from making history being the first woman in 60 years to win council in Birdtown to being the first person ever to have a runoff and have an election taken from them,” she said. “It’s definitely been an adventure.”

Rose did not return multiple calls requesting comment. He was not present during Annual Council Monday, Oct. 16, and queries to the Tribal Operations Program asking when his swearing-in might take place were not returned as of press time.

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recount reversed the original outcome, with Sessions beating Rose by five votes.

“Whenever the recount took place, the chairman of the election board Denise Ballard, she assured me that the recount was final,” Sessions said. “She congratulated me on live TV.” Rose, however, protested the recount results. Represented by attorney Rob Saunooke, he contended that the “mysteriously appearing” early voting ballots were unreliable. While all Tribal Council candidates in all communities received some additional votes when the disAshley Sessions crepancy in Birdtown triggered a recount of all races, the increase in votes was largest in Birdtown. First-place finisher Boyd Owle received the largest boost in the recount, gaining 30 votes.

Rose said that the fact that unmarked Albert Rose early voting ballots were stored in an unlocked box raised suspicion that they could have been tampered with, though he offered no proof that they had. He also said that one person not eligible to vote in Birdtown, a relative of Sessions, had voted in the election.

The election board agreed with Rose and ordered a runoff election, but Sessions challenged the decision in Cherokee Supreme Court. Represented by Scott Jones, she argued that there was nothing mysterious about the initially uncounted ballots and that there was no objective

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER n Oct. 10 runoff election to determine the winner of a disputed Tribal Council seat ended with a reversal of results from the original election.

While the two candidates were separated by only a handful of votes following the Sept.

7 General Election, the margin was much wider Oct. 10. Albert Rose beat challenger Ashley Sessions with 541 votes, or 58.7 percent, to her 381.

Sessions believes her loss was unjust and that there should never have been a runoff election to start with.

“I’m just kind of disappointed and really confused about the entire situation,” she said.

“But I definitely think that it’s made our community and our people more aware of how bad the corruption is in our tribal government.”

Rose and challenger Ashley Sessions have been locked in a battle to represent the Birdtown community ever since preliminary results rolled in from the Sept. 7 General Election. Those results showed Sessions trailing Rose by only 12 votes, a margin of 0.7 percent.

When Sessions asked for a recount, election workers found a large number of early voting ballots that the machine had failed to count on election night. These uncounted ballots were largely the result of absentee ballots that had been changed to serve as early voting ballots when election workers ran out of early voting ballots on the last day of early voting. It was the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ first time offering early voting, and election workers underestimated the number of ballots they would need for each community.

The machine did not read the repurposed ballots, leading to a discrepancy between election night and recount results. The

The biggest difference between the two elections was that the runoff allowed no opportunity for absentee or early voting.

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proof that anything untoward capable of affecting the election’s outcome had occurred. However, the court ultimately upheld the board’s decision.

The method of conducting the runoff election was markedly different from that of the General Election. In the runoff, voters were choosing one of two candidates to represent them, rather than selecting two of four like they had in the General Election. The runoff was on a Tuesday rather than on a Thursday, as for regularly scheduled elections.

However, the biggest difference between the two elections was that the runoff allowed no opportunity for absentee or early voting.

Some tribal members who live or work away from the Qualla Boundary had made special trips to vote Sept. 7 or ordered absentee ballots to participate.

During the General Election, Sessions did not receive any absentee votes, but according to recount results she received 93

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Brunch Bill stalls in Jackson Residents voice opposition to Sunday morning alcohol sales; commissioners delay vote

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER planned vote on whether to approve Sunday morning alcohol sales was delayed Oct. 16 when the Jackson County Commissioners decided they should hold a formal public hearing before deciding the issue.

“The one theme I heard from everyone was, ‘Let’s have a public hearing,’” Commissioner Ron Mau said.

The issue of Sunday morning alcohol sales, made possible by a new state law referred to as the Brunch Bill, has been making the rounds in counties and municipalities throughout Western North Carolina over recent months but was first discussed in Jackson County during a work session Tuesday, Oct. 10, with commissioners deciding to place it on the agenda for a vote at their Monday, Oct. 16, meeting.

A full house greeted them when the meeting began, a crowd of roughly 75, the majority of whom were church-going people who vehemently oppose the Brunch Bill. Commissioners decided before public comment began that the vote would wait until after a formal public hearing could be scheduled — that date has not been set — but that didn’t stop 16 of those attending from telling commissioners how they feel about expanding alcohol sales.

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COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC The comments were often emotional, with stories of fathers and mothers and sons and daughters whose lives had been torn apart by alcoholism.

“I have seen what alcohol does to families. My father was an alcoholic for 50 years,” said Robert Matthews. “I seen a family split apart, devastated because of the alcoholism. My wife’s father was an alcoholic. I seen the devastation it done to a mother and seven children. I have lived it. I have seen it.

I have seen how it destroys families, and in my mind I can’t see how two hours can

make a real economic impact for the businesses.”

David Blanton, a former paramedic, recounted the many times he’d responded to a car crash only to witness somebody die because of alcohol.

“Is alcohol really worth it? I carry ghosts.

That’s what I call it,” he said.

Others lamented the direction they’ve seen the county go in over recent years when it comes to alcohol, saying how difficult it is to teach their children to stay away from alcohol when it’s seemingly sold everywhere.

Shouldn’t Sunday morning, they said, be the one time where that’s not a problem?

“I’m strongly against this bill,” said Jason Stevens, one of the several pastors to speak Oct. 16. “I’m strongly against anything that

Bill Oct. 16. It’s vital that commissioners pass it, she said, because those two hours have a very real impact on the ability of businesses in Cashiers to keep tourists coming for a full weekend stay.

“This is not an issue that is trying to be disrespectful to the church or divert church attendees from going to their church services,” she said. “It’s an economic issue, and it’s all about leveling the playing field for small businesses here in unincorporated Jackson County.”

Sylva has already passed the Brunch bBill, with businesses in town limits already offering Sunday morning brunch beverages.

Neighboring Highlands passed it in August.

Waynesville and Franklin have both adopted it. Regionally, Blowing Rock and Boone, two

A Jackson County resident emphasizes his opposition to Sunday morning alcohol sales to commissioners as public comment wraps up Oct. 16. Holly Kays photo has to do with alcohol. If anything we need less than more.”

“I’m not judging anybody, but if somebody has to go out and drink at 10 o’clock on a Sunday morning, they’re probably an alcoholic,” said a tearful Chastity Buchanan.

“Just think about that. What if one of your family members was driving down the road after going to church or Walmart on a Sunday morning, and they kill them?”

The communities surrounding Jackson County are tight-knit, and many of the commenters made individual appeals to commissioners they know personally.

“I feel like I’ve been let down if y’uns go ahead and vote this thing in. I really do,” said Reva Lewis, who said she worked “endless hours” campaigning for Brian McMahan, Mickey Luker and Ron Mau. “I got out and campaigned and talked about what good Christian men you are, and I absolutely feel like you’re letting this county down if you don’t stand up.”

Stephanie Edwards, executive director of the Cashiers Chamber of Commerce, was the only person to voice support for the Brunch

communities Cashiers competes with for customers, have adopted it. However, the Brunch Bill got voted down in Bryson City and is still in limbo in Canton and Maggie Valley. Jackson is the first WNC county to take up the issue, however.

Edwards added that many voices back her support of the Brunch Bill, with a quick two-day survey of Chamber members yielding 168 responses, with 96.4 percent in favor of passage. However, she said, it would have been difficult for any of those business owners to make it down the mountain on such short notice.

“Quite frankly, this was held on very short notice, and this is the height of leaf season,” Edwards said. “My restaurants are serving thousands of visitors and residents as we speak and they are the ones creating the revenue and jobs for the county.”

While not in attendance Oct. 16, Tourism Development Authority Director Nick Breedlove has also voiced his support for the measure, appearing at the commissioners Oct. 10 work session and writing a letter in support.

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Commissioners first gave indication of how they might vote on the measure during an Oct. 10 work session, and it seems likely the Brunch Bill could fail in Jackson.

Commissioners Charles Elders and Boyce Deitz both expressed disagreement with Sunday morning alcohol sales, with Commissioners Mau and Luker saying that, while they personally don’t think people should drink Sunday mornings, they would lean toward voting for less regulation and not more. McMahan did not state his position on Oct. 10 but later said on social media that he would vote against the Brunch Bill.

“It seems like we go more and more in the direction of taking away some of the things we’ve done in the South on Sundays or not done in the South on Sundays,” Deitz said Oct. 10. “Used to, you went hunting on Saturday because you wasn’t going to go hunting again until Monday.

All at once we decide that’s not important anymore. You can deer hunt on Sundays, you can shoot guns, you can do whatever you want. That’s I guess a slippery slope we’re all sliding down and nobody seems to care, but I care.”

He also expressed frustration with the N.C. General Assembly for handling the issue like it did. It’s a contentious one, and by forcing local boards to make the decision, he said, they’re making those local representatives take the heat from constituents rather than shouldering that responsibility themselves.

“I don’t sell beer in my business, but I don’t say a word against anybody that does,” agreed Elders. “But I just feel like if we’re going to have to do this, why can’t we wait and have respect for the churches in this county?”

Mau, meanwhile, pointed out that some churches recognize Sunday as the Sabbath while others recognize Saturday.

Could the county be seen as establishing a religion by shaping its ordinances around the religious practices of some residents but not others?

“You are correct, it probably is subject to challenge,” said County Attorney Heather Baker.

“It’s up to people to make their own choice,” Mau said. “I as an individual can decide if I want to consume a mimosa. I probably won’t on a Sunday morning — I’ll be at church.”

“I’m all in favor of less government and not more,” Luker said. “We definitely have too much now. So it would be a tough decision I think, personally, but at the same time I took an oath that I have to adhere to so I would base my decision on upholding the laws.”

No date has been set for the public hearing, but the county is required to advertise it at least 10 days in advance, and the hearing date must be set during a public meeting. The next commissioners meeting is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 30, so the earliest a public hearing could be held would be Thursday, Nov. 9.

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Data from the county-specific demand surveys (such as Haywood, Jackson, Macon, and Swain) will still be considered in the overall broadband planning.

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Volunteers urgently needed at FUR Feline Urgent Rescue of WNC is actively seeking volunteers to assist at the Sanctuary and/or become foster homes for the many cats and kittens abandoned in Haywood County.

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Urgent repairs coming to U.S. 64 The N.C. Department of Transportation recently awarded a pipe replacement project under emergency circumstances.

Two old pipes under U.S. 64, about one mile west of the intersection with N.C. 107 in Jackson County, need to be replaced because they have ruptured and the eastbound lane has been compromised.

U.S. 64 will be closed and a temporary detour will be established during the repairs. The highway is currently down to one lane with a temporary stoplight in place to control traffic.

The 10-mile detour — taking an average of 20 minutes — directs westbound drivers to take N.C. 107 North to North Norton Road and then to Norton Road and U.S 64.

The opposite applies to eastbound drivers.

The work should be completed within 72 hours and the road will be reopened on a gravel surface. An additional 24 hours will be granted to repave the road.

Pies in the face to raise funds Coalition for a Safe & Drug Free Swain County will be holding a Pie in the Face fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at Darnell Farms in Bryson City.

A few community members who have volunteered to be pied in the face for money are Rep. Mike Clampitt, R-Bryson City, Clampitt, Jennifer Dills with Everett Street Diner, Assistant Chief Brian Jenkins, Bryson City Police officer Rocky Sampson, Paul Osborne and Mark Ragland with Tsali Cycles and more.

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The seminar, entitled, “Building Good Personal Credit,” will focus on the many factors that make up credit scoring and how to overcome negative credit issues that impact your credit rating. Learn about the unseen costs that bad credit causes and how to minimize the risk of identity theft and more.

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A course in “Conversational French” will be offered over a five-week period by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment.

Classes will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. on Mondays, Oct. 23 through Nov. 20, in Room 139 of WCU’s Cordelia Camp Building.

Students will focus on learning basic communication, vocabulary and cultural aspects to use for everyday life in France and French-speaking places. The course is suitable for individuals who are interested in French language and culture or perhaps food and wine vocabulary, said Felicia Malissen, an instructor in WCU’s Department of World Languages who will lead the course.

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The Haywood County Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault/Elder Abuse Task Force is urging all residents to wear something purple on Thursday, Oct. 19, to show support for healthy relationships.

October is national Domestic Violence Awareness month and the Task Force organizes different initiatives each year to highlight this important issue. For the week leading up to Wear Purple Day, many trees in the Downtown Waynesville area and Canton will have purple ribbons and bows attached.

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1979, Henderson County administrator from 1979 to 1984, Greenville (S.C.) County administrator from 1984 to 1988, and Iredell County manager for 23 years, from 1988 to his retirement in 2011.

“He’s what I’d like to be when I grow up,” said Waynesville Town Manager Rob Hites.

“He really is one of my heroes.”

Hites served as town manager in Statesville and overlapped with Mashburn when Mashburn was with Iredell County.

“Joel is one of the most respected people in our profession,” Hites continued. “I just can’t say enough about the board’s wisdom in selecting him. He brings a tremendous amount of experience to the position.”

A resolution passed by the Henderson County Board of Commissioners on April 20, 2011, just prior to his June 30 retirement recognized Mashburn for a host of contributions he made while there, including adoption of the first flood ordinance, a bond issue for a school and a hospital and implementation of the county’s first land use plan.

Since then, he hasn’t let his skills get rusty — Mashburn accepted a position as the interim town manager of Catawba in 2013, which he held until 2015.

Mashburn is expected to begin work in Haywood County once a contract is adopted

by Haywood Commissioners, probably Nov. 6.

institutionally, and personally.

Both Mayor Brown and Alderman Gary Caldwell worked on the 2020 plan when both were aldermen in 1999 under Mayor Henry Foy. Another well-known Waynesville family had — and will have — substantial input on the forthcoming comprehensive plan as well.

Serving with Brown and Caldwell at the time was Alderman Libba Feichter. Libba’s husband Rex was chair of the Waynesville Planning Board, as well as of the Land Development Plan Steering Committee; their

June Ray’s replacement selected Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Brad Letts has selected Hunter Plemmons, a 34year-old native of Waynesville, as the next Clerk of Superior Court in Haywood County.

Tuscola grad and N.C. State alum Plemmons is currently an attorney with the Aceto law firm in Asheville, which concentrates on business, charitable and religious organizations, commercial and real property transactions, trusts, estates, intellectual property, arbitration and mediation.

He replaces Ray, who recently announced her departure after 15 years; Ray will take a similar position for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

Plemmons will, if he so desires, have to defend his appointment in the 2018 election that would have marked the expiration of Ray’s term.

Although details of the contract were still being worked out at press time — after commissioners in closed session voted to hire him Oct. 16 — Mashburn will be part-time and work no more than 1,000 hours per calendar year.

Figures weren’t immediately available, but speculation is he’ll earn about $60 an hour.

He’ll be paid hourly and won’t receive benefits, but will be reimbursed for mileage and travel costs, and possibly be issued a county-owned cell phone as well; Mashburn will work no more than 30 hours a week on average, so as not to affect his current retirement benefits.

Although no term of employment had

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER aywood County native Joel R. Mashburn has been selected to serve as interim county manager following the recent and unexpected departure of former County Manager Ira Dove on Oct. 3.

“It’s hard to express just how exciting it is,” Mashburn said of the opportunity to serve his home county after almost four decades in local government.

Mashburn is a graduate of Waynesville High School’s class of 1964 and earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Western Carolina University, where he also acquired a master’s degree in public administration; Mashburn has also completed coursework in county administration at the UNC School of Government.

His professional career consists of a lengthy stint in local government; he served as Macon County manager from 1974 to

the survey will be made to the planning board, and by May a draft report should be available.

The total cost of the plan should be around $50,000, spread over two budget years, which begin each July 1.

After the draft report is produced and the project shifts into its second budget year, a scope of work for completion will be drafted, reflective of what’s learned during the first year.

The process appears similar to one that began in 1999 and involved similar players —

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son Jon is currently an alderman.

What Brown, Caldwell, Feichter and others are all after is a complete overhaul of the existing 2020 document, which Teague called “a great plan.”

Building on what’s worked in the past, an ad-hoc committee of about 10 will involve the public, various town departments, staff and the consulting firm to evaluate current and future needs that include social and environmental concerns in addition to economic.

Working from within smart growth principles utilized in the 2020 plan, the new plan will again seek to mix land uses, advocate for more compact design, and create distinctive, walkable communities with a range of housing types in existing communities and thereby preserve open spaces and environmentally valuable areas.

At board planning retreats dating back to 2014, a number of important issues arose, according to Teague — maintaining and expanding infrastructure, controlling and sustaining growth and expanding MSD utilization topped the list, but a desire for affordable housing and broadband access have become especially cumbersome concerns of late.

With an aging population and increasing interconnectivity with Buncombe County to the east, the challenge for authors of the new plan will be in maintaining rural Haywood’s character while embracing new trends.

But, Mayor Brown said at the meeting, embracing the new is what the plan’s all about.

“I want to ensure we have inclusivity,” Brown said. “Especially among young people.”

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER nasmuch as any document can be truly hallowed on a local government level, that document is the comprehensive plan.

The importance of such plans cannot be understated; they not only engage substantial portions of the community in a discussion to discern future development goals, but they also establish a very public set of standards that are referred to in almost every planning, zoning and infrastructure decision a town makes for about two decades.

They’re also required by state statute, and need to be redone from time to time. In Waynesville, that time is now.

Waynesville’s cumbersomely titled 129page tome, Waynesville: Our Heritage, Our Future 2020 Land Development Plan, was adopted in April 4, 2002 and is commonly referred to as the “2020 plan.”

With 2018 right around the corner, Waynesville Development Services Director Elizabeth Teague took the Oct. 10 Board of Aldermen meeting to brief Mayor Gavin Brown and aldermen on how town staff plans to accomplish the substantial project.

“We want to be sure the plan is something the board and the public gets behind,” Teague said at the meeting.

The timeline she presented shows that the RFP process for a firm to conduct the study will begin immediately and will hopefully be complete by the end of the year.

Once the contract is approved by aldermen, the project will begin with a community survey in January 2018. By March, a report on

been discussed, Mashburn will not only help the county carry on the day-to-day business of administration but will also likely assist in the search for his permanent replacement.

“That was discussed, and to the extent that the commissioners want me involved, I’d love to be,” Mashburn said, adding that he had performed such duties in the past and was “more than willing” to do so here.

“He’s so well respected,” Hites said, “that he’ll probably help draw some very talented applicants to the permanent position.”

Mashburn received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine — the state’s highest civilian honor — in March, 2001; his brother, James, currently serves as an alderman in the town of Clyde.

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s if the changing colors, cooler temps and falling leaves weren’t reminders enough, there’s also those walnuts dropping like cluster bombs onto every metal roof with each gust of wind, busy squirrels underneath. But for me it’s always sticking garlic cloves into the ground that means it won’t be long before the white stuff starts to fly, and it will, despite the warm afternoons.

Fall may seem like the wrong time to be planting things in the garden, but until the ground freezes hard those cloves many of us plunge into the earth will begin sending out roots that will help anchor them into the soil, preventing them from being thrust out by frost heaving the soil upward while it creates it’s icicle menagerie on the surface. Slowly growing all winter long and even sending out a tiny green shoot through the snow, they’re preparing to capture the first warming rays of spring sunshine, giving them a jump on the rest of their competitors in the cool moist dirt.

The summer’s tomato plants have been yanked and the last of the peppers and beans

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plucked from from their aging parents. The beds need to be cleaned and ready to accept these pungent, ivory-colored gems signaling the end of one season of garden projects and the start of another. For those of us trying to scratch out crops on these hillsides, planting garlic means it’s also time to bring in lots of firewood, clean the ditches, chimney and gutters, change the water filter, fill the propane tank, change the antifreeze in the truck, check the insulation and heat tapes Guest Columnist around the well, and plugging any new holes so we can keep the water flowing and the wind out when the mercury drops toward zero. Hell, no wonder planting garlic makes me so tired! It’s a sure sign that we’ve seen the end of the sweaty days and the plunges in the creek to cool off, another growing season blasted by and soon enough we’ll be harvesting those beautiful plump bulbs and celebrating July 4th.

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When people cry out for stricter control of the guns used in these terrorizing actions, some people appeal to “Second Amendment Rights” as a barrier to legislative action. However, the Supreme Court sees no such barrier to widespread regulation of guns in its understanding of the Second Amendment. In its 5 to 4 ruling in District of Columbia v. Dick Anthony Heller (2008), the Court simply held that the Second Amendment defended the rights of individuals to possess and keep a Guest Columnist loaded handgun in the home for selfdefense. It did not even overturn the District’s requirement for the licensing of such weapons. (Read the majority and dissenting opinions at http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/554/570.html.)

As the minority vigorously pointed out, this opinion overturned the longstanding interpretation in US v. Miller (1939) that the Second Amendment pertains to the maintenance of state militias. While the Heller decision opened the door to an endless series of lawsuits to determine which laws may violate this self-defense interpretation, it does not limit states or the federal government from regulating firearms outside the home in the interests of public safety. Indeed, as Justice Scalia said in speaking for the majority in Heller: “… we do not read the Second Amendment to protect the right of citizens to carry arms for any sort of confrontation ….” In addition, he writes: “… nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government

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arret Woodward’s Opinion piece “After tragedy in Vegas, where to from here?” (Oct. 4-10) leads us to wider questions about the fragility and peril of our country’s public life. Not only are our fellow citizens dying in mass shootings.

Our republic itself is under assault. The integrity of the public arenas that constitute the lifeblood of our republican order is imperiled by the threat and fear of violence, while the fog of lies and a flood of political dark money pollute the reasonable debate at the heart of republican self-governance. The failure of governance through informed and reasonable argument creates a vicious circle of violent speech and violent acts. The freedom of self-governance cannot survive under conditions of violence and the threat of violence. Our freedom as citizens rests not in our possession of guns but in our capacity to engage in a public life of reasonable debate about the common good. Throughout history the collapse of the public life underlying republican governance has created the conditions for despotism, tyranny, and dictatorship. Despots arise who campaign on collective fear and govern by personal greed.

The founders of our constitutional order wanted to avert this degeneration into tyranny in earlier republics by distributing authority through a federal order, creating a system of checks and balances within the national government, and adopting provisions protecting the rights of individuals from state action. While they could not have foreseen the combination of widespread gun violence and media distortions that leave us in a state of fear and confusion today, they did know very well the power of demagogues to rise to despotic control over democracies fractured by ignorance and economic misery.

The problem of gun violence in our republic is not only the 33,000 deaths and many thousands of people permanently scarred by gun violence every year. Of equal importance is the fear it casts over every public event, whether it is a concert in

buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”

In the Heller decision the Court expanded the Second Amendment to include a certain range of weapons used for self-defense, namely handguns. I think it did so wrongly and unwisely, as the minority opinions of Justice Stevens and Breyer strongly argue. However, if the purpose of the Constitution is to preserve a republican form of government based in rational debate among its citizens, the Second Amendment cannot be a political suicide pact in which armed citizens form militias, carry weapons in public, intimidate the general public, or possess arms and munitions that threaten law enforcement officials and drive people from their public assemblies into the privacy of their gated communities and armed homes. Finally, it is not weapons that make communities and republics safe and free, it is the dense web of trust and mutual obligation cultivated in families, churches, voluntary associations, and civic groups that gives us the security and freedom envisioned by our Constitution.

To return to our long journey toward an ever more perfect union, we need to recommit ourselves to the public life of our towns, cities, states, and nation, refusing to be cowed by the domestic terrorism and violence around us. To find effective responses to gun violence we need wide-ranging research into the reasons why our nation has a far greater toll of gun death than any other comparable nation. We then have to insist that our representatives pursue vigorous measures to reduce gun violence. We also need to find ways to talk with each other about our fears and our hopes as well as the practices, customs, and laws that might enable our public life and our constitutional republic to flourish anew.

(William Johnson Everett is a retired professor of Christian social ethics who lives in Waynesville. He blogs regularly at www.williameverett.com.)

known since the time of the Egyptians, and recent studied have shown that the compound Allicin it contains helps to lower cholesterol levels, regulate blood pressure and blood sugar and the antioxidants present protect cells against aging and diseases including the common cold.

For most, it’s the flavor it imparts to foods that make it so special. Most folks who I know that like garlic, really like garlic, bordering on an obsession or cult following. My friend Joe the Italian cook uses enough to require buying by the truckload.

I roped a friend into helping me plant this year (for beer), so while he cleared the summer’s weeds and scratched up the earth I cracked the bulbs or “heads” that have been drying in the barn the past three months into the hundreds of individual cloves we would be planting. A little lime, bone meal and compost mixed into the beds and we were ready to stuff next year’s hopes an inch or two into the soft soil. A layer of straw or mulch helps protect the little orbs and gave a picture perfect finish worthy of toasting, so we did.

With a good portion of the early leaves already blown down, more light filters through the canopy accentuating the growing length of

The NRA and waiting periods To the Editor: I agree 100 percent with Andy Borowitz that there should be a mandatory three-day waiting period whenever the NRA buys any more politicians.

Bill Spencer Cullowhee the shadows. Many of summer’s songbird have already departed for warmer climes, leaving the calls of crows, pileated woodpeckers and “year ‘rounders” to fill the quiet of the woods.

We may not have any summer left, but who doesn’t like fall out here?

We’re only granted 70 or 80 chances to plant garlic in a lifetime, and there’s no better time than October in the mountains. I got it done. I’m happy.

Now where’s my list … it’s fall y’all.

(John Beckman is a builder, farmer and SMN contributor who lives in Jackson County. beckmanmtn@frontier.com)

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October 18-24, 2017 Smoky Mountain News

here are very few decent photographs of me as a child. When I die, I feel sorry for the poor souls tasked with putting together the obligatory retrospective of my life told in a series of adorable old Polaroids and poignant family photos set to music, probably “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”

I always hated with a burning fury having my picture taken. My earliest memory is peeing on the attending nurse who had the gall to snap a photo of me minutes after I was born, violently thrust into a bizarre world in which not one Columnist moment matters if it is not captured on film, reproduced, and put in a tacky frame on someone’s living room wall or office desk.

Isn’t it appalling that the very people we love and trust the most find it necessary to record our most private moments for public consumption? For example, I believe weddings should be sacred and intimate, not occasions for garish photo spreads that cost approximately as much as a new Lincoln Continental. When my wife and I were married years ago at the Haywood County Detention Center by whomever had the afternoon shift — you may not find this setting to be as romantic and quaint as we did — we were forced to pose out front in a garden of brick and concrete for a series of photos to commemorate our special day. The only reason that one or more of these do not currently adorn our living room wall is that my wife’s eyes were shut in each picture. The look on my face could best be described as “resigned,” not to the marriage itself but to the ridiculous ritual of taking wedding pictures under absolutely any circumstances.

During my childhood, I was the Houdini of photo shoots. Family reunions, birthday parties, picnics, holiday gatherings, recitals, dances, and sporting events of all kinds. I was there. And yet, there is virtually no historical record of it. In photograph after photograph, I am nowhere to be seen.

Friends circled around a chocolate cake, candles aflame and Michael just about to blow them out, saved for posterity forever and ever. (But I am under the table tying my shoes.)

My cousin, preparing to serve a volleyball in a hotly contested front yard battle, relatives poised and wide-eyed on the other side of the net waiting to receive, with one teammate conspicuously missing. (I am out of the frame, drinking water from a garden hose.)

Whenever a camera appeared on any scene, as cameras so often do, I almost

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My son’s a ham, while I was Houdini

always managed to escape, to wriggle out of my strait jacket just in the nick of time to avoid capture. I might have been there, but there is no proof of it.

On those rare occasions when there simply was no escape, such as the much dreaded and deeply loathed annual school picture day, I muddled through with a series of tight, fake smiles, the kind you force when a state patrolman is handing you a speeding ticket and telling you to have a “great day!”

However, in one of those photos — I believe it was sixth or seventh grade — I was, for whatever reason, unable to disguise my contempt for the process any longer. In that photograph, I look as if my right big toe is being chewed by a weasel. Among the neat rows of my classmates in the school yearbook, there are faces with easy, practiced smiles, other faces bearing vague expressions of boredom, a few faces with goofy grins, and then the face of one kid who looks like he is being electrocuted.

When she was especially frustrated with me about one thing or another, my mother used to say that one day I would pay for all of my shenanigans when I had kids of my own. I chuckled at the very idea, and then returned with no further reflection to my miscreant ways.

I never really thought of my mother as a prophet until a few days ago, when two large white envelopes containing the annual school photos of our daughter and son appeared in the mailbox.

The photographs of my daughter are typically wonderful, stunning if you must know. Like her mother, she always looks great in any picture she is in. Her smile might best be described as “luminous.”

Then I opened my son’s school photos for this year. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there really are no words for this year’s picture of him. For reasons we may never completely understand, he chose to pose as if he had been underwater for three minutes holding his breath. He looked like a cross between a blowfish and prizewinning tomato at the county fair, his eyes and cheeks bulging as if they might all burst at once with just one more ounce of pressure, one more second of holding it all in.

I would not say that my mother is gratified that the vision of her son’s future that she had decades ago has come to pass. How can she, since she will soon become the proud recipient of this charming photo of her grandson?

And I would not say that my son is just like me. I hated being photographed. He loves being photographed, as long as the photograph captures him in the most absurd, unattractive pose that he can conjure up in the moment. He simply cannot or will not pose naturally. In one photograph, he looks like a hyena who just consumed a bowl of methamphetamine. In another, he looks like he has been constipated for about six weeks.

When he gets a little older and tries explaining these photographs to his fiancé, he may wish he had been a little more like dad. But, he was there, and we can prove it.

Can we ever.

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

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tasteTHEmountains Taste the Mountains is an ever-evolving paid section of places to dine in Western North Carolina. If you would like to be included in the listing please contact our advertising department at 828.452.4251 AMMONS DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT & DAIRY BAR 1451 Dellwwod Rd., Waynesville.

828.926.0734. Open 7 days a week 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Celebrating over 25 years. Enjoy world famous hot dogs as well as burgers, seafood, hushpuppies, hot wings and chicken. Be sure to save room for dessert. The cobbler, pie and cake selections are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.

BLUE ROOSTER SOUTHERN GRILL 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, Lakeside Plaza at the old Wal-Mart. 828.456.1997. Open Monday through Friday. Friendly and fun family atmosphere. Local, handmade Southern cuisine. Fresh-cut salads; slow-simmered soups; flame grilled burgers and steaks, and homemade signature desserts. Blue-plates and local fresh vegetables daily. Brown bagging is permitted. Private parties, catering, and take-out available. Call-ahead seating available.

BOGART’S 303 S. Main St., Waynesville. 828.452.1313.

Open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Carry out available. Located in downtown Waynesville, Bogart’s has been long-time noted for great steaks, soups, and

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BLOSSOM ON MAIN 128 N. Main Street, Waynesville.

828.454.5400. Open for lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Sunday. Mild, medium, to hot and spicy, our food is cooked to your like-able temperature.

Forget the myth that all Thai food is spicy.

Traditional Thai food is known to be quite healthy, making use of natural and fresh ingredients, paired with lots of spices, herbs, and vegetables. Vegetarians and health conscious individuals will not be disappointed as fresh vegetables and tofu are available in most of our menu as well as wines and saki chosen to compliment the unique flavors of Thai cuisine.

salads. Casual family atmosphere in a rustic old-time setting with a menu noted for its practical value. Live Bluegrass/String Band music every Thursday. Walking distance of Waynesville’s unique shops and seasonal festival activities and within one mile of Waynesville Country Club.

BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Lunch served 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Monday through Saturday. Dinner 5 to 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

Closed on Sunday. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks from local farms, incredible burgers, and other classic american comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available.

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

Call or go to Facebook (Breaking Bread Café NC) to find out what our specials are.

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes, and always all-you-can-eat. Lunch menu every day from 12 to 2 p.m. Saturday night will feature an evening cookout on the terrace, with choices such as steak and shrimp. On all other nights of the week, the chef will prepare dinner with locally-sourced vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts. We also offer a fine selection of wine and beer. The evening social hour starts at 6 p.m., and dinner is served starting at 7 p.m. So join us for mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Please call for reservations.

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

From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday dinner starting at 5 p.m. “Best of” Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator

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Magazine. Set in a distinguished atmosphere with an exceptional menu. Extensive selection of wine and beer. Reservations honored.

CHURCH STREET DEPOT 34 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

828.246.6505. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Mouthwatering all beef burgers and dogs, hand-dipped, hand-spun real ice cream shakes and floats, fresh hand-cut fries.

Locally sourced beef. Indoor and outdoor dining. facebook.com/ChurchStreetDepot, twitter.com/ChurchStDepot.

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

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

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

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

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

THE CLASSIC WINESELLER 20 Church Street, Waynesville.

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

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

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

828.926.1820 Winter hours: Wednesday through Sunday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet. Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service.

EVERETT HOTEL & BISTRO 16 Everett St.,Bryson City. 828.488.1934.

Open daily for dinner at 4:30 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday Brunch from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; dinner from 4:30-9:30 p.m. Serving fresh and delicious weekday morning lite fare, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Freshly prepared menu offerings range from house-made soups & salads, lite fare & tapas, crepes, specialty sandwiches and burgers. Be sure not to miss the bold flavors and creative combinations that make up the daily Chef Supper Specials.

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

FERRARA PIZZA & PASTA 243 Paragon Parkway, Clyde. 828.476.5058.

Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 12 to 8 p.m. Real New Yorkers. Real Italians. Real Pizza. A full service authentic Italian pizzeria and restaurant from New York to the Blue Ridge. Dine in, take out, and delivery. Check out our daily lunch specials plus customer appreciation nights on Monday and Tuesday 5 to 9 p.m. with large cheese pizzas for $9.95.

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

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

Open for dinner at 4:30 to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. World-famous prime rib, steaks, fresh seafood, gorgonzola cheese and salads. All ABC permits and open year-round.

Children always welcome. Take-out menu.

Excellent service and hospitality. Reservations appreciated.

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

828.648.4193. 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday; Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner. The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era.

LOS AMIGOS 366 Russ Ave. in the Bi-Lo Plaza.

828.456.7870. Open from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for lunch and 5 to 10 p.m. for dinner Monday through Friday and 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Enjoy the lunch prices Monday through Sunday, also enjoy our outdoor patio.

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

828.586.3555. Open Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and

tasteTHEmountains Saturday 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Sunday brunch 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Handtossed pizza, steak sandwiches, wraps, salads and desserts. All made from scratch.

Beer and wine. Free movies Thursday trought Saturday. Visit madbatterfoodfilm.com for this week’s shows.

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

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

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

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

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

828.497.4590. Open 7 a.m. daily.

Established in 1946 and serving breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week.

Family style dining for adults and children.

RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 70 Soco Road, Maggie Valley 828.926.0201 Home of the Maggie Valley Pizzeria. We deliver after 4 p.m. daily to all of Maggie Valley, J-Creek area, and Lake Junaluska. Monday through Wednesday: 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. country buffet and salad bar from 5 to 9 p.m. $11.95 with Steve Whiddon on piano. Friday and Saturday: 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 to 8 p.m. 11:30 to 3 p.m. family style, fried chicken, ham, fried fish, salad bar, along with all the fixings, $11.95. Check out our events and menu at rendezvousmaggievalley.com

SALTY DOG’S SEAFOOD & GRILL 3567 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.926.9105. Open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday. Full service bar and restaurant located in the center of Maggie Valley.

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

SPEEDY’S PIZZA 285 Main Street, Sylva. 828.586.3800.

Open seven days a week. Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 3 p.m.-11 p.m., Sunday 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Family-owned for 30 years. Serving hand-tossed pizza made to order, pasta, subs, gourmet salads, calzones and seafood. Also serving excellent prime rib on Thursdays. Dine in or take out available. Located across from the Fire Station.

TAP ROOM BAR & GRILL 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

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

Tucked away inside Waynesville Inn, the Tap Room Bar & Grill has an approachable menu designed around locally sourced, sustainable, farm-to-table ingredients. Full bar and wine cellar. www.thewaynesvilleinn.com.

MON.-SAT. 11 A.M.-8 P.M.

34 CHURCH ST. WAYNESVILLE 828.246.6505 Mtwitter.com/ChurchStDepot C facebook.com/ChurchStreetDepot

We’re open every evening for dinner until 9 p.m.

Join us for tasty burritos, tacos, quesadillas or crepes!

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TRAILHEAD CAFE & BAKERY 18 N Main Street, Waynesville.

828.452.3881 Open 7 days a week. You will find a delicious selection of pastries & donuts, breakfast & lunch along with a fresh coffee & barista selection. Happy Trails!

VITO’S PIZZA 607 Highlands Rd., Franklin.

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

WAYNESVILLE PIZZA COMPANY 32 Felmet Street, Waynesville.

828.246.0927. Open Monday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday noon to 9 p.m.; closed Tuesdays. Opened in May 2016, The Waynesville Pizza Company has earned a reputation for having the best hand-tossed pizza in the area. Featuring a custom bar with more than 20 beers and a rustic, family friendly dining room. Menu includes salads, burgers, wraps, hot and cold sandwiches, gourmet pizza, homemade desserts, and a loaded salad bar. The Cuban sandwich is considered by most to be the best in town.

Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Saturday 12 p.m.-10 p.m.

Closed Tues.

Sun. 12-9 p.m.

Sandwiches • Burgers • Wraps 32 Felmet Street (828) 246-0927

Real New Yorkers.

Real Italians. Real Pizza.

Dine-In ~ Take Out ~ Delivery

An Authentic Italian Pizzeria & Restaurant from New York to the Blue Ridge.

Just to serve you!

243 Paragon Parkway | Clyde Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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SAGEBRUSH STEAKHOUSE 1941 Champion Drive, Canton 828.646.3750 895 Russ Ave., Waynesville 828.452.5822. Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Carry out available.

Sagebrush features hand carved steaks, chicken and award winning BBQ ribs. We have fresh salads, seasonal vegetables and scrumptious deserts. Extensive selection of local craft beers and a full bar. Catering special events is one of our specialties.

Featuring daily $6 lunch specials and daily dinner specials such as $1 Taco Tuesdays and 45¢ Wednesday Wings. Backyard Bar is open every weekend thru October. Join us for every NFL game.

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PATIO BISTRO 30 Church Street, Waynesville.

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

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PRIVATE DINING ROOM AVAILABLE FOR EVENTS Monday-Sunday 7:00-2:00pm Closed Tuesday

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828.926.1820

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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER

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s summer finally gives way to fall, and the leaves achieve their majestic colors, only to fade to the ground, the folks of Western North Carolina gear up for the most frightful time of the year — Halloween.

From haunted houses to hayrides, bonfires to trick-or-treating, there’s as many activities for kids and adults alike as there is brands of candy that’ll surely be handed out to the masses in gusto.

So, grab your costume, let your imagination run wild, and join in on the fun in our backyard.

‘Zombie Prom: The Musical’

The event will include games, food, bingo, cake walk, face painting, haunted house, and much more. Game admission ranges from $0.25 to $5. Dinner will be $8.

Hosted by the Fines Creek Community Association. All proceeds go to help local families in need during the Christmas season.

For more information, email sabrina@sabrinagreenephotos.com.

Goblins invade the Green Mummies and Daddies will be invade during the “Goblins In the Green” from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, at The Village Green in Cashiers.

“Dress in your favorite silly or scary costume and you could win a prize.” said Ann Self, executive director of The Village Green.

Goblins In the Green is organized and presented in partnership by the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department and The Village Green along with many area merchants who support the event.

ON THE HAUNT:

‘Zombie Prom: The Musical’ A special Halloween production of “Zombie Prom: The Musical” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19-21 and 26-27, and at 2 p.m.

Oct. 22 and 29 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

Just in time for Halloween HART is staging its most outrageous show of the year, “Zombie Prom the musical.” This rock and roll Off Broadway hit is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle to the nuclear waste dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee’s heart. He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the prom.

The show is inspired by the atomic horror films of the 1950s that saw giant ants, blobs, and other giant radiated creatures wreaking havoc on urban populations. With rock n’ roll themed music the show is a suitable romp for the entire family.

In addition to the show, HART is also

throwing a “Zombie Prom” on Saturday, Oct. 28. The new Fangmeyer Theater is being transformed into a 1950’s gym with prom food and beverages, costume prizes and magic. Zombies of all types are welcome, from nuclear zombies to Walking Dead zombies, and the event is open to all ages.

HART’s production is being directed by Mark Jones and features: Karen CovingtonYow, Dominic Aquilino, Clara Burrus, Maximilian Koger, Erin McCarson, Dwight Chiles, Alexa Edelman, Charlie Wilson, Heather Bronson, Kris Saucedo, Jessica Garland, Martine Rose, Kelsey Sewell and Frank Davis. Be sure to make your reservations for dining at Harmons’ Den before the show.

Special discount tickets for the Thursday, Oct. 19 and 26 performance. For tickets and reservations, call 828.456.6322 or visit www.harttheatre.org.

Fines Creek Halloween fundraiser The annual Halloween Carnival will be held from 5 to 10 p.m. Oct. 28 at the Fines Creek Community Center.

Among the activities will be a costume contest at 7 p.m. Prizes will be awarded to the best boy and girl costume as well as the best owner and pet coordinating costume. Music, dancing, games and some tricks and treats will add to the festivities. “Goblins In the Green” is a free, community wide event for residents and visitors to the Highlands- Cashiers Plateau.

For more information, visit www.villagegreencashiersnc.com. You can also “Like” The Village Green on Facebook or follow on Twitter @cashiersgreen.

Haywood ‘Fall Festival’ The Haywood County Fairground will host their annual “Fall Festival” from 5 to 8:30 p.m.

Oct 28 in Lake Junaluska.

The Costume Contest will be at 6 p.m. with prizes for all. Gift bags for winners in four divisions and the “Best in Show” will receive $20.

Activities throughout the evening include cupcake walks, kids bingo, bouncy house, haunted hay ride (with several tractors this year), games and activities for kids, guest appearances by TRex & Friends, food trucks, candy, drinks to purchase, Smoke House (Fire Safety Education for Children) Admission is $5 per car or five packages of a non-perishable food items. The Charity Food Focus this year is the Harvest of Hope for Haywood County Schools Pantry, which services the Haywood County Backpack Program.

This drive is in partnership with the Ole Smoky Antique Tractor Club who has taken on the cause as well. The backpack program provides

filled backpacks for kids in need to take home over the weekend with nutritious foods they can fix themselves. Suggested items are: Breakfast foods (oatmeal packets, granola bars, individual cereal boxes), canned/boxed goods (soup, pop-top cans of ravioli, tuna), snacks (peanut butter crackers, cheese crackers, fruit cups, pudding) and drinks (juice boxes, Kool-Aid mix).

For more information, visit www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

Franklin’s ‘Classic Monsters Haunt’

Thrill seekers and monster lovers will be in for a treat during the “Classic Monster Haunt” on Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Scottish Tartans Museum in Franklin.

The museum, Breacan Clann, and “Bring It To Life” Productions will host the “Classic Monster Haunt.” This event is a fundraiser for the museum and Breacan Clann.

People will be given a theatrical guided tour that begins with tales of Scottish folk monsters that are related to classic horror cinema. Expect to see versions of the Wolfman, Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, and much more.

The matinee show will be from 2 to 5 p.m. and is rated PG. The evening show will be from 7 to 10 p.m. and is rated PG-13. Adult admission will be $4 per person and child admission will be $2 per person. Tickets are on sale now and will be that night.

For more information, call 828.524.7472.

‘Shocktoberfest’ at SCC

Southwestern Community College’s Advertising & Graphic Design Students will open up their “Shocktoberfest” Halloween display and exhibit from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, in the Burrell Building at the Jackson Campus in Sylva.

“Every year I am blown away by how hard our students work to put together these Halloween creations,” said Bob Keeling, SCC’s advertising & graphic design program coordinator. “This is a celebration of past and present students and the many years that our program has put together these Halloween displays.”

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Running along the quiet back Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host The country of Southwest Georgia, Company Stores (Americana) at 8 p.m. dirt roads that make up most of Saturday, Oct. 21. the escape routes into the abyss The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will ‘round these parts, I could see host PMA (reggae/rock) at 10 p.m. Friday, the small creature out of the corOct. 20. ner of my eye. Once I realized he had stopped at the end of the Nantahala Brewing Company (Bryson City) will driveway, my primal instincts host Happy Abandon (Americana) at 8 p.m. disappeared, my eyes aimed furFriday, Oct. 20. ther down the bright dirt path my feet playfully and joyously Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Ed jogged atop.

Kelly (singer-songwriter) at 7 p.m. Saturday, Although it was mid-October, Oct. 21. the temperature in the vast farm fields just outside of Albany, Come Friday afternoon, we said goodbye, Georgia, hovered around 90 degrees last the nose of the big pickup truck aimed for weekend. En route to the Suwannee Roots the Florida border. We decided to take the Revival festival at the Spirt of the Suwannee back roads to get to Valdosta, Georgia, Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, my girlonward to Live Oak. It was surreal to whiz friend and I had decided to make a stop at a friend’s house, one who had packed her bags by endless cotton fields, abandoned bungalows: some vibrant and some long gone and left Western North Carolina earlier this reminders of a past still fresh in the minds of summer, all in search of herself in the grand those who never forgot, or are still in the scheme of things.

But, come evening, the air lowered itself to midst of currently.

Rolling off Exit 451 of the bustling the level of enjoyable porch conversations, Interstate 75, the hot and humid swampbeverages held high in celebration of a farland and bayou nature of the nearby away rendezvous, candles lit in the cozy windows of the small cinderblock abode. She had Florida Panhandle revealed itself to us.

Mossy trees. Dark waters. Blazing circle in her glow back, you could see it. A woman who left it all, only to once again try and build the sky. Time slowing to a crawl, not out of it back up. Her smile had returned, and so did laziness, but out of necessity, for survival and for optimum immersion into the things her signature laugh. The three of us and her that make this area of the country so mystemother howled at the moon with the chatter rious and full of that voodoo vibe of otherof folks with lots to say and seemingly all the worldliness. time in the world to say it.

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One of those “bucket list” venues, Suwannee is right up there with Red Rocks, The Gorge, Georgia Theatre, Radio City Music Hall, etc., where the sheer energy and ambiance of the venue, its atmosphere, world-class caliber artists and singular attendees all play a part in creating.

That force of nature, and of humanity, struck me as Peter Rowan’s Dharma Blues took the stage Friday evening. Featuring bassist Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna), the quartet spins the web of cosmic attitudes, in terms of love, loss, and why “it is what it is.”

“The acoustic music, it’s raw and right close to the bone, the most subtleties of all the musical approaches,” Casady said afterwards. “You can approach the tone aspect of the instruments, the compositional aspects, all of that comes out in its purest form — it’s really close to home.”

So, as someone who was also not only a big part of the 1960s, but also politically involved, are you optimistic about the future?

“I’m always optimistic about the future,” Casady said. “Every generation — every period of time — has its challenges, so to speak.

You’re always battling the good and evil in human nature. It doesn’t matter if you’re born in 1919, we’d be off to war in 1939. If you were born at the turn of century in 1900, you’d be off to the First World War. You’re always dealing with human nature, and human nature has its strong and weak points — no matter when you were born.”

A pillar of the Suwannee community (and greater Southeast music scene), a special Sunday showcase would be played in honor of the late, great Colonel Bruce Hampton, who passed away onstage during his 70th birthday celebration on April 30. A wildly eccentric cosmic warrior, Hampton kicked off the dreams and careers of innumerable marquee musicians. One of which was (and is) Oliver Wood, guitarist and vocalist for Americana powerhouse The Wood Brothers.

During their headlining performance Saturday evening, The Wood Brothers took a moment to pay their respects to Hampton, to his essence that remains the core of Suwannee and the mesmerizing magic swirling around the property with such ease.

The band dedicated “Postcards From Hell” to Hampton: “I know a man who sings the blues / Yeah he plays just what he feels / Keeps a letter in the pocket of his coat / But he never breaks the seal… And if you ask him / How he sings his blues so well / He says / I got a soul that I won’t sell / And I don’t read postcards from hell …”

Teardrops could be seen and felt once one turned around to face the audience, in awe of the moment, the spectacle unique to the power of live music — the heart of Suwannee. “[Bruce] was a real connector of people, for certain,” Oliver Wood said afterwards.

“To be very serious about the music, but don’t be too serious about yourself, that’s one of the things I picked up from him. He said once, half-kidding, but it sometimes is really more profound than you think — ‘Never focus.’ Which is weird to say, but I get it.”

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On the haunt • The Halloween “Enchanted Forest” will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Highland Botanical Garden.

Trick-or-treating around the trail while seeing and meeting some of the native animal characters. There will also be fun activities at the Nature Center. Entry is $1. Sponsored by the Highland Biological Foundation. www.highlandsbiological.org.

• There will be a “Pumpkin Carving Party” from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, at Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• “Treat Street” will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 31 in downtown Sylva.

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• The annual “Treats on the Street” will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, on Main Street in Waynesville. Children’s activities and more. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

• The sixth annual “Halloween Bash” will be from 8 to 11 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 28, at Soul Infusion Tea House & Bistro in Sylva. Costume party and live music by Noonday Sun. Free to attend.

• The “Pumpkin Patch” will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, at the Jackson County Parks and Recreation between Sylva and Dillsboro. 828.293.3053.

• The “Haunted Island” will be Oct. 27-28 at the Oconaluftee Island Park in Cherokee. From 6 to 11 p.m. Oct. 27 and 6 p.m. to midnight Oct. 28.

• The “Trunk or Treat” Halloween celebration will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at Cabbage Rose located at 3388 Soco Road in Maggie Valley. Costume contest for kids, adults and pets. Best decorated car or truck. Live music, bounce house, food, activities, and more. Free admission. Proceeds from the event go to Friends of the Haywood County Animal Shelter. For more information, call 828.926.3079.

• The “Halloween Trick or Treat” will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 31 in downtown Dillsboro.

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• The “Downtown Trick or Treat” will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, in Bryson City. www.greatsmokies.com.

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The Bryson City SMRG Lil Nemesisters roller derby team will take on Asheville’s Mad Divas during the double header on Sunday, Oct. 22 at the Swain County Rec Center. Kortney Kinkaid photo HAUNTS, CONTINUED FROM 32 Walk-through and trick-or-treating will be free. Booths from a variety of SCC clubs, face painting, desserts and activities will also be available for a minimal expense.

“Our advertising and graphic design students have done an amazing job on these Halloween displays for years,” said Cheryl Contino-Conner, SCC’s dean of students. “Up until now, only SCC students were able to enjoy the sights and frights of the Halloween

ON THE HAUNT: production. We’re so excited at the opportunity to share this event with our community so everyone has a chance to see how talented our students are.”

For more information, visit www.southwesterncc.edu or call 828.339.4000.

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The ghosts and ghouls will be rolling out for blood at the next event hosted by local roller derby team Smoky Mountain Roller Girls for the “Day of the Skating Dead” invitational on Sunday, Oct. 22 at the Swain County Recreation Center located on Deep Creek Road.

The double header will begin with a home bout for juniors’ team Lil’ Nemesisters as they take on The Mad Divas of Asheville. The action will continue in an invitational with regional skaters mixing it up in Halloween costumes for a brutal battle between purple and green.

Adult skaters and audience members are encouraged to get dressed in their Halloween best and to compete in the costume contest.

Prizes will be awarded during the invitational

half-time show for audience members.

Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Swain/Qualla SAFE, Inc. Established in 1985, SAFE operates on grant funds, private donations and fundraisers. The agency serves quality domestic violence services for the Cherokee and Swain communities. SAFE operates 24-hour crisis intervention, provides emergency shelter, food and clothing. It also provides assistance with civil remedies suchN as transportation, domestic violence protective orders and more.

The first bout starts at 1 p.m. with the invitational at 3 p.m. Tickets are $5 at the door for skaters and for audience members.

Bring your own chair to watch the action.

If you are interested in becoming a skater, referee or volunteer, SMRG is currently hosting Fresh Meat Training. Practices are Wednesday evenings 7 to 9 p.m. at the Sk8way and Fun Center in Waynesville through November. Regular adult practices will resume in January at the Rec Center.

Contact the team for more information.

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Shelton House ‘Ghosts & Growlers’

The “Ghosts & Growlers” Halloween event will be held from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at The Shelton House in Waynesville.

The evening will be an adult-themed costume party set in the 1920s. Jazz music, Halloween activities, photo opportunities, silent auction, prizes, and much more. There will also be heavy hors d’oeuvres, wine and craft beer. There will also be non-alcoholic beverages available.

Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at www.sheltonhouse.org, at The Shelton House in-person or by calling 828.452.1551.

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WCU’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band will perform during the Tournament of Champions, the university’s annual competition for high school marching bands.

Final Community Band show of 2017 The Haywood Community Band’s season finale will feature musical highlights of the 2017 season at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, in the sanctuary of Waynesville’s First United Methodist Church.

The concert is free and open to the public. The church is located at the corner of Haywood Street and Academy Street. www.haywoodcommunityband.org.

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North Carolina marching bands and their competition times are: Northwest Guilford, 9:15 a.m.; South Caldwell, 10:45 a.m.; McDowell, 11 a.m.; Enloe, 11:15 a.m.; West Johnston, 11:30 a.m.; Lincolnton, 12:30 p.m.; Owen, 12:45 p.m.; Parkwood, 1:15 p.m.; Sanderson, 2:15 p.m.; Pisgah, 2:30 p.m.; Tuscola, 3 p.m.; North Henderson, 3:15 p.m.; and East Lincoln, 3:30 p.m.

Georgia bands and their competition times are: Campbell, 9 a.m.; Harrison, 9:30 a.m.; McEachern, 9:45 a.m.; R.W. Johnson, 10 a.m.; Jackson County, 12:15 p.m.; Kennesaw Mountain, 1 p.m.; and Pope, 2:45 p.m.

South Carolina bands and their competition times are: Spring Valley, 10:15 a.m.; Clover, 1:45 p.m.; and Summerville, 3:45 p.m.

Tennessee bands and their competition times are: Seymour, 10:30 a.m. and DobynsBennett, 1:30 p.m.

WCU’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band, the tournament’s host, will perform at 4 p.m. Tickets to the tournament are $15 and cover the entire day of events.

For more information on the tournament, visit www.prideofthemountains.com.

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The 17th annual “Tournament of Champions” will be held at Western Carolina University’s E.J. Whitmire Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 21.

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

The bands will compete in four classes – A, AA, AAA and AAAA. Winners from each class, as well as the next six highest scoring bands, will compete in the finals.

Summerville High School in South Carolina was last year’s grand champion, while East Lincoln of Denver won the Roll of Honor.

This year’s competition will return to a preliminary/finals format with the addition of a 20-minute clinic session for directors and staff after every band’s preliminary performance. The purpose of the clinic will be to provide immediate feedback, constructive critique regarding band performance and design, and a question-and-answer session with the clinician and each band’s director and staff.

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Stecoah fest welcomes Mountain Heart Mountain Faith to star in comedy revival

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The musical comedy revival “Smoke on the Mountain” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19 and 21 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Set in the 1930s, this musical tale introduces the singing Sanders family, who perform their traditional and bluegrass gospel songs for the members of the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in celebration of their new electric light bulb. Consisting of almost 30 gospel tunes and the rich stories of the Sanders family’s history on the gospel circuit, “Smoke on the Mountain” is full of laughs and toe-tapping bluegrass as the characters and the audience realize with a little bit of faith and a whole lot of heart, anything is possible.

A full two-act theatrical presentation, featuring Mountain Faith as the Sanders Family Band, will be presented by the Overlook

The annual “Harvest Festival” will be held Oct. 20-21 at the Stecoah Valley Center in Robbinsville.

• 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20: storytelling, marshmallow roast, hot cocoa, and more.

• 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21: crafters, clogging, country fair, and quilt exhibit.

• 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21: Americana/bluegrass performance by Mountain Heart.

The two-day festival is free to attend. The Mountain Heart show is $25 for adults, $10 for children and students grades K-12. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

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Classist organist in Waynesville The Haywood County Tate Addis.

Gleaners present a benefit concert featuring internationally renowned classical organist, Tate Addis. The concert will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at the Waynesville First United Methodist Church.

A native of Kansas, Addis has been praised for his “deep, communicative musicality” and the Kansas City Star wrote “this young organist has the right stuff.” His recent recital appearances have taken him to New York City, Boston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, and the Rie Bloomfield Organ Recital Series at Wichita State University.

A dedicated church musician from an early age, Addis has held positions at New York City’s Brick Presbyterian Church, at Second Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Missouri, and at the Yale Berkeley Divinity School in New Haven. Currently he serves as organist of First Baptist Church in Asheville.

A graduate of Yale and Oberlin, Addis’ teachers have included James David Christie, Lynne Davis, and Thomas Murray.

On the beat youth. His training includes studies at the Milton Laufer, the new director of Music Institute of Chicago, the Gnessin Western Carolina University’s School of Institute, Eastman School of Music, Music, will present his debut campus conUniversity of Michigan and Rice University. cert Tuesday, Oct. 24.

Over the past several years, Laufer has perThe 7:30 p.m. performance will be in the formed in China, Germany, England, Spain recital hall of the Coulter Building on the WCU campus. The performance is free and open to the public.

Laufer, on piano, will be playing chamber music with his School of Music colleagues, including a set of three French songs by Franz Liszt on the poetry of Victor Hugo, with Laufer’s wife, Marina De Ratmiroff, singing soprano. In keeping Milton Laufer, director of WCU’s School of Music, with the French theme, performs with his wife, vocalist Marina De Ratmiroff. he will perform Francis Poulenc’s “Trio for and Colombia and in cities across the U.S. He Oboe Bassoon and Piano” with Brian Seaton, is currently working on two recording projoboe, and Will Peebles, bassoon. ects – an album featuring piano and vocal Laufer will conclude with Mozart’s wind works by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona quintet, joined by Brian Seaton, oboe; and a recording of Latin works for cello and Shannon Thompson, clarinet; Will Peebles, piano with Canadian cellist Nigel Boehm. bassoon; and Travis Bennett, French horn.

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On the beat Gary Allan returns to Harrah’s Country superstar Gary Allan will hit the stage at 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort.

The California native released his first album, “Used Heart for Sale,” in 1996 and since then has released eight additional studio albums selling over seven million albums, been certified platinum on three back-to-back albums, and been certified gold five times. Allan has five No. 1 hits at country radio, 14 Top 10 hits to his credit and amassed over 270 million total streams.

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Acclaimed rock act 3 Doors Down and The Better Life Foundation announce the 14th annual concert to benefit the foundation on Saturday, Oct. 21, at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort.

This marks the second year in a row that 3 Doors Down has held their benefit concert at the Event Center in Cherokee.

• Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host Andrew Chastain (singer-songwriter) Oct. 20, Blue Revue (singer-songwriter) Oct. 21, Heidi Holton (blues/folk) Oct. 27 and Tom Edwards (singer-songwriter) Oct. 28. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

• Bosu’s Wine Shop (Waynesville) will host a jazz evening with the Kittle/Collings Duo from 6 to 9 p.m. every Friday. Free and open to the public. www.waynesvillewine.com.

• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will host Sheila Gordon (piano/vocals) Oct. 20 and Joe Cruz (piano/pop) Oct. 21. All shows are free (unless otherwise noted) and begin at 7 p.m. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

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

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• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Ed Kelly (singer-songwriter) Oct. 21 and Marc Keller (singer-songwriter) 2 p.m. Oct. 28. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. There will also be a Community Rhythm Circle every Tuesday at 7 p.m. with free drum circle lessons at 6:30 p.m. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

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The event consists of a motorcycle ride, silent auction, custom-built motorcycle raffle and concert. The Better Life Foundation (TBLF) has raised and donated over $3,000,000 to reputable children’s charities, veteran’s organizations, local municipalities and faith-based groups to achieve its goals of helping communities and children in need.

TBLF concert is sponsored by KILLCLIFF. For more information on The Better Life Foundation, visit www.thebetterlifefoundation.org.

The motorcycle ride will begin at Asheville Harley Davidson, and rendezvous with even more riders at Wheels Through Time Museum in Maggie Valley before converging on Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. The ride cost is $30, and includes admission to the Rider Reception and long sleeve ride T-shirt.

In 2016, throngs of fans assembled in the Resort’s Rotunda for the silent auction, to welcome the band and then packed into the Event Center to rock out for the soldout concert.

Tickets for this year’s concert start at $20 and VIP packages start at $249.99.

Select VIP packages may include meet and greet, photo with 3 Doors Down, open bar, Hors Devours, and much more.

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and 26. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host Troy Underwood (singer-songwriter) Oct. 20, The Company Stores (Americana) Oct. 21, Karaoke Oct. 27 and Frogtown (bluegrass) Oct. 28. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• Mad Batter Food & Film (Sylva) will host a “Jazz Night” from 6 to 8 p.m. every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host Somebody’s Child (Americana) Oct. 21 and Frank & Allie (bluegrass/Americana) Oct. 28. All shows are free and are from 6 to 9 p.m. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

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• No Name Sports Pub (Sylva) will host Karaoke w/Chris Monteith Oct. 20, Papa Smurf (surfbilly) Oct. 21, The Hooten Hallers (rock/blues) Oct. 24, Humps & The Blackouts (psychobilly) Oct. 27 and Darren & The Buttered Toast (soul/funk) Oct. 28. All shows are free and begin at 9:30 p.m. unless other-

Country stars to play Homecoming Concert making his first headlining tour this fall. Young released his self-titled debut album earlier this year. The album features his No. 1 gold-certified debut single “Sleep Without You.” His follow-up single, “In Case You Didn’t Know,” made Young the first country artist to hit the platinum-certification sales mark in 2017.

Young’s latest single, “Like I Loved You,” is currently on the charts.

In addition to his headlining tour, Young is currently touring with Lady Antebellum’s “You Look Good World Tour 2017.” Earlier this year, he toured with Luke Bryan’s “Kill The Lights Tour.”

Pearce, another country newcomer, is expected to release her debut album this fall. Her current hit single, “Every Little Thing,” is in the top 20 Billboard country airplay chart.

All WCU student tickets will be $10 for floor seats and $7.50 for arena seats. Public tickets will be $15 for floor seats and $12.50 for arena seats (plus taxes and fees). The concert is presented by the Department of Campus Activities and Residential Living.

Tickets can be purchased at the Ramsey Center box office or online at ramsey.wcu.edu.

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Brett Young and Carly Pearce are the artists scheduled to perform at Western Carolina University’s Homecoming Concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in the Ramsey Regional Activity Center.

Young, the only country performer on Shazam’s “Emerging Artists of 2017” list, is

wise noted. www.nonamesportspub.com.

• The Oconaluftee Visitor Center (Cherokee) will host a back porch old-time music jam from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 21. 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. on Wednesday with Mike Farrington of Post Hole Diggers. Free and open to the public.

• 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 an Open Jam with Rick 8 p.m. Thursdays.

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

• Sneak E Squirrel Brewing (Sylva) will host line dancing every Friday at 7 p.m. and contra dancing every other Friday at 8 p.m.

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

• Tunes on the Tuck (Bryson City) will host

William Ritter & Sarah Ogletree (bluegrass/Americana) Oct. 21 and The Grove Band (Americana) Oct. 28 at Riverfront Park. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Ugly Dog Pub (Cashiers) will host live music (to be announced) Oct. 20 and Fortress Oct. 27.

• Ugly Dog Pub (Highlands) will host Roshambeaux Oct. 20 and Grandpa’s Cough Medicine (bluegrass/Americana) Oct. 27.

• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host PMA (reggae/rock) Oct. 20, Benjamin Hatch (singer-songwriter) Oct. 21, DJ Dance Party Oct. 27 and Humps & The Blackouts (psychobilly) Oct. 28. All shows begin at 10 p.m.

• Waynesville Pizza Company will have an open mic night at 7 p.m. Oct. 30. Free and open to the public. 828.246.0927 or www.waynesvillepizza.com.

• The Waynesville Public Library will host Possum on a Whale (bluegrass/Americana) at 3 p.m. Oct. 28. Free and open to the public.

• Western Carolina University (Cullowhee) will host a piano recital Oct. 24, Courtney Stiwalt recital Oct. 25 and Choir Concert Oct. 26. All events are free and begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Coulter Building. www.wcu.edu.

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The festival is free to attend. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

‘Plow Day & Harvest Festival’ The annual “Plow Day & Harvest Festival” will be held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at Darnell Farms in Bryson City.

This old-fashioned event is a hit with the entire family. Music jam, food, crafts, pumpkin patch, hayrides, and old-time farming demonstrations. $10 parking. Get lost in our very own themed Corn Maze. There will be fresh made mountain barbecue, as well as pumpkin pies and apple pies for sale. Stock up on all our homegrown fall decorations, and choose from 25 different varieties of pumpkins, gourds, and decorative squash. www.facebook.com/darnellfarmsnc.

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The annual Apple Harvest Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, on Main Street in downtown Waynesville.

This beloved festival has grown into the region’s premier juried arts and crafts event and celebration of all things apple.

This year’s event will feature exhibitors, artisan demonstrations, live entertainment and great food.

Hailed as one of the “10 Best Fall Harvest Festivals in the Nation,” Apple Harvest Festival is a celebration of the autumn harvest and Haywood County’s agricultural heritage. Countless booths of fresh apple pies, tarts, caramel apples, ciders, jewelry, pottery and yard art.

Try your hand at hand-cranking ice cream or pressing apple cider, then taste the fruit of your labor. Music, dancing, crafts, and old-fashioned games make this event

bounce houses and more. These areas will be located at each end of Main Street.

Entertainment is also a large part of the event. Back by popular demand, the Thimblerig Circus will be entertaining on the state and street with three new shows of death defying stunts on demand. Their shows are designed to amaze, but know that they are far more interested in making you laugh than in shocking you.

New this year, Howie the Great, a magician from Atlanta, Georgia, will perform up close and personal magic throughout the streets during the festival from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Howie Marmer, alias Howie The Great, is a career magician whose achievements include performances in comedy clubs, major illusion shows, NBA half-time shows, the Olympics and more.

Also new this year, those attending PumpkinFest will also be able to interact with characters from the classic children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are. Other family fun includes free pony rides, face painting and more.

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

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The 21st annual PumpkinFest will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, 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? Last year’s 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 eating contest, along with more than 90 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.

PumpkinFest is all about kids and families and this year will be no different. There will be two Kid’s Zones with free inflatable slides,

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On the street Bigfoot, UFOs: do you believe?

Mary Joyce will be speaking about “Other Realities in Jackson County: Bigfoot, Cherokee Little People, UFOs and secret underground bases” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Joyce is a local author who has been on numerous radio and television shows including the Travel Channel and “Coast to Coast AM” which has an audience of more than 250 million. She also has been on media shows in Australia, Ireland and Canada.

Since 2008, Joyce has served as editor for the Sky Ships over Cashiers website (www.skyshipsovercashiers.com) which deals with a wide variety of cutting-edge topics.

Her books include Cherokee Little People were Real, Underground military bases hidden in North Carolina Mountains and Tangible evidence of Jesus left behind for us to find.

The presentation is sponsored by Friends of the Jackson County Public Library and is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the library at 828.586.2016.

WCU Homecoming parade, campus events Western Carolina University will celebrate Homecoming 2017 beginning Monday, Oct. 23, and continuing through Sunday, Oct. 29, with the theme “Catamount Proud.”

Activities will range from comedy and country music shows to the annual Homecoming parade, golf tournament and football game complete with the halftime crowning of the Homecoming king and queen.

Events will kick off Oct. 23 with a carnival for students featuring a Ferris wheel and food from 4 to 9 p.m. on the lawn of A.K. Hinds University Center. The next day, Tuesday, Oct. 24, will include the annual Resident Student Association Hall-O-Ween event for local children up through fifth grade from 6 to 8 p.m. at Ramsey Regional Activity Center, plus a Homecoming Comedy Show set for 7 p.m. in the University Center Grandroom featuring comics Drew Lynch and Erin Jackson.

Later in the week, on Thursday, Oct. 26, upand-coming country stars Brett Young and Carly Pearce will perform in a concert beginning at 8 p.m. in the Ramsey Center.

Activities on Friday, Oct. 27, will tee off bright and early with “The Mutt” Catamount Football Golf Classic, which is named in honor of late WCU football coach Alphonso “Mutt” Degraffenreid. Play will take place at Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville. Later that

Representatives of WCU’s Base Camp Cullowhee march down Sylva’s Main Street during the 2016 Homecoming parade. day, WCU’s annual Homecoming parade kicks off at 6:30 p.m. in downtown Sylva.

Participants will include community and student floats, WCU’s cheerleaders and dance team, the Homecoming court and the university’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band.

An action-packed Saturday, Oct. 28, features the Zombie 5-K Chase Race at 9 a.m., Chancellor’s Brunch and Alumni Awards event at 10 a.m., tailgating from noon until 3:30 p.m., the WCU football team’s game

against Furman at 3:30 p.m. and the AfricanAmerican Alumni Postgame Reception at 6:30 p.m. Homecoming activities will end on a musical note Oct. 29 with the Inspirational Choir’s annual Homecoming concert beginning at 2 p.m. in the UC Grandroom.

More information about all Homecoming activities, including details on signing up to attend or participate, is available online by visiting homecoming.wcu.edu and clicking on the event schedules for students and alumni.

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• The Spirit of the Smokies Classic Car Show sponsored by the Sylva Rotary will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, in Dillsboro. Registration begins at 9 a.m. Over 100 classic cars and other vehicles.

• “Laughing Balsam Sangha,” a meeting for Mindfulness in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, meets will meet from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Mondays at 318 Skyland Drive in Sylva. Included are sitting and walking meditation, and Dharma discussion. Free admission. For more information, call 828.335.8210, and “Like” them on Facebook.

• Sneak E Squirrel Brewing (Sylva) will host the Jackson County Corn Hole Association on Monday evenings ($5 buy in, 100 percent payout), Karaoke with Captain Moose from 7 to 11 p.m. on Tuesdays, Trivia at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays and a Guitar Hero Tournament at 7 p.m. on Thursdays. 828.586.6440.

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• There will be a free wine tasting from 1 to 5 p.m. Oct. 21 and 28 at Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville. www.waynesvillewine.com or 828.452.0120.

• A free wine tasting will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Oct. 21 and 28 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. www.papouswineshop.com or 828.631.3075.

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• Free cooking demonstrations will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturdays at Country Traditions in Dillsboro. Watch the demonstrations, eat samples and taste house wines for $3 a glass. All recipes posted online. www.countrytraditionsnc.com.

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• The Peanuts Pumpkin Patch Express will depart at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 20 and 27, and noon and 3:30 p.m. Oct. 21-22 and 28-29 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. On board the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, guests will hear a narration of Schulz’s “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” as the train travels to the Pumpkin Patch. Upon arrival, passengers will be greeted and have a photo opportunity with Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Snoopy.

Activities to enjoy at The Great Pumpkin Patch will include: campfire marshmallows, a coloring station, temporary tattoos, trick or treating, bouncy house, hayrides and live musical entertainment. For tickets, visit www.gsmr.com or 800.872.4681.

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Haywood Arts Council seeking artists The Haywood County Arts Council is seeking artists for its 10th annual small work show, “It’s a Small, Small Work,” to be held Nov. 3 to Dec. 23 in HCAC Gallery & Gifts in Waynesville.

The show provides a unique opportunity for budding artists to exhibit their work, as well as the opportunity for more seasoned artists to test their boundaries. The non-juried show is open to all artists with a permanent address in the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area.

All pieces submitted must be exactly 12” or smaller in every dimension, including base, matting, and frame. Each artist is required to submit original work (photographers submit prints) to include a minimum of three pieces and a maximum of five pieces. Each artist entering the show will pay a flat fee of $20 for handling and publicity.

College degree-seeking students may enter for $10. All work must be for sale, priced at $300 or less, and must have been created in the last two years. All mediums are welcome.

Commission will be the gallery’s usual 60 percent (artist) to 40 percent (HCAC) split.

Artwork can be hand delivered to the Arts Council through Oct. 21.

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small work show was launched in 2008 to demonstrate that original artwork is affordable and fun. Most businesses, homes and apartments can accommodate smaller works of art — and the show promotes buying local and regional work to help support artists in western North Carolina.

For a Small Works Show application and information on how to submit your artwork, download an application at www.haywoodarts.org, email info@haywoodarts.org, call 828.452.0593, or visit the Haywood County Arts Council at 86 North Main Street in Waynesville.

‘Art & Antique Fall Festival’ The “Art & Antique Fall Festival” will kick off at 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at Antique Antics on Main Street in Waynesville.

Featuring woodworking and spinning demonstrations. Artist and antiques join forces to share and connect their talents and treasures. Come see a variety of art, antiques, handmade wood items, primitives, tools, glassware, toys, quilts, Singer Featherweights, and much more. $15 vendors spaces available.

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Interested in metalsmithing?

Master Smith William Rogers will host a dimension. This process (called repousse) series of classes in late October and early was used to create the Statue of Liberty.

These small-sized, affordable classes are November at his studio in Cullowhee.

Rogers is the recipient of multiple educa- suitable for families, groups of friends, and tion grants from the North Carolina Arts couples. Children ages 12 to 18 must be Council and was honored as a “master” accompanied by a parent. Afternoon classes craftsman by both Virginia and his home are held from 3 until 6 p.m. Evening class from state of Tennessee. He constructed the 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Pre-registration is required. methane-fueled forges for the Jackson County Classes scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 25; Green Energy Park and taught hammered Thursday, Oct. 26, Friday, Oct. 27; Monday, copper at the Oconaluftee Indian Village and Oct. 30. November classes are scheduled every Wake Forest University. Since 2005, he has day during the first two weeks of November. owned and operated a metal design and fabri- Master Smith William Rogers. cation studio in Cullowhee.

Each course covers an introduction to forging and forming with students taking home a w finished piece. Three different courses are offered: Blacksmithing Basics, Mobile Wind Sculpture, and Hammered Copper.

• In Blacksmithing Basics, students will learn to shape metal using a forge, anvil, and w hammers to form steel w at 2000 degrees. This short course will teach students to judge the temperature of metal by its incandescent color as it is heated in the forge.

“Strike while the iron is y hot” is not simply a saying, but a demonstrated concept in smithing.

• In creating a Mobile Wind Sculpture, students will experiment with the laws of physics (levers, mass, and fulcrum) learn to work and join metals together to make shapes f that catch the wind, creClass fee of $75 per person includes materials. ating movement in a kinetic mobile.

• Hammered Copper is a process was Discounts for currently enrolled Western used by ancient cultures all over the world, Carolina University students.

To learn more or to pre-register, contactj including ancient Cherokee people. Students or call will learn to use punches and hammers to rogersmetals@gmail.com bring a two-dimensional design into a third 828.293.3777.

‘Click & Sip Workshop’ The “Click & Sip Workshop” will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, at Gallery Zella in Bryson City.

Enjoy mastering photography techniques used by professionals. Attend with a buddy, daughter, son or even your sweetheart. Take home an incredible memory of

your trip to the mountains — your own original fine art photograph. Your instructor, Drew Campbell, is known as the area’s finest photography teacher. Students will be presented with various techniques to improve photo composition and how to properly use light to create superior photos. $50, which includes 8x12 metal print.

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This October, local residents and visitors are invited to view work from Haywood County artists who operate studios in this county.

Though there will not be a “Studio Tour” in 2017, this show will fill a gap and create excitement for next year’s tour.

Participants work in diverse media, including clay, fiber, wood, jewelry, glass, mixedmedia, sculpture, and two-dimensional applications. You can view the work of 22 local artists through Oct. 28.

The “Studio Tour” is organized by a dedicated group of Haywood County artists who are very interested in having this event back on the schedule for 2018.

Bonnie Smith, “Studio Tour” Committee member says, “There are discussions going on to decide whether a spring or fall tour would be best.”

Lindsey Solomon, executive director of the Haywood County Arts Council shares, “Though the Studio Tour is reorganizing this fall, we’re so excited that we’re still able to share work here in the gallery.

These local artists enrich our county in a beautiful way.”

For additional information, visit www.haywoodarts.org or www.facebook.com/openstudioshaywood.

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Haywood Community College second year professional craft students will participate in the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands Oct. 20-22 at the U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville.

The college’s student club, Haywood Studios, has participated as an educational member for over 20 years.

In its 70th year, the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands exhibits a variety of craft ranging from contemporary to traditional in works of clay, wood, metal, glass, fiber, natural materials, paper, leather, mixed media and jewelry.

Approximately 24 second-year Professional Crafts students in clay, fiber, jewelry and wood will participate.

Students set up a booth along with 170 other vendors, staff the show and sell the artwork they have been making in the program. This is a valuable opportunity for students to experience real-life marketing and sales.

Show hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 2021 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 22. This event is open to the public. Tickets are $8 at the door.

For more information about HCC’s participation in the show or Haywood Studios, call 828.627.4672 or visit creativearts.haywood.edu.

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• The “Meet the Artist” reception with Brian Hannum (pianist), Drew Campbell (photographer) and Jon Houglum (painter) will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, at Gallery Zella in Bryson City. For more information, call 828.488.3638 or visit www.galleryzella.com.

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• Local crafter and instructor Junetta Pell will be teaching a new basket making workshop from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 26-27 at the Jackson County Extension Office in Sylva.

She will be teaching how to make the “Beauty of Autumn Basket” that includes a wooden base, smoked stakes, and a beautiful twill weave. Call the Extension Office at 828.586.4009 to register and for the supply list. Cost is $25. Class size is limited.

• Mad Batter Food & Film (Sylva) will host a free movie night at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday,

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by The Jackson County Arts Council and the Jackson County Library and is free of charge.

Information on events sponsored by Jackson County Arts Council can also be found at www.jacksoncountysrts.org. To learn more about 50th anniversary activities visit www.ncarts50.org. Follow NC Arts Council’s 50th anniversary celebration at #NCArts50 on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Friday and Saturday. www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

• The Waynesville Fiber Friends will meet from 10 a.m. to noon on the second Saturday of the month at the Panacea Coffee House in Waynesville. All crafters and beginners interested in learning are invited. Keep up with them through their Facebook group or by calling 828.276.6226.

• “Paint Nite Waynesville” will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursdays (Oct. 19) at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Sign up for either event on the WNC Paint Events Facebook page or call Robin Arramae at 828.400.9560. paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

In the WCU Fine Art Museum main gallery through Dec. 8 is the nationally traveling exhibition “Return from Exile: Contemporary Southeastern Indian Art,” curated by Tony A. Tiger, Bobby C. Martin, and Jace Weaver.

The exhibition features more than 30 contemporary Southeastern Native American artists working in a variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, basketry, sculpture, and pottery.

“Return from Exile” is one of the first major exhibitions to focus on contemporary artists from tribal nations with an historical connection to the Southeastern United States.

The WCU Fine Art Museum received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to host this exhibition and organize a one-day symposium focused on contemporary Native American art. Speakers include artists with work in the exhibition as well as local artists. The symposium will be held on from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 10, followed by a reception honoring the “Return from Exile” exhibition from 5 to 7 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public. The symposium includes a ticketed keynote performance

Presbyterian Craft Fairs There will be a craft fair held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Waynesville Presbyterian Church, located at corner of Walnut Street and Main Street.

The church’s Craft Guild, with the help of many talented artisans of the congregation, will be selling handmade items, cakes, pies, breads, preserves and local honey.

Profits from the sales will go to a variety of local organizations. Each year, the list of organizations supported changes a little as the needs of our community change. For example, this year money was sent to the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Program to help rebuild after the hurricanes.

• There will be a “Thursday Painters Open Studio” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. at the Franklin Uptown Gallery. Bring a bag lunch, project and supplies. Free to the public. Membership not required. For information, call 828.349.4607.

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• Linda Dickinson will host an artist’s reception from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22, at the Canton Public Library Meeting Room.

Dickinson is a member of the Haywood County Arts Council, which coordinated this show with the Canton Library. Her black and white photography show titled “Waynesville and Environs, A Black & White Perspective” is on display through December.

• Darren Nicholson, of Balsam Range, will be in concert at the Jackson County Library Community Room at 6 p.m. Oct. 26.

The Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) will be the opening act. This event is co-sponsored

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The Jackson County Arts Council announced that it is one of 170 organizations across North Carolina to participate in a Statewide Arts Celebration to recognize the 50th anniversary of the North Carolina Arts Council.

Arts and cultural organizations in all 100 North Carolina counties will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the North Carolina Arts Council in October with music, dance, exhibitions, fall festivals, and more.

The Jackson County Arts Council is proud to sponsor and/or cosponsor the following events in honor of the 50th anniversary of the North Carolina Arts Council: • Jan Boyer’s alcohol ink paintings will be on display in the Rotunda Gallery at the Jackson County Public Library through the end of October.

• Gallery One on Main Street in Sylva will spotlight the artwork of Joe Meigs and other local artists for the month of October.

from Canadian First Nation electronic music group A Tribe Called Red at 7:30 p.m. For details visit arts.wcu.edu/tribe.

The museum is also presenting “WCU Collects: Recent Acquisitions.” This exhibition showcases a selection of artworks recently given to the museum and includes a number of artists not previously represented in the collection. www.wcu.edu.

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• A “Youth Art Class” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday at the Appalachian Art Farm on 22 Morris Street in Sylva. All ages welcome. $10 includes instruction, materials and snack. appalachianartfarm@gmail.com or find them on Facebook.

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WCU’s upcoming ‘Sci-Fi Double Feature’ radio show olin Wasmund, theatre instructor in Western Carolina University’s School of Stage and Screen, has announced the cast for the upcoming radio production “A Sci-Fi Double Feature” that will feature H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” and Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” This is the ninth in a series of annual academic-based entertainment productions mounted in collaboration with three departments and two colleges at WCU. Wasmund is directing the show while Bruce Frazier, the university’s Belk Distinguished Professor of Commercial and Electronic Music, is serving as musical director and Don Connelly, head of the Department of Communication, is writer and producer.

The radio production will be staged before a live audience at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for faculty and staff, and $5 for students.

Proceeds from the event are used to fund scholarships in the participating departments.

Each of the shows in the series hearkens back to the “Golden Age of Radio,” featuring

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a live orchestra and sound effects and produced only once before a live audience. The production group has won eight national broadcasting awards for its unique projects.

The Oct. 31 show will be recorded for future radio broadcast.

• David Evanoff, a nanomaterials chemist and head of the Department of Chemistry and Physics, will portray the Actor in “The Time Machine” and Captain Nemo in “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” • Eric Eichenlaub, theatre instructor in the School of Stage and Screen, will portray the Time Traveler in “The Time Machine.”

• Howard Allman of Sylva, a WCU alumnus, plays the role of Professor Arronax, a French professor of marine biology who is captured by Captain Nemo in “20,000 Leagues.”

• WCU student cast members in “The Time Machine” include freshman Mica Pratt as Weena and sophomore Kaitlin Rose Jencks as the voice of the Eloi. Student cast members in “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” include sophomore Caleb Gerber as Captain Farragut and junior Matt Howie as Ned Land.

As the show’s composer and music director, Frazier created an all-original musical score for the production. The tones and colors of the music will highlight the shifting emotions of the drama ranging from action and adventure to an eerie late-night encounter with the Morlocks in “The “Time Machine,” Frazier said. For “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” he composed a special theme for Captain Nemo’s

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pipe organ aboard the submarine Nautilus.

The WCU Artist-In-Residence Orchestra, conducted by Frazier, will provide musical accompaniment for the show. The ensemble represents a partnership between the university and the Asheville Symphony Orchestra in which WCU students play alongside professionals in a collaborative experience.

Funding for “A Sci-Fi Double Feature” is provided by WCU’s College of Arts and Sciences, College of Fine and Performing

At just 3 months old, she experienced her first seizure, an experience that would send her family on a path that would change the world. Charlotte was suffering from 300 grand mal seizures per week when they met the Stanley Brothers, who had been developing proprietary hemp genetics. Together they created a hemp oil extract that was introduced into Charlotte’s diet in hopes of providing her relief.

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Tickets for the performance are available at the Bardo Arts Center box office, online at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or by calling the box office at 828.227.2479. The show starts promptly at 7:30 p.m. and no one will be admitted after it has started.

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Kids at HART open auditions

October 18-24, 2017

Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville will have open auditions for its Kids at HART program for the upcoming December production of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

Auditions will be held in the Fangmeyer Theater at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22. The roles of Aslan the Lion, the White Witch, and Father Christmas will be cast as adults. All other characters will be cast as children and young adults from age 8 and up including: the children Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter; Mr. and Mrs. Beaver; Tumnus; the unicorn and centaur; Fenris Ulf; the dwarf; the elf; the white stag; Aslan’s followers; the Witch’s army and wood nymphs and all other creatures of Narnia.

The play requires a minimum cast of 16 actors, but there are fun parts available for a much larger cast, and in a play like this, it is truly “the more, the merrier.” This is a perfect play for everyone from beginner actors to seasoned thespians. We also need costumers,

light and sound operators.

Dramatized for the stage by Joseph Robinette, this play closely follows the classic tale by C.S. Lewis, and faithfully recreates the magic and mystery of Aslan, the great lion, his struggle with the White Witch, and the adventures of the four children who inadvertently wander from an old wardrobe into the exciting, never-to-be-forgotten Narnia.

This story of love, faith, courage and giving, with its triumph of good over evil, is a true celebration of life.

There are four performances for Kids at HART’s production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Saturday, Dec. 9 and 16 and Sunday, Dec. 10 and 17, all at 2 p.m.

Rehearsals are generally scheduled on Thursday and Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings, but may also include additional Sunday afternoon rehearsals if needed.

If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Shelia Sumpter at 828.456.6322 or email srsumpter@charter.net. Visit www.harttheatre.org for more information about this and other opportunities at Haywood Arts Regional Theatre.

Every time The Boxcars open their cases, a clinic on how to play Bluegrass music ensues.

The two-time IBMA Bluegrass Instrumental Band of the Year has achieved a level of musicianship that sets a standard in the genre.

They have a knack for merging the power of traditional bluegrass with an updated style that draws in new fans. A singer’s singer, Garrett's range and powerful tone give The Boxcars a distinctive sound that is carried throughout the album and especially shines on the title track, “Familiar With th Ground,” written by Garrett.Sharing lead vocal is eleven-time IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year, Adam Steffey. Familiar too is the lead singing of award winning banjo and fiddle master, Ron Stewart. The entire album is rounded out by the exceptional harmonies of the group. Familiar with the Ground sees the addition of newcomer, Gary Hultman, who matches his more experienced band mates with resonator guitar playing that is as exciting as it is tasteful.

Add that to the perfect timing and tone of bass man, Harold Nixon, and the previous “super-picker” claim holds true. If the ground is Bluegrass perfection, The Boxcars are familiar with it. If the ground is life pouring out of the hollers, The Boxcars are familiar with it. Whatever ground you’re digging in,the Boxcars have the tools.

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• A production of “Guilty Conscience,” the clever and intriguing mystery by William Link and Richard L. Levinson, will hit the stage on Thursdays through Saturdays through Oct. 22, at the MartinLipscomb Performing Arts Center in Highlands. Requests for reservations may be left at 828.526.8084 or reserved at www.highlandscashiersplayers.org.

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A stage production of Agatha Christie’s “Go Back For Murder” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20-21, 27-28 and 30, and at 3 p.m.

Oct. 22 and 29 at the Smoky Mountain Community Theatre in Bryson City.

After receiving a letter from beyond the grave, Carla Crale believes her mother, who died in prison, was wrongly convicted of her father’s murder. In a passionate attempt to clear her name, she persuades those present on the day of her father’s death to return to the scene of the crime and “go back” 15 years to recount their version of events.

An unusual take on the traditional murder mystery, the action of the play slips seamlessly from past to present, examining the danger of relying on personal testimony warped by time, prejudice and perception. By

studying each suspect’s testimony, and the various inconsistencies between them, the drama arrives at a disturbing and terrible truth.

Tickets are $10 for adults, and $5 for students ages 6 to 18. Under age 6 is free. The box office opens one-hour prior to show time.

For more information, call 828.488.8227 or www.facebook.com/smctheatre.

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A keen eye for France, and great recipes lizabeth Bard’s Lunch In Paris: A Love Story, With Recipes (Little, Brown and Company, 2010, 324 pages) offers readers both literary and culinary treats.

Bard — what a wonderful name for a writer — whisks us off to the City of Light where she has fallen in love with a Frenchman, Gwendal. (Pronounced GwenDAL). Living in England, Bard meets Gwendal at a Digital Resources Conference in Paris, and they are soon emailing each other across the Channel. Eventually, Bard visits Paris and Gwendal again, and then many times, before she finally takes up full-time residency in the city to be with the man who has become her lover. He introduces her to his family, who live in Saint-Malo, a French Writer port city, and the two of them fly to New York to meet her own parents and kin.

Eventually, they marry.

None of these details should spoil your reading of this fine book, because it contains so many other excellent descriptions and explanations of French life. Here are just a few of its gifts to us.

First, for aficionados of French cuisine, Bard includes scores of recipes in Lunch In Paris, three or four of them at the end of each chapter, foods eaten in that chapter in restaurants or private homes. Though some of the ingredients, the cheeses for instance, may be unfamiliar to many readers, Bard’s instructions for preparing these dishes are clear and precise. A book club reading Lunch In Paris might fancy preparing some of these foods to eat during their discussion.

Bard’s honesty and vision as an outsider in France should also attract readers. Unlike some books of this nature, Lunch In Paris contrasts life in France with that of England and the United States, and the results are at times negative, as when she reports her runins with various French shop owners and government officials, and addresses the difficulty of finding meaningful employment.

When Gwendal’s father Yanig becomes fatally ill, Bard is sharply critical of the French

family and friends for daring to be different.

The funniest point in these adventures comes when he returns from Hollywood and presents some French cinema owners with the contacts and information he gained there. As Gwendal makes his pitch, they can’t understand how he obtained various meetings with Hollywood executives.

Again and again, they ask him “But why do they talk to you?” Again and again, Gwendal replies “Because I asked.” Finally, Bard tells us “… Gwendal just gave up and did it the French way.

‘You know, my wife is American. She’s actually Jack Warner’s granddaughter.’ (I’m not.)

“Ahhh, bien oui.” There was a huge exhalation and nods of comprehension around the table.

“They simply couldn’t conceive of the fact that he’d gotten there any other way.”

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health care system, which, though often touted as one of the finest in the world, is also run by doctors who “look down on high, feeling no need to explain themselves or involve you in any way.” After dealing with several of these physicians, Bard concludes by writing “I felt trapped in someone else’s system, like I’d

In Lunch In Paris, Elizabeth Bard has given us

not only a portrait of the French, but one of herself as well: a journalist with a keen eye for detail and nuance, a writer who packs a punch in every sentence, a loving wife, and as the author note tells us, a cook who “makes a mean chocolate soufflé.”

••• Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella are a mother-daughter team that has produced collections of columns and essays in books like I’ve Got Sand In All The Wrong Places and Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat? This year they have added a new title to this corpus: I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere But The Pool (St. Martin’s Press, 2017, 323 pages).

Scottoline and Serritella write a column for The Philadelphia Inquirer called “Chick Wit,” a column that must have given birth to some of the pieces in this book, as “Chick Wit” summarizes its contents. Here readers will find the female take on cell phones, exercise, beachwear, gardening, pets, yoga, cooking, and dozens of other topics. Both women have a fine sense of humor and of the absurd, and often poke fun at themselves.

Most men won’t read I Need A Lifeguard Everywhere But The Pool, which is unfortunate as the book gives us insights into the female mind, emotions, and wit. Here, for example, is the beginning of Scottoline’s essay “Potted.”

“Many things are harder than they look.

“The best example of this is marriage.

“The second best is houseplants.

“As we all know, I’m divorced twice.

“But we many not know that I cannot grow a houseplant to save my life.

“Guess which thing I regret.”

bought a one-way ticket to a place I didn’t understand.”

Another instance of these cultural differences is more amusing. Bard repeatedly encourages Gwendal to push forward with his dream of operating his own digital cinema company, but he resists, explaining that such entrepreneurship doesn’t work in France.

When he does finally take the step in that direction, he works long hours, traveling back and forth between Paris and Los Angeles, all the while facing the scrutiny and criticism of

One small criticism: in much of I Need A Lifeguard Everywhere But The Pool, the prose appears on the page as it does above, like a skeleton of single sentences. Again, the words may have appeared in a column this way, but the width of a column is rarely equal to the width of a book, and the barebones prose may distract some readers.

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(Jeff Minick is a writer and teacher.

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Folk School ‘Literary Hour’ The “Literary Hour” will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, in the Keith House at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown.

Poets and writers Mary Michelle Keller and Lucy Cole Gratton will be the featured readers.

• Keller is a musician, artist and photographer. Her poem, “As The Deer,” published in the anthology, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, was inspired by an old hymn by the same name that she plays on the dulcimer.

• Gratton poems include various topics but predominantly center around her concern for the environments and her home in the woods of Lake Apalachia. Her writing has been published in a variety of venues but she writes predominantly for the love of writing, sharing it with family and friends.

The event is free and open to the public.

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Growing community Church garden project brings neighbors together to grow healthy food Morning light shines over the Grace Giving Garden in Waynesville. Holly Kays photo

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER wo short years ago, the backyard of Waynesville’s Grace Church in the Mountains was basically just grass, save for a single container bed at the top of the hill.

These days, the view is quite different. Six long container beds stretch out along the slope from the road to the church’s back door.

A scaffolding that held a tent of beans during the warmer months stands to the side, and at the bottom of the hill is yet another group of raised beds, built high at the end of a flat walkway so that people with mobility issues can still access and enjoy them. There’s a toolshed, a gaggle of scarecrows and two inground bed dug directly into the land.

It’s the home of the Grace Giving Garden.

“We decided, ‘We have this land. It’s just growing grass. Why do we have to grow grass?’” said Emily Chatfield-Lusto, who cofacilitates the garden along with fellow Master

Budding gardeners learn about growing pole beans, Swiss chard, lettuce and other greens. Emily Chatfield-Lusto photo

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Taste the harvest A garden tour and delicious food will be offered Sunday, Nov. 5, at Grace Church in the Mountains in Waynesville.

At 9 a.m., the Grace Giving Garden’s three facilitators — Mary Alice Lodico, Jim Geenen and Emily Chatfield-Lusto — will lead an informal discussion of their efforts in the garden this summer. Refreshments, chatting and photos — as well as a few activities in the hall for kids — will be included. Attendees will also get to see the garden’s new rainwater cistern, raised beds, paths, benches and teaching amphitheater.

The church’s regular 10:30-11:30 a.m. church service will follow, with a delicious Harvest Feast featuring crops from the garden held afterward. 828.456.6029.

Gardeners Jim Geenan and Mary Alice Lodico.

So, they got to work — making plans, making beds, making connections. All the produce grown there, they decided, would help feed the more than 200 families that use the church’s food pantry. But now, the produce goes to more homes than just 200.

“It just sort of took off,” Chatfield-Lusto said. “This year we decided, ‘Why don’t we reach out to different community organizations and see if they want to come garden with us?’”

Teenage volunteers from Camp Hope in Canton helped dig up the back bed, and folks from Lifespan Incorporated Camp Hope, Grace Church and the Haywood County Master Gardener Volunteer Association built an accessible path to allow people in wheelchairs to reach the lower container garden.

Meals on Wheels donated garden tools, and Haywood Waterways Association and the Southwestern N.C. Resources Conservation and Development Council donated a 1,000gallon rainwater cistern, allowing the gardeners to water their plots without racking up a city water bill.

The contributions are many and spider out from there.

Chatfield-Lusto estimates this year’s garden brought in about 2,500 pounds of produce. But this time, it’s not just for the food pantry. Throughout the summer, kids from the Pigeon Multicultural Development Center, Big Brothers Big Sisters and Meridian Behavioral Health were there, as well as people from The Arc, planting seeds and pulling weeds.

“The big deal is this is their garden,” said

Chatfield-Lusto. “When the program was over and they had to go back to school, we said to them, ‘This is your garden. Everything you planted is just getting ripe right now. Don’t hide. Come in and pick it.’”

For many of these children, the experience was a first. Despite the fact that they’d by and large grown up in the mountains where gardens and farm fields are all around, some of them had never picked a tomato, never understood the fact that a big, beautiful pepper can grow from a single tiny seed.

There are also some children among the group who come from unstable family backgrounds, whose lives are full of uncertainty.

Giving them a safe, beautiful place to come to, where the fruits of their labors are real and tangible, seemed like an important contribution, Chatfield-Lusto said.

“This is going to be a happy place. It’s going to continue to be a learning place and a loving place, and I think that’s what counts,” she said.

For Chatfield-Lusto, the season was a success, and she’s already thinking about what the next year could bring. A pizza-topping garden, perhaps?

“When they come back the next year, we don’t want to do exactly the same thing, so what are we doing to do? We’re going to teach them Chapter Two,” she said.

That’s a prospect that excited ChatfieldLusto, a gardener since her childhood in West Virginia.

“I’ve gardened my entire life, and I feel at peace outside gardening,” she said. “I just connect with the land. I love watching things grow.”

She also loves watching others watch things grow.

“I love watching light coming into the eyes of the people when it connects,” she said.

“There’s that moment when it connects with you and you go, ‘This is something that I can do. This is something that goes beyond me out into the world. And I think that’s important.”

The garden is located on church property, but Chatfield-Lusto emphasized that she doesn’t see it as a church garden. Rather, it’s a community garden.

“It’s everyone’s,” she said. “We want people in the community to know they can come in here and dig in the dirt.”

There’s something calming and unifying about kneeling in the grass, pulling weeds and harvesting vegetables and helping life-giving plants to grow. With all the hate and division evident in the world today, Chatfield-Lusto said, neighbors chatting over a garden row might be just the kind of healing that’s needed.

“Everybody’s hungry for something, and sometimes it’s not food,” she said. “But out here is a safe place for people to grow things and reach out to each other and break down barriers in the community. I’m really about that.”

The backyard garden has grown leaps and bounds since it first began expanding two years ago, but the garden leaders are far from done. Their plans for the

Western Carolina gets green cred outdoors

Western Carolina University has been listed as one of the most environmentally responsible colleges on the continent — for the seventh year in a row.

WCU is included in The Princeton Review Guide to 375 Green Colleges, which the educational services company recently released. The university has gained repeated recognition in part through its multitiered, comprehensive approach to recycling and wise energy use, led by the Office of Sustainability and Energy Management and the Sustainable Energy Initiative.

“Our journey to greenness has definitely evolved over time,” said Lauren Bishop, WCU’s chief sustainability officer. “I believe we were initially selected to be included because of our aggressive energy-savings measures. Our current story is about that and student engagement.”

Examples of green policies include the

nearly 100 tons of cardboard that WCU collects annually and takes to Jackson Paper in Sylva for manufacture into top-grade recycled medium for corrugated cardboard boxmakers. WCU recycles a wide variety of materials and works to inform the community of sustainable energy options, such as through the inaugural electric vehicle expo held Oct. 6.

Pumpkin pursuit returns A free-for-all dash of paddles and pumpkins through Nantahala Falls will be a main attraction at this year’s NOCtoberfest, scheduled for noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Nantahala Outdoor Center.

The day will begin with pumpkin decorating at noon and a costume contest at 1:30 p.m., with competitors in the Great Pumpkin Pursuit meeting at 2 p.m. before the 2:30 p.m. race start. The aim of the game is to collect as many numbered pumpkins as possible while racing to the finish line, with prizes awarded at the end.

The event is free, with race registration noon to 2 p.m. on site. Waivers required for participation.

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the garden facilitators would like to plant a pollinator gardens around the area to support monarch butterflies.

They’re also re-examining the garden plan.

“We’re trying to turn it into a four-season garden because there are things you can grow in the winter here, but the real challenge for us is to figure out Colorfully painted signs identify who is how to get the most out of responsible for which row. Holly Kays photo the land,” Chatfield-Lusto said. “Tomatoes are great, but they take up a lot of space. They use a lot of water.”

The more food that’s grown, the more there is for people to eat, and the more comfortable those who helped grow it will feel taking home as much as they want.

“There’s food insecurity, there’s hunger, there’s need everywhere you boxes, to prevent their having to be go,” Chatfield-Lusto said. “If I can help peoreplaced every few years. Fruit trees have ple in some way, that’s all there is.” been planted at the bottom of the hill, and space are many and will count on the continued help of partners from across the community.

Eric Sollie is working with his masonry students at Tuscola High School to build a small amphitheater at the top of the garden area, and work is underway to transform the wooden garden containers into stone

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A gear sale noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, will offer deals on outdoor equipment on the lawn of the A.K. Hinds University Center at Western Carolina University.

The gear sale is organized by Base Camp Cullowhee, WCU’s outdoor programming organization. In addition to Base Camp, various other vendors will be selling new and used outdoor equipment. The event is now in its fifth year.

Individuals and businesses can sign up to sell items, with the table fee set at $10 for individuals and $30 for businesses.

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Art, science and nature coincide in documentary A film about one photographer’s work photographing the natural world will be screened Oct. 22-23 at Flat Rock Film Cinema in Flat Rock, with Western Carolina University biology professor Jim Costa, Ph.D., leading a special post-film discussion Oct. 23.

“An Art That Nature Makes” is a documentary directed by Molly Bernstein detailing the processes behind the work of celebrated photographer Rosamond Purcell, which highlights the unexpected beauty in the discarded and decayed. Purcell’s photographs have appeared in National Geographic and over 20 published books. An exhibit of her photographs is on display at the Gallery at Flat Rock through Oct. 29.

Costa, a friend and colleague of Purcell, is a published author and executive director of the Highlands Biological Station.

Tickets are $10 and available in person or online at www.galleryflatrock.com.

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Haywood grant to help fund elk volunteers A $2,650 grant from the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority will help improve the experience of visitors journeying to Cataloochee Valley to view elk.

The money will provide training, uniforms and materials for the Elk Bugle Corps and Bike Patrol, a group of Great Smoky Mountains National Park volunteers who offer educational programs in the valley. Last year more than 83,000 people visited Cataloochee.

Volunteers are trained to help park staff with traffic control and visitor safety during high-visitation periods like elk mating season. The volunteers can also provide memorable presentations using elk furs, skulls, scat and antlers.

This is the fifth year the Haywood TDA has funded the program.

A Bugle Corps member shows visitors an elk skull.

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Wildlife rehabilitation course offered An overview of wildlife rehabilitation, complete with a trip to the May Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Banner Elk, will be offered during an all-day class Friday, Oct. 27, at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville.

The course, led by wildlife rehabilitator Carlton Burke, will cover the hazards wildlife face, the role of a wildlife rehabilitator, legal requirements of working with wild animals and what to do when encountering an injured or orphaned wild animal. After the classroom discussion, participants will head to Banner Elk for a peek behind the scenes.

The class fulfills four hours of elective credit for the Blue Ridge Naturalist Certificate. Space is limited. $68 for members and $78 for non-members.

Sign up at http://bit.ly/2yj1wEc.

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Turkey shoot Saturdays underway

A potluck dinner celebrating another successful season of the Haywood Gleaners will be held 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, at Grace Church in the Mountains in Waynesville.

Anyone is welcome to come but should RSVP by Oct. 23 with the number attending and which dish or beverage they plan to bring. Each dish should serve eight to 12 people, and any food that is vegan, vegetarian, gluten free or lactose free should be labeled.

RSVP to haywoodgleaners@gmail.com.

The plant doctor is in The Haywood County Master Gardener Plant Clinic is just a phone call away, with gardening experts available during business hours to answer plant-related questions of all types. 828.456.3575.

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Proposed changes to N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission rules governing youth turkey season, falconry and taxidermy are open for public comment through Tuesday, Oct. 31.

Proposed changes include: n Allowing taxidermists to accept wildlife killed accidentally or found dead. Other changes to taxidermy rules would update and clarify existing language and references to be consistent with federal and state regulations.

n Decreasing the age requirement for adults accompanying youth during spring youth-only turkey season from 21 to 18. This will make the adult companion age consistent with other state and federal regulations. n Updating references to federal regulations, clarifying existing requirements and incorporating technical changes to the text of the rules governing falconry.

Proposed rule changes are online at www.ncwildlife.org/Proposed-Regulations.

Comments can be sent to regulations@ncwildlife.org or NCWRC Rule-making Coordinator, 1701 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N.C. 27699. If adopted proposed changes would be effective Feb. 1, 2018.

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The Sons of the American Legion in Waynesville will hold a turkey shoot starting at 9 a.m. every Saturday through April.

The American Legion is located on Legion Drive, just off of Main Street. Refreshments will be provided.

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A public meeting to discuss planning for a land management project in the Twelve Mile area of the Pisgah National Forest, in northeastern Haywood County, will be held 2-5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, in the Peterson Conference Room at Mars Hill University.

This will be the second public meeting in the planning process, with the first held in July 2016 in Asheville. That meeting revealed a wide range of desired management objectives and opportunities in the project area, with common threads including timber management, expansion of the project area, water quality, wildlife and habitat, access and recreation, and safety.

Since then, Forest Service employees have gathered a large amount of data from the project area. During the meeting, this current data and landscape analysis will be reviewed, potential proposed actions discussed and a strategy to develop a final proposed action plan created. The discussion will also include project sideboards, purposes and needs.

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Get a head start on A.T. planning The nuts and bolts of hiking the Appalachian Trail will be covered during a seminar 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, at REI in Asheville.

Thru-hiker Gary Sizer will share his planning tips and tricks, plus stories, photos and laughs drawn from his experiences living in nature during his 2014 hike. Gear,

food and logistics will be covered, as well as the trail’s impact on people, strange hiker habits and more.

Sizer lives in Asheville and is the author of bestseller Where’s the Next Shelter? as well as the host of NPR’s “The Moth.”

Free, with space limited. Sign up at www.rei.com/learn.html.

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The last Smokies Service Days event of the season will offer a chance to help clean up the Deep Creek area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 28, near Bryson City.

The group will patrol for litter and help with stream restoration at Deep Creek, a popular area in Swain County. Sign up with Logan Boldon, 865.436.1278.

Help clean up the A.T. A work hike Saturday, Oct. 28, will work to remove graffiti on the Appalachian Trail near Franklin.

The group will hike to Muskrat Shelter and remove any graffiti painted this year. Adults and children alike are welcome to help members of the Nantahala Hiking Club keep the trail in shape while enjoying a day outdoors.

To sign up, call Bill Van Horn at 828.369.1983. NHC regularly conducts work hikes on the fourth Saturday of each month.

Help sort through trash and treasure Volunteers are needed to clean out Mainspring Conservation Trust’s newly acquired historical building, soon to be sold through Preservation North Carolina, during a workday Thursday, Oct. 19, in Cowee.

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build around 1927 and forms the heart of Macon County’s old West’s Mill Village, along with the neighboring post office and Rickman Store. It most recently served as a residence and pottery studio.

Volunteers will help sort through the trash and treasures located in the main building, two-story garage, root cellar, old shed and log barn. Contact Dennis Desmond, ddesmond@mainspringconserves.org.

Women’s fly fishing class offered An introduction to fly fishing geared toward women will be offered 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education near Brevard.

Experienced instructors will cover the basics of fly fishing with topics such as equipment, knots, casting techniques and aquatic entomology. Equipment and materials provided. Participants should bring a lunch and non-slip shoes or waders.

Free. Space limited. Open to ages 12 and up. Register at www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/EducationCenters/Pisgah/EventRegistration.aspx.

WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • The Town of Canton will hold an info session and will seek input on a bicycle and pedestrian plan from 5-9 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19, at BearWaters Brewing in Canton.

• A community music jam will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. 488.3030.

• The Oconaluftee Visitor Center (Cherokee) will host a back porch old-time music jam from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 21.

• The 17th annual Tournament of Champions event, featuring 25 high school bands from a regional fourstate area, is scheduled to start at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21, at Western Carolina University’s Whitmire Stadium in Cullowhee. $15.

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• A commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Reformation movement is scheduled for 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Oct. 28 at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Clyde. German food, games, music, info booths and more. 456.6493.

• Western Carolina University will celebrate Homecoming 2017 beginning Monday, Oct. 23, and continuing through Sunday, Oct. 29, with the theme “Catamount Proud.” Activities will range from comedy and country music shows to the annual Homecoming parade, golf tournament and football game complete with the halftime crowning of the Homecoming king and queen. homecoming.wcu.edu • Applications are now available for the Waynesville Christmas Parade, which is at 6 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 4, on Main Street. Registration ranges from $20-30. info@downtownwaynesville.com or 456.3517.

Applications are due by noon on Friday, Nov. 17.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • The Small Business Center at Haywood Community College will offer a QuickBooks Summit from 8 a.m.-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 18, at the campus library in Clyde. Presenter is Alicia Sisk-Morris. Register or get more info: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

Presentation is entitled “From Cosmogony to Cosmology: Birth and Death in Early Greek Thought.” 227.7262 or jwhitmire@wcu.edu.

• A kick-off for the “Chamber Mingles Networking Events” series is scheduled for 5-6:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. 524.3161.

• A Life @ Western program featuring Garrett Artz, “Riverlink,” is scheduled for 10 a.m.-noon on Oct. 24 at Western Carolina University’s HF Robinson Building Auditorium. For people over 50. life@wcu.edu or 227.3022.

• A “Walk With A Doc” program is scheduled for 10 a.m. each Saturday at the Lake Junaluska Kern Center or Canton Rec Park. MyHaywoodRegional.com/WalkwithaDoc.

• Western Carolina University’s student-run, Mountain Area Pro Bono Physical Therapy Clinic will be open from 6-8:30 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. 227.3527.

• A Hunter Safety Course will be offered two more times from 6-9:30 p.m. on Nov. 6-7 and Dec. 18-19 on the Haywood Community College Campus, Building 3300, Room 3322, in Clyde. Participants must attend both nights to receive certification from the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. Preregistration required: www.ncwildlife.org.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • The children’s mission groups at Sylva First Baptist Church are sponsoring a Rock-a-Thon from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21, in front of the church. They’ll take donations for rocking in rocking chairs. Baked goods, coffee and handmade jewelry. Money raised will go to helping United Christian Ministries pack food boxes for children in need to have during the holiday school break.

• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will hold a WordPress Intensive Summit for the Small Business Owner on Thursdays from Oct. 19-Nov. 2 in Clyde. “An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Bridging the Digital Divide” is Oct. 19; “using Analytics to Develop your Business Platform is from 4-7 p.m. on Oct. 26; and a “WordPress Summit” is Nov. 2. SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• United Christian Ministries will have fundraisers at the following days, times and locations – with 10 percent of all proceeds going to help Jackson County families in need: 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at Half Past of Sylva; 5 p.m.-closing on Wednesday, Nov. 1 at Wendy’s of Sylva; 4 p.m.-closing on Thursday, Nov. 9, at Coach’s in Dillsboro; and 4-9 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at Pizza Hut of Sylva.

• Michael Shaw, a professor of philosophy and coordinator of classics at Utah Valley University, will speak as part of the Jerry Jackson Lecture in the Humanities Series at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee.

• A Fall Hospice Memorial Service is at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22, at CarePartners Hospice Solace Center in Asheville. Non-denominational service. Info and to reserve a spot: 251.0126.

• Southwestern Community College will host a “Civil Discussion” on the topic of “How do we pay for public education” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26, in the Burrell Building on SCC’s Jackson Campus. www.southwesterncc.edu or 339.4000.

• A “Pie In the Face” fundraiser is scheduled for 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21, at Darnell Farms.

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• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will host a seminar entitled “Your Small Business Taxes” from 2-4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the Regional High Technology Center in Clyde.

SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Dr. Daniel Gwan-Nulla, a thoracic surgeon at Haywood Regional Medical Center, will give a presentation about his medical mission work in Africa from 4:15-5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22, at the Haywood Regional health and Fitness Center in Clyde. 452.8970 or www.haywoodthoracicvascular.com.

• Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families (ACA) meets at noon on Saturdays at the First United Methodist Church Outreach Center at 171 Main St. in Franklin. 407.758.6433 or adultchildren.org.

• An open house for Harris Regional Hospital’s new emergency department is scheduled for 3-5 p.m. on Oct. 30 in Sylva.

HEALTH MATTERS • A diabetes management education opportunity for senior citizens will be offered from 4-6 p.m. on Mondays from through Nov. 6 at First Baptist Church of Waynesville. Info: 356.2272.

• A support group for anyone with MS, family & friends meets monthly at 6:45 p.m. on the3rd Tuesday of each month at the conference room of Jackson Co. Library in Sylva. No Fee, sponsored by National MS Society. Local contact: Gordon Gaebel 828-293-2503.

• “Laughing Balsam Sangha,” a meeting for Mindfullness in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, meets will meet from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Mondays at 318 Skyland Drive in Sylva. Included are sitting and walking

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335.8210, and “Like” them on Facebook.

• The Franklin Chamber of Commerce will host a “Chamber Mingles” networking event from 5-6:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 at 98 Hyatt Road in Franklin. 524.3161.

• A “Rolling out the Red Carpet” event for the newest businesses in downtown Waynesville at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19, at Blue Ridge Beer Hub, which is located at 4 North Main, Unit 2. www.blueridgebeerhub.com.

• Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a credit seminar entitled “Building Good Personal Credit” from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 23, at SCC’s Jackson Campus. http://bit.ly/ncsbcn, www.southwesterncc.edu/SBC or 339.4211.

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Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: ■ Complete listings of local music scene ■ Regional festivals ■ Art gallery events and openings ■ Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings • “ECA on the Move!” – a walking program organized

by Jackson County Extension and Community Association – meets from 9-10 a.m. on Mondays through Thursdays. It’s an effort to meet the American Heart Association’s recommendation of 10,000 steps per day. 586.4009.

• A Tuesday Meditation Group meets at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Franklin.

RECREATION AND FITNESS

• The Haywood County Health & Human Services Public Health Services Division is offering a Night Clinic from 4-6:30 p.m. on the third Monday of every month in Waynesville. Services include family planning, immunizations, pregnancy testing, STD testing and treatment. Appointments: 452.6675.

• The High Mountain Squares will host their Broadway Dance from 6:15-8:45 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20, at the Memorial United Methodist Church in Franklin.

342.1560, 332.0001 or www.highmountainsquares.com.

• The Jackson County Department of Public Health will offer a general clinic from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 587.8225.

• The Bryson City Smoky Mountain Roller Girls Invitationals and Juniors Team Lil Nemesisters Home Bout will take place at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22, at the Swain County Rec Center in Bryson City.

• A Food Addicts Anonymous Twelve-Step fellowship group meets at 5:30 p.m. on Mondays at Grace Church in the Mountains in Waynesville. www.foodaddictsanonymous.org.

• Big Brother/Big Sister, a one-evening preparation class for children who are about to greet a new baby into their family, is offered for children ages 3-10 at Haywood Regional Medical Center. 452.8440 or MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses.

• Mothers Connection, an ongoing social gathering for mothers and their babies, meets from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Thursdays excluding holidays at Haywood Regional Medical Center. 452.8440 or MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses.

• A support group meeting for those with Parkinsons Disease and their caregivers will be held at 2 p.m. on the last day Wednesday of the month at the Waynesville Senior Resource Center.

• Dogwood Insight Center presents health talks at 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.

• Free childbirth and breastfeeding classes are available at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva. Classes are offered bimonthly on an ongoing basis. Register or get more info: 586.7907.

• Angel Medical Center’s diabetes support group meets at 4 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month in the AMC dining room. 369.4166.

• A free weekly grief support group is open to the public from 12:30-2 p.m. on Thursdays at SECU Hospice House in Franklin. Hosted by Four Seasons Compassion for Life Bereavement Team. 692.6178 or mlee@fourseasonscfl.org.

• A monthly grief processing support group will meet from 4-5:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at the Homestead Hospice and Palliative Care in Clyde.

452.5039.

• A free, weekly grief support group will meet from 12:30-2 p.m. on Thursdays at the SECU Hospice House in Franklin. 692.6178 or mlee@fourseasonscfl.org.

SPIRITUAL • Choir Music Weekend is Oct. 20-22 at Lake Junaluska.

For small- and medium-sized church choirs. Learn and perform eight anthems and attend workshops. Lodging and meal packages available. www.lakejunaluska.com.

POLITICAL • The Macon County Democratic Women will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the Lazy Hiker in Franklin.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS • Mary Joyce will speak about “Other Realities in Jackson County – Bigfoot, Cherokee Little People, UFOs and secret underground bases” at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 19 at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Joyce is a local author who has been on numerous radio and television shows including the Travel Channel and “Coast to Coast AM.” 586.2016.

• The “Literary Hour” will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, in the Keith House at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown. Poets and writers Mary Michelle Keller and Lucy Cole Gratton will be the featured readers.

• Students in Southwestern Community College’s educational opportunities program will read from their book “Through Their Eyes: The Quill Took Flight,” from 6-8 p.m. on Oct. 26 in the Burrell Building on SCC’s Jackson Campus. Book features writings in the students’ native tongues along with translations to English. Books can be purchased on Amazon.com. www.southwesterncc.edu or 339.4262.

•The “Coffee with the Poet” series gathers at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva the third Thursday of each month and is co-sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network. 586.9499.

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SENIOR ACTIVITIES • A Life @ Western program on “Astronomy” featuring Enrique Gomez is scheduled for 10 a.m.-noon on Oct. 31 at Western Carolina University’s HF Robinson Building Auditorium. For people over 50. life@wcu.edu or 227.3022.

KIDS & FAMILIES • The Peanuts Pumpkin Patch Express will depart at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 20 and 27, and noon and 3:30 p.m.

Oct. 21-22 and 28-29 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. For tickets, click on www.gsmr.com or 800.872.4681.

• Kids at HART is holding open auditions for its December production of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22, in the Fangmeyer Theater. Performances are in December. srsumpter@charter.net or www.harttheatre.org.

• A “Nature Nuts: Turkey Vultures” program will be offered to ages 4-7 from 9-11 a.m. on Oct. 23 at Pisgah Wildlife Education Center in Brevard. Register: http://tinyurl.com/jq4r6x3.

• An “Eco Explorers: Raising Trout” program will be offered for ages 8-13 on Oct. 23 at Pisgah Wildlife Education Center in Brevard. Register: http://tinyurl.com/jq4r6x3.

• A “Youth Art Class” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday at the Appalachian Art Farm on 22 Morris Street in Sylva. All ages welcome. $10 includes instruction, materials and snack. For more information, email appalachianartfarm@gmail.com or find them on Facebook.

• Registration is underway for Lake Junaluska’s winter youth retreats, which start Dec. 29. Register or get more info: 800.222.4930 or www.lakejunaluska.com/winteryouth.

October 18-24, 2017

• “Spiderman: Homecoming” will be playing at the Mad Batter Food & Film on Oct. 20 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. and Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. FREE. 586.3555.

• A family movie will be shown at 10:30 a.m. every Friday at Hudson Library in Highlands.

A&E FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS • The annual “Harvest Festival” will be held Oct. 2021 at the Stecoah Valley Center in Robbinsville. Friday,

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Friday, Oct. 27, at the Jackson County Parks and Recreation between Sylva and Dillsboro.

828.293.3053.

• An “Art & Antique Fall Festival” is scheduled for 9 a.m. on Oct. 21 at 1497 S. Main Street in Waynesville.

452.6225. $15 spaces available. Woodworking and spinning demonstrations. 452.6225.

• The fourth annual Screamfest is at 7 p.m. on Oct. 25-Nov. 1 in Cherokee. www.hauntedcherokee.com.

• The annual Apple Harvest Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, on Main Street in downtown Waynesville. Countless booths of fresh apple pies, tarts, caramel apples, ciders, jewelry, pottery and yard art. Music, dancing, crafts, and oldfashioned games make this event fun for the whole family. The festival is free to attend. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

• The 19th annual Spirit of the Smokies Car Show is from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Oct. 28 on Front Street in Dillsboro. All proceeds benefit local non-profit organizations. Classic cars, motorcycles, special interest vehicles, modified street machines, trucks, street rods and farm equipment. Registration is at 9 a.m. www.sylvarotaryclub.org/spirit-of-the-smokies-carshow.php.

• The annual “Plow Day & Harvest Festival” will be held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at Darnell Farms in Bryson City. This old-fashioned event is a hit with the entire family. Music jam, food, crafts, pumpkin patch, hayrides, and old-time farming demonstrations. $10 parking. Get lost in our very own themed Corn Maze. There will be fresh made mountain barbecue, as well as pumpkin pies and apple pies for sale. 25 different varieties of pumpkins, gourds, and decorative squash. www.facebook.com/darnellfarmsnc.

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Oct. 20 from 6 to 8 p.m.: storytelling, marshmellow roast, hot cocoa, and more. Saturday, Oct. 2111 a.m. to 5 p.m.: artisan crafters, clogging, country fair, and quilt exhibit with Americana/bluegrass performance

by Mountain Heart at 7:30 p.m. The two-day festival is free to attend. The Mountain Heart show is $25 for adults, $10 for children and students grades K-12. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

• Tickets are on sale now for The Shelton House’s “Ghosts & Growlers Halloween Party & Harry Houdini Ghost Speak” event, which is from 7-11 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21 in Waynesville. Tickets: $25. www.sheltonhouse.org.

• There will be a “Pumpkin Carving Party” from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, at Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• The Halloween Enchanted Forest is open from 67:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Highlands Botanical Garden in Highlands. $1 per person.

• A Haunted Island experience will be presented by the Cherokee Historical Association on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 27-28. Open from 6-11 p.m. on Friday and from 6 p.m.-midnight on Saturday. www.hauntedcherokee.com.

• Fall-themed activities and contests will be held during NOCtoberfest from noon-5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Nantahala Outdoor Center. Pumpkin decorating, costume contest and “Great Pumpkin Pursuit” race. Race registration is from noon-2 p.m. 735.5082.

• The “Trunk or Treat” Halloween celebration will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at Cabbage Rose located at 3388 Soco Road in Maggie Valley. Costume contest for kids, adults and pets. Best decorated car or truck. Live music, bounce house, food, activities, and more. Free admission. Proceeds from the event go to Friends of the Haywood County Animal Shelter.

926.3079.

• The annual Halloween Carnival will be held from 5 to 10 p.m. Oct. 28 at the Fines Creek Community Center. The event will include games, food, bingo, cake walk, face painting, haunted house, and much more. Game admission ranges from $0.25 to $5.

Dinner will be $8. Hosted by the Fines Creek Community Association. All proceeds go to help local families in need during the Christmas season. sabrina@sabrinagreenephotos.com.

• “Classic Monsters Haunt” will be from 2-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m. on Oct. 28 at the Scottish Tartans Museum in Franklin. Matinee is PG; evening is PG-13.

Admission: $4 for adults; $2 for children. Theatrical guided tour with tales of Scottish folk monsters related to classic horror cinema.

• The “Haunted Island” will be Oct. 27-28 at the Oconaluftee Island Park in Cherokee. From 6 to 11 p.m. Oct. 27 and 6 p.m. to midnight Oct. 28.

• The Haywood County Fairgrounds will host its annual Fall Festival from 5-8:30 p.m. on Oct. 28 in Waynesville. Seasonal games and activities. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• The sixth annual “Halloween Bash” will be from 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at Soul Infusion Tea House & Bistro in Sylva. Costume party and live music by Noonday Sun. Free to attend.

• “Goblins in the Green” is scheduled for 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27, at the Village Green Commons in Cashiers. Costume contest, activities, music, trickor-treating and more. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

• A “Shocktoberfest” Halloween Display, built by Southwestern Community College’s advertising and graphic design students, will be opened to the public from 6-8 p.m. on Oct. 31 in the Burrell Building on the Jackson Campus in Sylva. Trick-or-treating, walkthroughs, face painting desserts and activities. www.southwesterncc.edu or 339.4000.

• The “Pumpkin Patch” will be held from 5 to 7 p.m.

• “Treat Street” will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 31

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in downtown Sylva. 828.586.2719.

• The eighth-annual “Treats on the Street” for Halloween is scheduled for 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 31, in downtown Waynesville. Businesses interested in participating can contact Jamie Cogdill at 456.3517 or jamie@downtownwaynesville.com. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

• The “Halloween Trick or Treat” will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 31 in downtown Dillsboro.

• The “Downtown Trick or Treat” will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, in Bryson City. www.greatsmokies.com. Sponsored by Duke Energy, Swain Community Hospital and Swain County Tourism Development Authority. 800.867.9246.

FOOD & DRINK • The annual Chili Cookoff is scheduled for 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21, on Fry Street. To enter: 488.3681 or chamber@greatsmokies.com.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Tickets are on sale now for a 3 Doors Down performance as a fundraiser for the Better Life Foundation on Oct. 21 at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. Tickets available at ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000.

• The musical comedy revival “Smoke on the Mountain” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19 and 21 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. A full two-act theatrical presentation, featuring Mountain Faith as the Sanders Family Band, will be presented by the Overlook Theatre Company. Tickets are $12 for students and $17 for adults. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• A production of “Guilty Conscience,” the clever and intriguing mystery by William Link and Richard L. Levinson, will hit the stage on Thursdays through Saturdays from through Oct. 22, at the MartinLipscomb Performing Arts Center in Highlands.

Requests for reservations may be left at 526.8084 or reserved at www.highlandscashiersplayers.org.

• The Smoky Mountain Community Theatre’s production of “Go Back for Murder” is opens at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 20-21 and Oct. 27-28; and at 3 p.m. on Sundays, Oct. 22 and Oct. 29. Final show is at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30. Tickets: $10 for adults; $5 for age 6-18; and free for children under six.

508.6645 or 550.0144.

• The Haywood County Gleaners present a benefit concert featuring internationally renowned classical organist, Tate Addis. The concert will be held at 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 21, at the Waynesville First United Methodist Church.

• “Zombie Prom” the musical will be presented through Oct. 29 at HART in Waynesville. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 19, 20, 21, 26 and 27; and at 2

p.m. on Sundays, Oct. 22-29. Reservations: 456.6322 or www.harttheatre.org.

• Milton Laufer, the new director of Western Carolina University’s School of Music, will present his debut campus concert Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the recital hall of the Coulter Building on the WCU campus. The performance is free and open to the public. 227.7242.

• Western Carolina University (Cullowhee) will host a piano recital Oct. 24, Courtney Stiwalt recital Oct. 25 and Choir Concert Oct. 26. All events are free and begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Coulter Building. www.wcu.edu.

• Tickets are on sale now for Western Carolina University’s Homecoming Concert featuring country singers Brett Young and Carly Pearce. The concert is at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Ramsey Regional Activity Center in Cullowhee. Purchase tickets at ramsey.wcu.edu.

• Country superstar Gary Allan will hit the stage at 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. www.harrahscherokee.com or 800.745.3000.

• Western Carolina University’s School of Stage and Screen will present a staged reading of “The Amazing Always,” London-based playwright Ross Howard’s newest play, as part of the school’s Niggli New Works Reading Series. The free readings are set for 7:30 p.m. on both Friday, Oct. 27, and Saturday, Oct. 28, at WCU’s Niggli Theatre. 227.7491.

• The Haywood Community Band’s season finale will feature musical highlights of the 2017 season at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, in the sanctuary of Waynesville’s First United Methodist Church. www.haywoodcommunityband.org.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS

• The N.C. Humanities Council will present “The Way We Worked” – a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service – through Nov. 7 at the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. A celebration of 150 years of America’s Workforce. www.nchumanities.org.

• Cowee Baptist Church is having its semi-annual Kraft Sale on Oct. 20-21 at 840 Coweeta Church Road.

• A “Women in the Woods” series will be hosted by the N.C. Cooperative Extension in Haywood County from mid-October until mid-November. Sessions are Oct. 27, Nov. 3 and Nov. 17. Facilitated by Dr. James Jeuck of Haywood Community College. More info or to register: 456.3575.

• Registration is underway for a class with jewelry maker Lawrie Williams. Learn to make a Tree of Life pendant from 12:30-3 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 31, at the Jackson County Extension Office in Sylva. $10.

586.4009.

• Registration is underway for a holiday card making class that will be offered by Southwestern Community College from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursdays from Oct. 26-Nov. 16, at SCC’s Macon Campus. $55 cost includes materials. Register or get more info: 339.4657 or www.southwesterncc.edu.

• Sign-ups are underway for the 26th annual Haywood Arts Regional trip to broadway, which is May 10-13.

Cost is $1,575 per person. $500 deposit due by March 1; balance due April 1. HART, P.O. Box 1024, Waynesville, NC 28786.

• Waynesville Fiber Friends welcomes fiber artists of every kind: crochet, knitting, cross-stitching and more, from 10 a.m.-noon on the second Saturday of each month at Panacea Coffee House in Waynesville.

276.6226.

• Appalachian Art Farm will host a free art session from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at the Community Table in Sylva. 273.9682 or MyriahStrivelli@gmail.com.

• The High Country Quilt Guild meets at 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at the First Methodist Church in Waynesville. www.highcountryquilters.wordpress.com.

• The Bryson City Lion meet at 6:30 p.m. on the first and third Thursdays of each month at the Iron Skillet in Bryson City.

• “Paint Nite Waynesville” will be held at 6:30 p.m. every other Thursday at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. There will also be “Painting at the Porch” at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Southern Porch in Canton. Sign up for either event on the Paint Night Waynesville Facebook page (search event: Brush N. Brew) or call Robin Smathers at 828.400.9560. paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

• There will be a “Thursday Painters Open Studio” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. at the Franklin Uptown Gallery. Bring a bag lunch, project and supplies. Free to the public. Membership not required. For information, call 828.349.4607.

• Coloring Club will be hosted on the second Wednesday of the month at 4 p.m. at Canton Library.

Color pencils and color pages supplied. For ages 8 to 108. 648.2924.

• The annual Presbyterian Craft Fair is scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Oct. 21 at the Waynesville Presbyterian Church. Cakes, pies, breads, preserves and more sold at bake sale in conjunction with the event.

• Beginners Chess Club is held on Fridays at 4 p.m. at the Canton Public Library. Ages 8-108 invited to participate. 648.2924.

• Haywood Community College second year professional craft students will participate in the Craft Fair

• An Antique, Vintage & Handcrafted Flea Market starts at 8 a.m. every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at

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• Three metal-working courses will be offered in October and November with local metalsmith William Rogers: Blacksmithing basics, hammered copper and mobile wind sculpture. For families, groups of friends, couples and children. Afternoon classes from 3-6 p.m.; evening classes from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

RogersMetals@gmail.com or 293.3777.

• The “Click & Sip Workshop” will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, at Gallery Zella in Bryson City. Enjoy mastering photography techniques used by professionals. Cost is $50, which includes 8x12 metal print. 488.3638 or www.galleryzella.com.

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• The Waynesville Public Library will host Possum on a Whale (bluegrass/Americana) at 3 p.m. Oct. 28. Free and open to the public.

• Tickets are on sale now for Western Carolina University’s “Sci-Fi Double Feature” featuring H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” and Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” Performance at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 31, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. $15 for general admission; $10 for faculty and staff; $5 for students. Proceeds fund scholarships in participating academic departments. https://www.wcu.edu/bardo-arts-center/ or 227.2479.

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• A 1956 biographical musical starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr will be shown at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. 2:13. Widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam’s children. 524.3600.

of the Southern Highlands Oct. 20-22 at the U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 20-21 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 22. This event is open to the public. Tickets are $8 at the door.

627.4672 or creativearts.haywood.edu.

• Registration is underway for a basket-making workshop featuring local crafter Junetta Pell. Learn how to make a Beauty of Autumn Basket from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 26-27. $25.

586.4009.

• Cribbage is at 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday at the Maggie Valley Inn. 410.440.7652 or 926.3978.

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3029 Soco Road in Maggie Valley. Bring your own table/tent. Spaces rent for $10 a day or $25 for all three days.

• The Adult Coloring Group will meet at 2 p.m. on Fridays in the Living Room of the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. An afternoon of creativity and camaraderie. Supplies are provided, or bring your own.

Beginners are welcome as well as those who already enjoy this new trend. kmoe@fontanalib.org or 524.3600.

• Haywood County Arts Council is inviting artist members to participate in its annual Artist Member Show.

Download a show contract/inventory sheet from www.haywoodarts.org. Send completed forms to gallery@haywoodarts.org or P.O. Box 306; Waynesville, N.C. 28786.

• The Jackson Rangers Camp 1917 will hold monthly meetings at 6 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month at the Barkers Creek Community Center.

Members are being sought to participate in honor guard graveside events and honor Confederate soldiers. The Confederate Rose, a ladies auxiliary group that supports active members, meets at the same time and location. 736.6222 or jrcamp1917@hotmail.com.

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

• The Sew Easy Girls meet from noon-3 p.m. on the first Monday of every month at the Jackson County Cooperative Extension Office’s conference room. Learn how to sew. 586.4009.

• A community art group meets at 10 a.m. every Wednesday at the Hudson Library in Highlands.

828.526.3031.

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• A writer’s group meets at 1 p.m. every Thursday at Hudson Library in Highlands. 526.3031.

• Free one-on-one technology help is offered every Tuesday and Thursday morning at Hudson Library in Highlands. Call 526.3031 to make an appointment.

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FILM & SCREEN • “Blade Runner 2049” is being shown at The Strand on Main in Waynesville Oct. 18-19 at 7 p.m. See website for tickets and pricing. www.38main.com.

• “Lady MacBeth will be shown on Oct. 19 at 7:30 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. FREE. 586.3555.

• A new romantic drama starring Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave will be shown at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 18, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Movie’s about a tourist in Italy who replies to a 50-year-old letter asking for romantic advice. PG; 1:45. 524.3600.

• The documentary “Granny D Goes to Washington” will be shown at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. 26 minutes. About a march across the U.S. by political activist Doris Haddock. 524.3600. http://grannyddoc.com.

• The premier of the new snowboard film “Costa Nostra” will be screened at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Presented by Arbor Snowboards and Flipside. There will be a raffle for an Arbor snowboard after the screening. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• “Same Kind of Different as Me” will be showing Oct. 20 at 7 p.m., Oct. 21-22 and Oct. 28 at 1 p.m., 4 p.m., and 7 p.m., Oct. 23-27 at 7 p.m., Oct. 29 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., Oct. 30-Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. at The Strand on Main in Waynesville. See website for tickets and pricing. www.38main.com.

• “An Art That Nature Makes” – a documentary – will be shown at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 22-23 at Flat Rock Cinema. Tickets are $10 each; galleryflatrock.com or 698.7000.

• Free movies are shown every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva.

Madbatterfoodfilm.com.

GALLERIES • Jan Boyer’s alcohol ink paintings will be on display in the Rotunda Gallery at the Jackson County Public Library through the end of October.

• Gallery One on Main Street in Sylva will spotlight the artwork of Joe Meigs and other local artists for the month of October.

• An artist’s reception for Linda Dickinson’s display of black-and-white photography will be held from 3-4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22, at the Canton Public Library Meeting Room in Canton. Show is entitled “Waynesville and Environs, a Black & White Perspective.” 648.2924.

• The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center will host the exhibit “WCU Collects: Recent Acquisitions” through Jan. 26. 227.3591.

• The “Meet the Artist” reception with Brian Hannum (pianist), Drew Campbell (photographer) and Jon Houglum (painter) will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, at Gallery Zella in Bryson City. For more information, call 828.488.3638 or click on www.galleryzella.com.

• Work from Haywood County artists who operate studios in the county will be on display through Oct. 28 at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville.

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• Exhibit “Conversation/What Remains” featuring artists Rachel Meginnes and Kelly O’Briant will be on display through Nov. 19, at Penland Gallery near Spruce Pine. 765.6211 or penland.org/gallery.

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County Arts Council’s 10th annual small work show “It’s a Small, Small Work,” which is scheduled for Nov. 3-Dec. 23 in the HCAC Gallery & Gifts in Waynesville. $20 per artist entering the show. Application and info: www.haywoodarts.org, info@haywoodarts.org or 452.0593.

• Artists are sought to participate in the Haywood

Outdoors • A public meeting to discuss planning for a land management project in the Twelve Mile area of the Pisgah National Forest, in northeastern Haywood County, will be held from 2-5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 25, in the Peterson Conference Room at Mars Hill University. RSVP required by 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 18: jherron@fs.fed.us.

• Volunteers are needed to clean out Mainspring Conservation Trust’s newly acquired historical building, soon to be sold through Preservation North Carolina, during a work day Thursday, Oct. 19, in Cowee. ddesmond@mainspringconserves.org.

• A Spay/Neuter Clinic is offered from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Tuesdays through Fridays at 182 Richland Street in Waynesville. As low as $10. 452.1329.

• A fall art and phenology workshop offered Saturday, Oct. 21, will give participants a chance to explore nature journalizing through a variety of art genres while also understanding basic phenology — daily record-keeping of environmental phenomena. The day will include a 2-mile hike and lunch. Space limited. $75.

• The Highlands Plateau Greenway will conduct its monthly work day on the Greenway Trail from 9 a.m.-

noon on Saturday, Oct. 21. If interested: highlandsgreenway@nctv or 482.1451.

• Cruise the Smokies Fall Rod Run is Oct. 20-21 at Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds. 497.2603.

• Casting for Beginners: Level 1 will be offered to ages 12-up from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Oct. 20 at Pisgah Wildlife Education Center in Brevard. Register: http://tinyurl.com/jq4r6x3.

• Advanced Fly Tying: Dry Flies will be offered to ages 12-up from 9 a.m.-noon on Oct. 21 at Pisgah Wildlife Education Center in Brevard. Register: http://tinyurl.com/jq4r6x3.

• A wildlife photo hunt competition will be held for all ages from 1-4 p.m. on Oct. 21 at Pisgah Wildlife Education Center in Brevard. Register: http://tinyurl.com/jq4r6x3. Teams can consist of oneto-five members.

• The National Paddlesports Conference is Oct. 18-22, followed by the Southeastern Downriver Championship on Oct. 22, at the Nantahala Outdoor Center. $175 for the conference; race registration is separate.

Conference: www.americancanoe.org/page/NPC. Race: https://paddleguru.com/races/2017SoutheasternDown riverChampionship.

• Base Camp Cullowhee will hold its fifth annual outdoor gear sale and swap from noon-5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 25, on the lawn of the university’s Hinds University Center in Cullowhee. Table: $10 for individuals or $30 for businesses. Reservations: 227.8813 or basecamp@wcu.edu.

• The nuts and bolts of hiking the Appalachian Trail will be covered during a seminar from 6:30-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at REI in Asheville. Led by thruhiker Gary Sizer. Sign up: www.rei.com/learn.html.

• An overview of wildlife rehabilitation, complete with a trip to the May Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Banner Elk, will be offered during an all-day class Friday, Oct. 27, at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. $68 for members; $78 for nonmembers. Sign up at http://bit.ly/2yj1wEc.

• The Asheville Ambler’s Waynesville Apple Festival club Walk 5K and 10K is scheduled for Oct. 21 in downtown. Registration is at 9:30 a.m.; walk starts at 10 a.m. New start point this year: Mariner Finance, 472 N. Main Street. Rate 3A with some significant hills; almost entirely pavement. www.ashevilleamblers.com • The inaugural Mud Dabbers Classic, a two-mile middle school cross country race, is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at Canton International Sports Complex. Donations accepted. http://bit.ly/2y0pzaE. • Registration is underway for the Zombie 5K Chase Race, which will provide a chance to run against the undead at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28, on the Western Carolina University Campus. Runners will wear flags that “zombies” will attempt to steal as they run the course. Anyone who can’t make it to the finish line with at least one flag will be turned into one of the walking dead. Proceeds will support the Mountain Area Pro Bono Physical Therapy Clinic. Open to ages 10 and under, with runners under 18 required to sign a waiver. $25. www.active.com.

• A Zombie Run will be held by the Cherokee Historical Association at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 28 at Island Park in Cherokee. www.hauntedcherokee.com.

FARM AND GARDEN • Local farmers can stop by the Cooperative Extension Office on Acquoni Road from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. every fourth Friday to learn about USDA Farm Service Agency programs in the 2014 Farm Bill. Info: 488.2684, ext. 2 (Wednesday through Friday) or 524.3175, ext. 2 (Monday through Wednesday).

• The Macon County Poultry Club of Franklin meets at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month at the Cooperative Extension Office on Thomas Heights Rd, Open to the public. 369.3916.

HIKING CLUBS

• A “Women’s Introduction to Fly Fishing” class will be offered to ages 12-up from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Oct. 28 at Pisgah Wildlife Education Center in Brevard.

Register: http://tinyurl.com/jq4r6x3.

• Guided hikes along the woodland trails of the N.C. Arboretum will be offered at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays in October. Led by trained volunteer guides.

For ages 8-up. $14 parking fee for nonmembers.

• Learn your mosses, hornworts and liverworts with botanical wizard Ed Schwartzman during the Autumn Bryophyte Workshop, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28. Microscopes, materials, a vegetarian lunch and an afternoon happy hour are provided. Space limited. $65 or $75 after Oct. 23.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a 5.3-mile hike with a 960-foot ascent on Oct. 18 at Slate Rock Creek.

Info and reservations: 685.2897 or suejackfitz@bellsouth.net.

• A work hike will be held Saturday, Oct. 28, to remove graffiti on the Appalachian Trail near Franklin.

369.1983.

• A “Winged Wonders” butterfly exhibit is on display through Oct. 29 at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. http://www.ncarboretum.org/event/winged-wondersstep-world-butterflies/all.

• Registration is underway for Hunter Safety Classes that will be offered Nov. 6-7 and Dec. 18-19 at Haywood Community College in Clyde. Participants must attend both evenings from 6-9:30 p.m.

Preregistration required: www.ncwildlife.org.

• Tickets are on sale now for the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation’s 20th anniversary celebration, which is Nov. 9 at Biltmore. Dinner, drinks and awards ceremony. Tickets: $100 and available at brpfoundation.org/20yearsstrong or 866.308.2773.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Registration is underway for a pre-Pumpkinfest run, which will raise money for Macon/Jackson County Habitat for Humanity at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21, at the Tassee Shelter Greenway in Franklin. The route will feature goodies to go along with the season, with the festival held downtown that same day. $25. www.active.com.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take an easy-tomoderate, three-mile hike on Saturday, Oct. 21, to Yellow Branch Falls. Reservations and info: 743.1079.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a 5.2-mile hike on Oct. 22 at Rich Mountain Fire Tower. Info and reservations: 484.9562, cooper.rg@charter.net, 610.745.7375 or cooper.hs@charter.net.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a 12.6-mile hike with a 3,000-foot ascent on Oct. 22 from Chasteen Creek to Hughes Ridge. Info and reservations: 456.7890 or knies06@att.net.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a 7.5-mile hike with a 1,500-foot ascent on Oct. 25 at Mt. Mitchell.

Reservations and info: 460.7066 or barbc129@gmail.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a 7.5-mile hike with a 1,500-foot ascent on Oct. 28 at Mt. Mitchell.

Info and reservations: 460.7066 or barbc129@gmail.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a 5.4-mile hike with a 1,300-foot ascent on Oct. 29 at Trombatore Trail. Reservations and info: 516.721.6156 or karingarden@yahoo.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a 12-mile hike with a 3,000-foot ascent on Oct. 29 at Black Mountain Crest Trail. Info and reservations: 812.314.5587, jasjorda@gmail.com, 273.2098 or PDBenson@charter.net.

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High-elevation overlooks are awe-inspiring BACK THEN about a half mile there is a side trail leading a few yards to the east (left) to a small outcrop providing a view out over the Coweeta Creek watershed and the Little Tennessee River Valley to the Balsam Mountain Range.

You can spot Highlands in the distance.

At 0.7 miles you reach Pickens Nose at 4,900-feet, a sloping, multi-level granite outcrop on the southwest end of the ridge. It’s maybe 45 feet long and 20 feet wide. The vertical drop of the rock face Columnist is 50 or so feet, while the almost sheer descent into the Bettys Creek valley is 2,230 feet.

The views west and north are into the high Nantahalas. Standing Indian looms at 5,499 feet due west. It’s four miles away but seems as if you could reach out and touch it.

To the east the Balsams swing back in an arc toward the Smokies. And to the south you will look out over an endless blue expanse of mountains into Georgia and the upper headwaters of the Savannah.

Here you are on the edge of the contort-

The view from Pickens Nose. Donated photo

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igh-elevation overlooks are one of our finest natural resources. These vantage points allow us to rise above our everyday humdrum existence and see the world with fresh eyes. Many of the finest overlooks along the Blue Ridge Parkway, in the Great Smokies, and elsewhere can be reached directly via motor vehicles.

Instant access is just fine when we don’t have a lot of time to devote to getting there.

But it always adds a bit of resonance to the experience if we have to walk a ways before reaching our destination. It doesn’t have to be a long walk. Many of the most satisfying overlooks require relatively little time or effort to reach.

One of my favorites through the years has been Pickens Nose, which is located in the Nantahala Mountains within Nantahala National Forest. From the backcountry information center at the Standing Indian Campground, continue on FS 67/2 along the headwaters of the Nantahala River.

Eight miles from the information center this maintained road passes through Mooney Gap where the Appalachian Trail (marked with white blazes) makes a crossing.

Continue another 0.7 mile along FS 67/2 to the trailhead for Pickens Nose, which is situated in a gap at 4,680 feet.

The trail leads south along the crest of a ridge through a rhododendron tunnel. At

ed Appalachian drainage system, with waters flowing on the one hand directly to the Atlantic and on the other through the vast heartland of the nation to the Gulf of Mexico.

Why Pickens Nose? In profile the outcrop resembles a huge nose. All the anecdotal “evidence” indicates that it was so-named

in honor of General Andrew Pickens of South Carolina, a soldier in the Revolutionary War who subsequently initiated prohibited sales of Cherokee lands during the 1780s and helped lay out Indian boundary lines during the 1790s.

(George Ellison is a naturalist and writer.

He can be reached at info@georgeellison.com.)

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