TROT kicks off new season with training session Aug. 11, page 3
Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 85 / No. 132
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
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Outreach preps families for new school year by Samantha Hurst
The August Tryon Gallery Trot will be this Saturday, Aug. 11, 5-8 p.m. in downtown Tryon. Live entertainment will be provided by the Trophy Husbands. “Trot-dogs” will be available for sale, and local winery and brewery products will be featured at some participating businesses.
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. 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, 800617-7132 or sslater@hocf.org. (Continued on page 2)
In just the first hour of Thermal Belt Outreach Ministry’s school supply drive, 187 children filed through Polk County High School’s cafeteria on Saturday, Aug. 4. Outreach client services coordinator Michelle Reedy said she believes this year’s drive served as many if not more families than last year’s drive. “We’re going to still be giving bags out and serving people through the office for those that were working or simply couldn’t make it by Saturday,” Reedy said. Volunteers outfitted students with bags full of the supplies they would need for their various grade levels – notebooks, pencil (Continued on page 4)
Volunteer Humberto Limon-Mendez and Michelle Reedy of Outreach search for the perfect backpacks for kids getting ready to start back to school. (photo by Samantha Hurst)
Helicopter spots $1.26M marijuana in Polk by Leah Justice
A joint operation involving the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, N.C. Highway Patrol and N.C. State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) discovered approximately 525 marijuana plants worth an estimated street value of $1.26 million growing in Polk County last week. Sheriff’s officers said last Thursday, Aug. 2, a highway patrol helicopter discovered two areas in the county in which
marijuana plants were growing. The largest area was discovered in a wooded area of Saluda with 505 marijuana plants. Another area was discovered in Mill Spring with approximately 20 plants. Officers said the many of the plants discovered were approximately 3 feet high and larger. One marijuana plant has an estimated street value of $2,400, officers said.
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Some of marijuana plants discovered in Polk County. (photo submitted by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office)