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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 86 / No. 13
Polk County’s Department of Social Services (DSS) Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting (MAPP) classes for prospective foster parents are set to begin in early March if enough participants sign up. The classes run for 10 weeks. People interested in taking the classes should contact Jennifer Pittman to fill out registration paperwork. For more information, call Pittman at 828-894-6621.
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Mondays, Harmon Field/Tryon, 7 a.m. - noon. Saluda Center, Mondays, chair exercise, 9:30 a.m.; line dance, 12:30 p.m.; Saluda Duplicate Bridge, 1:30 p.m. 828-7499245. For more activities, email saludacenter@hotmail.com or visit www.saluda.com. Saluda Garden Club will meet Feb. 18 at 10 a.m. at the (Continued on page 2)
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Monday, February 18, 2013
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The school security task force ended its first walk-through of all schools last Friday Feb. 15 at Polk County High School. The task force is working on a risk assessment for all school buildings, including Polk Central, SunnyView, the middle school, high school, Stearns, the alternative school, early college, Tryon, Forbes and Saluda. (photo by Leah Justice)
Polk Schools begins strategic planning process by Samantha Hurst
Polk County Schools recently began strategic planning with many schools holding staff meetings to discuss system goals for the next five years. Superintendent Bill Miller
said the goal of strategic planning is to formulate a district mission, set of belief statements and board goals. “Different people providing input about the direction we go in next, allows us a better
opportunity to make sure we have schools our communities are happy with, our parents are happy with and our students are happy with,” Miller said. “The (Continued on page 3)
Polk planning board agrees to work on steep slope ordinance by Leah Justice
The Polk County Planning Board unanimously decided the county would be better protected by having a steep slope ordinance on the books instead of drafting wording for the building inspector to do a
pre-site assessment on all building. The planning board met Thursday, Feb. 14 and unanimously decided to work on an already drafted steep slope ordinance that currently gives a 30 percent threshold as a trigger of calling out the
building inspector. If the ordinance is approved, the building inspector would still be charged with deciding if a building site needs an engineer “I think it would take a lot out (Continued on page 6)
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