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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 83 / No. 139
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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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. 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. Saluda Senior Center, Bridge, Tuesdays, 10 a.m., chair exercise, 2:15 p.m. 828749-9245. Polk County Historical Association Museum, open Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 60 Walker St., Columbus, lower level. Free. Green Creek Community Center, Zumba exercise classes Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m., 7 p.m., in gym. Lanier Library, Tuesday, Aug. 17, noon. Tom Moore Craig, author of “Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War,” will speak. All invited to this (Continued on page 2)
Sign of fall It may not actually be fall yet, but the end of summer came yesterday for Landrum students. The sign outside Landrum High School (right) announces the first day of the 2010-11 school year. Above, students participate in the first day of an ROTC class. See p. 7 for more photos. (photos by Leah Justice)
Polk zoning board to decide appeal on Columbus mobile home park tomorrow by Leah Justice
The Polk County Zoning Board of Adjustments is considering an appeal involving a permit for a mobile home in Thistle Lane Mobile Home Park in Columbus township. The zoning board has met twice in the last two weeks, hearing testimony from Billy Inman, the owner of the mobile home park, and Shane Blackwell, who says no
mobile home has been located on the lot in question for more than a year, which he says should mean the permit should not be granted. In April, Inman asked the county whether he could place a mobile home on Lot 1. The Polk zoning administrator said according to the county’s zoning ordinance, a mobile home could be placed on the lot if the last mobile home was
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removed from that lot less than a year earlier. The park is located in the county’s highway commercial zoning district, which does not allow mobile homes. When the zoning restriction was put in place, existing mobile homes were allowed to remain, and the county included a (Continued on page 6)