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CONTENTS On the Cover Western North Carolina’s miles of wilderness trails are a draw for hikers and horsemen alike, but the paths don’t maintain themselves. Armed with crosscut saws and wooden-handled dirt tools, volunteer crews spend their weekends keeping the wilderness experience open to all — while drawing in the newbies who will become the wilderness stewards of the next generation. (Page 34) Holly Kays photo

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News Waynesville and Jackson look beyond leagues to outdoor recreation . . . . 6 Purple Heart recipient hopes to see his name on an Alarka bridge . . . . . . 7 Haywood GOP struggles with schism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Clowns aim for smiles in the mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Executive director may be needed for Jackson tourism authority . . . . . . . 12 Swain clerk of court race comes down to same or change . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Jackson County Justice Center in need of upgrades and expansion . . . . 14 Franklin bridge spanning the Little Tennessee River to be replaced . . . . . 16 After a federal dismissal, abuse case heads to Cherokee tribal court . . . 18 Sylva and Jackson agree to ABC merger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Get out Waynesville and Jackson county look to the mountains for parks programming

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ountains and rivers shape the landscape of Western North Carolina, but when it comes to recreation programming, counties and municipalities tend to focus on facilities and league sports. Both the town of Waynesville and Jackson County, however, are working to look beyond the status quo to point people toward the beauty in their own backyards.

“To me, I feel like if we can interest young people, and even senior adults and others, in the opportunities that exist out here, it’s a cleaner way of living and it helps people get in touch with nature,” said Tim Petrea, program supervisor for Waynesville Parks and Recreation.

Petrea’s position is a new one for Waynesville. He came on board in February 2013 to replace a fulltime lifeguard, but Petrea doesn’t spend his time in the pool.

Rather, he’s tasked with overseeing Waynesville’s Special Olympics team and running programs such as kids camps for

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summer and spring break — and getting Base Camp Waynesville off the ground.

Base Camp Waynesville is Petrea’s brainchild, an effort to give Waynesvillians a gateway to the full spectrum of outdoor opportunities the area offers. Since Base Camp kicked off this winter, Petrea has organized hikes, whitewater rafting trips, a bird watching expedition and a tree-climbing workshop.

Coming up in May, activities will include a seniors’ jet boat ride at Lake Fontana, hosting a planning meeting for a hiking club, and leading a sampling of hikes.

That’s all part of a goal Parks and Recreation Director Rhett Langston has held since taking the helm.

“Since I arrived eight years ago, I’ve really wanted to get more progressive in utilizing the natural resources we’re fortunate to have in this area,” Langston said. “It’s a gradual process that we try to do more and more.”

When Petrea came on staff, it seemed like the right time to get that process rolling.

“I couldn’t think of a better person to execute the idea,” Langston said. “Tim has a true love and interest in the outdoors and, being a former schoolteacher, the outstanding rapport with children of all ages.”

OUTDOOR REC IN JACKSON COUNTY Of course, in Western North Carolina it’s not hard to find people with a love of the outdoors. That reality is a big part of a parallel

push to increase outdoor recreation programming in Jackson County, said County Manager Chuck Wooten. The county is in the midst of hiring a position dedicated to overseeing those activities.

“Our focus has really been on recreation centers and the various activities that evolve around those centers,” Wooten said. “As we started looking at it, we realized there was an opportunity there we hadn’t been taking advantage of.”

The county manager pointed to the mountains and rivers surrounding said recreation centers. In October, when long-time Parks and Recreation Director Jeff Carpenter retired, Wooten saw a chance to pursue such opportunities. The open position gave the county a chance to take a hard look at the department’s organizational structure.

Commissioners decided to change one of the two assistant director positions into an outdoor recreation manager position. The department has finished interviews for the position and expects to make a hire in the next week or so.

Max Lanning points out a rare wildflower to a group at Devil’s Fork State Park near Salem, S.C. Donated photo But enthusiasm for outdoor recreation can extend beyond that designated position.

“We want to increase our outdoor recreation activities and programs and also the facilities, the parks and greenway. Open space and conservation are going to be a big part of that,” said Max Lanning, Cashiers-based program coordinator who has been incorporating an outdoors focus into his own programs since his hire in January 2013.

Lanning, who earned a master’s degree in botany, has kept his schedule stocked with a series of wildflower walks and guided hikes.

Coming up, the Cashiers recreation center will offer an introduction to fly fishing workshop and a day dedicated to teaching kids how to fish.

“The staff got excited and embraced this whole concept, too,” Wooten said.

WHY IT’S IMPORTANT

For Lanning, increasing outdoor recreation opportunities is important partly because outdoor recreation is sometimes more financially accessible than team sports such as basketball or soccer. Some of the activities are free and others charge a small fee, while infrastructure like the soon-to-becompleted greenway allows people to get outside, exercise and enjoy their natural surroundings, all without paying a dime.

“People definitely love to get outside and do things that are free,” Lanning said.

But outdoor programming is also just another installment in a department’s continual evolution toward providing an everincreasing variety of recreation options, said Waynesville’s Parks and Recreation director.

“It all boils down to growth,” Langston explained. “Our department is growing not just in terms of facilities but also in terms of people utilizing or becoming more involved in our programs and facilities that we have. In order to keep up at that pace, it’s something that we feel like we need to constantly expand upon and take advantage of what we have in this area.”

Every year, the Waynesville Recreation Center gets about 140,000 visitors, and the armory gets several thousand more. The trend is toward more use, so Langston is hoping that expanding to offer outdoor recreation opportunities, in addition to the more traditional recreation options, will help to meet that demand.

For Petrea, though, the value of recreation opportunities is largely intrinsic. Western North Carolina is filled with natural beauty, networks of trails and ample waterways, but some people need a little help to start enjoying the opportunities around them. Sometimes, all it takes is someone to lead the way.

“The biggest thing I can’t stand to hear is ‘There’s nothing to do around here,’” Petrea said. “There’s so much to do around here if we could get out and do it.”

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MAKING THE CASE FOR DOCKIE A couple of years ago, Derrel Maxwell attended a bridge dedication in Franklin.

Nathan Henry, a Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war, was having a bridge over U.S. 441 named in his honor.

Some legislators were present at the naming ceremony, and Maxwell mentioned he’d like to see a Swain County bridge named in honor of Brendle.

“They said go for it, Derrell,” he recalls.

But Maxwell’s efforts hit a wall.

“We tried it, but it didn’t fly,” Maxwell says.

Apparently the North Carolina Department of Transportation wasn’t convinced that Brendle warranted a bridge naming. The DOT wanted more evidence of the veteran’s place in the Swain community.

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A FAMILIAR STRETCH The bridge that Brendle’s friends would like to see named in the Purple Heart recipient’s honor is in the Alarka area. Off U.S. 74, Exit 64.

“It don’t have a name,” says Maxwell.

Already, planted near the bridge, are placeholders.

“We put temporary signs up there,” Maxwell says.

“They’re still up there,” Bill Williams says.

“It’s probably illegal, but everyone in the DOT around here knows Dockie,” Maxwell laughs.

“They drove by when we were doing it,” Williams tells him.

The bridge off Exit 64 is familiar territory for Brendle. He grew up in Alarka. Used to work at a nearby vegetable stand when he was young.

“He walked that bridge thousands of times,” Maxwell says.

“Two or three times a day,” Brendle says.

Walking through the grass for a closer look at the temporary signage, the veterans talk about how “upbeat” and “positive” Brendle has remained despite the injuries he sustained. Brendle talks about the M-16 that Maxwell carved for him out of wood.

Brendle looks up and down the Alarka road. He thinks back to a time long ago.

Before the war.

“I use to walk 4 miles before four in the morning,” he laughs.

The veterans continue walking through the roadside grass. Brendle steadies his cane.

“We’ll pick you up if you go down,” Williams assures him.

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Dockie Brendle was 21 years old when he was drafted. He approached the task matterof-factly.

“I was thinking I had a job to do,” Brendle recalls.

During his time in Vietnam, Brendle ran into Bruce Cochran, who he knew from back home. They crossed paths briefly overseas.

“It was down below Saigon. Xuan, that’s where it was,” Cochran remembers. “That was great to see him. He was playing pool when I first saw him.”

The pair caught some R&R. Played some softball. Then parted ways far from home.

“His unit pulled out,” Cochran says.

“Don’t know where he went.”

“Down around Cambodia,” Brendle tells him, so many years later sitting in the Bojangles.

Brendle earned his three Purple Hearts as a result of three separate injuries. The injuries seemed to increase in intensity.

“I got shot in the right leg with a M1 carbine,” Brendle says of his first battle wound.

Next, mortar shrapnel hit him in the leg.

And later, near Saigon, he was hit in the chest and head by a rocket-propelled grenade.

“I blacked out when it first hit me,”

“They brought him up there in a wheelchair, and he talked to me for 45 minutes,” Brendle says. “It meant everything.”

Wounded as he was, Brendle was glad to be home from Vietnam. Away from war.

“Like heaven, divine,” he says.

But the reality the returning soldier found in the states wasn’t always receptive. He came back to a country that didn’t always accept him, a culture that didn’t always embrace him.

“Got spit on, got kicked, called babykillers,” recounts Brindle.

But not back in Bryson City. Things were fine for him there.

“No, no,” he says, “they were glad to have me home.”

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BY J EREMY MORRISON N EWS EDITOR he breakfast crowd in Bryson City’s Bojangles’ seems to know Dockie Brendle.

“Hello, Doc,” says a man at a nearby table.

“How are you?”

“I’m great,” Brendle tells him.

The Vietnam veteran is enjoying coffee with some friends. They go back a long ways.

“All four of us were there in ’68, for the Tet Offensive,” says Bill Williams.

While the collection of vets all served in Vietnam, Brendle is the only one to have earned three Purple Hearts. He’s also the only one to come home paralyzed on his left side and blind in his right eye.

And Brendle is the only Swain County veteran being celebrated — officially, via a resolution passed unanimously by county commissioners — on April 26 with Dockie Brendle Day. There will be food and drink. And a motorcade en route to the Swain County Senior Center in Bryson City, which starts at 10 a.m. on Veterans Boulevard.

“He’s gonna ride in my six-wheel Polaris Ranger,” smiles fellow veteran Derrell Maxwell. “I’ve got an ahh-ooo-ga horn.”

This celebration of Dockie Brendle isn’t just pleasant pomp and circumstance. It has a specific purpose.

“The naming of the bridge is long overdue,” explains Maxwell. “All of this is supporting the effort to get the bridge named after Dockie.”

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service,” says Jonathan Woodard, district engineer with NCDOT, Division 14, explaining that veterans needed to have received a Medal of Valor in order to be considered for Brendle says. “I had a fellow right behind me, naming rights, “Not a Purple Heart.” he didn’t make it.”

Woodard says that DOT requested that The soldier spent a while in a hospital in the veterans in Swain compile evidence that Japan. He was then transferred to Walter would demonstrate Brendle’s community Reed medical center in Washington, D.C. involvement following his return home.

That’s where he met former president Dwight “If they could provide some additional D. Eisenhower. information, we’d like to consider it,” he says.

“I met Nixon, Johnson too,” Brendle notes.

Thus the commissioners’ resolution for But Eisenhower, a five-star general, is the Dockie Brendle Day. And the 30 or so letters one he seems to remember most fondly. The of support that Maxwell has collected. And former president was at Walter Reed tending the petition that will be available for signing to his own medical concerns. during the April 26 celebration.

“We’re compiling everything,” Maxwell says.

He’s hoping this time will be different. With formal evidence of the community’s support for Brendle and the bridge naming, he’s hoping the DOT approves the request.

“I really feel good about this one this time,” Maxwell says.

While some effort is being made to convince the DOT, Brendle’s buddies say it’s not really necessary to validate the veteran. They talk about how Brendle seems to know everyone. How he was a regular “fencewalker” at local high school football Dockie Brendle (center) stands with fellow games for years. How he brings a smile to everyone’s face.

Vietnam veterans Bill Williams, Bruce Cochran and “He’s blown taps at hundreds of Derrell Maxwell near a temporary sign marking an veterans’ funerals to help comfort the Alarka bridge. Jeremy Morrison photo veterans’ families,” Maxwell says.

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Wrestling the ‘sleeping giant’ Local GOP deals with divide

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER leadership upheaval within the Haywood County GOP is far from settled, but some members are calling for a reconciliation of opposing camps within the party.

The internal power struggle in the local party should take a backseat to the more important task at hand: campaigning for Republican candidates who will be on the ballot this fall. At least that’s the appeal that Lisa Womack made to members of the executive committee at a party meeting earlier this month in Waynesville.

“All factions are trying our best to focus on our candidates because we don’t want them to be hurt by what is going on internally,” Womack said. “Sometimes you have to have these kinds of fusses to get back to what you are supposed to do. There are some hard-working people out there who are running, and we want to show them respect and help them.”

Following a speech along those lines to the GOP’s executive committee, Womack was elected as vice-chair of the party. The seat had been vacant for months, which seems to be par for the course lately.

Three of the five officer positions had been vacant. Womack filled one, but two remain up in the air. Disenchantment with the bickering and feuding — and in particular the relentless, needling criticisms from an activist faction within the party — prompted some officers to resign. New people willing to step up and take the roles have been slow to materialize.

Only one other person put their name in the hat for vice-chair aside from Womack. A newcomer on the scene, Matthew Heeb, also made a bid for vice-chair and also pledged to pull the party together.

“I am on the side of the Republican Party and would like to see a unified, active and successful local party,” said Heeb, when asked which faction he hailed from. “I want to try to help them organize.”

Heeb, a fulltime student and head of the newly founded Young Republicans Club in Haywood County, offered an objective take as a neutral outsider.

“I don’t think they are as far apart as they think. I think both sides can pull together,” said Heeb.

Whether that can happen remains to be seen, however.

“I think they want to,” Womack said.

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TOO MUCH BAGGAGE? Beyond the calls for reconciliation, the party remains in a state of turmoil after a faction of the executive committee called for the ousting of Haywood GOP Chair Pat Carr earlier this month.

Two factions of the party have been at loggerheads for nearly a year. They fundamentally disagree on the role of the party.

A faction of conservative purists want to play an activist role, staking out platform positions on local issues and vocally pushing for conservative principals in local government.

Mainstream Republicans prefer the traditional and more limited role of the local party, namely recruiting and supporting Republican candidates. They fear being too outspoken will backfire and ultimately harm the party if it is viewed as a bunch of ideological extremists.

Carr represents the traditional camp of the party and is now in a power struggle with the activist faction.

It is unclear whether the activist faction has enough votes to force Carr down, however. The decision rests with the executive committee of the party, which includes the five officers and all the precinct chairs — which fluctuates around 28 people, depending on vacancies among officers and precinct chairs at any given time.

While the faction had enough votes to call for Carr’s ousting, they need a two-thirds majority of the executive committee to side with them. A formal vote had not been scheduled as of last week.

Even among the faction that is dissatisfied with Carr’s leadership of the party, there are varying views. Some merely wanted to censure Carr rather than call for her removal. But those calling for her removal ultimately prevailed, and plan to call for a formal vote in the proceedings is in the near future.

Womack’s election as vice-chair could be a harbinger for the direction of the party.

Womack was championed for vice-chair by the same activist faction that is pushing to oust Carr. Following the meeting where Womack was elected vice-chair, the ringleaders of the activist faction were all smiles as they flowed out of party headquarters and spilled into the parking lot.

But Womack said she is committed to serving the best interest of the party as a whole, not one faction over another.

“They all know that’s my desire,” said Womack, who has been actively involved in the Haywood Republican Party for several years, including serving as party secretary in the past.

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GROWING PAINS Republicans, while still in the minority in Haywood County, have grown in number over the past decade.

The party is now trying to find its voice in the local political landscape, but it is having to build its own scaffolding as it goes.

By comparison, Haywood Democrats are more organized, thanks to a continuum of leadership with an institutional knowledge of the party’s by-laws.

“They know their party’s rules,” said Womack, who has family members who are Democrats.

The Republican Party, meanwhile, has been bogged down in recent months trying to navigate what its standard operating procedures are, or at least what they should be.

“I think that has been a bit of a struggle,” Womack said.

The executive committee of the local GOP has spent untold hours fighting over mundane protocols for handling their business meetings — the process for preparing meeting agendas, when to disseminate those agendas, who is permitted to make motions, how committees should be appointed, how vacancies should be filled, and so on.

“I have sat through some of those meetings, and I didn’t enjoy it, and I know they didn’t enjoy it. We want things to settle back down and return to business as usual,” Womack said.

While the machinations over protocols seem petty, they matter.

Whoever sets the agenda controls what gets talked about and voted on. The activist faction of the party claims the agenda is being tightly controlled in a concerted effort to shut them out, or at the very least, keep them at arms’ length.

They say they can’t get issues placed on the agenda prior to the meeting, but if they

try to discuss it anyway, they are told they can’t because it isn’t on the agenda.

“The executive committee is the leadership of the Republican Party. We should decide what issues to discuss, what resolutions we come up with, what goes on the agenda,” said Jonnie Cure, a Republican precinct chair and member of the activist faction.

They are also upset they don’t get a copy of the agenda until a couple of days before the meeting — and in the past, not until they show up for the meeting.

“Everyone should have the agenda and see ‘OK, here’s what we are working on.’ They don’t want us to have access to it,” said Eddie Cabe, a precinct chair of the executive committee and member of the activist faction.

“Keeping everything secret and everyone in the dark till the last minute is a planned strategy by Pat Carr.”

However, at February’s GOP meeting, Carr asked everyone there — including Cabe — what items they wanted on the agenda of the next meeting, and no one spoke up, according to the minutes of the meeting.

Ultimately, an ad-hoc committee was named to tackle the agenda tussle and develop a protocol for how the agenda is created and circulated.

To Lynda Bennett, a Republican from no particular faction, the turmoil isn’t all that shocking.

The party’s executive committee underwent a major expansion last year from just five members to nearly 30. Before, only the five party officers served on the executive committee. But a movement led by the activist faction changed that, adding precinct chairs as voting members of the executive committee.

“The main concern at the time was it would be difficult to manage.

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FORK IN THE ROAD Some mainstream Republicans, however, fear for the direction of the party should the activist faction take over completely. They fear it could become a vehicle for the ideological extreme of the party, touting platform positions “in the name of ” the party, even if they don’t in fact represent the majority of Republicans in the county.

The activist faction has called for a straw poll or resolution on local issues twice in the past year.

One called on the county to “do over” its property revaluations, claiming the property values on tax rolls now are intentionally laced with bias to extort more property taxes out of certain classes of people.

A second one denounced a county proposal to increase the tourism tax on overnight lodging to build or improve tourism-related attractions and venues.

Both party resolutions passed, and both were presented to county commissioners with the weight of the Haywood County Republican Party behind them.

principals for years, but the Republican Party always sat on its hands and went along to get along. Now, with their numbers building in Haywood County, the party has a chance to do something.

“The party is evolving. It is the sleeping giant,” Cure said.

Now is not the time, the activist faction argues, to do what’s always been done.

“We want to increase the effectiveness of the party,” Cure said. “There are timid people who don’t feel capable of leading on policy issues.”

Samantha Battell from Maggie Valley believes the party won’t reach its full potential unless the old leadership steps aside and makes way for the conservative activists.

“There is a vast amount of knowledge in there,” said Battell, speaking in the parking lot outside the Haywood Republican meeting last week. “You have people wanting to change the direction the county is going right now. I think we need a leader who will lead.”

Bennett said the party chair has a challenging job.

“They should be very cautious because they represent all 12,000 Republicans in the county and not just this person or that person, or this idea or that idea,” Bennett said.

“The chair has to be so mild-mannered it might aggravate people, but they have to be because they represent 12,000 people.”

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FEAR TACTICS Many mainline Republicans have declined to comment for this article, fearing they would come in the cross-hairs of mass email attacks.

Haywood Commissioner Kevin Ensley has been on the receiving end of these for a few years now for not being conservative enough despite his Republican affiliation. The insult of RINO — Republican in Name Only — is used liberally to describe any Republican who is not Republican enough in the conservative purists’ view.

Ensley said mainstream Republicans in the party are now scared to speak out or go against the activist faction.

That’s exactly the response given by Ray Warren, a precinct chair and longtime party volunteer, when asked for a comment on the current situation within the party.

“They have called me all kind of things,” Warren said. “They have called me a RINO and a liberal. Why all the arguing and calling

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But some mainstream members of the party have another fear: that the activists are only interested in making noise. There’s doubt whether they will do the busy work of actually running a The conservative activists claim political party should they gain control. they would pitch in more — moneySomeone has to coordinate food for party gatherings, recruit wise and labor-wise — if they were and organize volunteers for brought into the fold rather than polling sites on Election Day, put up signs for candidates, fill out held at bay on the periphery. They receipts for donations, type up the want a voice and say in the minutes of monthly party meetings, host meet-and-greet funcdirection of the party, not just to be tions for candidates, or simply take out the trash and wash the called on when it’s time to give windows at party headquarters. money or make potluck dishes for The biggest kicker, of course, is fundraising. the annual convention.

It was one of the first signs of a fracture within the party shortly But in reality, the resolutions came from a after the executive committee was expanded relatively small handful of Republicans who to include precinct chairs.

Mainstream Republicans on the executive show up at party gatherings. Whether the 12,000 registered Republicans in the county board suggested a required donation of $20 a month from each precinct chair to help pay agree is a mystery.

The activist faction that has risen to rent and overhead for the party’s headquarpower within the party would like to take ters. Theoretically, they could raise it within their precinct, or just pay it themselves. But stands on more issues, more frequently.

Some believe this is what the conservative the idea of a mandatory monthly contribuactivists were after all along: gaining control tion didn’t sit well with some precinct chairs.

So a new suggestion was made that would of the Republican Party to lend clout and crebase the monthly contribution per precinct dence to their own positions.

Some have been long-time critics of the on a sliding scale, depending on the size of powers that be in Haywood County govern- the precinct, with the county’s smallest ment, but the backing of a political party cer- precincts ponying up just $4 a month.

Still, some opposed the idea of “dues” on tainly gives them a louder voice.

Cure claims it is the other way around. principle, and it was deemed a monthly She has been standing up for conservative “goal” rather than a mandatory payment.

Over the past year, turmoil in the party has slowed donations. Kevin Ensley, a county commissioner and a Republican, said the faction behind the infighting is hurting the party.

“The party cannot raise money to support candidates,” Ensley said. “The party has become dysfunctional, and that will hurt the candidates come November.”

The activist faction hasn’t given robustly because they felt shut out. And many mainstream Republicans fed up with the party had quit giving as well, saying they would redirect their support to individual candidates instead of the local party.

Funds dipped so low some members recently questioned whether the party could afford the roughly $600 a month for rent and utilities to keep headquarters open, according to the minutes of a February executive committee meeting.

As of late February, the party had only $2,100, lackluster donations coming in and no fundraising activities of any sort scheduled. The Kevin Ensley executive committee voted not to close headquarters, however, but to find a way to come up with the money.

The conservative activists claim they would pitch in more — money-wise and labor-wise — if they were brought into the fold rather than held at bay on the periphery.

They want a voice and say in the direction of the party, not just to be called on when it’s time to give money or make potluck dishes for the annual convention.

The activist faction also believes there are more effective ways of reaching voters than making sausage balls or crock-pot chili for party gatherings.

Having a vocal and robust Facebook page, staging issues forums, holding petition drives, speaking at county commissioner meetings — these do more to move the bar on local government policies.

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As the Republican Party works through its growing pains, some personalities have added fuel to the fire due to aggressive tactics.

“Things are said and done in ways that are not the best, friendliest way to discuss these issues,” Bennett said. “Both sides say things that are inflammatory and both sides say things that hurt the other’s feelings.”

The activist faction has excelled at using email as a weapon of intimidation, launching a barrage of personal attacks against those who disagree with them to a massive list of recipients as an audience to the assault.

Monroe Miller, a precinct vice-chair and member of the activist faction, was generating so much email to party members, some of it unwanted, that “removal from email list” was among the agenda topics at this month’s party meeting.

“I have read all the emails over the past few months between Mr. Miller and others and have come to the conclusion that we as Haywood County Republicans are dysfunctional. How can we support candidates when we are so busy pecking each other? Let’s spend our energies on joining together to win elections for our candidates, not on trivial issues,” Susan Brown, a precinct secretary, urged in an email of her own to Miller this month.

Miller has been labeled as both “caustic” and a “bully” for the critical emails he sends out about others. These criticisms against Miller, ironically, were also penned in emails, which were obtained through a public records request to county officials regularly cc:ed on Miller’s email traffic.

Miller replied in an email that his tactics are necessary when met by “pushback.”

Cabe, who also generates a copious volume of critical emails, said those in his camp have been forced to assert themselves louder and louder. They have been labeled as troublemakers, but that misses the main point: If precinct chairs were given a voice in shaping the direction of the party, there wouldn’t have been a conflict in the first place.

“For many years the Haywood GOP has been run by a handful of officers who did not want any interference from those Republicans outside their little group,” Cabe wrote in a complaint to the state party about

the issues in Haywood.

Adding precinct chairs to the executive committee has caused “great stress” to that inner circle, who view the precinct chairs with “disdain and contempt,” Cabe said.

The activist faction believes in the conservative principles they are standing up for and won’t quit, Cure said.

“They have grit,” Cure said, painting the faction as the epitome of a grassroots movement.

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ed, and sure enough there have been growing pains,” Bennett said. “We have made adjustments, but more have to be made.”

Governing by committee is not easy, however. The activist faction wants precinct chairs to be consulted at every turn, and weigh in on every move, making the process cumbersome.

While the Haywood County Democratic Party has an executive committee that’s twice as large as the newly expanded Republican one — the Democratic executive committee includes not only precinct chairs but also vice-chairs — the day-to-day of party business is run by a much smaller subset. The core Democratic party officers develop the agenda, for example, not the whole executive committee. The rest of the executive committee gets handed a copy when they arrive for the monthly meeting.

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people names? I don’t quite understand what their point is. It is all negative.”

Warren said he did not want to comment for fear of riling them up against him.

Ultimately, several Republicans disenchanted by the melee with the local party have walked away.

Paul Turner, who was the party’s finance and fundraising chair, recently resigned his position. He likewise changed his party affiliation to independent.

“I resigned as the finance chair because I did not like the direction the Haywood GOP was going. I am interested in issues that are important to Haywood County and electing good candidates to office,” Turner said.

Ensley said the goal of the activist faction is to drive others away so they can increase their own hold on the party.

Here is a mass email sent out last month

by Miller, after another mainstream Republican vacated his seat as precinct chair.

“Where the heck is Tony Beaman on the list of Precinct Chairs? Where the [Expletive Deleted] is he? Did he punch out also? These people are dropping like flies. Can’t wait for Ray Warren or Clarissa Kuehn to punch out!”

Miller wrote, citing by name two hold-outs among mainstream Republicans who have hung in on the executive committee.

Ensley postulated that the party has nearly reached the “tipping point,” if not already there, with the activist faction now in the majority on the executive committee.

It seemed the only way to extract them from the party was political maneuvering.

So last month, at the party’s annual convention, a surprise motion was brought to the floor to kick precinct chairs off the executive committee.

At least it was a surprise to the activist faction. Mainstream Republicans, including Carr, knew the motion was coming. They had, in fact, been planning it for weeks, but kept it quiet.

“It is seen by far too many Republicans as a sly, underhanded attempt to turn back the clock and return to the ineffective, inefficient, pitiful attempt to exclusively control and rule our Haywood County Republican Party,” Cure wrote in an email to Carr following the convention.

The move to shed the precinct chairs was justified by mainstream Republicans as a lastditch effort to save the party from a takeover by the activist faction. The surprise element was part and parcel to their strategy, it seems.

At the annual party convention, any Republican who shows up is allowed to vote.

The key is who shows up.

If the activist faction knew about the plan to kick precinct chairs off the executive committee, they would have mustered as big a turnout from their faction as possible.

While there are scores of mainstream Republicans who would like to see the activist faction ousted from their power seats, whether they would have showed up for a showdown with the activist faction is uncertain.

“They don’t participate,” Ensley said.

“People just don’t want to go anymore.”

Ultimately, the motion to downsize the executive committee was withdrawn after a hue-and-cry erupted.

The maneuvering by Carr to strip the precinct chairs from the executive committee angered the activist faction.

“Your actions will have a very long-lasting and negative effect on our Party,” Cabe wrote in an email to Carr after the convention.

Cabe said it also violated the party’s rules by conducting business without “the knowledge, consent, or approval of the executive voting members.”

In retaliation, the activist faction turned the tables a few weeks later by calling for Carr’s ousting.

However, the secret bid to cut out the precinct chairs is not much different than what the activist faction did to gain power in the first place. They had likewise plotted, in their own secret strategy meetings, how to infiltrate the party’s leadership structure — first with a concerted plan to snatch up precinct chairs and then pushing for a vote to make themselves part of the executive committee.

Precinct chairs serve as a critical bridge between the party structure and rank-and-file

Mainstream Republicans prefer the traditional and more limited role of the local party, namely recruiting and supporting Republican candidates.

They fear being too outspoken will backfire and ultimately harm the party if it is viewed as a bunch of ideological extremists.

voters at the neighborhood level.

There are usually few, if any, takers for the role of precinct chair, however. Many of the 29 precincts in the county didn’t even have precinct chairs within the Republican Party until a couple of years ago.

Who — if anyone — claims the title depends solely on who shows up to the party convention where precinct chairs are elected every other year. At last year’s convention, many precincts had only two or three people come — five from a precinct was considered a good showing — making it easy for members of the activist faction to walk on.

At the same party gathering, a vote passed to make precinct chairs official members of the executive committee, completing the plan.

Strategizing to undo that move isn’t terribly different from the strategizing by the other side a year ago.

But closing the door once the horse is out of the barn is never easy, and taking on the party’s own voting members has proven a far more dangerous game.

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He charges $125 for each hour he spends at a birthday party. That is unless it comprises more than 16 children, after which he tends to charge more.

The reason, he said, is the amount of time and money he has sunk into the activity. It can easily cost several hundred dollars for costumes, shoes, supplies and training.

At the same time, he described clowning as a “heart form,” involving long hours of preparation and, perhaps most important, an enduring level of candor.

The thought of working as such an entertainer emerged about nine years ago, after Boone completed a training session at a clown school in Taccoa, Ga., as part of a stint as an assistant to a professional clown. The role was mainly technical, helping with things like setting up sound systems for shows.

He later returned to the school, TNT University, learning the fundamentals, from applying makeup to conducting oneself in costume.

He has since displayed what has remained his bestknown skill — twisting balloons — at birthday parties, restaurants and parades.

While Boone has come to find fulfillment in trying to entertain children while in clown costume — scheduling visits to elementary schools and homes for birthday parties — and has also spent time doubling as a Santa Claus, he’s quick to dismiss any notion that such a role is an extension of his

Gloria Stockton (left), a member of the Mountain Merry Makers.

since organized introductory classes on clowning, seeking to encourage involvement among aspiring clowns, however few, in the western part of the state.

Beyond that, its members have sought to dispel any lingering misconceptions about clowns.

They have “gotten some bad press” over the years, Robbins said, particularly given

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BY JAKE FLANNICK CORRESPONDENT f wardrobes are a form of self-expression, then Gloria Stockton has a whimsical flair.

She would say the opposite, of course.

But the bright pink, polka dot smock, colorful high-top shoes and green-dyed hair in which she sometimes leaves her home in Sylva suggests otherwise.

The outfit is part of her routine of dressing up as a clown, a persona she has used in recent years to try to “bring a little touch of happiness” to places where such an emotional state might seem less obvious.

“The satisfaction is just seeing one person smile,” said Stockton, whose weekly visits to a couple of assisted living facilities in the area usually involve playing a keyboard and twirling a hula hoop in their common areas.

Stockton, 70, who is retired and spends these days working as a potter, is not the only one with such a commitment.

She is part of a group of more than a dozen professional clowns across the region, mostly in and around Asheville and Hendersonville. The group, Mountain Merry Makers, has arranged appearances at gatherings big and small over the past year, from festivals and parades to birthday parties.

It is less of a troupe than an association, with some of its 16 members working on a freelance basis and none of them basing their livelihood on clowning.

Even so, members are instructed to project a sense of professionalism, even in their jest.

“If I look bad, so do the rest,” said Larry Boone, the president of the group.

Clowning has remained a source of income for Boone, 64, a retired mechanical designer who works part time for a transportation company in Hendersonville, where he has spent his entire life.

their depictions in movies over the years that perhaps have cultivated what she and others said is a level of ambivalence toward the entertainers.

The number of professional clowns across the country has decreased over the years, amid fading interest and older generations retiring from such roles. The World Clown Association, the largest trade group in the country for clowns, has lost about 1,000 members, declining from 3,500 to 2,500 over the past decade, according to The New York Daily News.

Still, some clowns remain. Among them are what are known as caring clowns, who schedule visits to hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

That is the role in which Stockton, the clown in Sylva, has sought to show compassion since she came to clowning after a visit with her older sister in an assisted living facility about four years ago. Her sister, who is receiving medical treatment, no longer displayed as much enthusiasm for seeing her visiting family members.

After spending much time considering how to lift her sister’s spirits, Stockton turned to the Georgia clown school, eventually completing training there. Shortly thereafter, she returned to her sister’s room, donning the costume for which Stockton now is best known: a Texas-style cowgirl, spurs and all.

It was a step that came as a surprise to her family members, including her husband and five adult children, given that she has long considered herself more reserved.

“I have no clue where this came from,” Stockton, who spent much of her life doing clerical work, said of the idea of clowning.

“I’ve never been a funny person.”

At the same time, she added that she believes it “comes through an artistic spirit.”

Among the aspects of her role that she considers most gratifying is the chance to tickle her audience, many of whom go long periods without seeing their family.

“You have to learn about being a child again,” she said, referring not only to her own training as a clown, but to others whom she tries to entertain.

Beyond that, she sees it as a reminder that laughter knows no boundaries.

“Everyone has a sense of humor, packed away somewhere,” Stockton said.

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personality.

“I’m not naturally funny,” he said, describing himself as the “more quiet, serious type.”

Such traits are not apparent when talking with Betty Robbins, the vice president of the group, for whom clowning has remained a constant theme since the late 1980s.

That was when she started volunteering as a silent, white-faced clown as part of a church in Virginia she had long attended with her family.

At first, she balked at such an idea, which her children had embraced as teenagers. She was busy, working as a nurse at the time and later returning to college for a bachelor’s degree in gerontology.

But she has grown to use her role as a kind of ministry, seeking to spread a sense of whimsy not only among children, but among those entangled in the hardships of life.

“I’m a humor therapist,” Robbins, 67, said. “I do it for fun.”

Mountain Merry Makers formed about a year ago, when Robbins approached Boone about forming the group. The group has

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Jackson tourism board considers possibility of executive director

BY J EREMY MORRISON N EWS E DITOR he Jackson County Tourism Development Authority may be ready to start thinking about hiring an executive director. Board members of the stillnew tourism organization are currently forming an exploratory committee to ponder the possibilities. “And figure out exactly what an executive director would do for us,� explained Robert Jumper, chairman of the tourism board.

Jackson County’s tourism authority formed last year. The volunteer board currently has no paid staff, but instead contracts work — ranging from specific marketing jobs to handling the day-to-day logistics — to outside firms, as well as to the Jackson County and Cashiers chambers of commerce.

Jumper said board members will now assess the need for an executive director. It’s not a need they are convinced is warranted, but there is an appetite for exploration. “We don’t want to sit there and, based on our arbitrary thoughts, say ‘we don’t need an executive director,’� Jumper said. “We want something concrete.�

The chairman said that the conversation concerning a position that would be considered “the face of the TDA� is still in its infancy. Specifics, such as a potential salary, have not been breeched.

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“We’re not even there yet,� Jumper said. “We’re not even discussing the actual hiring of one. [This is] to see if it’s even feasible.�

The chairman said that the workload currently falling to volunteer board members could justify hiring an executive director. He said the position could also absorb some of the responsibility currently held by marketing agencies or the two chambers; reassigning such responsibilities would also carry budgetary shifts — funds currently dedicated to outside contracts or the chambers could be steered toward the executive director position.

Currently, Jackson’s tourism authority is working with a $600,000 annual budget, supported by the county’s lodging tax. This year’s budget includes a $261,600 marketing budget; a $28,800 public relations contract with Atlanta-based Pineapple Advertising; an $18,000 contract with Sylva-based Innsights Internet Marketing for social media work; a total of $81,360 to the Jackson County chamber for services and rent; a total of $74,400 to the Cashiers chamber for services and rent; and $1,900 to the Dillsboro visitor’s center.

During the tourism authority’s meeting this month, Jumper told board members to expect the exploratory committee to be formed by the group’s May meeting.

Also during its recent meeting, the tourism authority decided to take an active

“We don’t want to sit there and, based on our arbitrary thoughts, say ‘we don’t need an executive director.’ We want something concrete.� — Robert Jumper, Jackson County Tourism Development Authority

role in encouraging the area’s local accommodations to get involved with Smith Travel Research, or STR. The Tennessee-based firm provides market analysis and data for the hotel industry. “It’s a very detailed report for accommodations to track their progress,� explained Chairman Jumper.

Some board members expressed concerns about getting smaller establishments to get on board with STR. While larger hotel chains automatically have their particulars assessed by the company, smaller lodging establishments will need to routinely provide information to STR. Vick Pattel, a board member with three establishments hooked up with STR, said the added effort could pose a participation hurdle. “You’d have to manually submit,� Pattel explained. “That’s where the problem comes in for the momand-pop businesses.�

Board members also received an update this month on social media efforts from Mary Anne Baker, of Innsights. She informed the board that its Facebook advertising campaign was geotargeting the North Carolina and Tennessee markets. Currently, the campaign is aiming for people with an interest in waterfalls; the target may be changed periodically to focus on people interested in “golf or tennis or destination weddings or whatever.�

The Facebook campaign is measured by the number of “likes� received. At the time of the TDA meeting, the “likes� stood at 1,440. “A week ago we had 339, so the ad campaign is going much better than expected,�

Baker said.

Wearing it on their sleeves When cyclists roll through Jackson County during the Tour de Cashiers May 3, some of them will be sporting new jerseys. “This is the official bike jersey,� said Stephanie Edwards, executive director of the Cashiers Chamber of Commerce, Edwards showed off the jersey’s graphics recently to her cohorts on the Jackson County Tourism Development Authority.

The bike jersey features a lush mountain landscape and the event name.

But Edwards and members of the tourism board seemed most excited about a circular logo emblazoned on each sleeve. This logo, employing the slogan “Play On,� is the result of the TDA’s branding efforts. “On the day of the event,� Edwards explained, “that will debut on the sleeves of many of our riders.�

In addition to being featured on the Tour de Cashiers jerseys, the logo will also be used in tourism efforts throughout the county and beyond. It will be featured in advertisements and prominently posted in visitor centers.

Exuding a sense of recreation and triggering the want for activities such as hiking, biking and golf, the new brand is intended to solidify the area in the minds of tourists.

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CHALLENGES OF THE OFFICE: “It’s always been that we’ve had heavy caseloads, but it seems that recently our caseloads have been bigger — it’s all a matter of too much work and too little time.”

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Opal Barker, 59 OCCUPATION: Branch manager of Jackson Savings Bank in Bryson City FAMILY: Barker has three children and two grandchildren. She is married to Ronnie Barker.

PHILOSOPHY IF ELECTED: “I will be everyone’s clerk of court.”

IMPROVEMENTS TO BE MADE: “One thing that office should be is cross-trained.

Anybody that comes in there, they should be able to get an answer that day.”

CAMPAIGN STRATEGY: “I’m hoping to get a lot of independents.”

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THE MACHINE: “I think it’s getting weaker. I think a lot of people just feel like that should be over with.”

and telling me they support me.” local Democratic Party leaders got to do the One reason Barker feels that her chances of appointing, since that was the party of the perwinning the clerk’s seat are better this time son who stepped down. Sitton subsequently around is because of her belief that people have won the clerk’s seat via an election in 2010. grown wary of “the machine.”

“They have went ahead and appointed a In Swain County, clerk before election there is a perception time and then that by some that the powclerk is considered ers-that-be long ago been-there-done-that, locked down a revolvan incumbent,” ing and evolving sysBarker said. “They use The Smoky Mountain News has protem that serves to the experience factor filed state and local races leading up to benefit those that in campaigning.” next month’s primary. To catch up on the they know.

Sitton bristles at past election coverage, go to “It’s a group of the notion of a www.smokymountainnews.com and click Democrats that have ‘machine.’ She sees on “A voter’s guide to the 2014 election.” had a strong control nothing nefarious Early voting starts April 24 and runs on the Democrat about her professionthrough May 3. Election Day is on May 6. party over a number al roots. of years,” Barker “I don’t know explained. “It’s pretty much a control thing. It’s about any machine,” Sitton said. “I don’t feel a lot of who-you-know.” like I’m part of any machine.”

The challenger points to Sitton as a case in For Sitton, talk of ‘the machine’ is tiresome point. The incumbent went to work for former conversation. She believes voters will see her clerk Sarah Robinson, who eventually retired, experience as a positive and says there is no with Helen Styles appointed to the office. place in the clerk’s office for politics or favor.

Styles, too, retired before her term was up, “It does not come into play in the job that I paving the way for Sitton’s appointment. The do,” Sitton said.

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BY J EREMY MORRISON N EWS E DITOR wain County’s clerk of court race is an early-season affair. With no challengers looming on November’s general election horizon, the contest will be decided in next month’s primary.

The Swain clerk’s contest is also a race that offers voters a stark choice. A choice between old and new, between same and change.

While incumbent Hester Sitton is running on her record and experience, challenger Opal Barker points to what she considers to be an insider political lineage and hopes the electorate has an appetite for change.

Both Sitton and Barker are local girls. Both were born and raised in Swain County. Each graduated from Swain High School.

Since 1989, Sitton has worked in the clerk of court’s office. Barker has spent nearly 40 years working in banking.

Come May 6, Swain voters will decide if they want to stick with what they’ve got, or switch to something new. To both candidates, the choice is obvious.

“I know a lot about everything that goes on in the office. I do answer questions about criminal issues, I do answer questions about traffic issues, I do answer questions about juvenile issues,” Sitton said. “It would be very difficult for someone that hasn’t had any judicial training to come in and do the clerk’s work.”

Barker points to a skillset she feels would cross over nicely to the work at the clerk’s office.

“I have a lot of training in customer service,” she said. “I help people. I do home loans.

I’m a mortgage officer.”

The current clerk touts her “experience” and “knowledge.” She hopes to put such attributes to work for another four years.

“I love the people of Swain County and being able to help them,” Sitton said.

Barker doesn’t view the clerk’s experience in the same light. It is such experience, in fact, that she is running against.

“I feel we need leadership,” Barker said, “new leadership in this office who would show respect and dignity to everyone, not just a chosen few.”

The challenger is hoping voters are also ready for new leadership. She believes they are more ready this year than the last time she tried for the clerk’s seat, in 2010.

“I just feel now is a better time,” Barker said.

“So many people encouraged me. Before, I just kind of ran on my own. [This year] even people that didn’t support me last time are coming

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he verdict is in, and Jackson County Justice Center is a little too small. To be exact, it’s 35,807 square feet too small.

At least according to the results of a needs assessment by Heery International, the same company that designed and built the Haywood County courthouse in the early 2000s.

“Are we still able to hold court today? Yes, we are,” said Superior Court Judge Bradley Letts, who has been involved in the process since the beginning. “But as the years tick by, it’s going to become more and more challenging for us to do that.”

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filings have dipped slightly since the recession hit, between 1987 and 2012 those numbers have risen 176 percent.

“I can say with 99 percent certainty there will be more filings 10 years from now than there are now,” Letts said.

It was that squeeze that prompted Letts to bring the matter to the commissioners’ attention, and that’s what spurred them to sign a $34,000 contract with Heery for a needs assessment. After signing the contract in October, Heery surveyed people who use and work in the building about their space needs,

and then the company sent a team of people to spend a week touring the building and interviewing those people who work there.

After synthesizing those results with rules of thumb about courthouse space and design, Heery came back with its recommendations.

The results suggested that Jackson County consider an addition that would add half again as much space to the existing justice center portion of the county building, but space wasn’t the only topic of discussion.

“In terms of building security, our initial assessment is that judicial operations are not

very secure,” said Doug Kleppin, vice president of Heery’s design branch. “The only screening that occurs is at the entrance to individual courtrooms.”

Of the 21 county courthouses Letts has been to, he told commissioners, 17 have full building security. The four without — Jackson, Macon, Swain and Graham — are all in this neck of the woods.

“I think that when we talk about security in a courthouse, the general public thinks about security for the judges, the jury, the prosecutor — things of that nature — but that’s not necessarily true,” said Shannon Ashe, special agent for the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation. “There’s the victims, the defendant and people who just come to watch court. And we have a duty to protect them.”

Screening for weapons is one part of security, but maintaining separate corridors for victims, defendants and the general public is also key. Modern courthouses have separate avenues for each of these groups, but that’s not the case right now in Jackson County.

Accessibility is also an issue, Kleppin said.

When it was first built in the 1990s, the building met the standards required, but that’s not the case anymore. To prove the point, he showed commissioners a photograph of a men’s restroom labeled handicapped-accessible.

“I would tell you that a person in a wheel chair could probably not get into that space.

If they did get in, they could not get out,” Kleppin said.

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office, each hallway, each closet and sketching out some floor plans. From there, commissioners would have a better idea of what 35,000 square feet would get them — and of how much it would cost. Wooten anticipates a cost of $300 to $375 per square foot, so that adds up fast. However, he said, going for it just might prove the wisest course of action.

“It probably would be wise to try and bite the bullet and do the whole project,” he said.

“Otherwise, I suspect 15 years from now whoever is here will be talking about how do we renovate this building.”

And, County Attorney J.K Coward pointed out, commissioners might not have much choice.

Though Letts presented his case “diplomatically,” Coward told commissioners, “This is the judicial branch of the government telling the legislative branch you have to do something. It’s not optional. It’s not something you can say, ‘Let’s put it off until the next batch gets elected.’”

Of course, it will take well beyond the next election before a new justice center is completed and in use, if indeed commissioners go that route. It will take time to plan the project, do the construction and renovate the existing building, probably four to five years before it’s all said and done.

But that all depends on the county commission’s next move.

“I think the ball’s kind of in our court now with this information,” Wooten said. “I think we do have a need.”

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Heery delivered a set of options for commissioners to consider when deciding whether to move ahead with the project, favoring an alternative that would build the entire 35,000 square feet onto the front of the building as designated courtroom space.

“The purpose shouldn’t just be office space,” he said. “It should be judicial space.”

Going forward, commissioners will have to take a good hard look at the needs assessment and then decide whether to move forward any further with the project.

“We’re still not close to the idea of putting a shovel in the ground, but I think our next step would be to look at programming, a schematic drawing,” said Chuck Wooten, Jackson County manager.

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ence members, for anyone else involved with court proceedings or related county functions.

Wayfinding, or directional signage, also needs improvement. Heery’s needs assessment found that the building is difficult to navigate, a significant challenge when you’re dealing with people who might already be living one of the most stressful days of their lives, Kleppin said.

Kleppin also recommended an overhaul of the building’s mechanical and electrical systems. Such systems are much more energyefficient today, he said, and the ones in place now are reaching the end of their life anyway.

“You expect a life expectancy around 20 years and that’s where you’re at,” Kleppin said of the mechanical system. “They’re doing fine, but they live outside. There’s corrosion, there are things that just start to impact that equipment.”

In addition, he said, the study revealed that fire alarms and exit lighting might not be precisely up to code.

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While Jackson County commissioners are deciding how to respond to a needs assessment declaring their courthouse 35,000 feet too small, they’ll have another choice to consider: whether to make space for an administrative law judge to sit in Jackson County.

“We want to have a local presence. We don’t want everything to be done in Raleigh,” Julian Mann, director and chief administrative law judge in the state, told Jackson County commissioners Monday night. “We want to replicate what’s been done in Guilford County and in Mecklenburg County and have the local bar, the local citizens to go through the process of determining who that judge will be.”

Administrative law deals with everything from alcohol permitting to hospital regulations to environmental cases, Mann said, and so would have ample applicability to issues Western North Carolina deals with.

By having a judge sitting in Western North Carolina, people in the region would have more access to that kind of legal resource, and people who otherwise would never make the trip to Sylva would find themselves spending time there, Mann said.

“What the office of administrative hearings really gets out of this is the ability to rotate judges in the western part of the state and complete a circuit,” Mann said.

There’s a catch, though. Jackson County would have to provide the approximately 4,000 square feet needed to house the judge and the spaces he would use.

That’s space not factored into the 35,000square-foot addition a recently released needs assessment calls for. At $300 to $325 per square feet, that’s not cheap.

Commissioners will not likely make a decision on Mann’s offer until after they get further along in the planning process and have a better idea of the project’s scope and cost, said Chuck Wooten, Jackson County manager.

“I think once you get that it will give you an idea as to whether you want to do that or not,” Wooten said.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER The bridge carrying eastbound Main Street traffic across the Little Tennessee River in Franklin will be close to 90 years old by the time its newly planned replacement is up and running at the end of 2017. The N.C. Department of Transportation will take care of costs for the $2.1-million project — almost.

The bridge plans call for a 10-foot pedestrian and bicycle pathway alongside the traffic lanes, an improvement from the 5-foot sidewalk currently in place. Many bikers and pedestrians use the bridge because it connects the town’s Little Tennessee Greenway from one side of the river to the other.

But with no physical barrier between motorized and non-motorized lanes, Franklin Town Manager Warren Cabe said, the increased width would offer little improvement in safety.

“They would not, and could not in their funding, pay for a railing between the traffic lane and the pedestrian lane,” Cabe said.

So, at a special meeting in March, the town board voted unanimously to pay up to $36,000 to build a 3.5-inch concrete barrier to separate the two zones.

The bridge, built in 1931, isn’t showing the kinds of structural deficiencies that will make it dangerous anytime soon, said Kevin Moore, project engineer for N.C. DOT. Increased maintenance costs and functional shortcomings like the lack of safety features for greenway users, however, mean it’s time to replace. N.C. DOT will start taking construction bids in Feb. 2016 and expects the project to take 18 to 24 months, wrapping up around Dec. 2017.

“You have to decide, do we keep doing maintenance to this bridge, or do we go ahead and replace it,” Moore said.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ine months ago, a federal sex abuse case against Harland Squirrel, of Cherokee, ended in dismissal after the jury failed to reach a verdict. But the case hasn’t gone away. In May, Squirrel will face the charges again in tribal court.

“After the jury failed to reach a verdict for the second time in Federal Court, Jason Smith, my supervisor, requested I make an independent review of the Harland Squirrel case to make a determination as to whether or not this case should be pursued in Tribal Court,” Justin Eason, first assistant tribal prosecutor, said in a statement.

Under tribal law, the federal and tribal court systems often have concurrent jurisdiction, meaning that both have the ability to try cases involving enrolled members of the tribe when the crime occurs on tribal land. Tribal court can choose to charge federally tried cases that did not result in a guilty verdict, and it doesn’t count as double jeopardy.

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about what is and is not a federal case,” Eason said. “In the reservation, we have concurrent jurisdiction over things the federal government has jurisdiction over. This would not have been a federal case if it had happened in Bryson City or Sylva.”

The case in question goes back to 2010, when Glenda Wilnoty, who was married to Squirrel at the time, began to suspect that her husband was sexually abusing their adopted son, according to Wilnoty’s testimony. Wilnoty said she left on a four-day business trip in the spring of that year.

When she returned home, the child, 4 years old at the time, was acting differently toward Squirrel than he had before.

“He would act out towards his daddy,” Wilnoty said in court testimony. “He would try to kick him in the groin, which was unusual, and just some things that were said.”

Wilnoty testified that in August of that year, she woke up to see Squirrel with his hand down the pants of the child — who often slept in bed between his parents — while touching himself at the same time.

Wilnoty said she did not report the incident because it happened in the middle of the night and she could not be certain she actually saw what she thought she did. When the same thing happened a year later, she testified, she did report it, which began the

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Under tribal law, the federal and tribal court systems often have concurrent jurisdiction, meaning that both have the ability to try cases involving enrolled members of the tribe when the crime occurs on tribal land. resents how the system not only failed [the child] because of the damage that has been done to him by the manner in which this was pursued. The system has also failed Harland Squirrel because justice was not pursued here; a result was pursued.”

Testimony showed that, while the first alleged incident occurred in 2010, Wilnoty did not seek help until a full year later in 2011, when she testified the second incident occurred. However, Detective Lloyd Wolf of the Cherokee Police Department told the jury that, in the nearly five months between receiving a report of the alleged abuse and Squirrel’s confession at the State Bureau of Investigations office in Asheville, he did not investigate the validity of Wilnoty’s report. While the alleged victim was no longer living at the home during that time, Squirrel’s daughter, a high school student, was.

“I wasn’t investigating her. I was investigating him,” Wolf said of Wilnoty in court.

Testimony also raised questions about whether the child’s testimony had been coached. That concern came to light in particular from a video-taped interview between the child and Cindy McJunkin, a child forensic interviewer. Reidinger instructed the jury to disregard the video

except for determining the accuracy of the child’s testimony.

Squirrel delivered a signed confession after a three-hour interview with SBI Agent Chris Smith — during a previous interview, Squirrel had denied the allegations. In the confession, he admitted that on two occasions, he had touched the child on the butt while masturbating. After delivering the confession, Squirrel drove away and was not arrested for some time afterward.

“He’d just confessed to molesting a child in your presence. You got him to sign your notes. It’s not an appropriate time to arrest him? That’s your testimony?” Defense Attorney Rich Cassady asked Wolf in court.

“That’s it,” Wolf answered.

Judge Reidinger then sustained objections to Cassady’s follow-up questions, which asked whether the decision to delay arrest had anything to do with the fact that certain rights, such as the right to an attorney, kick in after an arrest. Cherokee Police Chief Ben Reed did not return multiple messages requesting comment.

“There were no winners in this case, only losers, and that’s partly because of the way things were done,” Reidinger said in his conclusion. “I cannot express to you how profound my disappointment is in the way all things were done.”

However, Tribal Court will take another look at the case. Squirrel is charged with five counts each of aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact. If convicted on all 10 counts, he could spend up to nine years in jail.

The nine-month gap between the federal case’s dismissal and the tribal charges was principally due to the work involved in reviewing such a large case file, Easton said.

He was given the file in late summer last year but was not able to begin reviewing it immediately, as there were other cases demanding his attention. Then the transcripts and video evidence took time to comb through.

“In any child sex case, there’s a lot of evidence to consider,” he said.

Squirrel was charged on March 19 and let out on a $5,000 unsecured bond. While a secured bond requires the accused to pay money up front, which would be forfeited did he or she not appear in court, an unsecured bond merely requires that the accused sign a contract promising to pay the money should he or she fail to appear.

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The child also testified that his father had touched him inappropriately.

However, two separate trials ended with a hung jury, at least partially due to the way the case was investigated.

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Jackson County Manager Chuck Wooten said county officials recognized that reality and were inclined to agree to the merger.

“It would have a real negative impact on the town of Sylva, and that wasn’t something that we were interested in,” Wooten said.

The merged body, to be called the Jackson County ABC Board, will take over operations beginning May 1. The new board will use the existing infrastructure of the Sylva ABC Board.

BY J EREMY MORRISON N EWS E DITOR ackson County and the town of Sylva agreed this month to merge the entities’ separate Alcoholic Beverage Control boards. The deal means that Jackson and Sylva will share in the overall profits generated throughout the county, including those generated at the yetto-open ABC store in Cashiers.

“It’s all going to be going into the same pot now,” explained Peggy Queen, manager at the ABC store in Sylva.

Officials from both camps seem pleased with the merger specifics, which outline a 60-40 split in the county’s favor, with a guaranteed annual $160,000 minimum for Sylva for the first five years. The state had encouraged such a merger.

Sylva is home to one of the more profitable ABC locations in “The ABC Commission North Carolina. File photo likes there to be merged boards, rather than sepa“Taking advantage of that talent and that rate ones,” said Sylva Town Manager Paige knowledge would be a real asset to the counRoberson. ty,” Wooten said.

The deal replaces a decades-old 50-50 The Sylva ABC Board currently oversees split of profits netted in the town of Sylva. one of the more successful ABC outlets in And it comes at a time when a new ABC the state. location is being built in Cashiers; there’s “Profit-per-dollar, this store has been, currently no sharing of profits outside well this past year it was number four,” town limits.

Queen said.

“Sylva stood to loose a lot of money by An organizational meeting for the new not merging,” said Roberson.

ABC board is scheduled for this week. Board In addition to not sharing in any of the members were named recently — two seated additional profits generated at the Cashiers by the town, and three by the county. Sylva location, Sylva would also lose the Cashiers seated Mayor Maurice Moody and Marion traffic currently traveling to its ABC location Jones. Jackson appointed Donald Ferguson, to make purchases.

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Western Carolina University Chancellor David O. Belcher will meet with residents of Macon County on Wednesday, April 30, as part of a series of events designed to keep the university connected with alumni, friends and elected officials.

The visits, which include stops across North Carolina and the Southeast, are a follow-up to the 2011 Get Acquainted Tour, which took Belcher and his wife, Susan, to some 15 municipalities over four months during his first year as chancellor.

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The April 30 visit will include a reception for alumni and friends David Belcher from Macon County and surrounding areas.

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if some cause-and-effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.” In other words, it should be up to the corporations to scientifically demonstrate that their products are safe, not up to us consumers and our advocates to prove they are harmful.

If our nation had been following this policy, there would not be 1 in 6 deaths caused by cigarette-smoking, children in 4 million homes exposed to lead poisoning and 3 million Vietnamese and thousands of veterans suffering from cancer, respiratory ailments, and birth defects due Columnist to exposure to Agent Orange (aka glyphosate). Wildlife populations would not have been decimated

by DDT, and toxins like asbestos, PCBs and dioxin would not have been released from chemical labs onto an unsuspecting public.

And now, with just a few GM strains making up 90 percent of U.S.-grown corn, 93 percent of soy and 90 percent of cotton, what other dangers are we being subjected to without our knowledge or consent?

My problems with GMO crops and foods are the following: • They can contaminate fields of farmers seeking to grow and sell organic, natural foods. Wind and insects cause cross-pollination that damages corn, soy and other crops, making them unacceptable for sale in some markets, such as Europe and Japan, thereby destroying the farmers’ investment.

• Biotech companies like Monsanto,

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ood news! General Mills has recently announced that — in response to consumer pressure — it has removed GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) from its original Cheerios cereal. And Post has done the same with Grape Nuts. These are victories for folks like me who like our morning bowl of cereal but are wary of food products that are untested for consumer safety and identified by some studies as giving cause for concern. It’s too soon to celebrate, though, as General Mills has 11 other types of Cheerios (such as Multi-Grain and Honey Nut) that still contain GMOs. Genetic modification (also known as genetic engineering) is the process of transplanting genetic material from one organism to another. In food, the two main GM products are glyphosate-resistant (i.e., Roundup Ready) and Bt pest-resistant crops. The former is sprayed on fields to kill weeds without damaging food plants like soy. Bt pest-resistant crops are injected with genes from soil bacteria, which kill insects like the corn borer.

Other forms of genetic modification insert DNA from one organism into another, thereby creating plants in a lab that don’t appear in nature — sort of like playing God. My concern about all this is that that there is no proof as yet that these GMO creations are harmless for human consumption. I’d like to see these agribusiness companies like Monsanto and regulatory agencies like the FDA abide by the “Precautionary Principle,” first articulated at a conference of scientists, lawyers and environmentalists back in 1998.

This states: “When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even

Make your vote count this election To the editor: Children are our future and as a former educator, I’ve been concerned about the cutbacks in spending for our schools.

Teachers need to make a living wage and class size needs to be reduced so students can learn. Job growth and education should be talked about in the same paragraph, as they are inter-dependent. And students who go into debt for a higher education should not pay more interest than banks. Ron Robinson, candidate for N.C. State Senate, agrees.

We need to protect the environment, for without it we have nothing. Clean air and clean water means say no to fracking and yes to solar. And healthcare for all is only possible by accepting money for Medicaid expansion to make it affordable Ron Robinson, candidate for N.C. State Senate, agrees.

I am so looking forward to the upcoming elections and the

DuPont, and Syngenta can control seed production, raise seed prices, reduce seed diversity, and thereby reduce crop resistance to diseases and weather conditions. Monsanto’s “seed police” roam the country, inspect fields, forbid farmers from saving seeds, and, when patented GMOs have accidentally drifted into the organic fields of neighbors, sue innocent farmers for patent infringement, dragging them into costly lawsuits, possibly leading to bankruptcy. Between 1997 and 2010, Monsanto filed 144 of these lawsuits and settled 700 others out of court!

• Crops soon develop resistance to these new GMO strains, leading farmers to spend more money in the use of ever-increasing amounts of herbicides and pesticides, further contaminating our soils, air and water, and destroying desirable vegetation. This may be leading to declines in the population of bees, birds and butterflies and increases in the incidence of Parkinson’s, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and other forms of cancer.

• Subsistence farmers in developing countries who attempt to farm this way soon find the cost of these substances to be prohibitive and can be driven into bankruptcy, lose their land, become unemployed, forced to migrate into cities or across borders seeking work to support their families and sometimes end up in prison or committing suicide. Furthermore, use of these artificial substances require more water — scarce in some areas — undermining traditional farming practices and the cultures that go with them. Local autonomy, food security, environmental sustainability and healthy diets and lifestyles are thereby adversely affected. In short, our ability to feed the world is reduced, and the gap between the

opportunity to make some serious changes in our state capitol. It is time for the people of this state to take control back. We may not have the money, but despite efforts of those who do, we still have the vote. We need to make it count.

I’m planning to provide transportation to elderly and disabled so they can get to the polls. I’m going to help inform people of the changes that affect their voting rights. And I’m campaigning for Ron Robinson for N.C. State Senate District 50.

Connie Jean Conklin Dillsboro, NC

Pigs in a Poke To the editor: The election season is here. Several candidates are promising to cut government costs or taxes, but they won’t say what services will be cut. These people either don’t know enough about the job they’re trying to get, or they’re insulting you, the voter.

haves and have-nots is expanded.

• We have a right to know which of our foods contain GMOs. Thankfully, we now know about Cheerios and Grape Nuts. But which products are sweetened with corn syrup laced with GMOs? What of GMO-produced soymilk, tofu, tempeh and other soy products?

And why do Monsanto and other companies spend millions to defeat local and state transparency measures to have GMO products duly labeled. What do they want to hide?

• Industry-funded studies conducted by pro-biotech scientists claim to show that GMOs have no negative effects. At the same time, independent experiments of the effects on rats of corn grown with Roundup have turned up tumors and toxic kidney and liver problems. The results of this research have been suppressed, however, and its authors dismissed and banned from speaking. Further, there is a “revolving door” between government regulatory agencies like the FDA and the high-paying agribusinesses, which reeks with conflict-of-interest and puts a severe damper on getting honest evaluations of the health impact of GMO-grown foods.

With all these questions hovering over the use of GMO foods, we do well to avoid them whenever possible. We must demand that they be labeled, insist that the “precautionary principle” be strictly observed, question the whitewashing effect of industry-sponsored “research,” resist the pressure to serve as “lab rats” for the biotech industry and instead buy and eat organic foods, thereby supporting small farmers and traditional family farms, both locally and around the world.

(Wingeier is a retired seminary professor and can be reachd at dcwing@main.nc.us.)

LETTERS If a candidate knows enough about the office to be able to guarantee cuts, they know where those cuts will be. Macon County has already absorbed a lot of cuts from the state, mostly in education. This county already has the lowest property taxes in the state and runs remarkably well in spite of that. More cuts can only eliminate key services. Do you want more cuts in education? Police protection? Emergency and fire protection?

If the candidate promises cuts, then demand to know where those cuts will be before casting your vote. The cuts might just be someplace very important to you. Your life could depend on it. Don’t vote for a pig in a poke!

Primaries are important. They determine the candidates who will best represent your interests and beliefs in November.

Study the candidates, understand their positions, make your decision and vote.

John Gladden Franklin

LOOKING FOR OPINIONS: The Smoky Mountain News encourages readers to express their opinions through letters to the editor or guest columns. All viewpoints are welcome. Send to Scott McLeod at info@smokymountainnews.com., fax to 828.452.3585, or mail to PO Box 629, Waynesville, NC, 28786.

tasteTHEmountains Taste the Mountains is an ever-evolving paid section of places to dine in Western North Carolina. If you would like to be included in the listing please contact our advertising department at 828.452.4251

Closed on Sunday. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks, fresh fish, and other classic American comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available. We also feature a great selection of craft beers from local artisan brewers, and of course an extensive selection of small batch bourbons and whiskey. The Barrel is a friendly and casual neighborhood dining experience where our guests enjoy a great meal without breaking the bank.

A TASTE OF NEW ORLEANS 67 Branner Ave., Waynesville, 828.246.0885. 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., 7 days a week. Curtis Henry opened A Taste of New Orleans to cater to the locals and become the place that’s always open that you can rely on for different, flavorful dishes every day.

Serving Cajun, French and Creole Cuisine in a lovingly restored space, Curtis looks forward to serving you up a delicious dish soon.

BREAKING BREAD CAFÉ 6147 Hwy 276 S. Bethel (at the Mobil Gas Station) 828.648.3838 Monday Through Friday 8 a.m to 5 p.m. (takeout only 5 to 6 p.m.) Closed Saturday and Sunday. Deli and so much more. We roast our own ham, turkey and roast beef, just like you get on Thanksgiving. Come try our new burger menu with topping choices from around the world.

Enjoy our daily baked goods: cinnamon & sticky buns, cakes, pies and cookies.

BLUE ROOSTER SOUTHERN GRILL 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, Lakeside Plaza at the old Wal-Mart. 828.456.1997. Open Monday through Friday. Friendly and fun family atmosphere. Local, handmade Southern cuisine. Fresh-cut salads; slow-simmered soups; flame grilled burgers and steaks, and homemade signature desserts.

Blue-plates and local fresh vegetables daily.

Brown bagging is permitted. Private parties, catering, and take-out available.

BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Dinner nightly from 4 p.m.

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes, and always all-you-can-eat. Lunch every day from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Evening cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays (weather permitting), featuring steaks, ribs, chicken, and pork chops, to name a few. Bountiful family-style dinners on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with entrees that include prime rib, baked

ham and herb-baked chicken, complemented by seasonal vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts. We also offer a fine selection of wine and beer. The evening social hour starts at 6 p.m., and dinner is served starting at 7 p.m. So join us for milehigh mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Please call for reservations.

CHEF’S TABLE 30 Church St., Waynesville. 828.452.6210.

From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday dinner starting at 5 p.m. “Best of” Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator Magazine. Set in a distinguished atmosphere with an exceptional menu. Extensive selection of wine and beer. Reservations honored.

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CITY BAKERY 18 N. Main St. Waynesville 828.452.3881.

Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Join us in our historic location for scratch made soups and daily specials.

Breakfast is made to order daily: Gourmet cheddar & scallion biscuits served with bacon, sausage and eggs; smoked trout bagel plate; quiche and fresh fruit parfait. We bake a wide variety of breads daily, specializing in traditional french breads. All of our breads are hand shaped. Lunch: Fresh salads, panini sandwiches. Enjoy outdoor dinning on the deck. Private room available for meetings.

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

828.587.2233. Open Monday-Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Tasty, healthy and quick. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, espresso, beer and wine. Come taste the savory and sweet crepes, grilled paninis, fresh, organic salads, soups and more.

Outside patio seating. Free Wi-Fi, pet-friendly. Live music and lots of events. Check the web calendar at citylightscafe.com.

FRANKIE’S ITALIAN TRATTORIA 1037 Soco Rd. Maggie Valley.

828.926.6216 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Monday-Saturday. Father and son team Frank and Louis Perrone cook up dinners steeped in Italian tradition. With recipies passed down from generations gone by, the Perrones have brought a bit of Italy to Maggie Valley. frankiestrattoria.com FROGS LEAP PUBLIC HOUSE 44 Church St. Downtown Waynesville 828.456.1930 Serving lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; Dinner 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Frogs Leap is a farm to table restaurant focused on local, sustainable, natural and organic products prepared in modern regional dishes. Seasonal menu focuses on Southern comfort foods with upscale flavors.

UPCOMING EVENTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 25 • 7 PM Wyatt Espalin

SATURDAY, APRIL 26

Stop by for coffee or lunch during Greening Up the Mountains!

SUNDAY: BRUNCH 9-3

FRIDAY, APRIL 25:

Buchanan Boys S PRING S TREET, D OWNTOWN S YLVA CREPES, PANINIS, SOUPS, SALADS, GOURMET PASTAS WINE & BEER

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J. ARTHUR’S RESTAURANT AT MAGGIE VALLEY U.S. 19 in Maggie Valley. 828.926.1817.

Lunch Sunday noon to 2:30 p.m., dinner nightly starting at 4:30 p.m. World-famous prime rib, steaks, fresh seafood, gorgonzola cheese and salads. All ABC permits and open year-round. Children always welcome.

Take-out menu. Excellent service and hospitality. Reservations appreciated.

JUKEBOX JUNCTION U.S. 276 and N.C. 110 intersection, Bethel. 828.648.4193. 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Monday through Saturday. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner. The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era.

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.

ORGANIC BEANS COFFEE COMPANY 1110 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.668.2326. Open 7 days a week 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Happily committed to brewing and serving innovative, uniquely delicious coffees — and making the world a better place.

100% of our coffee is Fair Trade, Shade Grown, and Organic, all slow-roasted to bring out every note of indigenous flavor.

Bakery offerings include cakes, muffins, cookies and more. Each one is made from scratch in Asheville using only the freshest, all natural ingredients available. We are proud to offer gluten-free and vegan options.

PASQUALE’S 1863 South Main Street, Waynesville. Off exit 98, 828.454.5002. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Classic Italian dishes, exceptional steaks and seafood (available in full and lighter sizes), thin crust pizza, homemade soups, salads hand tossed at your table. Fine wine and beer selection. Casual atmosphere, dine indoor, outside on the patio or at the bar.

RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 828.926.0201 Bar open Monday thru Saturday; dining room open Tuesday thru Saturday at 5 p.m. Full service restaurant serving steaks, prime rib, seafood and dinner specials.

THE WINE BAR 20 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

828.452.6000. Underground cellar for wine and beer, served by the glass all day. Cheese and tapas served Wednesday through Saturday 4 p.m.-9 p.m. or later. info@classicwineseller.com. Also on facebook and twitter.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 26:

HERREN HOUSE 94 East St., Waynesville 828.452.7837.

Lunch: Wednesday - Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday Brunch 11 a. m. to 2 p.m.

Enjoy fresh local products, created daily.

Join us in our beautiful patio garden. We are your local neighborhood host for special events: business party’s, luncheons, weddings, showers and more. Private parties & catering are available 7 days a week by reservation only.

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

828-456-1997 blueroostersoutherngrill.com

— Real Local People, Real Local Food — 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, North Carolina Monday-Friday Open at 11am

The Greening Up the Mountains Festival will be April 26 in Sylva. DONATED PHOTOS

Named for the way spring’s green gradually progresses up a mountain, the festival is Sylva’s largest annual event and is expected to draw an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 attendees.

The event features historic downtown streets — Main and Mill streets — lined with food, art, crafts, a time capsule and three stages of live music. The festival has its roots in the celebration of Earth Day, and it still maintains a focus on environmental protection and sustainability. It strives to promote local businesses and civic groups.

The music lineup includes Marshall Ballew, The Buchanan Boys, The Freight Hoppers, Second Hand String Band, Bird in Hand, Noonday Sun, Carolina Dusk, Sugar

Barnes and Dave Magill, Darren and the Buttered Toast, Mangas Colorado, Fieldtrip, PMA, Porch 40 and Total War. The festival begins at 9 a.m. with a 5K race from Mark Watson Park. The race is sponsored this year by the Jackson County Recreation and Parks Department. For registration and routes information, visit www.imathelete.com or call 828.293.3053.

Jackson County’s youngest performers will kick things off at 10 a.m. on the Triple Threat children’s stage with the annual Mountain Youth Talent Contest.

Children’s activities this year will also include face painting and an inflatable slide in the Bridge Park.

In commemoration of Sylva’s 125th anniversary, Greening Up the Mountains will also feature a time capsule, which is sponsored by Jack the Dipper Ice Cream.

Sponsors of the festival include Harris Regional Hospital, Jack the Dipper Ice Cream, Jackson Paper Manufacturing, Green Bros. of Sylva, Inc., Nationwide Insurance, Bubacz’s Signature Brew Café & Coffee, Soul Infusion Tea House & Bistro, Triple Threat Performing Arts Academy, Friends of the Library, Balsam Mountain Preserve, Innovation Brewing, Sequoyah Fund, Main Street Syva Association, Sylva Garden Club, Carole Lilly Massage, 540 AM WRGC Radio and the town of Sylva.

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The 17th annual Greening Up the Mountains Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 26, in downtown Sylva.

We are proud to now offer the SilverSneakers program at both of our locations!

Did you know ONE out of FIVE people 65 and older are eligible for this fitness benefit?

If you’re a group retiree or part of a Medicare health plan, you may already have a SilverSneakers membership.

THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE YOU’RE ELIGIBLE

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MANGAS COLORADO Founded last year at Western Carolina University, the Americana/bluegrass quartet is a frenzied array of string music and foot-stompin’ beats. The round-robin harmonies of the group contribute to their already catchy mountain sound. Since their inception, the band has rapidly overtaken the Southern Appalachian music scene. They will hit the road this summer for their first tour of the United States. www.mangascolorado.com

Performance schedule Greening Up the Mountains 2014 • DOWNTOWN SYLVA, NC

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(located in Bridge Park, just in front of Railroad Ave.) 10 a.m. Sugar Barnes and Dave Magill 11 a.m. Darren and the Buttered Toast 12 p.m. Mangas Colorado 1 p.m. Fieldtrip 2 p.m. PMA 3 p.m. Porch 40 4 p.m. Total War

THE SIGNATURE BREW STAGE (located at the corner of Landis and Main streets) 10 a.m. Marshall Ballew 11 a.m. The Buchanan Boys 12 p.m. The Freight Hoppers 1 p.m. The Second Hand String Band 2 p.m. Bird In Hand 3 p.m. Noonday Sun 4 p.m. Carolina Dusk

TRIPLE THREAT CHILDREN’S STAGE

10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Mountain Youth Talent Contest 12 p.m. Triple Threat Performing Arts Academy 1 p.m. Junior Appalachian Musicians, MDCS – Advanced String Band 2 p.m. Jackson County Junior Appalachian Musicians

PROFILE:

TOTAL WAR Formed in 2009, the ensemble aims to provide the listener with an intimate sound, one that challenges you to dig a little deeper. A post-rock indie band, they put an emphasis on the spontaneity of melodic creation, where what matters most is the moment and the emotion, rather than the idea of making sure every single thing is perfect in a live setting. www.totalwarmusic.com

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THE FREIGHT HOPPERS Based out of Bryson City, the ensemble is deeply rooted in the traditional sounds of string music and bluegrass. They find comfort in soaking into genres dominated by names like Blind Willie Johnson, Fiddlin’ John Carson and The Skillet Lickers. Together for more than 20 years, the band has seemingly played every venue, stage, backyard and get-together in Western North Carolina, with folks always wanting to hear more of their sound reminiscent of 1920s/1930s Southern Appalachia. www.thefreighthoppers.com

Festival begins with 5K Race

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The annual Greening Up the Mountains 5K race will get the day started Saturday, April 26. This year’s route is new and much easier, with fewer climbs.

The route begins at Mark Watson Park in downtown Sylva. It crosses U.S. 23 Business, continues to Dillsboro Road, then loops into Monteith Park. Racers then return on the same route, back to the park. The route includes paved and graveled road sections.

The 5K begins at 9 a.m. Registration starts at 8 a.m. at Mark Watson Park.

Registration the day of the event costs $20, with a limited number of event shirts available for $10.

Following the race, at 10 a.m., there will be an awards ceremony. Awards will be given for overall male and overall female, as well as for the top three finishers in each age bracket.

Proceeds raised through this event go to support the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 26, Downtown Sylva

Friends of the Library promotes membership during Greening Up the Mountains

The Friends of the Library invite new members to join on April 26 during Greening Up the Mountains in Sylva.

As a bonus on Greening Up day, all new members and all renewing members will receive a free tote bag sporting the logos of the Friends of the Library and the Jackson County Public Library. Join the Friends, get a bag and fill it with books in the Friends of the Library Used Book Store’s Bargain Bag Sale. Pay just $1 in the store for a tote bag full of books during Greening Up the Mountains only.

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STICKING TO THE COMPETITION SOUL INFUSION Dubbed the “Queen of BBQ,” Tori Walters of Soul Infusion in Sylva simply loves creating a meal for folks to sit and enjoy, especially if that meal is barbeque.

“It’s a lot of fun to toast up the grill and sit around with family and friends,” she said.

“Barbeque is just wonderful happiness in your mouth when it’s cooked right.”

And Walters has the titles and experience to back up her enthusiasm. Last year, she won the barbeque pork and chicken contest at Woofstock. She’s also competed at the Georgia Sweet Potato Festival, Georgia Pecan Festival, as well as numerous weddings, gatherings and local competitions.

Carl Yarbrough and Gregg Fuller of No Name Sports Pub.

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER Gregg Fuller can sum up barbeque.

“It’s a southern tradition,” he confidently stated.

Owner of No Name Sports Pub in Sylva, Fuller knows his barbeque. It’s something the establishment specializes in, and aims to perfect when pristine, raw pork rolls in and juicy, fresh barbeque rolls out.

“Cooking it slow and low — that’s what it’s all about,” he said.

Sitting on the back deck of the pub, Fuller and his chef, Carl Yarbrough, are gearing up for the barbeque contest that will be held on May 3 at Woofstock — Blues, Brews & BBQ. A fundraiser for ARF/Jackson County Humane Society, the all-day festival at McGuire Gardens in Sylva also includes children’s activities, live music and local craft beer.

In addition to No Name, participants for the barbeque competition will also include Tuck’s Tap & Grille, Al’s BBQ, Lulu’s on Main, Soul Infusion Tea House & Bistro, Lil Harvey’s/Sundog Real Estate and Cullowings Sports Grill.

“Barbeque is unique. If you can cook it until it’s done, it’s moist, let it rest and fall off of the bone, then you, my friend, have a meal that will make your soul proud,” said Tori Walters of Soul Infusion. “You have to love what you do, and you have to love the food while you cook it.”

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Barbeque has been a big part of No Name since its inception. Fuller noted the business goes through 60 to 80 pounds of pork every two weeks. The meat finds itself in numerous dishes, from nachos to sandwiches, quesadillas to small pizzas.

“It’s the other white meat,” he said. “It’s extremely versatile. It has good flavor, and good flavor comes from good fat” No Name buys the large butt slices of pork with a hearty layer of fat on top. They then use their own secret rub, cook it “slow and low,” hand pull it, then soak it in its own juices in their convection oven. The whole process hovers around 14 hours.

“I like using brown sugar in our rub and recipe, but I won’t say anything more than

The Woofstock — Blues, Brews & BBQ will be held at on May 3 at McGuire Gardens in Sylva.

Among the barbeque participants will be No Name Sports Pub (pictured).

“Barbeque is just wonderful happiness in your mouth when it’s cooked right.”

— Tori Walters, Soul Infusion

Want to go?

Woofstock — Blues, Brews & BBQ will be held from 2 to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at McGuire Gardens in Sylva.

The event includes children’s activities and pet photography. Live music will be provided by Sugar Barnes & Dave Magill, Blues Mountain, and Free Range Blues featuring Jeremy Sims. The barbeque contest begins at 4 p.m., with winners announced at 7:30 p.m. Craft beer from Innovation Brewing will be sold starting at 4 p.m.

All proceeds go to ARF/Jackson County Humane Society. Entry fee is a suggested donation of $12 for adults and $6 for children ages 12 and under.

877.273.5262 or www.facebook.com/arf.pets. that,” Yarbrough said with a tight-lipped grin.

“I’ve always loved barbeque. We switch it up here, but we also try to keep a familiar recipe that people will know and like.”

Beyond their in-house consumption, No Name also does special orders for those looking to pick up some pork, coleslaw and sauce for their backyard barbeques. Beyond that though, No Name is just ready to put their meat to the test at Woofstock.

“We have great barbeque, and we’re ready,” Yarbrough said. “We’ll see you at the competition.”

TUCK’S TAP & GRILLE It’s all business when it comes to barbeque at Tuck’s Tap & Grille in Cullowhee.

“Everything we do and make here is taken seriously,” said co-owner Bill Picon.

Though they only opened last Fall, Tuck’s hit the ground running with an array of handmade comfort foods, in-house sliced steaks and, of course, finger lickin’ barbeque.

“We’re pulling barbeque almost everyday here,” Picon said. “We’re probably the freshest

barbeque in this area.”

With a smoker onsite, Tuck’s takes a full pork loin and preps the meat for an hour.

From there, they cover it in their rub, wrap it in tinfoil and baked it in its own juices for upwards of 12 hours until an internal temperature of 400 degrees is reached. Then, the meat is cooled for 45 minutes to reabsorb the juices, resulting in the succulent, smoky flavor.

“Barbeque has to be cooked fresh,” Picon said. “You can tell the Bill Picon difference between a fresh pull and the storebought or ‘coward’ stuff. When it’s real barbeque, you’ll know.”

And with their signature barbeque, Picon aims to shake the misconception that they’re just a sports bar and not a place to get quality food.

“People just don’t know how good the food is here, and they still don’t know,” he said.

“But, when they come in, they’re surprised, especially with how great the barbeque is.”

“I like a red sauce with a vinegar base,” she said. “I prefer a dry charcoal that’s started in a little chimney, handpicking my meats and spending 12 hours prepping, cooking and relaxing. When the meat comes off the fire, I put it in a cooler and boom shaka laka — it is legend. You can satisfy your curiosity and your taste buds.”

ALL ABOUT THE SAUCE No barbeque is complete without a sauce to top off the sizzling, flavorful meat.

Cullowings Sports Grill will be providing the dipping sauces for Woofstock. Ranging from spicy to tangy and everything in between, the restaurant is all about the ideal condiments for authentic Daniel Parris barbeque.

“The sauce is everything — it’s what makes the barbeque,” said Daniel Parris, manager of Cullowings. “Yes, you want great meat, but the sauce is what tops it off. You have to have those two things to make it all perfect.”

Parris noted how Cullowings employees are currently taste-testing several types of sauces to determine which will be chosen to bring to Woofstock.

“We’re being really patient with finding the right sauces,” he said. “Woofstock and ARF do a lot of great things for the community, and we’re all happy to help this event grow — it’ll be a great day for barbeque.”

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HART Theatre will launch its 30th season with “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which will run at 7:30 p.m. April 25 and 26 and May 2, 3, 9 and 10, and at 3 p.m. April 27 and May 4, at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

Christopher Sergel adapted the Harper Lee novel in 1990 for the town of Monroeville, Ala., where it is staged annually in the courthouse. Monroeville is Lee’s home and the locations in the town match those in the novel.

Lee only published one novel, but with it she became one of America’s most celebrated authors, winning the Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her only other major contribution to literature was her collaboration with Truman Capote on the early research for his novel In Cold Blood.

Capote and Lee were childhood friends and though Lee constantly downplayed any autobiographical comparisons of her novel with her life, many characters and events parallel things she experienced and people she knew, including Capote. Her father, for example, was a lawyer who defended black men in Monroeville. She was a witness to the discrimination she documented.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and $10 for students and teachers. A special $6 discount ticket will be available for students and teachers on Sundays.

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Refill your creative well with writer retreat at Lake Logan A retreat for writers and artists will be held at Lake Logan Retreat Center May 18-23 by Cullowhee Mountain ARTS, an organization that hosts a gamut of workshops and retreats to connect artists with accomplished instructors in their field.

The May retreat will host North Carolina Poet Laureate Emeritus, Kathryn Stripling Byer, who will conduct the workshop “Singing it Forward.” The music of language, its modulation, its dramatic tension, and its syntactic and rhythmic properties will be the focus of this workshop.

There will be a parallel track for visual artists with two instructors.

Lake Logan Retreat Center sits on 300 preserved acres in Haywood County.

The second artist and writers retreat will be held at Lake Logan in September with different instructors. www.cullowheemountainarts.org or 828.342.6913.

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and clear from groups around Southern Appalachia and beyond.

“Mary is a role model for us along with all of the lives she touches every day,” said southern rockers The Corbitt Brothers.

“She’s one of those rare loving souls that would truly ‘give the shirt off her back for someone she has never met,’ She has helped our — Gregg Fuller, No Name Sports Pub band a countless number of times, along with tons if other bands, all the while raising two amazing kids and working multiple jobs.”

“I love that Mary believes in artists with all her heart and soul.

She booked us two nights in a row Pierce Edens will perform at 8 p.m. May 9 at at No Name and then again at the BearWaters Brewing Company in Waynesville.

Water’n Hole without even hearing us play yet. She has faith in the arts and that makes her an incredible The film “Nebraska” will be screened at 7:45 person,” said Mekenzie Jackson of p.m. May 2 and 2 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7:45 p.m.

May 3 at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. the Atlanta-based Americana band Owner of the Sun. The premiere of the skate film “We Live” will “Mary is a true music lover, be at 7:30 p.m. April 26 at Tipping Point which definitely fuels the love she Brewing in Waynesville. has not just for the music, but also the musicians and the lifestyle that The Empty Bowl Fundraiser will be from 4 to 8 we create within the circle of friends p.m. April 25 at The Community Table in and family locally and on the road,” Sylva. said musician Christopher Blaylock.

“Being a traveling musician Metal Night will take place at 9 p.m. April 26 myself, I can express the gratitude at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva.

I have for those that take us in to house, feed and let us shower.

Mary has brought in so many “She’s extremely diligent, organized, and amazing bands into lil’ ole Sylva.” she cares. She continually wants to learn Mary Harper really is the common more, and I think that’s what makes Mary denominator of Southern Appalachia. A special,” said Gregg Fuller, owner of No beautiful, one-of-a-kind soul, she is, and will Name. “She’s taught me a lot about the peoalways be, the epitome of southern hospitaliple in this area. We have people come from ty and what it means to be a participant in all over the area and outside of the area. life, and a cultural ambassador for Western People are specially coming here to see North Carolina. bands and Mary is the reason.”

We miss and love you, Mary. Until next And those sentiments are echoed loud time.

“We have people come from all over the area and outside of the area. People are specially coming here to see bands and Mary is the reason.”

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ary Harper was quite possibly the first real friend I made when I moved to Western North Carolina.

With my apartment a few blocks away from the Water’n Hole Bar & Grill in Waynesville, I ventured down there at night trying to see what was up in this town, trying to make some friends, and trying not to feel alone and isolated in a new place where I was unknown to all who surrounded me.

Harper, with her million-dollar smile and swagger, immediately made me feel at home.

When she found out I was just hired as the features writer for The Smoky Mountain News, we hit it off. She was obsessed with music. I was obsessed with music. She wanted to promote any and all artists either local or passing through the area. I wanted to promote any and all artists either local or passing through the area. Our friendship was forever sealed, and continues to grow each and everyday. She is one of the most sincere and genuine people I’ve ever met. Truly.

On April 6, Harper was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. She broke ribs, her pelvis and right arm, and was impaled by a tree branch in her left side. She is currently beginning the long road to recovery at a rehabilitation facility in Asheville. Numerous benefits to help offset her medical costs are currently underway.

“Mary has been one of the greatest additions to our staff,” said Becky Robinson, owner of the Water’n Hole. “Her intense passion for music has created a circuit of unique and diverse traveling bands through our area that showcase amazing talent from all across the nation. She has single handedly provided our area with an amazing cultural niche.”

On top of her work at the Water’n Hole, Mary was also the front-of-house manager for No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. Bringing in musical acts from around the country, her efforts have put the location on the map as one of the premier venues for live music in Western North Carolina.

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The Mary Harper Benefit Music Festival will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. The all-day event features performances by The Corbitt Brothers, Humps & The Blackouts, Smoke Rise, PMA, Christopher Blaylock “the OMB,” and Tony Poole. Free, with donations accepted. $5 food plates. All proceeds go to Harper’s medical bills.

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Sponsored by the Dixie Beard & Moustache Society. Live music by Caleb Burress and Chris Minnick. Free.

Proceeds from donations and bought Pabst Blue Ribbon to go to the medical bills of Mary Harper. 828.246.9230.

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On the street • The Taste of Home Cooking School will be held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Two-hour demonstration of innovative and creative recipes with step-by-step instruction. $13. 866.273.4615 or www.greatmountainmusic.com.

• A new dance program in which you can learn six dances in six weeks will be offered at the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department.

The classes will take place at 7 p.m. April 23, 30, May 7, 14, 21 and 28. Participants will be able to learn the Foxtrot, Swing, Waltz, Rumba, Tango and Cha Cha. $60 per person. 828.316.1412 or 828.356.7060.

• The Haywood Community College Cosmetic Arts Department will hold a Cut-A-Thon for Relay for Life’s American Cancer Society from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 23 at the HCC’s Cosmetic Arts Center.

All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society.

Shampoo and cut available for a suggested donation of $6, and style for $5. Services for Cut-A-Thon do not include chemical or nail services. Walk-ins are accepted, but appointments are suggested. 828.627.4641 or 828.627.4268.

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• The Empty Bowl Fundraiser will be from 4 to 8 p.m. April 25 at The Community Table in Sylva. Patrons have a choice of handmade ceramic bowls and soup. Sponsored by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. $20 per person. www.mountainlovers.com.

• The 2nd annual AMC Road Rally will be at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 26, at Angel Medical Center’s new cancer center off of Depot Street in Franklin. Cost is $100, which includes lunch for two and a goodie bag with giveaways and coupons. The proceeds from the rally will be for the new cancer center. Each team will gather facts by following instructions and directions provided at the starting line and will be scored on a combination of information gathered and photos taken.

Cash prizes for the top three finishers. 828.349.6639 or 828.349.6887.

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Look for a picture of Paws at various Jackson County merchants. WCU photo

event organizers are encouraging other members of the campus and surrounding communities to snap a photo of themselves with Paws and upload it to the 125th anniversary Facebook page, www.facebook.com/wcu125. www.celebrate125.wcu.edu.

Heinzelmännchen Brewery celebrates 10 years WCU to launch 125th anniversary celebration game As part of Western Carolina University’s yearlong observance of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the institution, a game designed especially for local children will be kicking off Saturday, April 26, during the annual Greening Up the Mountains festival in Sylva.

The game — Where’s Paws? — is centered on Paws, the WCU Catamount mascot. Beginning April 26 and continuing through June 26, several Jackson County merchants are inviting local children to scour their places of business to find images of Paws. Children who spot Paws’ furry face at five different participating locations and submit a form indicating where they spotted the mascot will be entered into a drawing to receive prizes. Local children also will be invited to get to meet Paws at a party later this year on the WCU campus.

In addition to the Where’s Paws? contest for children,

Heinzelmännchen Brewery will celebrate its tenth anniversary from 5 to 9 p.m. April 24 at its expected future location at 119 Front St. in Dillsboro. Event attendees will be able to view architectural plans for the brewery’s expected expansion into the former Great Smoky Mountains Railroad warehouse space. The Gnome Gnation Founder’s Club, a crowd-funding opportunity, will be announced during the event.

Heinzelmännchen will be showcasing a brand new cherry bock anniversary brew, one dark beer and one light beer available in pints. Family-friendly options, such as Heinzelmännchen’s root beer and birch beer floats, will be available at Bradley’s General Store.

Several other Dillsboro merchants will be open until 7 p.m. the night of the event, and activities will also be taking place around downtown during the celebration.

Western Carolina University’s OcTUBAfest band will be performing from 5 to 6:45 p.m. Fieldtrip, an eclectic, electric, energetic dance-inviting band with members from Cullowhee and Asheville will perform from 7 to 9 p.m.

Free.

828.631.4466 or gnome@yourgnometownbrewery.com.

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Western Carolina University’s annual Jazz Festival, featuring special guest guitarist and composer Paul Bollenback, will be held from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at the A.K. Hinds University Center in Cullowhee.

The festival opens with the WCU Straight Ahead Jazz Septet at 4 p.m., followed by the WCU Modal Jazz Sextet at 5 p.m., the Jason Decristofaro Trio at 6 p.m. and the Steve Wohlrab Trio at 7 p.m. Headlining the festival will be Bollenback performing with the WCU Jazz Ensemble at 8 p.m.

• Kevin Costner & Modern West will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets are $40, $45 and $50. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• Dan Keller and Joe Cruz will perform at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. Keller will play April 25, with Cruz April 26. The quartet show will be a four-course dinner at $34.99 per person. All other performances begin at 7 p.m, and require a $10 minimum purchase per person. 828.452.6000.

• Southern rockers The Corbitt Brothers Band will perform at 9 p.m. April 25 at Mickey’s Pub in Bryson City. $7. 828.488.9308.

• The Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass Concert will be at 7:30 p.m. May 1 at the John W. Bardo

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Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee. WCU concert choir, university chorus and community chorus will be featured. $10 for adults, $5 for students and children.

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• Ethan Morse, Darren & The Buttered Toast, Metal Night and Caleb “Nip” Crawford will be performing at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva.

Morse plays April 24, with Darren & The Buttered Toast April 25, Metal Night on April 26 and Crawford on April 27. All shows are free and begin at 9 p.m. 828.586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

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• Wyatt Espalin and Eric Hendrix & Friends will perform at City Lights Café in Sylva.

Espalin plays April 25, with Hendrix May 3.

828.587.2233 or www.citylightscafe.com.

• Singer/songwriter Shane Meade & The Sound will perform at 8 p.m. April 26 at Nantahala Brewing Company in Bryson City. Free.

828.488.2337 or www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• The Robinsons, Pierce Edens and The Spontaneous Combustion Jam will be at BearWaters Brewing Company in Waynesville.

The Robinsons play May 2, with Pierce Edens on May 9. The jam runs from 8 p.m. to midnight every Monday, with all players welcome.

Free. 828.246.0602 or www.bwbrewing.com.

• Craig Summers & Lee Kram, Paul Cataldo, Spanky and Joshua Dean will perform at Frog Level Brewing Company in Waynesville.

Wagers & Kram play April 17 and May 1, with Cataldo on April 25, Spanky April 26 and Dean May 2. Free. 828.454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• A Flute Ensemble Concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. May 3 in the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University. Free.

828.227.7242.

• The Western Carolina University wind ensemble and symphony band will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee. Free. 828.227.7242.

• Ashli Rose, Ginny McAfee and Smoke Rise will perform at the Rendezvous in the Maggie Valley Inn. Rose plays April 25, with McAfee on April 26 and Smoke Rise April 27. Pianist Steve Whiddon also plays every Thursday evening, and from noon to 3 p.m. on Sundays. 828.926.0201.

• The Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Cullowhee.

Refreshments will follow the concert. $10.

All proceeds go toward reducing the debt on the parish hall. 828.399.9408 or kirwan11@frontier.com.

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• The Western Carolina University guitar ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, at the Coulter Building in Cullowhee. Jazz-fusion selection by WCU students. Free. 828.227.7242.

Western Carolina University music students and Asheville Symphony Orchestra string musicians will perform together at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 1, at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee.

The event is the final concert of the academic year through WCU’s Artist-in-Residence Program, which brings professional musicians to campus to join WCU students and faculty members in concert. The series is completing its second year.

Michael Lancaster, director of the WCU Concert Choir and University Chorus, will conduct the concert. Both the Concert Choir and University Chorus will be featured in the performance, along with the Western Carolina Community Chorus, directed by Robert Holquist, retired member of the WCU music faculty. The program will consist of “Te Deum” and “Lord Nelson Mass,” both by Franz Joseph Haydn.

Tickets for the concert are $10 for all adults, and $5 for students and children.

Proceeds go to support the Artist-in-Residence Program.

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• Marshall Chapman, David Wilcox and Henry Hipkens will perform as part of the Songwriters in the Round at 6 p.m. April 26 at the Balsam Mountain Inn. $47 per person, which includes a buffet. 828.456.9498 or info@balsammountaininn.net.

Bollenback’s album “Double Gemini” was named CD of the Month by 20th Century Guitar Magazine and WBGO Jazz Radio, and his release “Soul Grooves” was named Best Contemporary Jazz Paul Bollenback Album of 1999 by N’Digo Magazine.

In addition to his festival performance at WCU, a master jazz improvisation class taught

by Bollenback and his dress rehearsal with the WCU Jazz Ensemble will be held at 1 and 2 p.m. in the recital hall of the Coulter Building.

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Grunge rockers Alice in Chains will perform at 9 p.m.

Friday, May 2, at Harrah’s Cherokee.

Alice In Chains was one of the pre-eminent rock bands that emerged from Seattle in the late 1980s that included bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Sound Garden.

Over the years, they have released two number-one albums and an impressive total of 21 top-40 singles.

Tickets are $35 and $45. www.harrahscherokee.com or 800.745.3000.

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Initially selling their products at the farmers market, they won the Chamber business startup Award in 2012 and were featured in Garden & Gun magazine. In 2013 they were featured in Food & Wine Magazine. They currently have their products in 60 stores, with plans to expand to 100 stores by the end of the year.

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Controlled Chaos Film Festival returns Films created by Western Carolina University students will be screened at the sixth annual Controlled Chaos Film Festival at 7 p.m.

Friday, May 2, at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee.

The festival features short works from a range of genres created by students from the Motion Picture and Television Production Program and the School of Stage and Screen. Featured at the festival will be two senior project films, “The Radical Notion of Gene Mutation” and “Black, White and Blue.”

Advance tickets to the Controlled Chaos Film Festival can be purchased for $8 cash in the School of Stage and Screen office located

on the second floor of the Stillwell Building.

Tickets are $10 cash at the door. Proceeds and donations benefit the Motion Picture Student Project Fund, which helps students with the cost of creating their senior project films.

828.227.2324 or jsholder@wcu.edu.

Art After Dark returns to Waynesville

Dogwood Crafters May workshops

Art After Dark continues from 6 to 9 p.m.

Friday, May 2, in downtown Waynesville.

Enjoy a stroll through working studios and galleries on Main Street and Depot Street. Festive Art After Dark flags denote participating galleries.

Gallery 86 will be featuring a show in conjunction with the Haywood County Master Gardeners Volunteer Association to celebrate gardens. The show will feature gardens, flowers, and crafts suitable for homes, decks or patios.

The Garden Tour itself takes place on June 21. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

Dogwood Crafters will host two workshops at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge.

Exploring Watercolor will be taught by artist Susan Lingg from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, May 2. Participants will learn the basic skills for painting with watercolor. Cost is $21.

Vicky Dorsey will lead a workshop on nature printing from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 13. Using readily available flowers and leaves, the crafts can be used on cards, prints, clothing and linens. Cost is $12.

828.586.2435 or junettapell@hotmail.com.

• Come Paint with Charles Kidz Program will be held at 5 p.m. April 24 and 29 at the Charles Heath Gallery in Bryson City.

Refreshments and materials provided. $18 per child. 828.538.2054.

• The films “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” and “Nebraska” will be screened at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville.

“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” will play April 25-26, with “Nebraska” on May 23. Screenings are at 7:45 p.m. on Fridays and 2 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. on Saturdays. Tickets are $6 per person, $4 for children. 828.283.0079 or www.38main.com.

• The Jackson County Arts Council will hold their annual membership meeting at 6:30 p.m., Monday, April 28, at the Jackson County Library Complex in Sylva. There will be a performance of “An Evening of Broadway,” and a short meeting followed by a light reception

The Controlled Chaos Film Festival will be held May 2 at WCU. WCU photo

hosted by the Jackson County Arts Council board. Members and potential members of the Jackson County Arts Council are invited.

The Jackson County Arts Council is the Designated County Partner (DCP) for the North Carolina Arts Council.

ALSO:

• A Spring Craft Sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 25, at Haywood Community College in Sylva. All pieces for sale were made by students in the Professional Crafts programs. 828.565.4159.

• The premiere of the new Red Hatchet skate video “We Live” will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 26, at Tipping Point Brewing Company in Waynesville. The video is locally produced. Sponsored by Recess, Cataloochee Ski Area, Eastern Skateboard Supply, KREW and Red Hatchet. Free.

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Curmudgeon offers words of wisdom

Jeff Minick

May is fast approaching, and with May comes the season of graduations.

Daughters and sons, nephews and nieces, young people we’ve cherished for one reason or another: they’re about to embark on the next journey in their life, and we want to speed them along their way with a meaningful gift. Cash is always handy, of course, to the young — and I might add, to some of us who are old — but cash is a Writer cold gift, the sort of boon and gratuity given by most of us out of desperation, ignorant of what those just graduating from high school or college might need or want.

While these graduates may well appreciate hard cash, there is a gift available this season to accompany your check. Charles Murray’s The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don’ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life is written for young people in their late teens and through their twenties, and offers some great advice to grads and to anyone that age struggling with all that life can throw at them these days.

As Murray writes in the introduction to The Curmudgeon’s Guide: “I wish I could tell you that this little book will fix all that [your problems]. It won’t, but it might help.”

And he’s right. While the future offers no guarantees, The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead does give the young some excellent advice. Here are just a few highlights from Murray’s bits of wisdom, culled, I might add, from a lifetime of experience: “Don’t use first names with people consid-

erably older than you until asked, and sometimes not even then.”

writes that with the exception of a former member of the armed forces with a tattoo of his unit’s insignia, “show up with a visible tattoo and you are toast before you open your mouth.”

On the “proper use of strong language,” Murray is for strong language, but only in certain situations.

The author encourages readers to “leave home.” Murray strongly advises 20-somethings to “jump out of the nest.”

Murray implores young people to “get real jobs.” He strongly opposes working internships that pay no money. He also advises young people who have grown up in upper-middle class homes and neighborhoods to find work first in such places as restaurants and construction. Here, he contends, the privileged will find their best chance at expanding their horizons and their understanding of people.

Murray suggests that readers “come to grips with the difference between being nice and being good.” Here he discusses both the four cardinal virtues originated by the ancient Greeks — courage, justice, temperance, and prudence (also called wisdom) — and brings Aristotle into the argument as well. He has some excellent comments in this section, mostly pointing out that being nice is easy and being The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos good is difficult. and Don’ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, The author’s concise tips on writing, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life, by Charles that valuable tool which so many young Murray. Crown Business, 2014. 146 pages people ignore or neglect, would benefit even skilled writers. Especially striking is “Excise the word ‘like’ from your spoken his solution to the use of third person singular English.” pronouns: he and she. As anyone who spends “On piercings, tattoos, and hair of a color time writing knows, we’ve spent the last 40 not known to nature,” Murray strongly advisyears trying to figure out how to use genderes jobseekers not to display any of these. Of neutral pronouns. Traditionalists want to tattoos visible during a job interview, he maintain the use of ‘he,’ while others recom-

Author to host depression program in Bryson City

Ehrman to present ‘How Jesus Became God’

Writer Patricia Jordan will hold an informative program, based on her book My Journey in Overcoming Chronic Dysthymic Depression, at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 26, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

After enduring years of listening to negative statements and mistruths about herself, Jordan realized that she was unable to fix herself without help. In her poignant memoir detailing her life before, during and after her diagnosis of dysthymic depression, Jordan offers a look into a childhood devoid of nurturing and continues chronologically through her life as she attempts to carry on a normal life, despite the mental haze that continued to monopolize her.

My Journey in Overcoming Chronic Dysthymic Depression shares the inspirational story of how one woman finally learned to release negative emotions and replace them with healthy emotions of forgiveness and love.

828.488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

Dr. Bart Ehrman will discuss his new book, How Jesus Became God, at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

In a book that took eight years to research and write, leading Bible scholar Ehrman explores how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God, almighty creator of all things.

828.456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

Greening Up the Mountains poetry contest reception The reception for the inaugural Greening Up the Mountains Poetry Contest will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

mend either ‘he’ or ‘she,’ or, in what sane writers should regard as an abomination before the muse, ‘s/he.’ Murray’s recommendation: “Unless there is an obvious reason not to, use the gender of the author or, in a co-written text, the gender of the principal author.” This solution will strike many readers as eminently practical.

The last chapter in The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead — On the Pursuit of Happiness — is only 22 pages long, but Murray crams it full of advice on subjects ranging from marriage to the practice of religion. Section 29— Show Up —strikes me as particularly wise. Murray stresses here the importance of “showing up,” not only for work, but for family, community and faith. He points out how easy it is not to show up these days, when so many spend so much time sitting in front of a screen, and advocates engaging with people and events in person. “You are not going to reach old age satisfied with who you have been and what you have done because you interfaced with a screen. Thus the first essential step in the pursuit of happiness: Show up,” he writes.

The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead is to the point, witty, packed with excellent advice and short in length. Any young graduate will find at least several treasures here, sharply-cut diamonds of wisdom certain to help them find their way in the world.

One final note: at the very end of his book, Murray recommends watching the movie “Groundhog Day” repeatedly. Fans of this movie would heartily second this recommendation. The movie is all about effort, about the transformation of the self such effort produces.

So if you’re looking for a second gift to accompany the book, you’ll find it in “Groundhog Day.” Wrap up the book and the DVD, and you’ll give your graduate a worthy gift.

The winning poets will share their poems and collect their prizes during the reception. Students from Jackson County submitted poems that celebrate our mountains and our connection to them in our everyday lives.

828.586.9499.

Teen Poetry Fest in Franklin In celebration of National Poetry Month, there will be an openmic event for teen poets at 6:30 p.m., April 28, at the Rathskeller Coffee Haus in Franklin.

All high school-age poets and lovers of poetry are invited to participate by reading or reciting their original works, as well as sharing their favorite works by other poets. Family members and friends are welcome to attend.

This event is sponsored by the Arts Council of Macon County, part of its Youth Outreach Initiative. The council is supported in part by the Grassroots Arts Program of the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

Free. www.artscouncilofmacon.org or 828.524.7683.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he woods are quiet on a cool Saturday morning in late March. There’s no wind swaying the still-bare trees or the rhododendrons clustered along streambeds. In this, one of the most remote trails of the Shining Rock Wilderness of Pisgah National Forest, the only sound comes from the occasional squirrel plowing through the bed of fallen leaves or bird sounding its call through the woods.

But then a soft buzz begins to float through the air. It pauses briefly, replaced by the sound of voices. A group of three is clustered around a fallen log, probably 2 or 3 feet in diameter, that’s lying across the faint path of the East Fork Trail. They analyze its position on the mountainside, its angle of contact with another trunk below the trail and the severity of the slope. Finally, trail crew volunteers Scotty Bowen and Richard Evans start up again with the crosscut saw, and the buzzing resumes.

The instrument looks like something that belongs more in a 1930s photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps workers than in modern-day use, and indeed, the steel blade and wooden screw-on handles do date back to that era. The zzzz zzzz, zzzz zzzz of the saw’s metal teeth biting wood resumes, chips littering the trail as the cut gets closer to the center of the trunk.

“There’s something really nice about the simplicity of just having the saw, slinging it over your shoulder,” explains Jill Gottesman, outreach coordinator for The Wilderness Society’s Southern Appalachian office.

“Because you don’t have the incredible noise of a chainsaw, it’s like the log is telling you what it’s doing with different creaks and groans.”

Reading those creaks and groans accurately requires a crosscut sawyer certification, proof of the know-how needed to saw so the log doesn’t break away and flatten somebody, shift downhill to trap the saw in its crack or snap outwards to injure a sawyer or bystander. It’s an old-school skill, but it’s one that comes in handy when out on a wilderness trail crew.

“Part of the [Wilderness] Act states there is not to be motorized or mechanized equipment, and a chainsaw is motorized and mechanized,” Gottesman said. “All the work to maintain trails in wilderness areas is done with hand tools, and it’s all done with people power.”

In Western North Carolina, volunteers provide the bulk of that people power. The Pisgah and Nantahala national forests include 66,550 acres of wilderness, and that area contains far more miles of trail than the U.S. Forest Service has the capacity to maintain.

So, the Forest Service relies on people like the group of 16 from the Carolina Mountain Club and the Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards (SAWS) that spread along the East Fork Trail that Saturday in March. Volunteer crews clear away fallen trees, trim overhanging branches and rebuild eroded or shrinking trail tread.

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TWO GROUPS, ONE PURPOSE CMC is a long-standing organization with a history going back to the 1920s, while SAWS was just founded in 2010. But both groups have the same goal: to keep the wilderness experience available and to drum up enthusiasm for maintaining it. And both groups are looking to the next generation to keep that hope alive.

dent, Smucker noticed two things: the organization’s other seven trail crews met weekdays when people with professional jobs couldn’t participate, and there also didn’t seem to be many women involved. So, Smucker decided to head up a crew where that wouldn’t be the case.

“I really felt like we needed a trail schedule that would be possible for young folks to help

ticular venture required nearly eight hours of planning and 57 emails. It’s the first time that CMC and SAWS have planned a group venture, but both groups are hoping for it to happen again in the future.

“I wouldn’t want to do it every day, but I enjoy it,” Smucker said. “I don’t think I’ve come out at the end of the day and not enjoyed myself.”

Brandon Koehler, a CMC member from Knoxville, raises a Pulaski against a deteriorating section of trail. Holly Kays photo

Working for play Trail groups pass forest stewardship to the next generation “The reason why the Wilderness Society created SAWS is because the volunteer clubs that maintain trails, they’re getting old,” Gottesman said. “This is a whole lot of work, and we weren’t seeing the next generation of stewards. We just wanted to create a vehicle for wilderness stewardship training.”

So, SAWS came to be. Just four years after its founding, the program now has 45 units spreading from northern Georgia to the Shenandoah Valley, including one in Western North Carolina. In addition to year-round trail work days and weeks, the organization offers summer employment and internships, alternative spring break programs, educational presentations at colleges and universities and the Wilderness Skills Institute, an indemand event held each May that offers free trainings to people who do trail work on public lands. This year’s program is already full.

This particular CMC trail crew, led by Becky Smucker, was born from a similar need.

Six years ago during her tenure as CMC presi-

us carry on the tradition,” she said. “We also, frankly, had very few women in trail maintenance at that point, and I was interested in having a crew where women felt welcome.”

Smucker’s presence certainly does that. A petite, 62-year-old lady with curly gray hair, Becky Smucker is obviously at home among the trail tools. Her conversation is peppered with sidebars giving instructions to volunteers still learning the ropes, and she’s happy to discuss the relative merits of various brands of Pulaskis, hazel hoes and axes.

Of course, there’s more to Smucker’s job than fording thigh-high streams with tools in hand, hiking up trails with 10 percent inclines and swinging metal implements to turn rockladen dirt into a solid trail tread. She also has to coordinate with the Forest Service to keep the group’s volunteer agreement up-to-date, send out paperwork to new volunteers, report hours and attendance and obtain release forms from the volunteers. Usually, that comprises about two hours per week, but this par-

“This is a whole lot of work, and we weren’t seeing the next generation of stewards. We just wanted to create a vehicle for wilderness stewardship training.”

— Jill Gottesman, The Wilderness Society’s Southern Appalachian

BUILDING TRAILS AND TEAMS At the moment, Smucker is working with a handful of volunteers hefting dirt tools against an eroded section of trail. Over time, soil has moved down the steep slope, filling in the trail tread until it’s barely there. The volunteers are hard at work cutting into the earth above the trail, removing rocks and creating a path wide enough to actually walk on.

“Make sure you clear all the leaves away first,” Smucker instructs the crew.

Leaves incorporated into the trail bed eventually rot, allowing the soil to slide away.

It could be years before this section of trail gets any more attention, so it’s important to make every stroke of work count. Smucker also keeps an eye on the angle at which the mountainside above the trail angles into the tread and where the rocks are being tossed as they’re unearthed from the path.

Of course, the goal of all of this is to build a trail that will make the hiker’s experience more enjoyable while also limiting impact to the wilderness. Trees are trimmed more on the upslope side than on the downslope, encouraging visitors to hug the mountainside rather than sending dirt crumbling downhill, causing erosion. User-made trails are covered up, and the designated route around obstacles

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ing, talking to a wildland firefighter, making dinner bells at a blacksmith shop and touching real animal skins, skulls and scat.

Completing three specially-planned activities will earn children a free Junior Ranger patch. Junior Ranger booklets, targeted to children ages 5 to 12, will be available for $2.50 to help children explore the park in more depth.

Junior Ranger Day will run in conjunction with the park’s annual Music of the Mountains festival at the Sugarlands Visitor Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 26. Sugarlands will also host a salamander monitoring activity for middle and high school students.

865.436.1292.

Ranger Jason Marsh teaches a young man what it’s like to be a ranger. Donated photo

Migratory birds the stars of Cradle event

Smokies celebrate Junior Ranger Day National Junior Ranger Day will spur festivities in Great Smoky Mountains National Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., April 26 at Oconaluftee, Sugarlands and Cades Cove visitor centers.

Children and their families can join in a variety of free, hands-on activities including ranger-guided walks, historic toy mak-

A birding walk, a live raptor program, a bird survey demonstration and bird-related crafts will all be part of the Cradle of Forestry’s celebration of Migratory Bird Day, at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 26. $5, admission which includes access to the Forest Discovery Center and the Adventure Zone, an activity designed to reach children with autism and engage young families. Lunch available for purchase from Hobnob at the Cradle.

828.877.3130 or www.cradleofforestry.com.

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(clockwise) Joanne Tulip starts the trail day off with a knee-deep ford of the West Fork of the Pigeon River. Scotty Bowen screws the handles onto the 80-year-old crosscut saw the crew uses to clear fallen trees. Becky Smucker hefts a dirt tool alongside her crew to rebuild an especially deteriorated section of trail. Holly Kays photos outdoors and a desire to be good stewards of the public land they use.

A SENSE OF OWNERSHIP “It really gives you a sense of ownership,” Jourdan explained.

After working on a trail, you begin to notice things you never did before — the stone steps that someone with a strong back had to heave into place, the cut in a giant fallen log that’s just wide enough to walk through, the level path that somehow exists amid a slope’s 30 percent incline.

These aren’t features that appeared by accident, you realize. Rather, they represent the hard work of someone who cared enough to spend a Saturday in the woods, slinging a hazel hoe so that future visitors could have an enjoyable, low-impact wilderness experience.

“You can hike in a place,” Gottesman said, “but then when you actually take the time and the effort to care for the trail itself and give back to that area, it creates so much of a stronger connection to that place.”

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freedom that people can do the things they enjoy doing,” Smucker said, listing the priorities she juggles constantly on the trail.

While it needs to be done right, the program’s sustainability also depends on the job being fun.

“If you don’t have fun you won’t come back, and we need you to come back,” SAWS director Bill Hodge said.

For Mel Braswell, though, that balance is just right. Braswell drove 86 miles that Saturday morning, traveling all the way from Johnson City, Tenn., to reach the trailhead near Sunburst Campground by 9 a.m.

But she had no complaints.

“I sit inside all day,” Braswell said.

“That’s why it doesn’t bother me in the least to get up at 5 a.m. to be outside.”

She’s been a member for three years, and over the course of Saturdays spent working in the woods, she’s gotten her share of both fresh air and friends.

“You get to know people on the trail quickly, and kind of intimately,” Smucker said.

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such as streams and fallen trees is made obvious so hikers don’t feel like they have to create their own path.

There’s more to building a trail than meets the eye, but Smucker’s job is a delicate balance of guiding her crew to do quality work and ensuring that they have a good enough time that they come back. It’s not an easy task.

“Melding a group of varying people into a cohesive team, teaching them the things they need to know, but giving them enough

pretense out in the wilderness. Everyone gets dirty and sweaty, automatically striking down a whole laundry list of social barriers.

This particular trip drew people as diverse as Bianca Andre, a UNC-Asheville student who came out to fulfill community service hours for her degree, Ryan Jourdan, a young professional native to Indiana who’s into hiking when he’s not mountain biking, Brenna Irrer, the SAWS volunteer coordinator from Cullowhee and Tom Thomas, a retiree who’s president of Backcountry Horsemen of North Carolina. But they all have one thing in common: a love of the

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Tour Cashiers from a bicycle Registration is now open for the Tour de Cashiers bike ride, scheduled for Saturday, May 3. A full slate of rides is available, including a quarter century, metric century, century and Blue Ridge Double. Routes offer views of mountain lakes, rugged gorges, wildflowers and blooming shrubs.

Registration is $45 to $55 for individual events or $75 to $95 for the Blue Ridge Double. All rides depart at the Village Green Commons on Frank Allen Road at 9 a.m.

Register at www.tourdecashiers.com info@CashiersAreaChamber.com or 828.743.5191.

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The Waynesville Skate Park will be closed from April 28 to May 2 for repairs. The park will reopen May 3.

The park is open to skateboards, but bikes were recently banned in an effort to prevent damage to the park from bicycle pegs.

Waynesville Parks and Recreation, 828.456.2030.

Summer camp to be a wild experience Rising seventh graders will have a chance to spend a week partaking in all things outdoors this summer, from July 28 to Aug. 1.

The Jackson Soil and Water Conservation District is once again holding Camp WILD — which stands for wilderness, investigating, learning and discovery — for students who will be entering seventh grade this fall.

Kids should expect to have fun — the week includes a night of camping — but also to learn about topics as diverse as soils, alternative energy, forestry, wildlife and aquatics. $25 with scholarships provided on an asneeded basis. Space limited to first 20 applicants. Jane Fitzgerald, 828.586.5465 or janefitzgerald@jacksonnc.org.

Spring celebration planned for Parkway animal babies, see a live raptor demonstration, tour a LEED-certified building, learn about sustainability and green building practices, check out the Parkway’s new green vehicles, learn about the Junior Ranger program and hike on a Kids in Parks TRACK Trail.

Free, with food from Webo’s BBQ available for purchase. 828.298.5330, ext. 304.

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Live raptors, green building and spring flowers will all be part of the Blue Ridge Parkway’s Greening of the Parkway special event, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center.

In this combined celebration of Earth Day, National Park Week and National Junior Ranger Day, visitors can learn how to landscape with native species, see spring

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The Wildflower Whimsy event, May 2-3, at the Highlands Biological Foundation, will feature guided garden tours, a live plant auction and reception — with live music — guided wildflower walks and a lecture. At 6 p.m. on Friday, Peter Loewer will present a lecture titled “Wildflowers and Native Perennials - and Even a Few exotics - for the Southeast.” Loewer is an established writer and botanical artist, writing on topics ranging from ornamental grasses to nocturnal flowers.

The Wildflower Whimsy event runs from 5 to 8 p.m., May 2, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., May 3. $40 for Highlands Biological Foundation members, $50 for non-members or $25 for Friday night only. Friday tickets include heavy hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer, garden tours, live music and a seat during the lecture on Friday night.

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Another season is underway for Haywood’s Historic Farmers Market, which starts up again at 8 a.m. Saturday, April 26. The market will run every Wednesday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon until mid-December at the parking lot of HART Theater and Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts, 250 Pigeon St. in Waynesville.

On any given Saturday, 50 vendors will be there to sell food and craft items. Early season wares are spring greens, meats, eggs and starts for vegetables, herbs, annuals and perennials.

Fresh seafood from North Carolina’s coast will be available Saturdays, and fresh-caught trout from Almond will also be sold. www.waynesvillefarmersmarket.com or like on www.facebook.com/waynesvillefarmersmarket for weekly updates on what’s being sold.

flower walk. 828.526.2221 or www.highlandsbiological.org/wildflower-whimsy.

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Bear management will get a boost in the Smokies with $4,000 in Appalachian Trail license plate sales to go toward repairing damaged cables in the cable-and-pulley systems installed at each backcountry campsite and shelter in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The systems allow backpackers to hoist their food and packs out of reach of black bears, improving safety for both humans and animals. Donated photo

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Rodents and roadside trash discussed at WCU A presentation on roadside trash and its implications for small mammals will be delivered at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 24, at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center.

Patrick Brannon, director of the Highlands Nature Center at the Highlands Biological Station, will talk about research he and his students have conducted, involving several years of searching roadsides for bottles containing remains of small rodents such as shrews, mice and voles. Brannon will discuss using discarded bottles as a technique for surveying small mammals and determining their distribution, and the implications of the trash on animal mortality.

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The Tree Assistance Program, a national program to help orchardists and nursery tree growers recover from natural disasters, is now open for sign-up. The program gives money to growers to replant or rehabilitate trees, bushes and vines damaged from natural disasters occurring on or before Oct. 1, 2011.

Call the Haywood County Farm Service Agency office at 828.456.3557 or look online at http://www.fsa.usda.gov/internet/fsa_file/2014_farm_bill_customers.pdf or http://www.fsa.usda.gov/fsa/newsreleases?area=newsroom&subject=landing&t opic=pfs&newstype=prfactsheet&type=deta il&item=pf_20140401_distr_en_tap14.htm l.

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Volunteers are needed to help Haywood Waterways root the invasive plants out of Richland Creek’s banks at Vance Street Park in Waynesville. From 2 to 5 p.m. April 29, the group will remove Japanese knotweed, multiflora rose, oriental bittersweet, Chinese privet and Japanese honeysuckle.

These species strangle and outcompete native plants, creating a riparian — or streamside — zone that offers less food for wildlife and less protection against erosion.

Rain barrel workshop rescheduled A rain barrel workshop is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., April 29. This event was originally scheduled for April 22.

The two-hour program at the Agricultural Service Center, 589 Raccoon Rd. in Waynesville, will teach participants how to build a rain barrel, a tool that captures rainwater for uses such as watering gardens while reducing pollution from stormwater runoff. All participants leave with one complete rain barrel. RSVP to

Bring boots, gloves and a willingness to get dirty. Tools and refreshments provided. Eric Romaniszyn, 828.476.4667 or info@haywoodwaterways.org.

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Spring mulching will get a jumpstart with Waynesville’s annual mulch sale, 8 a.m. to noon, May 1 to 3 and May 8 to 10.

Town workers will be on hand to load vehicles with a wheel loader. State regulations require that loads be covered. The event will be canceled in the case of wet weather.

Prices range from $10 per load of mulch or compost for a regular pickup trunk or trailer to $200 per tandem truckload of mulch.

Tandem and roll-off trucks will only be allowed May 8 to 10.

Depending on size, trailers will incur an additional $10 to $20 fee.

Payments must be made with cash or check.

The event will take place at the town yard waste landfill off Bible Baptist Drive, which branches off from Russ Avenue near the bypass.

Go straight through the gate at the end of Bible Baptist Drive and see the attendant.

828.456.3706.

Rain barrels available in Haywood County Rain barrels made from recycled foodgrade containers are available for purchase at the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce and the Haywood County Cooperative Extension Office. They can also be ordered through the Haywood Waterways Association.

The barrels have bug screen and connections for a garden hose, overflow pipes or to connect multiple barrels together.

During drought, the barrels provide a source of irrigation water, reducing strain on rivers and wells, and they capture stormwater to reduce runoff when it rains. The average barrel captures 650 gallons of stormwater annually and has a 30-year lifespan. $80.25 each, including tax. Contact Haywood Waterways, 828.476.4667 or info@haywoodwaterways.org.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Denim Day “No Excuses,” Wednesday, April 23, in Haywood County to raise awareness of sexual assault prevention. Display at noon, at Haywood Community College library. REACH of Haywood, 456.7898.

• Reception honoring Hennessee family and Dot McDonald for their generosity and dedication to Harris Regional Hospital, 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 24 hospital’s chapel courtyard. Andie Robbins, WestCare Foundation, 631.8924 or andrea.robbins@haymed.org.

• Western Carolina University Chancellor David O. Belcher meeting with Macon County residents, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, Boiler Room Steak House.

RSVP by April 25 to Beau Busby, Office of Alumni Affairs, 877.440.9990 or via email at bbusby@wcu.edu.

• Cashiers Historical Society (CHS) general membership meeting, 5 p.m. Friday, April 25, old Cashiers Community Center. 743.7710, info@cashiershistoricalsociety.org, or www.cashiershistoricalsociety.org.

• Cashiers Area Chamber Community Forum featuring Jackson County Manager Chuck Wooten, 5 p.m.

Thursday, April 24, Cashiers Community Library.

• Bicycle rodeo, for children and adults, 2 to 4 p.m.

Sunday, April 27, Jackson County Recreation Park in Cullowhee. Sponsored by the Office of Career Services at Western Carolina University 227.3891.

• 2nd Anniversary Celebration Open House, 2 to 4 p.m.

Sunday, April 27, The Homestead, 127 Sunset Ridge, Clyde. Hosted by MedWest Haywood Hospice and Palliative Care. RSVP to Katherine, 452.8883.

• Smoky Mountain Chapter of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association meeting, noon Saturday, April 26, Ryan’s Steakhouse, 374 Walmart Plaza, Sylva.

• Grocery Giveaway, 12:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27, Covenant Christian Church, 486 Fairview Road, Sylva.

Free, for anyone who could use a little extra food at the end of the month. 283.0018, www.covenantnc.org www.facebook.com/covenantsylva.

• Pretty for Prom, accepting clean, gently used ball gowns, party dresses, accessories, shoes, etc. through April 30. Joy, 550.9511 or Starr T., 476.4231. Sponsored

by Angie Franklin, State Farm Insurance and W.O.W. • MedWest Haywood Community Meeting, 6 to 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 1, Town Hall, Maggie Valley. Register for a risk assessment, 452.8883.

• Microchip Clinic, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 3, 182 Richland St., Waynesville. Microchipping for dogs, cats, and large animals at a reduced rate of $15. Also reduced rates for canine distemper combo vaccine.

Sponsored by Haywood Spay/Neuter and Mary Coker, DVM. Register, 452.1329.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

Southwestern Community College. Hosted by the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS).

• How to Write a Business Plan, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 1, Student Center, Haywood Community College.

SBC.haywood.edu, 627.4512, or email kmgould@haywood.edu.

• Haywood Community College joint High School Equivalency Diploma (formerly known as GED) and Adult High School Graduation Ceremony, 7 p.m. Friday, May 2, HCC Charles Beall Auditorium. More than 130 students will be honored. 627.4648.

• Southwestern Community College’s Nantahala School for the Arts workshop, “Social Media for Artists,” 6 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, May 5, Room 114 of the SCC Swain Center. Jeff Marley, 366.2005 or email j_marley@southwesterncc.edu.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Haywood Community College’s Cosmetic Arts Cut-AThon for Relay for Life’s American Cancer Society, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 23, HCC Cosmetic Arts Center. Shampoo and cut, $6, style for $5. Walk-ins accepted; appointments suggested. 627.4641, 627.4268.

• 2nd Annual Giving Them Hope Breakfast, 8:30 a.m.

April 24, Southwestern Community College’s Burrell Center. Hosted by Barium Springs. Proceeds go to Hawthorn Heights, emergency teen shelter in Bryson City. 231.5413 or www.bariumsprings.org.

• Sylva Rotary Club Pancake Breakfast, 7:30 to 10 a.m.

Friday, April 25, First United Methodist Church, downtown Sylva. Portion of the proceeds will go to scholarships, feeding the hungry, and youth activities/services.

Tickets $5. Take out for businesses will be available. www.sylvarotaryclub.org. 339.4600.

• The Lowe’s of Franklin Relay for Life Team Yard Sale, 7 a.m. Saturday, April 26, parking lot of Whistlestop Mall, 441 South. Proceeds go to Relay for Life of Franklin.

• Benefit Breakfast, 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, May 3, Rockwood United Methodist Church, 288 Crabtree Mountain Road, Canton. $6, adults; $4, children 11 and under.

BLOOD DRIVES • Junaluska Fire Department Blood Drive, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 6, 90 Old Clyde Road, Lake Junaluska. 456.9934 for more information or to schedule an appointment. Walk-ins welcome.

HEALTH MATTERS BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Ford Motor Company’s “Drive 4UR School” Program, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, April 24, Jackson County Early College, Southwestern Community College Balsam Center. 586.0900 or www.andyshawford.com.

• Computer Class: Publisher II, 5:45 p.m. Monday, April 28, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. 586.2016.

• Free eBay workshops: beginner’s workshop, 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 29; advanced workshop, 1 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30; and eBay store workshop, 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, Regional High Technology Center, Waynesville Industrial Park.

Sponsored by Haywood Community College Small Business Center. Register at 627.4512.

• “NCReady4Work” learning summit April 29-30,

• Kick-off for Lighten Up 4 Life, 5 p.m. Thursday, April 24, Angel Medical Center, hospital dining room.

349.6639.

• MedWest Haywood free joint pain seminar, 1 to 2 p.m.

Wednesday, April 23, MedWest Haywood Health & Fitness Center. 452.8755 to register.

• Leading the Way to Wellness, Public Health Month kick-off, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 26, Franklin Town Hall. www.maconnc.org or www.facebook.com/MaconPublicHealth.

RECREATION & FITNESS • Registration April 28-May 23 for Adult Basketball League at Cullowhee Recreation Center and Cashiers/Glenville Recreation Center. $425 per team.

$100 deposit due at registration. Must be at least 14 years old and in high school. Play begins Monday, June 2. 293.3053.

• Registration through May 2 for Co-Rec Volleyball League at the Cashiers/Glenville Recreation Center. $175. Play begins Tuesday, May 20. 293.3053.

• Register through April 24 for Disc Golf Tournament, at Recreation Park in Cullowhee. $20 Fee: $20 pre-registered or $30 day of tournament.

Tournament starts at 5:30 p.m. at the Recreation Park in Cullowhee.293.3053.

THE SPIRITUAL SIDE • Life in the Spirit Seminar, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays, April 23-June 4, St. Margaret Catholic Church, Maggie Valley. Don or Janet Zander, 926.2654.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES • “Arthritis and Its Podiatric Pathology,” 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 23, Department on Aging Senior Center, Board Room 100 County Services Park, Sylva.

Free. 586.4944.

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 instruments, mountain dance (clogging, buckdance, flat-footing and square dance) and mountain songs and storytelling. $75. Register at Haywood County Arts Council, 452.0593.

• Jackson Soil and Water Conservation District Camp WILD (Wilderness, Investigating, Learning, Discovery) for rising seventh. 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. most days, July 28 through Aug. 1, Jackson County Recreation Center parking lot in Cullowhee. $25, register at 586.5465 or email janefitzgerald@jacksonnc.org.

Literary (children) • Homework Help, 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, JCPL, 586.2016.

KIDS & FAMILIES • Greening Up the Mountains Poetry Contest Reception, 1 p.m. Saturday, April 26, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva.

For students from Jackson County who submitted poems. 586.9499.

• SciGirls, for girls age 9 to 14, 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, at Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) campus, Pisgah National Forest. Co-hosted with the Transylvania County 4-H. Program is Pedal Power.

Participation fee, $10 per student. Program details at www.pari.edu. Register at www.pari.edu/programs/students/scigirls. http://pbskids.org/scigirls.

• Seminar, “The Power of Positive Parenting – Being a parent can be hard” 10 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, Mission Children’s Reuter Center, 11 Vanderbilt Park Drive, Asheville.

• Write On! Children’s Creative Writing Group, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 23, JCPL, 586.2016.

• Mary Ann’s Book Club, 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, Macon County Public Library, Franklin, • Science 503 Club, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, Macon County Public Library, Franklin.

• Homework Help, 3 p.m. Thursday, April 24, JCPL, Sylva. 586.2016.

• Paws to Read, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, JCPL, Sylva. 586.2016.

• The Write Ones: Adult Writing Group, 6 p.m. Thursday, April 24, JCPL, Sylva. 586.2016.

• Between the Lines: Teen Writing Group, 6 p.m.

Thursday, April 24, JCPL, Sylva. 586.2016.

• Register through May 2 for Sandlot Baseball for ages 5-6, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday, at Cullowhee Recreation Park or Cashiers/Glenville Recreation Center.

Cost is $20. Must be 5 by May 1 and cannot turn 7 before May 1. 293.3053.

• Children’s Story time: Leap Back Home, 11 a.m.

Friday, April 25, JCPL, Sylva. 586.2016.

• Register for Spring Youth Tennis Lessons in Jackson County. Lessons run Tuesdays and Saturdays, April 29May 24, at Mark Watson Park, Sylva. $40. Register at Jackson County Recreation Center. No phone registration.

• Teen Time: 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, Tuesday, JCPL, Sylva. 586.2016.

Summer Camps • Summer Day Camp for elementary school children, ages 6 to 12, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 12 to Aug. 8, Cullowhee United Methodist Church. One-time registration fee of $75 (or $10 per week if less than 8 weeks). $650 for the summer, $95 per week, or $25 per day.

293.9215, www.cullowheeumc.org/summer-camp2014/.

• Highlands Nature Center Day Camps now taking registrations for five different camps. 526.2623 or, visit summer camps webpage at www.highlandsbiological.org.

• Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department Summer Camp for kids pre-K to 7th grade, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday – Friday, June 23-Aug. 15. Deadline to register is May 19. 456.2030 or email recprogramspecialist@townofwaynesville.org • Haywood County Arts Council Jam Camp, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, July 8 – Friday, July 11, Canton Middle School, 60 Penland St., Canton. Classes in mountain

• Carol Grise presents “The Hole Truth about Groundhog’s Garden,” for ages 3 to 5, 10 a.m. Friday, April 25, Macon County Public Library.

• Homework Help, 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, JCPL, Sylva. 586.2016.

ECA EVENTS • Paper Flowers, Potpourri ECA, 9:30 a.m., Thursday, May 1, Conference Room of Community Service Center, Sylva. 586.4009.

POLITICAL GROUP EVENTS & LOCAL GOVERNMENT GOP • Haywood County Republican Party Meet and Greet, 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 24, Haywood County Republican Headquarters, 303 N. Haywood St., Waynesville. RSVP, 648.733 or kingsplace@charter.net.

Monday, April 28th, North and South Jackson County Republican Monthly Meeting • Jackson County Republican Party meeting 6 p.m.

Monday, April 28, Ryan’s in Sylva. Ralph Slaughter, 743.6491, jacksonctygop@yahoo.com, jacksoncountygop.com.

SUPPORT GROUPS Jackson

LITERARY (ADULTS) • World Book Night, April 23, City Lights Bookstore, local community base for book givers. www.us.worldbooknight.org.

A&E FESTIVALS, SPECIAL & SEASONAL EVENTS • 17th annual Greening Up the Mountains Festival, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 26, Main and Mill streets, and in the Bridge Park, downtown Sylva. www.greeningupthemountains.com or 226.8652.

• “Where’s Paws,” April 26-June 26, Jackson County merchants. For children of Jackson County in observance of the 125th anniversary of the founding of Western Carolina University. www.facebook.com/WCU125.

• Sneak preview, 6 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 25, of the Cherokee touring exhibit, “Understanding our Past, Shaping our Future,“ at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center.

Curatorial.InSight@gmail.com.

• Cashiers Historical Society general membership meeting, 5 p.m. Friday, April 25, old Cashiers Community Center. 743.7710, info@cashiershistoricalsociety.org.

• Historical event to honor Col. William Holland Thomas, only white Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and a former NC state senator, 1 p.m. Saturday, May 3, Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesville.

FOOD & DRINK

ART/GALLERY EVENTS & OPENINGS • Haywood Community College Spring Craft Sale, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 25, Creative Arts Building.

All pieces made by students in the Professional Crafts programs. 565.4159.

• “Invitational Artists” exhibit, through April 26 at Gallery 86, downtown Waynesville. www.haywoodarts.org.

• Free workshop, “Social Media for Artists” 6 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, May 5, room 114 of the SCC Swain Center. Led by Elise Delfield, potter and Heritage Arts instructor. Reservations, Jeff Marley, 366.2005 or j_marley@southwesterncc.edu.

• Camille Tuttrup mixed media workshop “The Collage Box” from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at the Uptown Gallery, 30 W. Main St., Franklin. 349.4607.

• Western North Carolina Carvers (WNCC) monthly meeting, 1:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 27, Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road, Asheville. Bruce Dalzell, 665.8273.

• Jackson County Arts Council membership meeting, 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, Community Room, Jackson County Library Complex, featuring a performance of “An Evening of Broadway” by board members Yona Wade and Rebecca Ensley.

• Patricia Jordan, author of My Journey in Overcoming Chronic Dysthymic Depression, 11 a.m. Saturday, April 26, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City.

• Join or renew a membership to Friends of the Jackson County Public Library during Greening Up the Mountains and receive a free tote bag sporting the logos of The Friends of the Library and the Jackson County Public Library.

• Canton poet and author Michael Beadle free performance celebrating National Poetry Month at 5 p.m.

Monday, April 28, Canton Branch Library children’s room. 648.2924 or visit www.haywoodlibary.org.

• Wally Avett presents his mystery, Murder in Caney Fork, at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 3rd at City Lights Bookstore, Sylva. 586.9499.

• Classic movie, 2 p.m. Friday, April 25, Meeting Room, Macon County Public Library, Franklin.

524.3600/ Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Victor Moore.

• The Hobbit: The desolation of Smaug, 7:45 p.m.

April 25, and 1 p.m., 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. April 26, The Strand, 38 Main, Waynesville. 283.0079. www.facebook.com/38main.

Outdoors OUTINGS, HIKES & FIELDTRIPS • Adopt-a-Trail training for Friends of Deep Creek, 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, Deep Creek. Register by April 30 at: Dan Trehern, 2701 Stephenson Branch Road, Bryson City, NC 28713; 507.5992; or wdtrehern@yahoo.com.

• Highlands Plateau Audubon Society Beginners’ Walk, 7:30 a.m. Saturday, May 3, in Highlands to Edwin and Kay Poole’s home and native garden.

Michelle, 743.9670.

PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Actor/musician Kevin Costner & Modern West, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. Tickets start at $40. www.GreatMountainMusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• “Echoes of the Cotton Club,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, Western Carolina University. Tickets are $10.

227.2479 or bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

• “To Kill a Mockingbird,” 7:30 p.m. April 25-26, May 2-3, 9-10, and at 3 p.m. April 27, May 4 and 11. HART Theatre, Performing Arts Center at the Shelton House, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. Tickets: $20 adults, $18 seniors, $10 students/teachers and special $6 discount tickets for students and teachers on Sunday performances. 456.6322, www.harttheatre.com.

• Presentation on roadside trash and its implications for small mammals, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 24, Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center auditorium. 227.7129.

• Greening of the Parkway, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, April 26, Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center (Milepost 384). Activities and demonstrations about the springtime greening of the environment. Free.

298.5330, ext. 304. www.nps.gov.

• National Junior Ranger Day, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, April 26, Sugarlands Visitor Center, Cades Cove Visitor Center and Oconaluftee Visitor Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Lloyd Luketin, 865.436.1292.

• Music of the Mountains festival, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, April 26, Sugarlands Visitor Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 865.436.1291.

• Salamander monitoring project, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, for middle and high school students, Sugarlands Visitor Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Emily Guss, 865.736.1713.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Du’ing it for Kyle” Duathlon, 8 a.m. Saturday, April 26, Tassee Greenway Shelter, 877 Ulco Road, Franklin.

Pam Forshee, s.bicycles@morrisbb.net or 369.2881.

Registration also at www.active.com/franklinnc/duathlon/races/du-ing-it-for-kyle-duathlon-2014.

• Greening Up the Mountains 5k Race, 8 a.m.

Saturday, April 26, Mark Watson Park. www.imathlete.com or stop by the Recreation Center to pick up a registration form.

• Kids Advocacy Resource Effort 5KARE and Fun Run, 8 a.m. (register), Saturday, April 26, Badcock parking lot on Main Street in downtown Waynesville. $20 for adults and $10 for children. www.karehouse.org/20145kare.html. Julie Schroer, 456.8995.

• Western Carolina University’s annual Jazz Festival, 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, April 26, near the fountain outside A.K. Hinds University Center at WCU. Free. 631.1321 or pwlosok@wcu.edu.

• Southern Fried Chicks, Cage-Free Comedy Tour, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. Tickets start at $15 each. www.GreatMountainMusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• “The Fantasticks,” the world’s longest-running musical, 5 p.m. Sunday, April 27, Western Carolina University’s John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $20 for adults; $15 for WCU faculty and staff; and $5 for students and children. Bardo Box Office, 227.2479 or bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

• The Band Perry, 9 p.m. April 25, Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center. Tickets at 800.745.3000.

• Smokey Mountain Brass Quintet, 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, St. David’s Episcopal Church, Cullowhee. $10.00 (cash or check) at the door. Proceeds to reduce debt on the parish hall.

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CLASSES, PROGRAMS & DEMONSTRATIONS

• Tim Jackson presents his book, Gone Pro: North Carolina, a tribute to UNC Athletes and their pro careers, at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 26 at City Lights Bookstore, Sylva. 586.9499.

• New movie, 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, Meeting Room, Macon County Public Library, 149 Siler Farm Road, Franklin. 524.3600. Rated PG-13.

• Living with Trees guided tour, 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, April 25, Highlands Botanical Garden, with horticulturist Ezra Gardiner. 526.0188 or egardiner@email.wcu.edu to R.S.V.P. www.highlandsbiological.org.

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• Heinzelm nnchen Brewery tenth anniversary celebration, 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Building Depot, 119 Front St., Dillsboro.

Sheryl Rudd, 631.4466 or email gnome@yourgnometownbrewery.com.

• Sonja Condit presents her debut novel, Starter House, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 25, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva. 586.9499.

FILM & SCREEN

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• Bereavement support group, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Mondays through May 19, LifePath office 26 WestCare Drive, Suite 301, Sylva. (WestCare Medical Park Upper Level).

631.1702.

• Exploring Watercolor, 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, May 2, Dillsboro Masonic Lodge. $21. Nature Printing, 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday May 13, Dillsboro Masonic Lodge. $12.

Register at 586.2435, junettapell@hotmail.com by April 29. Sponsored by Dogwood Crafters of Dillsboro.

• Western Carolina University Guitar Ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, recital hall of Coulter Building at WCU. WCU School of Music, 227.7242.

• Alice In Chains, 9 p.m. Saturday, May 2, Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, 777 Casino Drive Cherokee.

Tickets at www.Ticketmaster.com.

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HEAD START PRESCHOOL ASSISTANT TEACHER - Jackson County - Associate Degree in Early Childhood Education is required for this position, must also have the ability to assume responsibilities of the classroom when the teacher is absent, work well with parents, community partners and co-workers, and have good judgment/problem solving skills. Basic computer skills are required. Two years classroom experience is preferred. This is a 10 month position with full time benefits that includes, health insurance, dental, vision, short term/long term disability, life insurance, and retirement.

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ACROSS 1 Hunch over 5 Reading the same forward and backward 16 Ski resort in Utah 20 Sea color 21 Cousin of techno music 22 Hen housing 23 Singer Vallee 24 Arrive at a peak 25 - d’état 26 - chi 27 Encircle 28 Prestige 30 Giant Mel 31 Pooh’s marsupial pal 32 Demolish 37 Prince Harry or William, schoolwise 38 Phone part 40 Pedicured part 42 Show up at 43 - -friendly 44 Not too far-fetched 46 Sidle through a doorway, say 49 Boundary 50 Comic Idle 54 Gen - (boomer’s child) 55 List-finishing abbr.

57 Invalidated 58 Texas city 59 “That’s -!” (“Not so!”)

61 Dalí’s output 63 Robert of “Raging Bull” 64 Pertaining to kidneys

65 Symbol of Canada 68 “Extreme -” (TLC reality show) 70 Enter, as data 71 Three-sharp musical key 75 Hollywood’s Vardalos 76 Swenson of the screen 77 “I - drink” 78 Head toward 80 “Car Talk” station 82 New Year in Vietnam 83 Brontë’s Jane 84 Sweet by-and-by 86 Pooh’s donkey pal 88 Puppet with strings 89 Transfer - (cell material) 90 Actor Len 94 Convent 95 Short sleep 99 Completed 101 With 115-Across, classic stuffed animal 102 Jamaican booze 103 Sickly 104 Like candlelit dinners 106 Destiny 107 PC’s “brain” 108 “- pronounce you ...”

109 Positioned evenly 115 See 101-Across 116 “99 Luftballons” singer 117 Seedless citrus fruit 118 15th-century Peruvian 119 Slate-colored 120 Extreme peril

51 Met by accident 52 Way to storm off 53 Crest rival DOWN 56 Coffee additive 1 Composer Béla 58 Master 2 Consider the same 60 Slip past 3 Nakedness 62 Rain forest monkey 4 Week unit 5 Of a dentistry branch 66 JFK stat 67 Deke or juke 6 1999-2004 Olds 69 Sheet-slicing office 7 Pipe material 8 Old trucking watch- gizmo 72 French saint - d’Arc dog gp.

73 Cause to feel 9 Ultimate umbrage 10 “- & the Women” 74 Putrefied (Richard Gere film) 11 South Korea’s - Tae 79 Go for again 81 Title differently Woo 84 Spooking 12 Bill in a tip jar 85 King, in Spanish 13 Tiny parasite 14 “Ready or not, here 87 China’s Sun - -sen 88 Faucet brand -!”

90 Showing concern 15 Feature of “Rose” 91 Sorry sort? but not “rose” 92 “Pest” of kiddie lit 16 Stress 93 Sort of 17 Canadian dollar 96 Christians’ - Creed coin 97 Camel’s kin 18 Big-billed bird 98 Word form made 19 Annex 27 George Burns’ Allen with the big letter depicted in this puzzle’s 29 D sharp, e.g. diagram (this letter is 32 Adult female entirely absent from the 33 Fostered solution) 34 Employ 100 Iraqi coin 35 Alligator lookalike 102 Grazing land 36 - energy 105 Vena 39 - -wee Herman 106 - shui 40 Waiter’s 20% 110 Third bk. of the 41 In the future Bible 45 Desert Arab 111 Dot in la mer 46 Analyze 112 Zeus, e.g.

47 “NYPD Blue” 113 Gun touters’ gp. actress Kim 114 Adult male 48 Grasping thing 115 Show 50 Kate Nelligan film 121 Gusto

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Back then WITH

J

G EORGE E LLISON

Judge Felix E. Alley

last fifteen [twenty-one] of which he lived in the Cooper House in Bryson City. During that period I spent at least six weeks of every year at Bryson City, attending the courts, and I, too, lived at the Cooper House. I knew Mr. Kephart intimately. He was my friend and I was his friend.

“As a friend I loved him; but I did not love him as well as I love my native mountaineers, whose constant and unfaltering friendship has meant so much to me. If Mr. Kephart and Miss Morley had closed their books when they finished what they had to say about the mountains and the mountain region, and had said nothing about the people who dwell therein, their books would have been acclaimed masterpieces, and we should have owed them a debt of gratitude so great that it never could be repaid.”

Thenceforth, the Judge’s criticisms are numerous and varied. There was very little that he liked about the cultural descriptions in either book. You can read them for yourself at https://archive.org/details/randomthoughtsmu00alle.

George Ellison wrote the biographical introductions for the reissues of two Appalachian classics: Horace Kephart’s Our Southern Highlanders and James Mooney’s History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees.

In June 2005, a selection of his Back Then columns was published by The History Press in Charleston as Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains. Readers can contact him at P.O. Box 1262, Bryson City, N.C., 28713, or at info@georgeellison.com.

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udge Felix E. Alley (1873-1957) was a serving as county judge for Swain County, “KIDDER native ofCOLE” Whiteside Cove, near Cashiers Alley stayed in the Cooper House in Bryson and Highlands. During most of his legal City and thereby became a friend (and early My name Felix Eugene Alley court career as anisattorney and superior critic) of Horace Kephart.

My best girl livesininWaynesville Cashiers Valley; judge, he resided She’s the joy my soul as the and served, onofoccasion, And herfor name is Kidder Cole.

“KIDDER COLE” attorney Swain and other counties. He was the author of Random My name is Felix Eugene Alley (refrain: to repeated after Thoughts andbethe Musings of aeach My best girl lives in Cashiers Valley; stanza Mountaineer (1941).

She’s the joy of my soul orAn at selected intervals) accomplished banjo player, And her name is Kidder Cole.

Alley was 16 years old when he Oh, mycomposing sweet littlea Kidder girl! a started ballad about (refrain: to be repeated after each stanza You cause my head to spin andThe young lady named Kidder Cole. or at selected intervals) whirl,became immensely popular. ballad am yours,by and are mine AIrecording theyou renowned Oh, my sweet little Kidder girl!

Long asNorth the sun and stars still Western Carolina musician You cause my head to spin and whirl, shine. Lamar Lunsford still turns Bascom I am yours, and you are mine up on traditional radio playlists Long as the sun and stars still shine.

I don’ttheknow - it must have been across country. byThe chance, story behind the song was I don’t know - it must have been by chance, ‘Way last by fallJohn whenParris, I wentwho to a uncovered ‘Way last fall when I went to a dance, dance, interviewed Alley in 1955 for one of I was to dance with Kidder the livelong night I was to dance Kidderinthe his columns thatwith appeared the But got my time beat by Charley Wright. livelong Citizen-Times. night Asheville The colBut was got my time beat by Charleyin umn subsequently reprinted If I ever have to have a fight Wright.

Parris’s first book, Mountain Bred I hope it will be with Charley Wright; (1967), and in the chapter on For he was the ruin of my soul If I ever have to have fight mountain folklore thatahe conWhen he beat my time with Kidder Cole I hope ittowill with Charley tributed ThebeHistory of Jackson Wright;(1987).

County When the dance was over I went away ForKidder he wasCole’s the ruin of my father wassoul a merTo bide my time till another day, When my time chant inhe thebeat Cashiers areawith and later When I could cause trouble and pain and blight Kidder Cole of Jackson County. the high sheriff To sadden the soul of Charley Wright.

The dance that sparked the contest When the dance waswas overheld I went for Kidder’s attention at (missing stanza about Kidder going to South Carolina) away the home of Charles Grimshawe, a To bide my time till another day, physician from England, who had But she came back the following spring WheninI could cause trouble and settled Cashiers.

And oh, how I made my banjo ring; pain and blight “Young Felix was late in arriving It helped me get my spirit right, theParris soul of Charley“And atTo thesadden dance,” recorded.

To beat the time of Charley Wright.

Wright.the doorway he saw, to his through bitter disappointment, that Kidder Kidder came home the first of June, (missing stanza aboutby Kidder Cole had been claimed his And I sang my song and played my tune; going to SouthWright.

Carolina) cousin, Charley Charley I commenced trying with all my might was bigger than Felix, and he let it To put one over on Charley Wright she came beBut known rightback awaythe thatfollowing Kidder spring had promised him all the dances When the speaking was over we had a dance Andnight. oh, how I made my banjo that And then and there I found my chance ring; “’Before the night was over,’ To make my peace with Kidder Cole It helped get my‘Ispirit right, Judge Alleyme recalled, had comAnd beat Charley Wright; confound his soul.

To beatcomposing the time ofthe Charley menced ballad.

Wright.

While Charley danced away the Charley came in an hour or so, night with Kidder I reeled off stanza But when he saw me with Kidder he turned to go Kidder came the first of after stanza of home the ballad.’”

Back to his home with a saddened soul, June, In reality, Alley composed the For I’d beat his time with Kidder Cole.

And Iover sangamy songofand played ballad period several my tune; months.

But did he actually win I’ve always heard the old folks say I commenced with all my “the belle of thetrying mountains?”

That every dog will have his day; might When quizzed on that point by And now all of Charley’s joy has passed, To putheone over on Charley Parris, replied: “‘Why, no, neiFor I’ve succeeded in beating him at last.

Wright ther Charley Wright nor I won the heart and hand of Kidder Cole, Oh, yes, Kidder is sweet; When the was overI we although thespeaking ballad indicates was And it won’t be long until we meet the lucky one.’”

At her home in Cashiers Valley Of peripheral interest, to some, And she’ll change her name to Alley. will be the fact that, when he was

From 1910 until 1931, Kephart resided at the Cooper House just off the town square.

During court weeks, it provided a congenial setting for room and board as well as afterhours gossip and fellowship. Alley considered “Our Southern Highlanders, by the late Horace Kephart, and the Carolina Mountains, by Miss Margaret Morley [to be] far and away the best books that have been written about the mountains of Western North Carolina.”

“For what they have said,” Alley continued in his Random Thoughts and the Musings of a Mountaineer, “about the mountains themselves, their forests, their minerals, their countless varieties of shrubs and flowers, as well as their magnificent scenery and incomparable climate, we are deeply indebted to them …

“Mr. Kephart resided here about eighteen years [actually, about twenty-five], the

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