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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 85 / No. 133
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
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FHS dog qualifies for K9s for Warriors by Leah Justice
If you haven’t bought your ticket for the Tryon Youth Center’s annual car raffle, you have some extra time now. The youth center has delayed the raffle drawing until Sept. 15 to allow more time to sell the required 300 tickets. Tickets can be bought at many local businesses, or contact Franklin McKaig at 828-8174303, 828-817-1450 or mckaig@charter.net.
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
A Foothills Humane Society (FHS) stray has qualified to become a service dog for a veteran through K9s for Warriors, located in Florida. A few months ago, FHS volunteer Ann Goodheart read an article about service dogs and discussed with others the idea of using Polk County shelter dogs to help those in need. A group of volunteers began researching the idea and contacted K9s for Warriors in Florida, which agreed to accept a dog that would qualify. In the meantime, local volunteers started the Service Animal Project in hopes of providing service dogs for various organizations. Goodheart, Mary Ann Merrill and Sev Bennett said they had no idea that in a short time a “miracle” Labrador retriever
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Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Wednesdays, Fire Department in Green Creek, 7 a.m. - noon. Landrum farmers market, Wednesdays, 9 a.m.-noon, N. Trade Ave. in Landrum. For more information, call Joe Cunningham, 864-457-6585. The Meeting Place Senior Center Wednesday activities include Tai Chi, 9 a.m.; Medi(Continued on page 2)
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Ambrose Mills with Winston, a Foothills Humane Society dog that recently was accepted into the K9s for Warriors program. (photo submitted by Ambrose Mills)
Tryon expresses interest in Jervey-Palmer County tables request to pay for study by Leah Justice
The Town of Tryon has sent Polk County a letter of interest in obtaining the Jervey-Palmer building and requested that the
county conduct a phase I study on the property. County commissioners met Monday, Aug. 6 and tabled a decision to do the study. The county has a $2,400 estimate from Altamont Environmental for a phase I study. Commissioner vice-chair Renée McDermott expressed
concern over the county’s paying for the study, particularly because she said the county already knows the answers to a phase I study. “I’ve looked over Altamont’s proposal for the phase I and it seems to me all the information (Continued on page 9)
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