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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 86 / No. 66
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Thursday, May 2, 2013
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Lanier poetry competition winners announced
The Tryon Police Department will be using the firing range Thursday, May 7 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The firing range is located at the waste water treatment plant off East Howard Street. Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit Thursdays, 7 a.m. - noon, corner of Hampton Court and Hwy 108. Heritage Crafts Workshop will be held on Thursday, May 2 at the Mill Spring Agriculture Center from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. A variety of workshops will be offered including making a “J” Hook with one of our local blacksmiths; make a glass mosaic butterfly trivet, and creating a beaded rope bracelet. Saluda Center, Thursday activities: knitting group, 9:30 a.m.; gentle Yin Yoga, 5:30 p.m. For more activities, email saludacenter@hotmail.com or visit www.saluda.com. (Continued on page 2)
Regoni sweeps student competition A large crowd gathered at the Lanier Library on Saturday, April 27 to hear the results of the fifth annual Sidney Lanier Award Poetry Competition. Opening remarks were made by the competition’s organizer, Frances Flynn, and the poet and former North Carolina Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers was the competition’s judge presented 24 awards to the competition’s finalists. The competitor who had to wait the longest to hear his name called was Lee Stockdale of Tryon, who won first prize in the main competition for his poem, “The Barn.” In a sensational sweep of first, second and third prizes, as (Continued on page 4)
Richard Danforth of Columbus, Chelsea Regoni of Campobello and Lee Stockdale were all winners in the 2013 Sidney Lanier Award Poetry Competition. (photo submitted)
High speed car chase through Columbus, Tryon ends in crash Charges pending on Spartanburg County couple by Leah Justice
What began as a argument at
the Texaco in Columbus with a female driver allegedly hitting her male passenger with the car twice, ended in a crash following a high speed chase through Columbus and Tryon and across the South
Carolina line. A Polk County Sheriff’s Officer was at the Texaco around 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, May 1 and witnessed (Continued on page 3)
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