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Tryon Daily Bulletin
The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper
Vol. 86 / No. 2
Tryon, N.C. 28782
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Tryon Fire Department will host a soup kitchen on Monday, Feb. 11 from 4 - 6 p.m. at the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. This will be for carry-out orders this time -potato soup and chili beans with cornbread and crackers. Churches and other organizations are asked to place large orders by noon on Feb. 11. Donations are welcomed to support this program. For more information call the Polk County Sheriff’s Office at 828-894-3001
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
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Darla Kleiner (center) leads medical certification classes from the WNC Edutech office in Columbus.
Columbus business combats unemployment issue Polk unemployment rises to 7.8 percent in December by Samantha Hurst
Focusing in the realms of healthcare, one Columbus business initiated an effort a year and a half ago to provide education for people on the brink of losing their
jobs, as well as those aspiring to advance their careers. WNC Edutech owners Michael (Continued on page 3)
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Saluda Center, Friday events: chair exercise, 9:30 a.m.; Trash Train, 10 a.m.; NA Meeting, 8 p.m. For more activities, email saludacenter@hotmail. com or visit www.saluda.com. The Meeting Place Senior Center, Friday activities include movie matinee or drumming at 10 a.m. and bingo or movie at (Continued on page 2)
Saluda working out kinks in shared water system plan by Mark Schmerling
Ways to eliminate potential shortcomings in the joint SaludaColumbus-Tryon shared water system, are coming to light in an engineering study requested by the city of Saluda.
A report by the engineers, aired in December, indicated that while Columbus and Tryon could send water to Saluda, Saluda would not be able to send the full amount of water to the other two towns, without causing too-low
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water pressure for residents of the north side of Saluda. The contract among the three towns calls for the ability to exchange as much as 400,000 (Continued on page 6)