New women’s volleyball league to start outdoors
The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department will offer a women’s volleyball league. Games will be from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays, starting Sept. 10, at the Waynesville Recreation Center. The league is open to all females, ages 16 and older. The entry fee for members of the Waynesville Recreation Center is free, and all other players must pay $4 per night. Each team will need to have six players but may start with four players if needed. More information is available through the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department by phone or email. 828.456.2030 or recathletics@townofwaynesville.org. Patrick Parton photo
Waynesville race helps the children County fair gets bigger zoo for 2013 The Haywood County Fair will feature a newly expanded zoo this year. The zoo will occupy space in the Burley Livestock Barn and in the Waynesville Lions Club Horse Barn at the fairgrounds. The zoo will feature the usual farm animals, as well as exotic animals, from 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21, through 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25. A special feature at this year’s Haywood County Fair will be a draft horse and mule pulling contest at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, in the Great Smokies Arena at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. Teams may enter one of four classes — light horses, light mules, heavy horses and heavy mules. Horse and mule teams will attempt to pull a dead sled with 500-pound weights added after each successful pull. Also featured at this event will be a parade of horse- or mule-drawn equipment.
It’s the fastest and flattest one-mile race in Western North Carolina. The Main Street Mile will take off at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 23, on the main strip in downtown Waynesville. This is the fourth year of the charity event. The race cost $15 to run and its theme is “run for the children.” Proceeds from the run go to the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Greenville, S.C. The hospital sees thousands of patients per year and treats children free of charge for orthopedic ailments such as cerebral palsy, scoliosis, bone diseases and mylodysplasia. The race is a flat-out heat that starts and ends downtown. The first 300 runners to register get free T-shirts. All participants are invited to the after party at the United Community Bank parking lot, with music, food, local craft beer and kid’s activities. Participants can register the day of the race or beforehand online. www.waynesvillemainstreetmile.com.
Blue Ridge Breakaway Lauren Tamayo, a silver medalist in sprint cycling at the 2012 Olympics in London who lives in Asheville, led riders out of the Lake Junaluska Assembly at the start of the Aug. 17 Blue Ridge Breakaway bike ride. The annual cycling event sponsored by the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce attracted about 500 riders despite overcast conditions. Ride director Cecil Yount said the fourth Blue Ridge Breakaway received “glowing reports” from riders about the routes, the rest stops, the ride volunteers and the overall organization of the event.
August 21-27, 2013
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