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On the Cover: Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce is working on mitigating the numerous factors that make workforce recruitment and retention in the area a challenge.

The hospitality and service industry has a hard time finding and keeping good employees because of a small local labor pool, the extreme seasonality of jobs, and the lack of affordable housing in Cashiers. (Page 8) A family enjoys dinner at Canyon Kitchen at Lonesome Valley in Cashiers. Garret K. Woodward photo

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER mergencies like the Gatlinburg fires of 2016 and simulated emergencies like last week’s Operation Vigilant Catamount in Canton have brought disaster planning back to the forefront of many minds locally — perfect timing for Haywood County Emergency Services Coordinator Greg Shuping to make his pitch for a new emergency notification system.

“What could be more important than the fundamental job of notifying our citizens that an emergency is, or is about to, occur?”

Shuping said. “What could be more important?”

Last year’s wildfires were an eye-opener for the similarly situated Haywood County, a tinderbox of unmolested forests with an aging population strewn across narrow mountain roads ridges and dead-end streets.

“We looked at that situation and we said, ‘What if a major fire occurred in our county?

How can we get folks the opportunity to evacuate safety?’ When we saw our plan we felt like it needed to be revised,” he said.

A committee was formed months ago, consisting of all local municipalities and the county, and one area of concern was the existing mechanisms by which governments communicate with their citizens.

“Disseminating crisis information takes a plethora of options to reach the end user, the person that really needs the message,” said Shuping.

Maggie Valley, Waynesville and Clyde use an automated telephone and email notification system called Code Red; Canton uses something called Blackboard and the county uses Rapid Notify.

“We were one of the first counties in the state to have a system,” Shuping said. “Back in 2002, the mill [Evergreen Packaging] offered to purchase a system, but the county found a grant when Homeland Security money was first coming in wake of 9-11.”

The county used a portion of its funding to purchase the system, which Shuping said has served the county well, but is showing its age.

“It is extremely limited, and it really only wants to call landline phones. It has an interface for folks to opt in with cell phones, but it is very difficult and time-consuming and so nobody does it.”

Just 15 years after implementing the then state-of-the-art system, the shrinking attention span of smartphone-addled Americans places new importance on the ease of opting in to it.

“In this society — and I’m part of that society — I’m not going to spend 10 minutes to sign up for anything,” Shuping said. “If they were going to give me $50, I might think about it.”

And “they” are not giving anyone $50 to opt in to potentially life-saving emergency notifications.

“We’ve got to convince you why, on a beautiful day in downtown Waynesville, why you would take even a moment of your time to

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A firefighter tends to a “victim” during last week’s disaster simulation drill in Canton. Cory Vaillancourt photo will be presented to the Town of Clyde June 21.

After that, it will be presented to the Haywood County Board of County Commissioners for final approval July 17 and be phased in over the coming months.

As municipalities transition into the system, citizens will find a mix of old and new functionality that takes advantage of advances in location-based smartphone technology.

“Let’s say a fire occurred at the Apple Festival. You’re already opted in for emergency notifications if you operate a landline at

“If there’s a missing kid during [a] festival, we want all 10,000 people at the festival to be searchers.”

— Greg Shuping, Haywood County emergency services coordinator

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your home or your business. The businesses would get the alert because they have a phone, and the people in the ZIP Code would get the alert because that’s the ZIP code they’ve opted into,” Shuping said. “We can use this tool to create a polygon or perimeter around that fire and call everyone within that perimeter.”

The additional capability of keyword creation will allow the county to further inform people with event-specific alerts — even tourists who wouldn’t otherwise opt in to a Haywood County emergency system.

For example, the keywords ‘Apple Festival 2017’ could be used to notify attendees of road closures, full parking lots or even situational emergencies.

“If there’s a missing kid during this festival, we want all 10,000 people at the Apple

Festival to be searchers,” he said.

Visitors can also find out about the availability of keywords as they’re searching the internet for information on the numerous festivals, fairs and rallies popular in the county.

“Anytime you use Google to search for anything that in any way, shape or form may trigger that keyword, at the top of the Google search engine page, it’s going to come up and say ‘Click here to receive alerts for the festival.’”

Users opting in by keywords will not be opted into the system as a whole, so as not to burden travelers with emergency notifications that don’t apply to them.

“It’s meant to be a temporary interface between us and attendees for that particular subject matter,” Shuping said. “We don’t want to create keywords every day because it would dilute the importance of the message.”

To avoid confusing or conflicting alerts, a strict chain of command will be followed beginning with the incident commander on scene and progressing up through the county.

While the ease and efficacy of the new system will help keep Haywood County safer and more alert, municipalities also like the cost. A one-year contract with Everbridge is currently on the table, and includes rates locked in at $16,870 for the next three years.

With a service population of 59,036 people, that works out to about 29 cents per resident, per year.

The cost will be shared among the municipalities on a pro-rated basis according to population, and in most cases costs just half of current technology — but only because of the collaborative nature of the effort, without which it would have cost twice as much.

“Because of our collaboration and willingness to collaborate — and you know that is not easy, we’re all busy — we built this plan together,” said Shuping.

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sign up for something that you probably don’t even believe will happen,” Shuping said.

As Shuping’s committee shopped vendors — including the existing Code Red system — it found helpful information both near and far.

“We looked at what the counties around us were using, and many of the counties around here recently hired a vendor,” he said.

“We were so early in the game that we just hadn’t considered it lately. So we looked regionally and we found out that there was quite a few Code Red counties in the far west.”

Conversely, larger counties east of Haywood — like Buncombe and Henderson — were using a company called Everbridge.

“It kind of opened our eyes little bit,” he said. “Then we did a little bit more research.

We looked at counties and cities that were nationally accredited emergency management systems, which is very hard to get.”

No city or county in North Carolina except Guilford County is a nationally accredited emergency management system, and Shuping thinks there are only around 50 or so in the entire country.

“About eight of them don’t use Everbridge,” he said. “The top performers in the emergency management world are using this tool.”

After fielding proposals from both Code Red and Everbridge, the committee made a decision based largely on the ease of signing in to the application.

“Literally I can say ‘Text your zip code to 888–777’ and you’re in,” he said. “It’s like American Idol. Everybody votes on American Idol.”

Shuping’s goal is for a full 40 percent of county residents to sign up after the system’s been live for a year. It’s been approved by Waynesvile, Maggie Valley and Canton and

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fter not being able to lead a board of aldermen meeting for more than a month now, Waynesville Mayor Gavin Brown issued a statement through the town explaining why.

Although it was known that Brown had suffered occasional and recent health issues, his extended absence was unusual for the normally spry, professorial dean of Haywood County politicos.

When asked for comment weeks ago, Waynesville Town Manager Rob Hites confirmed Brown’s hospitalization and said only that the family wished privacy, the town looked forward to his speedy return and town employees and aldermen were satisfied with the performance of Alderman Gary Caldwell as mayor pro tem.

Around the same time, Brown’s daughter Kim Brown Czaja also made a Facebook post thanking well-wishers who’d inquired as to the health of her father.

Gavin Brown’s statement reads as follows: “During the month of May I began to feel pain in my stomach area and back. As the month progressed my discomfort increased.

Over the week of the twentieth I began to run a fever in excess of 102 degrees. On May 23, under the advice of my physician, I went to the emergency room at Mission Hospital in Asheville. My temperature had increased to 105.

After a number of diagnostic procedures, the hospital staff found that I had contracted a Stage-3 Streptococcus infection that had settled in my blood and spine. Over the past few weeks I have been receiving intravenous treatment for the infection. Last Sunday, surgeons treated an abscess on my spine. It is only after this course of treatment that I am beginning to start a meaningful recovery.

The continuing plan is to treat the infection for an additional two weeks. My health

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care team and I will formulate a recovery plan that should return me to the Town I love so much within a few weeks, and I hope to see you all again as I walk my dog Kattee on Main Street.

I wish to thank everyone for the countless expressions of concern, offers of help and prayers said for me. I am truly blessed with the best friends and Town a person could hope for. I look forward to seeing you soon.”

Gavin Brown.

Also according to the statement, “The Mayor will be in a therapeutic setting which will allow him to focus on his health and would like to request respect of his privacy during this time. If there is any business related to town operations, contact Town Manager Rob Hites. The town’s operations have been and will remain uninterrupted and the citizens and visitors will continue to receive the high quality services that are so very important to the Mayor and this administration.”

New Waynesville Publix development a go

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER large-scale retail development featuring Lakeland, Florida-based grocer Publix as an anchor tenant moved forward without opposition after unanimous consent from Waynesville Aldermen June 13.

Citizens raised only minor concerns throughout the process; the parcels located on Waynesville’s busy Russ Avenue commercial corridor will be rezoned to better accommodate what will be a 50,000 squarefoot store and the first significant competition to regional grocery giant Ingles.

Principal developer for Charlottebased MAB American Management John Argo told The Smoky Mountain News in May that the $20 million project had been in the works for months, and that

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Waynesville planning staff helped speed things along.

“They have a pretty comprehensive understanding of the project itself, which is why things have gone so smoothly,” he said at the time.

The development could also greatly boost hiring in the retail sector of Haywood County’s economy, adding more than 200 permanent jobs to the area.

The first thing Russ Avenue commuters will see is what they no longer see — The Big Red Barn and The Lodge Motel will be demolished to make way for the new grocer, as will other structures surrounding the site.

Construction is expected to last 18 months once begun, which puts the store on schedule for an opening in late 2018 or early 2019.

Impact fee discussions planned for year ahead

Be heard A public hearing on the Tuckaseigee Water and Sewer Authority’s proposed 201718 budget will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 26, in the TWSA board room at 1246 West Main Street in Sylva. Copies of the budget are available for review at the same location. www.twsanc.us or 828.586.5189.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ustomers of the Tuckaseigee Water and Sewer Authority will see their rates increase if the 2017-18 budget is adopted as proposed Monday, June 26.

Base charge rates will rise by 3 percent, with charges for consumption and system improvement increasing by 4 percent. For wrote in his budget message. “To continue the average residential water and sewer custo make headway in this area, a combination tomer — using a combined 5,428 gallons of growth in customer base and a series of per month — that will translate to an addifuture rate increases will be necessary.” tional $2.24 per month, an overall 3.47 perIf those future rate increases don’t hapcent increase from the average 2016-17 bill. pen, Harbaugh wrote, TWSA’s reserves will The rate increase is part of an ongoing effort to adjust the budget so that operating revenues are sufficient to cover payments on TWSA’s longterm debt. For several years, the organization has had to transfer money from its reserves to cover those payments, but that’s not a sustainable model.

The problem emerged after the recession, when TWSA held rates steady in recognition of the hardship the economic downturn had caused customers. However, in 201314 the TWSA board resolved to bring rates in line with operating and debt service costs within five years.

“The proposed rate increase of 4 percent doesn’t cover the debt service in full, but does continue While many fees in the proposed budget will see a change from to reduce the level of transfers from reserves,” 2016-17 levels, impact fees — arguably the most controversial fee TWSA’s Executive Director Dan Harbaugh TWSA charges — will neither increase or decrease.

per month, Tier 3 customers would pay $13.35 per month, and so forth. These customers also pay a monthly service charge, which would also increase by 4 percent.

“It will be a shift for the customers, and we’ll have to have an education process,” Harbaugh said. “It’s not punitive. They just have been getting a bargain in the past instead of paying their fair share.”

While many fees in the proposed budget will see a change from 2016-17 levels, impact fees — arguably the most controversial fee TWSA charges — will neither increase or decrease. But that could change, because the board intends to spend the next year examining the impact fee issue and hopefully arriving at some solution to implement during next year’s budget process.

“The consensus is this is such a big issue that we cannot come back to you with a recommendation for any changes to this budget cycle,” Harbaugh told the board in summary of two work sessions they had held on the issue this month.

Impact fees are upfront payments required of new TWSA customers, intended to offset expansion of the system. The fees, which can be in the tens of thousands of dollars depending on what size hookup is requested, allow TWSA to keep rates for existing customers relatively low.

However, impact fees have been decried as an impediment to economic development, especially for restaurants, which use a substantial amount of water. For a new business, critics say, the fees are insurmountable barriers to setting up shop in Jackson County, making it more attractive to go next door to Swain, Macon or Haywood County.

What’s more, the fees are tied to location, so if a business wants to move to a new building after already paying its impact fee at the original location, it could find itself facing yet another large payment.

But eliminating the impact fee, if that’s the direction the board wants to go, wouldn’t be easy. The lost revenue would have to come from somewhere, and businesses that have already forked over large impact fee payments likely wouldn’t take kindly to paying increased rates so that future customers could get a better deal.

“There are no changes to impact fees,” Harbaugh said. “But also we have not resolved the discussion about impact fees for the future.”

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be depleted over time, limiting its ability to sustain the system and jeopardizing the organization’s financial health.

Customers with unmetered hookups could see significant increases, too, as the proposed budget would correct a discrepancy in how those fees are calculated compared to fees for metered hookups.

“Compared to the people that were on the metered rates, the people that were on these tiers were not paying their fair share,” Harbaugh explained to the board during a June 13 work session.

Commercial customers with unmetered hookups are divided into tiers based on what volume they’re likely to use in a given month.

But all 10 tiers were paying the same monthly system improvement charge of $4.28 per unit. The proposed budget would increase the system improvement charge based on the customer’s tier. After a 4 percent increase, the new system improvement charge would be $4.45, so Tier 1 customers would pay $4.45 per month, Tier 2 customers would pay $8.90

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER he climate and topography of Haywood County make it a place that people want to live.

These Appalachian assets provide the county with a hardy industry important not only because of the associated long-term economic activity the sale of a piece of property creates, but also for the wages it pays.

As the real estate, rental and leasing sector of the county’s economy fully unsheathes itself from the Great Recession of 2008, escalating price growth pays dividends to homeowners and commissions to Realtors, but that same escalation is helping to fuel an affordable housing crisis, especially in the rental arena.

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Real estate is coming back; despite the recession shaving a decade’s worth of growth from the market, rentals are seeing strong demand and the average home sits on the market for no longer than 180 days before it’s sold.

“Business has been very good,” said Ellen Sither, a broker associate at Beverly-Hanks in Waynesville. Sither is also the president of the Haywood Realtor Association, formerly known as the Haywood Board of Realtors.

The market is moving very quickly under $300,000 and almost as fast at price points up to $700,000 and is seeing more high-end sales overall.

“I’ve sold several homes in the last few months in the $300,000 to $500,000 price range,” she said. “We sold two $1 million homes in the first quarter, but only one all of last year.”

Like the tourist industry that draws so

many new Haywood County residents to the area for the very first time, the biggest challenges are product quality and supply.

Last fall, there were around 1,100 listings for sale in the county; right now, there are about 600.

But it’s still a great time to work in the industry, and Sither said she’d still recommend it as a profession.

“I would,” Sither said, adding that she’s mentored several new Realtors and thinks it’s a great career move.

“It’s very demanding, and you’ve got to be poised to move when your client wants to move,” she said. “If you can blend your career and your family, it can be very rewarding.”

Typically, 20 percent of the population makes 80 percent of the money in almost any industry like this one, and Sither opines that those in that top 20 can expect earnings of $100,000 a year or more.

“If your goal is $85,000 or $100,000, that’s achievable. It’s all about the time invested.

Most Realtors work far more than 40 hours a week,” she said. “I myself work sometimes 60 to 80.”

In the rest of her cohort, workers can expect an average weekly wage of about $640 — smack dab in the middle of Haywood County’s average wage range.

Sither entered the industry in 2011, right near the tail end of the Great Recession; she says the downturn weeded out a substantial portion of county Realtors, and the numbers back her up — the Haywood Realtor Association saw membership drop from around 400 members at that time to about 275 today.

But that’s driven the average weekly wage up from $526 in 2015 and $381 during the depths of the recession in 2009, when the wide-open market began to contract before employment corrected itself.

Sither’s forecast for the future suggests continuing growth.

“We’re still very optimistic,” she said.

At a March meeting of the National Association of Realtors in Washington, D.C., Sither learned that the NAR likewise saw no

“Asheville is skyrocketing and people can’t afford to live there, so they’re moving to Haywood County and commuting. People call and ask for rentals in Canton because they’re trying to get as close to Asheville they can.”

— Michelle Rogers, co-owner, Select Homes

County, so goes Haywood — that applies to the real estate market especially.

And in Buncombe, prices are up, buyers are buying, and sellers are generally happy with what they’re getting for their properties.

“That sounds about right,” said Joanna

Baker, a Realtor with Keller Williams Professionals in downtown Asheville.

Baker does the majority of her work with buyers looking for primary homes within 20 minutes of Asheville and all the city has to offer, but when proximity isn’t an issue, she

can expand her reach to Haywood County.

“If someone is not concerned with those things, I don’t hesitate to present them with different options,” she said.

Rogers — and even a lay observer — can easily see the result of the run-off.

“What we are seeing is an overflow from Asheville,” Rogers said. “Asheville is skyrocketing and people can’t afford to live there, so they’re moving to Haywood County and commuting. One of the reasons that trend has become obvious for us is the rise in Canton and Clyde. People call and ask for rentals in Canton because they’re trying to get as close to Asheville as they can.”

Like Sither, Rogers doesn’t see any catastrophes on the horizon and projects steady growth that may soon plateau.

“I see the market continuing to rise over the next year or two and then leveling off,” she said. “I don’t think we’re going to see a crash in the rental market like we did in the sales market in 2008 because rent’s not gone up that much.”

Still, a strong market brings with it wage and property tax base growth, and Haywood’s major real estate challenge continues to be one of supply.

“My advice to owner-investors is we need three bedrooms,” she said. “There is an abundance of two-bedroom rentals in Haywood County, but if we had three-bedroom homes that were priced in a reasonable manner, say the $900 to $1100 range, they would rent in 24 hours. If you look at our website, we have a two-bedroom for $675. It rented in two days.”

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specific indicators for a coming recession and that buyers — and sellers — continue to be enthusiastic.

Renters, however, have less to be excited about.

“The market is actually the strongest we’ve seen it since 2010, which is when we started ownership of the company,” said Michele Marasco Rogers, co-owner of Select Homes, a property management firm in Waynesville. “Our days-on-market average is about 10 days to get a house rented.”

Rogers’ company manages 292 properties exclusively in Haywood County, which has created a task force to address the affordability of rentals in a service-based economy.

“It is a landlord’s market right now,” she said. “I tell renters, or potential renters, ‘Look this is not a sales pitch, but if you think you like it — grab it, because it will be gone.

Period.’ We have people who rent properties without even seeing them.”

While Rogers and other property managers aren’t to blame for the rising costs of rentals, they are nevertheless obliged to operate in an environment where a minimumwage worker would have to work far more than 40 hours a week just to afford a modest one-bedroom in the county.

“Our job is to get fair market rental value,” Rogers said. “We work for the owners to get fair market rent value, but at the same time, we have to be aware of the locations.

We’re not Asheville and we’re not trying to compete with Asheville.”

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Moving the needle Cashiers organizes to combat workforce development challenges

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER pring can be a scramble at the High Hampton Inn and Country Club in Cashiers. Every year, after a long and quiet winter, the business prepares to reopen its kitchens, its golf greens, its rooms and welcome back the guests as trees leaf out and the cool mountain summer begins.

To meet the challenge, High Hampton’s human resources manager Sydneye Trudics embarks on a rampage of hiring, in a matter of months nearly quadrupling the club’s staff from a cold-weather crew of 50 to a summer peak somewhere north of 180. It’s not an easy task.

“We have great jobs, fantastic jobs at really nice pay rates — and I’m talking about all the businesses up here — but we’re really challenged in finding qualified staff or willing staff to come to this area, for a lot of different reasons,” Trudics said.

Cashiers is a tiny place with a limited local labor pool, so filling jobs depends on recruiting from outside communities. Those workers must either make a daily commute from somewhere nearby like Sylva, Franklin or Brevard, or find a place to live in Cashiers. And while High Hampton does have on-site housing available for some workers, there just aren’t too many housing options in the immediate area that are affordable for working-class people — especially for working-class people whose work dries up for months out of every year, due to the extreme seasonality of Cashiers’ tourism industry. Even for people who have housing and transportation, and enjoy the job they’ve been hired to do, the environment can prove challenging, Trudics said.

Cashiers is a sought-after vacation spot for its remoteness and natural beauty, but some people find it difficult to live so far from city life.

“Typically, when we interview people we ask, ‘What do you like to do in your free time?

How do you feel about nature, hiking, waterfalls?’” Trudics said. “You try to match the application not only to the job that you have, but to your environment, because if you’re coming up here a single person it’s a little difficult to find people to hang out with after hours.”

Of the more than 100 seasonal staff that High Hampton brings in each year, many are young, American workers looking for a summer job during college break or seeking an adventurous type of work experience before settling down. However, High Hampton also brings in 45 foreign workers through the J1 visa program. It’s a win-win: the workers get to improve their skills while also participating in a specially designed training program, and High Hampton rounds out its staff with employees who can stay for the full season, as 8 opposed to American college students who

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Workers serve up freshly-made lemonade and pimento cheese appetizers to guests at High Hampton Inn. Below: Ashley Antonio, left, and Arianne Cruz traveled from the Philippines to spend summer working at High Hampton. Holly Kays photos

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“We want to actually experience the American culture as well as the experience of international hospitality.”

— Arianne Cruz

arrive after the April opening and leave before the November closing.

“We want to actually experience the American culture as well as the experience of international hospitality,” said 21-year-old Arianne Cruz, of the Philippines.

She and her friend Ashley Antonio, who is also at High Hampton for the summer, just completed four-year degrees in international travel and tourism management. That education level is typical of the foreign workers who come to High Hampton.

“When we come back to the Philippines, we’ll be more knowledgeable and we will be ahead of them, since we have international training,” Antonio explained.

Coming from the capital city of Manila, Antonio and Cruz found the heavily forested Cashiers area a startling — but welcome —

change of pace. But they knew it would be like that before they arrived, and they were excited to experience their new lifestyle.

“I knew that this place is like a small town and that we wouldn’t be able to go shopping or something, but the scenery just blew me away,” Cruz said. “It just blew me away, it’s so pretty here.”

The foreign workers are wonderful, Trudics said — friendly, hardworking, and, unlike American college students, able to work the entire April-to-November season.

But High Hampton is only able to host them because it’s a big enough operation to house them, help them out with transportation and provide other services that someone who’s been transplanted to a foreign country for half a year is likely to need.

And even so, there are some jobs that

Trudics, now in her eighth season with High Hampton, finds perennially difficult to staff.

“There are certain positions that we have no problem filling every year, but when you get into positions like dishwasher, housekeeping, room attending, it becomes very challenging,” she said.

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The challenge of finding — and keeping — good help is one that businesses throughout the Cashiers area grapple with on a daily basis. The area’s remoteness, its extreme seasonality, its lack of affordable housing and its tiny local labor pool all twist to create a knotty problem. But it’s a knot that the community, led by the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce, hopes to unravel.

“Our mantra this year has been, ‘Let’s move the needle,’” said Stephanie Edwards, executive director of the Cashiers chamber.

“We understand we can’t solve everything overnight, but if we can make a positive advancement that’s a good thing.”

Affordable housing, transportation needs and reliance on the seasonal tourism industry aren’t challenges unique to Cashiers. But it’s safe to say those challenges are more extreme in Cashiers than in other areas of Western North Carolina. Some of the unincorporated community’s nearest neighbors are Highlands, which is 10 miles away, and Sylva and Brevard, both about 28 miles of two-lane mountain road distant. With a hefty population of higher-income second homeowners and little flat land,

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Larger labor pool, longer season make Sylva hiring easier

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ith a bigger local labor pool and a tourism season that wraps around most of the year, hiring in Sylva is an easier proposition than it is for Cashiers businesses — at least, that’s how City Lights Café owner Bernadette Peters sees it.

“We haven’t really had a problem getting workers,” Peters said. “Retaining them is always hard because they’re transient.

They have internships, they graduate, they move on.”

Peters relies heavily on Western Carolina University and Southwestern Community College students to fill her business’s 12 positions, all of which work year-round and four of which work full-time. She pays a living wage and tries to make the work environment positive, she said, and that seems to keep employees around until it’s time for them to go on to a new phase of life.

Nicole Dexter, who owns Innovation Brewing, concurred that, while hiring isn’t always effortless, there’s a decent pool of qualified workers in Sylva.

“It’s definitely a little challenging to find people,” she said. “Sometimes I have had less applicants than I think I would have for d certain positions, but otherwise we’ve had s really good luck finding great people.”

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Innovation employs 13 people, five of whom work full-time, and that number is set to expand when the brewery opens a second location in Dillsboro this fall.

Jeanine Sowers at Fusions Spa has had a bit more difficulty finding quality workers, however. Around for just under a year, Fusions is much newer than Sylva staples City Lights and Innovation, and it needs different types of employees than you’d find at a brewery or café.

SERVICE SECTOR “It is very hard to hire people,” Sowers said.

The spa employs 15 people, nine of whom are full-time. Positions include massage therapist, front desk attendant and fitness trainer. Along with hiring, Sowers often has issues with scheduling specific shifts.

“I hire a lot of single moms, so kid care, time off, kids get sick at school — we’re almost arranging our own kid care within our company,” she said.

The spa has proved popular since opening, but Sowers isn’t always able to schedule enough therapists to fill her available massage rooms and meet the demand. She’s learned the importance of being willing to train good

Though it’s still a seasonal town, Sylva’s tourism industry stays steadier throughout the year than does Cashiers’. Holly Kays photo workers who just need to learn some hard skills, realizing that it’s easier to hire someone and teach them what they need to know than to be constantly rehiring and retraining.

While the hiring challenges in Sylva are less severe than in Cashiers, they’re still there, and the tourism industry is still the biggest player. After seeing the efforts underway in Cashiers, Jackson County Economic Director Rich Price hopes to see that focused approach spread to other areas.

As a member of the seven-county Southwestern Workforce Development Board, Price sees most of the emphasis placed on industry and manufacturing jobs but would like to see hospitality and tourism get more attention.

“My hope is that we can elevate it to a true regional initiative that supports hospitality and tourism all the way across the mountain area,” he said, “because it is sorely needed.”

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The board is likely to have plenty of postings, once it’s up. Calling around Cashiers, it’s not hard to find business owners who need good help.

“There’s always openings for servers, and kitchen help is always an issue,” said Marina McDonald of Randevu Restaurant, saying that she can think of at least seven chef positions open in the area right now.

For Steven Clark, owner of Buck’s Coffee Café, finding year-round help is the hard part. Ideally, he’d like to have four full-time, year-round employees and five to 11 parttime employees, depending on the season.

Right now he’s doing well with the parttimers but down to only two full-time people.

“The short answer is, I don’t know. I would be guessing,” he said when asked why

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those full-timers are so hard to come by.

“What comes to mind is that construction is big again, and construction jobs pay more. So that could be part of it.”

For McDonald, however, seasonality is actually a challenge to hiring. Her restaurant closes down three months out of the year, and that can be hard for employees who still have rent and utilities and other bills to pay during the off-season. In fact, it’s not unusual to see employees leave for similar jobs elsewhere, such as Asheville, where the pay is lower but the hours are year-round.

“It’s tough on them, and it’s tough on us too because every March when we open up for another season, we have to start hiring again,” she said.

This year, that process has gone smoothly, with plenty of good-quality help walking through the door. But that’s not always the case. Oftentimes, for example, summer help comes in the form of college students looking for a fun time, so they’re not always reliable when it comes to showing up at 7:30 a.m. to work breakfast.

The drug epidemic presents another challenge. It’s amazing how many prospective employees leave without turning in an application, McDonald said, when they see that checkbox asking them to agree to a random drug test.

“They just get up from the desk,” she said.

“I never see them again.”

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ehousing prices are high with options limited, ubut living somewhere more affordable would -require a long, steep daily commute — and ythat requires owning a reliable vehicle.

The chamber’s board of directors zeroed in on the workforce development issue in January, during its annual strategic work sesEsion. Hiring is hard for everybody, especially gnow that the economy is growing again. More -jobs are available, and workers have their ypick of opportunities.

- “As our visitation grows and we have new sbusinesses, new restaurants, new accommo-dations, our labor needs are just going to con-tinue to increase,” Edwards said. “We don’t fexpect them to level out. We don’t expect them to decrease.” s The first hurdle to jump: making sure ,people actually know where Cashiers is, and .what’s available there. That means advertisging in surrounding communities, and it also eentails more active forms of recruitment. Last month, the Chamber held what Edwards shopes will be the first of many job fairs, with yrepresentatives from nearly 30 area businessses gathering at the Albert Carlton-Cashiers eLibrary to meet potential hires. n “I think it was generally agreed that the doutreach was very successful,” Edwards said, enoting that she plans to “definitely” do it aagain. The Chamber is also preparing to elaunch an online jobs board, consolidating -Cashiers-area job advertisements in one place. When the website is done, a link will be posted at www.cashiersareachamber.com.

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WORKFORCE, CONTINUED FROM 9 That makes it all the more important to bend over backward for people who have proven themselves to be good, reliable employees. To that end, McDonald has employee-sharing agreements with some other area restaurants, working it out so that employees who want to work a dinner shift elsewhere after doing breakfast and lunch at the Randevu can get to their second job on time.

“Sometimes they have to leave a little early or they’re not able to finish as much sidework as their other coworkers, but we try to make it as easy as possible for them so they can pick up extra shifts,” McDonald said.

“We’re absolutely flexible.”

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Even for people who want to work in Cashiers and land a job with an employer they like, lack of housing can be a deal breaker. Affordable housing is in short supply across Western North Carolina, but it’s even harder to find in Cashiers.

“The housing is a huge challenge here because if you don’t have it on your property, think about what is around here for rent,” Trudics said. “You’re going to have a trailer or there is not a huge inventory of short-term rentals at an affordable rate.”

Need for internet often goes hand in hand with need for housing, and high-speed internet is hard to come by on the plateau.

Individual at-home internet connections are ideal, but the workforce development team is working to expand access with free public wireless in the village — Edwards thinks it will be in place by the end of the year.

The Chamber’s workforce development team is also looking for some creative solutions to the housing problem, and they’re making headway. One idea that’s come up is to look into forging agreements with student housing developments in Cullowhee. Many

of those renters are gone during Cashiers’ peak tourist season, and their apartments are empty. Might there be an opportunity for seasonal workers to sublet those apartments?

Of course, housing tons of out-of-area workers in Cullowhee, 20 miles downhill from Cashiers, raises another issue — transportation. If those workers are commuting up a mountain every day, having a reliable car is imperative, but for short-term workers who often come from far away, that’s not always a possibility. So, the Chamber team is throwing ideas against that wall as well. A private shuttle enterprise? A shuttle funded by a partnership of employers?

“If it was an easy problem to solve, it would have already been taken care of,” Edwards said. “When you start getting beneath the surface, it’s multifaceted. Every time we peel off one more layer, you find three more things that are related to it that you have to address, but you have to keep pushing forward.”

Aside from those nuts-and-bolts logistical challenges, Cashiers has to wrangle some more ambiguous obstacles as well, said Jackson County Economic Development Director Rich Price. Price has been working with Cashiers’ workforce development team and also sits on the Southwestern Workforce Development Board, which represents the seven western counties.

“Service jobs” — the waitressing and bartending and retail clerking positions that are a tourism economy’s bread and butter — are often perceived as less desirable, lower-value jobs by the general public. That’s something that has to change, Price said.

“It’s not necessarily just about pay. It’s not necessarily just about working environment or working shifts or whatever it might be,” Price said, “but how do you start thinking about service jobs in terms of increasing their value for those who might choose that path to earn their living?”

There’s no easy answer to that question, and Price believes the solution must ultimate-

“Our mantra this year has been, ‘Let’s move the needle.’ We understand we can’t solve everything overnight, but if we can make a positive advancement that’s a good thing.”

— Stephanie Edwards, Cashiers Area Chamber executive director

ly come from the employers who struggle with it every day.

“If we don’t get the employers really engaged to be thinking creatively and differently about how to solve these issues — the perception of low pay and ‘service work’ — we’re going to continue to experience the same thing year after year without getting to some meaningful result,” Price said.

Edwards concurred that a change of mindset is in order. She believes that the industry’s opportunities for advancement and skill building — and Cashiers’ particular twist on those opportunities — usually wind up underrepresented.

“It really can be a very fulfilling job as well as a long-term career opportunity,” she said.

“The interactions with the guests that are here is fairly unique and can be a wonderful experience on the workers’ side.”

Andrew Blaum, in his first season as High Hampton’s food and beverage manager, would agree with that. He’s been in food service for more than a decade, and at 29, he’s looking at it as a career. After management and ownership positions at restaurants in the Outer Banks, Sylva and Waynesville, he found his way to Cashiers. It instantly felt like home.

“A lot of the offerings that Cashiers specifically has to offer I feel is very focused on legacy and tradition and people that have been coming here escaping the heat of the South for decades,” Blaum said. “That was appealing to me because I’ve always had a great sense of rapport with my guests at any restaurant I’ve been at, so I wanted to create something long-term with people that have been coming here for decades and generations.”

As to some of the supposed detriments to working in Cashiers, Blaum’s OK with them.

The seasonality, the distances, the smallness of the community — those aren’t problems for him.

“A lot of other people are turned away by that, but to me it’s part of the experience, having to travel to go visit friends,” Blaum said.

“It’s really a beautiful drive to get from anywhere around here.”

That kind of fit between employer, employee and community is what Edwards hopes to see spread across the plateau as the workforce development initiative moves forward. It won’t be easy and it won’t be quick, but it’s an effort that has momentum.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER Despite hiring challenges that persist across the region, Haywood County Commissioners had no trouble re-engaging a key employee June 19.

County Manager Ira Dove has been with the county for some time now, and has served as manager since 2014; at their last meeting, commissioners gave Dove a new contract worth $144,000 a year plus benefits and a $600 monthly vehicle allowance.

The county will also pay for Dove’s cell phone, all professional certifications, continuing education and the maintenance of his law license.

Dove will be subject to a yearly performance evaluation, which could result in bonuses or increases in salary; he can be terminated without cause with seven days notice from the county, and can resign by giving 30 days of notice to the county, but his contract specifies no set term of employment.

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dwarfed by the county’s fourth largest employer — the county.

“We have about 500 full-time employees, and part-timers ebb and flow,” said Kathi McClure, Haywood County’s human resources director.

McClure said that the most difficult positions to fill are in information technology and social work.

“There are some stipulations by the state about experience that can make hiring for health and human services or social work difficult,” she said. “And generally, you can make more money in private industry rather than government, so IT positions often go to Buncombe County.”

Retention issues are common, but McClure said that recent studies have resulted in pay increases for some positions — especially in the Sheriff ’s Office — that have helped stem the losses.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER h lthough Haywood County shares many , economic similarities with Cashiers, it d also sees challenges distinct from those , of Jackson County.

Haywood’s largely service-based econos my seems to be constantly in need of work, ers who can tolerate unaffordable housing, t relatively low wages and the seasonal nature of the positions. s To that end, a job fair in Maggie Valley was d held May 18 with 20 participating employers. t f t d t “The Maggie Valley Chamber is here to be o the business advocate in the valley, and a lot e of my members and businesses in town had d ‘help wanted’ signs in the windows,” said Teresa Smith, executive director of the o Maggie Valley Chamber. “The chamber decid. ed that we might could help them a little bit if s we coordinated in an effort to get everybody s here, so we decided to do a job fair.”

By lunchtime of that day, about 40 peoy ple had already applied for positions like bartender, cashier, cook or wait staff at . establishments like the Peppertree Resort or the Rendezvous Restaurant.

Owner of the Rendezvous, Beth Robinson , Reece said she was happy to receive the 10 or s so applications she’d received at the event. e Hiring “has been an increasing problem due to a couple of things,” she said, citing , the business upswing that is increasing the demand for already scarce workers.

Reece still needs quality employees to cook, plate and serve what some consider to be the best fried chicken in the area.

“It’s the most important thing you can do,” she said about staffing. “We need to let people know we’re glad they’re here and we’re glad they chose Maggie Valley to spend their tourism dollars.”

While operations like Reece’s are relatively important to the tourism sector of Haywood County’s economy, they are

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Council expresses support for vice chief special election Cherokee Supreme Court asked to weigh in on election legality

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he September ballot could include a special election for vice chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, pending a decision by the Cherokee Supreme Court.

Cherokee has been without a vice chief since May 25, when Vice Chief Richard Sneed was sworn in as principal chief following Tribal Council’s vote to remove Principal Chief Patrick Lambert from office. Council discussed the vacancy during a special-called meeting Thursday, June 15, spending 50 minutes in closed session before opening the chamber doors.

Many tribal members have been adamant that the new vice chief should be determined through a special election and should not be appointed by the Tribal Council. They’ve pressed the issue in person at the council chambers, as well as on social media.

During the June 15 meeting, councilmembers expressed support for a special election but said they couldn’t make a decision just yet.

“At this point in time, I think everyone around the table doesn’t have a problem with having a special election, but at the same time there’s a question of whether or not it’s against the charter,” said Chairman Bill Taylor, of Wolfetown, as he opened the public portion of the meeting. “So we’ve decided to ask one question to the Supreme Court up here: Does the Tribal Council have the authority to have a special election?”

If the Supreme Court decides that a special election is legal in this case, Taylor said, that’s what will happen. The special election would likely be held in conjunction with the Sept. 7 General Election.

The uncertainty stems from the fact that

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tribal law doesn’t specifically say how vacancies should be filled if a chief is removed from office. The tribe’s Charter and Governing Document states that, “in the case of death, resignation or disability of the Principal Chief, the Vice-Chief shall become the Principal Chief and shall serve the balance of the elected term of office until removal or disability or his successor is elected.” It continues to say that, in case of the vice chief ’s death, resignation or disability, “the Council may elect a successor who shall serve until removal or disability or his successor is elected.”

The statements follow a similar cadence, except for one word: if the principal chief can’t serve, the vice chief “shall” become the principal chief, but if the vice chief can’t serve, Council “may” elect a successor.

In Lambert’s case, no death, resignation or disability occurred, so it could be argued that the passage isn’t directly applicable.

However, tribal code discusses the issue in somewhat broader terms — it outlines what

should happen in case of a “vacancy,” rather than speaking specifically of “death, resignation or disability” — though the distinction between “shall” and “may” is still there. If the principal chief ’s office is vacated, the law reads, the vice chief “shall” become the principal chief, but if the vice chief ’s office is vacated, the Tribal Council “may” elect a successor from among its members.

Taylor said that, after hearing from the attorney general’s office and Legislative Attorney Carolyn West during closed session, councilmembers were uncertain as to what restrictions the word “may” places on Tribal Council’s freedom to hold a special election.

“It says Tribal Council ‘may’ elect a successor from within Tribal Council, and that opens up the question whether or not ‘may’ is — may we elect from inside or does that leave it open to have a special election?” Taylor said. “So that’s the question we’re trying to get answered. After everything we’ve been through in the past several months, we don’t want to go back down that road.”

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Principal Chief Richard Sneed speaks during the opening of Cherokee’s Fire Mountain Trail System June 9. Holly Kays photo

A cruise through a few legal dictionaries shows that there is a distinction between the words “may” and “shall.” According to the dictionary at law.com, may is “a choice to act or not, as distinguished from ‘shall,’ which makes it imperative.” However, the distinction can blur depending on context. “In statutes, and sometimes in contracts, the word ‘may’ must be read in context to determine if it means an act is optional or mandatory, for it may be an imperative,” the definition continues. “The same careful analysis must be made of the word ‘shall.’”

While the consensus was that the question should be sent to the courts, nobody seated around the horseshoe expressed opposition to holding a special election, should the courts deem the action legal.

“Regarding the special election, that would be a very good policy because the time we’re talking about before the next election for chief and vice chief is so far,” said Councilmember Anita Lossiah, of Yellowhill.

“It’s over two years. It definitely would be good policy to do that, but we have to make sure it’s in alignment with the charter.”

“We recognize that the public needs to have a say in it if we can do it. If we can do it legally and make it happen that’s what we need to do,” agreed Councilmember Alan “B” Ensley, of Yellowhill. “Hopefully we can pull this tribe back together again.”

Lambert’s impeachment was a divisive issue, causing anger and mistrust between tribal members during the months leading up to Tribal Council’s ultimate decision. Lambert had faced 12 different charges during his impeachment hearing, allegations ranging from contracts executed without proper approval to unauthorized human resources decisions. However, Lambert remained popular throughout the process, with many tribal members repeating Lambert’s own storyline, which held that he had done nothing worthy of impeachment and that the efforts to remove him were simply retaliation for his efforts to expose corruption in tribal government. Early in his administration, Lambert had ordered a forensic audit of tribal government whose results he turned over to the FBI, which is now investigating as a result.

“At the end of the day, we all agree that we want to do what’s best for the tribe,” said Vice Chairman Brandon Jones, of Snowbird. “We want to promote healing, we want to move forward, and I believe that is the best way.”

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“I think there was a lot of respectful behavior and civil discourse (during the budget workshops and public hearing), but everyone can’t always agree on everything,” he noted.

Only a handful of people commented on the budget, several in support of the Macon County Public Library and another about the need to improve sections of the Macon County Greenway.

In an update about the improvements to the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building, staff reported there had been a slight time delay with the delivery of the exterior windows. The new wood gym floor “is beautiful and completed” as are the staff offices, interior led lighting, and tiling of the restrooms.

Plumbing and countertops for the restrooms will be done by June 29 and interior painting is nearly finished. Completion of the interior is slated for July 4, while exterior stucco and landscaping are on tap on completion of the interior improvements.

There will be two egress lanes and one for ingress to the Carpenter Center. A traffic light will be installed at the entrance to the center directly across from the new Ingles.

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BY KURT J. VOLKER CONTRIBUTING WRITER ollowing a somewhat contentious debate leading up to final budget approval, Macon County Commissioners last week approved a $49.6 million spending plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, with no hike in property taxes. That rate will remain 34.9 cents per $100 of property valuation.

Voting for the budget were Commissioners Jim Tate, Ronnie Beale, and Gary Shields with dissenting votes from Paul Higdon and Karl Gillespie.

Residents in both the Franklin and Burningtown Fire Districts will see a $15 to $21 increase in their fire district tax based on a home valued at $150,000 to fund additional personnel and replace aging equipment.

While commissioners heaped praise on County Manager Derek Roland for presenting another tight budget, Higdon railed at the “20 to 22 percent increase” in the two fire district requests.

“I’m going to vote against the budget in its entirety because of these proposed increases,” he said, adding that, “what we need is to get Warren Cabe (Emergency Services Coordinator) to come in here and provide some consistency on how to fund these tax districts.”

Beale countered by declaring that he believed Macon County was a “progressive county with a progressive board.”

“Are the two fire district requests (totaling $213,743) excessive?” he asked. “I don’t know,” Beale continued, “but I know it’s a good budget and it reflects that we’re moving forward.”

Higdon then commented he didn’t want to be tagged as a progressive.

“I’m a conservative,” he asserted.

Gillespie, who also voted against the budget, said he had reviewed the budget thoroughly and was “committed to holding true to (voting) the way I told Macon County residents I would.”

Prior to casting their votes, Commission Chairman Tate congratulated Roland and his staff for submitting yet another thorough budget.

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“You don’t have to draw some crazy district. You only have to put your finger on the scale enough to win.”

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Exhibitors (above) present petitions and educational materials at the Fair Vote Town Hall June 14 before Brian Irving (below), chair of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina, spoke on gerrymandering. Cory Vaillancourt photos.

Commission. He wasn’t shy about where he places the blame for such districts, and for the fate of third parties in the state.

Democrats and Republicans are either “incapable of or unwilling to” manage redistricting, Irving said, adding that the Green Party endorses that statement; both the Libertarians and the Greens, said Irving, support nonpartisan redistricting.

Also supportive are a host of nonpartisan political organizations like the League of Women Voters, the Asheville-Buncombe chapter of which was a co-sponsor of the event.

“It was a combination of concerned citizens from a number of different groups,” said Aiden Carson of how the event came about.

Carson is vice president of the chapter, which like most LWV chapters holds forums, regis-

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In 2016, U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-Asheville, won his third term in the 11th district by 30 points.

Hendersonville native Robert Orr spent 10 years on the North Carolina Supreme Court, and said that it doesn’t take much cracking or much packing to really skew things.

“You don’t have to draw some crazy district,” he told the audience. “You only have to put your finger on the scale enough to win.”

Former legislator Joe Sam Queen, who has served in both the N.C. House and Senate representing Haywood County and points beyond, blames the rise of “big data” for the ruthless efficacy of gerrymandering.

Jane Pinsky, executive director of the North Carolina Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform, a group that since 2005 has represented other groups spanning the political spectrum in advocating for nonpartisan redistricting, called the practice “a threat to our democracy.”

In 37 years, there have been 40 lawsuits related to redistricting in North Carolina; one of the more recent, coming from the U.S. Supreme Court, struck down some congressional N.C. districts because they were racially gerrymandered.

Bronx native and Air Force veteran Brian Irving currently chairs the Libertarian Party of North Carolina and has run for everything from Congress to Cumberland County

Smittymon said that the station would either rebroadcast or otherwise make available the audio on its website.

Thus a legislator, two educators, a jurist, an activist, a political party chair, a nonpartisan civic organization and a nonprofit radio station all helped spread the news about how gerrymandering hinders effective governance.

But is anybody listening? About 100 people attended the Fair Vote forum at HCC. Redistricting normally occurs every 10 years, right after the decennial U.S. Census data is published. However, in 2016 U.S. District Court Judges struck down almost 30 N.C. House and Senate districts due to racial gerrymandering, which led to the recent Supreme Court ruling.

Gov. Roy Cooper called for a special session of the legislature to redraw maps June 7, but that was cancelled by House and Senate Republicans about 24 hours later.

Lest one think gerrymandering is solely a Republican tactic, the nation’s most infamous Congressional District — N.C.’s old 12th — was drawn by Democrats in the early 1990s.

Although it’s much more compact nowadays, the 12th was notoriously called “political pornography” in a Wall Street Journal editorial because of its utterly nonsensical shape — a thin ribbon along I-85 extending north from Charlotte and grabbing parts of the Winston-Salem, High Point, and Greensboro areas before terminating in Durham.

It was also called unconstitutional May 22 by the Supreme Court.

New maps will come, that much is certain, but when — and what they look like — are less so. Safe to say, however, that given the contentious history of the issue in the only country in the world that lets its politicians pick their voters rather than vice versa, calls for common sense nonpartisan redistricting by yet another panel of eminent figures may once again go unheard.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER minent figures have called for common sense, nonpartisan redistricting since even before Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry unwittingly lent his name to the unseemly practice of gerrymandering.

Those calls have yet to be answered, but yet another group of eminent figures — a former president of the University of North Carolina system, a former N.C. Supreme Court Justice, the current head of Western Carolina University’s political science and public affairs department, the executive director of the N.C. Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform, a former state legislator and the chair of the N.C. Libertarian Party — again called for nonpartisan redistricting at the Fair Vote Town Hall June 14 on the campus of the Haywood County Community College.

A uniquely American phenomenon, ours is the only democracy in the world that engages in “crack and pack” partisan redistricting. “Crack” refers to breaking apart homogenous districts and groups — races, or political parties — and splitting them into two or more jurisdictions, thus ensuring minority status in a given district.

“Pack,” conversely, refers to combining together homogenous districts and groups, thus ensuring majority status in a given district.

A panel of speakers at the town hall all brought their unique — and uniquely qualified — viewpoints to the public.

“It’s not working so well,” said Tom Ross, president of the Volcker Alliance, a New York City-based nonprofit that focuses on improving the effectiveness of government.

Ross served as president of the 17-campus N.C. university system from 2011 to 2016; he’s also a former Superior Court judge.

Safe districts push candidates to the extreme wings of their party, Ross explained, because their only Primary Election voters really matter.

If all votes for North Carolina Congressional elections were combined, Republicans would hold a 53 to 47 percent majority; along those lines, N.C.’s Congressional delegation should be 7 to 6 in favor of Republicans. It’s currently 10 to 3, but with a nonpartisan redistricting map, it would be 6 to 4 with three “toss up” districts.

Chris Cooper, head of the political science and public affairs department at WCU, thinks that instead, our country hasn’t seen such political polarization since the Civil War. Before the most recent redistricting, the 11th Congressional District encompassing much of WNC used to be “the most competitive district in the state,” according to Cooper, until a chunk of Asheville was drawn out of it.

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ters voters, presents educational events to the public and issues questionnaires to potential candidates. She says her chapter has about 100 members.

“I hope a lot of people come and learn more about the issue,” said Carson.

Aiding in that effort is Asheville FM, an all-volunteer radio station that broadcasts more than 60 different programs featuring music, news and talk across the air on 103.3 and across the internet at www.ashevillefm.org.

“We are really a community radio station,” said Asheville FM on-air personality DJ Smittymon. “We are trying, as part of that, to engage the community by broadcasting this over again so we can help promote this event.”

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR wain County commissioners will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 22, to hear feedback from the community prior to passing a proposed $15.6 million budget for 2017-18.

This year’s barebones budget does not include any funding for capital projects, which is why it’s down from last year’s $17.3 million budget. While no big investments are going to be made in the next fiscal year, the county will be able to maintain the same property tax rate of 36 cents per $100 of assessed value.

In his budget message to commissioners, County Manager Kevin King called the proposed documents “one of the leanest budgets in the region.”

“The budget process is never simple or easy. It takes time, effort and the necessary ability to make hard choices and sometimes unpopular recommendations,” King said.

“This year has been increasingly difficult due to the impact of reduced revenues in the Department of Social Services’ child welfare program. We have and will continue to see reduced funds from the federal and state sources in the next fiscal year. We continue to monitor the reimbursement rates for pro-

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grams such as the Emergency Medical Services and the In-Home Aide program for decreased revenue from Medicaid.”

This year the Swain County commissioners created a personnel committee to study and recommend a plan that will help Swain County retain employees. Retention has been a major problem in certain departments, including the sheriff ’s office and the health department, due to a low pay scale. Sheriff Curtis Cochran has complained in the past about hiring and training deputies only to have them leave for a higher-paying position in a neighboring county.

The committee worked over several months to come up with a plan to meet the current needs of the organization, which is to recruit and retain employees. While the committee made several recommendations for the 2017-18 fiscal year, King said budget constraints would not allow for the entire plan to be implemented this year.

“When looking over the anticipated revenue for next fiscal year, I could not recommend to the board the entire committee’s proposal,” he said.

This budget proposal does include a 1.5 percent cost of living adjustment for all employees, an expansion of the longevity pro-

gram to include employees that have five years of service or more and a $500 per person yearly funding of the health insurance program.

The longevity program will be increased by $1,000 for each category of years of service in addition to adding a new employee group of five to nine years to the eligibility requirements. Employees with five to nine years of service will now receive $1,000.

Swain County Schools will not see an increase in local funding from the county despite an impassioned plea and presentation to commissioners last month. The school system is lobbying for changes to certain state

Swain County Schools will not see an increase in local funding from the county despite an impassioned plea to commissioners last month. and federal funding formulas to ensure Swain gets its fair share of school funding, but also asked commissioners to consider increasing its operational contributions.

School administrators said the school system needs $1.3 million from the county to cover local expenses — that includes $575,000 for utilities, $285,000 for maintenance costs and $46,000 for salaries and benefits for maintenance employees.

The county did up its contribution to the

schools by $100,000 last year, bringing the total to $850,000, but King said the county wasn’t able to increase school spending this year.

The school system also has more than $700,000 worth of capital improvement needs that will go partially unfunded this year. Between the county’s contribution of $160,000 for capital and another $145,000 coming out of the schools’ reserve fund, about $300,000 worth of capital projects will get funded.

Looking at revenues, all signs indicate an improving economy in Swain County.

Sales tax revenue increased from $1.1 million last year to $1.24 million this year.

Property tax revenue is up from $5.19 million last year to $5.24 million this year. Room occupancy tax increased from $800,000 last year to $900,000 this year.

The one big change happening in Swain County government this year is moving some county offices as well as the school administrative offices and the Bryson City Police Department into the federal building on Main Street. The county was finally able to acquire the federal building as is at no cost after leasing space in the building for years.

Now that the county has ownership, some renovation work will begin to convert the heating system from boilers to natural gas.

King said the county could now use the $30,000 a year it spent on the lease to make the needed improvements in the coming months. The county will also receive some revenue from leasing space in the building to the extension services office and the employment security commission.

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“Although we are sad for ourselves, mainly for our taste buds and stomachs, we as a community are happy for Brenda as she enters in the next chapter of her life — a chapter in which we hope is filled with the same kind of happiness that Joey’s Pancake House has brought each of us for the past fifty one years,” Mayor SaralynPrice wrote in the proclamation.

Read the complete story about Joey’s Pancake House closing on The Smoky Mountain News website, https://tinyurl.com/y9rjgv8h.

The Goodsons were placed into the custody of the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections as Mark and William Goodson were sentenced to a minimum of 84 months and a maximum of 173 months in prison. Janet Goodson was sentenced to 18 months of probation time.

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On Wednesday, June 7, Mark Goodson, his wife Janet Goodson and (Mark’s) brother William Richard Goodson Junior all pleaded guilty in Haywood County Superior Court to their involvement in a series of breaking and enterings, which were brought to light in May 2016.

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ince announcing its closure after 51 years in business, Joey’s Pancake House owner Brenda O’Keefe and her staff have been bombarded with well wishes and awards, including the highest honor in North Carolina — Order of the Long Leaf Pine.

A member of Gov. Roy Cooper’s staff bestowed the award upon O’Keefe last Saturday during a community farewell party at Joey’s.

As a recipient, O’Keefe joins the ranks of such illustrious North Carolinians as Maya Angelou, Dale Earnhardt, Andy Griffith, Billy Graham, Catfish Hunter, Michael Jordan, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and Haywood natives Balsam Range and former county commissioner Mark Swanger.

The town of Maggie Valley also honored O’Keefe and the restaurant she and her husband Joey turned into a beloved institution by proclaiming June 13 as Joey’s Pancake House Day. “Brenda and Joey spent endless hours perfecting their skills on how to prepare and serve the most delicious breakfast foods to hungry customers,” the proclamation stated. “This dedication to consistently great breakfast staples earned them a loyal customer base that would faithfully wait in line no matter the conditions.”

For decades, 4309 Soco Road has served not only as a beacon of consistency in an ever-changing world, but a legendary landmark that links generations of Maggie Valley residents and visitors to its glorious past and optimistic future. Since announcing the closure on June 6, locals and visitors from all over the country have lined up at Joey’s to get one last breakfast from their favorite establishment.

While the days of Joey’s have come to an end, O’Keefe will likely lease out the space to another business in the future.

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Messer’s fire burned about 300 boxes of puzzles. That’s it.

“You never seen the like of that in your life,” she said. “The floor, carpeted in puzzles.”

It could have been much worse.

Firefighters didn’t have to put a drop of water on the blaze, which burst light bulbs and smoked out every piece of clothing in the place, but miraculously spared vast swaths of merchandise.

“The fire completely died down when it got to the religious selection,” she said. “Not one religion book did I get destroyed.”

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Mary Judith Messer waves one of the estimated 276,000 used books in her store, a paperback spy novel published in 2003.

Thousands of books — and warnings to shoplifters — line the walls of Mary Judith Messer’s bookstore on Mauney Cove Road in Waynesville. Cory Vaillancourt photos tributor Jeff Minick wrote that Messer’s memoir Moonshiner’s Daughter was “a slice of Appalachia from a time now vanished from these mountains,” upon its release in 2010.

“Amazon has sold thousands of copies of that book, and Universal Studios has been up here six times,” Messer said. “I don’t know what they have their mind on, but they seem to be at every book signing I go to.”

Messer’s literary voice, Minick went on to say, is “direct, simple, conversational” and “lends a force to her writing that should attract many readers.”

Readers and collectors are also attracted to Messer’s obsessions — her possessions.

“We still sell a few CDs here,” meaning a few thousand, laughed Messer, who pawed a Waylon Jennings tape hanging from an eyelevel rack. “I still have a few cassettes too. I

have about 3,000 I’d like to get rid of up at my house.”

But it’s the books that bring the bucks, mostly, and Messer has most everything for most anyone; she rattles off well-known authors like an auctioneer.

Her collection includes everything from science fiction to fantasy to hymnals, and history to westerns to romance, and she effortlessly spouts a dozen names or more per genre in a single breath encompassing subjects as diverse as the poetry of Federico García Lorca to the tawdry, titillating tales of Nora Roberts’ 215 titles.

“And we do have paranormal romance, because who wouldn’t want that,” she laughed.

Inspirational literature owns a special place in Messer’s heart — and not just because of its popularity with her customers.

“Everything is so down anymore, like

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look in her shop; she lives nearby and visitors are likely to find the place unattended, allowing for a few fleeting moments of solitude to glance at the security cameras and ponder her stern scrawlings and religious imagery — warning of both the temporal and eternal consequences of shoplifting — before she walks in the front door.

Raised in Haywood County before the War on Poverty, after the Great Depression and during the postwar economic boom that left much of Southern Appalachia behind, Messer and her siblings experienced a litany of horrors not limited to poverty, alcoholism, violence and rape.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER squat little cinder block shop tucked away in a quiet mountain cove on the outskirts of Waynesville caught fire 43 years ago, around suppertime one night.

“I set up on the little rock wall that my husband built up here, just watching it, the smoke billowing out both ends,” said Mary Judith Messer. “I thought, ‘OK Lord, if you’re going to put me out of business, then I’ll go out of business.’”

Messer’s retail operation was flush with factory seconds irregulars and overrun apparel she’d culled from the largesse of the region’s then-booming textile industry, as well as the standard milieu of 19th and 20th century cultural artifacts — books, tapes, toys, crystal bowls and the like.

“I did not have one ounce of insurance on this place. Not one dime,” said Messer, who’d previously worked at the Wellco factory putting bottoms on shoes. “I thought, ‘I know for a fact that I won’t be back in business if that fire gets up in the ceiling.’”

It didn’t, and 42 years later beneath that same ceiling in the squat little cinder block shop at 1032 Mauney Cove Road sits Messer’s Bargain Book Shop.

Inside it wall-to-wall floor-to-ceiling shelves that allow no more than 18 inches of clearance at any point between them are, strangely, not confining but rather comforting — like being forcedly face-to-face with a musty old comrade in some forgotten, fluorescent-hued henge.

The Appalachia-born Messer, who grew up in a poor, abusive household in the 1940s, is possessed of an almost savant-like ability to name and locate any of the thousands of books that pack her establishment.

Her personal odyssey helps explain her professional legacy, but like some sort of classical Greek oracle — a contemporary Tiresias, or one of the Graeae — this prophetess of print has an eye on the future of the industry that publishers and readers alike ignore at their own peril.

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that shooting yesterday,” she said, referring to the attempted political assassination of Congressman Steve Scalise and other members of the House GOP baseball team.

“Something all the time is going on like that.

I think America is coming down to the very end, I really do.”

Pulp fiction best sellers generally cost half of their original cover price, and other collectibles are priced per their value.

It’s not clear if the stacks of old magazines are included in Messer’s estimates of the size of her book collection, which she matter-of-factly pins at 276,000 as she produces a February 1977 issue of National Lampoon magazine — “JFK’s Fifth Term Inaugural Issue” — celebrating the president’s first 6,000 days in office.

“You do a lot of in-and-outs here, so it could be more and it could be less,” she said.

She’d like a building “three times” the size of her current one, so she could better organize her scattered collections.

Doing so would make it easier for her customers to find what they’re seeking when they finally find her shop.

“They see the big yellow sign down there [off Russ Avenue] and they throw on the brake and say, ‘My God, there’s a bookstore down there!’ and here they come.”

She said she has a dedicated customer base that has for years regularly traveled from South Carolina and Florida to peruse her wares.

“I’ve been here 42 years — 20 years before another bookstore even came. I was the first bookstore in Haywood County.”

In that time, the internet has lain waste to many a cultural tradition, proving both a blessing and a curse to readers. While more information is more readily accessible, the glowing rectangles upon which it is now displayed have decimated a once-robust print industry, from news to novels and everything in between.

Messer, with her own book, has embraced the digital age that seems so far removed from the squat little cinder block shop in the quiet mountain cove.

“Oh Lord — all the customers that come in here, they want the real book. My book is on Kindle. That one there,” she said, lifting a finger in its direction, “but they say they only would read a Kindle or a Nook if they are flying and don’t have much space, or they’re in a Laundromat.”

Fleeting bytes and bits can never replace the stacks of curling, yellowed pages she trades in, Messer said.

“You ain’t got a thing to put on your bookshelf — something to line up across, and look good at. People that would have something like this,” she said, pulling out a set of medical books from the 1800s, “they would be missing out on something like that. Look at that. That is precious.”

Digging through a stack of Heavy Metal magazines from the late 1970s and pausing to admire one adorned with the cover art of H.R. Giger, Messer stopped briefly, looked down thoughtfully, and finally gathered enough gravity to issue her prophecy.

“You don’t have nothing when you have words on a piece of plastic,” she said. “A piece of plastic is all you got.”

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he Haywood County Chamber of Commerce recently presented its annual awards to business leaders who have gone above and beyond to make the community a better place to live, work and play.

“The Annual Meeting and Dinner is the crowning jewel of the Chamber. This event gives the Chamber the opportunity to showcase its accomplishments, recognize exceptional volunteers and businesses, and graduate Leadership Haywood participants,” said outgoing Chamber Chairwoman Nyda Bittman-Neville.

The prestigious Business of the Year award went to Haywood Regional Medical Center for its recent growth and continued community support. Hospital CEO Rod Harkleroad said since he took the reigns over a year ago, the hospital has hired new physicians and more than 50 new nurses to serve the community. He also took a moment to brag about HRMC’s most recent award from The Leapfrog Group, which gave the hospital an ‘A’ rating in patient safety.

He said the focus would continue to be caring for people to the best of their ability.

“People are excited about taking care of people, and that’s what we’re about,” Harkleroad said as he accepted the award.

Richard Miller received the Entrepreneur of the Year award for his many contributions over the years to make downtown

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Haywood Chamber awards business leaders Waynesville what it is today. Miller, who was quick to give credit to his wife Kay Miller, owns The Classic Wineseller on Church Street as well as the new burger hotspot Church Street Depot. He was also instrumental in getting many other mainstay businesses off the ground on Church Street.

George Marshall, retiring president of Haywood Vocational Opportunities, received a Service Recognition award for his more than 30 years of service at HVO and to the community by serving on multiple boards and committees.

Longtime Chamber members Steve and Mary McNeil received the Volunteer of the Year award for their work in organizing chamber events.

Stacy Overbay, co-owner of Overbay Insurance, received the Ambassador of the Year award for her leadership in the Chamber’s ambassador program.

The coveted Business Start-Up Competition award went to Leap Frog Tours, a new downtown Waynesville business offering guided tours and transportation to groups of tourists and locals. Tours include breweries, art galleries and other attractions in Asheville and other western counties.

Co-owner Ann Smith thanked everyone for their enthusiasm about the business start-up and the early support from the community. Applicants for the Business Start-Up

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Bittman-Neville with TNB Consulting Group, who has served as chairwoman of the chamber board for two years, handed the job over to Ken Flynt, Western Carolina University’s associate dean of outreach and engagement.

Haywood Regional Medical Center received the “For the Business of the Year award from the Haywood past two County Chamber of Commerce. Donated photo years of my being the chamber board chair, we have focused on business with marketing costs. four areas; leadership, advocacy, developThe chamber also recognized outgoing ment, and innovation. There has been much chamber board members Dr. Laura achieved in each of these areas and we look Leatherwood, who will soon be leaving her forward to continuing to advance our post at Haywood Community College to efforts,” she said. “We have had challenges serve as the new president of Blue Ridge which provide opportunities and we have Community College in Flat Rock, and Greg taken advantage of them when presented.

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American Red Cross partnered last fall with many Haywood County emergency agencies, all Haywood County fire departments, and various churches in an ongoing effort to reduce death and injury from home fires.

More than 200 hours of planning went into the one-day event in which representatives from these agencies went door-to-door to check and install smoke alarms and help families create home fire escape plans. That day, more than 350 homes were made safer by installing 1,080 smoke alarms and helping families create escape plans. This spring, the effort resulted in four lives being saved.

On April 17, at about 9:15 p.m., a Canton resident was alerted to a fire in her laundry area by a smoke alarm. The resident quickly evacuated herself and three other household members from the home. Four new smoke alarms were installed, a home fire safety checklist was reviewed and a fire escape plan was created during an in-home visit that was completed on Nov. 5, in collaboration with the Center Pigeon Fire Department and volunteers from Crestview Baptist Church.

“In emergency management, our goal is to save lives, not by responding to calls but through public education and preparedness,” said Zack Koonce, Haywood County assistant emergency management coordinator. “When an Incident like this occurs, it is a reminder of how important community outreach projects like this county wide smoke detector campaign are. If it had not been for great collaboration and team work of all agencies in Haywood County, we would not have been able to have held such successful campaign.”

To date, the campaign has saved at least 235 lives and installed more than more than 840,000 smoke alarms across the United States. Install smoke alarms on every level of the home, inside bedrooms and outside sleeping areas. The alarms should be tested every month and the batteries replaced at least once a year.

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Behavioral health kiosk at Jackson library Jackson County Public Library has partnered with Vaya Health to bring a mental health-screening kiosk to the citizens of Jackson County.

The goal of the kiosk is to increase awareness about common and treatable mental health conditions, to reduce stigma surrounding mental health and asking for help, and to increase access to quality care through local treatment referrals.

The kiosk, located on the second floor of the library, has a touch screen display to offer anonymous screenings for common mental health concerns, give feedback on results and provide referrals to treatment, including a direct line to connect users with the Vaya Health call center.

Residents can also take assessments online at www.vayamindful.org.

New ER open at Highlands-Cashiers Swain hospital staff receive top ranking Staff caring for patients on Swain Community Hospital’s main nursing unit have been recognized with a Healthgrades Outstanding Patient Experience Award.

The award is generated from patient feedback and covers the first quarter of 2017. Swain Community Hospital is one of 13 hospitals in North Carolina recognized for the outstanding patient experience award during this time period.

To determine the winners, Healthgrades evaluates patient experience performance through a 32question survey of patients who have received inpatient care at the hospital. Hospitals in the top 15 percent with the highest overall patient experience scores are recognized as Healthgrades Outstanding Patient Experience Award recipients. www.myswaincommunity.com or 828.488.2155.

Learn more about leg pain Haywood Regional Medical Center is hosting a free tired leg/ varicose vein educational program at 5 p.m.

Thursday, June 29, at the Vein Center at Haywood Regional Medical Center on the second floor. Dr. Al Mina and Dr. Joshua Rudd will lead the program.

Interested community members are asked to register for this session by calling 828.452.8346. Space is limited. RSVP required.

Haywood Regional receives ‘A’ in patient safety Haywood Regional Medical Center was one of 823 hospitals to receive an “A” from The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health care system, for its commitment to reducing errors, infections, and accidents that can harm patients.

“Congratulations and recognition goes to every single member of our staff for playing an integral part in our notable progress and quest for quality care. I am

proud of our hospital family and honored to be a member of it," said HRMC CEO Rod Harkleroad.

Developed under the guidance of an expert panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 30 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign A, B, C, D and F grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals twice per year. To see Haywood Regional Medical Center’s full grade, visit www.hospitalsafetygrade.org.

Summer safety topic of ladies night At the upcoming Ladies Night Out Program, on June 27, Jonathan Fouts with Macon County Public Health will be speaking about summer safety.

Ladies Night Out is a partnership between Macon County Public Health and Angel Medical Center to provide free monthly programs on a variety of health topics for women with an emphasis on the importance of regular health screenings.

This program will be held in the cafeteria at AMC two times this date. The first will be at 4 p.m., and the second will be at 6:30 p.m. All women are invited to attend.

This month Ladies Night Out we will be taking donations for Kid’s Place.

Mission Health and Highlands-Cashiers Hospital recently held a ribbon cutting and grand opening celebration for the hospital’s new emergency department, which has undergone a major expansion and enhancement.

The $6.7 million project improvements include 6,800 additional square feet, a dedicated behavioral health patient treatment area, special space for trauma or sexual assault victims, separate space for patients with contagious diseases, private consultation rooms and a spectacular waiting area with architectural features that make the most of the beautiful mountain scenery surrounding the hospital.

Haywood Regional names Mercy Award winner Haywood Regional Medical Center, which is part of Duke LifePoint Health, recently announced that Valerie Newkirk has been recognized as the hospital’s 2017 Mercy Award winner.

Newkirk is one of roughly 70 other individuals across LifePoint Health to receive this award. Newkirk works in the women’s imaging department. The annual Mercy Award program was established in 2002 to honor the life of Scott Mercy, LifePoint’s founding chairman and chief executive officer. It recognizes one employee from each of LifePoint’s 72 healthcare facilities who profoundly touches the lives of others and best represents the spirit and values on which the company was founded.

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• The Haywood Health Authority Board meeting will be held at 4 p.m.

Thursday, June 22, in the second floor classroom at Haywood Regional Medical Center.

• Mission Health has been named once again one of the nation’s Top 15 Health Systems by Truven Health Analytics. The study identifies the nation’s 15 best health systems based upon objective care quality standards and is the only study that aggregates both individual hospital and health system-level performance to allow health system leaders and consumers to identify and compare true leaders in clinical quality and efficiency.

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• A two-day training event — Youth Mental Health First Aid — will be presented by Vaya Health from noon to 4 p.m. June 26 and June 27 at Hurlburt Johnson Homeless Shelter, 73 Blumenthal Street, in Murphy. Learn skills to help a young person who is experiencing distress due to mental illness or substance abuse. Register at http://tinyurl.com/lec2oyl or call 800.893.6246 ext.

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Operation Blood Drive

• Mission Health has published its 2016 Annual Report/Community Investment Report that can be downloaded at missionhealth.org/communitybenefit.php. It highlights the needs of communities served by the Ashevillebased hospital system, with member hospitals in Highlands-Cashiers, Franklin, Brevard, Spruce Pine and Marion.

The American Red Cross encourages donors of all blood types to help give patients another birthday at the 30th annual Operation Blood Drive on Thursday, June 22.

It is a critical time for blood donations, which usually decline in the summer months because of vacations and schools being out of session.

Donors can come together to help those in need from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 22, at the First Baptist Church, 100 South Main Street, Waynesville.

• Angel Medical Center’s 2017 DAISY Award recipient is Elizabeth Sears, RN, Women and Children’s Unit.

The DAISY Foundation is a national nonprofit that honors nurses and the amazing care they provide to patients and families.

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Wrong vision for Haywood libraries To the Editor: As an inveterate library user, a long-time volunteer at the Haywood Public Library, a former Board member of the Haywood Friends of the Library, and a former board member of the Friends of North Carolina Public Library (the statewide library support organization), I feel compelled to weigh in on the issue raised in last week’s article on the library in The Smoky Mountain News.

While I realize the reluctance of the county commissioners to undertake a $6 million project to expand the Waynesville library, I fear that the goal of County Manager Ira Dove and the commissioners is to so dilute the project by a desire to be penurious that nothing substantive will get done to improve our aged and inadequate flagship library.

Libraries are important in Haywood County, just like they are in every community across our country. The well-respected Pew Research Center concluded in their study on the importance of libraries titled “How Americans Value Public Libraries” that: “Americans strongly value library services such as access to books and media; having a quiet, safe place to spend time, read, or study; and having librarians to help people find information. Other services, such as assistance finding and applying for jobs, are more important to particular groups, including those with lower levels of education or household income.”

It seems to me that the last portion of this quotation may address the focus of the problem that the library faces with our county commissioners and Mr. Dove as they address the role of the public library in our community. I fear that they don’t understand the importance of having a great library to making Haywood County the kind of place that we all want to call home. Can you imagine the message sent

Asheville. There are new businesses in the downtown area, including a bakery, a soap maker and an engineering firm.

But BearWaters could be a “gamechanger,” as Town Alderman Zeb Smathers aptly put it at last week’s grand opening. Great breweries with nice tap rooms ooze coolness, and BearWaters owners Kevin Sandefur and Art O’Neil have succeeded in bringing that vibe to downtown Canton.

Simply put, BearWaters is gorgeous. The interior’s feel is big and Editor airy, and there is a lot of seating.

Outside, the grounds hug the Pigeon River and the construction and landscaping just look great.

There are outdoor games and even a take-out spot for those who might choose to paddle or float in from upriver.

Plans in the future are for live music using what Sandefur

Scott McLeod

he opening of the new BearWaters Brewing in Canton is a great shot in the arm for one of most unique towns in this region. But there’s more than just a brewery happening in Canton, and we hope the recent successes continue to create momentum.

Canton is a mill town. The paper mill that dominates its landscape opened in 1909 as Champion Paper and continues churning out items like Starbucks coffee cups and cardboard for juice and milk containers today under the umbrella of Evergreen Packaging. It and its sister plant in Waynesville still employ more than 1,000 workers, a rarity for a Western North Carolina manufacturer these days.

For several years town leaders have been seeking new businesses to give Canton a chance, hoping investments in the town would bring some new energy that leaders and citizens could build on. Those efforts are paying off.

Western Carolina Freightliner is opening up its semi truck repair and sales business on the interstate, bringing jobs from

to the world by a community by an inadequate library? It suggests a community that doesn’t care about literacy and a community that doesn’t value an inclusive and welcoming community center, which is what a good library is.

In the sidebar to last week’s article was the usage pattern for the library and a statement that 25 percent of the survey respondents never use the library, for very real reasons that could be addressed in improvements to the library facility and collections.

More importantly, county commissioners need to think about the other 75 percent of the population who do use the library and accept their responsibility to provide the best possible library for Haywood County.

Forbes Magazine concluded in an article titled “Why Public Libraries Matter: And How They Can Do More” that: “… public libraries in America are dynamic, versatile community centers. They welcomed 1.59 billion visitors and lent books 2.4 billion times — more than 8 times for each citizen.”

Doesn’t Haywood County deserve libraries that are dynamic, versatile community centers?

Kent Stewart Waynesville

Here come the tax cuts — again To the Editor: Republicans are again touting the critical need for tax cuts for the upper economic classes. This is going on at both the state and federal level. The cuts are even embedded in Trumpcare. The promised benefits of large tax cuts? More jobs and a growing economy — if only it were true.

There are two related arguments for tax cuts that primarily benefit the investor class.

The first is that the increased wealth at the top will create jobs through investment. Were that the case, the economy during the Reagan and

describes as a state-of-the-art sound system, and the venue is also set up to host all kinds of private events. There’s also homemade sparkling water drinks for the kiddies, and a fullon restaurant — the Pigeon River Grille.

If you know Canton, then you know it has some of the most distinctive neighborhoods in WNC, with well-built, stylistic homes that are some of the most affordable in the region.

Many real estate professionals have told me that those neighborhoods will, at some point in the future, become hot property for those looking for an alternative to the over-priced Buncombe County market. Perhaps that time is now.

We’re not in the business of doing advertorials for private businesses. In this case, however, BearWaters symbolizes perfectly what many in Canton have known for years: this town embraces its Made-in-America, blue-collar roots, but its arms are open wide enough to include in that embrace a more youthful coolness that will attract different kinds businesses and residents.

(Reach Scott McLeod at info@smokymountainnews.com)

LETTERS second Bush administrations would have roared, driving unemployment to record low levels and vastly increasing income and wealth for the middle and lower classes.

That didn’t happen. Investors are free to invest their money overseas and in various schemes that make more money for the investors, while generating little or no benefit for the U.S. economy.

Second, the promised job and income increases from the tax cuts were promised to increase government revenues and reduce deficits. That didn’t happen either. Instead, we got the largest deficits in history until we had to increase expenditures that were necessary to prevent the George Bush recession from becoming a global depression.

Then there are corporate taxes. On paper the U.S. has one of the higher tax rates in the developed world (35 percent). However, after the various deductions and exclusions, the average corporate tax payment is only around 20-25 percent. Eighteen large corporations (e.g.

International Paper, General Electric, Priceline, Duke Energy) paid no federal taxes from 20082015. How does this happen? They write the tax laws.

Clearly we need tax reform. That reform should ensure that any profitable company pays taxes. Small- and medium-size businesses, rather than large corporations, should be the primary beneficiaries of tax reform because that’s where most jobs are created.

For individuals, any tax cuts should focus on the lower and middle income groups at the expense of the already wealthy. Both income and sales taxes should be considered. The current tax code has transferred massive income and wealth to the upper economic classes over the last 30 years, and the results for the U.S. economy are obvious. It hasn’t worked.

To grow the economy, tax policy must emphasize the individuals who actually drive

the economy rather than investing overseas or in transactions that only serve to increase personal wealth rather than growing the economy.

One simple, though radical, solution would be to treat capital gains on investment income as ordinary income rather than with a flat 15 or 20 percent rate.

To be clear, this is not an indictment of democracy or capitalism — only the way it is currently practiced in the U.S. Hard-working people must be rewarded for their efforts.

People with great ideas and the willingness to take the risks of bringing them to market should be rewarded if they are successful. That is the American story.

What has increasingly happened is that rewards are conferred upon those with the best teams of lawyers, accountants and lobbyists.

Meanwhile, tens of millions of citizens are left wondering what happened to their future and grasping at the false promises of a better future while wondering how to pay their bills..

The issue is fairly simple. Do your representatives support the wellbeing of 95 percent of their constituents or the 1 to 5 percent of their big donors? It’s your choice in 2018!

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.

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When I get up in the quiet house, make some coffee and get a portion of work accomplished before the boys wake up, I’m a better mom, and the entire day flows more smoothly.

Secondly, I need accountability, not for work deadlines but accountability for behaviors that contribute to productivity and happiness which in turn, help me produce better work.

The boys love sticker charts. Each Sunday we develop their weekly sticker charts with behaviors needing improvement. A couple weeks ago, I realized I need a sticker chart as well. Even the seemingly small accountability of a piece of paper and stickers help me follow-through with behaviors. My five behaviors from last week included waking up before 6 a.m., exercising, reading 10 minutes before bed, getting outside and de-cluttering one thing in the house.

Lastly, I’m relying heavily on time chunking. My method of time chunking involves 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off.

When the boys are home all day, we chunk throughout the morning. We have 20 minutes of quiet activity. This is when they read, color, do puzzles, play with LEGOs, etc., and this is when I work, and then we have 20 minutes of activity. This may involve playing outside or them watching a show and me cleaning.

Sometimes the amount of minutes varies but the process stays the same.

The boys are really good at this until about lunch time, at which point I shut everything down and fully engage in parenting. When they’re at a camp, I still time chunk but during the “off ” time, I fold a load of laundry, do a quick workout or veg out on the couch for ten minutes. I know it all sounds very strategic, but it truly is the only way I don’t feel like a crazy person during these summer months.

With all that being said, I’m part of my own problem. I could easily arrange full-time childcare or rely more on friends and family to help (many have offered), but somewhere within me I know how quickly their sweet childhood years will pass. I want to build my professional portfolio as much as possible and be with my kids as much as possible.

It’s a classic catch 22 for working moms.

I don’t have everything figured out.

My house is a mess, I forget appointments and we eat leftovers, but those things just aren’t high on my priority list.

At the moment, I’m laser-focused on being a good parent and improving my WAHM skills. So, if I must step over Transformers and pirate ships to reach my desk, it’s perfectly OK with me.

(Susanna Barbee is a writer who lives in Haywood County. susanna.barbee@gmail.com.)

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To the Editor: Coal has played an enormous role in the history of our country, and the infamous black rock remains a primary source of energy.

Lighting homes, powering factories, and influencing economic and environmental decisionmaking, coal can be found (in many ways, shapes and forms) at the heart of the American story. But coal is complicated.

Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining (MTR) is the most violent and disruptive form of mining to date — and a great deal of our energy is obtained in this way. MTR involves blasting the summit from the mountain and then bulldozing debris (including timber, rock, and mining chemicals) into neighboring valleys. This process buries pristine headwater streams, leads to mudslides and severe flooding, and permanently destroys an ecosystem that’s biodiversity has been compared to that of the rain forest. Furthermore, coal contributes significantly to climate change.

Coal miners are also struggling greatly.

Easily accessible coal is a thing of the past, and modern-day coal mining is highly mechanized — meaning far fewer jobs for people in coal country. We must remember these coal-mining communities, and the women and men who have dedicated their lives to America’s energy supply, as we transition to clean and renewable energy. We must respect them and work toward a just transition in which the people of Appalachia are valued and given jobs in sustainable industries. We must work for economic diversification. Appalachia has been forgotten for too long, and we have much to learn.

“From the Ashes,” a documentary dealing with the complexities of the coal industry and the importance of these many narratives, will be showing at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva on Thursday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m. The film is a Tribeca Film Festival official selection for 2017 and has been called “Heartbreaking and enlightening at the same time. A mustwatch for everyone because we should all be in this together …” by former Secretary of State John Kerry. Please join the Creation Care Alliance of WNC and MountainTrue as we engage in this important dialogue.

Sarah Ogletree Sylva

s I write this column, my two little boys are rummaging through LEGO bricks bickering about who needs which piece, KIDZ BOP Kids is playing on Pandora and eggs are boiling on the stove for egg salad sandwich lunches.

This is my summertime work setting.

Back in the day when I was teaching, summers meant completely shutting off, reading books, relaxing by the pool or ocean and spending quality Columnist time with my family. I’m no longer teaching, but I’m still trying to follow my old summertime routine.

It’s not going very well.

I’m what they call a WAHM. A workat-home mom. It’s an odd thing to be because I have a full-time workload but I’m at home, so psychologically, it feels like I should be doing other things, more domestic things. I’m still trying to get the hang of being a WAHM. We’ve only scheduled a few camps for our older son and our younger child attends preschool two days a week instead of the five he attended when school was in session.

After day one of summer vacation, I realized the boys weren’t seamlessly going to let me work. But I also realized they’re 5 and 8 and perhaps I shouldn’t expect that of them.

So, with limited childcare and more work than I can manage, I had to come up with a plan.

To begin, I must wake up between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. Most of us are morning people or night owls. I’ve always been a morning person. If I had my druthers, I would go to bed every night at 8:30 p.m. and wake up at 4:30 a.m., but my life just isn’t conducive to that right now.

I follow several motivation/productivity gurus and two of my favorites, Hal Elrod and Michael Hyatt, promote getting up early to get the gears going. Elrod has written an entire book on the concept. His book called The Miracle Morning offers a six-minute morning routine that’s supposed to set one’s day up for success. I won’t go into detail about individual steps, but the method involves one minute of silence, one minute of positive affirmations, one minute of visualization, one minute scribing, one minute reading and one minute exercising. It sounds crazy, but it works.

Sometimes I do the six-minute method and other times, I immediately begin working, but either way, I won’t survive summer unless I arise early.

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To the Editor: Now that the Haywood County School Board is keeping Central Elementary, it’s a good time to consider repurposing it into a unique community asset that could be the biggest economic development in years and benefit the entire county as a “Children’s Discovery Place!”

While there may be many possible uses, none are likely to require all the classrooms, auditorium or playgrounds. Nowhere in the county can you find a more unique asset that lends itself perfectly to this type of development.

The best example is KidSenses in Rutherfordton that has had over 500,000 visitors since opening, is housed in just 10,000 square feet and has an annual economic impact of a $1.38 million. It’s so successful they’ve launched a new division called The Factory to broaden the appeal to teens with a whole new slant on STEM education.

Here’s how it could be structured.

Establish a public-private partnership between Haywood Schools and a new nonprofit to raise funds to renovate and operate year-round with exhibits, tactile discovery, playgrounds, concerts, STEM programming, etc.

Engage the Chamber of Commerce, EDC, TDA, Arts Council, HCC, WCU, HRMC and even the county library with its expansion plans to create a Lifelong Learning Campus.

Use it as an asset for public schools along with rentals to private schools. Haywood Schools could expand learning opportunities for all students without incurring any additional costs.

Revenue would come from admissions, grants, sponsorships, rental fees and major private donors.

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To the Editor: The mere length and involved reasoning of your editorial reveals a level of nuance that makes issues such as the captioned insoluble.

In stuff like this, I’m a fan of Occam’s razor: The simplest solution with the fewest assumptions is probably the best. So, let’s do this: On redistricting: Have computers draw the lines with the sole purpose of making them contiguous and compact.

On IDs: If such there must be, issue IDs to every occupant of the U.S., with clear indications of citizenship and voter eligibility status.

For free.

From time immemorial, we have concerned ourselves with race, creed and tribe, creating a slow-moving, quasi-stasis, always to the detriment of the just operation of a republic.

If a reaction to the above begins with “But what about (some group) ...,” it would be reasonable to inquire as to whether we really want an objective solution, preferring instead to continue the present system but with different controlling forces.

Jim Graber Franklin

To make this happen, several steps would have to be taken, including: • Host a meeting with speakers from other children’s museums.

• Form a “Community Exploratory Committee” and conduct a feasibility study to determine community support.

• If there is a groundswell of support, the committee could start a nonprofit to develop a master plan, launch a capital campaign, apply for grants, seek corporate sponsors and cultivate private donors.

Our school board has an opportunity to launch a transformative initiative that will benefit residents and visitors of all ages for generations. I urge the community to let them know of your support.

John Curtis Waynesville

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tasteTHEmountains We’re open every evening for dinner until 9 p.m.

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828.926.0734. Open 7 days a week 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Celebrating over 25 years.

Enjoy world famous hot dogs as well as burgers, seafood, hushpuppies, hot wings and chicken. Be sure to save room for dessert.

The cobbler, pie and cake selections are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.

BLOSSOM ON MAIN 128 N. Main Street, Waynesville.

828.454.5400. Open for lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Sunday. Mild, medium, to hot and spicy, our food is cooked to your like-able temperature.

Forget the myth that all Thai food is spicy.

Traditional Thai food is known to be quite healthy, making use of natural and fresh ingredients, paired with lots of spices, herbs, and vegetables. Vegetarians and health conscious individuals will not be disappointed as fresh vegetables and tofu are available in most of our menu as well as wines and saki chosen to compliment the unique flavors of Thai cuisine.

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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. Call-ahead seating available.

BOGART’S 303 S. Main St., Waynesville. 828.452.1313.

Open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Carry out available. Located in downtown Waynesville, Bogart’s has been long-time noted for great steaks, soups, and

BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Lunch served 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Monday through Saturday. Dinner 5 to 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

Closed on Sunday. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks from local farms, incredible burgers, and other classic american comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available.

BREAKING BREAD CAFÉ 6147 Hwy 276 S. Bethel (at the Mobil Gas Station) 828.648.3838 Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Chef owned and operated. Our salads are made in house using local seasonal vegetables. Fresh roasted ham, turkey and roast beef used in our hoagies. We hand make our own eggplant and chicken parmesan, pork meatballs and hamburgers. We use 1st quality fresh not preprepared products to make sure you get the best food for a reasonable price. We make vegetarian, gluten free and sugar free items.

Call or go to Facebook (Breaking Bread Café NC) to find out what our specials are.

BRYSON CITY CORK & BEAN A MOUNTAIN SOCIAL HOUSE 16 Everett St.,Bryson City. 828.488.1934.

Open Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday brunch 9 a.m. to 3p.m., Full Menu 3 to 9 p.m. Serving fresh and delicious weekday morning lite fare, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Freshly prepared menu offerings range from house-made soups & salads, lite fare & tapas, crepes, specialty sandwiches and burgers. Be sure not to miss the bold flavors and creative combinations that make up the daily Chef Supper Specials starting at 5pm every day.

Followed by a tempting selection of desserts prepared daily by our chefs and other local bakers. Enjoy craft beers on tap, as well as our full bar and eclectic wine list.

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 pan-

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cakes, and always all-you-can-eat. Lunch menu every day from 12 to 2 p.m. Dinner becomes a gourmet experience this year with the arrival of our new Chef CJ, whose training and skills include French, Mediterranean, Asian, Middle Eastern and, of course, New Age Southern cuisine. Saturday night will feature an evening cookout on the terrace, with choices such as Korean barbecue and shrimp.

On all other nights of the week, the chef will prepare gourmet plated dinners with locally sourced vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts. We also offer a fine selection of wine and beer. The evening social hour starts at 6pm, and dinner is served starting at 7 p.m. 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.

CHURCH STREET DEPOT 34 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

828.246.6505. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Mouthwatering all beef burgers and dogs, hand-dipped, hand-spun real ice cream shakes and floats, fresh handcut fries. Locally sourced beef. Indoor and outdoor dining. facebook.com/ChurchStreetDepot, twitter.com/ChurchStDepot.

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. 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.

THE CLASSIC WINESELLER 20 Church Street, Waynesville.

828.452.6000. Underground retail wine and craft beer shop, restaurant, and intimate live music venue. Kitchen opens at 4 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday serving freshly prepared small plates, tapas, charcuterie, desserts. Enjoy live music every Friday and Saturday night at 7pm. www.classicwineseller.com. Also on facebook and twitter.

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salads. Casual family atmosphere in a rustic old-time setting with a menu noted for its practical value. Live Bluegrass/String Band music every Thursday. Walking distance of Waynesville’s unique shops and seasonal festival activities and within one mile of Waynesville Country Club.

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828.926.1820 Winter hours: Wednesday through Sunday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet.

Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service.

FERRARA PIZZA & PASTA 243 Paragon Parkway, Clyde.

828.476.5058. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 12 to 8 p.m. Real New Yorkers. Real Italians. Real Pizza. A full service authentic Italian pizzeria and restaurant from New York to the Blue Ridge. Dine in, take out, and delivery. Check out our daily lunch specials plus customer appreciation nights on Monday and Tuesday 5 to 9 p.m. with large cheese pizzas for $9.95.

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. www.frogsleappublichouse.com.

JUKEBOX JUNCTION U.S. 276 and N.C. 110 intersection, Bethel.

828.648.4193. 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday; Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner.

The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era.

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

828.586.3555. Open Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Sunday

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

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.

PATIO BISTRO 30 Church Street, Waynesville.

828.454.0070. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Breakfast bagels and sandwiches, gourmet coffee, deli sandwiches for lunch with homemade soups, quiches, and desserts.

RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 70 Soco Road, Maggie Valley 828.926.0201 Home of the Maggie Valley Pizzeria. We deliver after 4 p.m. daily to all of Maggie Valley, J-Creek area, and Lake Junaluska.

Monday through Wednesday: 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. country buffet and salad bar from 5 to 9 p.m. $11.95 with Steve Whiddon on piano.

Friday and Saturday: 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 to 8 p.m. 11:30 to 3 p.m. family style, fried chicken, ham, fried fish, salad bar, along with all the fixings, $11.95.

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

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

SMOKY MOUNTAIN SUB SHOP 29 Miller Street Waynesville 828.456.3400.

Open from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. A Waynesville tradition, the Smoky Mountain Sub Shop has been serving great food for over 20 years. Come in and enjoy the relaxed, casual atmosphere. Sub breads are baked fresh every morning in Waynesville.

Using only the freshest ingredients in homemade soups, salads and sandwiches. Come in and see for yourself why Smoky Mountain Sub Shop was voted # 1 in Haywood County.

Locally owned and operated.

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

Open seven days a week. Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 3 p.m.-11 p.m., Sunday 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Family-owned for 30 years. Serving hand-tossed pizza made to order, pasta, subs, gourmet salads, calzones and seafood. Also serving excellent prime rib on Thursdays. Dine in or take out available. Located across from the Fire Station.

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

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

Tucked away inside Waynesville Inn, the Tap Room Bar & Grill has an approachable menu designed around locally sourced, sustainable, farm-to-table ingredients. Full bar and wine cellar. www.thewaynesvilleinn.com.

TRAILHEAD CAFE & BAKERY 18 N Main Street, Waynesville.

828.452.3881 Open 7 days a week. You will find a delicious selection of pastries & donuts, breakfast & lunch along with a fresh coffee & barista selection. Happy Trails!

WAYNESVILLE PIZZA COMPANY 32 Felmet Street, Waynesville.

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

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

Open for dinner at 4:30 to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; serving lunch and dinner beginning at 12 p.m. on Sundays. Worldfamous 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.

brunch 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Handtossed pizza, steak sandwiches, wraps, salads and desserts. All made from scratch.

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Pints in Papertown BearWaters Brewing reopens in Canton

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER It was weird.

Driving around downtown Canton this past weekend, it was weird to have a hard time finding a parking space. In most Western North Carolina communities during the busy summer tourist season, this is the norm. But, for the blue-collar paper mill town of Canton, finding a parking spot has never been an issue.

That is, until now.

In the last couple of years, several businesses have popped up in downtown Canton, once again breathing life into a community many looked at as “dead” and “out of business.” But, one business was missing, especially when seemingly every single nearby town had one — a brewery.

“It’s a new chapter in my life, a new beginning,” said BearWaters Brewing co-owner/brewmaster Kevin Sandefur. “It’s pretty much a dream realized, to finally open a full-size brewery with production and distribution, [and] a real destination taproom with a restaurant.”

For the last four years, BearWaters was located in Waynesville. But, with an increasing need for space, and also finding out their property would soon become a Publix super market, the brewery started to look for new digs last year. At that time, the Canton town officials were putting feelers out to finally bring a brewery into their downtown. The brewery and the town worked together to make the long-held dream a reality.

BearWaters Brewing recently reopened in downtown Canton. The taproom also features a restaurant, the Pigeon River Grille.

With their official “Grand Opening” last Friday and Saturday, every parking spot within walking distance of BearWaters (on Park Street) was filled, every single hand hoisting high a craft beer in celebration of a new day in the long and bountiful industrial history of Canton.

“We kind of said this early on when we made this decision [to relocate to Canton], the town and our company, I think we both have a tenacious and scrappy nature, we’re both fiercely loyal to what we do,” Sandefur said.

“There’s been many times that Canton has been written off — ‘done’ or ‘over’ — and together this is a new beginning for both of us.

The mill workers that come over here every day to check on the progress, and the town offi-

cials, we all feel this sense of hope that we’re going to create this symbiotic relationship to start a new beginning.”

Overtaking an 11,000-square-foot, two-level building in downtown right on the Pigeon River, the brewery will kick things up a notch on its new 20-barrel system, which includes five 20-barrel fermenters and three brite tanks.

Aiming to harness the property’s potential, BearWaters built a river access point for kayakers and tubers looking to stop by a beverage. They also added a restaurant, the Pigeon River Grille, which will feature gourmet dishes and southern-inspired favorites.

Haywood County businessman Richard Miller (of The Classic Wineseller and Church Street Depot in Waynesville) opened the gastro-pub within the facility. As well, Sandefur noted the cellar below will contain BearWater’s barrelaging program.

“The Town of Canton is so pumped about this, [and] I think they really expect this to be a catalyst for more growth in the downtown corridor,” Sandefur said. “It’s being looked at as an anchor business to attract future business to be put around this showcase brewery. We’re seeing a lot of professionals from Asheville [coming here]. It’s definitely an exciting time for the town. We feel very fortunate to have this opportunity — the building is absolutely perfect for what we want to do.”

When Sandefur was looking for new investors, he found a special bond and kinship with Art O’Neil, who saw the promise of the BearWaters and became a co-owner. “[For the last eight months], everything [Art and I have] done in this building, we’ve done together,” Sandefur said. “And this whole time, we’ve waited for this moment.

[Our] biggest sense of pride is seeing people enjoy the space.”

Wandering around the brewery, it’s surreal to see such a vivacious and jovial energy permeating through downtown Canton. For years, perhaps even decades, those fighting for Canton, those in the town’s corner, have been saying “someday, someday,” where you begin to realize that “someday” is actually today — right here and now.

“It’s been a journey that definitely has had its twists and turn, and there were definitely times where we didn’t know if we’d make it or not. But, with lots of perseverance and determination, we kept fighting and fighting, and we got our breakthrough,” Sandefur said. “I’ve fallen in love with the building, it’s overwhelming and turned out way beyond my expectations. If you focus on what’s at the end of the road, it can happen — [BearWaters] is living proof of that. I’ve had a lot of false starts, but to cross over the goal line, it’s like, ‘My god, this can be done.’”

“It’s pretty much a dream realized, to finally open a fullsize brewery with production and distribution, [and] a real destination taproom with a restaurant.”

— Kevin Sandefur, BearWaters co-owner

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Deep Creek Winery

June 21-27, 2017

I look forward to it these days.

Calling my dad at the end of the day.

With my parents still living in my native Upstate New York, I find myself dialing the old man almost every night, just to shoot the bull. With our conversations normally hovering around the matters of the day — politically and socially — we then knock it down a notch, talking about sports, family, or simply telling one tall tale after another, usually with some hearty laughter echoing from the other end of the line.

At 75, my dad is as rough and tough as they get, but also one of those “good ole boys” who’s built like a Cadbury crème egg — a hard, dark exterior, with a soft and sweet filling. The old man is “old school,” and for good reason, for it has taught me everything I ever needed in how to not only

deal, but overcome, any obstacle life may toss in your way.

Born in 1942, amid the cold and unforgiving North Country winters, my father was the son of an iron ore miner in the tiny outpost town of Lyon Mountain, New York (population: 423), in the heart of the desolate and picturesque Adirondack Mountains. My grandmother worked an array of odd jobs, from cooking in a restaurant to owning a bar, to also raising eight kids (my father the second oldest). They were blue-collar America, for good or ill, and made ends meets somehow, just like countless families around the country did during the Great Depression and World War II. My father was 30 when he got married, and was 43 when he had me (I’m the oldest of two kids). So, some could say he lived a pretty full life before I was even a twinkle in his eye. In high school and after graduation, my father worked all kinds of gigs. Repo man. Banker. Construction worker.

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friends and going to rock concerts than I was doing yardwork or practicing whatever sport I was involved in.

There were a lot of difficult years back then. Luckily, the good years always outnumbered the bad. I’ve always equated my dad and his attitude on life to the character of Red Forman on “That ‘70s Show” — tough love and tough to read. And yet, two things came into my life that solidified our bond — running and writing.

A lifelong runner (one who ran the Boston Marathon 14 times, with over 80 marathons under his belt atop thousands of road races), my father pushed me into signing up for cross-country in middle school.

My unrelenting love for running, something that continues to this very day, became a common interest between a Baby Boomer (my dad) and a millennial (me).

By the time college rolled around, I hadn’t really figured out what I wanted to do with my life. But, when the “lightning bolt Nantahala Brewing Company (Bryson City) will epiphany” struck me that I wanted to be a writer, my father was host The Get Right Band (rock/soul) at 8 p.m. first in line to support that Saturday, June 24. notion.

Bluegrass act Unspoken Tradition will perform A man who has had The New at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 1, at The Strand at 38 York Times in hand every mornMain in Waynesville. ing for decades, he’s also a “bookworm” in every sense of the word, Bogart’s Restaurant & Tavern (Waynesville) will devouring biographies and milihost Eddie Rose & Highway 40 (bluegrass) at tary history. He’s the kind of guy 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 22. that goes to the local library Monday morning and checks out The “An Appalachian Evening” summer concert series will kickoff with Grammy winner a half-dozen thick books, and come the following Monday is David Holt & Josh Goforth at 7:30 p.m. returning all the books, every sinSaturday, June 24, at the Stecoah Valley Center. gle page read.

Concerts on the Creek (Sylva) will host The It’s been a rollercoaster of a Buchanan Boys (rock/country) at 7 p.m. ride between my father and I, but, Friday, June 23, in Bridge Park. all-in-all, we’re stronger now than ever before. It’s surreal to see this whole new — soft — side of him emerge as I school. When I went to bed, he got up to go to work. But, when he was around, especially watch him interact with my niece, his granddaughter. It’s like a whole new lease on life during vacations and when I had a sporting for the old man. And I look forward to our event, he was there, either showing me “the ropes” with basketball and baseball or cheer- conversations over the phone, when we chat about nothing and everything, when he asks ing me on from the sidelines. about some article I wrote that he read that But, as with any parent-child relationday. “How’d you come up with that line?” he ship, the “honeymoon phase” does come to says, a smile emerging on my face on the an end at some point around middle school. receiving end of the call.

It wasn’t so much that I was a “bad kid,” I Happy Father’s Day, Frank. just didn’t like to be told what to do and was Life is beautiful, grasp for it, y’all. more interested in hanging out with my Counselor. Car hop. He was also a prison guard for a while in the early 1970s, with stints at Sing Sing, Dannemora and Attica (his first week on the job was during the infamous riots in 1971).

After a couple failed attempts at getting a college degree — due to work, bills and family obligations — he finally got his bachelor’s in 1974 in history. In the 1990s, he went back to college and got another degree in criminology. And throughout all that time he found his true calling with an almost 30year career as an Immigration Officer for the U.S. Government on the Canadian border, mere miles from my childhood home.

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Nantahala Brewing Company (Bryson City) will host The Get Right Band (rock/soul) at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 24. The performance is free and open to the public. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

Jazz/soul act Rockell Scott will perform during the Groovin’ on the Green concert series at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 23, at The Village Green in Cashiers. Free. www.visitcashiersvalley.com.

Mountain Faith will play Franklin on June 24.

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Mountain Faith, Isaacs in Franklin

David Holt is ‘An Appalachian Evening’ The “An Appalachian Evening” summer concert series will kickoff with Grammy winner David Holt & Josh Goforth at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 24, at the Stecoah Valley Center.

The annual bluegrass/mountain music series will also feature Buncombe Turnpike (July 1), Balsam Range (July 8), Helen White & Wayne Henderson (July 15), The Synder Family (July 22), Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper (July 29), The Bankesters (Aug. 5), The Freight Hoppers (Aug. 12), The Jeff Little Trio (Aug. 19) and The Kruger Brothers (Aug. 26).

Tickets for the Holt/Goforth performance are $25, grades K-12 $10. Tickets are a pre-show dinner are also available for purchase. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

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The Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin will once again host Musication Nation, a two-day musical festival organized by multi-award winning southern gospel family group The Isaacs.

Workshops will be Friday, June 23 and Saturday, June 24. Each day will begin at 10 a.m. and participants may choose to attend one or both days. Tickets are $25 per participant, per day.

A special concert will be open to the public each night following each workshop. On Friday, The Isaacs will welcome special guest Mark Lowry and on Saturday they will welcome special guests Mountain Faith.

Concerts will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets start at $20 each.

• Day one (June 23) of the workshop will begin with morning glory devotions with accomplished songwriter, singer, and musician Becky Isaacs Bowman. A live sound and recording session with Mark Capps and Ben

Isaacs will follow. After a break for lunch, participants will be treated to a Teay’s Valley cooking class and a question and answer session with The Isaacs. Bowman and Sonya Isaacs Yeary will then share the stories behind the songs of The Isaacs family band.

Day one will end at 4:15 p.m.

• Day two (June 24) of the workshop will begin with morning devotions and life stories with Lily Isaacs, matriarch of the Isaacs’ family. It will include readings from her autobiography, You Don’t Cry Out Loud. A Teay’s Valley cooking class and a question and answer session with The Isaacs will follow. After a lunch break, there will be a Fan Jam session with the Isaacs and Mountain Faith. Workshop attendees who wish to participate in the Fan Jam should contact the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Art’s box office at 828.524.1598 to register as a singer or musician. Day two will end at 4 p.m.

To purchase tickets for workshops and concerts, or to find out more about this or any other event at the theater, visit www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

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Balsam Range – July 2nd Laura Story – July 3rd The Lake Junaluska Singers July 4th

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Sock Hops slide into Franklin

At Haywood Community College, you can do more than sit in a classroom all day.

The Sock Hops will play Franklin on June 30. Donated photo An oldies group known for singing beautiful four-part harmonies of memorable songs from the ‘50s, ’60s and ‘70s, The Sock Hops will hit the stage at 7 p.m. Friday, June 30, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Having had the privilege of opening concert appearances for The Temptations, Frankie Avalon, The Rascals, and many other great artists, The Sock Hops are no strangers to the stage, nor are they strangers to the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts. This will be their fifth time performing at the theater.

Tickets are $18 per person. To purchases tickets, visit www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

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As part of a Summer Music Series, the Marianna Black Library will present an evening of acoustic music with local singersongwriter team Liz & AJ Nance at 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 29, in Bryson City.

This program is free and open to area residents and visitors. Snacks and refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the Marianna Black Library.

The library is located in downtown Bryson City at the corner of Academy and Rector. For more information or driving directions call the library at 828.488.3030 or visit www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

baroque and contemporary music on early and folk instruments at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 29, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University.

Performing musicians will include Lisle Kulbach, Annalisa Pappano and Gail Ann Schroeder (violas da gamba); Valerie Austin, Wayne Hankin, Jody Miller, Patricia Petersen, Gwyn Roberts and Anne Timberlake (recorders and other renaissance winds); Erik Schmalz (sackbut); Lorraine Hammond (harp and folk instruments); Robert Bolyard (voice, organ and viola da gamba); and Barbara Weiss (harpsichord and viola da gamba).

Will Peebles, WCU professor of bassoon, will perform on dulcian. The concert is free, but donations will be accepted for the Gerald R. Moore Mountain Collegium Scholarship.

The workshop, being held at WCU from Sunday, June 25, through Saturday, July 1, typically offers classes in recorder, viol, plucked strings, renaissance winds, voice and other topics. The organization’s site can be found at www.mountaincollegium.org.

For more information, contact Jody Miller, director for the Mountain Collegium, at 404.314.1891 or orrecorder96@gmail.com.

FALL REGISTRATION June 21-27, 2017

Concerts on the Creek will host The Buchanan Boys (rock/country) at 7 p.m. Friday, June 23, at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. Dashboard Blue (rock/beach) will play on June 30.

Free. 828.586.2155 or www.mountainlovers.com.

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Sean Gaskell will perform his Kora at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday, June 22, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

The Kora is a richly melodic 21-string harp that has been prominent in West African musical culture for 300 years. Some of the traditional songs played on the Kora can be traced back as far as 800 years.

Gaskell will be performing a selection of those songs in addition to his own compositions. Gaskell has studied extensively under Gambian masters. He has been featured at musical festivals in the United States, Gambia and Senegal. He has released two albums.

The 4 p.m. performance will be present-

• Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host Marshall Ballew (Americana/folk) June 23, Troy Underwood (singer-songwriter) June 30 and The Andrew Chastain Band (Americana) July 1. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. There will also be a “Bluegrass Jam with Heidi” at 6 p.m. on Tuesdays. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

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• Bogart’s Restaurant & Tavern (Waynesville) will host Eddie Rose & Highway 40 (bluegrass) June 22 and Carolina Catskins (bluegrass) June 29. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m.

• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will host Dulci Ellenberger & Kevin Williams (piano/guitar) June 23, The Jazz Cats June 24, Hope Griffin Duo (guitar/cello) June 30 and Joe Cruz (piano/pop) July 1. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• Concerts on the Creek (Sylva) will host The Buchanan Boys (rock/country) June 23 and Dashboard Blue (rock/beach) June 30 in Bridge Park. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 828.586.2155 or www.mountainlovers.com.

• Concerts on the Square (Hayesville) will host Lee Holland (jazz/standards) June 23 and Wyatt Espalin Trio (Americana/bluegrass) June 30. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.cccra-nc.org.

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The Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival will host a rare performance of Alfred Lord Tennyson's classic poem, titled “Enoch Arden: A Melodrama,” at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 25, in the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University.

The performance will be set to the virtuosic solo piano music of Richard Strauss performed by George Brown, Dean of WCU's College of Fine and Performing Arts, and pianist William Ransom, the Anna & Hays Mershon Artistic Director of the HighlandsCashiers Chamber Music Festival.

Ticket holders will enjoy wine and cheese at intermission. This event is sponsored by WCU’s Friends of the Arts. Tickets are $35 and include the wine and cheese reception.

Limited seating is available.

For further information, visit bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or call 828.227.ARTS. Tickets are available online, over the phone, and in person at the WCU Bardo Arts Center box office, located at 199 Centennial Drive in Cullowhee.

• Currahee Brewing (Franklin) will host The Blacktop Laurels (Americana/folk) June 24 and The Maggie Valley Band (Americana/mountain) July 1. Shows are free and begin at 7:30 p.m. www.curraheebrew.com.

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The Strand welcomes Unspoken Tradition Popular Western North Carolina bluegrass act Unspoken Tradition will perform at 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 1, at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville.

“Our music is an expression of who we are as people and a culture. I don’t think you can really ever lose that,” said mandolinist Ty Gilpin. “If there’s a need to actively preserve and perpetuate it, then it would be for the same reasons you preserve and perpetuate any part of your culture from the way you cook food, gather together or worship. All these things are not just what we do, but who we are. A big part of our identity as people of this region is our music identity. I think we have a strong one, and one of the best around.”

Tickets are $18 per person and can be purchased at www.38main.com. For more information on the band, visit www.unspokentradition.com.

(Americana/rock) June 30 at The Village Green. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.visitcashiersvalley.com.

• Guadalupe Café (Sylva) will host Folks’ Songs (world/fusion) from 7 to 9 p.m. on Fridays. Free.

• The Cut Cocktail Lounge (Sylva) will host Saint Christopher & The Devil’s Cut at 8 p.m. July 2. There also is an open mic night at 8 p.m. on Mondays. All welcome. 828.631.4795.

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• Heinzelmannchen Brewery (Sylva) will have live music and a potluck from 6 to 8 p.m. June 22 and 29. www.yourgnometownbrewery.com.

• Derailed Bar & Lounge (Bryson City) will have music at 7 p.m. on Saturdays.

828.488.8898.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night June 21 and 28, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo June 22 and 29. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Friday Night Live (Highlands) will host Silly Ridge Round Up (Americana/mountain) June 23 and Southern Highlands (bluegrass) June 30. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Troy Underwood (singer-songwriter) June 23, Somebody’s Child (Americana) June 24, Marc Keller (acoustic) at 2 p.m. July 1 and Brothers Gillespie (Americana/rock) July 1.

All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Groovin’ on the Green (Cashiers) will host Rockell Scott (jazz/soul) June 23 and Andalyn

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host and open mic night at 7 p.m. June 22 and 29.

828.349.2337 or www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• The Macon County Public Library (Franklin) will host a “Musicians of North Carolina Showcase” with DJ Justin Moe at 5:15 p.m.

June 23. Free and open to the public.

• Music on the River (Cherokee) will host Eastern Blues Band (jazz/blues) June 23, Stereospread (techno) June 24, Robert Wolfe & The Renegades (country) June 30 and Trippin’ Hardie Band (acoustic) July 1 on the Oconaluftee River Stage. All shows are free

and begin at 7 p.m. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

• Nantahala Brewing Company (Bryson City) will host Rick Rushing & The Blues Strangers June 23 and The Get Right Band (rock/soul) June 24. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• No Name Sports Pub (Sylva) will host Chris Monteith (karaoke) June 23 and The Fumblebuckers (psychedelic/bluegrass) June 24. All shows are free and begin at 9:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nonamesportspub.com.

• The Oconaluftee Visitor Center (Cherokee) will host a back porch old-time music jam from 1 to 3 p.m. July 1. All are welcome to come play or simply sit and listen to sounds of Southern Appalachia.

• Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) will host Michael Reno Harrell (singer-songwriter) with Conrad & Donnie (Americana) June 24 and Moonshine Creek (country) July 1. All shows are free and begin at 7:30 p.m. www.townoffranklinnc.com.

• The Rendezvous (Maggie Valley) will host Stone Crazy (rock/pop) 3 p.m. June 25, MojoMatic 6 p.m. June 30, Third Wheel 6 p.m. July 1 and Caribbean Cowboys (beach/pop) 3 p.m. July 2.

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• Saturdays on Pine (Highlands) will host Andalyn (Americana) June 24 and Beau & Luci (Americana) July 1. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• The Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts (Franklin) will host Mountain Voices (classic/pop) at 7 p.m. June 29. For tickets, visit www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 828.524.1598.

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

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• Sneak E Squirrel Brewing (Sylva) will host line dancing every Friday at 7 p.m. and contra dancing every other Friday at 8 p.m.

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• Southern Porch (Canton) will host Keil Smith & Randy Mason June 22, The Fumblebuckers (psychedelic/bluegrass) June 23, Bobby G (singersongwriter) June 27 and 3000 Souls July 1. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.southern-porch.com.

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

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Cashiers) will host Lyric (soul/rock) July 7. All shows begin at 9 p.m.

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• Tunes on the Tuck (Bryson City) will host Twelfth Fret (Americana/folk) June 24 and Chris Monteith (Elvis impersonator) July 1 at Riverfront Park. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Highlands) will host Log Noggins (Americana) June 24 and Lyric (soul/rock) July 8. All shows begin at 9:30 p.m.

• The Waynesville Public Library will host Rob McHale (Americana/folk) at 3 p.m. June 24.

Free. www.haywoodarts.org.

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• Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host Scoundrels Lounge June 23, Hustle Souls June 24 and The Zuzu Welsh Band June 30. All shows begin at 9:30 p.m.

• Western Carolina University (Cullowhee) will host Donald Hughes, who will present an illustrated lecture on British “song catcher” Cecil Sharp and his travels through Southern Appalachia. The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. June 27 at the HFR Auditorium on the WCU campus. www.wcu.edu.

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• Waynesville Pizza Company will have an open mic night at 7 p.m. June 26. Free and open to the public. 828.246.0927 or www.waynesvillepizza.com.

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National exhibit comes to Sylva Library

Code talker Thomas H. Begay and his wife Nonabah Begay who were interviewed as part of the Native Voices exhibit.

A new traveling exhibition, Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness, which examines concepts of health and medicine among contemporary American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people is opening at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

A special opening ceremony will kick off the exhibit on at 6 p.m. Friday, June 23. Tom Belt will speak about the holistic idea of Tohi. The Tohi approach integrates physical, mental, and spiritual interventions into a wellness package: three legs of a stool.

The traveling exhibition, produced by the National Library of Medicine, explores the connection between wellness, illness, and cultural life through a combination of interviews with Native people, artwork, objects, and interactive media. The exhibition will be open to the public from June 23 to July 31.

The National Library of Medicine has a history of working with Native communities as part of the Library’s commitment to make health information resources accessible to people no matter where they live or work.

The Native Voices exhibition concept grew out of meetings with Native leaders in Alaska, Hawaii and the Lower 48.

“We hope that visitors in communities across the country will learn from the ideas, practices, and traditions shared here,” said Betsy L. Humphreys, acting director of the

National Library of Medicine. “We hope, too, that those who host the exhibition will enrich it by including additional content and programs that reflect their local Native culture and history.”

“This exhibition honors the Native tradition of oral history and establishes a unique collection of information,” said Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, director emeritus of the National Library of Medicine. “We hope visitors will find Native Voices both educational and inspirational, and we hope Native people will view it with pride.”

The Jackson County Public Library will provide Cherokee-centric programming along with the exhibit. Some of the speakers lending their expertise to Native Voices will be Sarah Sneed, Julie Reed, and Vickie Bradley.

“It is truly an honor for the Jackson County Public Library to win the grant to receive the Native Voices exhibit. We are the first library of our size to host the exhibit.

This year Native Voices is going to Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Sylva. We really hope the community will come out to both support and learn from this amazing opportunity,” said JCPL Adult Services Supervisor and Native Voices Project Director Benjamin Woody.

For more information, go to www.fontanalib.org or call JCPL at 828.586.2016.

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The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ 42th annual POW WOW will be held June 30-July 2 at the Acquoni Expo Center.

The event features world-champion dancers and drums competing for prizes.

Vendors from across the country will offer food and arts and crafts items.

Dance competitions are open to participants in five groups and several categories including Traditional, Grass, Fancy, Straight, Jingle and Buckskin. There will also be Northern and Southern Singing prizes and a Hand Drum special. Age groups include “Golden Age� contestants (age 50+), men and women (age 18-49), teens (13-17), Junior (6-12), and tiny tots (under age 5). Specials include Men’s Fancy and Straight, Women’s Jingle, Old Style Fancy Shawl, Cowboy/girl and two Junior specials.

The Pow Wow opens at 5 p.m. Friday, June 30, with a grand entry at 7 p.m. The event continues at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 1, with the grand entry at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Gates open at noon Sunday, July 2, with grand entry at 1 p.m.

Tickets are $12 per person (cash only).

For more information, call 828.497.7128 or 828.399.0835 or visit www.visitcherokeenc.com.

Bonfires, storytelling in Cherokee The Cherokee Bonfire & Storytelling will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 28 at the Oconaluftee Islands Park. Sit by a bonfire, alongside a river, and listen to some of Cherokee’s best storytellers. The bonfire is free and open to the public. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

‘Mind Over Wine’ WOW fundraiser The Women of Waynesville (WOW) will present the “Mind Over Wine� fundraiser from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 13, at the Cork & Cleaver in the Waynesville Inn Resort.

Alongside food and wine pairings, entertainment will be provided by “Reality Twisting: The Magic of Dr. Brett Senor,� a mentalist. Proceeds from the event go to the ongoing community efforts of WOW, which focuses on helping local women and children. $25 per person. 828.550.9978 or visit www.womenofwaynesville.org.

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Get on the craft beer, bbq train

The “BBQ & Brews Dinner Train” will depart at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 1, from the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad depot in Bryson City.

Enjoy the ride along with slow-cooked BBQ prepared fresh and beer tastings showcasing local breweries. Tickets start at $69 and include a souvenir tasting glass for three samples of finely crafted beer selections.

Adults-only and family friendly seating.

For tickets, call 800.872.4681 or visit www.gsmr.com.

• The Summer Speaker Series will host Ed Kilbourne on Sunday, June 25, at Long's Chapel United Methodist Church in Waynesville. Kilbourne will be speaking at the morning worship, with a concert at 4 p.m.

Kilbourne is a singer, storyteller, humorist, and folk-theologian who is widely-known and appreciated for his gifts of combining music and spiritual teaching in worship and concert settings. He grew up in China, Japan, and Korea where his parents served as missionaries. He has served as a United Methodist minister in the Atlanta area. The series is free and open to the public.

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• The “Thunder in the Smokies” motorcycle rally will be June 30-July 2 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Bike games/show, live music, cruises, and more. $20 weekend pass. Discount tickets available. www.thunderinthesmokies.com.

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• The Cut Cocktail Lounge (Sylva) will host a superhero costume party with tacos and chili on June 25. All welcome. 828.631.4795.

• The “Speak to the Mountain” car show will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 23-24 at the Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds. Free event, donations welcome. www.greatsmokies.com.

• There will be a free wine tasting from 1 to 5 p.m. June 24 and July 1 at Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville. www.waynesvillewine.com or 828.452.0120.

• Free cooking demonstrations will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturdays at Country Traditions in Dillsboro. Watch the demonstrations, eat samples and taste house wines for $3 a glass. All recipes posted online. www.countrytraditionsnc.com.

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Listeners can find BPR programming on the radio, www.bpr.org, and the BPR and NPR One apps. BPR and its translator stations serve more than 400,000 people in 13 counties.

Blue Ridge Public Radio is funded by its listeners and local businesses and organizations. It is governed by an 18-member volunteer Board of Directors, with input from its Community Forum.

Photographs accepted for the competition should be delivered to the Swain Arts Center on Aug. 12. The Photography Competition Judging and Reception will be held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, at the Swain Arts Center in Bryson City.

Prizes are: First Place, $200 and invitation to display photographs at Gallery Zella in Bryson City. Second Place, $100.

Third Place, $50. Two Honorable Mention Awards will be given. These photographers will be invited to participate in future exhibits at the Swain Arts Center.

For additional information, contact Rachel Lackey, director of the Swain Arts Center.

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The Swain Arts Center will host its first Open Juried Photography Competition on Aug. 19.

The theme is “Nature Photography.” Submissions should be made online no later than July 17 (jpg format). Participants will be notified on July 22 if their submissions have been accepted for the competition.

The submission fee is $15 per single entry. If you submit four or more images, the fee is $60. The application is available at www.swainartscenter.com.

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lue Ridge Public Radio (BPR) continues to invest in the development of local programming and content with the hiring of Matt Peiken as the NPR station’s first Arts Producer.

Peiken, whose entire journalism career has concentrated in covering arts and culture, will produce segments for “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered,” and will develop a range of digital elements for lBPR’s web and mobile platforms. He’ll also elay the groundwork for a new, weekly arts nand performance showcase for BPR. Earlier in his career, Peiken spent 10 dyears at the St. Paul Pioneer Press in -Minnesota writing profiles, opinion 9columns, and trend stories on visual, literary eand performing arts. At WCPO Television in .Cincinnati, Ohio, he produced videos and created podcasts for WCPO.com about area tartists and cultural events. Returning to Minnesota, he created an independent online arts television series, “3-Minute Egg,” which he expanded into a weekly broadcast series on Twin Cities Public Television.

Peiken has served as a regional editor for Patch.com, part of a national network of hyperlocal news sites. He was also the Managing Editor of the Walker Magazine, the bimonthly publication of the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis.

Blue Ridge Public Radio General Manager and CEO David Feingold said, “We like Matt’s willingness to take chances. Last year he experimented with a weekly, hourlong talk show interviewing Twin Cities artists from his car and video streaming it over Facebook Live.”

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On the wall • Acclaimed Bryson City painter Elizabeth Ellison’s newest exhibit, “Spirit of Place,” will run through Sept.

4 at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville. Exhibit support is provided by The North Carolina Arboretum Society and Smoky Mountain Living magazine. www.smliv.com.

Stecoah Drive-About Tour The annual “Stecoah Arts & Crafts Drive About Tour” will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 23-24 in Bryson City, Stecoah and Robbinsville.

With their studios open to the public, the self-guided driving tour highlights artisans who have built a livelihood with their creative talents. Media include pottery, bee’s wax lanterns and pillar candles, original paintings and drawings, fiber, quilts, photography, artisan cheeses and more.

The tour includes the Charles Heath Gallery, Pincu Pottery, Sawmill Creek Pottery, Wild Fern Studios & Gallery, Bee Global Studio Gallery, Stecoah Artisans Gallery, Junk N’Style, Southwestern Community College (Nantahala School for the Arts), Yellow Branch Pottery & Cheese, Cottage Craftsman, Wehrloom Honey & Essentials and Taylor’s Greenhouse The Schoolhouse Café at Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center will be open during both days of the Artisans Drive About. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

• “Paint Nite Waynesville” will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville.

There will also be “Painting at the Porch” at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Southern Porch in Canton. Sign up for either event on the Paint Night Waynesville Facebook page (search event: Brush N. Brew) or call Robin Smathers at 828.400.9560. paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

• There will be a “Thursday Painters Open Studio” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. at the Franklin Uptown Gallery. Bring a bag lunch, project and supplies. Free to the public. Membership not required. The gallery will also present “Art Adventures,” a hands-on demonstration creating textures with Carol Conti, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 21. For information, call 828.349.4607.

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• A “Paint & Sip” workshop will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Friday, June 30, at Gallery Zella in Bryson City. $50 per person, which includes materials.

Instructor is Jon Houglum, known as one of the area’s best oil painters. Also on June 30, the gallery will have a “Meet the Artist” reception from 3 to 7 p.m. with painter Jon Houglum and photographer Drew Campbell, which is free and open to the public.

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

• “Movies on Everett” will screen the film “The Fugitive” at 8:30 p.m. Friday, June 23, at the Caboose in downtown Bryson City. The June 30 film will be “Captain America.” Free and open to the public. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Dogwood Crafters will be host a jewelry making class from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, June 27, at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge. Judy Wilkey will lead the class. Participants will be making a bracelet. Beads will be provided. Cost of the class is $6. 828.586.2248.

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Highlands Village Square Art & Craft Show The Highlands Village Square Art & Craft Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 23-24 in the Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park in downtown.

Local and regional artisans, live music, demonstrations, food, and more. Admission is free. Sponsored by the Rotary of Highlands Mountaintop.

For more information, call 828.787.2021.

Mountain Artisans showcase The 28th annual Mountain Artisans “Summertime“ Arts & Crafts Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 24-25 in

the Ramsey Center at Western Carolina University.

Over 60 local artisans. This year’s show will include heritage demonstrations featuring quilting, spinning and glass blowing. Live music by Ronnie Evans.

Admission is $4.50 for adults with children under 12 free. Concessions available and free convenient parking. www.mountainartisans.net.

Gallery show celebrates sharing This year marks the fifth year of the Haywood County Arts Council’s (HCAC) “ArtShare” exhibit at its Gallery & Gifts showroom in downtown Waynesville.

“ArtShare” is a showing of fine works of art which have been donated to or consigned

with the HCAC. The HCAC welcomes pieces from collectors that may be downsizing, changing décor, or who wish to consign estate items to benefit the arts in this community.

“ArtShare” was born out of a desire to allow collectors to be able to pass on art for someone else to enjoy.

The HCAC will accept donations or consigned items in the gallery beginning July 11, though inventory sheets may be turned in prior. Inventory sheets are due no later than July 21. Even if collectors have participated in the past, we encourage them to participate again. Artists may participate by sharing their own work, but only if donating. If you have questions, please email Tom Irwin at 33rockyknob@gmail.com or call the HCAC at 828.452.0593. “ArtShare” runs from Aug. 4-26.

More information about donating, including show contracts and inventory lists, can be found at www.haywoodarts.org.

Front Street a success Wonderful blue skies, great entertainment and over 60 multi-talented artisans brought out more than 3,000 people to Front Street Arts & Crafts Show on Saturday, June 17, in Dillsboro.

The first of three 2017 festivals produced by the Dillsboro Merchants Association, Front Street Arts & Crafts Show filled not only Front Street, but also Church Street as well, increasing vendor participation, thereby providing a much larger selection of arts and crafts. Dillsboro merchants also reported an upturn in business during the festival.

The second 2017 Dillsboro festival, Summer Arts & Crafts Market, is scheduled for Aug. 19, with vendor booths booked to capacity. Vendor booths for ColorFest on Oct. 7 are going fast. www.visitdillsboro.org.

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Leslie Jones at Harrah’s Saturday Night Live member and blockbuster film actress Leslie Jones will do a stand-up comedy special at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 1, at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort.

Jones is a national headliner.

She's been performing since 1987 and since then has toured with Katt Williams, appeared on BET, HBO's Def Comedy Jam, Showtime, and more. A product of LA's improv theatre scene, Jones appeared in the 2010 movie "Lottery Ticket," has been a cast member of Saturday Night Live since 2014 and starred in the 2016 reboot of “Ghostbusters.�

Tickets start at $18.25 per person. For tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com or call 800.745.3000.

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• The Smoky Mountain Community Theatre will hold open auditions for "An Agatha Christie Mystery" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 27 and Thursday, June 29, at the theatre in Bryson City. Adult male and female roles are available. A set crew is also needed.

The play will be held in October. For information, call 828.508.6645 or 828.488.8227. The theatre is located at 134 Main Street in Bryson City.

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The Unto These Hills stage production will be held at 8 p.m. Monday-Saturday through Aug. 19 at the Mountainside Theater in Cherokee.

This acclaimed outdoor drama traces the Cherokee people through the eons, through the zenith of their power, through the heartbreak of the Trail of Tears, finally ending, appropriately, in the present day, where the Cherokee people, much like their newly re-scripted drama, continue to rewrite their place in the world...a place based on traditional Cherokee values and modern sensibilities.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.cherokeehistorical.org.

A dinner theatre of the musical “The Fantasticks� will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. June 22-24, 29-30 and July 1 (with dinner buffet at 6 p.m.) and 2 p.m. June 25 and July 2 (with a brunch buffet at 12:30 p.m.) at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

The musical is an allegorical story, loosely based on the play “The Romancers� (“Les Romanesques�) by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who manipulate their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by building a wall between their gardens, and pretending to feud. The fathers hire a “professional abductor� and traveling actors to stage a mock abduction in the hopes that Matt may “save� Luisa heroically, in turn ending the supposed feud.

When the two children unveil the fathers’ deception, they reject their arranged love and separate. In their separation the children see

the world for what it really is, in parallel sequences of fantasy. On their return, they renew their vows in their newfound maturity.

Tickets are $46 for adults, $44 for seniors and $30 for students. Side stage table for four is $224 and a side stage table for two is $112.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.harttheatre.org or call 828.456.6322.

June 21-27, 2017

Kids ages 10-17 of Haywood and surrounding counties have an opportunity to experience Shakespeare up close and personal from June 26-30 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville. “We are extremely fortunate to have a faculty of experienced professionals,â€? said Artistic Director of Kids at HART Shelia Sumpter. • Jonathan Ray, visiting artist, grew up at Flat Rock Playhouse, where he discovered his love for theater. He now teaches in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Appalachian State University. He has led Shakespearean performance workshops all over the region for both schools and teacher training. A graduate of Western Carolina University, he holds an MFA in Drama from UNC-Greensboro. Since studying classical performance in the Shakespeare Lives! program at UNC School of the Arts and Shakespeare’s Globe of London, he has performed in and directed nearly two dozen Shakespearean productions. For the past 20 years, he has served as co-director for the Green Room Summer Institute in Newton, North Carolina. • David Anthony Yeates was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, where he obtained his Higher National Diploma in Theatre and

Performing Arts from Colaiste Dhulaigh in 2012. After graduation, he moved to London to further his training in acting. For four years he continued to work in theatre and television in both Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Yeates moved to America last April and is now on staff at HART. For more information or to register, contact HART at 828.456.6322 or go to the HART webpage for more information and to download a registration form. www.harttheatre.org.

HART presents ‘The Fantasticks’

If you have already submitted your application, it will be considered active for 6 months from pplication. To To qualify, applicants must be 21 years or older (18-21 years eligible the date of ap for non-gamin ng positions), must successfully pass an RIAH hair/drug test and undergo an investigation by Tribal Gaming Commission. Preference for Tribal members. This property t Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, managed by Caesars Entertainment. is owned by the The Ta Talent Ac cquisition Department accepts applications Mon. - Thur. from 8am - 4:30pm.

Call 828.497..8778, or send resume to the Ta Talent Acquisition Department, 777 Casino Drive, Cherokee, NC C 28719 or fax resume to 828.497.8540.

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Music from inside the Great Pyramid

Thomas Crowe

Looking for something unique and different? Then I’ve got something for you.

Stephanie Quinn, who is a musician and classical music composer and a former resident of Cullowhee now residing in Asheville, has just released a music CD that is unlike anything you’re likely to have heard before.

Mastered and restored by legendary music industry producer Tom Spahn in New York and housed in a professionallydesigned package, Stephanie Quinn’s Writer debut Western North Carolina offering is stunning. So, where has this musician/artist Stephanie Quinn and this amazing recording been hiding?

In 1985 when jazz flutist Paul Horn released his unique album “Inside the Great Pyramid,” I was one of that recording’s biggest fans. But Stephanie Quinn has taken what Horn did back then and with “Saqqara Suite” has taken it to another level. The quality and resonance of her siren-like vocals and her violin improvisations combined with the reverb-like acoustics of the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid in Giza is mesmerizing, hypnotic. With a jaw-dropping package cover image of Quinn standing beneath the Sphinx, if this recording had been released when she actually recorded this session back in 1987 (only two years after Horn’s session in the pyramid), it would have secured her career and made her a New Age indie jazz superstar.

Be that as it may, we’re lucky to have it now and to experience the digital remix of this amazing “concert.”

In the cover notes to this CD Quinn writes: “I met Fadel Gad, noted Egyptologist and archeologist, in 1986. He escorted me to the stone and steel entrance to the Great Pyramid and locked me inside for my safety. I then

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crawled through the tunnels to reach the King’s Chamber. This is where I recorded the solo version of Saqqara Suite. The unique acoustics supported the musical expression of my feelings. I experienced a deep stillness that expanded beyond my body until I was playing the pyramid as my instrument.”

Sometimes magic happens when one least expects it, and some kind of magic clearly happened in 1987 when Stephanie Quinn was sitting that day inside that ancient room in Egypt with all the parts and all the elements coming together and creating a haunting yet

celebratory experience. Now, we, too, can have that experience due to the recent release of “Saqqara Suite.”

If there is one bit of criticism I would add to all the accolades above, it would be a comment about the editing of the CD itself. Had I been the producer of this CD I’d have kept the recent locally-recorded ensemble pieces and the 1987 Great Pyramid solo pieces separate.

Would have made two separate CDs. While the ensemble pieces here are first class, they are not truly compatible with the inside-thepyramid tracks, which are clearly the stars of

this CD. The solo tracks by themselves would have made a big splash in the music industry and in the eyes and ears of the public. But this one small oversight in terms of production and marketing aside, Stephanie Quinn has delivered to us a winner. Something as rare as a Hope Diamond in a world practically devoid of such gems.

Stephanie Quinn is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, studied at Julliard, has performed with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Spoleto, Italy, and at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She is a member of the Asheville Area Piano Forum, plays with the Asheville Symphony, Hendersonville Symphony, Brevard Philharmonic and is a voice, piano and violin teacher. She currently lives in Asheville. Hard copies and downloads of her CD can be purchased on CDBaby, iTunes and Amazon music. For more information see her website at www.stephaniequinn.com and she can be reached at quinnmusic@stephaniequinn.com.

City Lights story time

Rosalind Bunn will host a special story time at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 24, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Bunn teaches at East Side Elementary in Marietta, Georgia. She has three grown children and a new grandson. Bunn has co-authored three children’s books with a dear friend, Kathleen Howard. Her newest book, Thunder & a Lightning Bug Named Lou, is illustrated by Angela C. Hawkins and was released in December 2016. Her other titles are Whose Shadow Do I See?, The Monsters Three, Sophie May and the Shoe Untying Fairy, and The Butter Bean Lady.

To reserve copies of her books, call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

ALSO:

• Author Monica Collier will present her newest work, Kissing Hollywood, at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 24, at Books Unlimited in Franklin.

• The “Let’s Talk About It” book series will discuss Letters of a Woman Homesteader from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, June 22, at the Waynesville Public Library. Julie Cartner will lead the discussion. Refreshments to be served.

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Above it all Fryingpan hike offers vast views, diverse plant life

The mountains stretch out below 70-foot Fryingpan Mountain Lookout Tower. Holly Kays photos

Ranger C.M. Garrison leads the way up the trail.

Explore the Parkway Ranger-led programs are starting up for 2017, offering plenty of opportunity to get to know the North Carolina portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway — and the plants and animals that live there. n Ranger-guided hikes are offered at 10 a.m. each Friday at various locations along the Parkway. n An evening campfire featuring a ranger-led informational program will blaze at 7:30 p.m.

Saturdays at Mount Pisgah Campground. n Rangers will hang out at various Parkway overlooks from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays, beginning June 24, to talk to visitors about animals’ and plants adaptations, offering activities for all ages.

Programs will continue through the end of September, with times and availability changing in October.

Confirm program locations and start times at www.nps.gov/blri or 828.298.5330, ext. 304.

Spiderwort blooms alongside the trail.

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER t’s just a short walk from the Blue Ridge Parkway to Fryingpan Tower — 1.5 miles roundtrip — but in a season when wildflowers abound and the ecological intricacies of mountain life are on full display, a curious person could spend hours exploring.

Especially when accompanied by someone who’s full of the knowledge and stories to explain it all. Someone like a Blue Ridge Parkway ranger, two of whom were out last week to lead a group of 25 locals and tourists on a summertime ramble.

Bushes of blooming mountain laurel, pinxter azalea and flame azalea bordered the entrance, the Parkway’s signature welcome

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committee. Further in, purple spiderwort sprayed the trailside, along with blackberries, black-eyed Susans and an ever-expanding list of wildflowers.

Halfway up, ranger C.M. Garrison paused by an azalea bush that looked like it was having a harder season than its cousin down near the trailhead. It was covered with galls, bulging growths caused by a fungus.

The galls don’t harm the plant too much, Garrison explained. And in fact, some local lore holds that the things are edible, loaded with water and therefore great survival foods.

However, others point out that they feed on azaleas, which are known to be poisonous, so eating the galls wouldn’t be safe.

Garrison recently got curious enough,

Ash borer found in Asheville

Step into sustainability A workshop teaching a zero-waste, plastic-free, healthy way of living will be offered at 2 p.m.

Thursday, June 29, at the Waynesville Public Library.

Tatia Elizabeth Childers, a simple solutions specialist, will help participants discover alternatives to single-use, disposable products; learn how marketers convince people to think they need things they don’t; determine if there is a more sustainable choice to any given product; and take advantage of how-to, hands-on, discounted demonstrations at home or in the workplace.

Free. Sponsored by Friends of the Library.

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es of land and wonder what went on there, and you kind of wonder what it was like to be an observer at a fire tower, what that job would entail.”

Fox got a little taste of that life in the 1990s, when she worked as a summer seasonal ranger on a fire tower out west.

“Wouldn’t you know, some clouds start rolling in and a storm starts to form, and it starts to get really dark and it starts downpour raining,” Fox recounted for the group.

“And then the lightning came. I was on the top of a mountain in the top of a fire tower in the most intense lightning storm I think I’ve ever been in.”

It was terrifying, but the storm passed quickly, and soon she was back to work — scanning the horizon for any sign of smoke.

Climbing the steps of Fryingpan on a sunny day, it’s hard to imagine the wind and lightning and rain of a powerful mountain storm, or the solitude of life at the top before the Blue Ridge Parkway offered such easy access. But seeing the view and appreciating the beauty of the vast landscape — that part is pretty easy.

An ongoing volunteer opportunity offers the chance to get an up-close look at the songbirds of Western North Carolina, with volunteers needed to help scientists collect data throughout the summer.

Dates remaining for this summer are: n Cowee Mound in Macon County: June 25,

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however, to give it a try.

While no ill effects ensued, Garrison said, “It didn’t taste good. I’ll say that I’d have to be mighty desperate to have one of those again.”

Moving on, the trail stretched under trees housing birds and — possibly — the adorable but elusive Carolina northern flying squirrel before climbing uphill toward the hike’s end, a meadowed summit marked with various communications towers and, most notably, the 70-foot Fryingpan Mountain Lookout Tower. Built in 1941, it’s the tallest U.S. Forest Service lookout tower in Western North Carolina, a steel structure sitting atop 5,340-foot Fryingpan Mountain. Though it’s now unmanned, the enclosed room at the top was once home to a solitary soul tasked with keeping watch over the broad mountain views and reporting any wildfires in the making.

“I like how the shadows play on the land,” said David Dick, who joined the hike while on vacation from his home in Cleveland, Ohio. “The overcast is as beautiful as the sunshine. I notice different patch-

Meet a wild bird

July 5, July 14, July 23, Aug. 2. n Kituwah Mound in Swain County: June 26, July 7, July 17, July 26, Aug. 4. n Welch Farm in Clay County: June 27, July 8, July 22, July 30, Aug. 8. n Big Bald Banding Station in Madison County: July 1, July 13, July 21, July 29, Aug. 6.

Sampling runs from 6 a.m. to noon each day, with volunteers welcome for any or all of that timeframe. Dates are subject to change based on weather, so RSVPs are important.

Directions to banding locations are on the SARR website.

In addition to hosting individual volunteers, SARR also does free educational programs by request at its data collection sites.

SARR’s breeding bird monitoring work is funded by Mainspring Conservation Trust through a grant from the Cherokee Preservation Foundation. Other sponsors of the work include the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Franklin Bird Club and the Highlands Plateau Audubon Society.

Mark Hopey, 828.736.1217 or bigbaldbanding@gmail.com. www.bigbaldbanding.org.

June 21-27, 2017

A new nationwide outreach program will bring NASA resources to Western North Carolina, with the Fontana Regional Library selected as one of 75 libraries in the U.S. to participate.

As a NASA@ My Library partner, Fontana Regional Library staff will get specialized training, and the library will get

support for public programs on STEM topics as well as activity kits and materials.

NASA subject experts will also be available as program presenters.

To be selected, Fontana went through a competitive application process from a pool of more than 500 applicants to participate in the 18-month project with an opportunity to extend for an additional two years. www.fontanalib.org.

The future of the world’s only remaining wild red wolf population will be decided following a public comment period ending July 24.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service held two public hearings on the matter in the eastern part of the state, where the red wolves live in a five-county area.

The wolves have been the subject of controversy for years, with the Fish and Wildlife Service deciding in September 2016 that wild red wolf populations could recover only if “significant changes” were made to the program. The plan called for capturing most of the population and concentrating efforts on bolstering captive red wolf populations, with the Fish and Wildlife Service to determine more suitable reintroduction locations by October 2017. A federal judge later ordered a halt to the plan when environmental groups filed a lawsuit against it.

Comment online at www.regulations.gov/document?D=FWS-R4ES-2017-0006-0001.

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antined areas such as South Carolina or The emerald ash borer has made it to central Tennessee.

Asheville, with its arrival to Craftsman Circle providing the first evidence of ash trees under attack Emerald ash borer. Donated photo in city limits.

Emerald ash borer is an invasive insect from Asia that has decimated ash populations across the country, with the tiny insects laying eggs whose larvae then feed on the living tissue underneath the bark, resulting in the tree’s slow death.

This is the third sighting in Buncombe County, with the insect already found in 25 North Carolina counties including For more information, visit www.emerGraham, Madison and Swain. The entire aldashborer.info, and report suspected state is under an emerald ash borer quaraninfestations to the N.C. Forest Health tine, prohibiting movement of ash plant Branch at 1.800.206.9333 or parts, the insect itself, ash nursery stock newpest@ncagr.gov. and all hardwood firewood into non-quar-

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Earn a junior ranger badge Kids wanting to earn their badge will have plenty of chances with a full slate of junior ranger programs offered this summer in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Aspiring rangers 5-12 can pick up a Junior Ranger booklet for $2.50 at any park visitor center, and after completing the activities outlined there they’ll be able to get a bona fide Junior Ranger badge.

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n Explore the damp, dark world of the park’s most popular amphibian with “Slimy Salamanders,” a two-hour program offered at 10 a.m. Sundays on Mingus Creek Trail.

Kids will get a little wet and even dirty as the search ensues. Close-toed shoes recommended. n Learn about the history of elk through show and tell, and stick around to watch them come into the fields during the evening with a 45-minute program on Smoky Mountain elk, 5:30 p.m. Sundays at the Palmer House in Cataloochee Valley. n Wade through a mountain stream in search of aquatic critters with Stream Splashers, offered 2 p.m. Mondays at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center. Lasts two hours. n Help feed the pigs and chickens at 6:30 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Mountain Farm Museum, with the 45-minute “Feeding Time” program. The museum is next to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center. n Learn about the creatures of the night with a one-hour after-dark hike, starting at 8:45 p.m. Mondays and Saturdays at the Bradley Fork Trailhead, located in

Bring wildlife education to school Educators interested in getting more wildlife into the school building can get help from Mountain Wildlife Outreach, which helps schools and organizations experience exciting wildlife education programs from a variety of skilled presenters.

Over the last year, Mountain Wildlife reached more than 2,000 students and adults, with major Earth Day programs in Highlands,

Smokemont Campground. Registration is required at 828.497.1904. n Eyes and ears are a ranger’s most important tools for observing the world around them, and kids will get to test their skills during the one-hour Junior Ranger Explorer program offered at 10 a.m. Tuesdays from the Oconaluftee River Trailhead. n Learn how fire can help nature and why putting out a campfire is important during the one-hour “But I Don’t Wanna!” program offered at 1 p.m. Tuesdays, meeting under the maple tree below the Oconaluftee Visitor Center porch. n Chat with a ranger about what makes the Smokies special with a 45-minute porch program starting at 11 a.m. Wednesdays on the Oconaluftee Visitor Center porch.

Topics vary. n Step back in time with a hands-on demonstration of Cherokee-style pottery during a one-hour program offered at 11 a.m. Thursdays at the Collins Creek Picnic Area. Participants will make their own piece of pottery. Reservations required with 828.497.1904. Call up to four days in advance. No program Aug. 10. n Learn how to think like a scientist during a one-hour exploration of the Oconaluftee River Trail at 1:30 p.m.

Thursdays at the Oconaluftee River Trailhead. No program Aug. 10. n Find out what life in the Smokies would have been like 100 years ago during the onehour “Mountain Traditions” program, offered at 3 p.m. Thursdays on the Oconaluftee Visitor Center porch. Learn about the traditions of year past and how some have continued into the present. No program Aug. 10. n A blacksmithing program for kids 10-12 will give them a chance to see how the craft works and bring home an item of their own creation. Offered on the half-hour from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Fridays at the Mountain Farm Museum next to Oconaluftee Visitor Center. n Find out what kids did for fun before video games and iPads with “Batteries Not Included,” offered on the half-hour from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Fridays at the Mountain Farm Museum. Open to all ages, with each half-hour featuring a different game.

All programs run through Aug. 12.

Adults must accompany children to all activities.

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Franklin, Cashiers and Asheville reaching more than 1,200 students.

Funding is provided by Mountain Wildlife Days’ Silent Auction, which is part of the annual event this year scheduled for July 14-15 at Sapphire Valley Resort. The event includes a variety of wildlife presenters and outdoors excursions.

For information about scheduling outreach programs, contact John Edwards at 828.743.9648 or blackbears66@gmail.com. A full schedule for Mountain Wildlife Days is online at www.mountainwildlifedays.com.

Waterrock Knob is known for its seemingly limitless views. SMN photo

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Nature at night The nighttime side of nature will be on display during a program 9-10 p.m. Thursday, June 29, at the Highlands Biological Station.

During Nocturnal Nature, participants will get a chance to learn about bats, fireflies and other nocturnal creatures while walking through the Highlands Botanical Garden looking for nightlife.

Open to ages 6 and up. $3 per person, with space limited. Register at 828.526.2623.

Waterrock Knob planning begins understand the property’s existing condition, and then land conservancies and community groups will be invited to a stakeholders meeting in September. As planning progresses, there will be opportunity for public comment. The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation will help facilitate conversations with communities and stakeholders towards a comprehensive plan.

The acreage in question was protected by a coalition of environmental organizations over a period of years and then turned over to the Park Service in 2016. The Conservation Fund gave 2,986 acres, The Nature Conservancy gave 1,654 acres, the Conservation Trust for North Carolina gave 370 acres and the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy gave 319 acres.

Monarch butterfly. File photo

Bug out at the Cradle of Forestry Butterflies, bugs and bees will get their due with the Cradle of Forestry in America’s Bug Day and National Pollinator Week Celebration, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 24.

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Planning is underway for the management of 5,329 acres that the Blue Ridge Parkway acquired around Waterrock Knob last year.

Grants from the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership and the Pigeon River Fund at the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina — worth $16,000 apiece, for a total of $32,000 — will fund the planning process, and the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation will help facilitate it, as well as contribute an additional $4,000.

The Asheville-based environmental planning group Equinox is currently working with several groups, including the National Park Service, to create a vision plan. Equinox will gather biological, natural resource and cultural resource data to

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Luna Moth.

Bug hunts will be offered at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., with a short walk on plant-insect interactions at 11:15 a.m. and citizen science opportunities at 2:30 p.m. An enclosed observation beehive will allow visitors to learn about the fascinating lifecycle of these social insects, how honey is made and how to get started as a beekeeper from 1-4 p.m. Other programs will focus on monarch butterflies and the Cradle’s efforts to convert lawn areas into meadows that contain the native plants pollinators need to survive.

Free with general admission of $5 for adults; free for youth under 16. America the Beautiful and Golden Age passes accepted.

The Cradle of Forestry is located along U.S. 276 in the Pisgah National Forest, about 35 miles south of Waynesville. 828.877.3130.

Volleyball tourney on tap

Women’s trip to backpack the Smokies A three-day women’s backpacking trip will explore the Twentymile area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Tuesday, July 18 through Thursday, July 20.

Designed by the Great Smoky Mountains Association in collaboration with naturalist Liz Domingue of Just Get

Outdoors, the adventure will give likeminded women a chance to experience this remote corner of the Smokies.

The hike is rated strenuous due to distance and elevation, and participants should come prepared with their own gear.

Registration is $225 through June 21 and $250 through the registration deadline July 10. Free for GSMA Hemlock members who register by June 21.

Learn more at http://conta.cc/2roxf2t.

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A volleyball tournament will hurtle into Cullowhee Saturday, June 24, at the Jackson County Recreation Park.

Sponsored by the Black Bears Volleyball Club, the Diggin’ The Mountains Grass Volleyball Tournament will offer competition for divisions 13U and 15U. The fee is $45 per team, plus $5 per player not a member of USA Volleyball. Limited to eight teams.

Linda Lunnen, 828.506.4676 or blackbearvb@gmail.com

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Duke funds will help improve fisheries Coldwater fisheries will get a boost thanks to a $95,000 grant that Duke Energy’s Water Resources Fund awarded to Trout Unlimited this year.

The money will allow TU to remove or replace culverts across three headwater streams, reconnect 9 miles of aquatic habitat and eliminate a significant sediment source to these otherwise high-quality waters.

Additionally, the grant will allow TU to leverage $338,000 from other partners to expand coldwater conservation to other sites in the region.

TU is one of 14 organizations in North Carolina and South Carolina to receive a Mark Haskett photo

grant. The grants collectively total more than $1 million. The Water Resources Fund is a $10 million commitment from Duke, with grant applications reviewed by the independent Water Resources Fund committee.

Study catalogues trout fishing’s economic impact A recent study quantifying the economic impact of trout fishing showed that 149,000 trout anglers in North Carolina fished 1.6 million days in 2014, contributing an estimated $383 million to the state’s economy.

The amount includes direct spending on purchases such as fishing equipment and hotel rooms, as well as secondary spending by businesses associated with trout angling and their employees. In addition, 2014 trout fishing supported about 3,593 jobs, the study found.

Titled “Mountain Trout Fishing: Economic Impacts on and Contributions to North Carolina’s Economy,” the study was conducted

by Responsive Management and Southwick Associates. Responsive Management surveyed more than 2,000 anglers to gather data for the study, while Southwick Associates analyzed the economic data. This is the second time the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has funded such a study. The first one, conducted in 2009, was used to develop a comprehensive trout management plan to enhance public fishing opportunities.

Crops grow at the Mountain Farm Museum.

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New fence will protect Smokies museum garden Elk will stay out of the crops at the Mountain Farm Museum following construction of a historically accurate fence funded by a $5,000 Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership grant awarded to Friends of the Smokies.

Elk like to gather in the fields surrounding the museum, which is located next to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in the Great

Held makeover Rainbow Falls

June 21-27, 2017

Volunteers are needed to help rehabilitate the 6-mile Rainbow Falls Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with workdays held every Wednesday 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The Trails Forever Crew, which is completing the rehabilitation, will focus its efforts on several targeted locations along the trail’s length to improve visitor safety and stabilize eroding sections of trail. Rainbow Falls is one of the park’s most popular trails and leads hik-

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Bat populations remain low due to white-nose syndrome Results are back from this year’s winter bat surveys in Western North Carolina, and numbers have remained low following the arrival of white-nose syndrome to the area.

“What we’re seeing now at these sites is WNS’ devastating aftermath,” said mammalogist Katherine Caldwell. “Most sites we surveyed in western North Carolina had over 90 percent declines in bat populations

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Smoky Mountains National Park, but they also like to munch on the crops grown in the demonstration garden. The new “snakestyle” fence will prevent the herd from trampling the garden, allowing visitors to see Cherokee heirloom vegetables, Hickory King corn, broomcorn and sorghum.

The fence was made with locust logs and volunteer labor. ers to Mount Le Conte. The Trails Forever program is a partnership between the park and Friends of the Smokies.

Volunteers will perform a wide range of duties, with tasks varying based on experience level. Jobs include installing drainage features, removing brush and rehabilitating trail surfaces. Volunteers must also be able to hike at least 4 miles and safely perform strenuous, difficult manual labor. Safety gear and equipment will be provided.

RSVP is required. Sign up to help with Adam Monroe, 828.497.1949 or Adam_Monroe@nps.gov.

from their pre-WNS counts, with some declines as high as 99 percent.”

The surveys also found WNS in a new county — in Stokes County, biologists found four bats with visible signs of WNS. WNCS was first documented in North Carolina in February 2011, in Avery County.

Since then, it’s been found in 10 WNC counties. However, the disease is likely present throughout the mountains based on bat decline data. Since it was first seen in the U.S. in 2006, white-nose syndrome has dealt a heavy blow to the populations of cave-hibernating bats in areas where it’s spread.

Bear canisters required on Avery Creek Bear-safe food storage is now mandatory within 1,000 feet of Avery Creek Road following an Emergency Food Storage Order issued June 12.

All food and food-related items must now be stored in a hard-sided bear-resistant canister or in the trunk of a vehicle except when preparing or consuming food. Coolers, boxes, cans, tents, softsided campers and passenger areas of vehicles are not considered bear-resistant.

Avery Creek Road is in the Pisgah Ranger District of the Pisgah National Forest, near Asheville.

The order is in effect through Oct. 5.

WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • The Cashiers Planning Council will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 26, at the Cashiers-Glenville Recreation Department to hear public comments on a proposed amendment to Article VII: General Use Districts concerning sidewalks.

• The Southwestern Commission is seeking a qualified consultant to conduct a community broadband assessment for the seven western counties of N.C. RFP: www.regiona.org. Proposals due: 5 p.m. on July 6. rharris@regiona.org.

•The Cherokee Bonfire & Storytelling will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 28 at the Oconaluftee Islands Park. Sit by a bonfire, alongside a river, and listen to some of Cherokee’s best storytellers. The bonfire is free and open to the public. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

• Nominations for Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Awards are being accepted through Friday, June 30. Nomination letters may be hand-delivered to the Mountain Heritage Center at its new location in the Hunter Library building, Room 240; mailed to Mountain Heritage Center, 1 University Drive, Cullowhee NC 28723; or emailed to pameister@wcu.edu.

• The Jackson County Department of Public Health is seeking input from residents who have used its services or who have thoughts on the health needs of Jackson County. http://health.jacksonnc.org/surveys.

• Cruise in Maggie Valley event is held from 1-5 p.m. every Sunday at 2771 Soco Road. Vendors: $10 per space. Cruising@MaggieValleyAntiques.com.

• Qualla Boundary Historical Society meets at 6:30 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Everyone is welcome.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Registration is underway for a summer institute for educators that will be offered July 10-14 at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. 40-hour, interdisciplinary course on Cherokee archaeology, history, anthropology, geography, folklore and literature. 497.3481, ext 306, bduncan@cherokeemuseum.org or www.cherokeemuseum.org.

• A meeting of current and former employees of the Waynesville plant of Champion/Blue Ridge/Evergreen is held at 8 a.m. on the first Monday of each month at BoJangles near Lake Junaluska’s entrance.

• Leap Frog Tours will have a ribbon cutting from 4-6 p.m. on Thursday, June 22, at 419 N. Haywood St. in Waynesville. RSVP: cday@haywoodchamber.com.

• A course in “Conversational French” will be offered from 6-7 p.m. on Tuesdays, through June 27, in Room 139 of WCU’s Cordelia Camp Building in Cullowhee. $79. fjmalissen@wcu.edu or http://go.wcu.edu/speakfrench.

• “Get Real: A Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Marjorie Klein” will be offered from 6-8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, through July 5, at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial at 52 North Market Street in Asheville. Offered through UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program. $152.50 for state residents. $20 nonrefundable application fee for new students. Info or to register: http://unca.edu/gswp or 250.2353.

• “Let It Flow: Genius Creativity Strategies for Writers, a Workshop with Linda Lowery” will be offered from 46:30 p.m. on Wednesdays through July 5 at Hanger Hall School for Girls in Asheville. Offered through UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program. $152.50 for state residents. $20 nonrefundable application fee for

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p.m. on Friday. 454.5287 or crocco@gcshaywood.org.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted. new students. Info or to register: http://unca.edu/gswp or 250.2353.

• Registration is underway for the Western Women’s Business Center’s third annual conference entitled: “Her Story, Her Journey,” which will be held from 8:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. on June 22 at the U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville. Includes performance by Asheville artist Leeda “Lyric” Jones as well as a variety of speakers.

Register or get more info: www.carolinasmallbusiness.org/initiatives/wwbcconference2017 or 633.5065.

• Registration is underway for a personal branding workshop with author Nancy Blanton. The workshop is scheduled for 3-5 p.m. on Saturday, June 24, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. $39 registration fee includes refreshments and a signed copy of Blanton’s book: “Brand Yourself Royally in 8 Simple Steps: Harness the Secrets of Kings and Queens for a Personal Brand that Rules.” 456.6000.

• One-on-one computer lessons are offered weekly at the Waynesville and Canton branches of the Haywood County Public Library. Lesson slots are available from 10 a.m.-noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Canton and from 3-5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Waynesville Library. Sign up at the front desk of either library or call 356.2507 for the Waynesville Library or 648.2924 for the Canton Library.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Donations are being accepted to help renovate the piano in the Elementary building of the old Fines Creek School. 593.7042.

• Registration is underway for the 2017 Charitable Golf Outing, which is July 7 at Springdale Country Club. Cost per player is $75. Proceeds support the Life Transformation Program, which helps men and women go from homelessness to independent, productive citizens in Haywood County. Register: www.haywoodpathwayscenter.org or 246.0332.

VOLUNTEERS & VENDORS • Haywood Pathways Center is seeking volunteers and will host one-hour meetings at 9 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on June 26 in the center’s dining room at 179 Hemlock Street in Waynesville. Haywood Pathways Center is a faith-based nonprofit that provides shelter, food and short-term life transformation for ex-incarcerated and homeless men, women and families.

246.0332.

• Town of Dillsboro will be hosting three arts and craft shows open to vendors from the surrounding region.

Over 40 artisans for each of these festivals are needed, artisans who will be displaying and demonstrating their hand made arts and crafts from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Family entertainment and festival food will be available during each show. The last show is Saturday, Oct. 1 — The 9th annual ColorFest will line Front Street with colorful art and fine crafts. Application due by July 1.

Vendors may apply for these shows by downloading an application from the town’s website, www.visitdillsboro.org. For more information, call Connie Hogan at 586.3511 or email festivals@visitdillsboro.org.

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

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

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

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

505.274.9199.

• Volunteer Opportunities are available throughout the region, call John at the Haywood Jackson Volunteer Center today and get started sharing your talents. 3562833 • Phone Assurance Volunteers are needed to make daily or weekly wellness check-in calls for the Haywood County Senior Resource Center. 356.2816.

HEALTH MATTERS • Preparation for Childbirth classes will be taught by a certified childbirth educator from 7-9 p.m. on Thursdays through June 22, Aug. 3, Aug. 24 and Oct. 12-Nov. 2 at Haywood Regional Medical Center.

452.8440 or MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive on Thursday, June 22, at First Baptist Church in Waynesville. redcrossblood.org or 800.RED.CROSS (733.2767).

• “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness” will be on exhibit from June 23-July 31 at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Opening ceremony at 6 p.m. on June 23 featuring Tom Belt speaking about the holistic idea of Tohi.

• Registration is underway for a Youth Mental Health First Aid training, which is from noon-4 p.m. on June 26-27 at the Hurlburt Juhnson Homeless Shelter in Murphy. Learn the skills needed to help a young person who’s experiencing distress due to mental health or substance abuse. Register: http:/tinyurl.com/lec20yl.

• Jonathan Fouts of Macon County Public Health will speak on “Summer Safety” at 4 and 6:30 p.m. on June 27 at the Ladies Night Out Program in the cafeteria at Angel Medical Center in Franklin.

• Haywood Regional Medical Center will host a free tired leg/varicose vein educational program at 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 29, at the Vein Center at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Clyde. Led by Dr. Al Mina, MD, FACS, and Dr. Joshua Rudd, DO. RSVP required: 452.VEIN (8346).

•”Breastfeeding A-Z” will be offered for expectant mothers from 7-9 p.m. on Thursdays Aug. 31 and Nov. 9 at Haywood Regional Medical Center. Taught by BoardCertified Lactation Consultants.

MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

• Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families (ACA) meets at noon on Saturdays at the First United Methodist Church Outreach Center at 171 Main St. in Franklin. 407.758.6433 or adultchildren.org.

• “Your Amazing Newborn” classes will be offered for new parents from 7-9 p.m. on Thursdays, Sept. 7 and Nov. 16 at Haywood Regional Medical Center.

MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

• Western Carolina University’s student-run, Mountain Area Pro Bono Physical Therapy Clinic will be open from 6-8:30 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of each

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 month. 227.3527.

• The Haywood County Health & Human Services Public Health Services Division is offering a Night Clinic from 4-6:30 p.m. on the third Monday of every month in Waynesville. Services include family planning, immunizations, pregnancy testing, STD testing and treatment. Appointments: 452.6675.

• The Jackson County Department of Public Health will offer a general clinic from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 587.8225.

• A Food Addicts Anonymous Twelve-Step fellowship group meets at 5:30 p.m. on Mondays at Grace Church in the Mountains in Waynesville. www.foodaddictsanonymous.org.

• Big Brother/Big Sister, a one-evening preparation class for children who are about to greet a new baby into their family, is offered for children ages 3-10 at Haywood Regional Medical Center. 452.8440 or MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses.

• Mothers Connection, an ongoing social gathering for mothers and their babies, meets from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Thursdays excluding holidays at Haywood Regional Medical Center. 452.8440 or MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses.

• A support group meeting for those with Parkinsons Disease and their caregivers will be held at 2 p.m. on the last day Wednesday of the month at the Waynesville Senior Resource Center.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • An opportunity the Bellyak (prone paddling/lay-on-top kayaking) will be offered through the Jackson County Parks & Recreation department at 11 a.m. on June 24, July 8, July 22 and Aug. 20. $30. Rec.jacksonnc.org or 293.3053.

• Diggin’ the Mountains Grass Volleyball Tournament, sponsored by the Black Bears Volleyball Club, is June 24 at the Rec Park in Cullowhee. Divisions are 13U and 15U. Fee is $45 per team plus $5 per non-member of USA Volleyball. blackbearvb@gmail.com, 506.4676 or 514.1949.

• Jackson County Rec Department will have disc golf tournaments at 10 a.m. on June 24, July 15 and Aug. 19. Cost is $5 for singles or $10 for doubles. www.rec.jacksonnc.org.

• Open play and practice for adult coed volleyball will be offered at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in June at the Waynesville Recreation Center. $4 per person for nonmembers; free for members. 456.2030.

• Yoga is being offered at the Fitness Connection in Waynesville. First class is free. Info: 476.0179 or 550.1640.

• ZUMBA! Classes, are offered from 6-7 p.m. on Tuesdays, at the Canton Armory. $5 per class. 648.2363 or parks@cantonnc.com.

• Tai chi is offered from 10:45-11:45 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at Haywood Regional Health and

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Fitness Center. It’s also offered from 1-2 p.m. on Thursdays. Taught by Bill Muerdter. For info about the classes or HRHFC memberships and offerings, call 452.8080 or visit MyHaywoodRegional.com/Fitness.

June 28 at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Non-partisan dedicated group of concerned citizens in Swain County committed to applying peaceful, persistent pressure on government officials. 488.1118.

• Ultimate Frisbee games are held from 5:30-8 p.m. on Mondays at the Cullowhee Recreation Park.

Organized by Jackson County Parks & Recreation.

Pick-up style. 293.2053 or www.rec.jacksonnc.org.

• The Haywood County Libertarian Party is now meeting at Blue Ridge Books on Main Street from 4:30-6 p.m. every second Monday of the month. These meetings will be for discussion on current events, and are open to the public.

• The Wednesday Croquet Group meets from 10 a.m.noon at the Vance Street Park across from the shelter.

For senior players ages 55 or older. 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

• Pickleball is from 1-3 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays and from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday nights at First Methodist Church in Sylva. $1 each time you play; equipment provided. 293.3053.

• Cardio Lunch class will meet from noon-1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. For ages 16 and above. Cost is regular admission fee to the rec center or free for members.

456.2030 or tplowman@waynesvillenc.gov.

• Flexible Fitness class will meet from 4:30-5:15 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. For ages 16 and above. Cost is regular admission fee to the rec center or free for members. 456.2030 or tplowman@waynesvillenc.gov.

• Pump It Up class will meet from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. For ages 16 and above. Cost is regular admission fee to the rec center or free for members. 456.2030 or tplowman@waynesvillenc.gov.

• The Canton Armory is open to the public for walking from 7:45-9 a.m. on Monday through Friday unless the facility is booked till spring. 648.2363. parks@cantonnc.com.

• Pickle ball is offered from 8 a.m.-noon on Mondays through Fridays at the Waynesville Recreation Center.

456.2030 or www.waynesvillnc.gov.

June 21-27, 2017

SPIRITUAL • A Lake Junaluska Summer Youth event will be June 22-25 for grades six-12. Morning and evening worship sessions, guest preachers, mission components, focus on giving. Free afternoons. http://tinyurl.com/yalehcto.

POLITICAL • N.C. Rep. Mike Clampitt of Bryson City will hold a quarterly meeting for Jackson County from 4-6 p.m. on Friday, June 23, at Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library.

• The Macon County Democratic Women meet at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 27, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

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• A lunch-and-discussion group will be held by the League of Women Voters at noon on the second Thursday of each month at Tartan Hall of the First Presbyterian Church in Franklin. RSVP for lunch: lwvmacon@wild-dog-mountain.info or 524.8369.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS • Daniel Pierce, UNC Asheville history professor, will present and discuss his book “Hazel Creek: The Life and Death of an Iconic Mountain Community” at 3 p.m. on July 15 at Blue Ridge Bookstore in Waynesville. www.SmokiesInformation.org or 888.898.9102, ext. 254.

• Rosalind Bunn will host a story time at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 24, at City Lights bookstore in Sylva.

She’s co-authored three children’s books with Kathleen Howard. 586.9499.

• Monica Collier will hold a signing for her third novel, “Kissing Hollywood,” on Saturday, June 24, at Books Unlimited in Franklin. mac@monicalcollier.com.

• The Swain County Genealogical and Historical Society is seeking anyone who’s written or compiled books about the history, genealogy, stories and historical fiction of Western North Carolina to participate in a Book Day from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on July 15 at the Swain County Business Center. Call 488.2932 between 8 a.m.-noon.

• Canton Book Club meets at 3:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month, at the Canton Library.

648.2924.

• Cookin’ the Books will be held at noon on the last Wednesday of the month at the Waynesville Public Library. A book club focused on cookbooks. All members choose a recipe from the book and bring it to share. The group will discuss the good and bad aspects of the chosen cookbook. 356.2507.

• Banned Book Club meets from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturdays at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. For those who enjoy literature and intellectual conversation. 456.6000, blueridgebooks@ymail.com or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

• Waynesville Book Club at 5:30 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at Waynesville Library Meet to discuss books, which are chosen by each member (taking turns) and provided by the library. New members are welcome. For more information, 356.2507.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES • The Mexican Train Dominoes Group seeks new players to join games at 1:30 p.m. each Tuesday at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 926.6567.

• Eat Smart, Move More North Carolina – an effort to help area residents commit to a healthier lifestyle, will meet from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville.

• Haywood County Senior Resource Center is looking into starting a weekly Euchre Card Group. If interested, contact Michelle Claytor at mclaytor@mountainprojects.org or 356.2800.

• A Silver Sneakers Cardio Fit class will meet from 10-11 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. For ages 60 and above. Cost is regular admission fee to the rec center or free for members. 456.2030 or tplowman@waynesvillenc.gov.

• Book Club is held at 2 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800 • Senior croquet for ages 55 and older is offered from 9-11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Vance Street Park in front of Waynesville Recreation Center.

Free. For info, contact Donald Hummel at 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

• A Hand & Foot card game is held at 1 p.m. on Mondays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

every Saturday at 22 Morris St. in Sylva. $10 includes instruction, materials and a snack. appalachianartfarm@gmail.com.

• Marianna Black Library will present “Build a Better World” – a summer learning program – through July 30 in Bryson City. Children will be awarded prizes for reading (or being read to) 15 minutes each day.

488.3030.

• As part of the “Build a Better World” summer reading program, Marianna Black Library will have movies at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, story time for ages 3-5 at 10:30 a.m.on Wednesdays and a summer learning program each Thursday. www.fontanalib.org or 488.3030.

• Haywood County Public Library’s summer reading program, themed “Build a Better World,” runs through Monday, July 31. Register at any of the library system’s branches. www.haywoodlibrary.org.

• A Junior Forester Program is scheduled for 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, through Aug. 9, at the Cradle of Forestry in Pisgah Forest. http://tinyurl.com/y87c3gqn.

• Woodsy Owl’s Curiosity Club meets from 10:30 a.m.3 p.m. on through Aug. 10, at the Cradle of Forestry in Pisgah Forest. Outdoor-oriented activity each day explores a different forest-related theme. For ages 47. $4 per child per program; accompanying adults admitted for $2.50. http://tinyurl.com/yc7u5unk.

• Senior Sale Day is on the third Friday of every month at the Friends of the Library Used Bookstore.

Patrons 60 and older get 20 percent off all purchases.

Proceeds benefit the Sylva Library.

• Registration is underway for kids’ fishing events, which will be offered from 9-11 a.m. on June 24, July 15 and Aug. 5, at the Mountain Research Station in Waynesville. Presented by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. Learn how to cast, put on bait and remove fish from a hook. Tanya.poole@ncwildlife.org or 329.3472.

• Pinochle game is played at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2813.

• Rob McHale (folk-Americana) will perform and share stories of the mountains at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 24, at the Waynesville Library. HaywoodArts.org.

• Hearts is played at 12 p.m. on Wednesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2813.

• A fishing clinic is scheduled for 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, June 24, at the Haywood County Test Farm in Waynesville. Kids will learn how to cast, bait a hook and remove a fish from the hook. Additional fishing clinic dates are July 15 and Aug. 5. Space limited.

Register with Tanya Poole, tanya.poole@ncwildlife.org or 828.329.3472.

• Mah Jongg is played at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2813.

KIDS & FAMILIES • As part of Macon County 4-H Summer Relief, a Science Week Waterfall Hike is scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on July 5. Meet at the Extension Office. $2; for ages 9-18.

• Registration has begun for Youth Spring Soccer through the Jackson County Parks & Recreation Department. Open to players born between 2003-12.

Birth certificates required for first-time players. $55. www.rec.jacksonnc.org.

• A “Week in the Creek” program for ages 6-10 will be offered from 9 a.m.-noon on June 26-30 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard.

Registration required: http://tinyurl.com/jq4r6x3.

SUMMER CAMPS • “Science Week – Experiments” – a Summer Relief Activity through the Macon County 4-H – is from 9 a.m.-noon on June 22 at the Cooperative Extension Office in Franklin. For ages 10-18. 349.2046 or macon.ces.ncsu.edu.

• A Youth Art Class is held from 10:30 a.m.-noon

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• Highlands Nature Center will hold a Wildlife Warriors summer day camp for ages 11-14 from June 27-30 in Highlands. 526.2623.

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

Includes coffee and orange juice. 743.7663.

• The Jackson Soil and Water Conservation District will hold Camp WILD (Wilderness, Investigating, Learning, Discovery) for rising seventh and eighth graders from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. on July 10-13 at the Jackson County Recreation Center. $35; scholarships available on as-needed basis. Register by June 16.

586.5465 or janefitzgerald@jacksonnc.org.

KIDS FILMS • “ “Cars 3” will be shown at 7 p.m. on June 22 at The Strand in Waynesville. See website for pricing, 38main.com.

• “The Lego Batman Movie” will be showing at 6:30 p.m. on June 16 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva.

Free. Madbatterfoodfilm.com.

• “Beauty and the Beast” will be playing at 6:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. on June 17 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. Madbatterfoodfilm.com.

• “Power Rangers” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. on June 30 and 7 p.m. on July 1 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. Madbatterfoodfilm.com.

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

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

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

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

586.6300.

• A wine tasting will be held from 2-5 p.m. on Saturdays at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. $5 per person. www.papouswineshop.com or 586.6300.

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

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

Free with dinner ($15 minimum). 452.6000.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Sean Gaskell will perform his Kora at 4 and 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 22, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. Kora is a 21-string harp. 488.3030.

• Eddie Rose & Highway 40 will perform bluegrass at 6:30 p.m. on June 22 at Bogart’s Restaurant & Tavern in Waynesville.

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• The “Thunder in the Smokies” motorcycle rally will be June 30-July 2 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Bike games/show, live music, cruises, and more. $20 weekend pass. Discount tickets available. www.thunderinthesmokies.com.

FOOD & DRINK • Sierra Nevada Brewing Co will host a Brews and Barns Dinner ASAP Farm Tour kickoff at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 22, in the brewery’s High Gravity Room in Asheville. $100 per person. taproomeventsnc@sierranevada.com.

• Chef’s Demo with Jay Horton is being offered for free at 7 p.m. on June 27 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva, Come learn the basic ingredients of 5 sauces.

• The “BBQ & Brews Dinner Train” will depart at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 1, from the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad depot in Bryson City. Enjoy the ride along with slow-cooked BBQ prepared fresh and beer tastings showcasing local breweries. Tickets start at $69 and include a souvenir tasting glass for three samples of finely crafted beer selections.

Adults-only and family friendly seating.

For tickets, call 800.872.4681 or click on www.gsmr.com.

• “Brown Bag at the Depot” – an opportunity to gather with neighbors – is at noon every Friday at Sylva’s

• “The Fantasticks” will be on stage through July 2 at HART Theatre in Waynesville. www.harttheatre.org.

Showtimes are 6 p.m. on Thursdays through Saturdays and 12:30 p.m. on Sundays.

• “Musicians of N.C. Showcase” will be presented at 5:15 p.m. on Friday, June 23, in the Macon County Public Library Living Room in Franklin. Justin Moe will DJ, playing records of musicians with roots and ties to this state. Refreshments.

• Get Right Band performs rock and soul at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 24, at Nantahala Brewing Company in Bryson City. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• “An Appalachian Evening” summer concert series will feature Grammy winner David Holt and Josh Goforth at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 24, at the Stecoah Valley Center. Buncombe Turnpike performs at the same time on July 1.

• The Smoky Mountain Community Theatre will hold open auditions for “An Agatha Christie Mystery” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, June 27 and 29, at the theatre at 134 Main Street in Bryson City. Play is in October. 508.6645 or 488.8227.

• The faculty of the Mountain Collegium Early Music and Folk Music Workshop will present a recital of medieval, renaissance, baroque and contemporary music on early and folk instruments at 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 29, in the recital hall of Western Carolina University’s Coulter Building in Cullowhee. www.mountaincollegium.org , 404.314.1891 or recorder96@gmail.com.

• Carolina Catskins (bluegrass) performs at 6:30

• The Sock Hops will perform songs of the ‘50s through ‘70s at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 30, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

• Unspoken Tradition will perform at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 1, at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. $18. www.38main.com.

• Trippin Hardie Band (acoustic) will perform from 79 p.m. on July 1 at the Cherokee Welcome Center Kiosk in Cherokee. Part of “Music on the River” series.

359.6490 or travel@nc-cherokee.com.

• The Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival will be at 7:30 p.m. on July 2 at the Performing Arts Center in Waynesville. Tickets and info: https://scmfestival.com.

• The Canton Armory will host “Winter Pickin’ in the Armory” at 7 p.m. every first and third Friday of the month. The event includes mountain music, vintage country, clogging and dancing. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Free. www.cantonnc.com.

• Tickets are on sale now for a 3 Doors Down performance as a fundraiser for the Better Life Foundation on Oct. 21 at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. Tickets available at ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000.

• “Unto These Hills” drama will be performed at 8 p.m. nightly through Aug. 19 at 688 Drama Road in Cherokee. A reimagining of the Cherokee Story. http://tinyurl.com/ycm83jwv.

• Tickets are on sale for Leslie Jones’ comedy performance, which is July 1 at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino. www.ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000.

• Chatham County Line (acoustic. American roots, rock-n-roll) will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 18, at Cataloochee Guest Ranch in Maggie Valley.

SUMMER MUSIC SERIES • The “Concerts on the Creek” series at Bridge Park in Sylva will host The Buchanan Boys (rock/country) on June 23. Both shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlovers.com.

• Clay County Community Revitalization will host a Friday Concert Series with Lee Holland (jazz/pop) on June 23 at the Town Square in Hayesville. All shows begin at 7 p.m. www.ccra-nc.org.

• The “Friday Night Live” concert series at the Town Square in Highlands will host Silly Ridge Round Up on June 23. Free and begins at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• “Saturdays on Pine” will host Andlyn on June 24 at Kelsy-Hutchinson Park in Highlands. All shows are at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• The “Groovin’ on the Green” concert series at The Village Green in Cashiers will host Rockell Scott & Friends on June 23. Both shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

• The “Pickin’ On The Square” concert series will host Dancing Bear Productions (Michael Harrell, Conrad & Donnie) on June 24 and Moonshine Creek (country) on July 1. All shows are free and begin at 7:30 p.m. www.townoffranklinnc.com or 524.2516.

• The “Tunes on the Tuck” concert series will host Twelfth Fret (Americana) on June 24. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Eastern Blues Band (jazz & blues) will perform from 7-9 p.m. on June 23 and Stereospread (Techno) will perform from 7-9 p.m. on June 24 at the Cherokee Welcome Center Kiosk in Cherokee. Part of “Music on the River” series. 359.6490 or travel@nccherokee.com

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • “Let’s Talk About It,” an opportunity to discuss “Letters of a Woman Homesteader” by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, is set for 4-6 p.m. on Thursday, June 22, in the Waynesville Library auditorium. Future sessions will feature Zora Neale Hurston’s “Dust Tracks on a Road” (July 8) and Beryl Markha’s “West With the Night” (July 20).

• A program on “Vermiculture” featuring Bethany Scheffer of Balsam Mountain Trust is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 22, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

• Speak to the Mountain Car Show is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, June 23-24, at the Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds in Cherokee. Show is from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. each day. Info: 727.439.8010 or 770.713.1760.

• Highlands Village Square Art & Craft Show is from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on June 24-25 and Aug. 26-27 at KH Founders Park at Pine and N. 5th St. in Highlands.

Local and regional artisans, demonstrations, live music, food. 787.2021.

• The 28th-annual Mountain Artisans “Summertime” Arts & Crafts Show is June 24-25 in the Ramsey Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. $4.50 for adults; children under 12 get in free. djhunter@dnet.net or www.mountainartisans.net.

• Fiber Sunday is scheduled for 2-5 p.m. on Sunday, June 25, at Cowee Textiles at the Cowee School Heritage Center at 51 Cowee School Dr. in Franklin.

Bring a project you are working on from spinning, knitting, weaving, etc. 349.3878 or bouchonnet@coweetextiles.com.

• A jewelry making class will be offered by Dogwood Crafters for ages 9-12 from 10 a.m.-noon on Tuesday, June 27, at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge. $6. Register: 586.2248.

• A Jellied Products Class will be offered from 2-5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 27, at Macon Cooperative Extension in Franklin. Learn to make jam, preserves, jelly and more. $5. Register: 349.2046.

• “Simple Steps to Sustainability” – a program on zero-waste, plastic-free living – is set for 2 p.m. on June 29 at the Waynesville Library. Led by Tatia Elizabeth Childers.

• The Town of Canton is accepting submissions for the 111th Labor Day Festival “A Celebration of All Things Made in Western North Carolina” until 4 p.m. on Aug. 21. Send artist bio, photos and sample of work to: Town of Canton, Attn.: Canton Labor Day; 58 Park Street; Canton, NC 28716. 648.2363.

• Registration is underway for Western Carolina University’s School of Music summer camps in trombone and saxophone. Camps run June 11-June 16 for high school and undergraduate college students. $599 cost includes accommodations. Undergraduates may pay a commuter/day student rate of $400.

Limited number of scholarships available. zsabo@wcu.edu or jeffress@wcu.edu. Info: camps.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Penland School of Crafts has open spaces in its first summer session available at half tuition to area residents. Complete information is available in the workshops section of the Penland website: www.penland.org. 765.2359, ext 1306.

• The Jackson County Arts Council is now accepting applications for Grassroots Sponsorship for 2017-18.

Grassroots Sponsorships are awarded to organizations in all cultural disciplines The deadline for applications is June 30, 2017. www.jacksoncountyarts.org or info@jacksoncountyarts.org or 507.9820.

• “The Illuminated Moment: A Flash Fiction Workshop with Beth Keefauver” will be offered from 6-8:30 p.m. on Thursdays through July 6 at the Thomas Wolfe

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• The Cut Cocktail Lounge (Sylva) will host a superhero costume party with tacos and chili on June 25.

All welcome. 828.631.4795.

• Tickets are on sale for a performance of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Enoch Arden” set to piano music.

Performance is at 3 p.m. on June 25 at the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.

Tickets: $35 each; includes wine and cheese reception. 227.ARTS or bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

• Liz and AJ Nance will perform acoustic music at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 29, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. 488.3030.

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• The 42nd Annual Pow Wow is June 30-July 2 at the Acquoni Expo Center in Cherokee. Authentic Indian music, dancing, food,festivities. $12 daily or $10 with Food Lion MVP card.

• Mountain Faith, Mark Lowry and Mountain Faith will perform at the Musication Nation, a two-day music festival, June 23-24, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing arts in Franklin. $25 per participant, per day.

p.m. on June 22 at Bogart’s Restaurant & Tavern in Waynesville.

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• HART will host a Shakespeare Camp for ages 10-17 on June 26-30 in Waynesville. 456.6322 or www.harttheatre.org.

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Memorial in Asheville. Offered through UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program. Students explore the tension and resonance between narrative and lyrical elements. $152.50 for state residents. $20 nonrefundable application fee for new students. Info or to register: http://unca.edu/gswp or 250.2353.

• “One Story: A Fiction Workshop with Abigail DeWitt” will be offered from 6-8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, July 3-17, at RiverLink at 170 Lyman Street in Asheville.

Offered through UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program. Helps writers uncover their best material and discuss how to shape it into compelling narratives $152.50 for state residents. $20 nonrefundable application fee for new students. Info or to register: http://unca.edu/gswp or 250.2353.

• “Paint Nite Waynesville” will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville.

There will also be “Painting at the Porch” at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Southern Porch in Canton.

Sign up for either event on the Paint Night Waynesville Facebook page (search event: Brush N. Brew) or call Robin Smathers at 828.400.9560. paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

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• “Summer Writing Workout: A Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Heather Newton” will be offered from 6-8:30 p.m. on Mondays through July 17 at the West Asheville Flatiron Writers Room at 5 Covington Street in Asheville. Offered through UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program. Course focuses on practical ways to make writing an integral part of life. $152.50 for state residents. $20 nonrefundable application fee for new students. Info or to register: http://unca.edu/gswp or 250.2353.

• The Swain Arts Center will host its first Open Juried Photography Competition on Aug. 19. The theme is “Nature Photography.” Submissions should be made online no later than July 17 (jpg format). Participants will be notified on July 22 if their submissions have been accepted for the competition. The submission fee is $15 per single entry. If you submit four or more images, the fee is $60. The application is available at www.swainartscenter.com. For additional information, please contact Rachel Lackey, director of the Swain Arts Center.

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

• Coloring Club will be hosted on the second Wednesday of the month at 4 p.m. at Canton Library.

Color pencils and color pages supplied. For ages 8 to 108. 648.2924.

• Shady Ladies show is through July 1 at the Haywood County Arts Council. 452.0593 or www.haywoodarts.org.

• Several exhibitions are on display this summer at the Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at the Bardo Arts Center. “Water Portraits: Barbara Tyroler” is on exhibition until Aug. 25 “Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix” by various artists at Harvey K. Littleton Studios in Spruce Pine has a closing reception from 5-7 p.m. on July 27. “Ancient Forms, Modern Minds: Contemporary Cherokee Ceramics” is on display through Nov. 10. 227.ARTS or bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

• “Spirit of Place: Artwork by Elizabeth Ellison” – an art exhibit – will be on display through Sept. 4. at the Asheville Arboretum.

• The inaugural Shelton House Crafter Showcase is on display at the Shelton House and the Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts in Waynesville. www.sheltonhouse.org or info@sheltonhouse.org.

• The graduating class of Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts program will exhibit their best work from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. daily through Sept. 24 at the Southern Highland Craft Guild Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville. 627.4673 or haywood.edu.

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• An Antique, Vintage & Handcrafted Flea Market starts at 8 a.m. every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 3029 Soco Road in Maggie Valley. Bring your own table/tent. Spaces rent for $10 a day or $25 for all three days.

• The Adult Coloring Group will meet at 2 p.m. on Fridays in the Living Room of the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. An afternoon of creativity and camaraderie. Supplies are provided, or bring your own. Beginners are welcome as well as those who already enjoy this new trend. kmoe@fontanalib.org or 524.3600.

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• The annual “Stecoah Arts & Crafts Drive About Tour” is from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on June 23-24 in Bryson City, Stecoah and Robbinsville. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

• The annual daylily plant show is from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, June 24, in the education center auditorium at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville.

Daylilies on display and for sale. www.ncarboretum.org.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a five-mile, moderate-to-strenuous hike, with an elevation change of 600 feet on Saturday, June 24, from Gorges State Park to Windy Falls on the Horse Pasture River.

Reservations: 743.1079.

• A Master Gardener Plant Clinic is offered every business day through Sept. 22. Call 456.3575 with any gardening question.

• America’s Bug Day and National Pollinator Week Celebration will be observed from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, June 24, at the Cradle of Forestry in Brevard. $5 for adults; free for youth under 16. Bug hunts and other programs. 877.3130.

• Volunteers are needed to help scientists collect data on songbirds throughout the summer. Dates include: June 25, July 5, July 14, July 23 and Aug. 2 at Cowee Mound in Macon County and June 26, July 7, July 17, July 26 and Aug. 4 at Kituwah Mound in Swain County. 736.1217, bigbaldbanding@gmail.com or www.bigbaldbanding.org.

• An “Introduction to Fly Fishing: Lake Fishing” will be offered for ages 12-up from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on June 28 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard.

Registration required: http://tinyurl.com/jq4r6x3.

• A new exhibition titled “Within the Margins: Contemporary Ceramics,” curated by Steven Young Lee, will be on display at Penland Gallery off Penland Road near Spruce Pine in Mitchell County. 765.6211 or penland.org/gallery.

• “Hello Mister: A Birding Tour Adventure in Indonesia” featuring Romney Bathurst is scheduled for 7 p.m. on June 27 in the rear meeting room of the Hudson Library in Highlands. www.highlandsaudubonsociety.org or 526.1939.

• The Western North Carolina “Artists Count” project is hosting a series of exhibitions to highlight the rich visual contributions made by area artists. The first such exhibit, “Smoky Mountains Sampler” is now open at the Welcome Center north of Asheville on Interstate 26. Southwestern Community College instructors Ed McIlvaine and Susan Coe as well as SCC student Kari McIlvaine have their pottery on display through July.

• The Franklin Bird Club will have a Bird Walk along the Greenway at 8 a.m. on June 28. Meet at the Macon County Public Library parking area. 524.5234.

FILM & SCREEN • “From the Ashes” will be shown at 7:30 on June 22 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free.

• “Life” will be playing at 7:30 p.m. on June 24 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free.

• “T2 Trainspotting” will be playing at 7:30 p.m. on June 29 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free.

• Free movies are shown every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva.

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• Beginners Chess Club is held on Fridays at 4 p.m. at the Canton Public Library. Ages 8-108 invited to participate. 648.2924.

• Cribbage is at 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday at the Maggie Valley Inn. 410.440.7652 or 926.3978.

• A birding experience with Curtis Smalling, director of Conservation, NC Audubon, along Rich Gap Road on June 24 in Highlands. Meet at Founders Park at 7:30 a.m. in Highlands. www.highlandsaudubonsociety.org or 526.1939.

Outdoors

• Through Aug. 12, Great Smoky Mountains National Park will hold daily Ranger-Guided programs. www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/kidsyouth/index.htm.

• A cycling ride leaves at 8 a.m. on Saturdays from South Macon Elementary School. Routes vary with distances typically 15-25 miles. Road bikes only. A no drop ride. Organized by Smoky Mountain Bicycles, 828.369.2881 or info@smokymtnbikes.com.

• A “Winged Wonders” butterfly exhibit is on display through Oct. 29 at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. http://www.ncarboretum.org/event/winged-wondersstep-world-butterflies/all.

• A six-week course on “Wildflowers of Southern Appalachia” with guide Adam Bigelow meets from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Monday through July 24. $150 for the series or $40 a single hike. bigelownc@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/BigelowsBotanicalExcursions.

• A Nocturnal Nature program will be offered from 910 p.m. on June 29 at Highlands Biological Station in Highlands. $3. Learn about fireflies, frogs, bats and owls. Open to ages 6-up. 526.2623.

• A “Red, White and Blue-tiful” program is set for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on July 1 at Highlands Biological Station in Highlands. 526.2623.

• A “Birding for Beginners and Beyond” program is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. on July 1 at the Highlands Nature Center. Easy walking; loaner binoculars available. www.highlandsaudubonsociety.org or 526.1939.

• Local farmers can stop by the Cooperative Extension Office on Acquoni Road from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. every fourth Friday to learn about USDA Farm Service Agency programs in the 2014 Farm Bill. Info: 488.2684, ext. 2 (Wednesday through Friday) or 524.3175, ext. 2 (Monday through Wednesday).

• The Macon County Poultry Club of Franklin meets at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month at the Cooperative Extension Office on Thomas Heights Rd, Open to the public. 369.3916.

FARMERS MARKET • The Jackson county Farmers Market is from 9 a.m.noon each Saturday at Bridge Park on Railroad Ave. in Sylva. www.jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org.

393.5236.

• A community tailgate market for local growers is open from 3-7 p.m. every Wednesday at The Village Green Commons in Cashiers. 734.3434, info@villagegreencashiersnc.com or www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

• Haywood Historic Farmers Market is held from 8 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the parking lot of HART Theatre in Waynesville. haywoodfarmersmarket@gmail.com, www.waynesvillefarmersmarket.com or www.facebook.com/HaywoodHistoricFarmersMarket.

• The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 171 Legion Drive in Waynesville (behind Bogart’s).

456.1830 or vrogers12@att.net.

• The Jackson County Farmers Market will be on Saturdays from 9 a.m.-noon at Bridge Park located in Sylva. Info: 393.5236. jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com or website jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org.

• Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the greenway at 8 a.m. on July 5. Meet at Big Bear Shelter parking area at 8 a.m. 524.5234.

• The ‘Whee Farmer’s Market is open from 4 p.m. to dusk every Tuesday at the University Inn on 563 N. Country Club Drive in Cullowhee, behind the entrance to the Village of Forest Hills off Highway 107 across from Western Carolina University. 476.0334. www.facebook.com/CullowheeFarmersMarket.

• Tremont Institute is holding Bird Banding days on July 6-7, July 13, July 26, July 31 and Aug. 2 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. http://vimeo.com/220345535. http://gsmit.org/birds.

• The Franklin Farmers Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturdays on East Palmer Street across from Drake Software in Franklin. 349.2049 or alan_durden@ncsu.edu.

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park is recruiting volunteers to assist the Trails Forever trail crew for a rehabilitation project on the Rainbow Falls Trail from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. every Wednesday. Sign up or get more info: 497.1949, Adam_Monroe@nps.gov or https://friendsofthesmokies.org/trailsforever/volunteer.

• Swain County Farmers Market will be open from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Fridays through October at the barn on Island Street in Bryson City. 488.3848 or Christine_bredenkamp@ncsu.edu.

• A “Salamander Spotlight” program is scheduled for 9 p.m. on July 5 at the Highlands Biological Station. $5.

COMPETITIVE EDGE FARM AND GARDEN • A “Foraging for Food & Farmacy” program is set for 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, June 24, through the Smoky Mountain Field School. Register: www.smfs.utk.edu or 865.974.0150.

• A 5K and 1-mile walk/run will be held to benefit REACH of Macon County at 8:30 a.m. on July 1 along the Greenway in Franklin. Event form: bringingit2life@gmail.com or Bonnie.Peggs@msj.org.

HIKING CLUBS

• ASAP’s annual Farm Tour is June 24-25 in Asheville.

Connects visitors to more than 20 WNC farms.

Experience how food is grown and raised in the mountains, sample farm-fresh products and meet local producers. Passes: $30. Asapconnections.org.

• Mainspring Conservation Trust will host a “A Stewartia Hike” with expert Jack Johnston from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on June 23 in Macon County. http://tinyurl.com/l9zvte5.

• The Macon County Master Gardener Association will offer free garden tours from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on June 24 at 1624 Lakeside Drive in Franklin. Rain or shine.

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• Carolina Mountain Club will have a nine-mile hike with a 1,500-foot ascent on June 25 from Buckeye Gap to Haywood Gap. Info and reservations: 337.5845 or laurafrisbie@gmail.com.

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The naturalist’s corner

BY DON H ENDERSHOT

That’s a wrap nother spring, another season of bird points in the can. Each spring brings its own unique set of adventures, dilemmas and logistical challenges.

This season was tinged with poignancy, as it was the first season without longtime (longtime as in since 2004 when this enterprise began) associate and dear friend Bob Olthoff. It took Bob and me a number of seasons to finally come up with a somewhat stable annual routine.

In the beginning just locating and marking all the points was a challenge. There are around 210 points spread across Western North Carolina in the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests from Hiwassee Dam to the Overmountain Shelter along the Appalachian Trail at Roaring Creek and from Roan Mountain to Mount Mitchell to Black Balsam and all the way down to Brevard.

The next challenge was trying to group points together and delineate routes to access points in the most expeditious manner. After four or five years we came up with a pretty standard routine and Bob was always there if weather or road closures, etc.,

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While Bob will never be replaced, I was fortunate to find a capable, willing and able subcontractor for this season. Kirk Gardner is a biology major at Western Carolina University who has been bitten by the birding bug. Kirk will graduate in December and kept busy this summer working for Fish and Wildlife Service and helping me. Kirk is not only an excellent birder but he is much more geek-capable than I and has created an avenue for digitally saving and sharing this data that has already paid dividends and has the potential (once I upgrade my printer/scanner) to be a great time-saver in the future.

So, a quick look at this survey season — it started out cold. On May 1, kickoff day for the season, it was about 35 degrees in the morning and my girls were playing in a heavy snowfall on Waterrock Knob that same morning. The next weekend it rained and it seemed it rained almost any day I set aside for surveying.

Roads were an issue this season. Lots of wind and rain over the winter and early spring brought lots of trees down. The Forest Service budget has been sorely lacking for decades and road maintenance (espe-

sonic year for insects with the emergence of Brood VI (17-year periodic cicadas) in parts of the Grandfather District near Morganton.

You haven’t lived till you spend a few hours in the presence of tens of thousands of large, beautiful, noisy, hovering insects. We picked up red crossbills and pine siskins around Mt. Mitchell — we don’t get them every year — and we had yellowrumped warblers at Black Balsam again this year for the second year in a row.

And there are always the near misses. A magnolia warbler was discovered along Dawn on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Don Hendershot photo the Blue Ridge Parkway near one of our points the day after we surveyed. I I was able to access most of the points and, thanks to Kirk taking on some extra points, I had red-headed woodpeckers in the Grandfather District, between two points, was able to finish the survey on the preand brown-headed nuthatches in the Beech scribed date — June 15.

Creek Seed Orchard in the Tusquitee However, even with minor difficulties, District, again between points. being in the woods at dawn offers its own But sometimes just being up at dawn is slate of rewards; Swainson’s warblers still its own reward. thick on the Grandfather District and pres(Don Hendershot is a naturalist and a writer ent and accounted for on other points like who lives in Haywood County. He can be Hickey Fork; a great year for turkeys, the reached at ddihen1@bellsouth.net) woods were full of hens with poults; another cially behind locked gates) is one of the hardest-hit areas. And, of course, the unprecedented wildfires last fall plus spring wildfires kind of dictated where and how resources were used.

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