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Duke LifePoint, the company that is in negotiations to buy WestCare and Haywood Regional, says its plan is to invest in the hospitals and recapture market share that has been lost to Mission Hospital in Asheville. The new group also promises to keep close ties to the communities served by the small hospitals. (Page 8-9)

News Terri Henry is first woman elected to lead Cherokee’s Tribal Council . . . . . . 6 Burger King constructing new Clyde location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Maggie man gets charges reduced in forgery case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The final Sylva election results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Eastern Band pledges to build rehab center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 WCU open house a vital tool in student recruitment process . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Cullowhee planning process moving forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Ghost Town gunslinger still seeking answers in shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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tion, working for the U.S. Census Department and the Indian Law Resource Center in Washington, D.C., Henry returned to Cherokee to do just that. In 1999, she founded found the Qualla Women’s Justice Alliance and, two years later, founded Clan Star. Both are domestic violence advocacy groups. She is also a founding and current member of the National Congress of American Indians Task Force on Violence Against Native Women in Washington, D.C. Henry ran against Tunney Crowe for Terri Henry is the first female chairwoman of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Tribal chairperson; she won 55 percent to 45 perCouncil. Caitlin Bowling photo cent. It is her second time running for the seat — a calculated move. Henry isn’t conleader, regardless of whether she is a Saunooke called Henry’s election as templating the possibility of making a run woman,” McCoy said. council chair a historic moment and noted for chief just yet, saying she was solely The leadership within the tribe has that women have long played an important focused on doing well as chairwoman. remained the same for the past decade, she role in the tribe.

“What I am really concerned about is liv“Women have always been leaders in our ing up to the expectations Cherokee history. They have always been the tribe has for me,” she “What became clear to me is if tribal revered,” Saunooke said. “I think she will do said. “I want to be an exama great job. She is well qualified.” ple for young girls.” governments could not protect the During her two-year term as chairBut Henry did state that one thing we hold most dear — our woman, Henry said she wants to “establish she has positioned herself some financial accountability,” draft and purposely as one of the top people — why protect anything?” pass a constitution and review the roles and tribal leaders. necessity of different committees.

“I had been establishing — Terri Henry, Tribal Council Chair Under the old Tribal Council leadership, my leadership, and that was Henry said she believes that the tribe spent a conscious thing I was said, and it was time for something new. money too quickly, not giving careful considerdoing,” Henry said.

“She has the education and the profesation to each project. One multi-million project Two of Henry’s vocal supporters were felsionalism that the tribe needed,” McCoy she does not support is the Cherokee County low female council members Teresa McCoy said. “I felt like it was way past time for our casino; however, its creation is now inevitable. and Tommye Saunooke. tribe to be headed in a new direction, and I “I am not going to go down “It is an honor for me to serve in council for one and happy and thrilled.” there and lay in front of the bullwith a chairperson who is a strong tribal

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER erri Henry has been elected as the first female Tribal Council chair of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, some six years after the U.S. House of Representatives elected its first female speaker.

“I think that every government has its time,” said Henry, a representative from Painttown.

Henry was born in Yellowhill and even spent time in Wolfetown, but she has lived most of her life in Painttown. She was valedictorian of her class at Cherokee High School and attended the University of North Carolina-Asheville. She later received a law degree from the University of Iowa.

Growing up, Henry always heard her family members talking politics but didn’t develop an interest in it early. Even during her first year of college, Henry wasn’t completely set on what she would do.

One night when feeling homesick in her freshman dorm room, Henry said she started thinking about what it means to be Cherokee and specifically about the Trail of Tears. She decided that she wanted to somehow focus on protecting her people and their heritage.

“Whatever I would do, it would be so that that act would not happen again to native people,” Henry said.

“What became clear to me is if tribal governments could not protect the one thing we hold most dear — our people — why protect anything?” she added.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER aywood County residents won’t be down a Burger King when the state Department of Transportation starts its major reconstruction of the Lowe’s interchange.

The fast food giant will simply move about 200 yards up Paragon Parkway, into the parking lot where the Tractor Supply, Blue Rooster and Haywood County Department of Social Services are located. The total cost of the project is $700,000, and the new 2,763-squarefoot Burger King is expected to open by the middle of next year.

The specific plot of land is owned by RCG Ventures, an Atlanta-based real estate investment firm, not by the county, as some believed.

“It is not a county building. The county has nothing to do with it,” said Commissioner Kevin Ensley at a recent Haywood County Board of Commissioners meeting.

County leaders were happy that Burger King decided to relocate rather than simply shut its doors.

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A new Burger King building is under construction just up the street from the fast food restaurant’s current location on Paragon Parkway in Clyde. Caitlin Bowling photo

“Thank God, it is saving jobs,” Ensley said.

The Smoky Mountain News could not find out how many people work at that particularly Burger King because local employees are not allowed to talk to media outlets.

Carrols Corporations, Burger King’s parent company, did not respond to inquiries by press time.

However, the loss would not have left people without a Burger King. There are two other Burger Kings in the county — one in Canton and another in Waynesville.

The Clyde Burger King was forced to move from its current location, attached to the Shell gas station on Paragon Parkway off Exit 104 on U.S. 73/19. It, along with nine other businesses and five homes, stands in the way of a $24 million N.C. DOT road construction project.

The department has slowly purchased the properties that the homes and businesses sit on so it can reconfigure the interchange. The project includes building a new highway on-ramp heading toward Waynesville, realigning Paragon Parkway with the new on-ramp, moving Access Road and widening part of Crabtree Road.

The changes aim to remedy traffic flow problems in the area, which for years has been deemed by locals as “malfunction junction.”

BY CAITLIN BOWLING gery and one count of obtaining property STAFF WRITER under false pretenses. Under an agreement fter getting caught up in the politics of with the District Attorney’s office, however, Maggie Valley and facing felony forgery only four of the common law uttering charges charges, Joseph Maniscalco Thursday will show up on his record. pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor charges.

Common law uttering is a crime that Maniscalco was originally charged with occurs when someone presents a document five misdemeanors and three felonies, but the they know to be false, for instance a fake ID, a charges were reduced in return for accepting stolen check or forged property records. the plea agreement.

“That is the strongest case that the state “They reduced all the charges to like a had,” Groffsky said of the misdemeanor parking ticket, misdemeanor one, so I took charges. it,” Maniscalco said.

There was strong evidence that Assistant District Attorney Rachael Maniscalco tried to pass off false documents Groffsky said the DA’s office decided to bro- at the county’s Register of Deeds office. ker a deal with the 76-year-old Maggie Valley resident partly Maniscalco was originally charged because of his spotless criminal with five misdemeanors and three record. Maniscalco doesn’t have so much as a parking ticket on felonies, but the charges were his record, she said.

There is also the matter of reduced in return for accepting the animosity between the plea agreement.

Maniscalco and Maggie Valley employees, particularly Mayor Ron DeSimone. Some have alleged that the “We are both obviously very happy with charges against Maniscalco were less about the outcome of having that many felonies his possible wrongdoing and more about the reduced,” said Anthony Tuorto, an attorney feud over Maniscalco’s efforts to be de- with the Minick Law in Asheville who repreannexed from the town. sented Maniscalco.

“I know there is political heat and turmoil Maniscalco will have to pay a $100 fine, in Maggie Valley,” Groffsky said. complete 24 hours of community service and Maniscalco has tried for years to be de- must not contact the Register of Deeds or annexed from Maggie Valley, claiming that he Maggie Valley employees unless he needs to can’t and doesn’t receive town services and complete some official business. therefore shouldn’t have to pay town taxes.

If he violates any of these during his 18Town employees have alleged that month probation, Maniscalco will have to Maniscalco’s contact with them over this dis- serve 90 days in jail. agreement reached the point of harassment.

Maniscalco said he did not want to spend A town employee was actually the one thousands of dollars to fight the charges and who brought Maniscalco’s misconduct to the possibly end up with an unfavorable jury. attention of the authorities. It was alleged “That is a lot of money for no reason,” that Maniscalco created false documents stat- Maniscalco said. “I didn’t want to take the ing that his property was no longer part of the chance.” town limits and tried to file them at the counHowever, he may not be out of court for ty Register of Deeds office. long. Maniscalco said he is considering a law“I never ever would do anything like that,” suit against the town.

Maniscalco said of the forgery charges, call“I’ll have to speak to my attorneys about ing the whole matter “a political move.” that issue. I would like to,” he said.

Maniscalco was charged with five counts He also plans to continue fighting for deof common law uttering, two counts of for- annexation.

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needs of the tribe?

The Eastern Band will have to answer similarly broad questions if it starts to write its first constitution, as Henry hopes.

Two years ago, Tribal Council supported the creation of constitutional task force, which was supposed to meet and craft a constitution. However, it never came to fruition because the Cherokee Preservation Foundation wouldn’t fund the initiative without input, Henry said.

Henry said that former Preservation Foundation President Susan Jenkins “wanted to dictate to us how she wanted us to do this, and we said, ‘no.’”

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dozers,” Henry said.

But tribal leaders can still keep the project under close watch. Henry said she met with contractor candidates and stressed the importance of staying on budget.

“We made it very clear to them that we will not entertain cost overruns,” Henry said. “We made it clear to them that we were not a cash cow.”

Not only will Tribal Council carefully review its expenses, Henry has asked members of council who serve on different committees to evaluate the role each committee has. Is the committee still relevant today?

How can it be repurposed to fit the current

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Turning around community hospitals is what MedWest’s prospective buyer does best New owner has a strategy to stem flow of patients to Mission

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER hen a “for sale” sign went up on the hospitals in Haywood, Jackson and Swain counties earlier this year, it was chalked up as inevitable, a sad but unavoidable trajectory faced by small, independent hospitals everywhere.

At best, the safe harbor of a big hospital network would bring practical perks — be it regulatory expertise, doctor recruiting prowess, leverage haggling with insurance companies or buying power for medical supplies.

At worst, the hospitals needed a bailout.

They were losing money and patients.

Hospitals leaders had tried everything: cost-cutting layoffs — a few rounds of them no less, consolidating overhead, a heavy marketing campaign, and even hiring an expensive, outside hospital management company.

They even tried expansion — gambling that more doctors, more state-of-the-art equipment and more medical offices would translate to more revenue.

But the bottom-line wasn’t budging. Any gains were quickly offset by more hits — like the growing number of charity cases, shrinking Medicare reimbursements and ramped up competition from Mission in Asheville.

Meanwhile, the fledging MedWest alliance aimed at strengthening Haywood Regional Medical Center and WestCare’s hospitals in Sylva and Bryson City was on the skids.

The wheels were set in motion in March to find a buyer for the hospitals, a move once considered a last resort. As the hospitals propositioned suitors, a MedWest parting of ways — each going with different buyers — was a possibility.

In the end, although MedWest will indeed dissolve, they’ve settled on the same savior.

At least that’s how MedWest board members are talking about Duke LifePoint Healthcare, the buyer poised to acquire the hospitals. And for its part, Duke LifePoint claims it can turn things around.

“We want them to be everything they can be,” LifePoint CEO and Chairman Bill Carpenter said of the hospitals here. “We want them to reach their full potential. We think there are things Duke LifePoint Health Care can bring to the table to help them reach their full potential.”

The image of Duke LifePoint portrayed by MedWest hospital trustees and administrators is a flawless one.

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ter, expand medical service lines, add new equipment, bring in more specialists and improve clinical expertise.

Yet the community tenor of the hospitals won’t be lost in the acquisition. Despite the megalithic size of the LifePoint hospital network — 60 hospitals in 20 states, $3.4 billion in annual revenue and 29,000 employees — local input will still have a place. Doctors’ opinions will still be valued.

Too good to be true? Maybe, but maybe not.

Carpenter described a sound business model behind LifePoint’s ability to improve health care while growing its communitybased hospitals.

“We believe, and it has been proven, that if we do those things, if we focus on quality and service, if we focus on partnering with physicians in a good way and are a good employer in our communities, then our hospitals are going to be financially successful,” Carpenter said.

And despite being a large, publicly-traded, for-profit corporation, LifePoint puts stock in being a local community partner.

“We want to be a good community citizen and to be actively and vitally involved in the community,” Carpenter said.

SQUARING THE FOR-PROFIT MODEL As a well-paid CEO over a large, for-profit hospital system, Carpenter has grown accustomed to critics questioning LifePoint’s motives. Is their priority profits, or providing quality community health care?

But those aren’t mutually exclusive, according to Carpenter. In fact, it can be just the opposite.

“I have often heard my nonprofit colleagues say, ‘No money, no mission.’ We all need to make a return on an investment to be able to continue to support the mission we have,” Carpenter said.

Obviously, as for any hospital, high-quality patient care is LifePoint’s top concern. To accomplish that, LifePoint values its relationship with doctors and staff.

“In a small community, word of mouth is really important. We want to be a good employer, and we want people who work at the hospital to be absolute advocates for the hospital and that to shine through in the community,” Carpenter said.

There’s nearly 1,900 employees currently working at MedWest’s three hospitals, urgent care centers and hospital-owned doctors’ practices in Haywood, Jackson and Swain counties.

When the pending sale to Duke LifePoint was announced two weeks ago, Mission Hospital in Asheville issued a statement expressing “disappointment” that it had not been chosen.

Mission had been in the running for

mostly re-invested in those hospitals.

“In fact, for-profit hospitals often have more resources and flexibility to invest in new initiatives,” according to a statement by Duke LifePoint.

For-profit hospitals have just as much incentive to ensure there’s a broad spectrum of high-quality medical care being provided in their communities.

“We are trying to grow the hospital. If we grow the hospitals, the value of our company increases,” Carpenter said.

Acquisitions, like those of Haywood Regional and WestCare, play a significant roleN in LifePoint’s business model.

“LifePoint is committed to growing and establishing our footprint of communitybased hospitals around the country,” Carpenter said.

HEAD TO HEAD “The reason many community hospitals lose market share is because the services aren’t being provided there. Our focus is on growing and developing service lines that can and should be provided in the local community.”

— Bill Carpenter, LifePoint CEO

WestCare, although it hadn’t made a proposal for Haywood. Anti-trust regulations aimed at capping Mission’s dominance in the region would have been a hurdle in acquiring Haywood, according to a statement by Mission.

Mission hospital officials disparaged the for-profit healthcare model of LifePoint.

“At a time when so many are struggling to receive the care that they need, the incremental burden on residents and communities to not only pay for care but also ensure returns to shareholders on Wall Street and around the globe is troubling,” said Jon Yeatman, Mission’s vice president of strategic development, in a statement.

LifePoint quickly countered.

“A lot has been made of the differences between for-profit and nonprofit hospitals, but much of what has been said is incorrect,” according to a subsequent statement put out

by Duke LifePoint. “The notion that communities are required to ensure returns to shareholders is false and unfounded.”

Profits made at LifePoint’s hospitals are

While Duke LifePoint is in the business of buying hospitals, it wouldn’t be interested in Haywood or WestCare if it didn’t see potential.

“Where we see a hospital that has community support and a strong medical staff to begin with, a good administrative team to begin with, where we think the resources our organization can bring to the table can help them achieve their full potential, those are the opportunities we are very excited about,” Carpenter said.

WestCare and Haywood’s survival for this long as small, independent hospitals — among the last of their breed in the state — is a formidable feat in and of itself.

“We are very happy we are being considered as a potential partner by these hospitals.

These are great hospitals; there’s no doubt,” Carpenter said. “We are very impressed by the great platform and base they have developed.”

Still, they are losing money and market share. More patients from Jackson and Haywood counties are traveling to Mission in Asheville for in-patient care than they were six years ago.

Oddly, that’s something LifePoint actually looks for when buying a hospital. Recapturing lost market share is the bread-and-butter of LifePoint.

— LifePoint strives to “reduce the migration of patients to larger hospitals in more distant towns and cities,” according to its 2012 annual shareholder report.

The CEOs of both Haywood and WestCare have routinely cited the slow trickle of patients to Mission as their Achilles’ heel.

LifePoint has dialed in a winning formula to help struggling community hospitals win— back those patients.

“The reason many community hospitals lose market share is because the services aren’t being provided there. Many times it is because they can’t recruit the physicians and provide them,” Carpenter said. “Our focus is on grow-

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER f all goes as planned, the sale of Haywood Regional Medical Center and WestCare to Duke LifePoint Health Care will be finalized by spring.

But until two weeks ago, Duke LifePoint was virtually unheard of here. Outside of medical circles, news of this prospective buyer was met with a universal question: Who’s that?

LifePoint is a for-profit company headquartered in Nashville with 60 community hospitals in 20 states, almost entirely in nonurban areas. But it is a relative newcomer to North Carolina. It owns two hospitals located in counties bordering Virginia in the central part of the state.

While LifePoint has been in the community hospital business since 1999, its partnership with Duke University Medical Center is a new venture.

It was pioneered two years ago after Duke increasingly found itself on the receiv-

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ing end of propositions by struggling community hospitals looking for a lifeline.

“Duke was receiving inbound calls from community hospitals that were concerned about how they would face the challenges with the way medicine was being delivered today. How are those hospitals going to continue to thrive and survive and be there for their communities?” LifePoint CEO and Chairman Bill Carpenter said.

Duke simply couldn’t help all the hospitals wanting to come under its wing.

But as one of the state’s flagship medical institutions, Duke would be remiss to sit back and watch the erosion of the community healthcare landscape.

“Part of Duke’s original mission was to support community health care in our backyard and across the region,” said Dr. Harry Phillips, a cardiologist and chief medical office of Duke Heart Network who’s been a champion behind the Duke LifePoint venture.

Community hospitals are vitally important. And while it might sound grandiose, Duke believed it could play a role in ensuring high-quality healthcare is accessible at the community level around the state, Phillips said.

But Duke was missing a key part of the equation — one that LifePoint, on the other hand, could bring to the table.

“It was a goal for both of us to combine the expertise of Duke around developing clinical and quality programs with the expertise and proven track record of LifePoint on operating and managing community hospitals,” Phillips said.

The name “Duke” clearly gives LifePoint instant medical esteem and name recognition, particularly in North Carolina and the Southeast. But Duke only has a 3 percent ownership stake in the joint venture, and LifePoint is the clear managing partner.

Carpenter disputed the notion that the Duke name is merely window-dressing, however.

“Duke would have Harry Phillips not have put its name on a partnership if it were not actively involved,” Carpenter said.

Phillips agreed.

“From the perspective of a not-for-profit academic health center, Duke is very comfortable with our for-profit partner LifePoint,” Phillips said, citing LifePoint’s unwavering committed to high-quality care.

Still, LifePoint acknowledged in its annual shareholder report last year that it bene-

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unlike Haywood and Jackson losing patients to Asheville — but LifePoint helped it regain market share.

All these challenges, in fact, are familiar territory for Haywood Regional and WestCare.

When asked how Duke LifePoint could succeed where MedWest had failed, Carpenter said it’s all about resources.

“Standing alone, the community hospital has to deal with all the things we deal with as a large organization. We bring not only financial resources but also resources of our hospital support center,” Carpenter said.

There’s economies of scale, better buying power, and LifePoint can also deploy best practices from other hospitals in its system.

“We can improve processes, and that results in better clinical outcomes as well as reduced costs of care,” Carpenter said. “We

learn from our peer hospitals across the country and region.”

One thing that could help the bottom line — but something that Carpenter didn’t actually mention — is outsourcing some back-ofhouse administrative jobs.

Functions like payroll, accounts payable, supply chain and billing are rarely performed by individual LifePoint hospitals, but instead are contracted out to a national firm that handles those operations for hospitals nationwide.

MEDWEST DISSOLUTION If the sale to Duke LifePoint goes through, the MedWest partnership would be dissolved.

WestCare had made known its desire to pull out of MedWest last year following dissatisfaction in the Jackson County medical communi-

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If you tick down a top 10 list of the challenges faced by community hospitals nationwide, LifePoint can point to places where it fixed that very problem upon taking them over.

It’s biggest selling point is turning around a losing bottom-line.

It bailed the hospital in Logan, W.V., out of bankruptcy. And in Versailles, Ky., it resuscitated a closed hospital that had shut down. It often makes financially struggling hospitals profitable within a year or two.

LifePoint healed rifts and smoothed tensions between physicians and administrators — and between rival medical staffs at competing hospitals that had merged — at the hospital in Lake Havasu City, Ariz.

Another common problem: hospitals barely breaking even don’t have the money to build or renovate. Enter LifePoint. Nearly all of its deals come with a pledge of capital investment. It has built new emergency rooms, new labor and delivery wings, new surgery suites — even a whole new hospital in Ennis, Texas.

And it tackles the relentless struggle to recruit doctors to small communities, adding new subspecialties while beefing up the core medical fields.

In Conyers, Ga., the community hospital was losing patients to nearby Atlanta — not

ty over perceived preferential treatment of Haywood.

Specifically, Jackson doctors felt their hospital had lost local control and that its best interests weren’t being looked out for by MedWest.

Duke LifePoint is treating the acquisition of WestCare and Haywood as two separate deals, with two separate proposals.

WestCare CEO Steve Heatherly has emphasized that WestCare will be operated independently from Haywood despite being owned by the same parent company.

“The focus will be on our community and how it can be best served by the WestCare hospitals,” Heatherly said. “Each hospital is unique because each community is unique.

Hospital services must be tailored to meet the need of the local community.”

But LifePoint would likely be on the lookout for synergies between WestCare and Haywood. In last year’s shareholder report, LifePoint commented on its strategy to “build regional networks” of hospitals in geographic proximity. Along those lines, it cited the acquisition of a hospital in Etowah, Tenn., near an existing LifePoint hospital as a smart strategic move to “expand our regional presence and build a stronger, local continuum of care in collaboration.”

Acquiring hospitals is a core component of LifePoint’s business strategy.

“Our pipeline remains very active, and we are selectively acquiring the right hospitals in the right markets,” according to its 2012 shareholder report.

WestCare and Haywood could be exactly the jumping off point LifePoint needs for even more forays into Western North Carolina, complimenting its hospitals in East Tennessee.

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ing and developing service lines that can and should be provided in the local community.”

Of course, it’s more complicated than that.

The battle for patients depends on the caliber of doctors, caliber of nurses, condition of facilities, equipment and technology, reputation, convenience — even its parking situation, according to a list of competitive factors cited in LifePoint’s 2012 shareholder report.

fits from “the prestige and reputation for excellence associated with the Duke brand.”

The 2012 shareholder report praised the new joint venture with Duke as “an engine that helps propel our acquisition strategy.”

Meanwhile, Duke Medical Center has a tangible interest in the venture with LifePoint as well.

“Duke, which serves as the clinical hub of the network, has benefited by expanding its referral base throughout North Carolina and Virginia,” according to LifePoint’s 2012 shareholder report.

But LifePoint also touted the partnership’s loftier goal.

“It has become a national model for transforming the delivery of care,” according to Carpenter’s opening message in last year’s annual shareholder report. “It is a model that will become increasingly important and valuable given the focus of healthcare reform to improve the quality and reduce the cost of the delivery of care.”

Duke LifePoint’s has four hospitals operated under the partnership. In North Carolina, there’s Maria Parham Medical Center in Henderson in Vance County and Person Memorial Hospital in Roxboro, plus Twin County Regional Healthcare in Galax, Va., and Marquette General Health System in Michigan.

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Sylva getting pretty good at filling empty town board seats

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER he Sylva town board will appoint a new leader to an empty seat on the board in coming weeks — the fourth time the town board has gone through this in as many years.

Chris Matheson, who sat on the town board, was elected mayor in the town election earlier this month. She still has two years left to go in her town board seat; however, she will be leaving that seat vacant when she moves up.

The job of picking someone to fill it is up to the board. The board has had an uncanny number of these appointments to make lately — this will be the fourth since 2009.

Danny Allen, who lost his seat on the town board by just four votes in the recent election, said he would like the appointment.

“If they would consider me, I definitely would like to continue,” Allen said, who had served on the board for 10 years. “I have benefited the town in more ways than people know. Sylva is my hometown, and Sylva is my life.”

Allen pointed out that he backed both Matheson’s and board member

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Harold Hensley when they were initially appointed to their seats.

While Allen was the next highest vote getter in the election, that doesn’t automatically mean he’ll get the empty seat, according to Matheson and Hensley.

Matheson would like to see a unanimous vote among town board members

Correction: An article in last week’s paper incorrectly stated that the Sylva town board election was in flux due to absentee ballots yet to be counted. Danny Allen narrowly, but definitely, lost his seat by four votes.

about to give the newcomer “a feeling of confidence.” Hensley said he will go with the flow, sharing Matheson’s goal of it being a unanimous vote.

Matheson said the board probably won’t have a formal application process for people interested in the seat. In the past, the process was largely carried out behind the scenes by board members.

LIFE POINT, CONTINUED FROM 9 While LifePoint might think like a corporation on the acquisition side, when it comes to management, it thinks like a community hospital.

“At the very base line of Duke LifePoint, we truly believe that quality care delivered close to home is best for the patient, their families and the community,” Carpenter said.

Duke LifePoint has pledged that local input is valued at its hospitals. WestCare and Haywood would have their own hospital boards comprised of doctors and community leaders. The local hospital boards, however, would merely play an advisory role, not call the shots as they do now.

PEGGING A VALUE Duke LifePoint offered $26.25 million cash for Haywood Regional Medical Center. For now, its offer to WestCare isn’t known.

Haywood Regional was required to disclose the terms of Duke LifePoint’s offer.

Haywood is a public hospital authority, a status that stems from the county acting as a cosignor on a construction bond for the hospital in the 1970s. State statute dictates that public hospitals follow a public process when being sold.

WestCare, however, is a private nonprofit entity. It doesn’t have to disclose anything and has declined to make the offer from Duke LifePoint public. Eventually, the sale price for WestCare will come out in its nonprofit tax filings, which are public record.

It’s possible to look at the sale price offered for Haywood and speculate what that price might be for WestCare.

On the surface, they are similarly sized.

They have about the same number of employees — 915 at WestCare and 950 at Haywood.

They have a similar annual operating budget, about $110 million for Haywood, and $100 million for WestCare. And they have similarly valued facilities.

Both own about the same number of physician practices.

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So what happens to the money Duke LifePoint pays for the hospitals?

First, any outstanding debt on the hospitals’ books would be paid off.

For Haywood, the hospital owes about $8.6 million on a line of credit used for operating capital and another $2 million left on construction debt of its fitness center. Cash from the purchase will also be used to clear out accounts payable, which could be another few million, although hospital officials have not shared that figure.

Presumably, between $8 million and $10 million could be left over from the sale of Haywood Regional. The money would go to the county, since it is a county hospital authority.

Commissioners are already talking about the idea of putting the money in a trust fund earmarked for health care initiatives.

“We would seek a lot of public input on the best ways to address challenges of health care,” said Haywood County Commissioner Mark

Swanger.

Commissioners tossed out a few examples, like supporting the Good Samaritan Clinic, which provides medical care to the poor and needy, or expanding the nursing program at Haywood Community College.

Haywood County Commissioner Mike Sorrells said the county would likely protect the principal in perpetuity and only spend the annual interest.

For WestCare, there’s slightly more debt to be paid off. WestCare owes about $15 million on outstanding loans for past hospital renovations and expansions.

Cash from the sale would be used to pay that off, along with the requisite outstanding bills and accounts payable.

On the web: A public hearing on the sale of Haywood Regional Medical Center was held Tuesday night (Nov. 12) after The Smoky Mountain News went to press. Go to www.smokymountainnews.com for a recap and see next week’s print edition for full coverage.

When a nonprofit sells its charitable assets, it’s legally required to apply the proceeds toward charitable causes.

What happens to the money left over from WestCare’s sale isn’t as clearcut, but it’s likely that it, too, would be put into a trust fund of some sort. It would be managed by a locallycontrolled foundation and could also go to support health care initiatives.

Although no one with WestCare has said as much, that seems to be standard operating procedure when a nonprofit hospital is bought out.

When Duke LifePoint bought the hospital in Marquette, Mich., $23 million from the sale proceeds were put into a trust fund managed by a newly established foundation for local health care initiatives.

The same happened in Danville, Va., where the sale of the hospital to LifePoint in 2005 created a $200 million endowment managed by a newly created community foundation. It’s mission is multi-faceted, but health initiatives are a central cause, including a fitness and healthy eating campaign aimed at reducing the obesity rate.

And just last month when LifePoint bought the hospital in Warrenton, Va., $100 million from that sale went into a charitable community foundation that will support a free health clinic and other projects.

In fact, when a nonprofit sells its charitable assets, it’s legally required to apply the proceeds toward charitable causes. The N.C. Attorney General’s Office will be tasked with oversight, making sure that the sale of WestCare’s charitable assets fetches a fair market value and that the proceeds are properly used.

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with Cherokee PD and the tribe,” Cochran said. “We are partners together.”

Council representatives thanked Cochran for his work and for investigating the incident.

“I want to thank the sheriff for getting on this quickly,” said Tribal Council member B. Ensley.

While Missy is glad the sheriff took the time to address the matter, she is distressed that she was not informed or present when the deputies interviewed her daughter.

“I am kind of lost for words and upset,” Missy said.

Swain County Sheriff Curtis Cochran addressed Tribal Council last week to clear his deputies of any wrongdoing. Caitlin Bowling photo Although Lou was not actually tased, the threat has had a lasting impact. Missy said her daughter doesn’t want to be the mascot anymore.

“I am here to tell you right now it was wrong for anyone to say anything to our team’s mascot,” Missy said, hoping the mysterious man who threatened her daughter reads about the incident.

Missy said she hopes the investigation continues until they find the perpetrator.

The tasing threat was the second incident to occur at a Swain County-Cherokee football game in the last two months. In late September, a Swain County high school student was suspended for 10 days after posting racist and vulgar comments on the Facebook page of a Cherokee junior varsity football player.

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER or years, enrolled members and leaders of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have called for the tribe to open a substance abuse rehabilitation center, but for some reason, the effort has never moved beyond words.

Don Long, an enrolled member and father of a drug addict, is tired of waiting.

“We’ve got to do something,” he said.

Long introduced a resolution to Tribal Council last week asking that the Eastern Band transform an empty community center on Acquoni Road into a place where enrolled members can receive help and temporary housing while they fight their drug and alcohol addictions.

In the end, Tribal Council voted unanimously to move forward with plans for a rehabilitation center, with a few adjustments to Long’s resolution.

The resolution approved last week stated that the tribe will either renovate a building or built a brand new structure, whichever is cheaper, to house the center.

It also requires that all pertinent parties — including Tribal Council, Health and Human Services and Cherokee Police Department representatives — gather as soon as can be arranged to start creating a short-term plan for getting a center operational, as well as long-term goals.

“We need to start putting pen to paper,” said Adam Wachacha, a Tribal Council representative from Snowbird.

Not enough is being done to combat drug and alcohol problems on the Qualla Boundary.

“We’ve been trying to put a Band-Aid on a problem. This is a problem that needs to be attacked,” Wachacha said. “I think it’s time that council takes a hard stance on this.”

The Eastern Band currently has a place called Analenisgi that offers therapy, wellness evaluations and other programming for people with substance abuse problems. But that is not its only focus, and only outpatient services are offered. With a substance abuse rehabilitation center, enrolled members could live at the facility while receiving treatment and support.

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Native American tribes have high rates of drug and alcohol abuse, and enrolled members continue to die from overdoses or related causes.

“There is not a family on this boundary who has not been to a service of a friend or a family member,” said Teresa McCoy, a Tribal Council representative from Big Cove.

There are plenty of police dollars going into fighting drugs and sending drug sellers and drug abusers to prison, but not enough toward treatment of what many feel is an illness.

“Addicts don’t deserve punishment; they deserve help,” McCoy said. “We lost the war on drugs when we started burying our kids.”

Tribal Council has approved resolutions vowing to create such a center in the past, but nothing has come of it. Instead, money and effort have gone into building a new casino in Cherokee County and a new hospital facility, McCoy said.

“Gaming is not more important than kids and a new hospital is not either,” she said.

Tribal leaders have pontificated about the need for a substance abuse rehabilitation center again and again but should have put its money where its mouth is long ago, said enrolled member Amy Walker “The money hasn’t been provided,” Walker said. “We need to make this our highest priority.”

Back in 2007, a resolution was passed to create a rehabilitation center, and Tribal Council members even visited The Healing Place, a substance abuse center in Raleigh, to look at best practices. Six years later, the Eastern Band is no closer to having a facility.

“We are spinning our wheels. We have been spinning them for too long,” said Missy Crowe, an enrolled member, blaming it on a lack of communication. “We need a daily live-in program for our young adults.”

Crowe asked council to revaluate its budget and see where it can cut so that money is available for the much-needed program.

Enrolled members now must go away from their families to Black Mountain or at some other rehabilitation facility, but when they return, they fall back into their same life with the same bad influences.

“They are going to have to come back here, and there are still going to be those problems,” Long said.

“We can’t wait anymore. We have already buried too many people,” said enrolled member Nancy Long.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER man threatened to tase a young Cherokee girl at a football game last month, but it is unclear just who he was.

One thing is sure however, it wasn’t a Swain County Sheriff ’s deputy.

Lou Crowe, a 14-year-old enrolled member of the Eastern Band, is a Cherokee Central School students who serves as the school’s mascot — a brave — at various sporting events. On Oct. 18, she was in Swain County serving as the mascot at a football game between Swain County and Cherokee high schools.

As the second quarter was about to begin, Lou was standing behind the cheerleaders doing her thing when she got close to a man standing nearby; he then threatened her without provocation, recounted her mother Missy Crowe.

“He said, ‘Don’t make me pull my Taser out,’ and she said, ‘Whoa,’” Missy said.

Her daughter at the time thought it might have been a Swain County deputy because the man seemed to be in a position of authority, Missy said.

“She didn’t know who the person was,” she said.

According to Missy, the cheerleaders took Lou to report the incident to the cheerleading coach. Cherokee Central School’s athletic director was also later informed about what the incident.

Since Lou thought a sheriff ’s deputy might have been to blame, the Swain County Sheriff ’s Office was informed and came to interview her at school. After an internal investigation, the sheriff concluded that none of his deputies threatened Lou, but they do believe her story.

“Please don’t think I am disputing this girl’s word. It just wasn’t a Swain County Sheriff ’s deputy,” said Swain County Sheriff Curtis Cochran.

Cochran encouraged enrolled members to contact him if there is any problem with one of his deputies and lauded the office’s relationship with the tribe.

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JACOB FLANNICK SMN CORRESPONDENT undreds of high school students from across the state and beyond toured the campus of Western Carolina University last Saturday morning, trying to envision whether their next step might lead to Cullowhee in what has emerged as a crucial part of the university’s recruiting efforts.

More than 530 prospective students came to the open house — one of the most considerable turnouts the university has ever seen. That’s good news for WCU, which see campus tours as an increasingly important recruiting tool.

The rise in open house takers corresponds with rising enrollment and a rise in the freshmen retention rate.

“It is so vital for them to see who we are, what we are,” said Phil Cauley, director of student recruitment and transitions at Western Carolina.

Dozens of seemingly enthusiastic tour guides, donning purple T-shirts bearing the university logo, led small groups of students with parents in tow around campus. Guides sought to draw distinctions between their university and rivals, with Appalachian State 12

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coming up a lot, followed by UNC-Asheville.

They were full of details. One guide, speaking before a small group gathered on the campus concourse, noted that the first threepointer in college basketball history was made in the old university gymnasium.

The tone among visitors last week varied.

Most of the prospective students were high school seniors, accompanied by their parents and siblings. Some gradually eased into the new setting as the day progressed, their strides between academic buildings sometimes turning into a strut. For others, spending the overcast morning and afternoon amid presentations from instructors about academic programs, however relevant to their ambitions, might have proved tiresome.

Whatever impressions were left on visitors, the university is drawing more of them to its campus.

A record number of prospective students toured the university during its four open houses last year — nearly 2,300, a significant jump from the 1,700 who visited the previous year.

The open house push is carrying over to enrollment. Of the 1,550 who enrolled as freshmen last year, about 70 percent had vis-

At the same time, the university has raised its academic standards. Shifting its focus away from test scores as the top litmus test when picking which students to accept, admissions officers are giving more consideration to applicants’ cumulative GPA and class attendance, among other indicators like early applications and multiple campus visits. Ultimately, those things better reflect whether a student will earn a degree.

“We’re not trying to grow fast; we’re trying to grow smart,” Sam Miller, vice chancellor of student affairs, told students in the Ramsey Center in an opening speech before they toured the campus.

He reiterated a policy requiring that returning students on academic probation raise their cumulative GPA within one semester, lest they face suspension. The policy is less strict for freshmen and transfer students in their first semester.

The university also has started improving what had long remained a relatively low retention rate among freshmen, whether a result of transfers to other schools or intervals in studies. Nearly 79 percent of freshmen returned to campus this year, according to the university, up from the average 73 percent rate during the past decade. That is comparable to UNC-Asheville, which sees about 80 percent of freshmen return.

The increasing odds of freshmen coming, or returning, to campus comes amid a broadening college social scene in and around ited the campus at least once, Cauley said.

Cullowhee. There, new bars have opened durThat’s up from an average of about 60 pering the past year — albeit a couple — after cent in recent years.

Jackson County voters passed a ballot measIn September, the university announced ure lifting a countywide ban on alcohol sales. it had reached its highest enrollment in hisRecruiters acknowledge that the environs tory, slightly more than 10,000 students. of the university are an important factor in The growing curiosity surrounding the drawing interest, though they remain careful university — some 15,000 applications flowed not to mislead. into its admissions office last year, triple the “We’re trying to be truthful and accurate. average five years ago — is largely a result of a … we’re not for everybody,” Cauley, the unibroad revision to its recruiting process. versity recruitment director, said. “We’re In 2008, the university hired a marketing comfortable in our own skin.” firm to help draw more applicants, and the But for many college-bound students, reach of its recruiting efforts have since along with their parents, such a decision largely is financial.

“If it wasn’t about money, we Nearly 79 percent of freshmen know where she’d go,” Nanette Harden said of her daughter, a returned to campus this year, high school senior in Mooresville, about a half hour north of according to the university, up Charlotte, who has held out hope from the average 73 percent to study behavioral sciences at the University of Virginia. “Tuition is rate during the past decade. just outrageous” for those considering out-of-state schools.

That is comparable to UNCFor others, particularly those Asheville, which sees about 80 from urban areas, the rural nature might seem unappealing. percent of freshmen return.

“It’s kind of out of the way,” said Cecil McManus of Cary, a extended to hotel ballrooms in cities around suburb of Raleigh, who graduated from the state, including Greensboro and Raleigh. WCU in the mid-1980s.

Beyond emphasizing its widening scope But he ultimately liked it and last weekof academic programs, the university has end brought his own daughter, Brianna, a sought to underscore other components that high school senior, to the open house. She have helped raise its prestige. Among them had already made up her mind, deciding is its marching band, Pride of the during her visit to campus that she would Mountains, which university officials at the come to the university to study music. open house noted is expected to appear this “I think I’ll fit in here,” she said, noting year in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade that she already was admitted to the univerin New York City. sity.

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A public input meeting on land-use planning in Cullowhee will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, at Cullowhee Valley School. It will begin with an informal question-and-answer session followed by a formal presentation and audience comments.

People can also submit comments online. A website on the Cullowhee landuse planning initiative allows people to follow the process, including minutes of task force meetings.

Find a link to it from the Jackson County planning department web site, or go directly to sites.google.com/a/jacksonnc.org/cullowhee-community-planningadvisory-committee/home. 828.631.2255.

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“The charge of the task force was first to determine whether the task force should exist and then if it should move forward,” Baker said.

Members of the task force informally surveyed people they knew or ran into around Cullowhee to gauge support for the process.

They found people overwhelmingly favor land-use planning, Baker said.

So the task force voted last month to move

forward. One task force member has already emerged as a dissenter and critic, however, voicing opposition to the task force’s direction and penning a letter to the editor in newspapers denouncing the process.

Baker hopes a general vision and a set of guiding principles for Cullowhee can be finished by the end of summer and sent to county commissioners for endorsement.

“Whether they choose to adopt it is their decision,” Baker said.

Then a specific development ordinance may be drafted, a much more involved and technical process.

Cullowhee is not a town, and thus it is up to county commissioners whether development guidelines — or an ordinance — are enacted in the community. Jackson County has two other districts that have land-use planning guidelines: Cashiers and the U.S. 441 corridor leading to Cherokee.

WHY CULLOWHEE? Cullowhee has multiple personalities.

First and foremost, it’s a college town dominated by Western Carolina University. It’s a rural outpost with an outdoorsy undercurrent. It shares the same retiree element as the rest of the mountains.

But it’s also just a place where more and more people are choosing to live.

“Cullowhee is a great place to live, and it is

finding that balance between growth that is happening in Cullowhee,” said Baker, the dean of Career Technologies at Southwestern Community College.

Baker and his wife are long-time residents of Cullowhee and are now raising their own children there.

Protecting the quality of life for the runof-the-mill residents of Cullowhee was what motivated Bennett to volunteer for the task force.

“I want to help my community and make it better,” Bennett said. “We need community based planning to make it better.”

Growth catering to college students has been significant in the past few years: giant student apartment complexes, coffee shops, package stores peddling beer and new nightlife spots.

“We’ve had a phenomenal bout of growth in the past two or three or four years,” Bennett said. He lamented, however, that there wasn’t more cooperation and foresight until now.

Land-use planning isn’t just about imposing rules on what commercial development has to look like. It’s also about making sure there’s commuter bike paths, sidewalks and adequate roads for residents and off-campus students to get around safely.

“We have apartment complexes all over the plac,e but we have no sidewalks, and we have narrow roads,” Bennett said.

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“The folks in Cullowhee really need to be heard,” said Scott Baker, chair of the task force. “We want to hear what people’s thoughts are, to voice their opinions on planning in Cullowhee and what they would like to see.”

The planning process could ultimately lead to development regulations — like capping the height of apartment complexes, banning neon lights on bars or requiring developers to build sidewalks.

But for now, the first step for the task force is merely coming up with a general vision and guiding principles for what residents want Cullowhee to look and feel like.

“There are a whole lot of residents out there in Cullowhee who have ideas about what they would like to see Cullowhee become. Here is a venue for them to share their thoughts with us,” said Rick Bennett, another task force member and long-time Cullowhee resident.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER Four months after he was injured in a staged Old West gunshow, a former Ghost Town in the Sky gunfighter said he is waiting for someone to thoroughly investigate the incident, which he believes was foul play.

Robert Bradley, a.k.a. the Apache Kid, was a gunfighter at Ghost Town for years before the Maggie Valley amusement park went belly up. He returned to the job when current owner Alaska Presley reopened Ghost Town.

Presley bought the shuttered park out of bankruptcy and foreclosure in 2012 and has worked to revive since.

After running into several problems — including burst water pipes, vandalism and failed state safety inspections — Ghost Town had started to gain some positive momentum.

In July, however, the 69-year-old veteran gunfighter Bradley was injured during one of Ghost Town’s famous gunfights.

During the production, Bradley is “shot” by an enemy carrying a shotgun and falls backward, dead. In reality, a blank is fired in his direction and Bradley feigns injury.

But that time, something actually hit Bradley in the right thigh and just missed his femoral artery. At the time of the incident, Bradley was able to lie out of view of the spectators until the show ended and his coworkers could call help.

Everyone discounted the injury as a freak accident. However, Bradley now has repeatedly said that he doesn’t think it was accidental. He doesn’t blame the fellow gunfighter who actually fired the shotgun, saying he trusts the man.

Bradley has his own ideas of what happened and who is responsible, but he doesn’t have proof.

Presley stated that Bradley’s assertion that it was intentional is preposterous.

“There is no truth in it,” Presley said. “I can certainly say that.”

For Presley, there are only two options.

An X-ray shows something lodged in Robert Bradley’s leg, but it is unclear what exactly it is. Caitlin Bowling photo “It was self-inflicted or else an accident. I don’t know which,” Presley said. “I can’t prove either one at this point.”

What can be said, however, is that something remains in Bradley’s leg. An X-ray shows a small round object of a similar density as bone lodged in his right thigh.

“It had to be something big, something heavy,” Bradley said.

Doctors knew the object was in Bradley’s leg still but did not want to move it since it is so close to his femoral artery; they might do more damage than good by trying to get it out.

According to Bradley, the object is some type of metal. In his opinion, it is definitely a bullet — a bullet that someone placed in the shotgun without the other gunfighter’s knowledge to intentionally harm him.

“There had been people there that I had been arguing with,” Bradley said.

The police interviewed Bradley for the first time last week after he spoke with the police chief about his theory. Bradley said he hopes the police will investigate the incident further.

“I have waited for four months for somebody to listen to my side of the story,” Bradley said.

Although Bradley said the case was not

being investigated, Maggie Valley Police Chief Scott Sutton said the case was never closed.

“It’s been an open investigation the whole time,” Sutton said.

The Maggie Valley Police Department investigation has moved in tandem with an inquiry by the N.C. Department of Labor into safety concerns at Ghost Town. The state received a complaint, claiming that no one trained in first aid was present at the park at the time of the injury and running water was not available for people to wash blood from Bradley’s injury off their hands.

The two entities have even staged reenactments of the shooting multiple times up.

Presley has refuted the complaint and thinks the report will find no safety violations.

“I am sure I already know what the results are,” she said.

As far as the police investigation goes, it was hindered from the get-go. Bradley’s injury came in as a medical emergency call, not a police call, so officers did not talk to spectators and get witness statements. The tourists who were there watching the gunfight are now gone.

The doctors at the hospital also threw away flecks of material pulled from Bradley’s wound, meaning police could not examine it as evidence in their investigation. Even if there is a bullet lodged in Bradley’s leg, that fact alone is not enough proof to convict anyone of a crime.

“We have to prove criminal intent,” Sutton said.

Presley said she has tried to ignore the rumors swirling around about how she allegedly treated Bradley and other gunfighters.

“The best thing for me to do is let it run its course, and let the truth come out,” she said.

Interestingly enough, both Presley and Bradley stated that they only want what is best for Ghost Town and have worked hard to make the park succeed only to see others demean their work.

“They would not be knocking it like they are if they cared about the people of Haywood County and Ghost Town,” Presley said. “All they are doing is doing all they can to hurt the mountain.”

“Everything I was doing to build it up. I watched her tear it down,” Bradley said.

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Gunfighter sues to retrieve Ghost Town memorabilia Former Ghost Town in the Sky gunfighter Robert Bradley, who stopped working at the amusement park in Maggie Valley after getting injured on the job, has sued owner Alaska Presley.

Bradley is trying to recover memorabilia that he claims is his from the Ghost Town museum.

The museum is one of the newly created attractions added after Presley purchased the thenshuttered amusement park on the courthouse steps last year. It features photos and other knick-knacks from Ghost Town’s storied past.

Specifically, Bradley has asked for 150 black and white photos enlarged and mounted on foam board, eight prints of paintings by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, a

Town a couple days after he was fired —Presley contends that he quit — to clean out his office. Then, he was planning to head to the museum to collect his belonging, which are on display there. However, Bradley said he was told by Presley said he would have to sue her before he could get the items back.

Meanwhile, Presley has asserted that the items in the museum are the property of Ghost Town and therefore not Bradley’s for the taking.

“They belong to Ghost Town. I don’t Robert Bradley, a former gunfighter at Ghost Town in the think they belong to him,” Presley said.

Sky amusement park in Maggie Valley, relaxes on his According to Presley, the photos couch. He hasn’t worked since his injury. Caitlin Bowling photo in particular have resided at Ghost Town for many years, even before she mounted steer skull with long horns and a reopened the park. mounted Dall Sheep rams’ head — all of “I don’t know why he wants them now,” which he valued at $4,800. she said.

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Community help needed to save education

’ve heard all the speeches and read all the legislative fantasies, and I’m still not satisfied with what I’ve heard about the state of the schools. The stories don’t match.

One question I cannot get the answer to is this: is the figure used by the state legislature for school budget before or after the reversion monies? When did the reversions start? Why? Since 2008, it has been one attack after another on schools and teachers. Teachers lost the right to payroll deduction for NCAE dues (we are not a union state. North Carolina Association of Educators is a protective group to assist teachers when they needed help against unfair practices, legal assistance and answers, group insurance, etc.). No teacher raises.

Constant attacks against classrooms.Cutting the teacher-student ratios. Doing away with teacher assistants.

But nothing beats the cuts this year. Staff development, instructional supply money, textbook money, money to repair and replace school buses, changes in all formulas related to school support hit the fans. If it hadn’t been for the Macon County commissioners, who this year are paying approximately 20 percent of the overall school budget, our schools would not be able to function with safety, security and keeping the goal of the best education in front. Just think: Our county property taxes are being used to support schools when it is the constitutional duty of the North Carolina Legislature to provide a free, quality, appropriate education for the state’s students.

To furnish this education, the state must follow state and federal guidelines. Instead of doing this, they seem to rewrite

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Enough of unbridled growth in Cullowhee To the Editor: Cullowhee is the fastest growing community in Jackson County. After several years of effort and well-attended community meetings sponsored by CuRvE (Cullowhee Revitalization Endeavor), the Jackson County Commissioners wisely established the Cullowhee Community Planning Advisory Council. Mike Clark, whose letters appeared in the Sylva Herald and The Smoky Mountain News last week, is a member of the Council.

On Nov. 5, the Council, along with the County Planning Department, sponsored a meeting for the community to participate in developing a vision for Cullowhee. This meeting was widely advertised, open to the public and well-attended. Once again, the community showed its support for planning to help Cullowhee reach its potential to become a beautiful town that takes advantage of its surrounding natural resources.

As Mr. Clark says in his letter, historically, the community has been opposed to zoning.

But today is not yesterday. We need to move beyond past history and help Cullowhee become a livable town where residents, businesses and the university co-exist in what could be the most beautiful town in the state.

Just imagine the Old Cullowhee Road business district with a river park, a greenway, a new bridge with bike paths, sidewalks and street lamps guiding pedestrians from the campus

the rules (without constitutional change) which denies all our students an appropriate education. By denying teacher tenure (which was instituted to provide teachers recourse when treated unfairly), pay for higher degrees (which is better — a newby in the classroom or a teacher who has developed advanced classroom teaching skills through years, constant study and classroom practice?), our students are falling behind. Because there has been little regard for the profession of teaching, the learning processes and difficulties for individual students, outof-date technology and practices due to the gradual loss of funds over many years, our state has gone from close to $9,000 per student to just over $5,000 per pupil. Almost all our local allotments have been cut.

The cumulative effect from these gradual declines in expenditure and reversions of school money has reached a saturation point. The school board is struggling to maintain daily functions with no cushion. The principals have difficulty furnishing education with few supplies, no choices about how to do the job, even to maintaining positive outcomes for all students.

Teachers, at the bottom of the stack, started the year after being hit with this throughout the last year and summer, the grinding away of their safety and job security, almost with a hopeless, helpless fear. That fear has become truth as the year progresses; and, it is present in all levels.

Parents, community and business must get involved if we are to save our schools. Band programs have been slashed.

Even athletics are being affected. As always, parents and teach-

to the downtown. Just imagine student apartments and well-maintained mobile home parks with good roads and safe access for emergency vehicles. Just imagine residential areas with homes that are not devalued by unbridled development.

I agree with Mr. Clark that we should contact our county commissioners. The best thing property owners and residents can do right now is to let them know we have had enough of unbridled development, and the time has long since passed for smart growth and planning. You can find contact information for all the county commissioners at this link: www.jacksonnc.org/countycommisioners.html For information on the Planning Council: www.sites.google.com/a/jacksonnc.org/cullowhee-communityplanning-advisory-committee/home Mary Jean Herzog Chair, CuRvE Cullowhee

Planning in Cullowhee is a community effort To the Editor: I attended last week’s open forum sponsored by the newly formed Cullowhee community planning group where local citizens are discussing and considering our community’s growth. In the face of record university enrollment and multiple apartment construction, a head-in-the-sand approach is of no benefit to

A Parent-Teacher-Community Education Forum: A Reality Check – The State of our Schools • When? Thursday, Nov. 14 6-8:30 p.m.

• Where? Franklin High School Fine Arts Center • Why? To ask for your help

ers are asked to make up the difference. How, when there are no extra funds? I’m told this year 65 percent of our students qualify for free or reduced lunch. How many of those children are teacher’s own children?

For more information, ask questions and learn how you can get involved. Start by attending the Education Forum Reality Check on Thursday, Nov. 14, at the FHS Fine Arts Center from 6 to 8:30 p.m. hosted by the League of Women Voters and MCDP. Classroom teachers, principals and the superintendent will speak and take questions. Schools need YOU, and you need to know what is happening before it is too late. Check with your principals and school superintendent and let us work together on turning this situation around before too many students are affected beyond hope. Volunteers are need; school supplies are needed; ideas are needed. You are needed!

Joan Maki, Retired Teacher Franklin

anyone. Each of these new students and each of these new buildings require roads, parking, water, and sewer, not to mention amenities like additional sidewalks, bikepaths, and recreation areas. This growth, although welcome, impacts our county’s infrastructure.

This effort at community-based planning is a long time in coming. For over two years, Cullowhee Revitalization Endeavor hosted open meetings where citizens overwhelmingly voted to ask county commissioners to establish a planning council, similar to one formed in Cashiers. This process has begun with the formation of a formalized planning group and the appointment of citizens who represent a wide range of viewpoints.

In light of the progress made, it was particularly disappointing to read Mike Clark’s letter to the editor in last week’s paper. After all, Clark is one of those who serves on the planning group, but his letter appears to negate any interest in planning whatsoever. He raises a call of alarm, citing “ordinances, regulations, fees, fines and new taxes,” and warns against a “roomful of people who think they just have to control the property rights of others.”

Come on, Mr. Clark, aren’t you one of the people in the room? With such opposition, how can you hope to contribute to a process you appear to detest?

I only hope that other residents who are serving their community on the planning group are more open minded. As I said at the start of this letter, Western Carolina University seems poised for growth. Just as you would not accept more students without

instructors to teach them, our county cannot encourage growth without planning (and building) the infrastructure necessary to accommodate them.

Anna Fariello Cullowhee

Cullowhee planning will help community To the Editor: As a retort to the concerned citizen who wrote a letter to the editor about the intent of the Cullowhee planning committee to supposedly steal the property rights and money of the people of Cullowhee, I would like to inform you that there is no such conspiracy. In fact, it was not the county planner who suddenly decided to start a planning effort within Cullowhee; it was a coalition of property owners who decided they had enough of having the views from their houses destroyed by yet another apartment complex.

They were tired of the lack of community and cohesiveness in Cullowhee and having a downtrodden “downtown” on Old Cullowhee Road. They were tired of not being able to walk or bike along the back roads around Cullowhee without the threat of being hit by a car due to lack of sidewalks, something which has already happened several times on Ledbetter Road. These are the things that the

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Improving patient care is priority he last couple of weeks have been filled TRegional with a lot of news about Haywood Medical Center and its potential partnership with Duke LifePoint Healthcare.

Understandably, many people in the communities served by this hospital have questions about the proposed partnership with Duke LifePoint and what this means to everyone who relies on the hospital for quality health care services close to home.

The process for exploring this potential partnership is just beginning, and we have a lot of work to do to learn more about one another and examine how we can best work together.

While we are not able to provide specific information about our proposal at this stage, we can share some information about Duke LifePoint and why we are interested in acquiring Haywood Regional Medical Center.

Duke LifePoint works with community hospitals to strengthen their ability to provide the best possible health care to meet the needs of their communities. We provide support and resources to help these hospitals weather the changing healthcare environment, expand the services they provide, recruit new physicians to their facilities, offer new opportunities for their employees and find better ways to serve their communities. We make long-term investments of capital and other resources to help our hospitals succeed, and we are focused on keeping care local. We strive to give our hospitals’

LETTERS, CONTINUED FROM P. 15 Cullowhee planning effort is meant to address. It is to benefit the property owners and residents of Cullowhee instead of the wealthy developers that would build where ever they wish and decimate the property values of adjacent home owners.

As of now, without any zoning in the Cullowhee area, it would be completely possible for, say, an asphalt plant to be plopped down right next to your home.

And finally, you say that we have some of the most stringent county ordinances and regulations in the state? Obviously you have never been to Raleigh, Chapel Hill or Charlotte and their surrounding areas. There you couldn’t find a smidgeon of wiggle room

employees outstanding opportunities for professional and personal growth.

We recognize the importance of collaborating with local and regional providers for the best possible outcomes for our patients.

Improving the quality care provided within each of our communities is our top priority.

We also pride ourselves on being a good community partner. We have maintained or increased charity care levels at every hospital with which we have partnered, and we work to support important community causes.

Duke LifePoint chose to submit a proposal to acquire Haywood Regional Medical Center because we believe that this hospital has tremendous promise. We like that its communities are committed to the hospital’s success, and we see great opportunity to strengthen the hospital for the future.

The Duke LifePoint team is very excited at the prospect of being part of Haywood Regional and the hospital’s communities.

We look forward to getting to know you all in the weeks to come and hope that you are looking forward to getting to know us. We believe that, together, we can make a big difference, and we are eager to move forward with next steps.

Willaim F. Carpenter Chief Executive Officer LifePoint Hospitals William J. Fulkerson Jr., M.D. Executive Vice President Duke University Health System for developing your property or doing what you wished with it.

In contrast, our county, similar to most other mountain counties in North Carolina, has some of the least stringent standards and fewest zoning laws in the state. And it is this lack of standards and ordinances that has led to uncontrollable and damaging (environmentally, socially, and economically) growth in rural areas like Cullowhee.

So please, instead of spurting knocked up conspiracy theories designed to inspire fear in the citizens of Jackson County, think about how the Cullowhee planning effort might actually benefit you and the community.

Anja Nothdurft Cullowhee

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

Enjoy world famous hot dogs as well as burgers, seafood, hushpuppies, hot wings and chicken. Be sure to save room for dessert.

The cobbler, pie and cake selections are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.

ANTHONY WAYNE’S 37 Church St, Waynesville. 828.456.6789.

Open for lunch Monday-Friday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; open for dinner Thursday-Saturday 5 to 9 p.m.; and Sunday brunch 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Exceptional, new-American cuisine, offering several gluten free items.

BLUE ROOSTER SOUTHERN GRILL 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, Lakeside Plaza at the old Wal-Mart. 828.456.1997. Friendly and fun family atmosphere. Local, handmade Southern cuisine. Fresh-cut salads; slowsimmered soups; flame grilled burgers and

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Blue-plates and local fresh vegetables daily.

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

BOGART’S 35 East Main St., Sylva. 828.586.6532.

Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Serving classic American food and drink in a casual environment. Daily lunch and dinner specials. Children’s menu available.

Call for catering quotes. Private room available for large parties. Accepts MC/Visa, Discover and American Express.

BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Dinner nightly from 4 p.m.

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

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 to 9:30 am – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes, and always all-you-can-eat. Lunch every day from 11:30 till 2. Evening cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays (weather permitting), featuring steaks, ribs, chicken, and pork chops, to name a few. Bountiful family-style dinners on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with entrees that include prime rib, baked ham and herbbaked chicken, complemented by seasonal vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts. We also offer a fine selection of wine and beer. The evening social hour starts at 6pm, and dinner is served starting at 7pm. So join us for mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Please call for reservations.

BREAKING BREAD CAFÉ 6147 Hwy 276 S. Bethel (at the Mobil Gas Station) 828.648.3838 Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (takeout only 5 to 6 p.m.) Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Serving

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

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Monday-Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Join us in our historic location for scratch made soups and daily specials.

Breakfast is made to order daily: Gourmet cheddar & scallion biscuits served with bacon, sausage and eggs; smoked trout bagel plate; quiche and fresh fruit parfait.

We bake a wide variety of breads daily, specializing in traditional french breads. All of our breads are hand shaped. Lunch: Fresh salads, panini sandwiches. Enjoy outdoor dinning on the deck. Private room available for meetings.

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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.

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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.

CORK & CLEAVER 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

828.456.7179. Reservations recommended. 4:30-9 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Tucked away inside Waynesville Inn, Cork & Cleaver has an approachable menu designed around locally sourced, sustainable, farm-to-table ingredients. Executive Chef Corey Green prepares innovative and unique Southern fare from local, organic vegetables grown in Western North Carolina. Full bar and wine cellar. www.waynesvilleinn.com.

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

828.926.1820 Open Daily 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., closed Tuesday. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet. Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service.

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

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

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

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

FROGS LEAP PUBLIC HOUSE 44 Church St. Downtown Waynesville 828.456.1930 Serving lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Sunday lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mondays. Frogs Leap is a farm to table restaurant focused on local, sustainable, natural and organic products prepared in modern regional dishes. Seasonal menu focuses on Southern comfort foods with upscale flavors. Come for the restaurant’s 4 @ 4 when you can choose a center and three sides at special prices. Offered WedFri. from 4 to 6. frogsleappublichouse.org.

GUADALUPE CAFÉ 606 W. Main Street, Sylva. 828.586.9877.

Open 7 days a week at 5 p.m. Located in the historic Hooper’s Drugstore, Guadalupe Café is a chef-owned and operated restaurant serving Caribbean inspired fare complimented by a quirky selection of wines and microbrews. Supporting local farmers of organic produce, livestock, hand-crafted cheese, and using sustainably harvested seafood.

HERREN HOUSE 94 East St., Waynesville 828.452.7837.

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

Enjoy fresh local products, created daily.

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

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

Lunch 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.

Winter hours; Friday through Sunday and Mondays, 7 a.m. to noon. 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 pan-

tasteTHEmountains cakes, golden waffles, country style cured ham and seasonal specials spiked with flavor, Joey's is sure to please all appetites. Joey & Brenda O’Keefe invite you to join what has become a tradition in these parts, breakfast at Joey’s.

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

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

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

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

LUCIO'S RESTAURANT 313 Highlands Road, Franklin.

828.369.6670. Serving Macon County since 1984. Closed Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

Lunch Wednesday-Friday 11:30 a.m. until.Dinner Wednesday-Saturday 5 p.m. until. Owned and operated by Tanya and Dorothy Gamboni. Serving authentic Italian and continental cuisine including appetizers, pastas, poultry, veal, seafood, steaks and homemade deserts. Selection of wine and beer. Lunch and Dinner menus. Wednesday and Thursday nights only. 1 appetizer and 2 selected entrées with unlimited salad and Lucio’s famous garlic rolls for $24.95.

Winter Special: half-off house wines, Friday and Saturday only. luciosnc.com

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

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

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

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

828.497.4590. Open 7 a.m. daily.

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

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

PASQUALINO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 25 Everett Street, Bryson City.

828.488.9555. Open for lunch and dinner everyday 11:30 a.m.-late. A taste of Italy in beautiful Bryson City. Exceptional pasta, pizza, homemade soups, salads. Fine wine, mixed drinks and beer selection. Casual atmosphere, reservations appreciated.

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.

SOUL INFUSION TEA HOUSE & BISTRO 628 E. Main St. (between Sylva Tire & UPS).

828.586.1717. Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday noon -until. Scrumptious, natural, fresh soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps and desserts. 60+ teas served hot or cold, black, chai, herbal. Seasonal and rotating draft beers, good selection of wine.

Home-Grown Music Network Venue with live music most weekends.

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

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

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

THE WINE BAR 20 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

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

VITO’S PIZZA 607 Highlands Rd., Franklin.

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

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

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

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

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The Cataloochee Ranch frequently offers a “dinner and a show” at their location in Maggie Valley for locals and visitors alike (above).

Bluegrass legend Peter Rowan (left, with guitar) was the special guest performer last week. Garret K. Woodward photo

Appalachia comes to life, through food and music

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER xiting your vehicle at Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley, a cold, late fall wind hits you in the face like a frying pan. Standing atop the 5,000-foot mountain retreat, the vastness and endless beauty of Western North Carolina lies below.

Heading towards the main building, you reach for the doorknob and enter eagerly. Soon, your body, mind and soul thaw Billie Smith to the sounds of friends, strangers and old-time string music.

“It’s just a different feeling up here; everybody is excited to be part of this,” said Billie Smith, event planner at Cataloochee. “We really open our arms to local musicians and folks from everywhere to come and join in.”

Celebrating their 75th year of operation on its current location, the ranch was created by “Mr. Tom” and “Miss Judy” Alexander. It has become as much of a beloved piece of Southern Appalachian history as the mountains it resides upon. Besides offering guest lodging and outdoor activities, Cataloochee has become a wordof-mouth destination during the years for the “real deal” when it comes to live old-time string music and gut-busting meals to boot.

“We like to offer people the full experience,” said Mary Coker, general manager and granddaughter of the ranch’s founders.” “People don’t just come for dinner and leave. They sit down

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and enjoy themselves, and this is our chance to be able to show off the great entertainment and atmosphere we provide for our customers.”

The Coker family has been a strong advocate for bringing quality music in to compliment the irreplaceable culture of their ranch. It’s a history that only seems to get stronger with age. And the evening’s special guest performer is legendary singer/songwriter Peter Rowan.

“Come up and see us, Mary Coker and you’ll see what we’re all about,” she said.

“Whether it’s the beauty of the mountains or the beauty of the music, we love to welcome in and show people our home.”

SIT BACK, RELAX But, before any hungry hands can reach for their culinary desires, an informal cocktail hour emerges. Handfuls of curious people, close to 100 total, trickle into the robust structure that was once a sheep barn, each wandering the space and interacting with friends and strangers alike.

Leaning against a nearby timber wall, Jamie Shackelford and her husband, Ruffin, are longtime attendees to the musical dinners, as well as being neighbors “down the hill” to the ranch.

“It’s truly a family atmosphere here. It’s just so nice to eat a meal, listen to some music and hang out, spending time with people from all

over. I feel like I’m at home when I’m here,” Jamie said.

Jamie points out how her in-laws have been coming to Cataloochee since the late 1950s.

“There’s a long history here of stories, histories of deep relationships and friendships that last a lifetime,” she said.

“Everything you look at and see around here is history, and it’s a living history with the family that runs it, the music that’s played here,” Ruffin added. “If you want an opportunity for something deeper, richer than something just put on for tourists, then come up here, enjoy the family and what they do — it’s the ‘Real McCoy.’” And just like the license plates in the parking lot, the folks inside are from states around the South and beyond. Sitting on chairs and couches in front of the grand fireplace is Barbara and Ralph Ross, locals who reside in Jonathan Creek.

They tend to find themselves at Cataloochee often, soaking in the Appalachian music and culture.

“This place has that rustic, country feel to it,” Barbara smiled. “You sit by the fireplace and get to know your neighbor, carry on a conversation, and that’s what goes on here.”

The Rosses are headlong into a chat with Ronald and Judy Suberman, who are sitting on the adjacent couch. The couple is visiting from Florida. Though they’ve visited Western North

Carolina a handful of times before, this is their first trip to Cataloochee.

“I read about Cataloochee in a book and decided to come up here,” Ronald said. “We were looking for a ranch up in the mountains.

The altitude, mountain spaces and wide-open spaces are great. We like exploring Western North Carolina, and this is a good place to start out from.”

While patrons get cozy within the ranch, banjoist William Ritter is strolling the building, playing old-time and bluegrass standards for groups of folks. Ritter is currently pursuing a graduate program in “Appalachian Studies” at Appalachian State University.

“This location fits my music perfectly. It’s pretty relaxed, and you can really interact with audience,” he said. “They’ll ask you questions, and you can talk about the music.”

That intimacy is something Ritter cherishes.

Appalachian music began around the fireplaces, front porches and gathering spots of this region, with Cataloochee a prime spot to perpetuate and preserve these beloved traditions.

“This music gives people a sense of place, and there’s a real connection to place in the songs,” he said. “It’s great to be able to play music and tell stories to the audience about their ancestors

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Editor’s Note: The DuPont Brothers (www.dupontbrothersmusic.com), Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy (www.shonnatucker.net), Benny Yurco & Revealers (www.bennyyurco), and Peter Rowan (www.peter-rowan.com) have all released new records. As well, for more information on upcoming concerts in the region, go to our “On the Beat” section, which include dates, briefs and music features.

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My ears are still ringing.

From Nov. 1-5, I went and saw nine bands. Yep, that’s nine acts in the matter of five days. It was a musical odyssey, to say the least. If there ever were evidence of my obsession for sound and performance, ideal for my mother to give me that signature puzzled look, you’d find it following me around these last several days.

As long as I can remember, I’ve been a slave to the groove, someone who will drop everything at a moment’s notice if a secret show gets announced or an extra ticket bubbles to the surface. To my mother’s dismay, I would take off every weekend in high school and disappear for days in college, heading for the horizon line of unknown melodic endeavors. Music, then, and even more so now, just makes sense to me, perhaps the only thing that makes sense The DuPont Brothers. to me. It’s the universal lanGarret K. Woodward photo guage, where a live show brings together a room of strangers for an experience, immersed in an energy bigger than themselves.

It all started Nov. 1 in Waynesville. I had booked a show at The Classic The Nantahala Brewing Company “Bottle Launch Wineseller for my friends Party” will be Nov. 22 in Bryson City. from home (near Burlington, Vt.), The Dupont Brothers.

Though a somewhat new Jazz-fusion sensation the Jeff Sipe Trio plays No ensemble, the Name Sports Pub in Sylva on Nov. 14. acoustic/Americana roots duo is pretty well known around New England. It was CaroMia Tiller will perform Nov. 15 at The Classic a pleasure to have them stay Wineseller in Waynesville. at my place, plucking their guitars on my porch as the late fall Appalachia sun Old-time string/rock-a-billy group Strung Like A trickled through the Horse plays the Water’n Hole Bar in Grill in remaining foliage. Their Waynesville on Nov. 22. show was an intimate, enjoyable affair, filled with “Back to the Future” will be screened Nov. 15-16 Haywood County friends at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. and out-of-town visitors.

I wandered down to the Water’n Hole Bar and Grill on North Main Street after the Duponts fin- ble into a professional ensemble that’s truly evolving into a road-worthy, boogie-onished. Eastern Tennesee rock-a-billies Humps & The Blackouts were headlong into down stage act.

A crisp breeze floated through Leicester another raucous set of outlaw backwoods during the “Asheville Barnaroo” Saturday string music. Over the last year, they have afternoon. Held on an organic farm tucked morphed from a ragtag band of dudes who deep into a holler, the small festival brings just play their instruments as fast as possi-

bluegrass boys stood proudly at the ranch, their voices and notes wrapped around the audience like a warm blanket as a cold wind outside lapped against the windows.

It was a surreal week of music, one filled with friends, new and old, as I was recharged from endless hours of onstage beauty. I guess the point of all of this rambling is to express how special Western North Carolina really is when it comes to music. You honestly can’t throw a rock without hitting someone who plays an instrument in these parts.

With that said, I encourage you to seek out live performance for yourself. Go to Waynesville or Sylva, Bryson City or Franklin, Maggie Valley or Cherokee, downtown Asheville and points beyond. It’s all out there, ready to be seen and heard, ready to be tapped into by loyal listeners and the curious alike.

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together up-and-coming groups from the region amid bonfires, sustainable food trucks and artisan crafters. Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy headlined the event. Featuring bassist Tucker and pedal-steel player John Neff, both formerly of the Drive-By Truckers, the southern rockers blend together Texas swing and old-time country with a dash of pop flair.

Indie-rockers Dr. Dog rolled into The Orange Peel in downtown Asheville Sunday evening. The hipster, nerd-rock band can play as loud and as appealing as any rock or pop group on the national scene today. But, my focus fell upon the opener, Benny Yurco and The Revealers, whose stage presence and tone was captivating. By day, Yurco is the coguitarist for rock rebels Grace Potter & The Nocturnals. By night, he’s tinkering away at solo projects, with this one taking on a more reggae/Lo-Fi feel to it — think The Beach Boys meets Elvis Costello meets California dub. Nice mix, right? And, the best part is it translates perfectly onstage.

The final chapter of the odyssey fell into the lyrical magic and physical aura of Peter Rowan. The legendary singer/songwriter played two nights in Western North Carolina — Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley and Isis Restaurant and Music Hall in West Asheville. Alongside renowned Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo, Rowan and his

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On the beat • Jazz-fusion legend Jeff Sipe Trio, Steve Tombstone & Buck Thrailkill, Moonshine Jam, and Strung Like A Horse will perform at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. Sipe will perform Nov. 14, Tombstone & Thrailkill Nov. 15, Moonshine Jam Nov. 16 and Strung Like A Horse Nov. 21. All shows are free and begin at 9 p.m.

828.586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

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• Conservative Theory and Nitro Dance DJ Party tap into Frog Level Brewing Company in Waynesville. Conservative Theory will play Nov. 12, with Nitro Dance DJ Party Nov. 16.

Ben Wilson performs Nov. 22, with the Wilhem Brothers Nov. 23. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. 828.454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Bluegrass/gospel group Mountain Faith will perform at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Historic Cowee School. $12. www.coweeschool.org.

• Old-time string/rock-a-billy group Strung Like A Horse hits the stage at 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at the Water’n Hole Bar and Grill in Waynesville. 828.456.4750.

• Guitarist Jay Brown and pianist Joe Cruz will perform at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. Brown plays Nov. 15, with Cruz Nov. 16 and 23. Guitarist Stuart McNair performs Nov. 22. All shows begin at 7 p.m. $10 minimum purchase. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

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Country star Rodney Atkins will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center.

Atkins has had six No. 1 hits on his first three albums, from “Watching You” and “These Are My People” to his most recent successes, “Take A Back Road” and the platinum selling “Farmer’s Daughter.” Though his new crop of songs has some edge, and the vocal energy may be amped up a notch, Atkins’s persona as a hard-working, patriotic, rock-solid country boy hasn’t changed from his 2003 debut “Honesty.”

Tickets are $24.50, $34.50 and $44.50.

800.745.3000 or www.harrahscherokee.com.

Bluegrass star Rhonda Vincent will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Vincent began her professional music career at the age of five, playing drums with her family’s band, the Sally Mountain Show.

She picked up the mandolin at age 8 and the fiddle at 10, performing with the family band at festivals. Vincent has been nominated for multiple International Bluegrass Music Association awards IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year award three years-in-a-row.

Tickets are $15 and $18.

866.273.4615 or www.greatmountainmusic.com.

Singer/songwriter Keith Shuler will tell stories and sing songs about people and places in and around Jackson County at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Jackson County Public Library Complex in Sylva.

Shuler plays and writes in a variety of styles from old mountain and bluegrass songs on the acoustic and slide guitar, to folk, blues and rock tunes. His audiences are treated to his finger picking, claw-hammer style of guitar playing. He also enjoys playing a two-finger style banjo.

The event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library.

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• Jenn & Basho and Divergent will play City Lights Café in Sylva. Jenn & Basho perform Nov. 14, with Divergent Nov. 16. Wyatt Espalin will also play Nov. 22. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 828.587.2233 or www.citylightscafe.com.

Tickets are now available for iconic rockers REO Speedwagon and pop star Robin Thicke who will perform at Harrah’s Cherokee.

REO Speedwagon plays at 9 p.m. Feb. 14, with Thicke at 8 p.m. Feb. 25.

Formed in 1967, signed in 1971, and fronted by iconic vocalist Kevin Cronin since 1972, REO Speedwagon is a band whose career will always carry on with music that continues to define excellence in song craftsmanship and brilliant live performance for several generations of fans. Tickets are $40, $55 and $65.

Born in Los Angeles, Thicke taught himself to play piano at the age of 12 and by 16 was writing and producing songs for artists like Brandy, Color Me Badd and Brian McKnight. By the age of 21, he had written and produced songs on more than 20 gold and platinum albums, including Michael Jackson, Marc Anthony, P!nk, Christina Aguilera and others. He’s world-renowned for his hits “Give It 2 U,” “Lost Without U,” “Magic” and seminal summer 2013 anthem “Blurred Lines.” Tickets are $39.50, $40 and $49.50.

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The School of Music at Western Carolina University will present a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Coulter Building in Cullowhee.

The event will feature clarinetist Shannon Thompson and pianist Andrew Adams in a performance titled “Borrowed Beauties.” The concert opens with Max Bruch’s “Swedish Dances,” a set of 15 dances based on Swedish folk songs originally composed for violin and piano, which were modeled after Brahms’ Hungarian dances.

The dances are followed by the last of several four-hand piano duos that Mozart composed for his enjoyment with family and friends, Sonata, K. 521. The final piece is Pablo de Sarasate’s “Carmen Fantasy,” a virtuosic fantasy originally for violin and piano and based on themes from Bizet’s opera. Thompson and Adams will interpret the pieces on clarinet and piano.

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Western Carolina University’s Low Tech Ensemble will perform a concert of Indonesian gamelan music at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 20, at the Coulter Building in Cullowhee.

The concert will feature a program of traditional music played on a Central Javanese slendro gamelan. Most of the gamelan instruments are made of iron. They’re either metallophones,

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The Western Carolina University Jazz Ensemble will perform with guest vocalist Rockell Scott at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, at the Coulter Building in Cullowhee.

The ensemble, a 19-piece group under the direction of Pavel Wlosok of the WCU music faculty, will present an evening of jazz big band instrumental and vocal repertoire filled with various styles of jazz, including swing, ballad, Latin, modal and funk.

Guest vocalist Scott recently performed for three nights with famous jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and his quartet in New York City. The program will include “Do Nothin’ till You Hear from Me” by Duke Ellington, “Maiden Voyage” by Herbie Hancock, “Love Is Here to Stay” by George Gershwin, “Perdido” by Juan Tizol and many others.

The concert is sponsored by the WCU School of Music.

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Swain High School senior Austin Smith (pictured) has been selected to perform in the Honors Performance Series National Honor Band. He will perform in Carnegie Hall in New York City in February with students from all across the country. Students rehearse and perform under master conductors and have the opportunity to perform before invited representatives from collegiate and professional music programs. The week also allows students to experience the best of the sights and the performance arts in the city. Donated photo

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Lead singer of Railroad Earth, Todd Sheaffer will hold an intimate acoustic solo show on Friday, Nov. 22, at Cataloochee Ranch. Tickets are $45 per person, which includes dinner. For more information on live performances, dinners and lodging at the ranch, click on www.cataloocheeranch.com or call 828.926.1401 or 800.868.1401. different starting point in life, all with a common bond that is their memories, new and old, of Cataloochee.

“This was my first time here, and I’m having a great time,” said Waynesville resident Joe Moore. “I’ve met several new people tonight, and I like it here — it’s beautiful.”

SHOWTIME The tables are cleared and folded. Chairs are brought into the main dining area for the performance. But, before Rowan can take the stage, Weaverville musician Kevin Scanlon grabs a seat in front of the attentive crowd. He warms them up with a hearty plethora of Appalachian and original string melodies.

“The people who are here, they listen and are highly appreciative to watch us sit down and play,” Scanlon said. “It’s a nice experience for a musician to be able to play a space like that.”

As the audience relaxes into the ambiance, Rowan is waiting in the wings of the building.

He puts the finishing touches on his outfit, with a few last second tunings on his guitar.

grass, there’s such an energy we’re putting out there — it’s more of a circle.”

Alongside mandolinist Chris Henry and banjoist Keith Little, Rowan welcomes his special guest, Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo.

Together, they bridge the sacred, ancient mountain cultures of the Appalachians and Himalayas through chants, kind words and melodic exchanges. It is a scene of song, dance, laughter and harmony, something routinely found in the realms of live performance.

“The roots culture in some parts of the world has been endangered for awhile, and that creates sometimes bunker mentality where no strangers are allowed in,” Rowan said. “But, what we’d like to see as musicians is that the joy of these cultures is spread throughout the earth.”

Standing in the back of room, watching Rowan pluck away, Mary Coker is all smiles.

It’s just another magical evening in her home, a place she’s known and been proud of her entire life.

“This is my home; this is where I grew up.

My grandparents started this place and have instilled a love of being here in me,” she said.

A frequent visitor to the ranch, Rowan has cultivated a rich, powerful bond with the family at Cataloochee. Being a deeply spiritual person, he looks at his travels to Appalachia as a time to reflect and dig further into his life’s pursuits, which tend to be focused on personal, bountiful interactions amid the soothing power of music.

“You get up here and relax by the fire at night, a big old log fire,” Rowan said. “Then you take out your guitar and just listen to the sounds of the night — that’s where the music comes from.”

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Legendary singer/songwriter Peter Rowan (background) and Tibetan singer Yunchen Lhamo (foreground) recently performed at Cataloochee Ranch. Garret K. Woodward photo Acclaimed for his work with bluegrass godfather Bill Monroe, Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia and other musical icons like David Grisman and Vassar Clements, Rowan is a renowned, Grammy award-winning performer. He’s a living, breathing songbook of America, whose wisdom and words as are intoxicating as the performance itself.

“It’s like a revival meeting, old-time square dance and cross-cultural pollination all at the same time here,” he said. “You can take it down to intimacy. Because we’re doing blue-

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Soon, Smith rings the dinner bell. Between the two dining areas, more than 100 dinner plates are set, all ready to be filled with a homemade buffet of ribs, chicken, vegetables, potatoes and corn pudding. Guests grab their plates and head for the buffet outside. Stream arises from the large portions of food as the crisp air wraps around the hungry line.

Plates overflow as they find their way to the table. For the most part, seating patterns are set at random, based on the size of the dining party and space allotted on a given night. This, in turn, prods strangers to intermingle. One quickly enters into conversation with the person to the left, the right and directly in front.

The topics delved into are as varied as the backgrounds of each person present.

“Oh, you’re from Charlotte? My father grew up there,” a voice is overheard.

“So, who do you think will win the SEC football title this year?” another comments.

Someone from Atlanta will pass the salt and pepper to someone from Greenville, while someone from Orlando hands the butter down to someone from Raleigh. Each person from a

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who performed these songs in this area.”

Gazing around the room, Ritter appreciates the unique nature of Cataloochee and how it just seems to breed a positive, joyous vibration all its own.

“Cataloochee isn’t that far from Asheville, but you’re in a whole other world out here,” he said. “You can really slow down and have some peaceful moments.”

racked gongs or hanging gongs. Although some form of gamelan music can be heard in many regions of Java, the music for the concert is traditional and in the style of Central Java. Javanese gamelan music is an integral part of the arts of Java, as it is used to accompany theater, dance and puppet performances.

After the concert, members of the audience are invited onstage for a closer look at the instruments. Free.

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A reception for the opening of a new mural in the children’s room of the Canton Branch Library will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, at the library.

During the last two weeks of October, artist Clive Haynes of Forest City worked on creating the mural along the largest wall of the children’s room at the Canton Branch Library. Haynes took what was once a large beige wall and transformed it into a canvas on which he has painted a castle, a pyramid, the night sky, inquisitive animals and more.

Haynes has created murals for the town of Forest City, as well as for public schools in the region. In addition to being a painter, Haynes is also a musician and has produced an album of children’s songs.

Both adults and children are invited to attend the reception, which was sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Children will have the opportunity to hunt for all of the animals in the mural in a variation on an “I spy” game. Haynes will be present to answer

questions about the mural and will even play a few songs on his guitar. Refreshments will be served.

The mural was made possible by the generosity of the Haywood County Friends of the Library, a nonprofit organization that raises money to benefit the Haywood County Public Library.

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• Artist Jimmy Raines will host an opening reception at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at City Lights Café in Sylva. Free. www.citylightscafe.com or 828.587.2233.

The Appalachian Toymaker will do craft demonstrations from 4 to 10 p.m. everyday starting Nov. 16 through Dec. 5 at the Storytelling Center of the Southern Appalachians in Bryson City.

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• Glass art classes will be held at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. “Glass Lilly” will be a 45-minute class Nov. 16 at $40 per person, with “Ornaments” a 30minute class Nov. 23 at $30 per person. Both classes are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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On the stage WCU workshop to combine business strategy, storytelling “Telling Your Story,” a workshop that combines business management, marketing, entrepreneurial activity and economic strategies with the art of storytelling, will be offered from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in the Cordelia Camp Building at Western Carolina University.

Participants will learn how storytelling is one of the most important tools that entrepreneurs and nonprofit managers have at their disposal. The workshop will emphasize participant interaction, and assignments and activities will be designed

• “Back to the Future” and “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” will be screened at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. “Back to the Future” runs Nov. 15-16, with “The Hitchhiker’s Guide” Nov. 22-23. Both films begin at 7:45 p.m. Tickets are $6 per person, $4 for children. 828.283.0079 or www.38main.com.

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• A lampshade making demonstration will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, at the Jackson County Extension Office in Sylva.

Free. 828.586.4009. to strengthen students’ researching, reading, presenting, communication and writing skills.

The session will be led by Tim Hall, director of the Storytelling Center in Bryson City, who has been involved in theater, writing and storytelling for more than 50 years.

Cost is $59 per person, which includes a networking lunch. www.learn.wcu.edu or 828.227.7397.

• The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will host a focus group at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in Waynesville.

The session will be conducted by HART board member Nyda Bittman-Neville. This will be a chance for the public to help offer suggestions and guidance as the theatre prepares to open the new Fangmeyer Theater in 2015.

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The Balsam Mountain Roller Girls want you.

A flat track female roller derby league based out of Haywood County, the team is looking to grow its team at the Smoky Mountain Sk8way & Fun Zone in Waynesville.

The team holds two practices per week from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sundays and Thursdays. Skating trainees, referees and players will learn through physical training. Both skating and non-skating trainees will learn rules through instruction and watching the game.

The junior’s team, Balsam Mountain Junior Roller Girls, for girls ages 11 to 17, practices from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Mondays. Girls and their parents are invited any Monday night to learn

more about this confidence- and muscle-building sport.

League members will explain the game of roller derby, show video clips of the game in action, talk about the league and team opportunities, and then let participants try out skates. The event is not just for women who want to play, but for anyone who would like to learn more about roller derby or would be interested in joining the world’s fastest growing sport.

Requirements are that all trainees must be 18 years old or older, pay $40 a month dues and sign a waiver. Referees, non-skating trainees and volunteers are exempt from dues but will have attendance requirements while in training. All skaters must pass a skills test and purchase USARS insurance (an annual fee of $55) before they are put into full contact play. Skates will be provided.

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I don’t buy the theory that texting has fueled an explosion in writing among kids.

The claim is texting is like a “gateway drug.” Kids who normally wouldn’t read or write very much now do so prolifically, albeit in truncated words and cryptic acronyms. But any writing is better than no writing — the notion goes — and once hooked there’s no holding back the inner reader and writer within.

PMFJI (pardon me for jumping in), but IRL (in real life) that’s like saying strawberry ice cream and fried pickles opens the door to eating more fruits and veggies.

JTLYK (just to let you know), that’s BS IMHO (in my humble opinion.)

Luckily, our local bookstores and libraries give kids a chance to rub elbows with real authors.

The book on your kid’s nightstand seems a lot more special when they can say “I know the person who wrote this!” The end goal, of course, is to develop a lifelong reader.

Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville has three youth authors making appearances in coming weeks with their books in tow — from a middle-school thriller to a tell-all tooth fairy tale.

• First up is youth mystery writer J.E. Thompson coming to Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville at 6 p.m. this Friday, Nov. 15. Billed for older elementary and middle school kids, he’ll talk about being an author and read from his adventure mystery, The Girl from Felony Bay. He’s also doing programs at Waynesville and Bethel middle schools earlier in the day, where students have been reading The Girl from Felony Bay. • Anna Browning, author of Tanner Turbeyfill and the Moon Rocks, will have a book signing at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 7. Her book follows a young boy who’s a budding astronomer on a magical journey to the moon — in his treehouse-turned-spaceship — bringing back his own beloved moon rock as a keepsake.

Browning has been all over the place the past few months sharing her book, from area libraries to elementary schools.

• Karla Wood, author of the tooth fairy tale Riley’s Mission, will be at Blue Ridge Books at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14. Her book answers all your kid’s burning tooth fairy The book on your kid’s questions — is there a nightstand seems a lot whole cadre of them or just one, and why don’t more special when they the kids wake up — as can say “I know the it follows a rookie tooth fairy on his first night person who wrote this!” of collecting. Bonus point: it also inspires kids to want to brush their teeth.

City Lights Bookstore in Sylva regularly stars children’s writers in its robust line-up of author talks as well, although none were on tap this month. www.citylightsnc.com.

Our local bookstores have great children’s sections, by the way, so try to resist the Amazon cop-out this Christmas.

To keep up with children’s author appearances, follow the “Kids and Families” category in our calendar at the back of the paper.

And now, OATUS (on a totally unrelated subject) … more zombies! Teens should love the live theater show of “Zombies on Campus!

A SlaughterPocalypse!” being put on by stage and screen students at Western Carolina University this week. The fast-paced comedy full of twist and turns follows a group of college kids as they fend off a zombie outbreak. It’s at 7:30 p.m. at the Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center nightly through Tuesday, Nov. 19. bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

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Nantahala Brewing to host bottle launch party

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The brewery will roll out its flagship brands in 22 oz. bottles for distribution across Western North Carolina in early December.

“It’s been over five years since we began construction on our brewery and taproom. Back then, bottling wasn’t even part of the discussion,” said Joe Rowland, co-owner of the brewery. “It’s hard to believe that we’ve come this far in such a short period of time, especially considering all the challenges we had to overcome to get here.”

Nantahala hasn’t distributed its beer beyond Waynesville since April 2013, based on increased demand for its beer at its taproom and local market. The increased demand and a commitment to keep its brews in the Asheville market, lead to adding some additional tanks and a different packaging strategy.

“Over the last two years, we’ve struggled to keep our production at 100 percent during the off-season based on the slow return of our kegs from the marNantahala Brewing Company kets in eastern North Carolina will launch its bottling line at a that we support during the winlaunch party on Nov. 22 in ter months when things slow Bryson City. File photo down in our immediate market,” Rowland said. “By sending bottled beer instead of kegged beer off to those markets, we will eliminate that bottle neck in our production process.”

Special launch party pricing for the bottles will be $6 per bottle and $60 per case. Retail pricing and wholesale pricing will be announced during the event. Additional launch festivities include local, live music and a rare beer tasting. All proceeds from the $10 donation to participate in the rare beer tasting The craft beer bottling line launch party will be a will be donated to Friends of the Great Smoky 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at Nantahala Brewing Mountains National Park to support the Company in Bryson City.

Ridgerunner Program on the Appalachian Trail withThat day, bottles of Noon Day IPA and Dirty Girl in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Blonde will be available in bombers at the Taproom. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

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Hays’ new book succeeds on several levels n What I Came To Tell You (Egmont Publishers, ISBN 9781606844335, $16.99), local author Tommy Hayes brings us the story of 12-year-old Grover Johnston, his family and his friends.

Grover, who lives in the Montford neighborhood of Asheville and is named for Thomas Wolfe’s brother who died when Wolfe was little more than a toddler, has just lost his own mother, killed by a car while walking the family dog. Grover’s father is the director of the Thomas Wolfe house, a good man grieving his dead Writer wife, beset by problems at work — the city is threatening to cut off some of the funding — and at home, where his efforts to care for Grover and Sudie, Grover’s sister, are halfhearted and removed. Meanwhile, Grover finds solace in his Bamboo Forest, a rough stand of bamboo where he and Sudie spend time playing and where Grover weaves tapestries from the bamboo.

When the Roundtrees — Leila, a widow who lost her husband in Iraq, and her two children, Emma Lee and Clay — move into the neighborhood, the Johnstons quickly become their friends. Hayes creates a deep empathy for all these characters as their attraction for one another grows, leading us through the tangled emotions of loss and love. Grover also finds himself mourning the impending loss of his beloved Bamboo Forest, which is owned by a city commissioner who intends to destroy the bamboo and sell off the lot.

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Though marketed toward adolescents, What I Came To Tell You (the title appears on the cover of the book in lower-case) is a book that should appeal to readers of all ages. Hays has a gift for tight, concise writing, but even more importantly, for sorting out the vagaries of the human heart. In Grover, he gives readers a boy who deeply misses his dead mother, has artistic talent but is struggling at school, finds himself dealing with the despair of his father and with the grief of his little sister, and is becoming attracted to Emma Lee. Hays does fine work in giving us a full picture of Grover, injecting both humor and pathos into the boy’s situation.

What I Came To Tell You also presents a fine portrait of Asheville, particularly the Montford neighborhood. Hays describes various streets and landmarks with loving accuracy (alas, Reader’s Corner has now closed its doors), and makes the people of this special city come alive as well. He cooks up a rich stew of personalities and beliefs — Grover’s mother, for example, died a Buddhist while

‘Coffee with the Poet’ returns The “Coffee with the Poet” series continues with Kathryn Byer at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Byer will lead a workshop on pulling poems together into a collection ready for publication. She will also talk about and read from her first collection of poetry, Girl in the Midst of Harvest, which was recently republished by Press 53. Byer has published six books of poetry and served as North Carolina’s first woman Poet Laureate from 2005 through 2009. Her most recent collection, Descent, won the 2013 SIBA Book Award for Poetry.

The series gathers every third Thursday of the month and is cosponsored by the NetWest chapter of the North Carolina Writers Network.

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Author to discuss Cherokee War of 1776 at WCU Author, journalist and researcher Nadia Dean will give a presentation on the Cherokee War of 1776 and the legendary Cherokee war chief Dragging Canoe at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Mountain

Emma Lee is an evangelical Christian — which reveals how both Asheville, and by extension, the South, are evolving. What I Came To Tell You helps us to see that despite the many cultural changes of the last 40 or 50 years, the South still contains a personality different from other regions of the country.

Asheville Finally, What I Came To author Tell You is a sort of love song to Tommy Hays Thomas Wolfe. (Even the title will present alludes to Wolfe’s short story, his latest “I Have A Thing To Tell You”). book, What With Grover we visit Wolfe’s I Came to grave, and later we tour the Tell You, at Wolfe home under the guid3 p.m. on ance of Grover’s father. Though regarded during his lifetime as Saturday, a great American writer, and Nov. 23, at though he influenced dozens of City Lights other writers right down to our Bookstore in own day, Wolfe’s reputation Sylva. since his death has diminished.

Perhaps What I Came To Tell You will persuade those readers of the novel who have not read Wolfe to pick up Look Homeward, Angel or Of Time And The River, and give him a try.

What I Came To Tell You is a fine, heartfelt book, a beautifully told story of love, redemption, second chances and understanding. It reminds all of us, young and old, that the grief and hardship brought to us in living can often lead us into the mystery and wonder of life itself.

••• Some of us are suckers for books of quotations (One such sucker was Winston Churchill, who wrote, in reference to himself,

Heritage Center at Western Carolina University.

Dean’s book A Demand of Blood chronicles the Cherokee War of 1776, a conflict fought in the shadows of the American Revolution, and how that war played out between the Cherokee and colonials.

She was the photographer for the 1989 PBS documentary “Days of Rage” and her photographs of the Palestinian uprising were published in Time magazine, The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.

Those attending the presentation are encouraged to also view the Mountain Heritage Center’s exhibit on Cherokee craftsmanship, “Qualla Arts and Crafts: Tradition and Innovation.”

Free.

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Minick book signing in Asheville The Smoky Mountain News book reviewer and author Jeff Minick will have a book signing from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at the Battery Park Book Exchange in the Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville.

Minick is the author and publisher of a novel, Amanda Bell, and a collection of essays, Learning As I Go. Amanda Bell, the story of a young woman’s ruin and redemption, is set in Asheville. Learning

that “it is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” My continued enjoyment of such books may mark me as an uneducated man.) In Don’t Forget to Sing in the Lifeboats (ISBN 978-0-7611-5525-6, $8.95), Kathryn and Ross Petras give us a collection of inspirational sayings from people who have attended the largest educational institution in the world: the school of hard knocks. Here we get a number of sustaining adages. In case readers are feeling a little dismal about their lives, here is some medicine for you: ■ Winston Churchill: “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

■ Ernest Hemingway: “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”

■ Alice Walker: “I try to teach my heart to want nothing it can’t have.”

■ Annie Dillard: “You can’t test courage cautiously.”

■ George Orwell: “Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”

■ John Wayne: “Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.”

■ Jean Kerr: “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.”

■ Epictetus: “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

■ And finally, from baseball great Leroy “Satchel” Paige: “Never let your head hang down.

Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.”

(Jeff Minick is writer and teacher who lives in Asheville. He can be reached at minick0301@gmail.com.)

As I Go is a collection of essays, all but one of which have appeared in various magazines and newspapers in the last 15 years.

Minick lives in Asheville, where he works as a teacher and writer.

Author Susan Reinhardt leads ‘Writing Funny’ workshop Susan Reinhardt, who won a loyal following during her many years as columnist with The Asheville Citizen-Times, will lead a comedic writing workshop from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum, on the UNC Asheville campus.

“Writing funny is one of the hardest forms of the craft,” said Reinhardt. “Some love your wit. Some hate it. I’ll let you in on many of the techniques for comedy writing so you can capture your great sense of humor on the page.”

Workshop participants will analyze various samples of comedic writing, as well as produce their own work. Discussion topics will also include book titles, marketing and publishing.

Cost for the workshop is $25. For more information or to register, contact Nancy Williams at nwilliams@unca.edu or 828.250.2353.

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BY COLBY DUNN CORRESPONDENT ach year, an estimated 50,000 people visit Cherokee looking to hit it big, but instead of casting lots at Harrah’s, they’re casting lines into the miles of stocked and protected streams that flow through the Qualla Boundary.

While the casino remains the dominant moneymaker in town, the town’s reputation as a fly fishing destination is gaining an economic toehold in the tourism business here. With fishing waters open year round, tournaments and derbies to choose from in every season of the year, and a stock of 400,000 trout poured into the ponds and streams annually, Cherokee can offer more than a few incentives to entice a fisherman seeking a new venue.

Now, with a $50,000 planning grant from the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, one more attraction can be added to that list: the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians.

It’ll be a regional museum, covering the history of fly fishing in five states and pulling in support from all of them. The Cherokee Chamber of Commerce is spearheading the effort, and the museum itself will find a home in a 5,000-square-foot building nestled on the Oconaluftee River right in the heart of downtown Cherokee.

For Forrest Parker, director of natural resources for the Eastern Band and a Chamber board member, the museum will be another jewel in Cherokee’s already-sparkling fly fishing crown. Hopefully, it will entice experienced anglers and total novices alike into the region’s rivers, said Parker.

While the leases on the building are not yet signed, the chamber has a commitment from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for the space. It’s really just the next step in an effort to get behind fly fishing, which started back in 2009 when the tribe marked off some of its waters as designated-use, fly-fishing-only locations. It was an unprecedented move, said Parker, one that has paid off in spades.

“That was a groundbreaking effort on behalf of the tribe,” said Parker. “There’s less than three miles, but the impact to the community has been astonishing.”

Then, in 2011, the tribe played host to the U.S. National Fly Fishing Championships and has rolled out tournament after tournament since then. Now, the museum will give anglers — and non-anglers interested in an important facet of Appalachian culture — another reason to visit Cherokee.

“We just hope that we can capture enough of this so that someone who doesn’t know anything about fly fishing can come here and just see what a huge part of the culture it has been and how valuable it’s been to so many people in the region,” said Parker.

“We want people in this region that value this to want to come down here. So whether you’re a person that has never fly fished or whether you’re a third-generation professional fly tyer, we want everyone to leave feeling like they have a better understanding of fly fishing in the southern Appalachians.”

Part of what Parker and his partners think will set the museum apart is its unique scope in the relatively small world of fly fishing museums. Though it’ll be located in Cherokee, the museum itself will be a truly regional endeavor. There are only a handful of other fly fishing museums in the country, and they’re dedicated either to the sport as a whole or to a particular river rather than a broad geographical region.

The idea sprang from conversations among some of the region’s prominent fly fishermen, who came to the Cherokee Chamber with the idea. From there, it snowballed into the plan that’s now underway for a museum that delves into the rich history of fly fishing in a five-state region and will provide educational, interactive programs that will let visitors have hands-on encounters with the Oconaluftee that flows by the museum’s back door.

Even before a dime had been raised, financial and logistical support was flowing in from the region’s every corner, and Parker knew they had a winning concept.

“It started as one email, one phone conversation and in a matter of about 60 days, there’s almost 1,000 people on the email list

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of supporters,” he said. “All five states have pledged support in some form or fashion. There are individual private donors that are ready to cut checks as soon as the legal work is done, and the volunteers are just endless. Everything from fly shop owners to fly tyers to people that their families are deeply rooted in the fly fishing culture. They want to see the legacy passed on.”

In addition to raising awareness, however, the hope for the museum is that it’ll also continue to raise the region’s fly fishing profile and bring more business this way.

Joe Streep owns Rivers Edge Outfitters, a fishing supply business that has shops in Cherokee and Spruce Pine. He travels around the country

talking to folks about the fishing in the Southeast and is sometimes surprised at how often he encounters fisherman who are astounded at the quality of fishing waters here. The museum, he said, could be another tool to draw in those who are simply unaware of the jewel hiding in the mountains.

“One of the reasons we opened is that that entire area around the Smokies has always been a fly fishing destination, so it draws a lot of fly fishermen,” said Streep. “I think the museum’s actually going to be a very good idea. There’s some great history when it comes to fly fishing around the Smokies.”

For now, the museum is only in the planning phase, but with no need for

new construction, they hope to roll it out in stages on a pretty accelerated timeline. While the interactive exhibits may take longer, Parker says the tentative hope is to have a museum component up and running as early as summer or fall of 2014, of course, as always, contingent on funding falling into place. From there, they’ll continue adding more varied exhibits and programs, expanding into increasingly more diverse tourism spaces opening up in Cherokee.

“We were a destination before,” said Parker. “Now, we’re just a very well-presented destination, and people are starting to focus more of their travel efforts here, as far as the fly fisherman goes. Our goal is to keep it going.”

“So whether you’re a person that has never fly fished or whether you’re a third-generation professional fly tyer, we want everyone to leave feeling like they have a better understanding of fly fishing in the southern Appalachians.”

— Forrest Parker, director of natural resources for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

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Hermit thrush. Izzy Hendershot photo

National Park Service ranger Kim DeLozier knows and he tells all about it in his new book, Bear in the Back Seat. The book shares funny and family-friendly accounts of DeLozier’s 30 plus years as a wildlife biologist in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, dealing with hormonallycrazed elk, homicidal wild boars, hopelessly timid wolves and nine million tourists.

The book sells for $11.99 in softcover and is available at Great Smoky Mountains

During the month of November, the Canton branch of the Haywood County Public Library is hosting a traveling exhibit from NASA’s Lunar Science Institute. “The Moon: Cosmic Decoder Ring� is an exhibit that features 3D images of the moon’s surface. Scientists have discovered that the moon’s craters are a decoding tool that allows them to better understand the planets in our solar system. “The Moon: Cosmic Decoder Ring� includes 3D glasses for the public to use in order to decode images in the exhibit.

Viewers can use the 3D glasses to examine images of craters formed by both volcanoes and asteroid impacts. A handout is also provided that lists websites and book titles for further moon exploration.

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Parkway road closure north of Asheville A section of Blue Ridge Parkway from Milepost 376 at Ox Creek Road to Milepost 355, near the entrance to Mount Mitchell State Park, will close Nov. 12 to allow workers to stabilize a failed slope just north of Tanbark Ridge Tunnel at Milepost 374.

While alternate routes are available, the detour route marked with road signs directs traffic from Asheville, along Interstate 40 to U.S. 221, back to the Parkway at Spruce Pine, and alternately from Spruce Pine south to Asheville via U.S. 221 and Interstate 40. Mount Mitchell State Park will remain open and accessible from the northern approach along the Blue Ridge Parkway at Milepost 330, near Spruce Pine, or from N.C. 80.

Parkway managers said the slope stabilization project was just too dangerous to allow motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists on the road. They ask that motorists stay alert, be aware of barrier signs and follow the signed detour to ensure optimal visitor safety.

The project is expected to be completed by late spring, with the Parkway open to all traffic during the 2014 summer visitor season. www.nps.gov.

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pick skinny — sometimes one has to go through such a checklist, but it sure is easier if they “move.�

And there was a moment last Saturday morning when the dull color of our bird created a fleeting thought — “wonder if it could be a late Bicknell’s?� But the bold white eyering and (when it was animated) the truly rufous rump and tail sealed the hermit thrush ID. And it makes more sense too as hermits will be with us all winter.

Most hermit thrushes nest in Alaska, Canada and the northeastern U.S. But there are a few that make it down the Appalachians. They can be found nesting regularly around Mt. Mitchell and off the Heintooga Spur Road near Poll’s Gap. In the winter, they might turn up anywhere — forested thickets, parks and/or backyards. I don’t believe I’ve ever been to the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee’s Tessentee Bottomland Preserve during the winter without recording them.

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist. He can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.)

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November 13-19, 2013

I can be standing five feet from my girls and say something simple like, “wash your hands,� “brush your teeth� or “clean your room,� and not even an eyebrow will twitch in acknowledgement. But put those same girls down in the basement with TV or ipad/pod blaring at decibels that would make NASCAR jealous and the tiniest thump at a window anywhere in the house will bring them flying upstairs clamoring, “Dad, did you hear that?

Sounded like a bird hit the window.�

We get our share of window strikes but fortunately because most of the vegetation they launch from is near the house, most strikes are not fatal.

Izzy and Maddie, my daughters, have gotten pretty good at finding birds after a collision, then bringing them inside, placing them in a box or container of some sort with a towel, etc. for warmth, then putting them in a dark quiet place and letting them rest.

Usually, not in every case but usually, by then the patient has fully recovered and is anxious to get on about his/her business.

The other morning, Saturday I believe, I was down in the basement working. When I went upstairs, I was informed that Izzy and Maddie had a bird that had struck a window (and I didn’t hear a thing?) in the back bedroom. I went in to take a look and immediately noted a hermit thrush. Then I sat down on the bed next to Izzy, who was holding the bird, and got to thinking — “hmm, it’s really dull olive-brown and maybe that tail isn’t quite rufous enough.�

You remember “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?� When the Kid was struggling with target practice and asked if he could “move.� Sometimes I feel that way with birds when looking at photos or with bird-in-hand when it comes to species that can be confusing, say like empidonax flycatchers or perched accipiters or immature Bicknell’s and hermit thrushes — if they would just move and/or call.

For me, it’s much easier and quicker to positively ID a bird that is animated and doing what birds do. The characters, characteristics, habits, voice, etc. all flow together intuitively to point to a single species. It’s not as easy for me when I have to consciously note identifying characteristics — is there an eyering; wingbars; is the lower mandible black or yellow; are the legs thick or tooth-

So, what does one do when a sedated bear wakes up in the back seat of a helicopter mid-flight or in your office while you’re on the phone or in your car while you’re driving down the highway? Retired

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Assisting DeLozier in the writing is Carolyn Jourdan, a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Proceeds from the book support the national park. Great Smoky Mountains Association is the oldest nonprofit funding partner of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. www.smokiesinformation.org or call 888.898.9102, Ext. 222 or 254.

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Internal medicine doctor sets example for patients, students Dr. Randall Provost walked the walk— or more accurately ran the run—when he competed in the Mountain Jug Run for Research, a 175-mile relay from Cullowhee to Boone, last month to raise money for athletic training research and scholarships. Provost, an internal medicine doctor at Sylva Medical Center, also supervises Western Carolina University athletic training students as they complete clinical education requirements.

“I believe that exercise is medicine,” Provost said, “a belief long held by the American College of Sports Medicine.

Because of the substantial health benefits of exercise, anyone can benefit from an increase in physical activity that is appropriate for their age and circumstances. “I also believe WCU’s athletic training program produces positive community input as local high school athletes benefit from the expertise of the graduates, including my own kids. I’ve been impressed by how well-educated these students are.”

Named after the well-known football rivalry between WCU and Appalachian State University, the relay takes place primarily along the Blue Ridge Parkway, with runners completing five-mile stretches five different times along the course. Among the 18 people who participated in the Jug Run Oct. 11-12, was James Scifers, the originator of the relay and a professor of athletic training at WCU. The runners began in the early morning hours in Cullowhee on Friday, Oct. 11 and ran overnight, finishing 27 hours and 25 minutes later on Saturday, Oct. 12.

Since its inception, the annual event has raised more than $17,000 over the last six years, dollars that go directly to the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Research and Education Foundation, which awards research grants and academic scholarships in the fields of athletic training and sports medicine.

Medical research shows a trend indicating that physical inactivity and obesity in our culture could result in a shorter lifespan, with much of the weight gain and lack of physical activity due to the sedentary nature of many modern jobs.

WestCare sponsored Provost in the run on behalf of Carolina West Sports Medicine, which provides physician coverage and athletic training for WCU athletics and the local high schools.

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Park moves toward winter schedule You know winter is just around the corwinter. ner when Great Smoky Mountains National Four picnic areas will remain open Park starts shutting down. Here is a list of through the winter: Cades Cove, Deep the Park’s closures and change in hours: Creek, Greenbrier, and Metcalf Bottoms.

Visitor Centers: Through Dec. 1, Chimneys Picnic Area will be open until Sugarlands Visitor Center and Oconaluftee Dec. 1. Already closed for the season are Big Visitor Center will be open from 8 a.m. to Creek, Collins Creek, Cosby, and Twin 5:30 p.m. Cades Cove Visitor Center will be Creeks. Greenbrier and Deep Creek pavilopen from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Clingman ions can be reserved at www.recreation.gov.

Dome Visitor Contact Station will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

After Dec. 1, Sugarlands, Oconaluftee and Cades Cove visitor centers will all close at 4:30 p.m., while Clingmans Dome station will close for the winter.

Road closures: The two-way segment of the Roundbottom/Straight Fork Road, just outside Cherokee, will close Nov. 12. Parson Branch and Rich Mountain Roads will close Nov.18, and Clingmans Dome and Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail, Dec. 2. The Park’s two main roads, Newfound Gap (U.S. 441) and Little River, will remain open throughout the year, except for temporary closures for extreme winter weather conditions. The Gatlinburg Bypass, Cades Cove Loop Road, Cosby Road, Greenbrier Road, Upper Tremont, Forge Creek, Lakeview Drive, and Foothills Parkway (east and west) will open and close as road and weather conditions mandate.

Lodging: LeConte Lodge will close Nov. 26 for the season.

Camping: Cades Cove in Tennessee and Smokemont in North Carolina, The Oliver Tipton Cabin as seen on a snowy winter will remain open all year, but on a selfday in Great Smoky Mountains National park. registration basis and with a reduced Jim Bennett photo number of sites. Elkmont Campground in Tennessee will remain open through the Thanksgiving weekend Smokemont Riding Stables is closed for and will close on Dec. 1. The remaining selfthe season. Sugarlands Riding Stables and registration campgrounds at Cosby, Smoky Mountain Riding Stables will close Cataloochee, Deep Creek and Big Creek, Dec. 1. Cades Cove Riding Stable will be have already closed for the season. open daily through Dec. 1. From Dec. 2 to Cades Cove Campground Store will conJan. 5, Cades Cove Riding Stables will be tinue to offer all services daily through Dec. open Saturday and Sunday only, weather 1. From Dec. 2 to Jan. 5, the souvenir and ice permitting. All stables closing dates are cream area will open on Saturday and dependent on weather conditions.

Sunday only, weather permitting. The main Round Bottom, Tow String, store building will be closed after Dec. 2.

Cataloochee, Big Creek and Anthony Creek The public restrooms at the store will be Horse Camp are closed for the season. open on the same schedule as the souvenir www.nps.gov/grsm or 865.436.1200 and and ice cream area. Vending machines at the follow the prompts, or follow on Twitter at store will remain in service throughout the SmokiesRoadsNPS.

Be part of a 100-year plan Officials at the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service want your input on the agency’s future for the next 100 years. A listening session for residents of Western North Carolina will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, at the Swain County Technology and Training Center in Bryson City. Dr. Joe Zublena, N.C. Cooperative Extension Service director, will attend each session to update participants on

progress and to engage in discussion about the future of the organization, which will celebrate its centennial next year. The Extension Service provides educational programs in 4H, agriculture, family and consumer sciences and community development to citizens in all 100 counties and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation. The North Carolina Cooperative Extension has seen recurring federal and state budget cuts of around $20 million since 2000, leaving roughly 90 positions unfilled — mostly at the county level — over the past four years. www.ces.ncsu.edu.

Rural preservation leaders in the Bethel community of Haywood County have announced the permanent protection of 29 acres through two separate conservation easements.

One property protects 26 acres of largely agricultural land, while the other includes three acres of mostly forested land. The two properties feature more than 3,200 feet of river and stream frontage, including 1,000 feet along the main stem of the Pigeon River, 2,000 feet on the West Fork of the Pigeon River, and 250 feet of a small tributary stream.

By protecting these streamside areas from development, the landowners will help protect water quality for downstream farmers, the Towns of Canton and Clyde, Evergreen Packaging, trout, one species of rare fish, two species of rare freshwater mussels, and hellbender salamanders.

Both properties were protected through bargain-sale conservation easements. A conservation easement is a voluntary and

permanent agreement that limits certain development on a property in exchange for possible federal, state, and local tax benefits, a cash payment, or some combination.

“We are very grateful to the landowners and to all our partners for helping to protect our rural lands and waters,” said Dave Curphey, president of the Bethel Rural Community Organization. “We’re thrilled

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The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has upgraded its Green Growth Toolbox to better equip communities to deal with wildlife and natural resource conservation in developing areas. In addition to a handbook, a GIS data package and a website, the Commission’s second edition of the toolbox contains additional detailed information about the amount of habitat that wildlife need in developing landscapes; more step-by-step guidance on conserving wildlife habitat through land use and development planning; visual examples of how to use the conservation mapping data and how to design wildlife-friendly developments; and more than 60 articles on the economic and societal benefits of a green-growth approach. “A good example is in Apex, where homes in the Shepherd’s Vineyard development adjacent to the American Tobacco Trail sold for $5,000 more than comparable homes in a nearby neighborhood,” said Land Conservation biologist Kacy Cook.

The toolbox handbook, first released in 2009, was updated based on feedback from more than 200 planners, developers and local governments who attended Green Growth Toolbox workshops.

The Wildlife Commission provides the Green Growth Toolbox and technical guidance at no cost. www.ncwildlife.org/conserving/programs/greengrowthtoolbox.aspx or 910.638.4887.

Cowee Textiles. The Brunner Award was established in 2004 to honor the Brunners’ vision and generosity, which were instrumental in the founding of LTLT. “Without the Macon County Commissioners this project could not have happened,” said LTLT Board President Ken Murphy. “The Macon County Commissioners, our elected officials, not only approved the repurposing of this facility, they provided critical support including financial support. Their approval and support was evidence of their real vision for the future, and we recognize that they made their decisions in light of many competing considerations and alternative uses of the funding provided.”

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The Macon County Commissioners received the 2013 Robert and Virginia Ramsey Brunner Land Conservationist of the Year Award during LTLT’s annual Fall Celebration Nov. 2 at the Cowee School in Franklin. The award recognizes the Macon County Commissioners’ essential role in conserving the historic Cowee School, which is now being repurposed as a community and heritage center, home now to a new Bluegrass concert series. Former classrooms are now being used by various groups, including the Macon County Historical Society and the Eastern Band of Cherokee. The Macon Heritage Center also houses the Cowee Pottery School and

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Specials on all black cats and dogs for adoption, through November, Sarge’s Animal Rescue Center, 256 Industrial park Dr., Waynesville. www.sargeandfriends.org,www.sargeandfriends.org/bac kinblack.html, 246.9050.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

Haywood Society,” 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Room 336, Nov. 13, Western Carolina University’s instructional site at Biltmore Park Town Square, 28 Schenck Parkway. learn.wcu.edu and click on “Professional Development” or 227.7397.

• The 5th annual Native American Expo, through Nov. 13, Grandroom of A.K. Hinds University Center, Western Carolina University. ica@wcu.edu or Department of Intercultural Affairs, 227.2276.

• Public Education Forum: Reality Check, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, Franklin High School. jdmk668@gmail.com.

• “Understanding our Past, Shaping our Future” through Dec. 20, Cherokee Central Schools, Cherokee.

• Chamber of Commerce annual Holiday Reception, 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, Historic Hooper House, 773 W. Main St., Sylva. 586.2155, www.mountainlovers.com.

• Community reception to celebrate local opening of “Understanding our Past, Shaping our Future,” 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, Chief Joyce Dugan Cultural Arts Center, Cherokee Central Schools.

• Author, journalist and researcher Nadia Dean, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 14, auditorium of the Mountain Heritage Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee. Her presentation will focus on the Cherokee War of 1776 and the legendary Cherokee war chief Dragging Canoe.

227.7129.

• Symposium, Remembering the Removal and Those Who Remained, to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the Trail of Tears, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, Joyce C. Dugan Cultural Arts Center, Cherokee Central Schools, Big Cove Road, Cherokee. Sue Abram, 227.2735, smabram@email.wcu.edu or Anne Rogers, rogers@email.wcu.edu.

• National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Day event, 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, Downtown Gazebo, Main Street, Franklin, to honor Franklin High School’s late basketball Coach Tom Raby. 342.0644 or 369.7411.

• Western North Carolina Career Expo, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 15, Clyde Armory, 1824 Jones Cove Road, Clyde. Sponsored by the U.S. Army National Guard, Haywood County N.C. Workforce Center, Haywood County Veterans Council. Mark Schuler, 456.6061 ext. 204, mark.schuler@nccommerce.com.

• Indoor flea market, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, the Old Armory, 44 Boundary St., Waynesville. $10 per booth. 456.9207 or email oldarmory@townofwaynesville.org.

• Jackson County Genealogical Society meeting, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 19, Community Room, Jackson County Courthouse. 631.2646.

• “Telling Your Story,” workshop that combines business management, marketing, entrepreneurial activity and economic strategies with the art of storytelling, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, Cordeila Camp Building, Western Carolina University. $59 includes lunch.

Register at learn.wcu.edu and click on “Professional Development” or call 227.7397.

• Awesome Business Idea Competition, submit by Nov. 16. Best idea wins $1,000. http://visit.sitedart.net/awesome-business-idea-competition-2013.

• Ribbon cutting, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, Wellbeing for All PLLC, an integrated health center, 576 Dellwood Road, Waynesville.

• Southwestern Community College open house for its newly renovated Medical Laboratory Technology classroom, from 10:30 am. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, Room 244 of the Balsam Center, SCC Jackson Campus.

• Health Care Reform class, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, Highlands Community Building. RSVP to Visitor@highlandschamber.org or call 526.2112.

• Haywood Chamber Ribbon Cutting, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, Wellbeing for All, 576 Dellwood Road, Waynesville.

• “It’s a Small World: Doing Business in a Multicultural

Macon • Franklin community blood drive, 12:30 to 5 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 21, First Baptist Church, 69 Iotla St., Franklin. www.redcrossblood.org.

HEALTH MATTERS • Screening breast thermograms, 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, Dogwood Wellness, 114 W. Hemlock St., Dillsboro. Initial thermogram, $149. Appointments, 586.6262.

RECREATION & FITNESS • Adult coed volleyball league organizational meeting, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, Waynesville Recreation Center. 456.2030 or recathletics@townofwaynesville.org.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES • Senior shopping trip to Pigeon Force, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 21. 456.2030 or email recprogramspecialist@townofwaynesville.org.

KIDS & FAMILIES

• Write On!. Children’s Creative Writing Program, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. 586.2016.

• Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority will meet at 2 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 20, Gaines Auditorium, Bethea Welcome Center, Lake Junaluska.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION

• Center Pigeon Fire Department Blood Drive, 2 to 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25, 2412 Pisgah Drive, Canton.

Jennifer Stump, 231.6511.

• Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce annual dinner, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, Clubhouse of Trillium Links & Lake Club. $45 per person. Cash bar available. RSVP to Holly, 743.5191.

• Registration for Haywood Community College spring semester 2014 by appointment only with adviser through Nov. 22. Schedule of classes at www.haywood.edu. 627.4500.

• Free 90-minute class on Microsoft Publisher: How to Make a Flyer, 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, Jackson County Public Library computer lab. 586.2016.

• Hazelwood Elementary School Blood Drive, 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1111 Plott Creek Road, Hazelwood. Donna Francis, 456.2406.

• Free computer class, Microsoft Publisher II: Make a Card, 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. Register, 586.2016.

• Cullowhee community planning meetings, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 21, Cullowhee Valley School.

• Smoky Mountain Model Railroaders meet from 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday and from 2 to 4 p.m. the second Sunday of the month at 130 Frazier St., in the Industrial Park near Bearwaters Brewery, Waynesville. Public is welcome to see the trains during the Sunday sessions. http://smokymountainmodelrailroaders.wordpress.com.

• Senior Resource Center Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, 81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville.

800-RED CROSS.

• Lego Club, 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, all ages welcome, Macon County Public Library, Franklin.

• The State Employees Credit Union (SECU), has awarded the Hospice House Foundation a $1 million challenge grant toward a new inpatient facility for the far western region of North Carolina. Mark Twisdale, chairman of the SECU Foundation, and Jim Barber, president of SECU, will present the ceremonial big check to Hospice House Foundation at 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, 272 Maple St. Franklin. hhfwnc.org or Hospice House Foundation Facebook.

• Aviation Historical Society meeting, 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 19, Macon County Airport, Franklin.

Featured speaker is P-61 Black Widow Pilot Ray Daniel. aeroscribbler@gmail.com or 506.5869.

• Southwestern Community College Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, 447 College Drive, Sylva. 339.4305 or www.redcrossblood.org.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Smart Start 20-year celebration, 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, Burrell Community Center at Southwestern Community College, Sylva. Tickets at www.regionakids.org, www.facebook.com/RegionAKids

BLOOD DRIVES Jackson • MedWest Harris Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 14, 68 Hospital Drive, Sylva. www.redcrossblood.org or 800.RedCross.

Literary (children)

• Children’s Story time: The Runaway Book, 11 a.m.

Friday, Nov. 15, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva.

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• Children’s Story time: What People Do All Day? 1 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 15, Jackson County Public Library.

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• Macon County Public Library closed for staff development, Friday, Nov. 15.

• Macon County Public Library closed for staff training, Friday, Nov. 15.

• J.E. Thompson, author of the middle grade novel, The Girl from Felony Bay, 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. 456.6000, www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

• Sensory Story time, 3:30 to 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, Macon County Public Library, Franklin.

• Closed for training, Monday, Nov. 18. Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. 586.2016.

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 • Children’s Story time: Our Family, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 20, Jackson County Public Library.

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POLITICAL GROUP EVENTS & LOCAL GOVERNMENT GOP • Macon County GOP Executive Board meeting, 6 p.m. (dinner), 6:30 (meeting) Thursday, Nov. 14, Boiler Room, Franklin.

• Smoky Mountain Republican Women meeting, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, meeting room of the United Community Bank, Bryson City. Guest speaker is Betty Budd, the new Mountain-Area Vice-President of the North Carolina Federation of Republican Women.

371.8247.

• Macon County Republican Party’s last general meeting of 2013, noon Saturday, Nov. 16, Boiler Room, Franklin.

• Jackson County Republicans last formal meeting for 2013, 6 p.m. (dinner), 6:30 p.m. (meeting) Monday, Nov. 25th, Ryan’s, Sylva. 743.6491, jacksonctygop@yahoo.com or jacksoncountygop.com.

Others • OccupyWNC – Filming of “Move to Amend” documentary, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, Community Room, Jackson County Library. Lucy Christopher, 743.9747

SUPPORT GROUPS Haywood • Essential Tremor support group, 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, Alliance Bible Church, 501 N. River Road, Sylva.

Speaker, James M. Patton, MD Board Certified Neurologist. 631.5543 or tkubit@frontier.com .

Macon • Macon County Cancer Support Group, 7 p.m.

Thursday night, Nov. 14, cafeteria of Angel Medical Center.

A&E CLASSES, PROGRAMS & DEMONSTRATIONS

• Children’s Story time: The Story Blanket, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 19, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva.

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• One-day sewing class to make a functional purse, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, Jackson County Cooperative Extension Office, Sylva. $5. 586.4009.

• Teen Time, 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. 586.2016.

• Glass classes at the Green Energy Park: Glass Lilly with artist Tadashi Torii, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, $40. Ornaments with artist Judy McManus, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, $30.

• Concert with Keith Shuler, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. 586.2016.

Pre-registration strongly suggested. Youth ages 13-17 may participate with parent present. 631.0271, www.jcgep.org.

HOLIDAY EVENTS • 16th annual Turkey Drive to benefit Haywood County’s disadvantaged residents, sponsored

by The Lodging Association. $25 donation pays for a Thanksgiving meal delivered to a family in need. Mail to MVALA-Turkey Drive (Maggie Valley Area Lodging Association), PO Box 1175, Maggie Valley, NC 28751.

• Operation Christmas Child National Collection Week, Nov. 18-25, Holly Springs Baptist Church, Franklin; Community Bible Church, Highlands; First Baptist Church, Bryson City; Sylva First United Methodist Church, Sylva; Robbinsville First Baptist Church, Robbinsville; and Truett Baptist Association, Marble. Details at 704.583.1463 or visit samaritanspurse.org.

• Franklin Chamber of Commerce Gingerbread House Competition. Deadline is Monday, Nov. 25. www.VisitFranklinNC.com. Deliver entries between 3 and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, to the lower level of Town Hall. 524.3161.

• Haywood County Public Library is collecting food through Dec. 18 for local residents.

452.5169.

ON STAGE

• Folk/Americana duo Jenn Rawling and Basho Parks, 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva. www.citylightsnc.com, 586.9499.

• Focus group meeting, 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, HART Theatre, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville, to help determine the direction of the new Fangmeyer Theater.

• Songwriters in the Round, 6 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 16, Balsam Mountain Inn. $45 per person. 800.224.9498, www.balsaminn.net.

• Fall Music Series featuring Mountain Faith, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, Historic Cowee School in Macon County. Tickets at www.coweeschool.org.

LITERARY (ADULTS) • Richard Russell will present his book about Robert Henry at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, City Lights Bookstore. 586.9499.

• UNCA Professor Daniel Pierce will present his book, History of Moonshining in the Mountains, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, Canton branch library. 648.2924.

• Coffee with the Poet, Kathryn Byer, 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva. 586.9499.

NIGHT LIFE • Classic Wineseller, 20 Church St., Waynesville. Live music 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15 with CaroMia, Saturday, Nov. 16, Joe Cruz; Friday, Nov. 22, Stuart McNair; and Saturday, Nov. 23, Joe Cruz. Kitchen serves small plate fare beginning at 5:30 p.m. 452.6000, www.classicwineseller.com.

DANCE • High Mountain Squares Harvest Dance, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, Macon County Community Building, Ga. Road (441 South), Franklin. 371.4946, 342.1560, 332.0001 or www.highmountainsquare.org.

• Free clogging classes, Tuesday, Nov. 19, Southwestern Community College Swain Center, 60 Almond School Road, Bryson City.

488.3848.

ART/GALLERY EVENTS & OPENINGS • Western North Carolina Woodturners Club meeting, 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, Blue Ridge School, Glenville. Drive to the back of the school to the woodworking shop. Visitors welcomed.

• Opening reception for new children’s mural 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, Canton branch library.

Artist Clive Haynes will be on hand to answer questions. 648.2924.

• Concert with Keith Shuler, WNC native, who will tell stories and sing songs about people and places in and around Jackson County, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, Community Room of the Jackson County Public Library Complex, Sylva.

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• New movie, 4:30 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13 Meeting Room, Macon County Public Library, 149 Siler Farm Road, Franklin. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener. Rated R. 524.3600.

• Western Carolina University’s Low Tech Ensemble concert of Indonesian gamelan music, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, recital hall of the Coulter Building. 227.7242.

Outdoors

• Movie: Back to the Future, 7:45 p.m. Nov. 15-16, The Strand, 38 Main St., downtown Waynesville. 283.0079.

• Family movie, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. Disney dog buddies movie. 488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

• Movie: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 2 p.m. Nov. 22-23, The Strand, 38 Main St., downtown Waynesville. 283.0079.

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• Nantahala Hiking Club strenuous 10-mile hike, Saturday, Nov. 16, Black Rock-Pinnacle Loop in Sylva. Meet at 8 a.m. at Dillsboro Huddle House. Don O’Neal, 586.5723.

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• Great Smoky Mountains Association guided 3.6-mile roundtrip hike, Saturday, Nov. 16, Thomas Divide trail. Meet at Newfound Gap parking lot at 9:30 a.m. Led by former rangernaturalist Carey Jones. Register at 865.436.7318, ext. 222 or 254. $10 or free with gift membership for new member.

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• Nantahala Hiking Club 9.5 mile hike, Saturday, Nov. 16, Cabin Flats, following Bradley Fork to the old logging camp. Meet at 9 a.m. at Oconaluftee Visitor Center in Cherokee. Keith Patton, 456.8895.

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• Nantahala Hiking Club hike, Sunday, Nov. 17, Wasilik Poplar Trail to Standing Indian campground area. Meet at 3 p.m. at Westgate Plaza, Franklin. Kay Coriell, 369.6820.

• Friends of the Smokies Classic Hike, Tuesday, Nov. 19, Lakeshore Trail, Fontana Lake. Led by renowned hiking expert and author Danny Bernstein. $10 for current Friends of the Smokies members and $35 for new members. Registration required. outreach.nc@friendsofthesmokies.org or 828.452.0720, friendsofthesmokies.org.

• Haw Creek Hike with Brother Wolf, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20. Led by Anna Zanetti, SAHC AmeriCorps associate. Minimum age, 10 years old. Directions/meeting location released upon RSVP. Pre-register at Appalachian.org.

• Nantahala Hiking Club, 4.5 mile hike to Round Mountain, Saturday, Nov. 23. Meet at 10 a.m. at Cashiers Recreation Center. Leaders Mike and Susan Kettles, 743.1079.

PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS • Gov. Pat McCroy has appointed Mitchell E. Powell of Waynesville to the Western North Carolina Public Lands Council. Powell, an owner/operator of Powell Industries, Inc. in Waynesville.

• Doug Johnson, conservation technician with the Macon Soil and Water Conservation District, noon Thursday, Nov. 14, Tartan Hall, Franklin.

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• The Highlands Playhouse now shows new release movies on its new 35-foot theater screen at 7 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. www.HighlandsPlayhouse.org.

• Faculty recital, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, recital hall of the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University. Presented by WCU’s School of Music, featuring clarinetist Shannon Thompson and pianist Andrew Adams in a performance titled “Borrowed Beauties.”

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• Movie night, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, Jackson County Public Library. Call library for movie title. 586.2016.

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• Country singer Rodney Atkins, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 16, Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, 777 Casino Drive, Cherokee. www.Ticketmaster.com.

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• Zombies on Campus! A Slaughterpocalypse!, a new play by D.V. Caitlyn, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Nov. 13-19, Bardo Arts Center Theater, WCU. Adults, $15, faculty/staff/seniors, $10.

Students, $10, $7 in advance. 227.2479, www.wcu.edu/bardoartscenter.

• Mojomatic of Asheville, 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, Swain County Center for the Arts, Bryson City. www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta.

Wardrobe, 2 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. Nov. 29-30, The Strand, 38 Main St., downtown Waynesville. 283.0079.

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• DIY at the Library, Gourd Craft with Frances Glance, 2 to 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, Waynesville Public Library. 356-2507.

• Western Carolina University Jazz Ensemble with guest vocalist Rockell Scott, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 21, recital hall of the Coulter Building at WCU. 227.7242.

FARM & GARDEN • Bring Your Own Lunch with the League, noon Thursday, Nov. 14, Tartan Hall, First Presbyterian Church, Franklin. Featured speaker is Doug Johnson, conservation technician with the Macon County Soil and Water Conservation District.

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AMERICAN TOWERS LLC Is proposing to construct a 149foot overall height stealth monopine telecommunications tower ~1700’ SE from end of School House Branch Rd, Canton, Haywood County, NC, Tax Parcel ID 8632-97-4495. The new tower structure will not be lit and the tower facility will include a 100’ by 100’ lease area and associated easements, along with a 30-ft buffer surrounding the lease area. American Towers LLC seeks comments from all interested persons on any potential significant impact the proposed action could have on the quality of the human environment pursuant to 47 C.F.R. Section 1.1307, including potential impacts to historic or cultural resources that are listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Interested persons may comment or raise concerns about the proposed action by submitting an email to: enviro.services@americantower.com. Paper comments can be sent to: American Towers LLC, Attn: Environmental Compliance, 10 Presidential Way, Woburn, MA 01801.

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FTCC Fayetteville Technical Community College is now accepting applications for the following position: Physics Instructor. Biology Instructor. BlackBoard Administrator.

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HOMES FOR SALE BRUCE MCGOVERN A Full Service Realtor shamrock13@charter.net 828.283.2112.

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