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On the Cover: The Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians is now open in Cherokee. Anglers are excited to see the stories of their heroes preserved and celebrated there, while the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce is hoping that the museum will further spur the cultural tourism Cherokee wants to see grow. (Page 40) Mark Haskett photo

News Shining Rock hit with ‘no trespassing’ order ......................................................4 Lake Logan Multisport Festival celebrates 10 years ........................................ 5 Murphy casino on track for September open ..................................................10 Jackson officer fired for Taser ‘horseplay’ ........................................................12 Former deputy pleads guilty to obstructing justice ........................................ 13 Gas station annexation approved in Franklin ..................................................14 Sylva considers fencing along Scotts Creek ..................................................15 Maggie mayor seat won’t be filled until election ............................................16 Jackson sports hall of fame inducts felon ........................................................20

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Shining Rock hit with ‘no trespassing’ order Charter school site testing on hold

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR damaged corn crop and a no trespassing order from a farmer’s lawyer could thwart Shining Rock Classical Academy’s goal of finding a permanent home for the new charter school by December.

All progress has halted on the future school site as the charter school board tries to settle a dispute with local farmer Jeremy Wilson for damaging his corn crop that is growing on the property.

Shining Rock is under contract to purchase 35 acres of farmland on the “The response I have from the corner of U.S. 276 and Raccoon Road letter is that the school is not in Waynesville from Charles Collins.

With the 75-day clock ticking for going to have any further invesSRCA to determine if the site will be feasible, the Shining Rock board tigators on the site at this time.” needed to begin performing environ— Frank Queen, attorney mental testing on the property as soon as possible.

“Attorneys for the parties are working However, Wilson has a lease on the same property until May 2016. He has grown corn together to find a resolution. Given [The on the property for several years to be able to Smoky Mountain News’] penchant for editofeed his cattle and was shocked to discover rializing, we have no further comment,” she last Monday that service trucks had plowed wrote in an email.

Shining Rock did post an open letter to down rows of the crop when driving through to identify and mark sites where soil core Facebook on July 29 to parents and families to clear up the situation. drilling could be conducted the next day.

“From the onset of our due diligence period Wilson contacted the Haywood County Sheriff ’s Office and filed an incident report on with this property, in conjunction with the July 27 when he first noticed the damage. property owners, we have been pursuing negoAccording to the incident report, Wilson said tiations with Mr. Wilson in an effort to fairly

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Charter school to face opposition over special use permit for new location

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER eighbors who live near the proposed site of a new charter school in Haywood County plan to oppose a special use permit that would allow the school to be built in their community.

“There is a lot of concern about the quality of life and integrity of the rural community and the traffic,” said Tanna Timbes, who lives near the property. “Modular buildings like they are proposing are going to ruin the integrity of our community.”

Shining Rock Classical Academy has made a $1.1 million offer to buy a 35-acre vacant tract on the outskirts of Waynesville at the intersection of U.S. 276 and Raccoon Road.

The school is opening in two weeks, and will temporarily lease a building at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center for the first half of the school year. By January, the school hopes to be operating out of modular units on its new property.

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Collins had been asking him if a company could come get core samples for the new school being built there in the near future. Wilson told officers he informed Collins that testing could be done after his corn crop was cut in October.

However, a neighbor called Wilson on July 27 and told him he saw a truck from BunnellLammons Engineering parked near the field earlier that day.

The next day when drilling was supposed to occur, the site was surrounded by the trucks of many local farmers to keep more damage from happening.

Tara Keilberg, chairwoman of the SRCA school board, declined to comment on the situation.

work can commence. The timetable is also contingent on conflicts being resolved with a farmer who is growing corn on the property where they plan to build (see related article.)

The property marks the edge of the ruralurban interface. Housing density declines and the landscape gives way to a rural pastoral setting as you head out of town — a setting Timbes said would be compromised by a school.

“That is definitely a concern and is something that bothers everybody,” Timbes said.

The property, which lies within Waynesville’s land-use planning boundary, is zoned as low-density residential, prohibiting anything along the line of condos, gas stations, offices, or stores.

There’s an exemption specifically for schools, as long as it passes muster with the town planning board for a special use permit.

A public hearing on the special use permit to “evaluate the potential for adverse impacts on adjacent property” will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, at the new town hall.

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Jeremy Wilson’s corn crop located on the corner of U.S. 276 and Raccoon Road was damaged when Shining Rock Classical Academy hired environmental engineers to conduct soil testing on the property. Garrett K. Woodward photo compensate him for any damages to his crop,” the SRCA letter stated. “The last thing we want is for him to suffer financially when we start our studies and ultimately break ground. The property owners share this sentiment.”

Waynesville lawyer Frank Queen, representing Wilson, sent a letter to Collins Orchard and Shining Rock prohibiting them from trespassing on the property until Wilson’s lease is up next May. “Knowing of the lease — and the growing corn crop being the best, most visible evidence of its existence — you ignored it,” Queen wrote. “You made a cold-blooded calculation that the financial damages that you

would have to pay him would be worth it if you could go through with your transactions.”

When asked for an update on the situation on July 31, Queen said in an email that Wilson, the Collins and Shining Rock were discussing all the issues involved and trying to reach an agreement.

“The response I have from the letter is that the school is not going to have any further investigators on the site at this time,” he said.

“They are apparently respecting the position of the tenant as expressed by me in my letter.”

It is unclear how the postponement of testing will affect Shining Rock’s timeline for getting the site ready for development.

in every direction will get a letter from the town by week’s end informing them of the public hearing. A sign will also be placed on the property to alert nearby residents of the pending zoning decision.

“We are getting the word out in Francis Cove for sure,” Timbes said.

There are six criteria that must be met for a special use permit. Some wouldn’t really apply, such as noxious odors, offensive smells or public health issues.

Other criteria are seemingly subjective, however, like whether the school “conforms to the character of the neighborhood.” Traffic congestion — and whether the charter school is taking “adequate measures” to minimize it — will also be weighed by the planning board.

Timbes said traffic is one of the community’s concerns.

The two roads flanking the site are narrow two-lane roads with little shoulder to speak of. The school projects an enrollment of over 500 students in grades K-12 within 10 years.

Given uncertainties over whether the school would have busses, Timbes believes the traffic congestion picking up and dropping off students would be an issue.

The school is required to conduct a traffic study as part of its special use permit application, according to Town Planner Elizabeth

Teague. Teague said the traffic study would take the long-range occupancy of the site into account, in addition to the current short-term enrollment.

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This is the second time the school will go before the planning board for a special use permit.

The school initially planned to locate on a vacant tract along Ratcliff Cove — a similar tract on the rural edge of town not far from its current site.

The charter school board changed its mind about the first property in June, however, citing delays getting the site ready and higher than projected costs.

It had already gone through the special use permit on the first tract — at least partly. The school’s permit was approved by the town planning board, but neighboring property owner John Queen appealed it. The appeal ended up in Haywood County Superior Court but was never heard because the site fell through and the appeal became moot.

The school was prevented from doing anything on the site while the appeal was pending.

“It puts a stay on it until the appeal is heard,” Teague explained.

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Any delays with the special use permit this time could jeopardize the school’s timeline of being up and running on the site by January.

After its last site fell through, school leaders had just three months to find a temporary location before the start of school in August. Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center agreed to lease a building to the school from mid-August through December for $28,000.

Ken Howle, the director of advancement at Lake Junaluska, said an extension of the lease beyond December is a possibility.

“If we have not leased out the space to another organization we would welcome Shining Rock to request an extension to their lease agreement with us,” Howle said.

Shining Rock has submitted a site plan to the town planning office showing how the modular units, parking lot and road would be situated. The charter school board hired Patrick Bradshaw of Civil Engineering Concepts, based in Waynesville, for $40,000 to develop the site plan and shepherd the site development process.

In addition to the special use permit, the school would need: • An erosion control permit from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

• Approval of its building designs per aesthetic requirements in the town’s development standards.

• Approval from the Waynesville town board if the school wants to connect to the town’s water and sewer system.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER t’s been 10 years since the Lake Logan Triathlon made its debut in Haywood County, drawing a field of 162 people to tackle the 1,500-meter swim, 24-mile bike ride and 10K run.

Now called the Lake Logan Multisport Festival, the event will celebrate its 10th anniversary this weekend (Aug. 8-9) with a fanfare substantially outstripping its humble beginnings. More than 1,100 athletes are expected to participate in an event that now fincludes a half-ironman, international triathlon, sprint triathlon and an option to do just the biking and swimming legs of either triathlon.

“I always thought that it could be big,” said Greg Duff, president of Glory Hound Events, which organizes the festival. “You just never know how big it’s going to get until you get into it.”

By its third year, the festival had attracted more than 500 athletes, and when the halfironman competition came onboard last fyear, entries exploded to top 1,200.

“That was the turning point,” Duff said.

“When we added that race, it just brought a totally different athlete into the picture. It was a great opportunity.”

Duff attributes much of the event’s success to the setting. The lake is clean and the water temperature is perfect for swimming.

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Most of the course is canopied, keeping things cool even after the sun comes up. For a mountain course, it’s relatively flat.

The race’s success has been good for Duff ’s company, but it also provides an economic boost to Haywood County.

“The Lake Logan Multisport Festival is a truly unique event because a large majority of the participants are from outside the county, so the economic contributions created are quite significant,” said Lynn Collins, executive director of the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority.

Since its debut, the Lake Logan event has injected an estimated $950,000 of economic impact to the county, most of that due to the fact that 80 percent of the athletes come from outside the mountain region, meaning they have to buy food, lodging and gas while they’re here. In 2014, when the field of 1,221 represented 28 of the 50 states, room revenue alone contributed more than $180,000 to the local economy, Collins said.

The event also gives back by partnering with nonprofits such as KARE, ARC of Haywood County and Girls on the Run, providing donations ranging from $300 to $1,800 in exchange for volunteers covering various duties on race day.

While the Lake Logan Multisport is unique in its proven ability to draw a majority of competitors from far beyond Haywood County’s borders, the county boasts many other successful large athletic events. It’s a huge, growing market, Collins says, and it’s vital to the county’s development as a tourism destination.

“For Haywood County to have a variety of events like this in its backyard is tremendous,” she said. “The economic impact during these events is very important, but it’s also what happens after the events. Many participants come to Haywood for a race, fall in love with it during the event and then bring their families back for vacation.”

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Call of the wild Bear hunting guide brought down after failing to rein in reckless ‘client’

BY KATIE R EEDER SMN I NTERN hen Chad Arnold pulled into War Paint Kennels during fall bear season in 2011, Jerry Parker pegged him as just another flat-lander willing to fork out big dough to bag a bear.

The two had never met in person, only speaking on the phone to arrange the hunt.

“He just called me one night on the phone and wanted to go hunting, just out of the blue,” Parker said.

It wasn’t that unusual. A licensed hunting guide, Parker had been in the business for years. For a cool $1,500, hunters hire him for the thrill of running dogs after bears and wild boar through the mountainous noman’s land along the Georgia-North Carolina line.

But Parker was about to get duped.

Arnold — who went by the name “Chad Ryan” — wasn’t just another customer from Charlotte as he claimed, but an undercover agent with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.

Arnold’s phone call had launched Jerry Parker into Operation Something Bruin — the multi-agency investigation that began as an attempt to apprehend bear poachers in Western North Carolina and north Georgia.

Parker was a prime target, suspected of being a rule-bender to ensure clients got the bears they came after.

He had previous run-ins with wildlife officers in the 1980s as one of the hunters caught up in Operation Smoky — a poaching sting that caught North Carolina hunters selling bear parts. He was not convicted of anything because everything he did was on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, where he is an enrolled member of the tribe and where state officers had no jurisdiction.

But Parker was convicted this time around. He did one month of hard time in July — which he served out in the Swain County Jail — and is now on house arrest for the rest of his sentence.

Throughout 2008 and 2009 wildlife agencies say they received numerous complaints of illegal hunting activities going on in the woods.

“There was convenience store talk and things like that,” said Major Stephen Adams with the Georgia Department of Resources.

“There was a lot of anecdotal talk, and our officers in the area heard there were people being guided, training being used as a guise for hunting.”

The undercover operation ran from 2009 to 2012, with arrests coming down in February 2013.

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six men being charged with hunting violations, although only two were ultimately convicted of anything.

THE THRILL OF THE HUNT It was a week into the fall bear season when Arnold showed up at Parker’s place.

Arnold said he had been hunting that season already but hadn’t killed anything, and he was itching to get a bear. Parker agreed to take him on a three-day hunt.

Arnold later claimed in testimony that Parker guaranteed he would get a bear, but Parker disputed this.

“Ain’t no guarantee for nothing,” he said. “I couldn’t guarantee nobody I could get a bear.”

Clients stay at his remote hunting cabin in Rabun Gap. It’s an ideal base camp among a patchwork of private lands and national forest. Hunts begin from his front door and foray into the surrounding Nantahala and Chattahoochee national forests, home to a thriving black bear population.

Parker’s favorite hunting ground is the Scaly Mountain area on the North Carolina side. Parker asked Arnold if he had a North Carolina hunting license. He said he did.

Parker never asked Arnold if he had a Georgia license, however, a seemingly small technicality that would come back to bite him.

Hunters usually find bears by setting trained dogs loose in the woods to track them and eventually tree them. Dogs wear radio collars so the hunters can keep up with them.

When running after the dogs, hunters often

Jerry Parker returned from Vietnam with post-traumatic stress disorder. He’d grown up hunting with dogs — he found the sport provided him a haven after returning from the war. jump in their trucks and ride along dirt forest roads while monitoring the dogs that are yelping through the woods in hunt of a bear scent.

It’s a job too big for one hunter, so they usually hunt in groups. Friends of Parker often came along on the hunts he guided.

On the first day of their hunt, Arnold rode around in a truck with Parker’s friend Carl Junaluska.

For much of the morning, the party had little success until Parker found a bear track.

“I struck a track with my dogs and

Jerry Parker said hunting was once a getaway for him, but his favorite pastime has been tainted by his experience with Operation Something Bruin. Katie Reeder photo turned on it, turned the dogs loose, called them on the radio, told them which way the dogs was going, and we scattered out and tried to get around where we could get to it and kill it,” he said.

By 2:30 p.m., the hunters were still unable to catch up with the bear. At this point, Junaluska had to return home.

Parker had already called his son — Brock Parker — to help him come catch the dogs, which were still out running in the woods. By the time Brock got there, the dogs had caught up with the bear. When he left his truck to round up the dogs, Arnold followed.

They saw a bear in brush, but neither of them had a clear view of it. Then Arnold fired and shot at the bear.

“They get over there and so happened Arnold killed it,” Jerry Parker said. “Just so happened to see it in the brush and killed it.”

When they approached the bear, however, Arnold thought it appeared small. At that time, for a kill to be legal in North Carolina, the bear had to be at least 50 pounds. Arnold estimated the bear was below the required weight and told Brock he did not want to report it so he could get a bigger bear, according to Jerry Parker.

State law requires hunters to report their kills to the N.C. Wildlife Resource Commission. Hunters can kill only one bear

per season. Arnold did not want to waste his one kill on a small bear, one that was possibly to small to shoot legally.

Brock Parker called his father on the radio, unsure of what to do. Court documents indicate the bear weighed 42 pounds.

“I told him he was responsible for what he killed, and he had to tag it,” Jerry Parker said.

“If he didn’t tag it, it was up to him. I couldn’t make him tag it.”

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Arnold chose not to report the bear kill.

When Jerry Parker came to pick the two men up, he asked about the bear, and they said they had left it.

Arnold’s testimony in federal court told a different story. Arnold said Brock Parker was acting as a hunting guide and instructed him to shoot the bear, according to Arnold’s testimony.

“It was not possible to see the entire body of the bear, although its head was visible,” federal court filings describe. “Brock Parker told (Arnold) to shoot the bear between the ears, and he did so, killing the bear.”

Arnold claimed it was Brock’s idea — not Arnold’s — to leave the bear in hopes of getting a bigger one.

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LOWERING THE BOOM While Arnold is the one who shot the undersized bear and shot the bear at the bait barrel, the Parkers and Stancils were charged

Operation Something Bruin series continues This week is the second installment in an ongoing series exploring the many unanswered questions surrounding Operation Something Bruin, a four-year undercover investigation into suspected bear poaching in the mountains of Western North Carolina and north Georgia.

The fallout from the operation brought the rich tradition of hunting under fire, and many of those charged are now speaking out, levying allegations of entrapment and the rigging of bogus charges against them.

Meanwhile, wildlife agencies have defended the operation. The covert tactics were the only way to see what was really going on out when hunters went out in the woods. If left unchecked, disrespect for hunting laws would deplete wildlife populations and diminish the shared natural resources of society.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll explore: • Personal stories of hunters caught up in the dragnet, including what they admit to and what they don’t.

• The rich, cultural heritage of hunting in Western North Carolina and Georgia.

• The legal proceedings of the cases, including those that unraveled and those that stuck.

• The tactics of the wildlife agents and what it takes to go undercover. with a host of charges related to the kills.

The big kicker, however, was a federal Lacey Act violation, a law dating to the 1900 to stop the extinction of buffalo. The Lacey Act combatted the black market sale of wild animal parts using a two-part litmus test: the act kicks in when an animal shot illegally is transported across state lines.

Federal charges claim the Lacey Act was violated when Arnold shot a bear over bait illegally in Georgia, then took it back into North Carolina.

While Arnold did both those things himself, federal court records alleged that Jerry Parker and the Stancils were culpable since they knew he was doing it.

But Jerry Parker said he did not know Arnold had shot the bear over bait.

“I thought he’d killed it in the cornfield. I didn’t know he’d been up there on that mount,” Jerry Parker said. “It would’ve been legal if he’d killed it in the cornfield and had a license.”

The document asserts Jerry Parker did know where Arnold had killed the bear, as Arnold claimed Jerry Parker told him not to say anything about where he had killed the bear.

“If anybody asks, tell them you killed it over dogs,” he said. “Don’t tell them where you killed it. We ain’t supposed to do that.”

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Walt Stancil had first met Arnold a few days earlier. He was in the hunting party during Arnold’s guided hunt with Jerry Parker.

Arnold rode with Walt Stancil at one point during the hunt, and Walt Stancil had asked him about the bear he and Brock Parker had bayed, not knowing that Arnold had killed it.

“He said, ‘I missed it,’ and I never thought another thing about it,” Walt Stancil said. “If I knowed he killed a 30-pound bear, I would’ve set him out on the side of the highway.”

After being tipped by Jerry Parker about the “problem bear” in Walt Stancil’s corn, Arnold gave him a ring.

“I don’t know what Parker had told him, but old Arnold calls me and says to me that Parker told him I had a bear problem, and so I didn’t know what to think about that. So I started to think a minute and I said, ‘Well I might have,’” Walt Stancil recalled.

Walt Stancil said a bear had torn into his metal storage building three times. The building was about half a mile from a spot where Walt Stancil put out food for bears, near Blue Ridge Gap. Hunters have a long-standing practice of putting bait in the woods — from apples to chocolate — to lure bears. Laws differ in Georgia and North Carolina as to what you can use for bait — only natural food in North Carolina — and whether you can hunt over the bait piles — you can in North Carolina but not Georgia. Hunters often claim they are fjust taking care of the bear population by

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Meanwhile, the Stancils said they had no idea when they helped Arnold load the bear into his truck that he would eventually transport it back to North Carolina.

“He was alone when he killed that bear.

He was the one who hauled that bear out of Georgia and into North Carolina,” said Celia Stancil, Walt’s wife and Cale’s mother. “My son did not know where he was going with the bear. He did it by hisself.”

The federal Lacey Act violation against Cale Stancil was dismissed in exchange for Cale pleading to two counts of removing bear from over bait in Rabun County.

“Cale is a 42-year-old ordained Baptist minister and prior to Operation Something Bruin had never even had a speeding ticket in his life,” said Allyn Stockton, the Stancils’ lawyer.

A jury found Brock Parker not guilty of any Lacey Act violations, as he never came around the day Arnold shot the bear at the bait barrel.

Jerry Parker and Walt Stancil were found not guilty of a felony Lacey Act violation, but the jury did find them guilty of a misdemeanor violation.

“The difference is state of mind,” explained Stockton.

He said a felony conviction would have required the jury to find that Parker and Stancil knew Arnold planned to take the bear across state lines. The misdemeanor violation indicates that their knowing would have been possible.

U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Jerry Parker to one month in jail and eight months of house arrest, which Jerry Parker opted to begin quickly as his daughter was getting married at the end of July.

His daughter planned all along to use her father’s rustic hunting cabin and property as her wedding venue, but didn’t know her father would be walking her down the isle in an ankle bracelet, a condition of confinement under house arrest.

Reidinger also gave Jerry Parker a $1,500 fine and one year of supervised release.

Walt Stancil has yet to be sentenced for his conviction. He and Stockton are appealing it. Stockton held that Walt Stancil still should not have been included in the charge because there was no commercial element with him.

“Walt was taking the guy hunting,” he said. “He didn’t receive a dime. I think they’ll admit that nobody paid him a dime.”

The prosecution’s argument, however, was that Arnold was under the guide service of Jerry Parker and that hunting at Walt Stancil’s bait barrel was a continuation of that, Stockton said.

This seemed to be a common theme in the operation. While there was often one or two hunters mainly responsible for the crimes committed, others in the hunting party were often netted.

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feeding them, and aren’t hunting from the bait piles, presenting an enforcement challenge for wildlife officers who can’t be certain what’s really going on out in the woods.

Hunters know just how well baiting works. Both Georgia and North Carolina have seen a surge in the bear population, and the population is always more robust in the vicinity of stocked bait stations. These well-fed bears are often the ones who turn into “problem bears” and can wreak havoc on crops and property – just as Walt Stancil had seen.

“I decided I’d set (Arnold) out there and do me a favor, and he done me a favor” Walt Stancil said. “And it’s cost me about $50,000.”

Walt Stancil drove Arnold toward the Blue Ridge Gap bait station and let him out at a cattle gate, according to the document. He told Arnold to walk along the road until he saw a large white oak tree, where he would find big barrel of bait. The tree had a large wooden platform built into it about 8 feet off the ground, and a 55-gallon drum chained to it. Walt Stancil said he had filled the drum with Twix bars and M&M’s.

Arnold staked out the drum and settled in to wait for a bear to show up. Walt Stancil had told him there were two momma bears that usually came by with their cubs. He told Arnold not to shoot these bears but to wait for a larger male bear.

Around 6:45 p.m., a bear approached the drum. Arnold shot it, but it ran off. He called Walt Stancil and claimed he could not find it.

Night had fallen, and it was now dark.

While waiting for Walt Stancil to arrive, Arnold returned to the drum and removed a handful of chocolate.

Walt Stancil and his adult son — Cale Stancil — came to help Arnold retrieve the bear.

Cale Stancil easily found the bear, however — a detail the Stancils take as proof that Arnold was luring them out there to entrap them. “(Arnold) said you couldn’t find it,” Walt Stancil said. “You could’ve throwed a rock and hit that bear where it was laying where he shot it… Cale walked right straight down there to it.”

Cale Stancil and Arnold loaded the bear onto Cale Stancil’s truck. They drove back Cale Stancil to the Stancils’ house to get Arnold’s truck before taking the bear to Jerry Parker’s cabin a few miles away to skin it.

Once they arrived at Jerry Parker’s cabin, the Stancils helped unload the bear.

“We drug the bear off. Cale washed his tailgate off, and we got in the truck and come home,” Walt Stancil said. “That’s the last time I saw (Arnold) until we had court.”

Jerry Parker helped Arnold clean and skin the bear so he could take it back home with him. Arnold left the next morning and returned to North Carolina, taking his kill with him.

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you want a bigger bear we will get you one,” Brock told Arnold.

The men called Jerry Parker on the radio to get his input, and he gave a similar answer to his son’s. They decided to leave the bear and then went to wait for Jerry Parker to come over and pick them up.

When Jerry Parker arrived he told Arnold, “I don’t know you from Adam, and if you get in trouble for that, I didn’t tell you what to do.

That was all you,” Arnold recounted in federal court.

For this incident, Jerry Parker was initially charged in North Carolina state court with failing to retrieve a big game kill, but the charge was dismissed and moved to federal court, as the kill happened on Forest Service land under federal jurisdiction.

Brock Parker also faced federal charges for the killing of the undersized bear. A jury found them both not guilty of the offense.

“To be honest with you they created crime to have something to charge you with,” Parker said. “I haven’t killed a bear in 20 years. I just like running my dogs.”

Arnold told Jerry Parker he wanted to continue hunting in hopes of getting a bigger bear.

“He said he wanted to continue hunting.

He didn’t think he got his money worth,” Parker said. “Next day we found a bear and run it all day but didn’t never get it.”

Jerry Parker told Arnold his dogs were tired and needed rest.

But Parker said he had a friend — Walt Stancil — who had a “problem bear” that was eating his corn. Jerry Parker suggested Arnold check with him about that bear.

THE GUY IN THE TRUCK This seemed to be the case with Jack Billingsley, a close friend of Jerry Parker’s. He said he was never out in the woods with the

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hunting party; he stayed in the truck and helped give directions over the radio.

Billingsley was never a bear hunter. He grew up coon hunting with dogs, but when his knees started to get bad, he couldn’t get out into the woods anymore.

He’d lived around Scaly Mountain his whole life though and knew it like the back of his hand, so he enjoyed listening to the hunting party over the radios and helping direct them where to go.

“I’d sit around out there in the truck ‘cause I was selling ‘taters during bear season, and they’d call me and ask me this and ask me that cause they knowed I was raised out there and could tell them where to go and how to get there,” he said. “I got to stay in the truck and that was part of bear hunting. The guy Jack Billingsley in the truck a lot of times was as important as the guy in the woods cause you can keep a dog from getting run over a lot of times.”

Dogs run loose when tracking a bear, and usually the only way hunters know where they are is through the use of radio collars.

For hunters trekking through remote woods, keeping a signal can sometimes be a difficult task. Billingsley was in communication with hunters on the radio while also keeping track of the signal from the dogs’ collars.

He was sitting in the truck on the radio during Arnold’s guided hunt in October 2011.

The probable cause in a search warrant for Billingsley’s home indicates that Billingsley also acted as a guide for Arnold and that Billingsley told Arnold he sometimes helped Parker with guiding clients.

“At different times during the hunt, Billingsley was assigned by Parker to guide Sergeant Arnold,” the document reads. “Sgt. Arnold learned through conversation with Billingsley that he assisted Parker with guiding clients.”

But Billingsley said he never went hunting with Arnold.

“The first time I ever laid eyes on the sucker was when I went to the federal court house in Bryson City,” Billingsley said.

He said Arnold probably heard him talking on the radio, however, and didn’t realize he was just sitting in the truck and not out in the woods with the rest of the hunting party.

“I was doing a lot of talking on the radio,” Billingsley said. “I feel sure that’s where he got all his information.”

Still, officers considered him one of the hunting party, especially after capturing him on a hidden camera stocking bait piles.

During the guided hunt, Arnold saw members of the hunting party check different bait stations. He made a mental note of the various bait sites the hunters had scattered through the woods.

Later, he and Special Agent Brian Southard with the U.S. Forest Service placed surveillance cameras at the bait stations dur8 ing the fall bear season in 2011 and 2012.

The cameras captured Billingsley visiting two different sites five times.

“During his visits to the sites, Billingsley checked the sites in order to determine if additional bait needed to be placed and other times he placed bait at the sites,” according to the search warrant.

Billingsley said he knew about other hunters baiting and told them he would put some corn out one time, which is legal in North Carolina.

But the search warrant asserts Billingsley put out processed food, making it illegal in North Carolina, where only natural food can be put out.

He was charged with four offenses in North Carolina and Georgia for the events related to Arnold’s guided hunt. Those charges were placing processed food as bait, serving as a hunting guide without a license, taking a black bear with the aid and use of bait and hunting bear with dogs during closed season in Georgia.

He also faced three other baiting charges from October and November 2012 in North Carolina.

All of the charges — federal and state — against Billingsley were dismissed.

Meanwhile, Carl Junaluska, who Arnold rode in a truck with at one point was also charged with providing guiding services without having a guiding license, but it was dismissed.

Arnold claimed Junaluska got an underthe-table cut of the fee clients paid Jerry Parker, making Junaluska a de facto guide himself, necessitating a guide permit. But there was no evidence of that.

Arnold claims he said to Junaluska, “He hoped Parker was paying him well for as much gas as he had burned that day.” “(Junaluska) replied that Jerry was paying

him enough and smiled,” the report reads.

Arnold recorded all his conversations with Junaluska, but this conversation never played back on the recording.

“After thoroughly reviewing the recordings, it is clear that the conversation stated in Arnold’s report never happened,” Stockton said.

Stockton went on to testify that he found a different conversation on the recording.

Arnold asked Junaluska if he worked for Parker.

“No, I work for tribal construction,” Junaluska replied.

CAMERA CONTROVERSY On Dec. 7, 2012, Walt Stancil found something peculiar on private property near a bait site in Scaly Mountain he kept stocked.

Walt had walked out to the bait site with a

Walt and Celia Stancil stand beside a mounted bear head from a bear Walt killed 30 years ago. The bear weighed 200 pounds. Katie Reeder photo motion-sensor camera to mount on a nearby tree — a common technique to capture images of what’s coming around the bait station at different times of day.

But Walt Stancil stumbled on another motion-sensor camera.

Suspecting another hunter was using the private property without permission, he picked up the unfamiliar camera.

“I got to looking for a place to hide my camera, and I found that camera,” he said. “I said to myself, ‘I’ll just take that camera there.’”

The camera belonged to undercover officers in Operation Something Bruin, and on this day, U.S. Forest Service Officer Brian Southard had just made a trip to the bait station to check on the surveillance camera.

As Southard was driving away, he saw a truck turn onto the dead-end road that leads to the bait site. He stopped out of sight and waited.

About 15 minutes later, Walt Stancil pulled out, and Southard trailed him to Jack Billingsley’s house.

At this point, Southard decided to return to the bait site and see if his camera had gotten pictures of Walt Stancil, but he discovered the camera was no longer there.

Since it had been there before Walt Stancil came along, he guessed Stancil took it and

called the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to ask for help in finding it.

Meanwhile Walt Stancil had left Billingsley’s house and headed home, but on the way he wrapped up the camera in plastic and hid it under a rock on Forest Service property off of Highlands Road in Macon County.

“It was just a handy, convenient place,” he said.

He said he didn’t see the point in taking it home because he planned to return it where he found it after looking on the SD card, which he removed and took back to his home so he could put it in his card reader.

“I was curious about what was happening.

I wanted to know what was going on there, who was coming and going,” he said.

When he returned home, two deputies met him at the bottom of his driveway and told him the Forest Service wanted to speak with him. They told him the camera belonged to the agency and that the camera had Southard’s business card in it. The card included his name, employer and phone number. On the card, Southard had also written “property of the United States.”

“I never looked in the camera real good,” Walt Stancil said. “I mean, when I opened the camera and got the SD card out of the camera I never saw no (business) card.”

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Jerry Parker feels targeted by the federal government. He said he has not killed a bear in 15 years, but he believes the government has been chasing him since his involvement in Operation Smoky — another poaching sting that caught bear hunters selling bear parts in the 1980s.

He was never convicted in the operation because everything he did took place on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, where he is an enrolled member, outside the court’s jurisdiction.

“The government said I was a thorn in their side for the last 30 years on account of that,” he said.

A Vietnam veteran, Jerry Parker is frustrated in his dealings with the federal government, saying that they have treated him unfairly.

“I fought for my country, and now I’m fighting my country,” he said.

Jerry Parker returned from Vietnam with post-traumatic stress disorder. He’d grown up hunting with dogs — he found the sport provided him a haven after returning from the war.

“It was just medication for me,” he said.

“Now I don’t know what to do. They just destroyed your whole life.”

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camera could be turned off only by opening the camera.

After looking at the pictures on the SD card, Southard saw photographs of Walt Stancil coming to the site. There were also photographs from inside his truck and the area that looked like Billingsley’s house — it had continued to capture motion-detected images.

“Based on the continued photography, Officer Southard agreed that Walt never opened nor disarmed or turned off the camera until at least after he had left Jack Billingsley’s home,” he said.

Further, Walt Stancil actually returned the camera — which had been left on private property — to Forest Service property when he buried it under a rock.

“If anything he has returned it,” Stockton argued. “He’s not Allyn Stockton removed it.”

Although U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Howell acknowledged Stockton’s point as a good argument, his concern was not whether or not Walt Stancil knew to whom the camera belonged but the fact that he took something that was not his.

“He took property that he knew didn’t belong to him — and there is no doubt about that from the evidence presented so far — and it just happened to be property of the United States,” Howell said. “And, under interesting facts of this case, he got caught at it.”

Howell found Walt Stancil guilty of the offense and sentenced him to 15 days of imprisonment. There has been no order for when his sentence will begin, although his conviction is on appeal.

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Southard arrived about half an hour later accompanied by two North Carolina game wardens. They stepped out of the car and introduced themselves. They asked a few questions and wanted to know about the camera.

Southard testified that Walt Stancil fully cooperated with his questioning. Walt Stancil told them he had the camera, and he took them to the place he had put it.

“Because I wasn’t stealing the camera,” he said. “If I’d have been stealing that camera they never would’ve saw it again.”

After showing Southard where the camera was, Walt Stancil got into Southard’s car to answer some more questions.

Southard wrote up a statement about the events that had just transpired.

“All Southard did was he stuck that paper in my face and told me to sign it,” Walt Stancil said. “He never read a word of it, period. He never told me to read it. He just stuck it in my face and told me to sign it, and that was it.”

Walt Stancil never asked to read the statement for himself. “I should’ve read that. I shouldn’t ever signed it,” he said.

Southard, however, testified that he read the statement aloud to Walt Stancil.

“I don’t know what all he wrote down,” Walt Stancil said. “There’s stuff he wrote down wasn’t true though.”

While Walt Stancil talked with Southard, other agents searched his truck. He said he cannot remember whether they asked before performing the search.

The agents took a new coat, three cameras, a knife Walt Stancil used to cut cabbage and two of his grandson’s guns.

“They didn’t have a warrant,” he said.

“They just took it.”

He estimated he got the seized items back about a year later.

Southard testified, however, that he asked to search Walt Stancil’s truck soon after arriving at his home. Walt Stancil agreed, and that was when the agents found the SD card.

Walt Stancil was never charged by the state for taking the camera — theft of the camera would have been a state charge, not federal one, since it was on private property and not federal land — but a federal prosecutor did levy a charge against him for “removing property of the United States.”

He was tried in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Howell. Allyn Stockton defended him. Much of the defense’s argument was that Walt Stancil had no way of knowing the camera was the property of the United States.

“Would you agree that if someone were to see that camera on a tree that, without opening it, there would be no way of knowing whether it belonged to the U.S. Forest Service or not?” Stockton asked Southard in court.

Southard said the only way to know this was to observe the business card placed inside the camera.

Chad Arnold serviced the camera three days before Walt Stancil took it. Southard’s business card had been in the camera at that time.

“I try to make them as visible as possible,” Arnold said. “Anytime somebody opens them up, they’ll see the card right off the bat.”

Stockton explained that the surveillance

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The casino has yet to announce an exact opening date, however. That’s because it’s still waiting on the Town of Murphy to finish the water and sewer system upgrades that will be necessary to accommodate the Casino construction in Murphy is nearing the finishing line, casino, Lambert said. Once with opening day likely to fall in late September. Donated photo the completion dates for those projects are more solid, the casino will be able to commit to an open- it with an adequately sizable and trained ing date. staff is the next hurdle. That part of the projOn site though, things are starting to ect is coming along well, Lambert said. look a lot more finished. The gaming floor is “We probably have another two (hunbasically done, with many games already dred) to 300 (positions) to fill, but the majorinstalled — the casino’s back of house has ity of the bigger departments have secured had a temporary certificate of occupancy for the majority of their staff,” Lambert said. more than two weeks. Contractors will likely All told, the casino needs somewhere take a walk-through of the building somebetween 800 and 900 employees, with most time in the next week to come up with a final of that pool coming from within a 100-mile list of details to finish up. The hotel is “well radius of the site. Harrah’s held three job fairs on its way,” Lambert said, with drywall now over the past year, each of which attracted going in, walls painted and fixtures installed. about 500 participants, so “we feel real good There has been one complication with about the level of interest,” Lambert said. the hotel, however. “Some dampness” has In addition to those new to the casino been discovered in part of the building, industry, the new facility will also include Lambert said, and contracting firms some seasoned workers.

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Horseplay results in fired Jackson detention officer

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER A Jackson County detention officer was fired this summer after firing a Taser gun on a coworker.

“We had some officers that were participating in what I would call horseplay,” said Sheriff Chip Hall.

Shawn Solitis, 43, had worked for the sheriff ’s office just shy of six months when he was fired July 9.

He wasn’t certified to use a Taser or a firearm on the job and hadn’t yet started the five-week detention officer certification course the state requires all officers to finish within a year of hire.

The coworker wasn’t injured in the incident, Hall said, and she did not seek medical attention afterward.

All the same, he made it clear that he would not tolerate that type of behavior in his department.

“I was disappointed in their actions,” Hall said.

“That’s something I want to reassure the citizens, that type of behavior I’m not going to stand for.”

Taser guns are often used by law enforcement in lieu of firearms to stop aggressive behavior, but they are not without risk. According to a 2012 report from Amnesty International, 500 people in the United States died after being shocked with Tasers during arrest or while in jail between February of that year and 2001.

Hall took office in December following the retirement of Jimmy Ashe, who had been sheriff since 2002.

His adminstration had been heavily criticized, and when voters awarded Hall the job, the new sheriff had his work cut out for him. A suicide happened in the county jail just days before Hall took office, with a second one occurring in March, four months after he was sworn in. The incidents triggered state investigations from the Department of Health and Human Services and State Bureau of Investigations, with reports now on the desk of District Attorney Ashley Welch, who is considering which, if any, charges to file.

The same two jailers were on duty during the two suicides, and Hall disciplined them with five days of unpaid leave, both men are back on the job. Hall declined to discuss the factors influencing his decision to keep Mark Leamon and Brian Wellmon on payroll while firing Solitis, citing ongoing collaboration between the SBI and the District Attorney’s Office regarding the circumstances surrounding the suicides.

“It would be premature for me to go into discussing that at this time,” Hall said.

However, he said things are moving forward in the Sheriff ’s Department. This spring, he hired veteran law enforcement officer John Buchanan as the department’s jail captain, a new position designed to oversee jail operations and develop needed policies and procedures.

That’s been going well, he said. Buchanan is working with the department’s legal services to write a new policy and procedure manual that’s better tailored to Jackson County’s needs. Construction has begun to improve security at the courthouse. New trainings regarding mental health and detoxification are being developed. Hall said he’s meeting with county commissioners at their Aug. 18 work session to propose new medical and mental health services at the jail.

“We’re making progress. We’re moving forward,” he said. “The captain’s in place and we’re making progress on our courthouse security. I’ve got a lot of officers that’s working hard and doing good out here in the community.”

Former deputy pleads guilty to obstructing justice

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER former Jackson County Sheriff ’s Deputy will spend 45 days in the jail of the department where he once worked after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of obstructing justice. The charge stems from an Oct. 25 party that involved underage drinking and led to two charges of statutory rape.

James Henry Wesley Jr., 41, had attended a Halloween party at Dillard Excavating in Sylva while off-duty from his job with the sheriff ’s department, a decision that came back to bite him when an investigation revealed that the festivities had included underage drinking and resulted in statutory rape charges against two Jackson County men, 18 and 23 at the time of the incident.

According to the indictment, Henry told underage people at the party to hide from law enforcement when officers began investigating the party. Afterward, when witnesses who knew that Henry worked for the sheriff ’s office told him that an incident amounting to first degree statutory rape had occurred, Henry refused to tell law enforcement and asked witnesses not to repeat their

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department at the time of the incident, pled guilty to the lesser charge of misdemeanor obstructing justice. He was given 45 days in the Jackson County Detention Center and was suspended for 12 months with supervised probation. He’ll have to pay $675 in court costs and fines, do 72 hours of community service and surrender his law enforcement certification.

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he’s happy to see the justice system at work in the situation.

“I support the decision of the judicial system,” he said.

Though Henry’s case is the only one that’s settled thus far, his were not the only charges to result from the Oct. 25 event.

Michelle Watson Dillard, who at the time worked as a jail nurse for the sheriff ’s department and allegedly hosted the party, faces one felony obstruction of justice count.

According to the indictment, the 40-year-old Sylva resident allegedly called a 17-year-old girl who she knew law enforcement was about to interview.

She allegedly told the girl to lie to law enforcement and repeatedly asked her where the interview was taking place, where she’d parked her vehicle, who was with her and where she was standing at the moment.

When the girl told her where she was, Dillard said she didn’t see her.

“This statement was intended to frighten and intimidate the witness and did in fact frighten the witness,” the indictment reads.

Cody Jacob Scott Jenkins, 24, of Sylva, and Austin Trent Davis, 19, of Dillsboro,

both face charges of statutory rape.

Jenkins is charged with Class B1 Felony statutory rape of a person 13, 14 or 15 years old while at least six years older than the victim. Davis is charged with a Class C Felony statutory sexual offense. At the time of the alleged statutory rape, the victim — a different person than the 14-year-old in Jenkins’ case — was 14 and Davis was 18.

Though law enforcement did initially respond to the party following complaints of careless driving, the rape investigation didn’t start until two days later, a Monday, when students at Smokey Mountain High School told a teacher about the party, spurring an interview with one of the 14year-old girls who had allegedly been raped.

According to a search warrant, the girl told officers that she’d been drinking alcoholic beverages, including Jell-o shots, and left the party with Jenkins. They went to his home and had intercourse there, the warrant alleged.

Henry was placed on administrative leave the same day, and Dillard’s contract for the jail nurse position was cancelled Oct. 30.

But Henry continued to receive his $37,600 salary until February. That’s when Hall and District Attorney Ashley Welch, who both won their seats in the November elections, discussed the issue and decided to fire Henry.

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the town had to ask the North Carolina General Assembly to relax certain annexation requirements before the property could even be eligible. State statute prohibits a satellite piece of property from being annexed into a town if it is part of a subdivision — the entire subdivision would have to be annexed.

The Lowery Lane property is technically located within a subdivision, but Isaacs argued that the Longwood Acres subdivision covenants expired 20 years ago and that the land usage is more mixed now.

With the General Assembly’s approval to relax the restrictions, Henning said he would recommend moving forward with the request. He said the development would

The town of Franklin had to ask the North Carolina General Assembly to relax certain annexation requirements before the property could even be eligible. State statute prohibits a satellite piece of property from being annexed into a town if it is part of a subdivision — the entire subdivision would have to be annexed.

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improve a vacant piece of property and add to the town’s revenue by providing sewer and water to the business.

While he understands the town typically likes for businesses to develop in town, Henning said the company couldn’t find a suitable location inside the town limits.

Curtis made a motion to keep the policy in place and therefore deny the annexation request, but no one seconded his motion.

Handley’s motion to approve the annexation passed 4-1.

Alderwoman Patty Abel was not present.

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR llowing indoor gun ranges within the Franklin town limits is still on hold as the town planning board has been asked to re-examine its recommendations to the town board.

Town Planner Justin Setser was ready at Monday night’ board meeting to present the planning board’s suggestions for amending the town’s Unified Development Ordinance and set a public hearing, but aldermen said they had some concerns.

Aldermen turned the issue over to the planning board in June after Jeff Wang, owner of Jeff ’s Ammo & Arms, requested to construct and operate an indoor gun range at 245 Carolina Mountain Drive in Franklin.

At the time, Town Attorney John Henning Jr. said the town had an ordinance prohibiting shooting a firearm inside the town limits and that an amendment could be made to the ordinance to provide an exception for commercial use.

The planning board met July 20 and recommended allowing indoor gun ranges to be permissible in all commercial districts and to strike a section of the ordinance requiring an indoor gun range to be more than 250 feet away from any residence. Proposed indoor gun ranges to be located in a secondary commercial area would have to get a special use permit.

“I don’t agree with some of the changes made on that — I’m not really satisfied with it,” said Alderman Verlin Curtis. “I’d like to motion to send it back to the planning board.”

Alderwoman Joyce Handley agreed. She said she is concerned because a couple of the commercial zonings do contain residential areas.

Curtis said he would like the planning board to look at only allowing gun ranges to be located in strictly commercial areas and would like to keep the 250-foot buffer between a gun range and residential dwellings.

The board unanimously approved sending the issue back to the planning board for further study.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR lans for a new gas station on the outskirts of Franklin will be moving ahead now that the town board approved a satellite annexation for the property.

Not all board members agreed with the decision to allow for the annexation at 44 Lowery Road off of U.S. 441. Alderman Verlin Curtis voted against the annexation, claiming it went against a policy the town passed unanimously in 2011.

“Are we not going against our annexation policy to do this?” he asked. “Should we not consider that before we vote on annexation?”

Town Attorney John Henning Jr. said the board did have a similar annexation petition in 2011 for a piece Verlin Curtis of property that wanted to be developed and wanted to be annexed into the town so it could sell alcohol. At that time, the board amended its policy to say it would not consider satellite annexations for businesses when the primary motivation was to sell alcohol.

Henning said the current petition from the convenience store included plans for an inside restaurant as well, which would generate revenue.

“The board is not bound by policy — it’s not an ordinance,” he said.

Alderwoman Joyce Handley agreed that she didn’t think alcohol was the primary motivation behind the annexation request.

Resident Angela Moore, who is also running for the town board, was the only person to voice concerns about the annexation during the public hearing. She questioned whether such an annexation would actually benefit the residents of the town and generate revenue.

“It’s very far away from the town. I do want to ask the board to give serious consideration to it,” she said. “I have no problem with development — there’s definitely a financial incentive for the people who own the property — but will it come at a cost for the town?”

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR he mood was somber at Maggie Valley town hall last Wednesday as Alderwoman Saralyn Price called a special board meeting to order.

It was the first meeting of the board since Mayor Ron DeSimone died suddenly July 17 in a construction accident. Price thanked the staff, fire department and police department for all of their help and support through the unexpected tragedy.

“Two weeks ago Monday no one would have dreamed it would be the last time our mayor was with us,” she said.

While it’s been a couple of difficult weeks for the board and staff, the town’s business must continue. The mayor’s seat is up for election this year. DeSimone had signed up to run for a second term against challengers Jasay Ketchum and Justin Phillips. Since the sign-up period closed before DeSimone’s death, no new candidates can be added to the ballot.

“The No. 2 question after ‘How are y’all doing?’ has been ‘what is the town going Late Mayor Ron DeSimone’s chair sits empty as the Maggie Valley Board of to do and how Aldermen try to decide how to move forward in his absence. Jessi Stone photo are we going to move forward?’” said Town Manager Nathan Clark. by naming the Maggie Valley Festival Without a mayor, Clark said the board Grounds after him. had two options — appoint a mayor to serve “ I think he deserves it — we owe it to in the position until a new mayor is elected him,” he said. in November or operate for the next few Price said the board would take that into months with only four board members. consideration.

The law allows the board to appoint Maggie Valley resident Otis Sizemore someone as mayor if there is more than 90 congratulated the board for the work being days until an election. The second option done in town and the civility of the current would allow Price, the mayor pro-tem, to members. conduct meetings until the election.

“Ron brought a lot of changes and then With only 97 days and three board meet- with new people on the board, it’s really ings remaining until Election Day, all the helped,” he said. “When I first came here board members said they wanted to keep the and came to the meetings I said it was the mayor seat vacant until the election. best show in town — they were rowdy and “Of course we’d never allow town busithere was very little control even with board ness to be unattended, and I don’t see that members. It was chaos — an absolute circus happening,” Clark said. “But it’s entirely the — but you folks get along together and have board’s decision. My recommendation is to brought people together. Ron was a large remain a board of four with Saralyn Price part of that.” acting as mayor.”

Tim Lynch said DeSimone had the spirit Alderman Mike Eveland agreed that the of the community and provided a vision for four board members could do what’s necesthat spirit. sary to fill that void until November.

“Without vision, the people will surely “I don’t think we need to appoint anyone perish,” Lynch said. “It would be a great way to fill the position — we’re professional and to honor him by continuing his vision and we can do the job,” he said. “That’s the way his agenda.”

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Ron would have it — for us to move on.

Anything that comes up, we can handle it.”

With the election only a few months away, Alderman Phillip Wight and Alderwoman Janet Banks agreed that an appointment wasn’t necessary.

“It’s important that we not interfere with the good work this board has done in the last two to four years,” Banks said. “We should let the normal election process handle it.”

Her motion to allow Price to serve as mayor until the election passed unanimously.

Even though it’s too late for a name to be added to the ballot, a member of the board or any other resident of Maggie Valley could decide to run as a write-in candidate for the mayor’s seat, but no one has announced intentions to do so.

The board didn’t mention the possibility during the meeting, but Eveland said afterward that any effort to get someone elected as a write-in candidate would need to be a grassroots effort with large community support — not a decision by the board.

During public comment, Ketchum said the town should honor DeSimone’s memory

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER he rising tide of triathlons, foot races and cycling events in Haywood County is stretching the capacity of spare deputies to provide security on the long-distance routes without a better pay incentive.

“They are big events and intensive events.

They are definitely increasing the request on our manpower,” said Sgt. Heidi Warren, a spokesperson for the Haywood County Sheriff ’s Office.

The Lake Logan Multisport Festival asked for 17 deputies this weekend to help with crowds and traffic control — more than 2,000 racers and spectators are expected.

But as of Monday, Sheriff Greg Christopher hadn’t recruited enough officers to pick up extra weekend shifts.

“There is no way I can get 17 deputies to do what needs to be done,” Christopher said.

August holds an onslaught of outdoor events. There’s the Blue Ridge Breakaway bike ride, traversing 100 miles of county roads with deputies stationed along the way.

Plus the Main Street Mile, Maggie Moonlight Race and Mud Run — which will tap police departments for officers-for-hire.

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Demand grows for off-duty officers to work special events an across-the-board increase in special events of all sorts.

“There are a lot of festivals. There are a lot of fundraisers. There are a lot of church activities,” Warren said. “All categories of special events have increased.”

Events are billed for the service. Each officer-for-hire costs $35 per hour, which covers the cost of gas and vehicle use as well.

“They are willing to pay. It does not cost the taxpayers anything,” Christopher said.

But the problem lies with how the officers themselves are reimbursed.

Events are billed for the service. Each officer-for-hire costs $35 per hour, which covers the cost of gas and vehicle use as well.

Until now, deputies were paid only their regular hourly rate for working special events — so their take-home pay could be as little as $40 for picking up an extra half-day shift.

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Waynesville police are the go-to force for special events in the town limits — like the Waynesville Craft Beer Faire happening next weekend — but they occasionally pitch in around the county if the sheriff ’s office can’t cover the request. For example, Waynesville officers have been handling traffic control on Interstate 40 due to roadwork in the Pigeon River Gorge, with the state highway department picking up the reimbursement, Hollingsed said.

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Sylva considers fencing in Scotts Creek

The bank down to Scotts Creek, which sometimes runs high and rapidly, is quite steep through Bridge Park, prompting some to ask for a fence to prevent children from falling in.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER To build a fence or to not build a fence?

It might not seem like such a portentous question, but as Sylva Town Commissioner Mary Gelbaugh found out when she asked her Facebook friends whether the town should look at putting a fence along Scotts Creek through Bridge Park, it kind of is. The comments came so thick and fast that Facebook contacted her to see if someone had hacked her account.

Gelbaugh, the mother of a toddler, said she’s worried about how little time it could take for a curious child to slip down the steep bank and get carried away by the current. And it’s not an unfounded worry, because 25 years ago that very thing happened at the park on the opposite side of the creek from Bridge Park.

“It was pretty tragic to the community,” Gelbaugh remembered.

In that tragedy, Tyler Dunn, 2, was at Poteet Park with his daycare group. There was a fence along the creek, but it had been an especially rainy spring, and pieces of the riverbank had eroded as grass grew so tall so fast that holes were invisible. The water ran high and fast below, and when Dunn fell

down the bank, nobody could retrieve him quickly enough. No one found him until hours later, by which time he’d washed all the way to Dillsboro.

“Why it’s coming to light again now and not before is Bridge Park is getting so much activity,” Gelbaugh said. Between Friday night Concerts on the Creek, free movie nights, community Vacation Bible School and private events, it seems there’s nearly always something going on there. Gelbaugh said that if the city is inviting people to come use the park, it should also be committed to ensuring that the experience is safe.

“It is a beautiful facility. We don’t want to take away from the beauty, but we certainly don’t want to take away from the safety of our children that we’re promoting to be there,” she told the town board at their last meeting.

She’s not alone in that.

“A kid is sort of like cattle,” said Commissioner Harold Hensley, who is running for re-election. “If you don’t fence them in, they’ll be free range.”

“I’ve been concerned at the concerts because I do see a lot of little children,” said Commissioner Barbara Hamilton, who is running for mayor. “Parents are supposed to be responsible, but some of them aren’t as responsible as others.”

It’s not always even about parental responsibility, said multiple comments on Gelbaugh’s Facebook page.

“We watch our kids like hawks, but it only takes a second, especially in large crowds,” said Heather Kindy, a mother of two.

“It only takes a second for a child to slip away from supervision,” agreed Kelly Doppke, also a mother of two. “The creek moves so quickly at times.”

Putting up a fence would also allow the park to serve a wider segment of the population, said Emily Moss, mother of 5-year-old twins.

“I think it’s more of a matter of being able to hold larger functions there without having this huge worry with every mom, because a lot of moms like me or Mary [Gelbaugh] probably won’t go rather than risk some things,” Moss said.

No one on the town board seemed to be against putting a fence up — in fact, everyone seemed to be pretty favorable toward moving forward with looking into costs and deciding on a fence. But some board members were concerned with cost, especially in light of a town budget that’s been repeatedly dipping into reserve funding. Revenue is likely to fall again next year with a county revaluation impending. They were also worried that a fence — especially more affordable options, like chain-

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wouldn’t be cheap, possibly costing upwards link — would take away from the park’s natural beauty and impair access for people of $10,000 depending on design options.

Commissioners pondered the idea of setting who use the creek to fish or paddle or even up a donation fund for the project rather get baptized. than using town dollars exclusively, as many “We’ve got trout fishing in the creek and people who use the park regularly live outdiscussed the possibility of a handicapped side town limits and therefore don’t pay accessible fishing dock,” Mayor Maurice town taxes.

Moody said. “Anything that you do that “I don’t pay Sylva tax, but I’d be happy to restricts access to the creek, for the positives put some money into it,” Judy Henderson, there’s also some negatives.” who is involved with Sylva’s community The fence could include gates providing Bible school, told commissioners. access points though, Gelbaugh said, Something for the town to consider, howemphasizing that she doesn’t want to keep ever, is the liability incurred by whatever citizens from enjoying the creek however they end up building, they want to. said Sylva’s attorney Commissioner “It is a beautiful facility.

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Lynda Sossamon — “If you put up a also a mayoral candiWe don’t want to take fence, then you have date — said the away from the beauty, to maintain it,” he board should look to said. “Depending on nearby towns to see but we certainly don’t the type of fence, I how they handle simiguess it could be conlar issues. Last want to take away from sidered an attractive month, when the safety of our children nuisance.”

Gelbaugh originally Liability depends brought the subject that we’re promoting to on negligence, so if up, Sossamon had be there.” the town put up a questioned why a fence that gave the fence was needed at — Mary Gelbaugh, illusion of safety but Bridge Park when Sylva town commissioner did not maintain it to other public spaces meet that expectaalong the water, like East Laporte and Lake Glenville, had no such tion, they could be sued in the event of an accident. On the other hand, if the town put structure, though others pointed out those on an event during which it offered superviplaces also have more gently sloping banks sion for children, it could be held responsiand slower water. ble if a child under a town employee’s charge At this meeting, Sossamon said she got hurt. wasn’t necessarily opposed to a fence but But at the end, said Grace Blunt, who would want to make sure it didn’t detract owned the daycare Dunn was with when he from the park’s aesthetics. The board should got swept away, money and liability are only look for “different ways to do it that doesn’t make it look like it’s a prison, that still makes small pieces of the puzzle.

“We can talk about safety, we can talk it match the beauty of Bridge Park,” she said. about supervision, we can talk about beauty, Commissioner Danny Allen, meanwhile, we can talk about cost, we can talk about who is also running for mayor, didn’t stake fencing, but some people have to think out a firm position. “Bottom line is, I think about not seeing that face every single day, we need to do something,” he said, but he’s worried that children would interpret a fence and it doesn’t go away,” she said.

Commissioners will discuss fencing as nothing more than a new jungle gym. options again at their meeting 5:30 p.m.

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selection committee. “We are recognizing him for what he did when he was 19 years old.

I know what a good player he was, and I know how he conducted himself in school and up until this incident.”

Dietz said he pondered long and hard what to do, thinking back to his days as a high school coach when he held a decision like that in his hands.

“If I had to decide whether to kick a kid off a team, and I knew it may be the only thing they had in their life, I had to look at myself in the mirror at night and do what I thought was right and not what everyone else thought was right,” Dietz said.

Dietz said he tried to think about it the same way when deciding about Norman’s nomination.

“Of course when someone has been in trouble like John, the first thing you think is ‘Oh we’ll get criticism and we shouldn’t do that,’” Dietz said.

Dietz said the rape was a tragedy and he isn’t insensitive to what the victim and her family went through.

“We ask a certain thing of people when they do something wrong and that’s pay society for what you did. And he done that,” Dietz said.

A plaque honoring John Henry Norman’s basketball legacy will soon join the Jackson County Sports Hall of Fame, despite a rape conviction and drug rap sheet over the past 40 years.

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER new plaque coming soon to the Jackson County Sports of Hall Fame will no doubt raise some eyebrows of those who pass it in the entry foyer of the justice center.

A man convicted of first-degree rape who served 13 years in state prison for the crime will soon join the wall of sports heroes in the Jackson County Sports Hall of Fame.

John Henry Norman by all accounts was a fabled basketball player. Playing for SylvaWebster High School in the late 1960s, Norman played during an era still remembered fondly as the golden era of high school sports in Jackson County.

“He was a fabulous basketball player. I remember going to see him play,” said Phyllis Fox, who’s on the Jackson Sports Hall of Fame selection committee. “He was a big tall guy. He went after that ball and when he got it you could hear it all over the gym. He slapped that ball.”

When Norman was 25, he was convicted of raping a 20-year-old college student after offering to drive her home from a party.

That was 40 years ago. Norman is now 65.

“Forgiveness is not the issue. We do not get into people’s personal lives. Athletic ability and accomplishments are what we consider,” Fox said.

Character isn’t a criteria for the Jackson Sports Hall of Fame, agreed Carey Phillips, who’s also on the selection committee.

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However, it is common practice among other sports halls of fame to have unspoken criteria for serious offenses.

Don Fish with the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame said they would never induct a convicted felon.

“He would not be eligible as a hall of famer,” Fish said. “When you get into the hall of fame, it is your past life and present.”

The sports hall of fame at Western Carolina University has never specifically dealt with that conundrum, but it’s likely something the selection committee would take into account, said Daniel Hooker, WCU’s Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations.

“I don’t think it is an extinguishing factor, but that might weigh on someone’s individual decision,” Hooker said.

“Depending on the circumstances I would say that would potentially be a disqualifier, sure,” added Billy Cooper, president of the Mountain Area Amateur Athletic Club, which hosts the annual banquet for the WNC Sports Hall of Fame.

Under the rules of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, students with a felony conviction aren’t allowed to play high school sports.

MAKING THE GRADE The Jackson County Sports Hall of Fame was created in the mid-1990s to recognize

local high school sports figures.

There was a lot of catching up to do at first.

The selection committee culled sports champions going back decades and nominations pored in by the bucketload. A dozen sports heroes were getting inducted each year at the start.

There’s now more than 80 athletes in the

John Henry Norman was a fabled basketball player by all accounts. Playing for Sylva-Webster High School in the late 1960s, Norman played during an era still remembered fondly as the golden era of high school sports in Jackson County. hall of fame, with the county’s most important historic sports figures checked off the list.

Except Norman.

“If you recognize someone for whatever you recognize them for you’d like that person to be a shining example for the world, but we have all sinned and fallen short,” said Boyce Dietz, a member of the Sports Hall of Fame

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For some kids who are either poor or come from hard backgrounds, sports was the only shining light in their lives, Dietz said.

“It’s kind of sad, but there are kids today who look back and say the best time in my life was when I was on the field in high school,” he said.

That may well have been the case for Norman.

He didn’t go college after high school, and as an African-American his career choices were limited in the early 1970s in the South.

He picked up random work, but nothing steady, until he landed in prison in 1975.

When he got out in 1987, he was back where he started — no skills and no education — only he was 37 now.

Norman spent the next 25 years in and out of trouble with the law.

He went back to prison a few times for short sentences, primarily on drug charges, from simple possession of marijuana to selling and delivering crack. But he also had an assault, a theft and possession of stolen property, usually netting him probation, which he often violated. His most recent drug charge — a simple possession — was two years ago.

Boyce said the selection committee didn’t know about all the other trouble Norman got in since his rape conviction 40 years ago.

Phillips also said they weren’t aware of that.

“We aren’t doing background checks,” Phillips said.

They were aware of Norman’s major rape conviction, however.

The crime was highly sensitive due to its racial elements. It was 1975. Norman was African-American. The victim a white college student.

Local court files and police records from the case no longer exist. The only record of what happened resides in state court archives in Raleigh, based on

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Norman offered a woman a ride home from a party and then forcibly raped her at knife point in the backseat of his car, according to court filings. A doctor’s examination the following day noted bruises on her arms, legs, back and breasts. Her torn clothing was submitted as evidence in court. Norman had testified they had sex consensually. The party was the first time they’d met.

Norman was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame at a banquet on Sunday. When asked whether there was any awkwardness surrounding Norman at the banquet, Phillips said “no, not one bit.”

One other player was inducted as well: Colton Hunt, an all-conference basketball and football player at Smoky Mountain High School who graduated in 2009.

Rules stipulate five years have to pass since the player was in high school before they can be named to the Hall of Fame.

There are 11 people on the selection committee for the Jackson County Sports Hall of Fame. Each year, they vote on the list of nominees — there were about eight this year — by secret ballot.

Not everyone who’s nominated makes it.

There were eight on the ballot this year, and only two were named to the hall of fame.

Nominees who don’t make it are carried over to the following year.

Carey Phillips said this year was the first time Norman had ever been nominated.

“For an athletic standpoint there is no question that he is the greatest basketball player Sylva-Webster ever produced,” Philips said.

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Two other mosquito-borne diseases, Eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus, are also found in North Carolina. While Eastern equine encephalitis is found largely in the eastern part of the state, West Nile virus is found statewide.

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Harrah’s presenting sponsorship allowed the SCC Foundation to put about 90 percent of funds raised directly into the Student Success Campaign — the most ambitious fundraising effort in college history.

For the upcoming (2015-16) academic year, 226 students applied for scholarships through the SCC Foundation. Enough resources were available to fund just 61 of those requests. www.southwesterncc.edu/foundation.

Cherokee students explore heath careers About 30 Cherokee Middle School students were given the chance to explore possibilities for health careers during a recent visit to University of North Carolina at Asheville’s campus through a “Medical Mania” camp.

The camp is “all about STEM — science, technology, engineering, and math — picturing themselves on college campuses and visualizing new career choices,” said Bette Fitzgerald, Cherokee Middle School teacher. Empowering students and raising up local healthcare workers is the purpose of this summer camp and the students find it a fun and inspiring experience. In addition to taking an

• Students studied the country’s recent controversial shootings at Western Carolina University this summer through a course taught by former district attorney and criminal defense attorney J. Tom Morgan. After study and discussion, 11 recommendations were compiled and sent to the U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Deputy Attorney General, and others.

• Six high school and college students earned Level 1 certification from the National Institute for Metalworking as a part of the Career and College Promise program.

• A representative from Western Carolina University was named president of the Southern Conference at the intercollegiate athletics association’s annual spring meeting.

A.J. Grube began her two-year term as president on June 1.

• Previous faculty from University of Texas-Pan American, Frzaneh Razzaghi, will be Western Carolina University’s new Dean of Library Services, since the retirement of the former dean, Dana Sally.

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experiential tour of UNC Asheville’s School of Pharmacy and Heath and Wellness Department and becoming certified in first aid/CPR, students also made visits to Mountain Area Healthcare Education Center, Western Carolina University, the University of Tennessee Knoxville and Southwestern Community College.

GIFTED CAMP Haywood County Schools hosted a three-day summer camp for 40 rising fifth graders in the Academically and Intellectually Gifted program, providing enrichment classes in weather, chemistry, computer coding and cells. The students got a chance to use digital microscopes, make their own anemometers, keep scientific journals, and develop a simple video game and more. The cost was only $10 to students, with the funding provided through the designated state allocation for AIG. Donated photo

Distinguished professor to teach Cherokee Studies Previously a research archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brett H. Riggs has been appointed to become the new Sequoyah Distinguished Professor of Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University.

Since gaining his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Tennessee, he has been researching Native American history through his work with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians as well as in his position as a research archaeologist at UNC-CH. Having lived and worked in Western North Carolina for more than 20 years, he sees his new role as Sequoyah Professor as a great chance to ”reinforce existing collaborations and partnerships between WCU and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and… to grow and deepen the links with the tribe.”

WNC gains six new master potters Six students from across Western North Carolina were recognized by Southwestern Community College’s Nantahala School for the Arts for their completion of the Master Potter

College’s Outdoor Leadership program won SCC’s annual career seminar series. The grand prize was a laptop donated by Drake Retail Businesses. This series is an effort to prepare students for job searches and professional success.

• A new scholarship for underrepresented students at Western Carolina University has been created and is being funded by Wells Fargo.

Duly named the Wells Fargo Diversity and Leadership Scholarship, the university hopes this additional endowed scholarship fund will help to empower leaders from undeserved and underrepresented backgrounds to make a positive impact in their communities.

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Haywood teacher travels to Singapore Among the 36 teachers selected to participate in the Center for International

Haywood Community College. Students attending HCC and other North Carolina colleges across the state are eligible to use the testing center’s facilities to complete supervised online exams. Call 828.627.4696 or email learningsupport@haywood.edu • Mary Ann Lochner, general Counsel for Western Carolina University, received the high honor of being awarded the Trustee’s Award at the board’s quarterly meeting Friday, June 5.

This award is rarely given and is in recognition of exemplary service to the betterment of the university. As the 12th recipient of this award, Lochner has been a legal advisor to the university since August 2010.

• Presentations focusing on international cultures can be scheduled in K-12 schools across Western North Carolina thanks to Western Carolina University’s Office of International Programs and Services. Teams of WCU students, faculty, and international cultural “hosts” visit schools to give presentations on various cultures. The presentations will vary from semester based upon the nations represented on WCU’s campus at that time. 828.227.7494 or international@wcu.edu

Understanding (CIU)’s 2015 Global Teacher’s program is Haywood County native, Melissa Bradian.

Teaching now at Bethel Middle School, she was chosen to travel to Singapore and Malaysia July 10 to learn about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and urban education from a global standpoint. The hopes of this program is to bring a greater global awareness and competency to the classroom and their students. Since its foundation 15 years ago, they have chosen teachers from across the state, with representation of all grade levels and subject areas across K-12 education, to have an immersion experience they can bring and apply directly to their classrooms. www.ciu.northcarolina.edu.

• Two Franklin High School Seniors have been awarded the Mendenhall Agricultural Scholarship, raised and managed by the Macon County Rural Development Fund.

Alexandra Houston and Zachary Tallent will go on to further their education in areas of agriculture and forestry.

• Tom Ashcraft of George Mason University has been appointed as Western Carolina University’s Distinguished Professor of Visual Arts, effective Aug. 10.

• Professor of Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering at Grand Valley State University, Hugh Jack, has been named the inaugural Cass Ballenger Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Western Carolina University.

• Recent Southwestern Community College graduate, Noah Jones, nearly aced the respiratory therapy-licensing exam, scoring 134 out of 140 — believed to be one of the highest scores ever recorded. Now going on to further his education in respiratory therapy, he has SCC to thank for preparing him for his future.

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Opinion The public – not the newspaper – deserves to know I Smoky Mountain News

’m sure the founders of Haywood County’s new charter school — Shining Rock Classical Academy — never imagined a week like the one they just had.

Not only was our newspaper challenging them on what we feel sure were violations of the N.C. Open Meetings Law, other media were giving ink and air time to problems at what may become the new location for their school. Seems surveys done at the property damaged the corn crop of the farmer currently leasing the site. Lawyers have gotten involved, meaning the site acquisition process just got more complicated.

The stories we printed in last week’s edition had to do with the refusal by the school board chairman Tara Keilberg to release the location of the site being considered for the new school. According to state law and a ruling that went all the way to the state Appeals Court (for an explanation just google “Boney Publishers, Inc. v. Burlington City Council” and anyone can see how the statute has been interpreted), once public bodies begin negotiating for a piece of land they have to reveal where the land is located. The negotiations — primarily what price is being offered and the horse trading that often occurs in land purchases — can remain secret. The location must be revealed.

For some reason, Shining Rock’s attorney was telling them the opposite, that they did not have to reveal the location. His reasoning was that if the board is still looking at several sites, then they don’t have to reveal the location.

I’m no lawyer, but this is one law I have studied and relied upon. As soon as a public body authorizes its representative — in this case, Keilberg — to begin making offers and negotiating to purchase a particular piece of land, it has to reveal its location. Case closed.

Look, we understand the difficulty of what this group is trying to accomplish. Keilberg and the Shining Rock board are starting a school from the ground up. That’s a monumental task and one that has taken years. The whole “public body” issue and the responsibility and legal requirements that come with accepting state tax dollars is something that even experienced leaders get tripped up on.

Reporters across this state and the entire country often go toe-to-toe with local elected leaders over this issue. We have

Some concerns about charter school To the Editor: Since the proposed Shining Rock Classical Academy Charter School has been in the news lately, I would like to offer the following thoughts.

I truly believe that the parents and organizers of the school want what they consider best for their children. Children are indeed precious, and I think all of us who have children want to see them off to a good start, to succeed and to have happy and fulfilling lives. I also believe that the impetus for the school has been the concern that the public school may not provide enough enriching experiences for bright students.

My response to this concern is that my three children (all in college or beyond) have excelled academically in the public school system, the only limit to their achievements being the level of their desire. Moreover, I strongly feel they profited from their contact

frank discussions via email or over the phone with county and town managers and attorneys. We attend workshops and seminars to make sure we know the law. We don’t do this so the newspaper can get access to information, to get a scoop, or to try to harass public officials. No good would come of that.

No, we do it because the public — meaning every citizen of this state — has a right to this information. It’s really as simple as that. The N.C. Press Association spends lots of money on a lobbyist who monitors every bill introEditor duced in the General Assembly to determine if it infringes on the public’s access to information. I suspect every newspaper association in the country does the same.

Again, we don’t do this for our own sake. Newspapers don’t get special rights. Any information we have access to is also available to any member of the public. We just happen to be trained in how to get the information. That’s our job. It’s what we do.

So we wrote in last week’s story that, “Despite several attempts by the newspaper to bring the charter school board around, Keilberg maintained they could keep the location secret until the contract was signed, despite having already voted to buy it.” The charter school board chairman claims that it’s not our job to educate her board about open meeting laws.

I will respectfully disagree. That’s what we do, what every good newspaper does. When they don’t adhere to open meeting laws, we let public bodies know it. We tell them first, then we tell them we’re going to write a story if they don’t adhere to the law, and then finally we go ahead with the story. Once we get to that point, we get the legal experts we’ve been discussing the violation with to weigh in. In this case, we even got other local elected leaders and attorneys to weigh in because they have dealt with open meetings issues for years.

I know many of those trying to get this school started, and I firmly believe they will succeed. At some point, adhering to the open government responsibilities that come with spending tax

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with the broad range of backgrounds of their classmates. They all developed friendships with students from quite diverse homes, and this has led them to become better citizens, and to develop more mature perspectives.

Of course my wife and I did our best to supplement what the public school provides, with travel, books, and a variety of educational experiences. These indeed are a responsibility and even a duty of all parents, but the Haywood County School System does have an obligation as well to provide enriched experiences for the gifted students that would profit from them. The current cutbacks in funding have hurt the ability to provide more than they currently do.

I think the public has several concerns about the charter school, some of which I share. The first of these is that it smacks of elitism, and that the students of the charter school are somehow superior. There is already so much polarization in our country that this is a dangerous idea to foster, and one which leads to hostility and misunderstanding.

Another concern is that the charter school

dollars should become second nature, as will working with the media. Hopefully, that will happen in the very near future.

••• Smoky Mountain News reporter Becky Johnson was involved with Shining Rock Classical Academy’s leaders two years ago when they were still a steering committee that was working on starting a charter school. Johnson left the steering committee in August 2013. Today she is not affiliated in any way with the school.

Due to that involvement and Johnson’s subsequent departure from the steering committee, some on Shining Rock’s board think she has a conflict of interest and should not be working as a reporter on any stories having to do with the school.

I’ll have to respectfully disagree. Here’s the truth about we editors and reporters, especially at small newspapers in small towns: we have lives outside of work, but we have to learn to separate the two. I have been involved in everything from AYSO soccer to the Haywood County Schools Foundation Board, from Voices in the Laurel choir to the Haywood County Economic Development Commission, from Fund for Haywood County to the Pigeon River Fund Board, and literally dozens of other committees, groups, etc.

We write about all these organizations, and so some could say there is a conflict of interest each time I edit one of those stories. But that’s simply not the case, and in fact we go out of our way to make sure that we report fairly on the activities of these organizations — the good and the bad — potentially over-compensating for what we fear might be our own biases.

Do we always succeed? Of course not, and so when I’m out eating dinner, at a street festival, at a game, in church or at the grocery store, I often hear about it. And it makes me more acutely aware of how hard we have to work to remain as unbiased as possible and fair to all the parties we are covering.

If Johnson was involved with Shining Rock today, of course she wouldn’t be covering them. But claims that her former involvement with the steering committee makes her unable to report fairly about the school are unfounded.

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

will take desperately needed funds from the public schools and uses it in ways that may be inefficient and even experimental.

Finally, there is concern that by funneling off bright and well-prepared students, it impoverishes the public school experience for all. I would add that the quality of education is diminished as well for gifted students who are sequestered with other gifted students, as it deprives them of real world context for their learning. Rubbing shoulders with children that come from all walks of life can only give students from more advantaged homes a greater sense of the diversity of their community and their place in it.

In closing, it is apparent that the organizers of the Charter School have expended considerable activity and money on this project. I would venture that had they spent the same effort on enriching the public school experience, they would be further along toward their goals. I would hope to see them reconsider, and invest in the excellent school system we have now, and use their talent and energy to contribute, rather than to divide.

And if they should do so, I believe their children, and Haywood County, will do very well.”

Billy Dinwiddie Waynesville

Ashamed of Cherokee Bear Zoo To the Editor: I am a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee who has not lived in Cherokee since 2006. I now live in northwest Montana but am hoping the new leadership in Cherokee will bring transparency into Tribal government.

I appreciated your article about openness in Cherokee in last week’s edition.

I grew up in Cherokee and have been proud to be Tribal member. I moved home in 2006, and I bought a cabin in the woods off the main road. I went to work for the casino, and when I wasn’t working I stayed home,

sewed and made jewelry. My motto was, “hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil!”

Know that what you say in any small community can be misinterpreted, especially when you’re related to half the people there.

Just wanted to count my blessings and enjoy my semi-retirement.

I am an advocate for animal rights and found out there is still a bear concession in Cherokee. Thought when PETA came in they shut them all down? Found out there is the “Cherokee Bear Zoo,” with the bears living in concrete pits. I am horrified and ashamed as a Tribal member. This is not part of our culture.

I have been blessed in my professional life working for the federal government and have visited tribes and tribal communities all over the U.S. in my position as a project specialist. I have never heard of another tribe or community that supported this kind of facility that houses wild animals. I am ashamed and embarrassed for my tribe.

Ann Sneed Montana

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To the Editor: Dear House and Senate national representatives: Are you going to allow Obama to precipitate another constitutional crisis without some sort of consequences to himself?

As reported widely — only after it was a done deal — U.S. ambassador to the UN Samantha Power chose to raise the issue of Iran’s continuing human rights violations.

These were avoided during the negotiations, when the U.S. had leverage. Now, like bringing the deal to Congress, this is all for show.

Mr. Representatives, from what has been reported widely, what Obama is doing is blatantly unconstitutional and illegal.

Obama can call this abomination an agreement all he wants. Poppycock! The bottom line is that it is a treaty between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Treaties between the U.S. and other countries MUST be ratified (or not) by the Congress.

These unconstitutional actions have been going on far too long by Obama. As reported widely in the media, both his administrations have been replete with one scandal after another and felonies too numerous to list,committed by himself or his henchmen.

Isn’t it time that he was removed from office for his numerous crimes? Isn’t it time that Obama and the other criminals in (and the ones who have resigned or been forced to resign) his administrations be brought before the bar of justice and the legal process ending in incarceration for their crimes against the American people begins? Or are we so far into the interregnum that the rule of law no longer applies and we are truly living under the rule of man? I demand to see some leadership on this issue — soon.

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

Outside patio seating. Free Wi-Fi, pet-friendly.

Live music and lots of events. Check the web calendar at citylightscafe.com.

THE CLASSIC WINESELLER 20 Church Street, Waynesville. 828.452.6000.

Underground retail wine and craft beer shop, restaurant, and intimate live music venue.

Kitchen opens at 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday serving freshly prepared small plates, tapas, charcuterie, desserts. Enjoy live music every Friday and Saturday night at 7pm. www.classicwineseller.com. Also on facebook and twitter.

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.

COUNTRY VITTLES: FAMILY STYLE RESTAURANT 3589 Soco Rd, Maggie Valley.

828.926.1820 Open Daily 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., closed Tuesday. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet. Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the

kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service.

FILLING STATION DELI 145 Everett St., Bryson City, 828.488.1919.

Open Monday through Wednesday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thursday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sundays (in October) 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Locals always know best, and this is one place they know well. From the high-quality hot pressed sandwiches and the huge portions of hand-cut fries to the specialty frozen sandwiches and homemade Southern desserts, you will not leave this top-rated deli hungry.

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

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

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

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Open 7 days a week at 5 p.m. Located in the historic Hooper’s Drugstore, Guadalupe Café is a chef-owned and operated restaurant serving Caribbean inspired fare complimented by a quirky selection of wines and microbrews. Supporting local farmers of organic produce, livestock, hand-crafted cheese, and using sustainably harvested seafood.

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

Lunch Sunday noon to 2:30 p.m., dinner Thursday - Sunday starting at 4:30 p.m.

World-famous prime rib, steaks, fresh seafood, gorgonzola cheese and salads. All ABC permits and open year-round. Children always welcome. Take-out menu. Excellent service and hospitality. Reservations appreciated.

JOEY'S PANCAKE HOUSE 4309 Soco Rd Maggie Valley.

828.926.0212. Joey’s is a family style restaurant that has been serving breakfast to the locals and visitors of Western North Carolina since 1966. Featuring a large variety of tempting pancakes, golden waffles, country style cured ham and seasonal specials spiked with flavor, Joey's is sure to please all appetites. Joey & Brenda O’Keefe invite you to join what has become a tradition in these parts, breakfast at Joey’s.

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

828.586.3555. Open 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.

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

Open Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. With music at the Depot. Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Life is too short for bad coffee. We feature wonderful breakfast and lunch selections.

Bagels, wraps, soups, sandwiches, salads and quiche with a variety of specialty coffees, teas and smoothies. Various desserts.

ORGANIC BEANS COFFEE COMPANY 1110 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.668.2326. Open 7 days a week 7 a.m.

PASQUALE’S 1863 South Main Street, Waynesville. Off exit 98, 828.454.5002. Open for lunch and dinner, Tuesday through Sunday.

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 indoors, outside on the patio or at the bar. Reservations appreciated.

RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 828.926.0201 Open Monday-Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m and Sunday 7:30 a.m to 9 p.m. Full service restaurant serving steaks, prime rib, seafood and dinner specials.

TAP ROOM SPORTS BAR & GRILL 176 Country Club Dr. Waynesville 828.456.5988. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. Enjoy soups, sandwiches, salads and hearty appetizers along with a full bar menu in our casual, smoke-free neighborhood grill.

VITO’S PIZZA 607 Highlands Rd., Franklin.

828.369.9890. Established here in in 1998. Come to Franklin and enjoy our laid back place, a place you can sit back, relax and enjoy our 62” HDTV. Our Pizza dough, sauce, meatballs, and sausage are all made from scratch by Vito. The recipes have been in the family for 50 years (don't ask for the recipes cuz’ you won't get it!)

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

PAPERTOWN GRILL 153 Main St., Canton. 828.648.1455 Open 7 days a week 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER Is Stacy J. Cox disliked by Western North Carolina craft beer lovers?

“I think so, but I don’t know why,” she said.

“There has been a lot of misconstrued thoughts out there. A rumor has been spread that I have an issue with the breweries, but I don’t.”

A special agent for the N.C. Alcohol Law Enforcement’s Asheville office, Cox has found herself in a recent controversy between local breweries, the ALE and N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission (ABC). With the explosion of the craft beer industry in WNC, you have a growing business sector that is pushing ahead at full throttle, many-a-time faster than state regulations can keep up or evolve.

“The craft beer industry has just boomed here over the last several years — it’s great for tourism, it’s great for business,” Cox said. “And we enforce these rules for big companies and small in the state. We deal the same with everyone — we don’t play favorites.”

Cox’s comments come after a handful of incidents over the last few months that have left a bad taste in the mouths of beer drinkers and brewery owners. This past spring, ALE agents had an issue with potential brewery violations during the popular “Race to the Taps” running series (which connects nine WNC breweries). The ALE felt the breweries involved weren’t correctly following the state laws, although no warnings were issued. This initial interaction should have been a red flag for the Asheville Brewers Alliance (ABA) — which is the overseeing body for the dozens of breweries now operating in WNC — that their members need to cover all their bases when hosting or participating in events.

During the Beer City Festival on May 30 in Pack Square in downtown Asheville, ALE agents witnessed several breweries and their employees drinking beer while serving to attendees — a clear violation of any ABC permit holders, who cannot consume alcohol while on duty. The ALE issued 10 violations to 10 local breweries (including Boojum Brewing in Waynesville, which denies any wrongdoing). The violators could have been hit with ALE criminal charges, but the ALE only issued ABC violations, which can result in fines, suspensions or even having their ABC permit revoked.

“This is a public safety issue,” Cox said.

“Once you start drinking you’re awareness goes down, and we need to try to do our best, to work together and minimize the amount of drunk drivers and drunk pedestrians.”

And just three weeks ago, on July 17, the highly anticipated (and attended) Burning Can Festival in Brevard found itself in ALE hot water. Hosted by mega-microbrewery Oskar Blues, the festival didn’t have proper permits

groups isn’t the greatest,” Rowland said.

“A lot of time, with any business, sometimes people hear things that could come from another state of business that they think is the truth, that they then tell their comrades, eventually finding out it’s not true — it’s human nature,” Cox added.

Immediately following Burning Can, the ABA and ALE held a four-hour meeting, where issues were discussed and lines of communication strengthened.

“We are establishing a clear path as we evolve and they evolve,” Rowland said. “They make the rules and enforce the rules, and, hopefully at our request, will change the rules.”

Originally, if a brewery wanted to serve its product away from the business location, they’d take out a special one-time permit through a nonprofit, which would then serve and sell the beer. In recent years, a new malt beverage special event permit has been issued to breweries (and restaurants and bars) that acts as a license for the breweries to directly serve their product at events like beer festivals and in public spaces (wineries receive a different permit). And with this license comes more responsibility and consequences faced by the The Beer City Festival on May 30 in downtown Asheville. The N.C. Alcohol Law Enforcement craft beer industry in North Carolina.

“It’s a one-size-fits-all permit, where it doesorganization issued numerous violations to local breweries not adhering to state laws, a growing n’t work as well for a brewery compared to a problem in the booming regional industry. Garret K. Woodward photo restaurant or bar down the street that gets issued the same permit,” Rowland said.

“Whether you’re a small brewery making one for out-of-state breweries that flew from “The best thing that has barrel a day or Sierra Nevada brewing a million around the country to pour their product at barrels a year, we all have a vested interest in the event. In a last minute move to save the resulted from all of this is our companies, where many of us have milfestival, Oskar Blues refunded all ticketholdthat it seems to opened lions of dollars wrapped into our business. It’s ers and made Burning Can free to avoid any a vested interest that will make sure we’re abidstate violations. up communication ing by the rules.”

“When it came to Burning Can, I wish we between all of us tenfold And though public opinion and misinforhad known about it sooner because we could mation has vilified the ALE and their tactics, have hashed out the I’d rather help someone the organization and the ABA have made great, details,” Cox said. “So positive strides in avoiding any future altercamany festivals happen in on the front end of an tions or incidents.

Western North Carolina event and get it right than “The best thing that has resulted from all of on a weekly basis that we this is that it seems to opened up communicacouldn’t possibly go and come in on the back end tion between all of us tenfold,” Cox said. “I can’t check them all out.” when there’s a problem.” tell you how many phone calls I’ve received So, what does the from people being pro-active, trying to make ABA have to say about it?

— Stacy J. Cox, N.C. Alcohol sure their ducks are in a row. I’d rather help “It’s a mystery to us Joe Rowland Law Enforcement someone on the front end of an event and get it how Burning Can went right than come in on down,” said Joe Rowland, president of the the back end when Asheville Brewers Alliance and co-owner of there’s a problem.”

Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City. “The ALE is The ABA also has just trying to do their job. Our industry went The Waynesville Craft Beer Faire will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. set up a regulatory comfrom this tiny little industry no one was really Saturday, Aug. 15, on the baseball field at American Legion Post 47 mittee to act as another paying attention to, to a gigantic one, especialon Legion Drive. layer of information ly in Western North Carolina.”

Among the 25 breweries onsite, there will be selections served by and resources for brewBy “mystery,” Rowland is referring to how BearWaters, Frog Level Brewing, Tipping Point, Boojum, Oskar Blues, eries and other sides of some of the state laws were either overlooked Double Barley, Catawba, Innovation, Nantahala, Hi-Wire, Blind the craft beer industry or not properly followed, where those in the Squirrel, Sierra Nevada, Lazy Hiker, Foothills, French Broad and more. to use not only for their craft beer business should be “all hands on Naked Apple and Angry Orchard cideries will also be present. own safety and liability, deck” when it comes to staying in line, all the Live music will be provided by Bohemian Jean (singer/songbut also for the public’s while trying to expand an industry that’s a writer) from noon to 12:45 p.m., Through the Hills (Americana/bluepeace of mind, too. moving target. In the booming Western North grass) 1 to 2:15 p.m., Stone Crazy (classic rock/pop) 2:20 to 3:20 “We’re responsible Carolina craft beer industry, you also have an p.m. and MindFrame (classic rock) 3:30 to 5 p.m. for knowing more about influx of folks from other parts of the country VIP tickets are $45, which includes early admission at noon. the rules than those who that may assume rules in their previous state General admission tickets are $35. This is a 21-and-over event. are in charge of enforcing are the same as in this one. www.waynesvillebeer.com. them,” Rowland said.

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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD Idaho. I was finally on my first (of many subsequent) cross-country road trips. I meandered around Idaho, Wyoming, Garret K. Woodward photo Montana, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and California, witnessing first-hand the towns I only knew from many hours combing through atlas maps back in New York.

When the economy tanked in 2008, I found myself as a freelance journalist. With no worthwhile job opportunities in sight, I circled the United States for the next three years, covering music festivals and tracking down old friends in new towns, folks I’d come to cross paths with and adore throughout my previous travels.

The open road, to me, is where I find myself. Whenever I would stand at an emotional crossroads in my life, I’d pack up the truck with what little I owned and head for wherever or whoever would have me.

I sometimes think my obsession with the open road is all in an effort to stay on the run from the inevitable — old age, responsibilities, obligations, maybe even old girlfriends I still yearned for. I figure as long as I’m holding steady at 75 miles-per-hour then the sands of time will never catch up. It may sound foolish, or even selfish, but, the only mirror on the open road is a rearview, looking back at what you’ve left It’s the only place I feel at home. behind, knowing that in your The open road. Once it gets into your heart-of-hearts this is correct direcsystem, you’ll spend the rest of your life trytion to aim your soul. ing to make sense of it. The highways, biBut, as they say, the more you ways and back roads in this country are the run, the more you run into yourNo Name Sports Pub (Sylva) will have circulatory system of America, the blood self. And, at 30, I’m beginning to Dirty Soul Revival (blues/hard rock) at 9 p.m. pump and heartbeat of a hurried people on see the consequences of my deciAug. 8. the move. It is the essence of humanity, for sions to flee. For every adventure A discussion on Southern literature with good or ill, and when you take that first had, I’ve missed just as many authors David Joy, Mark Powell, Charles Dodd weddings, funerals, births and journey away from familiarity, you’ll underWhite and Jon Sealy will be held at 6:30 p.m. stand what cosmic discoveries lay just birthdays back home. And yet, Aug. 7 at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. beyond the horizon. many years ago, when that urge As a kid, I was lucky enough to travel a to roam got into my body, I knew The Concerts on the Creek (Sylva) series at lot. We weren’t a rich family by any means, there would be hard sacrifices Bridge Park Pavilion will have Porch 40 but there was always enough time and made, more than I could ever (rock/funk) at 7 p.m. Aug. 7. money to at least escape from Upstate New account for.

York every-so-often. My parents believed I’m a writer, and from early on, The Dillsboro Arts & Crafts Market will be you learned the best through hands-on I realized you needed to seek out held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 15 in experience with the world around you. So, the secrets of the world to become downtown. we took off, to the Rocky Mountains, the finest scribe you can be. There Mixers Bar & Nightclub (Franklin) will have around New England, down south, and have been nights, too many to The Freeway Revival (rock/jam) at 9 p.m. beyond. Seemingly every weekend was an count, spent wide awake in the Aug. 8. adventure, at least to somewhere we’d never middle of the night, at a prairie been before. truck stop or in some Midwest And that craving for the unknown only diner or along a lonely coastal road, “No time left now for shame, amplified when I was granted a driver’s where I’d perhaps question what license. I’d take off every Friday evening or the hell it was I was trying to do.

Horizon behind me, no more pain, Saturday morning for my high school sweetAnd yet, each time that notion Windswept stars blink and smile heart’s house an hour and a half away in the would make itself known, it would depths of the Adirondack Mountains. For a vanish when the promise of a new Another song, another mile…”

17-year-old, that was a big deal, being alone, day would appear with a sunrise out there on roads you never knew existed to the East — back to where I — The Black Crowes (“Wiser Time”) three towns away or the next county over. originated, back to where it all I thrived on the “escape.” The more I began, back to the starting line, wandered away from my tiny hometown, the simply starting up the engine and throwing where the finish line is as elusive as it is glomore I didn’t want to return. I was over the rious. Someday I’ll track it down and cross the vehicle into drive. whole John Mellencamp-esque nature of my it, someday I’ll know what all this was for.

Once that high school diploma was in youth. I desired new people, places and Someday. my hands, I high-tailed it for college in things. And the only way to do so was, well, Life is beautiful, grasp for it, y’all.

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BRYSON CITY Traditional music act William Ritter & Sarah Ogletree will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. Recently married, the couple met as students while attending Appalachian State University and have been playing traditional music together for nearly five years. In 2015, they played Merlefest and released a self-titled album.

Though their music reflects many southern traditional styles, they are mostly influenced by the sights and sounds of Western North Carolina. Free. 828.488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

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Disco stars The Village People will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Recipients of a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the one-of-a-kind Village People is synonymous with dance music. Their impact on music has earned them the title “Kings of Disco” and they have sold more than 100 million recordings worldwide. Tickets start at $28. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615. www.facebook.com/officialvillagepeople

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‘PIANO POET’ IN WAYNESVILLE AUG. 14 Acclaimed pianist Andrew Tyson will perform at 6 p.m.

Aug. 14 at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. Hailed by BBC Radio 3 as “a real poet of the piano,” Tyson is emerging as a distinctive and important new musical voice. On the eve of the 2015-2016 season, he captured First Prize at the Géza Anda Competition in Zürich, where he was also awarded the Mozart and Audience Prizes. Tickets are $22.

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• Big Wesser BBQ (Nantahala Outdoor Center) will have Playing on the Planet (indie) Aug. 7, The Bayou Diesel Band (Cajun/zydeco) Aug. 8, Somebody’s Child (Americana) Aug. 14 and Ogya Aug. 15. All shows at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.noc.com.

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• Bogart’s (Waynesville) will have live bluegrass/string music with Boogertown Gap String Band Aug. 6 and Bradley Carter Aug. 13. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m.

828.452.1313.

• The Bryson City Train Depot “Music in the Mountains” concert series will Productive Paranoia (bluegrass/Americana) Aug. 8 and “Blue” & Larry Barnett (bluegrass/folk) Aug. 15. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Canton Recreation Park will have “Pickin’ in the Park” from 7 to 10 p.m. on Fridays. www.cantonnc.com or 828.648.2363.

• City Lights Café (Sylva) will have Chris

• The Concerts on the Creek (Sylva) series at Bridge Park Pavilion will have Porch 40 (rock/funk) Aug. 7 and Mountain Faith (bluegrass/gospel) Aug. 14. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlovers.com.

• Derailed Bar & Lounge will have Scott Stambaugh (singer-songwriter) at 7 p.m.

Aug. 15. 828.488.8898.

• Friday Night Live (Highlands) summer concert series will have Southern Highlands (bluegrass/Americana) Aug. 7 and Mountain Dulcimer Group (bluegrass/folk) Aug. 14. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will have Bobby Sullivan Band Aug. 7, Deeper Well featuring Paul Davis 8 p.m. Aug. 8, Mark Keller 2 p.m. Aug. 12, Jerry Gaff Aug. 12 and Family Portraits (Americana/soul) 8 p.m. Aug. 14. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

828.454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Groovin’ on the Green (Cashiers) summer concert series on the Village Commons will have The Jackson Taylor Band (rock/country) Aug. 7 and Marcus King Band (blues/rock) Aug. 14. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.visitcashiersvalley.com.

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• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will have an open mic night at 8:30 p.m. on Mondays in their downtown taproom. Free and open to the public. 828.246.0350 or www.boojumbrewing.com.

• Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will have ‘Round the Fire (Grateful Dead tribute) Aug. 7, Mean Mary (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 8 and Jay Brown (Americana/roots) Aug. 14. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m.

828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

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• BearWaters Brewing Company (Waynesville) will have The Howlin’ Bros 8 p.m. Aug. 7. www.bwbrewing.com.

Jameson (singer-songwriter) at 7 p.m. Aug. 8. www.citylightscafe.com.

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• Andrews Brewing Company will have Guy Marshall (singer-songwriter, $5) 7 p.m. Aug. 8, The Wilhelm Brothers (Americana) 6 p.m.

Aug. 14 and Copious Jones (jam/roots, $5) Aug. 15. All shows are free unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

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On the beat • Jackson County Public Library (Sylva) will host a community dance at 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 9. Circle and contra dances.

Lauren Kriel will be the caller, with live music by Out of the Woodwork. All styles will be taught and walked through beforehand.

No previous experience needed. A community dinner will follow at 5 p.m. ronandcathy71@frontier.com.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Aug. 5 and 12, a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Aug. 6 and 13.

All events begin at 8 p.m. www.innovationbrewing.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will have Porch 40 (rock/funk) at 8 p.m. Aug. 15.

828.369.5299 or www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• The Maggie Valley Opry House will have legendary banjoist Raymond Fairchild at 8 p.m. nightly through October. Admission is $12. www.raymondfairchild.com or 828.926.9336.

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• Marianna Black Library (Bryson City) will hold community music jam from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 6. Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer, anything unplugged, are invited to join. Singers are also welcomed to join in or you can just stop by and listen. Free. 828.488.3030.

• Mixers Bar & Nightclub (Franklin) will have The Freeway Revival (rock/jam) Aug. 8 and Longshot (rock/country) Aug. 15. All shows begin at 9 p.m. 828.369.9211 or www.facebook.com/mixersbarandnightclub.

• The “Music on the River” concert series (Cherokee) will have David Lambert Aug. 7, AM SuperStars Aug. 8 and Eastern Blue Band Aug. 14-15. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 800.438.1601 or 828.359.6490.

• Nantahala Brewing Company (Bryson City) will have Wyatt Espalin (Americana/rock) Aug. 7, Mangas Colorado (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 8, Ben Sutton (singer-songwriter) Aug. 14 and Bose Troubadour Tour (Americana/folk) Aug. 15. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• No Name Sports Pub (Sylva) will have PMA (jam/rock) Aug. 7, Dirty Soul Revival (blues/hard rock) Aug. 8, Singer-Songwriter Showcase Aug. 14 and Skunk Ruckus (psychobilly) Aug. 15. All shows are free and begin at 9 p.m. 828.586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

• Oconaluftee Visitors Center (Cherokee) will have an old-time music jam from 1 to 3 p.m.

Aug. 15. All skill levels welcomed. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Papertown Country Music & Dance Parlor 32 (Canton) will have live music and dancing

from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturdays. Admission is $8. 828.736.8925.

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• O’Malley’s Pub & Grill will have karaoke with Chris Aug. 7 and 14, The Buchanan Boys (country/rock) Aug. 8, Hunter Grigg (singersongwriter) 2 p.m. Aug. 9, Through the Hills (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 15 and Andy Stevens & Ben Morgan 2 p.m. Aug. 16. All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.facebook.com/omalleysofsylva or 828.631.0554.

• The Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) summer concert series will have Macon Grass (bluegrass) Aug. 8 and Paradise 56 (blues/variety) Aug. 15. Both shows begin at 7:30 p.m. An open mic starts at 6:30 p.m.

Free. www.franklinnc.com.

• Pub 319 (Waynesville) will have Family Portrait Aug. 8, Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter) Aug. 14 and Hunter Grigg (singer-songwriter) Aug. 15. All shows begin at 9 p.m.

• Rendezvous (Maggie Valley) will have Lyric (roots) at 7 p.m. Aug. 7, Fine Line 7 p.m.

Aug. 8, Caribbean Cowboys 3 p.m. Aug. 9, Stone Crazy (classic rock/pop) 7 p.m. Aug. 15 and SmokeRise (rock) 3 p.m. Aug. 16.

• Satulah Mountain Brewing (Highlands) will have Jimandi (folk/rock) every Wednesday at 7 p.m. and a rotating series of local performers on Fridays at 9 p.m. 828.482.9794 or www.satulahmountainbrewing.com.

• Saturdays On Pine (Highlands) summer concert series will have WellStrung (bluegrass/Americana) Aug. 15 in KelseyHutchinson Park. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line will hit the stage on Aug. 9 in Waynesville. www.facebook.com/norajane

Americana singer Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line and Joe Shain will perform at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville.

Struthers will perform at 7 p.m. Aug. 9.

Ann Powers of NPR Music said, “Struthers is guided by fire. Struthers has [come] up with some of the most quietly powerful narratives within the new wave of Americana artists. The sound of the Party Line has progressed to include propulsive electric guitar and drums, and Struthers’ sweet voice is showing an edge, the better

to meet the challenge.” Tickets are $15 in advance, $25 at the door.

Shain will perform at 7:45 p.m. Aug. 13. He will be joined by special guest Lorraine Conard. An experienced bluesman, Shain has developed and refined his own contemporary version of the Piedmont Blues, a bouncy, energetic style that developed in Shain’s adopted hometown of Durham and elsewhere around the region. Tickets are $12 in advance, $18 at the door. www.38main.com or 828.283.0079.

• Stecoah Valley Center (Robbinsville) will have legendary musician Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’Blues Aug. 8 ($15 for adults, $10 for grades K-12) and The Jeff Little Trio (bluegrass/folk) Aug. 15 ($25 for adults, $10 for grades K-12). All shows begin at 7:30 p.m.

Dinner served at 6 p.m. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

• The Stompin’ Ground (Maggie Valley) is now open for live mountain music and clogging at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

828.926.1288.

• Tipping Point Brewing (Waynesville) will have James Stinnett (singer-songwriter) Aug. 7 and My Mother The Mountain (Americana/folk) Aug. 14. Both shows are free and begin at 9 p.m. 828.246.9230 or www.tippingpointtavern.com.

• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will have SmokeRise (rock) Aug. 8, Dale & Drew (rock/folk) Aug. 14 and Ashli Rose (singersongwriter) Aug. 15. All shows begin at 9 p.m.

• Waynesville Public Library will host singersongwriter/storyteller Sharon Clarke at 2 p.m. Aug. 12.

LAKE J SINGERS HIT THE STAGE AUG. 7 The Lake Junaluska Singers will perform at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 7 at Stuart Auditorium. A 16-voice professional ensemble, the group serves as the Ambassador choir for the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church and of the Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. They began in 1954 and have performed nationally and internationally for conferences, dignitaries, and major events. Their music ranges from classical choral and contemporary works to gospel, folk and musical theatre styles. Tickets start at $17.50. www.lakejunaluska.com/events/singers.

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Blueberry lovers unite in Cherokee The Blueberry Festival will be held fro 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at the Cherokee Indian Fair Ground.

Sponsored by the North American Indian Women’s Association (NAIWA), the event features fresh berries, delicious recipes, blueberry products, and fun activities for the whole family.

Admission is free to the public. Vendor space available.

828.497.2727 or www.visitcherokeenc.com.

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• The third annual Historic Cowee School Celebration will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, in Franklin. The event showcases live bluegrass music, food, local pottery, textile demonstrations, regional crafts, and other cultural and historical activities. It also includes a tour of historic West’s Mill area of the Cowee Valley and a Civil War reenactment.

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noon to 7 p.m. The iconic styles of North Carolina BBQ compete in the ultimate throw down. You can also sample regional craft beers, enjoy local entertainment, and more throughout the day. Tickets start at $21, with VIP packages available.

Johnson will take the stage at 8 p.m.

Tickets can be found at www.harrahscherokee.com.

• The Jackson County Genealogical Society will host “Old Home Places in the Smokies” at 7 p.m. Aug. 13 in the Jackson County Historic Courthouse in Sylva.

828.631.2646.

• The Mountain Street Dance will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, in front of the Historic Courthouse in downtown Waynesville. Old-fashioned mountain music and clogging, with instruction offered to any and all. Free. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

• There will be a farm-to-table dinner at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at Hidden Valley Farm in Clyde. There will also be live music. Tickets are $50 per person.

828.450.2232 or www.hiddenvalleyfarmnc.com.

• The second Annual Messy Game Night and Back To School Bash will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 11 and 13 at the Canton pool. zNormal hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday to Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m.

Sunday. Admission is $3. 828.648.2363.

• The “Way Back When” trout dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, at the Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley.

The dinner showcases a recreation meal, music, storytelling and atmosphere of a 1930s Appalachian trout camp. Enjoy a wagon ride across the ranch property amid the authentic re-creation of Mr. Tom and Miss Judy Alexander’s first fishing camp. Tickets for the event also includes food and beverage. 828.926.1401 or 800.868.1401 or www.cataloocheeranch.com.

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Outlaw country star Jamey Johnson and the inaugural Brew-B-Que will take place on Saturday, Aug. 15, at Harrah’s Cherokee.

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The Rail Line Wine Experience “MacNeill Uncorked” will be held at 9 a.m.

Aug. 15 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in the Bryson City Train Depot.

The event is a specialty train experience featuring wines selected by French Broad Vignerons to pair with your meal. Full service all-adult first class ride in the MacNeill car. A narrator will be onboard to discuss the six wines selected to accompany an exclusive sampling of local cheeses, a freshly made entree and a chef-selected dessert.

All passengers receive souvenir stemless wine glass and tote bag. The Cottage Craftsman, located across from the depot will have all of the sampled wines available for purchase. Age 21 and over only.

Tickets are $109 per person. www.gsmr.com or www.greatsmokies.com.

• A wine tasting and silent auction fundraiser to benefit ARF (Jackson County Humane Society) will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Aug. 8 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. Cost is $10. 828.586.6300 or www.mountainlovers.com or www.a-rf.org/arf.

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The second annual Best of Controlled Chaos Film Festival will be held Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Martin Lipscomb Performing Arts Center in Highlands.

The “Date Night”-themed event opens with a reception at 6 p.m. followed by a 90-minute screening at 7 p.m., and showcases the best of Western Carolina University student films from its Film and Television Production Program’s annual, campus-based Controlled Chaos Film Festival. Genres include comedy, drama, documentary, animated film and promotional pieces.

A two-item live auction during the intermission will give audience members an opportunity to win a three-minute business or family video created expressly for them by students and faculty in the WCU film and television program, or a featured cameo role in a senior thesis film. Students and faculty mem-

bers in the FTP program will be available throughout the event to provide commentary and answer questions.

The cost of admission to this limited seating event is $75 (plus $5 North Carolina sales tax). Tickets can be purchased at the Highlands Area Chamber of Commerce, the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce and the Highlands Performing Arts Center, or by calling the WCU College of Fine and Performing Arts at 828.227.7028.

The money raised from ticket sales will assist students with making senior project films, which often cost more than $5,000 to create, and in acquiring essential equipment for the program.

The festival rating is PG-13 for adult language. http://bccff.wcu.edu.

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Free.

828.565.4240 or www.haywood.edu.

The inaugural Community Craft Night will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Aug. 13 at Haywood Community College in Clyde.

Put on by the Creative Arts Department, the event will be held on the college campus in the Creative Arts Building Room 7105, located on the bottom floor. The evening welcomes all students, alumni of HCC and members of the community.

It is an opportunity to serve the community, promote crafts, creativity and foster dialogue within the community. All participants are invited to bring their own supplies, projects and a bite to eat. All skill levels are welcome; discussion and cross-pollination between artists, crafters and across

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Art After Dark will continue from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, in downtown Waynesville.

Enjoy a stroll through working studios and galleries on Main Street and Depot Street. Festive Art After Dark flags denote participating galleries, such as Haywood County Arts Council’s Gallery 86, Earthworks, Burr Studio, Jeweler’s Workbench, Twigs and Leaves Gallery, TPennington Art Gallery, The Mahogany House, Grace Cathey Sculpture Garden and Gallery, Cedar Hill Studios and the Village Framer. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

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• The opening exhibition of Cherokee artist TJ Holland will be held from 6 to 8 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 14, in the Rotunda Gallery at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Holland’s work explores traditional Cherokee stories and imagery while employing traditional oil painting techniques. 828.507.9820.

• A wet felting workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Aug. 12 at the Wild Fern Studios in Bryson City. Prepare a variety of dyed wools to create a 12x12 patch designed to be used as a wall hanging; or make a variety of ornaments, flowers. Instructor is Karen Taylor of Taylor's Greenhouse. $20 per person.

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The Dillsboro Arts & Crafts Market will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, on Front Street in downtown.

Demonstrations and items for sale include painting Smoky Mountain flowers with watercolors, soap making, basketry, needlework, metal art, rustic furniture, porcelain jewelry, pottery, painting with oil on tiles and on barn wood, folded star ornaments and much more.

Hand-braided rug maker Dianne Ellis and gourd artists Madge Sala will be demonstrating their talents at Dogwood Crafters. Tunnel Mountain Crafts will feature wood burner John ‘Buddy’ Hogan.

As a fundraiser for their scholarship efforts, the nonprofit organization, Catch the Spirit of Appalachia will offer a raffle and sell old time mixed pickles (beans, corn and cabbage).

Acoustic rock duo Twelfth Fret will perform from 11 a.m. to noon and again from 1 to 2 p.m.

There will also be baked goods and snacks by Little Jimmy’s Ices. www.spiritofappalachia.org.

• The “Bascom in Bloom” showcase will be Aug. 13-16 at The Bascom in Highlands. The event features a flower show that will take place on the property. Stroll through the galleries which will be full of artful arrangements inspired by the works from the permanent and visiting collections including artworks of the blockbuster show “Sublime Beauty: The American Landscape.” Dutch master floral designer Rene van Rems will

present and demonstrate “The Art of Design” as you enjoy a champagne luncheon.

Outside, take a guided tour by Wesley Wofford of the Horst Winkler Invitational Sculpture Trail. For tickets, click on www.thebascom.org/bascominbloom.

• Scott Watkins Fine Photography will be on display during the month of August at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. A reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 7 at the library. www.fontanalib.org.

• “71” (Aug. 6) and “Insurgent” (Aug. 7-8) will be screened at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Showtimes are 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee also on Saturday. Free. www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

• “Woman in Gold” will be screened at 7 p.m.

Aug. 5-8, 11-12 and at 4 p.m. Aug. 8 and 2 p.m. Aug. 9 at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. A free showing of “Spongebob: Sponge Out of Water” will be at noon and 2 p.m. Aug. 8 and 15. There will also be a free showing of “E.T.” at 9:30 p.m. Aug. 7-8 and 14-15. www.38main.com or call 828.283.0079.

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Want to blow glass?

An “Introduction to Blown Glass Vessels and Hot Glass Sculpting� will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 10, 17, 24 and 31 at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro.

With the assistance of GEP resident artists, participants will work with molten glass and gain a more in depth experience of glassblowing. Through this four-day, fourweek class, students will create their own cups, vases and bowls, along with some sculptural forms.

Space limited to six students. Pre-registration required. Cost is $345 per person. www.jcgep.org or 828.631.0271.

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Artist Hank Shuler will host a “clay doowhockers� class from 1 to 4 p.m. every Sunday from Aug. 9-30 at the Cowee Pottery School in Franklin. Students will make small, fun objects including wind chimes, toothpick holders, soap dishes, Japanese vases, and more with hand building techniques. No experience required. The registration fee is $84, plus the cost of clay purchased by the students. www.coweepotteryschool.org or 828.524.7690 or info@coweepotteryschool.org.

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The Sylva Photo Club will be offering a two-part learning experience on knowing your camera and its basic settings at 2 p.m.

Aug. 8 and 10 a.m. Sept. 12.

On Aug. 8, a lecture will be led by Tony Wu, retired professional photographer and founder of the Sylva Photo Club, in the Cullowhee Methodist Church at Western Carolina University. The discussion will be on the “hows� and “whys� of setting the correct exposure to capture the image envisioned.

Items discussed will include f-stop, shutter speed, ISO, digital noise, motion blur, and depth of field. Each segment will have demonstrations and be followed by questions and answers before a brief practice exercise.

Attendees need to bring their camera with lens and camera’s manual (required and must be read before lecture). They are also encouraged to bring a list of three questions about their camera settings and functions to be discussed.

On Sept. 12, Diane Jettinghoff will lead the club on a field trip to practice the lessons learned in August. Only the beginners attending the August lecture can participate on this field trip. All experienced photographers are welcome to partner with the beginners and help them learn about light exposure. All

attendees need to bring camera with lens, camera manual (required and must be read before lecture), and tripod. Details about field trip will be presented at the Aug. 8 meeting.

Non-members are always welcome with a $5 donation (applied to a full membership) and members are free. A one-time $5 donation will include both the August and September meetings. Membership is $20 donation, $10 for students per year, $5 donation for visitors to attend a meeting (applied to full membership).

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A murder story unlike any other you’ve read n recent years, literary works that are classified as “investigative reporting” have not only become best sellers, but have lingered on the shelves for decades. Examples are Capote’s In Cold Blood, Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song and Vincent Bugliosi’s Helter-Skelter. All were in-depth non-fiction works that go under the classification of “crime fiction.”

Now comes Richard Lloyd Parry’s People Who Eat Darkness, neo-noir study of a bizarre rapist/murderer who picked his victims from the “hostess clubs” of Japan’s Roppongi entertainment district of Tokyo. The consequences are Writer commendable. Parry not only takes his readers into the luxurious and exciting locations where privileged gentleman dine on champagne and exotic food while conversing with beautiful women; he also ventures into a murder site that is so “otherworldly” it seems lifted from some dark Edgar Allan Poe fantasy, a tomb “by the sounding sea.” Are you ready?

Lucie Blackman came from a privileged English family in a posh town in Kent called SevenOaks (the omitted space is intentional). Lucie, her look-alike sister Sophie, and her younger brother Rupert all seemed destined to attend the best schools and universities, after which, they would settle into comfortable and secure lives.

And so it was until Lucie and her best friend, Louise Philips, decided to become airline hostesses for British Airways. The time with the airlines was exciting but exhaustive, and both women became deeply in debt. As a consequence, they became “hostess girls” at one of Tokyo’s most famous clubs, the Casablanca. This is where Lucie would meet Joji Obara, the man who would rape and murder her, behead her and cut her body into pieces which he would cast in concrete and bury in a cave near the sea.

Parry goes to considerable trouble to explain what a “hostess girl” is in Tokyo. To an extent, the setting resembles the old Hugh Hefner Playboy clubs. The patrons, usually middle-aged, wealthy Japanese businessmen,

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sit around a table conversing and singing (karaoke is very popular). All of this is under the watchful eye of a “momma-san,” and the girls are not allowed to leave the club with customers.

However, there is a complex process by which a customer may invite a hostess to din-

People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. 454 pages ner outside the hostess club. Also, customers indicate their approval of a hostess by purchasing additional time (dohans) with her, and an appealing hostess may increase her salary by increasing her dohan. (The girls even encourage their friends to invite them to dance halls, movies and restaurants outside their place of employment so they can increase their dohan.)

Parry notes that the owner of a club like the Casablanca is a highly gifted manager who moves through his club noting those that are not successful, and he will withdraw a girl from one table and transfer her another where the “chemistry” might be different. The system’s protocol dates back to the centuries-old geisha tradition.

The killer, Joji Obara, is one of the most complex murderers in the annals of crime. His I.Q. is estimated at 200. (Joji also has a bit in

common with Bill Cosby when you think about it. Of course, Cosby didn’t kill anyone, at least as far as we know.) Although Joji has managed to destroy most of the information about his past, he is thought to be Korean, the traditional “enemy” of the Japanese people. It is also believed that Joji had his face altered by surgery.

Throughout his trial, he refused to face the spectators and photographers, so photographs of his face are extremely rare. On the days when the Blackmans were scheduled to testify, Joji refused to leave his cell. His inherited riches are beyond knowing, although his trial — which lasted six years — may have seriously cut into his wealth. He owns real estate, including hotels and parking lots. He has expensive hobbies and owns a dozen of the world’s most costly automobiles. He lives a luxurious, solitary life. By the time we finish reading his incredible story, he has drugged and murdered eight people (he has raped hundreds).

Although he was found guilty of numerous rapes and murders, the drugging, rape and mutilation of Lucie Blackman is not one of them. Despite the fact that her family spent millions of dollars on the search for her body (and were victimized by a gaggle of fake detectives, kidnappers and psychics), there was no “smoking gun” forensic evidence that proved he murdered Lucie.

Apparently, Joji never attempted to seduce his victims. He drugged their drinks and when they were unconscious, he frequently forced them to inhale or drink chloroform. At one point in the investigation, the police found an incredible cache of film that indicated that Joji’s victims numbered in the hundreds.

He not only filmed the rape of each victim, but he wore a mask in the film. The rapes were “ritualized” and sometimes lasted for several hours. If the victims showed any evidence of reviving, Joji administered more chloroform. It is the chloroform that killed the eight women.

It is interesting that Joji never expressed any regret about the deaths, merely dismissing the rapes as part of a “game” that he had developed for his own amusement. Just in case you feel that you have read the most outrageous aspect of this murderer’s career, let me add one more astonishing fact. Near the end of the trial, as a token of sympathy for the grieving Blackman family, he asked his

lawyers to present a contract that stipulated that he would pay them $1 million yen if Ken Blackman would sign a document that noted that Ken Blackman was skeptical of some of the evidence against Joji Obara.

He made the same offer to all of the other families of victims. Now, pause for a moment and consider this astonishing fact. Ken Blackman accepted the money. In all fairness to Ken Blackman, he actually set up the Lucie Blackman Trust that provides aid to young women who travel abroad. He contributed to charities, too. However, he also bought a beautiful yacht called “The Infanta.” His acceptance of Joji’s money alienated him from his daughter, Sophie, and his son, Rupert. Both have undergone extensive psychiatric treatment.

Are there unanswered questions? Oh, yes.

Most of them concern the incompetence of the police and the maddening slowness of the Japanese court system. Parry presents explanations. It seems that in Japan, the police are not accustomed to investigating crimes or locating murderers.

The legal system is proud of the fact that 99 percent of cases end with convictions since guilt is proven before the trial begins. At the present time, Joji is serving a life sentence, but a battalion of lawyers are working tirelessly to overturn his convictions. He could be out in 20 years.

This review is not the place to deal with the complexities of Lucie Blackman’s murder investigation and the Kafkaesque ordeal that the Blackman family experienced while living in Japan. Parry’s exhaustive research is evident throughout People Who Eat Darkness, which includes footnotes and bibliography. In addition, there is additional material available on YouTube (interviews with the family).

Ken Blackman’s stubborn determination to find his daughter prompted him to conduct an amazing public appeal that made him a celebrity in Japan and, in the final analysis, enabled him to goad both the police and the court into action. At one point, he acquired the assistance of England Prime Minister Tony Blair in his public appeals for information. Lucie was murdered in 2000. People Who Eat Darkness was published in 2007. After a significant success in England and Japan, it is just now, belatedly, reaching an American audience.

Firewolf’s guide to self-care Author Tina Firewolf will offer a self-care workshop at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

The workshop will be “How to Ignite Everyday Enlightenment.” Isn't it our greatest ache to know intimacy in each ordinary moment? Are there things we can do to build this relationship with our wise self, with others and with the natural world? Can we learn to voice our own primal power?

Firewolf will discuss and teach tool and tips for extraordinary self-care including communication with others. Learn some simple tools to turn your day into a moving meditation, into something that truly works for you.

The workshop is $15 per person. To register, click on www.tinafirewolf.com.

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Want to meet a Marvel artist?

Kids will have a chance to meet a Marvel Comics artist at 1 p.m. Aug. 6 at the Waynesville Public Library.

The program, “Science of the Superhero,” will be put on by Marvel Comics artist Jerry DeCaire who has illustrated characters including Wolverine, Thor, Deadpool and the X-Men. During this presentation, kids will learn how artists use math and science to create the drawings we love and enjoy.

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• The “Be a Rebel! Read a Book!” Star Wars party will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. The event includes Star Wars trivia, along with free posters and bookmarks.

Come dressed as your favorite Star Wars character, and enter the costume contest to win a prize.

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Wilford Corbin will discuss his book The Boys of Battle Branch at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at City Lights Bookstore.

The book is a collection of short nonfiction pieces, which relates the experiences of Corbin, who grew up in Macon County during the middle of the twentieth century. He is also the author of A World Apart: My Life Among the Eskimos of Alaska.

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A discussion on Southern literature with authors David Joy, Mark Powell, Charles Dodd White and Jon Sealy will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

The event will also be celebrating the release of the anthology Appalachia Now, which features short stories from each of these authors.

Lee Smith, author of Saving Grace and On Agate Hill says of Appalachia Now, “Hard, brilliant, and dark as coal, this brand new and necessary volume captures Appalachia today, a place where the old bedrock verities of family, community, belief, work, and the earth are all in painful Upheaval — to use the title of Chris Holbrook’s story herein. From manic to elegiac to rough, raw, beautiful, and heartbreaking, these stories will strike the reader as both absolutely true and unforgettable.” www.citylightsnc.com.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER t’s been more than 10 years since Alen Baker decided, while recuperating from surgery, to pass the time by writing about what his Trout Unlimited chapter had been up to that year. Those 15 pages turned into a book, which turned into something even bigger — the idea that somebody should take it upon themselves to memorialize the Southern Appalachians’ fly fishing legacy in a museum somewhere.

Baker, retired from a career as an IT executive with Duke Energy, wound up being that somebody, and Cherokee wound up being that somewhere.

“A lot of people (seemed) interested in seeing a museum, but there were no takers in terms of a location,” said Baker, who lives in the Charlotte area. “Jim Casada, a good friend, he says, ‘Go talk to the Cherokee. It’s the perfect location.’”

Casada, a Swain County native and retired history professor who now lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina, turned out to be right.

“To be honest with you, initially it was just a way to keep the chamber sustainable, but once we looked further into it we realized that Cherokee is a fly fishing Mecca already,” said Amy Parker, executive director of the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce. A nonprofit, the chamber operates on about $80,000 per year but makes only about $30,000 through membership fees. The rest comes from grants and donations.

While the chamber was initially thinking finances when hearing Baker’s pitch, as Parker started looking into it she realized that fishing is a big draw for Cherokee visitors. The reservation sells as many as 50,000 fishing permits each year, its waters irresistible to those embroiled in a love affair with the fly rod.

Fishing is also an important pastime for Parker’s husband Forrest, a tribal member who’s been instrumental in the museum’s creation.

“It became evident that this would be something that people that came to Cherokee would be interested in,” Parker said. “This would give them something to do, and this would give their families something to do when people came to fish.”

Open since June, the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians is now much more than a pipe dream. It occupies the back section of a recently renovated building, with the chamber and an associated gift shop taking up the front. The idea is that the museum will benefit from the automatic traffic it gets from chamber visitors, while the chamber will be able to raise money by charging admission.

For now, it’s free to visit, but eventually a nominal fee will be required.

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CREATING A DESTINATION So, the chamber got the tribal government on board and received a 25-year, $1-per-year lease for an empty building on Tsali Boulevard. The Cherokee Preservation

Reeling them in Fly fishing museum aims to spur tourism, preserve angling history in Cherokee

Brothers Don and Dwight Howell, of Brevard, were known for their custom-tied flies, some of which are on display at the museum. Holly Kays photo Foundation gave a $50,000 grant to pay for initial planning and marketing. A combination of grants, donations and chamber funds paid for the building renovations and exhibits. Those dollars came amazingly easily — Baker said it’s “one of the easier things” he’s raised money for — with the average donation for 65 founding members sitting at around $1,500.

Nobody is saying that the still-small museum will bring people to town all on its own.

But the hope is that it will provide one more attraction that people already planning a trip will want to see, causing their visits to last longer.

“The longer they’re here, the more money they spend, the more connected they are to staying the area and contributing to this economy,” Parker said. “So whatever incentivizes people to stay longer, it’s important.”

The building is well situated to work toward that goal. It sits within an area Cherokee’s designated as its cultural district and is basically across the street from the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. Some see it as taking Cherokee one step closer to developing a core area of cultural interpretation sites.

“I kind of hoped that we would build that

Want to go?

The Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians, which is also home to the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce, is open daily and situated along U.S. 441 in Cherokee.

Hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday. The address is 516 Tsali Boulevard, and, for now, admission is free.

828.788.0034.

area up so we become a real cultural district, so people can come and hang out and spend hours on end learning about Cherokee culture,” said Bo Taylor, director of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. “I think it’s a good thing it’s (the fly fishing museum is) there.”

ALL ABOUT THE STORIES But the fly fishing museum is about more than just revenue and visitor numbers. At its core, Baker said, it’s about stories.

“We’re preserving those old stories that would probably never get told unless someone writes a book,” he said.

Stories like those of Bryson City native Bernice Hall, who with her husband Frank formed a power couple in the world of fly tying. Though her husband was generally credited with the innovative patterns devised in their home, Bernice probably played a bigger role than most knew.

Then there was Mark Cathey, a legendary Smokies angler who Casada describes as “a great teller of tales,” speaking with a “quaint Elizabethan accent” that attracted listeners all on its own.

Or Sam Honeycutt, who wore hightop boots no matter the weather — the story went he’d been bitten by a copperhead once and took pains to make sure he never had to repeat the experience. Honeycutt “to my knowledge never worked; he just fished and hunted,” Casada said.

Like any good fish story, these characters can tend to grow larger than life as time marches on, so research has been as much a part of the museum effort as has securing exhibit donations and finding the best purveyor of foam board or brand of doublestick tape.

But worse than exaggeration would be for

these characters to disappear altogether. And that’s what was on the verge of happening before the museum was born, Casada said.

“If something wasn’t done and done fairly soon, we were going to lose the knowledge, the culture and the heritage of the sport, because already there are relatively few people who have meaningful connections to the golden years of the sport,” he said.

Casada defines those “golden years” as stretching from the 1920s to the 1950s, with Baker pinpointing them more toward the later part of that period, after World War II had ended and people had a little extra time and money to fish for sport. Whichever way you slice it, the “golden years” were generally a time when fly fishing enjoyed increased popularity while pressure remained sustainable, but the Smokies were still isolated enough for techniques and equipment to evolve mostly independently of the outside world, and fishing more often had the practical purpose of putting food on the table than it does in today’s world of catch-and-release.

Casada, 73, said he’s “long enough in the tooth” to remember those days.

“There wasn’t any of the all-encompassing glorification of equipment and obsession with the tactics and techniques of things,” he said.

“It was certainly for fun, but it was also an escape.”

Casada, who’s been fishing since childhood, remembers well the ritual pilgrimage to fish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on opening day each year — these days, fishing is allowed year-round — and the nights spent around the campfire, eating fish and telling stories.

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In more recent times, fly fishing has become important to the Cherokee for another reason — tourism.

“I think playing up on the outdoors is

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A look inside the museum

of dyed polar bear fur scored from a successful 1972 Arctic hunt. It quickly became his favorite fly-tying material.

More cases show fishing-based nonprofits that work to help cancer victims and wounded war veterans, displays of fly-tying methods before the advent of modern tools and examples of Waynesville angler Roger Lowe’s 101 types of flies, tied by a group from Hendersonville.

“This is probably the Bible of Southern Appalachian flies,” Baker said of Lowe’s book Fly Pattern Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains.

“This is the first exhibit I wanted to do.”

The museum also features plenty of exhibits that aren’t contained in a glass case.

A fly-tying desk, strewn with thread, scissors and feathers as though the tyer had just stepped away from his workshop for a moment, shows what such a scene may have looked like during the “real golden age” of fly fishing right after World War II. Behind the desk stands a cabinet whose drawers hold preserved specimens of various aquatic insects, donated by Appalachian State University, that a fly tyer might try to imitate.

“All fly tyers become entomologists,” Baker said.

The back of the building holds the museum’s crown jewel, the first driftboat built and used in the Southeast, which was in operation from the 1980s up until the museum, using a grant from the Tennessee Valley Authority, took it in exchange for purchasing the owner a new boat.

A kids’ station, complete with hands-on games and worksheets, is in the adjacent corner.

And that polar bear hunting angler Cato Holler? A visitor turning around after a moment with the driftboat would find herself face-toface with a mannequin dressed head to toe, save for the waders, in Holler’s original fishing gear, donated by his grandson Chris.

The museum has seen some degree of success so far, attracting 120 people to its opening day celebration June 6 and now seeing foot traffic of up to 75 people a day. But Baker’s job is far from done.

“We’ve probably got 10 years of research to do,” he said.

Plans are in the works to build an aquarium/mini-hatchery exhibit in a currently empty room. Baker would like to add a lot more Streamblazer exhibits and hopes for a grant to install a talking mannequin in the children’s corner, which would talk fishing to kids when approached. Guided museum tours, design-afly workshops, environmental exhibits, an angling hall of fame, subtitles in Cherokee syllabary and an exhibit dedicated to the Cherokee connection with fishing are all on his wish list — among others.

He’s hopeful that the museum will garner the support needed to make those ideas reality, both because the museum’s new status as an official nonprofit makes it eligible to write grants directly, rather than through the chamber, and because the cause has already seen some pretty staggering past success with fundraising.

“Just the idea of a museum seems to strike a good chord with a lot of people,” he said. “I can tell you it’s one of the easier things I’ve ever raised money for, because I’ve raised money for a lot of nonprofits.”

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It’s a work in progress. Opening day was two months ago, and the museum holds a treasure trove of stories, artifacts, photos and videos memorializing the heroes of fly fishing in the Southern Appalachians. But there’s a lot of left to do, Baker said. He wants to markedly expand his list of Streamblazers — his name for the fly fishing giants now honored at the museum — and rotate those exhibits regularly so there’s always something new to see.

He wants to develop an exhibit highlighting the link between conservation and angling.

And, perhaps most importantly, the museum needs a space dedicated to exploring the link between fly fishing and Cherokee culture.

“We were agriculturalists, but we were also hunters and gatherers,” Taylor said.

“One of the best things someone ever told me was you always knew what time of the year it was by what you were eating, and fish was a big part of our diet.”

They didn’t catch those fish on a fly, however. Cherokee had their own methods of catching fish, most notably the fishing weir, a v-shaped rock construction in a stream. Cherokee would assemble upstream from the weir and thrash the water to move fish downstream, where they’d find themselves caught in the weir’s funnel point.

They’d catch all kinds of fish that way, not just trout.

But when Europeans — and their fly rods — arrived to the mountains, Cherokee people took up the method as well and contributed to its development.

“We believe the yellowhammer and blackbird flies started over here in Cherokee,” Baker said of two of the most iconic Southern Appalachian fly-tying materials. “That’s to be proven though. To me, as much as we can, the museum is going to try to fill that in.”

probably a smart thing,” Taylor said. “One of the best things that we have is our trout streams.”

West of the Mississippi, Western North Carolina is the place to go for fly fishing. At least, that’s what a growing chorus of anglers is saying, and it’s a trend local economies are

BY HOLLY KAYS trying to capitalize on with efforts such as STAFF WRITER the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce’s Step inside Cherokee’s newest museum, WNC Fly Fishing Trail and the Swain County and the scent of freshly cut wood and tranquil Chamber of Commerce’s online fishing lighting will immediately greet you with the guide, www.greatsmokiesfishing.com. The knowledge that you’ve made the right choice. numbers lean that way too. Between 2002 “We’ve got more space than I ever and 2012, fly fishing sales in North Carolina dreamed, but it makes me think we could have increased 175 percent, with fly fishing-relattwice this before it’s all over with,” said Alen ed sales in the South increasing from 16 to Baker, who lives in Charlotte but masterminded 24 percent of the national share, according the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern to the American Fly Fishing Trade Appalachians.

Organization.

A collaboration of the Eastern Band of But according to Baker, the Southern Cherokee Indians, the Cherokee Chamber of Appalachians don’t get the credit they Commerce and an army of volunteers, the deserve for the resources they boast. museum is a grassroots attempt to tell the sto“History has its own way of being filries of mountain ingenuity and self-sufficiency tered,” he said. “Our history of fly fishing is behind the art of fly fishing in the being filtered by those that write, and those Appalachians south of the Mason-Dixon Line. that write focus on the Catskills, out West “Our stories, if they’re told well, will show and all these worldly destinations.” how people The whole were creative Appalachian around here chain from to be able to Maryland go out and south is full of pull fish, put incredible them on the places to fish, table back Baker said, and then,” said the Smokies, Baker. with their high The mountains, museum tour clear streams, About 120 people crowded into the begins with a ample wildermuseum on its grand opening in June. small theater, ness and its sides — Bob Nanney photo incredible biolike all the logical diversiwoodwork in ty, are the cream of the crop. the exhibit hall — made of repurposed barnCasada agrees that the region is often wood that Baker and a group of volunteers took overlooked in angling literature and added from a donated building they tore down themthat the idea of the American West being the selves. Nearby, smaller screens affixed to the pinnacle of the fly fishing experience has wall show rotating displays of iconic Southern affected even his own outlook. A fishing trip Appalachian flies and insects, while a map he took to Montana brought that reality delineates the region the museum seeks to home. cover.

“I was scared to death,” he said, wonderGlass cases protect displays of rods, the ing how a “little hillbilly” like himself would oldest dating back to 1875, as well as a variety hold up in the famed trout waters of the of reels. Various fishing paraphernalia, like old Rockies. Turned out, he needn’t have workrill baskets and something that appears to be ried. a miniature baseball bat — it was used to “If anyone can catch trout with consisgive fish intended for the dinner table a quick tency in the Southern Appalachians, they end to their misery — also have their place. can catch trout anywhere,” he said.

For Baker, though, the best part of the And that’s something locals should be museum is the set of Streamblazer exhibits, proud of, regardless of whether they’re displays that pay homage to the giants of the anglers or not. The museum isn’t just about sport. Right now, the museum has 24 such fishing. It’s about people who loved the exhibits, with at least one from each of the place they called home and put their creativnine states included in its definition of ity to use to connect with it through a sport “Southern Appalachian,” but that number is they were passionate about. likely to grow.

“The fishing’s only part of it after all,” “There’s probably 85 or 90 on my list,” said Casada said. “You’re fishing in an area with Baker. Each exhibit includes a narrative of the the greatest biological diversity in the person’s life — their quirks, their importance Northern Hemisphere, and anyone who to the world of fly fishing — as well as artidoesn’t pay attention to wildlife or clusters of facts to bring their contributions to life. That butterflies or huge specimens of trees or the includes everything from flies they tied to reels amazing variety of mushrooms, they are not they used to paintings they made. For the late enjoying the totality of the experience. You’re sportsman Cato Holler, of Marion, it’s samples fishing in an area of incredible beauty.”

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years, has similar memories of fishing trips in the park. When he met Baker earlier this year and heard about the museum, it didn’t take much convincing for him to get on board. He’s been volunteering for the last several months, taking photos and cataloguing donations for the cause.

“I feel like the fly fishing heritage in this area is something that needs to be recorded,” Nanney said. “We need to document what’s been done, who did it and share the evolution in this particularly mountainous region.”

The reason for that is simple, Casada said.

“Historians like me are often fond of an adage that I think pretty well sums up one key aspect of why this museum needs to be there: You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’re been,” he said.

“This museum will tell us where we’ve been.”

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From pies to model planes, Haywood Fair calls entries Tuesday, Aug. 25, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. Kids likewise are invited to polish up recipes, select their favorite, refine a model they’ve built or whip their collections into a display-worthy format for the youth division at the fair. Artwork, photography, sewn items, vegetables, flowers, collections, models, crafts, canned items or baked goods are among the many youth categories.

In the Cloverbud youth division, all kids ages 5 to 8 get a ribbon and $1 per entry for participating. In the Junior and Senior division, ages 9 to 18 will receive $3 per blue ribbon. The youth fair contests are hosted by 4-H. Youth entries can be submitted on Stay tuned for more on the fair line-up of tractor pulls, firemen con- Tuesday, Aug. 25, tests, reality TV show guest appearances, livestock shows, talent from 10 a.m. to 6 shows and more. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org. Donated photo p.m. at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. from canning, flowers and baked goods to Fair catalogues and application informaphotography and woodworking. The public tion for exhibit booths and food vendors is invited to roundup their entries and are availably by calling 828.456.3575. bring them between 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

It’s that time again — get together your best garden produce and crafty handiwork to enter in the Haywood County Fair, this year scheduled for Aug. 25 to 31.

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Perseid meteor shower on its way Staying up late Aug. 13 will result in a spectacular light show, with the annual Perseid meteor shower expected to reach its peak of 100 meteors per hour at 2 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. Meteors appear to radiate from the constellation of Perseus the hero in the northeast sky.

Though the morning of Aug. 13 will be the best time to see the meteors, a few Perseids can be spotted before or after that date.

Ash killer arrives in WNC, firewood must stay put in Graham Emerald ash borers recently found in a Graham County trap mark the invasive insect’s first appearance in Western North Carolina since it was first discovered in the United States in 2002.

The finding triggered quarantine rules for the county: no hardwood firewood can be taken out of the county, nor can plant parts of ash trees. Only firewood treated by an approved method such as kiln heating can taken out of the county.

“This is a devastating pest to ash trees, eventually killing the trees where the insects are found,” said N.C. Agriculture

Commissioner Steve Troxler.

The emerald ash borer lays its eggs underneath the bark of ash trees, where the larvae then hatch and create tunnels in the living part of the tree before emerging as adults. Affected ash trees display a loss of leaves, increased woodpecker activity and clumps of shoots emerging from their trunks. The beetles have caused the decline and death of tens of millions of trees across the country.

The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will put purple, triangleshaped traps out during early August to monitor for the ash borer’s presence in other counties. While Graham is the first WNC county where it’s been found, it is present on the Tennessee side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and in 11 other North Carolina counties down east.

Smokies NRA to celebrate The Smoky Mountain Friends of the National Rifle Association will hold its annual meeting featuring rifle demos, games and prime ribs from 5:30 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Cherokee Indian Fair Grounds.

The event will raise money to support men’s and women’s sports, the Boy Scouts of America and shooting teams across the country. $40 with pre-registration required. Tickets will not be sold at the door. www.friendsofnra.org or 828.736.7165 or danielcloer@yahoo.com.

Fears that the bird flu could spread to North Carolina have prompted the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to take measures to prevent that happening.

■ All poultry owners — even those who keep just a few chickens in the backyard — must register for an N.C. Farm I.D. number. The goal is to make it easier for the department to alert poultry owners in the event of an outbreak. Anyone who is already part of the National Poultry Improvement Plan is exempt from the requirement. www.ncagr.gov/ncfarmid/index.htm

■ No poultry shows, live bird sales or poultry swap meets will be allowed from Aug. 15 to Jan. 15, 2016. This includes county fairs, meaning that neither the Haywood nor the Macon County fairs will include poultry shows this year.

The flu, though not found to affect human health or food safety, has wreaked havoc on poultry farms in the 21 states where it’s been found so far. At this point it hasn’t reached the East Coast, but as it’s thought to be carried by migratory fowl, Officials are bracing for possible introduction during fall migration. www.ncagr.gov/avianflu.

The Eagle Lady will bring her birds of prey for a children’s program to visit the

A workshop on how to promote deer and other wildlife through habitat management will be offered 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 8, at the Sandy Mush Game Lands near Leicester.

Topics will range from deer habitat requirements to technical assistance programs for landowners. Also, tour the game lands with the N.C. Wildlife Resources biologists. RSVP to 828.442.2674.

Doris Mager, the Eagle Lady.

Ruffed Grouse banquet on the horizon Waynesville branch of the Haywood County Library at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 13.

Doris Mager, now approaching her 90th birthday, has been rescuing, rehabilitating and caring for birds of prey for more than 50 years. With a home in Haywood County, Mager travels the country presenting educational programs with her birds of prey. She’s considering retirement, so this could well be the final chance to see the program firsthand.

Free and part of the kids’ summer reading program series. 828.452.5169.

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A banquet to benefit forest wildlife like the ruffed grouse and American woodcock will be held starting 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, at the Crest Center and Pavilion in Asheville.

The Conservation and Sportsmen’s Banquet is an annual event of the Southern Appalachian Chapter of the Ruffed Grouse Society and will feature live and silent auctions, games, drawings and door prizes in addition to dinner. Ruffed Grouse Society President John Eichinger will speak.

Tickets are $75 for individuals, $115 for couples and $55 for youth under 18.

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teachers get an in-depth study of resource education techniques, scientific methods and field research to enhance their skills and talents, and, in turn, the park creates advocates through better understanding of and appreciation for the Smokies.”

Funds from Friends of the Smokies license plate sales and grants from the Great Smoky Mountains Association, Alcoa and the Youth Partnership Program support the program.

Four teachers and 24 high school students from Tennessee and North Carolina participated. Local students were: Kat Casey and Addison Costa, Smokey Mountain High School; Orion Holmberg, Interns examine plants in the park’s ozone garden at the Appalachian Cherokee Central Highlands Learning Center at Purchase Knob in Haywood County. NPS photo High School; Kyra Mehaffey, Pisgah High School; Austin Shuler, Swain ranger duties.

High School; Bella Weeks, Jackson County “These programs are mutually benefiEarly College; and Ashley Welch, Tuscola cial,” said Susan Sachs, education coordinaHigh School. Teacher Taylor Zimmerman of tor for the Appalachian Highlands Science Smokey Mountain High School was one of Learning Center located in the Haywood the four teachers selected.

County area of the park. “The students and Several local teenagers were among those who recently completed a six-week internship in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The program aims to engage high schoolers and teachers as park rangers, giving them six weeks of paid work experience to learn about park resources and perform

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Beat the heat with evening run

with children under 10 free. Part of the Black Bag Race Series. www.twilightrocknroll5k.com.

An evening run in Highlands will provide an outlet for exercise, music and the waving of glow sticks.

The Twilight Rock ‘n’ Roll 5K, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Highlands, will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, at Kelsey

Get dirty with Waynesville mud run

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Hutchinson Park. The undulating course will challenge faster runners but also welcome beginners and walkers. When the race finishes, a concert by Tea for Three — Highlands’ own rock band — will take the stage.

All finishers will get a beer from Ugly Dog Pub, with under 21s receiving glow sticks. Awards will be presented. $30 online registration or $35 day-of,

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Things will get muddy in Waynesville with the Building Bridges Mud Run Saturday, Aug. 29.

The 3-mile course will include creek crossings, hills, mud pits, a variety of obstacles and a slippery surprise at the finish. Come prepared to leave wet and muddy.

“It was successful last year, and we hope to grow it even more this year with a reconfigured course that adds both distance and muck,” said organizer Ryan Jacobson.

The Mud Run, which aims to raise money for the Canton Lions Club and Lions Club International, begins at the Waynesville Recreation Center at 10 a.m., with participants released in waves according to skill level.

Prizes will be awarded to the fastest team and individual in each category, and beer will wait at the finish line for those who bring an ID. $45 online registration and $50 day of. www.buildingbridgesmudrun.com.

Beat the heat with Big Creek hike An excursion to Big Creek in the Haywood County area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Tuesday, Aug. 11, will give hikers a chance to get wet with a pit stop at Midnight Hole, a favorite swimming spot in the park.

Organized by Friends of the Smokies, the hike will offer two routes, one 5 miles and the other 10. Both are Big Creek. Donated photo fairly easy trails, with 288 and 1,100 feet of elevation gain respectively. Guest guide Lenny Bernstein will lead the 10-miler and Anna Lee Zanetti of Friends of the Smokies will lead the 5-mile hike. $10 for members and $35 for non-members with complimentary membership included.

Proceeds benefit the organization’s Smokies Trails Forever program.

Register at www.friendsofthesmokies.org/events or call 828.452.0720.

Hike to explore Smokemont in the Smokies A 6-mile hike starting from Smokemont Campground will provide a chance to get outside while supporting the Great Smoky Mountains Association on Tuesday, Aug. 11.

The hike will pass the historic Lufty Baptist Church and the secluded Bradley Cemetery, named after a family that settled in the region in the early 19th century. It features a 1,400-foot elevation gain and is classified as moderately difficult.

Located on the North Carolina side of the park outside Cherokee. $20 for members; $35 for nonmembers. Led by Wildland Trekking Company of Asheville. RSVP to membership@gsmassoc.org or 865.436.7318.

Public comment open for state wildlife plan A plan to guide wildlife management in North Carolina for the next 10 years is being developed and public input sought.

The plan outlines threats to species of concern and their habitats, as well as possible measures to address those threats.

The current North Carolina Wildlife Action Plan dates back to 2005, Federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, conservation stakeholders and members of the public were all involved in creating it.

Features of the revised plan that differ from the 2005 version include: ■ Including global warming as a threat for species and habitats.

■ A ranking proccess for conservation status, risk and needs of various species.

■ Better access on varying electronic platforms.

■ An evaluation process for prioritizing species for conservation, research and management. Some types of ocean species and insects that were not included in the last plan were added in this version.

■ Improved habitat descriptions of 12 aquatic, eight wetland, 21 terrestrial and 17 river basin habitats.

■ Specific threats for each habitat and recommendations for each.

The plan is online at www.ncwildlife.org/conserving/2015wildlif

eactionplan.aspx. Send comments by Aug. 18. to cindy.carr@ncwildlife.org.

Panthertown gets improved parking area Improvements to the crowded trailhead parking on the east side of Panthertown Valley, a recreation area in the Nantahala National Forest outside Cashiers, are underway.

The main trailhead on the Transylvania side of Panthertown is limited to make-shift parking along the side of a gravel road. The new parking area will create up to 12 designated spaces.

“On super peak days people are parked all along the shoulder of the road. This should relieve some of that pressure. It may not park everybody on peak times, but on normal days, it should provide adequate parking that doesn’t encumber the roadway like it does now,” said Matt McCombs, spokesperson for the national forests in Western North Carolina.

Parking on the road shoulder will still be a necessity on summer weekends given the volume of waterfall-seeking hikers.

The access road to the trailhead will be closed weekdays through Aug. 14.

The project is a cooperative effort between Friends of Panthertown and the U.S. Forest Service and uses a grant from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Division of Parks and Recreation. 828.524.6441.

WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • The “Country Western” theme will be from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Aug. 6 at the Canton pool. Normal hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m.

Sunday. Admission is $3. 648.2363.

• “Artshare 2015” formally opens to the public for the month of August at the Haywood County Arts Council’s “Gallery & Gifts” (formerly known as “Gallery 86”). hcacartshare@yahoo.com.

• An Swain County genealogical club picnic and genie swap meet is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 6 at Morgan Pavilion Recreation Park. Bring a side dish to share. Meat and beverages provided.

• Marianna Black Library (Bryson City) will hold a community music jam from 6-7:30 p.m. Aug. 6. Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer, anything unplugged, are invited to join. Singers are also welcomed to join in or you can just stop by and listen. Free.

488.3030.

• Storyteller Donald Davis performs “Authentically Appalachian” storytelling at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8, as part of the Associate’s Weekend at Lake Junaluska. Tickets are $17.50 and available at www.lakejunaluska.com/concerts or at the Bethea Welcome Center, which is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.

For more info, call 800.222.4390.

• A Customer Appreciation Day featuring food tasting, free lunch and a sale, is scheduled for 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Aug. 8 at Carolina Readiness Supply in Waynesville.

Author Steven Ohliger will attend with new books “Apocalyptic Pharmacy” and “Influenza.”

• Dr. Henry Perry, III, MD, PhD, MPH, founder of Curamericas Global will host a drop-in reception for friends and family from 2-4 p.m. on Aug. 8 at Lake Junaluska Center. RSVP: 919.510.8787 or andrew@curamericas.org.

Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: ■ Complete listings of local music scene ■ Regional festivals ■ Art gallery events and openings ■ Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings • A Downtown Merchants Association meeting is set for 8-9 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6, at the Swain County Chamber.

• The Appalachian Food Pantry School is now accepting applications for this year’s courses, which run on Tuesdays through Aug. 11 at a location to be determined. Co-sponsored by MANNA Food Bank and the MountainWise Public Health Partnership; funded by the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina. More info and online registration available at www.wncfpc.org.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • A wine tasting and silent auction fundraiser to benefit ARF (Jackson County Humane Society) will be held from 3-6 p.m. Aug. 8 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva.

Cost is $10. 586.6300 or www.mountainlovers.com or www.a-r-f.org/arf.

• Signups are under way for teams, volunteers and sponsorships for an upcoming three-on-three soccer shootout on Aug. 8 that will raise scholarship money to support low-income kids’ involvement in Haywood County athletic activities. Winning teams qualify to compete in the Disney 3v3 Soccer Championships in February in Orlando. $125 per team. Register at www.GreatSmokyMountain3v3.com.

• Jackson County Public Library (Sylva) will host a community dance at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9. Circle and contra dances. Lauren Kriel will be the caller, with live music by Out of the Woodwork. All styles will be taught and walked through beforehand. No previous experience needed. A community dinner will follow at 5 p.m. ronandcathy71@frontier.com.

• The Catman2 Cat’s Only Shelter in Cullowhee will hold its annual auction on Aug. 15 at Lifeway Community Church in Sylva. To donate items, or for more info, call 293.0892. hsims@catman2.org.

• Drug Free School Zone signs kickoff with a short ceremony at 9 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 10, at Canton Rec Park. Community is invited. Signs will be place at all Haywood County schools.

• A free after-work wine tasting and learning event is scheduled for 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 5, at Mountain Radiance Medical Spa in Clyde. Presented by Mountain Radiance and Bosu’s Wine Shop. 627.2711.

• The second Annual Messy Game Night and Back To School Bash will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 11 and 13 at the Canton pool. Normal hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Admission is $3. 828.648.2363.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 1:30-6 p.m. on Aug. 6 at Victory Baptist Church in Bryson City.

• The Jackson County Genealogical Society will host “Old Home Places in the Smokies” at 7 p.m. Aug. 13 in the Jackson County Historic Courthouse in Sylva.

828.631.2646.

• The “Dauntless Diamond Dames” of the Franklin Red Hat Society will meet at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, at the Sunset Restaurant located at 498 Harrison Ave. For more info, call Pat McGee at 349.4195 or Donna Powell at 349.1976.

• Haywood Community College’s Creative Arts Department will hold its inaugural Community Craft Night from 4-8 p.m. on Aug. 13 in Room 7105 of the Creative Arts Building in Clyde. 565.4240.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Webster’s monthly board meeting is at 5:15 p.m. on Aug. 5 at Webster Town Hall.

HEALTH MATTERS

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 1-6:30 p.m. on Aug. 6 at First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. www.redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 1-5:30 p.m. on Aug. 7 at Jackson County Department on Aging in Sylva. www.redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Aug. 8 at Mountain Valley Fire Department in Franklin. www.redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Aug. 12 at Haywood Regional Medical Center Health and Fitness Center in Clyde. www.redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• A free tired leg/varicose vein educational program is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, at the Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center in Clyde.

Register by calling 452.8346.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from

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1:30-6 p.m. on Aug. 13 at Lake Junaluska Baptist Church in Clyde. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• The Macon County Cancer Support Group meets at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, in the cafeteria of Angel Medical Center. Reesa Boyce, Instructor at the Macon County Senior Services Center, will speak on the benefits of Tai Chi. Door prize, light refreshment. Everyone invited.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • Registration for an adult kickball league in Jackson County is under way till Aug. 7. The league starts play Sept. 3 at Mark Watson Park in Sylva. $225 per team.

293.3053.

• Zumba in the Park is scheduled for 7-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 5, at Little Canada Park. Sweatbreaking workout. Register by calling 293.3053.

• Zumba in the Park is scheduled for 7-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 12, at East Laporte Park. Sweatbreaking workout. Register by calling 293.3053.

• Registration is open for the Haywood County Recreation & Parks Department’s Fall Open Adult Soccer League. $260 per team. 7 vs. 7. Games are Aug. 30Oct. 4 at Allen’s Creek Park. For info or placement on a team, call 452.6789 or write drtaylor@haywoodnc.net.

Info also available at www.haywoodnc.net.

• A 25-minute, full-body workout class is held at 5 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Waynesville Recreation Center. Cost is daily admission or membership. For info, call 456.2030.

• A new lunchtime fitness class will be held from noon1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Waynesville Recreation Center. Melissa Tinsley is the instructor.

456.2030.

POLITICAL CORNER • Frye Street Public Hearing is at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 17, at the Town Office on Everett Street.

• Occupy WNC General Assembly is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Aug. 11. Take the rear entrance of the Jackson Justice Center; room 246.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES •A weekly manipulation card game group is forming through the Haywood County Senior Resource Center. If interested, contact Michelle Claytor at mclaytor@mountainprojects.org or 356.2813.

• Senior croquet for ages 55 and older is offered from 9-11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Vance Street Park in front of Waynesville Recreation Center.

Free. For info, contact Donald Hummel at 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

• An iPhone/iPad user group meets from 2-3 p.m. on Tuesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2813.

• A Cribbage group will meet at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville.

356.2800.

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

KIDS & FAMILIES • A video game tournament will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 5, at Waynesville Library. Visit www.haywoodlibrary.org or call 452.5169.

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• “Growing Up WILD,” an early childhood education program organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, is scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 6, in Pisgah Forest. Build on children’s sense of wonder about nature. For ages 18-up. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• Firefighters from the Waynesville Fire Department will talk about fire safety at 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 6 at the Waynesville Library.

• “Science of the Superhero” program with Marvel Comics artist Jerry DeCaire is at 1 p.m. on Aug. 6 at the Waynesville Library.

• A Week in the Woods, a weeklong series organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, is scheduled for 9 a.m.-noon on through Aug. 7, in Pisgah Forest. Focus on the tradition of hunting. For ages 8-15. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• Blue Ridge Books will host a back-to-school “Star Wars Party” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8. Trivia and prizes. Dress as your favorite Star Wars character.

• “Nature Nuts: Turtles,” a program organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, is scheduled for 911 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8, in Pisgah Forest. Learn all about turtles. Story, crafts, game and turtle hunt. For ages 4-7. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• “Exo Explorers: Owls,” a program organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, is scheduled for 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8, in Pisgah Forest. Learn all about owls. For ages 8-13. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• Kebari Fly Tying 101, a program on the art of Japanese fly-tying organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, is scheduled for 9 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Aug. 8, in Pisgah ForestFor ages 14-up.

877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• A Week in the Woods, a weeklong series organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, is scheduled for 9 a.m.-noon on Monday through Friday, Aug. 10-14, in Pisgah Forest. Focus on the tradition of hunting. For ages 8-15. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• A family storytime: fish program is set for 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 11, at Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

• Singer/storyteller Sharon Clarke “the Story Lady” is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Aug. 12 at the Waynesville Library. Refreshments provided.

• A Lego Club for ages five and up meets from 4-5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, at Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

• WNC Martial Arts will hold karate classes from 6-7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at the Old Armory in Waynesville. For more info, contact Margaret Williams at 301.0649 or mvwilliams39@gmail.com.

• Registration for a fall soccer league in Jackson County is open through Aug. 7. Fee is $45; must be four years old but not yet 14 before Aug. 1. Practices start in late August; games start Sept. 12. Register or get more info by calling 293.3053 or visit rec.jacksonnc.org.

• Students in Tuscola and Pisgah High, as well as rising eighth-graders at Waynesville Middle, can purchase books for their assigned summertime reading at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

• Children’s Yoga is at 10:30 a.m. (for ages 3-7) and noon (for ages 8-11) on the second Thursday of each month at Canton Public Library. Sign-up required: 648.2924.

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• “Baby/Toddler Sensory Play Time” is set for 10:30 a.m. on the third Wednesday of each month in the Canton Library Meeting Room. For children ages three months to four years. Visit www.haywoodlibrary.org or call 452.5169 or 648.2924.

• Anime Night is held for teens on the second Monday of each month at the Canton Library. For anime titles that will be shown, call 648.2924.

• Stop by the Macon County Public Library to sign up for its “Every Hero Has a Story” summer reading program. Every child who registers receives a coupon to the Fun Factory. Children who read at least 15 minutes a day for seven days straight will get a prize from the library; children who accomplish this for seven consecutive weeks get a $15 certificate to the Fun Factory. Program runs through Aug. 22.

• Book Buddies for ages 0-3 is from 9:30-10:15 a.m. on Tuesday at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

• Page Pals for ages 3-5 is from 10:30-11:15 a.m. on Tuesday at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

• Story time and kids can make their own piece of art from 10 a.m.-noon every Saturday during the Family Art event sponsored by the Jackson County Arts Council at the Jackson County Farmers Market located at the Community Table, downtown Sylva. On the first Saturday of each month, there is a scavenger hunt with prizes.

399.0290 or www.jacksoncountyfarmermarket.org.

• A Teen Advisory Group meets at 4 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month to discuss YA books and teen program events. http://haywoodlibrary.libguides.com/teen or 648.2924.

up. Free. 488.3030.

ONGOING KIDS ACTIVITIES AND CLUBS • Tennis lessons for ages 5-8 (5:30-6:15 on Tuesdays) and 9-13 (9:30-10:15 a.m. on Saturdays) are offered through the Jackson County Recreation Center. $45.

293.3053.

• Michael’s Kids Club will be held for ages 3-and-up from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturdays at Michael’s in Waynesville. $2 per child for 30 minutes of creative crafts. 452.7680.

• A Lowe’s Build and Grow session for ages 3-and-up is scheduled from 10-11 a.m. on Saturdays at the Sylva (586.1170) and Waynesville (456.9999) Lowe’s stores. Free.

• Art classes are available for kids 10 and older from 4:15-5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Bascom in Highlands. $15 per class. 787.2865 or www.thebascom.org.

•A community breastfeeding information and support group meets from 10:30 am.-noon on the first Saturday of each month in the main lobby of the Smoky Mountain OB/GYN Office in Sylva. Free; refreshments provided. For information, contact Brandi Nations (770.519.2903), Stephanie Faulkner (506.1185 or www.birthnaturalwnc), or Teresa Bryant (587-8223).

• Science Club is held at 6:30 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month for grades K-6 at the Macon County Public Library. 524.3600.

• Macon County 4-H Needlers club, a group of youth learning the art and expression of knitting and crochet crafts, meets on the second Tuesday of each month.

For information, call 349.2046.

• A Franklin Kids’ Creation Station is held from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturdays at uptown Gallery in Franklin.

Snacks provided. $20 tuition. 743.0200.

• Art Adventure classes are taught for ages 5-10 from 3:30-4:45 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Bascom in Highlands. Theme: metal. Instructor: Bonnie Abbott. $20 per month. 787.2865.

• SafeKids USA Blue Dragon Tae Kwon Do School offers defense training with after-school classes Monday through Friday and Saturday mornings.

627.3949 or www.bluedragontkd.net.

• Free, weekly, after-school enrichment classes are offered by the Bascom and MCAA from 3-5 p.m. on Thursdays at Macon Middle School through a grant from the Jim McRae Endowment for the Visual Arts. To register, contact Bonnie Abbott at 743.0200.

• A Lego Club meets on the third Tuesday of each month from 3:30-5 p.m. at Waynesville Library.

452.5169.

• A volleyball development clinic for girls in the fourth through eighth grades will be offered from 6-7 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Waynesville Recreation Center.

Jennifer Parton will oversee the league. $40 for all dates or $5 per session. For more information, contact Parton at 734.1298 or email volleypj@bellsouth.net.

•A Lego club will meet at 4 p.m. every fourth Thursday of the month, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. Library provides Legos and Duplos for ages 3 and

Sylva. Intended for all ages, with a special emphasis on cultural learning for children. Each Explorer’s Club will feature special guests, snacks and crafts that all are pertinent to the theme for that month. 586.2016.

• Smoky Mountain Model Railroaders holds public viewing session from 2 to 4 p.m. the second Sunday of the month, 130 Frazier St. off Russ Avenue in Waynesville. The group runs Lionel-type 3 rail O gauge trains. smokymountainmodelrailroaders.wordpress.com.

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• “Plug in and Read,” a digital story time designed to help preschoolers (ages 3-6) learn early literacy skills, is held at 10:30 a.m. on the second Friday or fourth Monday of each month at Haywood County Public Library. Visit www.haywoodlibrary.org or call 452.5169 or 648.2924.

• Teen time 3:30-4:30 p.m. Thursdays at Waynesville Library. A program for teens and tweens held each week. Each week is different, snacks provided. 3562511 • Homework Help, 3 to 5 p.m. Mondays 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, firstserved basis. Katy, 648.2924.

•Teen Advisory Group, first Wednesday of each month at 4 p.m. For ages 13-18. Teens can enjoy snacks while discussing popular young adult books, help plan events and displays for children and teens at the library, and participate in community service projects.

Canton Library, 648.2924.

• The American Girls Club meets at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. The club meets one Saturday a month, call for details. Club is based on a book series about historical women. Club members read and do activities. Free. 586.9499.

• A Lego Club meets the second Thursday of the month at 4 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. at the Macon County Public Library. 526.3600.

• A Lego Club meets the second Tuesday of the month at 4 p.m. at Jackson County Public Library. 586-2016.

• A Lego Club meet the second Wednesday of the month at 5 p.m. at Cashiers Community Library.

743.0215.

• Explorer’s Club for kids will be held on the third of each month at the Jackson County Public Library in

• Teen Time, first, third, and fourth Tuesdays at 4 p.m. for ages 12 and up. Spend time with other teens talking about and sharing with each other. Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• A Teen Writing Group will meet at 6 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month at Jackson County Library, ages 12 and up. 586.2016

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• Games for kids on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 4:30 p.m. at the Jackson County Public Library. Play a variety of games including AWE After School Edge Computers, board games and other fun activities. 586.2016.

• Projects and activities after school Fridays, 3:30 p.m. for school age kids at Jackson County Public Library. Get your hands dirty with science experiments, discovering animals and making easy recipes.

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• Adventure Club on Tuesdays 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. for grades K-2 at the Macon County Public Library. 524.3600.

• Mary Ann’s Book Club on Wednesdays 3:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Books and hands-on activities for grades 36. Macon County Library. 526.3600.

• Culture Club on the second Wednesday of the month, 1 to 2 p.m. Guest speakers, books, photos, crafts and food from different countries and cultures.

Macon County Public Library. 524.3600.

• Children’s craft time, fourth Wednesday, 3:45 p.m. at Cashiers Community Library. 743.0215 • The Wee Naturalist program, which is for children ages 2-5 (with a parent or guardian), is held from 1011:30 a.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays at the North Carolina Arboretum. Age-appropriate activities such as nature walks, garden exploration, stories, crafts and visits from classroom animals $7 cost per child; $3 more for each additional child in a family. Register at: www.ncarboretumregistration.org/Wee-Naturalistsfor-Pre-K-2014-15-C264.aspx

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August 5-11, 2015

• An animated family adventure will be shown at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 11, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. The movie’s about a mysterious potion that prompts a group of elves, goblins, imps and more

on an adventure inspired by William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” For info including movie title, call 488.3030.

• Family Story Time at 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays for children ages 1-5, themed stories, music, and a craft.

Canton Library, 648.2924.

• A free kids movie, “Spongebob: Sponge Out of Water” will be shown at noon and 2 p.m. every Saturday in August at The Strand in Waynesville.

• Mother Goose Story Time at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays for babies ages 5 months to 24 months with rhymes, songs, stories, and free play. Canton Library, 648.2924.

• Free showings of “E.T.” are scheduled for 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 7-8 and 14-15. www.38main.com or call 283.0079.

• Rompin’ Stompin’ Story Time, Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. for children ages 1-5 — children get to sing, dance, and get out all their energy during this movement-filled story time. Canton Library, 648.2924.

• A children’s movie about an inflatable robot will be shown at 1 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 10, at Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

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• Family movies, rated PG, are shown at 2 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month of the summer at Canton Public Library. Call 648.2924 for movie titles.

• Baby Storytime is at 11 a.m. on Wednesdays at the Jackson County Public Library. Songs, fingerplays and stories for infants through toddlers. 586.2016

• Children’s movie time, 1 p.m. Mondays at Jackson County Public Library. Call for title of movie. 586.2016.

• Between the Lines is held at 6 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month at Jackson County Public Library. A writing, art and creativity workshop for teens ages 12 and up. 586.2016

• Family movie time Thursdays, 3:45 p.m. at Albert Carlton, Cashiers Community Library. Free with popcorn. Call for title. 743.0215.

• Kid’s story time Saturdays, 11 a.m., all ages at City Lights in Sylva 586.9449.

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• Rotary Reader Kid’s Story time, Mondays 11 a.m. at Jackson County Public Library. A rotary club volunteer reads stories with children. 586.2016.

• Mother Goose Time, a story time for babies and toddlers (5 months to 2 years) and their parents/caregivers, is held at 11 a.m. on Tuesdays at the Waynesville Library. 452.5169

• Kids story time, Tuesdays and Fridays 11 a.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. at Jackson County Public Library.

Story time includes books, puppets, finger plays, songs and crafts. 586.2016.

• Family Story Time, 11 a.m. Wednesdays at the Waynesville Public Library. Stories, songs, crafts.

452.5169.

• Pre-school story time, second Wednesday, 11 a.m. at Cashiers Community Library. 743.0215.

• Movers and Shakers story time is at 11 a.m. every Thursday at the Waynesville Library. For all ages.

Movement, books, songs and more. 452.5169.

• Preschool Story time, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m., Marianna Black Library. After a book or two is read, the children participate in games, songs, finger plays, puppet play and make a craft to take home.

488.3030.

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• Family storytime with crafts, second Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. at the Waynesville library. 452-5169.

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MACON • Sing and Sign Story Time, second and fourth Mondays, 10 a.m., Macon Public Library. Designed for children 0-24 months, but all ages are welcome.

524.3600.

• Paws 4 Reading, a family story time, will be held from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. third Thursday of the month at Macon County Public Library. Children can read to a therapy dog. (grades K-6). 524.3600.

• Toddlers Rock, first and third Mondays, 10 a.m., Macon Public Library. Music, movement and instruments (Designed for children 0-24 months, but all ages are welcome).

• Family Story Time for ages 0 to 5 years is held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday and Thursdays at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. 524.3600.

• Bilingual Story time – 6 to 6:30 p.m., second and fourth Wednesday. Program reads a children’s book in English and Spanish at the Macon County Public Library. 526.3600.

• Paws 4 Reading, a family story time, will be held from 3:30-5:30 p.m. every Tuesday at Hudson Library in Highlands. Children (grades K-6) practice early reading skills by reading to a canine companion. Info: www.fontanalib.org, www.readingpaws.org or 526.3031.

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• The Mountain Street Dance will be from 6:30-9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, in front of the Historic Courthouse in downtown Waynesville. Old-fashioned mountain music and clogging, with instruction offered to any and all.

Free. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

• Tickets are on sale now for the second-annual Best of Controlled Chaos Film Festival, which will be held Saturday, Aug. 15, in Highlands. $75 per ticket (plus $5 tax). Available at Highlands Area Chamber of Commerce, the Highlands Performing Arts Center or by calling 227.7028.

• Art After Dark is from 6-9 p.m. on the first Friday of every month in Downtown Waynesville and Historic Frog Level. Stroll through participating galleries. Waynesvillegalleryassociation.com.

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• Pickin’ in the Park is from 7-10 p.m. on Fridays at the Canton Rec Park. Free. Cantonnc.com or 648.2363.

• Porch 40 (rock/funk) performs at 7 p.m. on Aug. 7 as part of the Concerts on the Creek series at the Bridge Park Pavilion in Sylva. Free. www.mountainlovers.com.

• Southern Highlands (bluegrass/Americana) performs at 6 p.m. on Aug. 7 as part of the Friday Night Live summer concert series in Highlands.

Free. www.highlandschamber.org.

• The Jackson Taylor Band (rock/country) performs at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 7 as part of the “Groovin’ on the Green” summer concert series at the Village Commons in Cashiers. www.visitcashiersvalley.com.

• “Music on the River” concert series will feature AM SuperStarts from 7-9 p.m. on Aug. 8, in the riverside area of downtown Cherokee. Free.

800.438.1601, 359.6490 or travel@nc-cherokee.com.

• Elvis tribute artist David Morin will perform Aug. 7-9 at HART in Waynesville. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 7-8, and at 3 p.m. on Aug. 9, with a barbecue dinner starting one hour prior to each show. $35 per ticket; proceeds go to HART’s “Stage II” building fund. 456.6322 or www.harttheatre.org.

• Aaron Tracy Band will perform from 7-10 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8, at Fontana Village Resort. Fontanavillage.com.

NIGHTLIFE • A jazz night featuring the Kittle/Collings duo is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Aug. 6 and 13 at Innovation Brewing in Sylva. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Unto These Hills Drama is performed at 7 p.m. every night except Sundays through Aug. 15 at the Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee. For more info, contact Laura Blythe at 497.1126.

• Tickets are now on sale for “An Appalachian Evening” summer concert series featuring bluegrass, blues, folk and old-time mountain music. The series started on June 27 in Stecoah. Season tickets are $150.To purchase tickets, visit: www.stecoahvalleycenter.com/secure.

• The Maggie Valley Opry House will have legendary banjoist Raymond Fairchild at 8 p.m. nightly through October. Admission is $12. www.raymondfairchild.com or 926.9336.

• Playing on the Planet (indie) performs at 6 p.m. on Aug. 7 at Big Wesser BBQ at the Nantahala Outdoor Center. www.noc.com.

• Wyatt Espalin (Americana/rock) performs at 8 p.m. on Aug. 7 at Nantahala Brewing Company in Bryson City. Free. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• Karaoke with Chris is scheduled for 9 p.m. on Aug. 7 at O’Malley’s Pub & Grill in Sylva. 631.0554 or www.facebook.com/omalleysofsylva.

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• Bobby Sullivan Band plays at 6 p.m. on Aug. 7 at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Free. 454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

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• PMA (jam/rock) performs at 9 p.m. on Aug. 7 at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. Free. 586.2750 or nonamesportspub.com.

• Lyric (roots) performs at 7 p.m. on Aug. 7 at Rendezvous in Maggie Valley.

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• Fine Line performs at 7 p.m. on Aug. 8 at Rendezvous in Maggie Valley.

• The Buchanan Boys (country/rock) perform at 9 p.m. on Aug. 8 at O’Malley’s Pub & Grill in Sylva. 631.0554 or www.facebook.com/omalleysofsylva.

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• SmokeRise (rock) performs at 9 p.m. on Aug. 8 at the Water’n Hole Bar & Grill in Waynesville.

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• Dirty Soul Revival (blues/hard rock) performs at 9 p.m. on Aug. 8 at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. Free. 586.2750 or nonamesportspub.com.

• Guy Marshall (singer/songwriter) performs at 7 p.m. Aug. 8 at Andrews Brewing Company. $5. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

• The Bayou Diesel Band (Cajun/zydeco) performs at 6 p.m. on Aug. 8 at Big Wesser BBQ at the Nantahala Outdoor Center. www.noc.com.

• Chris Jameson (singer/songwriter) performs at 7 p.m. on Aug. 8 at City Lights Café in Sylva. www.citylightscafe.com.

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• Music and Clogging is held from 8-10:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays at the Stomping Ground at 3116 Soco Road in Maggie Valley.

926.1288.

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• Papertown Country Music & Dance Parlor is from 7-10 p.m. on Saturdays at 61-1/2 Main Street in Canton. $8. 736.8925.

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• Howlin’ Bros perform at 8 p.m. on Aug. 7 at BearWaters Brewing Company in Waynesville. www.bwbrewing.com.

• Bogart’s Live Bluegrass/String Band is at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday at 303 S. Main Street in Waynesville. 452.1313.

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• Boogertown Gap String Band performs at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 6 at Bogart’s in Waynesville. 452.1313.

• A ukulele and dulcimer concert by Lois Hornbostel and Ehukai Teves is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 9, at Bryson City Art Center. Free.

488.7843 or www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta.

• “Old Love Songs, New Love Songs and Traditional Mountain Music” of William Ritter and Sarah Ogletree will be presented at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. 488.3030.

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• An Open Mic Night is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Aug. 5 and 12 at Innovation Brewing in Sylva. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Ginny McAfee (singer/songwriter) performs at 8 p.m. on Aug. 6 at Innovation Brewing in Sylva. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• John Shain (blues) will perform with special guest Lorraine Conard at 7:45 p.m. on Aug. 13 at the Strand in Waynesville. $12 in advance; $18 at the door.

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• Saturdays On Pine (Highlands) summer concert series will have the band Nitrograss at 6 p.m. on Aug. 8 in Kelsey-Hutchinson Park. Free. www.highlandschamber.org.

• Nora Jane Struthers and the Party Line (Americana) perform at 8 p.m. on Aug. 9 at the Strand in Waynesville. $15 in advance; $25 at the door.

• The Western Carolina Civil War Round Table will begin its 2015-2016 season with a presentation by Khristopher White entitled “The Battle of Antietam: Missed Opportunities” at 7 p.m. on Aug. 10 at WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center in Cullowhee. 293.5924 or 648.1211.

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• Productive Paranoia (bluegrass/Americana) perform at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 8 at the Bryson City Train Depot. Free. www.greatsmokies.com.

• The Lake Junaluska Singers, a 16-voice professional ensemble, perform during Associate’s Weekend on Aug. 7 at Lake Junaluska. www.lakejunaluska.com/singers or 800.222.4930.

• “Mean Mary” James (multi-instrumentalist) performs at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8, at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. $15 per person. Tickets and dinner reservations at 452.6000.

2177 Russ Ave. Waynesville, NC 28786 Cell: 828.400.9029 ron@ronbreese.com

• Fontana Ramblers will perform from 8-10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, at Fontana Village Resort. Fontanavillage.com.

• Macon Grass (bluegrass) performs at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 8 as part of The Pickin’ on the Square summer concert series in Franklin. Open mic starts at 6:30 p.m. free. www.franklinnc.com.

• Stecoah Valley Center (Robbinsville) will have legendary musician Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’Blues at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 8. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for grades K-12. Dinner served at 6 p.m. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

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• “Music on the River” concert series will feature David Lambert from 79 p.m. on Aug. 7, in the riverside area of downtown Cherokee. Free.

800.438.1601, 359.6490 or travel@nc-cherokee.com.

• Through the Hills (Americana string band) performs at 7 p.m. on Aug. 6 in Community Room of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Free. Co-sponsored by Friends of the Jackson County Public Library.

586.2016.

• ‘Round the Fire will perform folksy American rock, blues, reggae, swing and original music at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. 452.6000

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• The Seventh-annual Mountain High BBQ Festival and Car Show, featuring a Best Burger in Town competition, is scheduled for Aug. 7-8 at the Wayne Proffitt Agricultureal Center in Franklin. 524.3161 or www.MountainHighBBQFestival.com.

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• Deeper Well featuring Paul Davis performs at 8 p.m. on Aug. 8 at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Free.

454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Freeway Revival (rock/jam) performs at 9 p.m. on Aug. 8 at Mixers Bar & Nightclub in Franklin.

369.9211 or www.facebook.com/mixerbarandnightclub.

• Mangas Colorado (Americana/Bluegrass) performs at 8 p.m. on Aug. 8 at Nantahala Brewing Company in Bryson City. Free. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• Caribbean Cowboys perform at 3 p.m. on Aug. 9 at Rendezvous in Maggie Valley.

• Hunter Grigg (singer-songwriter) performs at 2 p.m. on Aug. 9 at O’Malley’s Pub & Grill in Sylva. 631.0554 or www.facebook.com/omalleysofsylva.

• Mark Keller performs at 2 p.m. on Aug. 12 at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Free. 454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Jerry Gaff performs at 6 p.m. on Aug. 12 at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Free. 454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Bogart’s (Waynesville) will have live bluegrass/string music with Bradley Carter at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 13. Free. 452.1313.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • A “Building Bowls Pottery Wheel” class will be taught by Doug Hubbs from 1-4 p.m. on Wednesdays and 8:30-11:30 a.m. on Fridays from through Aug. 27 at Cowee Pottery School in Macon County. $168 class fee plus $17 for clay. www.CoweePotterySchool.org, 524.7690 or info@CoweePotterySchool.org.

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• a “Lidded Bowls on the Pottery Wheel” class will be taught by Hank Shuler from 6-9 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays through Aug. 27 at Cowee Pottery School in Macon County. $168 class fee plus $17 for clay. www.CoweePotterySchool.org, 524.7690 or info@CoweePotterySchool.org.

• Basic Pottery Wheel class taught by Lydia Patillo will be held from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays through Aug. 27 at Cowee Pottery School in Macon County. $168 class fee plus $17 for clay. www.CoweePotterySchool.org, 524.7690 or info@CoweePotterySchool.org.

• Sylva Photo Club offers a two-part learning experience at 2 p.m. on Aug. 8 and 10 a.m. on Sept. 12 to offer a foundation on the medium of cameras: light.

Tony Wu, retired professional photographer and club found, will lead a lecture on Aug. 8; Diane Jettinghoff will lead a field trip on Sept. 12. $5 donation for nonmembers; free for members. 293.9820 or sylvaphotoclub@gmail.com.

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• A wet felting workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Aug. 12 at the Wild Fern Studios in Bryson City.

Prepare a variety of dyed wools to create a 12x12 patch designed to be used as a wall hanging; or make

a variety of ornaments, flowers. Instructor is Karen Taylor of Taylor’s Greenhouse. $20 per person.

828.736.1605.

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • Scott Watkins Fine Photography will be on display during the month of August at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. A reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. Aug. 7 at the library. www.fontanalib.org.

• A new art museum gift shop named “FAMShop” is open from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Monday through Friday in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center on Western Carolina University’s campus in Cullowhee.

Features wide variety of works created by students, faculty, staff members, alumni and friends of WCU. New exhibits are also on display nearby at the Fine Arts Museum Galleries. Admission is free; donations accepted. For more info, call 227.3591 or write ddrury@wcu.edu.

FILM & SCREEN • The Strand in Waynesville will show “Woman in Gold” (1:50) till Aug. 12 (except Mondays). 7 p.m. shows Tuesdays through Saturdays; additional 4 p.m. shows on Saturdays and 2 p.m. shows on Sundays.

• A Free evening movie will be shown at 9:30 p.m. every Friday and Saturday from Aug. 7-28 at the Strand in Waynesville. “E.T.” is scheduled to be shown on Aug. 7-8 and 14-15. www.38main.com or 283.0079.

• “First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee” will be shown at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6 at Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

• “71” will be screened at the Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva on Aug. 6 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

• A classic 1954 musical starring Judy Garland and James Mason will be shown at 2 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, at Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. 2:34. For more info including movie title, call 524.3600.

• “Insurgent” will be screened at the Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva on Aug. 7 and 8 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Also at 2 p.m. on Aug. 8. www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

• The ICF Junior U23 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships are scheduled through Aug. 7 at the Nantahala Outdoor Center. Fifteen countries will be represented. More info at noc.com.

• “Exploring Waterfalls and Wildflowers in the Southern Appalachian Mountains,” a program featuring Clemson emeritus professor Timothy Spira, is scheduled for 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Aug. 6 at the Nature Center at the Highlands Biological Station. Free.

526.2221.

• Gem City Forum Toastmasters Club #296 meets at 5:30 p.m. every Tuesday in The Drake Education Center in Franklin. www.gemcityforum.org.

• The SCHGS annual picnic is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 6 at Morgan Pavilion in the Recreation Park.

• Entries are being accepted for the Haywood County Fair Horse Show. $3 entry fee per class; $10 for Championship classes. Shows are at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. 646.9432, 712.8969 or www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org • Entries are being accepted for the Haywood County Fair Stock Tractor Pull. $10 hitch fees or $25 for three hitches. Event is at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29.

456.3575 or 246.5167.

• Entries are being accepted for the Haywood County Truck Pull. Hook-up fee is $10. For rules and regulations, contact Damon Swanger at 476.1116. Event is at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• A farm-to-table dinner will be held at 6 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 8, at Hidden Valley Farm in Clyde.

There will also be live music. Tickets are $50 per person. 450.2232 or www.hiddenvalleyfarmnc.com.

• A free wildlife habitat management workshop presented by the Southern Appalachian Brand of the Quality Deer Management Association and the Western Carolina Quality Deer Management Program is scheduled for 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. on Aug. 8 in Leicester.

Register by calling 442.2674.

• A new movie starring Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur will be shown at 2 and 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 12, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. 1:44; PG. 524.3600.

• Highlands Plateau Audubon Society will hold its annual picnic at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 9, at the Highlands Civic Center/Recreation Park pavilions.

Meat course and drinks provided; bring a side dish. $5 fee per person. For reservations, contact Dee Andry at 787.1586. www.highlandsaudubonsociety.org, 526.1939, 200.0288 or 787.1387.

• “Coal Ash Stories” – four short films illustrating health concerns, policy issues and ways communities respond – will be shown at 2 and 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, at Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

524.3600.

• “Exploring Waterfalls and Wildflowers in the Southern Appalachian Mountains,” a program featuring Clemson emeritus professor Timothy Spira, is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 10, at Waynesville Library’s Auditorium. Free. 356.2507.

• A Zahner Lecture entitled “Pheromones, Mating Behavior and the Biomedical Relevance of Salamander Research” is scheduled for 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Aug. 13 at the Nature Center at the Highlands Biological Station. Free. Speaker will be Dr. Richard (Rick) Feldhoff, professor at University of Louisville.

526.2221 or www.highlandsbiological.org.

• Casting for Beginners: Level II, a program on more advanced casting techniques organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, is scheduled for 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 11, in Pisgah Forest. For ages 12-up. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• “Bird Lady” Doris Mager will present her educational birds of prey program at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, at the Waynesville branch of the Haywood County Public Library. 452.5169.

• A special presentation on NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 14, at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman. $20 adults, $15 for seniors/military. Children under 10 are admitted free. www.pari.edu, 862.5554 or cwhitworth@pari.edu.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Registration is open for the Blue Ridge Breakaway, a multi-distance bike ride set for Aug. 15 in Haywood County. Sponsored by Haywood County Chamber of Commerce. Blueridgebreakaway.com or 456.3021.

• Registration is under way for the 34th annual Maggie Valley Moonlight Run and Sunset Fun Run, which is Aug. 22. The Moonlight run is an 8K. $40.

Organized by Glory Hound Events. www.imathlete.com.

• Registration is under way for a long-distance (25K and 50K routes) trail race that’s scheduled for Oct. 10 in Franklin. Early registration is $65 for the 25K and $80 for the 50K through Aug. 28. Proceeds benefit the North Carolina Bartram Trail Society to assist with trail maintenance and promotion. Register at Outdoor 76 in Franklin or at www.active.com. info@outdoor76.com.

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71 Pericles’ “H” 72 Cousin of -ette ACROSS 73 X- 1 Person bearing witness 74 Pattern in which seeds 9 Hip-hop buddies are planted?

14 De-chalk 80 Pen at a zoo 19 Basic notion 81 Sea nymph 21 Arctic, e.g.

82 Hyperlinked address 22 Attach, as a corsage 83 Supermarket chain 23 King’s goal for his 85 Make dim, as overrealm? strained eyes 25 “That’s impossible for 88 Toiled so much that me” you cried?

26 Piano technique 92 Go back to square one improver 95 Past spouses 27 Dodge truck 96 Took way too many 28 Smells awful meds 30 Ontario’s capital, on 97 Opposing sports tickers 98 Delphic diviner 31 Not a thing 101 Student-focused gp.

32 Recall the contents of 102 Some jazz improv an address book?

106 Two things seen in 38 Head, in Caen the toros’ tavern after a 40 Upper limit grueling corrida?

41 - Tunes (old cartoon 111 Sign of a fire series) 112 Orange pekoe, e.g.

42 Kingly Norse name 113 Part of many a con43 Butcher’s cut certo 45 Make - stop 114 Clever sort 47 High-speed Net 115 Actress Gibbs provider 117 “- We Trust” 49 Competitive grey119 Gift from mosque hound trainer who’s been clerics? duped?

124 Rub to clean 55 “- which will live in 125 “Hasta -!” infamy” 126 PIece of magnetite 56 Garments 127 Skating great Sonja 57 Prefix with colonialism 128 Attempt 58 Major crime 129 Go Daddy and 61 God of war Network Solutions, e.g.

62 Going without food as drones do?

DOWN 68 Cooked in the style of 1 Impassioned 69 Pal of Ren 2 One of the girls on “The

Facts of Life” 3 Uproar 4 “Dear me!”

5 More coy 6 Element #50 7 Old name for Tokyo 8 Made to produce more offspring 9 Bashful’s pal 10 Not stay idle 11 Odd duck 12 Relented 13 Smiled devilishly 14 Christian denom.

15 Ocasek of the Cars 16 Asian part of Turkey 17 Like L or R, in phonetics 18 Charge for admission 20 In - (stuck) 24 Diplomats’ hdqrs.

29 Piano’s 88 33 Skip over, as a vowel 34 Look after 35 Filmmaker Kazan 36 Campus military gp.

37 “Shoulda listened to me!”

39 Novelist Bret Easton 44 Not ‘neath 45 A long time 46 President - (acting head) 48 Highway divisions 49 Papas’ partners 50 Fascist aviator Balbo 51 Soda insert 52 Put - show 53 D-H link 54 Family fig.

59 Legal claim 60 Says yes to 62 Little flute 63 “Give - try”

64 Essence 65 “Elysium” actress Alice 66 Like beavers 67 Ogling ones 69 The end of 70 Co. VIP 75 How some games end 76 OPEC stuff 77 Nutrition fig.

78 Angers 79 Obsolete 80 College girls, quaintly 83 Film maker 84 Bus driver’s path: Abbr.

85 Like badly behaved kids 86 Clemency 87 He waited for Godot 89 Lugosi of “Dracula” 90 Yak pack 91 Two- - sloth 93 Cop or call preceder 94 Roll allong on wheels 99 Novelist Huxley 100 Lookalikes 101 “Maybe later” 103 Musician Santana 104 Tilting 105 British river 107 Discoverer of Eminem 108 Hwy. offense 109 Cello’s kin 110 Some of the Plain People 116 In re 118 Yes, to Gigi 120 - Khan 121 Tot’s diverter 122 Lyric poem 123 Jan.-Mar. link

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The naturalist’s corner

BY DON H ENDERSHOT

Company for coffee

We continued watching and listening as the sun climbed. Pelicans and a wood stork joined the aerial display. A great crested flycatcher added its empathic “weeep” to the morning chorus. And I kept a watch on the water near the adjacent pier.

I heard some splashing and then the bump reappeared. Only, this time there were two bumps — and the unmistakable profile of Alligator mississippiensis, the American alligator. When an alligator is at rest in the water, often only the head breaks the surface. The eyes create a silhouette or bump, plus, in front of the eyes (depending on which way the gator is facing) is a smaller bump — the nostrils. The rest of the snout is usually underwater, thus not visible.

While it’s not an exact science — and on exceptionally large gators (10 feet or better) it may be even more skewed — but you can mentally measure the distance between the eyes and nostrils in inches (say it’s 5 inches) and that gives you a really good approximation of the length of the gator in feet — 5 feet.

Now, this was a little fella about 3 to 4 feet, but he was still a bit of a surprise.

Alligators seem to have an aversion to brackish — and even more so to salt — marshes. I

ue to the generosity of great friends Bill and Elaine Cave of Asheville, my family has enjoyed a summer respite on Isle of Palms in South Carolina for a decade or so. We made it down around 5 p.m. on Sunday (8/2) — still enough time for the girls to hit the beach for a while.

The next morning Denise and I took our coffee to the end of the pier that reaches out into the brackish marsh. It’s nice watching the marsh wake up in the early morning. We were greeted by marshy sounds — the popping of pistol shrimp; the laughing of gulls; the grunting of great egrets; the cop-cop of green herons; the loud tic-tic-tic of a clapper rail; the chirping of barn swallows hawking insects and the splashing of minnows and fish in the shallows as the tide flowed in.

Some splashing and movement under an adjacent pier caught my eye. I could see a small “bump” just breaking the surface of the water. I took another sip of coffee to try and jump-start some grey matter to determine what I was looking at. Crab seemed most logical, but I couldn’t figure how a crab could present that kind of image; maybe a frog? And then the bump submerged.

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don’t know the “whys” for this, if it’s physiological or simply a preference. I tried a short Internet search this morning but couldn’t find anything definitive, only that they have a preference for fresh water.

A hundred years or so ago, when I was in college, I did an internship at Rockefeller National Wildlife Refuge in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. We caught alligators all summer.

I remember we got a call one day reporting a large (10-foot plus) gator beached in the Gulf of Mexico. A crew went out and res-

cued him, and I remember hearing that once they get in salt water it impairs their “homing” ability and they become disoriented.

This guy just followed the tide as it was coming in. He passed next to our pier and seemed to be following the water as it rose.

It’s not uncommon to see gators in the freshwater lagoons on Isle of Palms, and hopefully “our” gator was simply headed home after a night of foraging.

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist. He can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.)

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Investment Investment Planning Planning College Expense Expense College Planning Planning

Larry East, CFP

Thursday, August 20 from 6 - 7 pm

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Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center (classrooms)

Vice President - Investments

75 Leroy George Dr., Clyde

J. Chad Muri, CRPC

Please register by calling 1-800-424-DOCS

Financial Advisor

Dr. Gerald King is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon on the medical staff of Haywood Regional Medical Center.

Dr. King received his medical degree from Loma Linda University School of Medicine. He is certified by the American College of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Jack Webb, Financial Advisor Shannon E. Carlock

Senior Registered Client Associate

828.456.7407 Investment and insurance products: NOT FDIC Insured

NO Bank Guarantee

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Wealth Transfer Transfer Wealth Planning Planning

52 Walnut St., Suite #6 Waynesville, NC 28786

Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC, Member SIPC, is a registered broker-dealer and a separate non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company.

Next to Haywood County Chamber of Commerce

(800) 424-DOCS

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