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Tribal Council asks Rep. Meadows to end shutdown Page 5 Federal program’s expiration impacts land trusts Page 28

CONTENTS On the Cover: The town of Waynesville is taking steps toward facilitating affordable housing projects by creating the Waynesville Redevelopment Authority and designating a section of North Main Street as a redevelopment area, giving the county a better chance at turning the old hospital into affordable housing.

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Work begins on alternative N.C. 107 plan Follow-up meeting with DOT, Sylva will determine which ideas have legs

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ore than 100 people filled the Jackson County Public Library’s Community Room Jan. 14 to help kick off the Asheville Design Center’s quest to develop an alternative, less disruptive vision for N.C. 107 in Sylva. Attendees included business owners, community members, elected leaders and N.C. Department of Transportation representatives.

“There’s a lot of information to digest, but I think that we’ve got some really good firsthand experience of how people have gotten to know this road — what works, what doesn’t work,” said Chris Joyell, director of the design center. “We’re going to take that back and work it into our plans. These things that were revealed tonight you’ll never see on a map.”

The centerpiece of the three-hour meeting was a zigzag of tables at the front of the room, holding taped-together printouts of N.C. 107 from Innovation Brewing to Love Dale Road, as well as pads of sticky notes and a smattering of Sharpies. Attendees were invited to affix their comments to the map, letting the ADC folks know where they believe the DOT’s proposed plan falls short and where they feel the road could serve them better.

There should be an additional left turn lane at the light by the school complex, one writer said, and additional pedestrian infrastructure at that light to accommodate the many high school students who cross the road there. Somebody else suggested that a roundabout replace the light where N.C. 107 intersects with Walter Ashe and Cope Creek roads, with another commenter coming along later to write “NO!” on the same sticky note. In the morning, another attendee told Joyell, traffic going to Dunkin’ Donuts spills out onto N.C. 107.

Joyell’s task — and that of the other five members of the volunteer team — is to take that input and turn it into ideas that could deliver a safer and better-flowing N.C. 107 without requiring more than 50 businesses to relocate, as would be the case with DOT’s current plan.

“I know that we’ve looked at this for seven, eight years. I would be shocked if we came up with something that no one had ever considered before, but we’re going to try,” said Joyell.

“If we can find something that lessens the impact on these businesses and makes the road safer and more enjoyable, we’re going to try it.”

The N.C. 107 plan has drawn criticism ever since the preliminary version was released last year, but traffic along the corridor has been debated for decades before that.

The discussion began in the 1990s, when DOT was considering a bypass connecting Cullowhee to U.S. 74. In 2002, the Jackson County Smart Roads Alliance formed in 4 response to that plan, decrying the astronom-

Be heard If you didn’t make it out to the community meeting Jan. 14, it’s not too late to give the Asheville Design Center your thoughts on needs and solutions for N.C. 107. Photos of the road plans are posted on Facebook at https://bit.ly/2H9vjaq.

Community members are invited to leave their comments on the relevant photos The ADC will host a second meeting 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, in the Community Room of the Jackson County Library to run its recommendations by town and N.C. Department of Transportation officials. The public is welcome to attend, but there will be no opportunity for comment.

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Community members share their thoughts on N.C. 107 with Chris Joyell of the Asheville Design Center. Holly Kays photo ical expense, environmental damage and harm to Sylva’s downtown economy that it said would result.

The DOT eventually axed its bypass plans and began looking to improve existing roads instead — namely, N.C. 107. In addition to traffic congestion, the road’s problems include a high crash rate, with 254 crashes occurring there between August 2011 and July 2016.

Everybody agrees that something has to change on N.C. 107, but the cluster of businesses and their driveways surrounding the roadway means that impact is unavoidable.

The release of DOT’s preliminary plans has an increasing number of people asking the agency to reconsider the bypass concept.

“The regional bypass was not popular.

DOT’s plan for 107 is less popular, and the question boils down to who takes the big hit on whatever they come up with,” said Blanton Branch resident David Liberman, who attended Monday’s meeting. “Is it the property owners whose property they take that has been in the family for six genera-

tions, or is it somebody’s parking lot who owns a business?”

It’s not just the business owners who would be affected by the closures likely to result from the proposed project, said plumber Sharkey Gordon, 65. The area’s only industrial supply house for repairmen is on the relocation list.

If the store closes, he said, “my customers are going to have to wait, because the parts in China aren’t threaded properly, so there goes that. If you buy it on Amazon it might not work, but if I buy it from somewhere it’s going to work. I have to guarantee it.”

The proposed 107 plan would deliver a road with the same number of lanes as what currently exists, minus the middle “suicide” turn lane. It would seek to improve traffic flow by decreasing the number of driveways and installing turn lanes. However, the roadway would get wider due to the addition of bike lanes and wider sidewalks on each side.

The bike lanes are to be added as result of North Carolina’s Complete Streets Program,

which requires that the DOT consider alternative modes of transportation when building roads. But the proposed bike lanes have garnered substantial criticism in Sylva from those who say that very few people use the bike facilities already in existence. Does it make any sense, they ask, to put so many people out of business to build bike lanes that only a handful of people will use?

That’s a calculation the community will have to make, said Kristy Carter of the planning firm Friction Shift Projects and a member of the ADC team, but she reminded the crowd that the new road has to serve future, as well as current, needs.

“This is a huge investment that the community is making, and it needs to serve those of us who use this road now and today,” she said. “It’s going to be here for 50 years or 100 years, and we have to try as best as we can with the information we have — what’s changing and how does the roadway fit that?”

The ADC left the meeting with many small suggestions and several larger ones to consider. Sylva resident Carl Queen suggested that 107 become a one-way road from Family Dollar to Webster Road and that a second road, running the opposite direction, be built parallel to it. Another suggestion was to pull the bike lanes off the road and instead build a dedicated greenway, which would run behind the businesses bordering 107, or else to place bike lanes and utilities on the median, thereby reducing the need for increased right-of-way.

“There’s a lot of continuity from what we’ve been hearing in the previous weeks and previous months,” said David Uchiyama, regional communications officer for DOT. “Getting them gathered and collected in a new way and filtered through the Asheville Design Center (could lead to) a new idea. It’s just another tool that will help in the design and execution of this project.”

Joyell and his team will spend the next two weeks sifting through the information and suggestions to develop some recommendations, which will be vetted in an upcoming meeting with DOT and town officials, slated for 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, also in the library’s Community Room.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he ongoing federal government shutdown is having a negative effect on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and last week the tribe’s Tribal Council voted unanimously to send Rep. Mark Meadows, R-Asheville, a letter to tell him so.

“Us as elected officials have a responsibility to take care of our tribe,” said Councilmember Jeremy Wilson, of Wolfetown, who had suggested the action. “I get that Meadows is supposedly a good friend of ours, but Meadows does not come before our people, and (President Donald) Trump definitely does not come before our people.”

Principal Chief Richard Sneed requested that Tribal Council hear the action as an emergency resolution at the end of the Jan. 10 agenda. The document states that the shutdown is having an “immediate and negative impact on the daily lives operations of the tribe and impacting negatively the lives of tribal members” and directs Sneed to write to Meadows to “strongly encourage that he take action in his official capacity and end the U.S. government shutdown, detailing with candor the hardships that the EBCI and its tribal members are incurring because of it.”

“No one wants a shutdown, and I’m continuing to work every day to try and find a compromise where both sides can come together to secure our border and open up the government,” said Meadows in response to a request for comment. “And no member of Congress should leave town or receive a paycheck until we get the job done.”

As of press time, the tribe’s letter had not been made available to The Smoky Mountain News, but Sneed listed some of the impacts in his report to council at the beginning of the meeting. The Office of the Attorney General has a variety of projects going on that require collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice, and those activities are on hold. Various federal grants the tribe receives are on hold — about a dozen are pending that can’t be acted on until the

shutdown ends, Sneed said. Land transfers, which require action through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, are on hold, as is progress on the National Park Service gathering rule that would permit tribal members to collect sochan from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. About five different projects within the tribe’s Natural Resources Program are affected.

Qualla Housing employees are paid using U.S. Housing and Urban Development dollars, so if the shutdown goes on much longer that money could run out. About a dozen employees at the Cherokee Indian Hospital are paid through Indian Health Services, a federal program.

“Currently we’re able to keep paying them with an agreement we have with IHS,” said Sneed of the hospital employees. “That money has been advanced to them, but they can’t guarantee those employees will be paid this next pay period. This lends itself to why it’s important that the hospital keeps reserves on hand.”

While the shutdown is indeed having an impact, it’s less severe than it would be were the tribe’s financial status not as strong as it is, said Sneed. Smaller tribes around the country are discussing shutting down medical clinics until the government reopens, but Cherokee has enough reserves that it’s not having that conversation.

“It’s like watching middle schoolers argue back and forth, and these are the leaders of our country,” Sneed said. “What they’re not taking into consideration I don’t think is the impact this is having on everyday Americans and families.”

To help its members who are furloughed federal employees, the tribe is offering a disaster relief fund to ensure that their needs are met until the government reopens.

Enrolled members who may qualify for assistance can contact Taylor Wilnoty at 828.359.7008 to apply.

“Interestingly enough, when we put that out there one consideration I hadn’t even thought of is we have enrolled members who work in other parts of the country that are furloughed, but we were getting calls from literally all over the country,” said Sneed.

“This is where we are really blessed to have the resources to help our people.”

Editor’s note: This story was reported using online meeting videos, as Tribal Council’s April 2018 decision to ban non-Cherokee media from its chambers prevents The Smoky Mountain News from attending in person.

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The old Haywood Hospital (left) sits at the center of a new redevelopment area in Waynesville. A Shot Above WNC photo

Waynesville steps up to address affordable housing crisis

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER ike the region’s opioid crisis, if Western North Carolina’s affordable housing crisis could have been solved by meetings, panel discussions or task force recommendations, it would have been over long ago.

But last week, the town of Waynesville finally became the first Haywood County government to take concrete steps that could rid the county of a troublesome, underutilized asset — or liability, as some have called it — while at the same time transforming a blighted area just north of downtown into a vibrant, rejuvenated economic center.

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On Tuesday, Jan. 8, each and every member of the Town of Waynesville Board of Alderman acquired a new title — members of the Waynesville Redevelopment Authority.

“The impetus was trying to achieve the redevelopment of the old hospital site,” said Waynesville Mayor Gavin Brown. “It was built as the first county hospital in North 6 Carolina in 1927.”

That was a long time ago, and the old hospital’s fallen on hard times since the last patients were discharged in 1977; subsequent attempts at redevelopment have failed due to the cost of the renovations necessary to make the structure — especially the two newer sections, located at the rear of the property — inhabitable.

Atlanta-based developer Landmark Asset Services has tried, and failed, on three consecutive occasions to qualify for tax credits from the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency, but it’s not their fault; the process is highly competitive and ultimately comes down to a scorecard of sorts.

Despite the project receiving a perfect score last year, those tax credits still haven’t materialized. Each time, however, Landmark and Haywood County have pursued the credits, with the county going so far as to give Landmark a purchase option on the property in the event those credits are awarded.

That happened again on Jan. 7 when Haywood commissioners gave Landmark the option to purchase the 3-acre hospital property for $225,000, contingent upon the credits materializing this coming August.

The purchase option came just in time for Landmark’s Jan. 18 deadline to submit an initial application to the NCHFA, which demands developers have site control before submission.

Waynesville’s act to designate its board of aldermen as a redevelopment authority also came just in time, as Haywood County Program Administrator David Francis said that the project could receive an even higher score if it were submitted as part of a redevelopment area as designated by a redevelopment authority, rather than as a standalone project.

“It allows them to get two bites at the apple,” Brown said. “There’s two different pots of money available, and they can apply for both simultaneously.”

The regular route has been unsuccessful so far, but the odds aren’t great to begin with — Francis said that last year, credits were awarded to just 30 projects, out of 200 applicants.

This year, for the first time, Landmark will be able to apply for adaptive reuse tax credits because the project is now in a redevelopment area. Two adaptive reuse projects received the credits last year, out of only four applicants.

“And if you are not successful in that pool, then you go back into the regular pool,” said Francis.

State statutes authorize the creation of such authorities, which are often entirely new, standalone boards, like Waynesville’s Historic Preservation Commission. But in smaller towns that don’t have millions of federal dollars trickling down from above, that role is often filled by the existing board of aldermen or town commissioners.

The resolution, which “recognizes that blighted areas exist in a number of areas of the

town,” says that “the redevelopment of these areas is necessary to address deterioration and blight in the interest of the public health safety, morals, and welfare” of residents.

“A redevelopment authority has broad powers that are based not only on the statutes of redevelopment law, but also on the statutes that permit housing authorities to do their work,” said Rob Hites, Waynesville’s town manager. “The law permits municipalities to purchase land and actually construct whole housing developments either in partnership with nonprofits or even profit-making companies.”

This is Hites’ second time being involved in the creation of a redevelopment authority.

“When I was manager in Statesville, we had a blighted city block in our downtown that we repurposed and built a large two-acre civic center,” he said. “So we used our authority as a redevelopment board to provide funds for the demolition of the blighted buildings and housing on the city block. “ Per statute, a public hearing was noticed and held, but no one showed up to speak either for or against it before it passed Waynesville’s board of aldermen unanimously.

“We are just trying to repurpose it by turning it from an old hospital into affordable housing for veterans, the disabled and low-income people,” Brown said. “So we as the redevelopment commission can designate that a blighted area.”

STEP TWO The Waynesville Redevelopment Authority, the first such authority in the area, wasted little time in acting; once duly constituted, it subsequently passed a resolution designating the old hospital, and the former DSS building across the street, as a redevelopment area.

“What we’re finding nationwide is that right after World War II there was a circle around the downtown that was developed, and development has moved outward from that circle into what we call suburbs,” Hites said. “But that first move after World War II, that area has become blighted all over the country, and redevelopment zones are being developed just outside the core downtown almost everywhere.”

Waynesville’s redevelopment area was designated Jan. 8 after another, separate public hearing was held during which no one showed up to speak either for or against the resolution before it passed the board of aldermen unanimously.

“When the hospital closed, its economic vitality started to lessen a little bit,” said Brown. “It was a huge economic driver, and of course it created opportunities for people living in that area. When that sort of closed out and DSS moved out to the old Walmart building (on Paragon Parkway, in Clyde), that sort of left that area hanging, so to speak. And there are certain areas in there that have become notoriously known for having criminal activity going on, so that gives us two reasons.”

Further, a one-half mile circle centered on the hospital was designated as a study area that consists of portions of several zoning districts, including the East Waynesville urban

news Signs of decay dot both the exterior (left) and interior (right) of the Historic Haywood Hospital. Office equipment (below) sits in a hallway, ready for removal and recycling if the building is redeveloped. Cory Vaillancourt photos

During that same action-packed Jan. 8 Town of Waynesville Board of Aldermen meeting, the town also passed a resolution pledging financial support to the old hospital project, including a $7,200 grant for tap fees,

THE NEXT STEP The town’s affordable housing policy has not yet been adopted; a first reading was conducted Jan. 8, and a public hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 22.

In short, the policy says that the town will consider, on a case-by-case basis, requests for incentives in furtherance of its goal of promoting affordable rental and owner-occupied housing within town limits.

“To be quite honest we haven’t designed the economic model yet that we’re going to use, but let’s just say we have our first effort

Be heard The Town of Waynesville will conduct a public hearing to gather input from residents on its proposed affordable housing policy.

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• Date: Tuesday, Jan. 22 • Location: 16 S. Main Street, Waynesville The town will then determine the gap between the production cost and the rent or mortgage, and then town staff will assess the ability of the town to fill the gap and forecast payback due to increased property tax revenue.

“Our goal would be to recoup that money because of the increased tax value,” Brown said. “In other words, if I have a blighted house paying the town $400 a year in taxes and then all of a sudden I have a $200,000 house which is paying $2,000 worth of taxes, I’ve increased my tax base. So at the end of the day, we also will recoup our investment.

That’s the plan.”

It’s a fairly straightforward plan that does-

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approximately $58,000 in water and sewer improvements as well as sidewalk construction not to exceed $106,842.

It’s the fourth such proffer by the town and isn’t notable in that regard except that it gives a peek at what working under Waynesville’s redevelopment authority might look like for developers in the future.

But just as with the town’s relatively new economic incentive policy, Brown and the board thought it best to codify the town’s affordable housing policy so developers would be able to see all the cards on the table, and so the public would not get the impression that assistance was being granted willynilly.

“What we want to do is set criteria for providing funds or assistance to legitimate developers,” said Brown. “They can come to us and say, ‘Here is the cost of a finished product either for rent or for sale, and it’s going to be $200,000.’”

In Brown’s hypothetical example, if that price is $20,000 more than what an “affordable” housing unit should be — based on guidelines issued by the USDA, HUD or the state — the town would step in to fill the gap.

Hites, though, is careful to note that it’s not just about handing out wads of cash.

come to the board. Those funds would obviously come out of the general fund balance.

Our fund balance is almost $5 million, and it’s where it supposed to be. We may not be talking that much money in the overall picture,” Brown said. “At the end of the day, we’ll probably look at each project solely on its own merits, and then maybe refine it to have a pool of money in our budget every year for this type of project.”

Applicants must either be a business, a nonprofit or a community housing development organization with a “successful track record in the development and construction of low to moderate income housing.”

Requests will be evaluated based on the impact on the rental or sales price of the development, the tax value, the energy and economic efficiency of the floorplan, and the applicant’s guarantee that the project will meet income guidelines.

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residential district, the North Main Street neighborhood center district, the Raccoon Creek neighborhood residential district, the Raccoon Creek neighborhood residential overlay and the Raccoon Creek neighborhood center.

“What a study area like this does, it gives you a broad area where you can do multiple projects. The redevelopment law does not just discuss housing, but it also talks about commercial development as well. I think it provides an opportunity to completely redevelop the area,” Hites said. “A place like High Point might have five different redevelopment zones, and seven or nine projects within those zones. So we develop the zone, we study it, and then as the private sector or the nonprofits develop rehabilitation programs or new housing programs, then they may work in that area under our redevelopment authority.”

“As you know, we run four ‘businesses,’ so each business could provide part of that subsidy,” he said. “It could be the installation of water, sewer, electric. So it’s not just the writing of a check.”

Hites is uniquely qualified to spearhead the endeavor; during his long career in municipal government, he took six years off to work for a development company based in Greensboro.

“I’m still a general contractor and have been a licensed real estate broker, so I’ve actually been on the private market side of real estate,” he said. “Having been in the development business from the purchase of land all the way through to the sale or rental of the last unit, I understand how real estate developments are put together and the pressures that are on the developer to come up with a price that fits the market.”

Those challenges, he said, include the cost issues associated with site development in a county where flat land is scarce and rocky terrain makes grading expensive — when it’s even possible.

“Site improvements are far more expensive here and the developable land, which is basically the valleys, is far more in demand than the flat plains of the Piedmont,” said Hites. “So, the cost of land increases the cost of all housing and in that respect, and when you’re trying to develop an affordable project, that would be something we would take into account when we review the financial documents that a developer would present for an affordable housing subsidy.”

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HOUSING, CONTINUED FROM 7 n’t differ much from similar economic development policies, but it does offer a philosophical quandary that might present itself at the public hearing.

In a free market capitalist society, money isn’t always spent on doing the right thing — it’s usually spent done doing the most profitable thing. To that end, governments often step in when the free market cannot provide a solution to a particular problem because that solution isn’t as profitable as those funding it would like it to be.

That produces an argument on the economic right that no government should ever compete with any private business, or pick winners and losers through incentivizing one project and rejecting another.

“The redevelopment law does not just discuss housing, but it also talks about commercial development as well. I think it provides an opportunity to completely redevelop the area.”

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“I don’t disagree with that, but there are certain areas of government activity that maybe in a particular situation you shouldn’t be in,” said Brown. “There isn’t any reason to subsidize or spend taxpayer dollars on a service that is being rendered very well by the private sector. Going to the housing side of it though, I can tell you that Mountain Projects is no longer accepting applications for housing subsidies — Section 8 housing. They just don’t have the units. So if you don’t have the units, something’s wrong with the free market system.”

Counter-intuitively, Hites thinks property values in the study area could actually see a slight boost, thanks to the designation.

“The developer in me says it increases it because this is an opportunity,” he said.

“It provides the private market with a signal that they can come in and redevelop or even build new housing and offer it back to the community as an affordable project and know that they can have the government as a partner.”

The appetite of Waynesville’s taxpayers for these types of subsidies will be measured during the upcoming public hearing required for approval of the policy.

“I don’t expect to satisfy everybody,” Brown said, “but I do hope that the majority of people find that this is a policy and a program that is appropriate for the town 8 of Waynesville.”

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Waynesville officials have made it clear that this structure’s days are numbered. Cory Vaillancourt photo

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER beef between the Town of Waynesville and local property owner Ron Muse over an ersatz dwelling on an otherwise vacant, garbage-strewn Church Street lot is about to heat up again.

“It appears as though Mr. Muse is permitting both a health and safety hazard and a zoning violation on his property, despite our oral and written warnings,” said Rob Hites, Waynesville’s town manager.

Late last fall, the town tried to get Muse to evict Ronnie Hicks and his girlfriend, Sassy, from the property, where they’d lived for almost a year beneath a large tarp with an old wood stove.

Muse refused, and the town took action.

“On our own, we without charging Mr. Muse took our equipment in and cleaned

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The RR Club had to vacate its previous location off Russ Avenue to make way for the new Publix and have been rebuilding for two years at the new location. The new facility is a replica of a period railroad station and outside the station are three refurbished real cabooses and a herd of American Bison, some llamas, alpacas, and other animals for the guests to enjoy.

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that area out, and he’s permitted it to be reoccupied,” Hites said.

Now, the structure erected by Hicks has grown into a shanty of sorts, complete with a steel-tube roofing frame and even a door.

“So he’s violating our health and safety regulations that require you to keep your property free of debris that would be a harbinger of disease, rats, snakes, vermin and such. That’s one ordinance. The other is that he’s permitting housing that doesn’t meet the building code,” said Hites. “It doesn’t have potable water, it doesn’t have sanitary sewer, so he’s violating two ordinances, same as before. It is his responsibility as a landowner to make sure that doesn’t happen, and that’s not just Mr. Muse — that’s anyone.”

Muse said Jan. 14 that the town was again hounding him over the parcel and had asked him to sign a trespassing warrant so

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Hicks could be evicted and the shanty razed.

“I don’t want to do that,” he said, echoing his comments in a Dec. 12 Smoky Mountain News story about the situation at that time.

Muse also said the attention focused on him and his parcel is the result of a grudge, because he has for years wanted to rezone the property to accommodate a self-storage building, and has been met with resistance from town officials.

“If Mr. Muse will not voluntarily comply, we may have to resort to litigation,” said Hites, who explained that the town could conduct a hearing allowing Muse to make his case, at which point a determination would be made by a code officer as to his substantive compliance.

If that determination goes against Muse, Hites said the town could then move in with their own crews, evict the tenants, charge Muse for the cleanup, assign that charge as a lien on the parcel, and eventually foreclose on the parcel to get its money back.

For his part, Hicks said that he received word last Friday, Jan. 11, that he’d been given housing vouchers through Meridian that could help him pay for more permanent housing.

Hicks opined that he’d be gone “within the next two or three weeks” now that he’s begun the process of identifying local hotels and motels that accept the vouchers and submitting applications to them.

But Hicks also said that during his tenancy on Muse’s parcel, he’s run off a handful of troublemakers trying to latch on to his relatively posh — meaning improvised walls, a tarp for a roof and the old wood stove — digs. Once he’s gone, though, it’s anyone’s guess as to whether or not others might try to occupy the site.

“Oh, they’ll be up in here,” he said Jan. 14. “This might be the end of our problem, but it’s not the end of the problem.”

prompting the organization to seek out donations so it can resume operations.

Damage to the building will be repaired by the organization’s insurer, but the unanticipated cost of feeding, supplying and bussing to other locations the approximately 25 children the Pigeon Center serves each day totals several thousand dollars.

Director Lyn Forney said it could be as long as 60 days until the kitchen is operable, but is hopeful she’ll be able to move back into the building before then. Forney also said it was likely she’d call for volunteers to help with some of the cleanup and painting.

To help, call 828.452.7232, or find the Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center’s Gofundme page at bit.ly/PigeonCenter.

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The U.S. Census Bureau says that in 2017, the per capita income of Haywood County residents was $27,166. That’s problematic in that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development defines “housing cost burden” as paying more than 30 percent of one’s income for housing.

That means that someone earning average wages in Haywood County could be expected to spend less that $8,100 a year on housing, or about $679 a month. With a 30year mortgage for well-qualified buyers at 3.92 percent, a $144,000 home would cost about $681 a month.

Noland said the fastest moving price bracket in Haywood County for single-family homes was around $225,000, and that listings were closing in an average of 99.6 days.

Of the 1,079 single-family homes sold in Haywood County in 2017, just 272 were sold for less than $140,000. In 2018, 1,044 singlefamily homes were sold, with 194 of those under $140,000.

“It’s tough right now,” said Catherine Proben, also a Beverly-Hanks Realtor and Haywood County native who like Noland works in Waynesville. “I have probably 10 or 11 buyers sitting by the wayside — locals — waiting for the right property, because if they’re in the low $200s, it’s tough. You’ll have multiple offers, because these people are waiting for it.”

Almost 40 percent of single-family home sales in Haywood County in 2017 occurred less than 30 days after the property was first listed;

“Our housing market is just really thin right now,” Brown said. “My sister is the executive director for the 2017 Avg. Number 2018 Avg. Number Board of Realtors, and she tells me closing price closing price all the time that the actual stock, the Jan $194,845 71 $251,480 73 number of houses, is very small Feb $262,800 55 $241,636 59 especially in the $150,000 to Mar $194,127 89 $235,742 73 $300,000 dollar range, and that’s Apr $205,211 75 $240,842 73 what you’re usually talking about.”

May $219,326 105 $260,051 87 Haywood’s housing market June $210,721 103 $222,497 109 doesn’t exist in a bubble; housing July $209,430 93 $243,987 95 and employment conditions in Aug $211,068 115 $247,255 110 neighboring markets play a subSept $217,073 110 $260,178 92 stantial role in pricing, and Oct $222,200 90 $242,627 101 Buncombe County’s boom has by Nov $247,603 95 $275,685 97 all accounts influenced Haywood Dec $242,953 78 $268,957 75 dramatically.

Source: Beverly-Hanks, MLS The bad news is, prices are on the rise in Buncombe County, too — even more so than in Haywood, in 2018, it was slightly above 40 percent. which could be a harbinger for continuing “We just need to fix the inventory probmarket pressure locally. lem, which the town looks like it’s trying to do The average closed price of a single-famithat,” Proben said. “Builders feel that strong ly home in Buncombe County in 2017 was push, so they’re not as afraid to branch out, $273,337 but jumped almost 33 percent to get a home, try to flip it, or build a new home. $363,455 in 2018. Buncombe’s 2017 per So right now is still great time to buy because capita income, $29,590, was only slightly of the interest rates. We just still need more above Haywood County’s figure. inventory. That’s been our problem.”

The average time on the market for A less-than-ideal supply of affordable homes Buncombe County listings in 2018 was a is one of the primary reasons Waynesville third lower than Haywood’s, at 63 days, and Mayor Gavin Brown and the town’s board of well over half of all homes sold in Buncombe aldermen took several steps last week intended County in both 2017 and 2018 were on the to address the affordable housing crisis. market for less than 30 days.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER booming real estate market brings with it many benefits and is a sign of a thriving economy, but some unintended consequences are making it even more difficult for residents of Western North Carolina to find affordable homes for sale or rent.

“The thing about Haywood County is that local people, who we absolutely love to work with, are in competition with the second home market that wants to retire with a second home here in Haywood County,” said Brian K. Noland, a Realtor at Beverly-Hanks’ Waynesville office. “They’re wanting in the same price bracket that our local people can afford. That hurts the local people a lot, to be in competition.”

Noland’s an eighth generation Haywood County native, and has been working in real estate since just after the Great Recession began in 2008. He said he remained busy throughout the recession, but in the last two years has seen a world of difference in the average sales price of single-family homes.

“For the term that I’ve been a Realtor, it’s definitely increased tremendously,” he said.

“I think the average sales price around then was around $160,000 in 2009.”

According to MLS data provided by Noland, the average closed price for a single family home in Haywood County in 2017 was $219,780. For 2018, that figure jumped more than 13 percent to $249,245.

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Good Samaritan’s last good deed Blue Ridge Health receives $295,000 donation

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR or 20 years, Good Samaritan Clinic provided much needed health care services to people of Haywood County. Even though the nonprofit has now dissolved, past volunteers and board members came together last week to do one more good deed and fulfill its mission.

Good Samaritan handed over a check for $294,970 — the remaining funds from its coffers — to Blue Ridge Health.

“Good Samaritan Clinic has dissolved, but the legacy of Good Samaritan will continue on through Blue Ridge Health,” former GSC Board Chairman David Riggs said during the check presentation at Blue Ridge Health last week.

BRH plans to use a majority of the funds to open a pharmacy at its location on Hospital Drive in Clyde for Haywood County residents to have access to low-cost and/or free medications. Remaining funds will cover the cost of a new ultrasound machine and a mobile dental care unit.

BRH is the nonprofit health care system GSC chose in 2016 to carry on its legacy of providing crucial services to the most vulnerable populations in the county.

While GSC accepted patients 18 to 64, BRH offers sliding scale services to all ages whether they are uninsured or underinsured.

Since partnering with The Good Samaritan Clinic in 2016, BRH expanded to a larger location, added new services and built upon the existing GSC staff. Today, the practice has seven providers and offers family medicine, pediatric, behavioral health, nutrition, and pregnancy care services to patients of any age

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David Riggs, former board chairman for Good Samaritan Clinic, (right) presents Blue Ridge Health CEO Dr. Richard Hudspeth with a check for $294,970. Jessi Stone photo or insurance status.

Riggs said dissolving GSC was an unavoidable decision given the changing climate of health care and the growing need in the county.

“We came to the realization that we weren’t going to have the sustainable growth needed to serve the people of Haywood County within the same organizational type,” he said. “So we went through a long process of looking at alternatives.”

In the end, partnering and transitioning services over the Blue Ridge Health made the most sense to the GSC board. Riggs said BRH started out 50 years ago with a similar mission that GSC started with when it opened its doors on Feb. 14, 1999, at Dr. Teeter’s medical practice along with Nurse Practitioner Jenny McNair.

As Blue Ridge Health CEO Dr. Richard Hudspeth looked around the room, he said he was happy to see so many former GSC

employees who chose to continue on under the BRH umbrella.

“I’m honored and blessed to have this partnership with Good Samaritan. We will do our best to honor the legacy and vision that was put in place 20 years ago and make sure it continues, said Hudspeth said. “Our providers are accepting new patients and ready to take care of anyone who walks through our front doors.”

Before partnering with BRH, GSC had long waiting lists for patients needing to be seen, but BRH has added more providers in order to deplete the wait and also accept new patients of all ages whether they’re uninsured or underinsured.

Hudspeth said the funds provided by GSC would cover the cost of a new ultrasound machine that’s already being used at BRH and would also allow the practice to provide Haywood County residents with low-cost or free medications at the new pharmacy and a mobile dental clinic.

Donda Bennett, former GSC practice manager and now director of BRH in Haywood and Jackson, thanked all the churches, organizations and individuals who supported GSC clinic throughout the years.

She added that GSC’s board of directors made a good decision to partner with BRH. “I’ve seen amazing things happen with Blue Ridge Health already. It’s a very exciting time to be in Haywood County,” she said.

Neil Budde, a former GSC board member, said he was also pleased with the decision so far though it was a tough one to make at the time.

“When we made the decision in 2016 to join forces with Blue Ridge Health, we certainly had questions, but speaking on behalf of the board, looking at what Blue Ridge Health has done in the last two years, we feel we made the most right decision possible,” he said. “More people are being served with more services than we could ever provide at Good Samaritan.”

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would cost a lot of money DOT doesn’t have,” Taylor said.

He’s already met with Rep. Kevin Corbin, R-Franklin, and said he will be meeting with Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, soon to discuss ways to get some funds appropriated for Highlands and Franklin for the signs.

After meeting with the police chiefs and a N.C. State Trooper Sgt. Greg Dills, who is in charge of trucking requirements and regulations throughout Western North Carolina, Taylor said legislative action could also help with the tractor trailer issues on Highlands Road. Apparently, the regulations regarding semi-trucks on the gorge road are written in such a complicated way that it is hard for the Highway Patrol to enforce. The law currently specifies restrictions on four or five axle trucks and also has weight restrictions, but Taylor said a clearer definition could be used to improve enforcement efforts. “(Dills) could give us a clear definition of tractor trailer and we’d have to get the General Assembly to approve it,” he said.

“If it just says no tractor trailer trucks, that’s much more enforceable.”

Lastly, Taylor said Dills suggested a better coordinated effort to report truck violations on Highlands Road to the State Patrol.

When reported, Dills can report it to regulators in Washington, D.C., which will eventually get trucking companies to change their routes because they don’t want violations to be on their record or impact their licensing and insurance.

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“I think all our communities are already close to being Blue Zones — I don’t think it would take much to get us there,” Taylor said. “I’ve already raised enough money for the presentation but the next step will be harder — that will be to buy the site visit and the plan for the communities.”

Taylor said she included Jackson and Macon towns in the project to be able to meet the 25,000 population requirement for Blue Zones. While she wasn’t asking for any type of financial commitment from the towns, she said she just wanted their support as she moved forward with fundraising efforts. All donations for the project will go through a nonprofit entity.

“It requires community support and buyin for everyone to be successful,” she said.

Councilmember David Culpepper asked if or when the town would be financially obligated to the project.

Taylor said the town would not be financially obligated to anything unless the town chose to implement a program or a project recommendation outlined in the Blue Zone plan. Ideally, funds would be raised privately or through grant programs.

“Once you’re branded as a Blue Zone, you can apply for a number of grants,” Taylor said.

Other council members said they were fine with Taylor proceeding with the effort and were open to hearing more information when Blue Zone Project makes the formal presentation, which is tentatively set for sometime in June.

For more information about Blue Zones Project, visit www.bluezonesproject.com.

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR More signage and stricter law enforcement could be the solution to keeping tractor trailers off Highlands Road.

Highlands Mayor Pat Taylor came to speak before the Franklin Town Council on Jan. 7 about his efforts to address the continued problems on the curvy and dangerous gorge road between Franklin and Highlands.

“Mayor Scott and I have been talking about this concern both communities have with tractor trailers using the gorge road.

Citizens use it every day for work and tourists use it coming from both sides,” he said. “It’s a problem that’s growing. They don’t heed signs and caution not to use that road.”

Taylor said the North Carolina Department of Transportation spent a lot of money to create a turn around on the Franklin end of Highlands Road to deter those trucks before they keep heading up to Highlands but it doesn’t seem to have worked. Though there’s no simple solution to the problem, he said he has a few ideas after talking to DOT and other stakeholders.

Taylor said his first idea was to create more specific signage for truckers coming from Highlands. He said the signs would be radar activated as larger trucks approach and would direct them to go down N.C. 106 from the Georgia state line through Sky Valley or an alternative route.

“DOT thinks that’s a good step, but it

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR n the Greek island of Ikaria, its population of 10,000 people live an average of 10 years longer than Americans, have about half the rate of heart disease, lower rates of cancer and obesity and zero cases of dementia.

Dan Buettner, a National Geographic fellow and New York Times bestselling author, explored Ikeria and other rare places throughout the world that enjoy those kinds of long and healthy lives before founding the Blue Zones Project with his brother Tony Buettner.

Their goal of starting the business was to take the commonalities found in those rare places and help communities around the world enjoy a higher quality of life. Now there are 42 communities working toward the goal of becoming and Blue Zone, and Sally Taylor of Highlands is spearheading an effort to add Jackson and Macon County communities to that list.

“There are areas in the world — maybe seven or nine of them in the U.S. — where people live long and happy lives with a high quality of life,” Taylor told the Franklin Town Council during its Jan. 7 meeting.

Communities in Florida, Texas, Hawaii, Oklahoma, California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Oregon are all now designated as Blue Zones.

The project is something many municipal leaders were made aware of last year during a League of Municipalities conference in which Tony Buettner spoke.

“I saw the presentation and was pretty fired up by it,” said Franklin Councilmember Brandon McMahan. “I found it very inspirational and I left excited about every aspect of it. It’s a daunting thing but we already have someone to spearhead it.”

Based on Blue Zones research, there are nine commonalities among those five places in the world where people live the longest: moving naturally, having a sense of purpose, plant-based diet, a focus on family, not eating until you’re completely full, drinking alcohol moderately and regularly, finding a way to manage stress, taking part in some kind of faith-based practice and being part of the right community or tribe.

“In these communities people move naturally — they’re not working out in the gym — they have a sense of purpose, they some-

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how control their stress levels, they don’t eat much meat, they stop eating when they’re 80 percent full,” Taylor said.

While drinking alcohol moderately is one of the commonalities, Taylor pointed out there is a Seventh-day Adventist Blue Zone community in California that doesn’t drink at all and that designated communities do not have to abide by all nine of the Blue Zones secrets.

Taylor said the effort starts with getting Blue Zones Project folks to come to the area and hold a formal presentation for stakeholders to learn about the process. Then the company will send out representatives to perform a site visit and evaluate the communities wanting to get designated. After a site visit, Blue Zones will prepare a specific plan for Macon and Jackson communities to work toward becoming a designated Blue Zone.

The plan could include recommendations for more sidewalks or trails, better food options in the schools or other projects that will improve quality of life.

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park announced that recently closed areas of the park were once again accessible to visitors beginning Sunday, Jan. 13. Some basic visitor services, including campgrounds and restrooms, reopened using revenue generated by recreation fees.

Areas that have been recently closed but will be accessible to park visitors in the near future include Cades Cove Campground and Picnic Area, including restrooms; restrooms at the Smokemont Campground; restrooms at the Deep Creek Picnic Area; Little River Road between Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area and the Townsend Wye and Foothills Parkway East.

National Park Service officials have determined that by using Federal Land and Recreation Enhancement Act funds to immediately bring back park maintenance crews to maintain roads and some basic services, the park will be able to restore accessibility to the park for visitors while ensuring health and safety.

Maintenance crews will reopen and maintain the restrooms listed above in addition to continuing to clean the restrooms that were temporarily reopened last week at Newfound Gap and the Cades Cove Visitor

Jackson Neighbors In Need will hold its annual fundraising dinner, Charlie’s Challenge, at 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, in the Mission and Fellowship hall of the First Baptist Church in Sylva.

This year is special as it is the 10th anniversary of Jackson Neighbors In Need.

Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort will provide dinner and Summer Brooke and The Mountain Faith Band will perform.

Ten years ago a group of volunteers met at the Family Resource Center in Webster to discuss how to help keep neighbors warm and safe during the cold winter months after a grandmother and her two grandchildren died in a house fire because they had no electricity. Jackson Neighbors In Need was formed that day under the leadership of Charlie McConnell and Patsy Davis, director of Mountain Projects, to help those in need with heating assistance, weatherization and minor financial emergencies. Since that first meeting the group has raised over $300,000 and helped over 600 individuals and families.

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visitors on a prioritized basis. Road crews will plow roads, remove downed trees, and clear small landslides along heavily used roadways including the Spur, Newfound Gap Road, Little River Road, and the Cades Cove Loop Road. These operational efforts will be performed with reduced staffing using revenues from recreation fees. Road “We greatly appreciate the generous closures due to contributions of park partners who have weather events may result in sigprovided funding.” nificantly longer closures than nor— Cassius Cash, Park Superintendent mal, and some remote, lesser used roads may remain closed until a return continue through a preexisting contract. of full staffing.

“We greatly appreciate the generous conThe park website will remain accessible, tributions of park partners who have providbut it will not be updated with any current ed funding to staff visitor centers over the information. Park social media accounts will holidays and keep bathrooms at Newfound Gap and Cable Mill open during the lapse in continue to be suspended during the shutdown period. Information and images from appropriations,” said Park Superintendent webcams, including the Newfound Gap webCassius Cash. “Their efforts have contributed significantly to our ability to restore cam, will remain accessible at www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/photosmultimeaccess and basic services to Great Smoky dia/webcams.htm.

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For updates on the shutdown, visit Roads and trails that are seasonally open www.doi.gov/shutdown. will be maintained and remain accessible to Center by the Friends of the Smokies. Most park facilities will remain closed including Sugarlands and Oconaluftee Visitor Centers.

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Of the 21 members on the original search committee, 20 agreed to serve for the second round — everybody with the exception of a student member who had graduated. Those members are using their experiences from last year to improve the search process where possible, spending an hour before going into closed session Jan. 14 discussing tweaks to questions and formats for the upcoming interviews.

“We got a lot of feedback from the committee that the questions at the last interview process were too long and complicated and convoluted and by the time you got the question out people weren’t really sure how to answer it,” said Kaemmerling. “Bryant (Kinney) and I took a stab at reducing some of these.”

In the first round, the committee had devised enough questions for each of its 21

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While WCU is using the same search process as it did the last time around, that doesn’t mean there won’t be some tweaks.

One of those tweaks is an invitation for three Board of Governors members to attend dinner with the handful of candidates selected for on-campus interviews, to be held in February.

“We are asking three of our regional Board of Governors members to be with the Board of Trustees for one purpose only, and that is to try to facilitate the discussion once it gets to Chapel Hill,” said Bryant Kinney, vice chair of the Board of Trustees and cochair of the search committee. “We are not asking them for evaluation (of the candidates).”

The three Board of Governors members to receive invitations will be Carolyn Coward, Louis Bissette and Phil Byers, all of whom live in Western North Carolina. Both Coward and Byers are previous members of the WCU Board of Trustees.

“We just felt like that would be a nice thing to do, and we would have more people who had eyes on the candidates when it came before the full board for a vote,” Pat Kaemmerling, who chairs the Board of Trustees and co-chairs the search committee, said Jan. 14.

The invitation could be seen as an effort to ensure that the search doesn’t disintegrate the way it did the last time around, but it could also be interpreted as a nod toward recent revisions to the chancellor search process. Those revisions are not binding on the process at WCU, but the new rules state that the search committee is “encouraged to engage selected members of the Board of Governors who may live within proximity to the institution or otherwise have a particular interest in or knowledge of

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER n a search that is now entering its second year, Western Carolina University’s Chancellor Search Committee is preparing to interview the top candidates applying for the job left vacant by the late Chancellor David O. Belcher.

“You’ve got a great group of candidates,” said search committee member George Little, a former WCU Trustee who currently sits on the UNC Pembroke Board of Trustees, while attending a Jan. 14 search committee meeting via conference call.

“This is about my fourth or fifth search process at a university or business level, so you’ve got a very good candidate list, a very good candidate list.”

The search process is confidential, with no candidates’ names made public save the person who is eventually chosen for the job.

While Little was impressed with the applicants, the 58 people who applied this time around makes for a smaller pool than the 68 people who sought the position during the first round of applications last winter.

Belcher, who passed away in June 2018, left his post as chancellor at the end of 2017, going on medical leave after treatment stopped working on a brain tumor he’d been battling for nearly two years. A 21member search committee formed in December 2017 to seek his replacement, garnering input from the community on what kind of person should get the job, launching a nationwide search and winnowing the field down to three people. The WCU Board of Trustees approved the unranked list, which was sent to UNC System President Margaret Spellings to make a final selection, pending approval from the Board of Governors.

But the Board of Governors never voted on the candidate Spellings selected, saying that the body needed to revisit the chancellor search process completely. The candidate in question eventually withdrew from consideration. This fall, the Board of Governors decided the new search process would in fact apply only to future chancellor searches, not the one currently underway at WCU, and that the chancellor search should resume using the same process employed the first time around — thus, the search committee began accepting applications once more, with a deadline of Jan. 4.

In the midst of all of this, Spellings —

whose relationship with the Board of Governors had been strained for some time — resigned her post less than three years after she took it. Dr. Bill Roper — who was CEO of UNC Health Care, dean of the UNC School of Medicine and vice chancellor for medical affairs at UNC Chapel Hill — became the interim president, but no timeline or process for naming a permanent replacement has yet been announced.

Spellings’ last day on the job was Jan. 15.

All of that means that it’s still a mystery who will be the one sitting in the president’s office — and therefore responsible for selecting the final chancellor candidate — by the time WCU is ready to forward those names in March.

members to ask one. The winnowed-down list includes only 15 questions, with more simplified and focused language than the original list. The revised questions also aim to reduce front-loading — in other words, the search committee wants to hear from the candidates rather than influencing their answers with leading questions.

“I don’t want to tee it up too much. I want to hear from them,” said Kellie Angelo Monteith, a search committee member who works as assistant vice chancellor for student affairs at WCU. The search committee is set to interview the top 10 candidates at the Atlanta airport Jan. 31 through Feb. 2, with finalists invited for on-campus interviews later in February.

The search committee will make every effort to create an identical campus experience for each candidate, with the same selection of trustees, Board of Governors members, students, faculty and staff present each day.

“It’s really unfair to have someone come and see two of five candidates or three of four candidates,” said Kaemmerling. “You really can’t make an evaluation that way.

You need a commitment.”

A final list of three candidates will go to the Board of Trustees for consideration at its March meeting, with the UNC System President — whoever that may be at the time — reviewing the candidates in April and the Board of Governors potentially voting on a final selection in May. The goal is to have a new chancellor in place before the fall 2019 semester begins.

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The revised chancellor search process also states that universities should seek candidates with “alternative backgrounds” such as business, industry, nonprofit and government careers in addition to those coming from academia — during the application period, WCU made it clear that such candidates were welcome.

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Weighing 8 pounds and 13.2 ounces and measuring 22 inches, Essie was born to Erika and Jeffrey at 2:13 a.m.

Monday, Jan. 1.

“We are so excited to meet our new baby girl,” said Erika. “The physicians, nurses and staff at Haywood Regional all helped to make this such a special and memorable experience for us, and we are so grateful for the wonderful care our family received.”

The Women’s Care Center at Haywood Regional is committed to providing high quality, compassionate care close to home for new and expecting parents in the region. The Center offers private jet tubs, one-on-one lactation education, birthing classes, parenting classes, sleeper chairs for a loved one or birth coach, and a personalized gourmet meal after your delivery.

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Anyone interested in participating in DPP can contact Megan Hauser at 828.356.2272.

The Jackson County Department of Public Health offers a year-long Diabetes Prevention Program for Jackson County residents that focuses on preparing simple and healthy meals, finding time to be physically active, and maintaining a healthy weight.

Prediabetes is a condition when people have higher than normal blood glucose or sugar levels, but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.

The next class will begin Thursday, Jan. 17.

The number of participants is limited and registration is required. Register by calling 828.587.8238.

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Diabetes prevention in Haywood The Diabetes Prevention Program is a lifestyle change program dedicated to preventing type 2 diabetes through a series of 24 one hour group classes.

Combined with individual sessions with a trained lifestyle coach, DPP gives participants the information and tools necessary to maintain a healthy weight, prepare simple and healthy meals, and find time to be physically active. DPP classes will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays beginning Jan. 29 at Haywood County Health &

Having a baby is an exciting event and the Haywood Regional Medical Center parent education program aims to educate and prepare expectant parents, family members, and even siblings on how to welcome a new baby into a family.

Preparation for Childbirth is a four week series and will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays on Jan. 10-31, March 7-28, June 6-27, Aug. 8-29, and Oct. 3-24.

Your Amazing Newborn is a one-time class that will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays on Feb. 7, April 4, July 11, Sept. 5, and Nov. 7.

Breastfeeding A-Z is a one-time class being held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays on Feb. 14, April 11, July 18, Sept. 12, and Nov. 14. Expectant mothers should attend this class one to three months before their due date.

Mother’s Connection is an on-going social gathering for mothers and their babies to come and share their joys, frustrations, questions and concerns. It is held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Thursdays excluding holidays.

Pre-registration is required for each class.

Visit www.myhaywoodregional.com/parentclasses or call 828.452.8440.

Learn about Medicaid expansion Down Home North Carolina is partnering with the NC Justice Center to hold a training on what it will take to win Medicaid expansion for all North Carolinians in 2019.

The training will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 17, at St. John’s Episcopal Church at 18 Jackson St., Sylva.

Learn why it’s important to expand Medicaid in North Carolina and how the community can come together to make it happen. Benefits of expansion include 43,000 new jobs and 500,000 more people covered, including about 2,579 people in Haywood County and 2,488 people in Jackson County.

HRMC awarded for cancer screenings Haywood Regional Medical Center has been named a Screening Center of Excellence by the Lung Cancer Alliance for its ongoing commitment to responsible lung cancer screening. Low dose CT screening for lung cancer carried out safely, efficiently and equitably saves tens of thousands of lives a year.

“Haywood Regional is dedicated to providing patients with the highest quality care. Low dose CT screening has shown to be the only proven method to detect lung cancer at an early and treatable stage. We are thrilled to be part of this elite group, setting an example for responsible screening practices across the country,” said Dr. Scott Skibo, pulmonologist with Haywood Regional.

Learn ancient form of healing First degree Usui Reiki training will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 3 and Feb. 10 at The Meditation Center, 894 E. Main St., Sylva.

Reiki is an ancient form of natural healing that was rediscovered in Japan during the 19th century by Dr. Mikao Usui. Participants will learn a brief history of Reiki, the Reiki Principles, and how to use this beautiful Universal Life Force Energy for healing. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of self-healing, integrity in the use of Reiki, the effects of Reiki on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies.

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Reconstructive surgeon joins HRMC Haywood Regional Medical Center welcomes newest provider Dr. Ryan Marshall, double-board certified plastic, cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon.

“We are very excited to have Dr. Marshall on our team,” said Rod Harkleroad, CEO of Haywood Regional Medical Center. “His addition will allow us to expand on many services including breast cancer reconstruction, wound care, skin cancer removal and more. We are looking forward to continuing to build quality services that our community can receive close to home.”

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Blood donors needed The holiday season has passed, but the effects of seasonal activities and holiday travel are proving to have lasting effects on the blood supply. A holiday donation shortfall is now prompting the American Red Cross to issue an emergency call for blood and platelet donors to give now to prevent a prolonged blood shortage.

American Red Cross will be holding a blood drive from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, at Longs Chapel UMC Fellowship Hall.

Cervical cancer prevention in Jackson The National Cervical Cancer Coalition and the Jackson County Department of Public Health urge women to talk with their healthcare provider about cervical health.

Two prevention tools that women can take advantage of include Pap tests and cervical cancer vaccines. The Jackson County Department of Public Health offers Pap tests to women through the Family Planning Program per AGOG guidelines.

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The homeless issue is not going away

Where are the pesos, Donald?

To the Editor: “I’m gonna build a big, beautiful wall and Mexico is gonna pay for it, I promise you.”

Those are the lying words of Donald Trump at an Ohio campaign rally in 2016. In fact, he promised Mexico would pay for the wall on numerous occasions during his campaign rallies. His zealots loved to finish his rally line.

“Who is gonna pay for it?” Trump would ask.

“Mexico,” the crowd screamed.

Oh well, times have changed and economists say the current shutdown will cost the American economy $1 billion a week as it rolls on.

And, hey, how about our so-called Congressman Mark “Gerrymander” Meadows. Check Google and look up “architect of the shutdown” in 2013. That “architect” would be Meadows.

Yep, Meadows, who never met a shutdown he didn’t like, worked with Sen. Ted Cruz, RTexas, to gin up a failed shutdown in 2013 over Obamacare funding.

Meadows was also the shutdown whisperer to Trump leading up to the current shutdown.

I guess this current shutdown needs to continue for weeks, months and beyond until

1,000 square feet to more than 7,000 square feet. It will provide, in addition to meals, classes and job-hunting help for those who need it.

Toward the end of November 2018, our reporter Cory Vaillancourt was talking to the director of the Pathways Center. Here’s what she told him: “So far in 2018 we’ve provided over 14,000 nights of shelter, compared to 7,622 in 2017. Our shelters now, from the last time when you were here, we usually would have an open bed, if not five or six. For the last three or four months, all of our beds have been filled every single night.”

Her referral to the “last time when Editor you were here” was a reference to November 2017, when Cory took on the role of a homeless person to see how he would be treated at Haywood County’s shelter and soup kitchens. He found that, if he followed the rules, he was treated with dignity and his basic needs were met.

Which brings me back around to the original question: Is Haywood now becoming a small town known throughout the region as a place where the homeless and the needy can take

Scott McLeod

A genuine dilemma, or merely some people grousing? You tell me.

We’ve been hearing complaints for months now that the homeless situation in and around Frog Level and the Pathways Center in Hazelwood is causing problems for locals and businesses. And that it is spreading to other parts of town.

The complaints are of ever-increasing trash, discarded needles, human waste, perhaps a more violent or at least a more vocal and more visible contingent of homeless people.

The Smoky Mountain News and The Mountaineer have reported many stories on the homeless over the past couple of years. Why? Those who live in Haywood County know that the generosity of Haywood’s churches and citizens have provided a network for the needy that is astounding for a small community.

The Pathways shelter can accommodate 60 people, and a new shelter for women and children — with fundraising efforts spearheaded by The Mountaineer — that will provide a warm bed for an additional 36 needy souls is under construction.

The Open Door in Frog Level and the Community Kitchen in Canton serve thousands of free meals a year to those in need. The Community Kitchen is expanding from just over

refuge? And is that generosity and Christ-like benevolence leading to other problems?

The trash and issues I originally cited seem minor compared to the potential life-changing help that is being offered.

Remember, Pathways won’t let those who are drunk or who are on drugs have a bed. You’ve got to be clean or they won’t let you in.

And once in, they steer you toward services that, again, are potentially life changing, including AA and NA, job skills, and more.

The truth, I suspect, is that it’s a delicate balance. I’m thankful we have a police chief like Bill Hollingsed, Sheriff Greg Christopher and the many fantastic law enforcement officers who work hard to walk that fine line, to police but to also steer those in need to where they can find services. I suspect they are the ones who take the brunt of complaints from citizens and then have to deal with the perpetrators. Just like in any group, there are fine people simply living their life and there are bad apples.

Some will disagree, but I’d rather live in a community like this, one where these services are available, one where people have made a commitment to help those in need and a commitment to deal as best it can with the consequences.

(Scott McLeod can be reached at info@smokymountainnews.com)

LETTERS the politicians learn it’s a ridiculous ploy to use the American people as pawns in a glorified Washington “game of chicken.”

I say term limits for all of them, especially clowns like Meadows.

As an aside, there should be a law cutting off the pay for politicians from President to Congress during a shutdown. They shouldn’t get back pay — even after the shutdown is over — because they failed at their jobs.

James Budd Bryson City

Women empowerment is key to future To the Editor: No living human will witness a return to a preindustrial global climate. Humanity’s best efforts in transitioning away from fossil fuels will be a lengthy process and we have only begun. Science tells us that natural means of carbon capture will take many centuries for a return to normal and we’re currently adding CO2 to the atmosphere at a growing pace. Are we doomed? Well, seemingly, yes.

While we are already witnessing atmospheric heat driven calamities, it’s just the beginning. There is much human suffering to come, but it is non-human life that will bear

the brunt of the damage in the current human caused mass extinction. All this is a legacy of agriculture and the industrial revolution, modern medicine, and the accompanying rapid human population growth (from one billion to seven billion in the past two centuries). So, it is human progress that led us into this mess, and only human progress will

bring a correction.

We must make human population management a key part of the solution. To that end, universal contraception availability and universal education and empowerment of women are key. Humanity will be the better for it.

Herman Lankford Weaverville

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assumption the average federal worker can go on with life minus their paycheck.

Many of these individuals, who need to feed their families and pay bills, have found other jobs to make sure their children don’t starve and their power stays on.

Furthermore, the shutdown happening right after the holidays was an even bigger blow because personal bank accounts were already slim from Christmas shopping.

As with anything in life, nothing seems like a big deal until it affects us directly. I can’t imagine how these people are feeling being told not to come to work or to come to work but not get paid. Both directives seem absurd and against everything America stands for.

And on a more global scale, federal programs are being affected which in turn, affect every American. Along with TSA, other impacted programs include the FDA, EPA, Homeland Security, the Indian Health Service, The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and more. It makes me very uncomfortable that entities responsible for our health, wellness and safety are frozen or functioning on bare bones manpower.

I haven’t been personally affected financially by the government shutdown, but I was indirectly affected when I worried about my two little boys flying in and out of airports that could potentially be less safe because of decreased TSA enforcement. As the shutdown lingers, the airport situation is getting worse. I read that larger airports are closing some TSA checkpoints and wait times can be up to 80 minutes.

This past Sunday I was in attendance at Long’s Chapel as Pastor Chris Westmoreland started a new series called “3 (Not So) Simple Rules.” The three rules are: Do no harm, do good, and stay in love with God. The first week of the series focused on not doing harm. This government shutdown is extremely harmful. It’s equally affecting all races, genders and socio-economic echelons. When the federal government stalls, every American is held hostage, whether you feel it at this moment or not.

How can we make American great again if federal employees aren’t even allowed to work? What terrible patriotic irony that is. I can only hope that a callused presidential heart softens before things get worse. My thoughts are with those who are out of work or furloughed. I’m prayerful that programs will soon reinitiate and federal workers can once again return to jobs they love and are proud to have.

(Susanna Barbee is a digital and print marketing specialist and a writer and editor with The Smoky Mountain News and Smoky Mountain Living magazine. susanna.b@smokymountainnews.com)

January 16-22, 2019

ast week my boys flew on an airplane for the first time without me. I was a nervous wreck to say the least. They went on a trip to Universal Studios with their dad and his girlfriend, so aside from already being sad about not being there to make memories with them, my stress was heightened by the fact they were in the air and I was on the ground.

The hardest part about divorce is missing out on chunks of your children’s lives. As their mom, it feels disorienting to not be with my children all the time or for them to experience new Columnist adventures of which I’m not a part.

On the day of their flight, I pulled up a flight tracker website. The tiny black airplane moved very slowly down the screen, which didn’t help my nerves at all. It seemed like the plane would never achieve that long line from Asheville to Orlando.

When I finally got the alert they’d landed, I let out a huge breath, not realizing I’d been holding it all morning.

A week or so before they boarded the plane, a notification from CNN popped up on my phone about the TSA walkouts.

Hundreds of TSA workers are not going to work or are calling in sick because of the government shutdown. The article said this could mean airports would be less secure and that TSA lines would be longer than normal. I immediately got a sick feeling in my stomach. I was already nervous about the boys flying and now I had to worry about the airports being unsafe.

Then, as often happens with a news article, I went down a rabbit hole of shutdownrelated links, reading individual stories about regular American people being affected by Trump’s shutdown. My heart broke for them.

When it was clear the shutdown would last more than a couple days, these people went into panic mode. Some were furloughed and others were asked to work without pay. Even though the government assures these workers will be paid once the shutdown ends, how does the government expect them to pay their bills in the meantime?

Most people, myself included, live primarily paycheck-to-paycheck. There are certain times when my savings account gets bumped up or I get an injection like a tax return but for the most part, my monthly budget is tight. There is no way I could go weeks without getting paid. I’ve learned this is a hard concept for wealthy people to comprehend. Hence, Trump’s incorrect

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JOEY’S PANCAKE HOUSE 4309 Soco Rd Maggie Valley.

828.926.0212. Open seven days a week! 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. Joey’s is a family-friendly restaurant that has been serving breakfast to locals and visitors of Western North Carolina for decades. Featuring a large variety of tempting pancakes, golden waffles, country style cured ham and seasonal specials spiked with flavor, Joey’s is sure to please all appetites. Join us for what has become a tradition in these parts, breakfast at Joey’s.

LOS AMIGOS 366 Russ Ave. in the Bi-Lo Plaza.

828.456.7870. Open from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for lunch and 5 to 10 p.m. for dinner Monday through Friday and 11:30 a.m. to

MAD BATTER FOOD & FILM 617 W. Main Street Downtown Sylva.

828.586.3555. Open Monday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with Sunday Brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Handtossed pizza, house-ground burgers, steak sandwiches & fresh salmon all from scratch.

Casual family friendly atmosphere. Craft beer and interesting wine. Free movies Thursday through Saturday. Visit madbatterfoodfilm.com for this week’s shows & events.

MAGGIE VALLEY CLUB 1819 Country Club Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

Open seasonally for lunch and dinner. Fine and casual fireside dining in welcoming atmosphere. Full bar. Reservations accepted.

MAGGIE VALLEY RESTAURANT 2804 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.926.0425. 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Daily specials including soups, sandwiches and southern dishes along with featured dishes such as fresh fried chicken, rainbow trout, country ham, pork chops and more. Breakfast all day including omelets, pancakes, biscuits & gravy. facebook.com/carversmvr; instagram @carvers_mvr.

MOUNTAIN PERKS ESPRESSO BAR & CAFÉ 9 Depot St., Bryson City. 828.488.9561.

Open Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. With music at the Depot. Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Life is too short for bad coffee. We feature wonderful breakfast and lunch selections. Bagels, wraps, soups, sandwiches, salads and quiche with a variety of specialty coffees, teas and smoothies. Various desserts.

PIGEON RIVER GRILLE 101 Park St., Canton.

828.492.1422. Open Tuesday through Thursday 3 to 8 p.m.; Friday-Saturday noon to 9 p.m.; Sunday noon to 6 p.m. Southerninspired restaurant serving simply prepared, fresh food sourced from top purveyors.

Located riverside at Bearwaters Brewing, enjoy daily specials, sandwiches, wings, fish and chips, flatbreads, soups, salads, and more. Be sure to save room for a slice of the delicious house made cake. Relaxing inside/outside dining and spacious gathering areas for large groups.

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SAGEBRUSH STEAKHOUSE 1941 Champion Drive, Canton 828.646.3750 895 Russ Ave., Waynesville 828.452.5822. Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Carry out available.

Sagebrush features hand carved steaks, chicken and award winning BBQ ribs. We have fresh salads, seasonal vegetables and scrumptious deserts. Extensive selection of local craft beers and a full bar. Catering special events is one of our specialties.

SPEEDY’S PIZZA 285 Main Street, Sylva. 828.586.3800.

Open seven days a week. Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 3 p.m.-11 p.m., Sunday 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Family-owned for 30 years. Serving hand-tossed pizza made to order, pasta, subs, gourmet salads, calzones and seafood.

TAP ROOM BAR & GRILL 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

828.456.3551. Open seven days a week serving lunch and dinner. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Tucked away inside Waynesville Inn, the Tap Room Bar & Grill has an approachable menu designed around locally sourced, sustainable, farm-to-table ingredients.

WAYNESVILLE PIZZA COMPANY 32 Felmet Street, Waynesville.

828.246.0927. Open Monday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday noon to 9 p.m.; closed Tuesdays. Opened in May 2016, The Waynesville Pizza Company has earned a reputation for having the best hand-tossed pizza in the area. Featuring a custom bar with more than 20 beers and a rustic, family friendly dining room. Menu includes salads, burgers, wraps, hot and cold sandwiches, gourmet pizza, homemade desserts, and a loaded salad bar.

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KANINI’S 1196 N. Main St., Waynesville.

828.452.5187. Lunch Monday-Saturday from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., eat in or carry out. Closed Sunday. A made-from-scratch kitchen using fresh ingredients and supporting the local food and local farm-to-table program. Offering a variety of meals to go from frozen meals to be stored and cooked later to “Dinners to Go” that are made fresh and ready to enjoyed that day. We also specialize in catering any event from from corporate lunches to weddings. Menus created to fit your special event. kaninis.com

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Combining the culinary arts The first course dish from Mad Anthony’s recent farm-to-table food and craft beer pairing dinner. Garret K. Woodward photo

Mad Anthony’s pairs craft beer, fine dining

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER ust off Main Street in Waynesville, tucked down the hill below Bogart’s, and across the street from American Legion Post 47, sits Mad Anthony’s Taproom & Restaurant.

Originally opened on Branner Avenue some three years ago, the business relocated to Legion Drive in July 2017. With 50 continuously rotating taps, it’s the largest selection of draft craft beer west of Asheville (aka: “Beer City USA”). But, in recent months, the taproom has transitioned into one of the most talked about gourmet farm-to-table restaurants in the area.

“With owning a restaurant, the plan changes constantly,” said David Young, coowner of Mad Anthony’s. “When we first moved in here, we brought a lot of our food truck with us, and we’ve grown beyond that.

We had good food and great beer, and I don’t see any reason why we shouldn’t have great food and great beer.”

Cue Head Chef Matt Kuver. With a resume that resembles a “who’s who” of fine dining in Western North Carolina (The Swag, Frog’s Leap Public House, Bourbon Barrel Beef & Ale), Kuver grew up in the culinary industry.

Aside from Mad Anthony’s, Kuver has also

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The “Founder’s Brewing Beer Dinner” was held this past Monday at Mad Anthony’s Taproom & Restaurant in Waynesville. Below is the menu from the event, an evening of culinary delights that the business aims to host on a semi-regular basis: • First Course: Warm German potato salad with confit boneless chicken thigh, preserved lemon and buttermilk blue cheese.

Paired with Founders Solid Gold Lager.

• Second Course: Seared, bone-in lamb chop with bitter roquette and burned citrus salad, parmesan crisp and raspberry black pepper jus. Paired with Founders Raspberry Rubaeus.

• Third Course: Seared pork belly over smoked butter grits, thyme-sorghum molasses dressed popped sorghum. Paired with Founders Backwoods Bastard.

• Fourth Course: Canadian Breakfast Stout ice cream sandwich, espresso tulie and smoked maple sugar. Paired with Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout.

For more information, visit www.madanthonys.bar.

been involved with The Ten Acre Garden in Canton. For several years, he has utilized the garden’s fresh, seasonal produce, incorporating it into farm-to-table dishes that ideally represent his creative approach to food and drink.

“This day and age anything can be seasonal. It’s not like it was 20 years ago,” Kuver said.

“We have technology Matt Kuver now that can provide us with fresh produce yearround. It’s all about proper sourcing and sustainability.”

Young brought Kuver in as a way to take the restaurant to a whole new level — of taste, flavor and, most importantly, quality.

“Matt brought in David Young craftsmanship and leadership. What’s nice, from my standpoint, is that I’m no longer running the kitchen, I’m running the business. He has the ability to take what we’re working with and utilize it to its fullest potential,” Young said. “We used to bring in cases of frozen wings and chicken, which works, but you can’t make great food out of it. Now we bring in whole chickens and Matt breaks them down into stocks, confit,

“Your reputation is attached to every dish you put out. It’s not just food, it is most certainly the culture.”

— Matt Kuver, head chef, Mad Anthony’s

hand cut beasts. That very small change altered the entire profile of our food.”

Amid the dozens of craft beer taps at Mad Anthony’s, Kuver now has a wide-array of endless possibilities when designing his daily menus.

“I’m doing as much with beer as I ever had with any cooking liquor, water, spirits, vinegars or sugars,” Kuver said. “I’m making ice cream, braise for meats, vinaigrettes. It’s a whole new palette for me. We make some excellent stuff happen — it’s all about technique.”

That kind of creative culinary freedom within the context of a taproom was something Young has had in mind for a while, but only now proven in method.

“I got into this because I love craft beer — the complexity and varieties of flavors,” Young said. “The notes that craft beer brings within just scream for better food than whatever you can dump in a fryer at 10 p.m. And if all you’re doing is pairing that [craft beer] with

an off-the-shelf cheeseburger, you’re missing 50 percent of why you should be drinking craft beer — it’s now where fine wine was 30 years ago.”

Young sees other local establishments only reaching half of the potential of said businesses.

“I don’t think a lot of places are taking full advantage of it. I understand there’s always a cost component. But, it’s about bringing those things together, even on a small scale,” Young said. “There are bars around here that serve incredibly good beers and they have OK food or there are places that serve great food and just have Bud Light and Michelob. Bring those two things together and get all those flavors involved with each other — you’ll change people’s worlds.”

For Kuver, he looks at the partnership with Mad Anthony’s as mutually beneficial, something where both parties can grow — creatively and professionally.

“Your reputation is attached to every dish you put out. It’s not just food, it is most certainly the culture,” he said. “And as far as the culinary arts are concerned, if I can bring my best plate to the table and people love it, that makes me feel good at the end of the day.”

“We like being a little on the outside. With the way we’re doing things, people are coming to us, Young added. “We’re being sought out, and that’s the goal. I want people to come here through word of mouth. And once we get them through the door, they’re coming back.”

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD

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The “Chili Cook-Off Winter Arts Smokies Style” She’s known as “Wild will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. Kathy.”

19, at participating merchants and restaurants At least, that’s what she was in Waynesville. nicknamed while joyously roaming Bourbon Street in Singer-songwriter Brie Capone will perform at 7 New Orleans in November p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Jackson County 2004. “Wild Kathy,” also Public Library in Sylva. known as Kathy, or “mom” to The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will kick off me. And on Jan. 21, she’ll turn its annual “Winter Studio Season” with the 70 years young back in my Sarah Ruhl comedy “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” North Country hometown of at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18-19 and at 2 p.m. Jan. 20 Plattsburgh, New York. in Waynesville.

Born in 1949, in Rouses Point, New York (where I was Former CBS Programming Executive Jim raised until college), my mother McKairnes will be in conversation with his grew up in a truly “Leave It to long-time friend Jeff Ginn at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Beaver” household. The second Jan. 18, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. of five children, she was part of a proud Irish Catholic family.

The “Soup & Cornbread” fundraiser for the My grandfather was a port Haywood County Schools Foundation will be director for U.S. Customs on the held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, Canadian Border. My grandat First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. mother was stay-at-home mom of the post-World War II Baby While in college, my mother, like most Boomer generation, only to become the first young adults at that time, was coming of age female real estate broker in Clinton County during the counterculture movement of the (something she excelled at for many years). mid/late 1960s. She was a somewhat sheltered Kathy attended St. Mary’s Academy through high school graduation. A 19th centu- kid from a small town, a “Pleasantville” of sorts, and now was standing in the middle of a ry Catholic school, she was a cheerleader and cultural revolution in our country. She became played French horn in the school band. very politically active, a voice of change, a Following graduation in 1966, she ventured downstate to Adirondack Community College, voice of reason in uncertain times — someonly to stay there for a short time before head- thing that still holds true in her character and ing back north to major in education at SUNY actions to this day.

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was seven years older, and back in college at SUNY Plattsburgh after a stint in the Army and holding various jobs (repo man, bank teller, construction worker). At a bar in Plattsburgh one night, a mutual friend introduced my parents to each other. By 1972, they were married, with my mother a special education teacher at a local elementary school, my father a prison guard at a maximum-security facility in the desolate Adirondack Mountains.

They bought a house on the street I grew up on, and also ended up acquiring a horse (“Branches”) when the animal was rescued in an illegal border smuggling operation.

They initially didn’t have kids, instead spending their time running around, traveling all over, having adventures and playing in the great outdoors. But, by the mid-1980s, my mom could ignore her feelings anymore — she wanted a family.

On Feb. 5, 1985, I showed up. And on Sept. 20, 1986, so did my little sister. A family of four, we rolled around Upstate New York and New England seemingly every weekend, always doing something together whether it be camping, hiking or going to some cultural event. And the one at the center of this organized chaos that is a young family was my mother, a saint in every sense of the word.

Always the supportive parent, Kathy attended every cross-country race or basketball game of mine, every cheerleading competition or gymnastics class my sister partook in. I can still vividly hear her cheering me on from across the field while I trudged through a muddy course in some high school conference championship cross-country race on some freezing cold late fall day in the Champlain Valley.

But, like for many of us out there, my mom (like any genuinely good mother) is a selfless woman whose strengths and abilities know no bounds. She never ceases to amaze me with her gourmet cooking skills, love for animals and nature, her knack for meeting a complete stranger one minute only to become lifelong friends after just a glass of wine — all of which resides in my physical and emotional DNA. And as I got older, my mother and I would take trips together. Seeing as I was never home and constantly on the road in pursuit of a writing career, she and I would set aside some time here and there to wander: New Orleans, Hawaii, etc. When I moved to the Grand Tetons of Idaho/Wyoming for my first journalism gig in 2008, she came to visit as we bounced around Jackson Hole and all of its rollicking good times.

These days, my mom has now entered what is — quite possibly — her most beloved role in recent memory: grandma.

She adores my 4-year-old niece, Lucy, in all her wild, wondrous ways. They spend a lot of time together, going to the library or to the beach, maybe even some ice cream to end the afternoon.

At 70, Kathy Woodward is as vivacious as ever, her devil-may-care attitude never dissolving into the next chapter of her bountiful existence. Life is what you make it, and my mother truly has made the most of her time on this planet.

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Jackson library welcomes Capone Singer-songwriter Brie Capone will perform at 7 p.m. Brie Capone.

Thursday, Jan. 24, in the Community Room at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Capone is a singer-songwriter and performer from Asheville. With belting female lead vocals and heartfelt, introspective lyricism and unforgettable melodies, Capone is truly a rising star.

She made the move to New York City and was part of the pop/rock duo The Humble Grapes from 2013 to 2015, performing in legendary venues such as The Bitter End, Bowery Electric and Rockwood Music Hall.

After an amicable split with her songwriting partner, Brie headed back home to Asheville in 2016. There she wrote and recorded her solo EP “Orbit” at Echo Mountain Studios in downtown Asheville.

As a solo acoustic artist or with her band, Capone has performed at legendary venues including The Kennedy Center The Lincoln Center, Asheville Music Hall, The Grey Eagle, with artists such as Kevin Devine and John Kadlecik (Dark Star Orchestra, Phil Lesh), LEAF Festival, Asheville Pride, and was also

• Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host the “Lounge Series” at its Calaboose location with Chris West (singer-songwriter) Jan. 18, Alma Russ (Americana/folk) Jan. 19, Bill Vespasian (singer-songwriter) Jan. 25 and Tom Edwards (singer-songwriter) Jan. 26. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

• Balsam Falls Brewing (Sylva) will host John Emil (singer-songwriter) 8 p.m. Jan. 25. All shows are free and open to the public. www.balsamfallsbrewing.com.

• Blue Ridge Beer Hub (Waynesville) will host an acoustic jam with Main St. NoTones from 6 to 9 p.m. Jan. 17 and 24. Bona Fide (acoustic) will perform from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 19. Free and open to the public. www.blueridgebeerhub.com.

• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host a bluegrass open mic every Wednesday, an all-genres open mic every Thursday and Karaoke Night 6 p.m. Jan. 26. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.boojumbrewing.com.

• City Lights Cafe (Sylva) will host Planet Sized 22 Planet Band Jan. 19, Zack DuPont (singer-

Oak Ridge Boys return to Franklin Country legends The Oak Ridge Boys will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

The group is one of the most distinctive and recognizable sounds in the music industry. The four-part harmonies and upbeat songs of The Oak Ridge Boys have spawned dozens of country hits and a number one pop smash, earned them Grammy, Dove, CMA, and ACM awards and garnered a host of other industry and fan accolades.

The string of hits includes the the number one hit “Elvira,” as well as “Bobbie Sue,” “Dream On,” “Thank God For Kids,” “American Made,” “I Guess It Never Hurts To Hurt Sometimes,” “Fancy Free,” “Gonna Take A Lot Of River,” and many others.

Tickets start at $32 per person. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

the winner of 2017’s “New Song SingerSongwriter Competition.”

This program is free and open to the public. The event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library.

For more information, call the library at 828.586.2016. The Jackson County Public Library is a member of Fontana Regional Library (www.fontanalib.org).

songwriter) Jan. 26 and Nikki Forbes Feb. 2.

All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.citylightscafe.com or 828.587.2233.

• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will host live music on Fridays and Saturdays. All shows are free and begin at 7:15 p.m.

828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• Harmon’s Den Bistro at HART (Waynesville) will host karaoke and an open mic at 8 p.m. on Saturdays. All are welcome. www.harttheatre.org.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Jan. 16 and 23, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Jan. 17 and 24. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Innovation Station (Dillsboro) will host Prophets of Time Jan. 19 and Scott Low Jan. 26. All events are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Isis Music Hall (West Asheville) will host Nick Gonnering & Nicholas Raymond (folk/rock) 7 p.m. Jan. 16, Caitlin Canty w/Oshima Brothers (Americana) 8:30 p.m.

Jan. 16, Joe Crookston (Americana/folk) 7 p.m. Jan. 17, Joe Newberry (Americana/folk)

Rock, blues at Water’n Hole Popular rock/blues act The Dirty Soul Revival will hit the stage at 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill in Waynesville.

“Music is to me the single greatest

7 p.m. Jan. 18, Jack Victor & Ellen Siberian Tiger (folk/rock) 9 p.m. Jan. 18, Sarah Siskind & Beth Wood (Americana/folk) 5:30 p.m. Jan. 20, Winter Classic (reggae/rock) 9 p.m. Jan. 20, Darren Nicholson Band (bluegrass/classic country) 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22 and Morgan Wade & Ashley Heath (Americana/alt-country) 7 p.m. Jan. 23. For more information about the performances and/or to purchase tickets, click on www.isisasheville.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday, Alex Culbreth (singersongwriter) Jan. 19, Nick Prestia (singer-songwriter) Jan. 25 and the “Battle of the Beans” chili cook-off with Sol Rhythms 6 p.m. Jan. 26. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

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• Mad Anthony’s Taproom & Restaurant (Waynesville) will host Life Like Water Jan. 18 and Doyle & Merrell (variety) Jan. 26. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host the “Stone Soup” open mic night every Tuesday and Somebody’s Child (Americana)

thing man has ever done. To be a part of that in any way is a great thing to us,” Abe Anderson, singer/guitarist for The Dirty Soul Revival, told The Smoky Mountain News. “You can be the most skilled musician, or the most talented singer, but without putting yourself out for the world to see, it really doesn’t amount to much.

What I respond to in music — and I think most people do — is not skill or talent. It’s when you genuinely feel that they are letting you in on something personal. Letting you be a part of an experience that they had. Whether it is sad, or triumphant or shameful. It’s when somebody really bares their soul to the world that really powerful music is made.”

Admission is $5. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/thedirtysoulrevival.

DuPont rolls through WNC Acclaimed Vermont singer-songwriter Zack DuPont (of The DuPont Brothers) will perform a series of dates around our region.

DuPont will hit the stage at 9 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 25, at Isis Music Hall in West Asheville ($10 admission); 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 26, at City Lights Cafe in Sylva (free); and 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, at the Innovation Station in Dillsboro (free).

DuPont’s latest solo album, “Bootlegs Vol. 1,” is now available for purchase and streaming at zackdupont.bandcamp.com.

Jan. 19. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

• Pub 319 (Waynesville) will host an open mic night from 8 to 11 p.m. every Wednesday.

Free and open to the public. www.pub319socialhouse.com.

• Salty Dog’s (Maggie Valley) will have Karaoke with Jason Wyatt at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays, Mile High (classic rock) 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays, and a Trivia w/Kelsey Jo 8 p.m. Thursdays.

• Satulah Mountain Brewing (Highlands) will host “Hoppy Hour” and an open mic at 6 p.m. on Thursdays and live music on Friday evenings. 828.482.9794 or www.satulahmountainbrewing.com.

• The Strand at 38 Main (Waynesville) will host an “Open Mic” night from 7 to 9 p.m. on Saturdays. 828.283.0079 or www.38main.com.

• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host an “Open Mic Night” on Mondays, karaoke on Thursdays, Dirty Soul Revival (blues/rock) Jan. 18, Chelsea Lovitt & The Boys Jan. 25 and Whiskey River Band Jan. 26. All events at 10 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 828.456.4750.

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WCU’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration T ying in with Western Carolina University’s 2018-19 campus learning theme “Defining America,” the keynote speaker for this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on campus will speak on the topic “Re-Defining Us in All of Our Richness.”

Aminata Cairo, a lecturer of inclusive education at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands, was born and raised in The Netherlands to Surinamese parents. As an international woman of color, Cairo has experienced firsthand the challenges of diversion and inclusion.

Through her applied anthropological work with students and community organizations, Cairo has continually strived to promote inclusion at both the academic and community levels. In 2013, she received the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. And in 2016, she received the Honorary Order of the Palm, a state decoration by the Government of Suriname, for her contribution to culture.

Cairo will speak from 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 23, at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. There will be a meet-and-greet with her after the speech.

The event is free and open to the public.

Other MLK celebration events include: • Sunday, Jan. 20 — The Queens of WCU and Alpha Phi Alpha invite others to join them in participating in the Women’s March on Asheville. The mission of the Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change.

The march will begin at 11 a.m. at South Pack Square in downtown Asheville and conclude at MLK Park.

• Monday, Jan. 21 — The annual MLK Jr. Unity March will take place on the WCU campus from noon until 2 p.m. The march, which unifies students, faculty, staff and community leaders, will begin at the A.K. Hinds University Center.

Jan. 21 also will include the first of two MKL Days of Service from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Available projects through the Center for Service Learning will be held at a variety of service sites, such as Catman2 and the Cullowhee Community Garden. For more information, contact Jennifer Cooper at jacooper.wcu.edu.

• Tuesday, Jan. 22 — WCU students, faculty and staff are invited to join in to help make hygiene bags for homeless people in the surrounding area from noon until 5 p.m.

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• High Mountain Squares will be sponsoring “Modern Western Square Dance” classes beginning on Monday, Jan. 21, at the Environmental Resource Center in Franklin. First two classes are free. For more information, call Bob Walker at 828.332.0001.

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in the UC Multipurpose Room. Also, 24 backpacks will be made for kids in an after-school program housed at the Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center.

Dwayne Tutt, WCU associate director for institutional research, will give a lecture about how Martin Luther King Jr. used religion and economics to build the case for the need for unions. Tutt’s background is in both economics and religious studies. The lecture will be in Room 244 of WCU’s Stillwell Building from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

In the spirit of King’s vision, student organizations from across campus will come together for a Unity Program from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Intercultural Affairs lounge located in the UC. Students will make care packages, cre-

ate dream boards and play the game Kahoot!

• Thursday, Jan. 24 — Cairo will provide faculty, staff and students with inclusivity training that will equip them with hands-on tools to address some of the human interactions that might be difficult at times. The faculty and staff session will be from 9 to 10 a.m. followed by the student session from 1 to 2 p.m. in the UC’s Raleigh Room.

While poverty is prevalent throughout Western North Carolina, there are many who may not truly understand it. A poverty simulation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. in the UC Grandroom that bridges the gap from misconception to understanding. The simulation in an interactive, immersion experience that sensitizes participants to the realities of poverty.

Registration is required for both Jan. 24 events.

• Friday, Jan. 25 — Phamily Matter, a program about family dynamics and how family life can hurt or help a person and how it has shaped individuals in some way, will take place at Illusions in the UC from 6 to 8 p.m.

• Saturday, Jan. 26 — The second MLK Day of Service will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Interested students should contact Jennifer Cooper at jacooper@wcu.edu.

For more information, contact the university’s Intercultural Affairs office at 828.227.2276 or ica@wcu.edu.

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• “Paint-N-Pour” will be held from 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 16, at Balsam Falls Brewing in Sylva. Cost is $20 per person. All materials provided. RSVP at Balsam Falls Brewing’s Facebook page. For more information, visit www.balsamfallsbrewing.com.

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• Mad Batter Food & Film (Sylva) will host a free movie night at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. For the full schedule of screenings, visit www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

• The Waynesville Fiber Friends will meet from 10 a.m. to noon on the second Saturday of the month at the Panacea Coffee House in Waynesville. All crafters and beginners interested in learning are invited. You can keep

• “Thursday Painters Open Studio” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. at the Franklin Uptown Gallery. Bring a bag lunch, project and supplies. Free to the public. Membership not required. For information, call 828.349.4607.

• A “Youth Art Class” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday at the Appalachian Art Farm on 22 Morris Street in Sylva. All ages welcome. $10 includes instruction, materials and snack. For more information, email appalachianartfarm@gmail.com or find them on Facebook.

• Free classes and open studio times are being offered at The Uptown Gallery in Franklin. Join others at a painting open studio session from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursdays.

For information on days open, hours and additional art classes and workshops, contact the gallery on 30 East Main St., at 828.349.4607.

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• A “Beginner Step-By-Step” painting class will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursdays at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Cost is $25 with all supplies provided. For more information on paint dates and/or to RSVP, contact Robin Arramae at 828.400.9560 or paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

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Haywood Community A work by Kathie Roig.

College’s Professional Crafts Department will host three visiting artists for spring semester.

The first visit will be Kathie Roig from 10 to 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 22, in Room 7105 of the Creative Arts Building in Clyde.

Roig, a fiber artist for almost 40 years, weaves pieces inspired from children’s books, environmental concerns and her home in Western North Carolina. A resident of Charlotte, Roig’s work has been exhibited in several exhibitions. She has taught at John C. Campbell Folk School. She has a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Otterbein College in Ohio.

HCC’s Professional Crafts programs offer an innovative, affordable, groundbreaking craft education with focuses in clay, fiber, jewelry and wood.

Through a unique blend of studio experience, classroom education and hands-on business experience, students can achieve the skills necessary to become viable independent studio artists or to become valuable, skilled employees in the expanding craft industry.

Additional visiting artists include Sarah Rose Lejeune from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13; and Jason Bige Burnette from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, April 22. Lejeune is a papermaker, weaver, sculptor and printmaker. Bige Burnette is a ceramic artist. The series is free and open to the public.

For more information on the spring visiting artist series, call 828.627.4672 or email aputansu@haywood.edu.

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On the table Hungry for soup and cornbread?

The “Soup & Cornbread” fundraiser for the Haywood County Schools Foundation will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesville.

Join them for lunch and/or dinner, which will include: soup (vegetable beef or potato leek ), fresh cornbread, beverage and your choice of homemade dessert.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children. Contact any Altrusa member. Proceeds benefit the Haywood County Schools Foundation fund for Altrusa Scholarships.

HART’s ‘Winter Studio Season’

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The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will kick off its annual “Winter Studio Season” with the Sarah Ruhl comedy “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” at 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 18-19 and at 2 p.m.

Jan. 20 in Waynesville.

The premise: A woman is sitting in a café. A man is sitting at the table next to her.

His cell phone rings. He doesn’t answer it. She becomes annoyed but finally realizes he’s dead. She answers his phone. Her life will never be the same and the audience is in for a ride down a rabbit hole that becomes more twisted with each passing scene. Ruhl is also the author of last season’s popular hit “In the Next Room.”

The current production is being directed

by HART Executive Director, Steve Lloyd and features Charles Mills, Laura Gregory, Jeff Messer, Christy Bishop, Lyn Donley and Anna Denson. The play does contain adult material so audience discretion is advised.

Harmons’ Den Bistro will be open for opening night only, serving soups and pani-

Folkmoot will host a Scottish Friendship Dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center, located at 112 Virginia Avenue in Waynesville.

Tickets are $18 for adults, $10 for students. 828.452.2997 or www.folkmoot.org.

• “Pints for a Purpose” will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. The event will benefit the Society of American Foresters. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

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Waynesville chili cook-off The “Chili Cook-Off Winter Arts Smokies Style” will be held from noon to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 19, at participating merchants and restaurants in the Main Street, Frog Level and Hazelwood districts of Waynesville.

A door sign or balloon will indicate the participants. Leap Frog Tours will provide a complimentary roving shuttle every 30 minutes between all three districts.

Winners will be announced on Jan. 26 on the Waynesville Gallery Association’s

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Facebook page. The winners will be given a certificate, a trophy and bragging rights.

• A free wine tasting will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Jan. 19 and 26 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. www.papouswineshop.com or 828.631.3075.

• Free cooking demonstrations will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturdays at Country Traditions in Dillsboro. Eat samples and taste house wines for $3 a glass. www.countrytraditionsnc.com.

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A scene from ‘Antony & Cleopatra.’

‘Antony & Cleopatra’ on the big screen The Highlands Performing Arts Center will present “Live via Satellite” the National Theatre of London’s production of Shakespeare’s “Antony & Cleopatra” at 1 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 19.

Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.

A scene from ‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone.’ ni on the HART Main Stage featuring selections inspired by the show.

HART’s production has hold over/snow dates the following weekend, Jan. 25-27.

Though Studio seating is general admission, reservations are recommended as seating is limited and performances regularly sell out.

Ticket prices are $13 for adults and $7 for students. For reservations, call the HART Box Office at 828.456.6322 or visit www.harttheatre.org.

The National Theatre’s blockbuster received multiple five-star reviews. This production is slick, stylish and modern with a huge revolving set (including a swimming pool on stage), a big supporting cast and gorgeous costumes, and real snakes on stage.

In the aftermath of Julius Caesar’s assassination, General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. Having neglected his political duties whilst in Egypt, Antony returns to Rome, to attempt to restore his political position. Torn between his duty to Rome and his devotion to Cleopatra, Antony’s actions spark a war which threatens to destroy their love.

Tickets are available online www.highlandspac.org or at the door. Students are admitted free of charge. For more information, call 828.526.9047.

• There is free comedy improv class from 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday in Maggie Valley. No experience necessary, just come to watch or join in the fun. Improv teacher Wayne Porter studied at Sak Comedy Lab in Orlando, Florida, and performed improvisation with several groups. Join Improv WNC on Facebook or just call 828.316.8761 to RSVP for directions.

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Graham Greene, redemption, and all of us Greene’s greatest talent, however, lay in his ability to give readers a tour of the human soul in torment, a torment often depicted as

the loss of his married mistress, hires a private detective to follow her when he suspects she has taken another lover, and ends his account

love at war with principles.

In his novels Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, A Burnt-Out Case, The Power and the Glory, and The End of the Affair, Greene gives us compelling accounts of human beings caught between the tenets of their code and the desires of their hearts. In The Power and the Glory, for example, the hunted priest in Mexico takes desperate measures to evade his pursuers, but again and again puts his life on the line, often with foot-dragging reluctance, by hearing confessions and offering Mass, sacraments outlawed by the state.

In The End of The Affair, Maurice Bendrix, author, atheist, and adulterer, rues

of their affair with a prayer that some of us, even the devout, can understand: “O God, You’ve done enough, You’ve robbed me of enough, I’m too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.”

At the end of Brighton Rock, the young Rose asks the old priest hearing her confession if her husband, a thug and a criminal now dead, is in hell. The priest wheezes out his answer: “You can’t conceive, my child nor can I or anyone … the appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God,” reminding us with those few words that our earthly judges, family and friends, may rarely display their own appalling strangeness of mercy.

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Let’s start a new year with some old books.

We begin with two suppositions.

First, you are a good person who abides by a moral code. Whatever its source, this code serves as your set of principles, an ethical standard you cannot violate without damaging your soul. The code is your Ten Commandments, your Constitution, the offering on the high altar of all that you hold true and good.

Second, you have for whatever reason broken that code.

Your wife caught you in adultery. Your employer apprehended you embezzling Writer funds. You became angry with your father and refused to speak to him even on his deathbed. Whatever the wrong, however innocently you blundered into corruption, by your code you have behaved dishonorably.

Consequently, you feel separated from your loved ones, and if you are a believer, separated from God. If you are a person of faith, you make your peace with your God. All well and good, but how do you then make peace with yourself?

How do you unlock the shackles of your guilt?

And how do you come to terms with those who know what you have done, some of whom now detest you?

You’re breathing, and your heart is beating, but inside you’re as dead as Dickens’ doornail.

Maybe you head to your local bookstore looking for self-help books. Maybe you see a therapist. Maybe you try to make amends for your transgression performing good deeds, volunteering in a soup kitchen or a nursing home. Maybe, like Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter, you just hold your head high, keep your mouth shut, and carry on.

Whatever remedy you seek, let me recommend as part of your journey to atonement certain novels by Graham Greene.

Greene had many talents as a writer. He created realistic physical settings for his books, ranging from Central Africa to Mexico.

He breathed life into his characters, and wrote in a number of genres: short stories, novels, essays, reviews, an autobiography, and plays.

The characters in these novels are men and women branded by guilt and shame, haunted by betrayal and misdirected passions, torn in two by the battle between the desires of the heart and the demands of their code.

They fall away from the path they have walked, sometimes innocently, sometimes deliberately, and suffer the consequences.

Many writers have praised Greene’s dissections of moral ambiguity. In his comments on The End of the Affair, for example, William Faulkner called the book “one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time.”

Referring to the same title, Evelyn Waugh, another great twentieth century novelist, described the story as “singularly moving and beautiful … the relationship of lover to husband with its crazy mutation of pity, hate, comradeship, jealousy, and contempt is superbly described ….”

Right now, those of you trapped in your self-created hell may be thinking: Are you kidding me? Imprisoned as I am by guilt and regret, why would I want to read novels where the characters are struggling with the same dismal remorse and shame as my own?

In your question lies your answer. You and I both know that when we have committed a great wrong, and are found out, few confidants visit the prison we have built for ourselves. Fewer still are capable of understanding the sickness in our hearts.

Here is a consolation: Greene understood.

For those of us with a broken conscience, these books act as mirrors of healing. Greene’s stories and damaged characters will not expiate our guilt — only time or death can do that — but they offer reassurance that others have suffered as we suffer, that others have disgraced themselves and their code, and that we are not alone in our dishonor and our despair.

(Jeff Minick is a writer and teacher. minick0301@gmail.com.)

‘In conversation with Jim McKairnes’ Former CBS Programming Executive Jim McKairnes will be in conversation with his long-time friend Jeff Ginn at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

They discuss McKairnes’ book, All in the Decade: 70 Things about 70s TV That Turned Ten Years Into a Revolution. To reserve copies of All in the Decade, call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

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Funding conservation Federal program’s expiration impacts local land trusts

Hikers take in the view from Hump Mountain on the Appalachian Trail. Don Pugh photo

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER n Sept. 30, 2018, a program that’s been pouring money into land conservation for more than 50 years expired. And despite bipartisan support, efforts to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund have so far failed.

“A program like LWCF should not be subject to these crazy swings in politics and funding,” said Jay Leutze, vice president of the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy Board and a spokesperson for the Land and Water Conservation Fund Coalition. “This just creates chaos.

“Public lands work requires steady, predictable funding because it involves real estate transactions. We can’t negotiate in good faith with sellers of land if we have to say, ‘OK, if the government shuts down all bets are off, and would you mind waiting several months to several years for us to fulfill the terms of the contract because the government can’t get its act together?’”

The Land and Water Conservation Fund was created in 1964 to protect natural areas using revenues from offshore oil and gas extraction. Every year, the fund received $900 million in royalties paid by energy companies drilling for oil and gas on the Outer Continental Shelf to conserve land, support parks and recreation projects, and protect wildlife and drinking water — though in the years since its inception many of those dollars have been diverted for other purposes. The initial legislation was good for 25 years, and the program was renewed for a second 25year period ending Sept. 30, 2015. It was then given a short-term extension for three years,

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but efforts to permanently reauthorize it failed to succeed before the program’s sunset on Sept. 30, 2018.

LEGISLATIVE TUSSLE There’s support on both sides of the aisle for a reauthorized Land and Water Conservation Fund, with U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC, a strong supporter of the program — The Conservation Fund’s North Carolina director Bill Holman called him its “Republican champion.”

“The Land and Water Conservation Fund is a vital program that helps preserve America’s parks, recreation sites, and natural landscapes, operating at no cost to taxpayers,” said Burr in a statement to The Smoky Mountain News.

“In fact, outdoor recreation is often a boon to local economies; in North Carolina it generates roughly $28 billion a year in consumer spending and helps support 260,000 jobs. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to make sure that our nation’s most successful conservation program can continue its good work for generations to come.”

However, attempts at reauthorization over the past year haven’t gone much of anywhere.

According to Leutze, low enthusiasm from Congressional leadership is to blame.

“Republicans and Democrats were trying frantically to find language that would work for leadership so leadership would attach the bills to vehicles that were moving,” said Leutze. “It’s pretty rare anymore to get standalone bills voted on in Congress.”

For a while, it seemed hopeful that reauthorization could be attached to the 2018 Farm Bill, but that didn’t happen. And when

spending debates broke down and degenerated into what has become the longest government shutdown in American history, renewal became even less imminent. The House, which now has a Democratic majority, did last week pass an interior appropriations bill that included reauthorization for the LWCF, but

national wildlife refuges and other public lands, actually proposing a negative LWCF budget in some areas — ostensibly, these divisions would need to make cuts in other areas in order pay the government the difference.

According to Leutze, however, there is little support in Congress to actually slash the

“We’re moving forward as if it’s going to be funded, but there’s no guarantee that it will. It’s critical to these projects that it’s reinstated and fully funded, and permanently funded.”

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it’s unlikely that legislation will gain support in a Republican-majority Senate that is holding out for a budget proposal that President Donald Trump would be willing to sign — that is, a budget that includes funding for a border wall.

“The LWCF is a great, very effective program,” said Leutze. “It’s been used successfully in every county and every state, but even with broad popularity the government is so dysfunctional right now that the Congress is having trouble passing even legislation that is very popular.”

Since its inception, the program has provided $3.9 billion in state grants, funded more than 40,000 state projects and protected 2.37 million acres, according to its website.

Support for it is widespread, but that support does not extend to the White House.

In his proposed 2019 budget, President Trump included zero funding for LWCF projects on national parks, national forests,

LWCF, with members seeking to fund the program at the current level of $425 million.

THE THREE-LEGGED STOOL While LWCF money is typically just a part of the funding package used to protect any one piece of property, it’s been vital to many of Western North Carolina’s most significant conservation projects — and without the LWCF funding, other funding sources can be harder to come by.

“Conservation is kind of a three-legged stool,” Leutze explained.

Most large projects tend to use federal, state and private dollars. If matching funds are required to unlock the state grant, then federal dollars can serve as that match — and vice versa. Private donors usually want to give to projects that are already being partially funded through public money, rather than attempting to pay for the

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More Master Gardeners are wanted in Macon County, with applications now accepted for the 2019 program.

Master Gardeners receive 42 hours of training in subjects including insects, disease, fruits, shade trees, ornamentals, lawn care and vegetable culture. In addition to classes, participants must complete a volunteer component to be certified as a Master Gardener.

Classes start in February. For an application, contact the Macon County Extension Center at 828.349.2046.

Haywood plant sale in progress The annual Haywood County Extension Master Gardener Plant Sale is underway, with orders accepted through Feb. 25.

Offerings include edibles such as berries, asparagus and grape vines and native plants that are perennial and pollinator-attracting, all available at exceptional prices. Proceeds from the sale fund education-related horticulture projects in Haywood County.

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The lapse in funding means not only that upcoming projects will take longer to accomplish but also that some may be in danger of not happening at all.

“It has slowed us down,” said Holman.

“We’re less willing to take on properties during this uncertainty. The great thing about Western North Carolina is there are very many conservation-minded landowners, but if they want to sell their property for conservation they can’t wait forever.”

“It’s all about confidence,” Leutze added. “For us to buy a piece of land, since the federal dollars take some time to access, we usually have to borrow money to have a closing with the seller. The lenders want to know if they can have confidence that we’ll be able to repay that loan. It’s a real game of waiting, and it really depends on trust between nonprofits and federal agencies.”

Land trusts will often purchase land outright if they’re pretty sure grant funding will come through later, since transactions can happen more quickly that way than by waiting on grant cycles. But once the grant money arrives and the land in question is conveyed to a final owner like the U.S. Forest Service or National Park Service, the land trust gets some money back from the sale that it can use toward new conservation projects. The funding lapse has put a halt on that cycle.

“We donated almost 400 acres to the Forest Service in 2016, and that project left a lot of money in the dirt, clearly, but there are projects that don’t necessarily fit that bill, that we look to the U.S. Forest Service to purchase from us,” said Jordan Smith, land conservation manager for Mainspring Conservation Trust. “We might not get what we paid out of it, but we get something back in our coffers that we can turn around and invest in other projects to allow us to continue to conserve land.”

So, while the drama plays out in D.C., local conservation organizations are left trying to predict an uncertain future.

“We’re moving forward as if it’s going to be funded, but there’s no guarantee that it will,” said Smith. “It’s critical to these projects that it’s reinstated and fully funded, and permanently funded.”

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project completely with private funds.

“Private donors feel very strongly that they should be supplementing public dollars and not replacing public dollars,” said Leutze.

“Almost every major conservation project in Western North Carolina has got multiple sources of public and private funding,” Holman added. “The Land and Water Conservation Fund really is critical to continue our conservation efforts in Western North Carolina and across the country.”

For example, in a nearly 3,000-acre expansion of the Blue Ridge Parkway at Waterrock Knob, The Conservation Fund purchased land valued at almost $8 million, of which the LWCF provided $2.6 million.

The landowner sold for less than the actual land value, and private donations rounded out the funding.

The Land and Water Conservation Fund was also pivotal in the 2018 creation of Headwaters State Forest in Transylvania County and in the ongoing protection of Maggie Valley’s water source, the Campbell Creek Watershed in Haywood County. The LWCF has to date provided $2 million for the Campbell Creek Watershed through its Forest Legacy Program, with an additional $1.8 million to be appropriated should Congress and President Donald Trump agree on a budget. Of the $30 million value of the 7,000 acres included in the Headwaters State Forest, the LWCF’s Forest Legacy Program provided $9.3 million, with remaining funds coming from the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund, private donors and a landowner bargain sale.

“There would be no Headwaters State Park without the Land and Water Conservation Fund,” said Holman.

The SAHC has used LWCF money to conserve Lost Cove in the Nolichucky River Gorge and plans on using it to transfer property alongside Roan Mountain on the Appalachian Trail to the U.S. Forest Service.

Projects to be funded should the LWCF be reauthorized include $1.29 million for land along the Blue Ridge Parkway and $185,000 for the Overmountain Victory National Historical Trail, as well as $750,000 for land conservation in the National Forests of North Carolina and $1.8 million for the Campbell Creek project.

Two classes for landscape contractors will be offered Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Macon County Extension Center.

The first class, to last from 8 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., will offer five hours of continuing education landscape technical credits toward the landscape contractor’s license requirement and cover native landscape plants, new and common insects, diseases, and water efficiency and uniformity in the landscape.

The second class, “Employee Recruitment Concepts and Laws” will be held immediately after and offer two continuing education landscape credits of business credit. It will end by 5 p.m. Cliff Ruth, area horticulture agent in Buncombe County, will teach it, with a

charge of $20.

Pre-register for both classes by Jan. 25 with Macon County Cooperative Extension, 828.349.2046.

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The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy purchased this Lost Cove property in Yancey County in 2012, and in 2017 it was conveyed to the Pisgah National Forest thanks to Land and Water Conservation Fund dollars. SAHC photo

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Cataloochee to honor emergency workers Cataloochee Ski Area in Maggie Valley will give emergency workers a reduced rate Jan. 24-25.

Fire and Rescue Appreciation Days are meant to say “thank you” to fire and rescue emergency personnel with a valid ID, and to their families, by offering lower rates on these days. www.cataloochee.com.

Chimney Rock offers special rates Special winter admission rates are now available at Chimney Rock State Park, which also boasts an elevator in working order.

sive events and discounts at area shops and restaurants. The park is open seven days per week, weather permitting, except for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The now-working park elevator will make visits more enjoyable too, making it easier to access the top of the rock where visitors can take in unobstructed views of Lake Lure and Hickory Nut Gorge. www.chimneyrockpark.com.

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Through March 10, admission rates will be $10 for adults and $5 for youth ages 5 to 15. Visitors can upgrade their day admission to an adult annual pass for $15 or a Rockin’ Discovery Pass for $6.

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Grandfather Mountain has record wet year Wet weather was the norm across Western North Carolina last year, and Grandfather Mountain was no exception — a record 123.62 inches of precipitation fell there in 2018.

“That’s 10 feet of water!” said Amy Renfranz, director of education for the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, the nonprofit organization that owns and operates the Linville, N.C., nature park. “Though we had several big days of rain and snow, most of it fell in small amounts throughout the year.”

pared to 89.25 inches in 1979.

Measurements there were made as part of the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, known as CoCoRaHS. Grandfather Mountain naturalists have been participating since 2011.

Other notable data from 2018 include: n Two gusts above 100 miles per hour were recorded — a 101.9-mile-per-hour gust on March 2 and a 101.7-mile-per-hour gust on Oct. 20, both at Mile High Swinging Bridge. The record at that location is 120.7 miles per hour, set in December 2012.

Investigate how the natural world weathers winter with the Winter Wonderland Hike hosted by Balsam Mountain Trust, noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, in Jackson County.

The group will take a leisurely walk down the Sugarloaf Trail on Balsam Mountain Preserve land to look for the tracks, signs and patterns especially visible this time of year.

Free, with donations appreciated and space limited. Register with Rose Wall at education@bmtrust.org or 828.631.1061.

Registration deadline is Jan. 18.

Grandfather Mountain experienced a temperature range of 83.8 degrees last year, including a low of -6.64 on Jan. 19. Skip Sickler/Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation photo That total is nearly double the annual average of 63.13 inches, with the largest precipitation events including 6.41 inches of rain on May 19 and 5.84 inches on Sept. 17.

The mountain’s rainiest day in history remains Sept. 8, 2004, when 11.3 inches fell.

While the top of the mountain had its wettest year ever, measurements taken at Mile High Swinging Bridge ranked it the fifth-wettest, with 77.36 inches of rain com-

n Grandfather Mountain experienced a temperature range of 83.8 degrees in 2018, with the lowest recorded temperature -6.64 degrees on Jan. 19 and the highest 77.2 degrees on May 13. The all-time records are a low of -32 degrees on Jan. 21, 1985, and a high of 83.2 degrees on July 1, 2012. n The temperature at Grandfather Mountain is typically 10 to 20 degrees cooler than in the flatlands below.

Get launched in the outdoor industry

business in the outdoor industry, this series is for you,” said Tiffany Henry, Director of Small Business Training. “Entrepreneurs will learn how to gain a competitive advantage, brand their business values and develop innovative systems of management.”

Subsequent outdoor entrepreneurship seminars will be offered Jan. 31 and Feb. 7, both from 10 a.m. to noon.

Register at http://bit.ly/sbcoutdoor.

Tiffany Henry, t_henry@southwesterncc.edu.

A free seminar series for small businesses hoping to launch in the outdoor industry will begin 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Small Business Center at Southwestern Community College in Sylva.

“Whether you are an existing small business owner, or you are looking to start a

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View the lunar eclipse

Explore space A new planetarium show will come to Young Harris College in Georgia at 8 p.m. Fridays, Jan. 18, Jan. 25, Feb. 15 and Feb. 22.

“Phantom of the Universe” immerses audience in the search for dark matter, ranging from closeup views of the Big Bang to deep underground, where Earth’s most sensitive dark matter detector is housed, to spectacular explosions of light across space.

The planetarium is housed at the Maxwell Center for Mathematics and Sciences on campus.

Shows are $5 for adults, $3 for children and free for Young Harris students, faculty and staff.

Purchase tickets at yhc.edu/planetarium.

Parkway nonprofit leaders earns award

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The CEO of one of the Blue Ridge Parkway’s most important nonprofit partners recently received a prestigious national award.

Carolyn Ward, Ph.D., is the 2018 recipient of the National Association of Interpretation Fellow Award, the organization’s highest honor. It’s given to a member exemplifying career achievement in guiding the interpretive profession through instruction, mentoring, research, writing, frontline interpretation and management. Ward was presented the honor during NAI’s national workshop in New Orleans, held Nov. 30, 2018.

“As much of an honor as it is to receive the Fellow Award, it is even more of an honor to be part of the profession of interpretation,” said Ward, a native of

Wytheville, Virginia. “I am proud to be part of a profession dedicated to helping connect people to significant places, and for me that means linking people to the Blue Ridge Mountains, where I grew up.”

Ward’s career as has spanned three decades in numerous roles — she’s been a frontline interpreter, consultant, author, researcher, editor, professor and most recently CEO. She has served as editor of the Journal of Interpretive Research since 2003, and during her professorship at Humboldt State University in California, she was recognized as the university’s 2008 Outstanding Professor of the Year. Ward began working with the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation in 2008 and has served as CEO since 2011. Her leadership has also earned her the 2012 White House Champion of Change award.

The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation is Parkway’s primary nonprofit fundraising partner. www.brpfoundation.org.

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A total eclipse of the moon will occur Sunday, Jan. 20, with multiple opportunities to view this Super Blood Wolf Moon event in the company of experts.

The eclipse will begin around 9:30 p.m. and reach totality around midnight, the result of the moon passing through Earth’s shadow. During the eclipse, the moon will take on a red tint derived from Earth’s atmosphere, hence the “blood moon” moniker. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the term “wolf moon” comes from Native Americans, who named it such due to hungry wolf packs howling outside Indian villages during the cold, snowy win-

ter months. January’s full moon is also known as the snow moon and ice moon. n The Learning Center at PARI will host a lunar eclipse event beginning at 6 p.m. Jan. 20 featuring hands-on science experiments, presentations, exhibit tours, dinner and night sky observation with Learning Center educators at PARI’s Sky Deck. The eclipse will reach totality at 12:12 a.m. Tickets are $25 for children 6 to 10 and $50 for people over 10. RSVP at 828.862.5554 or www.pari.edu. n The Smoky Mountain STEM Collaborative will host an eclipse viewing at the Jackson County Airport beginning at 10 p.m. Jan. 20. The event will include information on lunar geography and other eclipse facts, as well as free hot chocolate.

The eclipse will reach totality at 11:41 p.m. and last one hour, two minutes. Free.

Contact Randi Neff for information at r_neff@southwesterncc.edu.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • The Smoky Mountain STEM Collaborative will hold a total lunar eclipse viewing event from 10 a.m.-midnight on Jan. 20 at the Jackson County Airport in Cullowhee.

Totality is at 11:41 p.m. and will last one hour and two minutes. r_neff@southwesterncc.edu.

• Emergency workers get a reduced rate on Jan. 24-25 at Cataloochee Ski Are in Maggie Valley. www.cataloochee.com.

• Western Carolina University’s Martin Luther King, Jr., celebration will include keynote speaker Aminata Cairo from 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 23, at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee.

Cairo is lecturer of inclusive education at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands. For more info about WCU’s MLK celebration, visit https://tinyurl.com/y9cdzqro, call 227.2276 or ica@wcu.edu.

• The Smoky Mountain Model Railroad Club will hold an open house for its new, larger layout from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 27, at Trinity Buffalo Ranch on Riverside Drive, North of Exit 24 and 209. 593.0394.

• Southwestern Community College is seeking nominations for the SCC Foundation’s inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award. Nomination form is available at https://tinyurl.com/ycgrb6be. Nominations due by Feb. 11. Info: k_posey@southwesterncc.edu or 339.4227.

• Registration is underway for the Region 8 Western Regional Science and Engineering Fair, which will be held Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 20-21, at the Ramsey Regional Activity Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. The largest STEM event held in Western North Carolina. For grades 3-12. For info and to register: http://camps.wcu.edu (click on “Science Camps and Programs”) or 227.7397.

• Cashiers Area Chamber is seeking feedback to improve visitors’ experiences to the area. Take the survey at: tinyurl.com/y6w4uqyo.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

Jan. 23, at the TDA Office/Visitor Center.

• Southwestern Community College will offer an Outdoor Entrepreneurship Seminar series starting Jan. 24. Seminars are held from 10 a.m.-noon on Thursdays through Feb. 7. Registration required: http://bit.ly/sbcoutdoor. Info: t_henry@southwesterncc.edu.

• Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment will offer a Planned Giving Implementation Series from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Jan. 25, Feb. 8 and Feb. 22, at WCU’s Biltmore Park instructional site in Asheville. Registration fee per organization: $2,000. Register: 227.7397 or jcthompson@wcu.edu.

Info: pdp.wcu.edu.

• Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment is accepting registrations for a “Better Communication Through Creative Play for Marketing and Sales Professionals” that will be offered from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 15, at WCU’s Biltmore Park location in Asheville. $99 (includes lunch). Register or get more info: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Haywood Community College’s Workforce Continuing Education Department is offering a wide variety of courses. For a complete listing: www.haywood.edu. Info: 627.4669 or rgmassie@haywood.edu.

• Balsam Mountain Business Matters meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 10 a.m. Great opportunity to network with other business owners. Meeting is held in the clubhouse of Balsam Mountain apartments located at 17 Wilkinson Pass Ln in Waynesville. Next meeting is Jan. 22 and open to all. lgaddy@balsammountainapartments.com.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS

• Registration is underway for Marriage Enrichment Retreats that will be offered three more times over the next year at Lake Junaluska. Led by Ned Martin, an expert in marriage counseling. Price is $699 per couple. Dates are March 10-12, Aug. 18-20 of 2019 and Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in 2019. Registration and info: www.lakejunaluska.com/marriage or 800.222.4930.

• Altrusa International of Waynesville will hold its annual “Soup and Cornbread” fundraiser from 11 a.m.6:30 p.m. on Jan. 22, at First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. Tickets: $10 for adults; $5 for 11-under.

Proceeds fund Haywood County Schools Foundation for Altrusa Scholarships. Info: 301.5737 or waynesvillealtrusa.org.

• Fontana Regional Library now offers anyone with a library card free access to eMagazines, for reading on any mobile device or computer. This new service joins our popular eBooks and digital audiobook`s selection — all available 24/7 from the library’s digital collection. To get started enjoying digital magazines as well as eBooks and audiobooks, visit e-inc.overdrive.com or download the Libby reading app. www.fontanalib.org.

• Karaoke for animals is set for 6-10 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Boojum Brewing in Waynesville. Funds support Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation and its fund for special needs. Tickets: $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Follow Sarge’s on Facebook, visit sargeanimals.org or call 246.9050.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Registration is underway for a “Powerful Presentation Skills for Women Workshop” that will be offered from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 18, at Western Carolina University Biltmore Park in Asheville. Led by Dr. Betty Farmer, professor of communication at WCU. $119 (includes catered lunch). Register or get more info: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for a customer service workshop for hospitality industry professionals, which will be held from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 19, at Western Carolina University’s Biltmore Park location in Asheville. Registration: $119. Info and reservations: pdp.wcu.edu or jcthompson@wcu.edu.

• The Haywood County Tourism Development Authority’s Finance Committee meets at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday,

• The Jackson County Neighbors in Need will observe its 10th anniversary with a fundraising dinner, “Charlie’s Challenge,” at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, in the Mission and Fellowship hall of the First Baptist Church.

All donations are used to provide assistance to neighbors in need. RSVP: goodsonb11@yahoo.com.

• The seventh annual “Plunge Benefit-t-ting Kids in the Creek & Environmental Education” from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Lake Junaluska beach near Waynesville. Onsite registration starts at 10 a.m. $25 or free by raising sponsorships. Register: www.crowdrise.com/7thannualhwaplunge, 476.4667 or info@haywoodwaterways.org. Info: haywoodwaterways.org/theplunge.

VOLUNTEERS & VENDORS • Senior Companion volunteers are being sought to serve with the Land of the Sky Senior Companion Program in Henderson, Buncombe, Transylvania and

Madison Counties. Serve older adults who want to remain living independently at home in those counties.

• The Good Samaritan clinic of Haywood County seeks volunteers to help uninsured patients receive medications, vision care and other health and spiritual-related services in Waynesville. Clinic is open from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on Friday. 454.5287 or crocco@gcshaywood.org.

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park is seeking volunteers to assist rangers with managing traffic and establishing safe wildlife viewing areas within the Cataloochee Valley area. To register for training or get more info: karl_danforth@nps.gov.

• Haywood Regional Medical Center is seeking volunteers of all ages for ongoing support at the hospital, outpatient care center and the Homestead. For info and to apply: 452.8301, stop by the information desk in the lobby or volunteer@haymed.org. Anyone interested in becoming a hospice volunteer can call 452.5039.

• STAR Rescue Ranch is seeking volunteers to help with horse care, fundraising events, barn maintenance and more at the only equine rescue in Haywood County.

828.400.4940.

• Volunteer Opportunities are available throughout the region, call John at the Haywood Jackson Volunteer Center today and get started sharing your talents. 3562833 • Phone Assurance Volunteers are needed to make daily or weekly wellness check-in calls for the Haywood County Senior Resource Center. 356.2800.

HEALTH MATTERS

Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: ■ Complete listings of local music scene ■ Regional festivals ■ Art gallery events and openings ■ Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings • Jackson County Department of Public Health is offering diabetes self-management education as well as medical nutrition therapy. Info: 587.8240 or http://health.jacksonnc.org/wic.

• The Haywood County Senior Resource Center holds a dementia caregivers support group from 4:30-6 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday each month in Waynesville.

356.2800 or www.haywoodseniors.org.

• “Riding the Waves of Cancer” meets from 2:30-4 p.m. on Thursdays at the Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center. Physician referral from an oncologist or cancer doctor is required: Myhaywoodregional.com/yogaforcancer. 452.8691.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • Registration is underway for “Dance Tonight Waynesville” upcoming classes in Waltz and fox trot.

Classes are held from 6-7:30 p.m. on Mondays throughout February at Folkmoot. Cost: $10. RSVP: 316.1344.

• “Your Amazing Newborn” class will be offered from 79 p.m. on Feb. 7, April 4, July 11, Sept. 5 and Nov. 7 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville.

Focusing on abilities, behavior, appearance and reflexes of your new baby. Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

• Registration is underway for “Dance Tonight Waynesville” upcoming classes. Classes are held from 3-3:50 p.m. (rumba, salsa); 4-4:50 p.m. (foxtrot, single-time swing); and 6-7:30 p.m. (waltz and foxtrot) on Tuesdays throughout February at Laurel Ridge Country Club. Cost: $10. RSVP: 316.1344.

• A “Preparation for Childbirth” class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. on Thursdays from March 7-28, June 627, Aug. 8-29 and Oct. 3-24 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville. Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

• Registration is underway for “Dance Tonight Waynesville” upcoming classes in “East Coast Swing.”

Classes are held from 6-7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays throughout February at Waynesville Wellness. Cost: $10.

RSVP: 316.1344.

• Registration is underway for a yearlong Diabetes Prevention Program for Jackson County residents, offered by the Jackson County Department of Public Health. Starts on Jan. 17. Register or get more info: 587.8238.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will offer a “Pop-Up: Level 3 Vinyasa Flow” class from noon-1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19, in Waynesville. $14. Register or get more info: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Down Home North Carolina and NC Justice Center will hold a training on what it takes to win Medicaid expansion for all North Carolinians this calendar year from 56:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 17, at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Sylva.

• Long’s Chapel in Waynesville will host an American Red Cross blood drive in their UMC Fellowship Hall on Jan. 22 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

• A new documentary entitled “Modified: A Food Lover’s Journey into GMO’s” will be shown at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24, in the Macon County Public Library Program Room in Franklin. GMOs are Genetically Modified Organisms. Show is one hour, 27 minutes. modifiedthefilm.com.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will host a “Rock Your Resolutions Master Class Series” class from 2-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 21 in Waynesville. $20. Register or get more info: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will host a “Meditation Series for the New Year” class from 7:15-7:50 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 21, in Waynesville. Cost is $15 for one class or $45 for the entire series. Register or get more info: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• High Mountain Squares will sponsor Modern Western Square Dance classes from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 21, at the Environmental Resource Center, 1624 Lakeside Drive in Franklin. 787.2324, 706.746.5426 or 332.0001.

• A social issues forum on “Understanding Opioid Addiction” is set for 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Grace Church in Waynesville. Register: admin@gracewaynesville.com.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will host a “Pop-Up: Power Core Yoga” class from 5:45-7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 25, in Waynesville. Cost is $14. Register or get more info: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• The Meditation Center will host a class in Reiki, an ancient form of natural healing, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Feb. 3 and Feb. 10, in Sylva. Cost: $125 donation. Info: www.meditate-wnc.org or 356.1105.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will host a “Rock Your Resolutions Master” class from 2-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, in Waynesville. Topic is Buti Yoga Burn. Cost is $20. Register or get more info: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• The Highlands Biological Foundation will offer a series of nature-themed films and documentaries shown at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Thursday of March in Highlands. For info on each show, call 526.2221.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will host a “Rock Your Resolutions Master” class from 2-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2, in Waynesville. Topic is Power Vinyasa Flow, Meditation and Crystal Bowl. Cost is $20. Register or get more info: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• A family movie will be shown at 10:30 a.m. every Friday at Hudson Library in Highlands.

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POLITICAL • A member-exclusive Elected Officials Reception will be held by the Haywood Chamber of Commerce from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 17, at the Wells Events & Reception Center in Waynesville. Cost: $20; Hors D’Oeuvres provided; cash bar available.

• The Jackson County NAACP membership will meet Saturday, Jan. 19 at 10 a.m. at Liberty Baptist Church in Sylva. After the meeting Zev Freidman will present “Creating Economic Opportunities Based on Sound Ecological Development”.

• The Macon County Democratic women will meet Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 5:30 p.m. at the Macon County Public Library.

• A Town Hall Meeting is set for 6-8 p.m. on Jan. 24 at the Cherokee Fairgrounds Auxiliary Building. Topics include proposed projects, funding sources and revenue vs. community necessity.

• Down Home Haywood holds its monthly community meetings at 2:30 p.m. on the third Saturday of each month at Canton Presbyterian Church. Tackling issues like healthcare, wages, housing and more. chelsea@downhomenc.org.

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SENIOR ACTIVITIES • The Mexican Train Dominoes Group seeks new players to join games at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• Book Club is held at 2 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800 • A Hand & Foot card game is held at 1 p.m. on Thursdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• Senior Sale Day is on the third Friday of every month at the Friends of the Library Used Bookstore. Patrons 60 and older get 20 percent off all purchases.

Proceeds benefit the Sylva Library.

• Mah Jongg is played at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• A Canasta card game is set for 1 p.m. on Mondays at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• A Parkinson’s Support Group is held at 2 p.m. on the last Wednesdays of each month at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

KIDS FILMS • Macon County Public Library will show the children’s movie “Aladdin at 10 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 28, in Franklin.

• The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will kick off its annual “Winter Studio Season” with the Sarah Ruhl comedy “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18-19 and at 2 p.m. Jan. 20 in Waynesville.

• The Highlands Performing Arts Center will present the National Theatre of London’s production of Shakespeare’s “Antony & Cleopatra” live via satellite at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 507 Chestnut Street in Highlands. Tickets: highlandspac.org or at the door.

Students admitted free. 526.9047.

• Tickets are on sale now for National Theater’s production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Room,” which will be screened as part of the Bardo Arts Center’s Sunday Cinema Series at 3 p.m. on Jan. 20 in Cullowhee. $15 for adults; $10 for WCU faculty/staff and seniors and $5 for students. Arts.wcu.cinema or 828.227.ARTS.

• Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville will host five for $5 Wine Tasting from 5 to 9 p.m. on Jan. 17 and Jan. 24.

Come taste five magnificent wines and dine on Chef Stacy’s gourmet cuisine. 452.0120 or www.waynesvillewine.com.

• Haywood County Arts Council and Dr. John Highsmith & Sandra Hayes will present January Jazz at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24, in Fangmeyer Theater at HART in Waynesville. Hors d’oeuvres, desserts, wine, coffee and music by Firecracker Jazz Band. $37 per person (includes one glass of wine/beverage).

Young professionals tickets: $20/person. Advance tickets available at the arts council’s gallery at 86 N. Main Street or online at EventBrite.com (additional fees will apply).

• A free wine tasting will be held from 2-5 p.m. on Jan. 19 and 26 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. www.papouswineshop.com or 631.3075.

• Singer-songwriter Brie Capone will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, in the Community Room at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

• A free wine tasting will be held from 1-5 p.m. on Jan. 19 at Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville. www.waynesvillewine.com or 452.0120.

• Country legends The Oak Ridge Boys will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

• Folkmoot will host a Scottish Friendship Dinner and presentation from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. Tickets are $18 for adults, $10 for students. Limited seating, purchase your tickets in advance. 452.2997 or www.folkmoot.org.

• “Brown Bag at the Depot” – an opportunity to gather with neighbors – is at noon every Friday at Sylva’s newest park at the corner of Spring and Mill Street along Railroad Ave. For info, contact Paige Dowling at townmanager@townofsylva.org.

• Graceann’s Amazing Breakfast is 8-10 a.m. every Tuesday in the Sapphire Room at the Sapphire Valley Community Center. $8.50 for adults; $5 for children.

Includes coffee and orange juice. 743.7663.

• “Long Time Comin” – a musical history of the quest for freedom in America – will be presented at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 27, at the Swain Arts Center, on the campus of Swain County High School in Bryson City.

Admission: $10.

• Tickets are on sale now for National Theater’s production of “Hamlet” which will be screened as part of the Bardo Arts Center’s Sunday Cinema Series at 3 p.m. on Feb. 10 in Cullowhee. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch. $15 for adults; $10 for WCU faculty/staff and seniors and $5 for students.

Arts.wcu.cinema or 828.227.ARTS.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • “Paint-N-Pour” will be held from 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 16, at Balsam Falls Brewing in Sylva.

Cost is $20 per person. All materials provided. RSVP at Balsam Falls Brewing’s Facebook page. For more information, click on www.balsamfallsbrewing.com.

• High Mountain Squares will be sponsoring “Modern Western Square Dance” classes beginning on Monday, Jan. 21, at the Environmental Resource Center in Franklin. First two classes are free. For more information, call Bob Walker at 332.0001.

• The Haywood County Public Library is offering online lifelong learning courses in over 30 subject areas, many of which offer continuing education units, through Universal Class. Free for library cardholders. www.haywoodlibrary.org or 452.5169.

• One Heart Singing’s winter term is through April 10 at 89 Sierra Lane in Franklin. No audition or need to read music. Try two sessions before committing. Meets from 6:30-8 p.m. on Wednesdays. Info: 524.3691 or 360.1920.

• Free cooking demonstrations will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Saturdays at Country Traditions in Dillsboro.

Watch the demonstrations, eat samples and taste house wines for $3 a glass. All recipes posted online. www.countrytraditionsnc.com.

• A game day will occur from 2-9 p.m. every third Saturday of the month at Papou’s Wine Shop & Bar in Sylva. Bring dice, cards or board games.

586.6300.

• A wine tasting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville.

Free with dinner ($15 minimum). 452.6000.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host Chris West (singer-songwriter) Jan. 18. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

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• Pinochle game is played at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• The “Winter Arts Smokies Style & Chili Cook Off” will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at participating merchants and restaurants in the Main Street, Frog Level and Hazelwood districts of Waynesville. www.haywoodarts.org.

• Elysium Park Band will perform “alternative ‘eclectic’” tunes from 7-9 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 18, at Frog Level Brewery in Waynesville. www.basementjukebox.com.

Tickets start at $32 per person. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, click on www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

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• Former CBS Programming Executive Jim McKairnes will be in conversation with his long-time friend Jeff Ginn at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

FOOD & DRINK • “Pints for a Purpose” will be held from 5 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 16, at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. The event will benefit the Society of American Foresters. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

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• Waynesville Yoga Center will host a “Meditation Series for the New Year” class from 7:15-7:50 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 28, in Waynesville. Cost is $15 for one class or $45 for the entire series. Register or get more info: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Highlands Performing Arts Center have dinner theater performances scheduled on March 21-23 and 2830; and the full-length play “Calendar Girls” by Tim Firth, set for May 23-26 and May 31-June 2.

Highlandscashiersplayers.org.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic

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• A “Beginner Step-By-Step” painting class will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursdays at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Cost is $25 with all supplies provided.

For more information on paint dates and/or to RSVP, contact Robin Arramae at 400.9560 or paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • An art show featuring oils and mixed media by Milly Honeycutt is on display through Jan. 31 in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin.

524.3600.

• The Haywood County Arts Council (HCAC) in Waynesville will be kicking off the new year with a variety packed show filled with the original art of 28 local artists.

The “2019 Juried Artist Exhibit” will run through Feb. 23. Each of the exhibiting artists went through an extensive jury process and are delighted to have their work in the gallery. The HCAC believes that original art by local artisans can be both affordable and collectable. www.haywoodarts.org.

• The exhibit “Outspoken: Paintings by America Meredith” will be on display through May 3 at the Fine Art Museum Gallery B in the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University. The WCU Fine Art Museum is free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. Free parking is available on site. www.facebook.com/americameredithart.

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• The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center is pleased to present the School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial Exhibition 2019, on display through May 3. Reception is on Jan. 17. All WCU Fine Art Museum exhibitions and receptions are free and open to the public. For further information, visit arts.wcu.edu/biennial or 227.3591.

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FILM & SCREEN • “Glass”, will be shown at 7 p.m. on Jan. 17-20 & 23-26 and 1 p.m. & 4 p.m. on Jan. 19-20 at The Strand on Main in Waynesville. 283.0079 or 38main.com.

• “the Old Man & the Gun”, will be shown at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 18 and 7 p.m. Jan. 19 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. 586.3555.

• “The Hate U Give”, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 24 & Feb. 2 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva.

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• “First Man”, will be shown at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 25 & Feb. 8 and 7 p.m. Jan. 26 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. 586.3555.

• “Boy Erased”, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 31 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. 586.3555.

• A special showing of the 1993 release “Groundhog Day”, will be shown at 4 p.m. on Feb. 2 at The Strand on Main in Waynesville. $2, visit 38main.com for tickets.

• “Widows”, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 7 & Feb. 9 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free.

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• A special showing of the 1957 release “An Affair to Remember”, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 14 at The Strand on Main in Waynesville. $5, visit 38main.com for tickets.

• “Bohemian Rhapsody”, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 14. 6:30 p.m. Feb. 15 and 7 p.m. Feb. 16 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. 586.3555.

• Free movies are shown every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. See website for listings and times at madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

• The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center will have a yearlong exhibition on “Defining America” through May 3 in Cullowhee. Info: 227.ARTS or bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

• The Haywood County Arts Council and Haywood County Public Library are presenting works from the following artists at the following locations through March: Russell Wyatt and Ashley Calhoun at the Canton Library and Patty Coulter, Linda Blount, Jason Woodard and Molly Harrington-Weaver at the Waynesville Library.

• Through April 26, Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center is hosting an exhibit to commemorate World War I and the centennial of the end of hostilities. “I Want You! How World War I Transformed Western North Carolina” is on display in the museum’s first floor gallery in Cullowhee.

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• New artist and medium will be featured every month

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• A recreational racing program for skiers and snowboarders of all abilities will run from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on non-holiday Saturdays through the end of the season. Cost: $10 for two runs or $20 for unlimited pass.

Lift ticket or season pass required. Register: www.nastar.com.

• The Learning Center at Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute will host a lunar eclipse viewing on the evening of Sunday, Jan. 20, in Rosman. For info and reservations: 862.5554 or www.pari.edu.

• The Asheville Winter Bike League offers rides weekly at 10 a.m. on Saturdays through Jan. 26. Structures, long winter road training rides. Bit.ly/2qS3YP8.

• A weekly fly-tying class is held from 6-8 p.m. every Wednesday at Outdoor 76 in Franklin. 349.7676.

• Registration is underway for a winter-tree identification workshop that will be held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, in Clayton, Ga. Cost: $55. .

• Registration is underway for an educational event about lichens that will be held on Saturday, Feb. 2, and offered through Alarka Institute in Cowee. Cost: $65 (includes lunch). www.alarkaexpeditions.com.

• Balsam Ridge Gallery and Haywood Waterways Association are hosting a post-Polar Plunge party and Groundhog Day celebration from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 44 N. Main Street in Waynesville.

• Registration is underway for the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s annual Business of Farming Conference, which is from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Feb. 23 at the AB Tech Conference Center in Asheville.

Cost: $75 before Feb. 1; $95 after. Register: https://asapconnections.org or 236.1282.

FARM AND GARDEN • N.C. Cooperative Extension in Macon County is taking applications for participation in the 2019 Master Gardener Program. Receive 42 hours of training. Classes start in February. Info and applications: 349.2046.

• Macon County Cooperative Extension will hold a class offering five hours of continuing education landscape technical credits toward the landscape contractor’s license requirement from 8 a.m.-2:15 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 31, at the Macon County Extension Center in Franklin. Preregister by Jan. 25: 349.2046.

• The annual Haywood County Extension Master Gardener plant sale is underway through Feb. 25.

Orders must be pre-paid. Pick up an order form at Cooperative Extension Office in Waynesville, call 456.3575 or mgarticles@charter.net.

• Haywood County Extension is accepting applications for the 2019 Master Gardener class with training sessions scheduled for Tuesdays mornings from January through April. 456.3575 or mgarticles@charter.net.

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• Cataloochee Ski Area will hold night racing from 78:30 p.m. on Thursdays from through Feb. 14 in Maggie Valley. Open to ages 18-up. $15 to race; $35 for race and 6-10 p.m. lift ticket. www.cataloochee.com.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate-tostrenuous, six-mile hike with an elevation change of 1,300 feet on Saturday, Jan. 19, to Big Sam Knob. Info and reservations: 456.8895.

• NASA Family Science Night is from 5-6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 17, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. 524.3600.

• Balsam Mountain Trust will host a Winter Wonderland Hike from noon-3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 20, in Sylva. Register by Jan. 18: 631.1061.

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• Sign-ups are underway for an evening of insight into hiking the Appalachian Trail, which will be offered from 6:30-8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 25, at REI in Asheville. Led by Gary Sizer, who hiked the 2,000-plusmile trail in 2014. www.rei.com/event-cart.

• Nantahala Hiking Club will have a moderate-tostrenuous eight-mile hike with an elevation change of 1,300 feet on Saturday, Jan. 26, on a new section of the NC Bartram Trail. Reservations and info: 369.1983.

• Nantahala Hiking Club holds monthly trail maintenance days from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on every fourth Saturday at 173 Carl Slagle Road in Franklin. Info and to register: 369.1983.

• Hike of the Week is at 10 a.m. every Friday at varying locations along the parkway. Led by National Park Service rangers. www.nps.gov/blri or 298.5330, ext.

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• Friends of the Smokies hikes are offered on the second Tuesday of each month. www.friendsofthesmokies.org/hikes.html.

• Nantahala Hiking Club based in Macon County holds weekly Saturday hikes in the Nantahala National Forest and beyond. www.nantahalahikingclub.org • High Country Hikers, based out of Hendersonville but hiking throughout Western North Carolina, plans hikes every Monday and Thursday. Schedules, meeting places and more information are available on their website, www.highcountryhikers.org.

• Carolina Mountain Club hosts more than 150 hikes a year, including options for full days on weekends, full days on Wednesdays and half days on Sundays.

Non-members contact event leaders. www.carolinamountainclub.org • Mountain High Hikers, based in Young Harris, Ga., leads several hikes per week. Guests should contact hike leader. www.mountainhighhikers.org.

• Smoky Mountain Hiking Club, located in East Tennessee, makes weekly hikes in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park as well as surrounding areas. www.smhclub.org.

OUTDOOR CLUBS • The Jackson County Poultry Club will hold its regular meeting on the third Thursday of each month at the Jackson County Cooperative Extension Office. The club is for adults and children and includes a monthly meeting with a program and a support network for those raising birds. For info, call 586.4009 or write heather_gordon@ncsu.edu.

• The North Carolina Catch program, a three-phase conservation education effort focusing on aquatic environments, will be offered through May 15. The program is offered by the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department. Free for members; daily admission for non-members. 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov.

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Not only did Jim Picker regale us with anecdotes, he also opened a fence giving us access to his property where we found an American kestrel and the only yellowrumped warbler of the day.

BY DON H ENDERSHOT

Live and die by Lake J an. 4, 2019 was a dreary day. It was more than that; it was a dreary Balsam Christmas Bird Count day. We have generally, since its inception 17 years ago, scheduled our Balsam CBC during the last count weekend. We did so because we have section leaders and others who also participate in other established area counts.

Audubon’s count period ended on Jan. 4 this year so we didn’t really have a weather makeup date, besides most CBCs run rain or shine on the appointed date.

My group and one other met in the Walmart parking lot around 7:45 a.m. and it looked like, for a minute, we would have a somewhat dry start. But by the time we arrived at our first destination there was a light steady rain. So, we decided to do a little windshield birding — driving and looking and listening for activity. We were on Cabin Flats road and in the vicinity of the Balsam Community Center, and while it was rather damp, we were picking up a few birds.

We decided to drive up Sugarloaf Road adjacent Balsam Mountain Preserve.

Because our compiler waited till just a cou-

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ple of days before the count to contact BMP, we were unaware of a policy change that requires any/all guests to have permission from a member and/or be accompanied by an employee or an employee of Balsam Mountain Trust. I, personally, can’t believe the compiler waited so long to contact Balsam Mountain and feel that he should be held accountable … what? Oh, never min, I’m the compiler.

Anyway, BMP has always been our go-to ruffed grouse site, so we decided to poke around on its edges. Regrettably, we weren’t able to flush a grouse but while noodeling around on Sugarloaf Road in a drizzling rain I spied the dark unmistakable silhouette of a barred owl perched amidst a tangle of limbs and twigs. Turned out to be a good find — the only one for the count.

The rain tapered off around 10:30 a.m. and stayed away till around 4:30 p.m. And while the rain stayed away, the day remained dark and drippy. Not to say there aren’t high points, even on dark and drippy days. One came for us as we were nosing around near Barber’s Orchard fruit stand. A gentleman, curious about what seven people were doing standing around in the grey with binoculars near his antique store came out to greet us.

Barred owl spotted on the Balsam Christmas Bird Count.

Don Hendershot photo

Another high point for our group was the fact Kefyn Catley, biologist/entomologist from Western Carolina University, was in our group and on a walk along Cabins Flats Kefyn was able to show us egg sacs

from the lampshade spider. There are only 12 species of lampshade spiders in the world and six of them live in the Southern Appalachians — and you thought we only noticed birds.

Back to birding, conditions were less than optimal and our tally showed it. We wound up with 66 species for the count, three or four below average. And while birding was tough in general, Lake Junaluska has been in the doldrums since late fall, and as the lake goes so goes the Balsam CBC. Last year 15 species of waterfowl were recorded at the lake and we wound up with 70 species, the most of any mountain count in the state. This year 12 species of waterfowl were recorded at the lake and we wound up with 66 species.

But even with the dampness, even with the doldrums, even with the low count, it was a wonderful time shared with like-minded folk and one rarity – a greater white-fronted goose was recorded from the Maggie Valley section.

Now if I can just remind our compiler to make sure we have access to BMP next year for our ruffed grouse…

(Don Hendershot is a naturalist and a writer who lives in Haywood County. He can be

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