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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 84 / No. 41
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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Mobilizing Polk County 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. 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” is a weekly informal social group open to women coping with loss. The group meets at 9 a.m. at TJ’s Cafe in Tryon and is open to newcomers. For more information, contact Shannon Slater at 828-894-7000 or 800617-7132 or sslater@hocf.org. Saluda Center, Tuesdays, chair exercise, 9 a.m. Bridge, 10 a.m., 828-749-9245. For more activities, e-mail saludacenter@hotmail.com or visit www.saluda.com. 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. - 1 p.m., 60 Walker St., Columbus, lower level. Free. (Continued on page 2)
PCTA’s van doors open to all Polk residents by Samantha Hurst
Polk County Transportation Authority (PCTA) vans traveled 125,700 miles during the first six months of this budget year. That amounts to 4,623 trips or 20,950 miles a month. “We’re busier now than we’ve ever been because we’ve got a lot more people calling us with everything that has happened with the economy,” said PCTA Director Jewell Carswell. PCTA was established in the early 1980s via the Older Americans Act, which provided a block grant for senior centers, home care and transportation. Things have changed dramatically for the authority since then. Carswell said PCTA makes itself available to the entire community now and wants more people to be aware of the services the (Continued on page 3)
Western Carolina Community Action (WCCA) daycare worker Colleen Nagi helps Kaliyah (front) and Esmerelda off the Polk County Transportation Authority bus, which regularly transports children to the WCCA daycare in Lynn. (photo by Samantha Hurst)
White Oak development slowly paying debt to Polk County of more than $160k Recent payments made for water line, taxes by Leah Justice
White Oak Partners development company is slowly chipping away at its debt to Polk County for water line construction costs and back taxes. Currently that debt stands at $162,245. The developers made a $5,000
payment toward the water line debt and a $10,000 payment toward 2010 taxes last Friday, March 25. Polk County sued White Oak last July for not completing payment for a water line the county ran to the development, located in Green Creek. In September 2010, Polk gave White Oak until January 2011 to answer the lawsuit,
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a deadline the developers failed to meet. As of yesterday, White Oak owes the county $46,493 in 2010 taxes. Polk County Tax Collector Melissa Bowlin said White Oak made an agreement when paying off the 2009 taxes to make monthly $10,000 payments until (Continued on page 4)