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CONTENTS On the Cover: Upon his retirement, Bill Hollingsed, police chief with the Waynesville Police Department for 20 years, will leave behind a legacy of being a tireless advocate for the small town he calls home. (Page 6) Cory Vaillancourt photo

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Cherokee constitution resolution withdrawn Work will continue, but document will not appear on next ballot

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER n effort to get a proposed constitution on the Cherokee ballot as a referendum question this September will not come to fruition following Tribal Council’s June 13 vote to withdraw the legislation.

“I brought this up at the community club meeting the other night in Cherokee County, and the general consensus on what I’m hearing is they don’t believe it’s ready,” Chairman Adam Wachacha said as the conversation began in council.

That same sentiment was echoed by councilmember after councilmember.

“I think if this were to go out to a vote, my concern is people would just think of the word ‘constitution’ — we always hear it’s needed, so I’m going to vote on it because we need a constitution but I don’t really know what’s inside of it,” said Councilmember Jeremy Wilson, of Wolfetown. “At the end of the day, this is going to be the ultimate document that supersedes everything we operate on now.

And so when you go to vote on it and it were to pass, after that this is what we have to work on, and if it’s not ready I think we’re going to be digging ourselves a hole so deep that it’s going to be a bigger problem than what it already is.”

Since 2017, Citizens for a Constitution has been working to develop a draft document to replace the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Charter and Governing Document, adopted in 1986. The group, with a core membership of five, sought input from community members through outreach meetings and comments on its website as it developed the draft, first presenting it to Tribal Council in February.

Charters, like that under which the tribe now operates, are meant to govern organizations and corporations, while constitutions are meant to define the relationship between

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a government and its people — by adopting a constitution, the tribe will find itself on more even footing when dealing with other government entities, and tribal members will see their rights better protected as their government’s powers are better defined, working group members say.

“All the proposals brought forth were brought forth by the community,” working group member Bo Lossiah told Tribal Council Feb. 7, when the referendum question was first presented to Council. “It’s nothing that an agenda is set for.”

The group had hoped to have a final version of the document approved for referendum in March, when candidates began campaigning for the June 6 Primary Election,

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The current draft constitution is posted online at www.sgadugi.org, the website of Citizens for a Constitution.

In addition to viewing the current draft, site visitors can view upcoming meeting date and submit comments on the proposals.

constitution issue was the subject of two work sessions this year, Feb. 28 and June 3.

“The level of discussion needed for this topic is great, and the time needed is extensive, neither of which we can accomplish in the 10 minutes allowed on today’s agenda,” working group member Anita Lossiah told Tribal Council June 13.

Therefore, she presented four options for Council to consider: approve the entire document for referendum, vote on individual changes to the “I think you have a good framework, and I charter, put out a referenthink that’s what it is right now. It’s not ready dum vote for public opinfor our people to vote.” ions on items — Councilmember Tommye Saunooke in the constitution or withdraw the document for further review. but the absolute deadline for any item to be “I think you have a good framework, and added to the September ballot was earlier I think that’s what it is right now,” said this month. The document’s failure to gain Councilmember Tommye Saunooke, of support from Tribal Council June 13 means Painttown, during the June 13 meeting. “It’s that it will not go before voters in the comnot ready for our people to vote.” ing election.

Councilmembers said that the document In addition to appearing on the Tribal had various contradictions and inconsistenCouncil agenda in February and June, the

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cies that needed to be addressed, and some questioned whether creating an entirely new document was the best way to go. Vice Chairman David Wolfe, of Yellowhill, said he’d rather start out by adding in language creating the judicial branch of government to the existing charter. The tribe’s current governing document outlines only two branches of government, the executive and the judicial. A preamble could then be added and the document’s title changed, he said, making it a constitution.

“A lot of the laws in the charter actually come from Lloyd Welch, some of the same verbiage, same ideas come out of the Lloyd Welch,” said Wolfe, referring to a former constitution of the tribe enacted in 1868. “It seems like we’re kind of shoving those to the side.”

While the proposed constitution isn’t ready to go to a vote, said Wilson, a lot of good has come of all the recent discussion about that possibility. For a long time, he said, the constitution group has struggled to get people to pay attention to the effort to draft a new governing document and to give their input on the process. But now, that discussion is filling the pages of local news outlets and conversations between friends and neighbors.

“I think the wisest thing to do right now is option number four, withdraw for further review. But take that momentum you have right now with the attention that it’s getting, and take advantage of that opportunity,” said Wilson.

Anita Lossiah ultimately took Wilson’s advice.

“We certainly do want to continue this work and focus on the comments from today and additionally receive additional comments from of course the attorney general’s office and legal counsel from the Council, and also the judicial branch,” said Anita Lossiah. “At this time I would like to withdraw this resolution for further review.”

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

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BY J ESSI STONE Queen wrote in his weekly newsletter. “We N EWS E DITOR appreciate everyone for pitching in! Public he nine Job Corps CCC centers slated pressure made the difference, and all of you for closure this September, including were instrumental in saving this great prothe Oconaluftee center in Cherokee, gram in Western North Carolina.” will remain open after Congress put presJob Corps supporters were surprised to sure on the Trump Administration to find Oconaluftee on the chopping block to reverse the decision. begin with, especially if the DOL was looking The U.S. Department of Labor made the to shut down centers that were not performannouncement May 24 that it had accepted ing well. According to a March 2018 special Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s decireport from the National Federation of sion to close nine of the centers operated by Federal Employees, the union representing the U.S. Forest Service by Aug. 31. The deciForest Service employees, Oconaluftee ranks sion also called for another 16 centers — including LBJ CCC in Franklin and Schenck CCC in Pisgah Forest in Brevard — to continue operating but under a private contract operator.

The Job Corps program has been around for more than 50 years.

The program — modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps The forestry conservation program is one of the most popular established during the career training paths offered at Oconaluftee Job Corps Center, Great Depression — which is currently under Forest Service management. was part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty and Great Society initia21st out of the 125 Job Corps Centers in the tives back in 1964. To date, it has trained nation. Considering its rank was 119th in and educated more than 2 million students 2014, the CCC center performance has come at more than 100 Job Corps centers across a long way in a short amount of time. the country, including three centers located “Such successes should be embraced in Western North Carolina. and rewarded. Instead, DOL proposes to The DOL posted notice of the plan to throw them on the trash heap,” the report “deactivate” the nine centers and the public stated. “The logic put forward in the could submit their comments until July 1, President’s budget is that ALL publicly but as of early June students at Oconaluftee operated centers should be converted to were getting ready to transfer to other cenprivately run centers because of the alleged ters throughout the country or coming up underperformance of publicly run centers with a plan to be on their own since the cenas a group. If one were to use this logic with ter was supposed to close Aug. 31. accurate data, then ALL privately-run cenHowever, on June 19, DOL spokespeople ters should be converted to publicly run said the plan to close the nine centers had centers.” been withdrawn.

The other reasoning for closing the nine “For the time being, USDA does not CCC centers and privatizing the rest of intend to transfer these centers to DOL to them, according to Perdue, was to get the allow management to determine a pathway U.S. Forest Service out of managing prothat will maximize opportunity and results grams that are not considered essential to for students, minimize disruptions, and their core mission. Several congressmen improve overall performance and integrity,” who have Job Corps Centers in their district the USDA and DOL spokespersons said in argued that the program is essential to the an emailed statement. “DOL and USDA will mission of the Forest Service and that cloconduct a robust organizational review to sures would have a negative impact on disdetermine the appropriate course of action aster relief responses in those areas. keeping in mind the [Forest Service] misFor example, many students at sion, the students we serve, and the Oconaluftee are trained in wildland fireAmerican taxpayers.” fighting skills needed to fight wildfires.

Rep. Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville, Those skills are in high demand throughout said it was the public’s response to the the region. The center closures would also pending closure that made all the differresulted in the loss of more than 1,000 ence.

Forest Service jobs.

“Thank you to everyone who submitted U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-Asheville, a public comment — 534 comments were did not respond to a request for comment received by the Department of Labor,” on this story.

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Waynesville chief calls it a career

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER s a 28-year veteran of the Waynesville Police Department, Captain Brian Beck — soon to be interim chief of police — remembers what it was like back in the notso-good old days.

“I came to this department in 1990. At that point in time, this department was in disarray,” Beck said. “About 1994, we got Frank Ross to come in and help straighten things out a little bit, and we were right on the cusp of really coming up to where we needed to be in law enforcement in this state.

Then Bill Hollingsed came in.”

For the past 20 years, Hollingsed has helmed the police department, building it into a department of distinction modeled after his own pursuit of professional and ethical excellence.

When he officially retires on June 30, he’ll be remembered for more than just his leadership on a small-town police force that grapples with the same issues larger cities face across the nation — he’ll be remembered as a tireless community advocate who then moved up in the ranks to a new role helping police officers across the state serve, and protect.

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ill Hollingsed was born in Miami, and born into law enforcement.

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“When we were in Miami, my father was a Miami police officer. He then went to work for a metals corporation and he took a management role in that company and that’s what took us to Orlando,” said Hollingsed.

“He ended up buying the business and running it up until just a few years ago.”

Hollingsed also had an uncle who was a Miami police officer and said that even though he was very young when his father changed careers, his father’s service influenced him.

“I think it did,” he said. “I look at old pictures of me with him in his uniform, and even though I was very young, I still remember that.”

After graduating from high school in the Orlando area, Hollingsed entered Florida State University as a biochemistry major with an eye on med school or dental school, until another (future) family member prompted him to finally don the badge.

“My girlfriend, who happens to be my wife now, her brother was a law enforcement officer in Orlando,” he said. “I started riding with him. I’d come home on Christmas break, spring break — anytime I was home, I would get in the car with him and ride and I found a true passion for law enforcement. So if anybody is to blame for it, that probably would be my brother-in-law.”

In the state of Florida at the time, one could become a sworn law enforcement officer at the age of 19. At that age, Hollingsed left FSU with an associate’s degree and joined the Orange County Sheriff ’s Office and began working in west Orlando.

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Waynesville Police Chief Bill Hollingsed (bottom) stands before a younger version of himself at a retirement reception held in his honor on June 24. Cory Vaillancourt photo

“The day I was hired, a reporter came and talked to me and I said, ‘This is an absolute dream job,’ and now 20 years later, I’m still living the dream.”

— Bill Hollingsed, Waynesville Chief of Police

king, especially in central and south Florida.

“You’ve seen Miami Vice, and that was pretty much what was going on in the ‘80s when it came to cocaine,” he said. “When I started in law enforcement it was a very violent time in Florida. You learned law enforcement very quickly back in those days, in a place like Orlando, Florida during the cocaine era.”

Hollingsed retired early from that department in 1997, as a lieutenant. He served a significant amount of time on the SWAT team, worked as a detective, and was part of the first gang crimes unit in central Florida.

Haywood County had always been a respite for Hollingsed, whose parents had owned a home in the area for years.

“We had camped here since we were kids,” he said. “Then my wife and I would come up for weekends, and we loved the area.

Waynesville was a town that my wife and I fell in love with a long time ago.”

One day, Hollingsed found himself on the campus of Western Carolina University, gathering information for a coworker whose son was looking to play football. It was there he saw a job posting for the chief of police job at

WCU. He was there for a year and a half, until Waynesville Police Chief Frank Ross left to take the chief job in Titusville, Florida.

“There’s no better job than the chief of the Waynesville Police Department,” said Hollingsed. “The day I was hired, a reporter came and talked to me and I said, ‘This is an absolute dream job,’ and now 20 years later, I’m still living the dream.” hen Hollingsed arrived in Western North Carolina, things were far different than in central Florida.

“The biggest thing that we dealt with 20 years ago here, we had a lot of alcohol-related crimes,” he said. “Domestic violence, disturbances, that type of thing, but really it was focused on alcohol-related issues more than any other. That’s changed over the past 20 years and obviously alcohol is still an issue in any community. But it wasn’t until about 11 years ago that we saw the huge influx, the opioids, that really started creating a crisis here in Western North Carolina.”

Hollingsed’s been active in addressing the social costs of alcohol and drug abuse, but has also been around long enough to trace the

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evolution of the problem.

“Looking at the changes in drugs in my almost 36-year career, the violence that surrounded cocaine and crack cocaine is what was really killing people in our communities at the time,” he said of his days in Florida. “In relation to what’s going on now with the drug issue, the drugs themselves are killing people.

With the opioids today, it’s not the violence that surrounds those drugs, it’s the drugs themselves.”

It’s not that cocaine has become nonexistent; Hollingsed said there’s not much here, but it is indeed here, and in many communities across the United States. Federal efforts, he said, to crack down on Central and South American drug kingpins like Pablo Escobar have paid off, as have more diligent efforts to block the importation of cocaine.

“We don’t grow coca here in United States.

See, you have to stop the importation of that drug into our country and I think that’s what kind of perpetuated some of our opioid issues — the less those illicit street drugs are available, the more that people go elsewhere for drugs,” he said. “Obviously opioids are available in every pharmacy in the country. We started making methamphetamines to a larger extent. You could make that here.”

Trends suggest the opioid issue isn’t going away any time soon.

“We’re doing an awful lot,” said Hollingsed. “We’re getting some great legislation coming through, but I’ve also heard the statistic that if all the opioids that we deal with suddenly go away, this is still a crisis and

Hollingsed (right) was greeted by dozens of fellow law enforcement officers, including (from left) Haywood County Sheriff Greg Christopher and his wife Sherri, at the Wells Events Center in Waynesville. Cory Vaillancourt photo agency successful and in turn, we’re able to give good law enforcement services to the community. I applaud their foresight.”

That’s part of what makes this a dream job. The other part, he said, is somewhat more tangible than lines on a budgeting spreadsheet.

“The people here are what has made this agency successful,” he said. “Our canine unit is very well-known. Our SWAT unit is very well-known. Our honor guard is very wellknown. We do a great job in patrol and investigations. And that goes back to training and education. With the leadership team, the management team here at the police department, I have full confidence that the Waynesville Police Department will only get better.”

Leading such an accomplished collection of units isn’t especially easy, but there is one

thing Hollingsed says the next chief should definitely do.

“The chief, whoever it may be, has got to be willing to not only be a leader but to lead by example,” he said. “The chief has got to be willing to step out and not ask his people to do something that they’re not willing to do themselves. I hope that the new chief has that philosophy.” lthough Hollingsed is leaving the Waynesville Police Department, he’s not leaving Waynesville, and he’s not leaving law enforcement. In fact, he’s moving into a role that will help him have an even bigger impact than the one he’s already had in this small town. Over the next few weeks, Hollingsed will assume the role of the executive director of the North Carolina Association of Chiefs of Police.

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ollingsed was feted by the town at a ceremony June 24 that drew hundreds to Wells Events Center in downtown Waynesville. Dozens of law enforcement agencies were represented, along with town staff, elected officials, old friends and family.

“People are here because what we had for a police chief was a great man,” said Beck.

“Not just a great police chief, a great man.

Chief Hollingsed always led from the front.

He never sat in the rear and told you what to do. He never expected you to do anything that he would not do. He respected his employees, he respected the people of the community, he was a leader in many different areas, such as the opioid crisis. He didn’t just look at our department and our town, he also stretched up to do things all across the state.”

Beck, who will lead the department until a replacement is selected, gave credit to Hollingsed for making the transition smooth.

“We’ve had more training per officer than probably any other agency. The quality of applicants that we require to be able to work for us is by far the best,” Beck said.

“Managing this agency at this point time is a pretty simple job. We have worked together to build it, so now it’s a job of maintaining and trying to take it even further.”

At the reception, Waynesville Mayor Gavin Brown captured Hollingsed’s character in a nutshell.

“The thing that impresses me most,” he said, “is that Bill loved his job, and still does.

What is it he always says? ‘Living the dream?’

That must be a wonderful feeling.”

After 36 years in law enforcement — with still more to come — Hollingsed concurred.

“I just want to emphasize I’ve been very, very fortunate to be the chief of what I think is the best police department in North Carolina,” he said. “The people I work for and work with here, it has without a doubt been living the dream. I said that over 20 years ago when I accepted the job, and I still feel that way today.”

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an epidemic that we’re going to be dealing with for the next 20 years.”

Waynesville Assistant Town Manager Amie Owens said the town is in the preliminary stages of accepting bids from outside firms that will conduct the search for and screening of candidates who wish to become Waynesville’s next police chief. Perhaps by July the firm will be selected and set about its work, with a hire expected in the weeks or months thereafter.

Hollingsed has a pretty good idea of what that next chief can expect.

“Obviously, whoever comes to sit in this chair in this office, they’re still going to have to deal with the opioid crisis,” he said. “I don’t care what community you go into across the country, the opioid crisis is the number one issue, because again, this drug can be a onetime-use killer. Everything is mental health and substance abuse issues — that is going to be a continuing crisis that law enforcement leaders across our state and across our country are going to have to deal with, and Waynesville is no exception to that.”

Hollingsed’s replacement won’t be walking into a “department in disarray,” as Beck did almost 30 years ago; the department’s budget hovers around $4.5 million, and has long had the support of elected officials.

Even during the worst of times, according to Hollingsed, when officers had to “double up” in patrol cars to conserve gasoline, the mayors and aldermen never cut the department’s training budget.

“To me that is very, very important here, that we still keep the resources to adequately train our people,” he said. “I applaud the people across the street at town hall. They have always recognized that, always given us the training budget that we needed to make sure that our officers are successful, not only with their personal goals but that they make this

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“The goal of that organization is to facilitate and advance the training and the technical expertise of managers and police chiefs across North Carolina,” he said. “Obviously we do a lot in the area of advanced training, we look at these different crime trends, we look at the issues that affect law enforcement and then not only work on the training aspect, but also work with our legislators to try to bring effective legislation to help in those areas that are in crisis or our areas of need.”

Hollingsed, who’s been active in the organization for some time now, promised his parents that he’d return to complete his bachelor’s degree, although he swapped biochemistry for criminal justice. He also later earned a master’s of public administration, leaving him well-suited for his new job.

“I’m very fortunate to have been offered that position, and even more fortunate that they will allow me to, for the majority of the time, work out here in Waynesville. So I don’t need to move to Raleigh,” he said. “I’ll be in Raleigh quite a bit as far as working with the legislature and working with the different chiefs and agencies across the state, but a lot of that I can do right here in Waynesville on my computer and phone.”

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of stories on Haywood County’s public charter school, Shining Rock Classical Academy, which has been beset by a host of academic and organizational problems since opening in 2015. wo weeks after holding an illegal meeting to dismiss parent grievances against Shining Rock Classical Academy Interim Head of School Joshua Morgan, the charter school’s board found itself facing questions from parents who want to know what, exactly, is going on at the troubled school.

“I guess it’s been a tumultuous year and I’d like to know where were are from a board perspective, and number two, the plans for going forward,” said John LaFata during the June 19 regular board meeting, held at the school. “Teacher attrition and stability, I think that’s really important.”

Shining Rock is currently searching for its third head of school in less than four years, and Morgan had emerged as a leading candidate for the job just before three women filed grievances against him May 8 alleging he used improper disciplinary practices on their children.

The hiring process was put on hold until Shining Rock’s board-appointed attorney, David Hostetler, was able to present the results of his investigation into the grievance allegations.

In accord with Hostetler’s recommendations, Shining Rock’s Governance Committee dismissed those grievances during a June 6 meeting that failed to comply with all of the state’s public meeting laws because the required 48-hour meeting notice was not emailed to the school’s “sunshine list,” which includes local media outlets. Hostetler said the board did however post the meeting on the school’s website and posted a physical notice on the school building.

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before it was learned that founding board member and current finance director Tara Keilberg would not return to the school once her contract expires June 30. Keilberg’s departure also leaves unfulfilled a comprehensive public records request made April 30 by The Smoky Mountain News for documents related to the school’s financial condition.

LaFata’s questions also came just after Kelsey Stamps, a former teacher at the school, voiced her displeasure at not being offered a contract for the coming year.

“I am not here for myself. I need no validation from SRCA, its board, or Joshua Morgan.

When I arrived in January [2019], 7 percent of my students were on grade level. By the end of May, those numbers had jumped to 77 percent, the highest in kindergarten,” said Stamps, who’d rushed from Brooklyn, New York, where she was interviewing at other schools, to speak at the Joshua Morgan meeting. “I had two satisfactory observations. I never needed admin for assistance with behavior. I was praised for leading my team.

Based on data, and the feedback I received, I was meeting or exceeding expectations. Mr. Morgan chose not to extend my contract.”

Stamps, who’s taught in charter schools for almost 15 years, said she had no idea why she wasn’t asked to return to the taxpayerfunded school, which has seen academic progress drop in each of the three school years for which performance data are available; the school’s scores are now below the state average, and well below those of Haywood County Schools, which is in the top 11 percent in the state.

“Due to his assumed position as the next leader of SRCA, this decision and how it was handled would give me pause as a parent, staff member, community member and certainly as a board member,” she said. “My support for my students and families was honest and genuine. My support of Morgan was done out of fear. My praise of SRCA was done

Shining Rock silent on recent controversies Even after parents complained about a general lack of transparency at a June 19 Shining Rock board meeting — and, after local media outlets including The Smoky Mountain News and The Mountaineer reported on a June 6 illegal meeting that violated public notice requirements — the school refuses to answer a litany of questions.

Since becoming Michelle Haynes Shining Rock’s new chair on May 15, Michelle Haynes has declined to speak to The Smoky Mountain News in person or by phone, instead insisting on email correspondence only. To that end, Haynes was emailed a set of questions less than two hours after the June 19 meeting had concluded. Reminder emails were sent to Haynes June 21 and June 23. As of press time June 25, no responses were received from Haynes to any of the following questions: 1. How many board members were absent this evening?

2. What’s the current status of the hiring process?

When do you expect to make a decision?

What’s the process like between today, and the eventual hiring?

Is SRCA still accepting applications for the school director position? Of the three other candidates besides Morgan, have any withdrawn?

Of the three other candidates besides Morgan, how many are still under consideration?

When Duncan was hired, Shining Rock held a meet-and-greet of the poten-

tial candidates for the position. Will Shining Rock do so again this time?

3. Your attorney admitted that a required notice for the June 6 meeting was not sent.

Who is the designated staff person or board member tasked with publishing required notices to sunshine lists, your website, and physically posting to the building?

How will you work to ensure that another public meeting notice violation does not happen in the future?

4. Have you or anyone else on the board ever received any formal training in open meeting and open records laws?

5. As you may know from my story, actions taken in an illegal meeting, such as the one you held on June 6, can be invalidated by court order. What’s your plan to ensure that this does not happen?

6. The budget you passed tonight, according to one board member, is based on lower enrollment projections than last year. Why do you think that is? Is it because of low test scores? The grievances against Morgan? Something else?

7. Another statement made during budget discussion said the school needs another administrator, but the budget doesn’t include funds for one. Why not?

8. Another budget statement made was that the school would budget for a PR/Marketing person. Please send me the job description as well as the compensation package details. Why do you think this position is necessary?

9. In light of low test scores, a projected decline in enrollment and the proclaimed need for another administrator, why is hiring a PR person more of a priority than hiring an administrator or directing those funds to other instructional help?

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Shining Rock calls special meeting for Thursday Shining Rock Classical Academy’s Board of Directors will hold a special called meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 27 at the school, 1023 Dellwood Road, in Waynesville.

According to a corrected announcement emailed by the school on June 25, the meeting’s only agenda item is a closed session per N.C. General Statue 143318.11(a)(6), which involves the discussion of personnel matters.

Shining Rock’s head of school position remained vacant as of press time, but the closed session June 27 could result in some sort of action being taken.

That’s perhaps a testament to the controversy surrounding the embattled Morgan, who certainly has his defenders, but has also been the subject of former colleagues’ wider allegations of anger management issues beyond the grievances filed against him.

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last year.

This year’s $3.2 million budget does not include funding for another administrative position, which Carver said was needed, but it does include a new public relations/marketing position.

Board Chair Michelle Haynes did not respond to multiple emails from The Smoky Mountain News asking why enrollment was projected to be lower, why an additional administrator wasn’t funded and why a PR/marketing position was needed. A request for the job description of and compensation package for the PR position likewise went unanswered, but an Indeed.com job opening for the position said it would pay $35,000 to $40,000 a year.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER hining Rock Classical Academy’s 2019-20 budget, passed by the board on June 19, will shrink slightly, due to lower projected enrollment.

Public charter schools like Shining Rock are funded by taxpayer revenues disbursed on a per-student basis through federal, state and county governments, and as such must construct their annual budgets according to how many students they think they’ll have in the coming year.

Board Treasurer Chad Carver said during the meeting that the estimated enrollment would likely be around 360 students, as opposed to the 400 planned for

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One of those grievances, filed by parent Kelley Messer, also became the subject of a Waynesville Police Department investigation. The police department sent its findings to District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch, but a June 20 press release from Welch’s office stated that her office would not be prosecuting Morgan due to a lack of probable cause.

“On May 14, 2019, the District Attorney’s Office in Waynesville, NC was contacted by a parent of a child enrolled at Shining Rock Classical Academy, located at 1023 Dellwood Road. This parent had been referred to our office by the magistrate because she had sought a warrant charging Joshua Morgan, the Interim Head of School, with assault upon her child. She alleged that this event

N.C. law declares that school personnel may use “reasonable force” to control behavior or to remove a person from a scene when necessary to correct a student’s behavior and to maintain order in the classroom, among other reasons. Moreover, the law allows the use of physical restraint “as reasonably needed” to escort a student safely from one area to another.

“The investigation shows that the child refused to leave a classroom to go to the office and that Mr. Morgan used a reasonable amount of force and physical restraint to move the child from that classroom to the office, and such force was not excessive,” concludes Welch’s release. “Such conduct is justified under current law. As such, probable cause does not exist to charge Mr. Morgan with assault.”

Messer said June 24 that she was considering further legal action against Shining Rock and Morgan, and that she would consult an attorney “to see if there is anything that can be done.”

Now that it’s clear Morgan won’t be charged or sanctioned due to the accusations, grievances and investigations into his alleged conduct, some in attendance at the June 19 meeting expected the board would hire him to assume the head of school role vacated by Nathan Duncan in February after allegations of sexual harassment resulted in his termination. But after a 45-minute closed session, Haynes said the board had taken no action.

Repeated emails to Haynes asking about the hiring process and projected timeline went unanswered.

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out of fear. My support of Samantha Crawford was done out of fear. My opinions haven’t changed. Now, I no longer speak from a place of fear. SRCA is a school of choice.

Families deserve the right to be able to make an informed choice.”

The Smoky Mountain News has continued to question SRCA officials on how the process to find a new director is going, but hasn’t received any communication from the new Board Chairwoman Michelle Haynes.

Haynes has requested to answer questions via email instead of in person or over the phone, but she has yet to respond to a June 19 email containing a number of questions about the June 6 illegal meeting, the hiring process and the school’s finances, among other things. [see page 8].

“I am wondering about the progress of finding a new director, what the enrollment numbers are this year, how the test scores are and why this wasn’t put on Facebook or text message,” said Shining Rock parent Dara Alweiss during the meeting. “I got a text message about going to Spiderman [an out-ofschool event] downtown, but … how many parents know that this is going on? I think that should be discussed — transparency.”

Board members didn’t directly address the June 6 findings of the Governance Committee during its regular June 19 meeting, but board member Jason Moody did ask Haynes if meeting notices were posted on the school’s Facebook page.

“No,” Haynes told him, adding that meeting notices are posted on the school website’s calendar as well as physically posted on the building where the meetings take place, per state law.

However, Haynes mentioned nothing about the sunshine email Shining Rock’s attorney said “doesn’t appear” to have been sent out.

Another parent, Erin Norman, said during the public comment session of the meeting that her child was recently bullied at Shining Rock after she’d spoken up in defense of Morgan, back in May.

occurred on April 23, 2019,” the press release stated. “By law, a magistrate may not issue criminal process against a school employee for an offense that occurred while that employee was discharging the duties of his or her employment without express written approval of the District Attorney.”

To decide whether or not charges were appropriate, the DA’s office requested a “full and complete investigation” by the Waynesville Police Department on the same day Messer contacted the DA. On June 14, Welch received the results of the investigation from the WPD, including “a forensic video interview of the child, a video interview of Mr. Morgan, an interview of the child’s parent, written statements from other persons at the school who had been present and a copy of surveillance videos, the grievance filed by the parent, the school’s policy manual, various emails and photographic evidence. The investigation was exhaustive and detailed,” reads the release.

Upon review of the evidence, Welch determined that there was insufficient probable cause to charge Morgan with a crime.

“Surveillance video and witness statements show the child disobeying his teacher, and thereafter Mr. Morgan, after refusing to participate in a class setting and refusing to go the principal’s office. Mr. Morgan admits and surveillance video shows that Mr. Morgan used a reasonable amount of force and physical restraint to move the child from a class room to the principal’s office,” the release said. “There is no evidence of injury or excessive force.”

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N.C. Senator, Cherokee chief spar in opposing op-eds

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER n his first public statement on a bill he cosponsored in March, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., wrote an op-ed published in The Charlotte Observer June 19 decrying the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ opposition to legislation that would pave the way for a Catawba Indian Nation casino in Kings Mountain.

“The episode is only the latest example of the Cherokee’s willingness to disenfranchise other tribes in order to protect their own lucrative gaming monopoly,” Burr wrote.

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In the piece, Burr implies that the tribe’s opposition to efforts from the Catawba — a federally recognized tribe based in South Carolina — is hypocritical given that earlier this year the EBCI, which is based in North Carolina, purchased 122 acres in Tennessee for economic development. If casino gaming should become legal in Tennessee, such economic development could include a new gaming establishment, though that’s far from being a certain outcome.

In discussing the Eastern Band, Burr paints a picture of a tribe that is exploitative and self-interested, pointing out Cherokee’s substantial donations to candidates in state government and accusing the EBCI of attempting to take land from its own mem-

bers in pursuit of its economic ventures — in 2011, he said, the tribe took 200 acres a tribal member had left to her children in hopes of building a “mid-range gaming facility.”

Burr also brings up what he terms Cherokee’s “aggressive tactics” when it comes to the Lumbee Indians, a state-recognized tribe in North Carolina that has long sought federal recognition — an effort that the EBCI has consistently opposed.

“The Cherokee have long lobbied against Lumbee recognition because they view it as a threat to their federal benefits and gaming business,” Burr claimed.

Outside of a desire to continue their monopoly on the casino business in North Carolina, there’s no reason for the Cherokee to oppose the legislation, Burr wrote.

“The Catawba’s case is simple,” he wrote.

“Congress intended for the Catawba to be able to acquire land within their North Carolina service areas as part of their 1993 land settlement, but unclear language in the law itself left the question in limbo. The bill I’ve introduced with other Carolina Senators would clarify the language. The Cherokee have implied our bill would cut the state out of the process, but that is patently untrue.”

If the bill were to become law, Burr said, the Catawba would still have to negotiate a compact with the state before opening a casino, giving the governor and legislature the final say.

He concluded the piece with an appeal to North Carolina leaders.

Read the op-eds Sen. Richard Burr’s entire statement on the Catawba legislation is online at www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/oped/article231717118.html. Sneed’s response is available at www.theonefeather.com/2019/06/chief-sneed-responds-tosen-burrs-mean-spirited-op-ed.

“Whether it’s the Lumbees or one mother’s home, it seems that nothing is too big or too small for the Cherokee to oppose if it affects their bottom line,” Burr wrote. “I hope North Carolina rejects such bullying tactics from any tribe and considers each case, including the Catawbas’ and the Lumbees’, on its merits. The stakes are too high.”

SNEED’S RESPONSE The op-ed was certainly devoid of sugarcoating, but according to EBCI Principal Chief Richard Sneed’s written response, it was largely devoid of truth as well.

“These kinds of public attacks against the Eastern Band, or any constituent, should be beneath the dignity of any public official,” Sneed wrote. “Senator Burr should apologize for his false and harsh comments and withdraw the flawed legislation that he’s championing.”

S.790, introduced by South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham on March 13, is co-sponsored by the two North Carolina Senators, Burr and Thom Tillis. If passed, it would authorize the Catawba to own a gaming facility on a 16.5-acre piece of land in Kings Mountain and allow the Secretary of the Interior to take that land into trust for the tribe. The bill would require the facility to comply with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act except for Section 20, from which it would be exempt. That section, which applies to any Indian tribe seeking to open a gaming facility outside of the main reservation, triggers a complicated approval process requiring endorsement from the Secretary of the Interior and the governor of North Carolina, as well as consultation with local stakeholders.

In his response to Burr, published June 20 in The Cherokee One Feather and June 21 in The Charlotte Observer, Sneed’s first priority was to rebut the senator’s characterization of the bill and its impact if enacted.

“Senator Burr’s legislation exempts the Catawba Nation from going through the federal consultation and approval process,” Sneed wrote. “Federal law requires the Department of the Interior to formally consult with state, county and tribal governments about the gaming facility to decide whether the facility has any ‘detriment to the local community.’ If the Department of the Interior

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approves the application, the Governor of the state in which the casino would be located has the right to veto the application. Senator Burr’s Catawba bill absolutely prevents the Governor, the North Carolina Senate, the North Carolina House, counties in North Carolina and the Eastern Band from having a voice in the proposed project.”

Further, he said, the Catawba would not necessarily need a state compact to begin gaming operations on the land.

“This is Indian Law 101,” Sneed wrote.

“The Catawba Nation would be able to quickly open a casino with electronic gaming machines without a compact. As one example, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians in Alabama owns and operates uncompacted casinos in Alabama.”

In order to open the type of casino proposed, the Catawba would indeed need a compact with the state. However, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act requires such compacts only for Class III gaming, which includes slot machines, blackjack, banking card games and baccarat, among others.

They aren’t required for Class I and Class II gaming, such as bingo. The Poarch Creek Indians operate uncompacted Class I and II operations.

Sneed also pushed back against Burr’s characterization of the Cherokee as aggressively protective when it comes to gaming revenues. Burr claimed that Cherokee’s opposition to his Lumbee recognition legislation is based on a desire to protect its gaming revenues, but Sneed said it’s based on a desire to prevent undeserved appropriation of its culture.

“The Eastern Band has opposed Lumbee recognition legislation for literally a century, long before tribal gaming,” Sneed wrote. “ ... their identity as an historic tribe and as individual descendants of an historic tribe has been questioned for many, many years. The Lumbee and other groups have tried to appropriate our Cherokee culture and identity, and the Eastern Band and other established tribes have opposed this appropriation.”

Sneed also said that Burr’s characterization of the 2011 incident is incorrect.

“In that case, there was disagreement regarding the legitimacy of the enrolled member’s governing will,” he wrote. “The disagreement went to Cherokee Court and the Court issued a judgment that the language of the governing will complied with Tribal law … This case demonstrates that Eastern Band Cherokee governmental systems work — the Cherokee Court did its job and Tribal Council did its job and the law was applied and honored.”

Finally, Sneed stated that Burr had not previously shared his concerns with the tribe, writing that the EBCI instead learned about them through “this angry piece.”

The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held a hearing on S.790 during a May 1 meeting, but no further action has yet been taken on the bill. The next step would be a positive recommendation from the committee and placement on the Senate calendar for a vote.

The bill can be viewed or tracked online at www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/790.

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Recovery community looks for new meeting space

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR any have probably passed by the Triangle Club on Miller Street in Waynesville without realizing what it was, but those within the recovery community are familiar with the space and know what an impact the clubhouse has in the county.

The Triangle Club is a nonprofit corporation that provides affordable meeting space for any 12-step recovery groups that need it, including Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, AlAnon, CoDA and more.

While the clubhouse — next to Bosu’s Wine Shop — has been a valuable resource since it opened in 2013, the organization has been displaced and is looking for a new forever home. There’s plenty of public places these groups could find to meet, but the clubhouse is safe, anonymous and a place they can call their own.

“The clubhouse environment creates a community and a more comfortable place for newcomers,” said Ron Clifford, current president of the Triangle Club board of directors.

“Many recovery groups tend to meet at churches but sometimes that might be the last place those new to recovery want to go.”

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about 1,500 square feet of space with a kitchen area and plenty of comfortable seating. It’s a place to hold meetings, but it’s also a place for those in recovery to congregate, get to know each other and build a supportive community of people. The club hosts about 10 meetings a week with anywhere from 10 to 50 people.

When C.J. Deering moved to Waynesville from California in 2011, she said the recovery groups didn’t have much of a presence in Haywood County.

“When I moved here, there was only one meeting a day in Waynesville and nothing on the weekend. I wondered how many people were having to go to Asheville to make a meeting,” she said.

She held the first recovery meeting on a Sunday in a coffee shop with six other people. She had the idea of forming the clubhouse and landed a great deal on the Miller Street spot. Today, that same Sunday meeting attracts 50 people or more.

“Now the clubhouse provides 100 percent more meetings than there used to be and on Sunday the entire recovery community comes together for one meeting at the clubhouse,” Deering said.

People come from all over Haywood County and from Jackson County as well. With

the area being a popular tourism destination, Clifford said many tourists will visit the clubhouse for a meeting while they’re on vacation.

With the use of a Smartphone app, people are able to do a search for recovery group meetings nearby no matter where they are.

The Triangle Club had to move out of its space by June 1 and needs the community’s help to find the ideal place for the organization to continue its mission of helping people. Ideally, Clifford said the group would find a “forever home” where it doesn’t have to worry about moving if and when they’re lease isn’t renewed.

Clifford said the space would need to be at least 1,200 to 1,500 square feet with bathroom facilities and plenty of parking. At the Miller Street location, the Triangle Club was able to operate on about $1,000 a month, which covered the rent, utility costs and sup-

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“Our only source of income is from our members and from the groups that meet there. We charge a minimal rental fee and our members pay a membership fee — that’s the only way we’ve raised money,” Clifford said.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR n industrial hemp farm will be expanding its operations into the Macon County Business Development Center after commissioners approved a lease agreement for Appalachian Growers.

Appalachian Growers hasd been operating on the Raby Farm in the Cowee community since 2017. While the business grows about 10 acres of hemp and has a 4,000-sqaure-foot metal warehouse on the property for drying, sorting and packing, the lease with the county will give owners Lori Lacy and Steve Yuzzi another 900 square feet of space to use for packaging and distribution.

“They are licensed through the state’s industrial hemp program and they organically produce wholesale materials and CBD oil,” said E c o n o m i c Development Director Tommy Jenkins. “The hemp industry is expected to grow from $668 million in 2016 Noah Miller, assistant farmer manager, separates hemp buds to over $1.8 billion in through a sifter at Appalachian Growers. Jessi Stone photo 2020 and that’s primarily driven by two factors.”

The hemp boom can be attributed to the forthcoming from the state. She is actually passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act working with officials in Raleigh on forming in 2018, which changed the classification of those regulations as a member of the North hemp from a schedule 1 substance to an agri- Carolina Industrial Hemp Association.

Appalachian Growers already does a lot of cultural commodity. In North Carolina, the industry is growing thanks to state’s pilot the testing and quality assurance protocols that will probably be codified in the future. program through the extension office.

“Although hemp and marijuana are both Lacy said they test the hemp product for qualifications of plants in the cannabis genus, mold and other contaminants. They also are hemp produces a nearly nonexist amount of able to track every bottle — which are all THC — the mind-altering chemical in the child proof — that leaves the operation and plant — while marijuana can produce up to are in the process of getting their organic cer30 percent THC and is still a schedule 1 tification.

Commissioner Karl Gillespie said he was drug,” Jenkins said.

The farm operation employees anywhere also supportive of the industrial hemp indusfrom 10 people in the off season to about 50 try because it allowed small farmers in the during the height of harvesting. Lacy told west of the state to compete with larger farmcommissioners the business development ers to the east.

“Hemp grown in the mountains is high center would employ three full-time employquality and brings more money than those ees and three part-time employees.

“I’m hiring people right here in the county growing it in the east,” he said. “We see a lot because I believe in utilizing the local abilities of value in this product because it allows our small farmers to compete with big farmers we have here,” she said.

Educating the community and other down east.”

The lease agreement was approved unanifarmers about the benefits of the hemp industry is also a top priority for Lacy, who said mously.

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she’s seen the many benefits hemp and CBD products can have on people. It can be an extra income for struggling small farmers and it can be a natural pain and anxiety reliever for consumers. The last few years have been a learning experience for her as well — before starting Appalachian Growers she was a personal trainer.

“I had never been a farmer — it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” she said. “We’ve done a lot of education in the community. We’re showing other farmers how to make hemp into biomass for the oils to make extra money. There is a huge market out there and it’s helping people from rheumatoid arthritis to Alzheimer’s and early dementia to Parkinson’s disease.”

Commissioner Ronnie Beale said growing the hemp industry has been a goal of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners because it can be used to replace the tobacco crop and can generate new revenue in the state. On a personal note, Beale said CBD oil has been beneficial to him for neck pain for the last several years.

“Educating folks about it has been the biggest thing,” he said. “And we’re gonna see more regulations of it in the future.”

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State budget coming down to the wire

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER orth Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has a budget. The N.C. House of Representatives has a budget. The N.C. Senate has a budget. But as of now, the state of North Carolina does not.

As members of the General Assembly race to comply with a July 1 deadline for budget ratification, three competing versions are all vying for attention from lawmakers, who must act by Friday, June 28 in order to meet the deadline.

Currently, a committee comprised of House and Senate leadJoe Sam Queen ers is charged with drafting a final budget from the three competing versions, but Waynesville Democrat Rep. Joe Sam Queen continues to push for one critical component he says is non-negotiable.

“We will not negotiate Medicaid expansion away,” Queen said. “We are all continuing to work with Gov. Cooper to ensure that Medicaid expansion is in the final budget, but for now the Senate and House are working behind closed doors.”

Queen ran on Medicaid expansion last

“We will not negotiate away healthcare for half a million citizens that we have already paid for. This budget is about saving 1,000 lives every year, and insuring 500,000 hard-working, low-wage workers.”

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said. “We are delaying that schedule to maximize the time for Governor Cooper to respond to our offers from our Friday morning meeting. We have requested specific compromise proposals from the Governor for two weeks and he has not provided any.

We hope he does so soon.”

The release follows almost a month of back-and-forth between Cooper and the Republican-controlled legislature.

On June 11, legislative leaders asked Cooper for a list of proposals that would earn his support of their budget. The next

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day, Cooper sent along his entire budget, and by the next week told legislators that he’d veto the budget unless Medicaid expansion was part of it.

Berger and Moore then proposed a special session of the legislature to address Medicaid expansion, a proposal that was rejected by Cooper.

Queen, speaking from Raleigh the afternoon of June 25, said he hoped Republicans would release their proposals soon.

“We haven’t seen the budget,” he said.

“We haven’t even smelled it, but we understand it’s in the building.”

He also said that Republicans had been caucusing all morning, and that it could be presented later in the day but if it’s not, that could indicate dissention in the ranks.

“They won’t run it if they can’t pass it,” Queen said. “And we’ve seen no good signal that there’s anything to do with Medicaid expansion in it.”

Queen said Cooper remains resolute in his vow to veto any budget not addressing Medicaid expansion, and now that Republicans no longer enjoy a veto-proof majority in the legislature, the impasse looks like it will drag out past July 1 anyway, having a minor effect on some state operations.

Look for more on this developing story in next week’s issue of The Smoky Mountain News, on stands on Wednesday, July 3.

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“This budget is about the $5 billion we would bring back to North Carolina with Medicaid expansion,” he said. “This money belongs here in our state, helping our citizens, and creating 40,000 new healthcare jobs.”

North Carolinians already pay more than $1 billion in taxes for Medicaid, but don’t get anything for it. Currently, more than twothirds of the cost of Medicaid is funded by the federal government, but Republicans have blocked Medicaid expansion because the federal government would only fund 90 percent of that over the next few years, requiring a matching contribution from the state.

“We will not negotiate away healthcare for half a million citizens that we have already paid for,” Queen said. “This budget is about saving 1,000 lives every year, and insuring 500,000 hard-working, low-wage workers.”

On June 24, a press release from the office of Senate Leader Phil Berger, RRockingham, issued jointly with N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, said that they would delay the introduction of the budget in order to give Cooper more time to offer up compromise proposals.

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Another aspect of the current setup is that all alcohol has to go through the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control system, meaning Angel can’t just roll up to a bar or restaurant on a sales call with a box full of whisky, and put a bottle of it on their shelves that day.

Right now, that bottle would have to go Raleigh, then back to the county’s ABC store, from whence the bar or restaurant could order it.

Identical bills were filed in both the House and the Senate on March 18. The bipartisan House bill, H378, saw strong local support and was primarily sponsored by Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Hendersonville and Rep. John Hardister, R-Guilford, along with Buncombe County Democratic representatives Susan C. Fischer and Brian Turner.

The bipartisan Senate bill, S290, was sponsored by Sen. Rick Gunn, R-Alamance, Sen. Dan Blue, D-Wake and Sen. Kathy Harrington, R-Gaston.

It was there, in the Senate, where a number of changes were made to the original bill, which emerged from the Senate’s Rules and operations Committee on June 18.

The first change further amends statutes to allow a mixed beverages permit to be issued to a distillery permit holder authorized under G.S. 18B-1105.

The second explicitly requires that a distillery selling mixed beverages containing spirituous liquor other than that produced at the distillery must obtain a mixed beverages permit.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER regulatory reform bill intended to bring parity for North Carolina’s distillers with its craft brewers continues to make its way through the legislature.

“It’s a small thing, really, but I think we can move it,” said Rep. Joe Sam Queen, DWaynesville. “I think people feel pretty OK with it.”

Back in April, Dave Angel — owner of Haywood County’s only distillery, Elevated Mountain Distilling Company, in Maggie Valley — told The Smoky Mountain News he was optimistic about the bill, S290/H378, soon becoming law.

“We’re missing out on an opportunity to sell much more volume to guests who want to leave with a case of product,” Angel told SMN, recounting the story of a woman whose daughter was getting married and wanted three cases of Angel’s vodka for the reception.

Current law only allows Angel to sell five bottles of his spirits to any one person, per year.

Current law also prohibits Angel and distillers like him from serving anything more than quarter-ounce tasting samples, inhibiting his ability to attract patrons who would like to attend the events Angel holds at his Soco Road distillery, but are reluctant to linger without being able to purchase a cocktail or a beer.

Angel’s facility has a capacity of several hundred, and he’s eager to do more with the space, even going so far as saying he’d like to become “The Orange Peel of Western North Carolina outside of Asheville,” something that’s probably not feasible without

have the most impact; it would have allowed a distillery permit holder to sell, deliver or ship spirituous liquor in closed containers at wholesale to holders of a mixed beverages permit and at wholesale or retail to consumers in other states or nations — Angel’s example of being able to make sales calls to bars and restaurants.

Instead, the Senate’s final version requires ABC stores to allow the purchase of individual liquor bottles not on the ABC Commission’s approved special item list by special order through a process established by the ABC Commission.

It further allows ABC stores to sell in store any bottles it receives in excess of what was purchased by the customer requesting the special order.

It also requires a local ABC board to fulfill an order by a mixed beverage permit holder for individual bottles or cases of spirits listed as a regular item for sale in the state, and allows for direct shipment from an eligible distillery to the local board to fulfill the order, if the local board cannot fulfill the order due to lack of inventory or time.

Perhaps most importantly, the Senate bill still abolishes the five-bottle limit that prevented Angel from selling three cases of vodka to one person.

As of press time, the Senate bill had been placed on the calendar for June 25; if successful in floor votes, the bill would likely move to a reconciliation committee where differences between the House and Senate versions would be worked out, although since the bills are identical, that process won’t likely take long.

Angel said the bill’s passage would be “huge” for Elevated Mountain, as well as for North Carolina taxpayers. Most of Angel’s customers come from out of state, and almost 40 percent of every bottle’s cost comes in the form of sales and excise taxes.

According to the 2018 North Carolina visitors guide, there are more than 50 distilleries across the state.

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The N.C. State Board of Elections is seeking public comments through July 12 on proposed rules changes related to the implementation of the new voter ID law, including the photo identification requirement for absentee-by-mail voting.

The State Board is required to develop temporary rules by July 1 and permanent rules by Jan. 1, 2020. A public hearing on the proposed rules will be held July 11.

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A public hearing on the proposed rules will be held at 1 p.m. July 11, at the State Board of Elections, Third Floor Board Room, 430 N. Salisbury Street, Raleigh, NC 27603.

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“What is the state of our nation’s critical thinking skills and how do you fact-check yourself?” will be the topic for the Franklin Open Forum held at 7 p.m. Monday, July 1, at the Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub, located Downtown at 58 Stewart Street, Franklin.

Those interested in an open exchange of ideas (dialog, not debate) are invited to attend. For more information, call 828.371.1020.

The North Shore Cemetery Association will be hosting decorations at Proctor and Bradshaw Cemeteries on Sunday, July 7, with the first boat shuttle leaving at 8:30 a.m. and the last boat leaving at 10 a.m. from the Cable Cove Boating Access Area off of NC 28 near Fontana Village. Participants are asked to wear sturdy footwear and clothing suitable for hiking and outdoor activities. Decorations are held rain or shine. Pets are not allowed in accordance with park rules and regulations. Lunch will be at the Calhoun House in Proctor between the Proctor and Bradshaw decorations.

Access will be made from the west side of Hazel Creek, which is about 100 yards of moderately steep trail and steps. If you have mobility impairments and need assistance, contact Henry Chambers 706.896.2183 or hwc@windstream.net to arrange for a shuttle from the east side access point.

Check Facebook.com/northshorecemeteries for any changes or cancellations.

Jackson grant workshop delayed The Jackson County Tourism Development Authority has postponed its Aug. 8 required grant workshop and put the grant program on hold while committees rework the grant program to align more with the TDA’s recently completed and adopted Strategic Plan.

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Law enforcement and fire department personnel will head up to the Waynesville Belk rooftop at 9 a.m. Friday and will camp out up there until 2 p.m. Sunday to raise money for Special Olympics of North Carolina. Teams will be collecting donations on the ground throughout the weekend.

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Right-wingers spread fake news To the Editor: FAKE NEWS! While I don’t make a habit of using Trump terms, it’s the best way to describe the false claim made in the letter published earlier this month in another local newpaper that two Muslim congresswomen, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tiaib, have co-sponsored legislation to establish Muslim holidays as new federal holidays.

According to FactCheck.org, on January 12, 2019, “a self-described ‘parody’ website (sofarrightithurts.com) published a made-up story about the two Muslim congresswomen introducing a bill recognizing Muslim holidays as federal holidays.” Sadly, the story went viral because so many people, including the author of the June 3 letter, did not check FactCheck or Snopes before sharing it.

Although there was no disclaimer with the January 12 story, Snopes indicates there is a general disclaimer on the “So Far Right It Hurts” website stating that the content is “paradoxical” and intended for “comic effect or ridicule.” The disclaimer further explains that the website articles range from “misleading to wildly imaginative” and are published under the assumption that the reader understands there is no claim of “accuracy or validity.”

He’s just settling in with us now. He’s just fitting in.”

Finally, we said, “He’s eating the other dogs’ food when they’re not looking. He eats the garbage at night. He eats anything that can be digested and some things that cannot. He is eating our daughter’s college fund.”

His name is Oliver, which suits him, since it begins with an “O” and that is now his approximate shape. Last weekend, we had family in town for our daughter’s high school graduation ceremony, and one of my nephews, a budding wit, said upon seeing him for the first time, “Is that a dog, or a loaf of bread with paws?”

My first reaction was to be defensive, to say something mean about his dog, a big, gangly mutt who’s all slobber and sharp angles, writhing and Columnist wallowing all over anyone who happens by, so very clingy and codependent. Seriously, that dog needs to be in a 12-step group. His neediness is pathetic. But I don’t say that, tucking it away instead for this column. So there, nephew!

At least Oliver has his dignity and self-respect, hidden away though they may be under several layers of blubber. On the other hand, I am not entirely sure that is true. As one of his enablers, I may be rationalizing so that I do not have to confront my own role in his problems.

After all, we could monitor his food intake more assiduously. We could make sure he is not pilfering from the other dogs’ bowls. We could secure the trash at night so that if he sneaks out of bed while we’re asleep, all he will find is that the cupboard is locked up. We could be taking him out to the lake

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think our chihuahua has an eating disorder. He’s a rescue, and since we rescued him, he’s twice the dog he used to be — that is, he is twice his original size, maybe more.

We’re afraid to weigh him. We’re concerned about his selfesteem. We tell him he’s “filling out.” We notice that he hurries by mirrors now, instead of pausing — like he used to — to stare down his reflection, as if to say, “Wow, looking good,” or, on his angrier days, “What are you looking at, butt-licker?”

When we brought him home, he astounded us with incredible feats of athleticism. Even though he weighed about as much as a decent wristwatch and had legs about as long as your thumb, if he heard a car pull in the driveway, his ears would shoot up as if spring-loaded and then, using the length of our bed as a runway, he would launch himself toward the door, literally flying the first five or six feet before touching the ground, just barely and only temporarily, before racing to the front of the house to confront the intruder, his tiny legs blurry as a hummingbird’s wings.

From a sitting position, he could jump from the floor to our bed, a good 30 inches off the ground. If I could do that, I’d be playing in the NBA. But that was then, and since then, he has developed an appetite that can only be described as “startling.” Well, that’s not entirely true. It could also be described as “alarming,” “shocking,” or “extremely expensive.”

At first we said, “Ah, look how good he’s eating, poor thing.

He probably hasn’t been fed on a regular basis in a long time!”

A little later we said, “Sure he eats a lot. Wouldn’t you if you were afraid someone was going to return you to the shelter? Maybe he eats to cope with anxiety and depression.”

After that, we said, “OK, so he’s getting a little pudgy.

When’s the last time WE felt good in a swimsuit at the beach?

To be certain, I checked the official source for all Congressional legislation — www.house.gov — and there have been no bills introduced by Reps. Omar or Tiaib to create any Muslim holidays.

I’m assuming that the author of the letter (Ted Carr of Bethel) heard this made-up story about the two congresswomen from controversial Muslim critic Chris Gaubatz when he spoke to the Haywood GOP, so I hope Mr. Carr will do the responsible thing and notify Gaubatz (as well as those who attended his presentation) that he’s spreading fake news.

It’s very sad that the right-wing extremists launched immediate efforts to discredit the two congresswomen almost immediately after they took their oath of office in January 2019; even sadder, that this very dated made-up story about them is still being circulated.

Myrna Campbell Maggie Valley

Impeachment is worth the risks To the Editor: To impeach or not to impeach, that is the question on the minds of many Americans and the U.S. Congress. We must consider whether such action is in the vital best interests of the United States despite any political

every evening for more cardiovascular exercise. We could stop falling for his tricks, such as going outside to potty 12 times per day because he knows he will get a treat every time he does.

I guess we are going to have to make some of these adjustments. Yesterday, while I was out on the deck sitting in my easy chair reading a book, Oliver was whining at my feet, stomping around like a little bull in a thunderstorm.

“What is it?” I said, patting the chair next to mine. “Come on, boy. You got this.”

You got this? The jump from the deck onto the chair was no more than 14 inches off the ground, less than half the height he used to clear with ease. He sat up and stretched out, putting his front paws on the cushion, whining louder. When I put down my book and reached over to help, he scampered away, apparently embarrassed that I thought he needed my help to make such a pitiful little jump. He looked at me and tilted his head, the dog equivalent of a shrug. I shrugged back.

We shared a moment.

Just as I was about to pick back up my book and resume reading, I saw him out of the corner of my eye, crouching, then jumping … and then failing, falling short of the mark, then splatting back on the deck like a bowl of wet pizza dough, one confused eye turned back in my direction to see if I had noticed him hitting bottom. I pretended not to. Then I reached down and petted him nonchalantly, as if this were all perfectly normal, just a part of our day-to-day world, which it may well be unless ...

“Hello, my name is Oliver.”

“Step One: We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.”

(Chris Cox is a writer and teacher who lives in Haywood County. jchriscox@live.com)

LETTERS risks of its outcome.

Children of my generation were taught, accepted, and held inviolate, the Constitution’s basic principles of separation of powers and checks and balances. Every child today, and every adult in America, is learning from Donald Trump, that these tenets, this foundation, our code of ethics, our Constitution, may be nothing but hogwash.

By refusing to respond to any congressional subpoenas, Trump is saying Congress has no constitutional authority to oversee the executive branch. He’s stating that Congress is subordinate (not a coequal) branch of government. Do we just simply forget about separation of powers?

By spending money on his ill-conceived wall that Congress explicitly refused to OK, Trump is saying Congress has no constitutional authority over spending. Goodbye, checks and balances. Goodbye, Congress.

By shutting down government whenever this man-child doesn’t get his way, Trump is saying he has the constitutional right not to execute laws whenever it suits him. Again, Farewell, Congress.

By directing the attorney general, the justice department, the FBI and the secretary of

the treasury to act in his own personal interest rather than in the interests of the American people, Trump is saying that he (or any president) can run the U.S. government on his own. Adios, Constitution and Goodbye, America, au revoir, ta-ta, sayonara.

By threatening to cut off trade with the second-largest economy in the world, Trump is saying he has sole authority to endanger the entire American economy. Andres Manuel Lopez Abrador (President of Mexico) is the most recent leader to try and explain the economic facts of life to Trump before he puts the world’s economy in a tailspin.

And by doing everything possible to stop an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, including firing the head of the FBI (interference we all now know was true and clearly took place), Trump told America it’s AOK for a president to obstruct justice. Goodbye, law. You comfortable with that? I’m not.

The core purpose of the U.S. Constitution is to prevent tyranny. The framers wisely distributed power among the President, C ongress, and the judiciary, giving each of the three branches the means to limit the power

of the other two. In other words, the framers of the U.S. Constitution anticipated the possibility of a Donald Trump.

The framers also put in components to enforce the Constitution against a president who tries to usurp the powers of the other branches (which Donald Trump clearly has). The last sentence of Article I, Section 2: “The House of Representatives shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.” In the next to last paragraph of Article I, Section 3: “The Senate shall have sole Power to try all Impeachments.”

President Trump (in my opinion) clearly appears to be actively usurping the powers of the other branches. Therefore, the road ahead (though difficult to traverse) seems equally clear. Under our present circumstances, the Constitution mandates, commands, and expressly directs that the House of Representatives undertake an impeachment inquiry and present the resulting evidence to the Senate.

This may not be the most popular or the most practical and certainly not the most risk-free political thing to do. But it is the necessary and the right thing to do.

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young families, and we know that they see that. But how many cannot make a full-time transition to these towns because broadband access remains inconsistent and even unavailable in some places?

And how many of our existing businesses suffer lost opportunities or are unable to recruit those with specialized skills and knowledge for the same reason? Even our municipalities face these issues as they recruit people to fill local government jobs.

That is especially the case when a spouse operates a home-based business requiring reliable, high-speed internet to connect to the larger world.

Legislation now in the North Carolina House, the FIBER NC Act, holds great promise to close this digital divide. It would better enable local governments to partner with internet service providers to bring reliable internet service to homes and businesses.

The legislation also would allow local governments to receive grants to help lay fiber and build other infrastructure that could then be leased to the private internet service providers. Under current state law, Franklin and other municipalities cannot accept grants for this purpose from entities like the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Golden Leaf Foundation, even as local governments in other states can pull down grant funding.

The General Assembly must recognize that our rural communities cannot wait. The time to pass the FIBER NC Act and bring all available resources to the table to address our state’s digital divide is now.

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In Macon County and Franklin, where I am mayor, I see it every day, whether hikers setting out along the Appalachian trail, kayakers and rafters Guest Columnist rolling down the Nantahala or Cullasaja rivers, or fly fishers plying the smaller waters all around.

The pull of nature is strong.

But we also live in a time of global urbanization. Economies of scale, proximity to evolving technology, and economic opportunity in our urban centers tug at our young people.

As a result, many rural communities struggle with population loss, declining tax bases and challenges providing expected services to the residents who remain.

The ability to leverage natural and other amenities, as well as the uniqueness of each of our communities, is how we reverse those trends. But doing so becomes much more difficult when communities lack what today is a necessary and basic form of infrastructure: reliable broadband.

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FIREFLY TAPS & GRILL 128 N. Main St., Waynesville 828.454.5400. Simple, delicious food. A must experience in WNC. Located in downtown Waynesville with an atmosphere that will warm your heart and your belly! Local and regional beers on tap. Full bar, vegetarian options, kids menu, and more.

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HARMON’S DEN BISTRO 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville 828.456.6322. Harmon’s Den is located in the Fangmeyer Theater at HART. Open 5:309 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday (Bistro closes at 7:30 p.m. on nights when there is a show in the Fangmeyer Theater) with Sunday brunch at 11 a.m. that includes breakfast and lunch items. Harmon’s Den offers a complete menu with cocktails, wine list, and area beers on tap. Enjoy casual dining with the guarantee of making it to the performance in time, then rub shoulders with the cast afterward with post-show food and beverage service. Reservations recommended. www.harmonsden.harttheatre.org

JOEY'S PANCAKE HOUSE 4309 Soco Rd Maggie Valley.

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

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

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

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

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Peter Noone.

Closer now and you will see what I mean

Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER he history of rock-n-roll music is as wide and deep as an ocean, each drop of water a band, song or feeling radiating a sense of self into the endless universe.

And within that massive and undulating history, no wave was larger than that of the British Invasion in the 1960s. Sparked by The Beatles appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show Feb. 9, 1964, the musical charge “across the pond” from England to the United States included the likes of The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Who, The Dave Clark Five, The Animals, The Hollies, The Kinks, The Zombies and Herman’s Hermits.

Fronted by a teenage Peter Noone, Herman’s Hermits rose to prominence with a sugary sweet blend of pop and rock sensibilities, fusing themes of love and curiosity with elements of comedic brilliance.

It was a formula for success that led Herman’s Hermits to a slew of gold records and 11 Top 10 hits (“I’m Into Something Good,” “Wonderful World,” “There’s a Kind of Hush”) on the American charts, which included two No. 1 smashes: “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter” and “I’m Henry VIII, I Am.” Now 71, Noone steps up to the microphone with as much excitement and passion as those many decades ago. While onstage, Noone taps into a fountain of youth that only resides within songs immortal, where well-earned wrinkles and ticking clocks seems to disappear into an evening of memories held high and in unison of the melodic moment itself.

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Smoky Mountain News: Back in the early 1960s, it seemed that people looked at being a musician as a “novelty,” something you’ll do for a couple years and then get a “real job”…

Peter Noone: Well, it only works if it’s a hobby as well. I’m even a fan of airplanes. I went from trains to airplanes, and now I’m like a plane spotter. So, now when I get on a plane, it’s an exciting adventure. And you know, luckily for me, I have experience and I know that there are no two concerts that are the same, ever. We never do the same thing. It’s not planned, it’s because there isn’t a plan. And that’s the plan, not to have a plan — to work as much as you can, do the best job you can every gig, be respectful to everybody, then go home, have a bath, and get ready for the next one.

“We never really took ourselves that seriously because we knew we were never going to be as good as The Beatles. So, I know what we’ll do — we won’t compete with them, we’ll do completely different types of songs ... just find beautiful pop romantic songs. And, you know, throw in some comedy. And we always kept it like that.”

— Peter Noone

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Iconic 1960s British pop/rock group Herman’s Hermits featuring Peter Noone will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 28, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Herman’s Hermits was a hugely successful English beat band in the mid-1960s with hits including, “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter” “I’m Into Something Good” and “I’m Henry VIII, I Am.” They have sold over 60 million records and continue to consistently play to sold-out venues all over the world.

Tickets start at $25 each, with priority seating available. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

SMN: What do you remember most about those early days? The gate burst open with The Beatles, but what was England like for you at that time?

PN: You know, I don’t remember it being anything but fun. The Beatles grew up in the shadow of Elvis Presley and we grew up in the shadow of The Beatles. So, we never really took ourselves that seriously because we knew we were never going to be as good as The Beatles.

So, I know what we’ll do — we won’t compete

with them, we’ll do completely different types of songs. We’ll go the Buddy Holly & The Crickets way, and just find beautiful pop romantic songs. And, you know, throw in some comedy. And we always kept it like that.

SMN: In that time period following the Kennedy assassination (Nov. 22, 1963), it almost seemed serendipitous that this happy and uplifting music showed up in such a dark time in America…

PN: Most of the songs that we brought here were American remakes. And all we did was that we were more enthusiastic. You had your John F. Kennedy and we had World War II on our doorstep. Every single person in every band that was in the British Invasion was connected to somebody who fought in the Second World War. My father fought and my mother

was sent to countryside because the place she lived was being bombed. So, of course there would be fun periods of music.

SMN: You’ve dedicated your life to music and live performance, what is it that still triggers something within you, that makes you excited and passionate about all this?

PN: I’m lucky that I like my songs and I get a kick out of singing my songs. And the audience knows them. When people say, “I can’t do anything else,” I’m like Keith Richards [of The Rolling Stones] in a way, that we don’t know what else to do except what we do. We just keep going until one day you’re singing “Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat” and you can’t. [Laughs].

Editor’s Note: If you would like to stream the entire audio of this conversation, go to YouTube and search “Peter Noone Garret K. Woodward.”

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Sliding into the booth at Waffle House, I cracked open Larry McMurtry’s novel All “Stecoah Arts & Crafts Drive About Tour” will be My Friends Are Going to Be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 28-29 in Bryson Strangers. Taking a sip of my City, Stecoah and Robbinsville. coffee, I dove into the world Medieval, renaissance, baroque and of Danny Deck and his life in contemporary music will be performed on early Houston, Texas, and greater and folk instruments at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 4, America in the early 1970s. in the recital hall the Coulter Building at Western That scene itself is someCarolina University. thing held closely to my heart. The notion of sitting The 30th annual Mountain Artisans alone in a diner booth, with “Summertime“ Arts & Crafts Show will be held book and strong coffee in from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 29-30 in the hand, and reading in one’s Ramsey Center at Western Carolina University. own time, not a place to be or a person to be seen until I decide to leave the booth and reenter society. a swirling magic of people, food and silent reading that has never left me.

My genuine love and passion for diners That urge to head to a diner and read or comes directly from my father. As far back as pull off the highway to do so really pushed I can remember, he would and still does itself into my daily life when I was in college (every single day) wake up early, go buy The in the mid-2000s. Quinnipiac University New York Times and read it in the local (Hamden, Connecticut) was some six hours diner in my Upstate New York hometown. or so from my hometown. So, when I would It’s like clockwork, really. drive back and forth during holiday breaks, And, when I was a kid or when I’m back I would stop at many of those picturesque home now as an adult, he and I would go to the diner together. We’d either talk a little or and quaint New England diners — a break from the open road, a chance to read and both be reading, picking away at a plate full of breakfast foods and drinking endless cups clear my head.

This was also the same time when I of coffee. There’s something serene and poignant about silently reading in the organ- decided to become a writer. A college flame at the time had given me a set of pristine ized chaos of a diner in the morning light —

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Moleskin notebooks. “If you want to be a writer you have to start writing,” she said.

So, I would leave the notebooks in my truck at all times, just on the off-chance I end up in a diner between classes and on the weekends, tucked away in some corner booth scribbling away every thought felt or conversation overhead — just writing for the sake of writing, you know?

Excerpt from Dec. 14, 2006, journal entry (Christmas break senior year): Lilly’s Diner. Exit B-3 on I-90. With $10 in my pocket, I knew the only place I could get my money’s worth for breakfast from New Haven to Albany would Lilly’s. I gazed at the moon.

It lit the way to the roadside culinary establishment. The silhouettes of the Berkshire Mountains hovered in the distance. I stared out the window. My face reflected off the brightly lit glass. I was on the New York/Massachusetts border. Far from home, but close to graduating. Most are scared shitless of post-graduation. I like the fact I have no idea what’s going to happen and where I’m going to end up. My destination is in my hands. My fate is left to those above who watch me like a movie with popcorn in their hands and a twinkle in their eyes in anticipation of my next move. Winter is creeping in.

The miles tick away towards home.

Those hundreds of journal entries were made in diners following college and that first summer back home in the North Country, all while trying to land my first journalism gig. They were made in dusty breakfast nooks amid the Wild West when I was a 23-year-old living and working at a small newspaper in the Grand Teton mountains of Eastern Idaho and Wyoming.

They were made in diners across the lower 48 states following the economic recession (of 2008 onward) where I found myself crisscrossing the country as a traveling freelance writer. They were also conjured in breakfast establishments throughout the Southeast as I tried to navigate my new home in Western North Carolina some seven years ago.

Nowadays, seeing as I’m constantly writing for work and such, my diner time is solely for reading. I wake up and meander over to my overflowing bookshelf. What do I feel like reading today, eh? Reread a Kerouac or Bukowski classic? Maybe finally dive into that collection of great American short stories? What about that book on tips for backcountry camping and hiking?

And it’s in those moments where I’m hunkered down in that booth, in that town somewhere, with breakfast and book in front of me (smart phone left in the truck), where I truly find a sense of peace in an often overwhelming and noisy 21st century existence we’re all trying our best to wrap our heads and arms around.

There’s always time to read, even if a few pages a day. There’s also always time for coffee, best served alongside your book, whether or not you’re waiting on someone to join you. Don’t forget, the center of universe is a conversation over coffee with an old friend, one where thoughts never drift to what time it is and if you need to be somewhere for something.

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The Groovin’ on the Green summer concert series will host Andalyn (rock/Americana) at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 28, at The Village Green in Cashiers.

Other performers will include Continental Divide (Motown/beach) July 5, Hurricane Creek (rock) July 12, Hi-5 (rock) July 26, The Currys (country/blues) Aug. 2, Eat a Peach (classic rock) Aug. 9, Americana Jones (roots) Aug. 16, Andrew Beam (classic country) Aug. 23 and Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’Blues (blues) Aug. 31.

For more information about this and other events in the park call 828.743.3434, email director@cashiersgreen.com or visit The Village Green website.

Concerts on the Creek The 10th season of the Concerts on the Creek summer music series continues with The Rewind Band (classic hits/rock) at 7 p.m.

Friday, June 28, at Bridge Park in Sylva.

Concerts on the Creek events are free and open to the public with donations encouraged. Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy the shows. Occasionally, these events will feature food truck vendors as well.

For more information, call the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce at 828.586.2155 or visit www.mountainlovers.com. Follow the Concerts on the Creek Facebook page for series updates.

‘Brews & News’ music series Billingsley.

The annual “Week of Rock” will take place June 28-July 6 at Nantahala Brewing in downtown Bryson City.

Live music acts include the Natural Born Leaders June 28, Austin Zackary Band June 29, Supatight June 30, Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats July 1, Sugah & The Cubes July 2, April B. & The Cool July 3, Jim & The Giant Jam 1 p.m. July 4, Samantha Gray 4:30 p.m.

July 4, Red Clay Revival July 4, The Four Squares July 5 and Ogya World Music Band July 6.

All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit www.nantahalabrewing.com.

WCU welcomes beloved folklorist A performance by folklorist, storyteller and musician Lee Knight will take place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University.

Knight, who performs on guitar, banjo and dulcimer, will focus on traditional ballads and their journeys through time and space, tracing the evolution of songs such as “Barbara Allen” as the renditions moved from the British Isles to America.

A regular performer for workshops, Elderhostels, festivals and camps, Knight has participated in artist-in-residence programs for the North Carolina Arts Council and other arts groups across the Southeast.

Most recently, he was a guest artist at the Kronos Quartet’s 2019 Festival in San Francisco, celebrating the songs of iconic American folk singer and activist, the late Pete Seeger.

The free event is sponsored by the Mountain Collegium, a weeklong workshop in early music, folk music and dance, in partnership with WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center.

For more information, call the Mountain Heritage Center at 828.227.7129.

Local rock act Billingsley will perform at 9 p.m. Saturday, June 29, in The Gem downstairs taproom at Boojum Brewing in Waynesville.

The show will be the next installment of the popular “Brews & News Music Series,” which is presented monthly by Boojum Brewing and The Smoky Mountain News.

Billingsley originally hails from Hendersonville, where the sibling trio grew up learning to play music from their dad. For several years, they played in churches and coffee shops all over the region, learning about what it takes to make a live performance work.

In the fall of 2017, they released their debut album, “Beginner’s Luck.”

Admission is $5 at the door. www.facebook.com/billingsleyrocks.

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Other acts in the series will include: Buncombe Turnpike (July 6), Zoe & Cloyd (July 13), Carolina Blue (July 20), Fireside Collective (July 27), Jeff Little Trio (Aug. 3), Becky Buller (Aug. 10), Salt & Light (Aug. 17), The Kruger Brothers (Aug. 24) and Wayne Henderson & Helen White (Aug. 31).

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For more information and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.stecoahvalleycenter.com. All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. in the air-conditioned Lynn L. Shields Auditorium.

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• Blue Ridge Beer Hub (Waynesville) will host an acoustic jam with Main St. NoTones from 6 to 9 p.m. June 27. Free and open to the public. www.blueridgebeerhub.com.

• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host a bluegrass open mic every Wednesday, an all-genres open mic every Thursday, Billingsley June 29 and The Get Right Band (rock/soul) 9:30 p.m. July 5. All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.boojumbrewing.com.

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• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host The Penny Pinchers June 28, Carolina Sky June 29, Elysium Park July 5, Joey Fortner & The Universal Sound (Americana/folk) July 6 and Ben Wilson (singer-songwriter) 5 p.m.

July 7. All shows begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Innovation Station (Dillsboro) will host InDaSkies July 6. All events are free and begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday, Frog & Owl Revival June 28, Tea 4 Three June 29 and Corbitt Clampitt Duo July 6. All

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host the “Stone Soup” open mic night every Tuesday, Shalyer’s Kitchen June 28, Bird in Hand (Americana/folk) June 29 and Somebody’s Child (Americana/folk) July 6.

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

• Nantahala Brewing (Bryson City) will host the “Week of Rock” with Natural Born Leaders June 28, Austin Zackary Band June 29, Supatight June 30, Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats July 1, Sugah & The Cubes July 2, April B. & The Cool July 3, Jim & The Giant Jam 1 p.m. July 4, Samantha Gray 4:30 p.m. July 4, Red Clay Revival July 4, The Four Squares July 5 and Ogya World Music Band July 6. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• Nantahala Outdoor Center (Nantahala Gorge) will host Natti Love Joys 6:30 p.m.

June 29, The Get Right Band (rock/soul) 6:30 p.m. June 30, Scott James Stambaugh (singer-songwriter) 2 p.m. July 6, Pioneer Chicken Stand 6 p.m. July 6 and Hustle Souls 6 p.m. July 7. All shows are and open to the public. www.noc.com.

• The Oconaluftee Visitor Center (Cherokee) will host a back porch old-time music jam from 1 to 3 p.m. July 6. All are welcome to come play or simply sit and listen to sounds of Southern Appalachia.

• The Paper Mill Lounge & Theatre (Sylva) will host Ben Wilson (singer-songwriter) 8 p.m. June 27, Scott Baker & Geoff McBride (Americana) 8:30 p.m. June 28 and Loyal Phantom 8:30 p.m. July 6. 828.508.0554 or www.thepapermilllounge.com.

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Highlands) will host Bluegrass w/Nitrograss Wednesdays at 7 p.m and Arnold Hill (Americana) 9:30 p.m.

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• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host an “Open Mic Night” on Mondays, karaoke on Thursdays, Andrew Rickman & The No Pressure Band June 28 and Scoundrel’s Lounge June 29. All events at 10 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

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• Whiteside Brewing (Cashiers) will host Jason Lyles 5:30 p.m. June 27. All shows start at 5:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

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20th anniversary concert season s nd June 29 – Michael Clevelan & Flame Keeper July 6 – Buncombe Turnpik ke July 13 – Zoe & Cloyd July 20 – Carolina Blue July 27 – Fireside Collectiv ve August 3 – Jeff Little Trio August 10 – Beck ky y Buller August 17 – Salt and Lightt August 24 – The Kruger Broth hers August 31 – Wayne Hendersson & Helen White For information and tickets, visit StecoahValleyCenter.com m 828-479-3364

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• Isis Music Hall (West Asheville) will host Lawn Series w/Fwuit 6 p.m. June 26, Jess Jocoy & Scott Bianchi 7 p.m. June 26, Lawn Series w/Whistle Pig (honky-tonk) 6 p.m.

July 27, Ruth Wyand & The Tribe of One (Americana) 7 p.m. June 27, Oshima Brothers (pop/indie) 8:30 p.m. June 27, Few Miles South (Americana) 7 p.m. June 28, Michelle Malone & Sarah Peacock (Americana) 8:30 p.m. June 28, Cassidy Catanzaro & Robinson Treacher (Americana/alt-country) 7 p.m. June 29, Ben Bedford (singer-songwriter) 6 p.m. June 30, Chris Walters (blues/jazz) 7:30 p.m.

June 30, Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions w/Darren Nicholson Band 7:30 p.m. July 2 and Logan Marie (singer-songwriter) 7 p.m.

July 3. For more information about the performances and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.isisasheville.com.

• Marianna Black Library (Bryson City) will host Heidi Holton (blues/folk) at 7 p.m. June 27. Free and open to the public.

828.488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

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• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night June 26 and July 3, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo June 27 and July 4. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

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• Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host the “Lounge Series” at its Calaboose location with Lindsay Beth Harper June 27, Somebody’s Child (Americana) June 28, Scott James Stambaugh (singer-songwriter) June 29, Wyatt Espalin (singer-songwriter) June 30 and July 5, Granny’s Mason Jar July 4, Nouveaux Honkies July 6 and George Ausman 4 p.m. July 7. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

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Celebrate Independence Day with The Issacs at the fourth annual “Musication Nation” festival, which will be held from July 4-7 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

The fun will begin with a Fourth of July concert and bar-b-que dinner at 5:30 p.m. in the backlot of the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts.

The Issacs will provide a pre-dinner show and then join their fans for a delicious meal that will include a barbecue plate with all the fixings, a cookie, and a beverage. Tickets to enjoy the afternoon concert and dinner are $25 each and participants are encouraged to bring their lawn chairs.

Afterward, everyone will be invited to bring their instruments out and play with The Issacs. The jam session is free and open to the public.

The backlot of the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts is the perfect spot to view the town’s spectacular fireworks show, so come for dinner stay a while.

On Friday, July 5, The Isaacs will lead morning devotions at the theater. This special time of worship, inspiration, and fellowship will begin at 10 a.m. and there is no cost to attend. Later that afternoon, The Isaacs will be in concert with Gospel group Karen

Peck and New River at 1:30 p.m. Tickets to this concert are $15 each.

An evening concert is also planned for 7 p.m. and will include country music group Shenandoah. Tickets for this concert start at $30 each with a limited number of VIP seats that include a pre-show backstage meet and greet also available.

Events on Saturday, July 6, will begin with a morning devotion at the theater at 10 a.m. An afternoon talent show will give participants a chance to show off their talents, and the grand prize winner will be invited to open the evening concert later that day. The winner will also receive a three-song recording package produced by Ben Isaacs in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Anyone who wishes to experience the excitement of The Isaacs Musication Nation Talent Search as an audience member may do so for just $10. Performers who wish to compete in the talent search must register at www.theisaacs.com/musicationnation.

That night, The Issacs will be in concert with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver at 7 p.m.

Saturday, July 6. Tickets start at $30 each with a limited number of VIP seats that include a pre-show backstage meet and greet are also available.

To purchase tickets, visit www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

Mountain Collegium faculty recital at WCU

Musicians performing include Gail Ann Schroeder, Katherine Muldiner, Holly Maurer and Chrissy Spencer (violas da gamba); Chris Armijo, Valerie Austin, Phil Hollar, Jody Miller, Patricia Petersen, Gwyn Roberts and Anne Timberlake (recorders and other renaissance winds); Liza Malamut (sackbut); Sue Richards (harp); Lorriane Hammond (folk instruments); Robert Bolyard (voice, organ and viola da gamba); and Barbara Weiss (harpsichord and recorder). Will Peebles, professor of bassoon in WCU’s School of Music, will perform on dulcian.

Admission to the recital is free, but donations to the Gerald R. Moore Mountain Collegium Scholarship will be accepted. For more information, call 404.314.1891 or email recorder96@gmail.com.

The faculty of the Mountain Collegium Music Workshop will perform medieval, renaissance, baroque and contemporary music on early and folk instruments at 8 p.m.

Thursday, July 4, in the recital hall the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University.

The Mountain Collegium Music Workshop is an annual event at WCU and typically offers classes on instruments used in 15th- through 18th-century Europe, which helps performers achieve a sound and effect appropriate for these styles of music. The teaching organization’s site can be found at www.mountaincollegium.org.

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the U.S. Naval Academy in 1967 with a major in history and government. He served 20 years as a Navy surface warfare officer on most of the world’s oceans in ships ranging from destroyer to aircraft carrier and with river forces in Vietnam.

He is the author of A Confederate Biography: The Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah (Naval Institute Press, 2015) and a contributing author at the Emerging Civil War blog. His upcoming book is entitled, With Mutual Fierceness: The Battles of Hampton Roads and will soon be published

by Emerging Civil War Series.

The evening’s agenda begins at 5 p.m. with a meet and greet dinner at the Tap Room within The Waynesville Inn Golf Resort and Spa. Dinner will be followed with a social at 6:30 p.m. The meeting and free presentation will commence at 7 p.m. in the Mountaineer room on the second floor of The Waynesville Inn. www.wnccwrt.com.

The Western North Carolina Civil War Roundtable is pleased to welcome Dwight Hughes for a presentation at 5 p.m. Monday, July 8, at The Waynesville Inn Golf Resort and Spa. Hughes will be speaking on the ironclad USS Monitor and its historic encounter with the Virginia during the Civil War. The USS Monitor is renowned for its role in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. It was nicknamed a “cheesebox on a raft” due to its curious appearance.

Hughes will detail the Monitor’s hurried origins as a foil to the CSS Virginia, its role in the epic battle with the Virginia, its unfortunate demise off Cape Hatteras, and recent rediscovery and archaeological salvage.

Lt. Commander Hughes graduated from

• The CommUnity Square Dance will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville.

No partner or experience is necessary. pammanottus@gmail.com.

• The Jackson County Genealogical Society will hold its annual “Fun-Raiser” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at Bridge Park in Sylva. Silent Auction. Raffle for quilt and shotgun. Hot dog lunch. Live music by Kim Shuler, Mark Jones & Turning Home, Chuck Norris & The Faithful Pilgrims, Betty Brown & Friends, The Deitz Family, Liberty Baptist Church Choir, Haven Bryant, Laila Messer, Ella Ledford and Jesse & Friends.

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• Contra Dancing will be offered at 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 29, at the Historic Cowee School Arts & Heritage Center in Franklin.

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Caller will be Diane Silver, with live music by Darlin’ Honeys. Partners are not required.

Tickets available the night of the dance. Call 828.369.4080 or visit www.coweeschool.org.

• “Thunder in the Smokies Rally” will be June 28-30 at the Maggie Valley Fairgrounds. Live music, dozens of vendors, $1,000 bike show and bike games, and much more. www.thunderinthesmokies.com.

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setting where attendees are invited to listen, dance and sing along.

Festivities get into full swing on Thursday, July 4, with a community Fourth of July Parade from Lambuth Inn down North Lakeshore Drive to Nanci Weldon Memorial Gym. The parade, themed “When the Circus Came to Town,” will begin at 11 a.m. with individuals, families and businesses from all over Haywood County participating along with performers from the Imagine Circus. Anyone is invited to have a float.

Register at www.lakejunaluska.com/july4th.

Following the parade, a barbecue lunch will take place at Nanci Weldon Memorial Gym at noon with music and kids’ activities including face painting, bounce houses and a balloon artist. At 1:30 p.m., Whitewater Bluegrass Company will lead attendees in a square dance. No experience

• Canton Fourth of July Celebration, www.cantonnc.com

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All are invited to spend a patriotic Fourth of July at Lake Junaluska. Independence Day Celebrations will feature fireworks, a parade, a cirque-style circus show, family-friendly activities and concerts, including a performance by internationally acclaimed bluegrass group Balsam Range.

Many activities are free. Tickets may be purchased for two concerts, a performance and a barbecue lunch. Three- and four-night lodging packages offer meals and admission to events.

The Blue Ridge Big Band kicks off the celebration with a free public concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, in the white lakeside tent near Stuart Auditorium.

Comprised of professional musicians, music educators, hobbyists and music majors, the band performs a wide selection of genres and styles in a relaxed, informal

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is necessary to participate, and the dance is free and open to all.

Then during the evening on the Fourth of July, the Lake Junaluska Singers, a 16-voice choral ensemble that has performed at Lake Junaluska for more than 60 years, kicks off its summer season with a patriotic salute at Stuart Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

The concert precedes the free community fireworks display that begins at approximately 9:30 p.m. More than 800 fireworks will be shot from the dam and reflected on the lake.

Then on Friday, July 5, live music from bluegrass to southern gospel will be performed at the Harrell Center by the lake from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Later on July 5 at 7:30 p.m., the Imagine Circus featuring aerialists, stilt walkers and jugglers will perform a Cirque-style show in Stuart Auditorium.

Independence Day Celebrations continue on Saturday, July 6, at 2 p.m. with the Family Olympics, a friendly field day competition with fun and silly challenges.

The Independence Day festivities conclude July 6 with a performance by the bluegrass group Balsam Range in Stuart Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

Admission to the Lake Junaluska Singers concert is $23 reserved seating and $18 general admission. Tickets to the Imagine Circus are for adults $23 reserved seating and $18 general admission, and for children ages 12 and younger $15 reserved seating and $12 general admission. Tickets for Balsam Range are $25 reserved seating and $23 general admission.

Tickets for reserved seating to the Lake Junaluska Singers concert, Imagine Circus and Balsam Range performances to be held, respectively, on July 4, 5 and 6, in Stuart Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., can only be purchased through www.itickets.com, which is linked to from www.lakejunaluska.com/july4th and can be reached at 800.965.9324.

• Vendors and demonstrators are wanted for the 2nd annual Mountain Heritage Fest in Cruso. This great day of barbecue, crafts, and music will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at the Cruso Community Center. Vendor spaces are $10 for a 10x10 space and demonstrators can participate for free. All spaces are outdoors.

Visit www.crusonc.com/fest, call Levi at 828.400.7323 or email crusoquiltshow@gmail.com.

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• A “Master Potter” series workshop with Brent McCoy will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Cowee Pottery School in Franklin. McCoy will teach stenciling techniques with various methods, including newsprint and inkjet printers.

Registration fee is $50 and additional supplies are needed. For more information on the workshop, supply list and/or to register, visit www.coweepotteryschool.org/masterpotter-series.

• “Fused Glass Wind Chime Class” with Gayle Haynie will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, June 29, at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville. In this class you’ll learn the basics of fused glass. Learn to cut and snip glass to the size and shape you prefer and how to add layers to your pieces to create color and interest. Cost of class includes all glass, firing, assistance with assembling, wire and hooks: $55 for HCAC members or $60 for non-members. Class size is limited to 10. Make your reservation today at 828.452.0593.

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• The Cowee Pottery School in Franklin will have a buy one, get one 50 percent off pottery class special for the month of June. To get the deal, go to www.coweepotteryschool.org and use the promo code during checkout: “Bring a friend.” Must register both students at the same time. One coupon per registration. For more information, email contact@coweepotteryschool.org.

• The Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville is looking for a new identity for the annual Haywood County Studio Tour.

Submissions will be accepted through Aug. 1. The contest is open to everyone. Visit the

The Haywood County Arts Council (HCAC) in Waynesville will continue with its line up of Cherokee Artist Demonstrations as A part of its current exhibit of the works of legendary Cherokee artist John Julius Wilnoty, which will be on display through June 29 at V HCAC. • Saturday, June 29: 3 to 5 p.m.

Joshua and Lauren Adams, wood carvers. Joshua is part of a long lineage of Cherokee woodcarvers, starting with his great aunt and uncle James and Irma Bradley.

Joshua also had the privilege to study under renowned Cherokee artist Dr. James Bud Smith and was directly influenced by legendary Cherokee artists Amanda Crowe and John Julius Wilnoty.

For more information, visit www.haywoodarts.org.

council’s website www.haywoodarts.org/logocontest for the application form and additional information. Winner will be selected by the Haywood Arts Council Studio Tour committee. For more information, call 828.452.0593, email info@haywoodarts.org or visit www.haywoodarts.org.

• The Weekly Open Studio art classes will resume from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville, Instructor will be Betina Morgan. Open to all artists, at any stage of development, and in the medium of your choice. Cost is $20 per class. There will also be a Youth Art Class from 4 to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. Cost is $10 per class. Contact Morgan at 828.550.6190 or email bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

• The Museum of the Cherokee Indian has recently opened a major new exhibit, “People of the Clay: Contemporary Cherokee Potters.”

It features more than 60 potters from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee Nation, and more than one hundred works from 1900 to the present. The exhibit will run through next April.

• A “Beginner Step-By-Step” adult painting class will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. There is also a class at 6:30 p.m. on the last Wednesday of the month at Balsam Fall Brewing in Sylva. Cost is $25 with all supplies provided. For more information on paint dates and/or to RSVP, contact Robin Arramae at 828.400.9560 or wncpaintevents@gmail.com.

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

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The monthly Creating Community Workshop on artist trading cards will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 29, in the Atrium of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Artist trading cards is a conceptual art project initiated by the Swiss artist M. Vänçi Stirnemann in 1997. He called it a Collaborative Cultural Performance.

Artist trading cards are 2 1⁄2 by 3 1⁄2 inches in size, the same format as modern trading cards (hockey cards or baseball cards). They are self-made unique works or small series, signed and dated on the reverse by the artist/producer, exchanged and collected by the people who participate in the collaborative performance.

Attendees should wear old clothes or

Stecoah Drive-About Tour The annual “Stecoah Arts & Crafts Drive About Tour” will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 28-29 in Bryson City, Stecoah and Robbinsville.

The tour includes: Nantahala School for the Arts (Southwestern Community

bring an apron. Materials will be provided, but if you have any pictures or other 2-D objects that would fit on a 2 1⁄2 by 3 1⁄2 inches card, feel free to bring them.

Instructor Helen Vance’s love of Artist Trading Cards began many years ago.

They’re perfect for dilettantes as they are an ideal format for trying out different media and ideas. Play around or fall deeply into the process, you’ll find them very satisfying.

This class is limited to 10 participants.

For more information or to sign up for the class call 828.586.2016 or stop by the Reference Desk. This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library. The Jackson County Public Library is a member of Fontana Regional Library (www.fontanalib.org).

College), Sawmill Creek Pottery, Gallery Zella, Stecoah Artisans Gallery, Yellow Branch Pottery & Cheese, Taylor’s Greenhouse, Wehrloom Honey & Essentials and Junk ‘n’ Style.

The Schoolhouse Café at Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center will be open during both days of the Artisans Drive About. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

Cullowhee Arts’ Summer Art Workshop Series will continue at Western Carolina University’s School of Art and Design.

The last workshop will be Week 3: July 13, (three-day workshop). Cost includes tuition, lunches and two group dinners; focused and concentrated learning with access to WCU Art Studios and facilities.

Studios are open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. www.cullowheemountainarts.org. For more information, call 828.342.7899.

Waynesville Art School summer camps Registration is currently underway for summer art camps at Waynesville Art School.

• Shining Minds camps for 10 to 13 year olds will be offered from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. daily on July 8-11 and July 29-Aug. 1.

Cost is $110 for a four-day session or $35 single day camp enrollment.

• Kinder Artists camps for 5 to 6 year olds will be offered from 10 to 11 a.m. daily on July 15-18 and Aug. 5-8. Cost is $45 for a four-day session or $15 single day camp enrollment.

• Art Sparklers camps for 7 to 9 year olds will be offered from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. daily on July 22-25. Cost is $110 for a four-day session or $35 single day camp enrollment.

Call 828.246.9869 or visit www.waynesvilleartschool.com.

Mountain Artisans showcase The 30th annual Mountain Artisans “Summertime“ Arts & Crafts Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 29-30 in the Ramsey Center at Western Carolina University.

Dozens of local artisans. Admission is $4.50 for adults with children under 12 free.

Concessions available and free parking. www.mountainartisans.net.

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A scene from ‘Stardust.’ (photo: Dr. John Highsmith)

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Transforming the new Fangmeyer Theatre into a 1940s nightclub in honor of the classic song by Hoagy Carmichael, “Stardust” will hit the stage at 6 p.m. June 27-29, and at 12:30 p.m. June 30 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

The evening begins with the bar open for cocktails, then a grand buffet, then a short time for dancing before the floorshow begins. Many of HART’s stars are on hand to perform standards from the era and there are even show girls in elaborate costumes to complete the picture.

“Stardust” is not just a show, it is meant to be an experience that HART will repeat if this proves popular.

If you ever wished you could go back to the days of Ricky Ricardo and the Tropicana, or spot the stars at the Coconut Grove or the Copacabana, this is your chance to step back

into an era we now see only in old movies.

Director Glenn Arnette has spent the past year working on every detail and Chef Christy Bishop has come up with a retro menu that she is sure will capture the era.

The cast includes: Stephen Gonya, Lyn Donley, Marta Christmas, Randall Robins, Leslie Lang, Grizel Gonzalez-Jeuck, James Brice, Jerri Harris, Charles Mills, Karen Covington Yow, Lise Hoffman, Madison Garris, Carol Leslie Duermit, Sarah Elizabeth Mosgrove, Allison Stinson, and the dance group, The Liquid Sirens.

Seating for “Stardust” is at tables of six, but if you want a more intimate experience for a small upcharge there are tables for two and four stage side. There won’t be cigarette girls, or a hat check, but that’s all that will be missing.

To make reservations, visit www.harttheatre.org or call 828.456.6322.

Improvisational musical at HPAC

memorable characters, witty dialogue, and plot twists galore.

A limited number of tickets are still available at www.highlandspac.org or by calling 828.526.9047.

“Broadway’s Next Hit Musical” will hit the stage at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Highlands Performing Arts Center.

Every song is fresh. Every scene is new.

Every night is different. It’s all improvised and it’s all funny. The hilarious “Broadway’s Next Hit Musical” is the only unscripted theatrical awards show. Master improvisers gather made up, hit song title suggestions from the audience and create a spontaneous evening of music, humor, and laughter.

The audience votes for its favorite song and watches as the cast turns it into a fullblown improvised musical — complete with

• There is free comedy improv class from 7 to 9 p.m. every Thursday at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. No experience necessary, just come to watch or join in the fun.

Improv teacher Wayne Porter studied at Sak Comedy Lab in Orlando, Florida, and performed improvisation with several groups.

Join Improv WNC on Facebook or just call 828.316.876

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Writing to heal the wounds of war une 2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of The Smoky Mountain News. At the party celebrating this landmark in the paper’s history, Tom Baker introduced himself to me. Tom is the author of The Hawk and the Dove, historical fiction covering military conflicts from the time of the Vikings to the Vietnam War. As Tom, his wife, and I visited, they told me about a writing therapy program for veterans, particularly those with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The idea behind this program is not that veterWriter ans write for publication, though some may do so, but instead seek healing by talking through their fingers to a piece of paper about their past. Those who have trouble expressing themselves to friends and family can often find in the privacy of narrative a way to release their emotions and their trauma.

That next week, poking through the New Book shelves at the North Asheville Public Library, I stumbled across David Constantine’s The Life-Writer (Biblioasis, 2016, 240 pages). After deciding to give the novel a look, I found myself caught up in the story of a woman who turns to writing about the past as a way of battling her own PTSD, brought on not by war but by the death of a husband she deeply loved.

Katrin Swinton is a writer of “brief lives,” insignificant figures of European Romanticism, the writers whose passions matched those of the great figures of the Romantic period, but whose talents fell woefully short. “Each lived a unique life, but at the heart of each was a common lack.

Therein, for Katrin, lay their poignancy.”

When her husband Eric dies of cancer, Katrin in her grief loses interest in this project. Instead, driven by a despair that nearly maddens her, she determines to investigate

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Eric’s life before she knew him, hoping that such an investigation will somehow both recreate him and allow her to live in peace with his death. She rummages through his

trunks and satchels of letters in the attic, gleaning his early impressions of the world while still a teenager, his reckless and passionate love affair with a French girl Monique, his later doomed marriage to Edna, his relationship with his best friend Daniel, his failures at Oxford, the distance he maintained from his mother, father, and brother, his love for Katrin.

Nominations sought for Wolfe award The Western North Carolina Historical Association is now accepting nominations for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award.

Originated by the Louis Lipinsky family and now supported by Michael Sartisky, PhD, the Award is a partnership between WNCHA and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Advisory Committee. It has been presented by WNCHA since 1955. The award comes with a $2,500 cash prize.

The deadline for submission of nominated works is July 15, 2019. Anyone with knowledge of an author who meets the qualification criteria may nominate the author for the award.

To be considered, an entry must be a published work of fiction,

In her despair, which this investigation of Eric’s life only partially cures, there are two ministers of grace. The first is the aptly named Dr. Gracie, Liz Gracie, who herself is dying of cancer. She counsels Katrin, steering her gently away from anguish, from a wish to die, and back to the land of the living. Though a secondary character in The Life-Writer, Liz Gracie is that friend, that counselor, that human being we would most want with us when we are walking through hell. Katrin’s second companion on this walk is Daniel, an old friend of Eric, a gentle man, a scholar who helps Katrin better understand not only Eric, but herself as well.

Oddly enough, the character least understood by the end of The Life-Writer is Eric Swinton himself. Despite Katrin’s investigation and extensive note-taking, he remains a puzzle both to her as well as to readers. We may strongly suspect this sense of mystery may be Constantine’s way of saying how enormously difficult it is to truly understand the human beings we love.

One attraction of this novel is its use of the English language.

So much of the fiction we read today, whether in romance, fantasy, science fiction, or suspense, is flat, that is, the authors tell the story, but shy away from elegance and beauty. There are exceptions, of course — the late Pat Conroy, James Lee Burke, and Anne Tyler come immediately to mind — but the great majority of writers assume a prose style that minimalizes description and avoids embellishment.

Not so David Constantine. And I mean that as a high compliment. Here is a poet masquerading as a novelist, a lover of words,

nonfiction, drama or poetry and meet the following criteria: • It must be a first edition work; revised editions of published works will not be considered for the award.

• The publication date must be in the calendar year 2018 or no later than July 1, 2019.

• The author must be a native of Western North Carolina or a resident of Western North Carolina for at least twelve months prior to the closing date for the award.

• An author may also qualify if the work submitted has a focus on or setting in Western North Carolina.

Western North Carolina includes the Qualla Boundary and the following 25 counties: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin, and Yancey.

The Award Panel this year consists of: Brandon J. Johnson,

syntax, and language capable of blending plot and characters with exquisite descriptions, seamless portraiture. Like all masters of the language, Constantine recreates the sights, odors, and noises of a scene: the streets of Paris, the woodlands and dells of England, the rooms of various houses. In doing so, he often tells us as much about a character as the setting. In his description of the good Dr. Gracie’s surgery, he tells us that it is “spacious and light,” that the walls feature landscapes and “a painting by Gwen John of a girl reading,” that on her desk sit photographs of her husband and two children, that “her glasses give her the appearance of a studious schoolgirl.” The paragraph ends with this lovely duet of sentences: “Behind her there is a garden, an apple tree in flower. And the scents of the garden, a breath of warmth, and birdsong enter the surgery through the slightly opened windows.”

The inner lives of the characters receive this same careful use of language and lyricism.

At one point, Michael Swinton, brother of Eric and a recently retired probation officer, reflects on the different ways people react when they have done committed a crime or otherwise done great harm. In this passage, he speaks of those who “did a thing they never dreamed of doing. Either that, or the whole structure was, all along, unbeknownst to them, a very precarious thing. Say the wrong word, put a foot wrong, it collapses, almost innocently you destroy it, you inhabit the ruins ever after and nothing you do will make it right again. That was the very worst, says Michael, dealing with people who had, so to speak, crossed over and would have behind them, forevermore, the irreparatable.”

The Life-Writer is a bottle of fine champagne beside a plate of delicious cheeses, a book, in other words, to be savored. Under the pressures of time and circumstance, I tossed off my glass of champagne and bolted down the cheese.

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

Chair, Mars Hill University, Pam Duncan, Associate Professor of English, Western Carolina University; Gwin Jones, Past Chair WNCHA; Tom Muir, Historic Site Manager, Thomas Wolfe Memorial; Ellen Carr, Treasurer, Thomas Wolfe Memorial Advisory Committee; Gordon McKinney, PhD, former president, Appalachian Studies Association; Terry Roberts, PhD, Director, National Paideia Center; Jim Stokely, President, Wilma Dykeman Legacy.

Nomination letters must specify the following eligibility criteria: date of publication, birthplace or residence of author, and setting of work.

Nominators should submit a cover letter along with three copies of the work post-marked no later than July 1, 2019 to: Wolfe Award Committee, C/O Tom Muir, Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 North Market Street, Asheville, NC, 28801.

An awards ceremony and reception, in honor of the finalists and 2019 Award recipient, will be held in November 2019.

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HCC students saw through a log during a timbersports competition.

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Lumberjack ‘family’ to get a home Construction underway on new HCC timbersports building

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER fter more than 20 years of wood chopping and log sawing and award winning, the Haywood Community College Lumberjacks — the school’s timbersports team — will soon gain a permanent home.

“The current practice facility is back where the old mill used to be, and it’s probably just as old as that was, late ‘60s,” said Matt Heimburg, dean of arts, sciences and natural resources at HCC. “It has a tin roof and a few logs somehow holding it up. So it’s long overdue for them to get a new practice space, for sure.”

By November, work is expected to be complete on a 2,800-square-foot timbersports practice facility located at the front of campus. HCC leaders believe that the project will likely make them the only college in the country to have a dedicated facility for its timbersports team.

“Timbersports” is a term trademarked by STIHL Inc. — a company known primarily for its chainsaws — and involves various events that hinge on the use of axes and saws.

With its focus on forestry and natural resources, HCC is a natural home for such a team, though the school is not otherwise

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As planned, the new timbersports building will have three storage closets to house all the team’s equipment, as well as men’s and women’s restrooms and an open center sec-

The 2,800-square-foot-building will feature practice/event space, storage rooms and bathrooms.

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tion that can be used for practice or as an event space.

“The center section of it has a wood floor in it,” explained campus architect Brek Lanning. “That way when they do their chopping practice, if they miss they’re not hitting a concrete slab and damaging themselves or the

equipment. That way we can replace the flooring as needed.”

Building the facility has been a goal for years, but last year the project finally got some momentum when the HCC Foundation launched a capital campaign to raise funds, an effort that formally began in April 2018 and concluded with a gala in September of that year. The $225,000 facility is 100 percent donor-funded thanks to those efforts.

“We’re certainly grateful for the community and their generosity to be behind the team,” said Pam Hardin, director of institutional advancement at HCC. “It’s definitely a wonderful example of the power of philanthropy.”

Ground broke on the project in April, and it’s expected to wrap up by November at the latest, and hopefully earlier.

Nash Dawkins, a 2019 HCC graduate who now works as an instructional assistant and timbersports safety technician at the school after two years on the team, believes the new building will be transformational for the Lumberjacks.

“I think it will help tremendously,” he said. “Right now underneath that old pole barn we only have room for one person to chop at a time, and also where we saw at, it’s not flat at all. Just being on a flat surface that’s covered from the weather will be a tremendous improvement and help us a lot.”

Despite the less-than-stellar space the team has had at its disposal since its creation in 1995, it’s managed to become a powerhouse in the world of timbersports, taking first in more than 20 competitions in the past 24 years — even while competing against teams from well-known four-year universities.

In 2014, team member Logan Hawks came in third at the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Series Collegiate Lumberjack Competition, becoming the third HCC student since 2007 to rank as a top place finisher. This July, another HCC timbersports athlete has a shot at the national title. In March, student Darby Hand qualified to go to the STIHL championships in Milwaukee this July, and accord-

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For weeks, club members have been diligently working in their gardens potting and dividing plants, including perennial flowers, hostas, ground cover and herbs, as well as working on creative projects.

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Fish for free on the Fourth From 12 a.m. until 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, July 4, everyone in North Carolina can fish for free in any public body of water — including coastal waters — without having to purchase a fishing license or additional trout fishing privilege.

Although no fishing license is required, all other fishing regulations, such as length and daily possession limits, as well as bait and tackle restrictions, continue to apply.

Started in 1994 by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission and authorized by the N.C. General Assembly, Free Fishing Day always falls on July 4.

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Free Program for Seniors About Hoarding Thursday June 27 12 to 1PM

The “I’m covered up” is not just about the physical retention of things but more importantly, the emotional components that won’t allow release. This presentation examines causes, symptoms, and adaptive treatment and care methods for those dealing with hoarding behavior.

A focus is placed on the aged population.

The Waynesville Parks and Recreation will host a free program for seniors at the Waynesville Recreation Center. The event is sponsored

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to coaching HCC’s team, he’ll be an instructor in the school’s forestry management technology program.

“We’re very excited to have him coming to join our team here at HCC,” said Heimburg.

The hope is that Storm won’t be the only new face on a team that relies on a steady supply of new faces — with HCC being a two-year school, the roster tends to change rapidly, with 30 to 40 students on it during any given year. While the team’s current practice location is in a tucked-away corner at the back of campus, the new facility will be located at the front, between the millpond and the horticulture building.

That’s by design.

“It’s going to generate more interest from the community, because there are people who come here and walk their dogs, that sort of thing, so they’re going to come here and see the activities going on,” said Lanning.

The same will apply to students.

“Instead of being at the very back, we’ll have new students coming in and they’ll see the building and wonder, ‘What is that?’” said Dawkins. “It will also hopefully lead to more people joining the team.”

That would be a win all around.

“We’re almost like one big family.

Everyone gets motivated and we help each other out, help the community out,” said Dawkins. “Everyone always seems to enjoy us being out there.”

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ing to Heimburg, he has potential to win.

Dawkins said the team’s sustained success is largely the result of sustained dedication.

“Everyone who comes down is very dedicated to it, and they come down and practice every single day we have practice, Monday through Thursday, and go at it till dark,” he said.

Dawkins estimates it’s about a 50-50 split between competition events that develop skills that are quite useful in real life, such as chainsawing and chopping, and those that are useful mainly just in the context of competition, such as saw racing. But regardless, careful training is required.

“Every event we do is highly skilled,” he said. “You can’t just hop up there and do it.

It takes months of practice before you can even think about going into a competition and doing it.”

Historically, the team has been largely self-taught, said Heimburg, with older students teaching younger students — most of whom are completely unfamiliar with the skills involved upon joining the team — how it’s done. Along with the new facility, though, the team will get another boost this fall, this time in the form of a new timbersports coach named Alex Storm.

Storm will come to HCC from West Virginia University. He’s coached timbersports teams at both two- and four-year schools before, and participated on the professional timbersports circuit. In addition

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Celebrate Cosby continues A series of community programs called “Celebrating Cosby: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” hosted by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park continues each Friday now through Aug. 2 at the Cosby Campground Amphitheater in Cosby, Tennessee.

Featuring a diverse lineup of experts who share the rich cultural and natural history of the Cosby area through crafts, history walks, storytelling and song, the programs offer “incredible opportunities for visitors to discover Cosby by experiencing it firsthand with the people who live and work here,” according to Park Superintendent Cassius Cash.

Events are held rain or shine. In the event of rain activities will be moved to the covered picnic pavilion adjacent to Cosby

Campground. Call Park Ranger Katie Corrigan at 865.436.1257 or email katherine_corrigan@nps.gov to learn more.

Upcoming schedule: n Friday, July 5, 7 to 8 p.m. — Celebrating Ella V. Costner Enjoy stories of the famed “Poet Laureate of the Smokies,” Ella Costner, who grew up in Cosby before joining the Army as a nurse and becoming a prolific writer.

This evening will include a Presentation of Quilts of Valor. n Friday, July 12, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. — A Walk Down Memory Lane Join Imogene Wilson and Olie Williamson as they take on a walk remembering what the area looked like before the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Find feathered friends The Franklin Bird Club will offer several birding walks on the Little Tennessee Greenway throughout the month of July.

Walks begin at 8 a.m. and commence in different locations. On July 3, meet at the Macon County Public Library parking area. On July 10, the walk begins at the Big Bear Shelter parking area. On July 17, the expedition commences on Salali Lane, off Fox Ridge Road just south of Franklin Flea Market on Highlands Road. On July 24, it’s back at the Macon County Public Library parking area, and on July 31, it’s back to the Big Bear Shelter parking area. For more information, visit www.franklinbirdclub.com or call 828.524.5234.

Get to know the West Fork of the Pigeon The Haywood Waterways Association and Haywood Community College will lead an aquatic ecology workshop Saturday, July 6, on the West Fork Pigeon River.

Lead Instructor of Fish and Wildlife Management Technology Department at Haywood Community College Shannon Rabby, along with his students, will share their knowledge of fish diversity and aquatic macro-invertebrate communities that call the river home.

The event is free for Haywood Waterways members, and $5 for nonmembers. Memberships start at $25. The group

will meet at 11:30 a.m. at the Jukebox Junction Soda Shoppe, 6306 Pigeon Rd., Canton, and will conclude by 2:30 p.m.

Snorkeling equipment and viewing boxes will be provided. Snorkeling is not required, but is highly encouraged.

Haywood Waterways will provide light refreshments. Carpooling is encouraged, due to limited parking space at Jukebox Junction. Youth are welcome, but must be accompanied by an adult. Leave pets at home.

Space is limited to 18 individuals.

Members can sign up now; non-members can sign up starting June 20. RSVP by 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 4, to Caitlin Worsham at caitlinw.hwa@gmail.com or 828.476.4667.

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Camp Cup Challenge returns to NOC Enjoy two days of community building, group activities and paddling on the Nantahala River while practicing the Olympic ideals of friendship, fair play and doing your best at the Alzar School’s Camp Cup Challenge July 15 and 16.

The Alzar School is an Idaho-based nonprofit that offers academic semesters for motivated high school sophomores and juniors, summer courses for younger teenagers, educator expeditions, alumni adventures, corporate training and a teaching fellowship program. The school’s goal is to develop young leaders through integrating a rigorous academic curriculum, cultural exchange and outdoor adventure.

More than 100 campers aged 18 and under will meet for good-natured competition and camaraderie during this tri-discipline event, including beginner-friendly downriver, freestyle and slalom.

For more information on the Alzar School’s Camp Cup Challenge, or to get involved, visit www.noc.com/events/alzarschools-camp-cup-challenge or contact Alzar School’s Head Teacher Sean Bierle at sean@alzarschool.org.

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Hike to Blackrock Overlook Members and guests are invited to join Friends of Panthertown on Saturday, July 6, for a guided hike up Blackrock Mountain to Blackrock Overlook, led by Friends of Panthertown Board member and volunteer Marcia Shawler.

In partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, Friends of Panthertown provides volunteers and raises funds for much-needed conservation projects in Panthertown Valley, encouraging environmental stewardship, volunteerism and public awareness of issues concerning Panthertown. Working to conserve this outstanding natural resource while improving the quality and experience of recreational opportunities in Panthertown.

Group size is limited, and some hiking experience is recommended. To learn more or to register, visit www.panthertown.org.

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Hike the historic Kelsey Trail from Whiteside Mountain to the Highlands Recreation Park at 9 a.m. on Friday, July 5.

When Highlands was founded in 1875, there was no road to Whiteside Mountain, until Samuel Kelsey began work on a road that would end a quarter mile from the top of Whiteside in 1881.

After 500 days of work, the first wagon made its journey to Whiteside on July 10, 1883, and for the next 70 years, the Kelsey Trail became one of the most popular excursions for the people of Highlands. Although the road was closed to the public in the 1950s, the Highlands Plateau Greenway will sponsor a nostalgic walk on the original trail from Whiteside Mountain to the Highlands Rec Park.

The 5-mile walk, mostly downhill, takes less than four hours and will end with a picnic at the Rec Park. Bring good hiking shoes or boots, rain gear, water, a daypack and your camera.

Residents and visitors can register online for the walk at highlandsgreenway@nctv.com.

The $75 cost of the guided walk includes a picnic lunch and free membership in the Highlands Plateau Greenway.

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The Judo Club includes Mason Chambers, (front row left to right) Mason Early, Dessa Phillips, Tanner Keener and Shawnee Kirkland, and Mason Keener, (back row left to right) Parker Kirkland, Sensei Jimmy Riggs, Logan Grasty, Ryan Conn and Coach Rodney Phillips.

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Waynesville Judo Club brings home awards The Waynesville Judo Club recently competed in the South Carolina State Championship, coming away with 11 medals.

Mason Early and Ryan Conn won top honors; Early won two divisions and remains undefeated in his weight class, while Conn excelled with a record of 9-1, winning the 66 kg division and finishing second in the 73 kg division. He also won

the kosen division (ground work).

Mason Keener, Parker Kirkland and Logan Grasty won second place awards.

Grasty, Tanner Keener and Shawnee Kirkland won a third place as well.

The Waynesville Judo Club practices from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursdays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. For more information, call Sensei Jimmy Riggs at 827.506.0327.

The Haywood County Recreation & Parks department will host a 7-on-7 adult soccer tournament beginning Aug. 3 and running through Aug. 10.

Team registration is now open through July 19 at the HCRP office, 63 Elmwood Way, in Waynesville, at $130 per team. Each team is guaranteed three games before the knock-out stage begins. Games consist of two 25-minute halves, with a 5-minute halftime.

For further information or questions about registration, contact Ian Smith at 828.452.6789 or ian.smith@haywoodcountync.gov.

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Fitness) are led by instructor Mike Creason, retired assistant professor in the department of health, physical education and recreation at WCU. He has been certified by the American Red Cross to teach infants and children and has been a swimming instructor for more than 40 years.

For more information about the swim programs at WCU, visit swim.wcu.edu or call 828.227.7397. If you do not know which level your child should be in, call Mike Creason directly at 828.293.5364.

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Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment will be offering summer youth swim programs at Reid Gym on WCU’s campus during the month of July.

There will be three different age categories for the programs, “Shark,” ages 6 and up; “Fish” ages 3-5 and “Minnows,” ages 6 months to 3 years. The sessions will be held on weekdays only, no weekends.

The Shark level is $75 per session and will be held July 8 through July 23. The Fish level is $45 per session and will be held July 8 through 19, with an additional session July 22 through Aug. 2. The Minnows Level is $45 per session and will be held July 8 through July 19, with a third session also from July 22 to Aug. 2.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS •Lake Junaluska Summer Activities Program is offered weekdays through July. The center invites the community to enjoy daily free and low -cost activities. Summer Activities Program weekly events include morning and evening yoga lessons, board game nights, morning lakeside devotionals, bonfires, indoor and outdoor movies, and live music. Visit for schedule: www.lakejunaluska.com/summeractivities.

• Village Green is hosting open houses this summer for visitors to see progress on its construction project in Cashiers. Dates are June 26 and July 3. Info: 743.3434, courtney@cashiersgreen.com or www.VillageGreenCashiersNC.com.

• The inaugural Veteran & Community Resource & Job Fair is scheduled for June 27 at Haywood Vocational Opportunities in Waynesville. Fair for veterans and family is from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; general public is welcome from 12:30-2 p.m. Breakfast and lunch provided for veterans and vendors.

• Bingo will be held at 6:30 p.m. on June 27 in the Maggie Valley Pavilion next to town hall. Sponsored by the Maggie Valley Civic Association.

• Grant applications are being accepted from local nonprofits for grants that will be provided by Grace Church in the Mountains. Proceeds from a July 27 Parish Fair go toward supporting these grants.

Application: www.gracewaynesville.com. Info: 456.6029.

• Tractor Supply Company will host a pet treat tasting event from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, June 29, at its Clyde location. Opportunity for pets to sample a variety of treats available at the store. 454.1054.

• Registration is underway for Camp Folkmoot 2019 “Hands Around the Globe,” which will be offered from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Friday, July 19, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. One-day dance camp for grades 3-12. $30 for students and $10 for accompanying adults.

• The North Shore Cemetery Association will host decorations at Proctor and Bradshaw Cemeteries on Sunday, July 7, near Fontana Village. First boat shuttle leaves at 8:30 a.m.; last at 10 a.m. Leave from the Cable Cove Boating Access Area off of NC 28. Wear sturdy footwear and clothing suitable for outdoor activities; bring foul weather gear and lunch/drinks. Mobility impairments or need assistance: 706.896.2183 or hwc@windstream.net. Changes or cancellations: Facebook/northshorecemeteries.

• The Haywood County Arts Council is accepting submissions for a Studio Tour Logo Contest through Aug. 1.

Info and application: haywoodarts.org/logo-contest.

• Western Carolina University is accepting letters of nominations for the Mountain Heritage Awards, prestigious honors bestowed on an individual and an organization each year for contributions to or for playing a prominent role in research, preservation and curation of Southern Appalachian history, culture and folklore.

Awards will be presented at the 45th annual Mountain Heritage Day on Saturday, Sept. 28, on the WCU campus. Nominations should be delivered no later than Friday, June 28, to the Mountain Heritage Center offices, located in Room 240 of WCU’s Hunter Library; mailed to Mountain Heritage Center, 1 University Drive, Cullowhee N.C. 28723; or emailed to pameister@wcu.edu.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Resume writing assistance is available from 1-3 p.m. on the following Fridays: July 5, 19; Aug. 2, 16; and Sept. 6 and 20 in the Waynesville Library Upstairs Conference Room. Info: Kathleen.olsen@haywoodcountync.gov or 356.2507.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

• Financial Aid for College: Get the Facts from 6-7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 9, at the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Led by Laura Misner of the College Foundation of North Carolina. Learn the basics, how to apply, how to access CFNC resource and avoid scams.

• Registration is underway for a “Lean Thinking Workshop” that will be offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 9, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Led by Dr. Todd Creasy, MBA director and associate professor of management and project management at WCU. Learn to improve customer experience while reducing unnecessary clutter and process steps. Early bird registration fee: $249.

After July 9, cost is: $279. Register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for a Five-Star Customer Service for the Hospitality Industry workshop, which will be offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Registration: $119. For info or to sign up: pdp.wcu.edu or jcthompson@wcu.edu.

• Registration is underway for a “Powerful Communications Strategies for Women Workshop” that will be offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 23, at WCU’s instructional site at Biltmore Park. Early bird registration is $139 through Aug. 1; increases to $169 after. Register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Ticket reservations are being accepted for Pawsitively Purrfect Part a fundraiser that will benefit the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society being held on Monday, Aug. 19, at Country Club of Sapphire Valley.

Cost is $195 per person, $390 per couple or $1,800 for a table of 10. To request an alert once tickets are available, call 743.5769 or write shannon@CHhumanesociety.org.

• The Maggie Valley Lions Club will sponsor an Italian Dinner Extravaganza at 5:30 and 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, at the Maggie Valley United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. Cost: $12 adults; $6 for under-12.

Advance tickets available at Elevated Mountain Distilling in Maggie Valley or 926.9794.

• Tickets are on sale now for a “Battle of the Badges” flag football game/fundraiser for affordable housing in Haywood County. Game is at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3, at Weatherby Stadium in Waynesville. Adults: $10; students: $5. Tickets available at the Mountain Projects office on 2177 Asheville Road in Waynesville; the Mountaineer Newspaper office at 220 N. Main Street in Waynesville and at mountainprojects.org.

• The Jackson County Genealogical Society will hold its annual "Fun-Raiser" from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at Bridge Park in Sylva. Silent Auction. Raffle for quilt and shotgun. Hot dog lunch. Live music by Kim Shuler, Mark Jones & Turning Home, Chuck Norris & The Faithful Pilgrims, Betty Brown & Friends, The Deitz Family, Liberty Baptist Church Choir, Haven Bryant, Laila Messer, Ella Ledford and Jesse & Friends. Bring your lawn chair and enjoy the festivities.

• Registration is underway for the 26th annual Golf Tournament and gala benefiting Haywood Christian Ministries. Tournament is July 10 at Laurel Ridge Country Club and Waynesville Inn & Resort; Gala is July

11 at Laurel Ridge. Proceeds primarily benefit the heating program that ensures no elderly, infants, preschoolers or seriously ill folks go without heat this winter.

Gala tickets are $30; golf is $125 per player (includes one gala ticket). Entry forms at the HCM office, local area golf clubs or haywoodministry.org. Info: 456.4838.

VOLUNTEERS & VENDORS • Vendors and demonstrators are wanted for the 2nd annual Mountain Heritage Fest in Cruso. This great day of barbecue, crafts, and music will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at the Cruso Community Center. Vendor spaces are $10 for a 10x10 space and demonstrators can participate for free. All spaces are outdoors. For more information and for applications, please visitwww.crusonc.com/fest, call Levi at 400.7323 or email crusoquiltshow@gmail.com.

HEALTH MATTERS • The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, at First United Methodist Church off Waynesville. Reservations: redcrossblood.org (enter sponsor code “OBD2019” or 800.RED.CROSS or download the Red Cross Blood Donor app.

• Gentle Yoga for Cancer is offered from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Fridays at the Haywood Breast Center in Waynesville.

Info: MyHaywoodRegional.com/YogaforCancer or 452.8691.

• On the third weekend of each month, Maggie Valley Wellness Center hosts donation-based acupuncture appointments. $35-55. 944.0288 or maggievalleywellness.com.

• Mountain Audiology will host its Lunch with the Doctor’s event on Thursday, June 27 and July 18, at the Franklin Office and July 12 in Clyde office. Lunch from local restaurant provided. Register: 627.1950.

• “Your Amazing Newborn” class will be offered from 79 p.m. on July 11, Sept. 5 and Nov. 7 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville. Focusing on abilities, behavior, appearance and reflexes of your new baby. Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

• Registration is underway for a Vision Workshop that will be offered from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, July 13, at the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Learn how to discover your true dream or purpose, eliminate fear and doubt and move toward goals with confidence. Led by Donna Corso, certified Dream Builder Life Coach.

Registration required: 356.2507 or Kathleen.olsen@haywoodcountync.gov.

• “Breastfeeding A-Z” class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. on July 18, Sept. 12 and Nov. 14 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville. Focusing on techniques for proper latching and comfortable positions for a baby and mom to get started. Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

• A “Preparation for Childbirth” class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. on Thursdays from Aug. 8-29 and Oct. 324 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville.

Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

• Registration is open for the 2019 Walk to End Alzheimer’s, which is Sept. 21 at Pack Square Park in Asheville. http://act.alz.org/Asheville or 800.272.3900.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • An hour yoga class is offered at 9 a.m. on Wednesdays at the Maggie Valley Wellness Center. $15

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 for a single class, or $55 for a package of four classes.

944.0288 or maggievalleywellness.com.

• The CommUnity Square Dance will be held from 7-9 p.m. on Saturday, June 29, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. No partner or experience necessary. pammanottus@gmail.com.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will offer Buti Yoga from noon-1 p.m. on Saturday, June 29. Soulful blend of yoga, cardio-intense movement, tribal dance and deep abdominal toning. Cost: $14. For info and to register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will offer “Groove on OM!” for women only from 2-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 29.

Dancing fun with no pressures, expectations or judgment. Cost: $20. For info and to register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Contra Dancing will be offered at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Historic Cowee School Arts & Heritage Center in Franklin. Caller will be Diane Silver, with live music by Darlin’ Honeys. Partners are not required.

Tickets available at the school the night of the dance.

For more information, call 828.369.4080 or click on www.coweeschool.org.

• A program entitled “Learn to Meditate the Easy Way” will be offered from 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 30, at Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $14. Info and reservations: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Throughout June, Dance Tonight Haywood offers weekly evening classes on Argentine Tango (Mondays), Salsa (Tuesdays), Swing (Wednesdays) and Blues (Thursday) at 61 ½ Main Street in Canton. For times and to RSVP, text your name and email to 316.1344.

• Community Yoga will be offered from 2:30-3:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 7, at Waynesville Yoga Center.

Reservations: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will offer the first session of its five-week Yoga Basics series from 6:45-7:45 p.m. on Thursday, July 11. Designed for beginners or anyone looking to re-learn the fundamentals. Reservations: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will offer Sunset Yoga from 7:30-8:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 14, at Waterrock Knob.

Reservations: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

SPIRITUAL • Lake Junaluska’s Summer Youth Events, run through July 14. Morning and evening sessions with worship, guest preachers and workshops for sixth-through-12th graders. www.lakejunaluska.com/summeryouth or 800.222.4930.

• Lake Junaluska will host a Summer Worship Series on June 30; July 7, 14, 21, 28 and Aug. 4. Start time is 10:45 a.m. each date except June 23, which starts at 10 a.m. Spirited services led by internationally known preachers in Stuart Auditorium. This year’s theme is “Psalms for Our Time.”

• Registration is underway for Native American Summer

Conference, which is June 28-30, at Lake Junaluska.

Speakers, Bible study and workshops.

Lakejunaluska.com/sejanam or 800.222.4930.

• Registration is underway for Guided Personal Retreats, on July 22-24, Sept. 16-18 and Oct. 21-23 at Lake Junaluska. Lakejunaluska.com/retreats or 800.222.4930.

POLITICAL • The Macon County Republican Party will have a grand opening for its headquarters from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, June 29, at 867 Highlands Road in Franklin. The location is at the Franklin Flea and Craft Market. Hot dog lunch, face painting, kids corner, voter info. www.macongop.com.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES • Senior Tennis Time is from 9 a.m.-noon every Monday, Wednesday and Friday through Oct. 30 at the Donnie Pankiw Tennis Center at 128 W. Marshall Street in Waynesville. For ages 55-up; intermediate or higher skill level. $1 per person per day. 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

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

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

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

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

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

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

356.2800.

KIDS & FAMILIES

Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva will host a video game night on Wednesday’s this summer from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Play Smash Bros. & Mario Cart on the big screen. Free. 586.3555.

• Woodsy Owl’s Curiosity Club will be offered for ages 4-7 from 10:30 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Thursdays, through Aug. 8, at the Cradle of Forestry in America near Brevard. Learning, outdoor activities and crafts. $5 for kids and $3 for accompanying adults. Info and register: 877.3130.

SUMMER CAMPS • Waynesville Art School will offer three youth camps this summer at 303 N. Haywood Street. Kinder Artists camps are for ages 5-6 and will be offered from 1011 a.m. on July 15-18, and Aug. 5-8. Cost: $45 for four-day session or $15 for single-day camp enrollment. Art Sparklers camps are for ages 7-9 and are offered from 10 a.m.12:30 p.m. on July 22-25. Cost is $110 for four days or $35 for single-day enrollment.

Shining Minds Camps are for ages 10-13 and are offered from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on July 8-11 and July 29-Aug. 1. Cost is $110 for four days or $35 for single-day enrollment. 246.9869 or www.WaynesvilleArtSchool.com/programs-1.

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• Discovery Camp with weekly camps are available through Aug. 16 at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville.

Open to pre-K through rising eighth graders. Register: www.ncarboretum.org/education-programs/discoverycamp.

• Registration is underway for a residential camp program scheduled for this summer at Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman: Astro Camp, for ages 11-14, from Aug. 4-9 For info, scholarship opportunities and to register: www.pari.edu or 862.5554.

A&E SPECIAL EVENTS & FESTIVALS • Tickets are on sale now for “Thunder in the Smokies” motorcycle rally, which is June 28-30 in Maggie Valley. Vendors, Blue Ridge Parkway Tour Ride, bike show, games and more. Handlebarcorral.com.

• The annual “Stecoah Arts & Crafts Drive About Tour” will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 28-29 in Bryson City, Stecoah and Robbinsville. Particular studios will be open to the public. The self-guided driving tour highlights artisans who have built a livelihood with their creative talents. Media include pottery, beeswax lanterns and pillar candles, original paintings and drawings, fiber, quilts, photography, artisan cheeses and more. Visit www.stecoahvalleycenter.com for a list of participants.

• The 30th annual Mountain Artisans “Summertime“ Arts & Crafts Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

June 29-30 in the Ramsey Center at Western Carolina University. Dozens of local artisans. Admission is $4.50 for adults with children under 12 free.

Concessions available and free convenient parking. www.mountainartisans.net.

• The 22nd annual Sweet Corn Festival is from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, July 6, at St. Cyprian’s Church on Roller Mill Road in Franklin. Featured music is West Sound of Asheville. Food, bake sale, arts, crafts, children’s games, historic church tour and trail walk.

• Tickets are on sale now for Folkmoot’s 36th annual festival, which will feature 24 events from July 18-28 throughout Western North Carolina: International folk dance performances, live music, parades, craft beer,

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• Base Camp on the Go, a series of outdoor and environmental education activities, will be offered at a variety of locations this summer, through the first week in August: 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Mondays at Waynesville Recreation Center; 2 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Canton Town Park; 2 p.m. on Wednesdays at Fines Creek and 10 a.m.-noon on Fridays at Waynesville Recreation Center. cmiller@waynesville.gov.

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• Summer youth swim programs are being offered through July at Reid Gym on Western Carolina University’s campus in Cullowhee. Led by retired WCU professor Mike Creason. Info: swim.wcu.edu, 227.7397 or 293.5364.

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• 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.

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• Come, Holy Spirit: A Retreat with Jack Levison and Priscilla Pope-Levison is scheduled for July 8-10 at the Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. www.firstlightproductions.org or 734.0630.

• The Junior Forester Program will be offered to ages 8-12 from 10:30 a.m.-noon on Thursdays, through Aug. 8, at the Cradle of Forestry in America near Brevard. Learning, outdoor activities and crafts. $5 for kids and $3 for accompanying adults. Info and register: 877.3130.

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food trucks and artisan vendors. Performances in Waynesville, Clyde, Lake Junaluska, Canton, Cherokee, Hickory, Asheville and Hendersonville. Full schedule and tickets: 452.2997 or folkmoot.org.

• The 2019 “Art After Dark” season will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. the first Friday of the month in downtown Waynesville. Main Street transforms into an evening of art, music, finger foods, beverages and shopping as artisan studios and galleries keep their doors open later for local residents and visitors. www.waynesvillegalleryassociation.com.

FOURTH OF JULY • Lake Junaluska will host Independence Day Celebrations from July 3-7. Concerts by Balsam Range (7:30 p.m. on July 6) and the Lake Junaluska Singers (7:30 p.m. on July 4) and a show by Imagine Circus (7:30 pm. On July 5). Also: A parade (11 a.m. on July 4), a picnic (noon-2 p.m.), and fireworks (approximately 9:30 p.m. on July 4).

• The Carolina Soul Band (soul/R&B/beach/classic hits) will perform amid fireworks and festivities at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 4, at Bridge Park in Sylva.

• Bosu’s Wine Shop will offer Lunch with Us on July 36 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eclectic lunch experience made with fresh seasonal ingredients. Outdoor seating available. Reservations are welcome. 452.0120.

• The Isaacs will perform as part of the fourth annual Musication Nation Festival, which is from July 4-7 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

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June 26-July 2, 2019

• The “Uncorked: Wine & Rail Pairing Experience” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, August 10, Sept. 7, 21 & 22, Nov. 2 and Dec 31 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. Full service all-adult first-class car. Wine pairings with a meal and more. 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com.

SUMMER MUSIC • Groovin’ on the Green will feature Andalyn (rock/Americana) at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, June 28, and Continental Divide (Motwon/beach) at 6:30 p.m. on July 5 at The Village Green in Cashiers. Free and open to the public. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com • The Concerts on the Creek will host The Rewind Band (classic hits/rock) at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 28, at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. Free and open to the public. Occasionally there are food trucks onsite.

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• The Concerts on the Creek will host Hot Trail Mix (progressive bluegrass) at 7 p.m. on July 5 at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. Free and open to the public.

Occasionally there are food trucks onsite. 586.2155 or www.mountainlovers.com.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • The Cherokee Bonfire & Storytelling will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 25 at the Oconaluftee Islands Park in Cherokee. 800.438.1601 or www.visitcherokeenc.com.

• Isis Music Hall in West Asheville will host Lawn Series with Fwuit at 6 p.m. on June 26; Jess Jocoy & Scott Bianchi at 7 p.m. on June 26; Lawn Series with Whistle Pig (honky-tonk) at 6 p.m. and Ruth Wyand & The Tribe of One (Americana) at 7 p.m., and Oshima Brothers (pop/indie) at 8:30 p.m. on June 27; Few Miles South (Americana) at 7 p.m., and Michelle Malone & Sarah Peacock (Americana) 8:30 p.m. on June 28; Cassidy Catanzaro & Robinson Treacher (Americana/alt-country) at 7 p.m. on June 29; Ben Bedford (singer-songwriter) at 6 p.m. and Chris Walters (blues/jazz) at 7:30 p.m. on June 30; Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions w/Darren Nicholson Band at 7:30 p.m. on July 2 and Logan Marie (singer-songwriter) at 7 p.m. on July 3. For more information about the performances and/or to purchase tickets, click on www.isisasheville.com.

• “Stardust” will be performed from June 27-30 at HART in Waynesville. Showtimes are 6 p.m. on June 27-29 and 12:30 p.m. on June 30. Reservations: www.harttheatre.org or 456.6322.

• Iconic 1960s British pop/rock group Herman’s Hermits featuring Peter Noone will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 28, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets start at $25 each, with priority seating available. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, click on www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

• “Broadway’s Next Hit Musical” will hit the stage at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 29, at the Highlands Performing Arts Center. Tickets: www.highlandspac.org or 526.9047.

• Nantahala Outdoor Center (Nantahala Gorge) will host Natti Love Joys at 6:30 p.m. on June 29, The Get Right Band (rock/soul) at 6:30 p.m. on June 30, Scott James Stambaugh (singer-songwriter) at 2 p.m. on July 6, Pioneer Chicken Stand at 6 p.m. on July 6 and Hustle Souls at 6 p.m. on July 7. All shows are and open to the public. www.noc.com.

• Folklorist, storyteller and musician Lee Knight will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 2, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. 227.7129.

• The faculty of the Mountain Collegium Music Workshop will perform medieval, renaissance, baroque and contemporary music on early and folk instruments at 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 4, in the recital hall the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University.

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• “An Appalachian Evening” summer concert series will kick off with legendary bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland & Flame Keeper at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Stecoah Valley Center in Robbinsville.

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• Tickets are on sale now for a concert featuring Paul Saik at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 3, at Lake Junaluska.

Tickets: $18. Lakejunaluska.com/associates or 800.222.4930.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• Pub 319 (Waynesville) will host an open mic night from 8-11 p.m. every Wednesday. Free and open to the public. www.pub319socialhouse.com.

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

• Satulah Mountain Brewing (Highlands) will host “Hoppy Hour” and an open mic at 6 p.m. on Thursdays and live music on Friday evenings. 482.9794 or www.satulahmountainbrewing.com.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host an open mic night every Thursday. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

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

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

283.0079 or www.38main.com.

• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will host live music on Fridays and Saturdays. All shows are free and begin at 7:15 p.m. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

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

• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host an “Open Mic Night” on Mondays and karaoke on Thursdays. All events at 10 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 828.456.4750.

• Haywood Arts Regional Theatre is opened up its bistro Harmons’ Den for karaoke performance on Saturday nights. It is also open mic night at 8 p.m.. On nights when there’s a theater performance in the Fangmeyer Theater, karaoke begins after the show is over. www.harttheatre.org.

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

• Open Mic Night is from 7-9 p.m. on Saturdays at The Strand on 38 Main in Waynesville. 283.0079 or www.38main.com.

• Mad Batter Food & Film host free live music on every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Located in beautiful downtown Sylva. 586.3555. Mad Batter will be closed from July 7 for about a month, check website for renovation updates.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • The Jackson County Public Library’s Adult Summer Reading Program runs through Aug. 3. Theme is the Great Jackson County Read: Armchair Traveler. Info: 586.2016.

• Encouraging art classes for beginning through advanced adults are offered by the Inspired Art Ministry at the following times and dates: Drawing classes from 1-4 p.m. on Mondays; painting classes from 1-4 p.m. on Tuesdays. Info: 456.9197, charspaintings@msn.com or www.iamclasses.wbs.com.

• Waynesville Art School offers afternoon classes for children, teens and adults at 303 N. Haywood Street.

Info: 246.9869, info@waynesvilleartschool.com or WaynesvilleArtSchool.com.

• The Gem & Mineral Society of Franklin meets at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building, 1288 Georgia Road in Franklin.

Program features Dr. Bill Witherspoon, co-author of the popular guide “Roadside Geology of Georgia.”

• Interest meeting for Ladies Homestead Gathering is from 7-8:30 p.m. on June 28 at the Waynesville Inn & Country Club’s Tap Room. https://tinyurl.com/y524uu9p.

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • The Museum of the Cherokee Indian has recently opened a major new exhibit, “People of the Clay: Contemporary Cherokee Potters.” It features more than 60 potters from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee Nation, and more than one hundred works from 1900 to the present. The exhibit will run through April 2020.

• “Rhythm Systems: Nature and Geometry” exhibition will be on display through July 21 at The Bascom in Highlands. www.thebascom.org or 787.2878.

• The exhibit “Cultivating Collections: Photography, Artist Books, Contemporary Native American” will be on display through July 26 at the Bardo Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. A reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. July 25.

• Photographer and Clyde dentist John Highsmith presents “Breathless,” a metal-print series of underwater people and waterborne fabrics. The photo exhibit will run through July 15 at Green Sage Café Westgate in Asheville. 734.6301.

FILM & SCREEN • The Second Tuesday Movie Group meets at 2 p.m. in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. For info, including movie title: 452.5169.

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• Registration is underway for a program entitled “All About Bees: Beescaping and much more” that will be held from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturday, July 13, at the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Registration required: 356.2507 or kathleen.olsen@haywoodcountync.gov.

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• Free movies are shown every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. See website for listings and times at madbatterfoodandfilm.com. Mad Batter will be closed from July 7 for about a month while doing renovations, check website for updates on the reopening.

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Outdoors • Volunteer work days for the Trails Forever program are held every Wednesday, through August, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. For details and to volunteer: 497.1949 or adam_monroe@nps.gov.

• A “Casting for Beginners: Level 1” program for ages 12-up is scheduled for 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on June 27 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard.

Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/yb28fpz8.

• Friends of the Smokies is partnering with Navitat Canopy Adventures to offer one day each month through September where Navitat visitors receive a 10 percent discount, and a portion of sales will be donated to Friends of the Smokies. Dates are: Tuesday, July 30, Saturday, Aug. 17 and Saturday, Sept. 28. Navitat Asheville is located at 242 Poverty Branch Road in Barnardsville. Reservations and info: 626.3700.

• Through Aug. 2, Great Smoky Mountain National Park officials are holding a celebration of the Cosby Campground on the Tennessee side of the park. More info: 865.436.1257 or Katherine_corrigan@nps.gov.

• A series of gatherings aimed at improving survival skills with a few useful knots will be offered from 6-7 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesdays of June and July at Sierra Nevada’s Brewery in Mills River. Bill Sanderson, a trail maintainer with Carolina Mountain Club, will demonstrate knots using medium-sized braided cord. Janonan59@gmail.com.

• Adult Snorkeling in the Stream will be offered for ages 16-up from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on June 29 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard.

Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/yb28fpz8.

• Registration is underway for “Picture Yourself in the Smokies” event, which is Friday through Sunday, Sept.

20-22, at the River Terrace Resort and Convention Center in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Early bird registration until July 12. Info: lisad@gsmassoc.org or 865.436.7318, ext. 257.

• A guided walk of the historic Kelsey Trail from Whiteside Mountain to Highlands Recreation Park is scheduled for Friday, July 5. Cost: $75 (includes picnic lunch and membership in the Highlands Plateau Greenway. highlandsgreenway@nctv.com.

FARM AND GARDEN • A program on proper care for house plants is scheduled for 2-3:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Led by Master Gardener Volunteer Cynthia Slaughter. Registration required: 356.2507 or Kathleen.olsen@haywoodcountync.gov.

• Mountain View Garden Club of Waynesville will have its Annual Plant Sale from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, July 6, in the HART Theater parking lot, 250 Pigeon St. in Waynesville. Supports annual community projects.

• The ‘Whee Farmers Market is held from 3-6 p.m. on Tuesdays through the end of October at the entrance to the village of Forest Hills off North Country Club Drive in Cullowhee. 476.0334 or www.thewheemarket.org.

• Haywood Historic Farmers Market is on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon at the HART Theater parking lot and Wednesdays from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the First Baptist Church overflow parking lot beside Exxon. waynesvillefarmersmarket.com or haywoodfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

• The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon at 171 Legion Drive in Waynesville. 456.1830 or vrogers12@att.net.

• Franklin Farmers Tailgate Market runs 8 a.m. to noon, on East Palmer Street across from Drake Software. 349.2049 or www.facebook.com/franklinncfarmersmarket.

• “Locally Grown on the Green,” the Cashiers farm stand market for local growers, will be held from 3-6 p.m. every Wednesday at the Village Green Commons on Frank Allen Rd. next to the Cashiers post office. info@villagegreencashiersnc.com or 743.3434.

HIKING CLUBS • The Nantahala Hiking Club will take an easy threemile hike on Saturday, June 29, to Secret Falls near Highlands. Info and reservations: 743.1079.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a 9.8-mile hike with a 1,700-foot ascent on Saturday, June 29, to Chestnut Bald and Sam Knob. Info and reservations: 606.3989 or jqs290@gmail.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have an 8.8-mile hike with a 2,100-foot ascent on Sunday, June 30 to Thompson Ridge and Pilot Rock. Info and reservations: 275.6447 or ejb5711@gmail.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a three-mile hike with a 1,000-foot elevation gain on Sunday, June 30, on Snowball Trail. Info and reservations: 585.662.8047 or ron.navik@gmail.com.

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

• Hike of the Week is at 10 a.m. every Friday at varying locations along the parkway. Led by National Park Service rangers. www.nps.gov/blri or 298.5330, ext. 304.

mobile technology to help you get a lot less mobile.

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

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

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• Alarka Expeditions will offer an excursion to search for the elusive mountain camellia flower from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on July 5, in the Fires Creek watershed in Clay County. Led by Jack Johnston. The mountain camellia is the Southern Appalachians’ only member of the tea family. Cost $55. Sign up: www.alarkaexpeditions.com.

• Jackson County Farmers Market runs from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com or www.jacksoncoutyfarmersmarket.org.

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• Backpacking course, will be offered by Landmark Learning on Aug. 12-16 and Oct. 21-25. www.landmarklearning.org.

• The Swain County Farmer’s Market is held from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Friday through October at the barn on Island Street in downtown Bryson City. 488.3848 or www.facebook.com/SwainCountyFarmersMarket.

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67 Fuss over feathers 68 Pungent green 69 Dwell in 70 Krispy -73 Andy Taylor's kid 76 Japanese brand of 112-Down 78 Tired saying 79 Biblical book after Daniel 80 Mitigator 82 Intro offerer 86 Adore, on candy hearts 88 NHL official 89 Just-prior time 90 Med. nation 92 Secrete milk 94 1974-78 sitcom 95 Distinctive filmmaker 96 Wife, e.g.

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The naturalist’s corner

BY DON H ENDERSHOT

Windy City peregrines y bride and I spent a few days in Chicago last week. She was there for a business seminar and I was there for moral support. But, alas, I also had work to do so after walking with her to the 737 Building on N. Michigan Ave. I returned to our room and began recording data from this year’s Forest Service bird points. Our room was on the 26th floor and with the curtains open I had a view of the Chicago skyline. I sat there, entering data and watching it rain. I posted a photo of that rainy day scene on Facebook. Friend and Facebook friend, Janice Irwin, asked if I was looking for peregrines. I said sure and spidermen and went back to my work.

The rain ended a bit later and I glanced up from my desk and through my 26th floor window noticed a bird gliding toward me.

The bird turned left on E. Superior Street just outside my window and, in profile, I could clearly see the bluish back, white undersides and black peregrine hood. I don’t know if Janice is clairvoyant or if she knew about Chicago’s peregrines or urban falcons in general, but the encounter piqued my curiosity.

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I remember years ago (late 1990s,) peregrines would occasionally be reported from Asheville’s old BB&T building — I don’t remember if nesting was confirmed. But I did recall when the Peregrine Fund began their hacking program in the mid 70s, urban buildings were utilized. I discovered, noodling around on the Internet, urban sites were chosen for a few reasons — a ready supply of food (think pigeon, starling, house sparrow, etc.) no predators and historical data of wild peregrines nesting in urban settings.

Captive falcons were hacked in urban settings in the East, Midwest and West.

According to the report I read, by 1993 three quarters of the 43 nesting pairs of peregrines in the Midwest were in urban settings. As peregrines continued to make a comeback, urban colonization also increased. Of 163 pairs in the Midwest in 2003, 40 percent were on buildings.

And the Windy City is a prime example.

The Chicago Peregrine Program operated by the Field Museum monitors the Illinois’ peregrine population. There are around 29 known nesting territories in the state of Illinois, and 20 of those are in the city of Chicago.

I looked at reports of nesting falcons in Chicago and found there is an active territory in Millennium Park, which is only a few blocks from where our hotel was. And, interestingly, on the same day I had a peregrine flyby (June 20), there was also a peregrine rescue just a few blocks from our hotel on Lake Shore drive.

According to a report in the Chicago tribune, a fledgling peregrine was discovered on a sidewalk along Lake Shore. The fledg-

ling was rescued and got a police cruiser ride to Willowbrook Wildlife Center where it will be monitored.

So, remember, even if you’re stuck in the city — don’t forget to look up. Or if you’re stuck on the 26th floor, don’t forget to look out.

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist.

His book, A Year From the Naturalist’s Corner, Vol. 1, is available at regional bookstores or by contacting Don at ddihen1@bellsouth.net)

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