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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 86 / No. 37
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Saluda’s new pocket park, to be located in the vacant space next to M.A. Pace General Store on Main Street, will bear the name of the Robert Pace, who owned the more than 100-year-old landmark store. Pace Park will contain public restrooms, plantings and provide areas to relax. City commissioners voted on the name at their March 11 meeting.
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Lanier Library Book Sale, Friday, March 22, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lanier Library Book Sale open to the public. 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 (Continued on page 2)
Friday, March 22, 2013
Amy Copeland, Saluda Medical Center’s director, right, demonstrates how to use the center’s new telemedicine equipment. (photo by Samantha Hurst)
Telemedicine takes county healthcare to new level by Samantha Hurst
Patients walking into Saluda Medical Center soon will have access to healthcare that might otherwise cost hundreds of dollars and tanks of gas to
experience. WNC Telemedicine Consultants Incorporated, a 501 (c) (3) organization that formed two years ago, installed mobile workstations at the center and
at St. Luke’s Hospital that will virtually connect patients with doctors. “One of the things we’re (Continued on page 6)
Always Tryon begins fundraiser to pay off Simone statue Council discusses possible ownership, moving statue by Leeah Justice
It’s been more than three years
since the Nina Simone statue was dedicated in Tryon and one group says it’s time for the debt on the statue to be paid. The Always Tryon group is making a public plea for fundraising to complete the outstanding
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$55,000 owed to the sculptor who created the Nina Simone statue. Always Tryon’s Steve Cobb and Jim Wright attended the Tryon Town Council meeting on Tuesday, (Continued on page 4)