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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 86 / No. 77
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Monday, May 20, 2013
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Camera Club preps for annual show
The Polk County Board of Commissioners recessed its Thursday, May 16 budget workshop until today at 5 p.m. to be held in the upstairs meeting room of the Womack Building in Columbus. Commissioners plan to continue discussions the Polk County recreation budget, as well as finalize the upcoming fiscal year 2013-2014 budget, which begins July 1. 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. 828749-9245. For more activities, email saludacenter@hotmail. com or visit www.saluda.com. The Meeting Place Senior Center sing-along, 10 a.m.; se(Continued on page 2)
Carolina Camera Club members are preparing for their annual show to be held at the Tryon Fine Arts Center from June 10 - July 10. At the May 21 meeting, members will decide which photographs to show. Also at this meeting, Doug Nikau will present a video which shows how to blend two images of different exposures and extend the dynamic range of a single image. Carolina Camera Club meetings are open to anyone interested in photography and start at 6:30 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center’s Mahler Room. (photo by Douglas Chamberlain.)
Polk proposes ½ cent tax cut; Mill Spring/Saluda Fire increases
Budget workshop recessed until today at 5 p.m. by Leah Justice
Polk County commissioners are taking a different approach
this year in balancing next year’s budget with the board going line by line last week in an attempt to cut the budget and possibly taxes. Commissioners met last Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, May 13, 14 and 16 to hear requests from departments and ended with
Serving Polk County and Upper Spartanburg and Greenville Counties
a proposal to cut ½ cent per $100 of valuation off the tax rolls. With cuts, commissioners ended up bringing the budget to $134,336 to the positive, which would allow the county to give a ½ cent tax cut. One penny in Polk (Continued on page 3)