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Final hearing on Jackson steep slope rules draws opinion Commissioners likely to vote on amendments Nov. 5 BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER fter a thr ee-year saga of writing and rewriting and elections and public hearings, Jackson County is likely to adopt a revised version of its 2007 steep slope or dinance at the Nov. 5 commissioner meeting. A final public hearing on the revised rules was held Oct. 20 , drawing an audience of about 25 people, seven of whom spoke. Comments spanned the gamut from concrete suggestions for the proposed amendments to ideological support and opposition to the concept of regulation on steep slopes. “I didn’t kno w what to expect. In some ways it could ha ve gone either wa y,” said Commission Chairman Brian McMahan. “It could have been a huge crowd there, or there could have been nobody.” “Huge crowd” was definitely the descriptor for the turnout in F ebruary 2014, when the county’s planning boar d held a public hearing for a version of the r ules produced under the leadership of the former boar d of commissioners. That board had fa vored a loosened set of r ules, contending tha t the 2007 ordinance was too restrictive and would
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Glenville resident Phil Fowler tells commissioners his thoughts on proposed amendments to Jackson County’s steep slope ordinance during a public hearing Oct. 20. Holly Kays photo hamper development. At the 2014 hearing, a crowd turned out to express unanimous opposition to the loosened rules. That got the attention of commissioners, who were facing an election that year. They told the planning boar d they wouldn’t vote on anything until after the election, and the November elections delivered a board of commissioners with a majority fa vorable toward keeping the rules intact. By that time, the composition of the planning boar d had also changed to reflect the same viewpoint.
Watch the video A video of the hearing on Jackson County’s steep slope ordinance amendments is available online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfaz-OHOCn4, filmed by the Sylva-based Canary Coalition. The Canary Coalition is an independent nonprofit primarily concerned with issues surrounding clean air and water.
The version of the r ules now before commissioners contains fe w substantial changes from the 2007 version. Most alter ations are technical, though the pr oposed rules would change the formula for calcula ting slope to reduce subjectivity and change the gr ade at which the rules would apply from 30 percent to 35 percent. The rules also clarify tha t it is the Planning Depar tment’s responsibility to enforce the r ules, clearing up a misunder standing over enforcement responsibility that was partially responsible for the commissioners’ decision to pa y for an audit of the planning and permitting and code enfor cement departments (see story on page 14). Commissioners said they heard a few comments they’d like to consider, but likely nothing that would r equire a substantial change from the draft document before adopting it. “I pretty much had heard everything that had been said befor e,” said Commissioner Charles Elders. “Oper ating a convenience store, you hear both sides daily.” The sole Republican on the boar d of commissioners, Elders said he believes in the need for regulation when it comes to steep slopes but would want any or dinance to make allo wance for decreased tax value stemming from limitations on how a family’s land can be developed. “We need to figure out how we’re going to adjust the taxes for those people, because it’ s just not right for me to tell y ou (that) you can’t use a piece of prop-
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WHAT THEY SAID “I don’t know what you changed it back for. We worked hard on that. It’s a slap in the face … I was there (on the planning board) three and a half years. I don’t feel like I accomplished nothing.” — David Brooks, Whittier (planning board member)
— Jeannette Cabanis, Tuckasegee
“These ordinances force people to live in hollows or coves where landslides will flow. The ordinance will also encourage people to use those tall cut and fill slopes, removing the “toe” of ridgelines,
— Doug Cody, Sylva (former county commissioner)
“With Jackson County being the greatest biosphere on the planet — and we have a lot of sacred plants here — an area of consideration involving slope should be looked at insofar as what plants are in the affected proposed area. Other than that, everything seems reasonable.”
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“What if you have a piece of property — and you have a lot of people on the lakes —where somebody’s got a steep slope but none of their water can possibly drain into anybody else’s property? And it goes into either the Tuckasegee or to a lake. That should be a provision.” — Phil Fowler, Glenville
“The (pre-amendment) engineering formula for the steep slope calculation is terribly flawed.” — Marie Leatherwood, Sylva
“If you stay within an area where you’re flat, you’re in fine condition for building, but the steeper the slope the more difficult it becomes. Going from 30 to 35 percent just adds to that … I think the best thing for us to do is stay with that 30 percent — Dan Pittillo, Sylva
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Waynesville’s window dressing Candidates, others weigh in on whether town’s reputation for hampering business development has merit
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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER ome candidates running for office in Waynesville are accusing the to wn of running off businesses and claim the town’s development r ules are hampering development. “We have a horrible r eputation as a difficult place to do business,” said W aynesville mayor candidate Jonnie Cure. “Why? What is wrong with the process? What is wrong with the attitudes? What is happening?” But ask for examples, and the stor y gets murky. Town Manager Marcy Onieal questioned whether the accusation holds water. “There is more rumor of that than there is fact,” Onieal said. “When we talk to big developers their response is Waynesville is a breath of fresh air. It is an easy place to do business in. We are a very accessible community. You know who y ou are supposed to talk to and you can pick up the phone or y ou can walk right in and talk to them.” Those who work in commercial real estate and site planning sa y the to wn’s ordinances aren’t really that tough. “I have never seen nor experienced devel opers saying ‘this is a walk a way because of your ordinances,’” said P atrick Bradshaw, a civil engineer based in Waynesville with Civil Design Concepts. “If they felt like they could make money her e and could find a piece of 6 ground, they would come.”
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Bradshaw works for developers in a threestate region crafting site plans. “I would not say Waynesville is unfriendly to business,” Bradshaw said. As for the toughness of its ordinances, they are middle of the road — “not inher ently easy and not inherently difficult,” Bradshaw said. Cure disagrees, however. “These are not rumors. Where there’s smoke there’s fire. Let’s not sweep it under the rug,” Cure said. Lonnie Crawford, Gavin Brown the owner of Diamond & Gold E xchange, agrees with Cure. “There is a sa ying in business in Waynesville: ‘you can make a million dollars in business in Waynesville if y ou start with $2 million,’” Crawford said. Jonnie Cure To local business owners, the land -use regulations in place no w aren’t what they’re used to be. These days, the to wn requires trees in parking lots, side walks, awnings over entrances, facades with a sense of ar chitecture, windows as opposed to lifeless cin-
derblock walls. In fairness, the to wn’s land-use regulations were trend-setting — particularly for a rural mountain community — when they were first put in place in 2003. “We went from playing Little League football to pla ying the NFL o vernight,” said Patrick Bradshaw. “At the day it was unveiled, it ranked right up there with Asheville’s as far as complexity and depth.” Bradshaw said the to wn’s new development regulations were “forward-thinking,” at the time. But now, not so much. “If you look a t towns in other par ts of North Carolina, our codes ar e not nearly as stringent as theirs,” said CeCe Hipps, pr esident of the Ha ywood County Chamber of Commerce. Furthermore, commercial developers have stepped up their game of their o wn accord — realizing the public doesn’t want to eat fried chicken in a lifeless, dingy cinderblock box. “You just don’t see many canned designs in the marketplace anymore,” Bradshaw said. “I think r etailers and commer cial entities have certainly made strides to tr y to fit in to the local vernacular to some degree.” Bradshaw is better versed in Waynesville’s land-use regulations than just about any one, having been on both sides of the table — as a site planner who works for developers and as a planning board member who r eviews proposed plans. Danny Wingate, the pr esident of Haywood Builders Supply , said he ’s also heard the rumors for years. When he became a member of the town planning board, he was curious to see if developers were indeed skipping over Waynesville because the development regulations were too strict. But so far , he’s not been able to find any examples of that, past or present. “I don’t think the land development standards are prohibitive as far as the vision for Waynesville,” said W ingate. “I ha ve asked that question before. I would say from a planning standpoint, I don’t think there is anyone who has been turned away.” The debate over Waynesville’s ordinances being too tough is not a ne w election theme. It emerged in the 2007 to wn election and again in 2011. While some candida tes have called for a thorough review of the to wn’s development standards, the town already did exactly tha t four years ago. The result: a line- by-line overhaul of the standards that both simplified them and in some cases loosened them up. The overhaul was “ comprehensive and included significant public input,” said Jon Feichter, a candida te for alderman who also serves on the town planning board. It was led by a steering committee comprised of businessmen and developers. “They worked together to come up with the kind of plan they wanted, and then the public at large had a chance to weigh in on that to a significant degr ee prior to adoption,” Feichter said. “So , I think the curr ent plan is an extremely effective, reasonable document that accurately reflects the wishes of a majority of our citizens.” Feichter said elements of it can and
should be r evisited and alter ed if pr oblems become apparent, but as for a wholesale rewrite to loosen up the standar ds — well, that’s already been done. “Have we corrected them all? N o, but we have corrected a lot,” said Alderman LeR oy Roberson.
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Still, the per ception that Waynesville’s development rules are too stringent has lived on. There’s several theories of ho w Waynesville has been unfairly blamed for running off business. The biggest factor deterring commer cial
Who’s running? Nine candidates are running for five seats on the Waynesville town board this November. Pick four for town board and one for mayor.
Mayor • Gavin Brown, 68, attorney and current mayor • Jonnie Cure, 73, real estate agent
Town Board • Gary Caldwell, 62, printing rep for Clarke Communication, current alderman • Jon Feichter, 50, owner of New Meridian Technologies, an IT service firm providing computer and networking services • Julia Freeman, 48, director of REACH domestic violence nonprofit, current alderwoman • Phillip Gibbs, 70, retired paper mill worker • Kenny Mull, 61, co-owner of family-run Bob’s Sports Store • LeRoy Roberson, 71, retired optometrist, current alderman • Anthony Sutton, 43, accounting and systems manager for Biltmore Farms development group
* Lynn Bradley’s name will also appear on the ballot for mayor, but he has chosen not to actively run.
development— aside fr om the r ecession — has been the cost of r eal estate, according to Bradshaw. “People were used to getting outr ageous sums for property up until about 2006 , and they are still expecting that, but that has been the dilemma,” Onieal agr eed. “People are looking for someone to blame tha t there hasn’t been much development of pr operty, and it is an easy thing to throw it off on the development regulations or staff in the development office.” Patrick McDowell of K eller Williams Realty has witnessed the difficulties of finding affordable commercial real estate in Waynesville. He was recently working with an entrepreneur starting a new venture to find a suitable location, and the client ultimately chose a site in Maggie
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Sound off “We have an economically viable community and it is our job to make sure people know that. Entrepreneurs create jobs, but who invites them? Who makes them feel welcome? It is the the town of Waynesville — its infrastructure, its low water rates, its low tax rate, its good electric rates, its police department and fire department. “I have spent the past 25 years of my life trying to get entrepreneurs to Waynesville and working for the economy of the town of Waynesville.” Brown’s served on the boards of the Economic Development Commission and Chamber of Commerce, and currently serves on the Haywood Advancment Foundation and Economic Development Council. Brown has landed an endorsement from the Haywood County Board of Realtors for being the candidate most friendly to real estate concerns and interests. — Gavin Brown, mayor “That unspoken, undefined, unfriendly attitude they feel when they come here must absolutely be eliminated. Government must get out of our way.” Cure said the town’s regulations are too
“We have gone in there and looked back and changed it to try to help business, but there is still stuff we hear about tha t’s in there.” — Gary Caldwell “I think Wayesville is a great place to do business in, but there is a perception that town of Waynesville is hard to do business in. I think in some ways that perception is perhaps unfounded. But I will say in a lot of ways perception is reality. We need to first of all be open to new businesses and encourage new businesses and perhaps from the town’s perspective attempt to form partnerships with new businesses. There is much to do and I think we can do it.” — Jon Feichter
Who’s voted in Waynesville so far? Early voting began Thursday, Oct. 22. As of press time Tuesday, 227 people had voted so far in Waynesville’s election out of 6,582 registered voters.
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“We need to relax some of the restrictions on businesses that want to come in to town. I would like to get more businesses interested instead of turning them away. I am not talking just fast food restuarants. I am talking businesses that will come in here and pay good wages. We need to woo those businesses. I had one person tell me they had never
“I am sort of satisfied with the way it is. I don’t think we need a bunch of big bo x restaurants coming in. I kind of like to pr eserve the small town,” Smith said. The challenge for any business is whether there’s a customer base to suppor t it. Tha t variable is a far bigger factor for pr ospective developers than the town’s development regulations. “If you look a t the W aynesville demographic as any sa vvy developer will do , on paper we don’t look that strong,” said Patrick Bradshaw, owner of Civil Design Concepts. “That is an o bstacle for someone sitting in Sacramento who pulls up W aynesville’s demographic and says, ‘Yeah I don’t think my store goes there.’” In reality, Waynesville has a hidden customer base that doesn’t show up in the onesize-fits-all financial models of investors and developers. There’s the r egional draw of Waynesville, serving as a hub for commer ce from Cherokee to S ylva to Canton. And there’s the second -home population which doesn’t show up in the census number crunching. But Waynesville’s not a standout, if you go by its profile on paper. Its population is older, less wealthy and less educa ted than average. It’s got the baggage of being a small to wn in the historically depr essed Southern Appalachians. “We still are a rural community and businesses tend to go to popula tions,” said Mark Clasby, Haywood County Chamber of
“I want to make Waynesville the best place to live, work and play. It is very difficult to summarize in one minute how to generate business growth and sustainable jobs. There are many things that contribute, such as infrastructure in water, natural gas and broadband, as well as education, community involvement, and recreation. I want to make Waynesville a better place to live, work and play. I want to utilize my background in strategic planning and development to help facilitate the best plan for development and growth for the next 20 years. I believe we can encourage business growth while still maintaining the vision of the Land Development Plan.” — Anthony Sutton
Commerce economic development director. But compared to its peers, “I think the six western counties ar e somewhat envious of what is going on in Waynesville,” Clasby said. While the to wn’s development r egulations are blamed for hur ting business, they have made W aynesville a mor e appealing place to live, and tha t in turn has cr eated a customer base for stores like Best Buy, Staples and Michael’s. The town’s emphasis on quality of life — things like side walks, art sculptures, parks and community theater — are a form of economic development in their own right. If it weren’t for the second -home owners and tourists who adore Waynesville’s character, talk of landing a C racker Barrel would be as crazy as landing a navy shipyard. “Waynesville is a good hub for people to live,” said Anthony Sutton, an alderman candidate. “A little over a quarter of Waynesville residents commute to work.” Sutton should know — he’s one of them. He commutes to Asheville daily , but when it comes to wher e to live, “I would chose Waynesville every time.” “I can see that continue to be the focus, to have a small town environment,” Sutton said. Sutton is an ex ecutive with Biltmor e Farms development company , which has a vast and diverse por tfolio, from hotels to planned residential communities. Sutton was part of the team that developed Biltmore Park
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Making Waynesville more business friendly is the chief campaign pla tform of Phillip Gibbs. H e would like to see Waynesville land a mo vie theater and bo wling alley, for example. “We have to go some where out of Waynesville for these things,” Gibbs said. Gibbs’ wish list doesn’t stop there. “I have no problem with our local eateries, but I think it would be amazing if we had a Cracker Barrel or J&S Cafeteria,” Gibbs said. But not ever yone believes landing a Cracker Barrel is the gold standar d Waynesville should strive for. “I have heard horror stories of companies trying to open restaurants and stores and the town made it so difficult they ga ve up and went elsewhere,” said Jerr y Smith, a R ealtor with Keller Williams. But he doesn’t kno w if it is tr ue, and besides, is it the end of the world tha t Waynesville doesn’t have an Applebee’s?
“We need to relax the restrictions that cause people not to come in here. We should not deter. We should draw, we should make way. It is stuff that you hear from different people about the town of Waynesville being a little hard to deal with especially when it comes to codes and zoning. Some people think they are and some say they are not. I don’t know if it is true but that is something I want to pursue — is to find out if Waynesville is business friendly.” — Phillip Gibbs
“I think the policies in place are trying to maintain the character of the town and not just open it up for people to do anything. There have been comments that big chains won’t come because Waynesville is too hard to deal with. They are more rumors than anything else. Waynesville doesn’t have the population they need to open so they didn’t even consider it. I think the town overall is very business friendly, but I don’t want neon signs up and down Waynesville.” — LeRoy Roberson
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because it was cheaper. “The town’s zoning was not a deterrent to this particular client’s process,” McDowell said. He recently saw a similar scenario play out with a r estaurateur, who explor ed Waynesville but couldn’t find commer cial land for a price he was willing to pa y. Rumors also get star ted when someone who has bought a piece of property was led to believe by the seller that they could do something they can’t. “Someone says you can do this and then you talk to the to wn and find out y ou can’t, but it is because you really didn’t understand the land use ordinances,” said Amy Spivey, a realtor with Sunburst ERA Realty. The town has also been maligned by the business community for its building code enforcement. But those aren’t a result of town ordinances, but rather state building codes. “People get sore about the guys enfor cing the code, but that’s life. They have a job to do. They are just the messenger,” Wingate said. The town’s building inspectors — who permit the various facets of new construction or additions — are often blamed as the bear ers of bad news. Businessmen are often saddled with extra costs for things tha t seem ex cessive on the surface, from fire-rated walls to additional emergency exits. “Building code is not something tha t is interpretable. It is set for public safety by the state of North Carolina,” Onieal said.
stringent. The town shouldn’t impose standards on what businesses should look like. “Who are those five people to mandate to every business in town? It might not look like what you want it to look like but it is not your business. It is not your money. It is government thinking they know what is best for businesses.” — Jonnie Cure, challenger for mayor
seen a town try so hard to keep businesses out. I don’t like to hear that. Right now I don’t know all that much about how you work on getting them to come here but if elected I’ll find out. We’ll work on that.” — Kenny Mull
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Is Waynesville business friendly? Are its development ordinances too stringent? Here’s what candidates had to say on the issue.
“This is the single biggest area of concern for our business community. Whether it is a persistent problem or not it needs to be addressed and what really matters is that perception is reality and the town is perceived to be difficult to work with. I do not believe that businesses have been turned away, but I do believe that current regulations and codes have deterred businesses from coming to town. The standards should be relaxed to not put undue burdens on those people and companies wanting to develop and open businesses within Waynesville, but not at a loss of our small town appeal.” — Julia Freeman
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— a gr ound-up retail, office and r esidential community south of Asheville — and could talk all day about the v ariables that make or break a developer’s decision where to come. “It is ver y difficult to summarize in one minute how to generate business growth and sustainable jobs,” Sutton said. Sutton said the town should be focused on facilitating critical infr astructure — namely natural gas and impr oved Internet capacity. But recreation and the quality of schools matter, too. “The entire community has to come together and wor k to a ttract businesses,” Sutton said. “Mor e and mor e businesses make decisions on wher e to locate based on the quality of life for its employees.” The challenge comes 50 years from now as the boundary between Asheville and Waynesville blurs. W aynesville could be engulfed as a suburb of Asheville, and in tha t sense, Waynesville’s development regulations are critical to pr otect the sense of place tha t made it a ttractive in the first place, Sutton said. Quality of life in W aynesville attracts the very entrepreneurs who ultima tely factor in where they want to live before opening a business, agreed Waynesville Mayor Gavin Brown, pointing to the o wner of Ha ywood Vocational Opportunities. “He bought the plant because he could live here and that story goes on,” Brown said. Waynesville’s appealing char acter isn’t lost on C ure. During her car eer as a r eal estate agent, C ure said she sho wcased “the beauty of Waynesville and the cohesiveness of our town” as a selling point to potential buyers. But Cure believes fr ee enterprise should drive the bus, rather than the town dictating what businesses should look like and wha t kind of signs they can have. Cure said she doesn’t believe in letting government “steamroll over the top of you.” “I think it is impor tant to push back,” Cure said. Earlier this month, C ure took time out from a Sa turday morning ne wspaper interview to hand a stack of signs to a decided campaign volunteer. She told them to go stick signs in the planters on Main Str eet where the Church Street Arts and Crafts festival was going on. When asked whether tha t was legal, she shrugged. “I don’t kno w. Show me an or dinance that says you can’t,” Cure said. “Go r ead the 700 pages of or dinances and see if y ou can put a sign on Main Street.” For the r ecord, you can’t put campaign signs in to wn planters. But C ure believes there is too much regulation when it comes to signs. “That is a priv ate property issue. Let the businesses negotiate their o wn signs,” C ure said. “We need to make it easier for businesses to stay in business.” Cure said those who write the sign r ules claim merchants would “go crazy” if allowed to do anything they wanted sign-wise. “That’s exactly wha t they would want to 8 do is ruin their hometown,” Cure said sarcas-
Neon illumination on signs like this one at the Diamond & Gold Exchange is no longer allowed in Waynesville, to the chagrin of some business owners who feel the appearance standards hamper business. Becky Johnson photo tically. “No, they are going to do wha t is best for their business.” Signs are a constant sour ce of pushback. The town overhauled its sign ordinances two years ago, making several concessions for the business community. “I think it str uck a ver y good balance between the two sides,” said Jon F eichter, an alderman candidate who serves on the planning board. “As a small biz o wner, I want as big a sign and as much signage as I can possible afford. But by the same token, I think it is important to have guidelines, and I think the guidelines we have are reasonable.” But the sign ordinance is still too strict for Lonnie Crawford, owner of the Diamond & Gold Exchange on the edge of downtown. Crawford has neon lights on his sign — dating back over two decades. They wouldn’t be allowed today. “Neon is the best investment for the dol lar in adver tising you could do ,” said Crawford. “If I hadn’t had tha t before the town passed all those goofy or dinances, I couldn’t have had that there. They should be bending over to do anything they can to get businesses to come in. Allo wing neon would be one of them.”
EGGS IN ONE BASKET Some candidates fear the to wn has been too focused on making itself attractive to outsiders. “I know a lot of people like for it to be a tourist town, but the y oung people ha ve to leave here to find good -paying jobs,” said Kenny Mull, owner of Bob’s Sports Store and a challenger for alderman.
Mull reminisced about the good old days, when Main Street was for locals. “It used to be y ou could go to do wntown Waynesville on Sa turday afternoon and y ou knew everybody up there,” Mull said, recalling the 5 and 10 cent stores. “You have a lot of the craft shops and stuff now and its tourists coming in fr om out of town and you go up there on Saturday morning and you don’t har dly know anybody up there any more,” Mull said. Cure also believes ther e is too much emphasis on tourism. "We put all our eggs in one basket,” C ure said. “It is extremely dangerous in the economy to depend on one source of income.” “People want to keep it a small to wn atmosphere but we don’t need to depend on tourism for the whole year,” added alderman candidate Phillip Gibbs. Gibbs said his goal as alderman would be to create more jobs. But candidate Anthony Sutton questioned the usefulness of comments like that. “It is all fine and good to say we want to be a business friendly community . If y ou don’t know how to do it, it is all words,” Sutton said. Growing the economy is r arely accompanied by gr and groundbreakings and jo b announcements from expanding companies. It’s something tha t more often pla ys out in the shadows. For example, Waynesville’s street and electric workers installed ne w decorative street lamps in F rog Level tha t merchants raised money to buy. “That’s what you love is when the business community and go vernment can come together and impr ove a situa tion or ar ea,” Freeman said. The town also pursued a grant to put in an electric car charging station downtown. “We are on the map for tha t now,” Freeman said. The town also leases par king lots to support commercial districts like Frog Level and Hazelwood Village, for king over monthly lease payments to lando wners to pr ovide public parking, which in turn suppor ted the revitalization of these no w-vibrant shopping districts. Lonnie Crawford, the owner of Diamond & Gold E xchange, said the to wn’s emphasis on tourism hur ts his business, ho wever. He blames street festivals downtown for keeping customers away on Saturdays. “When they ha ve their big blo wouts, if local people get involved in that mess just one time and can’t get to wher e you are going, they automatically on Sa turdays after tha t just stay away,” Crawford said. While manufacturing has o bviously diminished and tourism has gr own, it’s a fallacy to blame tourism, according to Clasby. Manufacturing was going to dr y up regardless as factories mo ved operations overseas in sear ch of cheaper labor . Waynesville was simply lucky to have another segment of the economy to pick up some of the slack. Clasby is a student of labor and workforce trends in Haywood County, and begs to differ that tourism is the leading sector . Manufacturing, healthcare and r etail are equally strong.
“We are diverse,” Clasby said. “Tourism is up. Sales tax collections ar e up. The total number of people emplo yed today is mor e than it was back in the 1990s.” In the to wn limits itself, thr ee manufacturing companies have added jobs in the past several years: Sonoco Plastics, Giles Chemical and Haywood Vocational Opportunities.
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Those who defend W aynesville’s reputation as a business-friendly community cited concessions the town has made for large-scale development projects that didn’t fit the confines of its land-use regulations. Exemptions were readily made to pave the way for the development of W aynesville Commons (home to Super W almart), the recently approved industrial expansion of Giles Chemical and the major redevelopment of the Ingle’s shopping complex. Ingles first br oached the idea of a major expansion eight years ago. Ingles needed an exemption to the to wn’s land-use standards to pull off an expansion of the scale it pr oposed, which includes a ne w gas station and Chick-Fil-A. The town agreed to exemptions while still getting the elements it wanted — like mor e trees in the barren parking lot. But several years went by without Ingle ’s breaking ground. That fueled r umors that Waynesville was the hold up for Ingles. But that wasn’t the case, accor ding to Clasby. “I don’t think the town of Waynesville had any hurdles for them,” Clasby said. Clasby surmised that Ingle’s delay was due to the recession, as well as major expansions in Black Mountain and Mills River being carried out. “Those were large capital investments. As a company you can only due so much a t one time,” Clasby said. During the intervening years, Ingles came back to the town three times with alterations to its site plan, and each time, got appr oval for the changes. And it came back a four th time just last week. “We had lots of discussion to make sure it was within range of the master plan, but we approved everything,” said Danny W ingate, who serves on the planning board. To Cure, the stories about large developments like the ne w Ingles or Giles Chemical complex aren’t representative of the a verage experience. “Big companies kno w how to do this. They have done it in hundr eds of to wns across the nation,” Cure said. Those who ha ve trouble navigating the development codes ar e the small business people, she said. “They have a concept in their head they are trying to make work but they also ha ve a budget they ar e trying to wor k with,” C ure said. "It is discouraging." That’s one point wher e Town Manager Marcy Onieal might agr ee with C ure. Big developers are more accustomed to na vigating local land-use regulations or state building codes. “Where we are criticized are by our own local folks who do not r egularly and fr e-
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Haywood Chamber President CeCe Hipps said she can see both sides of the argument. “I think ther e are two sides to the argument and both have merit,” said Hipps, when asked whether perceptions of Waynesville as hostile toward business were true. Hipps said the biggest barrier isn’t the regulations, however, but communication. “We have to understand that not everyone comes to the table with the same amount of knowledge, skill set or financial resources and may require additional time in the pr ocess,” Hipps said. The town isn’t deaf to criticisms of its customer service in the planning and zoning department. Town Manager Mar cy Onieal said the to wn has two effor ts underway aimed at addressing concerns of the development community. One is improving the internal process for permitting and zoning with a mor e seamless team approach from town staff. Part of the shift was r enaming the planning department: it’s now called “ development services.” The town hired a new department head, whose title is “ development services director.” Onieal said the name change is intended to put an emphasis on the r ole of planning and code officers on pr oviding support and customer ser vice to the development community. “The focus is mor e about development services as opposed to just code enfor cement,” Onieal said. Onieal said she also r ealized the team of building inspectors, code enfor cement officers and planners need a mor e formal framework to coor dinate the v arious steps in the permitting process — from site plans to sign permits to electrical inspections. The town’s development ser vices team now meets jointly under the banner of a tech-
nical review committee to help move development projects through the pr ocess more seamlessly. That is allo wing the to wn to essentially serve as mentors for those tr ying to bring a development plan to fruition who need more hand holding. Another step the to wn has taken is the creation of a business and development advisory committee. The town assembled a focus group of developers, Realtors and builders to help the town identify the friction points. “One of the reasons we established that is that I was hearing a lot of complaints but not a lot of fact. It was a lot of innuendo. I was trying to bring to the table kno wledgeable people rather than hearing r umor and disgr untled notions about development,” Onieal said. “I wanted to hear ‘wha t is it tha t would make development better in the community and where is it lacking and what do you see as the challenges to development?’” Those who ha ve participated in the roundtables commend it. “I think Mar cy has taken major steps to make the pr ocess more user-friendly,” said Amy Spivey, a Realtor with Sunburst ERA. Spivey said the town is being unfairly criticized in some wa ys, but cer tainly has room for improvement. “I don’t want to sa y it is all just a per ception. There are some things we need to revise and update,” Spivey said. “I think we ar e on the right path.” Spivey said the new development services director who star ted this summer is also a positive move. New entrepreneurs are sometimes their own worst enemy, however. They don’t know the process or building codes, y et approach the permitting pr ocess with a pr econceived idea of what they want to do. Patrick McDowell said he found to wn planning staff overly helpful when he mo ved his real estate firm to a loca tion inside the town limits, especially navigating the amount of signage he could have. “Instead of saying this is what I want and if I can’t have it I am unhappy, I went and said ‘What can I do?’” McDowell said.
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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR The Land T rust for the Little T ennessee has outgrown its name. Since the trust formed in Macon County in 1997, it has built its r eputation in Western North Carolina as a leader in pr otecting the Little Tennessee River, but LTLT has since expanded its pr oject area and scope of work. LTLT now does work in the Hiwassee watershed, Tuckasegee River and even waterways across the sta te line in Rabun County, Ga. When LTLT merged with the Little Tennessee Watershed Association in 2012, it broadened its mission to include wa ter research and educa tional programming. While land trust projects will always be at the heart of what LTLT does, Executive Director Sharon Taylor said, the organiza tion also works toward land r estoration through its forest management program. “We are the driving force for conservation in this ar ea — it tr uly defines who we ar e,” Taylor said. “W e’ll always do conser vation, but our mission has changed.” As the conser vation organization’s goals have transformed through the y ears, Taylor
said, it was finally time for its name to ma tch its mission. She said the ne w name — Mainspring Conservation Trust — is mor e representative of the organiza tion’s broad spectrum of work. “For several years we’ve called ourselves a keystone organization in this area, and if you dig deep enough, a synonym for keystone is mainspring,” Taylor said. “Mainspring has been a defining word for us.” The organization has been mulling over a name change since 2006 but began serious discussions in 2011. Changing the name and brand of a well -established organization is a difficult task — one the L TLT staff took ver y seriously. For months, emplo yees brainstormed by writing potential names on a whiteboard in the office. Over time, some named would be cr ossed out and ne w ones added. Mainspring is the one tha t stuck and the one the LTLT board of directors approved in June. Mainspring can mean many differ ent things to different people, which was one of the things Taylor likes about it. It can bring to mind a primary water source or it can mean the principal spring tha t keeps the mechanism moving inside a pocket watch. As it r elates to LTLT’s work, Taylor said Mainspring is “something that plays a principal part in motivating or maintaining a movement, process or activity.”
Taylor said the acr onym “LTLT” is only iconic to people who already know the organization and the success of its conser vation efforts, but many times staff members have to explain to people what it stands for and ho w the name doesn’t reflect all they do.
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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he Savannah community in Jackson County likely has a new park in its future, with Jackson County under contract to purchase a trio of properties totaling about 3 acres along Gay Road. The county has offered $36,000 for the land, the price including a $2,000 deposit that gives the county 90 days to make sure the land is suitable for a park. If some issue arises, the county can choose to for feit the $2,000 and back out of the deal. Residents of the community had been lobbying county commissioners and the recreation board to get some kind of recreational facility in the area, giving them a place to get outside without driving 10 minutes into Sylva. The county’s recreation master plan calls for a recreation facility to eventually go in at Savannah, which is located along U.S. 441 toward the Macon County line, but none has been built so far. “I do believe that it’s going to be a good fit for that part of the community,” said Rusty Ellis, the director of the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department.
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serve land and water, promote a strong economy and smart growth, educate youth about the region’s natural resources and pr omote best forest management practices. “It gives me hope to see the organiza tion strengthening as a r egional conservation organization, and part of that is embracing a new name that is as relevant in the valleys of the Tuckasegee and Hiwassee as in the Little Tennessee,” said Paul Carlson, LTLT’s founding director. LTLT won’t legally become Mainspring Conservation Trust until Jan. 1, 20 16, but work has already begun to educate the counties the organiza tion serves. Three events have been held in Cher okee, Macon and Jackson to unveil the new name and explain it to communities.
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broader mission and project area.” In other wor ds, the do wnside of losing the LTLT brand identity should be mor e than offset by the gr owth of the organization’s conservation efforts in the Southern Blue Ridge region. “I’m proud of the LTLT board for adopting this new identity. For years, we knew we needed to change our name so we wer e not associated with one specific river basin as our work expanded north and westward and our mission broadened,” said L TLT Board Chairman Chris Brouwer. “It is never possible to find that one name that satisfies everyone, but we think Mainspring defines the curr ent organization and also will allow us to accommodate whatever changes the futur e will inevitably bring.” Taylor said another plus to changing the name is getting rid of being kno wn by an acronym. She hopes people will come to know them as Mainspring instead of trying to shorten the name to an abbreviation. The most difficult thing about coming up with a ne w name was mo ving away from a geographic identity. While LTLT gave them a sense of place, tha t place is no longer an accurate distinction, accor ding to T aylor. When seeking public and priv ate financial support outside of the r egion, she said staff often had to take time to explain to potential donors that the Little T ennessee River was not actually in Tennessee. At the same time, landowners who could benefit fr om LTLT’s services didn’t r ealize those ser vices were available to them if they wer e outside of that specific watershed. Taylor wants the community to know this is a change in name and logo only — the organization will continue its mission to con-
Ellis has been talking with community members, who say that at the minimum they’d want the park to hold a paved walking trail, picnic pavilion with space for a band, and restrooms. “A lot of people right now already walk that road,” Ellis said. “It would just be a good opportunity for the public to have somewhere safe to walk.” Other wish list items include a playground and basketball court, but Ellis said he wanted to be careful to not build so much on the small property as to crowd the landscape. However, there is an adjacent property across the road that, if it came on the market down the road, would give the county the opportunity to expand the park later. “I like the idea of having playground equipment,” said County Commission Chairman Brian McMahan. “There are a lot of families who live in that community who would take their kids there as opposed to driving all the way to Sylva.” Preliminary estimates ballpark development of the park at $50,000 to $75,000, with a possibility of obtaining grant money from the N.C. Parks and Recreation Trust Fund to help offset the cost. Commissioners are hoping to complete paperwork in advance of closing that would allow the price of the land to count toward the 50 percent match that grant pool requires.
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Navigating fair pay Christi Queen is one of the 65 people who work at Webster Enterprises, a manufacturer of medical drapes in Jackson County that employs an integrated workforce of disabled and non-disabled workers. Holly Kays photo
New compensation rules for disabled workers worry local organizations
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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER n his 38 y ears at the helm of Ha ywood Vocational Opportunities, George Marshall has seen his shar e of change in the regulations and tr ends surrounding the intersection of worlds in which HVO deals. HVO, a not-for-profit social enterprise tha t produces medical supplies, is Ha ywood County’s fifth largest employer and the nation’s largest producer of custom medical drapes. But HVO is about more than manufacturing. Roughly half the people who wor k there have some kind of disability , and HVO provides education, training and enrichment to equip them for eventual emplo yment in the competitive market. The organiza tion bridges the space between business, education and humanitarian mission, so the swirl of regulation and oversight to which it’s subject is a constantly changing landscape. But there’s one change on the horizon tha t has Marshall especially worried. “This has the potential to impact ser vices to persons with disabilities gr eater than anything I’ve seen in all my tenur e,” he said. “I truly believe as is, it would set ser vices — both vocational and employment services — back by four decades at least.” The “it” in question? The feder al Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law in July 20 14. More specifically, Marshall is referring to the r ules the U.S. Depar tment of Labor cr afted to implement the la w, currently set to take effect July 22, 2016. “The act itself is a good act,” Marshall said. “However, as it affects our industr y, our 12 business and those ser vices we offer to per -
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A PROBLEM OF PAY The crux of the issue has to do with the subminimum wage cer tificate that HVO, as well as the similar W ebster Enterprises in Jackson County, holds to navigate compensation for people who simply can’t pr oduce at the same rate as a person without a disability. The certificate basically allows employers to pay people with disabilities a wage based on productivity rather than purely on hours worked. The system’s intent is to make it possible for emplo yers to hir e people with disabilities without having to eat the difference between that person’s production and wha t would be expected of the average employee. At HVO, Marshall said, people entering the training program go thr ough an assessment period to see ho w fast they wor k. That rate is compar ed to the industr y standard rate, and the wage is pro-rated against the full per-hour rate. For example, if the mar ket standard was $1 0 per hour to pr oduce 10 items per hour and the person under ev aluation could pr oduce only five per hour , that person would earn $5 per hour . At HVO, the average wage for experienced wor kers is $13 per hour with starting wages around $10 per hour — ahead of the typical $9 per hour for similar work in the area. “If we wer e to be r equired to pa y them minimum wage or higher and they could only work at 50 percent productivity, then actually we couldn’t stay in business,” Marshall said. “But for all these y ears it has allo wed us and programs throughout the nation to be able to perform their vocational development services for persons with disabilities, and it’ s paid them fairly commensurate with the wages in their community.” But if the pr oposed implementation rules for WIOA are adopted as is, organizations like
HVO will no longer be able to hold a subminimum wage cer tificate. That, Marshall said, would basically mean tha t HVO couldn’t employ people with serious disabilities at all. “We could not permit them to engage in any paid work,” he said. “Where’s the money going to come from? We could not do that.” Marshall isn’t going so far as to sa y that the rules would cause HVO to shut down. The company has about 350 r egular employees who make between $8 and $17 per hour, plus benefits, with about 1 00 people in the tr aining program who are paid based on the subminimum wage certificate. “Would it close HV O? No, but it would severely hurt us from the standpoint of ho w we deliver services,” Marshall said. “It would restrict the ser vices we did deliver . It would also without question r estrict the numbers that we could serve annually.” The effect on W ebster Enterprises would be more drastic than tha t, said Gene Robinson, the nonprofit’s executive director. Like HVO, Webster Enterprises employs people with and without disabilities to pr oduce medical devices and se wn materials for sale, but it’s a much smaller enterprise, employing about 65 people. “If we can’t utilize the ex emption certificate to pay people (based on) what they actually make, then we’re out of business because there is no go vernment money coming in here to pay that salary that they don’t earn,” Robinson said. Robinson, 77, has spent his entir e career and then some advoca ting for people with
“Disability” is a wide classifica tion that includes everything from Attention Deficit Disorder to having spent time in prison to low IQ, but “let’s say half of those are severely hindered in some wa y from being able to go to work. That’s still 5,000 people,” Robinson said. Statistically, Robinson said, about 75 percent of people with disabilities ar e unemployed, and he’s certain that the WIOA rules will only cause that number to go up. “It would be drastic,” he said.
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Clearly, though, enough people suppor t the law and its r ules to have allowed it to get this far. Vicki Smith, ex ecutive director of Disability Rights N.C., is one of those people. She has nothing but good things to say about HVO, Webster Enterprises and their leaders, calling them “outstanding facilities” that have done “an amazing amount of work” on behalf of people with disabilities. But not all organizations are so responsible, she said. “There are people who do exploit individuals with disabilities and pa y them some subminimum wage, and those individuals ma y in fact deserve to be paid a higher wage,” she said. Disability Rights has long been concerned, Smith said, tha t not ever yone who holds a subminimum wage certificate has the best interest of their employees at heart. “The law came into existence because people with disabilities had been exploited or people earning subminimum wage had been exploited, and this law is designed to pr otect people from this,” Smith said. But the outcome, both Robinson and Marshall said, is likely to be a dr op in emplo yment for people curr ently employed on subminimum wage, or a t least a dr op in the percentage of those people find ing fulltime wor k. And if a disabled adult is suddenly without a 40-hour-per-week occupation, what will the family’s choices be? Either, Robinson said, someone will have to sta y home fr om work to be with them, or tha t person will go to an institution. “There’s no doubt in my “It’s not the amount of money mind if this act were implemented today, there would be many they receive but the fact that lawsuits that will come out of this by par ents, by guar dians,” they go to work ... They earn a Marshall said. paycheck, they’re with their Robinson contends that people who suppor t the ne w rules friends, they have social aren’t living in r eality, where at the end of the day, a business — interaction with others.” regardless of humanitarian — George Marshall, HVO intent — must a t least balance the budget. disabilities, and he’s acutely aware that, even “They’re thinking, ‘ Well, everyone can with Webster Enterprises intact, ther e are just go into competitive emplo yment and be way too many people in the organiza tion’s able to wor k and ever ything’s going to be service area of Jackson, Macon and S wain wonderful,’” Robinson said. “Well, there are a counties that aren’t being served. lot of people who can’t go into competitive “That’s a pittance of the number of people employment.” out there that need help,” Robinson said of What about, for example, the person with the 65 he employs. “There are almost 10,000 Downs syndrome who can pr oduce only 30 people in our ser vice area of the working age percent of wha t an unimpair ed that have a disability.” person would make per hour?
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Having worked at Webster Enterprises since March, Charlie Robinson is happy with his experience so far and the people he works with. Holly Kays photo
For more information about the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, visit www.doleta.gov/wioa. Comments on the implementation rules as a whole are closed, though some items relating to the rules are still open for comment, listed on the website. For general comments related to the rules or the timeline of implementation, write U.S. Congressman Mark Meadows or Senators Richard Burr and Tom Tillis. Contact information is listed at www.contactingthecongress.org.
NOT JUST A JOB Marshall and R obinson, however, point out that the la w won’t just impact wor k at their respective organizations. It will impact their clients’ future after HV O and Webster Enterprises. “It’s a training program,” Robinson said.
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ly, there would be a lot of people without disabilities who would be getting paid less, but that’s not what the law allows.” Smith said she ’d hope to see HV O and Webster Enterprises — and organiza tions like them — come up with “ creative ways” to figure out how to keep their workers and pay them what the law requires. “If anyone can do it, someone like George (Marshall) can. H e can figure this out.”
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“It’s not a job. It’s a training program.” The goal of the program is to allow people to advance up to the “standar d” production speed, teach them the soft skills they’ll need to find success in competitive emplo yment and give them access to r esources that include everything from classes on healthy eating to field trips around the area. “I’ve seen it take as much as two y ears to get them to a production rate, but they did it. Even my tr ainers were saying they’re never going to make it, but they kept wor king with them and they kept seeing smaller incr ements of pr ogress,” Robinson said. “If the implementation of this law goes through, it’s going to take a way opportunities for those individuals.” In the meantime, Marshall added, ha ving a full-time job, working hard and bringing home a paycheck is a sour ce of pride for the people in HVO’s training program. “It’s not the amount of money they receive but the fact tha t they go to wor k like other normal human beings,” Marshall said. “They earn a pa ycheck, they’re with their friends, they have social interaction with others.” Charlie Robinson, a wor ker at Webster Enterprises since Mar ch, has nothing but good things to sa y about his experiences there. He moved to S ylva from Greenville, South Carolina earlier this year and is taking advantage of classes in cooking and nutrition as well as the work training. Having previously done electrician wor k, he’s looking to get into something different, something that will be easier on his back than his pr evious jobs. “Everybody’s nice. They’ll help y ou in any way,” he said of the folks a t Webster Enterprises. “I think it’s a very good program.” Of the pay, he said, “It ain’t enough but a little is better than none. I look a t it like this: They’re learning me something I ha ven’t done before.” There’s another issue with the pr oposed rules, Marshall and Gene R obinson said. Currently, when they’r e able to place someone from their tr aining programs into competitive employment, their organiza tions receive payment from N.C. V ocational Rehabilitation. Under the ne w rules, they wouldn’t receive that money if the jo b the person were placed in was a full-time position at HVO or Webster Enterprises. Those places would be termed “ congregate work sites” — not sufficient to be consider ed a successful job placement. What both Gene R obinson and Marshall are hoping for is an extension of the timeline. The comment period for the r ules ended this June, and they’re slated to go into effect July 22, 2016. But neither one believes enough research has been done into what the implications of the rules, as drafted, might be. What MARC — the coalition of social enterprises for people with disabilities tha t both HVO and Webster Enterprises belong to — is asking for is a 24-month moratorium on implementation, allowing more time for people to comment on the rules and data to be gathered. Because, Gene Robinson said, sometimes when you try to fix wha t’s not broken, you wind up breaking what was working just fine. “This is a model that works. It has worked for the last 30-some y ears,” he said. “It’ s worked very successfully.”
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Why would an emplo yer in the competitive market hire that person o ver another applicant who could do more than three times the amount of work for the same hourly rate? But there are plenty of people in priv ate sector jobs across the countr y, Smith said, who would be making less than minimum wage if they were being paid according to the subminimum wage process. Why should people with disabilities be singled out for productivity testing? “We don’t test people without disabilities to see whether or not they can work at a higher rate routinely,” Smith said. “If ever y single worker in the United States was tested to see their level of productivity and paid according-
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Jackson code enforcement audit returns favorable results
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Commissioners mull suggestions for improvement BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER “All OK — but it could be better” seemed to be the message fr om a report the Jackson County Board of Commissioners or dered after suspicion sur faced this spring tha t the county’s Permitting and Code Enfor cement Department wasn’t adequa tely carrying out the responsibilities it’s tasked with. “Maybe not everything’s quite as broke as some folks thought it was, but y ou want to raise the bar fur ther,” said Richard Smith, a partner at Benchmark Planning, the Charlotte-based firm tha t completed the report. Though Smith and his ar chitect Pete Bogel made a number of r ecommendations for improvement — everything from restructuring the chain of command to impr oving technological systems — the overall tone was positive, with phr ases such as “r eally phenomenal,” “working really well,” and “to be commended” peppering the two- hour presentation. There have been mistakes and confusion over who’s responsible for what, Smith said, but, “We felt like the adjustments had been made there and we don’t need to comment further on that.”
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Instead of concentrating on the mistakes that triggered the audit, Smith’s presentation focused on ho w Jackson might r ethink its planning and permitting/code enfor cement offices to for estall such pr oblems in the future. “A lot of time wha t you run into when you’re dealing with building inspections and you’re dealing with planning is they tend to operate in silos. They tend to oper ate isolated,” said Smith, whose wor k experience includes positions as both a town and county planning director. In Jackson County, Smith said, that problem is further compounded by ho w responsibilities are divided between planning and permitting/code enforcement. In most counties, he said, the planning depar tment deals with zoning and planning or dinances originating at the county level, while permitting and code enfor cement deals with sta te building regulations. In Jackson County , those functions ar e jumbled, with some ordinance-based responsibilities falling to permitting and code enfor cement and others going to planning. Tha t opens the door to confusion about the division of labor 14 between the two offices.
planning and permitting/code enforcement, McMahan said. But commissioners seemed to balk a t the idea of adding a new management-level position. “That’s a chunk of change to do ,” said Commissioner Vicki Greene. The more likely course of action will be for commissioners to finish the hiring process for a new county planning director — the board will interview the top thr ee candidates this week — with an ey e towards picking someone who might be able to unite the two departments. “I hope that we can potentially restructure with the new director of planning ser ving as that person tha t will be in charge of both planning and o versight of the code enfor cement office,” McMahan said. Smith told commissioners tha t it looks like at least one of the thr ee candidates has the skills necessar y to do both jo bs but cautioned them against relying on that option. “There’s very few planning dir ectors I know that want to ha ve building inspection under their charge,” said Smith.
STREAMLINING THE PROCESS Permitting and Code Enforcement Director Tony Elders (left) expresses his thanks to staff for their cooperation during the audit process conducted by Benchmark Planning, whose representatives Richard Smith and Pete Bogel stand to the right. Holly Kays photo
By the numbers • 83 percent of 58 members of the public completing a survey rated the quality of service in Permitting and Code Enforcement as “excellent” or “good.” • 79 percent of 62 public respondents said they “strongly agree” or “agree” that the Permitting and Code Enforcement Department is usually responsive and helpful. • 69 percent of 62 public respondents said they “strongly agree” or “agree” that the Planning Department is usually responsive and helpful. • 19 of 32 public respondents to whom the question applied said application of the county’s steep slope ordinance is either “always” or “generally” consistent. 46 percent said they dealt with Permitting and Code Enforcement for items related to the steep slope ordinance, 15 percent said they dealt with Planning and 38 percent said they dealt with both departments. • 58 percent of county commission and planning board members surveyed said the most common complaint they heard related to the Permitting and Code Enforcement Department was erosion control issues or lack of enforcement. The most common complaint related to the Planning Department was lack of staffing, mentioned by 27 percent of respondents. The second most common complaint, at 20 percent, was “none.” • 36 percent of board members said they believed favoritism was an issue in how Jackson’s development services are offered and enforced. • 67 percent of board members said coordination between Planning and Permitting and Code Enforcement has not been successful.
Source: Permitting and Code Enforcement Assessment Report by Benchmark Planning. “Duties that are planning duties need to be tr ansferred back to the planning office,” Commission Chairman Brian McMahan said in a follo w-up interview. “There needs to be all planning functions happening in the planning office with no planning functions happening in the per mitting office.” Currently, the planning office has only four positions — with just two of them cur rently staffed — while 1 8 people work in the permitting and code enforcement office. Once the positions are filled and responsibilities juggled to the depar tments where they best belong, Smith said, the county
should find a wa y to unite the two depar tments so the “silo effect” doesn’t continue to be a pr oblem. Namely, he said, the two departments should be physically loca ted next to each other, and the county should hire an upper-level position to which the directors of each department would each r eport. That position would essentially be an assistant county manager. Both of those propositions are expensive ones, commissioners said, though the county does have a new health department building on its shor t list of desir ed capital pr ojects. If such a building ma terializes, that might be a good oppor tunity to co- locate
Other improvements, the r eport said, could be done much mor e cheaply. For instance, Benchmark advised commissioners to look a t consolidating its planning or dinances to make them easier for both developers and enforcers to interpret. Currently, county planning r egulations are spread out over 18 different ordinances. Add the municipal or dinances of S ylva, Dillsboro, Webster and Forest Hills to that — the county and its municipalities ha ve an agreement that county staff will provide planning and permitting/code enfor cement services for the municipalities — and you’ve got a web of regulation that can be difficult for permit-seekers to navigate. Benchmark suggested pulling all 1 8 ordinances — and perhaps the municipal or dinances as well, with the understanding that the municipalities would be able to change their r ules at any time — under one, larger or dinance just to make things easier. “As an architect, if I was coming into your community with the 1 8 different ordinances you have out there, it would be hard for me to find out wha t the r ules are so I can follo w them,” said Bogel. Similarly, the r eport said, the county should seek to make its S ylva and Cashiers offices “one-stop shops” for builders ’ needs. That means not only seeking to put planning and permitting/code enforcement under the same roof, but also pulling in staff from environmental health, who conduct inspections for structures such as wells and septic tanks. The report also recommended that commissioners review the price tags on permit fees in Jackson County . They’re too lo w, Smith and Bogel said, with Jackson’ s permitting and code enfor cement department getting back just 36.6 percent of its cost of doing business from permit fees. Contr ast that to Macon County, which r ecoups 75.4 percent of its cost, or Haywood, which gets back 79.6 percent, and it’s clear that Jackson needs to take a look at its fee struc-
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Construction on a steep slope in Dillsboro prompted criticism of how Jackson County’s mountain hillside development ordinance was being enforced by the Permitting and Code Enforcement Department. Donated photo about a 35 percent grade, enough to cause the county’s steep slope regulations to kick in. But Elders argued tha t the property, platted in 1991, was grandfathered in and didn’t have to comply with the 2007 Mountain Hillside Development Ordinance. Green disagreed, pointing out at his last planning board meeting that the property was divided into two parcels with a new plat submitted in 2013. That should have
“A lot of time what you run into when you’re dealing with building inspections and you’re dealing with planning is they tend to operate in silos.” — Richard Smith, partner, Benchmark Planning
Benchmark Planning’s audit of Jackson County’s permitting and code enforcement and planning departments returned the following suggestions for improvement: • Fill the two vacant positions in planning. • Move ordinance-related responsibilities from permitting and code enforcement to planning. • Hire an assistant county manager to oversee both divisions. • Locate the two departments together physically and move environmental health staff to those locations to create a one-stop shop for permit-seekers. — • Review staffing levels of the two departments annually. • Update software used by the departments. • Unlock Internet search functions on tablets used by inspectors. • Consolidate the county’s 18 development ordinances into one Land Development Ordinance. • Amend ordinances as necessary to clarify that the planning department is responsible for enforcing county ordinances. • Provide regular reports to the public on the Permitting and Code Enforcement Department’s activities. • Consider increasing permit fees. • Increase training opportunities for staff and board members. addition, Jackson is the only one of the west ern counties to ha ve a second office for Permitting and Code Enfor cement. Elders operates a sa tellite office in Cashiers, and it takes up one-third to one-half of his budget to keep it open. “We’re generally in the ballpar k with Haywood and Macon counties,” Elders said, “especially with single family homes. We may need to look at our larger commercial jobs.” The decision to change permit fees, though, resides with commissioners, Elders said. Past boards have encouraged him to keep them as low as possible. “That’s something that would come fr om
While these concrete changes could go a long way toward creating a mor e effective planning and permitting/code enfor cement unit, Smith said, the intangibles might pr ove Jackson’s biggest challenge in getting the two departments back on track. Results of B enchmark’s survey of county commission and planning boar d members indicated that the county’ s facing a significant public per ception that favoritism is a
Read the report The full report from Benchmark Planning’s audit on Jackson County’s Permitting and Code Enforcement Department and Planning Department is online at http://bit.ly/1R14aAu. problem in the permitting and code enfor cement department. Of the 14 board members who completed the sur vey, five said tha t favoritism is a t play in ho w services are administered when it comes to county planning, permitting and enfor cement. Two of them said that favoritism is the most impor tant issue facing the permitting and code enforcement department. Written responses to the question about favoritism’s role supported a vie w that even those who don’t believe fa voritism exists believe that the perception it’s there is a big problem. “There is a per ception that there is favoritism — I ha ve not seen evidence of such, but per ception is str ong,” wrote one respondent. “Good ‘ol boy system is a t play,” wrote another.
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ture, Bogel said. “There is a gap . There is a big gap her e,” Bogel said. “Mo ving permitting fees mor e toward a user fee and less to ward it being paid by the citizens of the county can be a good move.” Elders, however, countered that the gap is probably not as large as the numbers indicate. For one thing, ever y county str uctures its fees differently, and in Jackson County fire inspections are a free service provided by the Permitting and Code Enfor cement Department. In Macon County, they’re done by the fire marshall’s office and therefore not calculated in the cost recoupment number. In
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If the county is going to counter tha t perception, Smith said, it needs to be intentional about it. H e recommended that the Permitting and Code Enfor cement Department post a r egular report online, detailing who’s applied for what permits. “It lets folks kno w, ‘Look, we don’t ha ve anything to hide,’” Smith said. McMahan was fa vorable to tha t idea, speculating that a monthly r eport published online might be the wa y to go. Such a report could list which permits wer e issued, who applied for them and who is listed as the general contractor. “I think that’s a way that you can start to deal with the perception issue and people can see what’s out there,” McMahan said. “Right now the general public doesn’t have access to that unless they specifically go in and tr y to pull those records.” McMahan said that he was sa tisfied with the report results, adding tha t he felt the information and peace of mind stemming from putting to rest any unwarranted worries about the depar tments’ function wer e well worth the report’s $15,350 price tag. Commissioner Charles Elders, ho wever, disagreed, saying that nothing in the r eport was new to him and tha t he “just r egret(s) that we spent 1 5-plus thousand dollars to find out what we already knew.” Greene, however, agreed with McMahan. Knowing the scor e is better than allo wing rumors to circulate without knowing whether they’re true, she said. “I hope this r eport has a couple of things that will allay some of the concerns of the public about whether they think planning and code enforcement is doing its job,” she said. “It’s been a long summer . Glad it’s over,” Tony Elders said. “W e are going to ha ve to keep working toward addressing the perception some folks ha ve. I don’t kno w we’ll ever change all of them, but I just encour age anybody that has any question to come in and talk to me.” 15
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he Jackson County Commissioners’ decision to pay for an audit of its Permitting and Code Enforcement Department — the scope was later expanded to include the Planning Department, as the two entities work closely with each other — had multiple points of origin. First, there was the question of whose job it is to inspect the R-5000 road project, which has made negative news several times over the past year for issues including excessive erosion and aims to connect N.C. 116 and N.C. 107, running through the Southwestern Community College campus. Originally, Permitting and Code Enforcement Director Tony Elders said it was not his job to inspect the road, though he later reversed his position. Then, during former County Planner Gerald Green’s last days working for the county — Green resigned this spring to take a planning job in Knoxville — it came out that Elders had not been enforcing the county’s steep slopes ordinance. Elders said that enforcement of the ordinances was the planning department’s responsibility, while Green contended it was permitting and code enforcement’s job. The argument made Green’s last planning board meeting in May a contentious one. Green and Elders also disagreed about the legality of construction on a mountainside in Dillsboro. The slope was at
caused the steep slope ordinance to apply. Elders countered that the 2013 plat was never filed with the register of deeds, so he’d referred to the 1991 plat. Questions about Elders’ office didn’t stop there. Since 2011, state law has required people overseeing construction activities without a general contractor’s license to submit an affidavit showing why they qualify for one of the ex emptions to the general state requirement that people overseeing construction projects worth more than $30,000 hold a license. However, Elders had not been collecting the affidavits. According to a report on Permitting and Code Enforcement’s activities recently completed by Charlottebased Benchmark Planning, there was no nefarious intent or dereliction of duty related to these incidents. Benchmark’s Richard Smith told commissioners that, while errors have been made, the issues have been addressed and fixed. Commissioner Chairman Brian McMahan agreed with that assessment. “I haven’t seen evidence where somebody intentionally tried to ignore a local ordinance or state law — no, I haven’t seen that,” McMahan said. “There’s been some [items overlooked]. There have been some decisions probably made just out of ignorance of the law.” With Benchmark’s report now finished, commissioners will consider which of their recommendations to implement to prevent such mistakes from occurring in the future.
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A new model of health care Cherokee celebrates new hospital
BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER fter a week of rain, the sun rose brightly over the new Cherokee Indian Hospital and the crowd attending its opening day. And while the traditional music, dancing and prayers that characterized the celebration might not be elements of a typical ribbon-cutting ceremony, the new hospital is not a typical health care facility. But that is what the Cherokee people gathered there Oct. 15 were most proud of. “It’s going to give a sense of comfor t and well-being and help with the healing process,” said Principal Chief Patrick Lambert. “The healing begins the moment you walk in the door.” “I’m overwhelmed with joy right now,” added Tribal Council member Adam Wachacha, of Snowbird. At 150,000 square feet, the new hospital is nearly twice the size of the existing 80 ,000square-foot building. It cost $82 million to complete, and services will expand to include specialized dental services such as pediatrics, an endodontist to do root canals and other procedures, more access to oral surgery and improved imaging; outpatient procedures like colonoscopies and endoscopies; a drive-through pharmacy; expanded radiology services using new MRI and CT scan machines; eye care; hospice and improved physical therapy. Those stats in themselves are impressive and worthy of celebration, but hospital leaders made it clear that the new facility represents more than just an expanded inventory of services and that new-building shine. The facility’s opening signals a paradigm shift in how health care will be offered on the Qualla Boundary. “Integrated care is what a lot of people think is going to be the future of health care,” said Brad Letts, a member of the hospital’s board of directors. “Integrated health care” basically means designing the hospital around the patient’s needs, arranging things so people who come for treatment aren’t sent scurrying from floor to floor on a wild goose chase for the corr ect specialist to address their problem. Rather, medical staff is arranged in teams, each of which includes a doctor, nurse, dietician, psychologist and pharmacist. Those people all share a workspace, working collaboratively to address the patient’s needs. The hospital will hold six such teams, each of which will be responsible for 16 somewhere between 1,100 and 1,200 patients.
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“It’s a team approach,” said Francis Owle Smith, a member of the governing board and herself a doctor. “Doctors don’t have offices anymore.” It took years of research to arrive at the model and figure out how that approach should translate into physical building plans. A group of hospital leaders traveled all the way to Alaska to tour the facilities that had the strongest influence over how the Cherokee Indian Hospital turned out. The Southcentral Foundation, a nonprofit healthcare organization that serves nearly 65,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people in Alaska, operates on the Nuka system of care, named after “an Alaska Native word used for strong, giant structures and living things,” according to the foundation’s website. It’s a relationship-based system that seeks to make medicine, tradition, infrastructure and organization work together for the best health outcomes. “The Nuka system of care is based on the premise that patients get healthy when they have a healthy partnership and relationship with their team,” explained Casey Cooper, the hospital’s CEO. The physical environment is also a significant component of the philosophy. “We spent a whole lot of time and money focused on environmental engineering, where Casey Cooper to locate things,” Letts said. “Do you want people walking two, three stories who need physical therapy? No.” That’s why the building is long and lean instead of big and boxy. It’s strung out across multiple, connected structures, allowing numerous points of entry to increase ease of access. The long design also allo ws for angled gaps in the building sections — Letts describes them as orange slices — to maximize the number of rooms that have windows. Of course, that kind of construction is more expensive than the straight-up box design, but one of the beliefs driving the building layout is that beauty and sense of place are important components of wellness. “The governing board told the design team, ‘First and foremost make sure you build us a facility that accentuates the natural beauty of the environment we live in, because there is such a strong sense of place among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians,” Cooper said. The interior walls of the building are wrapped with photographs of Southern Appalachian landscapes, and windows take up nearly the entire eastern face, revealing a view of fiery fall mountains. The floor of the first-level hallway mimics a river, with dark blue in the middle, a lighter blue ar ound that and brown at the edges. Outlines of fish and animal tracks dot the way. Culture and place are intertwined, and the hospital reflects that. Cherokee art and tradition are woven throughout. “You can always tell how well a culture is doing based on the artwork, and I think this is exemplary of that,” said Lucretia Hicks, patient registra-
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Carmelita Monteith, chair of the hospital board, addresses the crowd gathered for the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new Cherokee Indian Hospital building. Amy Walker, a Cherokee tribal member, joins in the friendship dance that formed one segment of the joyous ceremony preceding the ribbon cutting. Holly Kays photo
The road to opening day The new hospital is actually the fourth health care center Cherokee has had, with the ribbon cut on the existing hospital 35 years ago. But it wasn’t until 2002 that the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians took on full ownership and responsibility for the Cherokee Indian Hospital. Soon after that, hospital leaders realized that they’d need to start planning for more space. In 2007, they began looking at expanding the existing facility but found that to be an expensive proposition that wouldn’t fully address the organization’s needs. That’s when then-Principal Chief Michell Hicks sponsored legislation to fund con-
struction of a new hospital. Unfortunately, that decision coincided with the recession, and the project was put on hold. In the interim, hospital leaders did their research, looking for a model that worked and traveling to Alaska to see the facility that most caught their interest. Now, two years after groundbreaking, the $82 million facility is complete and fully tribally owned, with $20 million worth of the work done by tribal members. The hospital will be paid off within 10 years, CEO Casey Cooper said. “The members of this community are deserving and they are worthy of world-class service in a world-class facility,” Cooper told the crowd gathered for the ribbon cutting. “We are not here today because of the (federal) government’s commitment to health care. We are here in spite of it.”
The opening process On Monday, Oct. 19, the new Cherokee Indian Hospital opened up its pharmacy, but the launch process is still under way for the rest of the hospital’s services. By Monday, Nov. 16, the hospital will be in total oper ation. In the interim, equipment will be moved to the new building and staff will finish training in the integrated care model. “The staff, they’re still in training, they’re still checking out the new equipment and we want everything safe and proper when our patients come to see us,” said Carmelita Monteith, chair of the hospital’s governing board.
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tion manager at the hospital, as she stood greeting visitors in the main lobby. “A lot of our stories and traditions have been incorporated.” Photography, paintings, baskets and other forms of art by Cherokee people are displayed throughout the hospital, and as she spoke, Hicks was standing directly on the centerpiece of cultural incorporation — a pattern on the rotunda floor depicting a spider standing in the middle of the water, a flame on its back. The design, which youth from the Junaluska Leadership Council helped create, harkens back to the Cherokee tradition of how fire originally came to Earth. In the beginning, the story goes, there was no fire. Then one day, lightning struck a tree on an island, igniting it. The animals held a council to decide who could bring the flame across the water. Animal after animal tried and failed, until eventually the tiny water spider volunteered. She spun a web into a little bowl placed on her back, walked across the water, and brought back the tiny coal from which all fire originates. For the Cherokee, that’s not just a story about fire. It’s a story about life itself, because fire symbolizes the force of life that is inside each living thing. “Everything in creation has that spiritual energy in it that gives it life, that makes it come into being, and it’s all connected,” said Amy Walker, a tribal elder. Walker is all smiles when it comes to the ne w hospital, but she hopes the facility will be mor e than just a place to disseminate Western medicine. She wants to see the hospital act as a bastion of Cher okee culture and its approach to holistic healing. “If (health care providers) are educated in our culture, I think that is probably the biggest aspect of healing that will really be brought out in this new facility,” Walker said. Whereas Western medicine divvies problems up into the respective domains of physicians, psychologists and reverends, traditional Cherokee healing looks at the whole person to find the root cause of the problem. She’s hopeful that the new facility’s emphasis on place, traditional stories and collaboration among medical staff will help move health care on the Qualla Boundary in that direction. For tribal member Natalie Smith, the best part of the new facility is the patient rooms. They’re large and sunny and — most impor tantly — have fold-out beds and wider-than-normal patient beds so family members can snuggle with their loved ones. Two of the 18 rooms connect to rooms that, instead of beds, contain a living room-like space with a sofa, chairs and a table. “One of the most emotional things for me is to have a room that can accommodate your family,” Smith said. “The beds are big enough to get in so you can love on your family member.” How is a person supposed to heal, Smith asked, when they’re shoved in a room too tiny to hold the people most vital to their emotional health? “I think the biggest shortfall of hospitals I’ve ever seen is being forced to be alone because there’s no room for your family to be there,” she said. Space, light and service — all components of the new hospital and all points of hope and pride for the evolution of health care on the Qualla Boundary. And, possibly, in Western North Carolina as a whole. “It’s a new model of health care,” said David Belcher, chancellor of Western Carolina University, who attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony. “I think what they’re doing here is unbelievable, and I think there’s a lot other hospitals can learn fr om what they’re doing here (at the hospital).” Or, as behavioral health counselor Patty Grant Edgeman put it, “I can’t wait to get sick.”
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Ingles makes a few tweaks to expansion plans BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR ngles Markets has gotten approval for a few minor changes to its site plan as it moves forward with a $7.5 million expansion project off Russ Avenue, which includes a Chick-fil-A, gas station, car wash, a parking lot makeover and additional retailers. After looking at the proposed changes to the plan, Town Planner Elizabeth Teague said planning staff found the modifications for the Chick-fil-A would only improve safety concerns. She said the changes for the new Ingles supermarket seemed minor enough for the planning board to approve without turning the decision over the to the board of aldermen. Ingles requested to change the number and placement of driveways planned for the Chick-fil-A parcel. Ingles wanted to reduce the number of access drives from three to two and move the access roads that were going to be perpendicular to Russ Avenue to one access that is parallel to Russ Avenue. Teague said the change would mean people could only access the restaurant from the two driveways off the access road instead of directly off of Russ Avenue, which would improve traffic patterns. “Whenever you get a driveway that close to an intersection, you have some problems,” Teague said. “But they’ve created a safer driveway scheme.” The original plan also had the Chick-fil-A building located in the center of the parcel with parking on either side, but Teague said Ingles was requesting to move the building to the southeast side of the property. The change will still allow for 55 parking spots, landscaping, parking for three bicycles and sidewalks as required in Waynesville’s landuse plan. The Chick-fil-A façade will still be facing Russ Avenue. Todd Rogers, an engineer for Chick-fil-A, said the reconfigured driveways should improve traffic flow in the area. He said the restaurant would also have a double drivethru and perhaps mobile ordering, which should keep vehicle backup to a minimum. The planning board considered the requests as unsubstantial changes to the approved master site plan, which means the board has the authority to approve them without referring to the town board of aldermen for final approval. The planning board unanimously approved the changes. Byron Hickox, town code enforcement officer, then presented a signage request from Ingles. Ingles asked for six separate sign elements — nine signs to be placed on the front of the Ingles façade; attached signage on the gas station; a ground sign for the gas station; a ground sign located at the property entrance on Howell Mill Road; refacing the existing pylon sign on Russ Avenue and signage to be installed on the multi-tenant portion of the main building. “All of them meet our standards. I’m only
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here because item one — nine individual signs on the façade of the building is not permitted,” Hickox said. The town’s land-use development plan says no more than three attached signs may be used as long as the total sur face area permitted is not exceeded. While Ingles request is more than three signs, Hickox said the size of the nine r equested signs wouldn’t even be close to the total square allowed given the size of the building. The nine signs would be smaller, directional signs on the front of the building to help shoppers know which door to enter from the parking lot. “They’re intended to direct patrons to the right portion of the store because of multiple entrances,” Hickox said. “They’re
Ingles Markets is moving forward with a $7.5 million expansion project at its Russ Avenue location. File photo not meant to be visible from Russ Avenue.” Planning staff recommended approving the signage, and the planning board approved the change unanimously. The board also approved a change to Ingles’ plans for a carwash to be located next to the gas station. The original plan was for a two-bay carwash and Ingles requested a single tunnel design carwash instead. Ingles Markets Project Manager Preston Kendall said the carwash would be mostly automated but would have attendants to help customers at the beginning and with vacuuming services afterward. Kendall also went over a few minor changes to the parking lot design, including redistributing islands between parking spaces, adding a few car-charging stations for electric vehicles and adding another row of parking spaces to the far right of the building where future tenants will be located. As for the vacant Belk building, Kendall said Ingles hadn’t had much luck finding a tenant that would be a good fit for the large space. He said the inside of the building was still in good shape and he was open to suggestions. “I don’t know what will happen with the Belk building — when we’re finished with the master plan, I think we’ll have to regroup and figure out what we have to do with it,” he said.
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can dress up and act out the stories in the books. She said the r ole-playing scenarios help children understand how it feels to be a bully, what it's like to be the bullied victim and how to stop a bullying situation. “One part of the pr oject was to put it to the test and get feedback fr om the kids,” Martin said.
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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR irl Scout Elizabeth Mar tin has remained quiet and humble for the last couple of weeks as local leaders sho wer her with accolades. With more than 400 hours invested in an anti-bullying project and a 20 15 National Young Woman of Distinction Award from the Girl Scouts of America to show for her efforts, the Pisgah High senior deser ves the pr aise. Only 10 young women in the na tion received the award this year. Marsha Tate, Martin’s Girl Scout leader , said she was very proud of Martin. “It’s very rare for a girl to obtain this award,” said Tate, who has been a Girl Scout leader in Canton for 25 y ears. “I’ve only had nine girls receive them during my time, so I know it takes a lot of hard work and a lot of determination.”
Martin was r ecognized for her achievements at the Canton Boar d of Aldermen meeting last week wher e she was pr esented with a key to the city , and she was also acknowledged at a r ecent Haywood County Council of Government meeting. She’s gotten used to taking her “Shine Your Own Way” educational program on the r oad, and it doesn’t appear the spotlight will be dimming anytime soon. When Martin was presented the na tional award in N ew York City, she was interviewed by Robin McGraw — wife of popular TV talk sho w host Dr. Phil McGraw. Tate said plans are being made for Mar tin and the other nine na tional award winners to appear on his show to talk about their projects. None of the ex citement seems to faze Martin though — she was simply completing another Girl Scout r equirement. Just as the Boy Scouts ha ve to complete a large-scale service project before becoming an Eagle Scout, the Gold A ward project is the equiv alent for Girl Scouts. “When we star ted the Gold A ward projects in 2013, I started thinking about what to do for it,” Martin said. “One of my idols, Lady
So Martin took her “Shine Y our Own Way” box to many pre-K classes to see if it was going to wor k. After r eading the books to them and leading them through the activities, she felt like the students had a positive r eaction to the program. “I feel like I r eally got through to them,” she said. Tate said the Gold A ward projects are meant to be something her Girl Scouts can continue to wor k on thr oughout their lives, even after they’ve graduated high school and moved on to college. The Canton Board of Aldermen had words of encouragement to offer Martin as they presented her with an achievement a ward and a key to the city. Mayor Mike Ray congratulated her for having the heart and the know-how to make a difference at such a young age. “If you can do this much at your age, imagine what you can do when y ou’re our age,” said Alderwoman Gail Mull. Living in a world wher e it seems younger generations are only thinking about themselves, Alderman Zeb Sma thers said, it was good to see Mar tin creating something tha t could help others be better people. While awards are great, he said, the true reward was in knowing that Martin made a difference in someone’s life. “Because of this, some where — y ou’ll never know their names — but a young child will learn something from this and your legacy will put someone on a differ ent course,” he said. Martin wants to continue her effor ts to reach as many childr en as possible. She said she is no w working on getting her series of five books published so they can be distributed to schools all acr oss the U.S. She also wants to use her Spanish-speaking skills to create bilingual programs about bullying. “I hope doing this project might help me get scholarships for school, and I hope the pr oject continues to get much bigger,” she said. Martin exemplifies and is also teaching others the Girl Scout mission, which is to build girls of cour age, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. After graduation, Martin has her ey e on pursuing a car eer in constr uction management or industrial engineering since her main interest is in design. She curr ently lives in Canton with her par ents, Eugenia and Margarito Martin, and her y ounger sister, Xitlali Martin.
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Gaga, was talking about the problem of bullying — she inspir ed me and I wanted to do something about it.” While she’s never been a victim of bullying, she sees the effects it can have on others. Martin learned that 1 in 6 students in the U.S. ar e bullied at school, and students who ar e bullied are more likely to commit suicide or harm themselves. The mor e she learned about the issue, the larger her Gold Award project became. “Bullying is mainly about their feelings — children don’t know how to express their feelings so they bully others without knowing the consequences of it,” Martin said. Martin said T ate continued to question her about what she could do to tr uly put an end to bullying. She decided to target chil dren ages 4 to 7 and educa te them about the dangers of bullying other children. She hoped reaching children at a young age would pr event them from bullying when they get older. “It’s never too late to change, but it might be harder for kids to change when they’r e older — it might be too late,” Martin said. Martin’s “Shine Your Own Way” box has everything parents and teachers need to teach children a strong sense of self-worth and how to develop positive r elationships with others. The box includes sever al children’s books about bullying tha t Martin wrote and illustrated herself, an educa tional brochure for parents and teachers, r elated activity sheets for students and even costumes so students
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Tires, bluegrass and tourism Mountain Faith’s big break brings visitors to Jackson BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER igh Country Tire Shop is an extr a-busy place these da ys. Ever since Mountain Faith, the bluegrass family band whose members all work at the shop, made a splash on the national stage with their performances on America’s Got Talent, fans have been coming from all over just to see the band members at work. “We’ve had some fr om Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, that’ll drive all the wa y to our store just to see if it’ s real,” said Summer McMahan, fiddle pla yer and vocalist. “It’ s funny because when they see us ther e, they freak out because they don’t think it’ s real. They don’t think we actually work here.” Since their musical car eers have kicked into high gear — the band made it to the semifinals of NBC’s America’s Got Talent and McMahan took the “Momentum F emale Vocalist Award” at the Interna tional Bluegrass Music Association Awards in Raleigh earlier this month — Mountain Faith is on the road more than it’s been in the past. But when they’r e in to wn, McMahan said, they make it a point to stick around the shop, working at the family business.
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Community Table needs donations The Community Table in Sylva needs help from the community to fill up its food pantr y for the holiday season. After a successful ma tching donation challenge earlier this y ear, another generous anonymous donor would like to r epeat the challenge, matching donations from until Dec. 1 up to $2,1 85 to help the Community Table put even mor e healthy food into the pantry. Online dona tions can be made a t communitytable.org or send a dona tion by mail to The Community T able, P.O. Box 62, Dillsboro, N.C. 28725. Please note tha t your gift is in response to the “Challenge.” 828.586.6782.
Prospective students invited to WCU’s Open House
Prospective students ar e invited to visit Western Carolina University on Sa turday, Oct. 31, for an Open House event. The day’s activities will begin with an 20 academic information fair fr om 8:15 to 1 0
“There are a lot of local people that if they see my car in there, they’ll come in and talk to me and congratulate me and stuff, and tha t’s multiple times a day,” McMahan said. And about thr ee or four times a week, someone will pop in the shop who ’s driven hours to get ther e. People en route to somewhere else, many of them, who took a lengthy detour to get to the unassuming tire shop and gas station along U.S. 441. “We just sit ther e and talk to them for a while,” McMahan said. “W e sell our CDs a t the store so they’ll normally buy a CD and get us to sign it.” Most of the out -of-towners don’t seem to be spending the night, McMahan said, instead fitting a trip to do wntown Sylva into their venture through Jackson County , getting information from the visitor’s center on where to find the band and taking adv antage of the oppor tunity to explor e Mountain Faith’s hometown. Julie Spiro, executive director of the Jackson County Chamber of Commer ce, has been fielding plenty of calls and walk -in traffic centered on Mountain F aith, at least 50 since the band’ s America’s Got T alent performance. “I think this as an advertisement was very valuable, and we didn’t spend any money on this particular advertisement,” Spiro said. The Chamber is planning to pla y up its connection to Mountain F aith over the coming year, featuring the band in the 2016 issue of its magazine Our T own, and Spir o hopes the band’s success will promote the future of Sylva’s Concerts on the C reek series of musical performances at Bridge P ark. The series started with Mountain Faith. “Mountain Faith was, I think, our second band ever to per form at Concerts on the
a.m. on the concourse of W CU’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center. Following a wel come session in the main ar ena of the Ramsey Center from 10-10:30 a.m., prospective students will have a chance to engage in academic sessions led by WCU faculty members from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Lunch will be available at all campus dining locations. Students a ttending Open House will receive a voucher for a fr ee lunch that can be r edeemed at Courtyard Dining Hall or the food cour t at A.K. Hinds University Center. Afternoon activities will include a student services and student organiza tion information fair in A.K. Hinds University Center from 1 to 3 p.m. Tours of campus and a v ariety of information sessions on topics such as “H ow to Pay for College” will be available from noon until 4 p.m. Preregistration available at openhouse.wcu.edu or by calling the Office of Undergraduate Admission at 828.227.7317.
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Siblings and bandmates Summer and Brayden McMahan ride through downtown Sylva through streets crowded with people turned out for the band’s impromptu welcome home from New York City. Holly Kays photo Creek,” Spiro said. “For us that was the genesis chapter on our summer -long concert series. When we couldn’t r eally afford to pay a great band like Mountain F aith, they were willing to come at that time and do it for the community.” These days, Mountain Faith is no longer a hometown secret. They’re playing on prestigious stages, winning a wards, and just released a new album, “That Which Matters.” Back home, that success is translating into good business for the tire shop. “It’s crazy how much more business we’ve been doing since the sho w,” McMahan said, adding that the little shop has had to hir e a couple more people as a result.
“It’s really humbling that people come all that way just to see us,” she added. Almost as humbling as the impr omptu welcome home parade Sylva threw the band in September, when they returned home from months doing the TV show in New York City. Hundreds of people turned out to take in the short parade and r eception at Bridge P ark, the stage where it all started. “We were kind of a home concert base for them to tr y out their ma terial. We were the last place they performed before they went to Radio City Music Hall, and we wer e the first place that welcomed them back,” Spir o said. “We will alwa ys be the home of Mountain Faith, always.”
volunteer coordination meeting a t 5 p .m. Nov. 2 a t the Carpenter Community Building in Franklin. Public input r egarding volunteer team opportunities and activities in needed. W ith the cold wea ther season appr oaching, the organization needs all the help it can get to coordinate assistance. T eams are being formed for public r elations, funding and grant development, case management, volunteers, crisis shelter and transportation. www.maconnewbeginnings.org.
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Rep. Meadows to speak at Veteran’s Day event
U.S. Congressman Mark Meadows, RCashiers, will be the keynote speaker a t Southwestern Community College’s Veteran’s Day event, which will be held fr om noon-1 p.m. on W ednesday, Nov. 11, in M yers Auditorium on the Jackson Campus. The event will also include a pr esentation from the William E. Dillard American Legion Post 104 Color Guar d, comments fr om the chairmen of the Jackson, Macon and S wain County Commissioners and a video/slideshow of SCC emplo yees and students who served in the U.S. armed forces. Dr. Don Tomas, president of SCC, and Daniel Sewell, president of the SCC Veterans Club, will also speak at the event. Attire for the da y is red, white and blue; everyone is welcome and encouraged to wear our nation’s colors.
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room tax charged on o vernight stays in the county, money primarily paid by out-of-town visitors. Hiring an executive director has been the plan since the Jackson agency started, but the conversation has acceler ated over the past year as the boar d’s activity and wor kload increased beyond what a volunteer boar d could handle. This spring the boar d decided to hire the director as a contract worker, with the potential of making the jo b a staff position in the future. If all goes smoothly, the board could hire someone as early as January 2016, with a possible start date in January or February of that year. However, the timeline assumes tha t the field of five contains a viable candidate who is still willing to accept the offer by the time the board’s ready to make its decision. “If the committee of five comes back and says there’s not really good potential for any of these folks, I think the board would understand that,” Jumper said.
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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ackson County could ha ve a tourism director in place closely following the new year if the field of five that bid for the position — curr ently offered as a one-y ear contract — proves to contain any winners. “I think this is a huge step forward in what the board says they want to do ,” said Robert Jumper, chairman of Jackson’ s Tourism Development Authority board, at the board’s meeting last week. Some board members wer e a bit taken aback, however, to see tha t some of the bids came from firms that employ multiple people rather than from individual contractors, and they questioned whether tha t is indeed the direction the county should proceed. “Their submissions don’t sound like it’ s coming from an individual — it’ s the whole company,” said board member Henry Hoche of some of the applica tions. “Is that what we’re looking for?” Another concern is tha t two of the five firms that bid ar e not based in Jackson County —the r equest for pr oposals asks that potential dir ectors either live in Jackson County or be willing to r elocate there. One bidder, Martin-McGill, is based in Asheville, and another, J Brendle Media, is located in W aynesville. It’s unclear whether either organiza tion has staff who live in Jackson County or would be willing to move there if offer ed the jo b. That’s something the board will have to figure out during the interview process. There’s also a good bit of swing in the price points of the five bidders. J Br endle Media has the lo west bid a t $53,000, with Jackson-based companies NB Management and TenBiz, Inc. clocking in a t $54,0000. Meanwhile, Sylva-based Insight Marketing is asking $73,000 and Mar tin-McGill listed a range from $75,000 to $100,000 for the oneyear contract. Jumper reminded the boar d that they have bargaining power when it comes to compensation. “Just because they bid a cer tain amount doesn’t mean we ’re committed to their bid amount,” Jumper said. Following that discussion, the TDA board voted unanimously to ha ve its five ex ecutive members conduct a first round of interviews with the candida tes, to be scheduled some-
time before the boar d’s Nov. 18 meeting. Jackson County Economic Development Director Rich Price and representatives from Brandon and Pineapple mar keting agencies, which the TDA works with, will be asked to sit in as advisors on the second r ound of interviews. Created in 20 12, Jackson’s TDA was formed from what used to be kno wn as the Jackson County Travel and Tourism Agency. The TTA and the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce shared an ex ecutive director — current chamber director Julie Spiro — prior to the formation of the TDA. The TDA currently has no paid staff. The Haywood County TD A, by comparison, employs four people. Both organiza tions get their funding in the same wa y — through a
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Luxury hotel opens in Bryson City The Bryson City Cork & Bean, one of the town's favorite eateries, has added luxury lodging to its menu of hospitality ser vices. The restaurant's owners recently completed renovation of the top two floors of the 1908 Bryson City Bank building, transforming the historic structure into The Everett Boutique Hotel & Bistro with nine luxury suites, a restaurant and bar. Hotel suites with memory foam mattresses and upscale baths, and a rooftop terrace with open fireplace and beautiful city and mountain views are the hallmark amenities for the new hotel. Guests enjoy a complimentary breakfast/brunch in the Cork & Bean Bistro each day of their stay. The hotel is located next to the historic Swain County Courthouse Visitor Center / Heritage Museum, and within walking distance of shops, galleries, restaurants, brewery, bookstores and the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. Hotel parking is free. Call 828.488.1976.
Brad Renegar of Waynesville recently graduated as a Certified Public Manager at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh.
Renegar becomes a certified public manager Brad Renegar of Waynesville recently graduated as a Certified Public Manager at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. Renegar is a district administr ator with the N.C. Courts’ Guardian ad Litem pr ogram and works with the court system to recruit and train volunteers to pr ovide independent investigations to judges in cases of child abuse and/or neglect. The Certified Public Manager P rogram is intended to increase the effectiveness, efficiency and productivity of NC sta te and local go vernment organizations by improving the leadership abilities of employees in management positions. To complete this program, Renegar completed 300 hours of course work and a service delivery improvement project within his own organization.
A Small Miracle owner receives excellence award Janet Presson, owner of A Small Miracle Inc. in Waynesville and a Special Olympics N.C.
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Board member, was pr esented with the James Long Commitment to E xcellence Award by Special Olympics North Carolina. For more than a decade, Presson has been an outstanding leader in the Special Olympics movement in N orth Carolina. She volunteers, serves as a Special Olympics N.C. Boar d member and makes significant financial dona tions both personally and through her business. She has contributed more than $325,000 to Special Olympics N.C. o ver the past 10 years. “Janet truly defines what excellence is and helps Special Olympics N.C. achieve gr eatness Janet Presson through her leadership ,” said Keith L. F ishburne, president/CEO of Special Olympics N orth Carolina. “Special Olympics athletes and the organization are fortunate to have Janet on their side because she is a true champion of the Special Olympics mission.”
Harris, Swain hospitals to hold job fair Harris Regional Hospital and S wain Community Hospital, both Duke LifePoint hospitals, will hold a jo b fair fr om 5:30-8:30 p .m. Thursday, Nov. 19, in the main lo bby of Harris Regional Hospital. Opportunities are available at locations in Sylva, Bryson City and Franklin. 828.586.7102 or www.myharrisregional.com.
Tourism businesses invited to workshop The Haywood County T ourism Development Authority invites tourism-r elated business owners to a ttend a gr oup tour wor kshop and luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at Maggie V alley Inn and
Conference Center. The workshop will teach business o wners how to attract more groups to their businesses. Ron Bower, the TDA's group sales manager, will cover a variety of topics, including best practices for attracting and managing groups.
Funding will help grow small businesses Small businesses, which make up the foundation of W estern North Carolina’s economy, are in for a boost as Mountain BizWorks receives $1.25 million in ne w funding fr om the U.S. Small Business A dministration to expand an important loan program. The new funding will help expand Mountain BizWorks’ microloan program, which pr ovides small loans r anging from $500 to $50 ,000. Proceeds can be used for typical business purposes such as working capital, or the purchase of furniture, fixtures, machinery, supplies, equipment, and inventory. Mountain BizWorks is a U.S. Treasury certified nonprofit community development financial institution (CDFI).
SCC’s Small Business Center continues to grow Topping Tiffany Henry’s first year as director of Southwestern Community College ’s Small Business Center was no easy task. During the 20 14-15 fiscal y ear, Henry has been named “R ookie of the Y ear” by N orth Carolina’s Small Business Center N etwork for her efforts in exponentially expanding the number of ser vices available to entr epreneurs in SCC’s service area. “We continue to be amazed and inspir ed by the way Tiffany engages our community ,” said Dr. Thom Brooks, vice president for instruction and student services at SCC. “She finds out what services and topics are needed, and she delivers.” 828.339.4000.
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• The next Women in Business Luncheon, a committee of the Haywood County Chamber of commerce, will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at Laurel Ridge Country Club. The guest speaker will be Jennifer Jacobsen of Wells Funeral Homes, Inc. & Cremation Services of Waynesville. This is the last luncheon of 2015 and also following the theme for this year of Stop and Smell a ROSE. The E in ROSE stands for “endurance,” which will be Jacobsen’s topic. • Greg Shuping, Haywood County Emergency Coordinator, will be the guest speaker at the next Issues and Eggs breakfast event held by the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce. The program will be held from 8-9 a.m. Nov. 4 at Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville.
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• Simple Elegance Home Décor recently re-opened in Franklin at 1511 Highlands Road near Keller Williams Real Estate. The store is open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. 828.369.2762. • Harris GI Associates – A Duke LifePoint Physician Practice — recently opened a new location in Murphy. Dr. Randall Savell will be in Murphy each Wednesday from 2-5 p.m. The office will be located across from the entrance to Murphy Medical Center. Appointments are scheduled by referral only. 828.631.8840. • SonRise Sanitation recently moved to a new location at 1581 Georgia Road in Franklin. SonRise Sanitation, Inc. is owned and operated by Greg and Jamie Bates and provides portable sanitation services to a variety of jobs and special events in Western North Carolina and Rabun County, Georgia. 828.524.8989. • Fox Mercantile recently opened in Franklin at 73 W. Palmer Street next to Ace Hardware. The new store offers work boots, work wear, cowboy and cowgirl boots, scrubs and more. 828.634.7731. • The Village Hound, which carries interior décor and pet care products, recently opened at 25 Burns St., in Cashiers. Call 828.743.5990. • Whiskey River Large Animal is Western North Carolina’s newest large animal mobile veterinary provider in Franklin. Whiskey River offers care for horses, cattle, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas and pet pigs. To make an appointment, call at 828.524.1957 or visit www.WhiskeyRiverLargeAnimal.com.
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Steep slope protections a very real economic incentive Commissioners are expected to pass a revised steep slope ordinance that will weaken the threshold from 30 to a 35 percent slope for the ordinance to kick in. While this change essentially does indeed weaken the ordinance, things could have been much worse, so Jackson is to be commended for the stance it’s taking. The story of how Jackson County got to this point is inter esting in and of itself. It’s indicative of how the real estate bust had a relatively traumatic effect on the mountains communities of Western North Carolina and had its leaders backs to wall as they tried to claw their way out. The previous Jackson County commissioners wanted their planning board to make revisions that would have more or less eviscerated the county’s steep slope ordinance. And so the planning board worked for two years to essentially do just that to the groundbreaking 2007 ordinance that the then-commissioners passed during the heyday of the nationwide construction boom. Large corporations and local developers were at that time parceling Jackson County’s private lands into huge golf course and residential developments, and commissioners wanted to make sure that the county’s threatened treasures — clean water, forested mountainsides, unobstructed mountain views — were protected rather than violated with by a hodgepodge of development.
So they passed a set of regulations that were tough yet workable, providing builders with concrete guidelines on what was and was not acceptable. Then the bubble burst. Huge developers went bankrupt or sold off their land at rock-bottom prices, and construction throughout the mountains and the country slowed to a crawl. The commissioners who were elected to office in 2010 thought the 2007 ordinances too strict, thought the regulations were hindering Jackson County’s ability to recover from the recession. Editor So they asked their planning board to complete a do-over, believing weaker ordinances would encourage development and bring jobs to the county. While there were some differences among the volunteer planning board members, they did what the commissioners wanted. But it took a long time, and when the ne w, weakened proposal was ready for a hearing, an election was looming in November 2014. A public hearing on that proposal drew a standing room only crowd who were irate that commissioners were going to gut the 2007 or dinance and leave Jackson County open for the kind of unchecked devel opment that had sparked the creation of that earlier ordinance.
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County commissioners are going to pass a smart steep slope ordinance that will help as this region shakes off Jtheackson devastating effects of the recent recession.
Reelected Hamlet, Mull to Canton board To the Editor: I am writing to express my support for Ralph Hamlett and Gail Mull for Canton aldermen. Although I live outside the city limits of Canton, I ha ve attended board meetings since May 2013 when I became an active volunteer with Camp Hope. I am impressed with the positive direction, initiatives, programs, ordinances, policies and plans that Ralph and Gail, working together with the other aldermen, mayor, town manager and town staff, have adopted. They have accomplished so much not just for Canton but for all of us in Ha ywood County and beyond. Plans are moving forward for a new outdoor swimming pool. An aggressive economic development plan is being implemented. An ordinance is in place to improve the safety and market appeal of downtown buildings along with grant money to assist property owners. Improvements are constantly being made to an aging wa ter infrastructure. Salary adjustments have been made to bring town employees closer to the market average. A balanced budget that does not raise taxes has been adopted. These are just a few of their accomplishments. One of their best decisions was to hire Seth Hendler-Voss as town manager. Seth brings talent, skill, knowledge, energy and enthusiasm to his position. Ralph and Gail share this passion for Canton. They listen to the residents, research the issues, ask questions and then ultima tely make decisions that are in the best interests of the citizens. They strive to build on Canton’s rich heritage, preserve Canton’s beloved traditions, and embrace new ideas that will enhance Canton’s future. They are constantly seeking to do what is best both short- and long-term. I strongly encourage the voters of Canton to re-elect Ralph Hamlett and Gail Mull. Allow them to continue to move Canton forward. With them, the future of “Western North Carolina’s Hometown” is extremely bright! Pam Kearse Haywood County
That hearing helped convince the prior county boar d to delay any implementation of the new proposal. Then the election came, and those who wanted the weaker or dinance were voted out of office. The more progressive leaders who now run Jackson County thought the land-use ordinances were still needed. And so all this brings us to next week’s meeting where commissioners are expected to adopt the very slightly revised steep slope ordinance. The truth is that we are likely to never see the kind of real estate frenzy that took place in the mountains from 2000 to 2007. But people are still buying property, and that includes locals and part-time residents, retirees and young entrepreneurs. And they are coming for the same reasons they were coming pre-recession — the beauty of the mountains, the allure of the outdoors and the vibrant quality of life in our small towns. Ordinances like those Jackson County will adopt next week are their own kind of economic development incentives. Potential homeowners and developers will know exactly what they are getting and what their neighboring landowners can’t do. Regulating mountainside development by taking reasonable and smart steps is a way of protecting the infrastructure that nature has already put in place. We don’t have to pay for these incentives, we just have to guard them through enlightened leadership. (Scott McLeod can be reached at info@smokymountainnews.com)
Little-known Cherokee history, from the archives BY GARY CARDEN COLUMNIST When I used to work for the Cherokees, there were occasions when there was little to do. When that happened, I would vanish into the archives of the museum where I would find all the ancient histor y and folklore that was rarely explored — neglected because it was at odds with the image that the museum presented to the public. Among my favorites was old Chief Doublehead, who managed to offend so many people he became something of an outcast. He beat his pregnant wives, drank to excess, lost land and livestock through gambling and took pride in being a cannibal. His exploits were an embarrassment to the Cherokee leaders because this was a time (the early 1800s) when they sought the good will of the white man’ s government, and so promoted the Cherokee as “a peaceful people.” Doublehead was definitely at odds with that image. As a result Major Ridge, a powerful leader, and several tribal members decided to assassinate the old murderous drunk. It is a great story and is recorded in all its bloody grandeur in Thurman Wilkins’ remarkable history, “The Ridge Tragedy.” Then, there was Christian Phiber, who Gov. James Oglethorpe described as a “most strange man,” who showed up among the Cherokees in the early 18th century and announced his intention of establishing “an earthly paradise” that would contain a large number of “half-breeds, Blacks, French and Portuguese.” It was no idle dream, and Phiber almost succeeded. His basic mission was to force the white settlers to return to Europe. Some of his concepts involved the abolishment of mar riage and the promotion of polygamy. Before Phiber was captured (and probably killed), he had established a series
of settlements consisting totally of women who had expressed a desire to govern themselves. He also promoted the idea that his utopian community would be a r efuge for the disenfranchised and outcast everywhere. Phiber had put his utopian plan in a book which mysteriously vanished along with an extensive dictionary of the Cherokee language. He was arrested and imprisoned in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. And finally, there is the tragic tale of Chief Bowles (Duwali), who was born in 1765 and was named successor to the war chief, Dragging Canoe. However, this ill-fated Chief of the Chickamaugas soon found himself banished from home when he was falsely accused of mur dering white settlers. The charges were later proven to be false, but by that time Bowles had departed with a large band of followers, vowing that he would find a home else where. Bowles’ story resembles that of Moses as he wanders from place to place finally ending up in Texas where he became involved in the war between Mexico and Texas. Throughout this journey, Bowles’ faithful followers stayed with him. Finally, in 1838, Bowles was ordered to leave Texas. When he refused, he and his followers were attacked by the Texas army and killed in battle. Bowles was 83 at that time. When he was shot and fell from his horse, a Texas officer approached the wounded chief and shot him in the head with a pistol. His body was left on the ba ttlefield and several soldiers cut strips of flesh from his back for souvenirs (reins for their horses). Many years later, a local resident noted in his diary that as he rode to and from his home, he often saw Bowles’ skull and skeleton lying where he had died. (Gary Carden is a writer who lives in Sylva. He can be reached at gcarden498@aol.com.)
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CITY BAKERY 18 N. Main St. Waynesville 828.452.3881. Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Join us in our historic location for scratch made soups and daily specials. Breakfast is made to order daily: Gourmet cheddar & scallion biscuits served with bacon, sausage and eggs; smoked trout bagel plate; quiche and fresh fruit parfait. W e bake a wide variety of breads daily, specializing in traditional french breads. All of our breads are hand shaped. Lunch: Fresh salads, panini sandwiches. Enjoy outdoor dinning on the deck. Private room available for meetings.
COUNTRY VITTLES: FAMILY STYLE RESTAURANT 3589 Soco Rd, Maggie Valley. 828.926.1820 Open Daily 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., closed Tuesday. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet. Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service. FROGS LEAP PUBLIC HOUSE 44 Church St. Downtown Waynesville 828.456.1930 Serving lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; Dinner 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Frogs Leap is a farm to table restaurant focused on local, sustainable, natural and organic products prepared in modern regional dishes. Seasonal menu focuses on Southern comfort foods with upscale flavors. www.frogsleappublichouse.com.
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.
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ROB’S HOT DOG SHACK 42 Montgomery St., Waynesville 828.707.7033. Open Monday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rob’s serves gourmet hot dogs and has homemade side items. Outdoor and indoor dining, café style restaurant. Locally owned and operated. Family oriented business. 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 homemade 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.
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s the leaves change and the air becomes crisp, the mountains of Western North Carolina transform into a landscape of mystery and mischief. In the spirit of ghouls, ghosts and everything creepy and crawling, communities around Southern Appalachia will celebrate Halloween with an array of local and regional events, for kids and parents alike.
BETHEL • The Cold Mountain Corn Maze is now open in Bethel. Hours are 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 1 to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. All inclusive ticket is $10 for ages 4 and older, ages 3 and younger free. Hayrides, bonfires, snacks, and more. 828.648.8575
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• The “Witch’s Brew” Halloween release party will be at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, at Nantahala Brewing Company. Live music by Plankeye Peggy. www.nantahalabrewing.com. • “Downtown Trick or Treat” will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29. With the streets closed, children can go trick or treating around to downtown merchants. There will also be a costume contest, with the winner receiving a gift certificate to Soda Pops. Free. 800.867.9246 or www.greatsmokies.com. • Spooky Storytelling will be at 8 p.m. Oct. 29-31 at the Storytelling Center in Bryson City. Tales of the spirits, “Haints, Boogers and Witches of the Southern Highlands,” spun by storyteller Tim Hall. Free. www.greatsmokies.com. • The Peanuts Pumpkin Patch Express will depart at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 30, and noon and 3:30 p.m. Oct. 31 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad train depot in Bryson City. Peanuts characters in costume, children’s activities, and more. For more information and ticket rates, call 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com. • A Masquerade Dinner Train will hit the tracks at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad depot in downtown. 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com.
between Canton and Candler. Cash only. www.pinheadsgraveyard.com or 828.670.8228. • The Whovian Halloween Party will be at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Canton Public Library. For kids and teens age 12-18. A Doctor Who-themed Halloween event, with costume contest, snacks and special spooky movie screening. 828.648.2924.
CASHIERS • Goblins in the Green will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, at The Village Green in Cashiers. Costume contest, trick or treating, spooky inflatables, hayrides, and more. Free. 828.743.3434 or www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.
CULLOWHEE • The Pumpkin Patch will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, at the Jackson County Recreation Park. 828.293.3053. • The Western Carolina University Student Physical Therapy Association will host the second annual Zombie Run 5-K Chase Race at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, near the WCU softball stadium. Each runner will receive flags to wear during the race that zombies along the course will try to steal. Runners who make it to the finish line with at least one flag will be considered “Zombie Apocalypse Survivors.” Registration is $20 before the race and $25 on race day. Packet pickup and race day registration will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 31. Registration is available online by visiting www.active.com and searching for “Zombie Run 5K Chase Race.”
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• Pinhead’s Graveyard will run from dark until 10 p.m. Thursday and from dark until midnight on Friday and Saturday. Known as “Western North Carolina’s Premier Outdoor Haunted House,” the graveyard showcased an array of classic horror characters, and more. Located on U.S. 19-23
• “Trick or Treat in Dillsboro” will run from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, in downtown. Children can trick or treat around downtown, with games at Dogwood Crafters and hayrides provided by Jarrett Memorial Church. Free. www.visitdillsboro.org.
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• The “Hauntober Weekend & Haunted Trail” will be Oct. 30-31 at Fontana Village Resort. The celebration features a variety of activities, crafts, ghost tours, hayrides, campfires and live entertainment. www.fontanavillage.com.
• Downtown All Hallows Eve Celebration will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. Safe, family friendly fun. Trick or treating, snacks and live music. www.highlandschamber.org. • A special screening of the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” will be shown at 10:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, at the Highlands Playhouse. Tickets are $10. www.highlandsplayhouse.org.
FRANKLIN • “Trick or Treating” will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Macon County Public Library. Children are encouraged to come in costume and parade through the library. • The Deals Farm Corn Maze. Open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. To visit on Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., call ahead to make an appointment. $5 for ages 6 and older, ages 5 and younger free. Ticket includes corn maze and hayrides. 828.524.5151 or www.dealfarms.com. • The High Mountain Squares will host their annual “Halloween Dance” from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, at the Macon County Community Building on U.S. 441. Ace McGee will be the caller. Western style square dancing, main/stream and plus levels. All welcome. 828.371.4946 or 828.342.1560 or www.highmountainsquares.com.
Spookmoot at Folkmoot A celebration of all things Halloween will be held Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in the Hazelwood community of Waynesville. • Friday, Oct. 30 — Kid’s Carnival from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Come in costume. $5 per person, free for children age two years and under. This is a family festival and includes games, a haunted hallway, baked Halloween treats, a photo booth, classic Halloween films and pizza and hotdogs for purchase. Preview pumpkin catapults at this event. Spookmoot is promised not to be too gruesome or scary and is sponsored by Haywood Regional Medical Center. • Saturday, Oct. 31 — Halloween Fling & Costume Party from 8 p.m. to midnight. $50 per person (age 18 and over). With Waynesville’s Halloween Folklore at heart, the Friendship Center will be transformed into a spooky forest party. Partygoers will traverse the haunted hall to enter the event
MAGGIE VALLEY • Salty Dog’s (Maggie Valley) will have a Halloween party with Marc Keller at 8 p.m. Oct. 31.
SYLVA • “Treat Street” will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, in downtown. Everyone is invited to wear their costume and trick-ortreat at downtown businesses. Starting at noon in Bridge Park, attendees will be able to pie local leaders in the face, play games, and enjoy free treats. Presented by the Main
S EE HALLOWEEN, PAGE 30 and will enjoy delicious and fun foods, special Halloween beverages, a photo booth, costume party, and a dance party featuring DJ Music Explosion Sound. This event is sponsored by the Mountaineer and a graveyard full of local sponsors. • Sunday, Nov. 1 — Catapults with Catamounts punkin’ chunkin’ competition from 1 to 4 p.m. Located on Main Street at Miller Street in Downtown Waynesville, this event is a spectacle brought to you by the handi-work of Western Carolina University’s Construction Management Department. Catapult events are sponsored by the Downtown Waynesville Association, LN Davis Insurance and Beverly Hanks & Associates. Prizes will be awarded for the most effective catapult designs, to be judged by Mayor Gavin Brown, N.C. General Assembly Representative Joe Sam Queen. Tickets are limited and can be purchased by calling 828.452.2997 or info@folkmoot.org.
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GKW: What has a lifetime playing music taught you about life? JH: That music can help people. It can be a positive thing in people’s lives, something you can’t get anywhere else. As someone who plays, it’s like church to me, but not in a religious way — it’s a spiritual thing. I just believe if that you’re able to get out of your way, all your years of preparation and practice to get yourself to that point, if you can get out of your own way, instead of being academic, it comes out as music in that moment, and that’s the goal for me, and it’s not going to stop anytime soon. You can lose yourself in it, in a good way, and that’s what I see when I watch people dancing out there at our shows. I think it’s just beautiful seeing that. And yeah, some of them look insane, but that doesn’t matter at all, because people being able to let go of their inhibitions and let it overtake you, that’s a spiritual journey. I know a lot of people in other genres of music, they look at what we get to do, and say, ‘Oh man, I want to get in on this, look how much fun your audience is having.’ They’re not sitting in front of you with their arms crossed, analyzing what scale your playing on, they’re actually going on a journey with you. They let their guard down, they get wrapped up in it, and open themselves up to it — it’s a beautiful thing.
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I got it. Growing up outside of Burlington, Vermont, I came out of the womb with a Phish album in-hand. Founded in The Queen The 11th Western North Carolina Pottery City, the jam act was the soundFestival will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. track we blasted in our cars and Saturday, Nov. 7, in downtown Dillsboro. the melodies we danced to frantiThe Smoky Mountain Roller Girls will take on cally at shows — the group we the Rome Roller Girls on Saturday, Nov. 7, at pledged our allegiance to. the Swain County Rec Park in Bryson City. Which is were the irony lies in such an inclusive and beautiful A celebration of all things Halloween will be music and counterculture. The held Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 at the Folkmoot north had Phish, the west aligned Friendship Center in the Hazelwood with The String Cheese Incident, community of Waynesville. and the south flocked to Widespread Panic (with all sides A live burlesque show will be held at 9 p.m. praising The Grateful Dead). And Friday, Oct. 30, at Mad Batter Food & Film in as our transient souls trekked Sylva. around America, we would cross Virtuoso Celtic fiddler Jamie Laval will perform paths with the other sides, always at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at The Strand debating who was the more skilled at 38 Main in Waynesville. guitarist, wildest drummer or most transformative live experience. journey through the power of music, which It’s not that I didn’t “get” Widespread is the power of the universe. It’s the thunderPanic in my early years, I just wasn’t brought ing bass of Dave Schools, the sandpaper grit up in their music, like so many who ar e around Southern Appalachia and beyond. I’d of lead singer John Bell or the primal heartseen their live shows around the country, and beat of percussionist Domingo Ortiz. During their performances, my focus it didn’t initially click. That was until they hit would always drift toward guitarist Jimmy the stage in Asheville in November 2013. Herring. Where other guitarists have a specific Standing there, in the front row, snapping tone or style, Herring’s unique signature was away pictures, I was awestruck by the the mere fact he is a melting pot of all the immense waves of sound crashing into my soul. Every cell in my body vibrated, with each good stuff. From Sunset Strip razor sharp licks song finding its way into the furthest depths of to Latin-tinged notes to straight ahead bluecollar rock-n-roll, Herring is a menacing whirlmy being. Living in the south, in these ancient wind let loose on six-strings gone electric. and mysterious mountains, you begin to understand why things are the way they are, Garret K. Woodward: What’s going on in especially with music. This same attitude goes your head when you’re onstage? towards the beauty of bluegrass, and now, for Jimmy Herring: The goal is to not be me, in the presence of Widespread. there at all, to just be an open channel. I can’t A band that takes flight onstage, always get there, and most improvisation Widespread soars into the heavens above. musicians will tell you that. You learn everyThe sextet weaves and bobs through the thing you can learn, and you keep pressing audience, carrying all of us on their spiritual
GKW: You recorded you latest record (“Street Dogs”) at Echo Mountain in Asheville, a beautiful old church now turned into a recording studio. What do like about that room? JH: It has this amazing vibe. There’s no substitute for the room, the wood in there just soaks up the sound. The beauty is tha t you not only mic the instruments up close, you can also mic the room. A lot of other places you just put the mics right up to the speakers and up to the drums and you don’t really get to hear anything but the speaker or the cymbal. But, when you mic the room, you get this special ingredient.
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at 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. • Treats of the Street will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, in downtown. Sponsored by merchants and the Downtown Waynesville Association. Stroll downtown during a fun family event celebrating all things Halloween. www.downtownwaynesville.com. • The Voices in the Laurel “Fall Concert” will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, at the First Baptish Church. In the premiere concert of the group’s 20th anniversary season, Laurel Strings will open the concert with the famous melody Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart, which will be followed by his “Dies Irae” from his Requiem in d minor. This will segue into an evening of “seasonal” music- with texts all about night time, the moon, wind, spooks, and mystery. Tickets are $10 for adults, $6 for children. Available at the door or at www.voicesinthelaurel.org. • The Haywood Halloween Hop & Costume Contest Crawl will be held Oct. 31 in Waynesville. Participants include BearWaters Brewing (1 p.m. to 10 p.m., contest at 8 p.m.), Frog Level Brewing (noon to midnight, contest 10 p.m. ), Pub 319 (11:30 a.m. to 2 a.m., contest at 11 p.m.) and Mad Anthony’s Bottle Shop & Beer Garden (noon to 2 a.m., contest at midnight). Contest costume participants will collect cards from each bar and brewery to be entered in a gift basket drawing to be awarded at Mad Anthony’s. There will also be live music, beer and drink specials, and more.
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The Haywood Community Band will perform its last show of the season at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. The program includes a variety of musical styles including pop standards, jazz and swing, songs that celebrate America, and a new concert piece for band and pipe organ. With donations received at the concerts, the Haywood Community Band has helped to further the education of local students by granting scholarship funds to school musicians to attend summer band camps, giving the adults of the community an outr each to the local public school music programs. To date, thousands of dollars in scholarships have been awarded to Haywood County young people. The band also receives, reconditions, and loans woodwind and brass instruments to local beginning music students. For those interested in picking up their instrument and enjoying the companionship of music performance, call band president Rhonda Wilson Kram at 828.456.4880. The first rehearsal of the 2016 season will be on Thursday, March 3, at Grace Church in the Mountains in Waynesville.
The Strand welcomes Retrospective concert acclaimed Celtic fiddler features Gaetano Western Carolina University’s School of Music will host a retrospective concert of solo and chamber works composed by award-winning music professor Mario Gaetano a t 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, in the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University. Gaetano teaches applied per cussion, percussion ensemble and per cussion methods at WCU. All compositions for the concer t were written by him during his 37 y ears on the WCU faculty. He will perform along with students and colleagues, including Ian Jeffr ess performing “Recession Pieces” for alto saxophone and per cussion, Lillian P earson performing “Alloy” for piano and glockenspiel, and the WCU Percussion Ensemble performing “Undercurrents” and “Marimba Quartet.” Gaetano is a composer and arr anger with more than 1 00 works to his cr edit, with 1 8 works winning the American Society of Composers, Authors and P ublishers awards. He is a two-time winner of the N.C. Federation of Music Clubs annual composition contest and the recipient of the W CU Scholar Award in 2008, and the W CU Creative Activities Award in 2010. In 2011, he was named a distinguished alumnus a t the C rane School of Music in Potsdam, New York. 828.227.7242.
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Virtuoso Celtic fiddler Jamie La val will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. A musical journey through the Scottish Highlands, U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion Laval enraptures audiences with his passionate performances of tr aditional music of Scotland, Ir eland, Brittany and Quebec. Jamie Laval He blends an ancient art form with stunning vir tuosity and contemporary flair that resonates with families, youth, seniors, and devotees of ethnic, jazz, and classical music. Laval performed on Dave Matthews’ platinum album “Some Devil” and gave a priv ate performance for H er Majesty the Queen. The evening combines toe-tapping melodies, amusing and informa tive stories, foot percussion and an inno vative arrangement style to create a beautiful atmosphere of the Scottish Highlands. Tickets are $20 for adults, $12 for students. www.38main.com.
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On the beat Jam series opens with Frogtown Four The First Thursday Old-Time and Bluegrass Jam Series kicks off with Frogtown Four at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. The performance of bluegrass and mountain music will be followed by an 8 p.m. jam session in which local musicians are invited to participate. Frogtown Four has performed across the region for a dozen years at events such as WCU’s Mountain Heritage Day, Franklin’s Pickin’ on the Square and the John C. Campbell Folk School Fall Festival. The First Thursday concerts and jam sessions will continue at the Mountain Heritage Center through next spring, with programs from 7 to 9 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month. Pickers and singers of all ages and experience levels are invited to take part in the jam sessions, which also are open to those who just want to listen. Free. www.wcu.edu.
• BearWaters Brewing Company (Waynesville) will have Scott James Stambaugh (Americana) at 7 p.m. Nov. 6. www.bwbrewing.com. • The Bryson City Train Depot “Music in the Mountains” concert series will have Chris Monteith (Elvis impersonator) Oct. 31. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com. • The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will have Michael Pilgrim (gypsy jazz) Oct. 30 and Joe Cruz (piano/pop) Oct. 31. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.
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• Marianna Black Library (Bryson City) will hold community music jam from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5. Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer, anything unplugged, are invited. Singers are also welcome or you can just stop by and listen. Free. 828.488.3030. • Mixers Bar & Nightclub (Franklin) will have a Halloween party with live music Oct. 31, DJ Ricky Breax Nov. 2 and Dustin Martin & The Ramblers Nov. 3. All shows begin at 9 p.m. 828.369.9211 or www.facebook.com/ mixersbarandnightclub. • Nantahala Brewing Company (Bryson City) will have Plankeye Peggy 6 p.m. Oct. 31. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nantahalabrewing.com. • No Name Sports Pub (Sylva) will have The Freeway Revival (rock/jam) Oct. 30 and Darren & The Buttered Toast (funk/jam) Oct. 31. All shows are free and begin at 9 p.m. 828.586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com. • A back porch old-time music jam will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in Cherokee. All welcome to come play or simply sit and listen to sounds of Southern Appalachia. • Salty Dog’s (Maggie Valley) will have Karaoke at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays, and Mile High 8 p.m. Wednesdays, all through
December. There will also be a Halloween party with Marc Keller at 8 p.m. Oct. 31. • Satulah Mountain Brewing (Highlands) will have Jimandi (folk/rock) every Wednesday at 7 p.m. and a rotating series of local performers on Fridays at 9 p.m. 828.482.9794 or www.satulahmountainbrewing.com. • Tipping Point Brewing (Waynesville) will have the “Tavern of Terror” with DJ Shane Oct. 31. All shows are free and begin at 9 p.m. • Tuck’s Tap & Grill (Cullowhee) will have a “College Night” with DJ X at 10 p.m. Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, Halloween Bash with DJ Hek Yeh at 9 p.m. Oct. 31 and Heidi Holton (blues/folk) 8 p.m. Nov. 6. • The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will have an “All Request DJ” Oct. 30 and Tonology (rock) Oct. 31. All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. • Western Carolina University (Cullowhee) will host a faculty recital featuring Travis Bennett (horn) at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Coulter Building. Bennett will be accompanied by Lillian Buss Pearson on piano. The program will include several works originally written for horn and piano, selections from one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, and Alan Hovhaness’ “Artik.” Free. 828.227.7242.
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Dillsboro festival celebrates pottery The 11th Western North Carolina Pottery Festival will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, in downtown Dillsboro. More than 40 highly skilled ceramic artists will be throwing pots and demonstrating their techniques from booths located along Front Street. Now in its 11th year, the festival remains true to its original mission of allowing the public to interact with potters and learn more about their craft. All festival attendees receive a ticket for a daylong raffle, while a silent auction benefits a local charity that provides meals to needy families. The seventh annual WNC Cla y Olympics competition runs from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, in downtown Dillsboro. Admission is $5 per person, with children under 12 admitted free. 828.631.5100 or 828.586.3601 or www.wncpotteryfestival.com.
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The ninth annual Highlands C ulinary Weekend will be N ov. 5-9 a t participating restaurants and businesses. The four-day destination event, created by the Highlands Chamber of Commer ce & Visitor Center, is one of the highlights of the fall season, which combines Highlands ’ majestic mountain loca tion with boundless activities, appealing accommodations, unique retail shops and extraordinary cuisine. The weekend kicks off with the Opening Night Celebration at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at the Highlands Country Clubhouse. The evening includes live music, a v ariety of wine tasting tables and the delectable cuisine of Highlands ’ local chefs. Tickets are $85 per person. Throughout the weekend, ther e will also be array of activities, cooking demonstr ations, tastings and dinners hosted by ar ea restaurants, merchants and accommodations. Experience the wares of Highlands’ fine shops by a ttending the annual Sip & Str oll
Doors open at 4 p.m. Juniors take the track at 4:30 p.m. and adults at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 pre-sale and $7 at the door and are available online at www.brownpapertickets.com, at Bryson City Bicycles, or from SMRG skaters. Children under 7 get in free. Meet and greet with both teams at the after party right down the road at Nantahala Brewing Company. www.greatsmokies.com.
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Workshops celebrate Native American Heritage Month The Museum of the Cher okee Indian will offer fr ee programs and special wor kshops to the public in N ovember to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. “We hope that people will come out to learn more about our cultur e, meet Cherokee people, and ha ve fun,” said Bo Taylor, Executive Director. All pr ograms and workshops will be conducted by members of the Eastern Band of Cher okee Indians, a feder ally recognized tribe tha t still lives on par t of their ancestr al homelands in the southern Appalachians. The programs include stor ytelling, arts and crafts demonstrations, and primitive skills demonstrations. All ages are welcome. Instructors are all experienced in their ar t form and in wor king with the public, pr oviding a unique oppor tunity for the public to interact with master Cherokee artists. The workshops are as follows: • Nov. 7, from 1 to 4 p .m. — Flintknapping with Davy Arch, and Pottery with Bernadine George. • Nov. 14, from 1 to 3 p .m. — Flute, Storytelling, and Dance with the
Cherokee Friends. • Nov. 21, from 1 to 5 p.m. — Cherokee Heritage Trails: Qualla Boundar y and Blue Ridge Parkway Tours with Mike Littlejohn, certified trail guide. • Nov. 28, from 1 to 4 p .m. — Ancient Skills: learn fir e making, a tlatl, blowgun, chunkey game with Cherokee Friends. Workshop size is limited and par ticipants should sign up in adv ance. Each workshop costs $20 for adults and $1 0 for children ages 6- 13. All childr en must be accompanied by an adult. M useum members at the Friend level and above receive a 20% discount. Members of EBCI ar e free with their EBCI car d. To register, contact the Museum Store at 828.497.3481 (x208). Programs are supported by the Museum of the Cher okee Indian, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, and the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area. To learn more about pr ograms, contact Program Specialist E than Clapsaddle a t 828.497.3481 (x300). www.cherokeemuseum.org.
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personnel throughout Western North Carolina, and is funded by The Palette Fund, Gamma Mu Foundation, Mission Health, The Chaddick Foundation, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Youth Outright is a youth advocacy and leadership program dedicated to providing affirmation, information, support and resources for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth in 18 counties in Western North Carolina. Their vision is to empower LGBTQ youth to be confident, proud, compassionate about their neighbors, and to instill in them a passion for stewardship in their community and the world. The meeting and screening is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. laurie.pitts@youthoutright.org or www.youthoutright.org.
Youth Outright will hold a meeting and screening of the drama “Prayers for Bobby” from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, at the Macon County Public Library in Sylva. The film, for which Sigourney Weaver won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award, is the “true story of a mother torn of between her loyalties, challenged by her faith, and moved by a tragedy that would change her life, and the lives of others, forever.” Youth Outright’s Franklin youth meetings are part of the GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) and Schools Outreach program which connects LGBTQ youth and supportive school
Small works show in Waynesville The Haywood County Arts Council’s “It’s a Small, Small Work” will run from Nov. 6 through Dec. 26 at the council’s Gallery & Gifts in downtown 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. All pieces ready to be sold are exactly 12” or smaller, which includes ceramics, paintings, sculpture, jewelry and photography. Most prices will be between $50-$125, with nothing over $300. This project is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division or the Department of Cultural Resources. www.haywoodarts.org or info@haywoodarts.org or 828.452.0593.
Film event shines light on Alzheimer’s A special scr eening of the dr ama “Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory” will be shown at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. Haywood County H ealth and H uman Services, in cooperation with Memor y Care, will present this community outr each and educational event. This inspiring film documents how music can help ease the suffering of memor y loss in Alzheimer’s patients, helping to improve cognitive skills and mood. Showing how music can be a po werful medicine in situa tions thought to be “hopeless ” for people thought to be “lost”, the film brings hope to families, caregivers and professionals in the field. Memory Care is a nonprofit providing specialized medical care to older adults with memory loss, while supporting caregivers with education, counseling and improved access to services. Based in Asheville, Memor y Care maintains a branch office in Haywood County. Local award winning ar tists, Anita and
Marc Pruett, will pr ovide a shor t musical prelude to the scr eenings. Dr. Lisa V erges, Geriatric Psychiatrist with Memory Care, will hold a Q&A session following the film. Tickets are available for $5 each online a t www.38main.com. 828.283.0079 or 828.356.2351.
The leap from digital file to framed print
Photographers looking for tips on tr anslating their digital images to beautiful prints can find some help at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, on the second floor of the Ha ywood Regional Fitness Center in Clyde. Tony Hood, co-owner of Asheville ’s French Broad Imaging who also teaches photography at AB Tech, will teach the program, offered as par t of the Cold Mountain Photography Society’s monthly meeting. Free. The Cold Mountain Photogr aphy Society meets at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month and welcomes new members. coldmountainphoto.wordpress.com.
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• The interactive art installment “It’s Teatime” will be on display Nov. 4-24 in the Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University. Presented by artist and WCU Master in Fine Arts candidate Leigh Ann Parrish, the exhibition features three teatimes per day Monday through Friday for guests in the museum. www.leighannparrishphotography.com or www.wcu.edu.
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• The annual holiday pet photo shoot will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 7 at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. There will be a minimum $10 sitting fee that includes one 4X6 photo of the photographer’s choice. Proceeds benefit ARF. Additional donations to ARF are welcome. Photos can be ordered online the following week, or arrangements can be made to purchase a disc. Appointments are preferred. To make an appointment or for more information, call 404.993.1985.
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• The films “Young Frankenstein” (Oct. 29) “Jurassic World” (Oct. 30) and “Shaun of the Dead” (Oct. 31) will be screened at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Showtimes are 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee also on Saturday. Free. For a full schedule of dates and times, click on www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.
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• “Jurassic World” will be screened at 7 p.m. Oct. 28-29 at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. Tickets are $6.50, with a $3.25 matinee pass for 2 and 4 p.m. showings. There will also be a screening of the classic 1922 horror film “Nosferatu” that will be held at 8 p.m. Oct. 30 and at 4 and 8 p.m. Oct. 31. Featuring solo fiddler Ian Moore, the 4 p.m. showing is $5 in advance, $7 at the door. Featuring a full string band, the 8 p.m. showings $10 in advance, $12 at the door. A free screening of “Wallace and Gromit the Curse of the Were Rabbit” will be at noon and 2 p.m. on Saturdays in October. www.38main.com or call 828.283.0079.
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• An artist talk with K Rhynus Cesark will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 4 in the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University. The painter/sculptor currently teaches and directs in the Visual Arts Program at Colorado Mountain College Aspen, Colorado. She is a recipient of The Colorado Creative Industry Grant for her ceramic sculpture and was the former executive director of The Carbondale Clay Center in Colorado. www.wcu.edu.
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On the stage Legendary Saturday Night Live actor and comedian Tracy Morgan will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday Feb. 13, at Harrah’s Cherokee. After a triumphant r eturn to the Hollywood stage at this year’s Emmy Awards and a visit to his old stomping gr ounds at SNL, audiences can look forward to the entertainer doing what he does best: bringing bag loads of funny and making people laugh. Starring for seven seasons on NBC’ s Emmy and Golden G lobe Award-winning “30 Rock,” Morgan appeared opposite Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin as “Tracy Jordan,” the unpredictable star of Lemon’s (Fey) hit variety show, “TGS with Tracy Jordan.” In 2009 Morgan received his first Emmy Nomination for this r ole, in the Suppor ting Actor category; he has also been nomina ted multiple times for a Suppor ting Actor NAACP Image Award. Morgan has successfully turned his lo ve for standup comedy tour into a couple of TV specials. His first, an HBO Special titled “Black Blue” and the second, a Comedy Central Special, titled “Tracy Morgan: Bona Fide,” which brought Comedy Central one of
Tracy Morgan its largest vie wership for a standup special in 2014. Tickets start at $19.50. They go on sale Friday, Oct. 30. www.harrahscherokee.com.
Jamison to discuss mountain dance, new book Warren Wilson College pr ofessor Phil Jamison will pr esent his ne w book Hoedowns, Reels, and F rolics: Roots and Branches of Southern A ppalachian Dance and demonstrate a step or two a t 7 p .m. Thursday, Oct. 29 , in the Mountain Heritage Center a t Western Carolina University. Jamison teaches ma thematics and Appalachian music and dance a t Warren Wilson College. An old -time musician and flatfoot dancer, he has been a member of the Green Grass Cloggers for more than 30 years and coordinates the Old-Time Music and Dance Week at the annual Swannanoa Gathering. Published by the U niversity of Illinois Press, Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics focuses on the history and importance of dance in Southern Appalachia. Through extensive research, Jamison makes the point tha t mountain dance melds influences fr om different ethnicities and cultur es, including African-American, Cherokee and French, as opposed to popular historical accounts of a continuation of folk dances br ought from the British Isles by early settlers. He tells the story of r egional folk dance bey ond enter-
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Phil Jamison, a longtime member of the Green Grass Cloggers, performs at WCU’s Mountain Heritage Day in 2008. tainment and tr aces it as a r eflection of immigration and tr ade practices, cultural identity, fashion, social str atification and innovation. Jamison will per form some of the dances he discusses in his book. Ther e will be a book signing follo wing the discussion. The event is free and open to the public. www.wcu.edu or 828.227.7129.
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RON WHITE SLATED FOR HARRAH’S Superstar blue-collar comedian Ron White will perform at 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at Harrah’s Cherokee. Tickets are available at www.harrahscherokee.com.
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Fundraiser could bring first-run films to Strand The race is on to raise the $36,000 needed to take The Str and at 38 Main in do wntown Waynesville into digital for first-run movies. Just a $10 donation gets you a “free movie ticket” to any film of your choice, with other levels of donations and rewards available. If 75% of the funds are raised by Nov. 3 then the new projector will be in place for a Dec. 1 7 midnight showing of “Star W ars: The F orce Awakens,” which will be a we inspiring with The Str and’s custom-engineered sound system. F irst-run movies in do wntown will also sa ve Haywood County residents a lot of money and time o ver traveling to theaters outside of the county. www.38main.com.
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The stage pr oduction of the musical “The Addams Family” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6-7 and 1 3-14 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. The show features a br and new original story based on the beloved comic strip created by Charles Addams. There will be appearances by Gomez, his lo vely Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Wednesday, Pugsly, Grandma Addams and more. Wednesday Addams, the ultima te princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smar t young man from a respectable family — a man her par ents have never met. Everything will change on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents. Tickets start at $12. P resented by the Overlook Theatre Company.
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Women writers who took me by the hand
any readers — and I am one of them — are fascinated by books lists. There are scores of these lists, ranging from “The Greatest Novels of the Twentieth Century” to “The Ten Greatest Books for Children.” Part of the fun in reading these bills of fare comes from the questions they raise. Why, we may ask ourselves, does the list include James Joyce but not Evelyn Waugh? Why three novels by Faulkner but one by Hemingway? Why is Virginia Woolf featured but not Emily Bronte? Some of us make our own lists. In a recent issue of The Smoky Mountain News, I came up with a list of seven male authors, most of them Writer from the 20th century, whose work has influenced my emotions and thoughts in lifechanging ways. Now it’s time, as I promised, to acknowledge those female novelists whose works were crucial to my development. In no particular order, here are seven women who took me by the hand and taught me some lessons about life.
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In her Church of England novels, and in associated books like The High Flyer, Susan Howatch brilliantly traces the history of the Anglican Church from World War I up into the 1990s. In addressing all manner of issues faced by the modern church — the charismatic movement, the sexual revolution, the rise of the occult, the battles between the progressive and orthodox wings of Christianity — Howatch deepened my own faith. She writes from a Christian perspective, but without the fluff we commonly associate with Christian publishers. If you want to read a psychological thriller, start with The High Flyer and then dive into her other novels. (I must add I am shocked that the BBC or some other producer of television shows
Banned Book Club, Crowe at Blue Ridge The Banned Book Club and Tracy Crowe will both be at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville on Saturday, Nov. 7. • The Banned Book Club will be from 10 a.m. to noon. Enjoy literature and intellectual conversation? Looking to meet new people in Haywood County who share your interests? So is the Banned Book Club! The group meets on at 10 a.m. the first and third Saturdays of every month. • Tracy Crowe will present her book On Point: A Guide to Writing the Military Story at 3 p.m. Former Marine journalist Crowe will discuss her work on how to write your military story. No previous writing guide specifically
has not made a mini-series of these novels). Every year, I teach Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights to my Advanced Placement English literature students, and every year I am amazed that an author so young could spring such a tale on the world. With each reading, Bronte’s insights into the passions of human beings amaze me. The emotions of Heathcliff and Catherine shock readers while at the same time, I would suppose, filling them with envy. How many of us have loved so deeply, so desperately? Bronte’s book so impressed me — and puzzled me — that I spent two days this past summer visiting Haworth, the English village in which Bronte’s father served as an Anglican parish priest and where she grew up. Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter I read 25 years ago when I was entering the Catholic Church. This trilogy of medieval Norway, which focused on the life, sins, and redemption of a young woman, Kristin Lavransdatter, stunned me. How had I never read Undset? Because of her opposition to Nazism, her rise from secretary to Nobel novelist, and her own conversion to Catholicism in a country where fish-eaters were as rare as apple blossoms in January, Undset became a shining light in my pantheon of literary heroes. Her insights into the Middle Ages, her ability to recreate the era so vividly, and her extraordinary wisdom regarding the vagaries of the human heart still haunt me. Anne Tyler. Here is a writer who composes her novels in longhand not once, but twice, before submitting them to type. And this dedication to the language shows in her characters. Once, in a book club discussion, one woman complained that Tyler gave us only “eccentrics.” I protested, arguing that we were all eccentrics and that Anne Tyler had the wisdom to see us this way. I never persuaded this woman of my argument, but Anne Tyler taught addresses the unique challenges and rewards facing soldiers who want to craft their military story with courage and candor. www.blueridgebooksnc.com.
The writing quarters of Byer, Crowe The Carolina Writers at Home event will showcase the abodes of local scribes Kathryn Byer and Thomas Rain Crowe at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. Byer and Crowe have been included in the book Carolina Writers at Home, a collection of true stories showcasing the houses where some of the most notable southern authors have forged
me that each of us is, well, peculiar. Her novels give us the interior landscape of human beings, a place both rich and rife with complicated emotions, conflicting thoughts, joy and sorrow.
wider readership, for it reminds us, as does its sequel, The Leaves Are Falling, of the horrendous sufferings of people living under totalitarian dictatorships.
The ending of A.S. Byatt’s Possession devastated me with its truth regarding fate. Her other books I find unreadable, which surely reveals a flaw in me, but Possession, which flits back and forth between Victorian England and modern times, was a sharp reminder of the vicissitudes of love and fortune: a missed assig-
Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Revelation” hit me like a fist holding a r oll of quarters this past month. For eight years, I have taught students this story of a woman who judges those around her, placing them in various social classes to which she usually deems herself superior. For all those years, I found
nation, an unspoken word, an opportunity forever lost. We can often maintain control of our lives, but as Possession shows us, we also exist at the whim of “whatever gods may be.” These failures to connect — to love, to family, to friends, to work — haunt our days, even when we are unaware of them.
Mrs. Turpin contemptible, self-righteous, loathsome. Only this year did I realize that O’Connor had tricked me — and probably many other readers — with this story, for I was judging Mrs. Turpin just as she had judged others. I have come late in life to the realization that I am in so many ways a slow learner, and though I have known for a long time that I tend to judge people on meeting them, often to my chagrin and shame, I find the habit difficult to br eak. O’Connor’s “Revelation” is one more nailed reminder that I am guilty of such prejudice. And there you have it. (Jeff Minick is a writer and teacher. His novel, Amanda Bell, and his book of essays, Learning As I Go, are both available through Amazon. He can be reached at minick0301@gmail.com.)
Lucy Beckett’s A Postcard From The Volcano: A Novel of Pre-War Germany made me acutely aware of what an easy life I’ve had. Sure, I’ve faced the death of loved ones, confronted hardship, and undergone various ordeals, but nothing like the trials of those who lived in Germany and in other Centr al European countries during the Second World War. Here is a novel that truly deserves a their writing lives. The homes in these 25 essays range from the classic bungalow and mid-century modern ranch house to wilder locales: a church, a trailer, and a sparsely-inhabited barrier island. Alongside the essays, Rob McDonald's evocative photographs capture the writers in their habitat, preserving their distinct personalities as well as the particular character of the house and place they inhabit. 828.586.9499.
HCC welcomes Katey Schultz Haywood Community College’s Creative Arts Visiting Artist Program will host a lecture by pro-
fessional writer Katey Schultz at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, at the HCC auditorium in Clyde. Schultz will share her seasoned perspective on what it takes for artists to attract positive exposure, and particularly what it’s like to work with a professional writer to obtain features in major publications and more. Schultz is a freelance writer, teacher and editor who works with individual writers, lifelong learners, artists, arts organizations, and students to help improve writing skills, generate new fiction or memoir material, edit manuscripts, or press manage for arts events. She has interviewed more than 70 artists and published essays about their unique creative processes in magazines both nationally and abroad. This event is free and open to the public. 828.627.4672.
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in Black Mountain were brought in to assist with the project. So how does one extract petroleum-free contamination from underground? LTLT and consultants will be using the AFVR method — Aggressive Fluid Vapor Recovery. In simple terms, Laseter said a groundwater well with a 4-inch diameter will be put in the ground while a large vacuum truck hooks up to the well and releases vapors to suck up the free product. The state brownfields program also applied for some supplemental funding from the EPA to do additional testing on the pr operty this summer. Laseter said the good news that came out of that testing was that the underground contamination hadn’t yet reached the river.
Dennis Desmond, land and easement stewardship coordinator for the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, works to remove brush (above) from the former Duncan Oil site adjacent to LTLT’s office in Franklin. LTLT staff is about to begin a cleanup project on the property (right) to remove underground contamination. Jessi Stone photos
LTLT to clean up Duncan Oil site this winter BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR hanks to some fortunate happenstance and a lot of hard work from the staff at the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, a piece of property in downtown Franklin will go from being a potential environmental nightmare to a model example of restoration and redevelopment. “We wanted to improve the area, but we didn’t think the opportunity would be available so quickly,” said LTLT Executive Director Sharon Taylor. “But our organization is in a perfect position to take the title of tha t property and it’s a win-win for everyone.” Within six months of moving into its new office space on East Main Street in 2012, the LTLT staff learned that the property next door — Duncan Oil — was going into bankr uptcy. They knew the abandoned gas station, which had been in business since the 1940s, had caused some ground contamination but didn’t know to what degree. It was also known that there was potential for more environmental harm if that contamination reached the river that runs along side of the property. After a long conversation about what the brownfields project would entail, LTLT Associate Director Ben Laseter said staff decided such a project fit perfectly with the land trust’s mission. It was also hard to ignore the project, given that the property adjoins LTLT’s property which is just across the street from the
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Little Tennessee River Greenway. It’s a growing part of downtown Franklin that could use some cleanup and revitalization efforts. “We’re hoping it will help the area. This project alone can’t revitalize the neighborhood, but we hope it can start to perk things up and allow for some positive growth,” Laseter said. With state and federal partners willing to assist in the process, LTLT started some initial testing on the property with plans to acquire the 1.5 acres. Getting a brownfields agreement through the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (formerly the Department of Environment and Natural Resources) brownfields program was a critical piece to the project. It took LTLT 17 months to get the agreement in place because of all the state assessments that had to be completed, but Laseter said the time was well wor th it. “The purpose of the agreement is to ensure that the property in question is cleaned up to the point where the public and the environment aren’t in jeopardy,” he said. “It also protects us or any future owners from liability.”
CLEANING UP CONTAMINATION LTLT was able to secure almost $300,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to fund the cleanup effort, which will start this winter. The project will involve taking down the gas station building on the property; removing contaminated surface soils; and addressing one area on the property where a former leak resulted in some pure gasoline seeping into the ground. Laseter said the area was restricted to a 10-foot area where contamination is sitting on top of the wa ter table. Since this type of work is new for LTLT, Laseter said geotechnical consultants with Martin & Slagle GeoEnvironmental Associates
“The petroleum would eventually be able to enter the river if we let it go , but I’m quite confident we’ll be able to do vapor recovery to remove or significantly reduce the amount of petroleum sitting on top of the water table so contamination won’t reach the river,” he said. Once the cleanup is under way, Laseter said it shouldn’t take any longer than a couple of months to complete the AFVR process, which could be followed by a few more months of monitoring and testing to gauge the success of the extraction.
“This project alone can’t revitalize the neighborhood, but we hope it can start to perk things up and allow for some positive growth.” — Sharon Taylor, LTLT executive director
FUTURE PLANS With 350 feet of river frontage on the Duncan Oil property, the LTLT has an opportunity to turn a contaminated site into a community asset. Once the cleanup is complete, LTLT can begin thinking about how to utilize the property. The organization plans to keep the property with preliminary plans to create another access point to the river. Laseter said the access point wouldn’t be anything large scale but will allow pedestrians to walk down to the water. LTLT staff is now working to remove the invasive Japanese knotweed that is trying to take over the riverbank. “The riverbank is vertical but we can slope it back and make a path that will allow pedestrians to get down to the water and we’ll replant the bank with native species,” he said. A new driveway will go in to allow LTLT to have better parking and turn around access for employees and visitors. At the heart of the project though is the ability to be able to educate people about the natural resources in the area through interpretive elements on the property about the river and the Nikwasi Indian Mound, which is 200
feet from the Duncan Oil property. Nikwasi Indian Mound is one of the largest intact mounds remaining in Western North Carolina and may even predate the Cherokee. While there has been disputes over the ownership between the town of Franklin and the Eastern Band of Cherokee, Taylor hopes to mend some of those past clashes and bring all parties together in partnership to educate people about the mound. “There’s so much cultural richness to this neighborhood and there are a lot of stories we can tell,” Laseter said. “For the first time we can bring school groups or whoever in for different educational programming.” A couple of volunteer workdays have already been held at the site to remove trash and other debris before the real work can begin. Now it’s time for the experts to take over to clean up the tough stuff. The LTLT recently held its first official event on the property to make a big announcement to the community. LTLT has changed its name to Mainspring Conservation Trust to more accurately portray its broadened mission. See the complete story on page 10.
BY ANN CAMPBELL Mager and the greatCONTRIBUTING WRITER horned owl E.T. have been Nearly 200 people gathered together for 34 years. at Blue Ridge School this Donated photo month to hear a parting presentation from Doris Mager, known around the country as “The Eagle Lady.” Mager, who celebrated her 90th birthday Oct. 25, lives in Clyde and has worked as a conservationist and bird advocate for 50 years — and she’s often visited Blue Ridge School. True to form, she gave students a moving lesson about the beauty and wonder of raptors, such as how owls fly without making a sound. She also shared some of her best nuggets about life: “Children, never lie,” she told her rapt audience and “Always be proud of what you do in life.” Mager is preparing to move to Washington State later this year to be closer to family but is clear on one thing. “I’m not retiring,” she says often. “There is too much work to be done.” Editor’s note: Ann Campbell is a member of the H ighlands Plateau Audubon Society, which sponsored the program.
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Absent for mor e than half a centur y, lake sturgeon r eturned to N orth Carolina waters as mor e than 3 ,000 fish wer e released into the F rench Broad river near Hot Springs last week. “It’s not every day you’re able to help bring back such a magnificent cr eature,” remarked Steve Fraley, aquatic biologist with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. “This is a proud day for North Carolina as par t of our natural heritage is being restored.” Growing to 200 pounds and 9 feet long, and living up to 1 50 years, lake sturgeon ar e impressive fish. They’re native to centr al North America with a historical r ange sweeping the deep south well into Canada, but in the 1 900s lake sturgeon declined due to overfishing, habitat loss, dams and pollution. The last one recorded in N orth Carolina was taken fr om Hot Springs in 1946. The species is not on the federal endangered species list but is consider ed threatened or endanger ed in 1 9 of the 20 states in its range. The campaign to bring them back to the Southern Appalachians began when 3 ,500 were stocked in the upper Clinch River in 1992 and continued when annual stocking of
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rivers in East Tennessee began in 2000. The fish stocked a t Hot Springs ar e tagged, allowing biologists to know the fish’s origin when it is caught or sampled. Anglers who catch a lake sturgeon will be asked to report the find to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.
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You are hereby challenged to get out Bat week in the park and enjoy the wonders of WNC. Tourists get to enjoy it some of the time, we can enjoy it all of the time!
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It’s bat week in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and park rangers are celebrating by setting up bat information stations and activities 2-4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, at Oconaluftee Visitor Center. At the hands-on information stations, park visitors can learn about the many different species of bats, their importance to the world and what the park is doing to pro-
tect the bats from white-nose syndrome, a disease caused by fungus that’s decimated bat populations in recent years. Participants will have the chance to create paper bat masks, bat airplanes and receive free bat education material to take home. Oconaluftee Visitor Center is located along U.S. 441 just north of Cherokee. www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/ nature/dff10-wns.html.
Park sees busiest September on record
This year’s record-setting visitation follows the park’s busiest year in 14 years In 2014, more than 10 million visitors came to the national park, an 8 per cent increase over 2013, when a go vernment shutdown caused the par k to close during Octo ber, one of its busiest months. The 20 14 numbers were spurred by str ong July and August visitation as well as the highest October visitation in 27 years. More visitation statistics are available at https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/.
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The Great Smoky Mountains N ational Park recorded its highest September visitation in histor y this y ear, with 1, 081,773 people visiting the park. This follows an o verall trend of increased visitation in 20 15, with mor e than 8 million people visiting the par k so far this year.
Put the outdoors in a frame A free presentation on tips for getting digital images into print will be held a t 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, on the second floor of Haywood Regional Fitness Center in Cly de. Asheville photography instructor Tony Hood will teach the program, offered as part of the Cold Mountain Photogr aphy Society’s regular monthly meeting. coldmountainphoto.wordpress.com
Become a recycling pro Get the low-down on the ins and outs of recycling in Haywood County with a program 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. Stephen King, dir ector of Ha ywood County Operations for Consolida ted Waste Services, will give the pr ogram, covering
everything from what is r ecyclable in Haywood County to wha t happens to items after they’re thrown in the r ecycling bin and why we should recycle in the first place. Free, with r egistration requested at the Senior Resource Center or by calling 828.356.2800.
Season extended for Haywood plant clinic
Originally slated to close a t the end of September, the Haywood County Plant Clinic has been extended to last through Dec. 30. Staffed by Master Gar deners on Wednesdays, generally 9 a.m. to 4 p .m., the clinic gives the public a place to go for answers on everything from plant pests to fertilizers to identification. Located at the Ha ywood County Extension Center on Raccoon R oad in Waynesville. 828.456.3575.
A pair of public meetings outlining the next steps of the plan r evision process for the Nantahala and Pisgah na tional forests will be held 6 to 8 p .m. Nov. 9 and Nov. 16 in Franklin and Asheville, respectively. Currently, the U.S. F orest Service is working to identify lands to be recommended for inclusion in the N ational Wilderness Preservation System and to identify rivers that should be included in the N ational Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Information about ho w the F orest Service proposes to evaluate wilderness and wild and scenic rivers is no w online, with feedback from the public r equested on these draft evaluation questions, as well as on information about the specific lands and rivers that might inform the evaluations. The purpose of the meetings is to go over the evaluation information, provide a general update about the forest plan evaluation process, give the public a chance to talk
A year-long wilderness hike challenge will end with a bang 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Dirty Dozen Down! Hike Challenge Celebration at downtown Asheville’s The Millroom. Presented by The Wilderness Society’s Southern Appalachian Office in Sylva, the Dirty Dozen Wilderness Hike Challenge required participants to hike at least 10 miles in 12 different wilderness areas in the Southern Appalachians between September 2014 and September 2015. More than 550 hikers registered to participate. The challenge was part of TWS’ overall celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, the 1964 legislation that called for the designation and protection of wilderness areas. The event will feature food from Green Sage Café, live music from local favorite Tellico and a cash bar for craft beer. Hike challenge winners will receive prizes, and participants will be recognized. Free, with registration required at http://bit.ly/1OWvFMF. southeastwilderness50.org/dirty-dozen.
A new committee focused on r evisiting recreation fees in na tional forests in 1 3 southern states and P uerto Rico is seeking nominations to fill its 11 seats. The Southern R egion Recreation Resource Advisory Committee will wor k under the U.S. F orest Service. Nominees must represent a r ange of for est-related interests, including r ecreational use, environment, outfitters, tourism, N ative Americans and local government.
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Appointees will serve two- or three-year terms. There is no pa y, but members will receive travel and per diem expenses to attend meetings. The committee's jurisdiction will co ver the national forests in Alabama, Ar kansas, Florida, Georgia, K entucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Puerto Rico. Nomination forms ar e due by Dec. 3 1. Mail to R ecreation RAC Nomination, P.O. Box 1270, Hot Springs, Arkansas, 79102. Carolina Mitchell, 50 1.321.5318 or r8_rrac@fs.fed.us. www.fs.usda.gov/main/r8/ recreatio/racs.
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Dirty Dozen participant Bill Van Horne took this photo during a hike in the Shining Rock Wilderness. Bill Van Horne photo
with Forest Service employees and discuss how best to pr ovide feedback. The content of the two meetings will be the same. • 6-8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at Tartan Hall on 26 Church Street in Franklin • 6-8 p .m. Monday, Nov. 16, in the Mountain View Room of Kimmel Ar ena at University of North Carolina Asheville Once completed, the for est management plan will guide land use and management decisions in the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests for the next two decades, impacting everything from recreation to habitat restoration to logging r estrictions. The last management plan was completed in 1987, with major amendments added in 1994. The Forest Service is expected to release information about its proposed alternatives for how to manage the forests in early 2016, with public input r equested leading up the release of a Dr aft Environmental Impact Statement in spring 2016. The Draft EIS will go through a 90-day formal comment period before being revisited to develop a final version, to be issued in fall 2017. Information regarding this next step is online a t www.fs.usda.gov/goto/ nfsnc/nprevision.
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It’s a scarce year for the fall foods such as acorns and gr apes that bears depend on to prepare for hibernation, and that means that people using the outdoors should be extr a careful to avoid conflicts with the large mammals. When food is har d to come by , bears move longer distances in sear ch of a meal, increasing potential for inter action with humans and for undesir able behavior, like eating garbage.
Nominations open to recognize Haywood’s environmental leaders Nominations are open for an annual set of awards honoring the people and organizations that have made a differ ence in Haywood County’s environment this year. The Commission for a Clean County’ s Community Pride awards program is open to businesses, individuals — including children — schools, community organiza-
Documentary features success of Rwandan cycling team A documentary telling the tr ue story of the Rwandan N ational Cycling Team’s journey to compete in the London Olympic Games following large-scale genocide in tha t country will screen at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday,
• Obey any postings about ar eas closed due to bear activity. • Stay at least 50 y ards away from bears at all times. • Don’t leave garbage bins outside. Remove attractants like bird feeders and pet foods. • When camping, hang food pr operly. Feeding bears is illegal. • Read up on what to do in case of a bear encounter at www.nps.gov/grsm/naturescience/black-bears.htm. tions and civic gr oups that have made an outstanding commitment to a clean environment. Categories include litter contr ol, recycling efforts, beautification projects and environmental stewardship. Entries are due by F riday, Nov. 20, to the address on the entr y form. Forms are available at the Canton, Cly de, Maggie Valley and W aynesville town halls, the Canton library, Haywood County Cooperative Extension, the Ha ywood County Board of Educa tion or by calling CCC Secretary JoAnna S wanson, 828.452.1550.
Nov. 4, at Western Carolina University. “Rising from Ashes” is sponsor ed by the WCU Cycling Club and Criminal Justice Club in conjunction with the university’ s interdisciplinary learning theme for 2015-17, “Africa! More Than a Continent.” Free, with $5 dona tion requested to go toward World Bicycle Relief, which provides bicycles to people in Africa. In the multi-pur pose room of A. K. Hinds University Center. Ophir Sefiha, 828.227.2176.
WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • A turkey dinner is scheduled for 4-7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, at Rockwood United Methodist Church in Canton. $10 for adults; $5 for children under 10. Carry outs available. 648.6870. • “Venus and Mars: Are women and men basically the same or fundamentally different?” will be the topic for the Franklin Open Forum to be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, at the Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub, located Downtown at 58 Stewart Street, Franklin. Franklin Open Forum is a moderated discussion group, meeting at the. Those interested in an open exchange of ideas (dialog not debate) are invited to attend. 371.1020. • Highlands Culinary Weekend is Nov. 5-9 at participating restaurants and businesses. The weekend kicks off with an opening night celebration at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov 5, at the Highlands Country Clubhouse. Live music, wine-tasting tables, cuisine by Highlands’ local chefs. Tickets are $85 per person. For ticket sales, a complete schedule of events and list of participating businesses, visit: www.highlandsculinaryweekend.com. • A book club is starting up and will meet at 10 a.m. on the first and third Saturdays of every month, starting Nov. 7, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. 456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com. • Tickets are available now for a Designer Bag Bingo game that will be held on Nov. 7 at Cat Creek Lodge in Franklin. Tickets are $50 per person and include one glass of wine and 13 bingo cards – one for each of the 13 bags designed by Michael Kors, Coach, Dooney & Bourke, Nine West, Anne Klein, The Sak and Fossil. Tickets are available at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. 524.3161. Games begin at 3 p.m. • A “Community Relief Medic” course, designed for community members preparing for disaster and groups preparing for mission trips, will be offered Nov. 7-8, in Flat Rock by Landmark Learning. 293.5384 or main@landmarklearning.edu. • A back porch old-time music jam will be held from 13 p.m. on Nov. 7 at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in Cherokee. All welcome to come play or simply sit and listen to sounds of Southern Appalachia. • The Veteran’s Day Parade will be Nov. 11 in downtown Franklin. 524.2516. • A Veterans Day Celebration and World War II Monument Rededication is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at Webster’s Old Rock School grounds. U.S. Congressman Mark Meadows as well as state and local-elected officials will give remarks. • U.S. Congressman Mark Meadows (R-Jackson County) will be the keynote speaker at Southwestern Community College’s Veteran’s Day event from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 11, in Myers Auditorium on the Jackson Campus. • Tickets are on sale for the sixth-annual Taste of Sylva culinary tour, which has been rescheduled for 1-5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14. $20 in advance; $25 at the door. Youth price is $10 (ages 12 and under). www.mainstreetsylva.org.
BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Successful Entrepreneurship Series will be offered from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesdays through Nov. 17 at Western Carolina University’s Biltmore Campus in South Asheville. Free. 712.5918, wendy@cmtcoatings.com or 712.5918. • A Smartphone Assistance class will be presented by the Jackson County Public Library from 1-3 p.m. on Oct. 29, at the Jackson County Department on Aging. Free;
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 sign-up is required. 586.2016 or 586.5494. • A free seminar on “How to find RFPs that Meet Your Needs” will be presented by Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center from 9 a.m.-noon on Monday, Nov. 2, at the Jackson County Public Library’s Conference Room in Sylva. Free; register at www.ncbsc.net or contact Tiffany Henry at 339.4426 or t_henry@southwesterncc.edu. • Registration is underway for a four-part Quickbooks seminar series that will be offered by Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center on Tuesday evenings starting Nov. 3. $100 fee. Register or get more info by visiting SBC.Haywood.edu or calling 627.4512. • Youth Outright will hold a meeting and screening of the drama “Prayers for Bobby” from 4-6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Youth Outright’s Franklin youth meetings are part of the GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) and Schools Outreach program which connects LGBTQ youth and supportive school personnel throughout Western North Carolina, and is funded by The Palette Fund, Gamma Mu Foundation, Mission Health, The Chaddick Foundation, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Free; open to the public; refreshments will be served. Laurie.pitts@youthoutright.org or www.youthoutright.org.
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proceeds from the raffles going to their numerous programs. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the Canton Senior Center and the Haywood County Senior Resource Center. Drawing is Dec. 9 and you do not have to be present to win. 356.2813. • Contributions are being sought for the Glenville Area Historical Society’s historical museum, which plans to open next year. historicalsocietyglenvillearea@yahoo.com or 743.1658. • The Darren Nicholson Band (bluegrass/Americana) performs on Friday, Oct. 30, as part of “Family Fun Night” fundraiser at American Legion Post No. 47 in Waynesville. Food by Blue Ridge BBQ. Admission is $15 with food or $5 for music only; $5 for kids 12 and under. Food from 5-8 p.m.; music is from 6-10 p.m. • Tickets are on sale for Balsam Range’s performance at the sixth-annual Festival of Trees dinner and auction, which is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19, at Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville. The event is a fundraiser for KARE. Tickets available at www.karehouse.org. 456.8995.
HOLIDAY GIVING • The Maggie Valley Lodging Association is accepting donations for its annual Turkey Drive at Thanksgiving. A $25 donation provides a full Thanksgiving meal for a family that would otherwise go without. Donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 1175, Maggie Valley, NC 28751 or www.visitmaggie.com (press donate button at bottom of the page). • Coats for Kids distribution day is 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Nov. 7, at First United Methodist Church in Sylva. Coats and warm clothing items are available for any local family who needs items for their children. First-come, first-serve.
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• A group tour workshop and luncheon is scheduled for 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, at Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center. Industry partners are invited to learn about how to attract more groups to their businesses (accommodations, restaurants, retail outlets, attractions, museums and local municipalities). RSVP by Oct. 30 to ashley@visitncsmokies.com.
• 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.
• Western Carolina University will host an open house for prospective students from 8:15 a.m.-4 p.m. on Oct. 31 in Cullowhee. Academic registration fair, welcome session, academic sessions, information fair and tours. More open house events are scheduled for Nov. 14, Feb. 20 and March 12. 227.7317 or 877.928.4968.
• The documentary “Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory” will be presented by Haywood County Health and Human Services at 1:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1, at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. Documentary shows how music can help ease the suffering of memory loss in Alzheimer’s patients. Tickets: $5; available on 38main.com. Info at 283.0079 or 356.2351.
• A #YouthEngageNC Summit is scheduled for 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 6, at Western Carolina University’s instructional site at Biltmore Park. Various speakers and panel discussion with topics centered on ways to increase civic engagement of the state’s youth (ages 16-24). Keynote speaker is Eric Rowles, CEO and president of Leading to Change. $45 registration fee. http://iei.ncsu.edu/youthengagencsummit/. 919.515.3550. • Preregistration is underway for NC Safe Plates: A required food safety course for food service establishments across Western North Carolina. The class is offered Nov. 23-24 at a cost of $130 (including lunch and snacks) at the Historic Cowee School in Franklin. 586.4009 or sherrie_peeler@ncsu.edu.
FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • A benefit raffle is currently underway at the Canton Senior Center. The prize is a gift basket valued at over $1,000, filled with gift certificates and other goods. Funding, in general, has been cut over the years, with
• An American Red Cross blood drive is scheduled for 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Oct. 30 at Harrah’s Casino Hotel in Cherokee. 800.733.2767 or www.redcrossblood.org.
• Macon New Beginnings will hold its volunteer meeting at 5 p.m. on Nov. 2 at the Carpenter Community Building. www.maconnewbeginnings.org. • Caregiver Training classes are scheduled for 9-11:30 a.m. (seeking a caregiver) and 1-3 p.m. (seeking work as a caregiver) on Nov. 3 at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. Provided by local Area Agency on Aging. 356.2800. • The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 1-5:30 p.m. on Nov. 3 at North Canton Elementary School in Canton. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767. • The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Nov. 3 at Franklin High School in Franklin. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.
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All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted. noon-5:30 p.m. on Nov. 5 at the Hinds University Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767. • The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Nov. 10 at Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767. • The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 2:30-7 p.m. on Nov. 10 at Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767. • American Cancer Society Relay for Life of Franklin will hold a kickoff event at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 10, at The Factory Depot Room in Franklin. 371.1868 or 342.2774. • Unseen Scars, a conversation for combat veterans about the personal costs of war, is scheduled for 6-8:30 p.m. on Nov. 10 at the University Center Theatre at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Sponsored by the Vet to Vet program. 508.5522. • “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. • Al-Anon, a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who believe their lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking, meets at 10 a.m. on Saturdays at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. 356.2800. • It’s Liver Awareness Month, and The American Red Cross will the American Red Cross encourages eligible donors to give blood to support patients undergoing liver and other types of transplants throughout October. • “Health on Wheels” road ride, a relaxing social ride supporting physical and mental recovery from illness or injury – as well as anyone who hasn’t ridden in awhile – starts at 10:30 a.m. every Thursday at Canton Rec Park. For info, contact Michelle Trantham at mttrantham@hotmail.com or Melissa Rockett at mrockett@mountainwise.com/ • 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. • Brain Health Workshop is being offered on Monday afternoons through Nov. 22, at the Haywood Senior Resource Center. Contact Michelle Claytor at mclaytor@mountainprojects.org or 356.2813.
RECREATION AND FITNESS • The Smoky Mountain Roller Girls will take on the Rome Roller Girls on Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Swain County Rec Park in Bryson City. • Pickle ball is offered from 8 a.m.-noon on Mondays through Fridays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. 456.2030 or www.waynesvillnc.gov. • A high-impact fitness class entitled “Pump It Up” will be held from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. High energy, quick pace. Fee is daily admission or membership. 456.2030 or tplowman@waynesvillenc.gov.
• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from noon-5:30 p.m. on Nov. 4 at the Hinds University Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.
• A high-impact fitness class entitled “FIT 25” will be held from 5-5:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. Core-concentration exercise. Fee is daily admission or membership. 456.2030 or tplowman@waynesvillenc.gov.
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every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Waynesville Recreation Center. Cost is daily admission or membership. For info, call 456.2030. • A new lunchtime fitness class will be held from noon-1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Waynesville Recreation Center. Melissa Tinsley is the instructor. 456.2030.
POLITICAL CORNER • The Democratic Women of Jackson County will hold their chili dinner and fundraiser from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Old Webster School. Tickets: $8 adults, $5 students, $3 for children under 10. www.mountainlovers.com. • Jackson County Democrats will sponsor a State of the State Forum at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, in the Community Room of the library complex in Sylva. The forum is open to the public, free and features light refreshments. Speakers from four counties (Madison, Macon, Haywood and Jackson) will address specific policy areas, highlighting legislation introduced and/or passed in the last legislative session in Raleigh. Ray Rapp, former representative from Madison County, will keynote the event. • Occupy/WNC General Assembly meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. every second and fourth Tuesday at Dogwood Wellness Center. GPS address is 114 West Hemlock Street, Sylva NC 28779 but location in Dillsboro. 7439747.
THE SPIRITUAL SIDE • Cowee Baptist Church will host a special event honoring God and celebrating veterans at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8.
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• First United Methodist Church of Sylva’s meeting times will be 9 a.m. for contemporary worship service and 11 a.m. for traditional worship service. 586.2358.
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AUTHORS AND BOOKS • University of Chicago history professor Leon Fink will discuss his book “The Maya of Morganton, Work and Community in the Nuevo New South” from 5-6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, at Western Carolina University’s Fine art Museum in Cullowhee. fineartmuseum.wcu.edu or 227.3591. • Warren Wilson College professor Phil Jamison will discuss his new book “Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance” and demonstrate a few steps at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, in the ground floor auditorium of H.F. Robinson Administration Building at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Co-sponsored by City Lights Bookstore and the Mountain Heritage Center. Free; open to the public. 227.7129. www.wcu.edu/about-wcu/centersinstitutes-affiliates/mountain-heritage-center. • Local children's author and illustrator T.E. Antonino will present his work “Fritz Fombie Have No Fear” at 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, at the Waynesville Public Library. The story follows Fannie, a fourth grader with a problem. She’s afraid of so many things that she keeps a list of fears on her bedroom door. • Western Carolina University’s School of Stage and Screen will launch its new Josefina Niggli New Works Reading Series with staged readings of “Resident Alien” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1. Both productions will be held in WCU’s Niggli Theatre. As staged readings, the events will include actors reading various roles without costumes or sets, with much of the dramatization left to the audience’s imaginations. Admission to the Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 readings is free, but $5 donations are suggested that will go toward student scholarships. Call .227.7491. • Waynesville Book Club, Monday, Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m. € Waynesville Library. Meet to discuss books, which are chosen by each member (taking turns) and provided by the library. New members are welcome. For more
• The Carolina Writers at Home event will showcase the abodes of local scribes Kathryn Byer and Thomas Rain Crowe at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 6 at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. 586.9499. • Banned Book Club meets from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. For those who enjoy literature and intellectual conversation. • Former Marine journalist Tracy Crowe discusses her book “On Point: A Guide to Writing the Military Story” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. 456.6000, blueridgebooks@ymail.com or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.
SENIOR ACTIVITIES • A weekly manipulation card game group is forming through the Haywood County Senior Resource Center. If interested, contact Michelle Claytor at mclaytor@mountainprojects.org or 356.2813. • Senior croquet for ages 55 and older is offered from 9-11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Vance Street Park in front of Waynesville Recreation Center. Free. For info, contact Donald Hummel at 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov. • An iPhone/iPad user group meets from 2-3 p.m. on Tuesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2813. • Senior Sale Day is on the third Friday of every month at the Friends of the Library Used Bookstore. Patrons 60 and older get 20 percent off all purchases. Proceeds benefit the Sylva Library.
KIDS & FAMILIES • Wednesdays in the Stacks, "WITS", a new program for children in grades 3-6, on the third Wednesdays of the month from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Macon
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• Registration for the Junior Appalachian Musicians afterschool program is underway through the end of October. The program offers old-time mountain music instruction to children in fourth grade and older. $150 for the school year (or $5 per day); $50 for siblings. Classes are 3:30-5 p.m. on Tuesdays from Nov. 3-May at Canton Middle School. 452.2022, sallyloumackert@gmail.com or www.haywoodarts.org.
KIDS MOVIES • “Wallace and Gromit the Curse of the Were Rabbit” is being shown for free on Saturdays in October at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. at the Strand in Waynesville. 283.0079. • A family movie about a team of parapsychologists who create a business exterminating ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests will be shown at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. 488.3030. • A family movie about an over-the-hill superhero training four super-powered kids to harness their powers and save the planet will be shown at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. 488.3030. • Family movie time Thursdays, 3:45 p.m. at Albert Carlton, Cashiers Community Library. Free with popcorn. Call for title. 743.0215. • Family movies will be played at 1 p.m. on Nov. 23, 24, & 28 at the Macon County Library. Call the library for titles. 524-3600.
FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS • Our Savior Lutheran Church will have its Church Social Fall Festival from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, at its building across from Haywood Regional Medical Center. Free. All are invited. Food, games, fellowship and pie-baking contest. 456.6493. • The Western North Carolina Pottery Festival is scheduled for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, in Dillsboro. $5 per person; kids 12 and under get in free. Potter Sarah Wells Roland of Asheville will be the featured potter. www.wncpotteryfestival.com or 631.5100.
• The Deals Farm Corn Maze is open 10 a.m.-9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday in Franklin. To visit on Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., call ahead to make an appointment. $5 for ages 6 and older, ages 5 and younger free. Ticket includes corn maze and hayrides. 524.5151 or www.dealfarms.com. • Theatre Bizarre, a Halloween-themed show with a flair for the macabre, is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 28-29, at Macon County Public Library. 524.3600 or eagee@fontanalib.org. • “Downtown Trick or Treat” will be from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29. With the streets closed, children can go trick or treating around to downtown merchants. There will also be a costume contest, with the winner receiving a gift certificate to Soda Pops. Free. 800.867.9246 or www.greatsmokies.com. • “Trick or Treating” will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Macon County Public Library. Children are encouraged to come in costume and parade through the library. • A “Whovian” (Doctor Who-themed) Halloween party is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, at Canton Branch Library for teens from 12-18. Costume contest, snacks and spooky special movie screening. For movie title and more info, call 648.2924. • A family fun night and costume party is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, at Jackson County Library in Sylva. Dress as your favorite story book character. Games, crafts and costume parade. 586.2016. • Fun Friday, Halloween Steam is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, at Jackson County Library in Sylva. 586.2016. • The High Mountain Squares will host their annual Halloween Dance at 6:30 p.m. Friday Oct. 30, at the Macon County Community Building, GA Road (441 South), Franklin. The Ace McGee from Anderson, S.C., will be the caller with Mike McDonald and Debbie McClain doing rounds and lines. 371.4946, 342.1560 or 332.0001.
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• Halloween “Day of the Dead” event is scheduled for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, at Western Carolina University’s Fine art Museum in Cullowhee. Family friendly art activities include making sugar skulls and sun calendars. fineartmuseum.wcu.edu or 227.3591. • A live burlesque show will be held at 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. $5 in advance, $7 at the door. www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.
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• Art After Dark is from 6-9 p.m. on the first Friday of every month in Downtown Waynesville and Historic Frog Level. Stroll through participating galleries. Waynesvillegalleryassociation.com.
• The Cold Mountain Corn Maze is now open in Bethel. Hours are 4-9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 1-9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. All-inclusive ticket is $10 for ages 4 and older, ages 3 and younger free. Hayride, bonfires, snacks, and more. 648.8575
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• A Fall Day Out trip to Grandfather Mountain and Linville Caverns, organized by Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department, is scheduled for Oct. 29. $25 activity fee. For students in third-through-eighth grades. Participants may be dropped off at 7:45 a.m. at the Cullowhee Recreation Center and should be picked up by 5:30 p.m. Bring a sack lunch.
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• A celebration of all things Halloween will be held Oct. 30-Nov. 1 at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in the Hazelwood community of Waynesville. Kid’s Carnival (games, food, films, pumpkin catapult) is from 5:30-10:30 p.m. on Oct. 30; $5 per person. Halloween Fling & Costume Party (spooky forest party, photo booth, food, beverages, costume and dance party) is from 8 p.m.-midnight on Oct. 31. Catapults with Catamounts punkin’ chunkin’ competition is from 1-4 p.m. on Nov. 1 on Main Street at Miller Street in downtown Waynesville. 452.2997 or info@folkmoot.org. • Pinhead’s Graveyard will run from dark until 10 p.m. on Thursday and from dark until midnight on Friday and Saturday. The graveyard showcases an array of classic horror characters, and more. Located on U.S. 19-23 between Canton and Candler. Cash only. www.pinheadsgraveyard.com or 828.670.8228. • A special screening of the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” will be shown at 10:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, at the Highlands Playhouse in Highlands. Tickets are $10. www.highlandsplayhouse.org. • A “Halloween Murder Mystery Dinner” will be held on Oct. 30-31 at The Sneak E Squirrel Brewery. Dinner is $20, which includes a full meal and a craft beer. Show times are 8 p.m. on Oct. 30, and 7 and 9:30 p.m. Oct. 31. 828.586.6440. • The Pumpkin Patch will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, at the Jackson County Recreation Park. 293.3053. • The “Hauntober Weekend & Haunted Trail” will be Oct. 30-31 at Fontana Village Resort. The celebration features a variety of activities, crafts, ghost tours, hayrides, campfires and live entertainment. www.fontanavillage.com.
• A Zombie Party with DJ music will be held at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com. • “Trunk or Treat” will be held from 5-8 p.m. on Oct. 31 at the First United Methodist Church in Sylva. Children will gather in the back parking lot for trick or treating. Games and activities, including a bounce house, will continue in the Christian Life Center. 586.2358.
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chants and Downtown Waynesville Association. • “Treat Street” is scheduled for 2-6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, in downtown Sylva and Bridge Park. Presented by Main Street Sylva Association. Pie local leaders in the face, play games and enjoy free treats. tonicdelivers@gmail.com or brownkellyg@gmail.com. • Tipping Point Brewing (Waynesville) will have the “Tavern of Terror” with DJ Shane at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31. • The “Witch’s Brew” Halloween release party will be at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, at Nantahala Brewing Company. Live music by Plankeye Peggy. www.nantahalabrewing.com. • A Masquerade Dinner Train will hit the tracks at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad depot in downtown. 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com. • “Trick or Treat in Dillsboro” will run from 5-7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, in downtown. Children can trick or treat around downtown, with games at Dogwood Crafters and hayrides provided by Jarrett Memorial Church. Free. www.visitdillsboro.org. • Downtown All Hallows Eve Celebration will be from 6- 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, in Highlands. Safe, family friendly fun. Trick or treating, snacks and live
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• A performance by the Gibson Brothers (bluegrass) is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Oct. 28 at Cataloochee Ranch. Tickets are $75 per person, including dinner at 6:30 p.m. Reservations are required: 926.1401. • The Western Carolina University School of Music will present its annual fall choral concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building in Cullowhee. Free. 227.7242. • A production of “The Barber of Seville” by the Asheville Lyric Opera hits the stage at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, in the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Tickets: $21 for adults; $16 for WCU faculty and staff; $7 for students and children. www.wcu.edu. • Tickets are on sale for the Voices in the Laurel: A Little Night Music Fall Concert, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, at First Baptist Church in Waynesville. $10 for adults, $5 for children. www.voicesinthelaurel.org. • Tickets go on sale Friday, Oct. 30 for a Feb. 13 performance by comedian and legendary Saturday Night Live actor Tracy Morgan at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. Tickets start at $19.50. www.harrahscherokee.com.
• The Bryson City Train Depot “Music in the Mountains” concert series will have Chris Monteith (Elvis impersonator) Oct. 31 at 6:30 p.m. Free. www.greatsmokies.com. • Joe Cruz performs on Oct. 31 at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. • Tickets are on sale for comedian Ron White’s Nov. 6 performance at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. www.TicketMaster.com or 800.745.3000. • Haywood Community Band will have its last show of the season at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1, at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. Pop standards, jazz, swing and more. 456.4880. • A retrospective concert of solo and chamber works composed by music professor Mario Gaetano is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building on Western Carolina University’s campus in Cullowhee. Free; open to the public. www.wcu.edu/academics/departmentsschools-colleges/FPA/schools-departments-and-centers/music/ or 227.7242. • The First Thursday Old-Time and Bluegrass Jam Series kicks off with Frogtown Four at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Free. www.wcu.edu. • The 2015-16 First Thursday Old-Time and Bluegrass Series at Western Carolina University will continue at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in the ground-floor auditorium of H.F. Robinson Administration Building with a concert featuring the Frogtown Four. The concert will be followed by an 8 p.m. jam session in which local musicians are invited to participate. Free and open to the public. 227.7129. • Western Carolina University’s School of Music will present a faculty recital featuring Travis Bennett associate professor of horn, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday,
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• “The Addams Family” musical will be presented by Overlook Theatre Company on Nov. 6-7 and Nov. 1315, at Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets available at GreatMountainMusic.com or 866.273.4615. • Tickets are on sale for an upcoming concert featuring Jamie Laval, U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion. The concert is at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, at The Strand Theatre in Waynesville. Tickets are $20 for adults; $12 for students, and can be purchased at www.38main.com or by calling 283.0079. Info at www.JamieLaval.com. • Advance tickets are on sale for a performance by World Music artist, composer and peace activist Yuval Ron and his international ensemble of musicians. The concert is at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14, at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center’s Stuart Auditorium. $15; children 12 and under are free. 800.222.4930. www.lakejunaluska.com/peace.
ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • A Jon Houglum Reception is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, at the Environmental Resource Center in Franklin in appreciation for a painting Houglum donated to the Macon County Master Gardener Association.
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Nov. 5, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building on WCU’s campus in Cullowhee. Free; open to the public. www.wcu.edu/academics/departments-schools-colleges/FPA/schools-departments-and-centers/music/ or 227.7242.
• An artist talk with K Rhynus Cesark will be held from 2-3:30 p.m. on Nov. 4 in the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University. The painter/sculptor currently teaches and directs in the Visual Arts Program at Colorado Mountain College Aspen, Colorado. She is a recipient of The Colorado Creative Industry Grant for her ceramic sculpture and was the former executive director of The Carbondale Clay Center in Colorado. www.wcu.edu. • The Haywood County Arts Council’s “It’s a Small, Small Work” will run from Nov. 6-Dec. 26 at the council’s Gallery & Gifts in downtown Waynesville. Most prices will be between $50-$125, with nothing over $300. Supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division or the Department of Cultural Resources. www.haywoodarts.org, info@haywoodarts.org or 828.452.0593.
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• Artist and author Joseph Meigs’ work will be on exhibit until Nov. 11 in the Jackson County Library in Sylva. Free.
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• Recent works by local artist Justin Moe are on display throughout October in the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. www.artbyjustinmoe.weebly.com or www.facebook.com/artbyjustinmoe.
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• As part of Native American Heritage Month (November), The Museum of the Cherokee Indian will host free arts and crafts demonstrations as well as primitive skills demonstrations on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons in Cherokee. 497.3481, ext. 300, or www.cherokeemuseum.org.
• The 10th Annual Autumn Juried Group Exhibit of the Carolinas’ Nature Photographers Association Asheville Region entitled “Southern Appalachian Splendor Through the Seasons,” will be hosted through the New Year by the Green Sage Cafe in Asheville. www.cnpaasheville.org.
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• As part of Native American Heritage Month (November), The Museum of the Cherokee Indian will host flint knapping with Davy Arch and pottery with Bernadine George from 1-4 p.m. on Nov. 7 in Cherokee. $20 for adults; $10 for children ages 6-13; children must be accompanied by an adult. 497.3481, ext. 300, or www.cherokeemuseum.org.
• Haywood County Arts Council will host artists from the Haywood Art Studio Tour starting in October at the Gallery & Gifts Space in Waynesville. www.HaywoodArts.org.
• A drop-in kickoff party for National Novel Writing Month (November) is scheduled for 4-5:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, at Canton Public Library. www.nanowrimo.org or 648.2924.
• The Mountain Heritage Center is hosting the exhibit “Collecting for the Community,” an exploration of the diversity and variety to be found in Western North Carolina. Visiting hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, with extended hours until 7 p.m. on Thursdays.
CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • As part of Native American Heritage Month (November), The Museum of the Cherokee Indian will host free storytelling with Jerry Wolfe, Beloved Man of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, from 1-2 p.m. on Fridays in Cherokee. 497.3481, ext. 300, or www.cherokeemuseum.org.
• A free program about how to prepare digital images for printing will be offered at 7 p.m. on Nov. 9 on the second floor of the Haywood Regional Fitness Center in Waynesville. Presenter is Tony Hood, co-owner of Asheville’s French Broad Imaging. www.coldmountainphoto.wordpress.com.
• Registration is underway for a Holiday Locust Wood Painting Workshop, which starts on Nov. 10 at Southwestern Community College’s Jackson Campus. Leader will be Doreyl Ammons Cain. 339.4426.
• Western North Carolina pottery pieces on loan from the collection of Rodney Leftwich are on display from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Tuesdays through Saturdays at the Shelton House in Waynesville. www.sheltonhouse.org. • “It’s Teatime” – an interactive art installation by
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• “Holiday Gifts for Gardeners” presentation will be given by master gardener Jim Janke at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at the Canton Library. Eighteen gifts from $5-200 will be shown and discussed. Free. 684.2924.
• A contemporary exhibit is open at the Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. The exhibit is intended to challenge the way beliefs about the natural world are formed. Entitled “Connections: Diane Fox & Beauvais Lyons,” the exhibit pairs photographs by Fox with lithography by Lyons. An artists’ talk and reception is set for 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19; the exhibit remains at WCU through Friday, Jan. 15. The museum is open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on weekdays with extended hours to 7 p.m. on Thursday. Admission and parking are free. 227.3591 or fineartmuseum.wcu.edu.
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• An exhibition of Maya contemporary works will be featured through Friday, Oct. 30 at Western Carolina University’s Fine Art Museum in Cullowhee.
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FILM & SCREEN • “Jurassic World” will be shown through Oct. 28-29 at The Strand in Waynesville. Showtimes at www.38main.com • A screening of the classic 1922 horror film “Nosferatu” will be held at 8 p.m. on Oct. 30 and at 4 and 8 p.m. on Oct. 31 at The Strand at 38 Main. Featuring solo fiddler Ian Moore, the 4 p.m. showing is $5 in advance, $7 at the door. Featuring a full string band, the 8 p.m. showings are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. • Mad Batter Food and Film will screen the films “Young Frankenstein” (Oct. 29) “Jurassic World” (Oct. 30) and “Shaun of the Dead” (Oct. 31) in Sylva. Showtimes are 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee also on Saturday. Free. For a full schedule of dates and times, click on www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com. • The documentary film “Rising from Ashes,” the true story of the Rwandan National Cycling Team’s journey to compete in the London Olympic Games after national genocide, will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Western Carolina University’s Multipurpose Room of A.K. Hinds University Center. Admission is free, but donations of $5 per person are recommended. Proceeds will go to World Bicycle Relief, which provides bicycles throughout Africa. 227.2176.
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• Adult movie time, 6:30 p.m. Mondays at Jackson County Public Library. Call for title of movie. 586.2016. • “Frame by Frame” will be screened at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 11, the University Center theater at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Film follows four Afghan photojournalists as they navigate a dangerous and emerging media landscape in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Framebyframethefilm.com.
Outdoors • An information session in honor of Bat Week is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cherokee. www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/nature/dff10-wns.htm
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• A recycling informational program is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. Free. 356.2800.
• Trout Unlimited Cataloochee will hold its annual stocking of the West Fork of the Pigeon Delayed Harvest starting at 10 a.m. on Nov. 4. Meet at the West Fork upper parking lot. Bring a clean five-gallon bucket. • The annual holiday pet photo shoot will be held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Nov. 7 at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. A minimum $10 sitting fee includes one 4X6 photo of the photographer’s choice. Proceeds benefit ARF. Additional donations to ARF are welcome. Photos can be ordered online the following week, or arrangements can be made to purchase a disc. Appointments preferred. To make an appointment or for more information call 404.993.1985. • The end of the Dirty Dozen Wilderness Hike will be celebrated with an event from 6-9 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Millroom in downtown Asheville. Free; public is invited. The hike is a yearlong wilderness hike presented by The Wilderness Society’s Southern Appalachian Office in Sylva and Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine. www.southeastwilderness50.org/dirtydozen. • Haywood Community College’s Department of Arts, Sciences, and Natural Resources and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission will offer Hunter Safety courses from 6-9:30 p.m. on Nov. 10 and Nov. 12 in Building 3300, Room 3322, at HCC in Clyde. Participants must attend two consecutive evenings to receive their certification. Preregistration is required: www.ncwildlife.org. • The Tsali Adventure Triathlon, featuring paddling, running and biking stages, was rescheduled for Nov. 14 due to weather. The event will be held at Tsali Recreation Area. Registration info at www.tsalitriathlon.com. • Public meetings to discuss the Nantahala and Pisgah Plan Revision are scheduled for 6-8 p.m. on Nov. 9 at the Tartan Hall in Franklin and 6-8 p.m. on Nov. 16 in the Mountain View Room of Kimmel Arena at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Open to the public. • The Highlands Plateau Greenway will conduct its monthly work day from 9 a.m.-noon on Nov. 21. To participate, email Ran Shaffner at highlandsgreenway@nctv.com or call 526.5622. • A “Backpacking Basics for Women” is scheduled for 7-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at Asheville REI. Learn how to choose a pack, select proper clothing and footwear. Register at www.rei.com/learn.html. • Tickets are on sale for CiderFest NC – a hard cider tasting event scheduled for Nov. 7 at the WNC Farmers Market in Asheville. Local bands and buskers, a home cider making booth and more. Tickets: $15-30 (kids are free). www.ciderfestnc.com.
FARM AND GARDEN • Applications are being accepted for the Haywood County Extension’s 2016 Master Gardener Class.
COMPETITIVE EDGE • The Trick or Treat 5 miler and Spooky Sprinter 1miler races, are Oct. 30. greg@pisgahareasorba.org or www.pisgahareasorba.org. • Registration is underway for the Pink-a-Book 5K race that will benefit the Macon Hope Closet, a resource for anyone touched by cancer. The race is at 11 a.m. on Oct. 31. Entry fee is $20 until Oct. 30; $25 on race day. Register at active.com. Info: maconhopecloset@yahoo.com. • Registration is underway for the Zombie 5K Race Chase, which starts at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, at Western Carolina University. www.active.com. Proceeds support physical therapy services to the community and research sponsored by the American Physical Therapy Association. • Cherokee Harvest half-marathon and 5K is at 7 p.m. on Oct. 31 at the Acquoni Events Center. Benefits the Madison Hornbuckle Children’s Cancer Foundation. 788.0034. • “Cruise the Smokies” Fall Rod Run will be hosted by the Cherokee Rodders on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 67, at the Acquoni Expo Center in Cherokee. Gates open at 9 a.m. Spectator entrance fee is $5; children 10under are free. www.cherokeerodders.com or 497.2603. • The Conquer the Mountain Half-Marathon will be held Saturday, Nov. 7, in Franklin. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Smoky Mountain Pregnancy Care Center for medical care at the center’s clinics as well as other needs. Individual and two-person team registrations are available. $30 to $45 per person, depending on registration date and team status. Register at www.active.com. • Registration is underway for Pisgah High School’s Zombie Rush 5K. The event is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 7, at Canton Recreation Park and Pisgah’s campus. Register at tinyurl.com/phszombierush. For info about sponsorship opportunities, contact Jennifer Cragg at jcragg@haywood.k12.nc.us.
FARMERS MARKET • Haywood Historic Farmers Market is held from 8 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the parking lot of HART Theatre in Waynesville. 280.1381 or haywoodfarmersmarket@gmail.com. • The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 171 Legion Drive in Waynesville (behind Bogart’s). 456.1830 or vrogers12@att.net. • The Jackson County Farmers Market will hold its last outdoor market of the year this Saturday, Oct. 31. Customers and vendors are encouraged to come in
costume for a few Halloween activities for everyone to enjoy. Vendors will also be making hats and small drums for its Annual Hat Parade which marks the end of the outdoor season and the beginning of the indoor Market. The parade will take place around 11:30 a.m. Find the Indoor Market starting the following Saturday and each week until Christmas at the Community Table on Central Avenue next to the pool and Poteet Park from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Info: jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com or website jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org. • The ‘Whee Farmer’s Market is open from 4-7 p.m. every Tuesday at the corner of the N. Country Club Drive and Stadium View Drive in Cullowhee, behind the entrance to the Village of Forest Hills off Highway 107 across from Western Carolina University. 476.0334 • The Cashiers Tailgate market is open from 9 a.m.noon on Saturdays at the United Community Bank on N.C. 107 South. 226.9988 or blueridgefarmers@gmail.com. • The Franklin Farmers Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturdays on East Palmer Street across from Drake Software in Franklin. 349.2049 or alan_durden@ncsu.edu. • Swain County Farmers Market will be open from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Fridays at the barn on Island Street in Bryson City. 488.3848 or Christine_bredenkamp@ncsu.edu.
HIKING CLUBS • The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a 9.5-mile moderate-to-strenuous hike, with an elevation change of 900 feet on Oct. 31 to Cabin Flats in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. For info and reservations, call leader Keith Patton at 456.8895. • A fall hike at Cedar Creek is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 1 at the Webb Family Conservation Easement in Jackson County. Haley Smith of the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy will lead the moderate hike, which is free for SAHC members and $10 for nonmembers. Preregistration required: haley@appalachian.org or 253.0095, ext. 205. • The Carolina Mountain Club will take a 8.5-mile strenuous hike, with an elevation of 3100 feet on Nov. 1 from Big East Fork to Shining Rock. For info and reservations, call leader Michael and Kathy Cornn at 458.1281. • The Carolina Mountain Club will take a 8.5-mile hike, with an elevation of 1200 feet on Nov. 4 of Pink Beds Loop. For info and reservations, call leader Laura Frisbie at 337-5845. • A hike to be announced will be offered through the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Nov. 10. For more info, call 456.2030 or write tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov.
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CASCADING CREEK Sophisticated and distinctive in its beauty, this 3/BR, 3.5/BA Lodge Styled Home creates a new experience with every open door. Surrounded by the luscious mountain range that gives the Great Smoky Mountains it’s name, its hard not to feel at home. Newly custom reconstruction embraces the authentic feel that the handmade furnishings by High Country Furniture gives. Accompanied with a full finished basement-turned pool room, the possibilities are endless in this ideal mountain vacation home. Less than 8 min. to I-40. $1,850 per month plus utilities. Also Available for Sale! Motivated Seller Reduced Price of $379,000, Taking Offers. Fully Furnished. For more info 865.603.8167 RUN YOUR CLASSIFIED In 100 North Carolina newspapers for only $375 for a 25-word ad. Call this newspaper or 919.516.8009 for details.
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The naturalist’s corner BY DON H ENDERSHOT
More than one way to skin environmental regulations ccording to Steve Ford, in a piece for NC Policy Watch called “Policies, power, pride divide the NC House and Senate” (7/13/2015), the state’s current Republican senators were a bit disappointed that some of their regulatory “reforms” were causing controversy and being stalled due to environmental concerns. When they received a short bill (House Bill 765) that had passed the House by a margin of 115-1, they pounced. H.B. 765 was a one-page bill dealing with load-covering rules for trucks hauling things like sand and gravel when it got to the Senate. When the Senate finished with it, H.B. 765 was approximately 60pages long filled with sweeping environmental rollbacks. The new, more robust H.B. 765 passed the House and Senate predominantly along party lines with Republicans voting yea and Democrats nay. The bill’s sponsor and apparent wanna-be rapper Rep. Pat McElraft (R-Emerald Isle) said her bill was, “..clean,
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green and not extreme.” According to North Carolina Health News (10/1/2015), McElraft told her fellow House members, “We haven’t loosened any environmental regulations that would hurt our water, our air, our state in any way,” during the chamber’s debate on the bill. Well, let’s see: It eliminates all idling restrictions that are currently in place for large diesel trucks and other heavy-duty diesel equipment; it exempts companies that self-report environmental violations from civil penalties; it lengthens 10-year landfill permits to life-of-site and drops the requirement of automatic five-year oversight reviews; it relaxes stormwater pollution requirements at resort developments along the coast; it reduces public access to information regarding air pollution and eliminates the requirement to publish notice of violations or public hearings in newspapers; it exempts isolated wetlands of 1-acre in coastal regions, half-acre in the Piedmont and 1/3-acre in the mountains from any type of regulation; and allows for destruction of intermittent streams with no mitigation requirement. Remember, this law is 60 pages long and addresses an incredible jumble of issues.
some wetlands, weakens stormwater regulations, removes air-quality monitors across the state and eliminates a requirement for recycling computers and televisions.” One item that quickly hits home for me is allowing destruction of intermittent streams. Do you know that half the streams in North Carolina are intermittent streams? Many of these intermittent streams are headwater streams. They are the wet-weather springs that gurgle up; the tiny rivulets that begin to meander collecting and/or merging with other rivulets to create the streams that converge and grow into the rivers that sustain us. These intermittent, headwater streams help protect us from flooding; they recharge the Intermittent stream. Creative Commons photo groundwater; they filter pollution and they create Rob Schofield, writing about it back in July unique habitat for myriad species of plants for NC Policy Watch said the bill, “… deregu- and animals — what better place to kill a lated everything from profanity on public river than where it begins? highways to the minimum age for operating This bill ain’t clean and this bill ain’t all-terrain vehicles.” But, Schofield added, green — this bill is ugly, dirty and mean. “The bill is particularly pernicious in giving (Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist. a greener light to polluters. It unprotects He can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.)
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