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Publisher’s Thoughts As any Capitalist knows, work is hard. Your days are long and the nights even longer. You’re sticking your neck out. The payment may equal the time and emotion you put into the work, but only after years of struggle. So we ask: Why?

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hy go to all the trouble? Why suffer the emotional roller coaster, the uncertainty, the anxiety? Why risk the money you scrimped and saved for years on what others might call a long shot? It’s because you see an opportunity, because you want to help shape the world you live in. It is because you understand that you can make more money and be more creative driving a giant earthmover than digging with a shovel. Why make more money? Does it mean more happiness? Only if you have some imagination.

At Capital At Play, we strive to cater to those that see the world with curiosity, wonderment, and a thirst for knowledge regardless of age. Any child will tell you that fun cannot be regulated. Imagination cannot be mediated or controlled.

That’s why if you want to keep it, you can’t stifle it. That is why capitalism is so important to our spectacular way of life. Some people, a few hundred years ago, had the imagination to see what could be, if they could only have possession over the money they worked so hard for.

To those of you who have been following us from the beginning, this may sound familiar, but someone once told me: “People will support that which they create.”

This passion is exactly what you will find inside the pages of this magazine. From the capitalists, entrepreneurs, and their dedicated collaborators that we feature, to the talented and passionate staff who work tirelessly to showcase those efforts, the free spirit of enterprise is alive and well in Western North Carolina; we at Capital At Play aim to support its future and its continued growth and sustainability by imparting the journey of those who make it possible to any and all mentally engaged individuals, as well as to future generations.

This is why we exist, and this is what you can expect to find, not only in the pages of this spectacular magazine, but in the people surrounding you, here in this room, outside, in offices, fields, warehouses, laboratories, cubicles, streets and sidewalks.

Consequently, I am proud to announce that you are currently reading the first “monthly” edition of Capital At Play. Whereas we’ve produced 12 editions in the past two years, we will be showcasing the free spirit of enterprise twice as often: every month. Thanks to an overwhelming response from our many subscribers, extremely supportive advertisers (and anyone who moves fast enough to find one of our complimentary copies) it was decided that we should move onward and upward, in providing those many individuals and organizations with the content that they have come to enjoy and depend on.

I also want to graciously thank those who have actively and selflessly given their energy to assisting Capital At Play in defining that which makes our community and society a place of innovation, freedom, and opportunity. Thank you, not just for listening, but creating. Remember, it’s all about the journey.

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26 Give Me Pollen or give me death

46 Bill Fishburne

Beekeeping as a hobby and a business

Real estate & your rear view mirror

58 Emi Chiappa-Starnes

Glass Onion: Global Italian

l e i s u r e & l i b at i o n 34 Raise your glass to the creators of local libations

keepin’ it brief 22 Carolina in the West 72 The Old North State 80 National & World News

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Zoning: Government sanctioned thievery

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The Battle of Asheville was an insignificant skirmish in the waning days of the Civil War. And even less significant is the role of an artillery battery that sat on the high ground overlooking the battle. But that tangential relation to that inconsequential battle gave the hill and its neighborhood a name.

The place became —and still remains— Battery Park.

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The origin of the name has grown obscure, but the term Battery Park has made a recent comeback in the Asheville lexicon thanks to the arrival of an unusual —even quirky — commercial establishment: The Battery Park Book Exchange.

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he used bookstore has become something of a landmark for both tourists and locals, and in the process it has put Battery Park back on the map.

A bookstore? A used bookstore? Yes. But it is more than that. It is the cozy library of a highly literate and somewhat eccentric uncle who never met a book he didn’t like. But it’s more than that.

It is a wine and champagne bar, serving more than 100 varieties of domestic and imported reds, whites and bubblies. But it’s still more than that.

It is an espresso bar with a menu detailed enough to intrigue the most sophisticated caffeine connoisseur. And, yes, it is even more than that.

One need only observe the amazed, slack-jawed look of a tourist as he begins to explore the narrow, twisting maze of bookshelves to realize the place is greater than the sum of its divergent parts.

Those parts were brought together by Thomas Wright, who grins when it is suggested that a used bookstore cum wine bar cum coffee bar is not likely to win an endorsement from the Harvard Business School.

“Then the people at Harvard are dumber than they look,” he said. Later he explains the logic of this unusual combination. “People ask how I came up with the idea. I ask them, do you have books in your house? Yes. Do you have wine in your house? Yes. So I’m just doing what you do at home.” He grins a mischievous “gotcha.”

Grins come easy to Thomas and the staff at Battery Park.

Indeed, sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s having more fun here, the patrons or the workers. “I don’t have much turnover at all here,” said General Manager Emily Krainik. “We’re kind of family. Everybody gets along really well.”

She is sitting at a large table covered end-to-end in a thick layer of busy looking papers and an enormous loose-leaf binder.

Wine lists, schedules, supplies and all the niggling details of a complicated three-pronged business compete for her attention as she settles down for an afternoon of catching up on the paperwork that “should have been done a month ago.” But despite the burden of clerical details she said, “I didn’t know 14 CA ITALat LAY

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this would be my dream job, but if I could have designed my dream job this would have been it.”

Among the many duties in her dream job, Emily is in charge of the extensive wine list. A certified sommelier first grade, she tastes every wine that makes the list–and hundred of others that don’t. When asked how many wines she tastes, she leafs through the loose-leaf binder, finally reaching the tabbed section on wine. The pages are cluttered with handwritten notes on hundreds of wines. “That’s just from this year,” she said.

The hardest part of choosing the wines, she said, “is not buying for my palate but buying for the general public.”

The cluttered table sits in front of a La Marzocco espresso machine with two double-shot filters, which sends out its characteristic whine as it serves up hot and strong brews for a healthy stream of customers. Behind the coffee bar, Tess Martin helps customers navigate the menu of espresso selections with names like Thomas Wolfe, Carl Sandburg, and Zelda Fitzgerald. (“I’d like a Zelda, easy on the whipped cream.”) Tess makes recommendations, takes orders and flips the nozzles, levers and handles on the espresso machine with an expertise than makes it all look simple.

After more than two years here she has the routine down like second nature. She provides the proverbial service with a smile, and it’s soon apparent that the smile is genuine. “I love it here. It’s a great job.” Why? What makes this place different?

She pauses and finally offers, “It’s Thomas and Emily. They’re just good people.”

Emily and Thomas try to extend the “good people” description to their hiring process. They look for employees who will fit in with the personalities of the current staff.

“If you’re a prima donna you’re not going to last long here,” Emily said. “Everyone starts here doing dishes–and we all still do them.” Despite the dishes, Emily said the hardest part of her job is scheduling–because she tries to accommodate everyone’s outside commitments. “I try to keep people happy. You’re not going to get rich here, but if you can have the time off you need, that’s important.”

Another perk of working here: The service staff is paid double the standard Asheville rates. Even at that, Thomas said, “These are extremely talented people who are relatively underpaid. It takes a while to find people who fit right. Then you hope they’ll stay.”

Diana Hancock has stayed there for two-and-a-half years.

“We’re a bunch of completely overqualified people, who enjoy working here and enjoy each other,” she said. Her own

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Thomas offered a practical rationale for creating a pleasant work environment. “It’s self-serving in the sense that it works better that way, but it’s natural for myself or Emily to try to make it fun. There’s an old truism: How you treat your staff is how they’ll treat your customers.”

The customers seem to enjoy the way they’re being treated. The place is busy day and night with both tourists and locals, buying wine, coffee–and books.

“About 25 percent of our sales are books,” said Kyle Sherard, the 25 yearold buyer, seller, stacker and sorter of the 35,000 volumes that fill the shelves.

The categories include everything from a children’s section to fiction (with several shelves devoted to Thomas Wolfe) to rare and expensive first editions. Kyle described the content as “American esoteric.”

“There are four used book stores in this city, and we had to find our niche,” he said. Warming to the subject he offered a couple of examples. “We have a Yale Press book on the history of the backyard swimming pool. It is a fullon academic dissertation and research book on the history of residential swimming pools. And there’s another one on the history of grass in the United States.

That one’s by Oxford Press. I mean it’s really the most mundane thing but you can’t beat it.” Esoteric indeed!

But this is Asheville, the land of Thomas Wolfe. In the Book Exchange, he remains a best seller. “We have to buy Wolfe in stores and online to keep enough stock in the store,” Thomas said.

He went on to express his own respect for the author. “I think Wolfe is the best word-for-word writer in the South. Is he a good story teller? No. Should you read

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the whole book? God sakes, no. It’s a waste of time. But give me a paragraph, and this guy can write!”

Other popular authors here include Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, recalling an era when books were books, and kindle simply meant to start a fire, and no one had begun to imagine the digital reading device. Thomas considered the role of his bookstore in this digital age. “We’re in the buggy whip business.

There are still a lot of horses so you’re still going to have buggy whips. This is not leading edge; we’re on the back edge. By choice.” He expanded on the notion.

“We don’t even have a TV set in here. Where do you find a bar without a TV?” Beyond the books, the wine, the coffee and service, a major attraction is the place itself. Covering two l eve l s a nd 3,6 0 0 square feet, the space is ar ranged in a Byzantine network of tig ht and twisting aisles that unexpectedly open onto conversation pits with soft lights, leather-covered furniture, Oriental r ugs and assorted a nt ique s a nd a r t works, ranging from hanging portraits to standing sculptures to oddities such as a fully functional hand letterpress dating to 1893.

Thomas referred to “the Edwardian civility of the library,” to describe the quiet and com for t able atmosphere. “We get an older, more mature crowd. They don’t drink too much. That takes out 80 percent of the nightmare stories of restaurants. We don’t want you to come here and get too happy, bring in a water pistol and have a wet T-shirt contest.” The steady clientele now includes book clubs and writing groups that reserve the various conversation nooks for their meetings. “So we have the good demographic of clients,” he said. “And it has become a genteel bar business. And that’s oxymoronic.” The ambience supports his concept, issuing an almost whispered invitation to “sit down, relax, enjoy.”

A native of Wilmington, Thomas came to the mountains to witness the seasons. He arrived in Asheville seven years ago and still proclaims, “This is the best of the South. A great town at a high altitude, it can’t get better than this.”

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More and more people have been responding to that invitation since the bookstore moved to this corner of the Grove Arcade two-and-a-half years ago. It was originally located in the Battery Park Hotel just up the street.

“We moved a hundred yards and doubled our sales in the first month we were here.” Thomas said, still incredulous at the numbers. “Oh my goodness. Location is important. I didn’t

He might have added, “With a couple of dogs paddling around the pool.” Dogs have become a signature of the book exchange, from the water bowls placed outside the doors on hot days to the logo etched on his wine glasses. The logo is an image of his own Bouvier des Flandres, named Winifred. And when Thomas gets started talking about dogs, you begin to think that the only reason he allows people in his shop is because the dogs can’t come on their own. “Dogs give back as much as you give them. They’re consistently polite and pleasant and funny —more than some customers.

They’ve turned out to be good for business, but they weren’t intended to be good for business; they were intended to be fun for me.”

So it is not surprising when you find someone sitting in one of those comfortable chairs, sipping a glass of wine, reading a newspaper–with their pet pooch lying at their feet. As much as Thomas loves the dogs, they also return the affection for his canine retreat. They seem to absorb the surroundings, sitting quietly until someone stops by to pay attention. They preen their appreciation.

It seems so relaxed and intimate that one might think it all just happened to fall together. But Thomas revealed his experience as a businessman when he turned to the subject of competition. “If you’re in retail I think it’s important to be in service retail rather than tangible item retail, because there’s a million things on the web at comparative prices. So it’s very difficult to be competitive in tangible items that people can buy on the web.” He pauses, building to his point. “In the service business, if you want your hair cut or your tonsils taken out or a glass of wine you’ve got to go somewhere to get that. You can’t get that online.”

Thomas calls himself “a refugee from the real South, the South of long, hot, humid summers. The changing colors, frost on the pumpkin, snow in the yard” he said. He arrived in Asheville seven years ago and still proclaims, “This is the best of the South. A great town at a high altitude, it can’t get better than this.”

Thomas now splits his time between Asheville and Virginia, where his wife, Donna, has a business. When he’s here he said he works 10 to 12 hours, seven days a week at the book store.

“I need someplace to go,” he explained. “I gave up golf long ago. I don’t have a hobby. This is just part of that engine that moves me.”

He considers this chapter of his life, “More fun by a factor of ninefold. I love books —and notice I didn’t say literature.

And I’ve always enjoyed wine. It has just been a wonderful marriage.”

Diana has a Bachelor of Science degree in cognitive neuroscience from Duke University.

This summer she was waiting to hear whether she had been accepted in medical school. “Most of the people here have college degrees,” know a hundred yards would make such a difference, but it did. And it was all luck! We were lucky this place was available.

This was like the Lord throwing you out a window and you land in a luxury swimming pool.”

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Cantina donates to charities A local restaurant has made big gains in the fight against hunger. The Cantina Fresh Mex and Tequila Bar in Biltmore Village has instituted a new program of “donating” extra side dishes to local food charities. “We gave folks the option that if they chose to donate one of those sides that we would donate the equivalent value of the side to MANNA [Food bank],” said Sherrye Coggiola, owner of the Cantina. Just before the restaurant’s rebranding in March, Coggiola noted that “there were a number of things that became very apparent to us. We give very, very large portions. Four out of five people, literally, would take home a to-go box.” She added, “Well, we’re green, so our to-go box literally costs me 75 cents per. That’s a pretty significant issue, when it’s not a to-go order.” To trim down on waste and to cut costs, they came up with a creative solution.

“The beauty of donating $1.99 per side, is that MANNA can give up to three meals for a dollar,” Coggiola explained. Each meal on the menu comes with two sides. If a customer decides to donate the side, “essentially we are giving six meals for that one side that’s donated and all of those meals stay here locally,” she explained, noting that they specifically choose the charities that aid families locally. Customers entering the Cantina can immediately see the sign by the bar and patio doors providing details on how much money has been raised from customers HunterBanks_CapitalPlay ad.pdf

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donating their side items. According to Coggiola, “We’ve raised $6,186 this quarter; last quarter and year to date is $14,560, so that equates to 43,558 meals in our community.” The Cantina Fresh Mex and Tequila Bar is located at 10 Biltmore Plaza in Historic Biltmore Village.

Burntshirt’s wine production facility Construction of a state-of the art wine production facility and free-standing event center at Burntshirt Vineyards is almost complete. Plus, an assistant wine maker has already been hired. The 10,440 square-foot winery on Sugarloaf Road includes equipment that will permit Burntshirt Vineyards to make all of its wine in Hendersonville. While Burntshirt Vineyards only uses grapes grown on its two estate vineyards in Henderson County, the wine is presently produced and bottled at a winery in Shelby. The winery should be completed in time for the harvest of 2013. The event center located next to the tasting room will also be offered for year-round events by the end of August. It features 3,100 square feet of indoor space, as well as an outdoor patio surrounding three-quarters of the building overlooking the vineyard and apple orchard. The event center will be able to hold 150 guests for seated events such as weddings and corporate events and up to 300 guests for stand up receptions. Cooper Construction of Hendersonville

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The winery plan was developed in connection with the Yadkin Valley Wine Company in Yadkinville.

Publix coming to Asheville Publix, a Florida-based grocery store chain, plans to open a 50,000 square-foot supermarket in the Kmart shopping center on Hendersonville Road. This news comes during a wave of new grocery store development around the city. Developer Rusty Pulliam, who owns the property at 1830 Hendersonville Road, said he has signed a lease with Publix, which plans to demolish the shopping center in November. He anticipates that the store will be open by October 2014. Kmart has agreed to close by October 31, and other tenants in the shopping center, including GO Grocery and Cue ‘N Spirits, have also arranged to close by that date. Publix previously revealed plans to open two stores in Charlotte, as its first venture into North Carolina, and move aggressively to expand across the state. According to Forbes, Publix is the most profitable grocery chain in the U.S. as well as the seventh-largest private company in the U.S., with $27.5 billion in sales, and the largest employee-owned company in the nation.

Continental to invest in its Fletcher facility Continental Automotive Systems Inc. will invest $35 million in its Fletcher facility and create 40 jobs. The braking instruments and hydraulic systems manufacturer will increase its physical footprint by 88,000 square feet while expanding its current employment base of 626 people. The average wage associated with the new positions will exceed $40,000 per year, higher than Henderson County’s average annual wage of $32,500. The $35 million will be invested over five years into new real property and business personal property. Continental, an automotive components subsidiary of Continental AG, will launch production of a new electronic parking brake system that will be adopted across various vehicle platforms over the next five years. Rather than using a park brake lever, the system is operated by the touch of a button inside the vehicle. The new production encouraged Continental’s expansion, said Andrew Tate, President and CEO of Henderson County Partnership for Economic Development. Continental’s new production is the largest expansion the County has seen so far in 2013, Tate added, and it comes after Blue Ridge Metals announced in October that the company would invest $20 million in new property and equipment. Henderson County Board of Commissioners Chairman Charlie Messer added that Continental has continually invested in the community through employment.

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Allegiant announces new flight Allegiant Air will offer new, non-stop jet service between Asheville and Southwest Florida via Punta Gorda Airport, beginning October 30, and will launch the new service with fares as low as $69.99 one way. The new flights will operate twice weekly between Asheville Regional Airport (AVL) and Punta Gorda Airport (PGD) using MD-80 series aircraft. Flight days and times can be found online at allegiant.com. Punta Gorda will be Allegiant’s fourth non-stop Florida destination from Asheville. “Allegiant Travel Company has been offering services from Asheville for two years, and we are very pleased to welcome their fourth non-stop route to Florida,” Lew Bleiweis, Asheville Regional Airport executive director, said. “Now, travelers in our area can easily access Southwest Florida and all it has to offer, and at the same time, more Floridians can travel non-stop to Western North Carolina.”

ASU professor receives American College of Sports Medicine award Internationally distinguished researcher and Appalachian State University professor David C. Nieman has been honored by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) with the Citation Award for his widespread work in health and exercise sciences. He received the award at the ACSM annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana this summer. According to ACSM, the annual award is selectively given to “an individual or group who has made significant and important contributions to sports medicine and/or the exercise sciences.” Among those

‘contributions’ are research and scholarship, clinical care, and/ or administrative or educational services in sports medicine or exercise science. Nieman is a talented researcher and pioneer in the research area of exercise immunology. He helped determine that regular moderate exercise lowers upper respiratory tract infection rates while improving immunosurveillance, and that heavy exertion increases infection rates while causing immune dysfunction. His current research features nutritional countermeasures to exercise-induced immune dysfunction. Nieman teaches in Appalachian’s Department of Health, Leisure and Exercise Science in the College of Health Sciences. He has received almost $7 million in grants to complete his work in immunology and exercise. In addition, he has published more than 260 peer-reviewed publications in journals and books, labeling him as one of the most cited ACSM researchers. Nieman was the vice president of the American College of Sports Medicine from 2009-11, and the past president of Southeast American College of Sports Medicine. During his 30-year ACSM membership, he authored or coauthored nine books on health, exercise physiology and nutrition. Also, he is currently on nine journal editorial boards.

Budget funds western NC crime lab The state budget signed into law in July includes nearly $5 million in the next two years to support a new Western Regional Crime Lab, a facility local law enforcement and judicial officials say is desperately needed. The state’s crime labs process evidence for criminal investigations throughout North Carolina,

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Reportedly, more than 20,000 law enforcement officers present evidence to the lab annually, resulting in more than 42,000 submissions in 2011. Toxicology requests to analyze blood for alcohol or drugs have increased 34 percent since 2008-09, while only 12 positions are funded to test the samples. Even though the western region supplies a third of those submissions, the western lab does not have the personnel or equipment to do the tests, so the Raleigh or Greensboro sites are required to step in. Only the Raleigh lab can do DNA analysis. Watauga County Sheriff Len Hagaman explained that his investigators depend on the lab for processing of forensic evidence, such as fingerprints, hair and fibers, for drug investigations and for toxicology reports for impaired driving and other cases. Occasionally, the sheriff’s office sends evidence to forensic sections within the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or the U.S. Secret Service in hopes of getting results more quickly, as it can otherwise take up to seven months or longer. The state budget assigns $1.442 million to the N.C. Department of Justice to complete full planning for the western crime lab. The estimated project cost is $16.8 million,

and the General Assembly allocated initial planning funds last year. The budget also allows $1.5 million for recurring expenses and $111,424 in nonrecurring expenses for 19 new toxicologists to work in the western part of the state. It allocates another $1 million for equipment to expand the lab’s abilities. In 2014-15, the state will begin to supply another $750,000 for the outsourcing of toxicology cases to private labs, with precedence given to cases from the western region. Hagaman, along with others in the N.C. Sheriffs’ Association, have supported the additional funding for the western lab, hoping it would make toxicology results more quick, accurate and precise.

UNC Asheville acquires property UNC Asheville has obtained property across the street from the main campus that will soon be the site of a student health center. According to John Pierce, vice chancellor of finance and campus operations, the university bought the Mountain Area Health Education Center’s former family medical center building at 118 W.T. Weaver Boulevard for $3.95 million. The building, sitting on about three and a half acres of property, is nearly 22,000 square feet. Acquiring the property has been in progress for about two years. The building’s first floor will be utilized as the student health center, while the second floor will be used for fund-raising and alumni services. This recent sale is separate from UNC Asheville’s plans to buy more property for the campus. The state’s planned budget allocates $2 million for additional land.

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Pollen, pollen everywhere. But without buzzing bees who fly, all is naught. It takes bees. Lots of bees.

Hungry bees. Many people are passionate about their beekeeping. They have become fascinated by the life of the fuzzy little honeybee flying around their garden.

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The more you learn about what this honeybee is doing from day to day, the more amazed you will become. The fear of being stung just disappears. One’s curiosity and fascination take over.

She (most of the colony is female) is a very social being that lives in a hive–unlike many other insects. The honeybee does not live underground but in a colony with each bee having its specific duty to perform—cleaning, nursing, repairing, or capping. There is just one very prolific queen bee, a number of drones (the males with only one purpose in life which is to mate

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with the queen) and many worker bees with many specified jobs to perform. The worker bee flies out into meadows, fields and gardens usually within a three mile radius to gather up food and water and transport them back to the hive. It is known that honeybees are in constant communication. An amazing fact is that the queen bee has the ability within her to decide if she is going to produce a male or female bee. Imagine that!!

Oh dear, what does this forecast for the 22nd century? And because honeybees congregate in large units, the hive with

local industry many thousands of bees in one place, they play a large part in commercial agriculture throughout the world. The honeybee is a critical part of our food supply today. a s a h o b by

Many in Western North Carolina have built hives on their property—to allow them to give gifts of honey to family and close friends, or perhaps just for a new adventure. Carrie and Jerry Keller lived in Maggie Valley in the late 80’s and early 90’s and began keeping bees when their children were born. Now, they are passionate about their hobby and find the bees “fascinating creatures.” Carrie said, “About one-third of all the food we eat has been pollinated by a bee--all the fruits, vegetables, and nuts. It is critical that people realize how lethal pesticides can be to insects and to our beloved honeybees. The herbicide RoundUp on dandelions and other weeds can cause the loss of many bees.” She even said, “Some beekeepers try to find out when their county is planning to spray for mosquitos in their area and close off their hives with screens to stop the bees from foraging that day. Western North Carolina is really a honeybee friendly area.”

The North Carolina State Beekeepers Association is one of the oldest and largest beekeeping associations in the United States. The state offers a wonderful support network through the County Cooperative Extension Service for those interested in learning about what is involved. Beekeeping classes are held regularly in every county throughout the state and are not particularly expensive. Through the NCSBA there are certain levels of recognized and tested beekeeping, beginning with the Certified Beekeeper, Journeyman Beekeeper, Master Beekeeper, and Master Craftsman Beekeeper. You are considered well qualified, and it is quite an honor when you breach the level of a Master Beekeeper or Master Craftsman Beekeeper. In addition, the Western North Carolina Arboretum offers beekeeping classes, as does Blue

Ridge Community College. The numbers have increased dramatically at beekeeping club meetings. The state, county and even the city of Asheville are promoting bees. On June 26, 2012, the Asheville City Council voted unanimously to become the inaugural Bee City USA. This year in June a number of events took place to celebrate pollination both for kids and adults, to bring about a better understanding of man’s dependence on the small critters, who buzz around us.

A wonderful place to get beekeeping supplies is Jon and Sara Christie’s Wild Mountain Bees at 425 Weaverville Highway in Asheville. Having just opened this new retail location, the small house tucked away on the hill is full of beekeeping supplies, equipment, protective clothing, jars, buckets and labels for the honey, pollinator friendly plants, beeswax candles, and, of course, local honey. However, do note it is only open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 to 5:30. Jon maintains many hives, probably well over 100 mostly in Madison County. He also sells at local tailgate markets. As president of the Madison County Beekeeping Association, he is involved in many aspects of beekeeping, including supplying “nucs” (a miniature version of a hive--a nucleus), and offering classes. Sara, his wife, is knowledgeable about the many beneficial aspects of honey. She says it is important to buy local honey, as it is considered by many as an old-fashioned remedy for allergies.

If you are consuming honey that has been made from the pollen and nectar of a plant causing you an allergic reaction, then you may not need to use an antibiotic medicine. Certainly in addition to boosting your energy level, honey is said to have many healing properties.

While visiting Wild Mountain Bees, I was amazed to see George Handy Jr., of Home Stretch Herbs in Riverside Business Park, picking up a huge bucket of honey that he planned to mix with other ingredients as a homeopathic remedy for race horses. He sends the tonic to well known stables, which house highly successful race horses, including a Kentucky Derby winner. The homeopathic mixture

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apparently helps the horses’ immune system ward off allergies, which can affect their speed and breathing while racing.

Another place to get beekeeping frames, supers, stands and supplies is Mountain Sunshine Farms at the WNC Farmer’s Market on Brevard Road. Along with their delicious farm pastured eggs, cage free brown eggs, and many varieties of cheeses, Nancy and Douglas Carlson sell their own honey, as well as Haw Creek Honey. Their daughter, Cara Lea Bryant, also helps her Dad maintain 16 hives in three apiaries in Candler, West Asheville and Clyde. If you see a swarm of bees hovering in a mob and want them moved, she can be hired to capture them.

Just call (828) 216-2094. Another source for honey and bee supplies is Kathy Taylor of KT’s Orchard and Apiary, who is president of the Haywood County Beekeepers Association and lives in Canton. She sells beekeeping equipment out of her barn, as well as fruit, free-range chicken eggs, and honey. a master beekeeper

Diane Almond, a Master Beekeeper, spent quite a bit of time with me discussing her and her husband, Doug’s, Honey Bees and Heather Farm, which they started in 2000. She considers herself one step above just a hobbyist–a sideliner–as she now sells bee products, though not in huge quantities. She started by introducing me to the rolling hills of lovely gardens, which are all pollinator and bee friendly, full of flowering plants that provide nectar (the carbs for the bee) and pollen (the protein for the bee). She opened my eyes to how important fields and meadows are to the insects which pollinate fruits and flowers. She discussed the plight of bees in the United States, as they lose habitat to property development, big industrial agriculture and urban sprawl. She mentioned that mulch, although it tidies up the garden, does little to help insects, especially the hundreds of gentle solitary bee species that nest in the ground.

We strolled through her plentiful and lush eight acre farmland, which is covered with herbs, such as rosemary, thyme, lavender; and fruits, such as blueberries, raspberries, or pawpaw and serviceberry trees. A pollinator demonstration garden wraps around the apiary of 12 hives and features dozens of plant species, such as sedum, goldenrod, butterfly weed, milkweed, aster, Joe Pye and more. She has planted many varieties of

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local industry heather in varying shades of green and delicate flowers. These are important as many provide food through the winter for her bees. Her garden is a delicious year-round feast for her honeybees.

Diane’s hives are kept on a southeast facing slope, well protected by a bear fence–a four foot high electric fence.

This is of utmost importance, and not to be ignored by a newcomer to beekeeping.

She has heard many a tear from those who neglected to put up a fence as she told them, only to find a bear had managed to eat all the honey. “Oh dear, oh dear, after all that work!”

She and her husband think of themselves as “bee stewards” and keep their bees as naturally as possible. She sells natural raw honey from plants and trees that have been organically grown. She maintains from 12 to 20 hives, with

approximately three yearly harvests, spring, summer and fall, depending on the weather. This year the rain has made it very difficult for the bees to gather the pollen and nectar, so production is down throughout our area. In addition, Diane makes skin care balm and lotion with no chemical additives under the Bee Babe label, which she and two other friends

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And then there are the big guys–the commercial beekeepers. Only a few decades ago, farmers could rely on wild bees and other insects to pollinate their crops. But wild bees have all but disappeared, so commercial beekeepers have had to step in to aid farmers. Large farms specialize and devote their land to only one crop today. A commercial farm devoted to one crop cannot sustain bees year round. In North Carolina there are many crops that require honey bees: apples, cucumbers, squash, watermelon and many of the berry crops. The state is a leading producer of cucumbers, which require insect pollination. Cucumber flowers that do not receive insect visitation do not set any fruit. NO BEES = NO FRUIT. Needless to say as demand for honeybees increases, the price for a hive to be brought to a crop has increased significantly, almost tripling, costing perhaps $50 a hive to $130-$150 a hive and continually going up. As the number of bees decline, demand increases and the price climbs.

In California, the almond crop is a $3 billion a year industry. The honeybee carries the pollen needed to turn the flowers into nuts. It is a process that cannot be replicated. So in order to pollinate the trees, hives are rented and brought into the area. This is being done by some of the local NC commercial beekeepers, which is quite astounding when you think about it. They take all those bees all the way to California when needed!

There are probably only a limited number of commercial beekeepers in the area.

Greg Rogers of Haw Creek Honey has been in business over 25 years. He has approximately 400 hives, which pollinate fruits and vegetables around the state, including the apples in Hendersonville.

His production facilities are very large, and he is kept very busy. Edd Buchanan of Sourwood City Apiaries is another known large commercial beekeeper, who often has a booth at the Sourwood Festival in Black Mountain. Bob and

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Suzette Bennie of Blue Ridge Honey Co. sell honey, pollen, and beeswax wholesale and retail, as well as offer pollination services. Their honey is pure, natural and raw. They do not pasteurize or micro filter their honey. b e e d e c l i n e i s t h r e at t o f o o d s u p p ly

The honey bee’s wings stroke 11,400 times per minute...which makes their distinctive buzz.

A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.

Honeybees communicate with one another by “dancing” to give the direction of and distance to flowers.

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Around the world, beekeeping and the importance of the little honeybee to our food supply is beginning to be recognized.

Since 2006/2007 the media began blasting the public with information on the seriousness of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in beehives, as well as other diseases and mites that are causing their decline. Entire populations of honeybee colonies are just disappearing–vanished, gone–with no trace of what happened to the bees. Science has not been able to pinpoint the cause of the CCD, and beekeepers are saddened and baffled. The loss of the bee on earth is an enormous threat to the food supply, a billion dollar industry. This is a serious problem with many causes, and the consequences are serious. It should be noted, however, that not all crops are pollinated by insects.

Many of the grasses, such as corn, wheat, rice, oats and barley, are all pollinated by the wind.

Back in the 50’s and 60’s, DDT was a pesticide that caused great harm to birds and other animals. Thanks to Rachel Carson and her book “Silent Spring,” DDT did get banned. Today the insecticide neonicotinoids is under fire for being extraordinarily harmful to bees because of an increasing number of high-quality scientific studies linking neonicotinoids to bringing harm to bees. This is a class of pesticide which acts as an insect nerve agent. It has been in use for more than a decade. With the Hemlock problems that we see and are aware of in the Appalachian mountains, it should be noted that this pesticide is used for the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. In April a twoyear ban on neonicotinoids passed the European Union. In the United States, beekeepers and conservation organizations are suing the U.S. government (the Environmental Protectin Agency, EPA)

local industry for failing to protect the insects.

Some towns and cities are making an effort to preserve their fields and meadows. One example of this is Cashiers, N.C., where the Village Conservancy is making plans to preserve the McKinney Meadow as a natural wildflower meadow. The Conservancy, with the help of the community led by Ann McKee Austin, purchased 2.11 acres on Route 107 South in late 2011 to ensure that it remain a meadow. They hope to continue with more such purchases. Another new development has been putting hives on rooftops in urban settings. In Austin Texas, ten bright beehives began humming in the rooftop garden of the W. Austin Hotel, a small boutique hotel. This summer the French National Assembly installed three large beehives on the rooftop of the 18th century palace that houses the lower house of Parliament. According to Reuters, the red, white, and blue hives are expected to produce about 150 kilograms of honey a year that will be given to schoolchildren on educational visits or charities.

So let’s enjoy the honey, the fruits of many hours of labor by thousands of honeybees— yummy delicious honey. And once again, think local for the most benefit to your health.

The term Wildflower Honey is often used to describe honey taken from various undefined wildflower sources and is available early summer. Here in Western North Carolina we are known for our dark, delicious Sourwood honey, taken from blossoms of sourwood trees. It could be considered our signature honey, and is much loved.

The beekeeper must keep it separate from the other honey in his hives, and it is harvested usually around mid-summer. Of course many of us are familiar with other regional honeys. Orange Blossom Honey is primarily produced in Florida, Texas or California. Tupelo Honey has an amber tone, a mild taste, and is found in the gulf states. Once you have picked your flavor then you must decide: will it be liquid honey, honey with a comb, or creamed honey? All equally as delicious and wonderful.

As Winnie the Pooh said: “That buzzing noise means something. Now, the only reason for making a buzzing noise that I know of is because you are... a bee! And the only reason for being a bee is to make honey. And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.” A. A. Milne

Entire populations of honeybee colonies are just disappearing– vanished, gone–with no trace of what happened to the bees.

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Raise your glass to the creators of local libations by paul cl ark

photo from The Biltmore Company

In the late afternoon, Frank and Lita Lilly should start to sag. They’ve been pouring wine and entertaining tasters at their Overmountain Vineyards all day, a beautiful, sunlit Saturday that showed undulating rows of grape vines in a Hollywood light. And now the light coming into the Lilly’s corner of Polk County is starting to fade.

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nd truthfully, so is Frank. Energetic by nature and sporting a rakish weekend stubble on his chiseled cheeks, he is returning from the winery to the tasting room with fresh supplies when he’s asked to slow down for a portrait with his wife. Watching Lita expound upon the winery’s origins to a group of guests–no doubt for the umpteenth time that day–Frank gives off the faintest hint of impatience. Business at Overmountain Winery has been so brisk that, quite frankly, he’s looking forward to climbing into the hot tub with Lita later that night.

Frank notwithstanding, spirits are rising all over the region.

We st er n Nor t h Carolina may have made its bones on moonshine and the fast cars that delivered it, but those raw beginnings have mellowed into a rich array of fine wine, craft brews and refined spirits (including some of the smoothest–and most legal–moonshine you’ll ever drink). Sake and cider are among the newest elixirs filling a region’s cup that overflows with lively local libations.

From the genteel horse farms of Polk County to the reinvented

County of Wilkes–once proudly the Moonshine Capital of the world–to the grand vineyards of the Biltmore Estate, the mountains are reinventing tippling into something more refined and far more varied than ever before.

The party has attracted the attention of national food, travel and industry magazines, as well as the investment dollars of big-time brewers who are either already in production here (Oskar Blues Brewery, in Brevard) or who are completing or building their East Coast operations (Sier ra Nevad a Brewing and New Belgium Brewing, respectively).

“It’s all part of the local foods experience,” said Jeff Frisbee, owner of Addison Farms Vineyard in Leicester. People travel now to sample the tastes a place has to offer, and that includes beverages, he noted. “Folks that are interested in that can appreciate craft brewing, local wines, and distilling, equally,” he said. Here’s a taste of just a few of the brewers, distillers and vintners who have made Western North Carolina as much a destination for drink as it is for dining.

Western North Carolina may have made its bones on moonshine and the fast cars that delivered it, but those raw beginnings have mellowed into a rich array of fine wine, craft brews and refined spirits (including some of the smoothest–and most legal–moonshine you’ll ever drink).

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Highland brewing If Biltmore Estate, with the most visited winery in the nation, is the granddaddy of local libations in the mountains’ modern era, the godfather of the region’s rising spirits has to be Oscar Wong, credited with starting the area’s craft brewing movement. Wong opened Asheville’s first brewery - Highland Brewing - in 1994 in a tiny basement walkout beneath Barley’s Taproom in downtown Asheville. Wong, an engineer, had recently retired, having sold his nuclear waste processing business in

Charlotte. He’d planned to putter around the 10-acre organic farm he and his wife had bought.

“I was going to grow vegetables and commune with nature,” he said, chuckling. “Be a gentleman farmer.”

His wife thought otherwise–he needed to get out of the house and do something, she decided. About that time a mutual friend introduced him to John McDermott, an award-winning brewer who worked professionally in Charlotte’s small but growing beer scene. McDermott knew his hops; Wong knew business. And Wong loved a good beer, having dabbled

in brewing while in graduate school at Notre Dame. (“It wasn’t good beer or real beer, but it had booze in it,” he said.)

A small brewery might work in Asheville, Wong concluded after meeting with McDermott. The water was good, and the town attracted a lot of tourists.

Wong planned to offer a couple of local alternatives to mass-produced beer available in restaurants in town. When Highland Brewing opened, it was one of just a few breweries in North Carolina, but small-batch brewing was gaining steam–some 18 other breweries had applications into the state.

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With McDermott making the beer–an ale and a porter–in old dairy tanks and Wong running the business, Highland did well but it didn’t break even for eight years. Wong took on some partners he said were eager to get in–and who his wife was eager to let in. “In her own inimitable way, she said I don’t want to be married to the only idiot in the business,” he said, laughing.

Highland, available in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee, grew so quickly that it ran out of space in its basement digs and moved into a large space at a film studio in east Asheville. This time, “we bought real beer equipment,” Wong said, more than doubling its capacity. And it broke even for the first time.

Now it makes five times the amount of beer it made downtown. And with new tanks arriving in August, it will make six times as much and, by next year, more than seven times as much. How much bigger it will grow (its beers are available in nine states) is, Wong said, up to his daughter, Leah Wong Ashburn, company vice president.

“My thought was to be double (in size) to what we are now,” he said. “But with the other guys (Sierra Nevada, Oskar Blues and New Belgium) moving in, we have to go three and a half times where we are now. Rest assured, they’re not going to sit around and let us have the local market. They’re proud companies.”

Wong said he “never in a million years” thought brewing in Asheville would have the craft beer scene it has. “My idea was to have a small brewery so I would have something to do,” he said.

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The oak-shaded lawn in front of Overmountain Vineyards’ tasting room was covered with guests from around the world on the day that Frank and Lita were pouring wine.

There was a group from Sweden, a couple from Australia and a group of Methodists from Gastonia. Dan and Louisa Suggs, among the latter group, were enjoying the early evening breezes with good friends.

“We heard about this place while we were on a brews tour in Asheville,” Louisa said, a glass of Chardonnay etched with Overmountain logo in her hand. “We love taking tours of all the local vineyards, and this place,” she said, waving the glass to encompass the convivial and relaxed crowd. “This place is so well planned and delightful. The wines are excellent. They’re not afraid to experiment.”

Frank and Lita Lilly have 15 of their 75 acres in Petit Verdot, Merlot and other varietals. Frank grew up outside of Raleigh in an equestrian family that, in the French tradition, poured an ounce of wine into water for the children. “I grew up knowing that wine was food,” he said. He made wine in his basement for 20 years before

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“We thought we’d leave our jobs on Fridays and then on Saturdays, after coffee and a leisurely breakfast, sell a couple of cases of wine and sleep in the next morning,” he said. “But it wasn’t like that. We grew by a factor of five in two years. We never thought we’d be this busy. And we’re about to get bigger.”

Overmountain hopes to bottle about 3,000 cases this year (up from 500 when it started) for consumption in local restaurants.

It wants to stay small (everything it does is by hand, with a handful of full- and part-time people). It may sell as far afield as Asheville, but it wants to remain local, Frank said. It is one of three wineries in Polk County, and a fourth is coming in the fall. “You can make a whole day out of seeing them,” he said. “People bring picnics to our winery. We welcome that.”

hi-wire brewing

Hi-Wire’s handcrafted beers fit the doit-yourself ethos of the Southern Appalachians, which has traditionally been a place where people made, brewed or distilled what they needed themselves.

I n m id - Ju ne, H i -Wi r e Brew i ng i n dow ntow n A sheville was a tizzy of construction. Workers were building bars and installing signs, all in a push to get Hi-Wire’s tasting room open by the end of the month. “Today is total transformation day,” Adam Charnack, one of three business partners, said as workers clamored all around.

“Tomorrow this place will be totally different.”

Moving through the maze of power equipment and building supplies, workers had installed a large garage door-like window that opens the tasting room to the street outside. Pounding away in the old Craggie Brewing Co. on Hilliard Avenue, carpenters had installed a long bar made of wood reclaimed from an old barn in Mills River. In the back of the house among the large tanks, employees were working the bottling machine, filling longnecks with Hi-Wire Lager, one of four year-round beers the brewery will offer. Behind the bar will be a few guest taps, as well as a couple of seasonal and small-batch Hi-Wire beers that will give Hi-Wire’s brewers a little creative freedom and may become part of the regular rotation.

“We want to be the craft beer of choice for beer that people know is good,” Charnack, who moved to Asheville originally to develop affordable housing, said. His two partners, Chris Frosaker and Matt Kiger, are pharmacists who, like Charnack, are homebrewers. Unlike most start-up breweries in Asheville,

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they’ll be offering six-packs from the get-go, sending their beer out into the region in a sort of viral advertising that they hope will win over an ever-expanding ring of customers.

“This town is amazing,” Charnack said. “There is so much craft brewing here, and they’re all amazing. You go to another town, and they have maybe three breweries, making just a few beers. Here’s, it’s the opposite. You’d be hard-pressed not to find whatever beer you’re looking for on tap.”

Hi-Wire is in Asheville’s newly minted Brewery District, where half a dozen breweries are within walking distance. Hi-Wire’s handcrafted beers fit the do-it-yourself ethos of the Southern Appalachians, which has traditionally been a place where people made, brewed, or distilled what they needed themselves. That tradition has made Western North Carolina a national center of handmade goods, and local brewing fits perfectly within that sphere, Charnack said.

“With the big boys coming in, the pie will just get bigger,” he said of the national breweries the city has landed. “We’re going to be the Napa Valley of beer.”

howling moon distillery When the propane burners are fired up to boil the mash, it’s so hot in Howling Moon Distillery that Cody Bradford and Chivous Downey think a 90-degree day is cool. They make moonshine in a cinder block building in Woodfin without a distinguishing feature other than its plainness. On the inside, however, are three handsome stills, one of which contains a copper condenser that Bradford’s whiskey-making great-great-grandfather, Turner Edwards, used to make moonshine in Burnsville about 150 years ago.

Mountain farmers with corn to sell found that they could make more money turning it into white liquor than they could selling it as produce, assuming they could get it to market before it went bad. Bradford and Downey, both from moonshine-making families, left corporate jobs in the nursing home business to open Howling Moon Distillery about a year and a half ago. They’re having a lot more fun now, they said.

“Moonshine’s been in my family for a long, long time,” Bradford explained, patching pipe joints with rye paste to keep the alcohol steam from escaping. His family passed Turner Edwards’ equipment down through the generations, each using it for its intended purpose. All that experience yielded one fine family recipe, and Bradford and Downey, buddies since high school, think they’ve got a couple of winners in their Mountain Moonshine and Apple Pie Moonshine. They’ve just started making a strawberry moonshine, using fresh fruit, just as they do with the apple liquor.

They filter and cool their ‘shine in old oak barrels, bought from the Heaven Hill distillery in Kentucky. Recycling is part of their mantra–they use local corn, grind it in a local mill and send their spent mash to a farm for hog feed. That’s how the moonshiners in their families did it back in the day.

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“I think you’ll see more hard cider on the market,” Trevor of Noble Cider said. “It’s the next wave of craft beverage. Craft alcohol in general, it’s blowing up all over the country.

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Rise to the Occasion stores throughout Western North Carolina and elsewhere. They make about 320 cases a month and should be up to 400 cases soon. They sell about everything they make. It’s been that way since they started, Bradford said.

“Moonshining gets in your blood,” he said, sweating in the heat. “Appalachian culture still alive today - I love it.”

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addison farms vineyard Jeff Frisbee remembers the fried chicken and mashed potatoes his grandmother used to make in an old farmhouse on the family property in Leicester. He lives there now, with his wife Dianne, a motion graphics artist. They opened a winery up the hill in part to keep the land in agriculture and in the family.

“I didn’t want the place to become a subdivision,” Frisbee said. “We’re seeing way too many small family farms disappearing.” Farm families that sold tobacco to put their children through college still have good, fertile land to use. Frisbee has lots of it, as well as a family willing to pitch in and help with the winery.

Together they tend about 3,000 vines on four and a half acres at an elevation of about 2,300 feet, harvesting the fruit in the fall to crush and bottle in the winery beside the vines. They built a tasting room on one end of the property–a beautiful, lodge-like building with a gracious front porch. Addison Farms’ 2012 Orion (a chenin blanc) and its 2011 Coming Home (cabernet sauvignon) are the first PRESORT R STD. RT wines to be pressed entirely from its own U.S. POSTAGE T TAGE grapes. Other wines available for purchase PA I D at the tasting room are Gwinn PERMIT (a blend#593 of chardonnay and traminetteASHEVILLE, grapes), NC the Smokehouse red (chambourchin and sangiovese grapes) and a red dessert wine Gratitude (chambourchin grapes).

“With the big boys coming in, the pie will just get bigger. We’re going to be the Napa Valley of beer.”

Leisure&Libation After having fallen in love with the wines they encountered while traveling in Italy and France, the Frisbees decided to use the family land for a winery in 2008 after Jeff, an electrical engineer working in telecommunications, was laid off. He attended the viticulture school at Surry Community College and planted the vines with some two dozen volunteers from the school. Jeff and Dianne, high school sweethearts, did their first crush in 2010 from fruit they bought from other vineyards.

“Like anything in farming, running a winery is a lot of work,” he said. “We’re hoping to be cash-flow positive this year, but I’m not sure we’re going to hit that goal. But we get to meet people in the tasting room from all over.”

Addison Farms doesn’t have plans to get much bigger. Jeff and Dianne like working the farm with people close to them. “We’d like to keep this a family affair,” Dianne said. “This whole thing is a family affair,” her husband added.

noble cider If there’s one thing Henderson County has, it’s lots of apples. The biggest apple-producing county in one of the top apple-producing states, Henderson County’s crop ends up as produce, juice, sauce–and now, hard cider. Noble Hard Cider, which presses its apples near Asheville Regional Airport, was the first of three hard cideries built or planned in the region. All of its apples come from within 100 miles of the cidery.

“We already have a large craft beer scene, so a lot of people are interested in trying new tastes and flavors,” said Joanna Baker at Noble Cider. A cool, dry cider is refreshing and not as filling as some of the beers made in the area. Like a light sparkling wine, cider pairs well with spicy food and cheese. And it’s a killer with barbecue, cutting through the richness to awaken the palate between bites.

The Bakers and partner Lief Stevens started the business with not very much money. They put in and raised about $20,000 from their families, and then they got a $40,000 Advantage Opportunity

Fund loan from AdvantageWest, the state economic development group for the Western North Carolina area. Last summer Trevor went to cider school in Washington state.

The partners lined up their first apples last fall. They pressed 2,000 gallons by hand, but they’ll find another means for extracting up to 15,000 gallons this season. “What took us six weeks last year will probably take a day this year,” Trevor said.

Distributed only in kegs, Noble Cider has to bring the uninitiated to the product, the Bakers said. “It’s very similar to when craft brewing came into this market years ago when people used to drink light beer,” Joanna said. “We make a drier cider that appeals to the wine drinker. And Generation Y, they’re more adventurous and willing to try something new.”

“I think you’ll see more hard cider on the market,” Trevor said. “It’s the next wave of craft beverage. Craft alcohol in general, it’s blowing up all over the country. I think everyone was surprised that making hard cider here hadn’t happened yet on a commercial scale. There are a lot of craft beer drinkers who want to branch out into other products.”

Noble Cider is working with state agricultural extension agents to see how well vintage varieties will grow in Henderson County (Thomas Jefferson was well known for the hard cider he made at Monticello, Virginia). Noble Cider doesn’t have a tasting room (there may be one in the future), but people are welcome to come by to visit, Trevor said. He came up with the company’s name after leafing through “Wild Apples,” a book by Henry David Thoreau.

Thoreau called the apple a noble fruit.

“The name stuck with me,” Trevor said.

“It’s a good, solid name that goes with our tagline–true to the core.”

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BREWERIES

Altamont Brewing Company Appalachian Mountain Brewery Asheville Brewing Co. Blind Squirrel Blue Mountain Pizza and Brewpub Boondocks Brewing Taproom & Restaurant Brevard Brewing Co. Burial Beer Company Catawba Valley Brewing Co. Dry County Brewing Co. French Broad Brewing Frog Level Brewing Co. Green Man Brewery Headwaters Brewing Company Heinzelmannchen Brewery Highland Brewing Co. Hi-Wire Brewing Howard Brewing Co. Lexington Avenue Brewery Lookout Brewing Nantahala Brewing Co. Olde Hickory Brewing Oskar Blues Brewery Oyster House Brewing Company Pisgah Brewing Co.

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Southern Appalachian Brewery Thirsty Monk Pub & Brewery Tipping Point Tavern Wedge Brewing Company Wicked Weed Brewing CIDERIES

Black Mountain Ciderworks McRitchier Winery & Ciderworks Noble Cider Urban Orchard Cider Co. (to open this fall) DISTILLERIES

Adam Dalton Distillery, rum Carolina Distillery, apple brandy Howling Moon Distillery, moonshine Piedmont Distillers, moonshine Southern Artisan Spirits, gin Troy & Sons Distillery, moonshine WINERIES

Banner Elk Winery and Villa Biltmore Estate Winery Brushy Mountain Winery Calaboose Cellars Carolina Mist Winery

Cerminaro Vineyard Chateau Laurinda Elkin Creek Vineyard Falderal Winery Grandfather Vineyard and Winery Green Creek Winery Green River Vineyard Lake James Cellars Mountain Brook Vineyards Overmountain Vineyards Parker-Binns Vineyard Raffaldini Vineyards Raintree Cellars South Creek Vineyards and Winery Thistle Meadow Winery Valley River Vineyards Waldensian Heritage Winery

With new breweries, vineyards, and distilleries opening daily, we know that some folks aren’t listed here.

If you have information about them, please e-mail us at content@capitalatplay.com, so that we can include them online.

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by Bill Fishburne

Real estate & your rear view mirror

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Whether you know it or not, you really ought to thank Ray Harroun for saving your life.

H

e did, you know. In 1911, automotive engineer Ray Harroun became the winner of the first Indianapolis 500 auto race. He won the event that is now the most famous race in the world driving a single-seat Marmon Wasp. All the other drivers–some 40 of them plus their riding mechanics–were in two-seat cars. The “mechanician’s” job was to add oil, change tires, and warn the driver when another car was trying to pass.

Harroun’s single-seat car was lighter than the two-seaters, more aerodynamic, easier on tires and in general a much better design. His competitors declared the Wasp was unsafe because there was no one in the car to warn Harroun about the overtaking cars.

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four sturdy steel rods. He called it the “mirrorscope” and his critics shut up.

There are two things about Harroun’s Wasp and its mirror that are important for this article. First, the Wasp’s hard, skinny tires and the track’s uneven brick racing surface caused the mirrorscope to vibrate so badly that it was useless during the race. All it really did was block Harroun’s view.

Second, and most importantly, he won the race despite not being able to see anything behind him.

Which gets us around to the point of this article. You can’t win in real estate by solely looking behind you. Past performance, as all the mutual funds tell us, is no predictor of future events.

It’s useful data, to be sure, and those who forget history are doomed to make the same mistakes over and over again. But there are outside forces on the real estate market that tend to interfere with the orderly balance of supply and demand.

I don’t know if the data is available or not, but I would love to see a two year chart of showing appointments made through the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) charted against sales activity six weeks to two months later. I believe there would be a strong correlation. Listing activity is a less accurate indicator because it has nothing to do with buyers. Nothing happens until somebody buys something. If they’re not bringing clients in to look at your house, it really isn’t on the market and you have very little chance of getting it sold.

In the meantime we can see where we are at this moment by looking at sales data and we can chart it against 2012 to see how much improvement we have had.

We are in a good place. Contrary to the infamous Al Gore line, everything that should be up is up, and everything that should be down is down. Except for interest rates which are low but climbing.

So here’s the snapshot, looking in the rear view mirror, of course.

Real estate values, in the 11 county Western North Carolina area served by the NC Mountains MLS, were relatively flat comparing the first six months of 2012 to 2013. The average house last year sold for $221,257. So far this year the average sales price is $220,826. That is a change of 0 percent.

Unit sales are up. So is dollar volume and people are gradually gaining more confidence in the market. Whenever I meet someone and they learn I’m a realtor the most common thing I’m asked is “how’s the market.” The past six months, maybe more, have been a real pleasure as I was able to report the market is good.

The past six months, maybe more, have been a real pleasure as I was able to report the market is good.

Let’s use two more motor sports analogies to explain things.

Regarding Ray Harroun, he figured that if a guy was behind him that’s not his problem. He wasn’t going to put in a second seat, carry a mechanic and suffer the performance penalties just to have the guy yelling “They’re catching us, Ray!” in his ear. Harroun figured he would just drive the car as best he could. Similarly you can’t price a house or project a real estate market trend solely by looking behind you.

Opportunity lies ahead. And so does the big wreck.

Second, as the laps (and inventory) wind down the intensity of the battle increases.

Nobody wrecks when there are 197 laps left in the race. What’s the point? But get it down to the last three laps and everybody starts wrecking. The deal is on the line, you’re running out of laps, your wife has expensive tastes and you are about to get your name and face on the Borg-Warner trophy.

The last lap is the one that pays the big money. The last house in a market will command a higher price than when there were 200 units sitting in that price range.

Keep an eye on inventory. If it starts to drop in a certain price range then the value of the houses in that range, and especially new product coming into the market, will increase.

Real estate analysts like to talk about balanced markets where buyers and sellers have equal bargaining power. They say it comes when there is a six-month supply

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of houses in a certain price range. The supply is determined by each month’s sales levels. If you’re selling 100 houses a month and there are 600 listings in that price range then you will sell out (not counting new listings) in six months and you have a balanced market.

We’re not there yet in most areas but are very close in the sub-$200K range, particularly in Buncombe and Henderson counties. Anything under a nine-month inventory is good.

Ask your realtor for the latest data to see where you stand.

What about list price versus sales price? Last year on average homes sold for 92 percent of the asking price. This year that has increased to 94 percent.

Some companies do better than others in this. When you get to multiple offers on a house, you can generally count on it selling at or near the asking price.

As we get ready to look down the road and not so much in the rearview mirror I’ll give you one more piece of data.

According to preliminary data, unit sales in the first six months increased 22

percent from 2,738 units to 3,337. Dollar volume also increased 22 percent, from $605,800,758 in 2012 to $736,896,209.

If you make a forecast based on that and allow some reduction in growth due to higher interest rates and other unknown factors, the reasonable person might think there could be a big bump in prices and sales volume the rest of the year. I’ll let you do the numbers lest this doesn’t pan out and someone says they were misled by that realtor guy in Hendersonville.

But I can visualize Ray Harroun peeking beneath his big mirror and seeing the big wreck in front of him clearing out pretty well.

He probably would have stood on the gas for all he was worth thinking this was a good time to make up lost ground.

Factors that could negatively influence market growth include multiple aspects of the economy, the continuing insanity in Washington and overseas political turmoil especially in the middle east.

Politicians, as former congressman Charles Taylor used to say, can screw up a one-car funeral procession. Many

You can’t price a house or project a real estate market trend solely by looking behind you.

Opportunity lies ahead. And so does the big wreck.

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believe that is exactly what will happen to the market if the State Legislature reduces the tax credits for interest paid on home mortgages. Harroun wouldn’t have won the Indy 500 if his pit crew had decided the flat tire he suffered at the 340 mile mark wasn’t that big a deal. Similarly, the real estate market is not yet back to 2007 levels.

The key to real estate is the same as it is to the rest of the economy. Jobs, jobs, jobs.

And I mean private sector jobs not government funded jobs of any type. It doesn’t do the national economy any long-term good to follow Keynesian economics and continue to “invest” (spend) borrowed money that will have to be repaid through higher taxes.

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“This land belongs to our people, some of them are living, some of them are dead, but most of them have not been born yet.”

– E.J. Whitmire, 1916 - 1998

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hen I die, I want them to lay me down beneath a shade tree, head slightly elevated and facing south, in a pasture on Ridgefield Farm on the gentle slopes of Poor House Mountain. When the Lord comes and raises me up, the first thing I will see will be a valley of endless pastures and trees, with a single white church steeple that reaches for the morning sun.

I will rise up and walk towards that church, marveling in the beauty of all that God has created. There will be cattle in the fields and a profusion of birds in the trees. I’ll walk by granite springs with pure, sweet water. I’ll cross streams where the brookies just stare at me through the sparkling cold, clear water.

Eventually I’ll arrive at that little church where good mountain folk gather in recognition that all they have, all that they love, and all that they care for is a gift from God. Of course, none of this has been cleared with Steve Whitmire, the owner of Ridgefield Farm, but the tall, extrover ted cattle rancher who owns most of Poor House Mountain and the surrounding area is an amicable, God fearing kind of a guy. Who knows?

It could happen.

R idgefield Farm is a 1,000-plus acre farm in the hills just a few miles Southeast of Murphy, NC. Whitmire shares the land with a few hundred Braunvich and Black Angus cattle. The farm is a GAP (Global Animal Partnership) Step 4 (Pasture Centered) farm. The cattle are pasture fed and rounded off with free-choice access to a carefully formulated combination of silage and home-grown corn, dried grain from the Jack Daniels distillery, a special formulation of probiotics and minerals, and 52 CA ITALat LAY

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a supplement made from cinnamon, kelp and garlic. There are no added hormones, no antibiotics and zero stress in their lives.

They are, in every conceivable way, contented cattle.

Writing for Capital at Play for the past few years has taken your humble servant to a variety of locations. We embraced a wonderful new meat flavor when we toured and wrote about the Carolina Bison ranch in Leicester. We renewed old acquaintanceship at the Hickory Nut Gap farm in Fairview featuring grass fed beef. We learned some of the ways bison differ from cattle, the difference between muck and mud, and we watched late-season kale grow in the incredibly rich bottom land of the Cane Creek farm.

The Ridgefield Farm stands out, however, as one of the most beautiful places we have ever been and is operated with the highest levels of science and computer technology.

In addition to the cattle ranch the farm raises its own nonGMO feed corn and has hundreds of acres of timberlands on its steeper ridges. There also is the Brasstown Farm Store on the premises at 1960 Brasstown Rd., offering direct sales of the farm’s beef and pork products.

Ridgefield is just down Brasstown Road from Logan’s Corner country store where the New Year’s Eve Possum Drop draws 3,000 family oriented and mostly sober revelers. It also is the home of Tri-County Race Track, a quarter-mile dirt track that draws young men and women to Friday night short track racing that features the roar of great thumping V-8 engines, the smells of gasoline and oil, and the sky-darkening, life-changing bedlam of turn one on a dirt track.

It’s real. It’s authentic. It’s not diluted with excessive regulations and little biddy ladies who want to protect opossums and don’t like noise on Friday night. This is Brasstown and Steve W hitmire, a prominent member of a culture that is as colorful as a mountain sunset.

Steve Whitmire took over management of the family’s Ridgefield Farm after his father passed away in a farm accident in 1998. The late E.J. Whitmire was a high school agriculture teacher. His mother, Genevieve Whitmire, taught biology and was a guidance counselor at the same school. They founded the farm in 1954. Steve is a graduate of N.C. State University with a degree in agriculture.

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“E.J., my Dad, was a visionary guy,” Steve says. “Early on, about 35 or 40 years ago, he gave Western Carolina University rights to come onto the farm to do a variety of research projects.

In our timberlands we have areas that have been clearcut, we have water quality gauges and temperature gages, we have areas that were selectively cut and areas where there was no cut.

We have areas where cattle have access to the creek and areas they don’t. We provide them with a large number of water stations that are fed by wells drilled down into mountain granite. It’s good, sweet, untreated water that humans can drink, too”.

“Dad was a conservationist long before that word was in common usage. He believed that when you harvest crops and trees you plant more back. I think it’s unfortunate that a lot of people believe that the way the mountains look now is how they looked back in 1800, and we shouldn’t touch the forests.

You know from living in here that a lot of our forests back then had been clearcut by the Native Americans, so they could see the game and have easier hunting. Now it has been reforested.

“We try to keep a balance between forest lands that are in various stages of maturity. When they get to a point where the saw timber is valuable, we’ll saw it and replant. Five years ago we did a big project that involved over 100 loads of white pines and about 200 loads of pulpwood. It was all done under the supervision of Western Carolina University where they would mark the trees to take. We found a truly expert timber harvester who came in here and did a magnificent job of selective cutting.

“A selective cut like that keeps the forest vibrant and alive.

Growing trees provide a lot more in the way of air quality than dormant trees. We leave what I call the condo trees, one with nests and holes and places for birds and squirrels and raccoons.

GrowSafe allows us to monitor them every step of the way.

Through transponders in their ear tags we can track just about every aspect of their lives.

We know their social status by tracking which animals are first in line for the feeding stations.

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We still practice active management for our forest lands as we do for our pasture lands.”

Whitmire is recognized around the nation as a leader in the beef livestock industry. He currently serves as President of the Beef Improvement Federation headquartered in South Dakota.

His farm was named the 2010 Seedstock Cattlemen of the Year by the Georgia Cattlemen’s Association and he is a Beef Improvement Federation nominee for Seedstock Breeder of the Year in 2013. He was one of the first cattlemen to cross-breed the domestic Black Angus and the Swiss Braunvieh. The result is disease resistant variety of Black Angus with sweet tasting meat, having a uniform, fine texture that is marketed under the Brasstown Beef brand name.

One of the scientific tools Whitmire uses that has made a huge difference in the health of his cattle and the quality of Brasstown Beef is development and implementation of the GrowSafe System.

“We monitor them from the time they go out in the morning until they come in at night,” Whitmire says. “They graze the pastures on grass all day. In the late afternoon they come back to the feedyard, GrowSafe allows us to monitor them every step of the way. Through transponders in their ear tags we can track just about every aspect of their lives. We know their social status by tracking which animals are first in line for the feeding stations. We know which feeding station they use, how long they feed and how much they eat by the weight of the food in each station. That goes into the computer along with a lot of other data.

“After 14 days we get data that tells us how well that animal is growing and when the cost of their weight gain exceeds the value of the gain. What that means is that this animal is ready for market, with some other factors being considered.”

The GrowSafe system allows for weather conditions, lost transponders and most human errors. Data is transmitted from feedyard bins to the GrowSafe servers which automatically track and report any system errors. By eliminating hand-gathering of data in any form, GrowSafe virtually insures there will be no tampering or inadvertent errors in the information Whitmire analyzes in making farm decisions.

“I get a lot of data out of the system,” Whitmire says, “and we supplement it with accurate records of other events in the animals’ lives. We rate them with ultrasound including the fat in their backbone, the marbling in the ribeye between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs, and can even measure the fat in their rump.

It’s a very scientific process that has produced cattle and steaks that are far, far superior to what we could do 10 years ago.”

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“This year we had a bill passed by the General Assembly so we could get a live possum in the box again. It will be air conditioned or heated as the case may be.” Whitmire says that one year he loaned Logan his bird dog’s pad to ensure the possum’s comfort.

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by Mary Frances Coleman. Coleman turns out to be a chef with a large menu of home cooked staples and specialties. Blue Mountain offers true farm to fork dining with no middlemen.

Coleman’s restaurant is located in the Peachtree area, less than two miles from the Brasstown Farm and even closer to downtown Murphy. Reflecting her UNC Chapel Hill education (in contrast to the sea of N.C. State graduates in which she lives), Coleman’s menu caters to a diverse clientele and includes the needs of diabetics and vegetarians. Tri-County Community College is diagonally across the street, possibly influencing the fare and certainly giving a wide audience to her culinary talents.

Coleman is so totally dedicated to the culinary arts and good service that she even has a waitresses’ notepad tattooed on the back of her hand.

Clay Logan of Clay’s Corner After lunch, Whitmire stops to chat with Clay Logan, owner of Clay’s Corner general store. Logan is an outgoing and genuinely funny man who created the New Year’s Eve Possum drop 25 years ago. The event draws between 2,500 and 3,000 spectators and has often been the target of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).

Logan takes it all in stride. He knows the fate of an opossum in the woods is to be dinner for a coyote or bobcat, and its greatest enemy is the automobile. He’s as sharp witted as a trial lawyer and one minute sounds like one while the next minute he’s telling a mountain story with just the country twang you would expect in the rugged western-most reaches of the state “We had trouble with the animal rights folks,” Logan says.

“Last year we had to drop a dead possum. We don’t actually drop it, you know, we put it in a glass box and lower it down gently.

When we use a live possum, and we will this year, I catch it in a tree out behind the house a week or so before the drop. We feed it and take good care of it. I think they like the excitement of the drop in the glass box. None of them have ever played dead on us, except for the dead one. He was road kill.

“This year we had a bill passed by the General Assembly so we could get a live possum in the box again. It will be air conditioned or heated as the case may be.” Whitmire says that one year he loaned Logan his bird dog’s pad to ensure the possum’s comfort.

“Sometime when I let them loose after the drop they’ve had so much fun they won’t go away,” Logan says.

This year’s event will also feature the return of many of the event’s previous Possum Queens. “Some of them have passed away but I think most will be here,” Logan says. “Now be sure to understand that these aren’t guys dressed in drag, these are Southern Gentlemen dressed up as ladies. This is a family event.”

Logan has a traffic light above the stores’ front door. He says the State DOT came out and studied it before they put one first one in Murphy. Next to the store sits his gorgeous Ford Model T. The license plate says “Eat More Possum.”

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Owned and operated by husband and wife duo, Eddie Hannibal and Natalie Byrnes, the Glass Onion in Weaverville could be considered off the beaten path, but that’s precisely why I like it. On any given day or night you can find Eddie in the kitchen creating delicious concoctions from locally produced ingredients, whilst Natalie takes care of customers to ensure they experience efficient, yet friendly service that makes all the difference.

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While the food is of exceptional quality, the ambiance remains informal and relaxed, which is part of the restaurant’s charm.

One of the biggest positives of dining at The Glass Onion was being greeted by a small menu. I don’t know about you, but I get completely overwhelmed when there are more than

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Sampling several of their dishes, a few in particular had me begging for more. I have never been a lover of beets, but my

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Natalie was happy to share the recipe of this salad with the readers of Capital at Play, so give it a go, I promise it will be worth it.

Another exquisite dish was the fresh handmade fettucini with pork belly, local ramps, oven dried tomatoes and veal stock reduction. Natalie and Eddie explained the reasoning behind calling themselves a global Italian restaurant. Their dishes are based on Italian classics but allow them the freedom to experiment with a variety of local ingredients prevalent in Western North Carolina.

I appreciate the focus on high quality ingredients, as it was the foundation of the traditional Italian cooking of my youth. Though I grew up in the UK, I was brought up in a very Italian home, where food and family were inextricably linked. It was the root of my upbringing and of my love for all things food today.

In closing, I must mention that The Glass Onion has a lovely offer that everyone in Western North Carolina should know about —Wine Lovers Wednesday. Not only is it half-off bottles of wine, but Eddie also makes the pasta fresh in house. Just in case you are wondering, you know where I’ll be on Wednesday nights.

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Jake & Rob Hall Brothers, with over 46 years of experience in their field, yet the older of the two just celebrated his 30th birthday. written by arthur treff

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ntique motorcycles surround me. I see work stalls, all of which contain bikes in differing states of disassembly, some mere frames on wheels. Shelves line the walls where removed parts are carefully stored.

Against the rear wall, I find a spotless wooden workbench displaying three engines bolted to assembly jigs. Remarkable to see the insides of these old power plants exposed, the grime of combustion cleaned and polished away, revealing the mechanical beauty underneath.

Blaring music is absent; the workshop is calm. Tucked strategically behind an auto parts store, there is no walk-in traffic either. The air is scented with a blend of used motor oil, dust and cleaning solvents.

Halls Custom Vintage, or HCV, calls this shop home. It is owned and operated by Jake and Rob Hall, who specialize in the repair, restoration and modification of antique British motorcycles, most of which were manufactured before 1976.

Fuel tanks waiting for reassembly bear names such as BSA, Norton, Royal Enfield, Triumph, Velocette and Vincent. Motorcycles from these manufacturers dominated roads and tracks in the post WWII years.

They ruled worldwide sales numbers for decades, until the late 1960’s when another country entered the fray.

Led by Honda, the Japanese introduced cutting-edge automotive engineering to a market that was still selling motorcycles based on 20 year-old technology. This Asian breed of bike was ultra reliable, efficient and inexpensive.

One by one, the British manufacturth ers folded, victims of hubris and dogged adherence to engineering tradition. Their products were famously finicky, even when brand new; and by 1975, quality had degraded to the point that many bikes were totally worn out after just 2000 miles.

“These bikes were junk, even when new,” says Jake Hall.

“British motorcycle companies were using manufacturing tooling that dated to before WWII, and they never had the money to improve. The machines couldn’t hold tolerances, so the parts really weren’t interchangeable. Each bike, and each engine, was

hand assembled and tweaked at the factory…it makes restoring them very challenging.”

People sometimes become passionate about things they once owned or loved. As a way to connect with those memories from our past, and as careers progress and we can afford them, we collect some of the props — from Hepplewhite chairs to pinkhaired Troll Dolls. Jukeboxes, lunchboxes and soda bottles eventually achieve cult status, alongside Barbie dolls.

Like popular music from the past, classic bikes are a touchstone to a rider’s salad days, those carefree high school or college years. Yes, old Brit bikes were tough to keep running, but they were also the best riding and handling bikes of the period.

What the Japanese did for reliability, the British did for road holding and appearance. Jap bikes of the era had no funk, soul nor street cred’…a true collector would argue that to this day.

Toddling Apprenticeship Malcolm Gladwell, in his bestseller, “Outliers — The Story of Success”, posits that most people of extraordinary talent are not born that way. On the contrary, most have, at one point in their lives, spent over 10,000 hours perfecting their craft.

Rob and Jake Hall are a good example. Their father, Stuart, who loved restoring and riding British motorcycles invited his sons to join in his passion. As a result, the pair has a combined 46 years of experience in their field, yet the older of the two just celebrated his 30th birthday.

When he was six years old, Jake rode a small dirt bike on forest trails with his dad. Far from new, the bike needed mechanical attention on a regular basis. The Hall family rule was simple: if you want to ride it, you have to work on it.

If it wouldn’t start, Jake had to figure it out, with Stuart’s help initially. If he got a flat, he was taught to stop, take out his tool kit, patch the tube and lever the tire back on.

“There’s a Hall family legend that says at age three, I removed the cylinder head from a broken rototiller,” says Jake, “but I don’t remember that.”

Jake outgrew his motorcycle just as brother Rob, two years his junior, was big enough to ride. The bike was handed down to Rob, and the deal was the same: if you want to ride it, you learn to fix it when it breaks.

Driven solely by their desire to ride, the pair fixed bikes to keep the fun going. After they outgrew their childhood mounts, they began to pick through their dad’s collection of non-running classic British Motorcycles.

Jake: “Dad, I’d like to ride that ‘66 Triumph Tiger Cub of yours?”

Stuart: “If you can make it run, you can ride it.”

Overhauling a motorcycle entirely is a large task for anyone, let alone a 9 grader.

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The boys progressed from simple tire changes to carburetors, magnetos and eventually engine internals. As soon as one bike was being test ridden, the Halls would be working on their next bike project.

Parts weren’t easy to find for these classic vehicles, but when they were located, Jake and Rob used allowance savings or did extra jobs around the house to pay for them. If a part couldn’t be bought, the lads had to invent a way to fix the existing part by modifying, welding or machining an entirely new one.

By the time Jake was in 9th grade, he could restore a British motorcycle by himself. Overhauling a motorcycle entirely is a large task for anyone, let alone a 9th grader. But, when you consider that British bikes are notoriously tough to work on, and that most mechanics will turn down such work, you realize the value of the boys’ childhood training.

Jake attended Appalachian State and studied cost management. His first job was in construction management, which didn’t agree with him. He next worked with Volvo Heavy Equipment in their parts technology department It was Jakes’ responsibility to monitor customers repair progress and answer technical questions. If a part didn’t fit, or didn’t fix a problem, Jake had to engineer a solution. It was a perfect job for a man who grew up improvising motorcycle repairs.

When brother Rob graduated from high school, he attended UTI, better known as ‘NASCAR Tech’, a trade school for individuals who want to work in automotive racing. Rob learned to become an engine builder and machinist.

Engine machining is more than just running a mill, lathe or grinder. These machinists fully grasp power plant theory and how engines can be modified to develop more power, such as re-grinding cam lobes for better valve timing, or boring crankshaft journals.

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In the quest to win more vintage races, Rob utilized his race engineering experience and picked the brains of his fellow NASCAR engine builders down in Concord.

The antique bike he was racing was a single-cylinder BSA of similar displacement and technology as the race car engines he worked on, the only difference being that the cars used seven more cylinders.

Concentrating on flowing engine gasses more efficiently, Rob modified his cylinder head. It worked; his race bike began producing more power and winning more races.

Success at the track is instantly visible…and sought after. Fellow AHRMA racers asked Rob to modify their cylinder heads too. Customers loved his work, so they began to talk it up on vintage racing Internet forums.

The orders began to roll in from New Zealand, Denmark, Germany, UK, Belgium, and three land speed competitors, one of whom did 158mph on a highly modified 1963 BSA twin.

He was still working full-time at the car race shop, including nights as a crew chief for Andrews customers. During his personal time, Rob was machining antique motorcycle heads for racers, as well as working on his own bike.

The pace became too much for Rob, but as luck would have it, brother Jake suddenly found himself without a job due to Volvo leaving Asheville.

The young men decided to launch their own business.

“Did the boys consult me before they launched their business?” says Stuart Hall. “Hell no. One day, Jake walked in with a baseball cap that said ‘HCV’ on it, I found out when I asked what HCV stood for.” (Halls Custom Vintage, in case you already forgot) The Hall brothers decided to concentrate on what they knew best: working on old British bikes. Rob would continue to machine parts from his home in Concord, and Jake would set up shop in Asheville where he’d tear down and assemble engines, as well as entire motorcycles.

Fortunately, Stuart had extra room in his auto parts store, City Foreign Auto, and he was in the habit of displaying some of his motorcycle collection amidst the parts racks.

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As children, the Hall brothers spent many summer weekends at racetracks with their dad. Far from being a collector whose bikes existed purely as eye candy, Stuart campaigned an old BSA Goldstar with the American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association (AHRMA).

His sons worked as pit crew and in doing so received even more education in ancient bike engineering. Race bikes are pushed beyond the breaking point, so the brothers learned quickly how to improvise trackside repairs.

When the lads each turned 18, they were able to race per the AHRMA rules, so two more vintage machines were pulled from Stuart’s collection and converted to racing trim. This was to become ground zero for their future business venture, though the brothers were too busy to notice.

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Co-locating HCV was a natural instinct, the brothers moved in.

Business success is not only about competence; it is also about credibility and trust. The modification of racing engines, therefore, was the perfect starting point for HCV. Rob and Jake were, by this time, young men whom their fellow racers —most were their dad’s age — trusted. Part of the AHRMA racing ‘family’ for most of their childhood, the Hall brothers were known to be good, honest, hard-working guys, and the machines they raced spoke loudly about the quality of their work: they were competent, credible and trustworthy.

shape, with bolt holes around the perimeter. The outside is gently sculpted and polished. It displays the manufacturer’s logo embossed into the metal. The finish bears the patina of 40 years — as well as a huge crack in the center that has radiated outward in three directions.

“I’ve been thinking about how to repair that piece for two weeks now,” confides Jake. “Having a new one made, if I could find someone who could do it, would probably cost half of what this bike is worth. I’ve talked to people and thought about it some more. I’m ready to fix that cover now.”

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The business has prospered, and in addition to rebuilding British engines for racing, Halls Custom Vintage modifies antique bikes with more modern parts to improve reliability.

They also perform museum-quality restorations.

HCV has five lifts, not because they have five mechanics pumping out the work, far from it. The key to restoration and modification of vintage machines is patience. Jake works on five bikes at a time, so that he can take his time on each one: stopping work on one when thwarted, picking up on another.

The reasoning is simple. Parts are usually the holdup, some taking weeks to find, while others have to be re-created from scratch. If he were to work on one bike at a time, customers would be waiting far longer.

Sometimes there are parts that cannot be bought, and cannot be recreated within an owner’s budget. “In certain situations, we only get one shot at repairing something. I don’t want to rush into it. I’ll try solutions out in my head, and let them percolate for days or weeks, however long it takes,” says Jake.

On the floor at his feet is a large aluminum part. It’s the primary chain cover from an old Norton. It is irregular in

Rob and Jake work well as a team. Engine machining is still Rob’s domain, which includes crankshaft turning, sizing main and connecting rod bearings. He machines heads and installs valve guides and seats as well as optimizes gas flow.

HCV has valuable experience pertaining to vintage Brit bikes.

For example, cylinder bores must be honed prior to installing new pistons and rings.

Modern honing techniques do not work well for these older bikes, the resulting finish is too slick, which doesn’t allow the older style rings to seat adequately, so the engine will burn oil and smoke. Rob has figured out what honing grit works best on the varying vintage cylinder walls.

Vehicle dismantling, assembly and troubleshooting are Jake’s forte. He gets the first look at a bike when it comes in, and test rides the final product.

“We’re not just about servicing racers and producing meticulous restorations,” says Jake. “We’ll help anyone with a British bike problem…simple repairs to installing modern ignition or carbs. We want people to enjoy riding these motorcycles.”

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only way to attract business in the collection and restoration field. A large collector will give HCV something really simple as an audition. If the shop performs well, they’ll be rewarded with something more substantial.

As of today, HCV has attracted three of the country’s larger British motorcycle collectors who travel 1000+ miles each way to pick-up and deliver a rare bike. Additionally, British motorcyclists have heard about the shop from Asheville. HCV was recently the subject of a feature in the UK publication, “Classic Bike Guide.”

When HCV became a reality, the Halls didn’t finance the acquisition of shop equipment, they used what was on hand. To this day, nothing is purchased unless they can pay cash for it.

“Debt is a killer,” says Jake. “It adds pressure to get bikes out the door, to keep the cash flowing. Our lack of debt allows us to take our time, work on a bike until it’s perfect.”

With a strong backlog of restorations and a healthy balance sheet, HCV has been procuring more machining and welding tools to improve the quality of their work.

BSA Goldstar for a local man, who’d owned it since new. When they asked him if he was excited to ride it again, the owner said no, because he no longer had the strength to kick start it.

Nothing gets Rob and Jake as excited as getting someone back on the road.

Making a living aside, what drives these young men to reach for their tools, harkens back to childhood: they hate to see a machine not running. To them, all bikes deserve to be ridden.

It’s Not Just a Bike Making a living aside, what drives these young men to reach for their tools, harkens back to childhood: they hate to see a machine not running. To them, all bikes deserve to be ridden.

Their love of these old machines creates an instant bond with their customers.

For instance, HCV was finishing up the restoration of a 1958

Motorcycles of that time period were started by leg power.

The men put their heads together and installed an electric start system. This antique now starts with the push of a button, and the man who rolled it out of the showroom 56 years ago is still grinning like a teenager.

Most of us spend an entire career making money to enable our hobbies, dreaming of a far off day when our hobbies will somehow finance our lifestyle. What looks so easy for folks like the Hall brothers isn’t easily reproduced.

If the 10,000 hours of practice rule is correct, HCV was created, one bike at a time, beginning when the lads were in elementary school.

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Budget agreement includes boost for High Point Market A budget compromise that was finally reached between the House and Senate in July allocates $1.86 million in funding for the High Point Market during the 2013-2014 fiscal year. That is an increase of $200,000 from the previous year. Those funds have been chosen as “recurring,” meaning the money should be continued in the future.

The funding includes $1.2 million for logistical operations, with the rest for marketing. According to Gov. Pat McCrory’s initial budget, the market would lose half its state funding, a proposal that was withdrawn following a backlash from the industry. While speaking to a crowd of furniture executives in the April market, McCrory admitted that he did not properly communicate to his budget-writers to conserve state spending on the semiannual market, which is one of the biggest economic events in North Carolina.

Duke Energy testing wireless charging for electric vehicles Duke Energy Corp. is among various companies nationwide testing a new wireless-charging system for electric vehicles. Duke’s technology development director, Mike Rowand, said he did not realize how convenient the system was until he lost it. Rowand had an initial prototype for the plugless charger created by Evntran, a small Virginia company. Two Duke employees, who have the system installed at their houses, are now testing a newer version of the project. Other companies and institutions involved in the test, which started in 2012, include Google, Hertz, Clemson University and the city of Raleigh.

Rowand is Duke’s in-house electric car guru. He participated in the decision to convert to an electric fleet of vehicles by 2020. He is on the technical advisory board of Echo Automotive, an Indiana-based startup company that creates products to convert standard gasoline burning autos into hybrid vehicles. According to Rowand, Duke is operating a number of tests projects on electric vehicles, attempting to identify what the market will be like and how the vehicles may fit into Duke’s business model. Duke estimates there are as many as 2,000 plug-in electric vehicles across its six-state utility footprint. He noted that the Triangle area around Raleigh has many early adopters. Also, other areas around the country have a history of industrial suppliers supporting the electric vehicle industry.

Discovery Place CEO John Mackay to retire Discovery Place Inc. President and Chief Executive John Mackay will retire at the end of this year. He has successfully led the science and technology center for the past 13 years. There will be a search nationwide for his replacement. Mackay, age 64, was included in the team that organized and launched Discovery Place in late 1981. Discovery Place Inc. includes that facility in uptown Charlotte,

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Discovery Place Kids museums in Huntersville, Rockingham, and Charlotte Nature Museum near Freedom Park. Discovery Place typically attracts more than 700,000 visitors annually. That includes a $31.6 million, 18-month renovation of its uptown Charlotte facility, completed in June 2010. Mackay participated in the feats to attract world-renowned exhibits to that museum, as well as the expansion of Charlotte Nature Museums outdoor and indoor experiences. In addition, he was involved in establishing the network of children’s museums, known as Discovery Place Kids. Discovery Place recently revealed plans for a center devoted to professional development of educators in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. A $5 million fund-raising effort is in progress to support that project.

Unifi’s recycled Repreve brand to expand in new deal with Palmetto In a move that will boost the growth of its Repreve recycled fiber, Greensboro-based yarn maker Unifi Inc. plans to expand the brand through a new manufacturing and distribution relationship with privately held Palmetto Synthetics LLC of Kingstree, South Carolina.

According to the agreement with Palmetto, Unifi’s Repreve chip will be purchased and processed by Palmetto into staple fiber and sold under the Repreve brand name. The Repreve staple fiber is appropriate for applications including apparel, upholstery, industrial, medical, automotive and nonwoven products. The deal is exceptionally noteworthy because it is the first of its kind for the popular Repreve brand, which has grown exponentially following new deals from apparel companies such as Polartec, The North Face, Patagonia, Haggar Clothing Co. and Ford Motor Co. Unifi hopes to invest $7 million into the brand during the next two years and double production of Repreve at the company’s Yadkinville facility. David Poston, vice president of Palmetto Synthetics, added that the deal with Unifi “allows us to amplify our domestic efforts” as demand for domestically made recycled fiber increases.

Monroe Bypass alternative suggested According to an engineering report commissioned by Southern Environmental Law Center, there is an alternative to spending $800 million to build the Monroe Bypass. O’Connell & Lawrence Inc. claims a system of new “superstreets, ” which would eliminate left turns along U.S. Highway 74 in the Monroe area, would be better than building the bypass. The report also proposes increased coordination of stoplights and the addition of turn lanes, claiming such improvements would help traffic flow along the highway. Kym Hunter, attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, explained, “Anyone in Union County can tell you that traffic congestion on U.S. 74 is a big problem, and yet NCDOT’s own studies have shown that building the bypass will do little to alleviate that congestion.” The report also notes that

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the N.C. Department of Transportation did not identify who would use the new bypass if it were constructed. Therefore, it claims, the department does not accurately know who currently uses U.S. 74 as it exists now. After the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals remanded an SELC lawsuit to the U.S. District Court last June, work on the bypass was delayed. According to the appeals court, the state Transportation Department and the Federal Highway Administration used incorrect numbers in its previous decision on the bypass. The Union County towns of Hemby Bridge and Weddington have previously passed resolutions requesting the state to reconsider its decision to develop the bypass.

BioDelivery Sciences submits NDA for drug that would enter $1.5B market BioDelivery Sciences CEO Mark Sirgo labeled a recent move by the company “another major milestone.” The drug developer, located in Raleigh, submitted an application for a new drug to treat opioid dependence. In drug-development cases, a small company like BioDelivery typically partners with a larger drug company as it nears completion.

However, in this case, BDSI financed development on its own. BDSI carries all the risk, but could also acquire all the reward if the drug is successful. Sirgo estimates the market for this drug is in the ballpark of $1.5 billion, with peak annual sales at about $250 million. “Opioid dependence is a serious and growing healthcare problem in this country affecting over two million people in the U.S…There remains a need for better dosage forms for the delivery of buprenorphine to these patients, an opportunity for which BDSI hopes to capitalize,” Sirgo explained. In early July, BDSI revealed a $20 million loan to drive through final development stages to prepare for the drug application.

Companies are required to file a new drug application (NDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA approves or denies the product before a company is permitted to market the drug. The review time for this particular drug is 10 months. In this case for BDSI, a similar drug is currently present in the market, but has gone off patent. Therefore, BDSI is allowed to use research from that drug in establishing the application for its drug, which the company labeled as Bunavail. Utilizing previous research allows for lower development costs.

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NC law takes effect banning e-cigarettes to minors Consumers will now see warning signs in North Carolina smoke shops and other retailers. A law banning the sale of e-cigarettes to minors recently took effect. Now, retailers could face the same misdemeanor charge if they sell e-cigarettes to any minor as they would for selling other tobacco products. Fines can be as high as $1,000, if the new law is violated. E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution, forming vapor that users inhale.

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Some look like real cigarettes with a small light on the end that glows.

Supporters push them as a way to break addiction to real cigarettes.

However, public health officials claim the safety of e-cigarettes and their effectiveness in helping people quit smoking regular cigarettes have not been fully studied.

Harris Teeter teams with Tresata to improve customer service Tresata has been chosen to provide analytic software to be used with Harris Teeter’s mobile app, e-VIC rewards program and recently launched Facebook app. The grocer, based in Matthews, intends to use data collected through the software to improve customer service by attaining a better understanding of its customers’ needs. Danna Jones, communication specialist for Harris Teeter, explained, “Access to insights from this type of dynamic intelligence software will enable us to better understand our shoppers’ buying habits as well as present us with the opportunity to improve our level of service by giving our customers exactly what they want when they want it.” Harris Teeter posted 2012 sales of $4.5 billion. The grocery chain has nearly 25,000 employees and operates stores in the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Maryland, Delaware, Florida and Washington, D.C. The company somewhat recently revealed a deal to be acquired by The Kroger Co. for about $2.5 billion, but the transaction’s regulatory approval is still pending.

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R.J. Reynolds rethinking dissolvable tobacco push R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is rewinding its marketing push behind three dissolvable tobacco products it introduced to the marketplace in 2009. Reynolds will reportedly continue selling its Camel Orbs, Camel Sticks and Camel Strips online and at limited sites in Charlotte and Denver, but will not strive to expand those channels. The dissolvable products were created to give tobacco users a way to indulge their habit where smoking is restricted. Reynolds plans to study other potential product forms in the category.

Union County being pitched to industry, agriculture, commercial projects for jobs According to a plan approved by the Union Board of County Commissioners, Monroe and Union County economic development officials plan to market three specific areas of the county for new business and industry. The three distinct regions of the county will be branded under Gateway Union County, Monroe Aero and Grow Union County to take advantage of the county’s three key strengths. County commissioners approved the two-year economic-development plan toward the end of July. During the next 48 months, Chris Platé, executive director of Monroe Union County Economic Development, and his staff will target precision manufacturing, logistics, agri-business and commercial development as an attempt to build the county’s job base. Also, businesses currently in those sectors will be recognized

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and featured for job retention. This year, Platé established a joint city-county economic development agency, replacing the efforts of Union County Partnership for Progress. Both the city and county contribute to Monroe Union County Economic Development.

STEAG wins environmental contract in New Mexico STEAG Energy Services in Kings Mountain has been given the engineering and procurement contracts for a nearly $120 million environmental remediation project for a large coal plant in New Mexico. The project entails retrofitting two units at the 1,800-megawatt San Juan Generating Station operated by Public Service Co. of New Mexico. The utility owns 52% of the plant. The construction element of the project will be bid separately. STEAG President Hans Hartenstein says the major part of the contract is in design and procurement. Under an agreement made in February with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Public Service agreed to install environmental equipment on its 360-megawatt Unit 1 coal boiler and its 544-megawatt Unit 4 boiler by 2016. According to Hartenstein, his company is designing a system to inject urea into the boiler to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions from the coal units. This “selective non-catalytic reduction” system is less efficient than the selective catalytic reduction system used on many large coal plants, but it is also considerably less expensive to install. The company claims the system, when completed, will remove 20% to 50% of the nitrogen

oxides from the plant’s emissions. The more expensive catalytic processes remove 90% or more of the pollutant, but it is not required by the deal the utility made with the EPA. STEAG has installed 19 of the non-catalytic systems in power plants during the last 10 years.

The company has 15 engineering staff members at its Kings Mountain headquarters, where the company’s operations for reprocessing catalyst for catalytic pollution-control systems also reside.

NC law allows hunters to use suppressors on guns According to a new North Carolina law, hunters will be allowed to install noise suppressors on their rifles and shotguns. North Carolina is now the 40th state to legalize suppressors. The modification was part of broad legislation that expanded where concealed handguns can be carried legally. Senator Shirley Randleman, a Republican from Wilkes County, labels her amendment as a health issue. She explained that hunters and audiologists in her district informed her of hunters’ hearing loss issues. Additionally, suppressors could reduce neighbors’ complaints. Suppressors soften sound by reducing the speed of gases coming from a gun’s barrel. To own a suppressor, a hunter must meet federal qualifications, including criminal background checks and a $200 tax.

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Zoning:

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entrepreneur, author of several books on real estate, and also an avid pilot and philanthropist.

Once upon a time there was a farmer who owned 1,000 acres of land. As a neighborly gesture, he sold a friend a lot on which to build a home. He gave his friend a really good deal on the lot, which enabled him build a nicer home in which to live.

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s time passed, the farmer’s friend told several of his other friends about the great deal he had gotten and his friends told their friends. As the word spread, a number of these people approached the farmer who also sold them inexpensive lots on which to build and they too were able to build nicer homes. Their homes were scattered out and everyone enjoyed a great deal of privacy and all were happy.

Then one day, the farmer sold a lot that was next to one of the homes to one of his field hands. This less affluent worker was only able to put a mobile home on his lot because that was all he could afford. When this happened, the owners of the homes panicked and ran to their local government demanding that the farmer’s remaining land be zoned to prevent any more mobile homes from being placed in the area. They argued that without zoning more mobile homes would come into the area and it would cause the value of their homes to go down. Sound familiar? (No one said anything about the fact that they were able to put more money into their homes because they didn’t have to pay a big price for their lots.)

Before you read further, I want you to understand that I am adamantly opposed to zoning. Whenever I make that statement, invariably someone will ask me something like, “But what if someone wanted to put a cell tower, or service station or rock quarry next to your home?” To which I reply, if they own the 76 CA ITALat LAY

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property they can do with it whatever they want. “But,” they will ask, “don’t you want your investment to be protected?” And that is where my objection begins. I don’t believe anyone has the right to any protection that is stolen from their neighbors by government fiat.

Let’s look at another situation. Across town another farmer also had 1,000 acres. He decided he would develop his property into a planned community. He took his time, met with surveyors, architects, builders and potential investors and designed a community according to his vision. He built roads, put in water and sewer lines, underground utilities, and placed strict restrictions on each lot as to the size and architecture of the homes that could be built. He set aside part of his property as a buffer area around the community to protect it from unwanted development. When he finally was ready to start selling, he had invested a tremendous amount of money, agreed not to sell the part of his property he set aside as a buffer and as a result, his lots were expensive; however, they provided the protection that many people wanted! Unlike the farmer on the other side of town who was selling lots for a few thousand dollars per acre, these lots ran well into the hundreds of thousands. Those who bought one of his lots could feel comfortable spending as much as they wanted on an expensive home. They knew in advance that their investment would be protected from undesirable uses

because they were paying a high price for this protection. I fully support this concept. It’s called restrictive covenants!

My problem with zoning comes when people who are unwilling or unable to pay for this of type protection want to steal it by restricting what their neighbors can do even though they don’t own the neighbor’s property and aren’t willing to compensate them for restricting its use. This is nothing short of using government to commit legalized thievery. It creates divisiveness and bitterness and pits neighbor against neighbor with government as the arbitrator. This ultimately happens in all collectivist forms of government; it destroys initiative, erodes entrepreneurial spirit and seeks to provide equal outcome rather than equal opportunity. That is not the formula that built America.

Once zoning is in place it is easy to amend it in ways that can destroy people’s investments even if they are trying to comply with the regulations. It widens the gap between the haves and the have not’s and makes it increasingly difficult for those trying to improve their circumstances to do so. It brings rise to the formation of non-profit organizations that rely on government funding that get favorable treatment often withheld from private individuals or companies.

Let me offer a couple of examples with which I have personal experience that will illustrate what I am describing. I once purchased 1.1 acres of property that was zoned multi-family, sixteen units per acre. Before I could build on this property,

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the zoning was changed to single family, eight units per acre.

When I asked the planning staff to show me how the property could accommodate eight single family homes and still meet the setback and street frontage requirements of the zoning, they finally had to admit that it could only be subdivided into four conforming lots. The property still sits vacant years after

build two sixteen unit buildings on the property. At the time, the zoning ordinance required a “Planned Unit Development� review for any project exceeding four units per lot. I completed the lengthy set of documents that were required for the review, which I assumed were for the purpose of making sure the project complied with the ordinance. I submitted my request to the planning department and asked for no variances from the ordinance. A public hearing was scheduled at which members of the public, some from the other side of town, showed up to protest the project. After a lengthy session where every outlandish claim possible was made, the hearing was continued until the following month. This continued month after month for nine months before the project was finally approved and forwarded to City Council. Once again, a public hearing was scheduled and just as had happened at the planning board, the hearing was continued to the next meeting after a lengthy session. Nine more months of hearings at the

Zoning, like most other governmental regulation of private enterprise, starts out well intentioned, but once the governed learn that they can increase the value of their property at the expense of those still trying to get theirs, it becomes a quagmire that buries reason in a pit of selfish greed. its purchase and the community has lost what would have been sixteen affordable living units.

In another transaction, I purchased 3.3 acres of property that was zoned multi-family, ten units per acre. I wanted to

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council level resulted in a motion being made to approve the project only to die for lack of a second. This effectively halted the project because under the rules, it could not be resubmitted to planning and zoning for twelve more months.

After this debacle, I took the same project to another state where laws were not administered politically, purchased a property with the correct zoning and made application for a “Planned Unit Development” review by their planning board.

Since the project met all of the requirements of their ordinance, as it had done with the one in my hometown, the planning board approved it at the first meeting and sent it to their city council.

A week later the city council approved the project and allocated $35,000 to bring the water and sewer to the property. Oh, by the way, the water and sewer were already on the property where I first wanted to build and the property met all aspects of the ordinance. No variances were requested.

These are perfect examples of how with zoning, nothing is certain and projects are approved or denied based on political pressure and favoritism. I could cite numerous other examples of how private developers are harassed and mistreated while non-profit groups are granted favors and special treatments. In an area where much lip service is given to the need for affordable housing, just these two projects could have provided nice

housing for 48 families at rates well below the mid-range of rentals in the market and done so without government assistance.

Zoning, like most other governmental regulation of private enterprise, starts out well intentioned, but once the governed learn that they can increase the value of their property at the expense of those still trying to get theirs, it becomes a quagmire that buries reason in a pit of selfish greed. It is an infringement on individual property rights and one of the biggest reasons many zoned areas have a severe shortage of affordable housing.

The “Not In My Backyard” mentality that zoning creates drives away jobs, creates artificially high prices, makes it increasingly difficult for young people to participate in the American dream and generates divisiveness and contempt throughout the community. An additional problem is the huge cost burden required to administer zoning laws that is heaped on taxpayers, many of whom, like me, totally disagree with the laws.

No one should be entitled to buy cheap and then add to the value of their assets at the expense of others. That’s what zoning attempts to do, and its popularity is growing as we become more and more of a “Something For Nothing” society.

My fear is that unless checked, this movement will eventually lead to a socialistic society and the destruction of America as we know it.

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BMW unveils i3 electric car BMW AG is displaying the production model of its new i3 electric compact that uses carbon-fiber materials to keep the weight down and improve driving performance. CEO Norbert Reithofer highlighted at a New York unveiling that the car was designed as an electric from the ground up. The i3 is “born electric,” he noted. The company claims the i3, built in Leipzig, Germany, will go from zero to 62 mph in 7.2 seconds. Its range is billed as 80-100 miles. Models with an optional range extender gas engine can go up to 200 miles. The car goes on sale in November in Germany and other European markets starting at $46,000 and will reach the U.S., Japan and China in 2014.

Time Warner Cable CEO to retire at end of 2013 Time Warner Cable says its chairman and CEO Glenn Britt will retire at the end of 2013. The company’s board elected Robert Marcus to succeed him. Marcus is the company’s president and chief operating officer. Britt, age 64, became CEO of the cable company in 2001.

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He led the company through various technological changes, such as the addition of high-speed Internet and Video on Demand. He also supervised the company’s transition as a publicly traded company.

With 15 million customers, it is one of the nation’s biggest cable companies. After his retirement, Britt will remain on the board, but have a non-executive role. The 48 year-old Marcus joined Time Warner Inc. in 1998 and moved to Time Warner Cable in 2005. He was chosen to be the chief financial officer in 2008. He worked with Britt during its 2009 spin-off from Time Warner Inc.

Jane Austen on Bank of England 10-pound note Jane Austen will become the new face on England’s 10-pound notes, in an effort to add a little pride and fight the prejudice against women on the country’s currency. The Bank of England chose the chronicler of 18th century English country life as the new face of the note, adhering to critics who complained that the institution was ignoring women on their currency. The bank’s new governor Mark Carney brought the

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creator of Mr. Darcy to the 10-pound note within weeks of his taking over the helm of the UK’s central bank. The controversy began earlier this year when the bank revealed it would replace the 19th century social reformer Elizabeth Fry with wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the five-pound note. Though Churchill is still honored for his World War II leadership, the change led to protests because no other woman, besides Queen Elizabeth II, would be seen on Britain’s currency. Tens of thousands signed a petition. Lawmakers asked for feedback. Some argued that equality laws might be violated. The Austen note will be issued within a year of the Churchill note, which is scheduled for release during 2016. The present face of the 10-pound note, Charles Darwin, will become extinct.

Amazon hiring 7,000 nationwide Amazon.com Inc. intends to hire 7,000 workers across the country, including at operations in South Carolina. The huge tech and retail company is seeking to hire 5,000 warehouse positions available at fulfillment centers in various states, as well as 2,000 customer-service positions. Among those hiring are Amazon’s distribution centers in Spartanburg and Charleston, S.C. According to Amazon, the median pay for workers in its distribution centers “is 30 percent higher than that of people who work in traditional retail stores, and that doesn’t

even include the stock grants that full-time employees receive, which over the past five years have added an average of 9% to base pay annually.”

Volkswagen gags academics from revealing car flaws A British university is delaying the publication of an academic paper on electronic vulnerabilities in high-end Volkswagen cars after the German auto maker pursued legal action. The University of Birmingham claims it will “defer publication” of the paper, which explains how researchers were able to hack the sophisticated anti-theft system used in Porsches, Audis, Bentleys, and Lamborghinis. The academics wanted to publish the paper at the USENIX Security Conference in Washington in August, but Volkswagen sued to prevent them from disclosing important details of their work, arguing that publicizing the error would put the security of some of its most expensive vehicles at risk.

Nissan confirms $50M Mississippi expansion Nissan North America has revealed plans to invest more than $50 million in an expansion of its Canton, Mississippi facility. The company will develop more than one million additional square feet that will be

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used as an integrated logistics center and increase infrastructure at the company’s current supplier logistics center. When it is completed, the expansion will bring 400 new jobs. Since June 1, the company has already hired 400 new employees in anticipation of the project. Nissan currently employs more than 5,600 people at the Canton plant, which opened in 2003. Nissan manufactures the Altima, Sentra compact sedan, Armada full-size SUV, Xterra mid-size SUV, Titan and Frontier pickup trucks and full-size commercial cargo and passenger vans in Canton. The company will start manufacturing the Murano in Canton next year.

Horace Greeley letter archives selling for $45,000 A dealer of rare historic documents is selling more than two dozen letters written by legendary newspaper editor Horace Greeley that describe his difficult and frequently critical relationship with President Abraham Lincoln during and after the Civil War. The Raab Collection in Philadelphia has set the price at $45,000 for the 33 letters that belonged to an anonymous private collector. The collection includes 30 letters from the New York Tribune editor to then-reporter and future lawmaker Samuel Wilkeson, two to War Secretary Simon Cameron and one from Cameron to Wilkeson. In one letter, Greeley writes: “If this country is destined to fall, history will lay the blame on Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet.” The one-time presidential candidate also takes aim at “half-hearted commanders” and “scoundrelly contractors.”

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FedEx using electric tricycles for Paris deliveries FedEx Corp is using a selective amount of fully electric tricycles to make deliveries in the congested streets of Paris. The FedEx tricycles run on a 250-watt electric motor, which is supplemented with power generated through the pedals. The tricycles do, however, require manual pedaling to start the motor. FedEx’s managing director of operations for France, Dirk Van Impe, claims the tricycles have improved efficiency, are financially practical and good for the company’s visibility.

Winship wins $4M NCI grant for brain tumor research Researchers from Winship Cancer Institute in Georgia have received a $4 million federal grant to investigate a technique to examine the workings of a brain tumor. Glioblastoma is the most aggressive form of primary brain tumors. Standard imaging techniques such as MRI and CT scans do not accurately present what is happening in the brain and the tumor of a patient being treated with chemotherapy and radiation. Hyunsuk Shim, a Winship investigator, along with her colleagues, neurosurgeon Dr. Jeffrey Olson, and radiation oncologist Dr. Hui-Kuo Shu are utilizing a technique to examine the brain to identify whether a certain drug therapy may be effective at treating these highly resistant brain tumors. The imaging technique that the Winship team is creating is magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging,

or MRSI. It differs from the standard MRI, which only provides structural information on the tumor and surrounding brain. MRSI, on the other hand, can further look into the tumor to discover changes in its metabolism, which may specify how fast a tumor is growing, shrinking or dying. The $4 million, five -year grant from the National Cancer InstituteWe positions Winshipwater into a selective network of NCI-designated make work for you. cancer centers that studies quantitative imaging methods to measure tumor response to therapies in clinical trial settings.

Kentucky college lands biggest gift ever A tiny liberal arts school in rural Kentucky that hosted vice presidential debates in 2000 and 2012 revealed its $250 million donation, one of the largest single gifts in higher education history. The all-stock donation to Centre College from the A. Eugene Brockman Charitable Trust is among the 20 biggest gifts ever to a U.S. college or university.

It is reportedly the second-largest such gift to a U.S. school since 2011, surpassed only by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s $350 million donation to Johns Hopkins University revealed earlier this year. Centre will utilize the funds to establish scholarships for students majoring in science, economics and computer science. Centre College President John A. Roush said the gift, which comes in the form of stock in Universal Computer Systems Holding Inc., signifies a “fundamental transformation” in the school’s ability to support students demonstrating leadership potential. Starting in fall 2014, 40 new Brockman

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Scholarships will be funded each year for students majoring in the natural and computational sciences and economics, with a total of 160 students receiving the full-ride scholarships, plus more benefits by 2017. The merit-based scholarships will cover tuition, room and board, and fees, which will cost $45,100 for the coming school year, along with money to support study abroad, summer research and internships. The campus in Danville, a scenic central Kentucky town of nearly 16,000, has hosted vice presidential debates in 2000 with Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman and again in 2012, hosting Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.

Kodak outlines plans for CEO’s departure Kodak is offering a clearer picture of its post-reorganization management plans, explaining that CEO Antonio Perez will probably be replaced in the first year after it emerges from bankruptcy protection. The pioneer in the photography industry filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in early 2012. Since then, the company has sold off several businesses and claimed it would close others so it can concentrate on commercial and packaging printing. Eastman Kodak Co. said Perez will stay on as CEO for up to a year or until his successor is chosen. He will assist with the CEO selection and transition processes. Once a successor is named, he will resign and stay as an adviser until the anniversary of Kodak’s exit from bankruptcy. He will then serve as a consultant for up to two more years.

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the states to enact their own unemployment insurance laws.

By August of 1937, two years after the signing of the Social Security Act and a year after Ruud’s check landed in his mailbox, all of the 48 states as well as the then territories of Alaska and Hawaii, and the District of Columbia, had adopted unemployment compensation models of their own.

Unemployment insurance premiums are paid entirely by the employer–quarterly to the federal government in the form of Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) taxes, which cover government administration and any federal extended unemployment benefits–and monthly (in North Carolina) to the state. These payments are set aside in accounts in the EL REMMA H 005$ G NISNECS T N I AP

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employer’s name, and unemployment claims are paid from them. Payments generally amount to about 45 percent of the worker’s normal salary.

Over three quarters of a century, the original unemployment scheme of things has undergone several significant changes, mostly instigated by the U.S. government, which is still the managing partner in the federal-state arrangement.

To begin with, coverage requirements have changed.

When the plan was enacted in 1935, it applied only to businesses with eight or more employees. By 1954, coverage had been extended to firms with four or more workers. Finally, in 1970, full unemployment coverage was mandated for businesses with just one worker. Thus a manufacturing plant with a hundred employees, dry cleaner with half a dozen, and Fred the yard service man all have the same responsibility to submit state and federal wage reports and pay the payroll taxes associated with them. For the manufacturer, with an in-house accountant and a backup CPA firm, this is not as problematical as it is for the dry cleaner, who may pay an accountant to do his thing as needed, or Fred, who probably self-incorporated

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Also, in Neils Ruud’s day, unemployment compensation was universal. No distinction was made between a worker who was laid off for no fault of his or her own, and one that quit outright or was discharged for misconduct, or for one who outrightly refused a suitable job.

The Second World War plugged those loopholes; by 1945 more than half the states had laid down strict qualification rules and today all states have them. While laws may differ slightly among states, basic provisions are essentially the same: a worker discharged for misconduct or who voluntarily quits is ineligible, period, though there are review and appeal processes for those cases.

Also, in order to keep receiving benefits, a discharged worker must provide evidence to the state, usually weekly, that he or she is continuing to look for work. That’s if the worker in question is “detached,” that is, was permanently let go.

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Things are different for workers who have been “laid off”–not fired but on standby and eligible to resume work as soon as the company sends for them. In ESC language, these are “attached” workers. For them, the rules are different, and for the employer, in such cases, things can become problematic.

Attached workers, since they are presumably experiencing a job interruption rather than a job loss, are not required to job-hunt and report accordingly to the state Division of Employment Security.

What they do have to do is notify their employers if, in a given week, they have performed any outside work and how much they were paid for it. (That includes, of course, coming into work at their regular job, even for an hour or two.) The employer, in filing the company’s weekly DES claims report (usually online), then has to enter this information and the DES, on its end, cuts the employee a check for the difference, if any. And it’s in this process that the

And yet the company has no way of verifying the truth or accuracy of a given worker’s claim for benefits; it is entirely dependent upon the honesty of the claimant.

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brother’s-keeper syndrome most often kicks in.

That’s because, when it comes to attached workers, DES looks to the reporting company for validity of claims; in fact, the company officer submitting the claims report has to acknowledge its truth and accuracy on penalty of perjury. And yet the company has no way of verifying the truth or accuracy of a given worker’s claim for benefits; it is entirely dependent upon the honesty of the claimant. An attached employee could have spent a whole week working for a third party and been paid under the table, say nothing or report “no work” to his employer, and receive his or full benefit check as usual. Conversely, the employer often has little recourse, or a difficult time exercising recourse, if, as has been known to happen, DES makes a mistake.

“We had a situation,” said the CFO of a smallish, local nonprofit, “where a totally accurate claims report was submitted but somehow DES entered the same social security number for two laid-off employees. One [employee] was a clerical worker and the other was actually a member of management. The names and addresses were different of course, but DES keyed the office worker to the manager’s social security number and [the office worker] started receiving the same benefit amount as the manager–[the office worker’s] benefit was actually almost as much as her regular paycheck. As you might expect, [the

worker] kept her mouth shut and pocketed the difference. We put two and two together and figured out what had happened and notified DES accordingly.

“DES finally caught on,” the CFO said. “They wrote to the clerical worker and demanded their excess payments back.

But [the worker] actually pleaded financial hardship and DES dropped their collection efforts–but DES wouldn’t credit our account for their mistake. I guess they figured if they forgave [the worker’s] debt, they’d just forgive themselves. We were just out that money. And it would have cost us more in accounting and attorney fees to try to recover it than the amount that was actually involved.”

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ong-time Southern California transplant, Barney Sokol was not on the dock when I arrived for our interview on inland sailing. I met a proud grandfather instead. Larry Janow pointed to the smallest sailboat I had ever seen bobbing in negligible wind five hundred feet off the dock on Asheville’s Lake Julian.

Larry explained: “Barney’s giving my 4 year-old grandson, Herschel, his first sailing lesson.” Ironically Herschel’s father Jason, an artist and the owner of Janow Metalsmithing, had never sailed either, so there were two novices crammed in the training dingy with the Commodore Emeritus of The Asheville Sailing Club.

When I began researching the subject of inland sailing for this issue my first thoughts were of Lake Norman, outside of Charlotte, where I kept and sailed poorly a Catalina 27 in the late eighties and early nineties. I was famous in those days for my ability to drink beer, miss marks and run aground in nearly any condition as well as my proclivity to back into the dock, but I digress.

My next thoughts were of Lake Watauga in Eastern Tennessee, Lake Keowee in South Carolina or Smith Mountain Lake in Southern Virginia. Then our publisher remarked that there was a sailing club in Asheville on Lake Julian.

That’s how I found myself standing on the dock waiting for Barney to finish his sailing lesson.

Lake Julian is an unlikely spot for a sailing club. At just 300 acres it was built in 1964 as a cooling lake for Progress Energy’s Skyland Power Plant. Progress, now part of the

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larger Duke Energy, in turn leased the surrounding land to Buncombe County which operates Lake Julian Park. A small part of the park is accessible off South Hendersonville Road, but the primary entrance is off Overlook Extension south of Long Shoals Rd. When I arrived the marina was invisible from Long Shoals and even from the park entrance, but as I wound through the park on a narrow one way road, passing paddle boat/ canoe rentals and a children’s playground, a small cinder block clubhouse came into view. A boat storage area and a long floating dock were behind a chain link fence marked “Members Only”. I ignored the signage and ventured on down a gravel road that ends up in the lake and serves as a very basic boat launching ramp.

Most of the boats were daysailers brought in for the day or stored on trailers, but along the floating dock I did spot some larger sailboats with cabins (Catalina 22’s and 24’s as well as a Hunter 23.5 that I later discovered belongs to Bill Swan, the most senior member of the club.) These boats were obviously refugees from larger lakes and oceans elsewhere in the country.

As I headed for a covered area with picnic tables on the edge of the lake, I received a cheery greeting from Tom Cannon, a long time club member. He introduced me to their treasurer, Bert Eskridge, a twenty-two year member, and to a relative newcomer, Jaime Titus, who made up for his lack of seniority with great enthusiasm. “Capital at Play, I read it all the time” he remarked with gusto, while his mischievous grin bore

testimony to the fact that he had never heard of us.

About this time Barney arrived back from his sailing lesson and Larry arm twisted me into taking a grainy iPhone family picture of the three generations of the Janow family with their training dingy, built by some stranger years ago from a set of plans in Popular Mechanics. The sun was behind them guaranteeing a difficult shot, but I decided to take a page out of Jaime’s playbook. “It will be on the front cover,” I assured them while capturing some e-mail address that would at least get the photo into their family album.

With the sailing prowess of a future generation assured, Barney settled down into a plastic chair and made additional introductions while simultaneously rustling up more sailors by cell phone and barking orders to those that were there who paid him no heed. Barney, a writer and former teacher, has been a fixture around the club for years. He and his wife, Lee, picked Asheville as their residence after a three year odyssey around the country that took them from California to Utah to Colorado and New Mexico.

Barney explained that the club was founded in 1963 around the time Lake Julian was constructed. They have around fifty to sixty members that combined can turn out forty boats. A lot of the sailing is social, but the club hosts racing regattas on the second Saturday and fourth Sunday of each month from April thru October. Actually, because of the power plant, the water is warm enough to sail year round. They also host an August shrimp brew and a February annual meeting that was held last year at Chef Mo’s.

I’d purposefully picked a regatta day so activity and good natured joshing increased as race time approached. The club prides itself on its friendliness and informality so even a novice can learn to race knowing his or her egregious breaches of racing etiquette will generate only post-race joking and an explanation of the rules.

Bert Eskridge explained to me there has never been a formal post-race challenge in the club’s history. Bert, a retired meteorologist from Asheville’s National Cl i matic Dat a Center, crews these days with Tom Cannon, but shared a story from when he used to skipper his own boat.

As a relative newcomer to the club, he was racing to round a mark against an elder Club member. The boating rules of the road declare that when two

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sailboats meet, a boat on a port tack is required to yield to a boat on a starboard tack. Bert was on the starboard tack so he yelled “starboard” several times to the skipper of the other boat, but was surprised when he did not yield. Laughter rang out from other surrounding boats as Bert was forced to give way and round behind the elder sailor. On shore Bert learned that the competing skipper had a $5,000 hearing aid that he did not want to lose in the water so he removed it whenever he went racing. Bert filed no challenge.

Bert’s story was interrupted by Jaime Titus who, along with his wife, Linda, had cooked up a massive batch of bratwurst and was generously offering them to others to get something in their stomachs before the start.

At larger sailing clubs races often tend to be held either for all one type of sailboat or for boats that are similar sizes or speeds. But, the informality of the Asheville Sailing Club allows

race official, Rick Strickland, on the field that had signed up for the day’s race.

Rick, a quiet, genial fellow, grew up in Los Angeles, where he learned to sail as a child, but later strayed into powerboats. He spent twenty years of his life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where he owned a business. During his time in that country he became intrigued with some plans in a wooden boat magazine.

Consumed with a desire to build something from scratch, he spent two years handcrafting his small wooden skiff that he affectionately calls Freddie.

When he decided to move to Asheville four years ago, there was great consternation with the Brazilian customs authorities because Freddie, as a home build boat, had no official papers. After considerable debate Freddie was officially classified as “household decorations–coffee table” and allowed to be exported to the USA. With Freddie undergoing some sail

everybody to race whatever they want with a handicap system, similar to golf, leveling the playing field. While everybody starts at the same time victory is not assured for the first boat to cross the line. Instead a mind-blowing, complicated table called the Portsmouth Yardstick Index is used to calculate how much time the fastest-rated sailboat should finish ahead of boats built more for cruising than speed. This is designed to make all boats equal on a specific course with given wind conditions, leaving a sailor’s skill to determine the bragging rights……at least in theory.

As start time approached I consulted with the self appointed

modifications, Rick had volunteered to hoist the flags and blow the air-horn for the race.

He passed over the sign-up sheet so I could identify the flotilla that was beginning to gather around the starting line. I counted fifteen entrants - five Flying Scots, two Lasers–one of them a Radial (shorter mast and smaller sail), two catamarans (twin hulled boats), a Sunfish, a Jet 14, a MC Scow, Bill Swan’s Hunter 23.5, an O’Day 19.2 and Larry’s Popular Mechanics training dingy. I was glad that I was not going to have to figure the Portsmouth handicap for this mixed up fleet.

The informality of the Asheville Sailing Club allows everybody to race whatever they want with a handicap system, similar to golf, leveling the playing field.

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The Flying Scot, Laser, Sunfish, Jet 14 and MC Scow are all daysailers, easy to move around on trailers, but at nineteen feet the Flying Scot is longer than most of the other daysailers, allowing for more stability, more sails and more occupants than the others that are frequently sailed single handed. This makes it the daysailer of choice for people wanting to sail together or slightly older participants that would prefer not to have to hook their feet into stirrups and hang half way out of the boat to gain the speed they are looking for.

About 6,000 Flying Scots have been built so The Asheville Sailing Club has a surprisingly high proportion in its fleet.

Barney, Tom and Jaime all own Flying Scotts as do Tim and Jane Alderson.

A native of London, Tim grew up racing sailboats on the cold, narrow, Thames River. He met Jane, a Michigan native, on a vacation to the Turks and Caicos and she later spent time with him in London. An advertising agency financial executive, Tim was instrumental in the acquisitions that grew The Mission Marketing Group in London to a mega agency with over 100 million pounds in annual revenues.

When acquisition capital dried up in the financial crunch, Tim cashed out and set off to travel the world, but his thoughts soon turned to Jane who by then was living in Asheville. They got married and after acquiring a Flying Scot from a seller in Durham, joined the Asheville Sailing Club earlier this year.

They have rapidly become very competitive with Jane being considered one of the strongest crew members in the Club.

There was some debate whether there would be a race at all. On calm days the course is normally set for a single loop around the Southern pin on Lake Julian near the power station. That’s what was agreed to, but as the sailboats meandered around waiting for the final air horn to start the race, the wind freshened giving the Flying Scots and other daysailers a strong start down the lake.

As the other sailboats fought for the lead, I spotted Barney at the back of the pack. He had lent his Flying Scot to other sailors and with a little re-rigging from his wife, Lee, was piloting Larry’s Popular Mechanics training dingy in the general direction of the rest of the fleet. Whatever the Portsmouth Yardstick Index’s verdict was that day, Barney Sokol was the winner in my eyes.

three gener ations : (left to right)

Larry, Jason, and Herschel Janow.

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Discover nature’s supermarket with Alan Muskat, internationally-known “epicure of the obscure,” as you learn how to safely find, identify, appreciate, and maybe even eat morels, chanterelles, ramps, paw paws, persimmons, and other “exotic” native delights. The day begins with your outdoor shopping spree. Alan’s introductory e-book is included, so there’s no need to take notes. You’ll learn about wild edibles, medicinals, dyeing with mushrooms, and more, all with Muskat’s unique blend of stories, poetry, wit and wisdom. That night, participants can opt to enjoy their “catch of the day” at Asheville’s Zambra Tapas Restaurant for no extra charge.

$60 | alan @ notastelikehome .org

sept 13

Meals on Wheels Plate Expectations Charity Auction

6 -10 pm the venue , 21 n . market st., downtown asheville A fundraiser to support Meals on Wheels in its mission to provide food and helpful services to Buncombe County’s homebound seniors. There will be lots of interesting and fun items to bid on– vacation packages, local artwork, handmade jewelry, children’s toys, and a variety of gift certificates and services generously donated by individuals and local businesses who support our cause. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine.

tickets online www. mowabc .org or call sara bentley 828 -253 - 5286 ext. 114

Been birdwatching lately?

sept 14

8th Annual Run/Walk For Autism 9am

unc asheville

This event features a 5K competitive and non-competitive run and a recreational 1K run/walk. It is not just an Asheville Track Club Grand Prix Series race, but also a family-friendly event for individuals living with autism and the community at large.

The festival includes the Fun Zone, live music, refreshments, and vendor space where businesses, service providers, local support resources, and sponsors are showcased.

$25 | wncrunwalkforautism .org

sept 21

Mill Around The Village

11: 00 am - 5: 00 pm

downtown swannanoa

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Join us...

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Join the local celebration of Swannanoa, hosted by the Swannanoa Business Association (SBA) and Friends and Neighbors of Swannanoa (FANS). Various venders will be offering food, local arts and unique crafts. Local musicians will be playing throughout the day, and there will be a large kids area with games.

1997 Hendersonville Rd. Asheville, NC 28803 | 828.687.9533

www.asheville.wbu.com

free

sept 21

Art In Autumn

10 am - 5 pm 20 n main street, weaverville , nc This festival in downtown Weaverville is sponsored by the Weaverville Business Association. It features over 100 juried artists and craftspeople, as well as a unique selection of food and live music. free

sept 21-22

Western North Carolina Farm Tour 1pm - 6 pm

various farms in wnc

During the weekend of this event, the gates and barns of WNC farms open to the public. Even those farms that don’t normally allow visitors will welcome people. The self-guided driving tour is a chance to learn how food grows, taste farm-fresh treats, hang out with farm animals, and meet the community’s food producers.

$25 per vehicle www. asapconnections .org / events /asaps - farm -tour / (continued on the next page)

Beretta Shotguns:

A name you trust on the range or in the field.

Your Beretta dealer in Asheville:

Guns ‘n Gear 828-633-1806 www.gunsngearwnc.com

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Master Gardener Plant Clinic

11am -2pm

nc farmers market

MAGAS DAUGHTER BY ANDREW WYETH

ROXANNE FRUE BY BETH BOONE

Your Wyeth or your wife.

The NCSU Master Gardeners Program offers plant clinics to assist the public in diagnosing and solving gardening questions. All clinics are free, and the public is encouraged to bring samples from problem plants or insects that need to be diagnosed and/or identified. The Master Gardener Program provides research-based information on home horticulture.

Trained Volunteers are prepared to help with advice on growing plants, insect identification and managing disease problems. free

Oct

oct 5 - 6 Autumn At Oz Festival 9:30 am - 5:30 pm

land of oz at beech mountain , nc

828 665-7730 | 1103 Brevard Rd. | Asheville NC 28806 | frameittoat.com

WNC Veterinary Hospital

The old Land of Oz theme park comes to life for the Autumn at Oz celebration. The “Wizard of Oz” park is near Banner Elk. Autumn at Oz has grown from a small reunion of former employees to a celebration that draws folks from near and far for a nostalgic stroll along the yellow brick road that was the centerpiece of the popular theme park that opened in 1970, as a living adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s classic novel, “The Wonderful World of Oz,” upon which the classic film is also based.

tickets $20 | www. autumnatoz .com

Drake

Your other family doctor.

2 Pond Street, Arden, NC 28704 • 828-684-3531

(Located near intersection of Long Shoals and Hendersonville Road)

www.wncveterinaryhospital.com

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The photo of four women paddling stand up paddleboards on the French Broad River featured in last month’s Capital Adventurist was provided courtesy of Mind, Body, Paddle/Girls at Play, an Ashevillebased business dedicated to inspiring women to enhance and strengthen their lives through kayaking and yoga retreats, classes and trips. For more information, visit www.watergirlsatplay.com

Town & Country Furniture 106 Sutton Avenue • Black Mountain

828-669-0075 www.towncountryfurniture.net

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Lewis Real Estate chose a bank that has a lot to offer.

Martin Lewis, Partner, Lewis Real Estate and John York, Vice President and Commercial Banking Manager

As someone involved in commercial real estate management, brokerage and development, Martin Lewis needs a bank that’s as responsive as it is responsible. That’s why he banks with Forest Commercial.

“The thing I like about Forest Commercial is its people. They’re professional and very accommodating.

And because they’re local, you get answers much quicker.

“If we’re doing a new project and looking at obtaining financing, we can often just outline what we’re thinking about, and they say, ‘yes, we think we can do something like that,’ and with that we’re able to move forward. Their rates are competitive and, with their attention to detail, closings are easy.”

Discover how much Forest Commercial can offer your business. Talk to us today.

Asheville: 828-255-5711 1127 Hendersonville Road Hendersonville: 828-233-0900 218 North Main Street ForestCommercialBank.com

Member FDIC

Charlotte: 980-321-5946 122 Cherokee Road, Charlotte BauerFinancial Five-Star Rating

An Asheville-Based Bank Serving Commercial, Professional And Personal Clients.

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FEEDING THE COMMUNITY FEEDING THE COMMUNITY Ingles has made a commitment to support organizations that help our community get the food and resources they need Ingles has mademembers a commitment to support organizations that help our community members get the food and resources they need

HUNGER HAS HAS A CURE HUNGER A CURE Through the assistance of local agencies, providing fresh, nutritious food to

Through the assistance of local agencies, providing fresh, nutritious food to people struggling with hunger people struggling with hunger

FORYOUR YOUR HEALTH HEALTH FOR Ingles supports organizations that provide ďŹ nancial and emotional support for

Ingles supports organizations that provide ďŹ nancial and emotional support for community members living with serious illness. community members living with serious illness.

VALUABLE LEARNING TOOLS

Ingles Markets has contributed over 10 million dollars to schools to purchase VALUABLE LEARNING TOOLS valuable learning tools and equipment.

TOOL S FOR TOOL S SCHOOLS FOR

Ingles Markets has contributed over 10 million dollars to schools to purchase valuable learning tools and equipment.

SCHOOLS

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The BackPack Bunch provides food for students to take home on weekends FOOD FOR THOUGHT when they otherwise would not eat. |

The BackPack Bunch provides food for students to take home on weekends when they otherwise would not eat.

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