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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 86 / No. 102
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Monday, June 24, 2013
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LLCA Students enjoy end of year field trips From exploring the endless adventures in Lake Lure and Chimney Rock, to traveling across the region, kindergarten through ninth grade students at Lake Lure Classical Academy finished the school year with a variety of educational and fun field trips. Eighth and ninth grade students traveled to Fort Sumter, S.C. to discover milestones in American History while seventh graders ziplined at Canopy Ridge Farm and hiked the Donald Ross Trail in Lake Lure. Fifth and sixth graders experienced life as astronauts at Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., and fourth graders visited the Carl Sandburg Home in Flat Rock, the North Carolina Zoological Park in Asheboro and the Biltmore House in (Continued on page 4)
Fifth grader Liam Daniels of Tryon sitting in the astronaut simulator at Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala.. (photo by Tracey Daniels.)
Saluda’s Yard Sales will take place Saturday, June 29 from 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. There will be areas downtown for people to set up and sell at the Saluda School tennis courts, the old skate park, Saluda Center porch and the McCreery Park Pavilion. To reserve a free space in one of the three areas downtown or to tell where your yard sale is located so signs can be placed directing buyers, call 828-749-3789.
Polk approves budget with ¼ cent tax cut Board gives FHS $6k for spay/neuter program by Leah Justice
Polk County has a new budget that includes a ¼ cent tax rate decrease and $6,000 more to the Foothills Humane Society (FHS). Commissioners met June 17 and approved the new budget by a 4-1 vote.
Commissioner Ray Gasperson voted against the budget after not receiving a second to his amended motion, which proposed to begin employee raises on July 1 instead of Jan. 1, to fund a child protective services social worker for the department of social services (DSS), to fund FHS’s re-
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