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Tryon Daily Bulletin
The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper
Vol. 86 / No. 5
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
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The Upstairs Artspace will host another Literary Open Stage Friday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. Sign in to present your written works from 6:30 to 7 p.m., readings begin at 7 p.m. The Upstairs Artspace is located in downtown Tryon at 49 S. Trade Street. Check the website at upstairsartspace.org for additional information.
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Wednesdays, Fire Department in Green Creek, 7 a.m. - noon. The Meeting Place Senior Center, Wednesday activities include Tai Chi, 9 a.m.; medication assistance; ceramics, 9:30 a.m.; Wacky Wednesday, senior fitness and Italian club, 10 a.m.; bingo and bridge, 12:30 p.m. 828-894-0001. (Continued on page 2)
Residents filled the Polk County Commissioners’ meeting Feb. 4 to hear discussions on legal trapping, the use of medical responders and the Mountainside Ridgeline Protection Ordinance, among other items. (photo by Leah Justice)
Standing commission crowd debates legal trapping by Leah Justice
The idea of being able to legally trap furbearers in Polk County has upset many who see the practice as inhumane while many others say it’s the logical solution for nuisance animals. The Polk County Board of
Commissioners heard from both sides during a meeting on Monday, Feb. 4 with a standing room only crowd where spectators had to stand along three walls of the room. Commissioners approved sending a resolution to state
legislators on Jan. 7 asking that Polk be included in the counties legally allowed to trap furbearers. Since the decision, a petition against trapping has circled the county with most of the residents (Continued on page 4)
DSS and PF3 work to bring 2-1-1 system to Polk County While the Polk County Sheriff ’s Office is working to bring Nixle to community members in an effort to better inform them, two other agencies
are working to take some of the burden of relaying information off the sheriff’s office. The initiative to bring 2-1-1 to Polk County was the topic of
the program at a recent meeting of the Columbus Lions Club, presented by Lou Parton, director (Continued on page 7)
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