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A LOVE STORY IN STONE Sculpting Art from the Heart

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A love letter

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s you read through this month’s magazine, you’ll be struck by a common theme: love.

Whether it’s our love for our family, for animals, or art, for the outdoors, volunteering, or for the love of sport – the features in this month’s magazine, published not coincidentally in February, the month of love, demonstrate so vividly a tender and touching side of life here in the Foothills.

But this isn’t necessarily an issue dedicated to a Hallmark movie version of love, but more a reflection of real love, one that grows out of life’s tough circumstances, out of growing up, out of survival, and of kinship. There are some stories that will leave you with a contented smile; another will make you pause to wipe tears from your eyes; all will remind you to remember, hug, or phone those whom you hold close.

I think it’s also particularly fitting that I sign off as editor of this magazine, my final issue, with an edition filled with such great stories.

I leave it as a love letter to you, our Foothills Magazine reader. Thank you for the opportunity to serve in this position. I have enjoyed getting to know you, hearing your story ideas, working with such a wonderful group of writers and photographers, and listening to your thoughts on all things magazine-related.

As we flip the calendar page into February, I wish our readers a very happy, and love-filled Valentine’s Day! Please continue to send in your story ideas to the Tryon Daily Bulletin, because, as always, this is a magazine by, for and about you, the Foothills readers.

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Claire Sachse Managing Editor claire.sachse@tryondailybulletin.com

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General Manager Kevin Powell

Administration Samantha Willis

Managing Editor Claire Sachse

Contributors Chrelle Booker Jimmi Buell Carol Browning Michelle Fleming Heather Freeman Judy Heinrich Philip Hunt Catherine Hunter Leah Justice Andy Rhinehart Sandra Sibley Vincent Verrecchio Lucas Via Steve Wong

Marketing Magan Etheridge Trish Boyter Production Gwen Ring Distribution Jeff Allison Jamie Lewis Alex Greene Conner Peeler

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on the cover Will Bridges, 8, and Paul Hunt, 6, are the children of Landrum dentists Katie Bridges and Philip Hunt. Recently they experienced their first duck hunt on the swamps off the Enoree River in southern Spartanburg County with Sage, the family’s Lab. Photo by Philip Hunt.

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10 The Nutcracker Ball

DEPARTMENTS 12 Tales of the Hunts

First Sunrise

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Community Chorus

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Lovelace & Brackett

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COLUMNS 41 Much Ado

A Shot in the Arm

42 Let’s Eat!

A healthy heart is a loving heart

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The Splendors of Love

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45 Partnership With Horses 48 Dressage: The Ballet of the Equine World 56 Bring in the Cavalry 62 Connecting Through Chakra

WHY I LOVE THE FOOTHILLS 64 All Roads Lead to Tryon

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TALE S OF THE HUNTS

Sage, the Lab, leads cousins Paul Hunt, 6, and Will Bridges, 8, on their first sunrise hunt in southern Spartanburg County off the Enoree River.

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oments before sunrise, the anticipation grows across the landscape. The first birds brave enough to sing their song pierce the silence as a golden hue takes over the east. One group of wood ducks gets up off the water to find breakfast while a noisy hen mallard quacks to wake up her lazy drake. Wings and ducks whistle while a great blue heron perches softly in the shallows. The two boys with me are in awe at the spectacle while I am jealous that they get to see this for the first time.

Looking at the weather report early in the week, I decide the time is right to bring the boys to the swamp.

To the joy of my son, I tell him his cousin is spending the night to go hunting in the morning. Usually he spends a duck hunt guarding his snacks from his little sister, but finally his best friend is coming along.

Putting the boys down for bed, we say our prayers and go over our game plan for the morning.

My nephew is a few years older than my son and has been interested in hunting. His parents, while not hunters (yet), have instilled a desire for the outdoors and an adventurous spirit. With a hesitant curiosity he has observed his uncles and picked up knowledge on his own. Bringing home books from the library about duck and deer hunting, he has methodically taken steps to be ready for his first hunt.

In the early morning, we drag out of bed, get some donuts and head to the swamp. As we slide the canoe off the bank, a beaver slaps his tail near us giving the boys a startle. Slowly paddling to a shallow area, we set up our decoys and wait for the sunrise show to begin.

During the hunt, the boys have many questions.

“Why didn’t you shoot that duck?” “Do we have anymore donuts?” “Did you mean to miss that one?” Most of the ducks that use this swamp have migrated south, but just as we are about to leave, a mallard flies by and, surprisingly, I don’t miss.

After the shot rang out, the boys are filled with excitement and awe as our Lab finally gets to retrieve.

While packing up decoys I hear the boys inspecting the duck and talking strategy. My nephew explains that we may have called too much and had too many decoys.

I laugh inside as I can tell he read the “Duck Hunting for Kids” book. And he is probably right, I did call too much.

Paddling back to the truck the boys revel in their success and look in wonder at the swamp in the daylight. They look like Lewis and Clark at the front of the canoe guiding me through an unknown swamp.

Once on dry land, the boys get out of the canoe and look back at the wetland with a smile. Contentedly I look at the boys, knowing that for the rest of their life they will remember their first sunrise together on a swamp. • Philip Hunt, DMD, is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys spending time afield with his wife, two kids, and two dogs any chance he gets. His monthly column, Tales of the Hunts, can be found in the Tryon Daily Bulletin. He can be reached at twodogoutdoors@gmail.com, or follow him on Instagram at twodogoutdoors.com.

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LOVE SONG

An annual crowd pleaser, the Community Chorus’ Christmas concert ushers in the holiday season in the Foothills.

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community cho rus A Labor of Love

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t was another packed house at the Polk County High School Auditorium when the Community Chorus took the stage for its annual Christmas concert. For many people in the greater Tryon area, it’s a must-see-and-hear event.

“Let’s Go Caroling” was the theme, featuring, in addition to the 60-voice choir, a five-piece brass ensemble, percussion, and an audience sing-along of favorite carols. Anna Marie Kuether was at the helm this year, with Pam

McNeil masterfully accompanying on the grand piano. As has been the practice since the chorus was founded in 1973, proceeds from the ticket sales supported the Rotary Club of Tryon’s Scholarship Fund. In 2017, Community Chorus concert ticket sales contributed about $15,000 to the scholarship fund. It’s estimated that the concerts have raised more than $300,000 for scholarships over the years.

So how did this 44-year-old community chorus get its start?

According to records and recollections, the chorus was originally called the Rotary Community Chorus, and was the brainchild of the late Rotarian Ken Lackey. He recruited volunteer singers from the community, persuaded Tom Grenfell of the Tryon Presbyterian Church to direct them, and put together a program that was presented to the public at the Tryon Fine Arts Center in the spring of 1973. Ken titled it the “Rotary Festival of Music.”

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The Community Chorus in a recent performance.

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a success that it was followed by a Christmas Concert in December, and the two-concert-per-year format has remained ever since.

It wasn’t too long before Grenfell persuaded Betty Brewer, the choir director at Tryon Presbyterian, to take over direction of the chorus. Betty, along with Joseph Erwin, choir director at The Congregational Church in Tryon, would go on to lead the Community Chorus for some 14 years, splitting the responsibilities for the spring and Christmas concerts. The Community Chorus dedicated its April 2017 Spring Concert to Betty and Joe. Both attended the concert, to the delight of all. Joe passed away just a little more than a month later, in June.

Linda Lee Reynolds, president of the chorus’ board of directors, said, “We were privileged to have Betty and Joe direct us for so many years. In addition to choosing outstanding choral works to perform, they brought great diversity to the program.”

“Betty remained active with the chorus for many years, working in the background on production and the like,” Reynolds added.

In 1976, the chorus made a change to become a more permanent organization, with the members having more say in the programming. The group drafted and approved by-laws and elected Carole (Blackburn) Bartol as its first president.

Board of directors member Art Brown, a 20-year member of the chorus and a Rotarian, said the organization had three main goals at its inception: to perform good quality music, to provide entertaining concerts for the community, and to host a successful fundraiser for the Rotary Scholarship Fund. “We wanted to ensure that the singers enjoyed performing the music as well as having the audience enjoy the concert, and that the Community Chorus contributed to quality programming in the community,” Brown said.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Janice Impey directed the chorus over a span of 10 years, with some 16 performances to her

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DIRECTORS AND ACCOMPANISTS The Community Chorus has been graced with a group of talented directors and accompanists since its founding in 1973. Directors of note are Betty Brewer, Joseph Erwin and Janice Impey, who each served for more than 10 years as directors. Also of note is Pam McNeil, who has been the primary accompanist since 1996, but also performed as accompanist on occasion as early as 1978.

DIRECTORS Tom Grenfell: 7 performances between 1973 and 1979 Anton Cedarvall: 2 performances in 1976 Inky Cloud: 2 performances, in 1977 and 1996 Joseph Erwin: 14 performances between 1978 and 1994 Mary Ann Kilver: 1 performance in 1978 Betty Brewer :11 performances between 1981 and 1990 Ned Davis: 2 performances, in 1988 and 1989 Joseph Armbrust: 2 performances, in 1991 and 1993 Mary Davis: 1 performance in 1992 Beverly Ward: 1 performance in 1993 Lara Miller Jump: 4 performances between 1994 and 1996 Janice Impey: 16 performances between 1997 and 2008 Lesley Bush: 8 performances between 2003 And 2017 Crys Armbrust: 3 performances between 2008 and 2010 Richard Kennedy: 3 performances between 2009 and 2011 Mark Schweizer: 3 performances in 2011 and 2013 Candace Wilson: 3 performances in 2014 and 2015 Annamarie Kuether: 2 performances, in 2016 and 2017 Ben Chumley: 1 performance in 2016 ACCOMPANISTS Maurine Smith: 6 performances between 1973 and 1975 Carole Bartol: 1 performance in 1976 Pam McNeil: More than 45 performances between 1978 and 2017 Lucille Davis: 2 performances, in 1979 and 1983 Doris Corely: 2 performances, in 1984 and 1985 Ricky Duckett: 1 performance in 1986 Ellie Roemer: 10 performances from 1987 to 1996 Betty Van Buskirk: 1 performance in 1996

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Gayle Lane, Beth Ray and Carol Browning

Anna Marie Kuether

credit. Jan came to The Community Chorus from the Chicago area and had an extensive background in choral performance and music education. She was an accomplished jazz and classical pianist and brought an eclectic blend of classical and popular music to the chorus concerts during her tenure as director.

“Jan Impey was a versatile musician,” Reynolds said. “Her concerts would feature the best of classical and modern music.”

Through the years, the chorus has had three name changes: from The Rotary Community Chorus, to the Tryon Community Chorus and finally the Community Chorus. But even that name has a variation. When searching the web, the chorus can be found at www.carolinacommunitychorus.org, and it’s under Carolina Community Chorus on Facebook.

Today the Community Chorus is a federal 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. In addition to president Reynolds, board members include Ben Davis, vice president, Joan Lonnes, secretary, Carol Browning, treasurer, Ken Shull, Rotary president, Jim Bross, Brown, James Bryan, Judy Lair, Gayle Lane, Ray McLees, Beth Ray and Hank Sibley. Lonnes has been a chorus member since the group’s founding.

Last spring, for the first time, the Community Chorus gave out its own award to a chorus member who is pursuing higher education. James Reidy of Campobello was presented the award at the Spring 2017 concert. Reidy is a freshman at Furman University in Greenville and has been a chorus member since he was in middle school. Reynolds jokes that he started as a soprano and grew into becoming a baritone. Reidy’s mom and sisters also sing in the chorus.

Plans are already underway for the Community Chorus’ Spring 2018 concert, set for 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 29, at the high school. Lesley Bush will return to the director’s podium for the ninth time.

“Chorus singers are already excited about the prospect of singing favorite show tunes for their always-appreciative audience,” Reynolds quipped.

Rehearsals for the spring concert are underway. The chorus typically rehearses for 10 weeks prior to a concert from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Tryon Presbyterian Church fellowship hall, 430 Harmon Field Road, in Tryon.

The chorus is open to anyone who enjoys singing. No audition required.

More information can be found on the web or on Facebook.

For the singers in the community chorus, the concerts are a labor of love. “We have fun while we sing, and it’s for a worthy cause,” Reynolds concluded. •

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PUPPY LOVE

The Polk County Animal Control Officers team of Patti Lovelace and Alan Brackett.

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Lovelace & Brackett Polk County’s Animal Control Team

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know many owners who have been unknowingly in violation of the county rabies ordinance,” says Patti Lovelace, one of the new two-person team of Polk County Animal Control Officers. “These are conscientious people who keep their pet vaccinations current and care for their cats and dogs like members of the family. But, they’ve never read, or been told, or they forgot that every cat, dog, or ferret four months or older, must wear a collar with a rabies tag at all times.” Patti stressed “at all times.”

“If the tag is lost, they must have a rabies certificate as proof of vaccination.

“When I tell these owners, the reaction is typically surprise or dismay and I know nothing more has to be said. They will find the tag or get a replacement.

For many cases, I believe that education is preferable to citation ... the first time. When I check back for compliance and if nothing has been done, they get written up just like a speeding ticket.”

PROTECTION, EDUCATION, ENFORCEMENT As we talked, I understood more clearly that Patti saw the new team’s job as primarily threefold: protect the animals and people whose well-being may be at risk from an animal; educate the public about ownership responsibility and liability; and enforce the laws and ordinances with fines, and when necessary, animal impoundment and even criminal charges. I asked for an example of how that translated into the daily routine. As she thought, the good humor in her eyes dimmed.

“It was a mess when we drove in,” she recalled.

Two deputies were already on the scene when Patti and her partner, Officer Alan Brackett, rushed out of the animal control truck into a chaos of twisting and yowling

This rescued stray came into the shelter hungry and shy but once she became socialized and named Robin, she began meowing through the kennel bars for attention and a friendly touch. (Photo by Vince Verrecchio)

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A stray that sits on command troubles Alan Brackett, animal control officer, when opening the gate and urging an obviously lost pet to kennel at the Foothills Humane Society. “I can walk away though knowing he’ll be safe until the owner comes or someone else adopts him.” (Photo by Vince Verrecchio) 22

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It has been estimated that 63,000 of the 70,000 puppies and kittens born today in the US will not find a permanent home. Patti and Alan can help with information about the low cost spay and neuter programs in the Foothills. (Photo by Vince Verrecchio)

Alan feels that one danger of his job is getting too attached to any one dog or cat that’s found or rescued. “I found him wandering...nice guy, well-fed, neutered, but after four months here, no one has claimed him.

Fortunately, this is a no-kill shelter. Hulk deserves a good home.” (Photo

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dogs that yanked at tethers outside a trailer home. Three dogs in varying sizes of large were unable to flee or effectively fight against a powerful female boxer mix that was attacking without restraint. A hapless owner gawked. Whatever words he mouthed were broken by yelping and barking. In slow motion perception through adrenalin, the scene funneled to the boxer at the throat of the smallest captive dog, a panicked female.

As Patti talked, her eyes refocused from me to somewhere inside where she’d rather not go.

Over seven years with a county badge as a volunteer animal cruelty investigator, Patti has confronted the range of human negligence, ignorance, arrogance, and other synonyms for why humans can be responsible for animal There was an Adoption SOS at the Foothills Humane Society in suffering. She had the experience and motivation to accept December, and the situation is still crowded. Patti says, “Education is critanother badge in July 2017 as a paid part-time county ical and of course, personal responsibility.” (Photo by Vince Verrecchio) animal control officer.

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Polk County Animal Control Officers Patti Lovelace and Alan Brackett go on duty in a self-contained vehicle equipped for routine patrols and the unexpected. For example, there’s a taser, microchip scanner, snare pole, bite and scratch resistant gloves, and a multi-purpose computer that, among other capabilities, links to a Foothills Humane Society database in Columbus. (Photo by Vince Verrecchio)

Animals have been part of her life since at least age 3 when she vaguely remembers her fat Beagle, Lenny. She has also been riding and showing horses since age 9 and brings this knowhow to her role as a volunteer for the FERA (Foothills Equine Rescue Assistance) division of the Foothills Humane Society.

In 2016, she was recognized with the Duke Energy Service and Citizenship Award at a ceremony where a presenter recalled her bringing home lab rats from Winthrop College.

Depending on schedules, she patrols alone or with Alan Brackett, a sworn sheriff’s deputy with arrest powers. In 1995, Alan completed the North Carolina BLET (Basic Law Enforcement Training curriculum) in preparation for his law enforcement career, now spanning 22 years. He is currently employed at the Polk County Sheriff’s Office as a full-time animal control officer. He feels that one danger of his job is getting too attached to any one dog or cat that’s found or rescued.

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checks frequently at the Foothills Humane Society. “I found him wandering...nice guy, well-fed, neutered, but after four months here, no one has claimed him. Fortunately, this is a nokill shelter. Hulk deserves a good home.”

In my opinion, these were the right people responding to what Patti remembers as “a draining experience.”

One of the deputies used pepper spray to try to separate the dogs without positive effect. The boxer mix was clamped on the female’s throat. For the officers, reaching into the tangle to pry open the jaws was not a safe option even with Kevlar gloves. The female was dying. The mission of deputies to protect can become gray and the other deputy had to make a choice that should never be forced on anyone. He had to draw his gun. Patti and Alan were there to make the decision to euthanize both dogs because the owner could not afford a veterinarian. Alan did it.

Patti didn’t need to tell me how she felt; the impact was still apparent.

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“Puppies bring joy,” says Patti Lovelace, ”but not when found on the side of a road with a litter mate. Too many people are letting dogs and cats breed without any sense of consequences.”

(Photo by Vince Verrecchio)

A month after being rescued by Patti for $80 from starvation and maltreatment, Skeeter weighs in with an added 60 pounds to cover his ribs. (Photo by Vince Verrecchio)

“I was angry, sad, frustrated, baffled all at the same time. I couldn’t understand why the owner brought home a fourth dog. I asked him for the name of his veterinarian and he didn’t have one.” Patti recalls the conversation continuing: “Who does rabies vaccinations for you?”

“They don’t have rabies shots.”

“You know that’s against the law?”

His head shook a puzzled “no” before he floundered into excuses of not having any money.

“I could fine you $100 a dog.”

By the time you are reading this, Patti will have followed up to be sure that the owner’s emotional apologies were sincere and the surviving two dogs had gotten to the vet and been vaccinated. She will also have checked more carefully on his compliance with an ordinance that a tether must be at least four times the length from the tip of the nose to tip of the tail and never less than 10 feet.

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pet to be unprotected,” states Patti. “There are also low cost spay and neuter programs.

“No matter how hard the staff and volunteers work at the Foothills Humane Society, the space keeps filling with rescues and strays that Alan and I and others bring in. In December, the shelter had to issue an Adoption SOS because the animals were doubling up. Space is still a challenge.

There are laws and ordinances for dogs in heat and enforcement is necessary to relieve the population crisis. But perhaps, even more so, education is critical and of course, personal responsibility.” • A photo waits in all things, all places, and everyone with a passion has a story to be told.

That’s the perspective Vince Verrecchio, lightly retired ad agency creative director, brings as a writer and photographer contributing to Foothills Magazine. He can be reached at vincent.verrecchio@gmail.com.

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ART WITH HEART

“That grouping took most of 1999,” says Dale. “Polar bears are a cause for us. Our last vacation was to see the polar bear congregation on the early ice in Churchill.” (Photo by Vince Verrecchio)

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A pencil defines the next piece to be removed in creating the downtown Tryon sculpture “Tails to Rails.” (Photo by Loti Woods)

A love story in stone Dale Weiler and Loti Woods

BY VINCENT VERRECCHIO

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first met Dale in 2015 standing by his gorilla bust at a Tryon Painters and Sculptors’ show,” recalled Loti Woods. “He called the work “Enigma” and I could not imagine how he brought such life to the eyes. We talked as if we had already known each other a long time. Eight days after our first date, Dale proposed and gave me a gift for the occasion.”

Loti showed me a delicate, life-like sculpture of baby sea turtles pulling free of the sand.

As I talked with her and her husband, sculptor Dale Weiler, and got to know them, I perceived a touching symbolism in the engagement gift.

Both had lost spouses and were getting

accustomed to the idea of being alone when they found each other, and as Loti explained, “finding new love in our 60s was a new life.”

They waited five months before getting married. As a wedding gift, Dale gave Loti “The Love Knot.” It had taken him four months to bring the sculpture of the mother and baby elephant to life with entwined trunks and heads made of steatite, Dale’s favorite stone, and a tusk of alabaster.

“After the marriage I wondered what were we going to do now?” Dale’s emphasis was on “we.” “Sculpting was my joy and I loved it. For a year and a half after my wife’s death, it was my healing. But then it felt like my art

was getting stale. Both Loti and I were looking for a new sense of purpose.”

Dale and his brother grew up together hunting and fishing and loving the outdoors. Their father was a professional sporting painter and schoolteacher who counseled his children not to become artists. Dale’s brother and his siblings heeded the advice. Dale procrastinated with a master’s degree in aeronautic systems, working on a thesis at NASA, flying Navy jets, matchmaking technical companies as a consultant with Arthur D. Little, and finally owning a strategic consulting firm. It was 1989 when he finally took a sculpting class and discovered he could feel and see a trout FOOTHILLS MAGAZINE February 2018

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As an engagement gift, Dale gave Loti a delicate life-like sculpture of baby turtles pulling free of the sand. His wedding gift to her was “The Love Knot” sculpted in steatite, his favorite stone, with a tusk of alabaster. (Photo by Vince Verrecchio)

“Every stone has personality. I’ve learned to flow with what the stone wants to give me,” says sculptor Dale Weiler. (Photo by Vince Verrecchio)

inside a stone. “I can’t explain...I see wildlife in the stone, in 360 degrees, and work to free and preserve it ... taking away what’s unnecessary.”

Today, 15 of his 70 wildlife pieces are in museums and many with private collectors.

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Loti and Dale met under the gaze of “Enigma” at a Tryon Painters and Sculptors’ show. Dale says, “It was love at first sight.” (Photo submitted)

adventures. She never thought much about art, preferring the outdoors to a museum. A degree in special education directed her path until finding an interest and talent in the specialized business of hard-to-place property insurance in areas at risk from hurricanes and other natural threats.

She sold her own business after a number of years and moved to Tryon.

“We both had a passion for the

outdoors and learning about wildlife,” Dale continued. “We found our new sense of purpose by forming Weiler Woods for Wildlife...using my art to bring awareness and funding to wildlife conservation causes. Loti brings her organizational and sales skills, making contacts with organizations, and creating our marketing tools.”

“I was able to see ‘Hellbender’s Rock’ evolve from a 200-pound stone

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“I see wildlife in the stone and work to free and preserve it.�

Listed as Near Threatened, the flat-bodied Hellbender is the largest freshwater salamander in North America at up to 29 inches long and 5.5 pounds.

Dale found a male burrowed in 400 pounds of alabaster and the photographic evolution from stone was recorded by Loti Woods. Final by Corrie Woods.

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A power drill details an owl in preparation for the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History, Jamestown, N.Y. (Photo by Corrie Woods)

into an icon of a rare species of giant salamander,” says Loti. “It was exciting photographing each step and fun to hear Dale talking to it, coaxing it along. It will always be a reminder of the start of our new journey together.”

The sculpture will be installed on May 8 as a focal point at the renovated Hellbender’s exhibit at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro.

Money from the sale of an elephant sculpture, “Fractured Existence,” was also donated to the zoo’s elephant enrichment program. Net proceeds from the sale of “Cliff Hanger” went to bat conservation. I gestured to a realistic fruit bat to the right of the living room fireplace. “How many bats have you done?”

Dale remembered eight fruit bats and microbats. “I often get focused on a species. Wanting to draw attention... creating a passion that leads to education, a better understanding and appreciation, and ultimately involvement of time and money.”

On the left of the fireplace, a lone polar bear lumbered down a block of ice onto a cabinet top. On the coffee table at my knees two polar bear cubs sprawled on their sleeping mother.

Dale explained, “Before touching

stone, I studied books and watched videos to understand how polar bears move. That sculpture grouping took most of 1999. Polar bears are a cause for us. Our last vacation was to see the polar bear congregation on the early ice in Churchill. She took photographs from 20 feet away.”

“How do you do it?” I asked lightly fingering the glassy back of a cub.

“Every artist has tools and a process.”

As he talked, I immediately knew that safety goggles are essential and much breathing was through a particulate respirator. It’s a dusty art with pneumatic grinders and saws spraying debris at enough decibels to mute a dentist drill. A hammer drill bores holes 1.5 inches apart, horizontally and vertically, targeting to meet at coordinates hidden in the stone. A feather wedge is driven into each hole. A final blow hopefully cracks the stone between the holes to free the pieces between. Hand tools such as a jeweler’s file and 1,000 grit sandpaper on the tip of an eighth-inch diameter dowel continue the search for the wildlife that Dale is certain of finding.

“Every stone has personality,” says Dale. “I’ve learned to test for fault lines by the tone of a steel rod tapped

on the surface. But faults can provide unforeseen improvements. Even when I get to polishing and seal coating, there may be surprises. I’ve learned to flow with what the stone wants to give me.”

For Dale and Loti, their sense of purpose in 2018 focuses on the NC Zoo and the WNC Nature Center in Asheville. Dale is studying red wolves, knowing that examples of this rare species, found wild only in North Carolina, await discovery in at least a few of the stones in his stash of steatite, marble, granite, alabaster, and other blocks and slabs.

For more information on Loti and Dale’s conservation efforts, visit www. weilerwoodsforwildlife.com.

A photo waits in all things, all places, and everyone with a passion has a story to be told. That’s the perspective Vince Verrecchio, lightly retired ad agency creative director, brings as a writer and photographer contributing to Foothills Magazine. He can be reached at vincent.verrecchio@gmail.com.

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HOMETOWN HERO

Hawthorne Wingo (photo by Lucas Via)

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Tryon High School Photo (Courtesy Pat McCool)

Authographed by Hawthorne Wingo, this photograph will go in a display case at Tryon Elementary that is set up for former athletes and teams. (Photo by George Kalinsky. Submitted by Hawthorne Wingo)

Journey of a lifetime From Tryon to the NBA with Hawthorne Wingo

BY ANDY RHINEHART

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arthorne Wingo gingerly lifted his 6-foot-6 frame from the chair in the Brooklyn donut shop where he spends part of nearly every day, reaching for his nearby cane while standing.

New York City baked on a warm summer’s day, an afternoon where a younger Wingo might well have been found at Rucker Park, the legendary Harlem basketball court where NBA

stars routinely traded elbows and baskets with playground legends. Wingo would become one of those legends, deemed one of the 50 greatest to ever play in the Pro League there, the Rucker becoming the stepping stone to a professional career.

You can leave Polk County and get to Madison Square Garden by car in some 11 hours, but to make that journey and actually step onto the famed Garden

floor? Wingo did it in five years, going from a street corner in Tryon to donning a New York Knicks uniform, an unlikely journey from dirt courts to playing alongside the world’s best. Along the way he collected an NBA championship, plus titles on two other continents, and even earned a place in pop culture with a mention in the Beastie Boys song “Lay It On Me” (“My favorite New York Knick was Harthorne Wingo. . .”).

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Not that the only NBA player that Polk County has ever produced dwells much on past fame these days. Wingo’s more worried about his arthritic right hip that needs a replacement, plus costly rehab to follow. The new hip would allow him, even at age 70, to spend more time back on basketball courts, to share his story with New York City youth, maybe to even travel back to the hometown he still loves.

It’s another challenge to overcome in a life that has been filled with them.

U Breaking the color barrier at Tryon High School meant a lot less walking every day for Harthorne Wingo.

Walking to Edmund Embury School every day from the home he shared with 14 brothers and sisters meant going down one long hill, slogging up another and then doing the reverse at day’s end. On cold mornings, the end of the walk rarely meant the end of the chill; finding a warm room at Embury in the winter was a luxury.

So when Tryon City Schools decided to reassign a group of African-American students to Tryon High, even before court-ordered integration forced them to drop all racial barriers, Wingo welcomed the opportunity to make the shorter trip each day.

As it so often does, sports helped ease the transition to the previously all-white campus.

“I remember one day a friend of mine who lived down the hill, Bill Brown, came to me and said ‘Harthorne, let’s go around the corner to the gym (the old gym at Tryon High). Some guys are down there playing ball, and let’s see if we can go play with them,” Wingo said.

“We went down there, and we went in the gym and we stood around in the corner. There was one of the greatest basketball players to ever come out of Tryon, a guy by the name of Duke Fisher.

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Harthorne Wingo became the first African American to play basketball at Tryon High School.

(Tryon High School photos courtesy Pat McCool)

they didn’t have enough for a full court.

So Duke said, ‘Hey, c’mon, you guys wanna play?’ So we went out there and played.

“At that time, it was the beginning of integration. We played, and after the game, Duke said, ‘Hey, we’re going to be out here tomorrow. You guys, come back and we’ll be out here playing.’ We played all that summer at the old gym with those

guys. Two years later, they integrated schools, and it wasn’t a problem because I knew most of the players anyway.”

Wingo would enter Tryon High as a senior, leaving behind friends and basketball teammates at Embury. He initially joined the Tigers’ football team, but “flunked out,” in his words, and left the squad. Tryon High

Among Wingo’s memorabilia is this photo of the 1972-1973 Knicks team, autographed by his teammates. (Photo by Lucas Via)

basketball coach Bill Barry soon pulled Wingo aside.

“Mr. Barry came to me and said ‘Don’t worry about it. I want you to go to the gym every day instead of going to football practice. Phillip Culbreth and Bill Stevenson, they’ll be up there lifting weights, and I want you to go lift weights with those guys.’ So, I went up there every day and I met Bill and Phil,” Wingo said. “Very nice guys, and we became good friends.”

Wingo would be the only AfricanAmerican starter on the Tigers’ roster that season, joining a team already headlined by Tryon standouts Andy Hancock and Bill Metcalf. He didn’t play in the team’s season opener at Rosman, his first action coming at Brevard with a 20-point effort in a 54-53 win. Still adjusting to their new teammate, the Tigers meandered to a 3-3 record before catching fire, winning 15 straight games and the Foothills Conference regular

season and tournament championships.

Wingo and Hancock earned allconference honors, with Metcalf a second-team selection.

But the team’s hopes for a state championship would end quickly in a 59-55 loss to Bakersville High School in the first round of the Class A district tournament. Wingo capped his season with 17 points, 29 rebounds and six blocked shots in that loss, which left the Tigers with an 18-4 record in their first season with an integrated roster.

Wingo, the trailblazer, could not have enjoyed the season more.

“I did hear a few obscene names being called, but it didn’t matter to me because my teammates were fully behind me, 100 percent,” he said. “They had no problems.

“Bill and Phil were always there.

Every place we went to play, Bill was on this side of me and Phil was on this side.

Those guys were really great guys, and I

never had a chance to thank them. They made me feel a lot better because every place we went, I was (one of the few blacks) in the conference at that time, in the gym, period. But it didn’t matter that much because all the guys supported me.

They all accepted me, and Coach Barry was wonderful. He was great. I missed my teammates across town, but these guys made it a lot easier to deal with.

Plus, we won a lot of games.”

Barry’s role with his new star didn’t end with the loss to Bakersville. He worked tirelessly to find a college home for Wingo, a place for him to continue his basketball career while pursuing a degree. The two spent several Saturdays visiting college campuses until Wingo, facing at least a year of college prep school before attending any university, decided he had spent enough time pursuing a four-year option. He spent a year at Friendship Junior College, then returned home, unsure of what to do or FOOTHILLS MAGAZINE February 2018

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New York City, and with an aunt living there, Wingo hopped on the bus and headed north. He expected New York City to be a town just like Tryon, to find people who knew his aunt and could direct him to her house.

“I was at Port Authority and I was waiting on her for about 18 hours,” Wingo laughed. “I made it to Port Authority and I’m from Tryon, North Carolina, and I’m saying wow. I get up here and all I had was an address and no number. I didn’t know how Brooklyn was. I’m thinking small-minded all the time and now there are boroughs and all these people.

“I’m walking around Port Authority for about 10 hours and I ran into a friend from Tryon who worked at Port Authority, a guy by the name of Stanley McClure. He said ‘Harthorne!,’ and I hugged him and I said Stanley, I’m so glad to see you, man.”

Wingo spent the final months of 1968 playing in a winter basketball league, then took his first turn at the vaunted Rucker League the following summer, the run-and-gun ethos of the playground quickly winning his heart.

“For me, it was like somebody takes a stallion out to an open field and lets him go,” Wingo said of Rucker play. “That’s how I felt. It was great. This is what I want to do. That summer, I went and played at the Rucker with a team called Sports Foundation. We had a pretty good team. I was still green. I was Replica of Wingo’s Knicks 1973 championship ring (Photo by Lucas Via) learning how to play. After maybe 30, 40 games, it came to me.

The game just came to me, and I started doing things I used to think about doing. where to go next.

“I started playing with great ballplayers. Dr. J (Julius Erving) The answer, and a new challenge, would soon arrive. was playing. Tiny Archibald. Dave Cowens. Bob Love played.

Dave Stallworth from the Knicks, Willis (Reed) and all those U guys from the Knicks were playing there. I started playing real good. They had an all-star game, and they started calling the From the corner of Lockhart Road and School Street, you people who made the all-star game and said Harthorne Wingo. can peer down the hill at the former Tryon High School, now I was like, oh, man, wow, this is really great. I went and played Tryon Elementary School. Turns out you can also see your well. I played real well that summer.” future there.

Wingo’s Rucker stature grew quickly, as did his reputation.

Harthorne Wingo sat on that corner and tried to sort out In 1970, he accepted an invitation to join the Harlem Wizards, his life, his love for basketball diminished by the year spent a show team formed in the spirit of the Harlem Globetrotters. in the chaotic, every-man-for-himself world of junior college Soon thereafter, Stallworth suggested to Knicks head coach basketball in the late 1960s, his career plans anything but Red Holzman that he should check out Wingo. The Knicks certain. steered Wingo to Allentown, Pa., to play in the Eastern League, “Every day, I’d be sitting out there on the sidewalk, thinking where he thrived; during the 1971-72 season, Wingo averaged about what I was going to do,” Wingo said. “Then a real nice 22 points and 14 rebounds in leading Allentown to a league guy saved my life and got me started playing ball again, a guy championship and earning Most Valuable Player honors. by the name of Carroll McKinney. His car rolled by, and he Wingo felt certain that season would be his last in stopped and he said, ‘We want you to play with us, we play in Allentown, but prior to the 1972-73 season, Holzman pulled a league down in Spartanburg, a textile league. There’s this big Wingo aside and told him that he had no place on the Knicks guy, and we need you to take care of him.’ So I went down and roster for him at that time. He returned to Allentown until I played, and we won, and Carroll got me a job. I had to work February, when he got the phone call that would again change there so I could play there. his life and bring his next challenge - the Knicks were waiving “I did that for a year, and I thought, this has been good, but first-round draft pick Tom Riker from South Carolina (he I really think I’d like to play more ball, so I decided to come would also head to Allentown) and wanted Wingo to take his to New York. I got on the Greyhound bus and I came to New place.

York.”

He signed a multi-year contract on Feb. 1, 1973. The NBA Teammates at Friendship had talked about basketball in awaited.

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“I made the wrong move, even though I went to Italy and we won the (European Cup Winners’ Cup), which is one of the Euro championships. We won that two years in You couldn’t throw a basketball in any direction at a New a row, but it wasn’t the NBA. It wasn’t the NBA, so I made York Knicks practice in 1973 and not hit a legend.

Walt “Clyde” Frazier. Willis Reed. Earl “The Pearl” Monroe. a wrong move. I just felt so bad because I was playing so good and, boom, you’re not playing again. I was back to the Jerry Lucas. Phil Jackson. Dave DeBusschere. Bill Bradley.

Play ball with those guys? Harthorne Wingo was just happy bench again and it got the best of me.”

Wingo conquered the challenges of international to be in the building with them. basketball.

He played four seasons in Italy, averaging 20 “It was a like a dream come true because every day, I points and 12 rebounds for two different teams and being was looking at my heroes,” Wingo said. “They won the first championship in 69-70, and I was a fan of the Knicks. At that part of the back-to-back Winners’ Cup teams (the Winners time, all of the away games were on Channel 9, and everybody Cup being a European tournament for teams that finished second in their national leagues). Seasons in Switzerland could get Channel 9, so all of New York watched all the away and South America followed. He helped lead Ferro Carril games. The home games were on cable, but everybody had Oeste, an Argentina-based professional team, to the South cable in Harlem. So I watched all the games.

American Club Championship title in 1982, beating Sirio “Every day, I couldn’t believe it. There’s Willis Reed, Jerry Lucas, Walt Frazier, Earl Monroe. Thank you, God. That’s the and legendary player Oscar Schmidt in the process.

Wingo enjoyed it all - with one caveat. way I felt.”

“Italy was good,” he said. “We traveled all throughout Wingo played in 13 regular-season games that season, Europe.

Spain, France, Italy, Bucharest in Romania. Had then saw limited action in three playoff contests as the Knicks a great time.

To win the Euro was good. We were the first captured the NBA championship. His playing time doubled Italian team to go back-to-back. That’s the second-best team the next season, then doubled again in 1974-75, when he averaged 20 minutes, seven points and six rebounds. He had six in Europe. First is the Cup of Champions.

“I enjoyed it because I had the chance to play the whole double-doubles in the regular season, including 17 points and game.

I did great. I had a double-double, 21 points and 16 rebounds in a win at Phoenix, and added 11 points and 10 almost 13 rebounds, leading scorer and rebounder. That’s rebounds in a playoff loss to Houston. what I wanted more than anything, to play. But, it’s not the But Wingo’s growing stature on the Knicks roster took a NBA. No matter where you go, it ain’t the NBA, simple as hit with an offseason trade for Spencer Haywood, adding the eventual Hall of Famer to the playing rotation. Wingo’s playing that.” time dropped to nine minutes per game during the 1975U 76 season while his knowledge of the business of basketball increased in kind.

It is the heart of winter in New York City, and Harthorne “When they brought Spencer in, I was very dejected,” Wingo is hurting.

Wingo said. “At the end of the (74-75) season, Red gave me a The arthritis in his right hip has steadily worsened, and bonus, gave me a $5,000 bonus. I figured next year would be a an aching hip on a cold January day is never going to be great year for me. anything but problematic.

“At that time, Red was the coach and general manager.

Wingo has dealt with the challenges of New York City But people were putting a lot of pressure on him because they wanted another championship. They didn’t have time to bring me along. So they sat me on the bench and brought in a bigname player.”

With Haywood in place, Wingo decided after the 1975-76 season to take his talents elsewhere. That destination became Italy, where a guaranteed contract awaited.

It also led to the biggest regret of his career.

“The Knicks put me on waivers, and I came to Manhattan (to his lawyer’s office),” Wingo said. “My agent wanted me to go to Italy, but my lawyer said, ‘come here, I want to talk to you,’ and took me in the back.

“He said, ‘Wingo, (Portland head coach) Jack Ramsey just called me. He wants you to come to Portland and will guarantee you 20 minutes a game. But he can only pay you $35,000.’ That’s what I made my first year, and now it’s four years later.

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since his retirement in 1983, and he admits he initially didn’t handle them well. Unable to find a job in basketball upon his return to America, Wingo instead found one of life’s detours, dealing with financial and substance abuse issues over the next few years.

A rehabilitation visit in the early 1990s helped Wingo beat the latter, but an assortment of health issues, including his right hip, have made life challenging since.

Wingo has taken it all in stride.

“If I had retired and stayed in Italy, I probably would have done real well, because they knew me,” Wingo said.

“They had a chance to really see me, and they saw me when I excelled.

But when I came back to the United States, the Knicks had changed their organization completely. The only person still affiliated when I first came back was Red Holzman. I really didn’t have any contacts with the Knicks.

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on. Life goes on.”

There is hope for 2018. Wingo is scheduled to meet with doctors in early January to finally schedule his hip replacement. “I’m ready,” he said.

“I’m tired of this pain.” He’s unsure of how he’ll pay for the complete rehabilitation after the surgery; friends have started a GoFundMe account to help with those bills.

What Wingo is certain of is that he’ll meet those challenges head-on, as he has the others in his life, all thanks to the lessons learned on Lockhart Road.

“My upbringing and how I was raised,” Wingo credits for the accomplishments of his life. “I wasn’t raised by my parents. The lady who raised me (Lula Cowins) was a hard-working lady. She taught me responsibility and how to follow a process. There was nothing too big or too small to handle. I miss Tryon.

I love Tryon. That was the greatest

thing ever, to grow up in Tryon, North Carolina. I loved that place. Lot of good people, lot of good friends.

“I’m waiting on a hip replacement, and once I get that done, I’m going to get back out there,” Wingo said.

“The last two years I’ve been living in Brooklyn and have done a few things here and there, but with my hip I can’t really get around and move like I what like to, get out there and demonstrate for the kids. Tell them where I came from, tell them the old-school ways.” • Andy Rhinehart is the force behind PolkSports.com and PolkStudents.com, and is an awardwinning journalist with more than a decade of experience in daily and non-daily newspapers. He is also a customer success manager at Parse.ly.

MUCH ADO

A shot in the arm Getting the flu and blaming the Creature from the Black Lagoon

BY STEVE WONG

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hate to admit it, but I’ve learned my lesson about the flu the hard way — again.

After six days of simultaneous chills and sweats, brain-splitting headaches, bedridden fatigue, and an unsteady diet of DayQuil, NyQuil, and CocaCola, I have finally thrown back the eight heavy quilts that, like me, are in dire need of disinfecting. I’m a new man: few pounds lighter, blurry eyed, and bushy faced. I am told the nation has just come through an historic “bomb cyclone” of cold weather, the dumb rich guy with the funny haircut is ticked off about some must-read book Fire and Fury, and Oprah will be our next president.

So all those Hollywood celebrities weren’t wearing black because I was sick? I must have been delirious because I swear I saw some woman flirting with the Creature from the Black Lagoon. The wife tells me “no,” we weren’t eating roasted oysters at the Carolina Foothills Chamber of Commerce’s annual Shuckin’ & Shagging fundraiser. That green and gooey loogie I hocked up was a lung.

Yes, I had a full-blown case of the flu, and I have lived to regret not getting the flu shot. Until this year, I have always rolled up my sleeve at the drugstore to get the flu shot because

about 25 years ago, I got the flu and thought I was dying. I was younger then, and I really wasn’t dying but I felt like it.

After that experience, I swore I’d overcome my fear of needles and get the shot every year. And I did, until this year. For some, wisdom comes with age. For others, like me, comes the wagging finger of “you should know better.”

For the past couple of months, the nice lady at CVS has asked me repeatedly if I wanted the flu shot.

Each time, I declined. She’s just trying to make sales quotas. My insurance plan didn’t cover it. I was in a hurry.

I hardly ever get sick. I’ve not seen anyone with the flu, so I’m not exposed. After 25 years, the memory and pain of the flu had faded. Besides, I drink orange juice, eat spinach, and wash my hands several times a day: I don’t need the flu shot. Wrong!

According to conflicting Internet statistics, between 5 and 20 percent of Americans will get the flu and 200,000 will be hospitalized. It will cost the nation more than $10 billion in medical costs. Between 3,000 and 49,000 will die.

There’s more than one flu strain -- so you can get the flu more than once in one season. Pick your poison:

Influenza A, H1N1, H3N2, Influenza B, Yamagata, or Victoria. Getting the flu shot reduces your chance of getting the flu by 60 percent. The current flu shot is only about 10 percent effective.

Both North Carolina and South Carolina are hotbeds of flu infections.

No, you can’t get the flu from the deranged sick person on social media, although some of my Facebook friends seem to think so.

There, I’ve written 600 words for a column that is more than a little late.

I’m tired. My eyes feel hot. There’s still a little something in my chest rattling around like bad oyster looking for a way out. I’ll trust my editor to catch the typos and hope she doesn’t catch the flu by just reading this. I’m going back to bed. Go wash your hands. And whatever else you may or may not do, get the flu shot.

Say what, Oprah? You can change The Shape of Water? You’ve got my vote. • Steve Wong is a writer living in the peach orchards in Gramling, S.C. He can be reached online at Just4Wong@Gmail.com.

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LET’S EAT!

A HEALTHY HEART

is a loving heart

BY JIMMI BUELL

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n February we think of Valentine’s Day, but it is also National Heart Month, reminding us to take care of our heart.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States. Every year, 1 in 4 deaths are caused by heart disease.

On average, someone dies of Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) every 40 seconds. That is about 2,200 deaths of CVD each day.

The good news? Heart disease can often be prevented when people make healthy choices and manage their health conditions. You can make healthy changes to lower your risk of developing heart disease. Controlling and preventing risk factors is also important for people who already have heart disease.

One of the ways to lower your risk is to get active and eat healthy. We hear about this diet and that diet, but the one that has been backed by 20 years of research is the Mediterranean Diet.

Research suggests that the benefits of following a Mediterranean-style eating pattern have been associated

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with reduced levels of inflammation, a risk factor for heart attack, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. This diet has been associated with a lower level of oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol — the “bad” cholesterol that’s more likely to build up deposits in your arteries. In fact, a meta-analysis of more than 1.5 million healthy adults demonstrated that following a Mediterranean diet was associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular deaths as well as overall chronic disease deaths.

For these reasons, most if not all major scientific organizations encourage healthy adults to adapt a style of eating like the Mediterranean diet for prevention of major chronic diseases.

The Mediterranean diet emphasizes: • Eating primarily plant-based foods, such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and nuts • Replacing butter with healthy fats such as olive oil and canola oil • Using herbs and spices instead of salt to flavor foods • Limiting red meat to no more

than a few times a month • Eating fish and poultry at least twice a week • Enjoying meals with family and friends • Drinking red wine in moderation (optional) • Getting plenty of exercise I will be talking more about this way of healthy eating in the months to come. For now, a quick and easy place to find out more about the Mediterranean way of eating with lots of easy recipes is online at medinsteadofmeds.com. See page 43 for one of my favorite recipes.

Jimmi Buell, Extension Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences, Polk County Center of the NC Cooperative Extension Service, teaches cooking and nutrition classes with a focus on improving health with better food choices. She can be reached at jimmi_ buell@ncsu.edu or 828-894-8218.

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2 – 4 tablespoons chopped green onions A few grinds of fresh black pepper 1 egg ½ cup whole-wheat panko bread crumbs Grapeseed, canola, or other vegetable oil for cooking the burgers

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6. Cook on medium heat for 5 minutes. Flip and cook the other side.

7. Test internal temperature to 145º-150º F.

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partnership

s e s r o h with

BY JUDY HEINRICH

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n the Carolina Foothills we’re fortunate to have a wide variety of clubs and organizations that can meet just about every equine interest. Many of these focus on a particular discipline but one of the newer groups takes a different approach. Rather than focusing on a specific sport or breed, Partnership With Horses is dedicated to spreading and practicing the horse training and care approach most widely known as Natural Horsemanship.

Partnership With Horses was started in 2015 by local friends and students of Natural Horsemanship, Arlene Lulavage and Elise Rogers. Elise claims Arlene is the “idea person” behind the group while she herself can “get things done” through her experience with technology, social media and design.

ABOUT NATURAL HORSEMANSHIP Partnership With Horses follows Natural Horsemanship as originally developed among ranching horsemen in the Northwestern United States.

Partnership With Horses founders Arlene Lulavage and Elise Rogers (photo by Judy Heinrich).

Tom Dorrance, an Oregon horseman of the “Buckaroo” tradition, is credited with creating Natural Horsemanship in 1960, relying on natural, gentle methods of horse training based on what he called “getting a feel of the horse.” Dorrance was a much-admired horseman and trainer but he didn’t particularly like media attention or giving clinics. When Idaho horseman Ray Hunt began training with him, Dorrance realized that Hunt had the skills to share the Natural Horsemanship approach with a much wider audience, to the benefit of horses and horsemen alike.

Hunt became the horse industry’s first traveling clinician and the leading practitioner of Natural Horsemanship from the 1960s until his death in 2009.

He based his approach on four principals: 1) Make the wrong things hard and the right things easy; 2) Adjust to fit the situation; 3) Reward the slightest try; and 4) Do less to get more. He was known for starting each clinic by stating, “I’m here for the horse, to get him a better deal.” That philosophy and

his training methods have been carried on by Hunt’s students and followers, including Buck Brannaman, John Lyons, Monty Roberts and many others.

Arlene and Elise met while both were working on Natural Horsemanship with area horseman Paul Hellebrand, who has since become a mentor for the Partnership with Horses group. The women say that part of their motivation for starting the group was the announcement of the development of Tryon International Equestrian Center.

“We wanted to offer horse people in the area an alternative approach to riding as a way to balance out an emphasis on the competitive world, which we believe is too dependent on bits, whips, spurs and harsh discipline,” Elise explains.

THE PARTNERSHIP WITH HORSES APPROACH The motto of Partnership With Horses is, “It’s All About the Horse.”

The group focuses on “Respectful Horsemanship” with the mission of promoting the physical and mental

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Arlene Lulavage uses Natural Horsemanship training with 20-year old Paso Fino, Dichoso.

well-being of horses, and all methods of Natural Horsemanship are welcomed.

The group’s goals are to network; support local instructors, vets, horsemanship clinics and riding events; and share information on how to develop a mutual respect with horses through listening, understanding and communicating using the least amount of interference, without forced submission or fear.

Partnership With Horses aims for “less is more” in terms of equipment, including less or simpler tack. Most members ride their horses in halters or, at most, bridles with simple snaffle bits.

Arlene rides without a saddle much of the time, something she started years ago when one of her horses was so quick in its movements that she found riding bareback gave her a better feel for what the horse was doing, or was about to do.

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of February, March, April September, October and November, usually at the Green Creek Fire Department building on Highway 9. Meetings have a guest speaker and time to network beforehand, with topics including relationships with your horse, riding skills, safety, and care of the horse. One meeting now being planned is on the topic of barn fires and safety precautions, with help from local firefighters. Watch for more information.

Meetings attract up to 40 members, and upcoming dates and topics can be found on the Partnership With Horses Facebook page. The group also has nearly 300 online members from across the country who follow them on Facebook and share experiences and advice.

As Partnership With Horses enters its fourth year, Arlene – who is also an equine assisted therapy professional – has another project in the works:

a book entitled “Essence of Equine Partnership Through Feel.” It starts with how human and horse brains are “wired differently” both physically and mentally, and how that affects communication.

We’ll keep you posted on its progress.

Meanwhile, please enjoy the “Pearls of Wisdom” from the man most responsible for the success of the Natural Horsemanship approach, the late Ray Hunt. (page 47).

Judy Heinrich is a freelance writer serving national clients in diverse industries. Judy writes for the Tryon Daily Bulletin and Foothills Magazine on all things horse related. She can be reached at jheinr412@gmail.com.

PEARLS OF WISDOM FROM RAY HUNT* • “Notice the smallest changes and the slightest tries.”

• “Direct the life in the horse’s body through the legs to the feet to the mind.”

• “Slow down so you can hurry up. In the end it’s a good way. Speed ahead of accuracy is no good.”

• “You think you’ve got to hold the horse but you don’t have too. You’ve got to have a feel – a feel following a feel, not pressure against pressure.

• “There has to be firmness and discipline. I’m responsible for running the show, and the horse is going to work for me. He’s going to go where I want him, but he’s not a slave. You make him want to do it. First thing you know, he’s your partner.”

• “If I was going to dance with a lady, I wouldn’t just grab her and say, ‘We’re going.’ I’d get slapped. A lot of people don’t understand that you are trying to get the horse to turn loose in the same way. There’s a place in there where he turns loose and then you give. I feel of him, I feel for him, and we both feel together.

• “I’m trying to get my idea to become the horse’s idea. It’s not like turning a dial that is going to work today. It’s what led up to today that you need to change. It’s the little things that make the difference.

• “Keep in mind what you are working toward. You might not get him in the starting gate today, but when you feel he tries – which is a plus toward that – you can put him away. Quit on pluses, don’t quit on minuses.

• That’s negative; always quit on positives. He will never forget it. Build on positive things. When he finally wants to do things for you, that’s building confidence in him. By doing too much, you can take that confidence out. You’ve got to work from the horse’s point of view.” * These tips were shared by Ray Hunt at a gate-training clinic at New Mexico’s Sunland Park Racetrack, and excerpted in the May and June 2002 issues of “The America Quarter Horse Racing Journal.”

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Dressage the ballet of the equine world

This is the second in a series of articles detailing the types of competition featured at the World Equestrian Games at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in September.

BY CATHERINE HUNTER

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magine 12 snow-white stallions with riders in elegant dark coats, all in perfect unison, floating across an arena. Lights glisten on the horses’ dapples and thousands of spectators watch silently mesmerized.

With no apparent signal from the riders, the horses wheel and turn and move sideways.

Soon a few break away from the group and the audience is awed into exclamations as the powerful steeds launch into the air and appear to float back to earth.

This is the pinnacle of dressage. These are the famed Lipizzan Stallions of Vienna – the horses General Patton saved during WWII. This is what many think of when they think of dressage.

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“airs above the ground,” it will still mesmerize and awe audiences from around the world.

Dressage is often called the ballet of horsemanship. Its origins reach back to 500 years before Christ when the ancient Greek horseman, Xenophon, created the text, “On Horsemanship,” to help train horses and riders for the Greek cavalry. The word “dressage” is a French word with the loose translation of “training or schooling.”

The purpose of dressage is to train the horse to be supple, agile, responsive to the rider’s signals and capable of refined movement. Dressage was originally developed to help cavalry horses become more responsive to their riders in battles.

Today’s dressage rides are usually in the form of prescribed movements in a flat arena.

The arena has letters marking different locations at which the horse makes a change in speed or gait (walk, trot or canter) or produces

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The famous white Lipizzan Stallions are the most familiar image of dressage for many people. While their beautifully executed dressage performances and “airs above the ground” have mesmerized audiences for centuries, the airs above the ground gymnastics are no longer seen in modern day dressage competitions.

White Lipizzan Stallions

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an athletic movement such as a shoulder in, trotting in place, an extension in stride or other gymnastics.

While most of today’s dressage competition does not include the airs above the ground, it does require the subtle communication, agility and elegance similar to that found in the Lipizzan stallions.

There are, of course, several levels of dressage schooling and competition ranging from amateur to the Grand Prix level ridden in the World Games and the Olympics.

Aside from the fact that a dressage ride does not include jumping obstacles, one of the most noticeable differences between dressage and other forms of combined training, such as stadium jumping or cross-country, is the balance of the horse and rider.

Jumping and cross-country riding require the horse to use a dynamic

balance allowing its weight to shift from the forehand to the hindquarters and back, depending on the speed and the terrain the horse is traveling. The rider tends to balance forward and use what is commonly termed a “forward seat” in the saddle.

Dressage, however, uses a more central balance of both horse and rider. The horse shifts its weight from the forehand, toward the hindquarters and lightens the forehand. When the horse achieves this maximum shift of weight, it is said to be “collected.” The rider sits less forward and more upright, uses a saddle with a deeper seat and uses a longer stirrup than in jumping or cross-country.

When properly collected, the horse appears to crouch slightly on his hindquarters, thus transforming his hindquarters into a

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This rider demonstrates a perfect piaffe in full collection. As in other dressage levels, the collected gaits of high-level dressage are used to increase communication between horse and rider, and to increase the strength, agility and responsiveness of the horse. (photo from Pinterest)

These European cavalry officers demonstrate perfect collection in the levade. The horse shifts its weight toward the hindquarters and the forehand is lightened. (photo from Pinterest)

powerful spring from which it can spin or jump and take off running in any direction. Proper collection actually reproduces and lengthens the duration of this natural reaction to a threat.

Dressage helps the horse develop this ability to react quickly with agility and power, and helps build the horse’s strength, flexibility and endurance. This allows the horse to perform these gymnastics for longer periods of time while carrying a rider. A horse properly trained in dressage is not only beautiThe soft snaffle bit and the slightly loose reins this French cavalry trooper ful; it is safer to ride because of its increased balance, athletic uses, beautifully demonstrate the soft communication and the resulting ability and responsiveness. self carriage in the horse, that are looked for in a quality dressage ride.

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hands. The rider’s hands should remain soft and supple, merely containing and redirecting the energy flowing forward that is created by the rider’s legs.

In dressage competitions, judges are looking for this agility and responsiveness in the horse and softness and subtleness in the rider. Dressage tests are scored on the horse’s rhythm, relaxation, connection, impulsion, straightness and, on the higher levels, collection.

As in the Olympics, WEG horses and riders will compete at the Grand Prix level, which includes movements such as piaffe and passage, collected and extended gaits, pirouettes, half passes and halts from the passage and the collected canter.

Piaffe is a highly collected trot nearly in place. In dressage Passage refers to a collected trot that appears to be in slow motion. A pirouette is usually performed at the collected canter in which the horse’s front legs describe a circle around a smaller circle made with the hind legs.

Extended gaits are normal gaits with longer strides. The front and hind legs should move at equal angles.

Though it looks flashy, recently popular excessive extension in the front legs, called “toe flicking,” is actually incorrect and unduly stresses the horse’s back and shoulders.

Collected gaits are performed in full central balance with the horse’s weight balanced toward the hindquarters.

The horse’s thoracic area is somewhat elevated. In some high-level dressage tests, the rider is required to loosen the reins in order to show what is termed, “self-carriage.” Self-carriage means the horse is properly balanced and not pulling or leaning on the rider’s hands.

While it may appear to the non-rider that the horse is merely going in fancy circles, the horse is actually producing a great deal of forward energy.

It takes a rider with good balance, strength, softness and fluidity to properly contain and re-direct that energy

into an effective and beautiful ride.

The dressage competitions at the 2018 WEG will be Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, September 12-14 and Sunday, September 19. •

Catherine Hunter’s journalism career spans 20 years of writing for newspapers and magazines, including The Chronicle of the Horse, The Western Horseman, the Tryon Daily Bulletin and Foothills Magazine.

In 2000, Hunter received a South Carolina Press Association award for reporting in depth. She is the author of “Sacred Connections Horsemanship: Empowering Horse and Rider through Chakra Energy.” Email her at catherine.hunter@tryondailybulletin.com.

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The splendors of

BY PEBBLES

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et’s welcome February with a conversation about love.

There is amour at first sight, like my mistress, Heather, expressed for me when she spied my photo.

There I was, tied to a fencing panel in a Texas kill pen looking as darling as I possibly could. She begged insistently, “Scott, we must save her.

Look how precious, I love her!”

Then there is simmering passion.

Like the pot of water on the stovetop, it begins at room temperature, safe and innocuous, but with time and heat, it becomes an extreme

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sensation. Love can be like boiling water, not for the faint of heart.

Whether it be for a person, place or equine, one either warms up to it, or falls in headfirst. Either way, it eventually wins us over and gives us a spring in our step and a purpose for living.

So how do we know we are loved?

Let me use myself as a prime example. Heather comes to see me bearing gifts, carrots mainly, but she also escorts people to tend to my every need. That includes the massage therapist, farrier and the vet. Lee Major, my foster mom, is just as hooked. She artfully prepares my stall and meals with relish. Lee and her supportive husband, John, drive miles to find hay that I will enjoy.

Who does that but lovestruck fans? I am so spoiled.

Then there are my two sidekicks, Lilly and Claree, who follow me around as if I am made of sugar. If I leave them for a walkabout or visit with Heather, they bray and gallop around missing my leadership. Those two donkeys adore me, as it should be!

love

Many of us enjoy sharing stories about the love of a mother and child.

This brings me to a recent story for HERD Rescue. A 20-year-old mare was saved in Texas with a young 5-month colt at her side. She was literally skin and bones over hooves.

Nursing with no feed to sustain her had sucked the lifeforce from her body. Her handsome youngster clung to her in the kill pen among the crowd of horses, and she did her best to protect him.

Amy Douglas, Heather’s go-to friend in Texas, went to get the pair to the safety of her ranch. The mare literally collapsed out of the trailer.

Amy struggled with her to get her back on her feet. Her colt nuzzled his mother and the two tired souls managed to stand and eat hay together in their new haven for two days.

Signs of hope were there. But on day three, the mare went down again.

This time her son knew there was no turning the page. He stood over her and licked her face and nickered to her, comforting his mother. Within the hour, the vet arrived to help this loving mother and the light left her eyes peacefully. Her colt lay down beside her and put his tiny head over hers, in an embrace of love and farewell.

Amy let them stay together for an hour until it was time for the mare to be lifted from the paddock. It was if the two of them knew this outcome.

The mare had given it her all for the love of her son, keeping him fed and safe, until she felt he was in a good

place. The colt in turn accepted he had to let her go as she was suffering. To ease his loss, Amy introduced him to another young weaning she had saved earlier in the month. A new friendship blossomed immediately. His mother would be pleased, he had a new love of his own.

Some say love is blind. This reminds me of the two ponies at the same kill pen I was saved from in Texas. They had been together for well over a decade. Helen was completely blind and depended on Troy to be her guide. He too had compromised vision. The family who saved Helen came to take her home not realizing she was totally blind.

Once safely in her new oasis, the bereaved mare stood in her enclosure calling out in search of her long-lost friend.

Meanwhile another rescue effort saved Troy. It became apparent to Helen’s new family that it was imperative that the two ponies be reunited. They had to find her soul mate.

Through Facebook networking, Helen’s family was able to locate Troy and purchase him. The two ponies were literally beside themselves with joy at their reunion. Helen had the love of her life and her eyes back with Troy’s arrival to her paddock.

I believe that the love a child has for an equine, that might just top the cake. There are just so many great examples to choose from in HERD. Beau, a senior pony that Anne Swift discovered and sponsored, was saved from a terrible situation and restored to beautiful condition. Beau has finally found his little girl. She is giddy with joy. He is attuned to her every move, performing with glee. He is loved, Beau is needed.

The other recent heart-warmer is the Heider family who rescued two equines from slaughter, so their daughters could take part in the recovery and training of these frightened souls. They love them with nurturing responsibility.

The greatest thing about love is that it can be contagious.

It spreads expanding hearts and brings people and equines together. This region we call home is a community focused on the love of horses. It is a magnet for magnificent equines of all shapes and sizes, and the people who cherish them.

February is the shortest month of the year, but it may be my favorite. One dedicated to celebrating love and passion.

If I had my way, Cupid would be portrayed riding a fine pony, like me. Move over bow and arrows. Dangling carrots for equine affection is truly the crowd pleaser. • Pebbles is the “spokespony” for HERD, or Helping Equines Regain Dignity, a local nonprofit that saves equines from dire conditions and in many cases slaughter. She dictates her monthly columns about her adventures and what a rescue organization does to Heather Freeman. Pebbles and Freeman can be reached through HerdRescue.org.

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BRING in the

CAVALRY

BY CATHERINE HUNTER

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magine riding a dressage test using only one hand on the reins, shooting a pistol while jumping or spearing a ring with a lance while riding at a full gallop.

These are some of the fun events practiced and preserved today by the International Light Cavalry Association.

Columbus resident Dan Gilmore is part of this ten-yearold organization dedicated to the research and preservation of cavalry techniques used in riding.

The association, which spans the globe, includes groups in the US, and sponsors authentic cavalry style competitions.

“Our goal is to bring people together and preserve the cavalry tradition,” said Gilmore. “We’re about keeping the techniques of military riding alive and creating an awareness that it’s still being practiced.”

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group focuses on the time from the Napoleonic Wars through the dissolution of the European cavalries shortly after WWII. The association is somewhat loosely connected. Similar to historical reenacting groups, they stay in touch mostly through Facebook and events.

European competitions can have as many as 600 or more participants. Those participating in US events are typically cavalry reenactors from the Revolutionary War to the dissolution of the US cavalry in the 1930s.

Their events range from military style three-day cross-training competitions, similar to today’s combined training competitions to period military balls in formal dress uniforms.

While their events include three-day combined training style competition there are some notable differences between Fédération

Equestre Internationale (FEI) combined training competitions and the Cavalry Association’s competitions. In the association’s mounted competitions, the dressage test and the stadium jumping are ridden with only one hand on the reins rather than two. The horses are often ridden in military bridles, which include a Pelham bit with two reins rather than a double bridle. The cross-country course distance is similar to the modern day eventing cross-country preliminary level, however the fences are more natural looking.

The competitions also include events such as tent pegging in which the rider uses a lance to spear a sand bag on the ground, the ring tilt, in which the rider uses a lance to spear rings from a post, or running at “heads” (gourds) with a sabre. They also practice mounted shooting (using air pistols) through a course in the ring or over jumps.

Dan Gilmore of Columbus in cavalry dress typically used in WWII. Gilmore is part of the International Light Cavalry Association that works to preserve the history of military riding. (photo submitted by Dan Gilmore)

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This rider beautifully demonstrates using a sabre to slash at “heads� (sandbags) while going over a jump at an International Light Cavalry Association competition in Ft. Riley, Kan. (photo submitted by Dan Gilmore)

These reenactors portrayed Polish cavalry troopers in a 2017 International Light Cavalry Association competition in Germany. (photo by Dana Krimmling)

Another popular event is the old style military cross-country rides, which can be anywhere from 10 to 30 miles and are ridden at specific gaits. The course calls for a walk through a certain area and trot or slow gallop for specified times or

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distances. The course will cover several different types of terrain, including jumping and crossing water.

The events are all ridden in military style uniforms with authentic period style equipment.

Though most participants are men, women are welcomed, and, unlike most reenacting groups, the women are not required to disguise themselves as men.

Gilmore said in addition to the cavalry competitions, members

engage in historical research and discussions, riding instruction, and helping people acquire uniforms and equipment relating to different periods in history.

Their discussions include different styles and systems of riding from classical dressage to forward riding. “You can get some lively discussions on Facebook,” he said with a light chuckle. “Just mention the benefits of forward seat verses balanced seat and you can start a war.”

Gilmore is a big fan of the forward riding techniques described by Captain Federico Caprilli in the Italian cavalry manual from the late 1800s.

Whereas today’s modern seat, based on George Morris’ version

of the forward seat known as hunt seat, is designed for the game of competing, Gilmore said the military forward seat was about getting from point A to point B without wearing out the horse and rider.

“The military forward seat that Caprilli codified and detailed was specifically about preservation of the horse and rider in the field,” said Gilmore. “Caprilli’s instruction was based on riding in an uncontrolled situation that was often chaotic. This could help today’s riders in such events as endurance, riding or fox hunting.”

Gilmore added that the forward seat was also designed to train horses and riders more quickly and efficiently so they could go into the

Events such as these 2017 competitions sponsored by the International Light Cavalry Association are popular in Europe and the US. The Association is dedicated to the preservation and history of military style riding. (photo from the International Light Cavalry Association)

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A WWI German cavalry reenactor fires in the mounted shooting competition during a 2017 International Light Cavalry Association competition in Germany.

Shooting is just one of the many cavalry type competitions the association hosts every year. (photo by Dana Krimmling)

Events such as these 2017 competitions sponsored by the International Light Cavalry Association are popular in Europe and the US. The Association is dedicated to the preservation and history of military style riding. (photo from the International Light Cavalry Association)

Dan Gilmore of Columbus demonstrates riding with a pistol at ready position. (photo submitted by Dan Gilmore)

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field as soon as possible.

“The old system [classical dressage] took years to train a rider and horse effectively,” said Gilmore adding that classical dressage was not a style of training that fit the needs of modern cavalry. “Like Littauer [Vladimir Littauer, author of The Development of Modern Riding, Common Sense Horsemanship and other books on forward riding] said, once the melee begins, refinement and fancy maneuvers go out the window.”

Gilmore grew up in a military family and learned to ride from his grandfathers and great uncles who were former cavalrymen. He holds degrees in history and economics and uses his language skills to translate some

Members of the International Light Cavalry Association share information and pictures such as this early 1900s US Cavalry recruiting poster in an effort to help preserve the history of military riding. (photo from the International Light Cavalry Association)

of Caprilli’s texts into English, some of which have been published in Equus Magazine.

With his father working for the Department of Defense, Gilmore grew up all over the US, then moved to Columbus in 1990 with his wife Elizabeth (EW) Cooper. Cooper is also a horsewoman, having galloped racehorses and worked for the Charleston Mounted Patrol. She also hunted with the Tryon and Green Creek Hounds.

For more information on the International Light Cavalry Association visit their Facebook page or the Eastern Seaboard Cavalry Association Facebook page.

Catherine Hunter’s journalism career spans 20 years of writing for newspapers and magazines, including The Chronicle of the Horse, The Western Horseman, the Tryon Daily Bulletin and Foothills Magazine. In 2000, Hunter received a South Carolina Press Association award for reporting in depth. She is the author of “Sacred Connections Horsemanship: Empowering Horse and Rider through Chakra Energy.” Email her at catherine.hunter@tryondailybulletin.com.

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APPOINTMENTS

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Local author getting good reviews

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f you’re like me, you might not intuitively think of combining horseback riding with the ancient art of Chakra Yoga. But when it comes to horses, Tryon Daily Bulletin’s equine journalist Catherine Hunter has always been open to an eclectic array of influences.

Consider her riding history. She started at a young age showing hunter/ jumpers, and has also participated in dressage, saddle seat, western riding and driving over the years. She galloped racehorses and become a licensed racehorse trainer; raced over timber; was a recognized member of the Mooreland Hunt (Alabama) for more than 20 years; whipped in for the Early Grove Hounds; and has studied with such notables as Olympic coach and U.S. Cavalry instructor Gordon Wright; Olympic dressage competitor Lendon 62

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Gray; and author Jane Marshall Dillon, a judge with the U.S. Equestrian Federation’s Affiliated National Riding Commission (ANRC), through which Catherine also earned a certification.

Catherine has taught riding and trained horses for more than 40 years, including coaching Pony Club and 4H teams and serving as trainer for the Atlanta Police Mounted Patrol and an equine consultant and wrangler for feature films and television shows.

Something she recalls as one of her favorite horseback activities was riding her Thoroughbred, Count of War, in Civil War and Middle Ages reenactments for 20 years.

Count of War was also her partner in a journey that combined Catherine’s spiritual side and just plain stamina: in 2003, the pair started from Gowensville, S.C. and rode more than 900 miles to

Ground Zero in New York City, inspired by the Iraq War to encourage people to find peace within themselves.

Catherine recently published her book, Sacred Connections Horsemanship, which teaches readers how to work with the chakras – traditionally described as energy flows or “wheels of energy” – in both the rider’s and horse’s body to achieve deeper levels of confidence, relaxation and partnership.

READER RESPONSE Early readers of Catherine’s book are giving it very positive reviews. USDF Bronze Medalist Meredith MacKenzie of Asheville described it as, “A beautiful blend of practical knowledge for safe, effective riding. A startlingly sensible guide to achieving the joy of true partnership with your horse.”

Reader Marabeth Madsen has read Catherine’s book and been training with her: “I grew up riding and showing hunt seat equitation through my teenage years in California. I was successful by show ring standards and I felt fairly skillful as a horsewoman, but my aids were tense and unbalanced.

My back and knees were often painful after riding due to improper form and position. Under Catherine Hunter’s guidance and working with the Sacred Connections Horsemanship (SCH) system, I found comfort, relaxation, and ease in my body while riding for the first time in years! I love how she

helped me refine my awareness of subtle energies and communications my horses were tuning into that I had no idea I was sending. Catherine is about functional horsemanship, not just shortcuts to look good in the show ring as so many trainers have focused on in the last generation. Riding with SCH feels amazing and the results speak for themselves.”

Rider Kelly Snyder said, “Besides giving me horses that are a pure joy to ride and be around, SCH helped me regain a functional seat and helped me recondition my horses after having a baby. I had not been able to ride in a year because of pregnancy and very unfavorable weather. Once I started riding again though, my horses were not responding well to my aids due to me not being able to get my leg under me properly and having an overall poor position. After a few lessons with Catherine Hunter, my horses started

responding better, I felt safer in the saddle, and my rides became magical again.”

Catherine Hunter’s book, Sacred Connections Horsemanship, is available locally at The Book Shelf in Tryon and Re-Ride Consignment Tack Shop at 6431 S. NC Hwy 9, Suite 5, in Columbus, online at Amazon or through the publisher, gratefulsteps. org. For information on training or consults, contact Sacred Connections Horsemanship at 828-351-4090. • Judy Heinrich is a freelance writer serving national clients in diverse industries. Judy writes for the Tryon Daily Bulletin and Foothills Magazine on all things horse related. She can be reached at jheinr412@gmail.com.

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WHY I LOVE THE FOOTHILLS

“All Roads Lead to Tryon. . .”

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’m often asked about the mountains and the fall leaves. While the mountains are pleasant to look at, I love the beach and ocean. With no sea nearby, when I have a desire, I take a ride around Lake Lanier.

I’ve had the pleasure of enjoying what our country has to offer from Seattle’s Space Needle to the Florida Keys. I’ve sailed on the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. I’ve been in a castle, even touched the prison bars of Alcatraz. I’ve seen sunrises in the Bahamas and sunsets at the southernmost point of the United States. What I’ve learned is, all roads lead to Tryon. Nothing can be finer than to be in Carolina …

I don’t like power outages; however, I love what they do for all of us in our little jewel of a town. At least once a year there are conversations about whether it’s best to cut back trees and limbs, alternative energy and above ground vs. buried utility lines. Whatever the case, I like the way power outages slow the pace of life. When the daylight fades into the quietness of night or complete darkness, there’s a simplicity in the ability to hear your thoughts. I savor the opportunity of this quiet stillness and consider it a gift.

Now there is a limit! When hours and days turn into five-plus days, I want lights. Seeing a Pike truck or a fleet of them make you want to do the “Happy Dance.” You don’t know when the refrigerator is going to murmur or the digital clocks are going to blink, but when they do, it’s like making the winning point in a championship game. It’s such an ecstatic moment.

I also love conversations, whether with my mechanic, at the bank, at the post office or at my newspaper office. In “The Friendliest Town in The South,” all of us are reminded that we are people overflowing with gratitude to be shared in the best humanitarian way. There are two significant words that carry us forward: Thank You! So, I love the Foothills, particularly Tryon, because they are like a ‘Thank You’ and a smile to me. •

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SCHOOLS •Bus Drivers mitchcontracting.com. $13.74/Hour+$0.25/ Hour Local Attendance Nelon-Cole Termite Supplement •Food and Pest ControlService-Manager Tryon Locally Owned and Elementary $13.81/ Operated. Pest control Hour •Food Serviceincluding termite, Worker Polk Central general, carpenter Elementary $11.75/Hour bees/ants, mosquitoes, Visit www.polkschools. moisture-control org/employment Or including waterproofing, Call:828-894-1001 mold/mildew remediation, indoor air Pure Country Inc. quality and odor control, is Hiring BtoB Inside termite & water damage, Sales Executive. Must repairs. 828-894-2211 have prospecting and customer management/ NOW HIRING: Full-Time strong people skills and Chemical Dependency the ability to work with Technician Evening & professionals in a team Overnight Shifts. Must environment. Mondayhave: HS Diploma/ Friday, full-time. Send GED, 12-Step Program resumes to: karlw@ Knowledge. Excellent purecountry.com 2 May 2016

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South Carolina Elastic a division of Rhode Island Textile Company is expanding & hiring for full-time positions, all shifts. We offer Medical Insurance, 401k, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Accrued Vacation, Seven Paid Holidays. Apply in person at: 300 Landrum Mill Road Landrum, SC 29356 (8:30am to 4:00pm) A Great Place to Work! Come Join Our Team!

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY. Synergy In Action is seeking motivated, dedicated employees to work in group homes and in the community with adults with disabilities in Polk and Rutherford Counties.

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Tryon, NC 28782. White Oak of Tryon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Exceptional Care When You Need It!

St. Luke’s Hospital is a not-for-profit community hospital that provides immediate access to high quality emergency medical and surgical care. We provide diagnostic and medical services using the latest technology and the greatest compassion for our patients and families. The team at St. Luke’s Hospital is committed to providing exceptional care, close to home.

Our Services Include...

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(828) 894-3311 101 Hospital Drive • Columbus, NC 28722 SaintLukesHospital.com