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CONTENTS On the Cover: Western North Carolina is full of world-class opportunities for outdoor recreation, but many local families haven’t explored the areas in their backyards that draw visitors from all over. The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department is hoping to change that, this fall launching a competition aimed at encouraging families to embark on outdoor adventures together. (Page 40) Holly Kays photo

News Opponents rally against recycling proposal ............................................................4 Municipal election results are in ..................................................................................6 Next phase of wilderness plan process under way ............................................10 Distillery sets it sights on Maggie building ............................................................12 Cherokee to consider marijuana legalization ........................................................13 Jackson Sheriff’s Office cleaning up jail operations ............................................15 Tribal lawsuit a topic at Annual Council ..................................................................16 Swain gets new emergency service structures ....................................................19 Franklin voted ‘Top Small Town’ ................................................................................20

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option becomes available.”

Several speakers at the public hearing urged commissioners to keep waiting.

“It’s discouraging to see this property sit idle for years as the nation climbs out of the recession, but I think this property will soon be worth much more than Haywood County has spent purchasing and developing the site,” said Brad Stanback, a Beaverdam resident.

Stanback told commissioners to be patient and hold out for something better than “garbage sorting.”

Several speakers questioned the quality of jobs that would be created.

“I know we can do better and bring a company and jobs into our community that we would be proud of,” said Kelly Brookshire, a mom who lives in the Beaverdam community.

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Critics of a plan to locate a recycling facility in the Beaverdam community told Haywood commissioners that they should say no to selling the company land at the county industrial park.

Beaverdam residents of all stripes urge commissioners to say no

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER aywood County commissioners took another volley of criticism this week as they continued to weigh the pros and cons of selling land in the county industrial park to a recycling business venture.

The idea has met stiff public opposition in recent weeks. Critics claim the county would be shortsighted to sell the land given the relatively small number of low-wage jobs — sifting recyclables out of the trash stream with automated machinery — that would be created.

“Take the trash out before it ever comes in. Vote no,” said Travis Wesley, who spoke against the project at a public hearing this week.

The start-up company Regional Recycling Solutions has offered the county $780,000 for 55 acres in the Beaverdam Industrial Park off Interstate 40. The business plan involves trucking in commercial, industrial and household waste laden with recyclables that would be sorted and sold as commodities.

The company projects 30 jobs paying an average salary of $30,000, with more to come if the venture is successful.

Opponents questioned the credentials of the businessman fronting the plan, citing a murky business plan rife with inconsistencies.

“Something is fishy and to a common4 sense public, that dog won’t hunt,” said

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Tammy Powell, a Beaverdam resident. “This is a pig in a poke.”

A speaker later in the hearing took it a step further.

“It’s a pig in a poke at best — it is a Trojan Horse at worse,” Melissa Moss said.

Commissioners emphasized that they are still trying to decide what to do and said they are sincerely weighing public input.

“I am going to continue to be open-minded,” Commissioner Bill Upton told the audience. “Listening to the people was what I said I would do when I ran for office. Until this board votes, I can assure you not all minds are made up.”

After the meeting, Commissioner Kirk Kirkpatrick said he, too, was still mulling the pros and cons.

“Honestly, I truly don’t know. I have leaned one way or the other twice since this started — for and against it, for and against it,” Kirkpatrick said.

On one hand, Kirkpatrick said, he would rather hold out for more jobs. But on the other hand, what if nothing better comes along?

The county has a lot invested in the industrial park site. It spent $700,000 eight years ago to grade a 10-acre “shovel-ready” building pad on the sloped tract. It has been waiting for a taker ever since.

Some questioned the speculative grading as an expensive gamble at the time, but what’s done is done and commissioners shouldn’t jump the gun now.

“I think Haywood County can do better than just more garbage,” said David Harley. “This land, which belongs to the taxpayers of Haywood County, is extremely valuable. We should wait until the best

Some commissioners had seemed ready and willing to sell the industrial park tract to the start-up recycling sorting facility a month ago when the idea was first floated publicly.

But the plan quickly unraveled as opposition mounted.

A public hearing two weeks ago attracted nearly 200 people and more than 35 speakers, almost all of them against the idea. To ensure ample opportunity for public input, commissioners held a second public hearing this week.

It drew a smaller crowd of about 100 but had just as many speakers — about half repeats from last time — with all of them against the idea.

Commissioner Kirk Kirkpatrick thanked members of the public for raising some valid points during the hearings. But commissioners said they are still in the due diligence phase and don’t yet know how they will vote.

The hearing this week was more civil than the first one, due in part to Commissioner Mark Swinger reminding the audience to watch their manners.

“To yell at us and call us names or the speakers is really not productive. It is also beneath the dignity of Haywood County citizens,” Swinger said.

The firestorm seemed to catch county officials off-guard. At first, the opposition seemed to be just another gripe from the commissioners’ regular critics, a faction of conservative activists that routinely take the mostly Democratic county board to task on anything they do.

But it soon became apparent the issue was not merely haymaking by the regular county commission critics.

“I know you deal with a few gadflies that are always in your face complaining about everything coming and going. This situation is different,” said Barry Bailey.

The timing of the controversy could have political implications with two of the five commissioners’ seats on the ballot next year.

“Don’t let the sale of this land be your legacy as a commissioner,” said Barbara Wilkins.

Although the next commissioner election is still a year away, the sign-up period for candidates is just around the corner in

December. Fallout from the recycling center drama could be a motivating factor in who decides to run, and could in turn be kept alive by candidates looking for fodder to overturn the Democratic majority on the board.

“If you arrogantly go forward in this travesty of justice, you may think it will be over. But I guarantee you it will not be over,” said Tammy Powell, alluding to lawsuits.

“The least of your concerns will be your reelection.”

But Beaverdam resident Kelly Brookshire told commissioners people wouldn’t hold a grudge against them for floating the idea, as long as they made the right decision in the end.

“We respect you for trying to bring jobs into the county,” said Brookshire. “It is OK to present an idea that doesn’t succeed. The purpose of holding these hearings is to discuss the issue and give the community the opportunity to persuade you. The community is putting their trust in you to turn this deal down.”

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Opponents to the proposed recycling sorting facility in the Beaverdam Industrial Park in Haywood County come from all walks of life, from long-haired organic farmers to tidy real estate agents, from blue-collar Southern Democrats to conservative businessmen.

But there’s one unifying characteristic: almost all the speakers decrying the proposal at two public hearings held by the county are from the Beaverdam community. They share a universal fear that the project would negatively impact their community, from increased truck traffic to a visual blight.

Debby King said putting the recycling facility on the industrial site was borderline unconstitutional.

“We have the right to enjoy the fruit of our own labors. You will be taking something from many of us in Beaverdam that is not yours to take,” King said.

Commissioners said they can’t let “not-inmy-backyard” arguments raised by Beaverdam residents derail job creation and economic development, however.

“We are trying to make a decision that is best for the whole county,” Commissioner Kevin Ensley said.

Commissioners said it is not an option to let the industrial site lie fallow forever. The whole point of creating an industrial park was to bring in industry to create jobs. Whatever comes to the site will undoubtedly add truck traffic, perhaps even more than this.

Kirkpatrick said in some ways this facility would be a fairly clean industry. There would be no air emissions and no polluted water discharge. It is not particularly noisy.

And the idea of sorting out recyclables from the waste stream seems like a smart thing to do.

But to Beaverdam residents, a recycling clearinghouse that trucks in dozens of tractor-trailer loads of trash a week sounds scary.

“We got to be mindful of where we live.

Beaverdam and this county don’t need more waste coming in to this county,” said Bennett Hipps.

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recyclables. But speakers asked what guarantee they had other than Allison’s word.

“How do we know anything he says is true?” asked Dustin Cornelison, an organic farmer in Beaverdam.

Allison pitched a similar recycling sorting facility in Buncombe earlier this year.

He’s tweaked some of the projections for the operation proposed in Haywood —promising to create more jobs yet generate less truck traffic.

“Your business model and numbers have changed from county to county. There are too many ‘what ifs’. There are no proven and firm answers. Get your facts straight,” said speaker Jeffery Powell.

County officials have talked up the possibility that other industries that use recycled commodities in their production process

“It is clear that Ken Allison has not been acting in good faith. This causes me to have much less confidence in any of the other assertions he has made.”

— Brad Stanback, a speaker at the public hearing

could move to Haywood County to be close to the source of the raw materials coming out of Allison’s recycling sorting plant.

But the possibility of spin-off industry isn’t a guarantee. Dove said any business venture has inherent risk.

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD

Allison has proposed three other waste and recycling ventures in three other counties over the past three years. One in Transylvania involved a waste-to-energy incinerator. The other two — in Henderson and Buncombe — were similar to the recycling sorting facility proposed in Haywood.

None came to fruition.

“Mr. Allison I appreciate your perseverance. I was always told growing up if at first you don’t succeed try, try again. You are certainly doing that. I think car salesman might be a better fit for you,” speaker Travis Wesley said at the public hearing this week, addressing Allison.

Critics find it hard to believe Allison could have spent three years developing various business schemes around recycling yet have somehow been unaware of the property tax exemption recycling facilities enjoy.

A couple of speakers postulated that the tax breaks were Allison’s motivation all along. New York investors behind the project are merely after the tax write-offs and tax breaks associated with recycling facilities, speakers asserted.

“Why should Haywood County be used as an enabler for a bunch of East Coast investors to use on their tax returns?”

Beaverdam resident Barbara Wilkins said at the hearing. “Recognize this for what it is and send Mr. Allison on his way.”

With guidance from the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, Southwestern Community College has instructed ECS Carolinas, LLP, to develop an action plan to address elevated lead levels downhill from the firing range that the college operates off River Road in Sylva.

In an Oct. 29 meeting, college officials met with representatives from NCDEQ, ECS Carolinas and Tuckasegee Wastewater Treatment Authority, which has a facility that neighbors the firing range, as well as Chuck Wooten, Jackson County manager, to discuss results of the most-recent round of testing that detected lead levels above what NCDEQ considers safe.

ECS will produce an action plan by Nov. 20 as requested by Robin Proctor, western area environmental chemist for NCDEQ. While the plan is being assembled, SCC will take immediate steps to prevent further runoff from the site by installing a new sediment trap as erosion control.

The plan ECS is developing will include a strategy for completely eliminating all future runoff from the site as well as removal of lead currently on the site.

Proctor emphasized that once preventative measures are taken, lead levels downhill from the range will immediately decrease.

“As long as SCC takes these steps to eliminate the spread, I see no reason to close the site,” Proctor said. “It’s a great site for a range … They need to stop the source of the problem and remove lead from the edge of the range and below.”

Lake Junaluska to host Peace Conference Jews, Muslims and Christians will gather at Lake Junaluska next week to promote peace.

The Lake Junaluska Peace Conference is four days of workshops, yoga, prayer, lectures, worship, meditation and music, with the goal of advancing the work of reconciliation and peace in the world.

Registration is still open for the conference, which will take place Nov. 12-15 at Lake Junaluska.

The event is led by notable peacemakers from all three Abrahamic faith traditions, including Rabbi Or Rose, Rabia Terri Harris and Rev. Sam Wells.

The theme of this year’s conference is “Longing for Peace/Exploring the Heart of God.” www.lakejunaluska.com/peace, email registrar@lakejunaluska.com or call 828.454.6682.

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Haywood County commissioners were clearly caught off-guard by the property tax exemption. County officials had been in negotiations with Regional Recycling Solutions for more than two months to arrive at a sale price for 55-acre industrial tract.

They had predicated the deal in part on the property tax revenue they expected to get. Commissioner Kirk Kirkpatrick said the revelation that the recycling facility would not have to pay property taxes is a strike against it in his mind.

It’s not necessarily a deal killer, Kirkpatrick added, but it is a fairly big con on his pro and con list as he weighs where he stands.

Commissioner Mark Swanger said the county has not reached a decision “formally or informally.” The revelation over the property tax exemption will be a major factor to consider, he said.

“It is a very important component of the decision-making process,” Swanger said. “It is disappointing.”

The county initially offered to sell the

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER recycling sorting plant proposed in Haywood County has encountered a hitch following an 11th-hour revelation that it would be exempt from paying county property taxes.

County officials had hailed anticipated property tax revenue of $50,000 to $100,000 a year as one of the major upsides to the project. Property taxes were considered a consolation prize of sorts, making up for shortcomings.

But that is now not the case after all.

The county learned of its faux pas from opponents who have been sleuthing under every rock to build a case against the facility.

Speakers at a public hearing two weeks ago dropped a bombshell when they pointed out a state statute that exempts recycling facilities from paying property taxes.

This week, County Manager Ira Dove admitted the county’s mistake.

“It was a mistake and I apologize for that,” Dove said. The county hadn’t realized there was a state statute exempting recycling facilities from paying local property taxes.

The promise of recurring property taxes had been a significant factor for commissioners when weighing whether to sell off 55 acres in the county industrial park — helping to offset misgivings about the limited number of jobs the venture would allegedly create and making it easier to overlook the unproven track record of the start-up company.

Dove emphasized that county leaders aren’t sold on the recycling venture being a good use of industrial park property.

“None of this is a done deal,” Dove said.

“The commissioners are weighing their options.”

The question now remains whether the company’s president, Ken Allison, was aware of the tax exemptions but didn’t let on. Critics are accusing Allison of selective amnesia.

“Hogwash, balderdash and malarkey,” said Peter Watkinson. “What is the hidden agenda?”

Opponents now have added ammunition to question the veracity of Allison’s other claims and projections.

“It is clear that Ken Allison has not been acting in good faith,” said Brad Stanback, a speaker at the public hearing this week.

“This causes me to have much less confidence in any of the other assertions he has made.”

Will he create the number of jobs at the salaries he says he will? Will noise and smell be a non-issue like he claims? Does he really have somewhere lined up to haul the leftover garbage after culling out recyclables?

“What else are we getting misinformation on?” asked Jeremy Davis, another speaker at the hearing. “For every cockroach we see there’s 50 we don’t.”

Allison claims he will limit the volume of dirty household garbage coming in and plans to focus on “cleaner” commercial and industrial waste streams with a higher content of

industrial site property to the recycling sorting venture for $450,000 — less than the market value of $780,000.

Once county officials became aware of the property tax loophole, however, they went back to the negotiation table. They rescinded the offer to sell the 55-acre industrial tract at a discount and instead wanted the full asking price of $780,000.

Regional Recycling Solutions agreed.

County officials have another conundrum that’s yet to be worked out with new negotiations, however.

Once the county has sold the industrial site, how can it be assured Allison will build the plant and create the jobs he says?

“The question is if we do this how do we make sure the jobs come? Those are the negotiation points,” Dove said.

“How could we ensure the jobs?”

Under the original deal, the county had a carrot-and-stick approach to hold Allison to performance benchmarks.

If the company failed to reach full buildout of 70 jobs within seven years, it would have to pay back the $330,000 discount it got on the sale price of the land, according to “claw back” terms in the original agreement.

Now that there’s no discount on the land, the county needs something new to threaten Allison with if he doesn’t create jobs — especially since the consolation prize of property taxes is no longer part of the equation either.

Following a public hearing Monday, commissioners met privately for nearly an hour and a half to discuss the issue. While public bodies generally can’t meet behind closed doors, the North Carolina Open Meetings Law allows an exemption for economic development incentives and negotiations.

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Waynesville Mayor Brown thumps Cure at the polls

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER aynesville Mayor Gavin Brown pulled off a resounding victory against his challenger Jonnie Cure — a landslide of 1,394 to 216 votes that can only be interpreted as a voter mandate for the vision for the town Brown has carried out over the past 16 years.

Brown said he was not expecting to win by such a huge landslide. He barely scraped by four years ago, beating his challenger that year by a razor thin margin.

This election, Brown believes voters saw the town’s very fabric and future on the line, given Cure’s reputation for conservative extremism.

“In this case we had a race about the town of Waynesville. Sure there were personalities in play, but at the end of the day, it was really about Waynesville, about our town,” Brown said. “It clearly tells me we have done good things here. What we have done collectively as a community has been validated.”

Voters further affirmed their faith in the town’s leadership by re-electing all three incumbents running for town board.

“I think it shows the majority of the people are happy with the decisions we have made,” Alderwoman Julia Freeman said.

“We put Waynesville in the forefront of everything we do. That’s who we are.”

“I think voters feel they had an excellent board that’s been in there and support what we’ve done for Waynesville as a whole,” agreed Alderman Gary Caldwell, who was the top vote-getter.

Caldwell’s been on the town board for 20 years, and has been the top vote-getter in four previous elections.

“I have really been honest to the citizens and I always try to be helpful and be a voice for everybody, from the youth to the seniors,” Caldwell said.

The only newcomer to the town board is Jon Feichter — who won the only vacant seat up for grabs. Feichter is a downtown business owner who largely shares the vision

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Mayor Gavin Brown........................................1,394 Jonnie Cure.............................................216 Lynn Bradley.............................................79

Aldermen (vote for 4) Gary Caldwell ......................................1,161 Jon Feichter .........................................1,030 LeRoy Roberson...................................1,026 Julia Freeman.........................................997 Kenny Mull..............................................879 Anthony Sutton.......................................590 Phillip Gibbs...........................................417

The polls in Waynesville were generally cheerful on Election Day, as candidates and their supporters mingled and shared friendly banter from dawn to dusk. Becky Johnson photo set in motion by the existing board.

“I think that is a pretty clear message that the citizens by and large are happy with the direction of town government if you will.

My goal in that context will be to pitch in wherever I can,” said Feichter, whose mother was a beloved town alderwoman. “There are things that can be improved and I have ideas I would like to focus on, but given these results, it seems people are pretty happy with the direction it is going.”

WILD CARD There was technically a third candidate on the ballot for mayor, Lynn Bradley. A South Main Street businessman with conservative leanings, Bradley signed up to run

against Brown, but then changed his mind.

It was too late to get his name off the ballot, but he made it known through local media and by word of mouth that people shouldn’t vote for him.

It worked surprisingly well. Bradley got less than 70 votes.

Bradley initially threw his support to Cure, publicly endorsing her. However, Bradley’s support for Cure waned as the election drew near. Bradley even took Cure’s campaign signs down from his storefront.

On the morning of Election Day, Bradley learned that Cure’s supporters had placed signs at the polling sites reading “Lynn Bradley says vote for Jonnie Cure.”

Bradley wasn’t pleased with the messaging. He made the rounds to all the polling

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Clyde leadership remains steady

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER Clyde voters gave Mayor Jerry Walker the thumbs-up to add four more years to the 35 he’s served on the town’s board, 11 of those as mayor. Walker, 79, won the election by a landslide, earning 110 votes to challenger Cindy Golden’s 44.

“I won by a little more than I figured, so that was good,” Walker said, crediting his experience and longevity in the community for the results.

“I think the fact that he’s older and has been a fixture in the town for longer helped him,” Golden agreed.

“I’m upset but it was a good race, a good run,” she said, adding that she’s definitely thinking about running again next time.

Walker said he’s not planning to go charging into the new 6 term with any major initiatives or plans for change. Rather,

he aims to continue the steady pace he’s been maintaining for decades.

“Just like I said all along, I kind of like it (Clyde) the way it is, but we’d welcome some new business,” he said. “We’re keeping it clean and neat and maintenance work done.”

The only other contested race for Clyde’s open seats was between incumbent Frank Lay, who was appointed to fill an unexpired term earlier this year, and challenger Melanie Cochran. Lay won by a wide margin, pulling in 115 votes against Cochran’s 35.

Seats held by James Mashburn and Dann Jesse were also up for election, but no challengers filed. Only three write-in votes took away from the totals for Mashburn and Jesse.

Key issues in the race had included improving communication with the community, creating more festivals and special events, improving access to high-speed Internet and increasing opportunities for parks and recreation.

sites, saying he had not sanctioned such an endorsement. He pulled up signs from the ground and personally confiscated signs being hand-held by Cure’s campaign volunteers and took them away.

Voter turnout was higher this election than four years ago.

Brown believes it’s because there was more at stake this election. The mayor’s race in particular had diametrically opposed candidates with dramatically different visions for Waynesville.

Brown said Cure would have turned back the clock on the town’s progress and compromised the quality of life Waynesville is known for.

Cure believes lower taxes and fewer regulations are the path to prosperity, and that government is an adversary to the private sector.

Brown believes the town plays a critical role creating an environment where people want to live and setting the stage for businesses to flourish, and in that sense, town government is a community partner.

“Why do I win by this much this time? It is not that Gavin Brown has changed all that much. It is the town of Waynesville saying ‘Waynesville is a good town and there is no idiocy allowed in this town,’” Brown said.

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Some, including losing candidates Cochran and Golden, had said the meetings should be held during the evening to allow working people to attend. Lay and Jesse and agreed with that point, though Mashburn and Walker had disagreed.

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Price wins write-in for Maggie J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR Maggie Valley had the opportunity to select new leadership in this election, but residents voted for incumbents to continue the progress made over the last four years.

Alderwoman Janet Banks and Alderman Phillip Wight were re-elected for second terms. Wight served a four-year term, while Banks was elected two years ago to fill a vacant seat on the board.

Even with the disadvantage of being a write-in candidate, Maggie Valley Alderwoman Saralyn Price easily claimed the mayor’s seat. Price, who is only two years into her third term on the board, decided to run as a write-in candidate following the untimely death of the late Mayor Ron DeSimone in July. DeSimone had signed up to run for a second term but died in a construction accident the same day the candidate sign-up period ended.

Knowing the two other mayoral challengers — Jasay Ketchum and Justin Phillips — had been critical of DeSimone and some of the current board’s decisions, Price wanted to offer voters a candidate who would continue with DeSimone’s vision for the valley.

MAGGIE VALLEY Saralyn Price ..........................................233 Justin Phillips............................................84 Jasay Ketchum ..........................................27

Aldermen (vote for 2) Janet Banks ............................................237 Phillip Wight ..........................................166 Billy Case ................................................137 Nikki McCauley..........................................46 Kirsten Warstler.........................................16

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Price was not able to be reached for comment on election night.

“This is the first write-in campaign in Maggie Valley history to succeed — the fact she pulled that off is an amazing feat and she should be congratulated for that,” Banks said.

“I’m glad I get to continue working with her on the board.”

Banks banked the most votes out of the four candidates running for the board.

“I think it’s great and I really appreciate the faith the Maggie Valley voters have in me to be part of their leadership for the next four years,” she said.

While the previous Maggie board was dysfunctional and argumentative, Banks ran on the promise of working collaboratively and respectfully with the board to improve the town for residents and businesses.

She feels like the board has accomplished a good working relationship in the last two years. Now that some groundwork has been

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS EDITOR After a long day at the polls, Ralph Hamlett and Gail Mull were heading to The Imperial on election night to celebrate their re-election to the Canton Board of ANTON Aldermen.

Relieved that the votes went in their Aldermen candidates (vote for 2) favor, they are excited to begin their Gail Mull - incumbent ............................268 first full four-year term on the board so Ralph Hamlett - incumbent ...................251 they can continue what they started in Kate Brown.............................................230 the last two years.

Neal McCracken .....................................157 “This means that people trust what we’ve done for the town of Canton and they honored us with the privilege to serve them for four more years,” Hamlett said.

It’s been a whirlwind two years for incumbents Hamlett and Mull. Two years has been enough time to start some initiatives to get Canton moving, but not enough to see the light at the end of the tunnel, they both said. Mull and Hamlett wanted four more years to get the momentum going in Canton.

Mull could barely contain her excitement when the final results came in, which had her as the top vote-getter. She said the results show that the board is on the right track.

If the election was a popularity contest, she and Hamlett feared they would be ousted, but their reelection gave Mull a sense of vindication for the work they’ve done.

“We are elated. We have persevered and the Gail Mull town of Canton is the real winner in this because we will be able to complete what we started — the momentum will continue,” she said.

They say their goals will be the same moving into a second term — kickstart economic development downtown, work on improving infrastructure to attract new businesses and see the town’s public pool renovation project through to fruition.

With signs encouraging residents to vote for Hamlett and Mull, the two incumbents stuck close together to get re-elected.

“We’ve had so many ambitious initiatives — now we keep on,” Hamlett said. “We look at what we’ve done and see if it’s working — some of our initiatives may need tweaking but we’ll keep working hard to meet the challenges before us.”

Neal McCracken and Kate Brown, both longRalph Hamlett time residents who have been involved in town committees and projects, were challenging the incumbents for office. Brown serves on the town’s appearance committee and McCracken serves on the Canton ABC Board and helped start the MaterFest in Canton.

The challengers know Canton fairly well, but they were unable to convey how they would lead the town any differently than Mull and Hamlett have in the last two years. Brown did mention some disappointment with changes made to the Labor Day festivities, but those changes resulted in record attendance this year.

Alderman Zeb Smathers was pleased with the election results and sees it as a testament to what the board has accomplished in the last two years. While there is still much to be done, he said he was proud to be part of the team that has accomplished so much.

The board hired a new town manager, approved raises for employees without raising taxes, installed new water meters that will be more efficient, fought to keep Camp Hope, revamped the Labor Day celebration, put policies in place to encourage economic development for the mill town and began the process of replacing the town’s public pool.

“Four years ago, I was part of a team that set out with a clear vision to accomplish specific tasks to make Canton better,” Smathers said. “The voters of Canton got behind Ralph and Gail — but it’s not so much a vote for them as much as it is a vote for what we’ve all been doing as a team.”

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laid, Banks said, the real work can begin. She said the next four more years can be spent creating a concrete town center plan and working toward implementing the plan by finding funds in the budget and by leveraging grant funding. She hopes a more attractive Soco Road corridor will attract new business and more tourism dollars.

Wight received the second highest number of votes for alderman, but it was a close call.

He had only three more votes than candidate Billy Case.

Wight’s first two Saralyn Price years on the board were tumultuous, as he didn’t see eye to eye with DeSimone and other board members.

Since new board members were elected two years ago, he was often the lone opposition on issues.

Even with the disagreements on the board he managed to accomplish many of his campaign goals to cut taxes by 3 percent, reduce fees for new and expanding businesses and pay off debt on town hall, festival grounds and the police department. Now that he has another four years ahead of him, Wight said voters could expect more of the same from him.

“I thank the people who came out and supported me and who appreciate the things we’ve accomplished in the last several years,” he said. “I’m looking forward to helping maintain a conservative voice on the board in Maggie Valley.”

Once the board and mayor are sworn in, its first challenge will be to fill Price’s vacated alderman seat. A vacant seat is what nearly tore the town apart in 2012 when an alderman resigned. The board attempted to appoint someone but was split 2-2 on who the appointee should be. The stalemate continued for a year until the next election in 2013, when Banks was elected.

Banks hopes the board will be able to use the method the town of Clyde did last year to fill an empty board seat. Clyde aldermen called for applications, conducted interviews and asked tough questions of the candidates before choosing a replacement.

Wight agreed that the board should conduct interviews in public to find the best applicant.

“I hope people who have run this year will apply and hopefully we can put some more conservative leadership in that seat,” he said.

“Hopefully we can all agree on who would be most suited to fill that seat.”

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Franklin incumbents replaced with new faces

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR The Franklin Board of Aldermen will soon have some new blood leading the town into the future.

While one of those faces is familiar — former mayor Joe Collins — the other two candidates are new to local politics. Brandon McMahan, 33, and his former business partner Adam Kimsey, 30, were able to unseat incumbents Joyce Handley and Verlin Curtis.

The shift on the board could mark significant change ahead for Franklin.

RANKLIN While the under 40 Mayor generation Bob Scott ...............................................300 has been accused Aldermen (vote for 3) on not Brandon McMahan.................................227 being Joe Collins ..............................................218 involved Adam Kimsey..........................................168 or interJoyce Handley ........................................159 ested in Angela Moore..........................................149 local govVerlin Curtis .............................................92 ernment, Kimsey and McMahan are bucking that assumption.

McMahan, an elementary school teacher, said it was an exciting time to be a part of Franklin and he wants to take advantage of that. He wants to see better communication between the board and other community groups as well as more community development projects outside the downtown corridor.

Kimsey is the co-owner of The Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub in downtown Franklin. He said he is excited about getting involved and making important decisions for the town’s future.

His goals are to improve the town’s economy and infrastructure while building a more vibrant downtown.

Local attorney Joe Collins, 60, has plenty of experience on the town board. He served as alderman from 1997-2003 and as mayor from 2003-13. While he decided not to run again in 2013, he now wants to get back in the game and offer his expertise on the board.

His top three goals are to work on plans to secure an alternative water source for the town, market and sell the Whitmire property acquired by the town 10 years ago, and to construct more permanent structures on the town square. He said he decided to not run for mayor because he thinks Mayor Bob Scott is doing a good job.

Scott ran unopposed for his second two-year term, but 300 people still put a check by his name on the ballot. Just like his first campaign, he has promised continued transparency in town government and continued progressive thinking to move the town forward.

Even though only 15 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the Franklin election, it seems like a clear mandate that they wanted younger representation to lead the town. With all the growth happening in Franklin, it makes sense that a new perspective is wanted on the board.

The town is growing in a way that is more attractive to younger residents. Franklin recently got its first brewery and a second one may open next year. Franklin also was just recognized by Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine as the ‘Top Small Town,’ which will likely draw more outdoors enthusiasts to the area in the next few years.

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Bryson City election may be too close to call

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR ryson City’s town election may be too close to call given that there were eight provisionary ballots left to count on election night.

The unofficial results Tuesday night have Mayor Tom Sutton winning re-election by three votes. He had 102 votes Tom Sutton compared to challenger Catherine Cuthbertson’s 99 votes. The tides could turn once the

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other ballots are counted.

Sutton ran as a write-in candidate for mayor four years ago to give people an option at the polls and he is ready to serve another term.

“I’m really excited and ready to get back to work and put this election stuff behind me — that’s definitely not the fun part of the job,” he said.

He said the town was wrapping up several street projects that he would like to see come to a close before next year. He and the new town manager Josh Ward are already working on the town’s goals for 2016.

Just a few provisionary ballot results could make all the difference on who makes it on the board. As of Tuesday night, incumbent Jim Gribble was the top vote getter with 94 votes, but challenger Heidi Woodard was right behind with 93 votes. Incumbent Kate Welch received 91 votes, which means she could still be in the running

WAYNESVILLE, CONTINUED FROM 6 Brown has been mayor for eight years, and says this was his last time running. But it was one of the most important races he’s been in.

Brown characterized Cure as an extremist and said her resounding defeat should send a message to the conservative activist faction that she is part of that the larger community doesn’t share their views of society.

“This is not just about the town of Waynesville. This is about the larger community.

We are setting the tone for future elections,” Brown said.

“The pendulum swings but it doesn’t swing that far. It doesn’t swing from 12 o’clock around to 12 o’clock — it swings from maybe 5:30 to 6:30.”

Those who won seats on the town board had all pubGavin Brown licly endorsed Brown and are pleased he will be mayor.

“I am astounded at the margin between Gavin and Jonnie. I have followed elections and politics my entire life and I don’t know that I have ever seen a winning margin that significant,” Feichter said.

VOTER MANDATE The overwhelming support for Brown and the town board incumbents turns Cure’s primary campaign message on its head. Cure asserted that vast numbers of Waynesville residents were dissatisfied with town hall, felt disenfranchised from the decision making process and saw the town’s leaders as out of touch.

But the election results refute Cure’s theory of mass discontent among the populace.

Indeed, several voters chosen randomly for exit poll interviews said they were happy about the direction of the town.

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for one of the two available seats on the board.

Whatever the results are, Sutton doesn’t think it will impact the board’s progress.

“I think we’ll work really well together — Heidi has been a neighbor of mine for a long time and I have a lot of respect for her. Jim has served on the board for a long time and he knows his way around so I think we’ll be just fine,” he said.

Six candidates were vying for the two open seats on the board and all the newcomers were running for change.

“I feel like what we have has been good,” said Margaret Shipman, a voter stopped coming out of the Waynesville library polling site who said she voted for Brown. “We need the right people in there to get Waynesville where it needs to be. I know people say it is a tourist town but it brings in money.”

The town’s tourist appeal can translate to economic development when people like Kay Isserman move to town.

She came to Waynesville from Naples, Florida, for its smalltown charm. She hopes it stays that way, and voted accordingly.

“I am hoping the town doesn’t become too commercial. I like the town I see now,” said Isserman, who voted for Brown.

Down the road in Hazelwood, Mackie MacKay was coming out of the polls after casting a vote for Brown as well.

“Just got to keep the ship afloat,” said MacKay, who believes the town is generally on the right track.

Growth, development and the economy was a central issue in the election, and one that voters apparently picked up on.

Some candidates said the town was too picky when it came to appearance standards. Others said standards are necessary to maintain the town’s character and appeal.

Voters were surprisingly versed in the debate and brought it up as one of the issues in the race.

“I don’t want to see them come in and slap up metal buildings like they used to. They start to look ratty pretty quickly,” Wayne Kaylor said, stopping for an exit poll interview at the Hazelwood voting site. “You let loose all the rules, we go back to what we had before.”

Another claim Cure made in her campaign was that the town’s budget is too extravagant when it comes to amenities, like building a skateboard park or supporting HART’s construction of a second community theater.

But those are important to some voters.

“I anm in full support of candidates that support the arts and recreation,” said Sarah Beth Lee, a voter exiting the Salvation Army polling site around dusk. “Happy and healthy citizens are productive citizens. It is an investment in a better standard of living for everyone.”

Jonnie Cure did not return messages seeking comments for this story.

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On the town board side, David Nestler overtook incumbent Harold Hensley as the top votegetter for the three open seats, earning 179 votes to Hensley’s 161. Either Greg McPherson or Charlie Schmidt will David Nestler take the third seat — unofficial results show McPherson edging Schmidt by just one vote, so things could easily change once provisional ballots are counted.

“I did not expect first place. I expected Harold Hensley Harold to get first place being the incumbent in the race, but I felt a lot of really good support the last few days,” Nestler said as he pulled into his driveway at 9 p.m. Tuesday after a full day at the polls.

He said he thought Greg McPherson the information he gave out on his stance and viewpoints and the solid research he did to make sure he knew what he was talking about made a difference.

“I think a lot of it is people are eager for communication, and I think I really did an effective job of communicating with people,” Nestler said.

Hensley said he didn’t do a whole lot in the way of campaigning, following a philosophy of voter choice he’s acted on for many of his 10 years in office.

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER It looks like a shortage of candidates for town board in Webster and Forest Hills won’t mean empty seats in town hall over the next term.

Results from both towns show substantial numbers of write-in votes, though it’s not yet known how many different names those write-in votes represent. To win as a write-in candidate, said Jackson County Election Director Lisa Lovedahl-Lehman, a person must meet all the qualifications to run for office and receive at least five write-in votes.

Over the next week, the Jackson County Board of Elections will tally and verify the results. At this point, Lovedahl-Lehman said, all she can say is that multiple people were named on write-in ballots in each town — it wasn’t a unified vote for one person.

In Webster, two seats were up for election, with only one person — incumbent Billie Jo Bryson — named on the ballot. Bryson received 13 votes, with 28 votes cast for a write-in candidate.

Webster resident Jade Moses has been reported to be running a write-in campaign, but another write-in candidate has surfaced as well — a campaign to “elect” a deceased dog named Chester owned by a town resident. As of press time, the Board of Elections had not determined how many different people — or dogs — were named in the Webster write-in votes.

Write-in votes will also be a factor for the village of Forest Hills.

Mayor Kolleen Begley, who ran unopposed, received 25 votes to continue serving, and town council member Ron Mau, also unopposed, received 23 votes. But no candidate filed to hold the second open seat.

Seventeen write-in votes for that seat were cast, with multiple people named on those ballots, Lovedahl-Lemon said.

Commissioners (3 seats open) David Nestler..........................................179 Harold Hensley (incumbent)...................161 Greg McPherson .....................................111 Charles Schmidt.....................................110 Jeremy Edmonds.......................................95

Vote counts are unofficial, and with at least seven provisional ballots still uncounted, either Sossamon or Allen could still win the mayor’s seat. Likewise, the third town board seat could go to either McPherson or Schmidt. Official results will be released Nov. 10.

“If they like what I done, they’ll send me back. If they don’t, they’ll send me to the house,” he said. “So evidently there was enough of them liked what I done to send me back.”

For his part, Schmidt said he’ll be waiting to see what’s in the provisional ballots but is surprised he garnered as few votes as he did, admitting he might have undercampaigned a bit.

“As many people as I talk to, I just kept hearing, ‘You’re good,’” said Schmidt, who manages his family’s business, Speedy’s Pizza. “That with a very busy month at the restaurant limited my time.”

The new town board will face a full plate of decisions when its members are sworn in.

With an impending county revaluation expected to lower property values and therefore property tax revenues — combined with the fact that last year Sylva had to dip into its savings to balance the budget — the new board will have to decide whether to raise property taxes or make up the shortfall in some other way.

Downtown traffic and the potential to expand parking, aesthetics, improving the look of Mill Street and cleaning up Scotts Creek, which runs through town, are just a few of the other issues candidates mentioned during the campaign.

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BY HOLLY KAYS “I tried to let people know that I wanted STAFF WRITER to be progressive in making Sylva a better he race for Sylva town board has been place,” she said. crowded since filing began, and the Allen, who had to work his job as a secuelection remained close all the way to rity guard at the N.C. Center for the the ballot box.

Advancement of Teaching on Election Day, With at least seven uncounted provision- first learned of the outcome via a call from al ballots still hanging in the balance, mayoral candidates Danny Allen and Lynda were separated by just three votes on Tuesday night, with Sossamon garnering 96 votes and Allen 93.

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“I would just like to say congratulations “We’ll just wait and see, but I hope that’s to Lynda,” he said. “She ran a good camthe final outcome because I would be happy paign and if she’s the winner I want to conwith that,” said Sossamon. She’s worked gratulate her.” Hamilton could not be hard during the campaign, she said, talking reached for comment. to as many people as possible and hanging The Board of Elections will count proviout at the polls from 6:45 a.m. to 7:45 p.m. sional ballots this week, with official election on Election Day. results published Tuesday, Nov. 10.

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Next phase of wilderness recommendation process underway Forest Service asking input from those who pound the ground

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he conversation about wilderness and how it should fit into the next management plan for the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests will continue with a pair of public meetings this month.

It’s been about a year since the last round of public meetings, at which the U.S. Forest Service presented its inventory of potential areas for designation under the Wilderness or Wild and Scenic Rivers acts. Since then, the Forest Service has expanded the inventory and is asking for public input to evaluate whether any of the inventoried areas meet the qualifications for designation.

Basically, said forest planner Michelle Aldridge, this phase is all about getting the people who know these areas the best to weigh in on how well they meet criteria relating to scenery, recreation opportunities and habitat value, among others.

It’s a bit more preliminary than even that, Aldridge added, because the Forest Service isn’t even committed to the land area borders as currently drawn. The evaluation process may show, for instance, that one half of a particular area is a textbook case for wilderness designation, while the other half has none of the sought-after characteristics. There would be nothing to stop the Forest Service from redrawing the boundaries of the inventoried area to reflect that information.

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Getting the information is the tricky part, though. The inventory of potential wilderness areas includes 566 square miles of land, and the inventory of potential wild and scenic rivers includes 53 river segments. Even with a large staff and a knowledgeable team of specialists, that’s a lot of land to cover.

“We don’t know these areas like everyone else does, so if there are members of the public who have very strong familiarity with these areas and these rivers, we want to make sure we’re not missing anything,” Aldridge said.

Considerations for wilderness designation include: • How natural the area appears, including evidence of past management interventions and human-created structures.

• Opportunity for solitude and primitive recreation such as hiking, kayaking and fishing.

“We don’t know these areas like everyone else does, so if there are members of the public who have very strong familiarity with these areas and these rivers, we want to make sure we’re not missing anything.”

The new timeline • December 2015-Spring 2016: Release pieces of the draft plan, or draft Environmental Impact Statement.

• Spring 2016: Release a draft Environmental Impact Statement outlining the projected effects of a range of management approaches.

• Spring-Summer 2016: Go through a formal 90-day public comment process.

• Summer 2016-Spring 2017: Respond to comments and release a draft of the final decision.

• Spring 2017-Summer 2017: Go through a formal objection process.

• Fall 2017: Release the final plan.

Coming to consensus Over the past year, things have been pretty quiet where the management plan revision for the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests is concerned, but that’s by design.

The U.S. Forest Service announced this spring that it would be taking a timeout on the forest plan, hoping to give dueling groups a chance to cool down and find consensus.

That desire gave birth to the Stakeholders Forum for the Nantahala and Pisgah Plan Revision, which includes 30 members, each representing a different group with a different take on what the new forest plan should look like.

“The whole purpose was to try to get people talking together about what this plan could look like and how to understand the trade-offs between all the different resource issues,” said Karen DiBari, director of the National Forest Foundation’s Conservation Connect program and facilitator of the group. The NFF is the Forest Service’s nonprofit partner.

After getting involved this spring, the NFF worked to 10 assemble a group representing the diversity of views related to

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The Shining Rock Wilderness is a much-loved area for primitive recreation like hiking and camping. The U.S. Forest Service is considering whether to recommend that Congress designate more wilderness areas in Western North Carolina. Holly Kays photo

— Michelle Aldridge, forest planner

• The area’s size. Wilderness areas should be at least 5,000 acres, adjacent to an existing wilderness or recommended wilderness area, or have some other justification for inclusion.

• Presence of unique ecological, geological, historical, scenic, educational or scientific features.

• How difficult it might be to manage the area as wilderness based on characteristics such as shape, existing use agreements and management of adjacent land.

Considerations for eligibility as a Wild and Scenic River include:

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23. The group now has two meetings under its belt and going forward will meet on the second Tuesday of each month.

“It’s going well,” said John Culclasure, who represents the Ruffed Grouse Society on the forum. “It’s a diverse group of interests at the table.”

“I’m optimistic,” agreed Hugh Irwin, who fills The Wilderness Society’s seat.

One of the first topics the group tackled after its formation was the wilderness question, a conversation that sparked heated argument during forest plan discussions last year.

On one side, environmental groups had advocated for increased wilderness, asking the Forest Service to recommend as much land as possible for federal designation.

Wilderness designation is the best way to protect the forest’s most treasured lands against degradation, to preserve important ecosystems and to allow continued opportunity for primitive recreation in an increasingly developed world, they said.

Meanwhile, sportsmen had argued that populations of game animals like deer and grouse were shrinking and a scarcity of young forest habitat in the Nantahala-Pisgah was

• Whether the river is free-flowing.

• The quality of the scenery.

• Presence of recreation opportunities able to attract people from around the region.

• Presence of rare or unique geologic features.

• Value as habitat for fish, wildlife and plants, especially those that are threatened or endangered.

• Evidence of modern human presence and historic features.

After the feedback rolls in and the Forest Service team completes its own recommendation, the agency will decide whether any of the inventoried

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largely responsible. Wilderness designation would be a death knell for these game animals, they said, crippling the Forest Service’s ability to promote young forest with tools like prescribed fire and timber harvest.

“I think that there were lots of attempts to try to bring everybody together, but for various reasons not all the stakeholders were part of the same conversations,” DiBari said of past attempts at consensus, “and this is what this is trying to do.”

Time will tell, but so far things seem to be off to a good start. For instance, in their October meeting the group approved a statement — the forum operates by consensus decisions, not majority-minority votes — expressing confidence in the work the Forest Service has done so far on its inventory of potential wild and scenic rivers and wilderness areas.

“That was pretty significant in terms of everybody in the room saying, ‘We understand what the Forest Service has done here in terms of their process and why there were some changes. We can accept that and now we’re ready to move forward,’” DiBari said. “Given all the past conflict, that seemed like a pretty positive thing.”

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Lands had to meet only the most basic of requirements to be part of the wilderness inventory, but to go further along the road toward designation they’ll have to be proven to hold the qualities the Wilderness Act aims to preserve. USFS graphic

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areas show potential to make the cut. It takes an act of Congress — among other intermediate steps — to designate new wilderness areas, but the forest management plan can include recommendations for federal action.

The plan won’t include recommendations for Wild and Scenic Rivers, with that designation going through a separate process after the Forest Service decides whether any of the inventoried rivers are eligible for designation.

“We’re not at a place where we’ve made any decisions, and we’re really seeking public input — and particularly public input

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A pair of public meetings presenting the latest in the process of identifying lands and waters for possible designation under the federal Wilderness Act or Wild and Scenic Rivers Act is coming up this month, with written comment welcomed through Dec. 15.

• 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 Arena at University of North Carolina Asheville Content will be the same across the two meetings, with materials posted at www.fs.usda.gov/goto/nfsnc/nprevision.

Comment forms are also available on the website. By Dec. 15, completed forms should be emailed to ncplanrevision@fs.fed.us with the subject line “Wilderness evaluation input” or mailed to Attn: Plan Revision Team Leader, National Forests in North Carolina, 160 Zillicoa St., Suite A, Asheville, N.C. 28801

To those who have been following the process, the magnitude of lands and waters currently up for evaluation might be surprising. The final inventory of 52 land areas represents 362,400 acres, or 35 percent of the total forest — more than double the amount listed in the first wilderness inventory, released last November. Of the forest’s 1,300 river segments, the Wild and Scenic Rivers inventory includes 53.

The uptick in potential wilderness inventory is nothing to either celebrate or protest, Aldridge said. It’s simply the outcome of everchanging bureaucratic requirements.

When the Forest Service embarked on its plan revision, the Nantahala-Pisgah became one of the first national forests in the country to start the planning process based on the new 2012 planning rule.

But the planning directives to go along with the rule weren’t finalized until January, at which point the Forest Service was well into its planning process and had just released the wilderness inventory. The final rule had broader requirements for inclusion in the inventory than what the Forest Service had originally been working with.

“I think the main point is the directives say, ‘You need to look at everything in the inventory. You need to be very inclusive in the inventory,’” said Karen DiBari of the National Forest Foundation, who’s helping facilitate a group of stakeholders in the forest plan to give recommendations to the Forest Service.

However, said Hugh Irwin of The Wilderness Society, the increased inventory is definitely an opportunity.

“We feel these are important conservation and recreation areas that should be protected in the plan at some level,” he said. They might not all be suitable as wilderness, he said, but he believes they’re all special enough to merit some sort of designation.

Meanwhile, said John Culclasure of The Ruffed Grouse Society, it’s possible to be proconservation and still cautious about endorsing designations.

“Hunters aren’t categorically opposed to more wilderness, but we want to make sure it’s the right decision for all users of the forest,” he said. “We’re concerned about access, wildlife and forest health. And we’ve seen deer and grouse populations decline in areas that are restricted.”

Aldridge stressed that no decisions — regarding wilderness recommendations or anything else — have been made yet and that even the draft plan will in fact be several plans in one. The draft Environmental Impact Statement will lay out multiple potential management approaches for the public to dissect before developing a final plan. And even before the draft EIS comes out this spring, Aldridge said, the Forest Service will release bits and pieces of the developing document for the public to review.

“We want to provide glimpses along the way,” she said.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR brand new craft distillery is looking to set up shop in the former Carolina Nights dinner theater building in Maggie Valley, but the owner will first have to get special permission from town aldermen.

Even though the distillery will have retail space as well as a tasting room, Maggie Valley Town Planner Andrew Bowen said the manufacturing portion of the business made it fall under the “small industry” classification in the town’s zoning chart and has to be granted a special exemption to operate.

“Other towns call it a special-use permit, but Maggie Valley calls it a special exemption,” Bowen said. “It’s just any zoning use that the board thinks could work in town but may need extra caution.”

A distillery is definitely new territory for the town. Dave Angel has been working to get his business — Elevated Mountain Distilling Co. — off the ground for two years. While Haywood County has a number of craft breweries, this will be the first craft distillery to locate in the county.

Granting a special exemption involves the board of aldermen holding a quasi-judicial hearing where the applicant will present the details of his project, the planner will present the planning board’s recommendations and the public and the board will have a chance to ask questions about the project.

The hearing will be held at 6 p.m. Nov. 16 at Maggie Valley Town Hall.

“What I’m trying to highlight for people is that the perception of a distillery is not what you may picture,” Angel said. “We’re not a bar and we’re not a nightclub — we’re a manufacturing location that does tours.”

Angel has been working on this project since he moved back home to Waynesville a couple of years ago. After spending his career in human resources for large companies, Angel started to explore other options.

“I started to look at what I’m passionate about and what would be good for the community,” he said. “I’ve made whiskey since I was 14 years old — it’s something I’ve always had an interest in.”

If the town board grants the special exemption, Angel has plans to purchase the former Carolina Nights buildings on Soco Road to house his distillery. The building has 10,000 square feet located on 1.7 acres in the heart of Maggie Valley. The space, which served as a dinner theater for many years, will have to be retrofitted for Angel’s operation.

Elevated Mountain Distilling was the 2015 recipient of the Haywood Chamber of Commerce’s Business Start-Up award, which comes with a $10,000 cash prize. Angel said he thinks his project won because of the potential it has for economic development in the county.

Making moonshine — or corn whiskey — will be a part of his production, but Angel plans to have an entire line of craft distilled spirits. Elevated Mountain also plans to pro-

The former Carolina Nights dinner theater building in Maggie Valley could soon be converted into a craft spirits distillery. File photo duce craft vodkas, bourbons and flavored whiskeys. With its proximity to craft breweries in Waynesville and Asheville, Angel is playing with the idea of hop-infused whiskeys and partnering with local breweries to make “Beerskeys.”

“My mom is a Leatherwood, and they have a long history of making apple brandy. I would love to use Haywood County apples to make apple brandy,” he said.

Angel said Elevated Mountain would be a good steward of land and water because those natural resources are what will make his product stand out among others. He said staff will go through environmental program training and the company will reevaluate its environmental impact each year to see where improvements can be made.

Solid waste at Elevated Mountain will be minimal — spent grains will be donated to farmers to use as feed, paper and cardboard packaging waste will be recycled and barrels will be reused multiple times and will then be sold.

The distillery’s liquid waste is acceptable as sewage and farmers could even use it for irrigation purposes with a land-use permit.

Jonathan Creek, which is situated right behind the former Carolina Nights building, will be utilized for a mashing water source.

The business also will be hooking on to Maggie Valley’s water system. Operating a distillery takes an enormous investment in equipment, including fermenters, boilers, a mash tun, compressors and bottle fillers.

TOURISM DRAW Angel said he had talks with Waynesville, Canton and Maggie Valley while trying to find the ideal location for his distillery. In the end, it was late Mayor Ron DeSimone who talked Angel into moving to Maggie Valley.

“I actually met with him the day before he tragically died and he really sold me on this location and on Maggie Valley,” Angel said.

With Maggie Valley’s moonshine-making heritage, the distillery could be a welcome addition. Angel says his new venture will have a positive impact on the town’s tourism economy. He estimates having 16,000 visitors in the first year with a minimum 10 percent growth rate.

“I think it will bring people to Maggie and people already coming to Maggie Valley, it will give them yet another thing to do while on vacation,” Angel said.

Craft distilleries are on the upswing following the explosion of craft beer in the state.

North Carolina didn’t have any distilleries in 2000 and now has more than 30. The Bourbon Trail is the No. 1 tourism attraction in Kentucky and now North Carolina has its own distillery trail. Elevated Mountain would be the first distillery off of Interstate 40.

“Elevated Mountain will be a major tourist attraction providing a whiskey experience tour, tastings and retails sales,” his business plan outlines. “A significant number of tourists will be destination specific due to interest in distilleries and as followers of the NC Craft Distillery Trail.”

Every bottle sold locally and nationally from Elevated Mountain will have a label that says the product originated in Maggie Valley.

Per North Carolina law, distilleries are only allowed to sell one commemorative bottle a year directly to customers following a tour of the facility. Distilleries are also able to host tasting events at trade shows, festivals, conventions and other special events.

Angel hopes the ABC Store just across the street from his distillery in Maggie will have his product readily available if his visitors want to purchase more than a souvenir bottle.

Visitors will be able to tour Elevated Mountain Distillery for $10, which includes a shot glass for tastings. Upon completing a tour, costumers will be able to sample six products and purchase one bottle to take home on an annual basis.

The operation will be bare bones at first but Angel hopes to employ seven to eight people within the first year to help with the retail store and tours and that number may increase to 15 by year two. His goal is to have the distillery open by summer 2016 — preferably before Memorial Day weekend.

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“We’re here to discuss the legitimate and lucrative opportunities around cannabis and the many facets in which it can be used for this tribe.� — Joseph Owle

“I’m trying to keep an open mind and weigh it out, but I do have a lot of questions that I hope the feasibility study will address,� said Councilmember Adam Wachacha, of Snowbird, mentioning issues surrounding taxation, regulation and potential negative social side effects.

Councilmember Teresa McCoy, of Big Cove, meanwhile, expressed her support for the medical side of things while asserting that her community would likely never be County Genealogical & Historical Society meeting at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 5 at 200 Main St., Bryson City. The Great Wagon Road was the chief migration corridor traveled by many of our ancestors who journeyed South from Pennsylvania through the valley of Virginia and into the Carolinas.

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cept of legalized marijuana drew mixed reviews from councilmembers. “The last time Yellowhill Community met on this issue, they were totally opposed to it, but I told Joey (Owle) I would keep an open mind, and that’s what I’m trying to do, because it is a business,� said Councilmember Alan “B� Ensley, of Yellowhill.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER herokee will take a look at legalizing marijuana on the Qualla Boundary, Tribal Council decided in a unanimous vote last week.

Three Cherokee men, part of a group calling itself Common Sense Cannabis, spurred the discussion with a resolution asking Tribal Council to fund a study examining the feasibility of allowing marijuana use on tribal lands. “What we’re trying to do here is not just legalize marijuana so everybody can smoke a joint,� said Joseph Owle, a Wolfetown resident and member of the group. “We’re here to discuss the legitimate and lucrative opportunities around cannabis and the many facets in which it can be used for this tribe.�

Those opportunities aren’t limited just to recreational use. The tribe could look at allowing cannabis in medicinal applications, and it could also consider it as an agricultural product — especially varieties primarily used in medicines or for their hemp fibers, a traditional material in Cherokee culture. “One of our issues in the community is opioid abuse,� said Yona Wade a Painttown resident and member of Common Sense Cannabis. “I think one of the questions we should ask is why we continue to provide opioids or not allow our people an alternate choice in treating pain.�

If medical marijuana were legal, Wade suggested, perhaps pain could be treated more effectively and with fewer of the dangerous side effects that accompany reliance on opioids. Wade told council that his mother is one of the many who lives with chronic pain, having broken her neck while horseback riding. Aware of the risk, she refuses to take opioids, but compounds found in marijuana could provide an effective but safe alternative, he said.

Though the final version of the resolution was approved unanimously, the con-

ties when it comes to law enforcement for marijuana — essentially granting tribes the same leeway as that now given to states.

Since then, several tribes have legalized some form of marijuana use, with many more considering the possibility. The Santee Sioux tribe in South Dakota has even announced plans to open the nation’s first marijuana resort.

So far, 23 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws legalizing medical marijuana, with the issue making an appearance in the N.C. General Assembly this year. A comprehensive medical marijuana bill was introduced but died in committee, while another bill, permitting hemp extract for treatment of epilepsy, became law. Another law passed this year sets up an agricultural pilot program to look at cultivating industrial hemp in North Carolina. “We want to see the tribe be on the front end of this, not behind,� Owle said of the Eastern Band.

The resolution calls for a study costing “not more than� $200,000, with an amendment added before the vote clarifying that the Public Health and Human Services Department will oversee the study, with funding coming from the tribe’s grant match fund. “It’s just going to be a study,� said Councilmember Bo Crowe, of Wolfetown. “Once the study’s over if Wolfetown community doesn’t want this, I will not support it, but right now I think it’s worth looking at a study on it.�

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OK with legalizing recreational use. “I think there is a cure for cancer. I think we’ve had it all along, but I think the pharmaceutical companies have the politicians in their back pocket,� McCoy said.

Several councilmembers suggested tabling the resolution until they could go talk with their constituents about it. “This issue is a bigger issue than I want to be alone in voting for,� Wachacha said. “To me this is further down the line, a referendum vote.�

A referendum vote would indeed be appropriate, countered McCoy, if council were looking at a resolution to actually legalize marijuana. But that’s not what the resolution asks — it’s simply requesting funding to do a study evaluating whether the idea is worth further consideration. “If you have nothing to take to your community, what do you expect back from them?� McCoy said. “I say do the feasibility study and take it to the communities and let them hear it, and then bring it back.�

Once the feasibility study is complete, McCoy said, the people should vote on which, if any, uses should be legal.

If the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians decides to pursue marijuana legalization, it would not be the first Indian tribe in the U.S. to do so. In October 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a policy statement essentially saying that it would give Indian tribes the latitude to decide for themselves whether to allow marijuana use on their lands — provided legal uses don’t interfere with the DOJ’s eight main priori-

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Hospital leaders turn the ceremonial first shovel of dirt atop the parking lot that will house a new emergency department by this time next year. Holly Kays photo

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Department of Health and Human Services, lax inspection was at play in the suicides. Detention officers are required to check on all inmates in their care at least twice per hour, with frequency increased for inmates who are suicidal, intoxicated or aggressive, among other conditions.

According to the jail log from March 13, nobody had checked on Ross for 85 minutes at the point he was found hanging from a bedsheet, with intervals for the rest of the day ranging from 20 to 106 minutes. On Nov. 21, Moose hadn’t been checked for 33 minutes before his body was discovered, with gaps earlier in the day as large as 53 minutes, according to a report from DHHS. After the body was discovered and 911 called at 3:49 p.m., the next recorded checking of inmates wasn’t conducted until 6:09 p.m., a gap of two hours and 20 minutes, the report said.

After Moose’s death, the Jackson Chip Hall County Sheriff ’s Office requested an investigation by the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation, but the SBI declined. However, the agency launched a probe into Ross’ death, with the report landing on the desk of District Attorney Ashley Welch in June.

Welch then requested that the SBI expand the scope of the investigation to include Moose’s death. She just received the final report last week and is now reviewing the lengthy document before deciding how to proceed.

The two deaths came at a time of transition for the sheriff ’s office, with Hall elected last November after his predecessor, Jimmy Ashe, decided not to run for re-election. At the time of Moose’s death, Hall — who before

becoming sheriff was chief deputy — had been elected but had not yet taken office. When Ross died, Hall was four months into his tenure as sheriff. During the campaign, he’d acknowledged there were issues in the jail and had discussed his plans to improve the operation there.

However, those ideas had not yet been implemented at the time of Ross’ death.

Improvements are now on the horizon, said Buchanan, whose position Hall had discussed creating during his campaign but could not fill until after Ross’s death. The county has contracted with Statesboro, Georgia-based Transform Health Correctional Services to provide health care for inmates, an agreement that includes a weekly physician’s visit and bi-weekly rounds from a mental health doctor.

“That is running just as smooth as I figured it would,” Buchanan said. “Every other jail administrator I spoke with just spoke highly of them, and it was definitely worth it to me.”

Buchanan is also in the midst of working with Hall to develop an updated policy and procedure manual.

In addition, the sheriff ’s department is embarking on an overhaul of the detention center. They’re working on repainting, upgrading floors and purchasing some new equipment, including security equipment such as camera systems, door locks and electronic cell check equipment.

“We’re trying to organize,” Buchanan said. “We’re talking with several different companies, getting quotes.”

It’s hard to say how long the overhaul will take, as that will largely depend on pricing and feedback from the companies. But Buchanan’s hopeful of fixing the gaps that put the sheriff ’s department in the middle of this SBI investigation in the first place.

“We’re definitely making changes,” he said.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER hen inmates of the Jackson County Detention Center committed suicide on Nov. 21, 2014, and March 13 of this year, the same two male jailers were on duty both days. One of those jailers has taken a voluntary demotion.

Brian Wellmon, who been a detention sergeant, now holds the title of Detention Officer-Justice Center Security.

The new position came with the creation of a secure entrance at the Jackson County Justice Center and entails screening people who enter the building. Wellmon took a $3,400 salary cut with the job.

“He (Wellmon) submitted a letter of interest (for the position), and based on his letter and everything, the sheriff made the decision that if he wished to transfer, he could,” said John Buchanan, jail captain for the sheriff ’s office.

Both Wellmon and Mark Leamon, who had been supervising the male inmates on Nov. 21, 2014, and March 13 of this year — inmate Charles “Chuckie” Moose was found dead on Nov. 21 and Steve Ross on March 13 — were given five days of leave without pay in April, but afterward they returned to their positions with no change in title or salary.

Sheriff Chip Hall would not comment on the decision, citing privacy laws relating to personnel decisions.

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invest at least $43 million in the hospitals over the next eight years.

Bunny Johns, board chair for Harris and Swain, made sure that the emergency department made the list of promised projects.

“Bunny let us know very early ‘We’re going to get a new emergency room and that’s

between August and October 2016.

But the emergency department isn’t the only project in the works for Harris and Swain.

Construction of the New Generations Family Birthing Unit, a complete overhaul of the existing mother-baby wing expected to cost $6 to $8 million, will likely get underway during the first quarter of 2016. Like the emergency department, the birthing unit was part of the hospital purchase agreement.

Duke LifePoint is in the midst of the formal funding process for the project, the first phase of which — a labor and delivery unit — was finished before Duke LifePoint bought the hospital. It was built using donations gathered from more than two years of fundraising.

Swain Community Hospital is also likely to see investment over the coming year. Two projects are in the works for that facility, Heatherly said, though the order in which they’ll be completed has not yet been determined.

A $1.2 million renovation of the hospital’s operating room, which used to provide outpatient services in Bryson City, is planned — the operating room has been closed for about three years.

Also in the works is an expanded emergency department in Swain County.

“We don’t necessarily need a new emergency department there, but we need to create a bigger space,” Heatherly said.

Both projects are in the planning phase, with funding to be announced at a later date.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER onstruction is now underway for a new emergency department at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva, an $11 million project that will replace the existing emergency department, nearly 30 years old.

“It was just not built for the number of patients we see in it today,” hospital CEO Steve Heatherly said of the existing facility.

Patient volume has jumped by 40 percent since the existing emergency department was built, Heatherly said, and doctors there now see 18,000 to 20,000 patients every year.

The new emergency department will nearly double patient capacity, boasting 23 beds compared to the existing 13. Of those, 14 will be for acute care, five for patients with less severe injuries or illnesses and the remaining four for patients with behavioral health issues. Patients with behavioral issues often wind up in the emergency room, but the traditional ER setup isn’t necessarily equipped to handle their needs while they’re awaiting transfer to a more specialized facility.

“This will create a better, safer environment for them, their families and our staffers,” Heatherly said.

The construction, Heatherly said, is a direct result of Harris’ affiliation with Duke LifePoint, which purchased Harris, Swain Community Hospital and Haywood Regional Medical Center last year. In its purchase agreement with Harris and Swain — a deal crafted separately from that struck with Haywood — Duke LifePoint promised to

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The road to the courthouse Lawsuit over council pay raises makes its way to Annual Council

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER year’s worth of time and a shakeup in leadership haven’t been enough to take the pay raises Cherokee Tribal Council voted itself last year out of the public eye.

With a lawsuit already filed in the tribe’s court system, the impending legal battle took center stage during Annual Council last month.

Held every year in October, Annual Council kicks off Cherokee’s fiscal year by allowing tribal members to submit legislation for council’s consideration throughout the month. Among the resolutions making their way to the council floor in October were three related to the impending legal proceedings.

The legislation was controversial even outside of its content, as the 16 named defendants include five sitting councilmembers. Those five questioned whether council should even discuss the resolutions in open session, as the conversation could take a turn toward something best saved for court.

“We’ve been sued. Should we be actually hearing the legislation?” asked Council Chairman Bill Taylor, of Wolfetown, during session Oct. 29, expressing a recurring theme.

“Because this resolution involves and talks about the lawsuit that is pending in the tribal court system, it is my advice to this body to not make any decisions or really even discuss these issues,” said Interim Attorney General Hannah Smith, also echoing a point she’d reiterated many times.

“I think it is worthy of a discussion in front of the members of this tribe that have had to live with the decision made that day (Oct. 14, 2014), and it has bothered them,” countered Councilmember Teresa McCoy, of Big Cove. She was referencing a different lawsuit-related resolution during a different October Council session, but the point was one she repeated throughout the month.

It was McCoy’s resolution that brought the pay raise issue to the Annual Council.

During the Oct. 14 session, she submitted legislation that would have required all 16 defendants to retain their own attorneys rather than expecting tribal government to pay their legal expenses.

“All the people on this boundary have to hire an attorney, and sometimes when tribal government misrepresents — intentionally or not — the integrity of its community, it should be open for suit,” McCoy said.

“Because if not, it’s one-sided against the public that the government can do what it wants to whom it wants.”

Smith responded to McCoy’s resolution by advising council to take the discussion to closed session to avoid compromising the defense. Councilmember Alan “B” Ensley of 16 Yellowhill, who is a defendant in the lawsuit,

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Peggy Hill, a member of the group suing tribal officials over pay raises some believe to have been illegal, addresses Tribal Council requesting that they waive their legislative immunity to allow the suit. Image from Tribal Council video recording agreed, at one point moving that council go to closed session.

But the motion was not successful, and the resolution launched a long back-andforth in which some councilmembers expressed their continued discomfort with the pay raises and everything that surrounded them, while others voiced concern that passing McCoy’s resolution could imperil the tribal government’s legislative immunity down the road.

Councilmember Adam Wachacha of Snowbird, also a defendant in the lawsuit, held that position, telling council that he’d already hired his own lawyer but would still advise council to be cautious of McCoy’s resolution.

“What he (the attorney) suggested to me was if that if this resolution passes, then we’re basically giving up a piece of our legislative immunity,” Wachacha said.

Ensley agreed.

“I think if this council passed this resolution, all the other boards and committees, they’re going to be liable, and I don’t think that’s what we want to happen,” Ensley said, moving to kill the resolution.

A COUNTER-RESOLUTION The legislation wound up passing narrowly — Ensley, Wachacha, Yellowhill Councilmember Anita Lossiah and Painttown Councilmembers Marie Junaluska and Tommye Saunooke voted against it, with Richard French, of Big Cove, abstaining and Taylor absent — but its success was shortlived. A week later, on Oct. 22, Lossiah and Councilmember Travis Smith, of Birdtown, brought in a new resolution for consideration to replace McCoy’s.

“The spirit of the other one (McCoy’s resolution) I fully supported, but I was concerned for the liability of this tribe,” Lossiah said. “I feel this clarifies it and it brings to the

The backstory The pay raise issue originated Oct. 14, 2014, when Tribal Council passed a budget including a last-minute amendment that gave each councilmember a raise of more than $10,000, with backpay for the years when they supposedly should have already been earning the higher salary.

Of the 12 councilmembers, two — Teresa McCoy and Brandon Jones — were absent, and one — Bo Crowe — voted against the resolution. The remaining nine voted to pass it. No discussion preceded the vote, which took place in a meeting billed as a budget hearing, not a regular council session.

The raises went into effect immediately, a fact that many decried as going against the tribe’s Charter and Governing Document. The Tribal Council meetings that occurred after the raises passed were filled with emotion. Councilmembers McCoy and Albert Rose — Rose had originally voted for the pay increases — entered protests of the action, but Tribal Council voted not to hear them.

“Do we go to the law? Do we go to court? Do we do an impeachment? What do we do? You’ve shut us up,” tribal member Peggy Hill had said, frustrated, at the Nov. 6 council meeting last year.

“If you choose to bring a lawsuit against the Tribal Council, you have the right to do that,” then-Council Chair Terri Henry had replied.

After forming a group called the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for Justice and Accountability, Hill — together with Amy Walker, Peggy Walker, and other tribal members not wishing to be identified — set out to do just that. On Oct. 6, the group filed a lawsuit naming 16 people as defendants.

attention that we always need to protect this immunity.”

Lossiah and Smith’s resolution asserted that “additional research was needed concerning the public policy behind legislative and government immunity and whether it would be affected by the passage of (McCoy’s resolution)” and laid out an alternative way to navigate the question of who should pay the defendants’ legal fees.

Basically, the resolution says that the tribe should pay up front if one of its representatives is sued — whether the suit is filed against that person as an official or an individual — in the course of his or her duties.

However, if the court finds that person to “have been acting outside the scope of his or her official authority,” the defendant will have to repay their legal expenses.

“We have to be able to freely pass legislation, as we have been appointed and put in these positions by our communities,” Lossiah said, explaining the need for this approach.

“Anything that would erode that protection for this body would be a hindrance on our government function.”

McCoy, however, disagreed, contending that while she appreciates “the intent of this legislation,” she strongly believes “when tribal government breaks the law, tribal government should be held accountable like everybody else.”

Besides, she said, it’s not like council has never waived its sovereign immunity for specific situations before.

“Every one of us has sat here a time or two, with the exception of the new ones (councilmembers) and raised our hands to waive immunity, and who do we waive it for?” she said. “Non-enrolled people. Rich people.

Money people. Business people. But never do we waive it for our own people when we violate our own law.”

McCoy moved to kill the legislation, with a second from Bo Crowe, of Wolfetown.

French was the only other councilmember joining McCoy and Crowe against the resolution, with the other nine councilmembers voting in favor of it.

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The Oct. 22 vote put to rest the question of who will pay for the defendants’ legal representation, but it wasn’t the last time the lawsuit found its way onto the Annual Council Agenda. On Oct. 29, two of the women at the forefront of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for Justice and Accountability — the organization bringing the suit — came before council requesting, essentially, that the body pass legislation allowing the suit to proceed.

“If we don’t get a waiver, you’re impeding our right under the Indian Bill of Rights, and you’re denying us our right to address the controversy in our own courts,” said Peggy Hill, a member of the group.

Hill was referencing the Indian Civil Rights Act, passed in 1968, part of which duplicates the language in the U.S. Bill of Rights.

Specifically, Hill pointed out, the act prohibits tribes from “deny(ing) any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws or depriv(ing) any person

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“Madam chair told you at that time, ‘Take us to court.’ That’s all you needed,” Travis Smith said.

Walker disagreed, asking that council still consider the legislation.

“That would probably be your opinion,” she told Travis Smith, “but I would say that everybody here in the council probably doesn’t agree with that.”

Council shot down the resolution, with McCoy, Jones and Crowe — the only three who sat on council 2013-2015 but were not named in the suit — providing the sole yay votes. With the exception of Big Cove Councilmember Richard French, who was absent that day, the rest of council voted against it.

“That black cloud has hung over our community now for more than a year,” Walker said of the pay raises. “People are still upset about it. We want what happened here to be looked at in a court of law.”

The defendants have not yet filed their response to the suit.

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“We have to be able to freely pass legislation, as we have been appointed and put in these positions by our communities. Anything that would erode that protection for this body would be a hindrance on our government function.”

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of liberty or property without due process of law.” She believes the lawsuit falls into that category.

However, tribal law contains some contrasting language. According to Chapter 7, Section 13 of the tribal code, Tribal Court must dismiss any suit against the tribe or its representatives unless either Tribal Council or the U.S. Congress “has expressly and unequivocally” waived sovereign immunity through an ordinance, law or contract.

That’s what Hill and Becky Walker, co-authors of the resolution, were asking for.

“If you will allow us to go and have a declaratory judgment, the people would sing your praises because at least you’re willing to acknowledge that the things that happened in here are just not right,” Walker said.

McCoy sided with Hill and Walker, calling for the five sitting councilmembers named in the suit to abstain from the vote and the remaining seven to approve the resolution.

If they voted it down, she said, “What it looks like to the public is that as elected officials you can break the law and hide under the umbrella of immunity, but your people are not allowed to sue you for breaking that law.”

Travis Smith, however, questioned whether the resolution was even necessary to move forward with the suit, referencing former Tribal Council

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Veteran’s Day events

Webster will hold its Veterans Day ceremony this year at a relocated and fixed up World War II monument. A team of volunteers using largely donated equipment worked to clean and move the heavy stone (below).

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• Macon County Art Association will hold a reception and portrait presentation event for the Annual Veterans Portrait Project at noon, Nov. 11, at the Uptown Gallery, 30 E. Main St., Franklin. The public is invited to watch family members and vets receive portraits painted by local artists.

• The town of Franklin will hold its annual Veteran’s Day parade and celebration from 10:15 a.m. to noon Nov. 11 at the Franklin town gazebo. All Macon County veterans are invited to participate. The parade will leave the lower level of Franklin Town Hall at 10:15 a.m. and travel to the gazebo on the square. The Franklin High School Band will perform this year and the featured guest speaker will be Col. Gary Dills, USAF (retired) along with special music, a wreath laying ceremony and the playing of “Taps.” 828.524.2516.

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JACKSON COUNTY • U.S. Congressman Mark Meadows, RCashiers, will be the keynote speaker at Southwestern Community College’s Veteran’s Day event, which will be held from noon-1 p.m. Nov. 11 in Myers Auditorium on the Jackson campus. The event will also include a presentation from the William E. Dillard American Legion Post 104 Color Guard, comments from the chairmen of the Jackson, Macon and Swain County commissioners and a video/slideshow of SCC employees 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.

• Webster will hold a Veterans Day Celebration and Monument Rededication ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 11 at Webster’s Old Rock School, 1528 Webster Road. The half-hour program will include a posting of colors by Boy Scout Troop 210, a musical performance by the Smokey Mountain High School Choir, including the national anthem, and remarks from guest speakers.

HAYWOOD COUNTY • Waynesville’s VFW Post 5202 will hold a Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. Nov. 11 at the “big gun” in downtown Clyde. The guest speaker will be Lt. Col. Kevin Sutton, the Air Force Junior ROTC commander at Tuscola High School. 828.456.9346.

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• A free Veterans appreciation spaghetti dinner is being provided by VFW Cherokee Memorial Post 8013 to all veterans and their families on Nov. 7 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Yellowhill Community Center. ID required for veterans, all others $5/adult and $2/under 12. Steve Brown at 828.497.2515 or Steve Lusk 828.497.5273.

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World War II monument rededicated in Webster

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ebster will hold the biggest Veterans Day celebration it’s had for 64 years when it rededicates the World War II monument that Webster High School students erected in 1951 to honor their fallen classmates.

Jackson County’s best were among the millions of troops sent to fight far from home, and 11 of those who enlisted from Webster never made it back.

“We took the utmost care in making sure the community was supportive of the relocation,” said Webster Mayor Nick Breedlove.

“We wanted to do it in a respectful way that honored the World War II vets and also the intent of the students at the time to preserve those names and their contribution.”

The stone monument, which weighs more than a ton and is connected to an almost equally weighty concrete base, had seen better days when the town board first turned its collective eye toward giving the memorial a facelift. Its face was aging and badly in need of a cleaning and resealing.

The patch of ground where it sat on the

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property of the Southwestern Child Development Commission — known as the Old Rock School — was overgrown and inaccessible to World War II veterans now in their 90s. Additionally, the town didn’t have any ownership of the space the monument occupied and therefore lacked the

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• What: Webster Veterans Day Celebration & Monument Rededication. The halfhour program will include a posting of colors by Boy Scout Troop 210, a musical performance by the Smokey Mountain High School Choir including the national anthem, and remarks from U.S. Congressman Mark Meadows, RCashiers; Jackson County Commission Chairman Brian McMahan; Webster Mayor Nick Breedlove; and Webster Historical Society President Joe Rhinehart.

• When: 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, rain or shine • Where: Webster’s Old Rock School, 1528 Webster Road (N.C. 116) • Who: All military veterans are encouraged to attend, as well as the general public.

ability to maintain it.

So, the town got to work, gathering input from veterans and other community members. It didn’t take long for a consensus to emerge, and the town started to chip away at the task of moving the monument to an easier-to-reach area of the center’s grounds, right next to the parking lot.

“In politics pretty much any issue divides the public one way or another, but this is an example of a project that everybody from start to finish has gotten behind and supported 100 percent,” Breedlove said.

Donations and offers to lend professional equipment and time poured in. Jackson County donated landscaping and public works crews, McNeely’s Store & Rental gave use of its backhoe, Austin’s Light Hauling took away the brush and monument installer Linn Ash provided his services.

Duke Energy gave $500 toward the project.

All in all, the project cost Webster about $1,500 to buy a plaque, clean the monument, haul in dirt and hire a lawyer to get the town an easement on the site for future maintenance.

But through it all, Breedlove said, the best part has been the opportunity to speak to the veterans the monument will serve.

“It’s just amazing to sit down with them and hear their stories,” he said.

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quality of health care for residents, especially those who need to get to a trauma center quickly.

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Management Director David Breedlove said the operation didn’t need to be in a central location. The 3,500-square-foot building only has about eight employees, including Breedlove and 911 dispatchers.

“We had a section of space in the jail but we grew out of it — it’s nice to have our own space and free up some space for the sheriff ’s office,” Breedlove said.

The county already owned the land, and Breedlove said the building was funded by a $600,000 grant through the North Carolina 911 board. Everyone pays a 70-cent fee on his or her phone bill for 911 services and part of that funding goes toward funding emergency equipment and infrastructure.

The 911 center was also equipped with new state-of-the-art computer systems that allow dispatchers to tie into radio calls from Jackson County as well. The better communication will mean quicker response times.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR wo newly completed infrastructure projects in Swain County are welcome additions for the emergency services staff.

Swain County and Graham County commissioners came together last week to celebrate the completion of a joint project with the North Carolina Department of Transportation to construct a helipad on U.S. 28 North next to the Tsali Overlook.

MAMA (Mountain Area Medical Airlift) with Mission Hospital will now have a safer place to land and pick up patients for transport in emergency situations.

“Safety is the first word that comes to mind,” said John Grindstaff, supervisor of Air Medical Services for MAMA. “It decreases our stress levels knowing we have a safe place to land.”

Swain County Commission Chairman Phil Carson, who has worked with Swain County Rescue for 30 years, said that area of highway between Swain and Graham had been used for years as a landing substitute.

Local fire departments had to work to block off traffic to a portion of the highway so a helicopter could land safely.

“I’ve worked several accidents on this road and we’ve flown a lot of people out from this area,” Carson said. “If someone is having a heart attack in Robbinsville, this is the perfect location to meet the helicopter within the golden hour — that’s all the time you have to get someone where they need to be.”

With permission from DOT, the helipad was built on a DOT right of way. The project was funded by a $32,000 FLAP (Federal Lands Access Program) grant Swain County secured with the help of the Southwestern North Carolina Planning and Economic Development Commission. Both counties then split the required $8,000 matching funds.

Graham County Commissioner Connie Orr said having the helipad was critical for Graham County to be able to offer better

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR ranklin beat out 47 other small towns this year for the title of “2015 Top Small Town” in Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine.

The online contest garnered more than 100,000 votes from outdoor enthusiasts claiming their small town was the best outdoor adventure hub, but Franklin took the crown.

The community celebrated together last Friday on the town square as the announcement was made. Cory McCall and Rob Gasbarro, co-owners of Outdoor 76 in Franklin, were the driving force behind promoting the contest locally because they know Franklin is a Mecca for bike riding, hiking, whitewater rafting, kayaking, rock climbing and more.

Franklin Mayor Bob Scott addressed the excited crowd, stating how fortunate Franklin is to have all of its natural resources as well as camaraderie and love of community. Even the town of Franklin’s logo — which features a hiker, the Appalachian Trail’s white blaze on a tree, a waterfall, foliage, mountains and even a ruby dotting the ‘I’ in Franklin — is a testament to the town’s love of the outdoors.

“This is the result of many people working toward the same goal of promoting Franklin and the preservation of our outdoor resources,” Scott said.

Part of winning the award means several of Franklin’s big events will get top billing in upcoming issues of Blue Ridge Outdoors, including Winter Wonderland, Franklin Trail Days and the Naturalist Trail Race.

County Commissioner Gary Shields thanked everyone who has volunteered time in any way to help make Macon County a great place to live, work and play.

“We all know being No. 1 in anything … takes a lot of effort, and what I’ve seen as a county commissioner is a tremendous amount of people who work every day volunteering their time,” he said. “It takes everyone to keep the ball rolling.”

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Tommy Jenkins, Macon County Economic Development director, said downtown Franklin was facing major challenges just a few years ago at the same time many other small town main streets were suffering from the recession. Many of the downtown Franklin businesses stuck it out through the hard times and now Main Street has welcomed in a new generation of small business owners in the last several years.

“We’re building a foundation for the future of Franklin and for Macon County,” Jenkins said. “You can’t have a growing economy unless you have a vibrant downtown with local businesses. Small business is what makes our economy grow.”

Outdoor 76 — owned by Gasbarro and McCall — is an example of that new generation of business owners who are working with other merchants to ensure Franklin thrives.

As highlighted in the Blue Ridge Outdoors article about Franklin, they took a chance five years ago when they opened their outdoor gear shop in downtown Franklin.

Active community volunteer Matt Bateman, who was hosting the communityJ announcement event last Friday, said the impact of the award could be whatever the community makes it. He said a community meeting would be scheduled for January or February to gather community input on how Franklin can capitalize on the new designation. Bryson City was the recipient of the Top Small Town award in 2014. Bateman said Bryson City saw a significant increase in room occupancy tax revenue, which is collected from visitors staying overnight at hotels, motels and campgrounds.

“I can’t help but to think that this award had a direct impact on that,” he said.

The other Top Town winners this year were Roanoke, Virginia, for Mid-Sized Town and Knoxville, Tennessee, for Top Big City.

A complete recording of the special announcement in Franklin can be seen at www.maconmedia.com.

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Turkey donations limited due to bird flu

The Maggie Valley Area Lodging Association is once again seeking donations for its 18th annual Turkey Drive to feed families in Haywood County.

MVALA volunteers work with Waynesville Ingles Manager Jeff Henderson and his staff to purchase and package the food.

Due to the bird flu across the country this year, the availability of turkeys has become severely limited. Ingles-Waynesville is unable to get 250 turkeys for the food baskets, but will substitute hams this year.

Visit www.visitmaggie.com to make a donation or send a check to MVALA-Turkey Drive, P.O. Box 1175, Maggie Valley N.C., 28751 $25 will feed a family.

Arc of Haywood awards education grants

The Arc of Haywood County, a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to serve individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and their families, recently recognized recipients of mini-grants made possible by The Arc of Haywood County and United Way. The grants provide funding for special projects/programs that serve to increase learning opportunities for students with intellectual and other related developmental disabilities. This year, a total of $7,449 was awarded to 26 teachers, psychologists, and speech and language pathologists working in Haywood County Schools.

Lake Junaluska celebrates Day of Peace

Origami paper cranes symbolized prayers for peace at Lake Junaluska when the community gathered to celebrate the International Day of Peace.

The service of prayer and reflection at Lake Junaluska Memorial Chapel began with the ringing of the assembly bell. It concluded with a candlelight processional from the chapel to the edge of the lake, where a raft carrying an enflamed

• Franklin Relay for Life will hold a kick off event at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, at The Factory Depot Room. Dinner will be provided.

Come learn more about what you can do to fight cancer. 828.342.2774.

• Purchase an engraved brick paver for yourself or in honor of a loved one to support REACH of Macon County’s emergency shelter services. A brick purchase will help REACH put the finishing touches on the new shelter. Visit www.reachofmaconcounty.org or call 828.369.5544.

• The Evergreen Foundation awarded The Arc of Haywood County a grant for $9,000 to

origami crane mobile was released onto the lake.

Bill and Sylvia Everett created the mobile of 150 origami cranes. It symbolized the release of prayers for peace for the community and world.

As a continuation of the conversation about peace in our world, Lake Junaluska will hold a Peace Conference on Nov. 12-15.

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Marie Metcalf named 2015 Chief Junaluska Marie Metcalf was recognized as the 2015 Chief Junaluska during the Junaluska Associates Weekend held at Lake Junaluska.

Within the Lake Junaluska community, Metcalf has served as the president of The Junaluskans and the Junaluska Woman’s Club, vice president of the Tuscola Garden Club, and on numerous committees at Lake Junaluska.

She has served as part of the Young Marie Metcalf at Heart Committee of Waynesville FUMC, Corresponding Secretary of the Shelton House Board of Directors, and she was the President and organizing member of the Haywood County Performing Arts Society, now known as the Haywood County Arts Council.

Bethel nonprofit grants preservation award Norman Long was the second recipient of the Pigeon Valley Award for Historic Preservation given out by the Bethel Rural Community Organization.

Long has been granted this prestigious award for his restoration of the 1868 one-room log schoolhouse: Chinquapin Grove School.

Long has been able to trace the beginnings of Chinquapin Grove School in the post-Civil War era to its original teacher, William H. Hargrove who charged his students five cents per day.

The interior of the structure is a spacious area in which Long has carefully collected and

enable The Arc to continue providing independent living and supported employment programs for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Haywood County.

• A charity-dining event hosted by Paoletti’s Restaurant raised $175,000 to benefit Hospice House Foundation of WNC. About 60 dining patrons participated in the event, which included a silent auction, live music a four-course meal and wine pairings. The inpatient hospice facility to be built in Franklin will serve the western North Carolina region. 828.524.6375.

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arranged all types of school, post office, home, and barn memorabilia – reflecting the varied history of the building as well as the diverse history of Bethel and Haywood County.

Christmas Connection receives $10,000 The Christmas Connection of Jackson County is $10,000 closer to achieving its 2015 fundraising goal of $75,000 thanks to matching grants from the W.C. and Stella B. Hennessee Foundation and Jackson County.

For more information or to help the Christmas Connection, call 828.399.1216.

Development awards presented in Macon Macon County Community Development Council held its’ annual awards dinner to recognize individual community development organizations and their accomplishments for this year.

This year’s awards consisted of grants to organized communities for the purpose of continuing to improve their community.

Receiving the awards were Upper Cartoogechaye, Otto, Nantahala, Holly Springs, Cullasaja, Clarks Chapel, Cowee, Carson and Pine Grove communities.

Each community also had the opportunity to recognize individuals. This year, Clark’s Chapel community named Damon Johnson as Young Man of the Year. Cowee community named Daniel Pickens as Young Man of the Year and Emilynna Wilson as Young Woman of the Year. Clay Farley Creighton was named Young Man of the Year in Pine Grove Community.

Named as Man of the Year and Woman of the Year were Rick and Danita Stoudemire of Carson community; Danny and Diane Baldwin of Clark’s Chapel community; Harvey Fouts and Norie Guffey of Cowee community; David Moore and Susan Carpenter of Nantahala community and Karen Raby was named Woman of the Year by Pine Grove community.

In Otto, Roy McClure and James Wood shared Man of the Year honors and Cathy Howman was named Woman of the year.

• Meals on Wheels of Haywood County needs volunteers to deliver meals for the following routes: Maggie Valley on Thursdays, Pigeon Valley on Fridays, Fines Creek on all days and Jones Cove on Wednesdays. Routes take one to two hours to complete. Contact Jeanne Naber at 828.356.2442 or jnaber@haywoodnc.net.

• Coats for Kids of Jackson County recently received a generous donation of new children’s’ coats, from America’s Home Place of Franklin.

These items will be available at Coats for Kids Distribution Day from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 7, at Sylva First United Methodist Church, 77 Jackson Street. This will be a first come,

Devin, 13, is one of many children awaiting an adoptive family who will be featured at the Adoptions Options Expo from 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 14 at Ira B. Jones Elementary School, 544 Kimberly Ave., Asheville. Admission is free and attendants are encouraged to drop in to speak to pubic adoption agencies, support and resource agencies and families who can share their adoption stories. Donated photo

More 35 dogs, two parakeets and a police dog attended the Blessing of the Animals service at Lake Junaluska on last month. Ministers blessed each animal by name and lifted up prayers of gratitude for the way animals contribute to our health and make our lives more fulfilling. Reverend Susan Giles, Dean of Memorial Chapel at Lake Junaluska, lead the service along with other local pastors. Donated photo

first served event and children need to be present to receive items.

• Macon Aero Modelers recently donated $500 to Friends of the Macon County Public Library.

• Hope for the Holidays, a program designed to provide support to those who are facing the holidays following the death of a loved one, will be held from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Nov. 17, at Wells Events & Reception Center, 248 North Main Street, in downtown Waynesville. The group will share experiences, practical ideas, music refreshments and more. 828.648.2371 or 452.5039.

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Don’t succumb to fears in Beaverdam To the Editor: I would like to elaborate on the comments I made at the hearing on Oct. 19 on the proposed recycling racility in Beaverdam. Leaving aside the NIMBY (not in my backyard) concerns, this is just a bad deal for all the people of Haywood County.

The development of this property as an industrial site was a good investment decision made by the county. Unfortunately, it happened to be ready for marketing just as a severe nationwide economic downturn occurred. It’s discouraging to see this property sit idle for years as the nation climbs out of the recession, but I think this property will soon be worth much more than Haywood County has spent purchasing and developing the site.

The benefits of this recovery should accrue to Haywood County, not to a speculator who can craft a deal to pick up the property on the cheap. As Warren Buffett has said, “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.” It seems as though the Haywood County commissioners are fearful that this property will never be disposed of at a good price, and Ken Allison is stepping in to take advantage of your fear.

With a little patience and a better market-

about her vision for the paper then, and I came away genuinely impressed not only with her passion for journalism and the written word in general — she is a big fan of George Orwell — but with her ambition and determination to make her vision a reality. School had barely begun, and she already had recruited a faculty advisor, secured the blessing of the principal, and assembled most of her staff. She had researched other school newspapers, weighed the pros and cons of publishing in print and online, and considered the differences between two of the Columnist online high school papers that she liked in particular.

“Most who know me would likely tell you that I am a very opinionated person,” she said. “I like to get involved in things I’m passionate about and try to make a difference. I think a huge part of that is having your voice heard, and when I realized that our school didn’t have a newspaper, I felt that it could be a way for our student body to have a voice. I also saw how our major sports were so extensively covered in the local news, but other aspects of our school didn’t get as much recognition.

This would be a great way to inform people about all the wonderful things about our school that are often overlooked.”

She is excited about the staff and the support they have received from the school, though they cannot really get up and running until they are able to raise the money for the online template. The start-up fee is $300, with an annual subscription fee of $300 to publish the paper.

Hannah has started a Go Fund Me campaign in hopes of

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omewhere at this very moment, a political science major is writing a dissertation on why young people these days are so apathetic with regard to politics and the issues. In the 2014 election, for example, slightly less than 20 percent of people between the ages of 18 to 29 cast a ballot. According to The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, that is the “lowest youth turnout rate ever recorded in a federal election.”

The perception of apathy among the Millennial generation is so widespread that it has almost become a cliché. But don’t tell that to Pisgah High junior Hannah Ensley. Not only does Hannah care about the issues young people are facing today, she is actually doing something about it. While many of her peers are busy perfecting a posture of cynicism — or working on getting to the next level of whatever video game is popular this week — Hannah is busy organizing and raising money to start a school newspaper. Even so, she is not convinced that the apathy label is a fair one for her generation.

“Personally, I don’t believe that apathy is the problem,” she said. “From what I have seen, most high school level kids and millennials in general do not stay informed or get involved in today’s issues because they feel that even if they want to, they cannot make a difference. I have noticed a striking sense of isolation and hopelessness when discussing such issues with my peers. Many feel that since they are young, they cannot make an impact, and the enormity of the problems our society faces are often overwhelming.”

Sounds like the beginning of a great editorial, doesn’t it?

In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that Hannah lives in our neighborhood and approached me for some advice about the paper over the summer. We talked

LETTERS ing effort, I am confident that this property will attract one or more higher quality businesses that can provide much better and higher-paying jobs for citizens of Haywood County. Perhaps we could look for businesses in the fields where Haywood Community College is already training students. I’m not aware that “garbage sorting” is one of the fields they train for at Haywood Community College.

I have other concerns about this proposal as well. At the hearing on Oct. 19, the county manager’s presentation alluded to property tax benefits of this transaction. I have had legal experts look into this, and they confirmed that state law exempts the land and equipment at a recycling facility from the property tax base.

I find it hard to believe that Ken Allison did not know this, and he certainly witnessed the presentation at the hearing and the speaker who raised the issue near the end of the hearing. Knowing this, it is clear that Ken Allison has not been acting in good faith even if he never made representations about the property tax benefits himself. This causes me to have much less confidence in any of the other assertions he has made.

I am sure that other residents will raise many other legitimate issues about this scheme, but to me the property tax issue alone

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raising enough money to pay the initiation fee and to publish the paper this year and next year. So far, the fund is up to $290.

With the deplorably tight budget that North Carolina public schools are faced with year after year, there is little else she can do other than to raise the money herself. In a just world, schools would subsidize a school paper as readily as they subsidize sports, but in this one she’ll need help from the community to get the paper on its feet.

“Our most pressing issue is funding, since we cannot get properly started until we have access to the website we plan to use,” she admitted. “The school’s response to my efforts to start this paper has been extremely positive, and the support of the faculty and other students has made this endeavor much easier, and very exciting!”

Hannah has not yet decided on where she will attend college, or what she plans to major in when she gets there, although med school or a doctorate in psychology are possibilities. Whatever she does, she plans to continue pursuing her passion for journalism by working with the school paper.

“I’ve been interested in writing for as long as I can remember, and I love the fact that journalism gives people a voice on issues that matter to them,” she said. “I would absolutely love to stay involved in journalism in college.”

If you are interested in contributing to Hannah’s Go Fund Me site, the link is https://www.gofundme.com/xpz2cs. Or you can make donations directly to Pisgah High School at 1 Black Bear Drive, Canton, N.C., 28716. Just make sure that the check you send is designated for the school paper. These students and their efforts deserve our support.

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

is a sufficient deal breaker. The loss of tax revenue for this exempted “recycling facility” is significant, and Ken Allison’s disingenuous actions are even more significant. As one of your constituents, I am asking you not to fall for it.

Brad Stanback Beaverdam

Some capitalism not so admirable To the Editor: In 2008, the CEO of BBT, John Allison, gave $1 million to Western Carolina University. Some have called the bequest a gift, others, a bribe. The purpose of the money was to endow a professorship in the university’s school of economics to teach “Objectivism.” Objectivism, more a philosophy of life than a true economic theory, is contained in the writings of the novelist, Ayn Rand. “Randism” can be boiled down to the phrase, “me first.” John Allison is a disciple of Ayn Rand. He gave a similar contribution to other colleges in North Carolina. Several had the integrity to decline.

A website devoted to Objectivism states that man is an end in himself. Happiness is not found in serving others, but in fulfilling one’s own self-interest. In other words, forget

“do unto others.” As Ayn Rand states, “the source of man’s right is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of {self } identity.”

So much for “one nation under God.” This philosophy is carried over, somewhat shakily, to economics, which advocates a completely free market, with no government influence whatsoever, except as a policeman to enforce free market capitalism. The removal of government oversight for corporations, banks and Wall Street was a goal of the last Bush administration. We saw what ensued in the fall of 2008 when such safeguards were removed and the economy tanked. (A website devoted to Rand and Objectivism: www.aynrand.org).

Those who find Objectivism repugnant as a form of capitalism are not necessarily socialists, although they are often labeled as such by Rand disciples, such as the “BBT Distinguished Professor of Capitalism and Professor of Economics at Western Carolina’s College of Business,” (Whew), Professor Lopez. Many people are strongly supportive of capitalism, but opposed to “predatory capitalism” as inherent in Objectivism, and find it abhorrent that such a philosophy should be taught at a state university. The goal of Objectivism, as it relates to economics, is “survival of the fittest,” to be the “the last man standing.” The trouble is, he’s the last man.

R. Michael Jones Sylva

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public energy policy in the year 2015. This system from a different era is a vestige that has become counter-productive today.

In 2011, 2013 and 2015 a growing group of North Carolina legislators in both the House and Senate have sponsored a bill entitled “The Efficient and Affordable Energy Rates Bill.”

The 2015 versions are House Bill 377 and Senate Bill 483, sponGuest Columnist sored by 15 state legislators.

The core purpose of the bill is to steeply incentivize private investment in energy efficiency to enable a dynamic reduction in statewide energy consumption and production. The new utility rate structure would substantially lower monthly energy bills for those who make the investment in efficiency, aided by low-interest loans from a dedicated Energy Efficiency Bank. Similar measures have been successfully implemented in at least seven other states and several nations to successfully reduce energy consumption while fostering the growth of new industries in energy efficiency and rooftop solar energy, creating thousands of new jobs in the process. Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Vermont, Iowa, Washington State and Nova Scotia, Canada are among the states and nations where this type of program has been implemented in North America.

Protecting its sweet deal as a regulated monopoly, as you might expect, Duke Energy has brushed aside H377/S483 as unworkable in North Carolina. The real bread and butter for their shareholders is in the guaranteed profit realized from building more power plants and infrastructure, while nurturing a steady growth in energy consumption. But, a continuation of this business model is in conflict with the public interest. The public policy that would most benefit residents and ratepayers is the implementation of programs that reduce energy consumption and eliminate the need to build more centralized power plants.

Reversing Duke Energy’s plans for building a new natural gas, fracking-fired mega power plant in Western North Carolina will require the public to rise up and demand a basic change in our state’s public energy policy. It will be necessary to adopt the type of measures introduced in the Efficient and Affordable Energy Rates Bill. If you really want to stop this power plant construction, tell your state legislator, the governor and the Utilities Commission to push for the passage of H377/S483.

(Avram Friedman is the executive director of the Sylva-based clean air/renewable energy advocacy group the Canary Coalition. He can be reached at avram@canarycoalition.org.)

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y proposing to replace its Lake Julian coal plant in Asheville with a new natural gas/fracking-fired mega power plant in Western North Carolina, Duke Energy is moving in an anachronistic direction that inhibits the transformation to energy efficiency and renewable energy needed to address rising energy costs and climate change.

Massive investment in energy efficiency is a much more economical way to meet energy demand than building, operating and continually fueling a new power plant. No one knowledgeable in the field of commercial energy production can argue with this assertion. The cheapest kilowatt is the one that isn’t needed due to efficiencies on the user end. Energy efficiency programs aimed at reducing energy waste cost utilities only about three cents per kilowatt hour, while generating the same amount of electricity from sources such as fossil fuels can cost two to three times more.

Given the negative economic, health and environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels or using the nuclear fuel-fission-waste cycle to generate electricity, it would be logical for public policy to require maximization of efficiency and minimization of production capacity. But, due to the terms of an antiquated public utility system of regulated monopoly in North Carolina, the reverse incentive currently applies.

Under this system Duke Energy is currently granted a rate of return of 10.2 percent on infrastructure capital expenditures, assuming the project is self-financed. This means that if the company spends $1 billion on building a new power plant, the law requires that rates will be adjusted to ensure that Duke Energy realizes a profit of $102 million on this expenditure. Get it? This is a no-risk “investment” with a huge return for Duke Energy shareholders, at the expense of the ratepayers (you and me) who foot the bill for the construction and legally required profit even if it isn’t the best or most economical way to meet energy demand.

At one point in our history this type of regulated monopolistic arrangement may have been advantageous to guarantee the economic health and stability of a new and growing energy industry that promised to provide reliable electricity to light homes and run factories. In that era, the promise of reliable electricity overshadowed any health or environmental concerns that weren’t as fully understood as they are today. The priority, then, was to incentivize growth in the energy industry to bring modernization to North Carolina.

While providing electrical energy to all North Carolinians is still essential today, circumstances have changed substantially, not only in our awareness of the health and environmental impacts of conventional electrical energy production, but also because of the quickly evolving energy efficiency revolution.

The highly-centralized and rapid-growth model of the regulated-monopoly utility system no longer meets the criteria of sensible

tasteTHEmountains Taste the Mountains is an ever-evolving paid section of places to dine in Western North Carolina. If you would like to be included in the listing please contact our advertising department at 828.452.4251 APPLE ANDY'S RESTAURANT 3483 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.944.0626. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Wednesday and Thursday. 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Friday and Saturday. Serving the freshest homemade sandwiches, wraps, and entrees such as country fried steak and grilled flounder. Full salad bar and made from scratch sides like potato salad, pinto beans and macaroni and cheese. www.appleandys.com APPLE CREEK CAFE 32 Felmet St., Waynesville.

828.456.9888. Open Monday-Friday with lunch form 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and family-style dinner 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Home to an extensive build your own sandwich menu as well as specialty salads, soups burgers and more. With local ingredients and madefrom-scratch recipes using a variety of good-for-you ingredients Apple Creek Cafe is sure to become your favorite spot.

BLUE ROOSTER SOUTHERN GRILL 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, Lakeside Plaza at the old Wal-Mart. 828.456.1997.

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

Blue-plates and local fresh vegetables daily.

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

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

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

BREAKING BREAD CAFÉ 6147 Hwy 276 S. Bethel (at the Mobil Gas Station) 828.648.3838 Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Chef owned and operated. Our salads are made in house using local seasonal vegetables.

Fresh roasted ham, turkey and roast beef used in our hoagies. We hand make our own eggplant and chicken parmesan, pork meatballs and hamburgers. We use 1st quality fresh not pre-prepared products to

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

Open Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday brunch 9 a.m. to 3p.m., Full Menu 3 to 9 p.m. Serving fresh and delicious weekday morning lite fare, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Freshly prepared menu offerings range from house-made soups & salads, lite fare & tapas, crepes, specialty sandwiches and burgers. Be sure not to miss the bold flavors and creative combinations that make up the daily Chef Supper Specials starting at 5pm every day.

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

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes, and always all-you-can-eat. Lunch every day from 12 till 2 p.m. Evening cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays (weather permitting), featuring steaks, ribs, chicken, and pork chops, to name a few. Bountiful family-style dinners on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with entrees

that include prime rib, baked ham and herbbaked chicken, complemented by seasonal vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts. We also offer a fine selection of wine and beer. The evening social hour starts at 6pm, and dinner is served starting at 7pm. So join us for mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Please call for reservations.

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

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

CITY BAKERY 18 N. Main St. Waynesville 828.452.3881.

Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Join us in our historic location for scratch made soups and daily specials.

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

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

828.587.2233. Open Monday-Saturday 7:30

a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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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THE CLASSIC WINESELLER 20 Church Street, Waynesville.

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

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

CORK & CLEAVER 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

828.456.3551. Reservations recommended.

4:30-9 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Sunday brunch 11 a.m. to 2 pm. Tucked away inside Waynesville Inn, Cork & Cleaver has an approachable menu designed around locally sourced, sustainable, farm-to-table ingredients. Chef Ed Kaminski prepares American cuisine from local, organic vegetables grown in Western North Carolina. Full bar and wine cellar. www.thewaynesvilleinn.com .

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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

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

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

Monday-Saturday. Father and son team Frank and Louis Perrone cook up dinners steeped in Italian tradition. With recipies passed down from generations gone by, the Perrones have brought a bit of Italy to Maggie Valley. frankiestrattoria.com

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

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

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

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

JOEY'S PANCAKE HOUSE 4309 Soco Rd Maggie Valley.

828.926.0212. Joey’s is a family style restaurant that has been serving breakfast to the locals and visitors of Western North Carolina since 1966. Featuring a large variety of tempting pancakes, golden waffles, country style cured ham and seasonal specials spiked with flavor, Joey's is sure to please all appetites. Join us for what has become a tradition in these parts, breakfast at Joey’s.

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

Open Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. With music at the Depot. Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Life is too short for bad coffee. We feature wonderful breakfast and lunch selections. Bagels, wraps, soups, sandwiches, salads and quiche with a variety of specialty coffees, teas and smoothies. Various desserts.

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

828.648.4193. 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday; Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner. The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era.

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

828.497.4590. Open 7 a.m. daily.

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

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

828.586.3555. Open Monday through Wednesday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Handtossed pizza, steak sandwiches, wraps, salads and desserts. All made from scratch.

Beer and wine. Free movies with showtimes at 6:30 and 9 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Visit madbatterfoodandfilm.com for this week’s shows.

ORGANIC BEANS COFFEE COMPANY 1110 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.668.2326. Open 7 days a week 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Happily committed to brewing and serving innovative, uniquely delicious coffees — and making the world a better place.

100% of our coffee is Fair Trade, Shade Grown, and Organic, all slow-roasted to bring out every note of indigenous flavor. Bakery offerings include cakes, muffins, cookies and more. Each one is made from scratch in Asheville using only the freshest, all natural ingredients available.

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

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

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tasteTHEmountains Dinner 5 to 9 p.m. Closed Wednesday & Sunday. Southern Boot serves delicious Louisianian food while providing a friendly music venue for musicians of all ages. Feel at home no matter where you’re from.

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PATIO BISTRO 30 Church Street, Waynesville.

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

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

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

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.

SOUTHERN BOOT, LOUISIANA CUISINE 67 Branner Avenue, Waynesville.

828.246.0053 Lunch 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

TWIN MAPLES FARMHOUSE 63 North Hill Street, Waynesville.

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

VITO’S PIZZA 607 Highlands Rd., Franklin.

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

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Finding the Flavor Sylva’s burgeoning culinary scene

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER One gets hungry strolling downtown Sylva these days.

For a town of around 2,600 residents, there sure are a lot of savory scents wafting from restaurants and cafes in seemingly every direction. Walking by Signature Brew Coffee, you take note of their sidewalk display, suggesting breakfast sandwiches and trout plates. A few doors up there’s mouthwatering pizza at Mad Batter Food & Film. Across the street, tropical fusion burritos and brunch at Guadalupe Café, hearty farm-to-table dishes next door at Lulu’s On Main, crepes and pastries at City Lights Café up the hill, or fresh seafood just down the road at the Creekside Oyster House & Grill. They are independently owned businesses, with a keen focus on locally sourced items, where fresh and organic ingredients take center stage.

And the beauty of these establishments lies in the notion that the culinary scene within this community isn’t about competition — it’s about collaboration. At the core of this camaraderie is the Taste of Sylva. Showcasing the intricate talents of the town’s chefs, craft beer makers and wine connoisseurs, the culinary tour will take place Nov. 14. During the event, patrons will experience numerous interactions between the local food and beverage industries, where pairings and tastings will go hand-in-hand with sit down dinners and live entertainment.

It is all in an effort to not only celebrate the flavors of food and drink in our own backyard, but also to spotlight those serving and pouring the essence of Western North Carolina.

LULU’S ON MAIN When Mick McCardle first rode into Sylva on his motorcycle some eight years ago, he knew immediately this wasn’t your typical small town.

“It just looked like a great place to live,” he said. “I love the lifestyle here, and I knew if I could just start the right restaurant here, then it would all fall into place.”

He then moved from Indiana, where he soon purchased and took over Lulu’s On Main in September 2013. A beloved vegan/vegetarian restaurant in Sylva, McCardle’s intent was to keep the popular

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dishes and enhance what the theme and potential of the menu could be.

“Instead of doing a million things ‘OK,’ we want to do several things really well every time you come in,” he said. “It’s about solid dishes, where we now have incorporated seafood, beef and pork into the menu — hormone free, GMO free, farm-to-table.”

With an extended background in fine dining and hospitality, McCardle aims to provide his patrons an atmosphere where comfort and cosmopolitan tastes intersect. And a large part of that vision has come to fruition with his son, Devin, an executive chef whose plates and recipes have put Lulu’s on the map as another must-try spot on the emerging culinary destination that is Sylva.

“I try to stay seasonal and very eclectic, where I was trained classically French, with my background in Creole and Cajun,” Devin said.

“For me, it is instant gratification coming in every morning, starting something from scratch, and seeing that process throughout the entire day of someone enjoying something you created.”

“I tell our staff that nobody has to come in here,” Mick added. “Our customers come in here because they know exactly the quality and variety they’ll get every time. We’re constantly striving to make sure people recognize that, and that goes for Sylva, too — it’s fun to be part of this vibrant community that’s really hitting the mark.”

In terms of local ingredients, Devin noted the regional farmers and growers who come in and sell their produce. From portabella mushrooms to butternut squash, beef to leafy greens, it’s the cultivation of the rich soils of Jackson County and beyond — an attitude and friendship that permeates the Sylva culinary scene.

“Every restaurant and chef in town is different,” Devin said. “Everybody offers something different, and it gives every business a chance to thrive because of that. We all support each other, we’re all excited at what everyone is doing to make this scene evolve.”

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Featuring local food, music and children’s activities, the sixth annual Taste of Sylva culinary tour will run from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, in downtown Sylva restaurants and in the pavilion at McGuire Gardens on West Main Street.

Twelve local restaurants will participate, providing a “taste” of menu items to patrons who get to experience almost all the culinary variety Sylva has to offer in a single afternoon.

Downtown restaurants participating at their own locations include City Lights Cafe, Cosmic Carryout, Guadalupe Cafe, Lulu’s on Main, Mad Batter Food and Film, Evolution Wine Kitchen, Signature Brew, and Sylva Convenient Market and General Store. Sylva restaurants located at McGuire Gardens will include Creekside Oyster House & Grill, Jack the Dipper and Harris Regional Hospital. Eric’s Fish Market will be hosted at Tonic where participants can participate in a fish and beer pairing.

The event is sponsored by the Main Street Sylva Association. All proceeds will benefit community programs and initiatives.

Tickets are on sale now at participating restaurants. They are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Youth price is $10 for ages 12 and under. www.mainstreetsylva.org.

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“All I know is that I’m here to play music. It’s what I want to do and it’s what I will continue to do until the day I die. I think I can speak for the rest of the band in saying they feel the same way.”

— Lowell Wurster, Lucid

LW: The results have been just as we expected. If we get put in front of people, they like us and we have made new fans, next time they come back and bring more people. There are some shows that have less people than others, but we still jam it out and have a good time, and people notice and respect that. For the most part, if people give us a fair listen, they like our music and want more.

SMN: It seems the band has always harbored this “in it to win it” mentality, where it is not this weekend warrior kind of thing. Was there a specific moment where you had an epiphany that you are doing what you’re supposed to be doing, that your actions and intent are justified, the path is true that you’re on?

LW: Honestly, it has been a hard road, and continues to be so on certain days. Some days, it seems justified and on others it seems hard, really hard. All I know is that I’m here to play music. It’s what I want to do and it’s what I will continue to do until the day I die. I think I can speak for the rest of the band in saying they feel the same way.

All of us are good at what we do, want to get even better and continue playing music for people, and for ourselves.

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It’s a quote by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, a writer whose influence on my life and ultimate Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will have career path can never be underLucid (rock/funk) at 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13. fstated. I’ve been called crazy many-a-time by those who just The 11th Western North Carolina Pottery don’t get why someone would Festival will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. pour all their energy into one of Saturday, Nov. 7, in downtown Dillsboro. the least affluent and haphazard professions known to humanity.

Balsam Mountain Inn will have Marshall What’s the allure of a hectic nonChapman, Tommy Womack and Will stop rollercoaster of a schedule, let Kimbrough as part of their Songwriters in the alone the sheer madness of not Round series at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14. knowing what tomorrow might have in store for you?

The Lake Junaluska Peace Conference will be You see, people who pursue the held Nov. 12-15, with a performance by Yuval unknown — whether it be writing Ron on Nov. 14. or music or whatever strikes fire in Tuck’s Tap & Grill (Cullowhee) will have Heidi your belly — chase after their pasHolton (blues/folk) 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6. sions because it calls to something so intimate and primal within our souls. It is an internal desire than melodic energy, the sextet has spent over a cannot be simply explained. Rather it’s defined by the way my fingertips glide across decade crisscrossing the northeast, pedthe keyboard or how a guitarist flutters like a dling a brand of backwoods kitchen sink rock-n-roll that infuses funk, jazz, blues, bird up and down the fret board. It’s conreggae and hip-hop. necting into something above and beyond Lucid was a bunch of young college kids your own consciousness, where you’ll do back then, a band of brothers that have whatever it takes to not only keep doing transitioned into a seasoned group of what you’re doing, but also peel away the promise — musical pirates on the high seas layers of your own being until all truth and of chance and opportunity, whose home is purpose is revealed. the open road, their bounty the next stage And when I began my literary journey to overtake. They are a unique talent, some years ago in the solitude of Upstate onstage and in the studio, where their mesNew York, I found myself stepping up to merizing sound creates community, a the starting line next to my hometown power to connect and heal that resides band, Lucid. A wildly creative force of

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VOLUTION INE ITCHEN When he took over ownership of the The two biggest obstacles in wine are its Creekside Oyster House & Grill a month two biggest misnomers — price and knowl- ago, George Neslen found himself at the edge. You don’t need to break the bank to doorstep of his destiny. get your hands on a “I don’t know if this great bottle of wine, has been the longest or nor do you need an fastest 30 days of my encyclopedia of inforlife,” he chucked. “I’ve mation and globetrotbeen in the restaurant ting experience to know industry my entire life, exactly what a “good” and I’ve worked every selection is. job there is in it. This “We’re not about has been a dream of Gary Long being ‘high-brow.’ We George Neslen mine to run my own want wine to be place. We have big goals approachable, not just from a cost perspec- and we’re making small changes everyday to tive, but also not to come across as ‘snooty,’” get to where we want to be.” said Gary Long.

Once a roadside spot most folks simply Co-owner of Evolution Wine Kitchen, drove by without paying much notice on Long opened the business last April with Skyland Drive, the space has now transiBernadette Peters, who is also the owner of tioned into a full-fledged seafood haven for City Lights Café. Offering over 380 bottle varieties, the Main Street location wants to change the perception folks may have about wine.

“We focus on wines that are small estate, not readily accessible, where they have a handcrafted ethic from how the grapes go from the vine to the bottle,” Long said.

“You get these large scale wines compaA plate of shrimp and grits at the Creekside Oyster House & Grill in Sylva. nies who use a Garret K. Woodward photo chemical machine process to make wine in a matter of the mountains of Southern Appalachia. hours. But, the thing that’s missing is the “Sautéing is a lost art, and I want to bring process, where when making wine, it takes back and showcase those traditions,” Neslen years to ferment, to age in a barrel that gives said. “For us, it’s about customer service, where it the character and flavor that people love.” from the moment you walk in the door you are To perfectly complement their selec- part of an enjoyable and delicious experience.” tions, the kitchen pairs their food either Honing in on the coastal culinary styles of made by their own staff daily or by guest Charleston, Creekside Oyster House looks to chefs, who are invited to come share their fill bellies and satisfy palettes with fresh fish skills and wisdom with curious foodies and caught in the ocean and served on your plate wine lovers. within the matter of a day. It’s about “excel“There are so many great chefs in our lence in both food and service” according to town, and these collaboration dinners have Nelsen, who looks at his staff as the secret been incredible. It’s the heart of what we want ingredient to their success. to do here — to love food, to love wine,” Long “We are here for you,” he said. “I don’t said. “Our menu changes seasonally, and is as turn on the ‘open’ sign to feel better about local as we can get. It’s not just some box of myself. What makes me smile is providing frozen food dropped off here by a distributor, nourishment. The fact that we can do that, it’s real food grown by local farms and har- and also fulfill some existential satisfaction, vested by local hands.” that’s what it’s all about.”

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Rickman welcomes Nikwasi Dulcimer Players The Nikwasi Dulcimer Players will perform a variety of musical styles at 10 a.m.

Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Rickman Store in Franklin.

The Macon County group was formed in 1996 by Fran Cargill. At the age of 95, Cargill continues sharing the tradition of playing the mountain dulcimer, a native Appalachian stringed instrument. The musicians generously share their love for dulcimer music with the community by teaching classes, and performing at nursing homes, festivals and more. This year, the group achieved the goal of recording their first album.

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• Balsam Mountain Inn will have Marshall Chapman, Tommy Womack and Will Kimbrough as part of their Songwriters in the Round series at 6 p.m. Nov. 14. $47 per person, which includes a buffet dinner. 828.456.9498 or www.balsammountaininn.com.

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Mountain Faith will be in Cullowhee on Nov. 5.

Jackson County-based bluegrass/gospel act Mountain Faith will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 5, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University.

The concert is presented by WCU’s Last Minute Productions. General admission tickets are $2 for students and $5 for the general public, or free with non-perishable food donations (two food items per ticket for students, five food items per ticket for the general public.) Donated food will be delivered to the Community Table or Jackson County United Christian Ministries to benefit local residents in need.

Mountain Faith, whose current album “That Which Matters” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard Magazine’s bluegrass chart, recently reached the semifinals of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” in which they performed live at Radio City Music Hall. The band features family patriarch Sam McMahan on bass, daughter Summer McMahan on fiddle and singing lead and harmony vocals, and son Brayden McMahan on banjo and providing harmony vocals, along with Luke Dotson on guitar and lead and harmony vocals, and Cory Piatt on mandolin.

The band’s debut album, 2011’s “Save Me,” won the Southern Gospel Music Association’s New Artists of the Year Award. Last month, Mountain Faith was named the 2015 group recipient of WCU’s Mountain Heritage Award.

828.227.7206.

Percussion Studio chamber, ensemble recital Western Carolina University’s Percussion Studio will present an evening of percussion chamber and ensemble music at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University.

Under the direction of Mario Gaetano,

students will perform in the recital hall.

Gaetano teaches applied percussion, percussion ensemble and percussion methods at WCU. Works to be performed include two large pieces, “Mother Earth, Father Sky” by Ney Rosauro, and “Factions” by Lynn Glassock. A freshman percussion quartet will perform “African Sketches,” by Kent Williams and “Four Studies” by Gaetano. Other works on the program include three percussion duos, a marimba trio and a Bach composition.

828.227.7242 or www.wcu.edu.

• BearWaters Brewing Company (Waynesville) will have Scott James Stambaugh (Americana) at 7 p.m. Nov. 6. www.bwbrewing.com.

• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will have Sheila Gordon (piano/jazz) Nov. 6, Joe Cruz (piano/pop) Nov. 7, James Hammel (guitar/jazz) Nov. 13 and Peggy Ratouz & Michael Jefry Stevens (jazz/blues) Nov. 14. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m.

828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

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• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will have Mark Keller 8 p.m. Nov. 7 and Lucid (rock/funk) 9 p.m. Nov. 13. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m.

828.454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Nov. 4 and 11, a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Nov. 5 and 12. All events begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Jackson County Public Library (Sylva) will host a community dance at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 8. Circle and contra dances.

Charlotte Crittendon will be the caller, with live music by Out of the Woodwork.

All styles will be taught and walked through beforehand. No previous experi-

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• No Name Sports Pub (Sylva) will have Humps & The Blackouts (psychobilly/punk) Nov. 6, “Singer-songwriter Showcase” with Hunter Grigg, Ben Morgan & Jesse Stevens Nov. 7, Brother Hawk and Positive Mental Attitude (funk/jam) Nov. 13, and Positive Mental Attitude Nov. 14. All shows are free and begin at 9 p.m.

• 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.

• The Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub will have Twelfth Fret Nov. 6, Gary Carter Nov. 7, David Spangler Nov. 13 and DJ Justin Moe Nov. 14. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.rathskellerfranklin.com.

• 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.

• Salty Dog’s (Maggie Valley) will have Karaoke with Jason Wyatt at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and 8 p.m. on Fridays, and Mile High at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays. All events will run through the month of November.

Andrew Rickman (rock/acoustic) will also perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 7 • Sneak E Squirrel Brewing (Sylva) will have Badnew (oldies/jazz) at 8 p.m. Nov. 6. 828.586.6440.

• Tipping Point Brewing (Waynesville) will have a “Customer Appreciation Pint Night” with Darren Nicholson (Americana/bluegrass) of acclaimed act Balsam Range at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 and Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter/acoustic) 8 p.m. Nov. 13. Free. www.tippingpointtavern.com.

• Tuck’s Tap & Grill (Cullowhee) will have a “College Night” with DJ X at 10 p.m.

Nov. 5 and 12, Heidi Holton (blues/folk) 8 p.m. Nov. 6 and Bobby Sullivan Trio 9 p.m. Nov. 13.

• Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will have Whiskey Dick Nov. 6, Humps & The Blackouts (rockabilly/punk) Nov. 7, Rye Baby (Americana/bluegrass) Nov. 13 and Dustin Martin & The Ramblers Nov. 14. All shows begin at 9 p.m.

• Waynesville Elks Lodge will have Stone Crazy Band (rock/pop) at 7:30 p.m.

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On the street • A wine tasting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m.

Nov. 4 and 11 at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. Free with dinner ($15 minimum). 828.452.6000.

• Wade Sokolosky will present a discussion on the Battle of Wise’s Forks during the Western North Carolina Civil War Roundtable at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 9 in the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. Free. www.wdu.edu.

• The Veteran’s Day Parade will be Nov. 11 in downtown Franklin. 828.524.2516.

There will be a “Customer Appreciation Pint Night” with Darren Nicholson (Americana/bluegrass) of acclaimed act Balsam Range at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at Tipping Point Brewing in Waynesville. The evening will have a release of the “Shy Guy Rye,” with the first 100 customers receiving a free pint glass. A second pint night featuring Nicholson and a “Chocolate Stout” release will be Thursday, Nov. 19. www.tippingpointtavern.com.

• The Polar Express themed train will celebrate the holiday season Nov. 13-14 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad depot in Bryson City. The classic children’s book comes to life as the train departs for a special visit at the "North Pole." Set to the sounds of the motion picture soundtrack, guests on board will enjoy warm cocoa and

a treat while listening and reading along with the magical story. The train arrives to find Santa Claus waiting. Santa boards the train, greeting each child and presenting them with their own silver sleigh bell.

Christmas carols will be sung as they return back to the depot. www.gsmr.com or 800.872.4681.

• The “Cruise the Smokies” Fall Rod Run will be held Nov. 6-7 at the Acquoni Expo Center in Cherokee.

Over 300 of the nation’s fantastic classic cars and trucks will be on display. Gates open at 9 a.m. both days. Admission is $5. Children under age 10 are free. www.cherokeerodders.com or 828.497.2603.

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Halloween might be over, but the scariness continues at Western Carolina University with a series of “haunted walking tours” on Monday, Nov. 9 and Wednesday, Nov. 11, at the Mountain Heritage Center in Cullowhee.

Tours will depart from the Mountain Heritage Center’s exhibit gallery at Hunter Library at 5:30, 6 and 6:30 p.m. both days. Each tour group will be limited to 20 people, and reservations are required. Some tour material may not be suitable for younger children.

Developed and presented by WCU history and folklore students under the direction of museum staff, the tour will consist of six stops that weave together the past and present with stories connected to campus landmarks, including the old amphitheater, Moore Building, Scott Hall and McKee Building.

Each tour will last about one hour. The route is less than one mile but includes hill climbing. Participants are advised to wear comfortable walking shoes. With the tours taking place after sunset, visitors also are advised to bring their own flashlights.

Admission is $5 per person (cash only), but free for children under age 8. All proceeds will go toward student scholarships at WCU. www.wcu.edu or 828.227.7129.

Culinary weekend returns to Highlands The 9th annual Highlands Culinary Weekend will be Nov. 5-9 at participating restaurants and businesses.

The four-day destination event, created by the Highlands Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center, is one of the highlights of the fall season, which combines Highlands’ majestic mountain location 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 variety of wine tasting tables and the delectable cuisine of Highlands’ local chefs. Tickets are $85 per person.

Throughout the weekend, there will also be array of activities, cooking demonstrations, tastings and dinners hosted by area restaurants, merchants and accommodations. Experience the wares of Highlands’ fine shops by attending the annual Sip & Stroll

held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 6-7 in downtown. Tickets are $45.

For ticket sales, a complete schedule of events and list of participating businesses, click on www.highlandsculinaryweekend.com.

Roller derby slides into Bryson

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.

This double header will also feature the SMRG junior team, the Lil’ Nemesisters.

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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World Music artist, composer and peace activist Yuval Ron will appear in concert with his international ensemble of musicians at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center’s Stuart Auditorium.

The ensemble will also perform throughout the weekend for attendees of the Lake Junaluska Peace Conference, which will be held Nov. 12-15.

The theme of this year’s Peace Conference is “Longing for Peace/Exploring the Heart of God,” and it features speakers from all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Ron’s music explores the cultural history of the Middle East, from which all three religions emerged.

“I love being a missionary for peace, for a new vision of the world,” said Ron, who composed the songs and score for the Oscar winning film “West Bank Story” in 2007 and was the featured artist in the Gala Concert for the Dalai Lama’s initiative Seeds of Compassion in the Seattle Opera Hall in 2008. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Ron enjoys researching musical traditions and spiritual paths worldwide. His internationally renowned music and dance group, The Yuval Ron Ensemble, creates musical bridges between people of

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“This is such a crucial time to work toward peace and unity,” said Ron, whose extensive travels have engendered in him a growing concern for the environment. “The

Concert tickets are available in advance through the Lake Junaluska registration office at 800.222.4930 for $15 each; children 12 and under are free.

The Lake Junaluska Peace Conference will be feature three keynote speakers: Rabia Terri Harris, founder of the Muslim Peace Fellowship, the first organization specifically devoted to Islamic active nonviolence; Rabbi Or Rose, founding director of the Center for Global Judaism at Hebrew College and codirector of the Center for Interreligious and Community Leadership Education, a joint venture of Hebrew College and Andover Newton Theological School; and Rev. Dr. Sam Wells, vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London and former Dean of Duke University Chapel and research professor of Christian ethics at Duke Divinity School.

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Art After Dark will continue from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, in downtown Waynesville.

Enjoy a stroll through working studios and galleries on Main Street and Depot Street.

Festive Art After Dark flags denote participating galleries, such as the Haywood County Arts Council, Earthworks, Burr Studio, Jeweler’s Workbench, Twigs and Leaves Gallery, TPennington Art Gallery, The Mahogany House, Grace Cathey Sculpture Garden & Gallery, Cedar Hill Studios, and the Village Framer. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

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The stage production of the musical “The Addams Family” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6-7 and 13-14 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

The show features a brand new original story based on the beloved comic strip created by Charles Addams. There will be appearances by Gomez, his lovely Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Wednesday, Pugsly, Grandma Addams and more.

Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family — a man her parents have never met. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday's “normal” boyfriend and his parents.

Tickets start at $12. Presented by the Overlook Theatre Company. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• The “Showcase of Talent” will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Franklin High School Fine Arts Building. Macon County's student stars shine in the annual non-competitive performing arts showcase with talented 3-12 graders chosen from Macon County public, private and home schools performing a variety of entertaining acts.

Admission is $5 for adults, $2 youth under the age of 16. Proceeds support our Artists-in-the-Schools Program. www.franklin-chamber.com.

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• The one-man play “Mercy Killers” will be presented by its author Michael Milligan at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University.

Milligan portrays blue-collar worker Joe, grappling with his red state ideals when he realizes the measures he must take to care for his beloved wife. A surprisingly tender love story, “Mercy Killers” is an unblinking look at health care in America. Admission will be free for students with ID; $10 general admission. www.mercykillerstheplay.com.

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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 Clay 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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Learn how to crochet with this interactive, hands-on class. Students will be introduced to crochet basics: how to hold a hook and yarn, common terms and abbreviations, and three simplest crochet stitches. Participants will be combining these new skills to make coffee mug cozies. Attendees are asked to bring their favorite coffee/tea/hot chocolate mug along, to custom-fit project.

“Crafting is a huge passion of mine, and crocheting is one of my absolute favorites. I love the nearly limitless array of shapes and textures that you can achieve with such simple, accessible tools and skills,” Sellers said.

“One hook and one ball of yarn is all it took for me to fall in love with this versatile craft.

In addition to crochet, I also quilt, fold origami, upholster, embroider, and make wirewrapped jewelry.”

This event is free and co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library.

828.586.2016 or www.fontanalib.org.

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• The Heritage Arts Holiday Festival will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 14 at Southwestern Community College in Bryson City. Handmade holiday items and more.

Free. www.greatsmokies.com.

The monthly Creating Community Workshop will be crocheting with Neary Sellers at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, in the

• The Fall Festival will be held Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Clyde Central United Methodist

• The documentary “Frame by Frame” will be screened at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the University Center theater at Western Carolina University. “Frame by Frame” follows four Afghan photojournalists as they navigate an emerging and dangerous media landscape in postTaliban Afghanistan after photography is no longer illegal. Interviews and archival footage shot in secret during the Taliban regime help connect audiences with these four people in pursuit of the truth. www.framebyframethefilm.com.

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• The Blacksmith & Fine Craft Auction will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 7 at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown. Proceeds benefit the craft programs at the school Admission is free. 800.FOLK.SCH. • The interactive art installment “It’s Teatime” will be on display through Nov. 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.

• 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.

• The films “Inside Out” (Nov. 5-7) and “Terminator: Genysis” (Nov. 12-14) 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.

• “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine” will be screened at 7 p.m. Nov. 4-6, 4 p.m. Nov. 7, 2 and 4 p.m. Nov. 8, and 7 p.m. Nov. 1011 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. www.38main.com or call 828.283.0079.

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A post-apocalyptic world fuels sci-fi novel

Gary Carden

Back in the ‘60s, I went on a science fiction bender that lasted a decade.

I read Clarke, Heinlein and Asimov and loved them all. Apocalyptic tales were flourishing, and popular favorites were Level Seven by Mordicai Roshwald, On the Beach by Nevil Schute and Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend. The common theme in these works was disaster. The Writer Earth had been rendered sterile, poisoned and uninhabitable, either by war or disease and only a few survivors (or one lone protagonist!) are left. Not much has changed over the years. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the sixth season of “The Walking Dead” seem to perceive survival as bleak at best.

Ah, but now comes Wool. Consider this scenario. In Hugh Howey’s new novel, the Earth has become so poisoned that the inhabitants have abandoned it for great silos: steel and plastic structures, each consisting of 145 floors of massive technology capable of housing and feeding thousands of workers who are divided into Information Technology (top floors), hydroponic farmers (middle floors), and mechanical technicians (ground floors).

All floors are connected by spiral stairs. There are dining halls, schools and maintenance workers. There are no elevators and the movement on the stairs is constant since all messages, cargo and supplies are moved from floor to floor by workers. All of this intricate activity is governed by elected officials: a mayor and a sheriff, who are controlled by the administrators.

In case this sounds democratic and desirable, then appearances are misleading (there is a devious reason for the absence of elevators). Although the inhabitants of the silos can perceive the outside world through the massive windows, the scene is murky and bleak. Also, due to the raging winds that batter the silo’s windows, they are constantly subject to a gritty build-up of sand that makes visibility difficult. As a consequence, it is neces-

After they have scrubbed the grime from the windows, they can wander among the numerous piles of dead (former cleaners) until the acid eats through their space suit. Many choose to walk toward the “shining city” that can be seen in the distance ... a goal they will never reach.

Wool begins with a “cleansing” and the reader follows Sheriff Holston, who grieves for his dead wife (she has recently volunteered for a cleansing) and her husband requests the same fate. Gradually, we learn that although the silo is home to a generous number of admirable people, it is also filled with devious and evil folk intent on spreading dissent. An elderly and much-loved Mayor Jahns is poisoned when she opposes the appointment of a new, IT-endorsed candidate for sheriff and a rash of suicides suggest that a devious administrator named Bernard Holland may be eliminating opposition to his re-election. There is a growing distrust between the upper levels of citizens and the lower levels. In the midst of growing tension, the new sheriff arrives. Her name is Juliette Nicols, named by her mother for a doomed woman in an ancient story.

Juliette is a stubborn Wool by Hugh Howey. Simon & Schuster, 2015. 537 pages. and talented woman who grew up in the depths of the silo — with what the top floor calls “the has developed a unique legal system based on greasers” — and earned a reputation for a secret document called “The Order.” People remarkable skill with motors. Recently, she who are deemed guilty of a capital crime are condemned to death and the method of death has rewired the master engine that had been so thunderous in operation it required the is to become a “cleaner.” The condemned are workers to wear ear muffs. Now, it hums. She given space suits, placed in an exit and given also believes that humans are machines and several wool pads so they can clean the wincould be tended and tamed in the same mandows. The door closes, locking them outside. sary to have the windows “cleaned.” Of course, to go outside is fatal. Due to the poisonous, acidic atmosphere, anyone venturing into this barren landscape would be dead in a few minutes.

Over the years (perhaps centuries), the silo

Richardson, Mason to present new works Authors Kim Michele Richardson and Jamie Mason will host a joint reading at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Richardson’s new novel, Liar’s Bench, is set in Kentucky, where she lives. It is the summer of 1972 and Mudas Summers is on a quest to find the truth in a town that keeps its secrets all too well. Running through the tale of two

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Her reputation for dedication to serving the inhabitants of the silo had prompted Mayor Jahnes to select her to become the sheriff after Holston joined his dead wife in a cleansing. Now, Jahnes has been murdered and ... someone is determined to undermine Juliette. However, before they succeed, the new sheriff finds ancient files that reveal the silo’s history. She learns that there have been hundreds of rebellions in the past and that all information regarding them has been destroyed or suppressed. Why? Suffice it to say that Juliette is eventually condemned to die in yet another cleansing.

Although she is forced into the hostile world where the deadly atmosphere begins to eat away at her space suit, she does not die, nor does she “clean.” Instead, she walks toward “the shining city” and to another silo just over the hill ....

Hugh Howey’s writing in Wool is a skillful blend of tension and suspense. The scenes after Juliette walks away from the silo are filled with events that test Juliette’s skills and courage. Each encounter brings her and the inhabitants of Silo 17 (yes, there are others) to the brink of disaster. Further, this book serves as the beginning of a series of novels that will prove to be as complex and absorbing as Frank Herbert’s Dune series. However, there is another bit of information about Wool that may prove to be as wonderful as the book itself.

Wool is an ebook. That means that it began as a short story that Howey posted on an internet service sponsored by Amazon.

Howey received no royalties when people began downloading it, but he was encouraged to keep writing. He did and there are now two sequels to Wool plus a new series (called Sand) is now a reality. A recent news report in Hollywood has it that Ridley Scott plans to film Wool. Now, finally, the royalties are pouring in. Howey seems eager to share his good fortune and has become an enthusiastic advocate of ebooks. All of you struggling writers should check this out.

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

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Fontana Regional Library will be hosting its second annual “Read Local Book Fair,” an event that gives residents the chance to meet and support local authors.

This year, the event will be held in two locations: from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at Macon County Public Library in Franklin; and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Many authors will read selections from their works throughout the day and will have copies of their works available for purchase.

The two parallel events will each feature a different slate of authors, with those from Macon County appearing in Franklin, and those from Jackson County appearing in Sylva. At each event, authors will be seated at tables throughout the Library, where they can meet and chat with readers and autograph books. Some will also conduct brief readings as a way to introduce readers to their work. City Lights Bookstore in Sylva and Books Unlimited in Franklin will be on hand to sell books.

In Macon County, the list includes Randolph Bulgin, Tyler Cook, Wilford Corbin, James Corkill, Joe Cobb Crawford, Gail Diederich, Tina Firewolf, MaryElla Fitzsimmons, Josh Franks, I.R. Harris, Riley Henry, Loretta Holland, Cherry Jackson, Morgan James, Richard Kimball, Becky Kimsey, Narelle Kirkland, Deanna Klingel, Eva McCall, Barbara McRae, Susan Nastasic, Nita Welch Owenby, Robert Shook, Cathryn Sill, John Sill, Jennifer Snyder, Danita Stoudemire, J. Thomas Stovall, Barbara Taylor Woodall and Ann Miller Woodford.

In Sylva, the list of attending authors includes Mary Adams, Carol Bryson, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Gary Carden, Catherine Carter, Chris Cox, Thomas Rain Crowe, Tom Davis, Polly Davis, Martha Diede, Pamela Duncan, Edward (Bob) Fahey, Rebecca Whitmire Fowler, Avram Friedman, Jeremy Jones, Mary Joyce, Mary Lockey, Carly Robbins, Curtis Sikes, Renae Spear, Kirk Thomas, Dave Waldrop, Robin Whitley and Donna Glee Williams. www.fontanalib.org.

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Aiming for adventure Competition encourages families to get exploring outside

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER or Tim Petrea, it was a truck and a red box that launched a lifetime affinity for the outdoors. Growing up in southern Georgia, Petrea wasn’t close to a whole lot of mountains, but when he saw his father loading up the red box, he knew they were headed for yet another Appalachian excursion to Western North Carolina.

“Every time he put that thing in the truck, we were going camping. I think I’ve got a love for the outdoors and a love for just getting outside because of moments like that,” Petrea said. “They’d put us in the back of the tuck and we’d go to Maggie Valley or Cherokee and go camping.”

Now, Petrea’s a resident of the region that was so important to his childhood, and as program supervisor for the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department, he’s made it his business to help other families experience those same adventures.

“If they learn how to do stuff like this, these are things they can do for a lifetime,” Petrea said. “These are lifetime goals they can do, lifetime hobbies.”

With a million acres of national forest and 800 square miles of national park within easy driving distance of town, there’s ample opportunity to mess around outside. But in his time working in Waynesville, Petrea’s found that a large share of local families don’t do much to take advantage of the natural beauty in their backyards. Since joining the Parks and Recreation staff in 2013, he’s been working to change that, ramping up programming to include a range of opportunities for outdoor adventure and even exploring the idea of creating a youth outdoor leadership program.

His most recent effort, dubbed the FAR Challenge — Family Adventure Recreation — aims to get families competing against each other for points earned while getting active outside. In May, Petrea will total the points and dole out prizes — experiencebased winnings like a family paddle trip or guided hike — to the winners at the Waynesville Kiwanis Spring Fling.

But, Petrea added, “The prize that they get is much better than a prize they would get at the thing in May. They get time spent together.”

That’s how the Rinker family — Joanne, Jeremy and their two daughters, ages 8 and 10 — is looking at it. The Rinkers moved to Haywood County this summer, and with Jeremy working as a gym teacher and Joanne as a dietician, it’s safe to say they’re an active bunch. When they signed up for the challenge, the idea was that it would help moti-

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Take the challenge It’s not too late to get in on the FAR Challenge. Organized through Waynesville Parks and Recreation, the Family Adventure Recreation Challenge is open to all — even people who don’t live in Waynesville — and it’s not exclusive to couples with kids.

Here’s how it works: ■ Sign up. Email Tim Petrea, tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov, with your team name and the age and names of those participating.

■ Get outside. The FAR Challenge guide, available from the Waynesville Recreation Center and town website, includes a list of activities worth 10, 25 and 50 points.

■ Keep track. Each week, email Petrea with an update of outings undertaken and pictures showing your family there together.

Competition categories include: couples with children, couples without children, single people without children, single people with children and seniors over 55 without children. www.waynesvillenc.gov/far-adventurechallenge

FAR Challenge participants explore the trail to Sams Knob in the Pisgah National Forest.

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vate them to explore the places surrounding their new home while also giving them a family activity to rally around.

“It’s good for us because we’re all together.

Our family’s all together and it’s sort of uninterrupted time,” Joanne said. “It gets them (the girls) to stop and look at things and be grateful and appreciate what’s around them.

We live in this beautiful area of North Carolina. I think that’s very different from any other way that we would be active.”

Joanne’s hoping to emerge from the contest with a better understanding of the area and a list of family favorites that the foursome can return to again and again. Petrea said he’ll be eager to hear the contents of such lists, anticipating that the information he gets from

the participants will help him further align the rec department’s offerings with the community’s needs.

“It will give me some good feedback on what families are doing,” he said.

In the month since they signed up, the Rinkers have been doing pretty well. So far, the family’s gone hiking at Sams Knob off the Blue Ridge Parkway, explored a corn maze, visited an aquarium in Gatlinburg and gone ziplining in Asheville. Every week, Joanne said, there’s an ongoing “what are we going to do this weekend” conversation. That, rather than the competitive aspect, is what’s motivating the girls, she said, but her own competitive spirit might kick in a bit more strongly before May rolls around.

“As the year goes on, I may say, ‘We need to do one of these big things and get ourselves a bunch of points,’” she said.

Haywood and its surrounding counties definitely offer plenty in terms of “big” adventures, and sometimes you don’t have to wander far from the beaten path to find them.

Petrea recently led one such excursion, a group of four hardy souls who walked across the Parkway from the pull-off for Waterrock Knob, abuzz with vacationing leaf peepers, and embarked on a little-used trail that descends the mountainside all the way to Pinnacle Park, just outside of Sylva.

It’s a tough trail, the 6.2 miles containing more than 3,000 feet of elevation change.

Parts of the trail bear more resemblance to climbing than walking. It’s a trek guaranteed to make thighs burn and calves twinge.

But the pain comes with payoff. At 2.2 miles, the trail reaches Blackrock Mountain, topped with a huge, flat rock. At the peak of leaf season, a panorama of fiery mountains spreads below, a view that would be hard to rival with a photograph or drive-by overlook.

“A picture’s not the same. It’s not,” said Sharon Flowe, a science teacher at Tuscola High School and participant on the hike.

Add to that view the smell of spruce, the glimmer of sun-shot fall leaves and the graduation from meadow to spruce-fir forest to hardwood cove that accompanies every turn of the trail, Flowe said, and it should be easy to see the value of being there.

But yet, Flowe said, very few of the teenagers who pass through her classroom at the high school — kids who have lived in Haywood their whole lives — have had that kind of experience.

“They’re not getting out in the woods to do what we just did,” she said.

“They live in one of the most

Swain triathlon rescheduled A triathlon originally scheduled to debut Saturday, Oct. 3, at Tsali Recreation Area will instead take off Saturday, Nov. 14.

The Tsali Adventure Triathlon will include 3 miles of paddling, 5 of running and 12 of biking, with team and individual entries available. All proceeds will benefit MedicForce, a Bryson City-based nonprofit aiming to improve access to rural healthcare worldwide.

Registration is $55 for individuals and $105 for teams, with online signup open through midnight Nov. 11. Tsali Recreation Area is located in the Nantahala National Forest about 15 miles outside of Bryson City. www.tsalitriathlon.com.

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Haywood students to get creative with trash A competition challenging students to take their best stab at trash sculpture aims to get Haywood County teens thinking about how to make recycling a priority.

Organized by the Commission for a Clean County, the “Recycle Your Art Out” program is open to middle and high school students. Four schools have signed up so far — Bethel Middle, Canton Middle, Pisgah High and Tuscola High.

In each school, the art class will build a sculpture made from recyclable materials, with the CCC providing $50 for materials to each class participating and the town of Canton covering the cost of bases for the sculptures to sit on.

Sculptures will be completed by Dec. 1 for display at the Haywood County Library in Waynesville.

The CCC will hand out awards, including a “Best in Show” prize, in February.

The sculpture contest, spearheaded by Seth Hendler-Voss, CCC board member and Canton town manager, fills out the environmental cleanliness message the CCC has sought to bring to schools over the past three years with its “Litter Troll” interactive program for kindergarten and first graders.

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“I also think that being outside is good for your brain,” Flowe said. “You’re not near an electronic device. You’re using all your senses. You’re opening up your eyes to things you don’t see just sitting in a room.”

That’s what she tries to drive home every year when she takes her class to a field

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Hikers descend the steep trail from Waterrock Knob to Pinnacle Park near Sylva on an excursion led by the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department.

trip at the Cataloochee area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park — one of those in-your-backyard places that many of her students have never visited.

For some students in Haywood, whose high poverty rate means that many families have more immediate needs to worry about than teaching their kids to hike, family finances and access to transportation are an obstacle to getting outdoors. It’s hard to muster up the wherewithal to find an outdoor adventure when it’s a toss-up whether the dinner table will be full that night. Those are obstacles that entities like the schools and rec department should look at getting together to address, Flowe said.

But while poverty is real for many families, Petrea said, it’s also true that recreating on the WNC’s abundant public lands is one of least expensive ways to enjoy a day of family fun. Sure, you can always drop money on expensive gear, but at its most basic level, a hike in the national forest or national park is free but for the gas to get there.

“You can get out there and do a lot of these things,” he said. “There’s no cost.”

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Prepare for an A.T. adventure People contemplating an Appalachian Trail thru-hike come spring can learn how to prepare for such a feat with a program, 7-8:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at REI in Asheville.

Thru-hiker Gary Sizer will lead the class, sharing tips on gear, food, attitude and other best practices to improve any experience, from a day hike to a longdistance journey.

He’ll also discuss alternatives to the typical south-tonorth hike. Traffic on the A.T. has been increasing in recent years, with the release of the movie A Walk in the Woods this year expected to result in a bumper crop of thru-hiking hopefuls in 2016. As a result, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy is encouraging hikers to consider other hike patterns.

Free, but space is limited. Sign up at www.rei.com/learn.html.

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The outdoors beats shopping, REI says REI made national news with an announcement that it will close all 143 of its stores — including the one in Asheville — on Black Friday this year.

Instead, the co-op is paying its employees to spend the day after Thanksgiving enjoying the outdoors.

To promote this decision, REI launched the hashtag #OptOutside to encourage others to follow suit.

Take a guided hike to Chimney Tops with its trail engineer A strenuous hike to one of the most unique peaks in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will also include a story of restoration and rebuilding Tuesday, Nov. 11.

The 4-mile round-trip trail to Chimney Tops — one of the most popular in the park — was recently reconstructed through the Smokies Trails Forever program, funded in part by Friends of the Smokies. The trail boasts rebuilt stairs and increased walkability.

Tobias Miller, the park’s trail management specialist, will hike with the group and shed some light on the restoration process.

Hiking guide and author Danny Bernstein will lead the hike, organized by Friends of the Smokies, and afterward participants will have the option to drive a little further to tour Elkmont, the historic Appalachian Club community where former vacation homes still stand today. $10 for Friends members and $35 for nonmembers, which includes membership.

Registration dollars benefit the Smokies Trails Forever program, which is currently working to restore the much-loved Alum Cave Trail.

Register by Thursday, Nov. 5 at www.friendsofthesmokies.org/calendar.

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Take advantage of autumn trails The leaves may be falling, but fall will persist in Western North Carolina for a bit longer. Get out and explore with one of these hikes offered by area hiking clubs: ■ On Saturday, Nov. 14, the Carolina Mountain Club will lead a hike through the always-popular Black Balsam area of the Pisgah National Forest. The 6-mile hike starts on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail and

then takes the Graveyard Ridge Trail to Ivestor Gap, returning on the Art Loeb Trail.

RSVP to 828.505.0471 or mwbromberg@yahoo.com.

■ On Saturday, Nov. 14, the Nantahala Hiking Club will do a 10.3-mile hike from Kimsey Creek to the Appalachian Trail and Standing Indian Mountain, which boasts an excellent view. The route returns down Lower Ridge Trail to the Standing Indian Recreational Area Campground outside of Franklin. RSVP to Sharon Van Horn, 828.369.1983.

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WNC’s biggest bear One of the most unique leaf-looking experiences in the country — the Shadow of the Bear — is now visible from U.S. 64 near Cashiers.

Appearing for just 30 minutes on sunny days about an hour before sunset mid-October through early November, this phenomenon starts with a small shadow at the bottom of the valley that slowly morphs into a distinctive bear shape on the mountainside.

The best view of the Shadow of the Bear is at Rhodes Big View Overlook along U.S. 64, though spectators should be careful of cars whizzing by. The shadow also occurs from mid-February to early March.

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Butterflies and moths to take the spotlight at Macon library A talk on scaly-winged creatures — that is, butterflies and moths — of the Southern Appalachians will be held at 2 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

James Costa, executive director of the Highlands Biological Station and professor of biology at Western Carolina University, will cover the region’s diversity of these insects and highlight surprising aspects of their behavior, ecology, structure, plant interactions and other adaptations. He’ll bring along some drawers full of insect specimens.

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Holiday gift ideas for green thumbs A rundown of the best Christmas presents for the gardener on your shopping list will be presented at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Canton Library, and 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, at the Waynesville Library.

Jim Janke, a Haywood Master Gardener and retired chemical engineer, will present 18 different ideas ranging in price from $5 to $200 — everything from water reservoirs to spun row covers to water-filled plant protectors.

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Geocache at the N.C. Arboretum November 4-10, 2015

A high-tech treasure hunt Saturday, Nov. 7, at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville will introduce kids to the world of geocaching.

Family-friendly geocaching demonstrations with guided programs and loaner equipment, a make-your-own geocaching trade item station and new, challenging geocaches throughout the Arboretum will keep the day interesting. Guided programs will be held 10-11:30 a.m. and 2-3:30 p.m., with self-guided geocachers able to start searching as early as 8 a.m.

Geocaching is a form of recreation that involves searching for a container hidden at a particular GPS location. After finding a geocache, participants are to take whatever is inside the container and replace it with an item of their own.

Activities are free, though standard $12 parking fee applies.

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Learn about property tax breaks for farm and forest land owners Farmers and landowners of large forested tracts can learn about agricultural and forestry property tax deductions during a program at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at the Swain County Administration Building.

Officials from Swain County, the N.C. Forest Service, the Natural Resource

Conservation Service, N.C. Wildlife and the Swain Soil and Water Conservation District will discuss the N.C. Present Use Tax Value Program. The program aims to allow people holding agricultural acreage to be taxed on a value that represents the value of its current use, rather than the actual market value usually used to determine property taxes.

Qualifying landowners must hold at least 20 acres of forest, 10 acres of agricultural land or 5 acres of horticultural land, among other requirements. Cayle Aldridge, 828.488.8803, ext. 3.

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Last week, the Jackson County Farmers Market held its annual Hat Parade to mark the end of the outdoor market season.

Starting Saturday, Nov. 7, the weekly market will move indoors at the Community Table on Central Avenue in Sylva and operate under its winter hours of 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Seasonal offerings include root vegetables, honey, eggs, squashes, greens and baked goods.

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Swain leaders cut the ribbon on a new fishing pier along the Tuckasegee River in Bryson City.

You are hereby challenged to get out and enjoy the wonders of WNC.

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Tourists get to enjoy it some of the time, we can enjoy it all of the time!

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WORKSHOP: WILDLIFE VIEWING IN WNC SAT., NOV. 14 • 10 A.M. FAMILY BONFIRE WITH SMORES & COCOA SUN., NOV. 15 • 6 P.M.

New Bryson City fishing pier finds easy popularity

Info & registration: tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov

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A handicapped-accessible fishing pier along the Tuckasegee River in downtown Bryson City was dedicated this fall. It is located beside a newly constructed gazebo at the end of Island Street, which is home to the Swain County Farmers Market.

“We wanted to have somewhere right in downtown Bryson City where tourists and locals could fish, and they are doing it, believe you me,” said Swain County

Commissioner David Monteith, citing the pier’s quick rise to popularity.

Swain commissioners initiated the project. N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission provided most of the funding and construction, with additional support from Tennessee Valley Authority, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Swain County Tourism Development Authority.

Tuck accesses to close for construction

20 feet each to reach the riverbed.

Construction at Barkers Creek started Monday, Nov. 2, requiring closure of the boat ramp and a portion of the parking area, though amenities such as picnic tables and the volleyball court will remain open.

Construction at Locust Creek will start Monday, Nov. 9, requiring closure of the entire access and parking area.

Alternative river access points include the Webster River and C.J. Harris sites. jenniferbennett@jacksonnc.org or 828.293.3053.

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Faculty Recital: Eldred Spell, flute

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Game land management plans available online

NOV. 18-22 | WED.-SAT. 7:30PM, SUN. 3PM | HOEY | $

Final versions of management plans for seven North Carolina game lands, including Sandy Mush Game Lands in Madison and Buncombe counties, are now available online.

The plans will provide management framework for these lands in the coming years, aiming to balance science-based conservation with public access. Input from public meetings and online comment opportunities were used to arrive at the final product.

The seven plans are the first of many that the Commission has been developing since 2013. www.ncwildlife.org/Hunting/WheretoHunt/PublicPlaces/GameLandPlans.aspx

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The Barkers Creek and Locust Creek River access points in Jackson County will close over for construction over the coming weeks, remaining off-limits until January 2016.

Duke Energy, which created the put-ins as part of its relicensing agreement to harvest hydroelectric power from the Tuckasegee River, plans to extend the two ramps about

Hunter safety course offered A free hunter safety certification course will be offered 6-9:30 p.m. Nov. 10 and 12 at Haywood Community College.

Offered by HCC’s Department of Arts, Sciences and Natural Resources in partnership with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, the course will be held in room 3322 of building 3300.

Free and no age limits, but pre-registration is required at www.ncwildlife.org.

Short-barreled rifles now OK for N.C. hunting North Carolina hunting laws now allow sportsmen to use short-barreled rifles in the legal taking of wildlife.

The change is not reflected in the 2015-2016 North Carolina hunting and fishing rules guide, because it was published by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission before the state General Assembly passed the short-barrel rifle law on Aug. 5.

WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • “Take Control of Holiday Spending” will be presented

by On Track Financial Education and Counseling at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Haywood Community Learning Center’s Conference Room in Waynesville. Free; reservation required: 452.7960.

• The Haywood County Public Library System will conduct a public meeting at the Maggie Valley Town Hall on Thursday November 5, 2015 at 6 p.m. to gather input on the Haywood County Library system needs.

• The Deals Farm Corn Maze is open 10 a.m.-9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday in Franklin till Nov. 7. 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.

• 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 • 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 free Veterans Appreciation spaghetti dinner being provided by VFW Cherokee Memorial Post 8013 to all Veterans and their families on Nov. 7 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Yellow Hill Community Center. ID required for Veterans, all others $5/adult and $2/under 12. Steve Brown at 497.2515 or Steve Lusk 497.5273.

• 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 Town of Franklin will honor Macon County Veterans with a parade and ceremony starting at 10:15 a.m. on Nov. 11 at the lower level of Franklin Town Hall. www.TownofFranklinNC.com or 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.

• The Jackson County Genealogical Society and Jackson County Museum will host a community open house from 7-8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, at their locations in the Historic Jackson County Courthouse in Sylva. 631.2646.

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 • 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.

• Tickets are on sale for the N.C. Arboretum’s secondannual Winter Lights exhibit, which runs from Nov. 20Jan. 2. Three-acre nightly walking tour featuring more than 200,000 lights. http://tinyurl.com/nerqsq9.

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 #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.

• The Western North Carolina Civil War Round Table will feature Col. Wade Sokolosky (ret.) at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, at the HFR Auditorium on the campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Sokolosky will examine the importance of Wise’s Forks Battle. Free.

• A free tax workshop for small business owners will be offered through Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center from 6-8 p.m. on Nov. 12 at the college’s Macon Campus. Register: www.ncsbc.net. Info: t_henry@southwesterncc.edu or 339.4426.

• The Jackson County Business and Industry Advisory Committee will hold a regular meeting at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, in Conference Room A-227 of the Jackson County Justice and Administration Building in Sylva.

• Employment Law workshop presented by attorney Jon Yarbrough on Friday, Nov. 13 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at WCU’s instructional site at Biltmore Park Town Square. pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• A Women in Business Luncheon is scheduled for 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville. Guest speaker is Jennifer Jacobsen of Wells Funeral Homes, Inc., of Waynesville.

• RSVPs are being accepted for the Cashiers Area Chamber Annual Meeting & Celebration, which is Thursday, Nov. 19, at Sapphire Valley Resort Community Center. $45 per person includes arrival beverage and dinner. 743.5191 or info@cashiersareachamber.com.

• 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.

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FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Macon New Beginnings will hold a volunteer meeting at 5 p.m. on Nov. 2 at the Carpenter Community Building. Opportunities to help the homeless, volunteer teams and activities will be discussed. 202.3103 or www.maconnewbeginnings.org.

• Volunteers are being sought for the N.C. Arboretum’s second-annual Winter Lights exhibit, which runs from Nov. 20-Jan. 2. Three-acre nightly walking tour featuring more than 200,000 lights. http://tinyurl.com/ov5cjka.

• A fundraiser for arts programming through the Jackson County Arts Council will be held from noon-8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 6, at Il Pannino restaurant at 2840 Old Cullowhee Road. A portion of proceeds from lunch and dinner sales will be donated to the arts council.

507.9820 or www.jacksoncountyarts.org.

• 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 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.

• The ButterBrawl Invitational, a roller derby event featuring four bouts, is scheduled for Nov. 15 at Smoky Mountain Sk8way in Waynesville. Bouts include juniors (noon), Freshmeat (1:15 p.m.) Vets (2:30 p.m.) and Coed (3:45 p.m.) Tickets are $8 in advance from Derby girls, $10 at the door or free for ages five and under. $5 for unlimited play on inflatables/bouncehouse.

Nonperishable donations and gently used coats accepted for discounts on tickets; donations go to Haywood Christian Ministries.

• 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.

• 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. 454.0463.

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All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted. in Franklin. 692.6178 or mlee@fourseasonscfl.org.

• 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.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 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.

• Yoga 101: De-Stress for the Holidays will be taught by Rose Harrell Johnson at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 13, at Waynesville Library’s Auditorium. Free; sign-up required: 356.2507.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Nov. 12 at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 7:30 a.m.-noon on Nov. 14 at Crabtree United Methodist Church in Clyde. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• “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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Operation Christmas Box is being organized to benefit homebound elderly Jackson County residents. Giftwrapped boxes with pop top canned goods, paper towels, soap, personal-care items, non-perishable food items and more will be accepted through Dec. 1 at the Jackson County Department on Aging. 631.8041 or 586.8562.

HEALTH MATTERS • A free, weekly grief support group will meet from 12:30-2 p.m. on Thursdays at the SECU Hospice House

RECREATION AND FITNESS • 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.

• 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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• A 25-minute, full-body workout class is held at 5 p.m. 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 • Macon County Republican Party will have a “Rally Together” event at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building in Franklin. For registered Republicans, precinct chairs, elected Republican officials and party committee members. www.macongop.com.

• The Gem Country Republican Women meet at 11:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at The Boiler Room in Franklin. Featured speaker is Jamey Falkenbury, director of operations, educational policy advisor and press secretary to Lt. Gov. Dan Forest. 349.3102.

• 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 • Clyde Central United Methodist Church will host its Fall Festival on Saturday, Nov. 7. Handmade, holiday and other items are for sale starting at 8 p.m.; event ends with a hot dog supper from 4-7 p.m. 627.2287.

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• Cowee Baptist Church will host a special event honoring God and celebrating veterans at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8.

• An international panel of speakers will address the issue of peace from Nov. 12-15 at the Lake Junaluska Peace Conference at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. Topic is “Longing for Peace/Exploring the Heart of God.” Registration is $145. Students may attend for $60. Register at www.lakejunaluska.com/peace or by calling 454.6682.

• Winter Shabbat Services are held at 10:30 a.m. on the first and third Saturdays of each month by Congregation Bamidbar in the Fellowship Hall of Andrews Methodist Church in Andrews. 369.9270.

• 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.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS • Waynesville Book Club on Mondays at 5:30 p.m. at Waynesville Library

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Meet to discuss books, which are chosen by each member (taking turns) and provided by the library. New members are welcome.

For more information, 356.2507.

• 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.

• 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.

• Kim Michele Richardson and Jamie Mason will present their novels in a joint reading at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. Richardson’s novel is “Liar’s Bench” while Mason’s is “Monday’s Lie.” Free. 488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

• Fontana Regional Library will be hosting its second annual “Read Local Book Fair” at two parallel events: 46 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Macon

County Public Library in Franklin and from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14, at Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

• 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.

• Rachel E. Kelly will present her Colorworld series at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. 586.9499.

• Mark de Castrique will discuss “A Specter of Justice: A Sam Blackman Mystery” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14, 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.

• A Hand & Foot card game is held at 10 a.m. on Mondays 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.

• Pinochie game is played at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2813.

• Hearts is played at 12 p.m. on Wednesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2813.

• Mah Jongg is played at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2813.

includes lunch; scholarships available. http://tinyurl.com/ok83zlj.

• Fun Factory is presenting a Fall Family Fun Night from 3-8 p.m. every Tuesday through Nov. 17 in Franklin. Double your bonus, and $5 pizza buffet.

349.8888 or thefactory.bz.

• Youth Outright meets every Sunday from 4 p.m. -6 p.m. at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Asheville for ages 14-20. Youth Outright is a youth advocacy and leadership program for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth in 18 counties in Western North Carolina. www.youthoutright.org.

• Youth Outright meets the third Saturday of the month from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Asheville for ages 11-13. Youth Outright is a youth advocacy and leadership program for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth in 18 counties in Western North Carolina. www.youthoutright.org.

• Children’s Storytime is Fridays at 11 a.m. and Saturdays at 1 p.m. at Jackson County Public Library.

586-2016.

• Rock and Read is Tuesdays at 11 a.m. at Jackson County Public Library. 586-2016.

• Teen Coffeehouse meets Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m. at Jackson County Public Library. 586-2016.

ONGOING KIDS ACTIVITIES AND CLUBS

Kids movies • “Inside Out” is being shown for free on Saturdays in November at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. at the Strand in Waynesville. 283.0079.

• A family movie will be shown at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. Set during World War I, the movie’s about a young British girl left in a respected New York City boarding school. For info, including movie title, call 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.

KIDS & FAMILIES • The Robot Zoo, an opportunity to see how real animals work by exploring biomechanics of robots, is on display through Jan. 3 at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. www.ncarboretum.org.

• A “Furry Fun for Wee Naturalists” program is offered as a self-guided time and craft through Nov. 24 at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. www.ncarboretum.org.

• 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 County Library. WITS will include lots of fun games, prizes, and hands-on activities. This club replaces book club previous held on the third Thursdays of the month. 526.3600.

• Fun Friday, everything science, is held at 3:30 on Fridays at Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Family Fun Night is at 6 p.m. on Thursdays at Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Just Write is at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesdays at Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Teen Coffeehouse is at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Art Day for Kids is from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Nov. 11 at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. For ages seven and up. $35 per child/session. Registration

A&E 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.

• 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.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • 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, 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.

• Mountain Faith (bluegrass/gospel) performs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, at Western Carolina University’s John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. Tickets: $2 for students; $5 for general public; or free with non-perishable food donations (two for students; five for general public), which will be given to Community Table or Jackson County United Christian Ministries. 227.7206.

• Sheila Gordon (piano, vocals) performs pop, jazz and original music at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 6, at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. 452.6000.

• “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.

• Smoky Mountain Rollergirls will host the Dixie Derby Girls on Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Swain County Rec Park in Bryson City. Junior game is at 4:30 p.m.; adults play at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance or $7 at the door; children under 7 get in free. Tickets on sale at www.brownpapertickets.com , Bryson City Bicycles or from SMRG skaters.

• The Nikwasi Dulcimer Players will perform “Joyful Sounds of the Season” at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Rickman Store in Macon County. 369.5595.

• Joe Cruz performs at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. 452.6000.

• 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.

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• Western Carolina University’s School of Music will present a faculty recital of flute and piano music at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 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.

• Western Carolina University’s Percussion Studio will present an evening of percussion chamber and ensemble music at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building in Cullowhee.

Free. http://tinyurl.com/oafrskd or 227.7242.

• The one-man play “Mercy Killers” will be presented by its author Michael Milligan at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Free for students with ID; $10 general admission. www.mercykillerstheplay.com.

• Guitarist James Hammel performs at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 13, at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. 452.6000.

• Vocalist Peggy Ratusz and pianist composer Michael Jefry Stevens perform an evening of blues, jazz and

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on Fridays in Cherokee. 497.3481, ext. 300, or www.cherokeemuseum.org.

• 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.

• 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 “Showcase of Talent” will be at 7 p.m. on Nov. 14 at the Franklin High School Fine Arts Building.

Third-through-12th graders chosen from Macon County public, private and home schools perform a variety of entertaining acts. Admission is $5 for adults, $2 youth under the age of 16. Proceeds support Artists-in-the-Schools Program. www.franklinchamber.com.

• Balsam Mountain Inn will have Marshall Chapman, Tommy Womack and Will Kimbrough as part of their Songwriters in the Round series at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14.

• The Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet will present a free public concert at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the recital hall of Western Carolina University’s Coulter Building in Cullowhee. www.smbq.org or 227.3274.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • Annual Haywood County Master Gardener WreathMaking event is Saturday, Dec. 3 from 10 a.m. to noon or 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cooperative Extension Office in Waynesville. $20, includes materials. Reserve spot by calling 456.3575 or mgarticles@charter.net.

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• 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.

• 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.

• The monthly Creating Community Workshop is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7 in the atrium of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Free. Learn crochet basics from Mary Sellers.

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• The Blacksmith & Fine Craft Auction will be held from 1-4 p.m. on Nov. 7 at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown. Proceeds benefit the craft programs at the school Admission is free. 800.FOLK.SCH. • 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.

• “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.

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offered from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. Register: www.ncarboretum.org, 665.2492 or go by the Arboretum.

• 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.

• “.MOV: Experiments in Sensory Design” – a collaborative project between Western Carolina University’s School of Music and the School of Art and Design – will be presented at 7 p.m. on Nov. 12. Tickets are $3 for adults and $1 for students; available at the Strand or www.38main.com.

• As part of Native American Heritage Month (November), The Museum of the Cherokee Indian will host Flue, Storytelling and Dance with the Cherokee Friends from 1-3 p.m. on Nov. 14 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.

• A two-day class, introduction to flash photography, is offered from 1-4:45 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 14-15, at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville.

Register: www.ncarboretum.org, 665.2492 or go by the Arboretum.

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • 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.

• Artist and author Joseph Meigs’ work will be on exhibit until Nov. 11 in the Jackson County Library in Sylva. Free.

• 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.

• Fine Feathered Friends and Flowers, oil paintings by Mary Webster, will be on display at the N.C. Arboretum through Jan. 3 at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. www.ncarboretum.org.

• Haywood County Arts Council will host artists from the Haywood Art Studio Tour at the Gallery & Gifts Space in Waynesville. www.HaywoodArts.org.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• “It’s Teatime” – an interactive art installation by artist Leigh Ann Parrish, a Master in Fine Arts Candidate at Western Carolina University - will be featured Nov. 4-24 at WCU’s Fine Arts Museum in Cullowhee. Three teatimes per day, Monday through Thursday, for guests. www.leighannparrishphotography.com.

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 documentary “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine” will be held at 7 p.m. on Nov. 56 and Nov. 7 at 4 p.m., Nov. 8 at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. and Nov. 10-11 at 7 p.m. at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville.

• Mad Batter Food and Film will screen the films “Terminator Genysis” (Nov. 12-14) “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” (Nov. 20-21) 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.

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• A screening of “Mr. Holmes” will be held at 7 p.m. on Nov. 13, Nov. 14 at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., Nov. 15 at 2 p.m., Nov. 17-20 at 7 p.m., Nov. 22 at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. and Nov. 24 and 25 at 7 p.m. at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville.

• Adult movie time, 6:30 p.m. Mondays at Jackson County Public Library. Call for title of movie.

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• “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.

• An Oscar-nominated drama with Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo will be shown at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, in the Macon County Public Library’s Meeting Room in Franklin. Move is about an Olympic wrestling champion brother team. Rated R; 2:14. 524.3600.

• A classic movie with Doris Day and Howard Keel will be shown at 2 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 13, at the Macon County Public Library’s meeting room in Franklin. Story is about Calamity Jane, her saloon and her romance with Wild Bill Hickock. 1:41. 524.3600.

Outdoors • 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 Swain Soil and Water Conservation District will host a meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, to discuss the NC Present Use Tax Value program.

488.8803, ext. 3. Swain Soil and Water Conservation

• 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/dirty-dozen.

• Animal Ad Hoc Committee will hold a make-up meeting at 7 p.m. on Nov. 10 at the United Community Bank Building in Bryson City.

• A series of haunted walking tours sponsored by Mountain Heritage Center staff will be offered on Monday and Wednesday, Nov. 9 and 11, at Western Carolina’s Hunter Library. Tours are at 5:30, 6 and 6:30 p.m. each day. Some tour material may not be suitable for younger children. $5 admission per person; free for children under 8. Proceeds support student scholarships. http://goo.gl/forms/syE4M9xIrd or 227.7129.

Recreation Area. Registration info at www.tsalitriathlon.com.

• “Love for Pets: Biophillia or Cultural Transmission will be presented by Hal Herzog on Nov. 11 at 6 p.m. as part of the “Science Café” hosted at Mad Batter Food and Film by WCU Sigma Xi scientific research society. 227.2945.

• 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.

• 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.

FARM AND GARDEN

• Franklin’s Appalachian Trail Community Council will meet at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10 in the Lazy Hiker Brewing Company’s Event Room in Franklin. All are welcome.

• “Butterflies and Moths of the Southern Appalachians: An Introduction to Our Scaly Winged Friends” will be presented by Dr. James Costa at 2 p.m. on Nov. 12 at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Sponsored by the Southern Appalachian Plant Society. http://sapsncga.blogspot.com.

• “T-Rex and the Doomsday Impact” will be presented at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 13, at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman. $20 per adult; $15 for seniors/military. Children 10 and under are admitted free. Register at www.pari.edu or by calling 862.5554. Info: schappell@pari.edu.

• 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

• 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.

• On-farm training will be presented by Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center from 9:30 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Nov. 7, at two types of farms in the Ela and Whittier areas. Basics of soil sampling for varying vegetable crops, grazing and hay production will be covered. Free. 339.4211 or t_henry@southwesterncc.edu.

• Applications are being accepted for the Haywood County Extension’s 2016 Master Gardener Class.

Trainings are Tuesday mornings from Jan. 5-April 19.

Apply by Dec. 30. 456.3575 or sarah_scott@ncsu.edu.

• Fall and Winter Interest in the Garden is a program that will be offered from 1-2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. Register: www.ncarboretum.org, 665.2492 or go by the Arboretum.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • “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.

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• A geocaching day is scheduled to offer guided tours 10-11:30 a.m. and 2-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. Self-guided tours can begin seeking caches at 8 a.m. Free; standard parking rates for nonmembers will apply. www.ncarboretum.org.

• Meetings to accept public input on the Nantahala and Pisgah Forest Plan Revision are scheduled for 6-8 p.m. on Nov. 9 at the First Presbyterian Church’s Tartan Hall in Franklin and from 6-8 p.m. on Nov. 16 in the Wilma M. Sherrill Center at Kimmel Arena at the University of North Carolina Asheville.

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 market starting this Saturday, Nov. 7 and each week until Christmas indoors 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 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.

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• 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 November Classic Hike of the Smokies will visit Chimney Tops and Elkmont as part of the Smokies Trails Forever program. Registration deadline is Nov. 5; hike is Nov. 10. Hiking guide and author Danny Bernstein will lead this Friends of the Smokies hike. $35 for new members; $10 for current members. To register or see upcoming schedule, visit friendsofthesmokies.org/calendar. .

• Carolina Mountain Club will hold a six-mile hike with a 350-foot elevation gain on Nov. 8. For more info, contact leaders Russ and Heather Cooper at 484.9562 or cooper.hs@charter.net.

• 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.

• The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department will offer hikes to the Waynesville Watershed at 5 p.m. on Nov. 10 and at 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 17. Low-elevation hikes. Hikers will meet at Allen’s Creek Park. $5 for members; $7 for nonmembers. Registration required: 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov.

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• Carolina Mountain Club will hold a 12.3-mile hike with a 2,740-foot ascent on Nov. 11. For more info, contact leader Steve Pierce at 442.8482 or stevepierce50@gmail.com.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will have a 4.5-mile hike with a 600-foot elevation change on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at High Falls north of Cashiers. For more info, contact leader Jody Burtner at 788.2985.

• Carolina Mountain Club will hold a six-mile hike with a 1,200-foot ascent on Saturday, Nov. 14. For info, contact leader Marcia Bromberg at 505.0471 or mwbromberg@yahoo.com.

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• The Jackson County Poultry Club will hold its regular meeting on the third Thursday of each month at the Jackson County Cooperative Extension Office. The club is for adults and children and includes a monthly meeting with a program and a support network for those raising birds. For info, call 586.4009 or write heather_gordon@ncsu.edu.

• The Macon County Poultry Club meets the third Tuesday of each month at the Macon County Cooperative extension office in Franklin. Meetings are free and open to the public. For more information call 369.3916.

• The North Carolina Catch program, a three-phase conservation education effort focusing on aquatic environments, will be offered through May 15. The program is offered by the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department. Free for members; daily admission for non-members. 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov.

• An RV camping club, the Vagabonds, camps one weekend per month from April through November. All ages welcome. No dues or structured activities. For details, write lilnau@aol.com or call 369.6669.

• The Tuckaseigee River Chapter No. 373 of Trout Unlimited meets at 6:30 p.m. on first Tuesday of the month at United Community Bank in Sylva. Dinner is $5.

• The Cataloochee Chapter of Trout Unlimited meets the second Tuesday of the month starting with a dinner at 6:30 p.m. at Rendezvous restaurant located on the corner of Jonathan Creek Road and Soco Road in Maggie Valley. 631.5543.

• Cold Mountain Photographic Society is a camera/photography club for amateurs and professionals who want to learn about and share their knowledge of photography with others. Must be 18 or older to join. Meetings are held at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month in the conference room of MedWest Health and Fitness Center, 262 Leroy George Drive in Clyde. More information at www.cmpsnc.org or info@cmpsnc.org.

• The Cherokee Runners meets each month on the 1st and 15th of the month (if the first falls on Sunday, the group meets on the 2nd), at the Age Link Conference Room. Group runs are being held each Tuesday and Thursday at 6 p.m. starting at the Flame. www.cherokeerunners.com.

• Mountain Wild, the local chapter of the N.C. Wildlife Federation works to preserve and increase wildlife and wildlife habitat of the region. Free programs and guest speakers held periodically at the WNC Nature Center in Asheville. Call 338.0035.

• Free Fly Fishing Classes are offered at River's Edge Outfitters in Cherokee every week. Participants of all ages and skill levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Classes will be approximately an hour and half long. For more information contact Rivers Edge Outfitters at 497.9300.

• The Jackson-Swain Master Gardeners’ Association meets at 9:30 a.m. every second Wednesday at the Jackson Community Services Building on Scotts Creek Road in Sylva. Mike Glover at 736.2768 or lmgofish@gmail.com.

• Pigeon Valley Bassmasters Club will meet at 7 p.m.

• Macon County Horse Association meets at 7:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at the Macon County Fairgrounds Alumni Building. Education program and business meeting. ddoster@fs.fed.us.

• The Macon County Beekeepers Association meets at 7 p.m. the first Thursday of each month at the extension office located on Thomas Heights Road next to Jim Brown Chrysler on Highlands Road. New members welcome.

• Haywood Bee Keepers Association meets at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at the NC Ag center on Raccoon Road. hcbees.org.

• Smoky Mountain Beekeepers meet at 7 p.m. on the second Thursday of every month at the SCC Swain Center in Bryson City on Almond School Road. Open to anyone interested in honeybees. 554.6935.

• The Franklin Walking Club meets at 10 a.m. every Saturday (weather permitting) at the Tassee picnic shelter on the Greenway at the corner of Wells Grove Road and Ulco Drive. All fitness levels are welcome, call Linda at 421.7613.

• Swain County Trail Runners. Long run group meets 8 a.m. Saturdays at the Deep Creek Trailhead Parking Area in Bryson City. All runs are on trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park or Tsali Recreation Area. All distances, paces, ages welcome. More information at 399.0989, 488.6769 or wdtreern@yahoo.com.

• The Sylva Garden Club meets at 9:30 a.m. the first Tuesday of each month at the Presbyterian Church in Sylva. cindyrparker@gmail.com.

• WNC Sportsman’s Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Monday night of each month at the Juke Box Junction Restaurant located in Bethel at the junction of US 276 and N.C. 110 wncsportsmansclub.com

Ongoing BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Free GED test-preparation classes offered by Southwestern Community College, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Mondays through Thursdays and 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Wednesdays and Fridays, SCC Swain Center, Room 101. Instruction in other college and career readiness activities including computer skills, resume writing, filling out job applications, job searches, college entrance exam prep, college applications, financial aid and more. 366.2000 or stop by the Swain Center.

• Guidance on looking for a job or gaining basic job skills will be available from 1-4 p.m. each Wednesday at the Macon County Public Library. One-on-one help from a Southwestern Community College employability instructor. 524.3600.

• Tech-savvy questions will be answered from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. every Tuesday in the month of January at the Jackson County Library. 586.2016.

• Entrepreneurship training available online through HCC Small Business Center through a partnership with Hewlett Packard and the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship. Access courses at www.ncsbc.net, call 627.4512 or kgould@haywood.edu. Information about upcoming workshops is available on the HCC Small Business Center website at SBC.Haywood.edu.

• Southwestern Community College cosmetology students are offering haircuts, manicures and nail tech services from 8 to 11 a.m. on a first-come, firstserved basis, on Tuesdays through Thursdays at SCC’s Jackson Campus in Sylva. 339.4238, southwesterncc.edu or rmccall@southwesterncc.edu.

• Southwestern Community College offers "Employability" labs 8 a.m. to noon Mondays and Wednesday, room 104, Oaks Hall, Southwestern Community College, Jackson Campus; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Mondays and Wednesdays, and 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, Room 104, SCC Macon Annex; 8 a.m. to noon Mondays and Wednesdays, SCC Swain Center; and 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays, Cherokee Vocational Center, Cherokee.

• One-on-One Computer Support Program available at the Jackson County Public Library. Individual appointments are set up by the Adult Services Department, 586.2016 for more information.

• Spanish Club Round Table Discussions, noon to 1 p.m. Thursdays, gazebo at the Macon Campus of Southwestern Community College.

• Entrepreneur Skills Network business skills meetings, 6 to 7:30 p.m. every Monday in the Jackson County Justice and Administration Building, Sylva.

Experienced and startup entrepreneurs are welcome.

586.5466 or esn4meetings@gmail.com.

• Haywood Community College offers Get a Job workshops, which include: Basic Computer Skills from 10 a.m. to noon every Tuesday; Create a Great Resume workshop from 2 to 4 p.m. every Tuesday; Job Search Basics from 10 a.m. to noon every Wednesday; Interview Tips from 10 a.m. to noon every Thursday; Customer Service Excellence from 2 to 4 p.m. every Thursday; Time Management from 10 a.m. to noon every Monday; Your Electronic Portfolio from 10 a.m. to noon every Friday; Spanish Translation Career Coaching and Self-paced English Study from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Friday; Career Coaches are available for individual help from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. 564.5093 or 246.9233.

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NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE AN APPLICATION FOR 2016 - 2017 COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT FUNDING Mountain Projects Inc. Community Action Agency has completed an application for the Community Services Block Grant Program for funding in 2016 - 2017.

Mountain Projects is requesting $261,139 for the Central Intake and referral Programs in Haywood and Jackson Counties. A small amount of funding will be used to support the GED Program in Jackson County. The review and approval of this application is scheduled for December 8th 2015.

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ESTATE SALE Must Sell Everything in 4 Days!

Starts Nov. 4th, 9a.m. - 6p.m., 5th, 6th & 7th 10a.m. - 4p.m.

3 Bedrooms, Full Basement, Plus Garage and Tools. Antiques, Vintage Books, Fishing Gear, Lawyers Bookcases, and Lots of Old Stuff! Located: 44 Skyland Dr., Canton. Presented by Frog Pond Estate Sales 828.734.3874

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NCLN858 AUCTION Online w/ Bid Center, 121+/-Acres Offered Divided or as a Whole, Timberland & Rural Residential in Durham NC, Durham County. Ends November 12th at 3pm. Bid Center At: Hilton Durham in Durham, NC. ironhorseauction.com.

800.997.2248. NCAL3936.

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TAX SEIZURE AUCTION Saturday, November 7 @ 10am.

201 S. Central Ave. Locust, NC. Pre Natal Care, Samsung Madison Accuvix XG & SA8000 Ultrasounds.

New Model Home Furniture, more. www.ClassicAuctions.com.

704.791.8825. NCAF5479.

RUN YOUR CLASSIFIED In 100 North Carolina newspapers for only $375 for a 25-word ad.

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EMPLOYMENT

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FULL CHARGE BOOKKEEPER Sylva, NC based not-for-profit organization is seeking a fulltime bookkeeper to handle all accounting functions including general ledger, payroll, accounts receivable and account payable.

Applicants should have accounting education and several years hands-on accounting experience.

Good working knowledge of Excel and Word are required.

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NC Real Estate License Required.

Please email your resume to: pnimphius@spmresorts.com

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1.888.512.7122 HEAD START PRESCHOOL TEACHER - JACKSON COUNTY Must have BK or BS in related field. This position requires computer skills, ability to work with diverse populations & community partners, 2 yrs. experience in classroom, responsible for classroom/paperwork and have good judgement/problem solving skills and time management skills.

This is a 10 month position with benefits. Applications taken at Mountain Projects, 2251 Old Balsam Rd., Waynesville or 25 Schulman St., Sylva or at: www.mountainprojects.org EOE/AA REAL ESTATE - SALES Broker in Charge Required for Established Management Company Operating in Maggie Valley, NC. Candidate Should Possess NC Broker License and be Broker in Charge Eligible. Please Email Your Resume to: pnimphius@spmresorts.com

FTCC Fayetteville Technical Community College is now accepting applications for the following positions: Computer Information Technology Instructor. Paramedic InstructorContinuing Education. Automotive Systems Technology Instructor.

Programmer/Analyst. Grant Writer.

Health & Physical Education Instructor. For detailed information and to apply, please visit our employment portal at: https://faytechcc.peopleadmin.com/. Human Resources Office. Phone: 910.678.8378 Internet: http://www.faytechcc.edu.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.

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FINANCIAL

BEWARE OF LOAN FRAUD. Please check with the Better Business Bureau or Consumer Protection Agency before sending any money to any loan company.

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67 ACRES OFF PRESSLEY CREEK IN CULLOWHEE NEAR WCU. Includes 2/BR 2/BA, 1600 sq. ft. house, workshop & garage.

Property borders Forest Service and offers long range views to the Parkway. Good road system in, several potential additional house sites, very private, good potential family compound, ideal for conservation easement.

Reduced to $345,500 Details at: www.918gapbranch.com or Call 828.586.0165

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18 This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All dwellings advertised on an equal opportunity basis.

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HAYWOOD BEDDING, INC. The best bedding at the best price!

533 Hazelwood Ave. Waynesville 828.456.4240

HEAVY EQUIPMENT

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1.800.578.1363 Ext.300N

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REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCEMENT Prevent Unwanted Litters!

The Heat Is On! Spay/Neuter For Haywood Pets As Low As $10.

Operation Pit is in Effect!

Free Spay/Neuter, Microchip & Vaccines For Haywood Pitbull Types & Mixes!

REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCEMENT

LEASE TO OWN 1/2 Acre Lots with Mobile Homes & Empty 1/2 Acre + Lots!

Located Next to Cherokee Indian Reservation, 2.5 Miles from Harrah’s Cherokee Casino.

For More Information Please Call 828.506.0578 MOUNTAINS OF NC Located near Chimney Rock. Cabin on 2+ acres with loft, stone fpl, large deck, pict windows, mtn views. Only $154,900. Call 828.286.1666

HOMES FOR SALE

BRUCE MCGOVERN A Full Service Realtor, Locally Owned and Operated mcgovernpropertymgt@gmail.com McGovern Property Management 828.283.2112.

AUCTION NOV 7 - $47,520 BUYS! Neat neighborhood 5 BR/2Ba Enfield home 11/7-11AM - United Country/Stone Auction & Realty NCAL561. 252.399.9983. www.stone-auction.com 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.

Commercial Property For Sale Best Location in Western NC! Highway 441

Mountain Realty

Office • Retail • Medical • Pub • Endless Opportunity!

2177 Russ Ave. Waynesville, NC 28786 Cell: 828.400.9029 ron@ronbreese.com

• 8,800 sq. ft.

• Post & Beam • 2-800 sq. ft. offices with exterior entrances • Motivated Seller — $895,000

Each office independently owned & operated.

For more information and pictures www.smokymtninvestment.com • 828.524.7199

Ron Breese Broker/Owner

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Beginning Salary $37k to 40k!

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EMPLOYMENT

STORAGE SPACE FOR RENT

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828.734.9409 or 828.246.0918

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PROPERTY RENTAL ON 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.

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Also Available for Sale!

Motivated Seller Reduced Price of $379,000, Taking Offers.

Fully Furnished. For more info 865.603.8167

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EMERSON

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Mike Stamey 828-508-9607

Section 8 Accepted - Handicapped Accessible Units When Available

OFFICE HOURS: Tues. & Wed. 10:00am - 5:00pm & Thurs. 10:00am- 12:00pm 168 E. Nicol Arms Road Sylva, NC 28779

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Ferns stand out this time of year

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ne of my favorite times to observe ferns is in winter when they stand out in the brown leaf-litter. Of the 70 or so species that have been documented in the southern mountains, perhaps a fourth are evergreen. These would include walking fern, rockcap fern, resurrection fern, intermediate wood fern, several of the so-called “grape fern” species, and others.

The evergreen fern I can always count on finding is Christmas fern, which occurs in rocky woodlands. It is the most common evergreen fern in Western North Carolina, just as New York fern is our most common deciduous fern.

Columnist Christmas fern appears in bouquetlike clusters from a scaly rhizome. The fiddleheads (emerging fronds) that appear in spring are covered with silvery scales. The mature fronds can be up to 28-inches in length.

The fertile spore-producing fronds of Christmas ferns are narrow at their tips.

Look on the underside of a fertile tip and you’ll see the clusters of cases in which the dust-like spores develop.

BACK THEN Many Christmas fern fronds are simply vegetative; that is, they don’t display the narrowed tips or spore cases. These appear is spring or early summer. The fertile fronds that arise from mid-summer into early fall are almost always taller than the vegetative fronds, so as to allow for wind dispersal of the spores.

Home gardeners should be aware that once the spores are shed, the fertile tips turn brown and wither. It’s part of the plant’s natural life cycle, not an indication that your Christmas ferns are dying. Also remember that the old fronds will wither, turn brown, and fall off as the plant makes room for new ones.

The patterns in which spore cases are arranged is often the essential clue used to differentiate various otherwise similar fern species. But identifying Christmas fern doesn’t require that sort of scrutiny. It is readily identified by the distinctive shape of the leaflets (pinna) that make up the leafy (blade) portion of the frond above its stem (stipe) Each leaflet resembles Santa’s sleigh when viewed on a horizontal plane or a Christmas stocking when held vertically.

This holiday motif is sounded again in the common name “Christmas fern,” which

even on the same plant. The leaflets especially vary in the amount of serration.

Jesse M. Shaver’s Ferns of the Eastern Central States with Special Reference to Tennessee (1954) is an older manual that I still use a lot because it’s one of the few guides that depicts the variant forms for Christmas fern. Donated photo each fern species.

His descriptions and illustrations of the Christmas fern variants take up 13 pages, describing six distinctive forms.

Murray Evans, the retired plant taxonomist and fern authority at the University of Tennessee, noted in his Ferns of the Smokies (2005) that, “There are many named varieties and forms for this species based on peculiar and an ingredient in emetics, as an external conspicuous leaf variations, but none are application for rheumatism, and in a decocconsidered important taxonomically.” tion for toothache, chills, and bowel comBut they are interesting to locate and plaints. observe.

When examining Christmas ferns in the (George Ellison is a naturalist and writer. wild, keep in mind that leaflet and blade He can be reached at info@georgeellison.com.) shapes will often vary from plant to plant or arose because the species was used by the earliest New England settlers for Christmas decorations. They are still frequently cut or used as potted plants for seasonal arrangements.

The roots were used by the Cherokee as

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