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CONTENTS On the Cover After realizing an employee had been embezzling money, board members for the Junaluska Sanitary District had to deal with the fallout. They also found themselves picking up slack left from fired employees — and paying themselves for the work. (Page 8)

News Macon considers tweaking ballfield plans after discovering gravesite . . . . . . . . . 6 Camp Hope belongs to Canton, must be used for public recreation . . . . . . . . . 7 Jackson Sheriff candidate Curtis Lambert wins Republican primary runoff. . . . 11 Author brings “God’s holy counter culture” to Lake Junaluska . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Canton bans street parking near Blackbear Automotive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Sylva considers expanding zoning reach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Eight men face charges stemming from 2013 Swain murder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Horse-therapy will continue for Franklin special-needs students . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Sylva joins anti-fracking fray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Opinion Man of action and education proves popular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

A&E Tennis legends Andy Roddick and Jim Courier face off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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Macon County revisits Parker Meadows plans Talks between county, tribe continue following gravesite discovery

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER iscovery of a Cherokee gravesite on the soon-to-be ballfield complex at Macon County’s Parker Meadows property will likely mean that the county has to tweak its design. Though no final decision has been made, a series of meetings between county and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians leaders has made it clear that the tribe wants the gravesite to stay right where it is.

“One of the things that I’ve asked them to do is to consider all options as it relates to an avoidance of the site,” said Chief Michell Hicks as he emerged from a closed-session meeting with tribal and county representatives Monday at the Cherokee council house.

“That may mean making it smaller, shifting the site.”

Parker Meadows is a 48-acre property that Macon County plans to make into a tournament-level softball and baseball complex, complete with eight ballfields, a soccer field, courts for tennis and pickelball, picnic shelters, hiking trails and a nine-hole disc golf course. The property alone cost $500,000, and development is expected to cost more

“Our belief is when you bury a Cherokee, they are to remain in that location for perpetuity.

As tribal leaders we’re doing our best to make sure that that memorial to the life of an individual remains intact.”

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“We’re pretty much taking back that is the stance the Eastern Band has, and we’ll respect that,” County Manager Derek Roland said after Monday’s meeting.

Though reconciling construction needs with proper honor for Cherokee history can be a difficult process, it’s not uncommon.

Historically, Cherokee did not bury their dead in designated graveyards. Instead, they made graves in individual, unmarked sites.

“When people died they tended to bury them in the vicinity,” said Steven Claggett, state archeologist. “A mile away, but near the houses or other buildings.”

Because flat land is at a premium in the Smokies, Cherokee villages — and gravesites — tended to be in the same areas that are most desirable for construction today. So, it didn’t surprise anyone when an archeological survey at Parker Meadows turned up a gravesite. What may have been more surprising was that there was only one.

“I think we were a little surprised and pleased that only the one was encountered there at Parker Meadows, but there’s almost no predicting. Sometimes there may be many more,” Claggett said, citing the Macon County airport expansion as an example. That project turned controversial when more than 300 gravesites were discovered on the property.

But whether it’s one site or 300, a gravesite is something that deserves enough reverence to be left alone, Hicks said.

“Our belief is when you bury a Cherokee, they are to remain in that location for perpetuity,” he said. “It’s a cultural significance, it’s a historical significance to our beliefs. As tribal leaders we’re doing our best to make sure that that memorial to the life of an individual remains intact.”

Editor’s note: In the July 16 issue, The Smoky Mountain News incorrectly reported that State Archeologist Stephen Claggett visited the Parker Meadows site. A representative from the N.C. Office of State Archeology’s Asheville office actually made the visit.

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than $3 million. The county’s already sunk its teeth into the project, with bids awarded and ground broken.

As of now, the plans call for a ballfield at the place where the remains were found. The N.C. Office of State Archeology recommended several options, including moving the grave, burying it deeper so construction wouldn’t interfere or rotating the fields so that the baseball diamond wouldn’t have to cover the site.

“I think we’re going to look at rotating the fields to put it between two fields, because now it is definitely in a cut area,” said Seth Adams, the county’s parks and recreation director.

Moving a gravesite is entirely legal, but deciding on a solution is a consensus-driven project, and Macon County is searching for an outcome that will win the approval of the Eastern Band.

“The State Archeologist’s Office can make a ruling and that’s probably all you have to go by, but Macon County is rich in the Eastern Band heritage,” said Commissioner Ronnie Beale. “When it’s a grave we’ve always tried to take the extra step.”

“I want to thank them, first of all, for being cooperative in this scenario,” Hicks said.

Beale and County Manager Derek Roland, who have both been attending ongoing meetings with tribal leaders, will relay those conversations to the other commissioners during their August meeting and likely make a deci-

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Read more To read a copy of the N.C. Court of Appeals ruling on Camp Hope, go to smokymountainnews.com and click on this story. public was largely unaware that Camp Hope existed and it was underused as a result.

The town has made attempts recently to publicize Camp Hope and encourage use of the property by the public. A Friends of Camp Hope group has also sprung up to nurture community uses of the property.

Town leaders are creating a Camp Hope Commission to help forge a vision for how the site should be managed and used. The nine-person Camp Hope Commission will have five members from within the town limits and four from outside the town limits. The commission will advise the town on management of the property and develop a longrange plan “to support its preservation for public use in perpetuity and ensure proper stewardship.”

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER two-year court battle over the ownership of Camp Hope concluded last week when the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the property belonged to the town of Canton.

The town of Canton spent $203,000 in legal fees defending its title to Camp Hope, a 110-acre natural recreation site in the Cruso area with rustic lodging and meeting facilities. The tract was gifted to the town of Canton by Champion International Paper company years ago. But a civil suit claimed Camp Hope should be taken away from Canton for failing to manage the property as a public recreation site, specifically for the benefit of local residents, per the terms stipulated in the town’s deed.

The suit was brought by John and Deborah Prelaz, who were next in line to get the property if Canton didn’t live up to the conditions of the deed laid out by Champion when gifting the property.

Canton had been leasing Camp Hope to a for-profit summer camp for nearly exclusive use between mid-May to mid-September for several years. Of the nearly 1,000 campers who cycled through Wellsprings youth weight-loss and fitness camp from 2006-2011, only a handful were local. Camp Hope, in essence, was being used by a private company for its own benefit, not the benefit of the general public, the suit claimed.

The town of Canton argued the property was still made available for public recreation despite the presence of Wellspring.

That point became moot when Wellspring vacated Camp Hope last year due to the uncertainty caused by the lawsuit.

A jury trail held last May in Haywood County ruled in Canton’s favor, but the Prelazes appealed. This month the town won that appeal as well. Canton was represented in the suit by Waynesville attorneys Frank Queen and Burton Smith, along with a third attorney from Asheville.

While the town won the lawsuit, it did raise some legitimate questions. Camp Hope was a well-kept secret at best. The general

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TAPPING THE TROUGH

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER wall calendar edged with hot-pink swirls seems out of place in the Junaluska Sanitary District, where the back door of the office opens onto a double-bay equipment garage and work boots leave muddy tracks across the concrete floor.

“It’s the cheapest calendar I could find at Staples,” offered Jim Francis, an elected board member for the sanitary district. Saving money, after all, is a point of pride for the scrappy water and sewer system, and it goes hand in hand with keeping rates as low as possible for the 1,850 customers along its lines.

Still, it’s an odd choice for such a go-to item in the office. All month long, Francis and his fellow board members file past the calendar, signing their names in its tiny squares — the sole method for figuring up how much to pay themselves.

The rudimentary system relies on the honor system. There’s little if any documentation justifying what work the elected officials did on a given day or the hours spent.

But no matter. They just count up the number of squares with their names and Francis cuts their checks accordingly.

“We trust each other,” said Francis.

But the adhoc system has flaws. For starters, it violates the board’s compensation policy.

Elected board members were only supposed to be paid for attending official board meetings, a flat rate of $125 per meeting and $150 for the chairman. But the board has systematically been paying itself — using the same flat rate that applies to board meetings — for all sorts of other things that weren’t board meetings.

An investigation by The Smoky Mountain News found: • The payments to board members were never formally authorized or voted on by the board.

• The payments to board members ran counter to their own pay policy, which only allows compensation for attending board meetings, not additional perfunctory duties in their capacity as an elected official.

• One board member was paid $20,000 over a nine-month period for performing routine daily duties, arguably acting as a de facto employee of the sanitary district, contrary to a state statue that prohibits board members from serving as employees. He also wrote his own checks.

• Board members did not provide documentation of what work they were performing, nor submit itemized invoices, to justify their payments.

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The loose system of board members paying themselves for work they did on behalf of the Sanitary District mushroomed over the past year. Historically, total board compensation ran about $11,000 a year, according to budget records.

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sion was not what board members signed on for when they ran for a seat on the sanitary board.

But that was the position in which they found themselves.

“It comes to the point whether you shut the system down and leave 1,800 households and 6,000 people without water and sewer service,” Francis said. “We didn’t have anybody to hire. Who is going to be able to come in here and understand how it works?”

There was another problem, as well. The embezzlement of $210,000 occurred over six years at the hands of an employee they thought they could trust.

“After something like that happens, it’s a while before you can trust anyone again,” The wall calendar at the Junaluska Sanitary District serves as a rudimentary accounting system. Elected McCracken said. board members either write their names in the squares or make check marks to signify the days they want Francis said he didn’t see to be paid for. Becky Johnson photo another option to keep the doors open, the lights on and the water flowing.

“We have sort of been in a state of flux,” Francis said.

Junaluska Sanitary District is a small water and sewer system in Haywood County that serves 1,850 From the board’s perspecwater customers and about half as many sewer customers. tive, their willingness to step in It serves the semi-rural area along the N.C. 209 corridor, from Lowe’s to Riverbend Elementary School and carry out the functions prenorth of I-40, and along U.S. 23-74 to Haywood Community College, including the hospital and Tuscola viously done by employees saved High School. the sanitary district money in It has a $1.9 million annual budget and is overseen by a five-member elected board, which operates the long run. as a public body. In addition to water and sewer bills, the district imposes a 6 cent property tax rate, While the budget for board which subsidizes infrastructure maintenance and expansion. member pay ballooned, the sanFor the record, it has nothing to do with Lake Junaluska, which actually runs its own water and sewer itary district has saved money on system and isn’t affiliated with Junaluska Sanitary. employee salaries.

They went nearly two months before replacing the higher for the most recent fiscal employee fired for embezzlement. And they “We realized board members were year of 2013-2014, according to still haven’t replaced the head manager who what board members have was fired in May. coming down here and spending logged on the office calendar. time that should be compensated There’s good reason board EAVY LIFTING compensation has gone off the for but certainly didn’t qualify for charts, according to board As the primary board member who members. stepped in to run the office and handle the $125 compensation each time.”

Two long-time staff memembezzlement crisis, Francis’s name appears — Jim Francis, Junaluska Sanitary District bers were fired in the past year on the office calendar more than anyone board member — one for criminal embezzleelse’s. He has also pulled in the most compenment of $210,000 and one for sation, paying himself nearly $20,000 over job performance issues. Those two employees meetings. So, they just counted whatever the past 12 months. were the only office staff for the sanitary dis- work they were doing as board meetings, Under state statute, elected officials are trict. Their departure — one in October and even if they weren’t. prohibited from working as employees for the “That’s the only way we had to do it,” said entity they oversee. the other in May — left a huge hole in daily Dan McCracken, a board member. operations.

“A board member cannot work for a disFrancis is a retired grandfather-type like trict — by law,” Francis said.

To fill the void, elected board members found themselves pitching in to run the water most of the elected men who run the sanitary But they can be compensated for carrying district. He’s recently been volunteering to out their duties as a board member. and sewer office.

“When you are a candidate for office you repaint his church, and he helps his sister delivThat begs the question: at what point does accept those responsibilities, that if an emer- er her Meals on Wheels route. McCracken compensation rise to the level of being a de gency hits you have to step up and do it,” said recently got back from a fishing trip in Alaska, facto employee, and when do duties of a board Francis. “I put in a whole lot of time and a shipping home 250 pounds of vacuum-sealed member start to look like an employee? fish on ice for a family fish fry in September. whole lot of days down here.”

“He only filled in due to the emergency Their position on the sanitary board was nature of this thing. He did a lot of heavy liftThat presented a quandary, however.

On the books, there was no formal mech- done out of public service for their community. ing,” said Burton Smith, the board attorney “It’s not the most glamorous job in the for the Junaluska Sanitary District. “He was anism for board members to compensate themselves for time they put in. They were country,” Francis said. taking the place of the person who did those Mopping up after an embezzlement implo- tasks. He is not an employee though.” only supposed to be paid for attending board

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weren’t there anymore, confirming her suspicions that the real financial records were being supplanted along the way with a doctored version.

The embezzlement was a wake-up call for members of the Junaluska Sanitary District board.

“We got taken advantage of. I’ll never forget when I was called out here that morning to meet with the auditor and the sheriff was here and we locked all the doors and whew… ,” said Dan McCracken, chair of the sanitary district board.

“I was as surprised as anyone.”

Heatherly had grown comfortable with her scheme. The morning the auditor showed up and called the sheriff ’s office, Heatherly’s trash can was still full of shredded deposit slips from the day before. And she was letting more and more time lapse before swapping out the real financial records with her dummy versions, confident no one would be checking.

different role,” Nelson said.

The sanitary board shouldn’t have extrapolated the compensation policy on the books for board meetings to cover all sorts of other duties that weren’t actually board meetings, she said.

“They should have passed another policy because that definitely doesn’t fit. Whether it was unethical, careless, lack of knowledge, I don’t know, but it sounds unusual,” Nelson said.

Smith said Francis stepped up to the plate as a “default.”

“This board authorized Jim to get in there and pitch,” Smith said.

However, there is no a record of the board authorizing Francis to step in and carry out the daily operations in place of the fired employee. A review of meeting minutes from the past year contain no mention of altering the compensation policy to pay Francis, or any of the board members for that matter, for their work.

Still, “We all agreed that Jim would get paid for this,” McCracken said.

When an embezzlement scandal brought down the house at Junaluska Sanitary District, board members stepped in to handle the financial affairs, including cutting their own check for the time they were working. Becky Johnson photo

CUTTING CHECKS A problematic aspect of the board compensation is how it was documented, authorized and paid out.

Other than their names penciled in on the office calendar, board members did not submit an invoice, itemization or record detailing what duties they carried out any given day that warranted compensation.

“We trust each other,” Francis said.

Francis was solely in charge of cutting the checks to board members as part of the new financial duties he had started performing.

Board meeting minutes show no indication that Francis sought authorization or approval for the amounts being paid.

The same was true for Francis’ own paychecks. He tallied his own pay, wrote out his own checks and signed them, according to a copy of cashed checks and Francis’ own account of the process.

In December, Francis wrote himself a compensation check for more than $7,700 out of sanitary district funds. His own signature was the only one on his check.

Francis has written himself three additional checks since then — in the amounts of

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But Francis, in essence, was acting like an employee. He came into the office almost every day — logging 24 consecutive days, including weekends, one month last fall. He performed routine functions previously carried out by an employee. And he got paid every day he came in to the office.

“What I have been doing is working for the board, as a function of the board. I was assigned board functions to help carry out operations of the district,” Francis said.

The duties board members paid themselves for were all over the map, from cleaning the office to simply coming in on weekends to unlock the equipment garage for maintenance workers, who had their keys taken during a lock-down period following the embezzlement scandal.

Kimberly Nelson, a local government expert with the Institute of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill, said board members seemed to be getting paid for work beyond the normal scope of “board functions.”

“If they were being paid for some other job, that would make them an employee in a

“The opportunity to take cash existed because monitoring procedures were not performed,” Keel wrote in her annual audit report to the sanitary board.

“Oversight of the internal control system is a crucial component of board responsibilities.”

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER o one knows for sure what motivated Scarlette Heatherly the first time she skimmed a little cash off the top of a customer’s water bill.

But once she figured out she could get away with it, she couldn’t seem to stop. Heatherly stole $210,000 from the Junaluska Sanitary District over a six-year period.

“She had designed a very difficult-to-detect system. It withstood six audits,” said Burton Smith, the attorney for the Junaluska Sanitary District. “It was a slow leak.” f Heatherly worked in the front office for two years before she began stealing. But when a co-worker retired in 2008, Heatherly assumed sole responsibility for the billing, finances and banking of the sanitary district. Soon after, the fraud began, and it didn’t stop until the day she was caught.

The fraud and constant cover-up must have been an allconsuming part of Heatherly’s work day, carried out hundreds of times in $10 or $20 increments.

Junaluska Sanitary District has 1,850 water and sewer customers in Haywood County, and most paid by check, of course. But not all.

Heatherly concocted an elaborate scheme to skim a little off the top when customers came by to pay in cash, something she carried out in plain view from her post in the front window of the office.

“She was smart. Well, not smart enough because she got caught, but she was very good at her deception practices,” said sanitary district board member Jim Francis.

The scheme involved dummy deposit slips — the real one that she would later shred and a fake one kept as the official record. She also had to alter customer billing records in the computer, so there wouldn’t be a discrepancy on the collection side. She also timed the movement of deposits between bank accounts to cover up her trail, according to both Smith and an independent auditor.

Her top year, Heatherly stole $70,000, and another year she took $65,000. That accounts for nearly 4 percent of the total $1.7 million in water and sewer bills the sanitary district collected those years.

Once the fraud was detected, Heatherly voluntarily came in to the sanitary district office with her attorney and admitted to the fraud, detailing how she did it and how much she’d taken. An account of the meeting in board minutes notes that she apologized to all the board members on her way out.

The amount she confessed to taking — $210,000 — was later confirmed by an in-house audit conducted by a sanitary district board member, who sifted through seven years of payment receipts, deposit slips and bank transactions.

Heatherly paid full restitution — including an additional $15,000 for costs incurred by the sanitary district as a result of the fraud — and pleaded guilty to criminal embezzlement charges earlier this year. She did not, however, serve any active jail time.

“We learned a lot last October but we made changes to prevent it from happening again,” said McCracken, who was personally shaken up by such a violation of trust.

The auditor who first detected the fraud, Elizabeth Keel of Asheville, pointed out deficiencies in the board’s financial oversight.

“The opportunity to take cash existed because monitoring procedures were not performed,” Keel wrote in her annual audit report to the sanitary board. “Oversight of the internal control system is a crucial component of board responsibilities.”

The fraud led the board to overhaul its accounting systems. For starters, two signatures are now required on checks.

“The state statue says to have two signatures on checks. We had not been following that, I’ll be honest with you,” Francis said.

Until now, the sanitary district only had one signature on checks. After the embezzlement, they switched their process, but not immediately. First, they used up the stash of existing checks that had just one signature line — it took about three months to run out. After that, the next batch of checks they ordered had a two-signature format.

There’s other changes as well, like counting the cash drawer daily — something Francis does — and making bank deposits daily — something else Francis does.

“There were tremendous amounts of cash left in the cash drawer at different times that we didn’t know about,” Francis said. “We are making every effort to comply with all the state rules and regulations.”

Another flaw in hindsight: Heatherly was the only person authorized to access the sanitary district’s bank accounts, make transactions and write checks out of the account.

One of the first things the board had to do — after changing the locks on the building and firing Heatherly — was to get two of the board members added to the bank accounts as authorized agents.

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But board members had no reason not to trust Heatherly.

The way she dressed, the jewelry she wore, the car she drove — none of it changed. Board members trusted her, so much so that Heatherly’s name was the only one on the sanitary district’s bank accounts.

The accountant who conducted an annual audit for the sanitary district — a requirement for any public entity — eventually felt something wasn’t right.

“She became suspicious that something was going on,” Smith said.

The auditor made a surprise visit to the office one day last summer to look through paperwork as part of the routine annual audit process. But unbeknownst to Heatherly, the auditor set a trap, making tiny inconspicuous marks on financial records in the files.

When the auditor made a return visit in October, she looked back at those same records. The marks she’d made

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SANITARY, CONTINUED FROM 9 $4,000, $6,000 and $4,500 — for work done between January and June. Those last three checks bore a second signature of a newly hired employee in addition to his own, in keeping with a new policy of requiring two signatures on all checks.

Board members typically got one check in December for everything from the year, because it was never very much — averaging just $2,000 per board member per year.

That changed this year.

Checks cut in December for the 2013 calendar year totaled: • Jim Francis, $7,770.

• Bill Barker, $4,500.

• Dan McCracken, $3,750.

• John McCracken, $2,875. (Passed away in August 2013, leaving a vacant seat on the board.)

• Randy Cunningham, $2,400.

The following is what board members have accrued the first half of this year, taken from the office calendar.

• Jim Francis, $17,000 accrued, with $14,500 of that paid out so far.

• Dan McCracken, $4,200 accrued, with $1,750 of that paid out so far.

• Bill Barker, $2,500 accrued, none paid out yet.

• Randy Cunningham, $2,000 accrued, none paid out yet.

Barker did not return multiple phone messages seeking a comment for this article.

Barker did reply to an email asking for an interview with this response: “Do you have a specific question(s)? I have some specific questions for you.” However, a follow-up email taking Barker up on the offer to swap questions went unanswered.

Cunningham did not return a message seeking comment for this story either.

Cunningham’s name rarely shows up on the calendar for anything other than official board meetings. Cunningham’s name has never shown up as a solo entry. So far this year, his name only makes one appearance on the calendar outside of an official board meeting.

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One of the major roles Francis performed after the embezzlement scandal hit last October was assuming financial responsibilities for the Junaluska Sanitary District.

And the first order of business was figuring out how much was stolen.

The estimate for a forensic audit by an outside accountant was $75,000. The board was hesitant to incur that kind of cost not knowing how much had been taken in the first place, and not knowing how much they stood to get back — if anything — in restitution.

So the board decided to have Francis do the audit at considerable savings.

“I did it in three weeks for about $3,000,” Francis said.

He went through every cash deposit slip and every customer billing record for seven years. He worked long days and nights, sifting through the paperwork.

Francis said he found every dime the employee, Scarlette Heatherly, had stolen.

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system and she used it on a consistent basis and once you discovered her system you can follow the trail,” Francis said.

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by Heatherly, including for legal and audit costs, to the tune of $224,000.

Each day Francis came in to the office, he billed the sanitary district for $125 in compensation. If he worked into the evening, he doubled his pay for that day, akin to working a double shift.

In December, during the thick of his audit, 10 squares on the calendar had the notation “2X” beside Francis’ name, which he said stood for “times two.” Those days, Francis paid himself $250 — double the standard compensation rate the board was using of $125.

Even after he concluded the audit, the practice of billing double payments in a single day continued on occasion.

Francis was working at the sanitary district office so much — almost daily — that by January, rather than writing his name on the calendar every day he came in, he simply made a check mark for each day he worked.

Several days showed two check marks inside the square for that day, which was his way of noting that he did enough work that day to count for two payments of $125.

dealing with a pump replacement. Twice in June, Francis and fellow board member Bill Barker’s names appeared on the same day for unspecified reasons.

The calendar for July and August of last year were empty except for official meetings.

But in September, Francis’ name appeared twice with no notation of what duties he had carried out, and Barker’s name appeared once for meeting the public works director of Lake Junaluska Assembly.

NEW WAY FORWARD Last week, the Junaluska Sanitary District revised its board compensation policy. The new policy expands what board members can be compensated for, reflecting in a sense what they had been doing already. In addition to compensation for board meetings, the policy

There is no mention of how, or whether, board members must record and document hours worked. And there is no mention of who board members should submit their hours to, or who will approve and sign off on them. There is also no mention of a schedule for paying out board members, such as monthly, quarterly or yearly.

Another outstanding question for board members: what to do about the days they logged thus far this calendar year that haven’t been paid out?

Do they use the old payment system that was in place the first half of the year where they counted anything they did as a board meeting even if it wasn’t? Or do they retroactively apply the new hourly rate of $50 to work they’ve done but not been paid for?

McCracken said he kept a separate list at home of hours he worked each day. So he

CARRYING ON The workload for board members in the wake of the embezzlement scandal is undeniable. They met with auditors, accountants, detectives, prosecutors and their own attorney myriad times. And the two board members who stepped in to manage the sanitary district’s daily finances — Francis and McCracken — were regulars at the office.

But the payments logged by board members over the past year weren’t limited to the embezzlement fall-out. They began billing the sanitary district for all sorts of duties that they previously carried out in a volunteer capacity, simply by virtue of their position as elected officials. They were getting paid for everything from one-on-one meetings with their engineer to discuss infrastructure projects to informal business discussions between a couple of board members.

Board members even logged their service time on the office calendar for participating in interviews with The Smoky Mountain News for this article.

Francis and McCracken said payments to board members will decline again once the office is fully staffed and in-house employees resume duties that board members have been carrying out.

But the budget for board compensation for the upcoming 2014-2015 fiscal year clocks in at $40,000 — nearly four times what it had been in past fiscal years, indicating the increased payments to board members will continue.

And the questionable compensation practice pre-dates the embezzlement scandal as well. In June of last year, Francis billed the sanitary district on eight occasions, according to his name’s appearance on the calendar.

Some had notations referencing what work Francis performed, including selling off a surplus truck, meeting with an engineer about a line relocation, working on the budget, meeting with the board’s attorney and

allows them to be paid $50 an hour for any work they do on behalf of the sanitary district.

“We realized board members were coming down here and spending time that should be compensated for but certainly didn’t qualify for $125 compensation each time,” Francis said.

Francis and McCracken — the only two board members willing to talk for this article — admitted their compensation practice used to date needed refining.

“It is not really legal we didn’t feel like, because there wasn’t minutes kept on the time we spent,” McCracken said.

The board policy adopted last week adds a litany of additional roles and duties board members can be paid for at the hourly rate of $50, including work normally done by regular employees if the employee is absent or otherwise out of pocket.

The new policy was passed a few days after the Smoky Mountain News first questioned the Junaluska Sanitary District about its board compensation practices, including a public records request for documents related to board compensation.

The new policy was already in the works, however, and not a result of the newspaper’s inquiry, Francis and McCracken said.

The idea of a more refined compensation policy was first broached in the spring.

The new policy is still unclear in some areas, however.

could retroactively apply the new board policy to the past few months, and use the hourly calculation instead of the old method.

Other board members may have to estimate in order to apply the hourly pay rate, since they weren’t keeping track of specific hours under the flat rate pay system.

According to McCracken and Francis, their attorney had suggested clarifying the compensation policy and had drafted the policy they ended up adopting.

Smith, the attorney for the sanitary board, said the financial management of the sanitary district wasn’t under his purview, and he wasn’t sure how they handled their own compensation, how much it was, or how it was kept track of.

“I don’t know what their policy was exactly before,” Smith said.

But Smith could see the need for more flexibility other than a flat pay rate for board meetings.

Like Smith, McCracken and Francis aren’t sure exactly how the old compensation policy read either, even though it is the one they had been operating under until a week ago.

The old compensation policy is likely embedded in the minutes of whatever meeting it was passed during — sometime around

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ackson County voters will finally be able to see the shape of the November ballot with the close of a second primary for the Jackson County Sheriff Republican candidate July 15. Following the first primary, in which only 42 votes separated first and last place, results show former Sylva police officer Curtis Lambert coming out on top, beating runnerup Jim Hodgins 130-107.

“I’m glad to have won yesterday,” Lambert said the day after polls closed.

“Candidate Hodgins and Candidate [Mary] Rock, we all three agree there needs to be some real changes at the sheriff ’s office. We all had some good ideas on how to go about that. That’s why we were all in the race to begin with. It’s nice to come out on top.”

In the general election Nov. 4, Lambert will face Chip Hall, who currently serves as chief deputy in the Jackson County Sheriff ’s Office. Hall came out ahead in a field of six Democratic candidates in May, earning 42

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HOLDOVER FROM THE PAST In a sense, board members now at the helm of the Junaluska Sanitary Board inherited ways of doing business from their predecessors, a holdover from the humble start of the Junaluska Sanitary Board in the late 1950s.

It started as a noble endeavor to build a water line to a small, rural area community plagued with shallow wells and spring-fed water systems at risk of contamination.

A group of men in the community started a petition, kept behind the counter at the local gas station, of those willing to sign up for a water line.

McCracken was one of those men.

“People were using springs and old dug wells,” said McCracken, who was the county environmental health supervisor at the time. “I knew first hand what kind of water a lot of people were drinking. People would call me on a Sunday morning when a skunk got in their spring and they couldn’t stand to turn their faucet on.”

Meanwhile, too-shallow wells were prone to contamination from septic tanks leaching into the surrounding water table.

McCracken and a few others spent several months talking up the idea of a public water line to their neighbors, visiting their homes

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“Second primaries just are normally a smaller turnout,” she said. “That’s basically what we expected the turnout to be based on the one-stop and the by-mail afternoon ballot.”

Hodgins, though, said he’s disappointed with the outcome and doesn’t intend to vote for either Lambert or Hall in November.

“No, I’m not voting for either one of them,” he said.

With the names on the ballot now figured out, both Lambert and Hall are starting to think about the next phase of campaign season. Both have begun working toward November.

“I’m just pleased that the election is over with, and again I think the citizens and the county spoke as to who they want on the Republican Party to run for this position,” said Ralph Slaughter, head of the Jackson County Republican Party.

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percent of the vote, 300 votes more than runner-up Steve Lillard.

“I’m just glad that the second primary is over with and we can move on to November,” Hall said.

Sheriff ’s seats hopefuls had come out in droves this election cycle following the retirement of current sheriff Jimmy Ashe, who had caught some uncomfortable press in situations including using drug seizure funds to make donations to his children’s sports teams, riding around on a Harley Davidson motorcycle confiscated from a drug dealer and offending Latinos by setting up traffic stops that allegedly involved racial profiling.

Hodgins said his main beef with the second primary results stems from the fact that so few people showed up to cast a ballot.

“I’m sorta disappointed in no more people cared to get out and vote,” Hodgins said.

“It’s pretty disappointing to me with 6,800 registered Republicans and just 200 go out and vote.”

That’s par for the course, though, said Jackson County Board of Elections Director Lisa Lovedahl-Lehman. Second primaries

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“I’m sorta disappointed in no more people cared to get out and vote. It’s pretty disappointing to me with 6,800 registered Republicans and just 200 go out and vote.”

2010, give or take a year, McCracken and Francis surmised — but finding it would require a trip back in time through the minutes.

and convincing them to buy into the idea.

When the water line was launched, it served just 300 or so homes.

Now, the Junaluska Sanitary District serves 1,850 water customers and 900 sewer customer, has an annual budget of 1.9 million, six paid staff members and the power to levy property taxes.

But its practices in many ways still date to its early years as a start-up operation launched with a petition behind the counter of a local gas station.

For example, minutes are not kept digitally, at least not that Francis and McCracken know of.

The printed copy of minutes, contained in a three-ring binder in the sanitary district office, were clearly typed on a computer. But when asked whether the file containing the minutes were saved on whatever computer they were typed on, Francis didn’t think so.

When asked why the minute taker would type up the minutes on a computer, print them out and then delete them from the computer, leaving the printed out version as the only lasting record, Francis said perhaps they were saved on the computer after all, but given turn-over of the office staff, he simply didn’t know where they would be.

The sanitary office didn’t even have a vacuum until recently. The new secretary for the office broached the subject at a recent board meeting, seeking permission to buy a vacuum for the office, a motion that carried unanimously.

“We are moving up in the world,” McCracken joked.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER hane Claiborne was a couple minutes late for his interview with The Smoky Mountain News, but for good reason.

Claiborne and his entourage of Philadelphia friends-turned-family had encountered some crawfish that needed catching, and the job required a couple of extra minutes to splash in the creek.

Maybe that’s not the kind of excuse you’d expect to hear coming from a bestselling author and the keynote speaker for the finale of Lake Junaluska’s summer youth series, but despite a 50,000-person following on Facebook, Claiborne comes across as anything but a high-powered public figure.

Though he’s lived in Philadelphia for the past couple decades, the Maryville, Tenn. native still retains a bit of a mountain drawl, and there’s not a trace of Armani about him. He came to the Lake to talk about Christian unity and community, so his attitude is more focused on breaking down barriers than throwing up a façade.

“I’ve probably got a dozen neighbors that have keys to my house,” he said, “and they’re staying in it while I’m gone down here.”

Claiborne’s neighbors are people who call an impoverished neighborhood in Philadelphia named Kensington home. They range from folks who scratch out a living on the streets to doctors or lawyers who came to live there on purpose. But they’re all part of an experiment called the Simple Way, something Claiborne started back in 1995. It’s one group’s interpretation of what the kind of church modeled in the New Testament might look like in today’s world.

“We’ve got about 10 houses within walking distance of each other,” Claiborne said.

“We all are building gardens and a neighborhood that we’re proud of together.”

The idea, aptly enough, is simple: to build a way of life that trades independence for community, to bring homeless people and lettered post-grads together around the same table, to discover the gift inside each person and use that gift — joyfully — to the glory of God. “Not only is it something anybody can do, it’s something that we’re made with a desire and an imagination for,” Claiborne said.

Junaluska invited Claiborne to share that desire with the 270 teenagers who flocked to campus for the last of its series of summer youth events, bringing total summer attendance to 1,400. Though each weekend featured a different speaker, all centered on the same theme: “One Bread, One Body.” The theme points to the unity that Christians seek to achieve, and the series seeks to help teens

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strive for that unity through service, worship and community.

“It’s a beautiful thing that Jesus’ longest prayer in the gospel of John was that we would be one as God is one, and then you look at the church and we’ve got over 35,000 denominations,” Claiborne said.

BEYOND THE AMERICAN DREAM Claiborne’s call is for the church to get back to looking like Jesus intended it, rather than dividing forces based on trivial matters of tradition or past wrongs. And Jesus’ intention, Claiborne said, was for the church to be a group of people marked by their love for others — regardless of whether the “other” is a starving child across the world, a close friend or a homeless drug addict.

The author doesn’t think that’s something that necessarily fits into the typical shape of life in the United States.

to say that guilt doesn’t get anyone anywhere — it certainly doesn’t unlock the fullness of life that God intends for his people — but he also doesn’t believe that’s the kind of statistic that a Christian can read without doing some soul-searching.

“Love comes with responsibility, so to hold our possessions loosely is kind of a natural move,” he said.

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That’s an idea that Lake Junaluska made it a point to drive home to the youth this summer. The weekend programs were about more than speakers, songs and games. As part of the itinerary, the youth packed a total of 50,000 meals for the international hunger relief agency Stop Hunger Now — with money they raised themselves.

“They did all kinds of little fundraisers within the event, from Shane Claiborne. selling lemonades to each other to Holly Kays photo going out in the community and talking about Stop Hunger now,” said Jennifer Martin, director of program ministries. “They just did an amazing job of coming up with a huge amount of money from just pocket change, basically.”

Each meal cost 25 cents, meaning the students raised more than $12,000 over the course of the summer. At the Friday night worship session last week, groups finalized their fundraiser plans, with ideas including a face-painting booth and an auction for church van cleaning services. The van cleaning proved a high-demand item, netting $45 after a fierce bidding war.

“We take everything we have for granted. We really do,” said Sergio Bonillia, 14, who came with a group from Homer, Ga. “Countries around the world have nothing, “It’s a beautiful thing that Jesus’ and we have everything. We waste.

It inspired me, I guess, to help.” longest prayer in the gospel of Though Claiborne can’t help John was that we would be one but be upset by economic inequality, as well as social divisions and as God is one, and then you wars within the church, he sees hope in the future of a church led by look at the church and we’ve young Christians like Bonillia. got over 35,000 denominations.”

But the full process, Claiborne said, truly is a process, because imi— Shane Claiborne tating Jesus is more than donating to charity or having scripture quotes “I’m not sure that you do it as a member of always at the ready. When Claiborne reads the middle-class America,” he said. “I think we New Testament, he sees a call to lay down do it as a member of God’s holy counter-cul- independence and individual ownership and ture that’s trying to establish patterns of liv- learn to live as part of other people’s lives.

“I think that independence is an American ing different than the American dream.”

Living out the gospel requires something value, but it’s not a gospel value,” he said.

Reorienting life to minimize the cost — simpler than the American dream of job, house, property and car but meatier than financial and logistical — of maintaining an simplicity for simplicity’s sake, Claiborne independent life is an important step toward said. It’s more about looking at everything freeing up the time and money to make others the priority of one’s life, Claiborne said. from the perspective of love.

For instance, he said, Oxfam International It’s not easy, but he sees the church moving in recently released a report showing that the 85 a positive direction.

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“It’s not a coincidence at all,” he added, “that this worship-filled gathering at Lake Junaluska has also packed over 50,000 meals for people around the world.”

While that term “reorienting life” sounds intimidating, the beginning doesn’t have to be anything huge, Claiborne said. Just like a couch potato deciding to run a marathon, the first steps are small ones designed to strengthen those atrophied muscles for the ultimate goal. Something small, like having one shared meal a week with friends and family, can lead to something bigger, like a cul-desac of neighbors going in for a jointly owned lawnmower, which can lead to something even bigger, like a family opening its spare bedroom for a homeless person or taking in an unwanted baby.

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“To have imagination to say we’re going to do stuff like we’re doing in the prison I think is beautiful, especially when it’s from faithfilled community work,” Claiborne said.

To boil it down, Claiborne said, being a Christian is about recognizing the value in each person, no matter what their past, as someone God created and died for. And from there, it’s about each person using his or her strengths and assets to love courageously.

That’s what Claiborne and his neighbors have going on at the Simple Way, and that’s the kind of joy he’d like to see spring up in Christian communities worldwide.

“When I look at it, it’s so beautiful because they’ve got their own unique part in the symphony of what God’s doing,” Claiborne said, “but the hope is that we’re all playing the same song.”

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A new report shows the 16-day government shutdown contributed to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park having a decreased economic impact in the region for 2013 when compared to 2012.

The Park Service report shows that 9,354,695 people visited the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2013 and they spent $734,086,600 in communities near the park. That spending supported 10,734 jobs in the local area.

The 2013 economic benefit figures are slightly lower than the 2012 results, which reported that visitors spent $741 million.

To download the report visit www.nature.nps.gov/socialscience/economics.cfm.

The Jackson County Public Library is hosting an Affordable Care Act workshop at 6 p.m. on July 29.

The workshop will discuss health care coverage and how people can avoid penalties.

For more information call 828.586.2016.

Jackson GOP groups plan meetings

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North Jackson County Republicans will meet at 6 p.m. on July 28 at Ryans in Sylva, while south Jackson GOP members will meet at 6 p.m. at the Laurel Terrace in Cashiers.

Speakers for the Cashiers meeting are N.C. Senator Jim Davis and District Attorney Candidate Ashley Welch. All Republicans, voters and others are invited to attend. For more information, call Ralph Slaughter at 828 743-6491, email jacksonctygop@yahoo.com or go to jacksoncountygop.com.

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Sylva hospice seeks volunteers WestCare LifePath Palliative Care & Hospice is seeking volunteers for the LifePath team to assist in supporting patients under palliative care or hospice treatment, and is offering volunteer training sessions beginning in August.

Areas of volunteer opportunity include supporting patients and families in their place of residence, providing administrative support in the LifePath office, assisting with hospice projects, contacting bereaved families to help provide grief support, and providing spiritual care. LifePath volunteers are free to choose how much time they will commit and are given the opportunity to schedule visits with patients at their convenience.

The next volunteer training sessions will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the LifePath office at 26 WestCare Drive, Suite 301, Sylva.

Lauren Stafford at 828.631.1702.

Canton nixes street parking near Blackbear Automotive

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER section of Johnson Street in Canton has been closed following complaints that parked vehicles — repair jobs from Blackbear Automotive & Transmission — were creating a traffic hazard.

“We’re after a safety issue. We’re not trying to close his business, but he seems to think otherwise,” Jerry Mcfall, a resident living near the area in question, said at a specially called town meeting July 16. “Safety is our primary issue, and that’s what we’re here for.”

The Canton town board, with three of its five members in attendance at the meeting, voted unanimously to increase the no-parking zone from its current 30 feet from Johnson’s intersection with N.C. 110, to 115 feet — the distance to the next property down from Blackbear Automotive.

Before extending the no-parking zone, Alderwomen Gail Mull and Carole Edwards and Alderman Dr. Ralph Hamlett heard from neighborhood residents about the dangers created when parked cars blocked the view of cars coming out from Johnson Street. The board had heard from residents before, prompting the special meeting.

“Any driver leaving or entering that street needs to have the full ability to see what’s coming and going in all directions,” said neighborhood resident Edie Burnette.

“Since the state has never dealt with changing that traffic pattern, I think it’s our responsibility to deal with it as best as you (town board) can.”

Canton Police Chief Bryan Whitner noted that complaints about the traffic issue began coming in on May 30, with 11 total complaints made since. The police did go to the property, taking photos to illustrate the problem.

Currently town ordinance states there is a no-parking zone extending 30 feet down Johnson Street from the intersection with N.C. 110, or Pisgah Drive. Whitner suggested the 115-foot pushback. “[After extending the no-parking zone], the next step would be legal actions, parking violations, see where that goes, and it gets more intrusive, there would be state citations,” the police chief said. “These are not our preferred methods unless we have to.

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John Mamph, owner of Blackbear Automotive, was not in attendance at the special meeting — though Canton Town Manager Seth Hendler-Voss said the business owner and his landlord, Steve Singleton, were both personally invited by the board to attend — but has previously complained about a double standard and contended the street parking is necessary so that delivery trucks can more easily deliver auto parts. Mamph has also pointed out that the street is legal parking.

“So, it’s OK for everybody else who lives here to be able to park on the sides but Ij can’t?” the business owner said previously when contacted by the Smoky Mountain

“The next step would be legal actions, parking violations … These are not our preferred methods unless we have to. My goal is to provide safe lanes for people, but we also want his business to survive.”

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News. “How can I get my parts delivered if the trucks can’t park here? I’ve been in business three years. We’re a great location, and we’ve built a great business and now, after three years, they’re going to start complaining?”

“I find it troubling the owner is not here to hear this,” Alderwoman Gail Mull said at the meeting. “I’d like him to be here to answer some of these questions.”

A call by The Smoky Mountain News to Mamph to comment on the ruling was not returned by press time.

The board also unanimously passed a second motion, which called for No Parking signs and cones to be placed across the street from Blackbear, on the other side of Pisgah Drive, on a vacant lot owned by the town.

This action was taken in an effort to discourage Blackbear and others from parking in the space.

HCC gets donated fire truck, ambulance Haywood Community College’s Workforce Continuing Education Department recently added an ambulance and a fire truck to help train students in public safety areas.

An ambulance was donated to the college by Haywood County commissioners and Haywood Emergency Medical Services. A retired fire truck was purchased by HCC’s Foundation from Waynesville and the Waynesville Fire Department.

Both vehicles will aid in student training for not only public services areas of fire, law, and EMS but also for students in the Automotive Systems and Collision Repair and Refinishing curriculum programs.

BY J EREMY MORRISON N EWS E DITOR roperty owners along the fringes of Sylva may soon have to adhere to town zoning regulations. The town board is considering expanding its extraterritorial jurisdiction.

“To protect commercial development,” Sylva Town Manager Paige Roberson explained as the rationale. “To have commercial development look the same as Sylva’s commercial development.”

If approved, an expanded extraterritorial jurisdiction, or ETJ, would mean property owners living within these boundaries — property not currently within town limits — will have to adhere to Sylva’s zoning regulations. The properties would not, however, receive town services and the town would not collect any taxes from the property owners.

“We just want it to look uniform,” Roberson explained to the town board during its July 17 meeting.

Some zoning requirements that property owners within the expanded ETJ would have to observe include zoning regulations pertaining to sidewalks, landscaping and signs. Roberson said the expansion — which would not be retroactive — would serve to discourage property own-

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ers from locating just outside town boundaries in an effort to skirt zoning requirements.

Sylva is looking to expand its ETJ in three different phases. The first phase would concentrate on N.C. 107, expanding the ETJ to the town of Webster’s border.

“Because we know 107 is going to develop and we want it to look like Sylva,” Roberson said.

Phase two will focus on expanding up Ashville Highway, or U.S. 23 Business, in preparation for development there. Phase three will involve the Cope Creek and Dillard Town areas.

Roberson requested that the ETJ expansions be considered separately because of “time and staff ” considerations.

“It’ll be quicker that way,” she told the board.

Before Sylva’s commissioners make a decision on expanding the ETJ, public hearings must be conducted. At least four weeks prior to the public hearing, property owners within the identified areas will be notified.

Roberson told commissioners not to be “surprised” when property owners began contacting them with questions about the proposed ETJ expansion. She later said, however, that she did not expect much pushback from property owners over the concept.

“I can’t imagine that, because it really just helps the value of their properties,” Roberson said.

The first public hearing, for phase one of the proposed ETJ expansion, will be held during the board of commissioner’s Sept. 4 meeting.

Phases two and three will be handled some time after that.

Prison makeover project closes in on $50K prize Haywood Pathways Center is almost to the finish line in an online voting contest that would provide $50,000 — plus the help of Ty Pennington and his crew from the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” television show — to turn the old state prison in Hazelwood into a soup kitchen, homeless shelter and halfway house.

Haywood Pathways is a “Success begets success, group comprised of Open Door Ministries, Haywood so as we win grants and Christian Emergency Center win competitions like this it and Next Step ministries, three separate Christian causes other organizations organizations that hope to join forces at the new site. to want to help us fund The contest, sponsored by this project.”

Guaranteed Rate, drew more than 300 entries from 49 — Nick Honerkamp states and includes three rounds of voting. Haywood Pathways has come in first place in each of the first two rounds. If the organization repeats the feat in this round, which closes July 29, they’ll get $50,000 toward the $300,000 project.

“It’s gonna take significant money to overhaul the old prison,” said Nick Honerkamp, head of the homeless shelter portion of Haywood Pathways.

“Success begets success, so as we win grants and win competitions like this it causes other organizations to want to help us fund this project.”

To vote for Haywood Pathways Center, click the link on the group’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/HaywoodPathwaysCenter.

— Holly Kays, staff writer

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Swain murder suspects have August court date Eight defendants charged with the 2013 murder of Calup Joe Caston in Swain County are slated for an Aug. 11 court date.

“If their attorneys have any motions they’ll be heard, if not it’ll be continued,” explained Alison Barnes, of the Swain County Clerk of Court’s office.

In March 2013, the Swain Sheriff ’s Office arrested eight people in connection with Caston’s killing. The victim, age 27, was assaulted at the old 288 boat ramp in Swain, and later died as a result of his injuries after arriving at Mission Hospital in Asheville.

The eight men facing charges for Caston’s murder all hail from Cherokee. They are Troy Floyd Boston, 25; Joshua Daniel George, 19; Marcos Anthony Cardonne, 23; Trevor Dylan George, 18; Curtis Cole Price, 19; Joshua Tyler Price, 22; Correy Hunter Price, 25; Corey Michael Jenkins, 21.

Each defendant faces four different charges: conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree murder.

Curtis Cole Price bonded out in April 2013 on $250,000. In March of this year, Jenkins also posted a $250,000 bond. Correy Hunter Price has yet to make his $500,000 bond and remains in custody.

For two of the eight defendants — Cardonne and Joshua Tyler Price — the state is seeking the death penalty. According to Barnes, the death penalty is being sought due to two “aggravating circumstances” — the murder is considered “especially heinous, atrocious and cruel” and the crime was allegedly “committed while the defendant was engaged in the commission of kidnapping.”

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Road to Nowhere bill advances Swain County is one step closer to getting $4 million in “Road to Nowhere” funds after a bill introduced by U.S. Congressman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., advanced through the House Committee on Natural Resources last week. Though the bill, H.R. 3806, is not yet on the House calendar, Meadows’ office expects it to come to a vote sometime this week.

“The residents of Swain County are still waiting on funds that were allocated by Congress more than two years ago. I hope my colleagues in the House will join me in fulfilling this promise to the people of Swain County by bringing this bill to the floor for a vote,” Meadows said.

The money is part of a settlement between Swain County and

the federal government over a road whose construction was promised as payment to the county for a road that was flooded after construction of Fontana Lake.

The road was never built, and after years of back-and-forth, the county and the federal government finally reached an agreement in 2010 that the federal government would pay Swain $52 million. The money was to be paid in yearly installments, with the full amount dispensed by 2020.

The county has received an initial payment, but NPS is still holding the $4 million allocated in 2012. Meadows’ bill, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Agreement Act of 2013, would require the park to release the money.

WCU launching new program for retirees this fall

underway Sept. 9 in Cullowhee and Sept. 10 in Asheville.

Participants will register for sessions being held at one of two sites. Programs will be held Tuesdays at the N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching adjacent to the WCU campus in Cullowhee, and Wednesdays at the university’s instructional site at Biltmore Park Town Square, located at 28 Schenck Parkway in Asheville. Sessions at both sites will begin at 10 a.m. and continue until noon.

Among the proposed topics for this fall are “Operations of the Biltmore House,” “Useful Legal Matters,” “Cherokee and the Seven Clans,” “How the Civil War Affected WNC,” “Native Plants,” “Local Scenic Hikes,” “Making the Theory of Evolution Clear to People Like You and Me,” “Storytelling in Appalachia,” “Seeing, Imagining and Recording: The Process of Creative Writing,” “Theater and Design,” “The Major Differences between the Core Beliefs of Conservatives and Liberals,” “State and Federal Politics and Trends: Impact on the Economy and Education,” “Terrorism and Global Threats,” “Being and Doing Good” and “Living While Dying.”

Cost of membership in the institute is $125 per year, including 24 engaged learning experiences with opportunities to take part in additional activities related to some of the topics. Participants may attend all or as many sessions as they like.

For more information or to register for the LIFE@WesternCarolina institute, contact the Division of Educational Outreach at 828.227.7397 or life@wcu.edu, or visit the website life.wcu.edu.

Western Carolina University is launching a new lifelong learning institute aimed at people age 50 and older across Western North Carolina who are interested in enriching their lives through the pursuit of knowledge.

The institute, based on the idea that “learning is for everyone” and titled LIFE@WesternCarolina, will feature weekly interactive seminars in Cullowhee and Asheville. Sessions will focus on a wide variety of topics spanning business, history, science, literature, politics and personal development.

LIFE@WesternCarolina is designed to extend to residents of the greater WNC community the wide array of academic resources available at the university and in the community, said Alison Morrison-Shetlar, WCU provost.

“The LIFE program is for retirees, alumni and community members seeking to engage in lifelong learning. It is for those seeking networking, community and engagement in the learning process,” Morrison-Shetlar said. “The program topics will nourish the mind, spirit and body.”

The institute will include educational lectures, social opportunities and field trips as presenters, including university faculty, share expertise from a variety of backgrounds, she said.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER summer school horse therapy offering at South Macon Elementary School in Franklin will be sticking around once the school year starts, thanks to some successful fundraising efforts at Macon TRACs. The nonprofit, which provides horse therapy to children with special needs, had offered to come in on a trial basis during summer school with the hope that the program could become a permanent fixture at the school. Much of the decision on whether to do so rested on funding.

“We are very confident that we have enough money to do our regular programs that we’re already doing plus take on the school program to run through next spring,” said Jan McGee, executive director. “We are starting to investigate grants, and Lane Carroll leads Clyde around the pen. Donated photo we’re hoping there’s a grant out there that would help with the funding of the school portion.”

The program uses volunteer horses and a roll of volunteer people, save a few more involved workers who receive a stipend, but Macon TRACS is making horse therapy TRACs still has to pay for diesel fuel to travel increasingly available to Macon County with the horses, insurance and organization children with special needs, but the membership fees. McGee’s estimate is that organization relies on community support to taking two horses to South Macon one day make that happen. To donate, contact Jan per week will cost another $3,500 per year.

McGee at 828.349.6262 or “There is talk about us going to other macontracs@ymail.com. Checks can also schools and doing it more than one day a be sent to P.O. Box 101, Otto, NC 28763. week,” McGee said. “We are going to babystep it because once we make the commitment to do it, we want to make sure that not Thanksgiving, but early winters can change only can we do it horse-wise and volunteer- that timeframe. The program will gear up wise but moneywise too.” again once spring returns.

McGee has long held a belief in the power McGee would like to see TRACs eventualof horses to heal, and since starting Macon ly become a regular offering at an increasing TRACs in 2008, she’s seen that power borne list of Macon County schools, but her philosout again and again. Physically, riding a horse ophy is to grow slowly so the foundation is helps children with muscular disabilities such strong. Right now, TRACs is working on as cerebral palsy become stronger without fundraising projects such as individual child doing anything that feels like work. And sponsorships so that a person or organization often, the horses are therapeutic for children can fund a particular child’s lessons and with mental or emotional disabilities. McGee watch their progress. can see the difference from the beginning of “We are ready to launch this program for the season to the end, and she’s excited to real,” McGee said.

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“There are a lot of parents that are struggling,” McGee said. “Having a special needs individual in your family is incredibly challenging, and there are a lot of these kids we see that the parents, for whatever reason, can’t get the child to us. The fact that we are going in and taking that burden off that parent — I think it is just a very special opportunity.”

With two horses, TRACs can give halfhour lessons to as many as 12 students before regulations require that the horses get a break.

They’ll do it right there at the school, meaning parents won’t have to drive, and while the lesson fee is $25, TRACs has scholarships available for children whose families can’t pay.

The fall session will begin once school administrators have had the chance to settle students into the new school year — “We really want to be an asset to them and not make their job harder,” McGee said — and lessons will continue until the winter cold sets in. Usually TRACs can go until

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BY J EREMY MORRISON posed to her fellow commissioners, wonderN EWS E DITOR ing if any amount of natural gas could attract he town of Sylva is now the second fracking. “…. money talks.”

Jackson County locale to formally The subject of fracking also came up duroppose hydraulic fracturing for natural ing a recent Macon County Commissioners gas within its boundaries. meeting. Macon’s leaders are not currently “I’m concerned about it,” said considering a resolution adopting a position Commissioner Barbara Hamilton. “It’s not on hydraulic fracturing, but Commissioner going to affect my life, but it will affect my Ronnie Beale did say he would like to see meetchildren’s lives and my grandchildren’s lives, ings in the region addressing the topic. N.C. and I’m against it.”

Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, a sponsor of the Sylva’s town board unanimously passed a fracking legislation, has also previously said it resolution opposing hydraulic fracturing, or would be good to arrange for informational fracking, at its July 17 meeting. They follow in meetings in the western portion of the state. the footsteps of the town of Webster, which “I think a lot of folks are just wanting toJ passed its own anti-fracking resolution earlier know what it is,” Beale said. “They don’t this month, and precede Forest Hills, which know if they’re for or against it.” will consider a similar resolution in August.

Leaders in Swain County have made stateThe local resolutions are in response to ments against the practice. Commissioners recent state legislation that allows for hydraulic The local resolutions are in response to fracturing. The local measures are only symrecent state legislation that allows for bolic, as one aspect of hydraulic fracturing. The local measures the state law stipulates that local governments are only symbolic, as one aspect of the cannot forbid fracking. state law stipulates that local “I think we should have a stake in it governments cannot forbid fracking. because it’s our country,” said Sylva Commissioner Harold Hensley, before the recently requested that County Manager board passed its resolution.

Kevin King reach out to surrounding counties Hydraulic fracturing is a method used to in an effort to build a local coalition against extract natural gas. The process involves fracking in the region. pumping a mixture of water and chemicals Those efforts don’t seem to have gained into the ground in an effort to secure the nat- much traction, with only a few towns — such ural gas. While representatives of the natural as Webster, Sylva, and next month, Forest gas industry argue that modern technology Hills — formally taking up the cause. As of has made the process safer, critics raise con- press time, Swain commissioners are considcerns about such issues as groundwater con- ering their own anti-fracking resolution. tamination.

Kolleen Begley, mayor of Forest Hills, said In Western North Carolina, the fracking she is encouraged to see multiple local govissue has generated a good bit of interest. A erning boards address the fracking issue. She community group in opposition to fracking feels that such a collection of opposition will has formed in Swain County. A question- have more of an impact than any one individand-answer session with a Western Carolina ual group would have.

University geologist drew a packed house to “The resolution itself doesn’t really hold j a recent Jackson County Planning Board any weight, and whether or not there is natumeeting. ral gas to be extracted from Jackson County it This interest surrounding the issue grows does send a message to the higher governdespite the fact that conventional wisdom ments — a message that is more likely to be holds that Western North Carolina is not like- heard when it’s more than just one town,” ly to have enough natural gas to make frack- Begley said. “A message that ‘hey, please coning operations economically feasible. sider including the voice of us towns and “I dunno, when it comes to big corpora- counties, whether for or against something, tions, are they going to say that or are they when making decisions that could potentially just going to extract it anyway,” Hamilton affect our jurisdictions.’”

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To the Editor: The column by Editor Scott McLeod two weeks ago taking after Rep. Michelle Presnell, R-Burnsville, for stopping the annexation — involuntary annexation to many property owners — seems to rely on the false premise that local bills result in the legislative process being turned over to a couple of legislators with the rest of the body laying over as if brain dead.

Your opinion also seems to be based on the assumption that the involuntary annexation of several hundred parcels of land is a typical subject for the type of local bill you pine.

North Carolina has a statute for voluntary annexation. Those in favor of annexation at the lake did not follow that process because the statute provides that a single no vote ends the process. That statute gives clear indication of the level of property rights that the state gives owners of real property when it comes to annexation.

the first place (there were massive problems with the script and on the set), a garden variety western that was not nominated for a single Oscar and is largely forgotten, except for a small, but devoted cult comprised primarily of English teachers, or so it would appear. Let’s face it, on the surface, comparing “Tombstone” to “Hamlet” is like comparing fish sticks to Trout Almondine, Lindsay Lohan to Meryl Streep, “Hee Haw” to William Faulkner. That is, there is no comparison.

But wait. Consider Hamlet another way. When you strip away the Columnist Elizabethan English and the iambic pentameter, what do you have? You have a confused young man moping around the castle all day and night complaining about women. You have a poor wretch so locked into an obsessive need to please his father, while at the same time trapped by his complete inability to act decisively because … because because because life is hard, man, a real bummer, an absolute rip-off! Something is rotten in Denmark and I’m supposed to fix it because my dead old man says so?

Yeah, right!

Hamlet wears us out because, by the time he is finally able to shake himself into action, it is too late and everybody dies, including him. Sure, he’s a thoughtful, sensitive chap, and look where that gets him.

One wonders how many of those English teachers who love “Tombstone” must have grown up in a world of books, sur-

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here are movies that I simply cannot turn off once I stumble into them when I am switching channels, which I do whenever there is a commercial, as men have been hardwired to do since the dawn of the remote control. One of those movies is “Fargo,” by the Coen brothers, which I consider to be one of the five best movies ever made. Another is “Tombstone,” a western that I do not really even consider to be a very good movie, though it does contain an astonishing performance by Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday.

In fact, it is Kilmer’s Holliday that compels me to keep watching every time I find “Tombstone” on cable. I can tell within five seconds exactly where we are in the movie, what scene featuring Holliday will come up next, and what the dialogue is in that scene, even when Holliday and his nemesis Johnny Ringo are trading ominous bits of Latin in their first encounter in the Oriental Saloon.

“That’s Latin, dahlin’,” says Holliday to his girlfriend, Kate.

“Evidently Mr. Ringo’s an educated man. Now I really hate him.”

I thought of “Tombstone” just last week when my friend and colleague, Bob Harrison, wrote on his Facebook page, “Why do teachers love ‘Tombstone’? Just about every English teacher I know can quote the movie like ‘Hamlet.’”

Hmmmm, ‘Tombstone’ and “Hamlet.” On the one hand, you have one of the great plays in the history of literature, a timeless classic written by the greatest writer ever to live, a play that has been performed countless times for centuries, a work that has spawned a dozen movies or more.

And then you have “Tombstone,” which barely got made in

Given that level of rights, it is not only appropriate but fair that the rights of property owners not be subjected to an end around of a local bill to override the property rights established by law. The legislature can annex over objection and that is the process those seeking annexation took, hoping that the legislature would not take a look at the protests of property owners against annexation.That is where Rep. Presnell came in to provide the opportunity for those of us against annexation to be heard.

The suggestion that Rep. Presnell singlehandedly stopped annexation is just not factually correct. That suggestion is also an insult to the rest of the legislators in the House. Rep. Presnell played an important role but never claimed to have the authority to stop annexation on her own. Her attention to the bill was appropriate and she did an excellent job of bringing the faults of the bill to the attention of fellow House members. We thank her for her good work.

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rounded by ideas, lost in a maze of abstractions, all of their adventures contained in pages and pages and more pages? Or, as Hamlet himself put it, “Words words words.”

The reason such a species would find Doc Holliday attractive is abundantly obvious. Holliday is also an educated man — he can speak Latin and quote Samuel Taylor Coleridge — but unlike Hamlet, he is a man of action, reciting “Kubla Kahn” in one scene and killing Johnny Ringo in the next without even bothering to put down his cigarette, which he smokes in spite of being on the brink of death from tuberculosis.

Hamlet, despite his youth and vigor, courts death, swims in it, whining about the human condition, especially his own problems. Holliday, actually on the verge of death, curses the doctor who informs him that he must slow down and “curb his marital impulses” and joins Wyatt Earp in his battle against the dreaded cowboys despite being barely able to stand.

More than that, Holliday is his own man. He lives by a code he forged himself, and he is beholden to no man, no law and no crippling self-doubt or self-pity, which consumes Hamlet. He is independent, but he is loyal to his friends. He is wise, but also fearless. He is charismatic, but not cloying.

He is funny, but never morose. He knows what to do, and he does it.

For most of us, Hamlet is the more likely role model, but Doc Holliday is who we’d like to be, a man worthy of his myth.

Hamlet is our curse; Doc Holliday — Val Kilmer’s Holliday — is our huckleberry.

(Chris Cox is a writer and teacher who lives in Haywood County. He can be reached at jchriscox@live.com.)

sides of the question. The committee process of the legislative process was allowed to work. The bill which affected the real property rights of so many was not treated like a local bill to rename a bridge or recognize a local citizen for an outstanding act. No, this bill had two very vocal sides and both were considered.

The suggestion has been aired that the town of Waynesville has agreed to take over the responsibility of a now $10 million problem regarding water and sewer lines at Lake Junaluska. There are questions that such a suggestion raises: • How can the taxpayers of Waynesville be expected to fund such generosity on the part of the town leaders?

• Where did the $10 million figure come from and where is the support for the number?

(The figure started at somewhere just over $1 million and continues to grow without any support or study.)

• Why was the Junaluska Sewer District never studied as an alternative to annexation?

(After all, the water and sewer pipes seemed to be the driving force/argument for annexa-

tion.)

There is much more to the annexation saga but space is a constraint. The surveys are a topic calling for long discussion. The bottom line is that the process followed was flawed from start to end ... that and other subjects will be left for another day if further discussion is necessary.

In summary, the editorial is an insult to the legislative process. The complaint seems to be that the legislative process worked. Trying to take the result which some are disappointed with and put it all on a single representative falls well short of the usually well thought out journalism that we have seen in the SMN news in the past (your work regarding the hospital situation in the Rice days was outstanding).

Rep. Presnell and all members of the House of Representatives who considered the issue did just what the legislative process calls for and reached a decision. As property owners in the Lake Junaluska area, we thank them for their deliberations and work.

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A TASTE OF NEW ORLEANS 67 Branner Ave., Waynesville, 828.246.0885. 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., 7 days a week. Curtis Henry opened A Taste of New Orleans to cater to the locals and become the place that’s always open that you can rely on for different, flavorful dishes every day. Serving Cajun, French and Creole Cuisine in a lovingly restored space, Curtis looks forward to serving you up a delicious dish soon.

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

Open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Carry out available. Located in downtown Waynesville, Bogart’s has been long-time noted for great steaks, soups, and salads. Casual family atmosphere in a rustic old-time setting with a menu noted for its practical value. Live Bluegrass/String Band music every Thursday. Walking distance of Waynesville’s unique shops and seasonal festival activities and within one mile of Waynesville Country Club.

BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Lunch served 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dinner nightly from 4 p.m. Closed on Sunday. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks, fresh fish, and other classic American comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available. We also feature a great selection of craft beers from local artisan brewers, and of course an extensive selection of small batch bourbons and whiskey. The Barrel is a friendly and casual neighborhood dining experience where our guests enjoy a great meal without breaking the bank.

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

BREAKING BREAD CAFÉ 6147 Hwy 276 S. Bethel (at the Mobil Gas Station) 828.648.3838 Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday & Saturday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. closed Sunday. Chef owned and operated. Our salads are made in house using local seasonal vegetables. Fresh roasted ham, turkey and Roast Beef used in our hoagies.

We hand make our own Eggplant & Chicken Parmesan, Pork Meatballs and Hamburgers.

We use 1st quality fresh not pre-prepared products to make sure you get the best food for a reasonable price. We make Vegetarian, Gluten Free and Sugar Free items. We are now open for dinner on Friday and Saturday nights by customer request, so come join us and find out what all the talk is about.

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

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CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes, and always all-you-can-eat. Lunch every day from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Evening cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays (weather permitting), featuring steaks, ribs, chicken, and pork chops, to name a few. Bountiful family-style dinners on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with entrees that include prime rib, baked ham and herbbaked chicken, complemented by seasonal vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts. We also offer a fine selection of wine and beer. The evening social hour starts at 6 p.m., and dinner is served starting at 7 p.m. So join us for mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view.

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CITY BAKERY 18 N. Main St. Waynesville 828.452.3881.

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

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

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

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

828.648.4193. 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner. The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era.

CORK & CLEAVER 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

828.456.7179. Reservations recommended.

4:30-9 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Tucked away inside Waynesville Inn, Cork & Cleaver has an approachable menu designed around locally sourced, sustainable, farm-to-table ingredients. Executive Chef Corey Green prepares innovative and unique Southern fare from local, organic vegetables grown in Western North Carolina. Full bar and wine cellar. www.waynesvilleinn.com.

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

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

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

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

FROGS LEAP PUBLIC HOUSE 44 Church St. Downtown Waynesville 828.456.1930 Serving lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; Dinner 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Frogs Leap is a farm to table restaurant focused on local, sustainable, natural and organic products prepared in modern regional dishes. Seasonal menu focuses on Southern comfort foods with upscale flavors. www.frogsleappublichouse.com.

THE CLASSIC WINESELLER 20 Church Street, Waynesville.

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HERREN HOUSE 94 East St., Waynesville 828.452.7837.

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

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

828.586.3555. Open Tuesday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Wednesday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Hand-tossed pizza, steak sandwiches, wraps, salads and desserts. All made from scratch. Beer and wine. Free movies with showtimes at 6:30 and 9 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Visit madbatterfoodandfilm.com for this week’s shows.

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ORGANIC BEANS COFFEE COMPANY 1110 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

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

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

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

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

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

SMOKY MOUNTAIN SUB SHOP 29 Miller Street Waynesville 828.456.3400.

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

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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER he 2nd annual United Community Bank Mountain Challenge featuring American tennis legends Andy Roddick and Jim Courier will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 26, at the Cedar Creek Racquet Club in Cashiers.

The event will be hosted by the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce and benefits the nonprofit organizations Mountain Youth Charities and the Boys & Girls Club of the Plateau.

A “Summer Soiree” gala dinner will start at 5 p.m. Friday, July 25, at Lake Fairfield in Sapphire Valley. The evening will also feature performances by Grammy-winning bluegrass/Americana groups the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Steep Canyon Rangers.

With nearly $200,000 raised in last year’s inaugural match, the funds generated provided Mountain Youth Charities with the means to launch an initiative with community partner the Boys & Girls Club of the plateau. The initiative will provide grants to existing youth programs in the area and begin work to create after-school and summer programs for local children.

Following his Grand Slam singles victory at the 2003 U.S. Open, Roddick was ranked the number one player in the world. He’s also the last North American player to win a Grand Slam singles championship. During his career he claimed 32 ATP titles before retiring last year.

With 23 ATP victories, including four Grand Slam titles, Courier was also ranked number one in the world four times during the 1990s. Currently, he’s the last tennis player to win in the Australian Open and French Open back-to-back, a feat accomplished in 1992. In 2005 he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

In his hometown of Austin, Texas, Roddick has been involved in a variety of youth programs, which eventually led to the creation of the Andy Roddick Foundation. And with setting up the Mountain Challenge, Roddick called up his friend and colleague Courier to see if he would like to compete for a good cause.

Roddick is currently married to Brooklyn Decker, a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and actress.

The couple have a home in Cashiers.

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The United Community Bank Mountain Challenge will be at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 26, at the Cedar Creek Racquet Club in Cashiers.

There will be three matches, with the main event featuring an exhibition between American tennis legends Andy Roddick and Jim Courier. A “Summer Soiree” gala dinner will start at 5 p.m. Friday, July 25, at Lake Fairfield in Sapphire Valley.

For more information on the event and tickets, go to www.cashiers.com or 828.777.9145 or events@cashiers.com.

Jim Courier (above) and Andy Roddick (right) will compete at the 2nd annual United Community Bank Mountain Challenge at the Cedar Creek Racquet Club in Cashiers. Garret K. Woodward photos

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Clogging performances at Folkmoot Clogging teams and bluegrass musicians, representing the local culture of Appalachia, will be performing throughout this year’s Folkmoot festival.

Each team will be accompanied by live musicians.

• The Southern Appalachian Cloggers will dance at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 25, at the Stompin’ Grounds in Maggie Valley.

• The Jonathan Creek Cloggers dance at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at the Parade of Nations on Main Street in Waynesville.

• The Dixie Darlin’s dance at 7:30 p.m., July 26, at Haywood Community College in Clyde.

• The Green Grass Cloggers dance at 7 p.m., July 27, at Stuart Auditorium at Lake Junaluska.

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The featured clogging groups have entertained on international stages. They have performed for presidents — Jimmy Carter and both Bushes — and partied with Charlie Daniels.

The groups also each focus on their own preferred style of clogging. The Southern Appalachian Cloggers enjoy freestyle, while The Green Grass Cloggers from Asheville lean toward precision stepping and western square-dance.

“We go out, we do a routine and we go off,” explained Green Grass’s Trina Royar.

“Our routines are about three minutes long, fast and short.”

The Green Grass Cloggers’ style is more concise than, say, that of the Dixie Darlin’s.

“Just cut up and play off each other,” Finger described of her group’s looser approach.

But regardless of style, all the clogging teams have the same mission: to share the culture of Appalachia with both visiting cultural troupes and Folkmoot attendees.

“As one of the most important expressions of Appalachian culture, both clogging and bluegrass music represent our culture to the hundreds of international performers we host each year and to thousands of festival visitors from outside Western North Carolina,” Babcock said.

It’s a mission that the cloggers hold dear. And a tradition that they have helped nurture for decades.

“I grew up doing it,” said Silvers, recalling rollicking times at the Maggie Valley Playhouse. “Man, it would be packed every Friday and Saturday night.”

Silvers grew up, and continues, clogging a bit differently than most. When anyone asks to check out his shoes, they’ll discover he is forgoing wearing taps on his soles.

“I just grew up dancing without’em, and that’s they way I like it,” Silvers said.

“I have a hard enough kick that you can hear me.”

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bluegrass musicians will provide a bit of local flavor.

“First thing they want to know is what do you have on your feet,” Finger said of the foreign teams’ curiosity about the clickand-clack of the cloggers’ shoes.

“Everybody wants to see your shoes.”

According to Folkmoot Executive Director Karen Babcock, the festival fosters an environment in which participants both teach and learn. Just as the visiting international teams will be sharing their own cultures, they will also be learning about Appalachia’s local culture.

“The international dance troupes and musicians of Folkmoot will take their experiences home and thus help preserve our local cultures,” Babcock explained. “Many will learn the dances and songs of

“As one of the most important expressions of Appalachian culture, both clogging and bluegrass music represent our culture to the hundreds of international performers we host each year.”

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BY J EREMY MORRISON N EWS EDITOR hen Shirley Finger was younger, she never did too much clogging.

Or dancing of any kind, really.

“Back when I was growing up you didn’t go to a dance, that was the Devil’s place,” recalled Finger. “But when I got married my husband was on a dance team and I just fell in love with it.”

Finger fell in love with clogging. She has since enjoyed spreading the gospel of clogging with the Waynesville-based Dixie Darlin’s.

“You just watch and get the basic beat and then you add your own steps,” explained Finger, who serves as the dance team’s director. “We’ve got one guy, they call him Crazy Legs — I end up watching him every single time.”

The Dixie Darlin’s is but one of the clogging teams serving as Appalachia’s ambassadors during this year’s Folkmoot USA festival. As teams of visiting dancers and musicians arrive to represent their respective

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Appalachia and perform them for others around the world. Education is a huge part of the Folkmoot experience, and the entertainment aspect makes it pure fun.”

Clogging has long been a cultural mainstay in Western North Carolina. The dancing style has been featured at Folkmoot in the past, but festival organizers recently decided to incorporate clogging permanently.

“We made a conscious decision to make it a permanent part of the festival starting with our 30th anniversary in 2013,” Babcock said.

That makes a lot of sense to Finger. It seems natural that visiting cultural troupes would want to immerse themselves in the local offerings.

“Don’t you think they should see what we do?” Finger said.

It’s the same spirit of sharing that local dancers appreciate when they travel to cultural events abroad. Dancing, it seems, effortlessly crosses cultural divides.

“Dancing is a worldwide language,” said Keith Silvers, of Waynesville’s Southern Appalachian Cloggers. “We’ve danced in countries where we couldn’t speak the language, but everybody comes together when dancing.”

The clogging groups featured at this year’s Folkmoot have deep roots. The groups have been around for decades, with some original members still dancing. They take their sport seriously.

“God first, your family second, your job third, then you come out and dance,” said Finger.

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The Chuvashian State Ensemble performing at the 2014 Folkmoot Gala, held at the Stompin’ Ground in Maggie Valley. Scott McLeod photo sent my culture, my country, my region. I have a big respect for other cultures and learning about them, as well as sharing your own [culture]. I love coming to these festivals and meeting new people. I’m afraid many cultures are dying away — they are being erased from memory. Being able to perform the traditions, we’re able to preserve them.

SMN: Why are festivals like Folkmoot important to have?

IO: First of all, I would not have been able to meet you or have this conversation.

You meet a lot of people and learn about each of them. It’s about unifying the people of the Earth — we are sharing things and connecting with each other.

SMN: Why music? What does it bring out of you?

IO: Every since I was young, music called to my soul. It’s a gift from God. It’s something I love doing. In our group, we are multi-generational. Generation after generation playing together — it’s something in our soul.

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“Whenever we perform, we’re like an organism, a unifying body. We’re giving the audience the picture of what we’re trying to show, all together, all unified — the singers, the dancers, the musicians.”

— Igor Osipov, drummer, Chuvashian State Ensemble

SMN: This is your first time in the United States. What are you looking forward to?

IO: Personally for me, everything is very interesting. I love learning about local foods and people. Being here in Waynesville, I’m looking forward to learning about local culture from local people because they know the stories from their grandparents and the local heritage. The festival is such a great place — you’re learning about each other and coming together.

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inding common ground hrough the universal language Y GARRET K. WOODWARD TAFF WRITER or two weeks every July, the old Hazelwood School in Waynesville becomes a mini United Nations.

Performance groups from around the lobe descend on Haywood County and estern North Carolina. They’re dancers, ingers and musicians, each proudly repreenting their faraway native land and culure. And with every group comes a lanuage barrier. Though there are obviously ifficulties in not being able to understand omeone else, the beauty of sharing culures comes in finding common ground ith that person.

The universal languages are music and ance, where notes and steps are always nderstood, regardless of what corner of the lobe one is from. Put that on stage, and ou’re part of a conversation everyone in the oom can see, hear, feel and understand.

The Smoky Mountain News recently at down with 29-year-old Igor Osipov, a rummer in the Chuvashian State nsemble, a Russian performance troupe. e spoke of his love of performance, the agic of being onstage, and why festivals ike Folkmoot are vital to the preservation f world cultures.

Smoky Mountain News: Why do you ike playing drums?

Igor Osipov: I’m a musician, I play rums, I’ve been playing since I was 7 ears old. It’s my life. Musically, it’s my ife. I’m happy when I play drums. I like oing it.

SMN: What style of drums do you like?

IO: I studied jazz music in college. [For e], it’s New York City, it’s jazz — it’s hisory. This is the first time we’ve visited in he United States. It’s very beautiful here. he mountains are green. It’s so good.

SMN: Does your performance group ravel a lot?

IO: Our group, we’ve traveled every ear. Last year, we went to Mexico, witzerland, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Belgium nd Holland. I love traveling. We rememer each festival — it’s special for me, for y friends. It’s all about tradition.

SMN: What’s it like when you’re in the eat of a performance?

IO: Whenever we perform, we’re like n organism, a unifying body. Everyone is ogether and we’re giving the audience the icture of what we’re trying to show, all ogether, all unified — the singers, the ancers, the musicians.

SMN: What does it mean to you to repesent Russia?

IO: It’s a big honor to be able to repre-

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The countries of Folkmoot ‘14 ry and cultural heritage of Turkey as dramatized by indigenous dances, costumes, and music.

Born in Turkey, Zeki Maviyildiz has traveled to more than 25 countries as part of the Turkish National Folk Dance Troupe before moving to the United States to pursue his education and passion for promoting Turkish performing arts.

While living in the Triangle, Maviyildiz has become an integral part of the area’s dance scene, performing with the Opera Company of North Carolina, the Broadway dance project in Raleigh, Duke University’s Ballroom Dance Team, and the International Festivals of Raleigh and Charlotte.

The Chinese Arts Dancing Ensemble was founded in 1995

by Miss Wang, Hsiang- chin. The group’s objectives are to convey the essence of the Chinese culture, cultivate the beauty of dancing art and promote the development of dancing art in Taiwan. To achieve these goals, the group recruits the best local dancing instructors to improve its members’ dancing skill; moreover, the group invites overseas instructors every year to bring international perspectives to its members, providing cross-cultural inspiration and the diversification of dancing performance around the world.

Based in the city of Duitama, Colombia, Fundacion Artistica Del Tundama’s traditional dances are cheerful, colorful, and romantic and reflect the personality of Colombians. Bright and vibrant costumes representing the flora of the Andean region of Colombia are beautiful and uplifting. Tundama’s diverse repertoire includes a mesmerizing dance in which the ladies hold bowls of fire, while spinning their skirts with ease.

Other dances represent the fairs and festivals of folkloric Andean region of Colombia, the festival of St. Peter and St. John in the Tolima, and the coffee region. Currulao, abozao Andarele dances are elegant, and romantic, and portray the strength of the black Africans who arrived on Colombia’s coast. Costumes of the dance “Barranquilla Carnival” reflect the sun and Caribbean Sea with many coastal carnival characters as marimondas, congos and devils recreating one of the most important festivals of intangible heritage of humanity.

Tundama has participated in other international festivals like Folkmoot in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Turkey, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, and have appeared in the CIOFF flagship event, World Folkloriada, in Anseong, Korea, in 2012.

TAIWAN (CHINESE TAIPEI) – CHINESE ARTS DANCING ENSEMBLE

COLOMBIA – FUNDACION ARTISTICA DEL TUNDAMA

TRINIDAD – DIATONIC PAN

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ROMANIA – AVRAM IANCU Avram Iancu’s dances are a combination of elements: regional style, motifs, musical rhythm, choreography and social occasion. A change in one or more of these elements can create another dance, sometimes too subtle for a visitor to understand. As newer dance formations become fashionable, they combine with elements of the existing music and dance to give new local variants. New melodies may be used for old dances and new dances danced to old melodies.

The selection of dances performed in each Romanian village is often done in a fixed order, the slowest dances first, then sometimes men showing off dances and ending with the fastest dances. These are known as dance cycles and are best developed in Transylvania. These dancers are dressed in simple peasants’ clothes, with ornate stitching details and vibrant colors.

Diatonic Pan is a group of musicians and dancers from Siparia, Trinidad, whose lively music is aimed at taking audiences to the beaches of Trinidad. Their instruments include steel pans, bongos and a multitude of drums, including African. Diatonic Pan are also members of Pan Trinbago. They have been finalists in The National Music Festival and have won first place in the “I Can Play” Music Competition. Their performances portray triumph over death (limbo), music as a solution to violence, and a love dance.

HAWAII USA – AHUNA OHANA The Ahuna Ohana dance troupe is all family. Their dances include lively music with gourds and bamboo, diverse hula dances, hoop dances, and flaming swords! The flaming sword dance is known as ‘The Dance of Death;” it is done after victory in battle and includes the warrior spinning the flaming swords around in to show his bravery.

Other dances include a hula (story with the hands) that tells of the beauty of “Lipoa” (seaweed) which dances with the currents of the ocean. The “Hawaiian War Chant” song tells of the meeting of two people in love. This song was featured at Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room and in “Lion King.” The group also performs a Puili Hula which is a dance with bamboo and floral dresses with leis.

Their diverse repertoire includes traditional Samoan, Navajo and Tahitian dance and music.

TURKEY/USA – BLUESTAR TURKISH FOLK DANCE TROUPE Hit of the 2005 International Festival in Raleigh, the Bluestar Dance Troupe performed their dynamic repertoire of traditional Turkish dances as part of the Music of the Carolinas series.

Founded in 2004 by folk dancer Zeki Maviyildiz, the Bluestar Dance Troupe explores the rich histo-

RUSSIA – CHUVASHIAN STATE ENSEMBLE The Chuvashian State Ensemble’s spectacular cavalcade of music and dance encompasses the fire, excitement and unique energies of the Russian Cossacks; a people from the wide-open spaces and sun-drenched meadows of the region to the north of the Caucasus, famed for their love of horses and independence.

The Cossacks’ fiery dances and songs are as true and honest as the souls of their country folk, exuding yearning, bravery, hope, love and passion. The highlight of this spectacular show is the Great Cossack Dance for which special sabres have been made of titanium, ensuring sparks really do fly.

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her daughter Misty Mowrey.

Sunday’s World Friendship Day performance at Lake Junaluska gave performers and spectators alike the chance to bond over that international dialect. And when not onstage, performers hung around outside the auditorium, doing their best to communicate with their audience in a language that transcends words.

For Mowrey and one dancer from Colombia, that language was makeup.

Mowrey had tried to ask the woman how long she’d been a dancer but quickly realized she spoke no English. Instead, Mowrey pointed to the woman’s elaborate eye makeup, smiling that it was beautiful.

“Of course, women can always communicate about eye makeup, so we exchanged joy over that,” Mowrey said.

The exchange goes both ways. Folkmoot performers said they were impressed by the

reception Western North Carolina has given them.

“He was a little concerned when he was coming here, in light of political events around the world, they would not be greeted too warmly, but he’s been impressed by the hospitality he’s received,” said Western Carolina University graduate student Dianna Kuzmich, translating for Russian group member Alexander Osipov.

Osipov added that American visitors to Russia would receive the same grace.

Like Osipov, Colombian group member Ligia Zaraza Forero has nothing but good things to say about her first visit to America.

“The people are spectacular,” Forero said in Spanish. “Very respectful.

We are delighted.”

She marveled at how clean the cities are, how beautiful the mountains are and how organized everything seems to be.

“It is very organized here,” she said.

“Everybody has their rules, and they follow them.”

And it’s not just the culture that is different, Forero said. Central Colombia, where

she’s from, is full of mountains and stays pretty chilly. You always need a jacket.

Forero is enjoying the fruits in WNC, and plenty of other kinds of food as well.

“We’re getting fat,” she said. “The dancers, they can’t. Very rich, very rich, the food.”

Rich, too, were the dances. Joy was evident on the performers’ faces as they shared the heritage of their home countries on the stage at Lake Junaluska, and the audience had a good time, too.

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Cultures mingle at Folkmoot World Friendship Day event

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he whirling skirts and clacking heels of Folkmoot USA represent eight different nations spanning the globe, but while the diversity makes for a beautiful spectacle, having all those languages in one place can make verbal communication a little difficult. There’s not much similarity between English, Russian and Chinese, but dance is universal.

“Music is an international language,” said Concord resident Mary Talbert, who traveled to see the Folkmoot dancers with

“Music is an international language.”

— Concord resident Mary Talbert

“They stayed in their seats, but there was an awful lot of foot tapping,” said Asheville resident Mary Mayo, who brought her two granddaughters to the show.

“The guys were kind of cute, too,” added Selah Washburn, 11.

Washburn was especially enamored of one performer from Trinadad, which just goes to show that though language and culture may vary, some things transcend nationality. Maybe Washburn’s way of expressing that is a little different than what you might hear from a more formal kind of diplomat, but it’s a lesson that the performers have learned already during their time in the U.S. “People are people everywhere, and not everyone looks at the world through political eyes,” Osipov said.

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Schedule of Events* Wednesday, July 23 2:00 pm 7:30 pm

Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock. (All Groups) Adults $30, Students, Faculty: ½ price, Children (12 & under) FREE. Asheville High School, Asheville. (All Groups) General Adults $30, Students, Faculty: ½ price, Children (12 & under) FREE.

Extravaganza Matinee, Stompin’ Ground, Maggie Valley.

(All Groups) Reserved seating: Adults $30, $25; General admission Adults $20; Children (12 & under) FREE. Folkmoot Group Guest Appearance at Mountain Street Dance, Main Street, Waynesville. Free. www.downtownwaynesville.com Extravaganza, Stompin’ Ground, Maggie Valley. (All Groups) Reserved seating: $30, $25; General admission Adults $20; Children (12 & under) FREE.

2:00 pm

Friday, July 25

Town Center, Burnsville. (2 Groups) Adults $16; Children (12 & under) FREE. Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. (3 Groups) Adults $27, $22; Children (12 & under) FREE. 828.524.1598

2:00 pm 7:30 pm

Thursday, July 24

6:30 pm 7:30 pm

1:30 pm 7:00 pm

Sunday, July 27

10:30 am Folkmoot Parade of Nations, Waynesville. From Historic Court House down Main Street, Free Event.

3:00 pm Performance/Workshop, Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds, 800.438.1601.

(1 Cherokee and 1 Folkmoot Group) Adults $10, Children (12 & under) FREE. Haywood Community College, Clyde. (All Groups) Reserved seating: Adults $30, $25; General Admission Adults $20; Children (12 & under) FREE.

Saturday, July 26

7:30 pm

Diana Wortham Theatre, Asheville. (All Groups) Adults $30, Children (12 & under) FREE. 828.257.4530, dwtheatre.com Candlelight Closing, Stuart Auditorium, Lake Junaluska. (All Groups) Reserved seating: Adults $30, $25; General admission Adults $20; Children (12 & under) ½ price.

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sure we still liked the name so much we just went for it.

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD

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SMN: What’s it like to be a musician in the 21st century?

CA: It’s great. With the Internet, promoting yourself through all the different facets it helps us reach so many more people than bands could have years ago with-

“I don’t really know what music evokes in me. I think hanging out with friends and writing great tunes is just plain fun.”

— Carl Anderson

Smoky Mountains News: I’ve got to ask, what’s with the band name?

Carl Anderson: The band name just came from us shooting the breeze and we were talking about being in the middle of nowhere as being in East Jesus. We liked the ring of it and added the bound. We didn’t settle on it right away as we thought it was a bit ridiculous, but as our first show got clo-

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SATURDAY JULY 26 • 7 P.M.

Adults: $10 Children 6–16: Half Price • Under 6: Free Tickets are available at

www.CoweeSchool.org/music.html or at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce.

Pending availability, tickets may be purchased the night of the show.

Directions to the Cowee School can be found at the website.

This year’s concert series is sponsored in part by:

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which is being able to not only connect you with the world, but also retain a snapshot of your life and memories each time you spin a tune. Listening to a record can be like looking through a photo album of your life, and Eastbound Jesus opened up the scrapbook of my past.

The Smoky Mountain News recently caught up with Eastbound Jesus drummer Carl Anderson. He spoke of the band’s formation, their magnetic stage presence and what it means to be a musician in the 21st century.

Since Frank Solivan left the cold climes of Alaska for the bluegrass hotbed of Washington, D.C., he’s built a reputation as a monster mandolinist — and become a major festival attraction with his band, Dirty Kitchen.

Solivan and banjoist Mike Munford (2013 IBMA Banjo Player of the Year), guitarist Chris Luquette (IBMA Instrumentalist of the Year Momentum Award winner) and doghouse bassist Dan Booth simmer a bluegrass/newgrass stew from instrumental, vocal and songwriting skills so hot, they earned a three peat 2012, 2013 and 2014 Best Bluegrass Band honors from the Washington Area Music Association. These individually brilliant musicians have combined their vocal and songwriting skills to make their new album, Cold Spell, into the perfect progressive album filled with instrumental virtuosity.

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2014 Concert Series July 23-29, 2014

There’s no place like home.

Amid my first few weeks living in Western North Carolina, there were times I got homesick. Though I have bounced around the country for many years now, I, too, have moments where I start to miss things familiar to me.

I missed the faces that have known me my whole life, the voices and eyes I’ve heard and looked into since I was a child. I missed the smells of the fall foliage in the North Country (Upstate New York/Vermont) and the taste of real maple syrup. I missed the cold rivers and ancient peaks of the Adirondack Mountains. I missed it all.

Wandering through Facebook, browsing friends from home, seeing how life was back home, I came across a link for a new North Country band — Eastbound Jesus. The name caught my eye. I had to listen to whatever tone was attached to that moniker. So, I got hold of their albums — and I was hooked.

Eastbound Jesus is the North Country.

The sextet’s hardscrabble blend of folk, rock and string music soothed my road-worn soul. With each melody echoing from the speakers, I could feel each snowflake from another hard Canadian border winter, each brightly colored leaf drifting down to the ground, each spark from a backcountry bonfire, each voice and face of someone I missed dearly.

And that’s the ultimate power of music,

Eastbound Jesus.

SMN: What does it mean to be a North Country band?

CA: We love being a North Country band. The weather, the rural lifestyle, our hard working way of living, it inspires our music and how we write songs. And we really have the best fans. It’s awesome to see a room packed with our fans in the middle of a snowstorm.

That’s commitment. As for that North Country sound, I think it’s open for interpretation. There’s a lot of great North Country bands, all with a unique style, creating this “North Country rock” style.

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SMN: What’s the intent of the group?

CA: We just started out as a group of guys hanging out in a barn writing tunes and we’ve just taken off from there. Now we just want to create unique and exciting music, and push ourselves to make every album better than the last. We’ve all been playing instruments for a long time though.

We’ve been in bands playing music for quite some time now. I don’t really know what music evokes in me. I think hanging out with friends and writing great tunes is just plain fun.

out the backing of a major label. It also makes things a bit difficult as well, because there is so much great music out there, it’s hard to break through and rise to the top.

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On the beat

Tritt presents country hits July 26 Travis Tritt will play Franklin July 26.

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Country music megastar Travis Tritt will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

A country music artist whose style has been described as mainstream country with Southern rock influences, Tritt released his first album in 1989. He was one of the leading new country singers of the early ‘90s and held his own against other newcomers, including Garth Brooks, Clint Black and Alan Jackson. His bluesy, rock sound helped him to develop a gutsy,

outlaw image that distinguished him from the pack.

Throughout his career, Tritt has had seven albums certified platinum or higher. His highestcertified album was “It’s All About to Change,” which was certified triple-platinum. He has landed on the Hot Country Songs charts more than 40 times, including five number one and fifteen additional top ten hits. His most popular hits include, “Help Me Hold On,” “Anymore,” “Can I Trust You with My Heart,” “Foolish Pride,” and “Best of Intentions.”

Tritt has received two Grammy Awards, both for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. In 1992 he won for “The Whisky Ain’t Workin,” a duet with Marty Stuart. In 1998, he won for “Same Old Train,” a collaboration with Stuart and nine other artists. Tritt has also received four awards from the Country Music Association and has been a member of the Grand Old Opry since 1992.

Tickets are $35 per person. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

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Acclaimed New York City jazz guitarist Freddie Bryant will play from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, July 24, at Innovation Brewing in Sylva.

Bryant has had the honor of touring with three legends of the music world: African singer Salif Keita, the virtuoso klezmer clarinetist Maestro Giora Feidman and the jazz trumpet great Tom Harrell (as a member of his quintet, 1999-2001). He has recorded and/or played with Tom Harrell, D.D. Jackson, Steve Wilson, Kevin Hays, Rosanna Vitro, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sheila Jordan, Randy Brecker, David Sanchez and many others.

Over the years Bryant has toured in 50 countries and has collaborated with musicians from a wide variety of backgrounds including the Indian sitarist Shubhendra Rao, the Kenyan singers Achien’g Abura, Suzanna Owiyo, the Taarab master and traditional groups in Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. In 2006 he performed in Cuba as a solo artist and spent a week of musical exchange with Cuban musicians, including the trumpet player, “El Greco,” formerly of Irakere. He has toured as a cultural ambassador for The U.S. Department of State and performed at the Kennedy Center with the Billy Taylor Trio, appearing on National Public Radio’s “Live at the Kennedy Center.”

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Bluegrass to hit Robbinsville stage Acoustic bluegrass quartet The Special Consensus will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 26, at the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center in Robbinsville.

With a repertoire that features traditional bluegrass standards, original compositions, and songs from other musical genres performed in the bluegrass format, the band has released 16 recordings and has appeared on numerous National Public Radio programs, The Nashville Network and the Grand Ole Opry. The band’s 2012 release “Scratch Gravel Road” was GRAMMY nominated for Best Bluegrass Album.

A traditional mountain dinner is available in the Schoolhouse Café prior to the concert at 6 p.m. The menu includes fried chicken,

Kansas string duo to play Bryson City Sister string duo Scenic Roots will continue the Summer Music Series at 7 p.m.

Thursday, July 24, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

The Kansas-based band combines oldtime mountain melodies, bluegrass drive, Irish traditions and down-home humor. The duo is comprised of Erin Rogers on mountain dulcimer and vocals and Amber Rogers on fiddle, banjo, hammered dulcimer and lead vocals. They take their audiences on a scenic journey as they weave their many musical influences together to create a unique blend of acoustic roots music. They take you back in time to the days when folks gathered on front porches to play and sing together.

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potato salad and a light veggie.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for students (kindergarten-12th grade), with special dinner passes available www.stecoahvalleycenter.com or 828.479.3364.

Scenic Roots.

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Traditional musician and storyteller Lee Knight will perform as part of the series on July 31.

Free.

828.488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

College. Currently he is on the faculty of Williams College and the Prins Claus Conservatory in Groningen, Holland.

Free.

Lake Junaluska welcomes acclaimed pianist

Sundown Band brings country, rock to Sylva

Pianist David Troy Francis will perform the music of Rachmaninoff, Gershwin and American hymns at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Stuart Auditorium in Lake Junaluska. Francis will be joined by Broadway performer Mark Morales.

Francis has recorded eight albums ranging from his unique arrangements of American hymns to the world premiere recording of Pulitzer Prize winning composer Ned Rorem’s David Troy Francis technically formidable “Eight Etudes for Piano.” He has served as the recording pianist for films, including Pursuit of Happyness, Fame and Elegy.

Currently, he is the artistic director of the Asheville nonprofit The Modern American Music Project which has mounted the acclaimed opera “Dead Man Walking” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning work “The Passion of the Little Match Girl” within the last 14 months.

Tickets are $17.50 per person. www.lakejunaluska.com/concert-tickets or 828.452.2881.

The Sundown Band will perform as part of the Concerts on the Creek series at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 25, at Bridge Park in Sylva.

The band specializes in country, rock, R&B, Motown and 60’s and 70’s pop. Based in Andrews, the group includes Don O’Dell, Rick Davenport, Jamie Nichols, Johnny McCoy, Sammy Mason and Andrea Reid.

Concerts on the Creek are held every Friday night through Labor Day. The concerts are free with a donation encouraged and cooperatively produced by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, the Town of Sylva and the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department. Those attending should bring a chair or blanket.

Whitewater Bluegrass will perform next in the series on Aug. 1. The July 18 concert by Soldier’s Heart was canceled due to rain. It will be rescheduled later this fall, with a date to be announced soon.

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The Palmetto Gravel Scratchers will play the Songcatchers Music Series at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 27, at the Cradle of Forestry in America.

From Upstate South Carolina, the group brings together old-time traditional string band tunes, historical ballads, early country songs and the works of contemporary songwriters.

Their music relives the times when great changes were taking place, from the end of the Civil War through the 1920s and beyond.

Admission for all shows is $6 for ages 16 and older, $3 for youth 15 and under and America the Beautiful and Golden Age pass holders.

• Low Volts, 3 Sum, Damn Union and Caleb “Nip” Crawford will perform at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. Low Volts plays July 24, with 3 Sum July 25, Damn Union July 26 and Crawford July 27. Shows begin at 9 p.m. Free.

828.586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

• Appalachian/blues singer-songwriter Scott Ainslie will hold a music workshop at 4 p.m. and concert at 7:45 p.m. Thursday, July 24, at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. The musician will teach attendees the art of songwriting and storytelling. $12. www.38main.com.

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• Americana group The Old Guard and The Spontaneous Combustion Jam will be at BearWaters Brewing Company in Waynesville. The Old Guard plays at 7 p.m.

July 25. The jam runs from 8 p.m. to midnight every Monday, with all players welcome. 828.246.0602 or www.bwbrewing.com.

• Friday Night Jazz! with The Kittle & Collings Duo will be from 6 to 9 p.m. July 25 and Aug. 1 at Lulu’s on Main. www.mountainlovers.com.

• Oldies group The Elderly Brothers and variety musician Charlie Horse will perform as part of Pickin’ on the Square at the gazebo in downtown Franklin. The Elderly Brothers play July 26, with Horse Aug. 2. All shows begin at 6:30 p.m. Free. 828.524.2516 or www.franklin-chamber.com.

• Craig Summers & Lee Kram, Fritz Beer, Bohemian Jean and Armadillo will perform at

Chamber music in Waynesville The Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival will continue with the Jasper Quartet at 7:30 p.m. July 27 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

The quartet will perform Beethoven’s Opus 18 No. 3, Twilight Music and the String Quartet in G Major by Dvořák.

Tickets are $21.40. www.swannanoachambermusic.com or chamber@warren-wilson.edu or 828.452.0593.

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Summers & Kram play July 24 and 31, with Fritz Beer July 25, Bohemian Jean July 26 and Armadillo Aug. 1. Thursday shows begin at 6 p.m., with weekend performances starting at 7 p.m. Free. 828.454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Tellico will perform as part of the Outdoor 76 concert series at 6 p.m. July 23 in downtown Franklin. Live music and craft beer. $5 per person. 828.349.7676 or www.franklinchamber.com.

• Appalachian string/bluegrass group The Special Consensus will perform at 7:30 p.m.

July 26 at the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center in Robbinsville. $25 for adults, $10 for students. Dinner services begin at 6 p.m. in the Schoolhouse Café. 828.479.3364 or www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

• The Summer Live Music Series will continue with PMA and Somebody’s Child at the Nantahala Outdoor Center in the Nantahala Gorge. PMA plays July 25, with Somebody’s Child July 26. Live music, barbecue and craft beer. All performances are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Mandolin/guitar duo Chant the Trees will perform on July 25 at City Lights Café in Sylva.

Free. www.citylightscafe.com or 828.587.2233.

• Funk/Motown act Porch 40 and southern rock/country group The Josh Fields Band will perform at the Bryson City Train Depot. Porch 40 plays July 26, with Fields Aug. 2. Both shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Texas soul artist Larry Patton, Appalachian act The Larry Barnett Duo and classic rockers Larry & The Daryls will perform at the Fontana Village Resort. Patton plays July 24, with Barnett July 25 and Larry & The Daryls July 26. All shows begin at 7 p.m. www.fontanavillage.com.

• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen will perform at 7 p.m. July 26 at the Historic Cowee School. $10 per person. www.coweeschool.org or 828.349.1945.

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• Country artist Erica Nicole and rock group The Matt Joiner Band will perform at Groovin’ on the Green at the Village Commons in Cashiers. Nicole plays July 25, with Joiner Aug. 1. Shows begin at 6:30 p.m. Free. www.mountainlovers.com.

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• Noonday Sun, Americana/folk band Soldier’s Heart, Owner of the Sun and singer/songwriter Jamie Kent & the Options will perform at Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City. Noonday Sun plays July 25, with Soldier’s Heart July 26, Owner of the Sun Aug. 1 and Kent Aug. 2. 8 p.m. Free. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

828.877.3130 www.cradleofforestry.org.

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Old-time string music at Cradle of Forestry

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On the wall Change in leadership at WCU arts college

JOIN JACKSON’S FARM, GARDEN & STUDIO TOUR Metalsmith William S. Rogers is one of several studios participating in the July 26-27 Jackson County Farm, Garden, & Studio Tour. The combined farm and arts tour is a first for Jackson County.

Farms and studios will be open from 1-6 p.m. www.jacksoncountyfarmersmarkets.org.

828.293.3777.

• A basic knitting class will be held from 10 a.m. to noon every Tuesday at the Jackson County Senior Center in Sylva. Bring your own needles and yarn, if possible. Free.

828.586.4944.

Sponsored by the arts center and the Swain County Schools. Free. 828.488.7843.

• The films “Transcendence” and “Neighbors” will be shown in the Central Plaza at Western Carolina University.

“Transcendence” will be screened July 24, with “Neighbors” July 31. All films begin at 9:30 p.m. Free. corelli@wcu.edu or 828.227.3618.

• The Come Paint With Charles Kidz Program will be at 5 p.m. July 24, 29 and 31 at the Charles Heath Gallery in Bryson City. $18 per child, per class. Price includes materials and snacks.

828.538.2054.

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Western Carolina University Provost Alison Morrison-Shetlar announced a change in leadership in the College of Fine and Performing Arts. Robert Kehrberg, founding dean of the college, is stepping down from that position and will return to the faculty in the School of Music.

Darrell Parker, dean of WCU’s College of Business, has agreed to also serve as acting dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts.

“I would like to thank Dr. Kehrberg for his years of committed service as founding dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts, a role he has held since July 1, 2007, and to Western Carolina University,” Morrison-Shetlar said.

Prior to becoming dean, Kehrberg had served as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences since June 2005, as well as for a brief stint in 2004. Under a reorganization plan implemented in 2007, academic programs in the arts that had been housed in the College of Arts and Sciences were relocated to the newly created College of Fine and Performing Arts.

In addition, an announcement is forthcoming about the membership of a campus committee, including its chair, that will conduct a national search to fill the vacant dean’s position on a permanent basis.

HCC instructor elected to Craft Guild Board

• The film “Heaven is For Real” will be screened July 25-27 at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. Screenings are at 7:45 p.m. on Fridays; 2, 5 and 7:45 p.m. on Saturdays; and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $6 per person, $4 for children. Saturday morning cartoons will also be shown at 10 a.m. 828.283.0079 or www.38main.com.

• A DVD on the painting techniques of Lea Colie Wight will be screened at 6:15 p.m.

Thursday, July 31, at the Swain County Center for the Arts in Bryson City.

Haywood Community College Professional Crafts Wood instructor Brian Wurst was recently elected to the board of the Southern Highland Craft Guild in Asheville.

Wurst graduated from HCC’s Professional Crafts Wood program in 2001 and began teaching at the college in 2007. The Southern

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Highland Craft Guild Board of Trustees is composed of nine members, elected by the membership to serve a three-year term. The board of trustees meets four times each year, at which time the board receives committee reports, acts on Guild policy, approves budgets, reviews programming, plans for the Guild’s future and offers guidance, support and counsel to the executive director.

The Southern Highland Craft Guild, chartered in 1930, now represents close to 1,000 craftspeople in 293 counties of nine southeastern states. The Guild holds the largest and most important collection of Appalachian craft in the world.

New exhibit at Gallery 86

Works from illustrator/painter Mark Menendez and his students will be displayed during a new exhibit running July 30-Aug. 30 at the Haywood County Art Council’s Gallery 86 in Waynesville.

Menendez has been drawing and painting for over 40 years. He has held demonstrations and lectures at universities and art institutions around the South. He also has illustrated over 20 published books, released three self-teaching videos and won numerous awards. In 2010, his oil portrait of his ancestor, Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles, founder of St. Augustine, Fla., was installed in the city at the Mission Nobre de Dios Museum.

Other works from his students include pieces by Kel Tanner, Shary Weckwerth, Henri Proffitt, Penny Wallace, Sandy Lester, Vickie Belcher, Elaine Griffis, Jan Burkhead, Judy Roney and Mollie Weaver.

An artist reception will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 1 at Gallery 86. www.haywoodarts.org.

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Fountain sculpture dedication, Frog Hop in Waynesville

The “Chasing Tadpole” fountain sculpture, shown here in the former Biltmore Square Mall, will be dedicated on Aug. 2 in Waynesville. The Frog Hop around the dedication will be from 4 to 9 p.m.

“Chasing Tadpoles,” was donated to the Town of Waynesville in early 2014.

Held from 4 to 9 p.m., the Frog Hop is a collaboration between the Frog Level Merchant’s Association, the Downtown Waynesville Association, Waynesville Public Art Commission and the Town of Waynesville.

The Hop will include booths highlighting local artists, live music, food and children’s activities. Music will be provided by ‘Round the Fire at 4 and 6 p.m. and Travelers Club at 7:30 p.m. www.waynesvillenc.gov or 828.454.5664 or 828.246.0218.

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The Waynesville Public Art Commission will hold a dedication of a new public art piece entitled “Chasing Tadpoles” during the Frog Hop at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, in the Historic Frog Level District.

The fountain sculpture will be located at the corner of Commerce and Depot streets.

Local artist and former Tuscola High School art teacher Bill Eleazer crafted the multi-piece bronze sculpture of three children playing in a pond over thirty years ago. The piece was showcased at the former Biltmore Square Mall in Asheville for many years until its closing for transition to outdoor outlet shopping.

Christian writer comes to Franklin

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Christian advocate, evangelist, and writer Josh McDowell will host a presentation at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 30, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

McDowell will deliver a discussion entitled “Save Our Children, Save Our World!” focusing on one central message — finding a way to reverse the slippery slope that attracts children before it’s too late.

Having experienced many hardships and challenges throughout his childhood, McDowell understands how Advocate/writer Josh easy it is for young people to stray from the Gospel. He has written or co-authored more than 135 books includMcDowell will hit the ing Seeing Yourself As God Sees You and The Last stage in Franklin on July Christian Generation. He has received four Christian Book 30. Donated photo Awards (formally known as the Gold Medallion Book Award), an honor he shares with Rev. Billy Graham, Max Lucado, James Dobson, among others.

Having addressed more than 25 million people and given over 26,000 talks in 125 countries, McDowell is very passionate about his ministry. In the United States, he and his team have created many cutting-edge live events to help encourage young people to stand strong in their faith when faced with a culture full of temptation and deceit.

Free. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

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The 5th Annual Hillbilly Woodstock will be held 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Aug 1-2 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds.

The musical lineup is comprised of 20 artists, including Joe Lasher Jr., Andy Buckner, SmokeRise, the Ryan Perry Band, Neon Truckers, Pioneer Chicken Stand and headliner Kaitlyn Baker. Hillbilly Woodstock is a celebration of Appalachian culture. The event will feature working moonshine stills, arts and crafts, food and special celebrity guests, including Greg Shook from the TV series “Appalachian Outlaws� on the History Channel. There will also be several cast members of the Discovery Channel reality series “Moonshiners,� such as Mike “Mud Dog� Mitchell, Jim Tom Hedrick, Mark Rogers and Roy Grooms.

Other special guests will also include Shane McCoy and James Hatfield, descendants of the infamous, feuding Hatfields and McCoys, who will perform a lumberjack-

themed program. There will also be a car and motorcycle show called Hillbilly Show ‘n Shine. Each of the first 25 Show ‘n Shine participants will receive a handcrafted copper model of a moonshine still.

Admission is $6 per day or $10 for both days. All ages admitted. www.hillbillywoodstock.com.

Cupcake Challenge returns to Canton

Dinosaur Train rolls into Bryson City

The second annual Cupcake Challenge will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 31, at the Canton Branch Library.

The challenge is open to all ages.

Interested bakers may register at the front desk of the Canton Branch Library. Bakers are asked to make one dozen cupcakes (from scratch or a mix), and decorate them with a “garden� theme. Decorations must be edible, and each cupcake should be the same flavor.

Prizes will be awarded, including an audience favorite prize this year Bakers will need to check in starting at 1:15 p.m. on the day of the event. General admission and judging will start at 2 p.m. Everyone is invited to sample the cupcakes, and there will be a decorating station for children.

828.648.2924.

The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad has partnered with Rail Events Inc. and The Jim Henson Company to bring the PBS KIDS series “Dinosaur Train� July 18-20, 25-27 and Aug. 1-3, at the Bryson City Train Depot.

For this event, families will take a ride on a real train bound for the Nature Trackers Adventure Area where young guests will participate in a series of challenges. Also included are music, children’s activities, “Dinosaur Train� merchandise and an opportunity to meet your favorite T. rex, Buddy.

Tickets start at $39 per adult and $30 per child (ages 2-12). Crown Class tickets are available on a limited basis and are $59 per adult and $40 per child (ages 2-12) and $10 for infants 23 months and younger. 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com.

• Thirsty Thursdays $1 off all beer and wine will be held each week at City Lights CafÊ in Sylva. Local Western North Carolina beers, with 11 taps able to fill growlers. Bring your own to fill or purchase one at the cafÊ.

which includes food and beverage.

828.926.1401 or 800.868.1401 or www.cataloocheeranch.com.

• Competition entrants are still being sought for Mountain Heritage Day on Sept. 27 at Western North Carolina.

Entrees for baked goods, the 5K road race, craft juried competitions, and more are still available. www.mountainheritageday.com.

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• The “Way Back Whenâ€? dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1, at the Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley. The dinner showcases a recreation meal, music, storytelling and atmosphere of a 1930s Appalachian trout camp. $31.95 per person,

SmokeRise will perform during Hillbilly Woodstock in Maggie Valley. Garret K. Woodward photo

• The Highlands Road Gem Show will be from 9 a.m. until dusk July 23-27 at the corner of U.S. 411 and Highlands Road in Franklin.

Free. 828.369.6341. • A street dance will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. July 25 in downtown Waynesville. Live music by Whitewater Bluegrass and The Trantham Family, with clogging by the Dixie Dar-lin’s. Dancing led by Joe Sam Queen. All skill levels welcomed to participate. www.downtownwaynesville.com. • The T&D Gem Show will be from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. through July 27 at the corner of U.S. 441 and Lake Emory Road in Franklin. Free.

828.371.2954.

Books

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Summer reading always takes a different tack or whatever reason — the leisurely pace of days, the break in my work routine, the annual trip to the coast with my children and grandchildren — summer alters my reading habits. As for the students I teach, summer affords me the opportunity to read as I wish, to browse with less intent through bookstores or library Writer stacks. Here are a few of the books that have passed through my hands these last two weeks.

One entertaining read was Brad Meltzer’s History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time (Workman Publishing, 252 pages, $24.95). Assisted by writer Keith Ferrell, Meltzer, who hosts the History Channel’s popular show “Brad Meltzer’s Decoded,” analyzes 10 historical events shrouded with mystery.

Eight of these events have to do with American history. In addition to looking at some modern conspiracy theories — the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the possible cover-up of UFO appearances at Roswell and Area 51, the disappearance of the hijacker DB Cooper — Meltzer shines the light of his wit and reason on John Wilkes Booth’s escape and the unrelated disappearance of Confederate gold at the end of the Civil War. To those unfamiliar with the Booth mystery, the chapter on Lincoln’s assassination will prove particularly fascinating. Standard history books tell us that Booth, after shooting Lincoln, fled Washington and was later

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shot to death in a barn in Port Royal, Va. Soldiers and other observers on hand that night gave varying reports of the dead Booth’s appearance, describing him, for example, as having reddish hair when Booth himself had jet-black hair. (Here I paused over this piece of evidence: Booth was an actor by trade and could use have easily changed the color of his hair). Later, some of Booth’s relatives claimed to have been in contact with him, and for 50 years a man named Bates toured the country

displaying a mummified body which he advertised as being John Wilkes Booth.

Meltzer is not one of those nuts who corners you at a party and begins spit-talking while demanding you believe whatever wacko theory has blown his circuit-board, a contemporary mental condition usually induced by far too many hours on weird internet sites.

Story time with Sikes, Kohlmeyer Author Curtis Sikes and illustrator Sheena Kohlmeyer will present their children’s book The Heart of a Friend at 11 a.m.

Saturday, July 26, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

In this second book of A Lion Tale series, Leo is back with his father, King Lionel, and some new jungle animals. Leo, now a little older, is learning what it means to be a lion that can patrol and hunt.

As the story unfolds, there are new lessons to be learned about forgiveness and friendship. Leo also shows kindness and love towards his best monkey friend, Max, who’s being bullied and feeling unimportant. In the end, Leo and Max learn what it means to have the heart of a friend.

828.586.9499.

Dining expert to showcase books Homemade living/decoration writer Ashley English will hold a presentation on her website and book series at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 27, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

Celebrate the seasons and connect with your community through 16 parties to throw in collaboration with your friends. From the décor, to the entertainment, on down to the recipes themselves,

No, Meltzer pokes fun at outlandish conjectures and approaches his chosen mysteries fully charged in the cranium. At the end of the Booth piece, for example, he points out that since we have access to DNA evidence both from Booth and from his brother, Edwin, it should be easy to compare samples from both men’s remains to establish their relationship.

Included in this book are many photographs, sidebars with facts and details and 30 removable facsimile documents. These reproductions help bring alive the historical era and deepen the reader’s interest in the mystery under discussion. The chapter on Booth, for example, holds an envelope containing three documents: a wanted poster from the time, with pictures of three of the assassins and rewards of $100,000 for their arrest; the will of the man claiming at his death to be Booth and a letter from Booth written in 1864.

Of equal delight is Steven Gilbar’s Bibliotopia; or Mr. Gilbar’s Book of Books & Catch-all of Literary Facts & Curiosities (David R. Godine, Publisher, 177 pages, $23.95). This is a “dipper” book, page after page of lists, quotations, facts about publishing and printing. Crammed into this small volume are quotations from George Bernard Shaw and Tom Robbins, lists of the prizes awarded in fiction and poetry, a catalogue of pseudonyms used by different authors, guides to the pronunciation of certain authors’ names, French and Latin expressions, musicals based on novels, operas based on books, and much more, all designed to inform and amuse readers. (I am embarrassed

English’s newest book Handmade Gatherings presents inspired suggestions for thoughtful, flavorful, festive communal dining.

Readers will find sixteen parties built around the rhythm of the seasons. Frosty winter fetes, lush springtime soirees, sultry summer get-togethers and crisp autumn affairs. Food, décor, crafts, and more are part of each event, all collectively assembled and executed. Throw memorable gatherings with your loved ones, enjoy the food, connect with your community and get caught up in the splendor of it all.

828.456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

Summer education, reading fun in Bryson City A variety of educational and entertaining programs will be offered July 28-30 and Aug. 1 at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

The Science of Slushies will be for 3rd-5th graders at 11 a.m.

July 28 and for kindergarten-2nd graders 11 a.m. July 29. Creating their very own slushies using salt and ice, children will also observe the changes of ice blocks when salt is added.

Preschoolers will participate in Color Chaos at 10:30 a.m. July 30. Creating a fun experiment using milk and colors, children will

to report I never knew the word “book” derives from “beech,” because the ancient Saxons and Germans scribbled runes on pieces of beechen board. Looking up the ancestor of so common a word simply never occurred to me).

As in so many of the books published by Godine, Bibliotopia is also distinguished by its illustrations, in this case by the art of Elliott Banfield. Described on the cover and title page as “decorations,” the computer-generated portraits of Marcel Proust, Alice Walker, and other writers add to the delight of roaming Bibliotopia.

Finally, for logophiliacs, grammaticasters, and all the rest of us who live in a state of merry, drunken infatuation with the English language, there is The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage by Kingsley Amis. Though an older book, The King’s English can still be found in used bookshops and online.

Online reviews of this volume on Amazon remain available and can provide some amusement on a slow evening. These online critics are correct in stating that The King’s English should not be employed as a book of grammar and usage, but some miss the target when firing at Amis for his condescension, snobbery and biting humor. By his own admission, Amis was sometimes — well, many times — a condescending snob who could use words as knives and cleavers on those who roused his ire or his contempt.

For heaven’s sakes — that mordant wit is the best reason to read this book.

(Jeff Minick is a writer and teacher. His first novel, Amanda Bell, is available at regional bookstores and at Amazon. He can be reached at minick0301@gmail.com.)

also enjoy some exciting stories involving color and create their very own illustrations using shapes of different colors.

The Summer Reading Finale Carnival and Magic Show will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Aug. 1. Carnival games and snacks. At 5 p.m., professional magician Caleb Simon will perform his mindblowing magic.

828.488.3030 or aplatt@fontanalib.org.

Suspense, romance at City Lights Author/storyteller Sheri Wren Haymore will present her two novels A Higher Voice and A Deeper Cut at 3 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Her novels feature characters with flaws and she tends to, as she puts it, “to squish a character until he pops and see what pours out. Or more specifically, what pours back in.” Her books have been described as a blend of Mary Higgins Clark, James Patterson and Nicholas Sparks.

Haymore grew up in Mt. Airy and still lives thereabouts with her husband and a pup named Cercie. Together they’ve made a living running a couple of small businesses and made a life doing the things they enjoy — traveling, hiking, camping, kayaking.

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What is a forest management plan?

Hashing out habitat Crowd debates wildlife habitat in forest management plan meeting

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ore than 100 people filled the room at Asheville’s Crowne Plaza Hotel earlier this month, but they weren’t there for the pretzels. This 16th meeting in the forest management plan revision process for the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests drew people from across Western North Carolina representing a spectrum of interests. Those interests all converged on one topic — wildlife.

“The overall theme that I feel like from the wildlife habitat perspective is to manage this forest for diversity,” Sheryl Bryan, a U.S. Forest Service wildlife biologist, told the crowd.

More than 300 of the 1,000-plus comments the Forest Service has received so far about its management plan pertained to wildlife, and of those, Bryan said, “we did by far receive the most comments concerning the amount of early successional habitat and the mix of age classes associated with that. So the elephant’s out there and we’re going to talk about that.”

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THE NEED FOR YOUNG FOREST Early successional habitat is the technical name for young forest, an area that has recently been cleared of older growth to allow species that need lighter, more open spaces, to grow. Depending on who you ask, “recently” means sometime within the last 10 to 20 years.

For many wildlife species, young forest habitat is essential. The light-filled meadows allow for a diversity of leafy plants that can’t survive under heavy tree cover, and those plants attract insects, songbirds and other animals to eat them or feed on those that do.

They’re also critical for game species such

as deer and turkey. That fact has driven interest in the forest management plan up high in the sportsman community, which as a group favors a plan that would increase early successional habitat by a good bit.

“These species require young forest,” said Kyle Brown, vice president of the Southern Appalachian branch of the Quality Deer Management Association. “They’ve been in decline over the past 20 years because older forests are succeeding.”

Succeeding, here, in the technical sense, meaning that older forests are getting older and younger forests aren’t being created.

“If you look at what we have right now, it’s mostly forests that are 50-plus years old, even 70 years old,” Brown said. “It’s a forest that is really the result of logging that happened 70, 100 years ago.”

As the logging industry flagged, clearings in the woods became more rare. During the same timeframe, the Smoky the Bear message of fire suppression reigned, meaning that fire wasn’t widely used as a tool for forest management, either. As a result, Appalachian forests from north to south have become more and more heavily covered with trees that are becoming increasingly older. That means less space for the species that need those younger habitats.

PINNING DOWN THE NUMBERS Depending on your definition of “young,” the acreage of young forest in the PisgahNantahala now hovers around 1 percent, and most stakeholders agree that’s too low. The Forest Service’s preliminary research is exploring what it would take to get early successional habitat to command somewhere between 5 and 20 percent of the forest. But that’s a big range.

“What would be the natural range of vari-

ation in a healthy southern Appalachian forest and how far have these forests departed from what they should be?” asked Brent Martin, The Wilderness Society’s Southern Appalachian Region director, in an interview.

“The question is where and how much. I don’t think anyone really knows the answer to that question, so we have a lot of work to do.”

Martin agrees that the Pisgah and Nantahala need more open spaces, but he wants to see scientifically-based numbers on how much is necessary before there’s any change in how the forests are managed. He’s also not completely buying the argument that decreased logging and fire suppression are the reason for the decline of game animals such as the ruffed grouse.

“This is the extreme southern end of their range. They’re doing fine in the northern range. Is climate change a factor?” Martin asked about the ruffed grouse’s situation. “I think there are a lot of great mysteries out there that we can’t quite solve yet.”

Jim Gray, of the Ruffed Grouse Society chapter based in Franklin, however, sees a direct correlation between game populations and timber cuts.

“The prior plan had about 20 percent of the forest designated to be cut on a 20-year cycle; in fact, they cut less than 2 percent,” Gray told Macon County commissioners at their July 9 meeting. “Those of us that are grouse hunters, those of us that deer hunt have really seen a difference in terms of the wildlife population.”

THE ROADS QUESTION Which leads to another question. If more early successional habitat is needed, how to go about getting it? Though prescribed burns are great for clearing out understory, timber

A national forest is a land of many uses.

Hikers, bikers, loggers, paddlers, horseback riders, hunters and a host of other users all have their own priorities for how the forest should be managed, but often their desires conflict. A forest management plan is a bigpicture document that guides those uses with a 20-year view. The last one was finished in 1987, with major amendments added in 1994.

The needs and context of the forest have changed since then, and the Forest Service is in the process of updating the plan. The process began in 2013, and a final approved plan will likely be finished in 2016.

To comment on the plan, email ncplanrevision@fs.fed.us or mail hard copies to National Forests in North Carolina, Nantahala-Pisgah Plan Revision, 160 Zillicoa St. Suite A, Asheville, NC 28801. The sooner a comment is received, the more effect it will have on the final outcome.

cuts are generally considered a more effective way to create young forest. And as Gray said, the Forest Service has cut substantially less timber over the course of the plan currently in place, which dates back to 1987, than that plan called for. That’s not due to a lack of takers, said Ruth Burner, leader of the forest plan revision team.

“We generally have not been able to regenerate as much as we anticipated we would be,” Burner said. “We’ve had some reduction in our staffing for one thing. The administrative side of it’s a big one.”

With the federal budget sequester still in place, the Forest Service’s budget crunch isn’t likely to turn into a surplus any time soon.

“The reality is that the Forest Service cannot afford to cut all the trees across the forest that some folks want cut,” said D.J. Gerken, managing attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center. “We’re going to have to make choices about focusing that action on places where it is most appropriate.”

The appropriateness of a management action can vary a lot depending on elevation, plant community and location relative to existing roads. According to Gray, there are plenty of places in the national forest where logging could be done to the benefit of both economics and environment without really impacting human enjoyment of the land.

“I know people are concerned about scenery and the views, but so many of them are so far back that people who are viewing the leaf change, they aren’t seeing these areas,” Gray said.

In many ways, though, that isolation is exactly the problem, Gerken argues.

“The Forest Service often loses money on its timber sales when you factor in the longterm cost of maintaining roads,” he said. “Which is one reason why

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the most remote areas, and others such as emerald ash borer are on the way. Invasive plants, from Japanese honeysuckle to autumn olive, are quick to get a foothold in disturbed sites, so there’s no guarantee that an area cleared of trees would grow back as a healthy grove of early successional cherry and black locust.

Which brings up another sticking point.

Logged areas far from existing roads require new roads if they are to be harvested. But logged areas close to existing roads are prime candidates for colonization by invasives.

“You have to focus three to five years on getting rid of them, especially the first two, with a major expenditure of efforts and labor. Only that way can you really have an effect,” said Bob Gale, an ecologist for the Western North Carolina Alliance.

“Whenever we do any of these activities, and even areas where a natural opening occurs, we need to figure out a way to steer a lot more funding to that, and our normal method of funding is not anywhere near

Fired up about fracking

ONE SIZE DOESN’T FIT ALL Which leads to another consideration in writing the new forest plan. Bryan had kicked off the day with a map-heavy presentation showing all the different kinds of forest communities and ecosystems present in the forest. For the new plan to be successful, she said, it will have to manage each of those ecosystems to reflect their unique characteristics and capabilities.

“One size doesn’t fit all,” Bryan told the crowd. “We’re not going to lay a 10 percent early habitat parameter on the landscape if it doesn’t fit the landscape.”

To demonstrate what she meant, Bryan

need for change document, but Zeller said the first he saw of it was the June 16 version. Thus why he felt the July 10 meeting, the first since the North Carolina General Assembly passed a bill allowing fracking in the state, should have addressed the issue.

“This is a high priority,” Zeller said. “It’s a high priority in Raleigh and it’s not going to go away.”

So, during the first question-and-answer session of the meeting, Zeller stood up to announce that he would lead a separate meeting during the lunch break to talk about fracking. About a dozen people attended, staying for the entire one-and-a-half-hour lunchtime and eventually attracting Bail over to answer a few questions.

Bail stressed that there is not yet any interest in drilling exploratory wells in Western North Carolina — a 2008 Bureau of Land Management study predicted no oil or gas development for the area, and a state study will take another look at the potential later this summer — and explained that the Forest Service would have to work with the BLM to develop mineral leasing rules should any interest in drilling arise. The BLM manages mineral leasing for the majority of the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests.

“That would be a separate decision-making process, a separate public input,” Bail told the group.

That answer didn’t satisfy Zeller.

“We understand the separation of the decision-making processes, but the fact that it is written into the need [for change]

showed a chart that calculated how many acres of early successional habitat each kind of forest habitat already contained and how many more would have to be added in order to achieve a range of goals for the percentage of early successional habitat the forest should contain.

The numbers are preliminary — they don’t take into account all the trees felled by the hemlock wooly adelgid, for instance — but they give a starting point for forest managers and stakeholders to think about how different milestones of young forest composition could be achieved.

NEXT STEPS Forest managers got some more help in thinking about what the final pen-to-paper management plan might look like from a set of maps that meeting attendees put their own marks on. Armed with arrowshaped sticky notes, attendees marked the places where large numbers of breeding birds nest, where salamanders are abundant or where game animals are most dense.

“We want to get beyond just the comments we’ve heard before of more this, more that,” Burner told the group. “We want you to get to where on the ground you think are the most important places for those things.”

For the next few months, the revision team will be busy compiling all the comments, all the meeting minutes, all the sticky-note arrows, into the backbone for a revised forest management plan. With that “pre-draft” in hand, they’ll hold public meetings across the region this fall to get public input on the direction they’re headed. Once that’s done, a draft plan will be the next step, one more move along the yearslong road to a completed plan, estimated to end in March 2016.

“Now is the time when the revision team is going to start drawing lines on maps,” Burner said.

is exactly what we want to talk about,” he said.

The new plan will likely deal with the mineral extraction question in some capacity. Though the exact leasing rules would go through a separate process, the new plan would likely include “some general direction on what to do if we should be presented with a request,” said Ruth Burner, leader of the forest management plan revision team. The Notice of Intent to Revise adds that the plan could include standards that “would serve as mitigations should an availability decision be made in the future.”

The revision team’s ideas about what that language should look like would likely be presented in the next round of meetings, which will be scheduled sometime in the fall. That’s when the Forest Service will present a “pre-draft” of the plan, a rough sketch of how the Forest Service has interpreted its scientific data and the public’s desires. No decision has yet been made on whether to hold a separate public input session about fracking.

Though Bail said she expects that energy companies would favor private land over public land should there end up being potential in WNC — development on federal lands must undergo a long, involved environmental impact assessment process — she emphasized that any meeting to talk about leasing rules would not be a forum for people to simply say that they don’t want fracking to happen.

“This isn’t going to be a meeting for folks to say they don’t like it,” she said. “It would be a structured dialogue. It would not be a public hearing.”

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Not everyone who showed up to the U.S. Forest Service meeting was there to talk about wildlife. A group of about a dozen people had come hoping to talk about oil and gas leasing rules, an item not on the meeting’s agenda.

“We are not making decisions on leasing in the revised forest plan,” forest supervisor Kristin Bail said as she opened the meeting. “We can figure out a way for you to get your input in on that.”

The group had come to the meeting after Lou Zeller, executive director of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, had written a column in the Transylvania Times pointing out that potential for oil and gas extraction was part of the Forest Service’s Need for Change document. The seven-page document lists 43 points that a new forest management plan would address.

Zeller recommended that people who are concerned about hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, attend the July 10 meeting. Fracking, the process of injecting explosives into a wellbore and pumping in chemicals to hold the cracks open, thus releasing fossil fuels, has revolutionized the energy industry over the past couple decades when fused with horizontal drilling, a technology that allows wells to be deeper with more miles of “pay zone.”

Oil and gas potential are listed in the March 4 version of the

sufficient.”

But in all this discussion of the need for young forests, said Hugh Irwin, ecologist for The Wilderness Society, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that old forests are needed too. And while young forest can be created at any time with a timber harvest, it’s not that easy to make an old growth forest.

“In choosing those early succession candidates, careful thought would have to be put into what areas are put into early successional habitat because that would preclude old growth in that area for centuries,” Irwin said.

He urged the Forest Service to set aside healthy stands of older forest — stands with older trees but also layers of younger trees and understory plants — and keep them safe from harvest. Though a 40-year rotation might be fine in terms of biomass production, a 40-year lifespan isn’t enough for a tree to reach its full potential in terms of either scenery or ecology.

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But the road-building question isn’t the only one to consider when deciding how to create that young forest environment.

“I’m concerned about how you’re going to get in there and do your work without opening a path for microstegium, for instance,” said Charlotte Lackey, an invasive weed volunteer. “The money spent on controlling invasives is far more than taking steps now planning on how you’re going to avoid spreading these trees.”

Strategies for pre-empting invasives were a big part of the afternoon discussion.

While some groups argue that the forest is a natural system capable of rebounding on its

own, others point out that the system — even in the deepest parts of the forest — is no longer entirely natural.

Pests such as hemlock wooly adelgid have already worked themselves into even

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for the health of the forest, for the sake of the taxpayer, we are strongly urging everyone to focus our attention on maintaining the existing road network.”

There’s ample data to show that wildlife avoid major road corridors, such as U.S. 74 between Clyde and Bryson City. Roads divide continuous habitat into smaller fragments, create stress inducing noise and can cause death to animals whose crossings don’t jive well with car’s travels.

“You’ve only got like 20 percent of this forest in some kind of condition that’s really unroaded and unfragmented,” Martin said.

But Gray pointed out that there’s a big difference between a four-lane highway and a rugged logging road.

“I don’t agree with the proposition that the roads are bad for wildlife,” he said, because often once the roads are no longer needed, they’re closed to motorized transportation. “They are used for a lot of different uses.”

The roads have to be maintained to some extent to keep dirt from washing off to fill mountain streams, so the corridor through the woods continues to exist. Just not, Gray says, as some high-traffic roadway.

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Get up close with birds and fish on the Little T Amateur biologists of all ages are invited to help find out how the birds and fish are doing on Land Trust for the Little Tennessee’s 57-acre Welch Farm property at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 2.

A participant in a bird survey event at Cowee Mound gets up close with a netted bird. Zena Rattler photo

The half-day event showcases nationally recognized research work monitoring bird and fish health. Volunteers will help in all aspects of the survey work, with supervision from a group of field biologists.

The bird monitoring work is part of Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship, a nationwide program coor-

dinated by the Institute for Bird Populations. The network includes more than 500 mist-netting stations. Data analysis will help scientists understand how best to manage and conserve these populations.

Volunteers will also have the chance to participate in a stream biomonitoring program that LTLT has been heading up in the Little Tennessee River Valley. The program focuses on fish as indicators of watershed health and is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

This event is a result of a partnership between LTLT, Southern Appalachian Raptor Research and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Fisheries and Wildlife Management program. The program is sponsored by the Cherokee Preservation Foundation’s Revitalization of Traditional Cherokee Artisan Resources initiative, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, North Carolina State University and the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research program. bigbaldbanding@gmail.com or 828.736.1217.

Mushroom immersion at the Highlands Biological Station Explore the diversity of fungi in the Southern Appalachian Mountains and their relationships with native plants through upcoming programs at the Highlands

the Zahner Lecture Series. Learn how coevolution of native plants and fungi has caused the species to form relationships so critical that one cannot exist without the other.

A guided fungi foray from Jay Justice and Richard Baird will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 1. Baird has been collecting fungi for the study of forest health and ecosystems for more than 30 years, with Highlands Biological Station as his home base since 1980.

Justice has studied fungi for a similar length of time and last year received the 2013 Best Amateur Mycologist award from the North American Mycology Tradd Cotter holds up a pair of morel mushrooms. Donated photo Association.

The lecture is free with no RSVP required; the Biological Station. foray is $15 for members and $20 for nonA lecture titled “Soul Mates for Life: members with reservations required. Sign Native Plants and Their Fungal Partners” up at highlandsbiological.org/forays/. will be held at 6:30 p.m. July 31 as part of 828.526.2221.

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Proposed fracking rules released The Mining and Energy Commission has finished writing a proposed set of rules to govern oil and gas development in North Carolina, and now the commission is seeking public input through Sept. 15.

Submit comments at portal.ncdenr.org/web/mining-and-energy-commission/public-comment-meetings.

Comments will also be taken at three public hearings in the eastern part of the state, with the closest hearing to the mountains being more than a three-hour drive from Asheville.

The proposed rules are available online at portal.ncdenr.org/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=812822fd-9e97-4359-89354f07e713f0b1&groupId=8198095.

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The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission and the North American Butterfly Association are looking for volunteers to help with the fifth annual NABA Butterfly Count, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 4 on the Sandy Mush Game Land.

Volunteers will help count butterflies on the 2,600-acre property, which straddles Buncombe and Madison counties, a butterfly hotspot.

“Daily species counts in previous years have exceeded 50, with 66 species seen over the last four years,” said Doug Johnston, count coordinator. “We’ve seen very common species, such as Eastern tiger swallowtails, Horace’s duskywings and Carolina satyrs, and we’ve also seen less common species, such as Delaware skippers.”

Meet at the kiosk parking lot in front of

Swallowtail Butterfly. Charles Johnson photo Cedar Hill Baptist Church, 474 Cedar Hill Rd. in Alexander. Rain date is Aug. 8. wellsteadwest@gmail.com.

Raptors will ride into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a birds of

prey program 10 a.m. Friday, July 25, at Oconaluftee Visitor Center.

Known as “The Eagle Lady,” presenter Doris Mager has been working with raptors for more than 35 years, caring for more than 80 injured eagles and hundreds of other raptors, housing up to 36 birds at a time. At 88, Mager continues to travel across the nation,

Mager holds a gray phase screech owl. NPS photo

Raptors visit Haywood A birds of prey program geared for kids will be held at the Canton and Waynesville libraries, hosted by the “Eagle Lady” Doris Mager. She will introduce the audience to some of her live raptors and discuss their ecology.

Held in Canton at 10 a.m. July 30 and in Waynesville at 10 a.m. August 7.

doing educational programs with a 31-yearold great horned owl known as E.T., a screech owl and an American kestral. Those who attend Mager’s programs get a chance to see raptors up close while learning about the features and habitats of these birds.

Mager founded Save Our American Raptors in 1983, an educational and research group whose work includes aerial surveys of bald eagle nests.

The Oconaluftee Visitor Center is located on Newfound Gap Road approximately 2 miles north of Cherokee. 828.497.1904.

Free children’s cooking and gardening event Gardening and the kitchen work that follows harvest time will be the focus of Buy Haywood’s Cooking Local Together project held at 1:45 p.m. Thursday, July 24, at the Canton Library.

The event will begin with an interactive cooking class for parents and children, teaching how to partner colorful fruits and vegetables to make a meal whose ingredients work together in nutritional synergy. Participants will test their knowledge by creating a summer fruit salsa with farm-fresh Haywood County blueberries and other ingredients.

At 2:30 p.m., a children’s gardening program with local Master Gardeners will begin. Children will learn how get started growing a garden and how much fun gardening can be as a family activity.

Free. 828.648.2924.

Local educator receives national training scholarship

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Birds of Prey program comes to Oconaluftee

Marsha LaFontaine, teacher at Summit Charter School in Cashiers, is in the midst of a five-day session of workshops, speakers and field trips for environmental educators thanks to a scholarMarsha LaFontaine poses ship from national and with Russ Regnery, president of Highlands local Plateau Audubon Society.

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The award paid tuition for a full week of Hog Island Audubon Camp in Maine.

LaFontaine was selected due to her professionalism, leadership and dedication as a teacher.

“She has partnered with Audubon in the past few years in several ways and has an amazing gift to inspire students to become life-long learners,” said Michelle Styring of the Highlands Audubon Society.

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Chemistry concentration to tap natural products movement Western Carolina University will launch a new master’s degree in chemistry this fall with a professional science concentration in natural products.

The new field of study capitalizes on the emerging natural products industry in Western North Carolina, which draws on native botanical extracts for all-natural beauty supplies and toiletries, health supplements, pharmaceuticals, medicine, cleaners, food products and more.

WCU hosted a half-day summit last month to launch the new master’s concentration and cultivate relationships with natural products businesses.

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N.C. continues to stave off chronic wasting disease North Carolina is still clear of chronic wasting disease, according to a recent statewide survey by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.

“CWD proves devastating to populations of cervids — the family of mammals that includes white-tailed deer, elk, mule deer and moose,” said Dr. Maria Palamar, wildlife veterinarian for the N.C. Wildlife Commission. “The indications of this survey are welcome news.”

The survey included samples of more than 3,800 deer and a few elk beginning in 2013 and continuing through early 2014.

The disease spreads readily among hoofed animals, but despite being present in nearby Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland, North Carolina has kept it at bay, thanks in part to strict rules about transporting live animals, meat or animal parts across state lines.

Organizations step up to save the Georgia aster A coalition of public and private conservation organizations is stepping up to save the Georgia aster, a purple Southern flower that is on the verge of being listed under the Endangered Species Act. “Across the South, we’ve really put an emphasis on bringing partners together to recover plants, fish and wildlife before they need protection under the Endangered Species Act,” explained Fish and Wildlife Service Southeastern Regional Director Cindy Dohner. “It’s a strategy that’s making great strides, in part because conserving one at-risk plant or animal often benefits others.”

For instance, conserving the open, grassy spaces the Georgia aster needs also benefits declining species such as the grasshopper sparrow, field sparrow and eastern meadowlark.

The Georgia aster, Symphyotrichum georgianum, was once more common across the Southeast, living in open savanna and prairie communities. But many of these areas have become wooded over in the wake of extensive wildfire control and the disappearance of large, native grazing animals. Conserving this species today involves working to keep parts of the landscape open through the use of prescribed fire – fire intentionally set under very specific weather conditions, often to mimic the ecological role of natural fires; or cutting

n Searching for new populations; n Monitoring known occurrences to estimate range-wide population trends; n Keeping forests with Georgia aster thinned to a level that provides ample sunlight, while minimizing threats from drought and competition; Georgia aster. n Avoiding mowing utility and Michele Elmore photo transportation rights-of way with Georgia aster from late spring to mid-fall, when Georgia aster is at its tallest and reproducing. If possible, mowing in mid- to late-spring to maximize impacts to invasive plants before Georgia aster is high enough to be significantly damaged; n When mowing rights-of-way, cutting to no less than 4 inches, and avoiding operating machinery on wet soils to reduce soil compaction; n Avoiding broadcast spraying of herbicides in or near Georgia aster populations; n Marking populations to avoid inadvertent damage during right-ofway maintenance.

The effort is part of larger scale effort in the Southeast to pre-empt endangered species listing by boosting plant and wildlife populations.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is evaluating more than 400 species Alabama, outlines a laundry list of priorifor possible listing over the next decade. ties the signatories will commit to in order www.fws.gov/asheville/htmls/conservato prevent the aster’s needing to be added tionissues/Georgia_aster.html. to the Threatened and Endangered Species www.fws.gov/southeast/candidateconserList. Those measures include: vation. trees and mowing.

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5K to benefit brain cancer research Cataloochee Ranch will honor the grandson of its founders at the first annual Richard’s Run on Aug. 16, a 5K mountain trail run to benefit brain cancer research.

Maggie Valley resident Richard Coker

lost his long and hard-fought battle with brain cancer in December 2013. Coker, 55, was the grandson of Cataloochee Ranch founders “Mr. Tom” and “Miss Judy” Alexander and an active member of the present-day ranch family.

The run begins at 10 a.m. and will cross the mile-high ranch grounds through open meadows, across creeks and along wooded trails, with Hemphill Bald — one of Richard Coker’s favorite places — as a dramatic backdrop.

The $25 entry fee includes a race T-shirt, water, beer, hot dogs and fruit at the finish line. There will be first-place trophies for males and females in various age categories.

The day’s events will also include prize drawings and a performance by Waynesville bluegrass band Eddie Rose and Highway Forty.

Full details can be found at www.richardsrun.org.

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Monday, Aug. 4, sponsored by Mountaintop Rotary of Highlands will benefit the Special Operations Warrior Foundations. Registration is due July 30, with the $150 fee including a round of golf, hors d’oeuvres and prizes. Call Bill Zoeller at 828.787.2323 for registration information.

Repair work on a pair of historic houses in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is closing in for the finish. n The Hiram Caldwell House in Cataloochee Valley will reopen July 26, having been closed since June 9. The reopened building will sport newly repaired features and a repainted exterior. n The Noah Bud Ogle Cabin, meanwhile, closed July 21 and will remain so through Aug. 15 to replace the wood shake roof, excepting Saturdays and Sundays. n Work to reset and regrout flagstone at the Rockefeller monument at Newfound Gap will begin Aug. 4 and last through Sept. 30, Monday through Thursday during normal business hours. The monument and comfort stations will remain open.

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A new moth species recently discovered in the Southern Appalachians has a locally inspired name.

Dubbed Cherokeea attakullakulla, the moth was named after the Cherokee people who were original inhabitants of Tennessee and North Carolina and the great Cherokee leader Attakullakulla, one of six Cherokee ambassadors to travel to London in 1730.

Cherokeea attakullakulla. Cherokee Nation photo.

“It’s unusual to find a new species of animal, even a moth, in today’s world,” “It is sufficiently different from all other said Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill known species that we placed it in a new John Baker. “As a tribe, the Cherokee people were always deeply connected to nature genus, created to honor the Cherokee and the environment in our original home- Nation,” Sullivan said. “The species name lands in the East, and having a new species was selected to recognize an early leader of the Nation. It also seemed appropriate to named in honor of the Cherokee Nation is something I don’t think has ever happened name it after the Cherokee people because the Cherokee are such good stewards of the before, but we are honored just the same.

In scientific and academic circles, the nam- land, and there are not many of them left.”

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Hiram Caldwell House in Cataloochee. NPS photo.

ing of a new discovery is deeply meaningful and symbolic.”

Dr. J. Bolling Sullivan, a biologist who formerly worked with Duke University, made the discovery while doing a survey of the moth population.

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Western Carolina University will send attitude,” said Neary, president of WCU’s two students to the national Bassmaster bass fishing club. “Fishing is all about being College Series National Championship folpositive and having confidence. We have lowing a third place win at a regional bass had a string of great finishes this year, and fishing competition in June.

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Chatuge. Mark Haskett photo “We set goals that may seem farfetched for a first-year program, the tournament can’t get here soon but we know we can do it with the right enough.”

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • New support group, The Compassionate Friends of Western North Carolina, for families who have had a child die, holds monthly meetings at 7 p.m. the first Thursday of each month in the Dugan Classroom of Long’s Chapel United Methodist Church, Clyde. John Chapman, chapter leader, 356.6877 or tcfofwnc@gmail.com. Park at the rear of the church and enter the building across the elevated cement sidewalk that leads to the second floor room #210, which is the first door on the right.

• Smoky Mountain Model Railroaders work session, 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday and public viewing session from 2 to 4 p.m. the second Sunday of the month, 130 Frazier St., in the Industrial Park near Bearwaters Brewery, Waynesville. The group runs Lionel-type 3rail O gauge trains. http://smokymountainmodelrailroaders.wordpress.com.

• Kare (Kids Advocacy Resource Effort) is recruiting volunteers to work a fundraiser, a bicycle race through Clyde and Canton, Saturday morning, Aug. 2. Need people 17 and older. 456.8995 or email Julie at jschoer@karehouse.org.

• Affordable Care Act workshop, 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 29, Jackson County Public Library. 828.586.2016.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Business After Hours, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24, Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society. RSVP to visitor@highlandschamber.org or 526.2112.

• Roger Brooks International “The Power of Itineraries,” 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, July 25, Best Western River Escapes Inn and Suites, Dillsboro. Free workshop. RSVP, sharmane@visitsmokies.org.

• Smoky Mountain Chapter of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association meeting, noon Saturday, July 26, Terrace Hotel, Lake Junaluska.

456.5251, 586.9292, 369.8922.

• Beginners’ home brewing class, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Tuesdays, Aug. 5-26. $99. 339.4426 or ldowns@southwesterncc.edu.

• BUSINESS AFTER HOURS, Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society, Thursday, July 24, 5 – 7 p.m. Chamber member free, guest $10, 828.743.5191.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted. p.m. July 27. The Blue Ridge School, 95 Bobcat Drive, Cashiers, will filled with oriental rugs, jewelry, paintings, rare pottery, 19th century French, English, and American furniture.

HEALTH MATTERS • Adult chair yoga and more, 2:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Chestnut Hill Highlands; noon Mondays and 11 a.m.

Fridays, United Universalist Fellowship of Franklin, 89 Sierra Dr., Franklin. Benefits KIDS Place. 941.894.2898 to register.

• Adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families 12-step program, 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sundays, Clyde Town Hall, 8437 Carolina Boulevard, Clyde. Side entrance near picnic table. Ruse’ (rue-say) Bryson, 627.6977.

• Free dental clinic for low-income patients, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays by appointment at Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project Dental Clinic on the upper level of Laurel Terrace in Cashiers. 743.3393.

RECREATION & FITNESS • British Soccer Camp, July 28-Aug.1, Recreation Park, Cullowhee or Aug. 4-8, Cashiers Community Park, Cashiers. www.challengersports.com.

• Adult 3 V 3 Soccer Tournament, Saturday, Aug. 2, Recreation Park, Cullowhee. Register, June 30-July 25, Recreation Center, Cullowhee.

• Youth Fall Soccer registration, 8 a.m.to 6 p.m. through Aug. 1, $45. Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department, 293.3053.

• Adult 4 On 4 Flag Football League registration, through July 28, $130 per team. Games played at Recreation Park in Cullowhee starting in August. 293.3053.

• Register through July 29 for Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department fall golf league at Smoky Mountain Country Club. Open to everyone. League is 10 weeks with a fee of $10 to enter and $20 each round.

League plays at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays, starting July 29.

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• Football and Spirit Clinic, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, Aug. 9, Franklin High School gymnasium and practice field. Open to all rising K through sixth grade students. $20 per child with discounts available for multiple children from the same family. Registration forms are available at any school office or the front desk of Angel Medical Center. Sponsored by Franklin High School and Angel Medical Center. 349.6639.

• Tickets on sale for the Andy Roddick Mountain Challenge, July 25-26, Cashiers. Benefits the Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau. Tickets and packages available at www.cashiers.com or at 743.2775.

• Aqua Zumba, 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, MedWest Health & Fitness Center. 452.8080 or MedWestHealth.org.

• Haywood Chamber network lunch, noon Thursday, July 24, Maggie’s Galley, 1374 Sulfur Springs Road, Waynesville .

• Grace Episcopal Church in the Mountains annual Parish Fair, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 26, 394 N. Haywood St., Waynesville. Flea market, clothing, household goods, furniture, appliances, baked goods, a quilt raffle, auction, toys, linens, plant sale, food (hot dogs, hamburgers, wings), books, children’s booth, live music and more. Proceeds benefit Haywood County non-profit organizations. 456.6029.

• “Caring For Kids Yoga Class,” Mondays, By Feel Well Yoga At Uuff, 89 Sierra Dr., Franklin. 100 Percent Of All First-Time Participant Donations And 10 Percent Of All Ongoing collections go to KIDS Place. Space limited.

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• CASHIERS 38th ANNUAL ANTIQUES BENEFIT SHOW, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 25-26 and 11 a.m. to 5

• Hoop Fitness, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Mondays, Family Resource Center, Webster. Hoops provided; all ages welcome. 586.2845 to register. $3 children, $5 adults. www.hooping.org.

• Hula Hoop class for children and adults, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Mondays, Jackson County Family Resource Center, $3 kids, $5 adults. 586.2845 to register.

• The Walk with Ease beginning exercise program, 2 to 3 p.m. every Tuesday for six weeks at the MedWest Health & Fitness Center on the MedWest-Haywood campus in Clyde. Walk with Ease is for people with and without arthritis who would like to begin a regular walking routine. For people who can be on their feet for 10 minutes without pain. Reservations required; $20 per person. 452.8089.

• The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department offers walking program for those with arthritis from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Free to members. 456.2030 or recprograms@townofwaynesville.org.

• Aikido Class will be offered from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Mondays and Wednesdays at the White Dragon Academy, Sylva. 269.8144 or 507.1800.

• The Smoky Mountain Roller Girls, Bryson City’s Roller derby team, practices from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays and 6 to 8:30 p.m. Sundays at the Swain County Recreation Center on West Deep Creek Road. Open to women 18 and older. smokymountainrollergirls@gmail.com • The Creative Thought Center will offer meditation classes every other Saturday at 449D Pigeon St., Waynesville. 648.8816.

• The Waynesville Kodokan Judo Club will host Judo classes from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. Judo Club members must purchase an annual membership at the Waynesville Recreation Center plus, $20 per month for club dues. Ages 4 and up. Jimmy Riggs, 506.0327.

• Qi Gong/Yoga/Pilates classes are from noon to 1 p.m.

Mondays and Thursdays at The Creative Thought Center of Waynesville. Love offering. 456.9697 or email waynesvillectc@aol.com.

• Waynesville disc golf club. GLOW Singles play at 6 p.m. Mondays at the Waynesville Recreation Park.

Random draw doubles at 10 a.m. Saturdays. $5, $4 for club members. Meet at the picnic shelter beside the softball field below the Waynesville Recreation Center. www.waynesvillediscgolf.org.

THE SPIRITUAL SIDE • Rev. Canon Gina Gilland Campbell, guest preacher, 10:45 a.m. Sunday, July 27, historic Stuart Auditorium, Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center; Holy Communion, 9 a.m., Memorial Chapel. 800.222.4930, www.lakejunaluska.com/summer-worship.

• Taize Service of Prayer and Song, 8 p.m. Monday, July 28, Memorial Chapel, Lake Junaluska, 800.222.4930, www.lakejunaluska.com/summer-worship.

• Stone Soup Gathering, 5 p.m. Sundays, Fellowship Hall, Bryson City United Methodist Church. Free.

• Join Moms in Prayer at 9 a.m. Friday mornings at 160 Main St., in the Community Room at Blue Mountain Studios in Bryson City to pray for children and their schools. Open to all moms who have a burden for their children and schools. 736.0857.

• Four Winds Daoist Center in Whittier holds meditation sessions on various days. 40 minutes meditation followed by a brief Daoist reading and discussion of that reading. Free. 788.6730, fourwindsdaoism@yahoo.com.

• The Sylvan Hearth Pagan Temple welcomes fellow pagans who are seeking community to join in celebrating the Sabbats. 331.8688 or liannacostantino@yahoo.com.

• A prayer shawl ministry meets at 6 p.m. every other Friday at High Street Baptist Church, Canton. Shawls are made as donations for those who need encouragement and to share the word of God. Members will teach those who want to learn. 648.5830.

• A prayer walking group meets at 6 a.m. Wednesdays in Canton. Group prayer during warm up then walk at your own pace. Meet at the big parking lot in front of the Sandwich Shop on Park Street. zekencintia@gmail.com.

• An interdenominational bible study group for women meets at 11:30 a.m. every Tuesday at First United

Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: n Complete listings of local music scene n Regional festivals n Art gallery events and openings n Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers n Civic and social club gatherings Methodist Church in Waynesville. Childcare provided by reservation. 452.1124 or 508.8649.

• The Creative Thought Center of Waynesville offers a combination of a half hour Chakra Balancing meditation followed by an hour of Oneness Blessing, also known as Deeksha on Mondays at 5:30 p.m. and Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. at the Center. Love offering.

456.9697 or waynesvillectc@aol.com.

KIDS & FAMILIES • Forensic Anthropology-The Real “Bones,” 3 p.m.

Tuesday, July 29, HCPL Canton. Forensic anthropologist Dr. John A. Williams, director of the Forensic Anthropology Program at Western Carolina University, guest speaker. 452.5169, Waynesville; 648.2924, www.haywoodlibrary.org.

• “The Science of Slushies,” third through fifth graders, 11 a.m. Monday, July 28, and kindergarten through second graders, 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 29, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. Make your own slushy. 488.3030 or aplatt@fontanalib.org.

“Color Chaos,” preschoolers, 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 30, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. Experiment with milk and colors.

• Space Exploration, 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, HCPL Canton branch, and 3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, HCPL Waynesville branch. Learn about the solar system and make a portable planetarium. 648.2924, Canton; 452.5169, Waynesville.

• Woodsy Owl’s Curiosity Club, 10:30 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 3 p.m. Thursdays, Cradle of Forestry. Summer nature series for children ages 4-7 years old. $4 per child for each program. 877.3130.

• Family nature activities, 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesdays, Highlands Nature Center, Highlands. For ages 4 and older. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2623. $1 per person.

• Storybook Science Program, nature lesson based on a children’s book, 2:30 to 3 p.m. Wednesdays, Highlands Nature Center, Highlands. Free, all ages. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2623.

• New outdoor recreation program for boys and girls in third through sixth grade, 4:30 to 7:45 p.m. Thursdays.

Meet at the Waynesville Recreation Center and then travel to a hiking trail. Location determined day of event. $5 per person for members of the Waynesville Recreation Center or $8 for non-members. 456.2030 or email recprogramspecialist@townofwaynesville.org.

• Free homework help, 3 to 5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, Library Room, The Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Kindergarten to college. No sign-up is necessary.

Tutor will be library staffer David Clager. 586.2016.

• SafeKids USA/ Blue Dragon Taekwondo (TKD) School is now open in Clyde. 627.3949 or sabumnimhale@bluedragontkd.net.

• Cool Kids Do Science Club, 5:30 p.m. second Thursday of the month, Canton Branch Library. Elementary- and middle-school-aged kids are invited to perform fun and educational science experiments. 648.2924.

• Mother Goose Time, 11 a.m. Tuesdays, Waynesville Library and 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays, Canton Branch Library. Special story time for babies and toddlers (ages 5 months to 2 years old) and their parents/caregivers.

• Free after school program for sixth graders, 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through the school year, First Baptist of Sylva. Enroll at 708.7792 or browkelly@gmail.com.

• KARE’s Parents as Teachers, 9 a.m. Thursdays, parking lot/picnic shelter, Waynesville Recreation Center. Walk, meet other parents and help your kids get the wiggles out.

• New Kindermusik Baby Classes called Cock-aDoodle Moo for children newborn to 18 months, weekly in Cullowhee, Waynesville and Cashiers. Day and evening times available. 293.5600 or www.themusicvillage-nc.com.

eight years old. Pre-registration is required. 349.4607 or caauptowngallery@frontier.com.

• Kids Creation Stations, 10 a.m. to noon, Saturdays, The Bascom in Highland. Ages 5 to 9, $5 per class.

787.2897.

• After School Art Adventure, 4:15 to 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays, The Bascom in Highland. Ages 5 to 9, $5 per class. Follows Macon public school schedule. 787.2897.

• After School Advanced Art Adventure, 4:15 to 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays, The Bascom in Highland. Middle and high school age students. $5 per class. Follows Macon public school schedule. 787.2897.

• Nocturnal Animals presented by the Balsam Nature Center, 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 23, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. For grades third through fifth. Live animals, hands-on. 524.3600.

• Hands in Science: Children’s Science Program, 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 23, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. 586.2016.

• The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department offers after school opportunities for kids from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. Free to members or $12 per student per week for nonmembers.

Registration required. 456.2030 or youthprogramsupervisor@townofwaynesville.org.

• “Snakes Alive,” 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City, featuring Herpetologist Ron Cromer and a hands-on session on snakes and their habitats. All ages.

• Guided chestnut orchard tours, 11 a.m.

Wednesdays, Cataloochee Ranch. $15, includes lunch.

Reservations, 926.1401.

Summer Camps • Lake Junaluska and Roots in Education Day Camp, 7:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, through Aug. 15, Wilson Children’s Complex, 21 Shackford Hall Road, Lake Junaluska. Fullday and halfday, drop-in.

Angel Benson. 400.4841, rootsineducation@gmail.com or stop by Wilson’s Children’s Complex, 21 Shackford Hall Road (near the pool) at Lake Junaluska.

• 4-H Farm to Fork Day Camp, July 29-31 for youth ages 5 to 13. Focuses on Scottish Appalachian Heritage. $35 per youth, includes materials and lunches. Haywood County Cooperative Extension Office, 456.3575.

Arts • Kids can make their own piece of art from 10 a.m. to noon every Saturday during the Family Art at the Jackson County Farmers Market at the Community Table, downtown Sylva. 631.3033 or jacksoncountyfarmermarket.com.

• Suzuki Flute at The Music Village is accepting new students ages 4 to adult. Beginning through advanced students are welcome. 293.5600 or www.themusicvillage-nc.com.

• The Uptown Gallery in Franklin offers monthly art workshops for children. Children must be at least

• “Forensic Anthropology: The Real Bones,” 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 24, Marianna Black Library, featuring Dr. John A. Williams, director of the Forensic Anthropology Program at Western Carolina University.

488.3030 or aplatt@fontanalib.org.

• Trivia Night with the Teens, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 24, Meeting Room, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. For fifth graders through adults.

• Fizz! Pop! Story time, 10 a.m. Thursday, July 24, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. For ages up to 7. 524.3600.

• Blue Planet program, 10 a.m. Friday, July 25, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. Hands-on activities by Swain Conservation. 524.3600.

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• Kindergarten Readiness Story time, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday, July 28, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. 524.3600.

• Summer Reading Adventures,” 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. July 28-Aug. 1, Room 141, WCU’s Cordelia Camp Building, Western Carolina University’s Office of Continuing and Professional Education. For rising first and second graders to help them maintain literacy levels. $139 per child. Lunch and snacks provided. camps.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Fizz. Boom. Read! 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 29, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. End of summer reading story time and party. 524.3600.

• End of summer reading party, 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 30, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. For grades third through fifth. 524.3600.

• Summer Reading Finale Carnival and Magic Show, 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. 488.3030 or aplatt@fontanalib.org.

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• SummerVoice Music Camp, July 28 – Aug. 1, First Baptist Church of Waynesville. Open to singers in all area counties who will enter first through 12th grades in the fall. First and 2nd graders half-day program, 8:45 a.m. to noon, $85. Rising third through 12th graders, full-day program, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. p.m., $145. Register at www.voicesinthelaurel.org or call 734.9163.

• Marianna Black Library’s “Read With Me,” 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24, Swain Middle School Cafeteria. Program to encourage parents and caregivers of children birth through age 9 to read actively with children each night.

Grammy Nominated for Best Bluegrass Album

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• Teen science program: Experimental Times, 3 p.m.

Wednesday, July 30, Jackson County Public Library, 828.586.2016.

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• Experimental Times: Teen Science Program, 3 p.m.

Wednesday, July 23, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. 586.2016.

• Astronomy Club of Asheville offers free star gazes twice a month.www.astroasheville.org/star-gazes.

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• Kid’s sewing/needlecraft class 10 a.m. to noon, Saturdays, Studio 598, 598 W. Main St., Sylva.

587.7899.

• Claymates Pottery will host kids’ night from 6 to 8 p.m. the first Friday of every month. Create art, eat pizza and play games. 631.3133.

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• Homework Help, 3 to 5 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays for students in grades 2 through 6, Canton Branch Library. Former schoolteacher turned Youth Services Librarian Katy Punch offers homework help on a first-come, first-served basis. Katy, 648.2924.

• A Book Trade/Exchange, 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesdays, Brain Gym, 81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville. 452.2370.

• WCU is collecting old books for local children.

Please drop donations at Reynolds Residence Hall or Scott Hall on the campus of WCU. 227.4642 or jgbowen1@catamount.wcu.edu.

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• A Haywood county non-fiction book club meets the third Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at various locations. 456.8428 • Book Babies story time at Blue Ridge Books meets Mondays at 10:30 a.m. for children 3 years old and younger. 456.6000.

• Adventures in Reading, noon and 5:30 p.m., Thursdays. Story, snack and craft. Swain County Family Resource Center. 488.7505.

• Family Story Time, 11 a.m. Tuesdays, Canton Public Library and at 11 a.m. Wednesdays, Waynesville Public Library. Stories, songs, crafts. 452.5169.

• Ready 4 Learning, 11 a.m. Tuesdays, Waynesville Public Library. For 4 and 5 year olds, focuses on kindergarten readiness skills. 452.5169.

• Rompin’ Stompin’ Story Time, 10 a.m. Thursdays, Canton library, for kids of all ages. This is a musical story time with dancing, singing, simple musical instruments and books.

• Movers and Shakers Story time, 11 a.m. Thursdays, Waynesville Public Library. For all ages. Movement, books, songs and more. 452.5169.

• The American Girls Club meets at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. The club is based on a book series about historical women. Club members read and do activities. Free. 586.9499.

• Family Story Time for ages 18 months to 5 years is held from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. 526.3600.

• Book Talk, grades 3-5, 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Macon County Public Library in Franklin. 526.3600.

• Pre-School Story Time, ages 3-5, 10:40 to 11:30 a.m.

Thursdays, Hudson Library in Highlands. 526.3031.

• Preschool Story time, ages 3-5, 10:30 a.m.

Wednesdays, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City.

July 23-29, 2014

• Dial-A-Story is available to all ages through the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. Hear Miss Christine tell stories (a new one each week) just by calling 488.9412.

A&E • Folkmoot USA, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24, Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin.

Tickets start at $22 at GreatMountainMusic.com or 866.273.4615. www.folkmootusa.org.

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LITERARY (ADULTS) • Friends of the Haywood County Library annual Book Sale, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 24, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, July 25; and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Haywood County Library, Waynesville branch. Special Story Time Guests: Curtis Sikes and Sheena Kohlmeyer • Author Curtis Sikes and illustrator Sheena Kohlmeyer will read from their book, “The Heart of a Friend,” 11 a.m. Saturday, July 26, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva. 586.9499.

• Sheri Wren Haymore will present her two novels, “A Higher Voice” and “A Deeper Cut,” 3 p.m. Saturday, July 26, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva. 586.9499.

• Author Ashley English will present ideas from her newest book, “Handmade Gatherings: Recipes and Crafts for Seasonal Celebrations and Potluck Parties,” at 43 p.m. Sunday, July 27, Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. 456.6000, www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

• The Artist and Writer Retreats + Workshops, Sept.

15-21, Lake Logan Retreat Center. Details, www.cullowheemountainarts.org or 342.6913.

• Ready to Read, adult literacy program to help those who are illiterate or need to improve/strengthen their reading skills, 10 a.m. to noon, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Genealogy Study Room on the second floor of Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Lost Writers Support Group, 10 a.m. to noon, first Saturday of the month, Zelda Divine, Inc., 1210 S. Main St., Waynesville. Coffee, refreshments, and good company abide.

• The Write Ones, adult writing workshop, 6 p.m.

Thursday, July 24, at the Jackson County Public Library. 828.586.2016.

• Between the Lines, 6 p.m. Thursday, July 24, at the Jackson County Public Library. 828.586.2016.

FESTIVALS, SPECIAL & SEASONAL EVENTS

• 49th annual Macon County Gemboree, 10 a.m. .to 5 p.m. July 24-26 and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 27, Macon County Community, U.S. Highway 441. Daily admission, $2 for adults with those ages 12 & under free.

All four days only $5. $1 admission for all Macon County residents on Sunday. 800.336.7829, 524.3161.

• Mountain Street Dance, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 25, Haywood County Courthouse, Main Street, Waynesville, featuring Eddie Rose & Highway 40, Green Valley Cloggers, Trantham Family, Joe Sam Queen, emcee, and Tuscola Band Boosters serving concessions.

• WNC BBQ Festival, a Kansas City BBQ Society (KCBS) sanctioned event, July 25-26, Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Sponsorships available. 926.1686, www.maggievalley.org.

• Folkmoot USA Parade, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 26, Main Street, from Haywood County Courthouse to First Baptist Church, Waynesville.

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September 20. An estimated 1,600 children and adults will be in attendance to watch artisans practice their craft, listen to local music, and get their hands dirty with art projects. Artists should fill out the online form at JCGEP.org or call the Green Energy Park Director Timm Muth at 828.631.0271.

• Jackson County Green Energy Park seems vendors for the Youth Arts Festival. The festival is Saturday,

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Snyder Family Band, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 19, Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center, 121 Schoolhouse Road, Robbinsville. Tickets at www.stecoahvalleycenter.com, 479.3364 or Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center.

• Scott Ainslie, 4 p.m. workshop, 7:45 p.m. performance, Thursday, July 24, The Strand, 38 Main, Waynesville. $12. www.38main.com.

• Country singer Travis Tritt, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26, Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. Tickets start at $35.

GreatMountainMusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• The Special Consensus Band, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26, Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center, 121 Schoolhouse Road, Robbinsville. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com, 479.3364.

• Songcatchers Music Series, the Palmetto Gravel Scratchers, 4 p.m. Sunday, July 27, Cradle of Forestry in America, Pisgah National Forest. Admission, $6 for ages 16 and older, $3 for youth 15 and under and America the Beautiful and Golden Age pass holders.

877.3130 or www.cradleofforestry.org.

broadcasting out of Sylva. Stories of Mountain Folk is an ongoing all-sound oral history program produced

by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia (CSA), a western North Carolina not-for-profit, for local radio and online distribution.

Tuesdays, $5 cover charge; line dance class, 7 to 8 p.m., open dancing, Saturdays. Doors open at 6 p.m. $5 cover. No alcohol. Wood dance floor. lauraroberts@charter.net or call/text 734.1587 or lauraprice@yahoo.com, 243.2626.

• Scenic Roots, a musical sister-duo from Concordia, KS, 7 p.m. Thursday, July 24, The Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. Free. 828.488.3030.

• Beginning Dance with Katy Elders, 11 a.m.

Wednesday, July 30, Jackson County Public Library.

828.586.2016.

• GIMME ABBEY: A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES AND THE ROLLING STONES, 7:30 p.m. August 1, SMOKY MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, tickets start at $15. GreatMountainMusic.com or 866.273.4615.

NIGHT LIFE • Justin Powell and Radiance Quartet (Latin jazz), 7 p.m. Saturday, July 26; The Classic Wineseller, 20 Church St., Waynesville. $40, includes four-course dinner. Reservations, 452.6000, info@classicwineseller.com.

MUSIC JAMS • 7 p.m. Fridays, Pickin’ in the Park, through Labor Day, Canton

DANCE • Dance classes for adults, six-week sessions, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays starting Aug. 4, MedWest Haywood Health & Fitness Center. Learn the cha-cha, swing, mambo, samba, meringue, bolero, tango, waltz, Viennese waltz, foxtrot, county (2-step) and free – style. $120 per couple and limited to 10 couples. 452.8080, or stop by the Health & Fitness Center front desk.

• Community dances, 2:30 p.m. second Sundays at Jackson County Public Library complex and 2 p.m. fourth Sundays Gateway Club ballroom, Waynesville.

Family-oriented, requires no experience.

• Free beginner clogging classes, 6:30 p.m. SCC Swain Center. Offered by Swain County Cooperative Extension. Instructor is Kerry Plemmons. Chris Smith teaches line dance classes at 6:30 p.m. each Thursday. Free. 488.3848.

• Beginner clogging classes, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday at the NC Cooperative Extension, 60 Almond School Road, in Bryson City, in the SCC building. No prior dance experience required. 488.3848 to register.

• Hip Hop Dance Class for grades K-12, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. 456.2030 or youthprogramsupervisor@townofwaynesville.org.

• The Diamond K Dance Ranch in Maggie Valley offers live music and dance Saturdays at 8 p.m. 246.0207.

• The Diamond K Ranch in Maggie Valley offers live music Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays are ladies nights. 926.7735.

• Ballroom dance classes are offered every Thursday Night at Club 56 Fitness Inc. in Maggie Valley. No partner needed. Taught by Laura Roberts. Classes at 7 to 8 p.m. and 8 to 9 p.m. Cost is $30 for one series for an individual or $40 for both series; couples are $40 for one series or $50 for both. 734.2113.

• The Pisgah Promenaders offer fall dance lessons cosponsored by Waynesville Parks and Recreation, 7 p.m., Old Armory, Waynesville. 452.5917.

• Christian advocator, evangelist, and writer Josh McDowell, 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 30, Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. Free.

Discussion, “Save Our Children, Save Our World.”

GreatMountainMusic.com, 866.273.4615.

• Social dance classes, including ballroom, Latin, country, swing and blues meets Mondays from 7 to 8 p.m. and 8 to 9 p.m. at the Old Armory Recreation Center in Waynesville. No partner needed. michael@michaelthomas.com or lauraroberts@charter.net or 734.2113.

• The hour-long radio show Stories of Mountain Folk airs at 9 a.m. every Saturday on its home station, WRGC Jackson County Radio, 540 AM on the dial,

• The Black Horse Dance Hall, 4027 Socco Road, Maggie Valley, has social dance class Thursdays, no partner needed; line dance class 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

FOOD & DRINK • Second annual Cupcake Challenge, 2 p.m. Thursday, July 31, Haywood County Library, Canton Branch Library, Canton. Open to all ages. Signup required, 648.2924. Prizes awarded. 648.2924.

• Murder Mystery Dinner, Saturday, July 26, Herren House, 94 E. St., Waynesville. Three-course dinner with wine and mystery, $45. Reservations, 452.7837 • Gathering Table, 5 to 7 p.m. Thursdays, at The Community Center, Route 64, Cashiers. Provides fresh, nutritious dinners to all members of the community regardless of ability to pay. Volunteers always needed and donations gratefully accepted. 743.9880.

• Smokin’ in the Valley WNC BBQ Festival, July 25 – 26, Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. With up to 40 cookers, this is a Barbecue (BBQ) Cooking Competition & Kansas City BBQ Society Sanctioned event.

ART/GALLERY EVENTS & OPENINGS • Art dedication, “Chasing Tadpoles,” 5 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 2, Frog Level Historic District, corner of Commerce and Depot streets. Frog hop from 4 to 9 p.m., with local artists, food, children’s activities.

• “A Lasting Legacy,” featuring the creative work of local women from the late 19th century, Jackson County Historical Society’s display area in the Jackson County Public Library Complex in Sylva. Through July.

227.7129.

• Cullowhee Mountain Arts Summer Faculty Exhibition through July 25 in the Fine Arts Museum at Western Carolina University. Features 23 artists, from ceramics to printmaking, painting to mixed media. www.wcu.edu.

• “Fly Over,” photography collection of WWII Warbirds, by local Candler photographer, Barbara Sammons, Main Meeting Room at the Canton Public Library, 11 Pennsylvania Avenue, Canton. 648.2924. Through Aug. 1. www.barbarasammons.com.

• Climatic Contours, an exhibition of large scale paintings, by Craig Voligny, through Sept. 7, North Carolina Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way Asheville. www.ncarboretumregistration.org.

• Call to artists to submit artwork for an eight-week Community Art Exhibit at Swain County Center for the Arts. Artwork received from 8 to 11 a.m. Monday, July 28, in the Art Center lobby or earlier by appointment.

No artwork received after July 28. Details, www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta.

• Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts department 2014 Graduate Show, through Sept. 14, Southern Highland Craft Guild Folk Art Center, Mile Post 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, near Asheville.

565.4159.

• Juried competition for artists and craftspeople, Mountain Heritage Day, 40th Anniversary, Saturday, Sept. 27, Western Carolina University campus.

Applications at www.mountainheritageday.com.

• Call to artists to apply for entry in the 6th annual 2014 Cashiers Valley Leaf Festival, Oct. 10-12, Cashiers Valley. www.visitcashiersvalley.com or e-mail info@visitcashiersvalley.com or 743.8428.

• ART LEAGUE OF HIGHLANDS “SUMMER COLORS” FINE ART EXHIBITION & SALE, opening reception 5 to 7 p.m. July 25, exhibition 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 26-27, Sapphire Valley Community Center, Sapphire.

• Smokey Bear’s 70th Birthday Party, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 2, Cradle of Forestry, Pisgah National Forest. www.cradleofforestry.org. 877.3130.

• Art League of Highlands-Cashiers monthly meetings, 4:30 p.m. July 28, Aug. 25, Sept. 29 and Oct. 27, The Bascom in Highlands. Guests welcome. www.artleagueofhighlands.com.

• Classic Hike of the Smokies, Tuesday, Aug. 12, to Charlies Bunion, led by hiking guide and author, Danny Bernstein. Register at outreach.nc@friendsofthesmokies.org or 452.0720.

• WMI - Wilderness First Responder (WFR), nine-day comprehensive wilderness medical course, Sept. 1614, Cullowhee. Landmark Learning, 293.5384 or email main@landmarklearning.edu.

• Summer ARTS Series, through July 26, Western Carolina University in the Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. Details, www.cullowheemountainarts.org or 342.6913.

• Register now for the Blue Ridge Breakaway, Aug. 16, and save $10 on registration fee. Enjoy scenic and challenging rides through areas near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Pisgah National Forest.

Choose from four rides: Hawk (105.8miles), Trout (75 miles), Panther (50.8 miles), and Rabbit (26.5).

Register at http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp.

• Guided tour of the Southern Highlands Reserve, 2 p.m. Friday, July 25, Highlands Biological Station, 828.526-2602.

• Make Your Own Pottery, 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 25 and Aug. 22, Pincu Pottery, Bryson City. $35 per person. Reservations, 488.0480.

• Metals studio open, with demonstrations, as part of Jackson County Farm, Garden, & Studio Tour, 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 26, and Sunday, July 27 and Sunday, July 26 and 27, William Rogers Metal Studio, next to East LaPort Park in Cullowhee. 293.3777.

• Lens Luggers of WNC Field Photography Program with Bob Grytten, 8 a.m. Wednesday mornings, Aug. 6, 13, 20 and 27, and from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Aug. 5, 12, 19 and 26, Old Armory, Waynesville. $45 for the Wednesday morning shoots and $15 for the Tuesday evening class events. Register, 627.0245, bobgry@aol.com or www.lensluggerworld.com.

• Nature Photography Exhibit: Our Spectacular Southern Appalachians, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, Cradle of Forestry, Pisgah National Forest. $5 for 16 and up.

Youth free.

• Free guided, themed nature walks, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Mondays, Highlands Botanical Garden, Highlands Nature Center, Highlands. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2623.

• Zahner Lecture “Native Plants of the Southeast and their Garden Uses” by Dr. Larry Mellichamp, Professor; Executive Director, UNC-Charlotte Botanical Gardens, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24, followed by book signing, native plant auction and wine reception to benefit the Highlands Botanical Garden, 828.526-2602.

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park focuses on raptors with a birds of prey program, 10 a.m. Friday, July 25, at Oconaluftee Visitor Center. 828.497.1904.

COMPETITIVE EDGE

• Rug Hooking Group, 5:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Jackson County Public Library. Beginners welcome.

631.2561.

• Featured Creature program, 11:30 a.m. to noon, Saturdays Highlands Nature Center, Highlands. All ages. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2623.

Greg Duff, Glory Hound Events, 400.5868, greg@gloryhoundevents.com. www.GloryHoundEvents.com.

• Children’s Art Classes, by Scottie Harris, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays. www.iamclasses.webs.com or contact Char at 456.9197, orcharspaintings@msn.com.

• Volunteer-guided hikes, 1 p.m. Saturdays and Tuesdays through November, The North Carolina Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville. www.ncarboretumregistration.org.

• Drawing Lessons for Adults, by Char Avrunin, 1 to 4 p.m. Mondays. www.iamclasses.webs.com or contact Char at 456.9197, orcharspaintings@msn.com.

• Blue Ridge Parkway’s Pisgah District summer program schedule: Hike of the Week, 10 a.m. Fridays, between Milepost 356 and 469; Evening Campfire, 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, Milepost 408.8; After Hours Hike, Parkway ranger guided hike, 7 p.m. every other Thursday, along Mountains-To-Sea Trail near Asheville; Family Night, 7 to 8:30 p.m. every other Thursday, opposite After Hours Hike, Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center in Asheville, milepost 384. www.nps.gov/blri, or 298.5330, ext. 304.

• Art classes with Dominick DePaolo, 10 a.m. to noon on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at the Old Armory Building, 44 Boundary St. in Waynesville and from 1 to 3 p.m. every Friday at Mountain Home Collection at 110 Miller St., Waynesville. Watercolor classes, 10 a.m. to noon, oil painting classes, 1 to 3 p.m. Mondays, Uptown Gallery, Franklin. Registration requested. Armory classes, 456.9918; Home Collection classes, 456.5441; Franklin classes, 349.4607.

• The Smoky Mountain Knitting Guild offers free Learn to Knit classes for adults and children at the Waynesville Library on Tuesdays. The adult class meets from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Children (boys and girls ages 8-12) meet from 5 to 6 p.m. Pre-registration required. 246.0789.

• Bookmaking class with Gayle Woody, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, July 30, Jackson County Public Library.

828.586.2016.

Outdoors OUTINGS, HIKES & FIELDTRIPS • Leopold Land Ethics Leaders, Rob Hawk, North Carolina Cooperative Extension, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 31, Community Room, Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva.

• 8th annual Jackson County Self-Guided Farm Tour, 1 to 6 p.m. July 26-27. Jackson County. Tickets and map of the participants at Jackson County Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday mornings in Bridge Park, Sylva. Ticket prices are per car, to encourage carpooling. $15 for 1 day, $25 for two. Students and seniors, $10 per day. jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org. or jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

• Volunteer workdays at The Cullowhee Community Garden, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Wednesday afternoon and Saturday morning. More information at thecullowheecommunitygarden@gmail.com or 586.8994.

• Haywood County Plant Clinic, 9 a.m. to noon Monday-Friday, Haywood County Extension Center on Raccoon Road, in Waynesville. Master Gardeners available to answer questions about lawns, vegetables, flowers, trees, and ornamental plants; disease, insect, weed, or wildlife problems; soils (including soil test results) and fertilizers; freeze and frost damage; and cultural and chemical solutions to pest problems.

456.3575.

PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS • Outdoor Cooking Class, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24, Ralph J. Andrews Campground. Register until July 18 at the Cullowhee Recreation Center or the Cashiers/Glenville Recreation Center. $6, 293.3053, www.jacksonnc.org/parks-and-recreation.html.

• Swain County Coalition Against Fracking presents the movie “Gasland 1,” 7 p.m. Thursday, July 24, Swain County Center for the Performing Arts, Bryson City, and at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11, Nantahala Brewery, Depot Street, Bryson City.

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• “The Eagle Lady,” Doris Mager, raptor expert, 10 a.m. Friday, July 25, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Oconaluftee Visitor Center, Newfound Gap Road, about two miles north of Cherokee. 497.1904. www.nps.gov/grsm/naturescience/birds.htm.

• Workshop, “Introduction to Appalachian Insects,” with Dr. Dave Alsop, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 28- Aug. 1, Highlands Biological Station. $350 for non-members, $300 for Highlands Biological Foundation members at the Sagee Level or above. Housing available at the HBS for an additional fee. www.highlandsbiological.org/summer-2014 or call 526.2602.

• Triple Divide, film about fracking, 7 p.m. July 29, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City (free); 6:30 p.m.

July 30, Mad Batter, Sylva (free); and 7 p.m. July 31, Fine Arts Theatre, downtown Asheville ($8), hosted by the Watershed Association of the Tuckasegee River, Western North Carolina Alliance, and Clean Water for North Carolina. The Coalition Against Fracking in WNC Swain County is also playing a key role in bringing the film to Swain County. tripledividefilm.org/screenings.

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• It’s All Art, 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 29, Jackson County Public Library. Teen arts and crafts. 828.586.2016.

• Mountaintop Rotary of Highlands SOAR Golf Tournament to benefit Special Operations Warrior Foundation, 9:30 a.m., shotgun start, Monday, Aug. 4, Sky Valley Country club. $150 per player includes: round of golf, hors d’oeuvres and prizes; best ball scramble (gross prizes). Registration deadline, Wednesday, July 30. Mail form to Mountaintop Rotary

• Cooking Local Together Class & Gardening with Kids, 1:45 p.m. Thursday, July 24, Canton Branch Library with Tina Masciarelli, Buy Haywood Project Coordinator, Melissa Rockett of MountainWise and Haywood County Master Gardeners. Free. 648.2924.

July 23-29, 2014

• 2014 Lake Logan Multisport Festival, Aug. 2-3, Lake Logan, Canton. This year’s race will include a HalfIron distance triathlon, in addition to the sprint triathlon, Aquathon and Aquabike. Volunteers needed.

• Private Art Lessons by Char Avrunin, www.iamclasses.webs.com or contact Char at 456.9197 or charspaintings@msn.com.

• Paddle Grapple, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. August 2. Choose from SUP, surfski, marathon, kayak or canoe classes in this race on beautiful Fontana Lake. Three and six mile race options. http://noc.com/events/paddle-grapple.

FARM & GARDEN

• Learn about the eating habits of the Highlands Nature Center’s animals, 11 to 11:30 a.m., Fridays, Highlands Nature Center, Highlands. All ages. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2623.

• Painting Lessons for Adults, by Char Avrunin, 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesdays. www.iamclasses.webs.com or contact Char at 456.9197, orcharspaintings@msn.com.

Club, Bill Zoellner, PO Box 2584, Highlands, NC 28741 or call 787.2323 for details.

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• Rockin’ Naturalist Guided Hikes, 11 a.m. to noon, Saturdays, Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30, Chimney Rock State Park. chimneyrockpark.com.

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n Free — Residential yard sale ads, lost or found pet ads. n Free — Non-business items that sell for less than $150. n $12 — Classified ads that are 50 words or less; each additional line is $2. n $12 — If your ad is 10 words or less, it will be displayed with a larger type. n $3 — Border around ad and $5 — Picture with ad. n $50 — Non-business items, 25 words or less. 3 month or till sold. n $300 — Statewide classifieds run in 117 participating newspapers with 1.6 million circulation. Up to 25 words. n All classified ads must be pre-paid.

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The Administrative Clerical Support Section is part of the Business Services Division of the Haywood County Health and Human Services Agency. The clerical support provided by this section includes but is not limited to: greeting persons arriving at the Customer Service desk, providing information concerning the services provided by the Agency, the location of those services, the right to apply for said services or programs, answering incoming phone calls, directing those calls, completing computer inquiries, completing logs, scanning, setting up case files, processing incoming, outgoing, courier mail , collecting payments and completing numerous data entry functions i.e. NC Fast and other systems utilized by the Agency.. *Primary Purpose of the Position: *The Office Assistant III in this position is supervised by the Administrative Assistant I. The employee in this position will be assigned to the Customer Service reception area of the Haywood County Health and Human Services Agency.

The employee in the position will deal with a high volume of customers on a daily basis performing a wide variety of tasks. This employee will perform a variety of office assistant tasks as generalists in support of the administrative, programmatic or technical operations within the Agency. The completion of the work of this employee often involves a public contact role to obtain, clarify or provide general information regarding all the services provided by the Agency.

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HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS HOSPITAL Positions now available: Med/Surg and ER Registered Nurses, Clinical Coordinator, Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant I, Family Nurse Practitioner, Physical Therapist and Receptionist.

Benefits available the first of the month following 60 days of full-time employment. PreEmployment screening required.

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HAYWOOD TRANSIT PROGRAM MANAGER This position requires a four year degree or comparable work experience in management, proficient computer skills, good oral and written communication skills, and the ability to manage an annual budget. Supervisory/ management experience with some financial background required. Fleet management experience helpful. Must have the ability to work effectively with diverse populations. Experience in public speaking and human relations helpful. Clean driving record required and be able to obtain CDL License within 60 days of hire. Applications will be taken at Mountain Projects, Inc. 2251 Old Balsam Rd., Waynesville or 25 Schulman St., Sylva, or you may go to our website: www.mountainprojects.org and fill out an application.

Pre-Employment drug testing is required. EOE/AA.

EMPLOYMENT The North Carolina Department of Commerce Division of Workforce Solutions (previously known as Employment Security Commission) assists individuals who need help getting back to work and in finding the training they need to find a job.

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PUBLISHER’S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

HOMES FOR SALE BRUCE MCGOVERN A Full Service Realtor shamrock13@charter.net McGovern Property Management 828.283.2112.

HOMES FOR RENT UNFURNISHED HOUSE FOR RENT - 3/BR 2/BA Amazing View and Privacy. W/D, Large Covered Deck and Hot Tub. 1st, Last & Dep. Req. No Smoking, Pets Negotiable, $1200/mo. Call 828.586.6641.

CABINS FOR RENT UNFURNISHED CABIN IN GATED COMMUNITY For Long-Term Rent, Bryson City, Hwy 74 W. 2/BR, 1/BA. Suitable for Couple. Service Animals ONLY! $650/mo. For more info please call 828.450.5871 or 770.846.0893.

COMM. PROP. FOR RENT FOR LEASE Building #60 (24’x60’) in West Sylva Shopping Center - Next to Harold’s Supermarket. For more info call 828.421.5685.

COMM. PROP. FOR SALE APARTMENT COMPLEX FOR SALE 14 - 2/BR Units. Excellent Rental History. Sylva Area. Call Broker, Robert A. Kent, NC Broker Lic. #274102, The R.A. Kent Co., LLC 828.550.1455

STORAGE SPACE FOR RENT BULLFROG STORAGE Convenient Location 19/23 Between Clyde and Canton

5 x 10 = $35 10 x 10 = $40 10 x 20 = $85 • NO CONTRACTS • Call Brian

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Maddie (left), Izzy & First Mate Melissa sailing Charleston Harbor.

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BY DON H ENDERSHOT

On the Isle again Thanks to the generosity of dear friends, my family gets to vacation on Isle of Palms every summer. If you follow the “Naturalist’s Corner” regularly, you’ve seen accounts of these expeditions — maybe about “pluff mud,” “gourd heads,” “sister island,” etc.

Every year it’s a wonderful trip, and this year was no different. Four-and-a-half days flew by in the blink of an eye. There were triedand-true adventures, new adventures and one mild curiosity.

I’ve been left scratching my head about the absence of blue crabs this trip. While we are vegetarian and do not eat crabs, the girls love to dangle a chicken neck in the marsh and catch crabs, which they keep in a bucket until they get bored and release them back into the marsh. This year there were no crabs. I saw one blue crab that was 4 or 5 inches across and a couple of smaller ones, and that was all. I suppose it could be a seasonal thing — we are usually here a month later and I know crabs use different parts of an estuary at different times for different reasons, so I guess timing could be a factor.

There were also pretty big tides this trip, leaving only a little water, even at the end of

the dock, during low tide. I don’t know if these were factors or if we simply didn’t spend as much time crabbing this trip, but at this point it is a curiosity.

As for new adventures, wow! Again we’re indebted to great friends. Don Bolger is a mountain neighbor I’ve known since the early 1990s. He has a cabin just down the road from me in the shadow of Plott Balsam, but he has one foot deeply rooted in the sand of Sullivan’s Island. Don is an old salt — been sailing since his teens and has a College of Charleston Sailing Association membership. Don and his able and capable first mate Melissa took us for a wonderful tour of Charleston Harbor. We slid by Fort Sumter, got looks at Ft. Moultrie, then tacked up the Ashley River before coming about and skimming Charleston’s Battery, cruising past the Charleston Aquarium, getting an up close view of the new Cooper River Bridge before returning to the College of Charleston’s dock in the shadow of the USS Yorktown.

During the sail we had watched brown pelicans falling like boulders from the sky as they foraged for fish and we had gotten glimpses of dolphins. One pair, we were sure, was a mom and calf because the dorsal fins were only

inches apart when they would briefly breach the surface. Then after we dropped the jib and were waiting for the dinghy to come out and tow us back to dock, a pair of dolphins cruised by really close, giving great views. A magical ending to a great sail.

We also had two new, close encounters of the avian kind. One afternoon during low tide when we were out at the end of the dock a black skimmer came by checking the cut out. It was so close we could see the bright orange bill, with its longer lower mandible that the bird uses to “skim” the surface of the water as it feeds. Then one afternoon returning from our annual kayak trip to

Sister Island, Denise spied a colorful bird above us. It was a roseate spoonbill. While it was a thrill to have this flyover, it only got better the next morning. We were on the dock again when the roseate came into the cut and began foraging — swinging its large spoon-like bill back and forth in the water feeling for prey. This cool bird was, at times, less than 50 feet from us.

Then, in a blink of an eye, four-and-a-half days are gone and we’re packing up to head back to the mountains. There could be worse places to head back to.

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist. He can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.)

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