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On the Cover: Food trucks are a growing industry in Western North Carolina, but municipalities are trying to find a way to regulate them without hindering the entrepreneurial spirit of these new business owners. (Page 6)

News Maggie leaders not happy with DOT safety report .......................................... 4 Waynesville’s Russ Avenue gets expanded turn lane ...................................... 5 Hunters claim legal proceedings were unjust .................................................... 9 Feds arrest Sylva businessman ..........................................................................12 Bryson City asks for input on Fry Street closure ............................................ 13 Jackson’s steep slope hearing delayed ............................................................15 Cherokee chief candidates square off ..............................................................16 New rules add non-Cherokee to jury pool ........................................................18 Charter school hires lawyer for land negotiations ..........................................20

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Maggie officials not pleased with DOT report

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR aggie Valley leaders aren’t taking no for an answer after the North Carolina Department of Transportation said nothing could be done to improve safety conditions at the U.S. 19 and U.S. 276 intersection.

The town board has heard numerous complaints and many residents in the valley have witnessed or experienced the dangers of the intersection — especially in the last year.

Following the death of two motorcyclists in early June, the DOT conducted a routine investigation to see if any improvements need to be made to the roadway.

DOT recently came back with a 44-page analysis of the intersection, but its conclusion of “No recommendations” surprised town officials. It’s understandable that the DOT wants to show it is not liable for these types of vehicle fatalities, but the board found it hard to believe the report offered no suggestions for improvement.

Maggie Valley Alderman Mike Eveland, manager of Maggie Valley Inn at the corner of the intersection, asked for the subject to be put on the agenda for the board’s Aug. 17 meeting for further discussion.

“I live there and on a daily basis I see what goes through that intersection. To say there’s nothing we can do is — I can’t publically express my thoughts there,” he said at a recent agenda setting workshop. “We as a board have been pleasant and professional about it, and I think that needs to change. I guess we’re going to have to cry louder.”

Town Manager Nathan Clark said he already asked for a meeting with DOT regional traffic safety engineer S.M. Collier, to better understand how he came to the conclusion that nothing could be done. He also wants to express the board’s concerns about public safety.

“I am surprised and disappointed that the current recommendation is ‘no recommendation.’ I look forward to discussing this issue more with NCDOT to better understand their methodology and reasoning for the no recommendation,” Clark said in a follow-up email.

The report did contain a note stating that any brush overhanging DOT right-of-way

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would be trimmed and that DOT would examine the feasibility of relocating two mailboxes on the westbound shoulder of U.S. 19-276 so that roadside signage warning people of the upcoming intersection would be more visible.

Even though the speed limit is 45 miles per hour going through the intersection, many people driving westbound are traveling 60 miles per hour or more as they approach the traffic light. Westbound traffic is also moving downhill and vehicles have limited sight of the traffic light. Traffic turning left and right out of Dollar General — which sits to the right just before the right turn onto Jonathan Creek Road — also creates a traffic hazard.

With tourism on the rise again in the val-

ley, aldermen worry the problem is only going to get worse.

On June 6, Joseph and Michelle Dunlap of Bessemer City were visiting Maggie Valley for a Shriners’ convention being held at the festival grounds. The couple was traveling westbound in the left lane on U.S. 19 on their motorcycle near the Dollar General when they collided with a vehicle that was turning left out of the store onto U.S. 19 eastbound.

Joseph was pronounced dead at the scene and Michelle died later at the hospital.

Maggie Valley resident Billy Case was driving the second vehicle. After an investigation by Maggie Valley Police Department, Case was charged with two counts of misdemeanor death by vehicle after determining Case failed to yield the right of way.

The intersection of U.S. 19 and U.S. 276 going into Maggie Valley has become a dangerous spot for drivers, but the North Carolina Department of Transportation says nothing can be done to improve it. Jessi Stone photo

“We as a board have been pleasant and professional about it ...

I guess we’re going to have to cry louder.”

— Mike Eveland, Maggie Valley alderman

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Maggie Valley resident Otis Sizemore — a Shriner who was instrumental in getting the convention and parade to locate to Maggie Valley this year — started a petition after the accident.

“I’m very disappointed in the report. I don’t know how in the world they can ignore a request from 1,200 people that signed a position and a request from the town to make an area safer for everyone that comes through there,” he said.

one of them was fatal. While nighttime and wet road conditions were factors in several of the crashes, alcohol was not a factor in any of them.

Alderwoman Janet Banks said a recent shakeup at the DOT might help the board out. NCDOT Secretary Tony Tata suddenly resigned in late July and Gov. Pat McCrory appointed Nick Tennyson to the post. Banks said she hopes the new secretary will be more willing to implement safety measures.

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The petition with 1,200 signatures from residents, tourists and business owners asked DOT to consider lowering the speed limit to 35 mph, installing a caution sign with flashing yellow lights and prohibiting left turns out of Dollar General.

“I know they can’t do everything people ask of them, but these are very simple things to slow people down and make it safer,” Sizemore said.

According to the DOT report from the fatal accident, the sight distance from the Dollar General driveway looking eastbound was about 550 feet and determined there was no apparent roadway fault in the accident. The analysis of the intersection also noted that there have been 19 crashes near the intersection since June 2010 and only

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The median in the middle of Russ Avenue in Waynesville has been reconfigured. Becky Johnson photo

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cars to queue up while waiting to turn left into Ingles, Woodard said.

“That additional storage was really warranted there,” he said.

There will also be more room for cars waiting to turn left onto Frazier Street, the road that runs between the Shell gas station and Sagebrush.

Eventually, there will be a new stop light at the intersection with Frazier Street. The intersection will be aligned with a new, secondary entrance road into the Ingles compound, which will run alongside a new Chick-Fil-A flanking Russ Avenue and a new Ingles gas station being built behind HomeTrust Bank.

There’s still a missing piece of the puzzle, however, that keeps the median from functioning perfectly. The median stymies drivers from getting to businesses on the opposite side of the street without doing a U-turn and doubling back — but there’s no designated spot for those U-turns.

For now, the Shell gas station serves as a defacto turning zone. Once drivers clear the median, they make wheeling left turns into the Shell station to loop around.

A long-range plan is in the works to redesign all of Russ Avenue with a median, doing away with the middle left-turn lane everywhere, and providing designated Uturn points, but that plan is several years away from reality.

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER ove it or hate it, the concrete median down the middle of Russ Avenue in Waynesville on the approach to Ingles entrance road is here to stay.

Last week, road crews began tearing up a median that keeps drivers from making careening left turns in and out of McDonald’s.

Median foes — those who like the adrenaline rush of do-or-die, pedal-to-the-metal turns across lanes of oncoming traffic during the Russ rush hour — got their hopes up that the median was perhaps deemed a failed experiment.

But by week’s end, a new median began to emerge in place of the old one — only bigger.

The median was put in several years ago in response to accidents caused by left-turners. A record 25 accidents happened in front of McDonald’s during a six-month period in 2006, prompting the median.

But it created a new problem: the median ate up part of the turn lane where cars queue up at the stop light waiting to get into Ingles.

“The left-turning traffic would fill up available space in the turn lane, and back up into the thru lane of traffic in Russ Avenue,” said Jonathan Woodard, district engineer for the N.C. Department of Transportation.

“There was only about 160 feet or so of leftturn storage before you ran into the island.”

The median shortened the turn lane into Ingles, leaving room for only eight to 10 cars.

During busy times, a line of cars would overflow into the regular travel lane, causing congestion, Woodard explained.

The new median is more like a narrow, elevated curb than a traditional median. The slim footprint allows the median to co-exist with the left-turn lane into Ingles rather than consume it — allowing for twice as many

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said buying a food truck could cost up to $100,000 depending on how big you need it to be. It can be even more if you buy a trailer like he did and convert it to fit your needs.

Rector’s barbecue trailer even has space for his smoker in the back.

“We bought our bare trailer and put it together like I wanted it — it was very tough,” he said. “I would commend any restaurant for doing what we had to do.”

While Rector’s trailer is large enough to be its own commissary — a place to store food, wash dishes and get clean water — other vendors have additional expenses that come with having a separate commissary.

Tina Tuten, owner of Fat Belly’s, which is based in Canton, was paying rent on her commissary building long before she even knew for sure she would be able to operate in town.

She rented a building in Canton to serve as her commissary and operates the truck out of the parking lot.

Paying rent each month on top of buying the truck and fixing it up has been a major investment for her.

That isn’t even including all the permitting costs associated with operating a food truck.

Food trucks like Cosmic Carryout and A Fork in the Road have found fairly permanent locations at Innovation Brewing in Sylva and Lazy Hiker Brewing in Franklin, respectively. But they are also playing rent to the breweries. Cosmic Carry-out uses Innovation’s facilities as their required commissary while A Fork in the Road acts as its own commissary.

Lindsay Kent, owner of A Fork in After spending more than a year moving around Jackson County, Cosmic Carry-out (left) has now found a permanent home at Innovation Brewing in Sylva. the Road, said she understands the Chuck Rector, owner of Blue Ridge BBQ, prepares a brisket smash sandwich (right) for a customer at Frog Level Brewing Company in Waynesville. concerns from restaurants and the Donated photo • Jessi Stone photo town’s desire to regulate food trucks.

“There is definitely a need for some kind of permit process so there is Franklin’s planning board was recently some kind of control over where people tasked with studying the issue and bringing park — even though we’re sheltered from back recommendations for regulating when Food truck – that because of our agreement with the and where food trucks can operate in town. wrap & equipment ...................$85,000

BY J ESSI STONE brewery,” she said. “It makes sense to deal Franklin Mayor Bob Scott said he isn’t Initial product inventory .................$1,500 N EWS E DITOR with problems before they come up.” against the idea of having food trucks, but he Permits and Licenses.........................$300 s the food truck fad filters into counties can see how it could become a problem if the Kent agrees that food truck vendors Website ...............................................$100 west of Asheville, local governments town doesn’t plan ahead. don’t have as many financial burdens as Register/POS.......................................$500 are trying to find a fair balance restaurant owners. On the other hand, she “Several towns have gotten overwhelmed Uniforms..............................................$500 between encouraging entrepreneurship and by them by not looking at the issues — said, mobile vendors also face many chalPaper products...................................$250 protecting their brick-and-mortar food they’re being reactive instead of proactive,” lenges that restaurants don’t, including Misc. Expenses ...................................$500 establishments. being limited by space, having to have an Scott said.

Pots, Pans, etc. ...............................$1,500 Making mobile vendors more stationary off-site kitchen for back-up and having to That was definitely the case in Asheville Fire Extinguisher ................................$150 is one way towns have chosen to deal with the several years ago as mobile food vendors relocate to find customers. new influx of culinary entrepreneurs. As long fought for the ability to set up in the central “No, we don’t have the overhead but SOURCE: Statistic Brain Research Institute as they can find a steady flow of customers, business district. The dispute between mobile trucks can be expensive depending on what it the vendors don’t seem to miss the nomadic vendors and brick and mortar restaurants takes to get it to set up and running,” she said. lifestyle food trucks are accustomed to. Some went on for some time before the city council ened by the concept.

Kent said restaurants shouldn’t be afraid food truck vendors have hitched their wagons changed the ordinance. Until 2011, food trucks Angel Stockton, owner of Black Bear Café, of a little competition from food trucks. With to craft breweries, while others have found a were banned from the downtown area; then, spoke against allowing food trucks at all limited unique food options in town, more few reliable spots within their county. only 10 were allowed at one time; now, any — even on private property. She claimed they variety is always a plus for residents and Municipalities that want to offer some- number of food trucks can set up as long as don’t contribute to the economic development tourists. Also, sometimes people will want to thing new and faddish for tourists and locals they have an approved lease on a specific site. of the town because they don’t provide many sit down in a restaurant for a quick meal and are developing regulations to allow food jobs and don’t pay property taxes. Lower over- sometimes they’ll want to sit outside the trucks while trying to protect established can lead to mobile vendors being able to brewery and have a quick bite.

OOD TRUCK FAIRNESS head brick-and-mortar restaurants.

“When something new comes in, you offer lower prices than restaurants.

After heated debate, Canton recently But mobile vendors will tell you that start- have to step up your game, so I think there is Scott said he brought up the issue of food passed an ordinance that allows food trucks trucks at a recent board meeting to make sure ing a food truck business is not a cheap room for both,” she said. within the town limits, but only on private Franklin looks ahead before it becomes a endeavor. Chuck Rector, owner of Blue Ridge S EE TRUCKS, PAGE 8 problem. Franklin has only a few semi-per- BBQ food truck based in Haywood County, 6 property.

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manent food trucks, but several more set up during downtown festivals.

“How fair would it be for a food truck to pull up within a block of a restaurant that is there year-round paying city taxes and taking the bad with the good?” he said. “While the food truck takes all the goods and is gone. I’m not against entrepreneurs — that’s not the case — I just want to make sure we look at all the pros and cons.”

Restaurants in Canton made the same argument to town officials when the board of aldermen was considering allowing food trucks. Though Canton has a limited number of restaurants — and wants to boost options for tourists — established eateries felt threat-

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Each municipality can adopt its own ordinance to regulate when and where food trucks may set up shop.

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A Fork in the Road, a new food truck located at Lazy Hiker Brewing in Franklin, uses mostly fresh, local produce when coming up with menu favorites like the Brasstown beef tacos f (above). Below: the veggie quesadilla and hand-cut fries are a popular choice at Cosmic Carry-out located outside of Innovation Brewing in Sylva. Donated photos

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Waynesville’s ordinance does not specifically address food trucks, according to Town Manager Marcy Onieal. The town does have a “temporary use provision” that allows food trucks to be permitted.

“To date, we’ve had no requests for permanent placements of food trucks, nor to my knowledge, have we had complaints about the temporary usages that crop up in association with festivals,” Onieal said. “We have issued the occasional temporary use permit, which, for the time being, is how we would continue to handle food trucks.

When food trucks want to be part of festivals on Main Street, Onieal said the entire festival is permitted to allow food vendors instead of each individual food truck. She said the town would be amenable to considering an amendment to the ordinance if specific requests were brought to the town board, but it would require input from the public, the Tourism Development Authority, Downtown Waynesville Association, the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Development Commission.

Food trucks haven’t been an issue is Bryson City either, which is why the town doesn’t have any specific ordinance to address them, said Town Manager Larry Callicutt.

“I’m not sure we will unless something comes up,” he said. “They have to meet so many standards through the health department, so that’s the first place I refer people.”

As for parking on Min Street or other public parking areas, Callicutt said the town’s parking ordinance does prohibit vehicles from parking downtown over a certain amount of time.

“They would have to find a parking lot,” he said. “I think we have enough stuff on the books to take care of issues like that.”

SYLVA’S POLICY According to Sylva Town Manager Paige Dowling, the town has not specifically addressed food trucks in its ordinance.

So far, three food trucks within the city limits have been granted an itinerant merchant permit to be able to operate.

FRANKLIN Franklin doesn’t yet have a policy regarding food trucks, but Mayor Bob Scott wants to get something in place before it becomes a bigger issue. He doesn’t have a

CASHIERS Cashiers does not allow food trucks, but a temporary-use permit has been issued before for a mobile food cart serving hotdogs.

Members of the Cashiers Planning Council have made it clear that the community doesn’t want food trucks or food carts in town. The council recently discussed the issue of mobile vending at a July 27 meeting when a food cart vendor asked to extend her temporary use permit that allows her to sell hotdogs in the Village.

“When we had the big community wide food truck discussion, there was tons of community opposition, overwhelming negative for food trucks. What is the difference between a food truck and a hot dog cart? It is setting up a food operation outside the normal restaurants to sell food intermittently,” said Ann McKee Austin.

Council members chose not to renew the temporary use permit.

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to everyone, we especially want food that goes well with beer.”

Food trucks and craft breweries have formed a close relationship that seems to be a successful partnership for both parties. Many craft breweries need a way to feed their customers without having a commercial kitchen while food trucks are usually desperately searching for a steady flow of foot traffic.

Blue Ridge BBQ sets up on the weekends at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville and Fat Belly’s has been invited to offer food at Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City. A Fork in the Road has found a happy home outside of Lazy Hiker Brewing in Franklin while Cosmic Carryout has settled in at Innovation Brewing in Sylva.

Jennifer FitzSimons and Gadson Griffis of Cosmic Carryout said they keep their menu simple — cheese burgers, veggie burgers, fries and occasional specials like pork tacos or bratwurst subs.

“You have to have a small menu to focus on what you’re good at,” FitzSimons said.

“We don’t advertise it as such but we’ve been told we have the best burgers.”

While Fat Belly’s just opened in Canton, owner Tina Tuten said she is receiving great feedback on the food, which includes a little bit of everything — burgers, many varieties of gourmet fries, Indian fried breads and a shrimp po’boy sandwich.

“Everyone is so excited to check out our menu,” she said. “I had 200 printed and now they are all gone.”

Food trucks don’t have big advertising budgets, but many of them rely on social media to keep their customers up-to-date on daily specials and locations for the day if they are moving around.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR obile vending is no longer limited to fast food staples like pizza, hamburgers and hotdogs.

The variety and quality of food offered through mobile vendors continues to grow with the industry. Asheville alone has more than 60 food trucks offering everything from “farm to truck” cuisine to gourmet tacos.

That variety is starting to take shape in other western counties as well.

Haywood County has several food trucks popping up — the El Lemon taco truck that rolls into town only on Saturday nights outside of R.E.O.’s in West Waynesville, Fat Belly’s in Canton offering an eclectic menu of Americana favorites and Blue Ridge BBQ offering one-ofa-kind spins on old time favorites.

“Just like any restaurant, you have to have a good product,” said Chuck Rector, owner of Blue Ridge BBQ. His menu includes the traditional barbecue pork plates, but customers also enjoy his unique options like the brisket smash sandwich and the cornbread salad.

Over in Franklin, the chefs at A Fork in the Road food truck use fresh, local and inseason produce to change up their menu.

Lindsay Kent and Jeff Southerland prepare tacos using Brasstown beef, local corn, Vidalia onions, cilantro and chipotle salsa.

Another featured special has been a turkey wrap with local arugula, goat cheese, Florida cantaloupe and chipotle mayonnaise.

“We try to do mostly local and fresh as much as possible — we have a standard menu with a Brasstown beef burger, a Cuban sandwich or a veggie quesadilla,” Kent said.

“We want to keep things tasty and appealing

Until this year, Canton prohibited food trucks within the town limits, but the board of aldermen passed an amendment in April to allow mobile food vendors under certain conditions.

• Food trucks are not allowed in residential areas.

• Can only operate on private property between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. in areas zoned for business and industry.

• Food truck vendors must have a signed health department certificate, proof of insurance, a driver’s license and written permission from a private property owner to receive a privilege license and an annual permit from the town.

problem with them on private property but doesn’t want them to be in public places taking business away from brick and mortar establishments.

The Franklin Board of Aldermen directed the planning board last month to review policies regarding food truck operations.

Franklin has two food trucks that operate on private property but can relocate for festivals and special events.

Under the current ordinances, Planning Director Justin Setser said food trucks can basically come and go as they please, which is why the town is looking to implement some basic rules.

“They can go wherever they want right now. They could set up in a residential area if they wanted,” he said. “What we’re looking at is just basic stuff — making sure they’re not in a right of way, making sure they’re disposing of grease properly and making sure they’ve got everything they need from the health department.”

He said the planning board would meet again Monday to discuss food trucks and have invited the food truck vendors to the meeting.

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where you want to set up shop, the regulations can be slightly different. Rector said his experience trying to get proper permitting was sometimes frustrating. He felt like he had to jump through a new hoop every time he parked his barbecue trailer somewhere.

“Since we were the first one (food truck) in Haywood County, they didn’t know what to do with us,” he said. “The permits are hard to get. You don’t see too many around here because the county puts hard pressures against them — took us two years to get permitted.”

It’s one type of permit to set up shop for one day at a festival and it’s another type of permit to be able to set up outside a brewery.

It’s also a different process if you are acting as your own commissary.

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DECIDING TO DOWNSIZE Restaurants may feel like food truck vendors are cheating the system, but there is a reason these entrepreneurs moved to a mobile kitchen. They couldn’t afford the rent or taxes, staff and the hassles that go with running a full-time restaurant.

Rector ran Blue Ridge BBQ out of a Main Street storefront in Waynesville for several years, but business just wasn’t consistent enough to keep it going. Now he and his wife Wendy set up for a few hours at a festival or a brewery and make as much as they would in an entire day.

“But the nice thing now is we can run the trailer just like a restaurant but we don’t have the employees, large bills and landlords to worry about,” he said.

He’s also found success serving at festivals from here all the way to Myrtle Beach, S.C., and lunch to employees at the ConMet plant in Beaverdam.

Kent, who has a culinary arts degree and worked in the restaurant industry since she was 17, said there is something special about serving food directly to customers.

“You get to interact directly with the people cooking your food,” she said. “People are excited to have something new and different — food trucks are appealing on many levels but they come with unique challenges.”

Tuten owned a restaurant in downtown Canton — Simple Taste Grill & Catering — for six years before having to shut down the family restaurant in 2013.

“I’ve missed it so bad. I miss my customers; that was my passion,” she said.

She’s spent the last three years working at the casino in Cherokee while trying to figure out how to get back to her passion.

Having a food truck lets her have the best of both worlds.

“It’s much easier. The overhead’s not bad,” Tuten said. “I mean I still have to lease a

Food truck industry data Annual food truck revenue ......$1.2 billion Industry revenue increase over the past five years .........12.4 percent Total number of food trucks in the U.S............................................4,130 Average revenue generated per food truck .............................$290,556 Average spending per order at a food truck.................................$12.40 Average cost of food truck ...........$85,000

building but it’s nothing like the expenses that come with a restaurant.”

FitzSimons and Gadson Griffis are entering their third year of business with Cosmic Carry-out. While he was a lawyer in a prior life, Griffis has a lot of experience as a chef.

FitzSimons lived for many years in Portland, Oregon, when food trucks were all the rage.

“We decided to move back to this area — I went to school at Western (Carolina University) — and we found a food truck to buy,” she said.

It’s been a trial-and-error endeavor though. They started by serving lunches at Southwestern Community College, but business has been steadier since they relocated their truck to Innovation Brewing.

“We’re here permanently — we don’t like to move around a lot. It’s a lot of trouble,” FitzSimons said. “Now we’re set up as a permanent restaurant, which is more of the model were used to.”

ROLLING WITH REGULATIONS Food trucks are becoming more popular, but it isn’t like there is a free-for-all food truck epidemic. Just like restaurants, food trucks are regulated by county health departments and are inspected every three to six months.

Depending on what county you’re in or

“People are excited to have something new and different — food trucks are appealing on many levels but they come with unique challenges.”

— Lindsay Kent, owner of A Fork in the Road

In addition to county health department permitting, food truck vendors have to be aware of additional restrictions on their operations — including locations and hours of operation.

Since Fat Belly’s is located within the town of Canton, Tuten has to follow the town’s rules. The town ordinance says that food trucks can only be allowed on private property within business districts between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. A food truck also must obtain a privilege license from the town once it has met all the health department requirements.

The entire process took Tuten several months — earning her SafeServ certification, passing inspections, getting her permits to finally being able to open last week. She had to put up some dry wall, prep tables, a staging room and a commercial refrigerator in the commissary even though she already had one in the food truck.

“Honestly it went much better than I thought it would,” she said. “It was hard but everyone (at the heath department) was super nice.”

Now she is able to operate anywhere in Haywood County as long as she has permission from a private landowner. She has had requests to come to Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville as well as Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City. Fat Belly’s will also be found this fall at the Church Street Festival and Apple Harvest Festival in Waynesville.

Since Cosmic Carry-out relocated to Innovation Brewing, it’s been more of a permanent restaurant than a mobile unit. The brewery serves as its commissary.

FitzSimons said Cosmic Carry-out hadn’t received any push back from the town or local restaurants.

“Sylva and the health department have been wonderful,” she said.

Hunters snared in Operation Something Bruin claim legal proceedings were unjust

Rusty McLean, a Waynesville attorney who is also a hunter (left) and Allyn Stockton, also an attorney, said hunters have been persecuted beyond what their crimes called for.

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Eight people faced charges in Georgia — some of them also facing separate charges in North Carolina.

It is not unusual, however, for law enforcement to bring a suite of charges against a defendant with every expectation some will be dismissed in plea negotiations.

“You see people get loaded up on charges so it gives the prosecutor an opportunity to negotiate and the defense counsel an opportunity to get certain things dismissed,” McLean explained.

But defendants and their families say this system put them in an unfair position, forcing them into a fight they say they never asked for.

“It’s just not right to charge people and they have to go out and spend (money) for lawyers and then just drop it. That’s ridiculous,” Celia Stancil said. “What can you do?

You can’t plead guilty. You gotta defend yourself when they charge you for stuff that you don’t know what you’ve done.”

Most of the charges were clustered in Graham, Haywood and Macon counties — where nine, 11 and nine people were

MOVING TO FEDERAL COURT Tracing the trajectory of the different charges through the court system can get a bit hazy. Some defendants moved from state court to federal court while other defendants faced charges that were federal out of the gate.

Some state charges were dismissed due to a lack of evidence. Others were dismissed because the defendant was facing charges in federal court.

But just because a defendant faced both state and federal charges did not mean the exact charges he faced in state court were dismissed and moved to federal court.

Prosecutors did not simply pick up all the state charges and charge the hunters with the federal equivalent of that state violation.

The concurrent jurisdiction of state and federal courts created a complicated situation for prosecutors to navigate when deciding what charges to bring against defendants.

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of law enforcement,” Stockton said.

While the wildlife agencies behind Operation Something Bruin declined to respond to the allegations directly, Acting U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose did address accusations of from hunters that the federal court system handed down unjust sentences.

“The notion that prosecutors were selective in choosing a judge or that innocent people were targeted is not only inaccurate but contrary to the facts laid out in court filings and stated in open court,” she said. “While it is not unusual for those convicted of a crime to proclaim their innocence, it is unfortunate that these individuals continue to misuse the media to fabricate stories where none exist.”

The Smoky Mountain News conducted an investigation and analysis examining these claims. Why were state charges dismissed in such large numbers? Did the wildlife agencies pressure the prosecution and judges to make sure their operation came away with some convictions?

The answers to many of these questions lay in court documents scattered across Western North Carolina county courthouses as well as the archives of the federal courthouse in Asheville.

Here’s what the newspaper’s investigation found: • The majority of state charges were dismissed. Of the 35 people charged in North Carolina, only nine of them received any convictions.

• Most of the people whose cases were taken to the federal level ended up with convictions — 24 people were presented to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for prosecutorial review, and 19 were convicted, although many of

The majority of state charges were dismissed. Rusty McLean, a Waynesville defense attorney for several of the hunters, pointed to this fact as evidence that the charges were unfounded.

Only two men went to trial in North Carolina, and McLean was the attorney in both cases. In one case involving a Haywood County man, McLean never presented his own prepared defense.

He made a motion midway through the trial to dismiss the case for a lack of evidence after cross-examining some of the prosecution’s witnesses. The judge granted the motion.

“That’s almost unheard of,” McLean said.

Many state court judges in other counties began similarly dismissing the cases in their own courts after this.

“Not one state court judge would consider continuing the prosecution of these cases,” McLean said.

In North Carolina, 35 people were formally charged, resulting in 167 state charges.

Local judges dismissed 119 of those charges.

Some of these decisions were based on a lack of sufficient evidence to convict. Nine people were convicted of 46 offenses, but 31 of those offenses came from one person.

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BY KATIE R EEDER SMN I NTERN unters accused in a sweeping bear poaching sting in Western North Carolina have turned the tables on wildlife officers and prosecutors, tarnishing an operation that was initially trumpeted as a victorious round-up of rouge hunters.

“They didn’t realize we were going to fight so hard,” said Linda Crisp, who has rallied hunters across the mountains to speak out, her own husband and son among them.

Operation Something Bruin netted 55 people on various hunting charges during a fouryear undercover investigation. Now, two-anda-half years after the arrests, critics of the operation are decrying it as an overreach of power and a conspiracy between the courts and the agencies to rig the system against the hunters.

“I thought this was America with freedom and justice for all and that you’re innocent until proven guilty, but you’re guilty until proven innocent,” said Celia Stancil, the wife of one of the convicted hunters.

Lawyers are not so much claiming their clients are innocent victims but that they have been treated unfairly.

“I’m not saying everyone in here is lily white,” Allyn Stockton, an attorney for some of the hunters, said at a federal oversight hearing into Operation Something Bruin.

Defense attorneys and those charged, however, have questioned the ethics of the officers, prosecutors and judges involved in the cases — as well as whether the hunting violations warrant such a large-scale undercover operation.

“In a nutshell, it’s probably the largest mass misdemeanor operation in the history

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charged, respectively. Haywood County convicted the most defendants, convicting four people of one charge each.

Most of the charges were dismissed because the district attorneys and judges involved did not think the officers’ conduct would withstand scrutiny, said McLean.

“I think they were dismissed because they didn’t want to mess with them and they knew it was a bad situation,” he said.

This was clearly not the outcome wildlife agencies hoped for.

“They were disappointed to say the least,” McLean said.

McLean alleged that once wildlife officers struck out in state court, they figured out a way to move the charges to federal court, in hopes of securing more convictions there.

“It was after that the wildlife officers went to the U.S. Attorneys and created federal crimes they could then prosecute these men for in federal court,” he said.

This slow unraveling seems to be a trend in many of the Something Bruin cases. The operation was not unsuccessful. Wildlife officers did find hunters who had broken laws, but the operation was not on the grand scale agencies originally claimed.

Initial press releases from the agencies touted an operation that roped in more than 80 people for about 900 wildlife violations.

Officers reported observing 709 violations in North Carolina. Those 709 violations resulted in 167 charges against 35 people, but only 46 of those charges stuck and led to convictions for nine people.

Major Stephen Adams with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources said the purpose of press releases was to deter other would-be violators.

“The media plan was to give an overview of the operation and discuss the number and types of charges that were made,” he said.

“This number continued to decrease as the charges went through the vetting and oversight process.”

It was after judges started dismissing state court cases that the federal charges came about.

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those were pleas to minor hunting infractions.

• No felony convictions came as a result of the operation. Defendants were only convicted of misdemeanors and petty offenses.

• Four of the 24 defendants at the federal level had a trial before a jury.

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tive prosecuting attorneys reviewed all violations prior to charges being filed. It is also my understanding that after charges were filed, some charges were dismissed, many of which referenced the Petite Doctrine, which limits and prioritizes prosecutions if overlapping jurisdiction exists,” said Gordon Myers, executive director of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.

Federal charges can be brought against people who have broken a federal law, committed a crime on federal land or committed a state violation that crossed state lines, explained McLean. Only the cases that fit at least one of these criteria appeared in federal court.

For example, a hunter charged with hunting deer at night would have violated a North Carolina law, and his case would proceed through the North Carolina court system. But if this hunter committed this violation in the Nantahala National Forest, the federal court would have jurisdiction and could bring charges against him.

Most of the Something Bruin cases in federal court got there because the violations occurred on federal land — mostly in the Nantahala National Forest. This explains why several defendants who had charges from Graham and Macon counties also appeared in federal court while no defendants from Haywood County moved to federal court, as those all involved hunting on private land.

Of those who were ultimately charged in both state and federal court, the state charges came first, and after cases were dismissed there, were reopened in federal court.

This shuffling has prompted many critics to say the move to federal court was a play by the agencies to justify the time and money invested in the operation by ensuring they did not come up empty-handed.

“It was after that the wildlife officers went to U.S. Attorneys and created federal crimes they could then prosecute these men for in federal court,” McLean said.

The conviction rate was much higher in federal court. Federal prosecutors tend to be more selective in deciding in which cases to bring charges, typically going for the strongest cases they feel confident will result in convictions. Further, many of the defendants with federal charges simply received a

citation for their violations and pled guilty without the need for a trial.

Records from the N.C. Wildlife Resource Commission indicate that 39 charges were brought against 24 individuals in federal court. A total of 19 people were convicted.

Many of those only faced petty offenses, which rank below misdemeanors and are heard in front of a magistrate judge rather than a jury, and were worked out in plea agreements.

ALLEGATIONS OF MISUSE OF PETTY OFFENSE CHARGES A handful of hunters charged in federal court chose to fight the charges, however.

The first ones to come before a jury didn’t go well for prosecutors and wildlife officers.

Juries found the hunters not guilty, or the juries knocked down the severity of the charges.

This prompted prosecutors and wildlife officers to try a new strategy: getting rid of the juries and having magistrates judge hear the remaining cases.

Linda Crisp, whose husband and son were among the hunters redirected from a jury trial to a magistrate judge, claims this was a ploy.

“They were so vindictive and they were just determined someone was going to get time. We won the first two jury trials. They were afraid we would get a third win so they dropped it down to magistrate court,” Linda Crisp said.

Although the Bill of Rights grants the right to a jury, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that defendants’ jury trials are unnecessary for petty offenses — offenses that carry less than six months in jail or a $5,000 fine, McLean explained. “(The Supreme Court) has interpreted that plain language to say that six months or that fine is not a substantial deprivation of either a man’s freedom or his property,” McLean said.

But McLean believes that no defendant should be sentenced to jail time without first being convicted by a jury.

“That is what I dispute,” he said. “That may be what the Supreme Court says the law is, but even a fifth-grader understands the plain language of what those words say.”

He suggested hunters would have been

U.S. Congressman Mark Meadows lead a federal House oversight hearing this summer into the actions of undercover wildlife officers in Operation Something Bruin, and said he was troubled by the aggressive prosecution tactics used against hunters. Becky Johnson photo

This week is the third 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 series is exploring: • 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, the grey area of entrapment and what it takes to go undercover.

Read past stories at www.smokymountainnews.com under “Special coverage.”

more likely to get guilty verdicts from a single judge hearing the case than a jury.

The first batch of hunters to have a federal jury trial was Jerry Parker, Brock Parker and Walt Stancil. The jury knocked down felony charges against Jerry and Walt to a misdemeanor, and found Brock not guilty in September 2014.

A Department of Justice press release touted the verdict as a success resulting in two misdemeanor convictions. But the press release failed to mention three defendants were originally charged for felonies, and that one of the three got off completely.

Chad Crisp had the only other federal jury trial, which occurred later in the same month. He was tried for charges relating to being an unlawful drug user and addicted to a controlled substance while possessing a firearm. The jury found him not guilty of both charges, as the law enforcement officer testifying against him had no hard evidence of his suspicion that Chad was under the influence when they were hunting together.

A POSSIBLE SCAPEGOAT Crisp still faced a number of federal misdemeanor charges awaiting jury trail, but that’s when the federal prosecutor Richard Edwards decided to change course. He converted the misdemeanor charges into petty offenses, allowing the case to move to a magistrate judge instead. While each of the

JUDGE SHOPPING Defense attorneys for the hunters have also claimed that the agencies and prosecution participated in judge shopping, alleging that Howell, who sentenced 12 defendants, is known for handing down harsh sentences that often give people time for violations involving natural resources and public lands.

“This is a judge who has never found anyone not guilty that I am aware of,” Stockton said at a June federal hearing. “He has a propensity for giving jail time.”

According to Stockton, Special Agent Brian Southard with the U.S. Forest Service told Chad Crisp’s lawyer that the charges would be moved down to magistrate court if defendants did not get time in federal district court.

In David Crisp’s October bench trial before Howell, McLean asked Southard if he had ever made such a statement.

“No I never made that,” Southard replied.

Defense attorneys and their defendants remain skeptical, however.

“I think the law enforcement officers

Graham County Attorney Eric Stiles, who represented some of the accused hunters, speaks to a panel of legislators during a state hearing in December, which probed the treatment of hunters in the investigation.

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Edwards went on to explain that the probation office does not get reimbursed for supervising defendants sentenced to probation for petty offenses.

“They only get budgeted and reimbursed for supervising in felonies and misdemeanors, not petty offenses and infractions,” he wrote. “So, they’ve managed to get the court to not impose probation in such cases.”

However, prison time was not the prosecution’s goal. In another email to Stiles, Edwards wrote that the government would prefer the defendants to be banned from national forest lands for one year, surrender their hunting licenses for one year and pay a fine no greater than $1,000.

“I am happy to ask that the sentence not include incarceration, but several attorneys and I have seen, in similar cases, that such a request by the government doesn’t seem to carry much weight, with some defendants who didn’t even end up killing a bear or assisting in an actual killing nonetheless getting active 30-day sentences,” he wrote.

In the email, he proposed that he could dismiss the petty offense charges and file misdemeanor charges so that the defendants could be sentenced in front of U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger, who, Edwards

noted, would possibly be more likely to give probation rather than incarceration.

“The ban and hunting license provisions can only (be) ordered, though, if a defendant is on probation or supervised release,” he wrote. “And Judge Howell is under instructions from the Chief Judge, for budget reasons, not to impose probation in CVB cases.”

DEFENSE ATTORNEYS QUESTION MOTIVES Critics of the operation have voiced concern that U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Howell has been too harsh with the defendants and is biased toward convicting them.

Chad Crisp’s 20-month sentence has been the primary example critics have held up as an abuse of judicial power.

“The defendant and counsel have been unable to locate any record, judgment or other such evidence to indicate that any other defendants have received such a harsh sentence for petty offenses and demand that the government produce some evidence that the sentence in this action conforms with the concepts of due process and equal protection,” Stiles wrote in an appeal to the sentence.

He pled guilty to seven offenses, and Howell sentenced him to five months in prison each for four offenses. Three of those offenses happened on a single hunt on Dec. 3, 2010. Those charges were hunting bear at night during closed season, hunting deer at night and hunting deer with artificial light.

Although Chad Crisp did not kill anything, the law does not require a person to kill any wildlife to be considered hunting.

The maximum penalty for each of these offenses was six months incarceration.

The sentence is legal, but does that make it ethical? Such was the sentiment at the June federal oversight hearing.

“Just because they’re saying, ‘Look, it’s our job’ doesn’t make what’s going on here right,” Stockton said.

Congressmen Meadows said he was disturbed by it all.

“It was of great concern to me because it appeared that we were intentionally trying to put people in jail instead of allowing them to pay a fine or probation,” Meadows said.

Meadows contacted Chief Judge Frank Whitney and asked him about the allegation that he had instructed Howell to give jail time rather than probation.

“Much to his credit, he put forth the day after my phone call a clarification memo… that says we should have all the options. They shouldn’t be forced into jail,” Meadows said.

He also expressed concern about the legal system and officers working together to exact punishment on defendants. The court system is supposed to function as part of checks and balances, weighing whether a defendant is guilty of what he has been charged with.

“When we stop that very fundamental principle in our Constitution it is troubling to me,” Meadows said. “The way these particular offenses are stacked, we plan to address that.”

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Chad Crisp wasn’t the only one who ended up at the mercy of a magistrate judge in lieu of a jury trial. Walt Stancil and Chad Crisp’s father, David Crisp, also faced bench trials with no jury in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Howell.

Stancil was originally charged in June 2013 with a misdemeanor for stealing a surveillance camera that belonged to the U.S. Forest Service. Stancil came across the camera in the woods one day and took it without realizing at the time who it belonged to.

The misdemeanor charge was dismissed

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knew where they could get the most bang for their buck,” Stockton said.

Most of the defendants convicted of federal charges were sentenced to active time rather than merely fines or probation. Critics have claimed these punishments do not fit the crimes.

Not everyone Howell sentenced received jail time, but he did sentence 10 defendants to active time, with most of those defendants serving 15 or 30 days.

An email chain from U.S. Assistant Attorney Richard Edwards to Stiles in Jan. 14 suggests that probation in lieu of active time is frowned upon due to higher costs associated with probation.

“Although up to one year of probation is authorized by statute, Judge Howell never imposes probation in (these) cases because the U.S. Probation Office has convinced the Chief Judge to tell him not to,” Edwards wrote.

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and the prosecution instead refiled it as a petty offense that alleged Stancil “knowingly and intentionally (removed) property of the United States.”

Had it been charged as a misdemeanor, Stancil would’ve had the right to a jury trial.

David Crisp faced charges for two petty offenses — one for illegally baiting bears and the other for digging ginseng in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

Howell convicted him of the baiting charge and acquitted him of the ginseng charge.

Howell sentenced him to 90 days in prison and a $2,000 fine.

Prior to his trial, David Crisp and McLean filed a motion to grant him a jury trial, which was denied. In support of this motion, McLean argued that being tried and convicted of multiple offenses could lead to a sentence exceeding six months.

The Supreme Court has held, however, that serving consecutive six-month sentences for multiple petty offenses is permissible and does not entitle the defendant to a jury trial.

“As much as we may or may not like it they can choose the forum where they are or aren’t going to prosecute or charge these crimes. Whether I like it or not, they do have that prosecutorial discretion,” U.S. Congressman Chris Collins of Georgia said during the federal oversight hearing in June.

While acknowledging previous decisions of the Supreme Court, McLean still argued a person should not have to spend time in jail without being convicted by a jury.

“Only Congress can correct this abuse of judicial discretion,” McLean replied. “No man should be in prison, not even for a day, unless he is convicted by a jury of his peers.

When the federal courts can impose multiple petty offenses exposing persons to months or even years in prison, we must act to preserve the integrity of the judicial system so that citizens will be treated, not with tyranny, but with the grand experiment that our founding fathers envisioned.”

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charges carried no more than a six-month sentence, the judge stacked four five-month sentences back-to-back for a total of 20 months of hard time in federal prison.

“I don’t want to assign ill motives to anybody without good reason. But they basically moved those from district court down to magistrate court to load them up,” Stockton, a defense attorney for some of the other hunters in Something Bruin, alleged in a federal oversight hearing.

“So you are saying they saw people getting off in a jury trial and said ‘Well, let’s just do away with the charges that would entitle them to a jury trial and move them to a magistrate judge where they would get a verdict that’s more favorable.’ Is that what you are saying?” replied U.S. Congressman Mark Meadows, R-Cashiers, who was leading the federal oversight inquiry.

Linda Crisp said her son’s defense attorney was told by wildlife agents, “If we can’t get them time in the big court we’ll get them time in the little court.”

Chad Crisp’s lawyer, Eric Stiles, was concerned the prosecution was unfairly targeting Chad. When the federal prosecutor changed his tack and moved Chad’s case away from a jury and to a magistrate judge, Stiles wrote the prosecutor an email asking why.

“Have I done something to personally offend you and you are wanting to make it harder on Chad?” Stiles asked in a Sept. 19 email to Edwards. “I have offered to work out a plea agreement with you previously, but now it seems that you are just wanting to make a scapegoat out of my client. I know that he has the most liability and I have admitted that. So why the harsh tactics without even trying to work something out?”

“I can guarantee you that there’s no animosity at all about this, nor has Chad been singled out,” Edwards responded.

Edwards went on to explain it was a way to simplify the process by holding a bench trial rather than a jury trial.

“That way we could avoid the expense to the court and the parties, to say nothing of the jurors, and the trial would be more significantly streamlined,” Edwards wrote.

“I really don’t mean for this to be harsh tactics at all,” he continued. “He’s not facing any greater number of charges, nor has his maximum exposure gone up. I just view it as a streamlining, since bench trials always are faster than jury trials.”

The exchange happened on the heels of a jury trial against some other hunters, where jury deliberations lasted two days.

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Jackson hires new attorney position

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER After more than four years as Jackson County’s attorney, Jay Coward will soon yield his spot as the county’s legal face. But commissioners aren’t replacing him with another contract attorney. Rather, they’ve opted to create a new staff position.

After nearly seven months of applications, interviews and discussion about the merits of a staff position, commissioners last week announced that Heather Baker, a Jackson County native who currently works at Coward, Hicks & Siler’s Franklin office, will become the county’s first-ever staff attorney.

“In the long run I think it will save money because she’ll handle much more of the legal load than what we were allowing for the current county attorney handling,” said Commission Chairman Brian McMahan.

The county will pay substantially more for the staff position than the average $65,000 it had been spending for Coward’s part-time services — Baker will receive a salary of $86,180 and $22,760 in benefits.

However, the salary is less than what an attorney with Baker’s experience could expect to make in the private sector.

“It’s not all about salary or finances,” Baker said of her decision to take the job.

“Really I think it’s more important that you enjoy what you’re doing and do something helpful and important.”

Baker will be responsible for more than just attending to county commissioners’ needs, as Coward did. She’ll handle backlogged foreclosures, advise on the front end of county projects and possibly provide backup legal assistance for the Department of Social Services and the Sheriff ’s Office, though these departments will both continue contracting their legal needs.

“It’s just going to be a more integrated position, and that will be a benefit,” Baker said. “I’ll be easily accessible, and I think that’s going to make it a lot better for everyone.”

Baker currently lives in Cullowhee and works for the same firm as Coward. Though

the two work from separate locations, she has filled in for Coward on county business a few times during recent months. She’s also become familiar with county issues through her marriage to Scott Baker, who is vice-president of the Jackson County Planning Board and headed up the Cullowhee Community Planning Committee. Commissioners eventually accepted a version of zoning standards the committee drafted.

Baker’s varied professional history also bolstered her bid for the job, McMahan said. A graduate of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s law school, she’s served as assistant district attorney for the seven western counties, worked in multiple practice areas at her current law firm and serves as an attorney advocate for Jackson County’s guardian ad litem program. She’s president of the Great Smokies Health Foundation and a board member at REACH of Macon County as well as child advocacy organizations AWAKE and KIDS Place.

“Her qualifications speak for themselves,” McMahan said. “She’s a very qualified attorney with 20 years of experience in a lot of different realms. She’s an extremely intelligent individual.”

The county received six applications for the position, with none of the eight people who applied when the county advertised the contract position in December — Coward among them — sending in their résumés for the staff position.

At last week’s commissioners meeting, Coward expressed his understanding of the decision to hire Baker and assured the board that he has no hard feelings.

“I’ve had a lot of fun and I’ve really enjoyed this job — I hope the experiment works,” Coward said.

After wrapping up her practice, Baker will start her new job fulltime Oct. 1, with part-time work beginning Sept. 15. Coward has agreed to work with the county through the transition.

— News editor Jessi Stone contributed to this report

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A longtime Sylva business owner was arrested on federal charges after agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms surrounded his Main Street store Friday morning.

Duane Jay Ball, who owns Jewelry Enterprise on Main Street, will face 13 charges related to distributing drugs and firearms, with Keith Hooper as a co-defendant on three of the drug charges.

According to the indictment, Ball allegedly sold firearms without a license on seven occasions between November 2013 and September 2014. On two of those occasions, court documents say, Ball allegedly sold firearms — a Glock 0.32-caliber pistol and Sig Sauer 0.22caliber pistol — to people he knew had been convicted of crimes “punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.”

Ball will also face charges on six counts of

selling drugs — four for distributing a mixture containing oxycodone, one for a mixture containing hydrocodone and one for a mixture containing both drugs. Hydrocodone and oxycodone are Schedule II controlled substances. Hooper is a co-defendant on three of these charges.

Ball has owned Jewelry Enterprise for nearly 30 years and had filed to run for the Sylva Board of Alderman in this year’s elections. He submitted a letter to the Board of Elections before the deadline, however, withdrawing his name from the ballot. The letter did not state a reason.

Ball has retained Sylva attorney Kris Williams to represent him, while Hooper will be represented by public defender Fredilyn Sison.

Richard Edwards will prosecute the case for the U.S. government.

Both defendants were released from custody following their bond hearing Monday.

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BY J ESSI STONE tomers will use the designated train parking N EWS E DITOR on the other side of Everett Street instead of The Bryson City Board of Aldermen is the limited public parking. formally asking for public input after Kim Albritton, vice president and genermulling over the idea of closing Fry Street in al manager for GSMR, has said that issue downtown for almost a year. has already been addressed. Instead of train The topic has been a source of conpassengers trying to dodge the $5 train parktention since the Swain County Tourism ing, now the cost is included when they Development Authority made the request reserve their tickets beforehand. last fall, but the town board has been relucOthers in town seem to be skeptical tant to make a decision. The town was asked about any plans put forth by the train to relinquish its right of way on the street, — whether it will actually come to fruition, which would allow the closure and make how much it will cost the taxpayers, and way for a pedestrian park at the Great whether it will benefit the town as a whole Smoky Mountain or just the Railroad train depot on railroad. the corner.

Railroad The idea of a pedesPublic hearing on the proposed closing of Fry Street. officials say trian plaza, which the pedestri5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17 would be located on the an plaza Bryson City Town Hall train’s property, is not would feature 45 Everett St, Bryson City what people are new trees and opposed to, though. Fry landscaping, Street is not a major thoroughfare, but it an open lawn and a stage for live music and does provide parking spots for several busiother events. The TDA supports the project nesses across from the train depot. because it would help make Bryson City While the plan for the pedestrian plaza more pedestrian-friendly and hopefully keep includes paving the gravel parking lot in railroad passengers around town longer between the businesses, merchants say 35 once they return from their train trip. paved spots off to the side won’t be enough TDA Chairman Brad Walker said the to fix the parking problems. Merchants want project could cost anywhere between to be assured by the railroad that train cus$250,000 to $400,000 depending on what

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The rollicking steep slope debate in Jackson County may finally be put to rest next month after three years of tussling over whether and how much to water down the development rules.

Steep slope rules in Jackson County were narrowly spared from the chopping block last year after public outcry derailed a rewrite from going through.

Commissioners at the time pledged to revisit the rewrite once they got through election season — but voters had a different plan in mind. A new majority was elected to the county board, and the rewrite largely faded into the background.

A few remnants from the rewrite survived, however, and those are now poised for passage in coming weeks.

Most are technical clarifications. There’s one substantial change still in the mix, however: how steep should a slope be before steep slope rules kick in?

The threshold will go from 30 to 35 percent under the proposed change — which means the steep slope rules won’t apply in as many places as they did before.

A public hearing on the proposed change will be held in September. The public hearing was originally slated for next week, but it was delayed.

By then, a new map will be ready showing what areas fall within the new 35 per-

Jackson County approves additional greenway bridge costs

Unstable soil and the presence of sewer line access points for the Tuckaseigee Water and Sewer Authority on the site will require additional measures.

Micropiles — thick, strong, steel bars injected into the ground — will have to be used to stabilize the soil and tall retaining walls will have to be constructed to allow TWASA continued access to the lines. The bridge also has to be built 14 feet above ground level to be out of the 100-year floodplan, but it will be ADA accessible, according to County Manager Chuck Wooten.

Wooten said Phillips & Jordan came in with the lowest price for the work out of four contractors who bid on the project.

The $1.3 million project will be paid for with a N.C. Parks and Recreation Fund grant, $212,000 from a Duke Energy grant and the remaining 67 percent of the project cost will come from the county coffers.

The board approved the low bid from Phillips & Jordan and approved moving $500,000 from the county’s general fund to the conservation recreation fund to pay for the unexpected cost of the project. The high-arch bridge is 190 feet long. The six pieces of the bridge will be assembled on site within the next few months.

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cent slope threshold, according to Sarah Thomspon, planning board chair.

It could be compared with the old map to show how much — or how little — land that used to fall under the steep slope rules no longer will.

Stay tuned for an article exploring the issue more as the public hearing gets closer.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR Jackson County commissioners approved moving forward with the installation of the Locust Creek pedestrian bridge even though the cost is higher than expected.

The bridge, which will cross the Tuckasegee River near Cullowhee and allow visitors to access a 1.2-mile section of the greenway, is going to cost the county almost $1.3 million.

The cost is more than double the original estimate of $641,000, but commissioners decided to approve the bid during last week’s meeting.

“The bridge is already built for this specific need so our options are limited,” said Commission Chairman Brian McMahan.

Contracting company Phillips & Jordan have already completed the construction of the bridge — a cost of about $300,000 — but it’s the engineering work that has driven the cost up more than anticipated.

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Chief candidates square off Debate gets candidates on record about issues

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER hether from a seat in the auditorium or at home on the couch, more than 1,000 Cherokee people blocked out Thursday night (Aug. 6) to see the people vying for their vote as the tribe’s principal chief talk about everything from alcohol laws to government transparency to free press.

The first-ever open debate between chief candidates, the event drew about 75 people to the Joyce Dugan Cultural Arts Center at Cherokee Central Schools and logged 1,100 online views, with many more people likely watching the television broadcast on Cherokee’s cable channel. A debate between vice chief candidates held Aug. 6 clocked 840 online views.

“It is vitally important for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to make the best choice for our leadership as we move into the future,” said Robert Jumper, editor of The Cherokee One Feather. “Based on the attendance and viewership, these debates have provided a large portion of our people an opportunity to learn more about the next leaders of our tribe.”

The One Feather, together with the Junaluska Leadership Council, compiled the questions and organized the debates, with Jumper acting as moderator. Candidates received the list of questions one week in advance.

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WHAT THEY SAID What do you feel is the most pressing issue facing our tribe? What will be your first official action as chief?

Patrick Lambert: “We’ve got a major debt problem, we’ve got a major spending problem and we’ve got a major drug problem.”

A three-pronged approach of education, treatment and punishment will be vital to addressing the drug problem, Lambert said.

Tunney Crowe: “My first action as principal chief would be to make sure that every employee of the tribe signs an ethical pledge.”

In addition to tribal ethics, important issues facing the tribe include competition in the regional gaming scene, drugs and the need to diversify the economy.

Mary Crowe: “I feel that the most pressing issue facing the tribe today is trusting our government. One of the first things I would do as principal chief would be to call for a referendum vote to the right to recall.”

Currently, elected officials can be impeached only by a two-thirds vote of council, not through referendum.

What are your thoughts about term limits and/or staggered terms for Tribal Council and term limits for executive office?

Mary Crowe: “If someone dedicates their life and they’re elected to provide service and they do it well, I’d like to keep that person

Patrick Lambert recently retired from 22 years as executive director of the Tribal Gaming Commission. He is a licensed attorney, U.S. Army veteran and business owner.

Tunney Crowe has represented Birdtown on Tribal Council for six years. Previously, he served eight years in the U.S. Navy and was chief of the Cherokee Indian Police Department.

Mary Crowe is a write-in candidate for principal chief who is a voice in Cherokee’s political issues. The mother of three, in the past she’s worked for organizations such as Cherokee Challenge and Cherokee Children’s Home.

around as long as I can … we have those opportunities to not elect someone if you don’t like it.”

Lambert: “I do support term limits.”

Lambert said he’d propose a two-term limit for executives and four-term limit for councilmembers, though noting councilmembers would need to vote limits on themselves in order to implement such a change.

Tunney Crowe: “When you’ve got a good

Should alcoholic beverage sales be allowed at public events or businesses other than the gaming enterprise in Cherokee?

Lambert: “My position is there will be no changes on the alcohol laws until we have another referendum vote.”

Lambert reminded the audience that Cherokee voters have consistently answered “no” to referendum questions about allowing alcohol sales on the reservation and expressed concern about the tribe sending lobbyists to Raleigh to promote legislation that had the effect of creating exemptions to the tribe’s alcohol ban.

Tunney Crowe: “I support what the people’s decision is. If it comes up to another referendum I’ll definitely support whatever comes forth from the people, but I strongly believe that’s a people’s choice.”

Mary Crowe: “We voted in 2009 to have it in the casino only. My problem is when we have appointed officials (lobbyists) that go down to Raleigh and negotiate anything on behalf of the tribe.”

What would you do as Chief to facilitate transparency in government income and spending?

Mary Crowe: “We need to get a hold of

our wealth. We need to get a hold of our finances.”

Crowe said that she’d give a quarterly financial and state of the tribe report if elected.

Lambert: “We don’t have a problem with income yet, but we do have a problem with spending.”

Lambert said that his financial strategy would focus on curbing spending and saving more.

Tunney Crowe: “Our information belongs to each and every tribal member. We should have access to that, but I don’t feel that anyone other than an enrolled member should have that access.”

Crowe said that he would require a monthly financial report and work to make that information available online to tribal members only.

Do you agree with having an elected and separate judicial branch of our tribal government?

Lambert: “We have to assure that our tribal court system does not report to the executive office.”

Lambert pointed to the practice of U.S. presidents appointing federal judges with Senate approval as a possible template for selecting judges.

Tunney Crowe: “I don’t think those people should report to the executive office.

They should be a standalone by themselves.”

Crowe said he could “go either way” on the question of election, as it’s possible throwing an election into the mix could

cause politically motivated bench decisions.

Mary Crowe: “I feel that the Supreme Court judges and our prosecuting judges need to be elected.”

What is your vision of a free press in Cherokee?

Tunney Crowe: “As far as the freedom of press, I believe in that. I would like to see it

Read more online Cherokee’s chief candidates had more to say than we could fit here. Visit www.smokymountainnews.com to see more debate coverage. set up to where enrolled members were the only ones that had access to our Tribal Council meetings.”

Mary Crowe: “When it comes to freedom of speech and freedom of the press, I’m 110 percent.”

Lambert: “I think this is another one of those essential rights that belong to the people and need to be taken out of under reporting to the executive office.”

Lambert said that, while The Cherokee One Feather is owned by the tribal government, he would like to reorganize it as an independent entity, similar to The Museum of the Cherokee Indian or the Tribal Casino Gaming Enterprise.

Do you think there are any powers that the

Chief should not have?

Lambert: “One of the things I think is important to change up here is the power of hiring/firing/reprimand.”

Because the chief doesn’t work with most tribal members closely enough to know their merits and shortcomings, many of those decisions have been “purely political,” Lambert said. He believes the human resources function should be pulled back from the executive branch.

Tunney Crowe: “One of the things people bring up is the power the chief has in the hiring and firing process.”

Mary Crowe: “We need those administrative laws and policies and procedures that sets that realm of authority for the executive and legislative branches of government.”

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councilmember in there, it’s hard to remove that person when you know they’re doing the right thing for the people.”

Crowe said he supports staggered terms, meaning Tribal Council would become a four-year job, with half of the seats up for election in a given election year

What are your thoughts on tourism and the marketing of Cherokee as a destination?

Tunney Crowe: “You have to spend money to make money.”

Creating a destination like a water park or outlet mall would help capture more of the traffic along U.S. 441, Crowe said.

Mary Crowe: “We need to start revitalizing our historic Cherokee. We need to strengthen up our historic Cherokee association.”

Lambert: “We don’t have one silver bullet to fix this issue, but we can have some silver buckshot.”

Cleaning up, revitalizing downtown and encouraging sidewalk cafés and boutique shops would all help build something tourists will return to, Lambert said.

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Cherokee court hands out first-ever sentence to non-Indian New rules add non-Cherokee to jury pool, clarify jurisdication

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER hat in most courts would have been a simple case of violating a domestic violence protective order was a landmark moment for the Cherokee Tribal Court.

John Michael Arkansas, 55, lives on the Qualla Boundary but is not an enrolled member of the tribe. Until this year, that meant that any crime he committed on Cherokee land would have to go to federal, rather than tribal, court. But when the newly reauthorized version of the Violence Against Women Act went into effect this spring, it gave tribal courts the authority to prosecute cases of domestic violence against their own members — even when the perpetrator was not Indian.

According to the Cherokee court’s July 21 decision, that category includes Arkansas.

Judge Kirk G. Saunooke sentenced him to 75 days in prison, suspended for one year; placed him on probation; and required he pay a total of $1,600 in fines and restitution.

Cherokee was the first tribe outside of the three that piloted the act to obtain a conviction under VAWA. “It’s a great thing for the tribe,” said Bill Boyum, chief justice of Tribal Court. “It’s the first step toward full territorial jurisdiction, which every sovereign has to have to really be a government.”

For many in the tribal government and justice system, that is the ultimate goal. But VAWA offered a first step, giving tribal governments the authority to deal with cases that had previously been, in effect, not pros-

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ecutable. Federal prosecutors have full plates, often full of extremely serious crimes.

Dealing with domestic violence issues that anywhere else would go through a lower court is simply not a priority. In all likelihood, a case like Arkansas’ would never be heard if still under federal jurisdiction.

The tribe had to do more to get the benefits of VAWA than simply sign on the dotted line, however. It had to rewrite whole sections of its laws to make the new rules work within the legal framework.

The most significant change is probably the redefinition of the jury pool. Before, only enrolled members could sit on the jury in Tribal Court. Now, anyone who lives on tribal land — regardless of race — is eligible.

That’s because, previously, the only people who could be defendants in Tribal Court were enrolled members, so it made sense that the people deciding their fate be Cherokee as well.

But once VAWA opened the doors for non-Indians to be prosecuted in Tribal Court, that had to change. The new list of potential jurors will include anyone who lives on the Qualla Boundary and has registered to vote or gotten a state-issued ID like a drivers license in the last eight years.

Tribal Council could have passed rules that had the wider jury pool kick in only when dealing with cases in which a nonCherokee defendant could be tried — that is, domestic violence cases.

But according to Tribal Prosecutor Jason Smith, that option could have raised legal issues.

“Our collective opinion on the matter was that it would raise problems with equal protection issues,” he said, meaning that having different jury configurations for different crimes could be interpreted as treating defendants in similar situations differently.

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Bill Boyum.

“It’s a great thing for the tribe. It’s the first step toward full territorial jurisdiction, which every sovereign has to have to really be a government.”

— Bill Boyum, chief justice of Tribal Court

And besides, like Boyum, Smith is hoping that the limited scope of cases in which tribal courts can try non-Indians will eventually widen. When that happens, he doesn’t want to have to reinvent the wheel.

“The ultimate goal throughout Indian country is full criminal jurisdiction for all courts,” he said. “If we ever get there, we won’t have to reinvent the jury yet again.”

The legislation also seeks to give a final answer to a potentially tricky question — what, exactly, qualifies someone as an Indian in the court’s eyes?

“There’s kind of a gray area,” Boyum explained. “There’s no definition of who’s an Indian, so for different purposes different people are Indians.”

Most of the time, it’s pretty cut and dry.

“Probably 99 out of a hundred people, it’s easy to determine if they’re an Indian or not, but it’s that one person that nobody can agree on,” Boyum said.

George Lee Nobles, a Cherokee resident being prosecuted for first-degree murder, is one such person. According to court documents, in September 2012 Nobles allegedly shot Indiana resident Barbra Preidt in the parking lot of the Fairfield Inn & Suites in Cherokee during a robbery. According to court documents, Preidt, who died from the injury, was carrying somewhere between $4,000 and $5,000 cash in her purse, an amount intended to fund the trip she and her husband John were taking to visit her sister in Florida.

Nobles was arrested by the Cherokee Indian Police Department but then taken to the Jackson County magistrate, where state charges were pressed against him. Two others who had allegedly assisted in the robbery — Dewayne Swayney, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and Ashlyn Carothers, a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma — were taken to Cherokee Tribal Court.

Nobles’ lawyer had filed a motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that because he was an Indian and the alleged crime had occurred on the Cherokee reservation, the state had no jurisdic-

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The legislation, which Cherokee Tribal Council enacted unanimously, is an important step for the tribe. But it’s not the end of the road in the quest for full jurisdiction. Though such a development is years down the road, Boyum said, he’s hopeful that it will eventually happen.

“In my opinion, the DOJ (Department of Justice) will set out standards and at some point in time Congress will say, ‘That’s good enough, and you can prosecute,’” he said.

Even then, the jurisdiction might not be unlimited. Currently Tribal Court has a three-year cap on the penalty it can hand out for an individual charge, and while the tribe just opened a new jail — the first it’s ever had — in December, it’s not set up to keep people for the long periods of time necessary for perpetrators of more serious crimes.

And though the new VAWA rules are expected to go a long way toward giving legal recourse to women embroiled in violent home situations, gaps still exist, particularly where child victims are concerned. VAWA covers crimes against women, but not against children.

“In those situations, we are forced to push for prosecution in federal or state courts or are left without recourse where those gaps exist,” Smith said. “I am hopeful that as we continue to successfully implement the provisions of VAWA ‘13, we will gain support for future amendments which will remedy these gaps affecting child victims.”

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tion over him. The case, which dealt with a “major crime” whose potential sentence would be greater than the maximum allowed in tribal court, should go to federal court, the motion said.

Nobles was not a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, but his mother was. He grew up on the Cherokee reservation, intermittently attended its schools and sought the limited amount of free health care available to the non-enrolled children of enrolled members on five occasions. He had two tattoos that attested his identification with Cherokee culture, the motion said.

But in a 42-page opinion, Superior Court Judge Brad Letts — himself an enrolled member of the tribe — determined that Nobles did not qualify as Indian and was under state jurisdiction. He’d identified himself as white on myriad legal documents before the incident at Fairfield Inn, had never sought to formalize his status as the child of an enrolled member, had not participated in cultural events such as dance competitions or the annual fall festival and Brad Letts was not actually born on the Cherokee reservation. The tattoos were generic Native American symbols and not specific to Cherokee, Letts wrote. These and other considerations led to the decision, but it was not an easy call.

“Deciding who is Indian has proven to be a difficult question,” Letts wrote in his opinion.

To avoid such complications in tribal court, the new Cherokee legislation simply states that a person must be a member of a federally recognized tribe to qualify as Indian in Tribal Court.

“Everyone agrees that if you are a member of a federally recognized tribe, you are an Indian,” Boyum said.

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Charter school enrollment a moving target as opening day approaches

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER he guessing game of how many students will jump ship from Haywood County Schools to attend a new charter school, Shining Rock Classical Academy, won’t be known until the first day of school next week.

But the most recent projections provided

by Shining Rock last week peg official enrollment at 233 students in kindergarten through sixth grade — with 185 of those coming out of Haywood County Schools.

That’s about 4.5 percent of the 4,138 students that will be attending Haywood County public schools in the coming year in kindergarten through sixth grade, based on projections.

The remainder of Shining Rock’s official enrollment to date — about 50 students — previously attended private schools, were home-schooled or are coming from out-ofcounty.

Shining Rock’s latest projection of 233 students is up from 200 students in midJune but down from the high-water mark of 325 who had expressed interest during early sign-ups in spring.

School Director Ben Butler declined to participate in an interview about the school’s enrollment in the lead-up to opening day, citing more pressing matters to attend to.

“We’re in the midst of teacher training and all the logistics of getting the school open,” Butler wrote in an email. “I apologize.”

Enrollment is critical to the school’s financial outlook. Charter schools get a cut of state and county education dollars based on the number of students it has — about $6,600 per student, with more for special needs students.

The charter school board predicated its budget for the coming year on 277 students.

The per pupil allocation from the state and county will fund everything from teacher salaries to computers to the monthly lease for its school building.

Fewer students means less money.

“Our budget will adapt to enrollment numbers. We do not anticipate reducing any staff,” Tara Keilberg, chair of the charter school board, said in an email.

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Shining Rock leaders noted that on top of their official enrollment of 233 students, another 37 to 45 plan to attend but haven’t submitted their official enrollment paperwork yet.

“Teachers are calling the parents of their students to encourage them to return all paperwork,” Keilberg wrote in an email.

“We will know on day one what our student 20 enrollment numbers actually are. This isn’t

unusual for a start up school.”

Keilberg prefers to use the larger number of between 270 to 277 students — a number that includes those who haven’t turned in their paperwork yet — when talking about the anticipated enrollment.

In fact, that’s the number Shining Rock went with when reporting its enrollment numbers to the N.C. Office of Charter Schools in mid-July. Shining Rock told the state it had an enrollment of 277 students, when it only had paperwork from 240 students at that time, according to an email from Keilberg.

cent of the projected year one (enrollment target) is cause for concern,” according to the “ready-to-open” rubric used to evaluate a school’s readiness, citing that the importance of enrollment that’s “sufficient to allow for financial viability and programmatic integrity.”

Interest was strong among parents during preliminary sign-ups back in spring. In April, Butler told the newspaper that he “fully expected” the school would fill up in several grades. Currently, kindergarten is the only grade that is full, however.

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The state charter office prefers to see new charter schools within 75 percent of their target enrollment when they submit their “ready-to-open” status report in late May. “We have 240 students who have turned in paperwork,” Keilberg wrote in an email in mid-July.

That’s the number Shining Rock should have used when reporting its enrollment to the state in July, according to Deanna Townsend-Smith, the lead consultant for the N.C. Office of Charter Schools.

“It should be actual enrollment,” Townsend-Smith said. “We have communicated to schools that it isn’t verbal. We wouldn’t consider that actual enrollment.

We have said it should be the actual applications you have received.”

The state charter office prefers to see new charter schools within 75 percent of their target enrollment when they submit their “ready-to-open” status report in late May. In that report, Shining Rock listed its enrollment as 249. But it only had official enrollment paperwork from fewer than 200 students at the time. Depending on which enrollment number you use, depends on whether the school would have met the 75 percent benchmark that the office of charter schools likes to see.

“Any enrollment figures less than 75 per-

of Haywood County Schools, said there’s always a level of uncertainty about school enrollment until the first day actually arrives, with swings of up to 100 students from the preliminary projections for the Haywood County school system.

“Each spring we do a projected enrollment for the coming school year. This projection is used to tentatively allocate teachers for the coming year,” Nolte said.

“Literally every year we have to make adjustments to the tentative allotments because the projected enrollment is imperfect.”

The latest enrollment snapshot from Shining Rock showed the following breakdown: • 185 students are coming out of Haywood County Schools, about 4.5 percent of the 4,138 students in grades K through 6 in Haywood County Schools.

• 11 are coming from private school.

• 12 from public schools in neighboring counties.

• 20 who have been homeschooled.

• 7 who are new to the county and didn’t previously attend school in Haywood before this year.

Where will the new charter school pull from?

A geographic trend has emerged when it comes to which Haywood County public schools are losing the most students to Shining Rock Classical Academy, a new charter school opening next week.

Schools in the Waynesville area are losing a greater percentage of students to Shining Rock than schools elsewhere in the county. The farther you get from Waynesville, the fewer students you have coming to Shining Rock.

Shining Rock will be located in the Waynesville vicinity but won’t have door-todoor bus pick up, leaving it up to parents to get their kids to and from the school or to a to-be-determined designated pick-up spot served by a single school bus.

The following list of how many students have peeled out of each school is based on official enrollment applications that Shining Rock has received, but numbers will remain in flux as parents make last-minute decisions to go or not to go up until the first day of school.

The raw numbers can be misleading, since some schools have a much larger base population than others. So the percentage of the student body leaving each school is also included.

• 20 students are coming from Central Elementary, about 7.5 percent of its student body.

• 23 students are coming from Junaluska Elementary, about 6.8 percent of its student body.

• 32 students are coming from Hazelwood Elementary, about 6.3 percent of its student body.

• 10 students are coming from Riverbend Elementary, about 4.8 percent of its student body.

• 22 students are coming from Clyde Elementary, about 4.5 percent of its student body.

• 11 students are coming from Jonathan Valley Elementary, about 3.7 percent of its student body.

• 9 students are coming from North Canton Elementary, about 2.4 percent of its student body.

• 9 students are coming from Bethel Elementary, about 1.8 percent of its student body.

• 4 students are coming from Meadowbrook Elementary, about 1.1 percent of its student body.

* Kindergarteners entering school for the first time are not included in the per school number. The school is reporting 47 kindergarteners.

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BY J ESSI STONE request a special use permit to allow the N EWS E DITOR school to be built on the Raccoon Road site. espite resistance from surrounding The property is currently zoned as low-denlandowners, Shining Rock Classical sity residential, which doesn’t allow for Academy is moving forward with plans things like stores or condos, but there is an to set up Haywood County’s first charter exception for schools as long as the town school on the corner of Raccoon Road and approves a special permit. Shining Rock will U.S. 276 in Waynesville. need to show that the school won’t have any The charter school board approved adverse impact on adjacent property. hiring local attorney Burt Smith during a Property owners within 500 feet of the special called meeting last Friday to repre- proposed site have been notified and more sent them in a dispute with the property than 60 members of the community came owner and the farmer who is currently together last Sunday at the Francis Cove leasing the property. community pavilion to discuss the upcoming Shining Rock is under contract to purhearing. Many people in the community chase 35 acres of farmland from Charles Collins, owner of Collins Orchard, for $1.1 million. With 75 days available to determine if the site will be feasible for a school, Shining Rock quickly began the process of soil testing.

Wilson was shocked to find part of his corn crop damaged by an engineering firm driving through the cornfield to scope out places to drill. Shining Rock has offered to compensate Wilson for the damage, but an amount hasn’t been setA notice of the Aug. 17 public hearing is posted tled on yet.

In the meantime, Wilson’s at the Raccoon Road site. Garret K. Woodward photo lawyer, Frank Queen, sent Shining Rock a letter stating that no one have expressed their opposition to the charshall trespass on the property until Wilson’s ter school and think the school will cause lease is up next May. With the due diligence traffic congestion and may change the comtime ticking away, the charter school board munity’s landscape. is eager to reach an agreement with all parKeilberg said the school received notice ties so soil testing can continue. of the Francis Cove community meeting last Now that Smith has been retained, Thursday. Board member Nancy East sent Shining Rock Academy School Board Chair an email to one of the organizers — Tanna Tara Keilberg anticipates the dispute will be Timbes — asking if someone from Shining settled soon. She told board members Smith Rock could attend the meeting to provide would be charging a flat $250 an hour fee information, but she was told the meeting with no retainer. was only for community members.

“With the direction we’re taking, I think “We did what we’re supposed to do and this is going to be brief,” she said at the offered our presence,” Keilberg said. “We’ve meeting. “Hopefully we can resolve this also posted our site plan and elevation quickly — I don’t see it going on and on.” sketch from the architect on our website so Board member Tim Foley, who was parpeople can get an idea of the landscaping. ticipating in the meeting via telephone, It’s not just going to be ugly trailers plopped asked if the board could set a limit on how down — we’re trying to make it as attractive much it was willing to spend on negotiations as possible.” so they could come back and revisit the issue She thinks the school will meet the six if it reached more than the approved criteria needed to receive a special-use amount. He suggested a $10,000 cap. permit from the town of Waynesville.

Keilberg said she didn’t see it getting Patrick Bradshaw, the civil engineer hired close to that amount and recommended setto develop Shining Rock’s site plan, will ting the cap at $2,500. The board unanibe speaking on the board’s behalf during mously approved hiring Smith with the the hearing. Keilberg said parents who caveat that his fees are not to exceed $2,500. drive by the site on a regular basis or The board also went into closed session to those who live in the area have been invitdiscuss “facilities” but no vote was taken ed to speak briefly at the meeting about after returning to a public session. what they think the school will bring to Shining Rock is also preparing for an the area.

Aug. 17 public hearing at 5:30 p.m. during “We want to get along with our neighthe Waynesville planning board meeting to bors,” she said.

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Haywood’s Good Samaritan Clinic to benefit from golf tournament Good Samaritan to benefit from annual golf tournament The annual Golf and Gala event hosted

by Haywood Healthcare Foundation on Aug. 25 and 26 will feature five separate golf tournaments at three courses over two days, capped off with an evening gala.

The event will raise money for the Good Samaritan Clinic of Haywood County, a non-profit medical clinic that provides care for uninsured and underserved adults who fall through the healthcare crack.

“They are an excellent organization filling a critical need in our county,” said Ginger Lang, Board Chair, Haywood Healthcare Foundation. “Every person on their small staff is exceptional, caring, and truly professional.”

Haywood County has an estimated 11,000 people without health insurance — roughly 18 percent of the population. In 2014 alone, the Good Samaritan Clinic served nearly 3,000 patients.

“Some patients we see here clearly have no other support or stability in their life,” said Chelsea Batten, a Physician’s Assistant at the clinic. “I felt drawn to help fill in the gap for patients in medically underserved areas who otherwise can’t access quality, consistent medical care. I’m also happy to work in a setting where I’m free to address patients’ spiritual needs as well as their physical, medical, mental, and emotional needs.”

One of the many lives touched by the clinic is Judy Bodker, who cleans houses for a living but doesn’t have insurance.

“I’ve been coming to the clinic for seven or eight years now,” Bodker said. “I simply couldn’t afford to pay a doctor. All the clinic staff are pleasant, and they treat me with respect.”

• Dr. Daniel Gwan-Nulla, a noted thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon, has joined the team at Haywood Regional Medical Center.

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• The American Red Cross has issued an urgent call for blood donations. All eligible types O-negative, B-negative and A-negative are needed. Call 1.800.733.2767 or visit www.redcrossblood.org.

• Grandview Manor Care Center in Franklin was awarded a $1,000 scholarship from NC Long Term Care Facilities Education Foundation. The center has been trained and certified in the Memory and Music Certification Program to assist in the care of dementia patients.

• A series of health talks are being held at the Open Door Center for Spiritual Living in

Nurse Practitioner, Chelsea Batten, with patient, Judy Boderick, at the Good Samaritan Clinic. Donated photo Donna Cianci, another patient who is a single mom with two kids, had similar praise for the clinic.

“This is simply the best place. They spend all the time I need, and they listen,” Cianci said. “They have been here for me and I am grateful.”

MORE ON THE EVENT The Golf and Gala will feature men’s and women’s golf tournaments for golfers of all skills levels, with teams of two or four.

Tournaments will be held at the Maggie Valley Club, the Waynesville Inn Golf Resort and Spa and Laurel Ridge Country Club.

An evening “Garden Party” gala will be held at the Waynesville Inn Golf Resort and Spa will be held on Aug. 26, featuring food, drinks and live music.

Register or buy tickets by contacting 828.452.8343 or visit www.haywoodhealthcarefoundation.org.

Dillsboro, located off Highway 107. Dr. Potter will be giving the talks and facilitating discussion afterward. Each health talk is held the fourth Thursday of the month (Aug. 27 and Sep. 24) at 7 p.m. 828.477.4380.

• Gwen McKinney has been appointed as the new vice president and chief compliance at Mission Health of Asheville. McKinney has served as interim chief compliance officer since February 2015.

• Mission Health welcomes Dr. Meera Dagli to the Mission Internal Medicine team from Georgetown University Hospital.

• Local oncologist, Dr. Charles Thomas, was elected to the American College of Radiation Oncology Board of Chancellors. Thomas has been providing care to cancer patients in Western North Carolina for 14 years.

Art Auction to benefit Hospice House There are 59 hospice inpatient facilities (hospice houses) in North Carolina, but none in the Western North Carolina region. The Hospice House Foundation of WNC is hosting and art auction to change that. On Aug. 23, HHFWNC presents Art for the Heart of the Hospice House. Art featured in this silent auction is from the Public Children’s Art Studio in Minsk, Belarus. The event will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. at Carpe Diem Farms, off Buck Creek Road, in Highlands. Tickets are $50 each and the evening will feature not only the silent auction, but also appetizers, spirits, music and fun with casual attire suggested. The goal is to raise $1 million by Dec. 31, 2015. www.hhfwnc.org or info@hhfwnc.org or 828.524.8261.

New practice names to reflect affiliations

• Western Carolina Pulmonary and Sleep Consulates will be Harris Pulmonary and Sleep Center • WNC Hospitalist Service will be Harris Hospitalist Service • Sylva Orthopaedic Associates and Carolina West Sports Medicine will merge and form Harris Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Other changes include: • The urgent care facility located in the Walmart Plaza in Sylva will be Harris Regional Hospital Urgent Care • The Center for Family Medicine with offices in Franklin and Cullowhee will be respectively known as Harris Family Care – Franklin and Harris Family Care – Cullowhee • Swain Medical Center at Swain Community Hospital will be Swain Family Care

Restoring childhood one Flyer at a time

Western North Carolina contains many physician practices with affiliation to either Harris Regional Hospital or Swain Community Hospital, both Duke LifePoint hospitals, and they are now being renamed to reflect these affiliations.

The physician practices located at Harris Medical Park will be as follows: • Sylva Medical Center will be Harris Medical Associates • WNC Pediatric and Adolescent Care will be Harris Pediatric Care • Mountain Valley Surgery will be Harris Surgical Associates • Mountain Regional OB/GYN will be Harris Women’s Care • Mountain Care Urology will be Harris Urology Practices located on the Harris Regional Hospital campus will be as follows: • Mountain GI will be Harris GI Associates

Originally endorsed by Susan Hester, assistant professor with the School of Nursing at Western Carolina University, the WHEE Wagon Program is designed to restore childhood to patients at the Mission Children’s Hospital in Asheville.

The WHEE wagon allows hospitalized or homebound children to both reconnect to the world of being a child and continue to receive his or her IV medications or fluids. These wagons, iconic Radio Flyers, are outfitted with an IV pole and are used to distract young patients from pain sensations.

After fundraising, the first wagon was given, free of charge, to Mission Children’s Hospital at the end of the Spring 2015 semester. Cost for a wagon with the IV pole attached is $200, while it is $250 for a wagon with a detachable pole. If interested in fundraising, donating or just for further questions, contact Hester at swhester@wcu.edu or 828.227.2898.

• The first hospice inpatient suite at the future SECU Hospice House has been named in honor of George and Elizabeth Maki, two generous donors. The house will serve patients in not only Macon County, but also Jackson, Swain, Graham, Clay and Cherokee.

This award recognizes one employee from each of LifePoint Health’s more than 60 hospitals for their embodiment of the care and compassion upon which the company was founded. She will also be considered for LifePoint’s 2015 company-wide Mercy Award.

• Macon County Public Health’s Diabetes SelfManagement Education has been awarded continued recognition from the American Diabetes Association for their efforts to equip patients with the knowledge to manage their diabetes.

• Harris Regional Hospital welcomes Dr. Clayton Davis to the Center for Family Medicine – Franklin. He began seeing patients in early August. The Center for Family Medicine is located in the Harris Regional Hospital Medical Park of Franklin. 828.349.3550

ALSO:

• Highlands Dermatology is expanding its services by adding certified nurse practitioner, Jane Pressler of Cashiers, to its team.

• The 2015 Mercy Award was given to Maragret Woody of Haywood Regional Medical Center.

• New director of Smoky Mountain LME/MCO, a public healthcare organization, Peter Rives will help to promote a more integrated, “whole body” care in Western North Carolina through treating physical and psychological illnesses.

— Compiled by Intern Rachael Crowe

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Pay attention to new charter school To the Editor: Every person who pays taxes in Haywood County needs to be aware of, and pay attention to, the creation of Shining Rock Classical Academy, a charter, public school about to begin classes in our community. The school’s application to become a charter school reveals that over a half-million dollars of Haywood County “local per pupil funds” will be transferred from our public schools to the charter school. Nearly $1.5 million more are expected from the state of North Carolina. Thus, $2 million of tax monies paid by individuals are going to this school for its first year. The school’s own revenue projection anticipates that figure will grow to exceed $3 million by 2019.

You and I have absolutely no say in how this school is run. There is not an elected school board that we, as voters, can support or replace. There was no public bond vote so that you and I could decide whether to fund this new school or not. If you want an example of taxation without representation, there it is.

Shining Rock is a Challenge Foundation sponsored school. Go online and see for yourself the lack of educational background on the

her, characterizing her question as “off base” and “ridiculous.”

After the debate, it got worse.

“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes,” Trump told CNN’s Don Lemon. “Blood coming out of her wherever.”

That was enough to get him “disinvited” from the next big event on the Republican campaign calendar, something called “The Redstate Gathering,” in Atlanta. A lot of conservatives are understandably outraged by Trump’s misogynistic remarks about Kelly — is there any better way to prove that a question about your history of making misogynistic remarks is ridiculous than making a brand NEW misogynistic remark that perhaps tops Columnist them all in its ridiculousness? “Blood coming out of her wherever”? Really?

It would be bad enough to say that about any woman, but saying it about Kelly in particular presents a tremendous problem for the party, due to Trump’s popularity with voters and Fox News’ popularity with Republicans. Even among my conservative Facebook friends, there is already a very sharp divide between those who feel that Trump was “set up,” even “ambushed” by Kelly and those who are not buying what Trump is selling, even though it has a distinctly familiar odor.

To wit, if you are not making it these days, it is not your fault.

It is those foreigners, coming and taking our jobs. It is those drug-addicted, rapists coming over from Mexico.

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you,” Trump said during his presi-

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would wager that I despise politics just about as much as you do. Whatever your political affiliation, we would probably agree that the system is broken, that politicians on both sides of the aisle are too beholden to special interests, and that all too often, we end up voting against someone far more passionately than we ever vote for someone. Maybe that is just a different way of saying that we usually vote for the lesser of two evils.

Another thing that we might agree on is that politics is much too often the Theater of the Absurd, in which candidates — many of whom are extravagantly wealthy — are rebranded as “common folk” to appeal to the electorate. Without question, the vast majority of political ads we see these days are attack ads, ad hominem attacks on the character of the opponent, but on those occasions when we do get a glimpse of the candidate, the staging will be very studied and precise, calculated in such a way to convey the same message: he or she is just one of us.

Politics has operated on this level for as long as I can remember, which is why the current campaign is, on many levels, groundbreaking. As of today, the frontrunner in the polls in the GOP race is none other than Donald Trump, whose presence and popularity just might result in a full scale civil war in the party before this campaign is over. Trump plays by nobody’s rules but his own, which was abundantly evident in his treatment of debate moderator Megyn Kelly of Fox News, both during and after the debate last week, when he sent more than 30 tweets between the hours of 2:30-4:30 a.m. of varying degrees of nastiness.

In the debate, Kelly asked Trump about derogatory comments he has made about women in the past, and Trump scolded

LOOKING FOR OPINIONS The Smoky Mountain News encourages readers to express their opinions through letters to the editor or guest columns. All viewpoints are welcome. Send to Scott McLeod at info@smokymountainnews.com., fax to 828.452.3585, or mail to PO Box 629, Waynesville, NC, 28786. national board. There is not ONE person who was an educator before becoming a board member. One of the five members is the Director of Higher Education at the Charles Koch Foundation and never taught in a classroom. One member is, currently, the headmaster of Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy. He made the leap from being a president of a commodity trading firm to headmaster. Rev. William Steinbrock is on the board and was the founder of the Challenge Foundation. The last two members are an entrepreneur with a degree in agricultural economics and a man who is a partner in a large insurance firm.

Surely our local school, however, will be headed by an appropriately qualified professional. Sadly, no. School Director Mr. Ben Butler states, on the school’s website, that “… I

dential announcement speech. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime.

They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Of course, Trump is just borrowing a page from the GOP playbook. Blame those who have nothing, while paying no attention to the one percenters who have and control everything. Because Trump, who is a billionaire, is in that one percent, of course. But more than that, he is also a celebrity, which combined with his enormous wealth, makes him the closest thing we have in America to royalty.

As the campaign wears on and the debates continue, the old guard Republican candidates will continue to chip away at Trump’s conservative credentials. After all, this is a man who said that George W. Bush was “the worst president in the history of the country.” He has been on the record as supporting a woman’s right to have an abortion, as well as a ban on assault weapons. These are traditionally red meat issues for the Republicans, and it staggers the imagination that anyone could win a single primary with that kind of track record, even if he eventually flip flops on every one of those issues.

But Trump says and does what he wants. For some people, that’s part of his charm. For others, he is just a cartoonish blowhard. But for Republicans, he is a serious problem they’ll eventually have to solve if they have any hope at all of regaining the White House in 2016.

Whatever happens, it will be excellent theater.

(Chris Cox is a writer and teacher who lives in Haywood County. His most recent book, The Way We Say Goodbye, is available in local bookstores and at Amazon. jchriscox@live.com.)

began teaching at Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy in 2003 after CAREERS (emphasis supplied) in print journalism and commercial photography.” He has a four-year degree in English and, to the best of my knowledge, became a teacher through the lateral transfer program, not by being an accredited teacher.

He is now the person charged with overseeing the hiring of all the teachers and staff for Shining Rock.

Lastly, take the time to review the Challenge Foundation’s proposed curriculum. In the school’s application to the state of North Carolina it is stated that Shining Rock’s intent is that all classes will be taught at the honors level or above. That may be a worthy target, but does that reflect any public school that you have heard of? What will happen to those students who are in need of help to simply get to average or those who have learning disabilities? What about those students who will struggle until they gain a mastery of English? Public schools are a shining example of democracy in action as every student is taken in with the goal of helping each student reach his or her potential. We who pay the taxes have oversight and control over how our monies are spent for educating our fellow citizens. At least we used to.

Bob Clark Waynesville

Thoughts on my Southern heritage To the Editor: The controversy in South Carolina revolving around the Confederate Flag has made me think about my Southern heritage. I grew up in Georgia and spent most of my working life in South Carolina. The rationale offered by those who support prominent display of the flag is to honor their Southern heritage and their ancestors who fought in the Civil War. Over 600,000 Americans died in that war, more than any other war in American history.

This war was indeed about states’ rights — states ensuring the right of landowners to not only own the land, but to enslave other human beings to work that land. That’s it! If that’s the heritage we’re supposed to be celebrating with the flag, I’ll pass.

Similarly, characteristics such as high levels of poverty, poor education and ill health that characterize many of the states of the old Confederacy are part of the legacy, but hardly worth honoring or celebrating. That being said, I choose to live in the South and there are many things worth celebrating.

Maybe a new flag is in order that recognizes those things positive about the South.

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One element of the flag would celebrate food — maybe grits and barbecue. Another element would certainly be music. Jazz and bluegrass are have a uniquely southern heritage and should be represented. The literature from southern authors such as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Harper Lee and many others should also be symbolized in such a flag. Designing such a flag would be worthy endeavor to acknowledge things worth honoring that are uniquely Southern.

Those individuals who wish to fly the Confederate flag should clearly have that right. It is not a sign of honor, but it does clearly mark those who choose to exercise that right — sort of like a mark of Cain.

John Gladden Franklin

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To the Editor: Now Democrats have once again dredged up the fabricated notion that Republicans are waging a war on women. That claim is as old and worn as Hillary Clinton, the leading Democrat candidate for President.

What we do have is a war on babies that is strongly supported by Democrat leaders.

As soon as the Planned Parenthood baby parts sale was revealed, Democrat leaders such as Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman and Harry Reid and most Democrats throughout the country jumped in to support Planned Parenthood funding by taxpayers.

Republican leaders, including every presidential candidate on the debate stage on Aug. 6, call for the defunding of Planned Parenthood, the leading abortion mill in the U.S., and for diverting those funds to clinics that are truly providing health services to women.

In defense of their position, abortion supporters say a fetus has no personhood … I guess that means abortion does not murder a human life. But then, why are the aborted baby parts and even the little cadavers suitable for human scientific research?

Something about that does not compute.

Abortion, the war on babies, is a dark and troubling practice in our society. That practice becomes barbaric when harvesting baby parts for sale is a byproduct of what is purported to be a women’s right to control her body. Do those who have abortions even

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know what happens to the body of life taken from them? Republican leaders who support withholding taxpayer funds from Planned Parenthood are on the right side of this issue.

Carol Adams Glenville

Bernie Sanders excitement builds

To the editor: July 29 Bernie Sanders spoke to the entire country using the Internet. It was an incredible event. Our tiny group of Bernie supporters suddenly exploded, in much the same way support for Bernie has exploded all over the country. The tiny town of Sylva had two locations participating with a total of close to 70 people showing interest.

And it was a diverse group of people. The oldest member at our event was in his 90s and retired from NASA. And we had a group of teenagers who were excited to get their hands on voter registration forms so they could vote for Bernie, now that their 18th birthdays were getting close. We had people from Highlands and from Franklin schedule their own house parties to support Bernie.

What we did not have at the event was the media. We know that major corporations own the media and are suppressing information about Bernie Sanders. But we didn’t even have the local newspapers report on the event, and for this I am very disappointed.

All over this country crowds have been gathering to hear him speak and support him. A favorite saying among Bernie supporters has become, “Beware Hillary, objects in rearview mirror are closer than they appear.” He is behind Hillary, now, but only single digit percentages. He cannot be bought. His donors are not big corporations; they are people like you and I. If you are not hearing awesomely good things about Bernie Sanders then you are watching too much corporate television.

Check out social media and you will hear about nothing else but Bernie Sanders for president.

Bernie Sanders will be in Greenville, South Carolina, on Aug. 21 for the people who can’t wait to see if he gets to Asheville.

Plans are being made to bring him to Asheville in September.

Connie Jean Conklin Dillsboro

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Open Monday-Friday with lunch form 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and family-style dinner 4:30

BLUE ROOSTER SOUTHERN GRILL 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, Lakeside Plaza at the old Wal-Mart. 828.456.1997. Open Monday through Friday. Friendly and fun family atmosphere. Local, handmade Southern cuisine. Fresh-cut salads; slow-simmered soups; flame grilled burgers and steaks, and homemade signature desserts. Blue-plates and local fresh vegetables daily. Brown bagging is permitted. Private parties, catering, and take-out available. Call-ahead seating available.

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

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

BREAKING BREAD CAFÉ 6147 Hwy 276 S. Bethel (at the Mobil Gas Station) 828.648.3838 Monday-Friday 8 a.m.

to 3 p.m. Saturaday & Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Chef owned and operated. Our salads are made in house using local seasonal vegetables.

Fresh roasted ham, turkey and roast beef used in our hoagies. We hand make our own eggplant and chicken parmesan, pork meatballs and hamburgers. We use 1st quality fresh not pre-prepared products to make sure you get the best food for a reasonable price. We make vegetarian, gluten free and sugar free items.

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

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

Open Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday brunch 9 a.m. to 3p.m., Full Menu 3 to 9 p.m. Serving fresh and delicious weekday morning lite fare, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Freshly prepared menu offerings range from house-made soups & salads, lite fare & tapas, crepes, specialty sandwiches and burgers. Be sure not to miss the bold flavors and creative combinations that make up the daily Chef Supper Specials starting at 5pm every day. Followed by a tempting selection of desserts prepared daily by our chefs and other local bakers. Enjoy craft beers on tap, as well as our full bar and eclectic wine list.

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes,

and always all-you-can-eat. Lunch every day from 12 till 2 p.m. Evening cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays (weather permitting), featuring steaks, ribs, chicken, and pork chops, to name a few. Bountiful family-style dinners on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with entrees that include prime rib, baked ham and herb-baked chicken, complemented by seasonal vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts. We also offer a fine selection of wine and beer. The evening social hour starts at 6pm, and dinner is served starting at 7pm. So join us for milehigh mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Please call for reservations.

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

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

CITY BAKERY 18 N. Main St. Waynesville 828.452.3881.

Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Join us in our historic location for scratch made soups and daily specials.

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

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Burgers: Double Cheeseburger $5.99 Bacon Pimento Cheeseburger $5.99 Carolina Burger: $5.49 Chili Cheeseburger $5.49

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After 4PM Specials Too! Free delivery Available Mon.-Thur. 11am - 7:00pm, Fri. & Sat. 11am - 8pm & Sundays 11-4 Come take a wagon ride with us, back to the beginnings of the Ranch. In celebration of our 82nd season, we’ll be serving up “Way Back When” dinners in an authentic re-creation of Mr. Tom o and Miss Judy’s first primitive fishing camp. Just call us for reservations, then come join us on August 14 for mountain trout and mountain music. And Cataloochee Ranch enjoy old-fashioned hospitality a mile high.

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CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

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

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

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

Casual, affordable, family-friendly, fun... these are all things you’ll experience when you dine with us. Your family is our family. We look forward to serving you.

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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.

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 highquality 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

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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.

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.

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

5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Frogs Leap is a farm to table restaurant focused on local, sustainable, natural and organic products prepared in modern regional dishes. Seasonal menu focuses on Southern comfort foods with upscale flavors. www.frogsleappublichouse.com.

GUADALUPE CAFÉ 606 W. Main Street, Sylva. 828.586.9877.

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,

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

Monday through Saturday; Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner. The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era.

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

828.586.3555. Open 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.

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.

ORGANIC BEANS COFFEE COMPANY 1110 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.668.2326. Open 7 days a week 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Happily committed to brewing and serving innovative, uniquely delicious coffees — and making the world a better place. 100% of our coffee is Fair Trade, Shade Grown, and Organic, all slow-roasted to bring out every note of indigenous flavor.

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

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

SMOKY MOUNTAIN SUB SHOP 29 Miller Street Waynesville 828.456.3400.

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

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

Locally owned and operated.

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

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

Located across from the Fire Station.

TAP ROOM 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.

TOP RAIL WRITERS NIGHT RESTAURANT 67 Branner Avenue, Waynesville.

828.246.0053 Lunch served from MondaySaturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dinner served Tuesday-Thursday 5 to 10 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 5 p.m. to midnight. Top Rail serves delicious Louisiana food while providing a friendly music venue for musicians of all ages. Feel at home no matter where you’re from. Greeting all customers at the door with a smile.

TWIN MAPLES FARMHOUSE 63 North Hill Street, Waynesville.

828.452.7837. Open for Sunday brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Located just two blocks from downtown Waynesville, Twin Maples is available for weddings, receptions, family reunions, birthday parties, showers, luncheons, corporate meetings and retreats.

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.

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

Serving the local community with great, scratch-made country cooking. Breakfast is served all day. Daily specials including Monday meatloaf, chicken and dumplings on Thursdays and Friday fish.

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.

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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.

PATIO BISTRO 30 Church Street, Waynesville.

828.454.0070. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Breakfast bagels and sandwiches, gourmet coffee, deli sandwiches for lunch with homemade soups, quiches, and desserts. Wide selection of wine and beer. Outdoor and indoor dining.

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Onstage@WCU The 2015-2016 Galaxy of the Stars stage series will kickoff with ‘An Evening with Groucho’ on Sept. 27 at WCU. Donated photo

Galaxy of Stars offers a variety of entertainment tribute to a comedic icon, a holiday show featuring the “Redneck Tenors” and a performance by an American country-pop superstar top the lineup for the 2015-16 Galaxy of Stars Series at Western Carolina University.

The only professional entertainment series in Jackson County, the Galaxy of Stars starts its 11th season this fall in the 900-seat performance hall of WCU’s John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center.

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• “An Evening with Groucho,” 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27. Award-winning actor/director/playwright Frank Ferrante recreates his acclaimed portrayal of legendary comedian Groucho Marx in a fastpaced 90 minutes of hilarity commemorating Groucho’s 125th birthday.

• The United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra, 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25. The audience will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Bardo Arts Center with this two-hour show combining music ranging from Mozart to Monty Python, Bach to the Beatles, Chick Corea to Rossini, all punctuated by witty spontaneous humor.

• “3 Redneck Tenors Christmas Spec-tacyule,” 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11. Wearing mullets on their heads and stomping their feet, these unique vocalists whoop and holler through holiday music, providing head-to-toe fun for the whole family.

• Juice Newton, 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24.

American pop and country singer, songwriter and guitarist, Newton has received five Grammy award nominations in the pop and country best female vocalist categories.

Her hit songs include “Angel of the Morning,” “Queen of Hearts,” “The Sweetest Thing (I’ve Ever Known),” “Love’s Been a

Little Bit Hard on Me,” “Break It to Me Gently,” “You Make Me Want to Make You Mine,” “Hurt” and “Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers).”

• Galumpha - Acrobatic Dance Trio, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5. Combining stunning acrobatics, striking visual effects, physical comedy and inventive choreography, Galumpha brings to life a world of imagination, beauty, muscle and merriment.

• “Parents Night Out,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5. Comedians Karen Morgan and Jim Colliton present a comedy for grownups (recommended for ages 18+), looking at parenting from both sides, as well as examining family, marriage, minivans and minor mayhem.

• Mike Super - Magic & Illusion, 3 p.m.

Sunday, May 1. Winner of NBC’s “Phenomenon” series and finalist in “America’s Got Talent,” Super redefines magic with a production that is more than just illusions — a journey featuring laughter, intrigue, danger, fear and wonder.

The Galaxy of Stars Series is presented by the WCU College of Fine and Performing Arts with support from the WCU Friends of the Arts organization (celebrating its fifth anniversary this year).

Series subscriptions are now available at a substantial savings over individual ticket prices. Patrons can enjoy all seven shows in the season for $120 for adults and $45 for students and children. Subscriptions allow patrons to select and keep preferred seats and also are an affordable way for families to enjoy live entertainment.

Individual performance prices are $21 for adults; $16 for WCU faculty and staff; and $7 for students and children. Ticket prices are $15 per person for groups of 20 or more.

Series tickets and single tickets are available online at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or by calling the box office at 828.227.2479.

Mainstage Series wo plays and two musicals comprise the 2015-16 Mainstage season to be presented

by Western Carolina University’s School of Stage and Screen at the Hoey Auditorium.

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• The season opens with “Pop! Who Shot Andy Warhol?,” a musical comedy mystery possibly inspired by an actual event and written/composed by Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jacobs. Every character is a suspect, including the iconic pop art icon himself and all his “Factory” denizens, as they sort out the answer to the subtitle’s question through a score infused with popular music grooves and punctuated by the sound that a gun makes.

Show times are 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1-3 and at 3 p.m. Oct. 3.

• The classic Noel Coward comedy “Blithe Spirit” describes the conflict when mystery writer Charles Condomine accidently brings his dead wife back into an earthly sphere while researching a new book. Then his ghostly wife attempts to lure him away from his new wife and into the afterlife with her. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18-21 and at 3 p.m. Nov. 22.

• In a women’s juvenile detention center in Tennessee, the inmates are staging a production of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy in “Macbeth is the New Black.” What’s happening in the detention center begins to mirror the secrecy and violence in the play, and the results are vicious. Show times are 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 17-20.

Last season’s Mainstage productions at Western Carolina University included a spirited performance of the musical ‘Les Miserables.’ Donated photo • “Gypsy,” a musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, will be presented in the Bardo Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. April 1416, and at a 3 p.m. April 17.

Season tickets are $50 for adults; $40 for senior citizens, faculty and staff; and $20 for students. Single event tickets for the musicals are $21 for adults; $16 for senior citizens, faculty and staff; and for students, $10 day of show or $7 in advance. Single event tickets for “Blithe Spirit” and “Macbeth is the New Black” will be $16 for adults; $11 for senior citizens, faculty and staff; and for students, $10 day of show or $7 in advance.

828.227.7491 or 828.227.2479 or bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

Arts and Cultural Events Series omedy, drama, dance and free thoughtprovoking films highlight the offerings of the 2015-16 Arts and Cultural Events Performance Series at Western Carolina University.

The ACE series opens with the Golden Dragon Acrobats at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. The performance brings the 2,000-year tradition of Chinese acrobatics to western audiences. Ticket prices are $5 for students and $10 for all others.

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• The Southern Circuit Film Series presents its first film of the season, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, in the University Center theater. The documentary resurrects the buried history of the outrageous and brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971. Filmmaker Mary Dore is touring with the film’s showings. www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com.

• A Homecoming Comedy Show hosted by comedian Jose Barrientos at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the Bardo Arts Center.

The show will feature headliner Iliza Shlesinger with Chloe Hilliard and Kevin Yee. Poking fun

at first date attire and fantasy break-ups, Shlesinger delivers a fast-paced, in-your-face hour of gender-based “logic.” Tickets will be $5 for students and $10 general admission.

• The second offering in the Southern Circuit Film Series, “Shield and Spear,” screens at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, in the University Center theater. This film explores stories about identity, art, race and freedom of expression in South Africa, 20 years into democracy, after an artist paints a caricature of South African president Jacob Zuma that provokes a lawsuit, death threats and a massive street protest. www.shieldspear.com.

• “Frame by Frame,” screens at 7

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fishing community way up the coast, tucked away in several silent coves along the ancient and mysterious Atlantic Ocean, roaring with all its might.

Personally, I’ve been coming to this same town every year since I was 6 months old.

And since I moved to Western North Carolina in 2012, had yet to return to the landscape of my youth. They say “home” is where the most cherished memories of your childhood reside. For me, Maine represented that, and part of me was apprehensive about returning, seeing as “you can never go back home again.”

Our car meandered under midnight moonlight, through small villages asleep, only to be awakened in the coming hours to take on another day on the high seas of

p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the University Center theater. The film follows four Afghan photojournalists as they navigate an emerging and dangerous media landscape in postTaliban Afghanistan after photography is no longer illegal. Interviews and archival footage shot in secret during the Taliban regime help connect audiences with these four people in pursuit of the truth. www.framebyframethefilm.com.

• The one-man play “Mercy Killers” will be presented by its author Michael Milligan at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Bardo Arts Center. Milligan portrays blue-collar worker Joe, grappling with his red state ideals when he realizes the measures he must take to care for his beloved wife. A surprisingly tender love story, “Mercy Killers” is an unblinking look at health care in America. Admission

will be free for students with ID; $10 general admission. www.mercykillerstheplay.com.

• “Art and Craft” will be shown at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the University Center theater. The documentary details how one of the most prolific art forgers in United States history, Mark Landis, was finally exposed — and how he must confront the legacy of his 30-year con. Landis will be present to answer questions and talk about the film. www.artandcraftfilm.com.

• Darrah Carr Dance will bring mixed-style modern, basic ballet and a touch of tap – all with an Irish step dance brogue – at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 10, in the Bardo Arts Center. Tickets will be $5 for students with ID and $10 for all others.

• The Fine Art Museum will host “MAKE!: Paint Edition” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11.

MAKE! is a new series; its paint edition will give participants the opportunity to paint their own pieces of art with assistance from members of the art department — as well as enjoy a variety of hors d’oeuvres and live music. Tickets are $15 for one or $25 for two (limit 10).

• The film “Embers” will be screened at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, at the University Center theater. Its science fiction premise posits how survivors of a global neurological epidemic search for meaning and connection in a world without memory — how to learn, love and communicate in a future that has no past.

• Also as part of the ACE series, as many as 30 students will have the opportunity to participate in the Catamount Art Tour of Washington, D.C., March 19-25, including

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I rolled the windows down and stuck my head out.

The air was crisp and salty, with a slight hint of curious adventure. I was officially in Maine. Rolling back up the window, I turned to my parents, who had just picked me up at the Portland airport. We made small talk about how their vacation was going, how life is back home in Upstate New York, how my sister and little niece were doing.

I decided to come up to this part of New England for a few days last week, and for a few reasons, too. You see, this spot in Maine is where my family has been going to for a week or so every summer since 1972 (the year my parents got married). It isn’t a tourist trap, far from. It isn’t near any cities or sardine-can-packed beaches. It’s a sleepy

abodes growing old and awaiting someone to take a chance on them. I stopped at Shaw’s Wharf (the local social hub) and gazed out at an ocean that sparkled as if God himself accidently dropped a bag of diamonds over the cove.

That evening, my sister and I decided to go for drinks at the neighborhood bar with an old friend, Katie, who was also in town on vacation. A beloved person (whose family in Connecticut have become staples in my family’s circle), she and her brother stayed here every summer, too. For years as kids, we used to hangout together, keeping in touch after the summers were over, after our eventual graduations and after The Concerts on the Creek (Sylva) series at everyone scattered across the Bridge Park Pavilion will have Mountain Faith world. (bluegrass/gospel) at 7 p.m. Aug. 14.

It’s a pretty incredible feeling The third annual Historic Cowee School to still be on the same page with Celebration will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 someone you’ve known for the betp.m. Aug. 15 in Franklin. ter part of 20 years. We saluted our evening together, drinks held The Macon Aero Modelers will be hosting an high, in celebration of Matt recentAMA National Model Aviation Day celebration ly getting married, in memory of a event at 10 a.m. Aug. 15 at the Otto joyful past in Maine, and in Aerodome on Tessentee Road in Franklin. remembrance of Katie’s late cousin The “Bascom in Bloom” floral showcase will Andrew, another one of our sumbe Aug. 13-16 at The Bascom in Highlands. mer chums, who had in recent years succumbed to a serious illness.

The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) I found myself sitting on the will have Dale & Drew (rock/folk) at 9 p.m. porch that night, alone, sipping on Aug. 14. a Geary’s Pale Ale and soaking into my chair. I was in the same cabin I’d been in as a youngster, amid the for a wedding last summer. And here she same folks that are only found in the depths was, Lucy, a rumble tumble toddler whose of slumber these days or when I’m on some smile is only matched by her continual trek across America, pondering just what laughter. It was surreal to hold her, the events brought me to this juncture of my newest member of our immediate family in existence. I wrestle often with the thoughts over 28 years.

Since it was early, I decided to lace up my pinging around in my mind, notions and sentiments I peel back and try to make sense running shoes and hit the loop I used to of. And yet, sometimes you can’t tame the cover when I was in middle and high school. cosmos, because there is a method to the The three-mile route rolls along hilly roads, madness of the heavens above, and all will through the tiny downtown and out along the ocean. The first few steps shoot by an old be clear, in due time.

I took a deep breath and exhaled. My field I used to play in with other kids on shoulders relaxed, as all thoughts of vacation over the years, from other towns heartache, femme fatales, career longing and who I only saw once a year. I ran by beaches and cemeteries, each with a few more bodies life dreams seemed to take a backseat to what was laid out right in front of me — the than I remembered. Abandoned colonial moment. homes now renovated, with once-new seafood. This is lobster country, where the people who tackle the open waters and haul their findings are as gritty and tough as the shoreline rocks upon which the ocean relentlessly unleashes its wrath.

My sister and niece were already in bed by the time we arrived at our cabin. Come morning, my eyes opened to the sounds of a little girl I had yet to meet, in essence. She was a newborn when I last saw her, for an hour as I passed through New York quickly

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workshops at selected museums and visits to other landmarks in the area of the nation’s capital. Tickets will be $300.

• The film “Kings, Queens & In-Betweens,” a documentary about gender, at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, April 26, at the University Center theater. Through the personal stories of eight drag performers and their troupes, the film seeks to make a complex subject approachable for mainstream audiences, inviting viewers into a conversation about the distinct and important differences between gender, sex and sexuality. www.kingsqueensandinbetweens.wordpress.com.

Tickets for presentations taking place at the Bardo Arts Center will be available at the box office and can be purchased online at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or by calling 828.227.2479.

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A children’s concert with the Big Band Boom Band will held at 11:30 a.m.

Thursday, Aug. 13, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. As part of the library’s summer reading program, the event is free. It is limited to the first 150 people to get tickets, which will be given out at 10 a.m. the day of the show. www.fontanalib.org.

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The Country Memories Band will perform an array of country, gospel and bluegrass selections at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Free. www.fontanalib.org.

Knight to celebrate birthday in style Acclaimed singer-songwriter/storyteller Lee Knight will ring in his birthday with a special performance at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Knight currently works as a folk singer, storyteller and outdoor leader, performing at concerts, workshops, Elderhostels, festivals, camps and schools. He leads hikes,

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With the release of the full-length album So Sang the Whippoorwill in March 2013, the band is making audiences dance, cry, and sing. The whole truly exceeds the sum of the parts as touches of classical, jazz, and folk express themselves through the oldtime core of their unique sound.

Tickets are $15 (half-price for children ages 6-16, free under age 6). www.coweeschool.org.

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• BearWaters Brewing Company (Waynesville) will have Roots of All Aug. 13 and The Darren Nicholson Band (Americana/bluegrass) 7 p.m. Aug. 20. www.bwbrewing.com.

• Big Wesser BBQ (Nantahala Outdoor Center) will have Somebody’s Child (Americana) Aug. 14, Ogya Aug. 15, Heidi Holton (blues/folk) Aug. 21 and The Freight Hoppers (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 22. All shows at 6 p.m. www.noc.com.

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• Bogart’s (Waynesville) will have live bluegrass/string music with Bradley Carter Aug. 13 and Carolina Blue Aug. 20. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. 828.452.1313.

• 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.

• The Bryson City Train Depot “Music in the Mountains” concert series will have “Blue” & Larry Barnett (bluegrass/folk) Aug. 15 and

Shady Banks (Americana) Aug. 22. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Canton Public Library will have The Coffee Branch Band (bluegrass/country) at 3 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 16. Free. www.haywoodarts.org.

• City Lights Café (Sylva) will have Karen “Sugar” Barnes & Dave McGill (blues/folk) at 7 p.m. Aug. 15. www.citylightscafe.com.

• Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will have Jay Brown (Americana/roots) Aug. 14, Joe Cruz (piano/pop) Aug. 15, Mike Pilgrim & Don Mercz (gypsy jazz) Aug. 21 and Angela Easterling (Americana) Aug. 22. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. There will also be a “Wine on Wednesday” (W.O.W.) event from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 19, which is free with dinner ($15 minimum purchase or $6 each).

828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• The Concerts on the Creek (Sylva) series at Bridge Park Pavilion will have Mountain Faith (bluegrass/gospel) Aug. 14 and Mangas Colorado (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 21. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlovers.com.

• Derailed Bar & Lounge will have Scott Stambaugh (singer-songwriter) Aug. 15 and Heidi Holton (roots/blues) Aug. 22. All shows begin at 7 p.m. 828.488.8898.

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• Friday Night Live (Highlands) summer concert series will have Mountain Dulcimer Group (bluegrass/folk) Aug. 14 and Johnny Webb Band Aug. 21. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

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• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will have Mark Keller 2 p.m. Aug. 12 and Aug. 17, Jerry Gaff Aug. 12, Family Portraits (Americana/soul) 8 p.m. Aug. 14 and ‘Round the Fire (Grateful Dead tribute) 7 p.m. Aug. 22. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 828.454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

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• Groovin’ on the Green (Cashiers) summer concert series on the Village Commons will have The Marcus King Band (blues/rock) Aug. 14 and The Freeway Revival (rock/jam) Aug. 21. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.visitcashiersvalley.com.

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• 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.

• Marianna Black Library (Bryson City) will hold community music jam from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 20. 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.

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• Mount Zion Baptist Church (Bryson City) will have a “Ladies Weekend” will Allison Speer (singer-songwriter) at 7 p.m. Aug. 14 and 9 p.m. Aug. 15. Fellowship, fun and live music.

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• The “Music on the River” concert series (Cherokee) will have Eastern Blue Band Aug. 14-15, Alfred H. Lossiah Aug. 21 and AM SuperStars Aug. 22. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 800.438.1601 or 828.359.6490.

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• Mixers Bar & Nightclub (Franklin) will have Longshot (rock/country) Aug. 15 and Dustin Martin (Americana) Aug. 22. All shows begin at 9 p.m. 828.369.9211 or www.facebook.com/mixersbarandnightclub.

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• 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.

• Nantahala Brewing Company (Bryson City) will have Ben Sutton (singer-songwriter) Aug. 14, Bose Troubadour Tour (Americana/folk) Aug. 15, Resonant Rogues (gypsy jazz/oldtime) Aug. 21 and Joy on Fire & Nomadic (jazz/rock) Aug. 22 All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• No Name Sports Pub (Sylva) will have a Singer-Songwriter Showcase Aug. 14, Skunk Ruckus (psychobilly) Aug. 15, Humps & The Blackouts (psychobilly) Aug. 21, Red Honey (Americana) Aug. 22 and Jonny Monster Band Aug. 24. 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. www.greatsmokies.com.

• O’Malley’s Pub & Grill will have karaoke with Chris Aug. 14 and 21, Through the Hills (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 15, Andy Stevens & Ben Morgan 2 p.m. Aug. 16 and Dave Dribbon (singer-songwriter) 2 p.m. Aug. 23.

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 Paradise 56 (blues/variety) Aug. 15 and The Rick Morris Band (country/rock) Aug. 22. 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 Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter) Aug. 14, Hunter Grigg (singer-songwriter) Aug. 15 and Dave Dribbon (singer-songwriter) Aug. 21. All shows begin at 9 p.m. www.pub319.com.

• Rendezvous (Maggie Valley) will have Stone Crazy (classic rock/pop) 7 p.m. Aug. 15 and SmokeRise (rock) 3 p.m. Aug. 16.

• 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.

• Stecoah Valley Center (Robbinsville) will have The Jeff Little Trio (bluegrass/folk) Aug. 15 ($25 for adults, $10 for grades K12) and The Henhouse Prowlers (roots/bluegrass, $20 for adults, $10 for grades K-12) Aug. 22. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m.

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

• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will have Dale & Drew (rock/folk) Aug. 14, Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter) Aug. 15, Tonology (metal/hard rock) Aug. 21 and Humps & The Blackouts (psychobilly) Aug. 22. All shows begin at 9 p.m.

• Waynesville Public Library will host Two Armadillos (acoustic) at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15. Free. www.haywoodarts.org.

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The Haywood Community Band will perform at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 15, at the Maggie Valley Community Pavilion.

The August program is titled “Pick a style, any style” and features the band’s ability to play marches, movie tunes, jazz, swing, Dixieland, and also the accompaniment for solo and ensemble musicians.

The pavilion is a covered, open-air facility adjacent to the Maggie Town Hall. Seating is provided in the pavilion and many concerts goers also bring lawn chairs to sit on the grass.

Picnic dinners may be brought to the concerts.

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Land of the Sky Barbershop Chorus will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, at the First Presbyterian Church in Franklin.

The three dozen-member all-male chorus sings lighthearted renditions of timeless and contemporary melodies, sung a cappella (no instruments) in four-part Barbershop-style harmony, with lots of laughs interspersed with the music.

The fast-paced hour-long program fea-

tures Broadway tunes, Celtic folk songs, and classic Disney numbers. In addition to the full chorus selections, the show will include 1950s-style doo-wop tunes by the VLQ (Very Large Quartet) ShBoom, and the quartet SuperSonic, voted Most Entertaining Quartet in the Carolinas. Complimentary ice cream sundaes will be served.

This event is presented by the Arts Council of Macon County, with partial funding from the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

Admission is by donation; $7 suggested.

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Cowee welcomes Appalachian sounds Traditional music group Run Boy Run will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, at the Historic Cowee School in Franklin.

With the release of the full-length album So Sang the Whippoorwill in March 2013, the band is making audiences dance, cry, and sing. The whole truly exceeds the sum of the parts as touches of classical, jazz, and folk express themselves through the old-time core of their unique sound.

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The cast of ‘Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike.’ scribers Aug. 20-21. For times and ticket information, click on www.highlandscashiersplayers.org or 828.526.8084.

The recent Broadway comedy “Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike” will be presented Aug. 27-Sept. 6 at the Highlands Performing Arts Center.

Playing the six characters in the Highlands Cashiers Players’ first play of their new season will be Lauretta Payne, Michael Lanzilotta, Chris Hess, Adair Simon, Raina Trent and Frannie Oates. New among the experienced actors seen in past HCP productions are Lauretta Payne from Sky Valley and Frannie Oates of Cashiers.

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• Auditions for the play “Over the River and Through the Woods” will be held at 3 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 16, at the Highlands Performing Arts Center. The play has parts for two men women age 60+, and a man and woman late 20s-early 30s. Rehearsals will be held in September and October, with show dates Oct. 15-18 and 22-25. Those who cannot make the audition can contact director Adair Simon at 828.743.5940.

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Tony Award musical at HART The Stephen Sondheim Broadway hit comedy “Company” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 14-15, 21-22, 28-29 and Sept. 4-5 and at 3 p.m. Aug. 16, 23, 30 and Sept. 6 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

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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, 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, 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.

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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 explore traditional Cherokee stories and imagery while employing traditional oil painting techniques. 828.507.9820.

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• The “Come Paint with Charles Kidz Program” will be at 4 p.m. Aug. 20 at the Charles Heath Gallery in Bryson City. $20 per child. Materials and snacks included. 828.538.2054.

• “The Wolfpack” will be screened at 7 p.m.

Aug. 14-15 and 17-19; at 4 p.m. Aug. 15-16 and 2 p.m. Aug. 16 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. 15 and 22. There will also be a free showing of “E.T.” at 9:30 p.m. Aug. 14-15 and 21-22. www.38main.com or 828.283.0079.

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• 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. 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. www.thebascom.org/bascominbloom.

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• The “Art for the Heart of the Hospice House Belarus” art auction will be from 4 to 7 p.m.

Aug. 22 at the Carpe Diem Farms in Highlands. Sponsored by the Hospice House Foundation WNC, Inc. Tickets are $50 and are available at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. 828.421.2831.

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Tour the School • Arts & Crafts Vendors • Food Vendors Music featuring Blue Wheel Drive Antique Cars • Border Collies • Kids Games • Face Painting Guided Tours of Cowee West’s Mill Historic District Civil War reenactment • Demos & Exhibitions SEBA (Southeast Bluegrass Association) jamming on the stage

The Waynesville Craft Beer Faire will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, on the baseball field at American Legion Post 47 on Legion Drive.

Among the 25 breweries onsite, there will be selections served by BearWaters, Frog Level Brewing, Tipping Point, Boojum, Oskar Blues, Double Barley, Catawba, Innovation, Nantahala, Hi-Wire, Blind Squirrel, Sierra Nevada, Lazy Hiker, Foothills, French Broad and more. Naked Apple and Angry Orchard cideries will also be present.

Live music will be provided by Bohemian Jean (singer/songwriter) noon to 12:45 p.m., Through the Hills (Americana/bluegrass) 1 to 2 p.m., Stone Crazy (classic rock/pop) 2:20 to 3:20 p.m. and MindFrame (classic rock) 3:30 to 5 p.m.

VIP tickets are $45, which includes early admission at noon. General admission tickets are $35. This is a 21and-over event. www.waynesvillebeer.com.

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HISTORIC COWEE SCHOOL TO HOST HERITAGE FESTIVAL

The Cowee Celebration and Macon County Heritage Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Aug. 15 at the Historic Cowee School in Franklin. Artisan demonstrations, family activities, vintage displays, barbecue, and more. www.folkheritageassociation.org.

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Do you want to fly model planes?

The Macon Aero Modelers will be hosting an AMA National Model Aviation Day celebration event at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Otto Aerodome on Tessentee Road in Franklin.

Activities will include RC flight simulators, introductory RC flight training, as well as demonstrations of Aerobatic Giant Scale RC aircraft, Scale War Birds, Helicopters and Smaller Park Flyers by our member pilots. All AMA pilots are welcome to fly.

Hamburger and hot dog meals will be available for purchase. Parking fee is $5. Proceeds go to benefit the Macon TRACS.

Interested in Plott hounds?

North Carolina native Bob Plott will speak about the history of the Plott hound during Macon County Heritage Day at 11 a.m.

Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Historic Cowee School in Franklin.

Known as the North Carolina state dog, Plott will be accompanied by a hound as he

discusses the lore of the canine. He will also talk about his deep family history the “Old North State,” going back to 1750 when his ancestors arrived with the hunting dogs.

The program is made possible by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For additional information on the presentation and other events at Heritage Day, click on www.folkheritageassociation.org.

Loni Harwood became the fifth ever winner of the World Series of Poker National Championship recently at Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort.

She bested a stacked field of 122 professional poker players and WSOP Circuit grinders, earning her second WSOP gold bracelet and $341,599. Harwood earned her first bracelet two years ago in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event at the World Series in Las Vegas. That was part of a breakout-and record-breaking summer for her. She cashed six times, made three final tables and won one bracelet. She earned $874,698 in payouts during the 2013 Series.

At the time, it set a record for the most a female player had earned at a single WSOP. Prior to her impressive run in 2013, Harwood earned two WSOP Circuit rings in 2012, and she now has two bracelets as well.

• 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.

• 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 “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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• There will an eighth anniversary celebration of the purchase of the Rickman Store by the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee on Saturday, Aug. 22, at the store in Cowee.

• A wine and hors d’oeuvres fundraiser will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, at Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville. Four different wines to sample and finger foods from Blossom on Main. $25 per person.

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A traveler’s library; books read and unread s some readers of this column may know, I have spent the past six weeks in Europe, specifically the British Isles and Italy. Below is an accounting, by way of lists and some short reviews, of books carried here, bought here, read here, and left here.

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• Berlitz Italian: Phrase Book & Dictionary: A waste of space. Everyone in Rome has some knowledge of English — even tourists from places like China communicate with the Italians in English — and I felt like an idiot trying to speak Italian to a waiter or shopkeeper, only to Writer be answered in English.

• How To Blog A Book: What was I thinking? I’ll use this guide at home, but never once cracked open the book on this trip.

• Oscar William’s A Treasury of Great Poetry: I read from this book almost daily, and for the first time I realized how much Williams had lifted from the works of Shakespeare and Donne. Treasury has now taken up residence in the Hotel Due Torri; the shelves in the lounge needed some poetry.

• Rick Steve’s Europe 101: History & Art for the Traveler: I am teaching this book in the fall, but should have left it at home.

• Knopf Guide to Rome, 1994 Edition: Excellent resource. This book saw frequent usage with its fine maps and more than adequate explanations of sites from the Vatican to the Catacombs. Definitely worth the haul.

• Charles Murray’s By The People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission: Like the Berlitz Guide to Italian, I’ll be leaving this one behind, but I did read and learn from Murray’s latest look at our culture and politics. By The People should appeal to conserva-

tives, libertarians, and many liberals, anyone, in short, who thinks our government and justice system are broken and increasingly lawless. Murray’s thesis: Our government, the Supreme Court, and our regulatory agencies are out of control. The Constitution seems beyond hope of repair.

Murray’s remedy: Fight the government with civil disobedience by engaging in legal battles against these agencies. As Murray points out, the Federal Code of Regulations is now 180,000 pages long. We can fight the regulators by first disobeying the laws that deserve disobedience and then battling the government in court if caught. Murray explains how possible means of financing and carrying out that war. An idea worthy of consideration.

• Christendom College Rome Program Handbook Spring 2014: Recommended by my son Jeremy and his wife Mary, who recently married and who spent the fall semester in Rome. An invaluable guide to churches and transportation.

BOOKS BOUGHT AND READ IN EUROPE • Shakespeare: Here Anthony Burgess of A Clockwork Orange fame — my own favorite Burgess novel is his last, Earthly Powers – gives us a speculative biography of Shakespeare. I had long ago read his novel Nothing Like The Sun, also about Shakespeare, and can remember being word drunk for a week. Here Burgess gives us an account of the poet-dramatist and his time, often making some controversial points. I particularly liked that Burgess stuck up for Shakespeare as being the author of the plays rather than serving as another man’s patsy.

Evening of poetry at Folk School Poets Maren O. Mitchell and Joan Howard will give a reading at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown.

Mitchell’s poems have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, The South Carolina Review, Hotel Amerika, Southern Humanities Review, The Classical Outlook, Town Creek Poetry, Appalachian Journal, Red Clay Reader #4, The Arts Journal, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Wild Goose Poetry Review, and Pirene’s Fountain. Her nonfiction book is Beat Chronic Pain, An Insider’s Guide.

Howard’s poetry has been published in The Lyric, The Road Not Taken: The Journal of Formal Poetry, Lucid Rhythms, Victorian Violet, Our Pipe Dreams, Aurorean, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Miller’s Pond, the 2012 Georgia Poetry Society’s anthology Reach of Song and others.

For reasons of space, this book stays here as well in the hotel library.

• Dominic Dromgoole’s Will & Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life: Like the Burgess biography, I bought this book in Stratford-uponAvon, Shakespeare’s hometown. These sorts of guidebooks — how reading Proust, Dante, Hemingway, and others can change our lives — are popular right now, and I thought I’d give this one a shot. Besides, who could resist buying a book by an author with the name of Dominic Dromgoole?

Will & Me was an uneven account, with some eccentric political opinions, but I did enjoy the stories about Peter O’Toole and the account of the days-long walk by Dromgoole from Stratford to London. Entertaining, but even if I had the space, I wouldn’t bring Will & Me. It’s a one-read book, so it stays with the Hotel Due Torri.

• Nina George’s The Little Paris Bookshop: The best novel I have read in months. It’s about love, death, books, poetry, and life. A keeper and a book deserving its own review.

BOOKS PARTIALLY READ IN EUROPE • Alain de Botton’s Essays in Love: I’m 32 pages in and am saving the rest of this eccentric book for the 10-hour flight home. In short: a male protagonist meets a woman the reader views as ordinary, maybe even a little detestable, and explains why he falls in love with her.

BOOKS BOUGHT IN EUROPE BUT NOT READ • Barron’s Painless Italian: Purchased in a fit of enthusiasm, opened twice. I’ll carry it home and see what happens.

• Precious Sculptures: A guide to a museum display of gold and silver religious objects from the 13th to the 18th century that stunned me. I bumbled into this gallery, a temporary exhibit offered by the Vatican Museums, and was so blown away that I bought the book. A keeper.

• Harry Mount’s Amo, Amas, Amat …

And All That: How to Become a Latin Lover: This amusing book caught my eye at the bookshop below the Ara Pacis Augustae, the Arch of Peace. Within two minutes, Mount had me chuckling. He starts his lessons in Latin by examining the tattoos of soccer star David Beckham, several of which are written in this ancient language. Back-up reading for the flight home.

• William Linney’s Getting Started with Latin: Beginning Latin for Homeschoolers and for Self-Taught Students of Any Age: Since I teach Latin, and since I am teaching Latin this fall to elementary school students for the first time in a number of years, this book caught my eye. Useful exercises for young students. I might have ordered it on Amazon, but would probably have written down the title and then promptly lost it.

One final note: There are several excellent bookshops for English speakers in Rome. Two that I visited were La Feltrinelli, Rome’s chain bookstore. The central store just off Piazza della Republica has an enormous collection of books in English, and the staff is very helpful. Almost Corner Bookshop in Trastevere is an independently owned store. The Almost Corner Bookshop has operated here over 20 years, and the man behind the desk — he was, I believe, from Australia — was pleasant and engaging.

(Jeff Minick is a teacher and writer. He can be reached at minick0301@gmail.com.)

The Folk School and N.C. Writers Network West are sponsoring The Literary Hour of poetry and prose reading. The reading is free of charge and open to the public.

each month and is cosponsored by the NetWest chapter of the North Carolina Writer’s Network.

828.586.9499.

‘Coffee with the Poet’ continues

Pickett to discuss new drama

The Coffee with the Poet series continues with Asheville writer Pasckie Pascua at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Pascua will read selections from his book, Red is the Color of My Night. The poems and prose in Red is the Color of My Night reflect the often ragged but mostly warm wisdom of a journeyman who witnessed and experience a life that defies his reserved demeanor and inviting smile.

The Coffee with the Poet series gathers the third Thursday of

Author Diane Pickett will present her work Never isn’t Long Enough at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

Written by a true Southerner who knows her way around the derby, the book follows a field of flawed and flamboyant characters as they race through page after page of drama, tragedy, and conflict. This is the story of how a single mistake can turn the promise of youth into a lifelong quest for retribution. www.blueridgebooksnc.com or 828.456.6000.

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Behind-the-scenes rescuers Emergency management team gears up for autumn rescue season

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ummer’s not quite over, but emergency responders in Haywood County are already practicing their skills in preparation for rescue season, known to most simply as “fall.”

“That time of year is when our beautiful forest has people, by the hundreds and by the thousands,” said Greg Shuping, Haywood County’s director of emergency management. “The more people we get up there, the more likelihood of a missing or injured person.”

While the trailheads are certainly full of cars in the summertime, for the most part the people to whom they belong don’t go too deep into the forest, Shuping said. But in the fall, daytime weather tends to be clear and inviting, and prizes like blackberries and fall leaves entice people to venture further down the trail. Sometimes, they’re not preTeam members (above) gather for a pre-drill briefing. Trucks and trailers line up in preparation for the pared.

That’s where Haywood’s Incident emergency drill. Donated photos Management Team comes in. The team is a collection of volunteers — they typically hold jobs as firefighters, nurses, paramedics and police officers by day — who respond with support for the searchers, offering resources like mapping, communications and food.

Like any team, practice is key to performance, and the IMT recently completed one such drill to ensure that responses remain swift and skillful. Supporting a search typically requires three trailers — one for communications, one for planning and one for logistics — a generator and a large, insulated tent. The goal of the exercise was to get all that equipment from Waynesville to the John Rock Overlook of the Blue Ridge Parkway and set it up within care of offers searchers some peace of mind. they’re ready to support the search. Having an hour.

“The last thing we want is to get out there those resources in place is vital to success.

The drill, which included 45 people from and have any more issues. If we have issues, While IMT members don’t actually vennine different agencies and the IMT, went we’re not going to be able to keep at the misture into the woods and conduct the search, “very well,” said Heidi Warren of the sion at hand,” Warren said. “We don’t need they do supply all the backup resources that Haywood County Sheriff ’s Office. They task another searcher out there that gets lost. We the agency leading the response — often the was done in one hour and seven minutes. don’t need to have 40 people in the woods sheriff ’s and fire departments — need to “It’s more than just parking a trailer,” and only 39 people accounted for.” make sure the search ends well. The IMT Shuping said. “It’s what’s in the trailer.”

In a given year, Shuping said, the team helps searchers navigate the woods, keep a Besides the 30-minute drive to the site, responds to somewhere between 25 and 40 watch on the weather and have food and shelresponders have to set up computers and search and rescue calls in the Black Balsam ter waiting when the team returns, among maps, secure an Internet connection and area of the Pisgah National Forest. While others supports. Having those tasks taken make a host of other preparations before

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Stay safe The best way to help decrease the number of people who need rescuing from the woods?

Make sure you’re not one of them. Follow these tips to ensure that your autumn excursions are refreshing rather than dangerous.

■ Plan ahead. Choose your route a day or two before you do it, and research it well. Get a good night’s sleep, drink water and eat a big meal before leaving. Let someone know where you’re going and when you’ll be back.

■ Know what you’re getting into. If the most strenuous walking you’ve ever done was on a city greenway or downtown sidewalk, don’t try a 10-mile mountain trek. Choose a route that matches your experience and ability level.

■ Check the skies. Stay out of the woods when the weather’s predicted to be bad, and plan your trip so you’ll finish well before sunset.

■ Pack a bag. Be sure to bring plenty of food and water, a headlamp, a first aid kit, a raincoat and a good map with you.

that’s a relatively small number compared to the volume of calls resulting from car crashes or heart attacks, search and rescue responses are much more involved.

“This is a unique situation, and instead of sending a deputy or just one ambulance, we’re trying to muster up, even to get started, 20 or 30 people,” Shuping said. In a rural county like Haywood, it can be challenging to rustle up that many trained and capable people to respond at a moment’s notice, which is why it’s important to have a large roster of trained team members to draw from when an emergency occurs.

“We have 50 members in hope that a dozen of them will be available,” Shuping said.

Unlike the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service doesn’t have the mandate or resources to perform search and rescues on land it manages. That means that people from the local area have to provide the service. It’s a specialized form of emergency response and pretty demanding on the people it involves, who by and large act as volunteers and work other jobs during the day.

“The people we have, they have a life,” Shuping said. “They do what you and I do every day, and then when somebody is lost they have to spend all night when they’re already fatigued to try to find somebody or rescue somebody.”

So getting the crew together to make sure everyone’s on the same page about what to do when that call comes through is vital.

Practicing the routine ensures that the support team does its job well so the on-theground searchers, in turn, can do their job well.

“They practice searching. We practice management,” Shuping said of the difference between the IMT’s role and that of the rescue crews. “Our part of this is that we organize people and we help be more efficient and safe.

That’s our job.”

The Haywood County Fair is coming up, and with it some opportunity for friendly competition. Consider putting your hat in the ring for Haywood County Fair photo one of these contests: ■ A truck pull will be held at 1 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 30. The competition will feature eight classes — mini, full-size, short wheel base half-ton pickups, longwheel base half-ton pickups, longwheel base three-quarter ton pickups, diesels, dual-wheel trucks and an overall class consisting of winners from each class.

828.476.1116.

■ A stock tractor pull will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29. Tractors from 1964 or earlier can compete in one of 14 weight classes ranging from 3,500 to 12,000 with trophies given out to first through third

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Show off your horse, tractor and truck at the Haywood fair places. Sponsored by Smart Farms.

828.246.5167.

■ A horse show will be held at 7 p.m.

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Saturday, Aug. 29. The event will include 17 classes, with four championship classes — English pleasure, Western pleasure, gaited horse pleasure and barrel championship.

828.646.9432.

All three contests will be held at the Great Smokies Arena of the Haywood County Fairgrounds. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

Learn about the fabled bear hunting dog — the Plott Hound — during a talk at 11 a.m.

Saturday, Aug. 15, at Macon County Heritage Day at the old Cowee School.

Renown author and Plott Hound expert Bob Plott will recount the evolution of the special breed of bear hunting dogs unique to WNC, and share some of the lore surrounding the dog. He will bring a Plott hound as a special guest.

The Folk Heritage Association of Macon County is hosting the program and other festivities during the day. www.folkheritageassociation.org Plott’s talk is made possible in part by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council.

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Become a backcountry chef

Free food preservation class offered A class on food preservation will teach participants what to do with their summer bounty at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, at The Community Kitchen in Canton.

Julie Sawyer of Haywood County Extension will discuss two methods of canning and explain when and why to use each. A chance to try the techniques with pickled vegetables and salsa will be offered.

Free. A program of Haywood County Library’s Giving Garden. 828.648.2924.

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Inject some variety — and a gourmet touch — into backcountry meals with a free class offered at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18 at REI in Asheville.

The hour-and-a-half course will break down the components of a great meal and translate how to bring them into the outdoors. Samples will be part of the event.

Space is limited. Sign up at www.rei.com/learn.html.

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Get backstage at the Arboretum A behind-the-scenes tour of the N.C. Arboretum’s Germplasm Repository lab will offer insight on its efforts to research and conserve native species, 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Aug. 19.

The tour will include an introduction to the seed bank and herbarium collection, efforts to develop plant-based natural products and how these efforts support economic development and funding at the Arboretum.

Free, with space limited. RSVP to George Ivey, 828.665.2492 or at givey@ncarboretum.org

Get schooled in wilderness A fall schedule of classes covering the principles of emergency response and responsible behavior in the backcountry will soon kick off at Landmark Learning, an accredited outdoor education school based in Cullowhee.

■ Wilderness First Responder. This nineday wilderness medical course covers how

to handle medical emergencies and injuries in the backcountry, from hypothermia to splinting broken bones. Emphasis on hands-on scenarios. Sept. 5-13.

■ Wilderness First Responder Recertification. This three-day course provides certified WFR’s with practice, training and updates to renew their certification.

Training for Clingmans Dome volunteers

August 12-18, 2015

A training for people interested in volunteering at the Clingmans Dome visitor station in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be held 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee.

Volunteers will staff the station Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays during the fall season educating visitors about the park, giving them directions and helping them plan their visit to the park.

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■ Leave No Trace - Master Educator. Taught partially in the backcountry, this five-day course teaches the principles of environmentally responsible behavior outdoors and prepares to students to teach their own two-day trainer courses. Sept. 21-25.

■ Leave No Trace – Trainer. Designed for a broad spectrum of outdoor workers and educators, this two-day course teaches the basics of environmentally responsible behavior outdoors. Approved for continuing education hours in Jackson County.

Oct. 3-4.

■ Emergency Medical Technician. This three-week course lets students walk away with national and state certification in basic EMT. Oct. 5-24.

■ Wilderness Medicine Institute Wilderness Upgrade for the Medical Professional. This wilderness medicine training is designed for medical professionals such as EMTs, nurses and doctors.

Those completing the EMT training Oct. 524 can earn it by completing a fourth week of training Oct. 26-30.

■ EMT Refresher. This three-day program meets recertification requirements from the National Registry of EMTs. Dec. 2-4.

All courses are held at Landmark’s headquarters in Cullowhee. www.landmarklearning.edu.

Swain officer wins state boating award outdoors

A Bryson City man has been honored as North Carolina’s Boating Law Enforcement Officer of the Year.

Brian Cookston, a master officer with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, was recognized for his quick response to a commercial jet boat accident last year on Fontana Lake, which resulted in injuries to numerous passengers. He was instrumental in getting medical attention and other help on scene and also aided the U.S. Coast Guard investigation.

He has also been highly involved in community outreach and education for safe boating, from classes for boat operators to courtesy vessel inspections at boat ramps. He is a leader in the annual campaign to discourage drinking and driving on the water.

Learn to navigate online trout map Anglers wanting to get the most out of a new trout waters search tool from the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission can learn more at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, at the Jackson County Public Library.

Jacob Rash, the Wildlife Commission’s coldwater research coordinator, will talk about the Commission’s new Public Mountain Trout Waters Search Tool, trout biology and the Commission’s trout management program.

Free. Co-sponsored by Friends of the Jackson County Public Library. 828.586.2016. www.fontanalib.org.

Fracking 101 August 12-18, 2015

A free lecture called “Energy Literacy and How ‘Fracking’ Fits In” will be held at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Highlands Nature Center.

Learn where energy comes from, the factors behind decisions about energy resources and the place of fracking in that puzzle with Cheryl Waters-Tormey, an associate professor at Western Carolina University.

Waters-Tormey will begin her talk with a fact-based energy literacy crash course, then contrast the geology of fossil fuel reservoirs in North Carolina with those in the Appalachian Basin in the northeastern U.S. She’ll conclude with a discussion driven by questions from the audience.

Free. Part of the summer-long Zahner Lecture Series. Sponsored by Paul Sanger. www.highlandsbiological.org or 828.526.2221

Stocking suspended after disease found in trout how far the disease has spread.

The disease, now present in more than 20 states, is spread mainly through infected fish and fish parts but can also be transmitted by birds and anglers who transfer the parasite on their equipment.

Though there is no cure for the disease, the presence of whirling disease isn’t necessarily a death knell for fish populations. In other states, the disease has been present for decades, and impacts on both wild and stocked trout were not as devastating as feared.

Whirling disease damages nerves and cartilage in the species it affects, which can cause fish to swim in a circular, tail-chasing pattern — hence the name of the disease.

Report sightings of trout with deformities and strange swimming behaviors at www.ncwildlife.org/Fishing/WhirlingDisea se/WhirlingDiseaseContactForm.aspx.

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Whirling disease has been confirmed in rainbow trout in the Watauga River in the Banner Elk area, and biologists are concerned that the disease could spread to other trout populations.

Biologists have suspended trout stockings until they can test hatchery fish to ensure they’re disease-free — even though the diseased fish came from a trout stream that was not stocked with fish raised by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.

The disease, caused by a parasite, affects all species of trout and salmon, with rainbow and brookies — especially younger fish — appearing to be the most susceptible.

Brook trout, North Carolina’s only native species, lives mainly in colder waters — the parasite’s preferred habitat.

The Commission is also testing trout from the Watauga River, its tributaries and area aquaculture operations to determine

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Experience life on the top A guided hike to the top of Mount LeConte in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will provide an opportunity for adventure and natural beauty Sept. 4-5.

The trip, which will raise money for Discover Life in America, will include dinner at LeConte Lodge, an evening sunset program at CliffTops and a hot breakfast before heading back down. Lunches will also be provided.

DLIA is a nonprofit that runs the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, a project seeking to inventory the estimated 100,000 species of organisms living in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. $275. RSVP to heather@dlia.org.

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A ramble along the Appalachian Trail from Indian Gap to Newfound Gap in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will introduce hikers to flora and fauna on Wednesday, Aug. 19.

Organized by the Great Smoky Mountains Association, the hike will feature park ranger and naturalist Cary Jones as a guide. $20 members; $35 non-members. RSVP to membership@gsmassoc.org or 888.898.9102.

Run away cancer The Relay for Life 5K and Kids Glo Fun Run will raise money for cancer research, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 22, in Franklin.

The run will begin from the Tassee Shelter on the Little Tennessee River Greenway, with registration opening at 5:30 p.m. The fun run will start at 6 p.m. and the 5K at 7:15 p.m. www.relay.acsevents.org

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A new triathlon featuring paddling, trail running and mountain biking will debut at Tsali Recreation Area this fall.

The Tsali Adventure Triathlon, set for Saturday, Oct. 3, will include 3 miles of paddling — canoes, kayaks and stand up paddleboards are all allowed — 5 miles of trail running and 12 of mountain biking.

Athletes can compete in teams or individually.

Proceeds from the race will support MedicForce, a nonprofit based in Bryson City aiming to improve access to healthcare in impoverished third-world regions.

Registration is $45 for individuals and $95 for teams, through Aug. 30, and then goes up by $10. Tsali Recreation Area is located in the Nantahala National Forest about 15 miles outside of Bryson City. Co-

sponsored by Bryson City Bicycles, Nantahala Outdoor Center, Swain County Tourism Development Authority, Bryson City and Foot Rx Running Asheville. www.tsalitriathlon.com.

Get your paddle on Beginning paddlers will have a chance to learn the basics of whitewater kayaking with a clinic Aug. 22-23 offered through Jackson County Parks and Recreation.

The clinic will begin with lake paddling and will progress to moving water and then whitewater. Participants should be rising eighth graders or older, in good physical condition and comfortable swimming in moving water. $80 includes transportation, equipment and lunch. Register through Aug. 29 at the Jackson Recreation Center in Cullowhee.

828.293.3053. jenniferbennett@jacksonnc.org.

WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • The second Annual Messy Game Night and Back To School Bash will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 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 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.

• Volunteers are needed to help with a makeover of the Swain County Genealogical and Historical Society Library starting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15, in Bryson City.

• Smoky Mountain Friends of the NRA will hold its annual meeting from 5:30-11 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds. Rifle demos, games and prime ribs. $40 with pre-registration required. www.friendsofnra.org or contact Daniel Cloer at 736.7165 or danielcloer@yahoo.com.

• The Macon County Airport Authority invited the public to an open house from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15. Live music, refreshments and a tour.

• A celebration of the eighth anniversary of the purchase of the historic Rickman Store by the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 22, at 259 Cowee Creek R., seven miles north of Franklin by Highway 28.

• Exhibit booth and food vendor applications are now being accepted for the Haywood County Fair, which is scheduled for Aug. 25-31. 456.3575. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• Winter Lights tickets are on sale now at the Arboretum in Asheville. www.ncarboretum.org.

• “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.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • After Hours at Lonesome Valley, a celebration of small business, will be presented by Cashiers Chamber of Commerce from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, at 94 Lonesome Valley Road in Sapphire. $10 admission for guests (credit applicable to annual membership); charter members pay no admission. RSVP to 743.5191 or info@cashiersareachamber.com.

• The Maggie Valley Chamber Dinner and Awards Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at J. Arthur’s Restaurant. 926.1686.

• The Swain County Chamber of Commerce will hold its next board meeting at noon on Wednesday, Aug. 19, at the chamber office.

• Applications are being accepted for the Leadership Haywood Class of 2015-16, which begins Sept. 16.

Daylong programs are scheduled the third Wednesday of each month through May. Tuition is $650 for Haywood Chamber members and $750 for nonmembers.

456.3021 or info@haywoodchamber.com.

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FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Duke’s Animal Haven, a dog and cat rescue shelter, is holding a wine and hors d’oeuvres fundraiser from 5-8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 14, at Bosu’s Wine Shop in downtown Waynesville. Bosu’s provides four different wines to sample; Blossom on Main (a downtown Thai restaurant) will provide hors d’oeuvres. Drop-in event. $25.

• 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.

• Registration is under way for the sixth-annual Waynesville Main Street Mile, which benefits Shriners Hospitals for Children in Greenville, S.C. The race is Aug. 21. Register at communityfitnessevents.com/waynesville-main-street-mile/. Sponsor and vendor opportunities are available. yarringtonpt@bellsouth.net.

• The Relay for Life 5K and Kids Glo Fun Run will raise money for cancer research at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, in Franklin. www.relay.acsevents.org.

• Art for the Heart of the Hospice House, a fundraising event for the Hospice House Foundation of WNC, will be presented from 4-7 p.m. on Aug. 23 at Carpe Diem Farms in Highlands. Includes a silent auction of original art from the Public Children’s Art Studio in Minsk, Belarus. $50 tickets include appetizers, spirits and music. Casual attire. Advance payments accepted at Hospice House Foundation of WNC; Art for the Heart of the Hospice House, P.O. Box 815; Franklin, NC 28744. info@hhfwnc.org or 524.8261.

• The 24th-annual Charitable Classic Golf Tournament & Gala, benefitting Good Samaritan Clinic of Haywood County, is scheduled for Aug. 25-26, at Maggie Valley Club, Laurel Ridge Country Club and Waynesville Inn golf Resort. Individual tickets for golf slots are $150 each, which includes a gala ticket. Gala tickets are $65 each. 452.8343. More info at HaywoodHealthcareFoundation.org. Info on Good Samaritan Clinic of Haywood County at gschaywood.org or 454.5287.

• Tickets are now available for the 12th-annual Wine/Beer Tasting and Silent Auction, which benefits Swain County’s P.A.W.S. Animal Shelter and is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, at Lands Creek Log Cabins’ Harmony Hall. Advance tickets are $20 and available at P.A.W.S Thrift Store; tickets at the door on the event date are $25. Directions at www.landscreek.com. Info: 333.4267 or pawsbrysoncity@yahoo.com.

HEALTH MATTERS • 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.

• The Project Lazarus/Substance Abuse Action Team will meet a week early at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, at the Jackson County Health Department. Finalize activities for upcoming events.

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• 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 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.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Aug. 14 at Waynesville Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from noon-4:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 17, at the Masonic Lodge in Waynesville. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 2-7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 17, at High Street Baptist Church in Canton. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• Healthy Families will be the topic of a back-to-school lunch and learn session from noon-12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Old Hospital Hill Pharmacy location in Bryson City. Free lunch.

• An Alzheimer’s seminar entitled “Effective Communication Strategies” is scheduled for 1-2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Waynesville Library.

Designed to offer practice information and resources for dementia caregivers. Free. For more info, call Kathy at 356.2507.

• Dr. Gerald King will lead a seminar on arthritis and joint pain from 6-7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center as part of “Dinner with the Docs” series. To register, call 800.424.DOCS (3267).

RECREATION AND FITNESS • 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 under way until Aug. 21 for square dance lessons in Jackson County. $65 per person.

Lessons are held on Monday nights starting Aug. 24.

Register or get more info by calling 293.3053 or visit rec.jacksonnc.org.

• 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.

POLITICAL CORNER • The Jackson County NAACP membership meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15, at Liberty Baptist Church in Sylva. Macon and Swain residents are members of the Jackson Branch.

• Frye Street Public Hearing is at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 17, at the Town Office on Everett Street.

• The Swain County TDA will hold its next meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, at the chamber office.

• The Jackson County Democratic Party will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at party headquarters at 500 Mill St. in downtown Sylva. Open to all Democrats.

Attendees will continue discussion of precinct clusters and “friendraising.”

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THE SPIRITUAL SIDE • A homecoming event will be held starting at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 15, at Inman Chapel on Lake Logan Road in Canton. Fellowship and registration start at 10 a.m.; Inman family history presented at 11:30 a.m. and a covered dish lunch served at 12:30 p.m. Gospel singing led by Inman sisters in the afternoon. Donations will be taken for upkeep at the church.

• A “Life in the Spirit” seminar will take place Aug. 21-22 at St. Margaret Catholic Church in Maggie Valley.

The seminar, about rediscovering the beauty of being baptized in the Holy Spirit, is from 5:30-9 p.m. on Aug. 22 and from 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. on Aug. 22. To pre-register or get more info, call Janet Zander at 734.0039.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS • “The Literary Hour” featuring readings by poets Maren O Mitchell and Joan Howard will be presented by the John Campbell Folk School at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, in Brasstown.

• Diane Pickett will present her book “Never Isn’t Long Enough” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. 456.6000.

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. Donald Hummel at 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

KIDS & FAMILIES • Singer/storyteller Sharon Clarke “the Story Lady” is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Aug. 12 at the Waynesville Library. Refreshments provided.

• As part of the Summer Reading Program, the Jackson County Public Library is hosting a musical concert for children of all ages featuring the Big Bang Boom Band at 11:30 a.m. on Aug. 13 in the Community Room in Sylva. 586.2016.

• A Lego Club for ages five and up meets from 4-5:30 p.m. on Aug. 13 at Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

• “Nature Nuts: Turtles,” a program organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, is scheduled for 911 a.m. on Aug. 17 in Pisgah Forest. Learn all about turtles. Story, crafts, game and turtle hunt. For ages 47. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• “Exo Explorers: Owls,” a program organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, is scheduled for 1-3 p.m. on Aug. 17 in Pisgah Forest. Learn all about owls. For ages 8-13. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• A family storytime: octopus and sharks program is set for 10 a.m. on Aug. 18 at Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

• Family storytime: Boats is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Aug. 25 at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

• “Nature Nuts: Turtles,” a program organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, is scheduled for 9-

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11 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 26, in Pisgah Forest. Learn all about turtles. Story, crafts, game and turtle hunt.

For ages 4-7. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

KIDS CAMPS

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE IT!

• A “Step Back in Time” summer day camp is scheduled for 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Aug. 20 through the Western Carolina University Mountain Heritage Center.

Ages 9-11 participate in a time-traveling journey into the region’s cultural past. Unique activities each day; cost is $25 per day. Lunch and snacks provided. http://www.wcu.edu/academics/edoutreach/ conted/camps-and-programs-for-kids/index.asp • Enrollment is underway for the 4-H Farm to Fork Day Camp, which is scheduled for Aug. 12-13 at the Haywood Extension Center. For ages 5-13. $25 cost per participant includes all materials, snacks and lunches. For more info or to register, call 456.3575.

KIDS MOVIES • 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.

• Free showings of “E.T.” are scheduled for 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 14-15. www.38main.com or call 283.0079.

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• A children’s movie about a chameleon in the wild west will be shown at 1 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 17, at Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

• A children’s comedy movie about supernatural events and characters that awaken in the evening hours at a museum will be shown at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. PG; 98 minutes.

• 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.

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• 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.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • 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.

• “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.

• The musical “Company” will be presented by HART from Aug. 14-Sept. 6 at HART in Waynesville.

Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 and Sept. 4-5; and at 3 p.m. on Aug. 16, 23, 30 and Sept. 6. Tickets are $26 for adults, $22 for seniors and $13 for students. 456.6322 or harttheatre.org.

• Jeff Little Trio featuring Steve Lewis will be in concert at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 15 at Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center in Robbinsville. Tickets are available online at www.stecoahvalleycenter.com or by calling 479.3364, $25 for adults and $10 for students.

• Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort will host a Brew BQ from noon-7 p.m. on Aug. 15 in Cherokee. Tickets at Ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000.

• Jamey Johnson performs on Saturday, Aug. 15, at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. Tickets at Ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000.

• Auditions for the Highlands Cashiers Players October play, “Over the River and Through the Woods” will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16, in the basement of the Highlands Performing Arts Center. Those who cannot attend may call director Adair Simon at 743.5940 to arrange a time to meet. Play has parts for two women ages 60-up and a man and a woman in their late 20s or early 30s.

• Haywood Community Band will perform varied styles of popular music at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16, at the open-air Maggie Valley Community Pavilion. Free.

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• Family movie time Thursdays, 3:45 p.m. at Albert Carlton, Cashiers Community Library. Free with popcorn. Call for title. 743.0215.

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Hamburgers and hot dogs available for purchase.

Location is half-mile up Tessentee Road. $5 parking per vehicle.

A&E FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS • “Way Back When” trout dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14 and 28, at the Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley. Featuring food and storytelling of a 1930s Appalachian trout camp. Purchase tickets at 926.1401 or 800.868.1401 or www.cataloocheeranch.com. Other dates for the dinner are: Sept. 4 and 25.

• The Folk Heritage Association of Macon County and the Macon County Heritage Center will host the Cowee Celebration and Macon County Heritage Day from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Aug. 15 at the Historic Cowee School/Macon County Heritage Center.

Demonstrations, children’s games, Front Porch interviews, musicians. A Plott hound presentation will be given by Bob Plott at 11 a.m. Bob Plott has traced his family roots to a relative who arrived in North America with Plott hound hunting dogs in the 1750s.www.folkheritageassociation.org.

• The Macon Aero Modelers will host an AMA National Model Aviation Day Celebration event starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Otto Aerodrome.

Proceeds benefit Macon TRACS. RC flight simulators,

• Land of the Sky Barbershop Chorus will perform at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16, in Tartan Hall of Franklin’s First Presbyterian Church. $7 suggested donation.

Doors open at 2:30 p.m. Presented by the Arts Council of Macon County with partial funding from the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. 524.ARTS or arts4all@dnet.net.

• The Honeycutters will perform their blend of Appalachian folk, honky-tonk and southern roots on Aug. 22 at Cataloochee Ranch. Tickets: $60; includes dinner. Dinner is at 7 p.m.; show starts at 8:30 p.m.

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• Run Boy Run will perform its blend of classical, jazz and folk music from 7-9 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, at the Historic Cowee School in Macon County. $15 tickets (half price for ages 6-16) available at www.coweeschool.org or at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce.

• Tokens Group will perform “grass-kicking, genrebending” music at 7 p.m. on Aug. 26 at Stuart Auditorium at Lake Junaluska. $5 tickets available at Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center.

800.222.4930.

• Tickets are now on sale for the Steve Miller Band’s upcoming performance at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. The show is at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3. For tickets, visit ticketmaster.com.

• Western Carolina University’s Mainstage season tickets are now available. The season opens with

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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.

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

• “Music on the River” concert series will feature AM SuperStars from 7-9 p.m. on Aug. 22, in the riverside area of downtown Cherokee. Free. 800.438.1601, 359.6490 or travel@nc-cherokee.com.

• Mountain Faith (bluegrass/gospel) will perform as part of Concerts on the Creek from 7-9 p.m. on Aug. 14 at Bridge Park in Sylva. 800.962.1911.

• Randy Flack will perform from 7-10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 14, at Fontana Village Resort.

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• Marcus King Band (blues/rock) will perform as part of the Groovin’ On the Green in Cashiers at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 14, at Village Commons in Cashiers. Free.

Family friendly. visitcashiersvalley.com.

• Blue & Larry Barnett (bluegrass) will perform from 6:30-8 p.m. on Aug. 15 at the Depot in Bryson City.

Part of the Music in the Mountains free concert series. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Yasguars Farm will perform from 7-10 p.m. on Aug. 15, at Fontana Village Resort. Fontanavillage.com.

• The Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) summer concert series will have Paradise 56 (blues) Aug. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Free. An open mic jam session begins at 6:30 p.m. www.franklinnc.com/pickin.html

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• Shady Banks (Americana/folk) will perform from 6:30-8 p.m. on Aug. 22 at the Depot in Bryson City.

Part of the Music in the Mountains free concert series. www.greatsmokies.com.

• The Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) summer concert series will have the Rick Morris Band (Country and rock) Aug. 16 at 7:30 p.m. Free. An open mic jam session begins at 6:30 p.m. www.franklinnc.com/pickin.html.

OUTDOOR MUSIC

• “Music on the River” concert series will feature Eastern Blue Band from 7-9 p.m. on Aug. 14 and 15, in the riverside area of downtown Cherokee. Free.

800.438.1601, 359.6490 or travel@nc-cherokee.com.

• Kelsey-Hutchinson Park (Highlands) will have the WellStrung Band for their “Saturdays on Pine” summer concert series at 6 p.m. Aug. 15. www.highlandschamber.org.

• The Freeway Revival (rock) will perform as part of the Groovin’ On the Green in Cashiers at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 21 and Oct. 23 at 9 p.m., at Village Commons in Cashiers. Free. Family friendly. visitcashiersvalley.com.

• “Music on the River” concert series will feature Alfred H. Lossiah from 7-9 p.m. on Aug. 21, in the riverside area of downtown Cherokee. Free.

800.438.1601, 359.6490 or travel@nc-cherokee.com.

• Mangas Colorado (Americana/folk/rock) will perform as part of Concerts on the Creek from 7-9 p.m. on Aug. 21 at Bridge Park in Sylva. 800.962.1911.

• Kelsey-Hutchinson Park (Highlands) will have High

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5 Band for their “Saturdays on Pine” summer concert series at 6 p.m. Aug. 22. www.highlandschamber.org.

NIGHTLIFE • An Open Mic Night is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Aug. 12 at Innovation Brewing in Sylva. www.innovationbrewing.com.

• 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.

• A jazz night featuring the Kittle/Collings duo is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Aug. 13 at Innovation Brewing in Sylva. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Bogart’s (Waynesville) will have live bluegrass/string music with Bradley Carter at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 13. Free. 452.1313.

• One-man band Jay Brown (guitar, harmonica, piano, percussion, vocals) plays at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, at Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. 452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

•The Wilhelm Brothers (Americana) perform at 6 p.m. on Aug. 14 at Andrews Brewing Company. Free. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

• Somebody’s Child (Americana) performs at 6 p.m. on Aug. 14 at Big Wesser BBQ at the Nantahala Outdoor Center. www.noc.com.

• Family Portraits (Americana/soul) performs at 8 p.m. on Aug. 14 at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville.

Free. 454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Ben Sutton (singer-songwriter) performs at 8 p.m. on Aug. 14 at Nantahala Brewing Company in Bryson City. Free. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• Dale & Drew (rock/folk) perform at 9 p.m. on Aug. 14 at the Water’n Hole Bar & Grill in Waynesville.

• A singer-songwriter showcase is scheduled for 9 p.m. on Aug. 14 at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva.

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• Longshot (rock/country) performs at 9 p.m. on Aug. 15 at Mixers Bar & Nightclub in Franklin. 369.9211 or

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• Skunk Ruckus (psychobilly) performs at 9 p.m. on Aug. 15 at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. 586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will have Porch 40 (rock/funk) at 8 p.m. Aug. 15. 828.369.5299 or www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• Oconaluftee Visitors Center (Cherokee) will have an old-time music jam from 1-3 p.m. Aug. 15. All skill levels welcomed. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Joe Cruz performs songs off the Beatles, Elton John, Simon and Garfunkel and James Taylor at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15, at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. 452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• Derailed Bar & Lounge will have Scott Stambaugh (singer-songwriter) at 7 p.m. Aug. 15. 828.488.8898.

• Copious Jones (jam/roots) performs at 6 p.m. on Aug. 15 at Andrews Brewing Company. $5. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

• Ogya performs at 6 p.m. on Aug. 15 at Big Wesser BBQ at the Nantahala Outdoor Center. www.noc.com.

• Through the Hills (Americana/bluegrass) performs at 9 p.m. on Aug. 15 at O’Malley’s Pub & Grill in Sylva.

631.0554 or www.facebook.com/omalleysofsylva.

• Stone Crazy (classic rock/pop) perform at 7 p.m. on Aug. 15 at Rendezvous in Maggie Valley.

• Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter) performs at 9 p.m. on Aug. 15 at the Water’n Hole Bar & Grill in Waynesville.

• Andy Stevens and Ben Morgan perform at 2 p.m. on Aug. 16 at O’Malley’s Pub & Grill in Sylva. 631.0554 or www.facebook.com/omalleysofsylva.

• SmokeRise (rock) performs at 3 p.m. on Aug. 16 at Rendezvous in Maggie Valley.

• Mike Pilgrim (mandolin) and Don Mercz (guitar) perform a gypsy jazz tribute at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 21, at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. 452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• Angela Easterling (guitar, vocals) performs Americana at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. www.angelaeasterling.com. 452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

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.

• 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.

• The “Bascom in Bloom” showcase will be Aug. 1316 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.

• The Dillsboro Arts & Crafts Market will showcase demonstrating crafters from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Aug. 15 inside the shops of Dillsboro as well as in tents on Front Street. Featured crafters include rug-braider Dianne Ellis (Dogwood Crafters), gourd artist Madge Sala (Dogwood Crafters); wood-burner John “Buddy” Hogan (Tunnel Mountain Crafts).

• An Adult Summer Reading Program is ongoing till Aug. 28 through Haywood County Public Library. Visit www.haywoodlibrary.org or call 452.5169 or 648.2924.

• An Intermediate digital photography class will be taught from 3-4:50 p.m. on Tuesdays, till Sept. 15 (but not on Aug. 25) at Jackson County Department of Aging, Senior Center, in Sylva. Must be at least 50. $50. For info, contact Tony Wu at 226.3840 or tonywuphotos@hotmail.com.

ART SHOWINGS AND 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.

• a “Lidded Bowls on the Pottery Wheel” class will be taught by Hank Shuler from 6-9 p.m. on Mondays and

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“Pop! Who Shot Andy Warhol?” – a musical comedy running Oct. 1-3. Season tickets for two musicals and two drams are $50 for adults, $40 for senior citizens, faculty and staff and $20 for students – a 30-percent savings on individual event prices. Info: 227.7491.

Tickets: 227.2479 or bardoarscenter.wcu.edu.

GALLERIES • An art exhibit featuring the work of Cherokee artist TJ Holland is scheduled to open with a reception from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 14, in the Rotunda Gallery at the Jackson County Library Annex in Sylva. Holland’s work explores traditional Cherokee stories and imagery while employing traditional oil painting techniques.

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Admission and parking are free. 565.4159.

• Orchids and Irises in the Garden: The Works of Jamie Kirkell will be on display through Oct. 4 at the Arboretum in Asheville. www.ncarboretum.org.

• Second Glance: The Quilt Art of Janice Maddox is on display through Oct. 4 at the Arboretum in Asheville. www.ncarboretum.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.

• Western North Carolina pottery pieces on loan from the collection of Rodney Leftwich are on display from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Tuesdays through Saturdays at the Shelton House in Waynesville. www.sheltonhouse.org.

FILM & SCREEN • The Strand in Waynesville will show “Woman in Gold” (1:50) on Aug. 12 at 7 p.m.

• 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.

• “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.

• A classic movie starring Margaret Sullivan and Herbert Marshall will be shown on Friday, Aug. 14, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. 1:38. 524.3600.

• 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. 14-15. www.38main.com or 283.0079.

• Adult movie time, 6:30 p.m. Mondays at Jackson County Public Library.

Call for title of movie. 586.2016.

MUSIC JAMS AND GROUPS • Golden Aires singing group practices at 9:15 a.m. every fourth Wednesday of the month at Jackson County Department on Aging/Senior Center in Sylva. Secular and religious music. Performances given at area nursing homes. Musical instruments also welcome. 586.5494.

• Old-time music jam from 1-3 p.m. the first and third Saturday of the month at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on U.S. 441 outside Cherokee. 497.1904.

• Cruso Circle Play & Jam, 7 p.m. every Tuesday, Cruso Community Center and Friendship Club in Cruso. www.facebook.com/crusocircleplayjam.

• Signature Brew Coffee Company holds Sylva Open Jam nights on the second and fourth Thursday of the month. Shop provides the instruments, you provide the talent. Chris Coopers’ Fusion band hosts.

• An open jam session will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. each Thursday at Heinzelmannchen Brewery in Sylva. All skill levels and instruments welcome. 631.4466 or www.yourgnometownbrewery.com.

• Karaoke is held at 7 p.m. every other Friday at the American Legion Post 47 in Waynesville. Open to all members and their guests. 456.8691.

• Men Macon Music, canella singing, meets at 5:30 p.m. every Monday in the Chapel of First Presbyterian Church, 26 Church St., Franklin.

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• The Nikwasi Dulcimer Players meet every Thursday afternoon from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Franklin. All are welcome. 524.1040 or 524.2294.

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• A Zahner Lecture entitled “Pheromones, Mating Behavior and the Biomedical Relevance of Salamander Research” is scheduled for 6:307:30 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.

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• “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.

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• 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.

• Beginner Outdoor Photography, a program organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, is scheduled for 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 16, in Pisgah Forest. For ages 14-up. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• A free class about adding a gourmet touch and some variety into backcountry meals will be offered at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at REI in Asheville. Sign up at www.rei.com/learn.html.

• The Jackson County Public Library will host Jacob Rash of the WNC Wildlife Commission at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, in Sylva for a talk about the Public Mountain Trout Waters online tool. Free. 586.2016.

• Birds and Beer gathering to discuss birds and critters is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at Ugly Dog Pub in Highlands.

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• A Hunter Education Course is scheduled for 6-9 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 19-20, in Pisgah Forest. No minimum age. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• A “Naturalist’s Ramble” along a small section of the Appalachian Trail with former National Parks Service ranger Carey Jones is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 19. Reservations are required; deadline is Aug. 14.

Half-day hike and opportunity to learn about the flora and fauna in the park’s highest elevations. $20 for Great Smoky Mountains Association members; $35 for new members. 865.436.7318.

• The Franklin Bird Club will meet at 7 p.m. on Aug. 19 at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Topic will be “Birding in Texas” as Jim and Ellen Shelton share photos and stories of their trip to the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Big Bend. 524.5234.

• An “Introduction to Fly Fishing: Lake Fishing” program organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education is scheduled for 7 a.m.-noon on Wednesday, Aug. 19, in Pisgah Forest. For ages 12-up. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• A behind-the-scenes tour of the Arobretum’s Germplasm Repository lab is scheduled for 10 a.m.-noon on Wednesday, Aug. 19, in Asheville. To register, contact George Ivey at 665.2492 or givey@ncaboretum.org.

• A native landscaping & water management seminar, part of the Woodland Steward Series, is scheduled for Aug. 19-20. Series is designed to empower forest landowners to manager their properties to promote environmental and forest health. www.woodlandstewardsnc.org.

• “Energy Literacy and How ‘Fracking’ (High Volume Slickwater Hydraulic Fracturing) Fits In, North Carolina and Beyond” – a lecture with Dr. Cheryl Waters-Tormey, is scheduled for 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Aug. 20 at the Nature Center at the Highlands Biological Station. Waters-Tormey is an associate professor at Western Carolina University. 526.2221 or www.highlandsbiological.org.

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• A community music jam will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. on the first and third Thursday of each month at the Marianna Black Library in Downtown Bryson City. Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer – anything unplugged – is invited to join. Singers and listeners are also welcome.

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• A classic movie starring Randolph Scott and Mariette Hartley will be shown at 2 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 21, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. Doctor and policeman in New Orleans have 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague. 1:36. 524.3600.

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• “Serpentine Barrens,” part of the Eco Tour, is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 21 through the Highlands Cashiers Land Trust. Explore a unique ecosystem within the Nantahala National Forest. $35 for new members; $10 for existing members. Reservations required.

526.1111, Julie.hitrust@earthlink.net or www.hicashlt.org.

• On the Water: Looking Glass Creek, a fly-fishing program in Pisgah National Forest, is scheduled for 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 21. For ages 12 and up.

877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• Beginning paddlers can learn the basics of whitewater kayaking in a clinic offered through Jackson County Parks and Recreation on Aug. 22-23. $80 includes transportation, equipment and lunch. For rising eighth-graders and older. Register at the Cullowhee Recreation Center, call 293.3053 or write jenniferbennett@jacksonnc.org.

• The Ruffed Grouse Society will host its 29th annual Conservation and Sportsmen’s Banquet starting at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, at the Crest Center & Pavilion in Asheville. Proceeds will enhance grouse and woodcock habitat. $75 for individual membership and individual dinner tickets or $115 for membership and spouse package (includes two dinners); junior membership and dinner ticket is $55 for 17 and under. Sponsorships also available. 231.7050. www.ruffedgrousesociety.org.

• A free class on the basics of beekeeping will be presented at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at the Canton Branch Library. 648.2924.

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• 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.

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• 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.

• Guided tours of WATR Discovery Trails at Monteith Farmstead Park in Dillsboro can be scheduled by calling 488.8418. For youth or adult/civic groups.

• Storybook Science is offered from 2:30-3 p.m. each Wednesday through Aug. 15 for all ages at Highlands Nature Center. Free. 526.2623.

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• Featured Creature is from 11:30 a.m.-noon on Saturdays through Aug. 15 for all ages at Highlands Nature Center. Free. 526.2623.

• Visitor Center Programs will be presented at 10 a.m. on Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center in Asheville. www.nps.gov/blri or 298.5330, ext. 304.

• A Botanical Garden Tour is offered for all ages from 10:30-11:30 a.m. every Monday through Aug. 15 at Highlands Nature Center. Free. 526.2623.

• At 7:30 p.m. every Saturday, the Blue Ridge Parkway presents an evening campfire program at the Mount Pisgah Campground. www.nps.gov/blri or 298.5330, ext. 304.

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 underway 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.

FARM & GARDEN • A free food preservation class is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at The Community Kitchen in Canton. 648.2924.

• A Creating Pollinator Habitat Workshop is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. on Aug. 18 at the Botanical Garden at the Highlands Biological Station. $10 for Highlands Biological Foundation members; $35 for new members. 526.2221.

• From Seeds to Natural Products: Special tour is coming Aug. 19 to the Arboretum in Asheville. www.ncarboretum.org.

• A fall vegetable gardening seminar is scheduled for 6-7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 20, at the Swain Extension Center at 60 Almond School Road in Bryson City. Register: CLbreden@ncsu.edu.

• A plant clinic for anyone with gardening questions is available by calling the Haywood County Extension Master Gardners at 456.3575 from 9 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays through September.

• The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 171 Legion Drive in Waynesville (behind Bogart’s).

456.1830 or vrogers12@att.net.

• The Jackson County Farmers Market will be on Saturdays from 9 a.m.-noon on at its Bridge Park location in Sylva.

Info:jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com or website jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org.

• The ‘Whee Farmer’s Market is open from 4-7 p.m. every Tuesday at the corner of the N. Country Club Drive and Stadium View Drive in Cullowhee, behind the entrance to the Village of Forest Hills off Highway 107 across from Western Carolina University.

476.0334 • The Cashiers Tailgate market is open from 9 a.m.noon on Saturdays at the United Community Bank on N.C. 107 South. 226.9988 or blueridgefarmers@gmail.com.

• Cowee Farmers Market is from 3:30-6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays through Oct. 28 at the Old Cowee School in Franklin. info@coweefarmersmarket.com , 524.8369 or www.coweefarmersmarket.com.

• The Franklin Farmers Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturdays on East Palmer Street across from Drake Software in Franklin. 349.2049 or alan_durden@ncsu.edu.

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• Carolina Mountain Club will have a half-day, fivemile, Ivestor Gap Blueberry Hike on Aug. 16. 500-foot ascent. For more info, contact leader Bonnie Allen at 645.0357, 707.6115 or bonnie@allencats.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a six-mile hike of Buckeye Gap-Bearpen Gap, with a 1,000-foot ascent, at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 19. For more info, contact leader Bruce Bente at 692.0116, 699.6296 or bbente@bellsouth.net.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have an all-day, 11mile hike with a 3,100-foot ascent on Aug. 23. For information, contact leader Brent Martin at 587.9453, 371.0347 or brent_martin@tws.org.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have an 8.5-mile hike with a 3,100-foot elevation gain on Aug. 26. For info, contact Leader Brenda Worley at 684.8656, 606.7297 or bjdworley@gmail.com.

• Swain County Farmers Market will be open from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Fridays at the barn on Island Street in Bryson City. Special Tuesday hours from 5 to 8 p.m. during peak months through Sept. 15. 488.3848 or Christine_bredenkamp@ncsu.edu.

• Cherokee Farmers Market is from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Fridays through Oct. 30 at 876 Acquoni Road next to the Easter Band of Cherokee Indians Cooperative Extension Office. For info, contact Sarah McClellan at 359.6935 or saramccl@nc-cherokee.com.

• The Farmstand at Cherokee Indian Hospital is open from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Thursdays till Sept. 24. For info, contact Nilofer Couture at nilofer.couture@cherokeehospital.org.

HIKING CLUBS • Carolina Mountain Club will have an 8.5-mile hike with a 1,900-foot elevation gain on Aug. 12. For info or to sign up, call leader Stuart English at 384.4870 or stuengo@citcom.com.

• Blue Ridge Parkway rangers will lead a guided hike of “The Giant’s Stomping Ground,” a trail from Devil’s Courthouse to the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 14. Meet at the Devil’s Courthouse

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ABSOLUTE AUCTION 8/18/15 @ 8am. Lumberton, NC. 12 New PJ Trailers. meekinsauction.com. NCLN858.

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BOCKUS IS ABOUT 3 MONTHS OLD, A CLASSIC MARBLE TABBY WITH BEAUTIFUL MARKINGS. HE'S A TAD SHY BUT ONCE HE IS COMFORTABLE IN HIS FOREVER HOME, WE EXPECT HIM TO DO JUST FINE.

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LAWN & GARDEN HEMLOCK HEALERS, INC. Dedicated to Saving Our Hemlocks. Owner/Operator Frank Varvoutis, NC Pesticide Applicator’s License #22864. 48 Spruce St. Maggie Valley, NC 828.734.7819 828.926.7883, Email: hemlockhealers@yahoo.com

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18 This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All dwellings advertised on an equal opportunity basis.

NICOL ARMS APARTMENTS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS Offering 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments, Starting at $400 Section 8 Accepted - Handicapped Accessible Units When Available

GRITZ A SHEPHERD MIX ABOUT 2 YEARS OLD. HE IS A BIG LOVABLE HUNK, LOVES TO PLAY, AND LOVES TO GET PETTED AND LOVED ON. HE'LL BE A WONDERFUL COMPANION FOR AN ACTIVE FAMILY.

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REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCEMENT 67 ACRES IN CULLOWHEE Near WCU. Includes 2/BR 2/BA, 1600 sq. ft. House with Separate Workshop. Very Private, Long Range Views, Ideal for Family Compound, Several Potential House Sites. Priced to Sell $360,000. Brokers Welcome 2% Commission. For more info www.918gapbranch.blogspot.com or Call 828.586.0165 A RIVER RUNS THRU IT In NC. 3 acres w/2bed 2bath log cabin. $159,900. Huge screened porch, fpl, one-level. Hurry!

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HOMES FOR SALE HOME FOR SALE BY OWNER In Balsam, NC. This rustic 3/BR, 2/BA rambling ranch home in the mountains of Western North Carolina on 2.8 acres is different from anything else available.

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HOMES FOR SALE BRUCE MCGOVERN A Full Service Realtor, Locally Owned and Operated mcgovernpropertymgt@gmail.com McGovern Property Management 828.283.2112.

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Blueberry identification is ‘difficult at best’

George Ellison

“It’s football time in Tennessee!” is what John Ward, the long-time announcer for the University of Tennessee, used to declare when the opening kickoff of the season was airborne.

“It’s blueberry picking time in Western North Carolina!” would also be appropriate for this time of the year.

And it’s also the time of year when readers email or call asking how to tell a high bush blueberry from a low bush Columnist blueberry.

Recognizing a blueberry shrub by its leaves, twigs, flowers and fruit isn’t usually a problem. But identifying the specific sort of blueberry can be, for me, a tricky assignment.

Some years ago I spent a week compiling a checklist of the plants on East Ship Island, situated 10 miles off the Mississippi coast in the Gulf of Mexico. Because of the limited number of species on the island, I was able to compile a nearly complete checklist of the trees, shrubs, vines, herbs (wildflowers), ferns and clubmosses with some confidence.

To my surprise, it was the blueberries that stumped me.

BACK THEN Most of the time, there seemed to be two apparent species. But I kept finding intermediate types, so that I was never quite sure where to draw the line.

At times, in exasperation, I’d lump them all together as one species; at other times, I’d regain my taxonomic composure and divide them up into as many as four species.

I returned to the mainland suspecting that I’d not be the fellow who’d solve that island’s blueberry problem.

Subsequently, I read a note by Leonard Foote and Sam Jones in Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (1989) that read: “Blueberries of the genus ‘Vaccinium’ are a complex assemblage of a number of polymorphic groups, some possible hybrids, and variable individuals (so that) for many species identification is difficult at best.”

Difficult at best!

Here in the Smokies region, we have seven or so plant species classified as “Vacciniums.” If you’re looking for a plant identification problem area to fiddle with in your spare time, take up blueberries as a taxonomic hobby.

But I have decided that life is short and there are other things to do. These days I am quite content with the self-imposed notion that there are two recognizable blueberry

“categories.”

Taxonomically, this system is simple: (1) “lowbush blueberries” grow in knee-high thickets and spread by underground stems called rhizomes; and (2) “highbush blueberries” are mediumsized shrubs or a small trees that send up new shoots each year from a central crown.

Credit me with saving you from the blueberry identification blues. If someone comes along and asks what sort of blueberries you’re gathering, you look at them and say “highbush” (if the plant is over two feet high) or “lowbush” (if the plant is under two feet high). It’s quite likely the questioner will be satisfied and go away.

Blueberries grow in a variety of habitats ranging from bogs to dry roadsides. One of the more popular areas to gather them is in open meadows along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

These sites are sometimes called “blue-

berry barrens” by ecologists. But there’s nothing barren about them at all in regard to either scenery or gastronomic delight.

Blueberries are good eaten directly from the bush or as jams, pancakes and jellies.

But, in my opinion, the best way to serve them is in a pie. It’s virtually certain when someone pulls a crispy steaming blueberry pie out of the oven you won’t give a tinker’s damn as to which species you’re going to be eating.

(George Ellison is a naturalist and writer.

He can be reached at info@georgeellison.com.)

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