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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 83 / No. 134
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
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A cold swim for cancer research Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Tuesdays, Ozone Drive and Hwy 176, Saluda, 7 a.m. to noon. Polk County Transportation Authority makes a regular trip to Hendersonville on the first and third Tuesday of each month. 894-8203. Hospice of the Carolina Foothills, We Care informal social group for women coping with loss. Open to newcomers, Tuesdays, 9 a.m. at TJ’s Cafe in Tryon. Shannon Slater, 828894-7000. The Meeting Place Senior Center Tuesday activities include ceramics, 9:30 a.m.; art class, 10 a.m., Bingo or movie, 12:30 p.m. 828-894-0001. Polk County Historical Association Museum, open Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 60 Walker St., Columbus, lower level. Free. American Legion Auxiliary, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 10 a.m., American Legion Post, 43 Depot St., Tryon. Girls State attendees will speak. Saluda Senior Center, Bridge, Tuesdays, 10 a.m., chair exercise, 2:15 p.m. 828(Continued on page 2)
Ann, Mattie Yates in Swim Across America
Editor's note: Ann Yates and her daughter, Mattie, of Columbus swam in Lake Michigan recently as part of the Chicago Swim Across America, an event that raises money for cancer research. Below, Ann Yates shares some of the highlights of the swim. by Ann Yates
With the help of donations from friends and family, Mattie and I raised $810 for the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center at Loyola Uni- Mattie Yates' back is decorated with the names of Rebecca Davis and Joseph Ryan, versity Medical Center the cancer victims in whose honor Ann and Mattie Yates participated in the Chicago in Chicago through our Swim Across America event to benefit cancer research. (photo submitted) swim with the Chicago Swim Across America. to the water to check out the temp. Let's just say Saturday morning dawned early for us – we yikes! It was cold. We heard later that the wind were up at 5 a.m. We headed downtown to Ohio had switched the evening before and the lake St. beach just north of Navy Pier in Chicago. (Continued on page 3) We were early to arrive so we headed down
Teachers give Polk schools good marks Polk Central gets most negatives in teacher survey by Jeff Byrd
Teachers in Polk County got their chance to anonymously share their thoughts recently on how their schools are performing, and most did. From March 15 to April 16, teachers across the state were
asked to fill out the 2010 N.C. Teacher Working Conditions survey. The survey was conducted by Gov. Bev Perdue and the N.C. Board of Education, and administered by the N.C. Teaching Standards Commission. Most teachers in Polk County participated, from 90 to 100 percent, at every school except Polk Central, where just 63 percent took the survey, down from a
Serving Polk County and Upper Spartanburg and Greenville Counties
91-percent participation rate two years earlier. If you ask workers about their conditions, you can expect to hear some complaints, and there were some poor marks here and there across the board. But the overwhelming majority of teachers at five of the six county schools, by margins of 86 to 100 percent, said, “Overall, my (Continued on page 4)