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On the Cover: After a troubled childhood and a career as a ballerina, Patricia Forgione found strength and empowerment through aerial silks. The acrobatic skill allows her to stay in shape while also teaching others about self-confidence, body image and overcoming life’s challenges. (Page 7) Mark Robertson photo

Living Well Fusions Spa relocates to downtown Sylva ................................................................4 Fitness by the numbers at 9Round ................................................................................8 Grant focuses on building love of outdoors for youth ..............................................9 Franklin Health & Fitness helps community stay healthy ......................................10 Finding balance with a healthy mind and body ......................................................12 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for health, fitness, self-defense ....................................................15 Big city fitness in the heart of Waynesville ................................................................16

News New Waynesville manager to start next week ........................................................22 Cherokee fly fishing museum moves to Bryson City ............................................24 Waynesville board brings early end to MSD exodus ............................................26 TVA meets with Alarka houseboat owners ..............................................................28

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After years of renovation, Fusions Spa relocates to downtown Sylva

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER After 35 straight days on the job, Jeannine Sowers is sorely in need of a spa day. The irony of it is, she’s been at the spa all month. Actually, all year.

Sowers and her husband Joel have been working since March 2013 to transform the old Moody Funeral Home building on Sylva’s Main Street into the new home of Fusions Spa. It’s been a long road.

“We kept asking ourselves through the entire process, ‘Why are we doing this? Tell me again why we’re doing this,’” Sowers said.

Built in 1946, the building had its share of issues to be fixed and innards to be updated, with the renovation process featuring multiple “surprises,” each of which set the timeline for completion back anywhere from six to eight months. There were times when it seemed the building would never be ready for massages or facials or soaks or any of the other services the couple aspired to offer.

But two days after the Aug. 9 soft opening, business seemed to be humming along at the comfortable, Zenlike pace one would expect of a spa. Herbal aromas float through the sunny reception area and waft down the hall into the treatment rooms. Soft music plays through the speaker system and sinks into the cushions of equally soft chairs and pillows. Nature photography, much of it from local artists, adorns the walls, and fresh flowers and carefully chosen knickknacks inhabit every corner.

“We’re going to calm Jackson County,” Sowers declared.

From herbal body wraps to chemical peels to a whole menu of massage treatments, Fusions certainly offers a long list of ways to get relaxed and focused on health.

And as the business settles into its new space, the list is destined to get longer. Salt treatments to treat respiratory problems, beer baths, mineral and detox baths, raindrop oil treatment, reiki healing and foot soaks are all on the way. Sowers plans to offer yoga down the road, and memberships are already available for a fitness center that’s open in Fusions’ downstairs. Seminars and speakers will soon begin popping up to offer their expertise on a variety of nutrition- and health-related issues.

The spa, which takes up 7,500 square feet of the 11,000-square-foot building — the rest of the building is office space for the Sowers’ other business — employs nine people.

Judging by the gusto with which the Sowers have sunk themselves into renovating one of Sylva’s most visible downtown buildings, it might be easy to assume that owning a spa has been a lifelong dream. But the reality is that it just sort of happened.

The couple also owns Sundog Realty, and they’d purchased some property in Cullowhee with an eye to create a resort community. Fusions went up for sale, and they bought the business thinking they’d learn how to run it and then relocate it to the resort they planned to build.

But the post-recession economy proved too poor to support a new resort, and they discovered that the logistics surrounding water use would make it too difficult to have

a spa in Cullowhee anyway.

“We thought, ‘OK, we own a spa. We’ll do what we can and grow it as a business,’” Sowers said.

That’s not to say that Sowers is a novice when it comes to spas. Quite the opposite, in fact.

“I’m a spa-goer from way back,” she said.

As a developer, Joel Sowers has worked on resort properties around the world, and Jeannine has traveled with him. It was a privilege to go along on these adventures, Sowers said, but she was always dealing with pain as she traveled.

“By the time you go through the airport I’d be a basket case,” she said. “By the time we got where we were going, the spa treatment was the first thing I booked.”

The spa allowed her to relax, get rid of the pain, and enjoy the trip.

And, as it turned out, gather a wealth of knowledge on worldwide spa treatments that she put to use in planning the rebirth of Fusions.

“Once you start going to spas it’s just something you’ve got to keep doing,” she said.

“It’s just wonderful. So I’ve tried to create an atmosphere here that combines my favorite parts of a spa in one stop.”

In addition to the services themselves, there are the spaces surrounding them. A relaxation room to unwind before a treatment or extend the relaxation afterward. A core-stretching Jeannine Sowers and machine to enhance the beneher husband Joel. fits of massage with a miniworkout before and after. A wifi tearoom — Sowers hopes to sell beer and wine there eventually — to enjoy a hot beverage and wrap up any cell phone business before entering the “no phones allowed” portion of the building.

“There’s different places throughout the spa that provide different kinds of experiences so that each time you come to the spa you can relax in a totally different way,” Sowers said.

Inside, the building is basically brand new. But the

Check it out Fusions Spa, now located at 714 Main Street, is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Saturday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. A variety of treatments and membership packages are available and can be reserved either online or over the phone.

828.631.0232 or www.fusionsspa.com.

character of the 1940s is something the Sowers worked to maintain during the renovations — she had had her eye on the gorgeous brick building for a while before the pur-

chase, pointing it out to her husband just about every time they drove by.

They thought about it, and decided it wasn’t going to be practical or affordable to turn the space into a spa.

“Then some crazy day we changed our minds and started it,” she said.

They paid $435,000 for the property and wound up sinking about $1.5 million — over the course of more than two years of work — into renovating its 11,000 square feet.

The process wasn’t easy, but the result — a beautiful building, expanded business and boosted downtown — is worth it, Sowers said. She sees a downtown Sylva that’s on the upswing and hopes that Fusions won’t be the only business to give an old building new life.

“I don’t want to be the only person downtown that has a great building,” she said. “I want everybody to have a great building.”

ENTER THE NEW Fusions Spa & Wellness WORLD

Reason to visit a spa? - to relieve stress, lose weight, get in shape or just to treat yourself.

How to choose a spa

Identify what you'd like to accomplish, then select a spa that enables you to concentrate on an area of emphasis such as:

Fitness: Work out in fitness classes, enjoy guidance from a knowledgeable trainer, track your progress with the latest fitness equipment and app, get fit or remain fit and balanced. Does it easily fit into my schedule?

Welcome to the New World of Fusions Spa & Wellness!

Fusions Healing Center & Spa, Sylva's oldest and longest running day spa, established in 2003, announces the opening of its new location at 714 West Main Street. Renamed Fusions Spa & Wellness, the downtown Sylva location will have a soft opening August 9, 2016, with a grand opening celebration planned for October.

The building, on the National Register of Historic Buildings, has been laboriStress Management: ously restored by Sundog ConstrucLearn relaxation techniques, Get Spa’d: tion, to an elegant collection of top how to manage stress, and other Mon./Sat. 10-6 floor office suites, a main floor spa strategies for feeling more in Tuesday-Friday 9–7 invites guests to embark on a voybalance and in control. Does Sunday Open Houses age filled with unforgettable mothe spa let me unplug? & by appointment ments and a state-of-the-art fitness Peace of Mind: Pursue studio inspires to adopt a healthier a spiritual journey of introspeclifestyle. The interior, with added Get Fit: tion and reflection through layers of traditional moldings & 5am–11pm, meditation, relaxation, and trim and restored original oak floors 7 days other practices or activities that becoming to a building born in 1946, lead to serenity, understanding and offers a new palette of sensations. Anself-acceptance. tiques and ultra modern furnishings offer surprises around every corner and a bit of whimsy as the Pampering and pleasure: Indulge your senses spa-goer transcends from the stresses of the day. It is in this with therapeutic massages, restorative facials, invigorating body treatments, mud, or aroma baths and other delightful balanced atmosphere reflecting the elements of nature that one can truly find a healing, unplugged joy. treatments. It can be anything from a girl's makeover, makeup classes, precious moments shared by couples, mothers and daughters ... to special occasions like weddings and graduation.

Health and Wellness: Explore your health, learn to deal with issues like smoking or medical concerns and discover how lifestyle choices can lead to optimal wellness.

Find practices that let you 'live well'.

The new retail boutique continues to bring you healthful and beneficial products so you can take the spa experience home. From the organic Eminence skin care line, Kneipp bath and body products, Jane Iredale trending makeup, and introducing Fusions' own Revivify skin care line, and many more. There is a soothing, comforting, happy-aging selection to help you pamper at home.

LIVING WELL 2016

With many area spas offering countless ways to relax and revitalize you in so many different settings, how do you find the spa that's right for you?

The best place to start is with you. Do your homework. Decide why you want to have a spa experience, what programs and services interest you, what type of setting you would like and how much you can afford. Is it convenient and easy to get to? And in case you haven't realized, there are just as many different spas and treatments as there are reasons to go. Just keep in mind that ultimately the spa experience is about one thing: You. Your comfort, your goals and your peace of mind are at the heart of every spa experience.

"Hops in the tub" for a healing beer bath, peruse Fusions' collection of wellness literature, tan on our sand-free 'beach,' be spoiled by a Mommy's-day-out-kid-care playroom, all while leaving your busy mind locked away in the Ladies & Gentlemen Spa locker rooms, or the Ladies & Gentlemen Fitness locker rooms.

While you indulge in the rain showers, you will luxuriate with Fusions very own Revivify brand of coco-mango shower products.

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The Precor equipped modem fitness studio inspires with individual TV selections on your choice of machines, get results with free weights, complete array of equipment and the latest and greatest Adaptive Motion Trainer. Track your fitness plan on the customized app, create the best fitness plan for you with certified trainer assistance, and stick to your plan with hours and access that make it easy and convenient to keep up a healthy lifestyle.

With 100% customized massage, facial and body services, every detail of the five sound controlled spa treatment rooms is designed Find us on facebook to deliver the most unfor(Fusions spa & wellness), gettable emotions and help Relax, Refresh, ReBook online store, Renew, and Revivwww.fusionsspa.com ify. Unwind in the luxurious relaxation Call today 828-631-0232 room, detox in a traditional sauna cave, Revive Conveniently escape to with a gamut of well-being 714 W. Main St. treatments, Restore in a Downtown Salty Suite where the "HiSylva malayan Breeze" offers a variety of respiratory healing, Refresh in the eucalyptus steam room,

Whether you find your serenity sipping your favorite beverage, slipping into a chocolate coma, rocking quietly in the zone, or simply calming your thoughts on a labyrinth walk, at Fusions you have an open invitation to comfort and relaxation. Indulge yourself in a unique wellness immersion and your own memorable moments of tranquility.

A true sanctuary of luxury and relaxation, our atmospheric spa invites you to live the Fusions' experience... and "live well"!

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Flying on faith

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER Wearing a leopard-print leotard and suspended 4 feet off the ground in a band of purple silk, Patricia Forgione is in her element.

“I’ll do this until I’m 80,” she says, beaming while holding a mid-air straddle, far-apart feet wrapped skillfully in the fabric to secure her position. The move — her favorite one, called the double-dancer footlock — demands engagement from just about every muscle in her body.

The silk hangs from a hook attached to one of ceiling’s beams, which Forgione reaches by removing a tile from the ceiling. The parallel silk pieces can be tied together to make a sling — the best way to go for a beginner — or locked into separately, as Forgione does with her doubledancer move.

She makes the art look smooth and graceful, but after just a few minutes in the air, Forgione comes down breathing hard. Even in professional shows, she says, aerial artists can’t go more than about five minutes without a break. That’s about how long she spent letting The Smoky Mountain News reporter try out a few basic moves, and Forgione’s forecast of sore muscles the next morning proved quite accurate.

CONFIDENCE THROUGH MOVEMENT In the world of fitness and exercise, aerial silks certainly isn’t the best-known field. But it’s a niche where Forgione, a former ballerina, has found a home. The moves are both graceful and demanding, the exercise fruitful but lowimpact.

“Being able to do aerial, it’s kind of freeing,” she said. “You can hang upside down and just feel a sense of relief on your back.”

In March, Forgione, 39, opened her own aerial studio — Flight of Faith, located within The Fitness Connection in Waynesville — but she’s been working Patricia Forgione demonwith silks for only about three years. The adventure strates aerial moves at her began in Alaska, while on studio in The Fitness a cruise with her husband.

Connection in Waynesville.

They went to an aerial silks Above: An aerial setup in her show on the cruise, and backyard allows Forgione to Forgione met the woman fly through the trees. who had put it on. Turns Holly Kays photo • Mark Robertson photo out that, like Forgione, the woman was a former dancer — she had turned to aerial silks when she aged out of ballet. Aerial, she discovered, was the perfect way to reap the benefits of dance without accepting its wear on the body.

Forgione was inspired. Upon returning to North

Carolina, she enrolled in a class at Asheville Gymnastics — despite her fear of heights.

“Basically, I couldn’t even get 2 feet off the floor, I was so scared,” Forgione said.

But she conquered the fear and took her training further and further.

Now she gives lessons, as well as taking them from Asheville-based master aerialist Waverly Jones.

Forgione’s proud of what she’s accomplished, but she attributes any success to the God of her Christian faith.

“He’s done so many good things in my life and he’s helped me overcome so many obstacles in my life that this is nothing I can’t tackle either,” Forgione said.

Throughout her life, dance — and now aerial, too — has been the key to moving through hard times.

Originally from New York, Forgione had a difficult childhood, but she found her escape in dance, which she began as a required class at the Catholic school she attended.

“It wasn’t a place I could get hurt,” she said. “It was a place I felt happy and fulfilled. Having that sense of peace and joy, it was what I needed. It saved me, pretty much.”

That’s not to say that struggles ceased. As a young woman, Forgione found herself gaining weight as she turned to food for comfort during a difficult chapter. She has only one photo of herself at the 230-pound mark, a grainy image in which she’s wearing a formal dress. She’s gotten rid of the rest of the photos.

“I don’t have to look at the past,” she said. “I want to look at the future.”

These days, the extra weight is long gone. It came off after Forgione participated in a fast with her church that involved giving up meat, sweets and bread for 21 days.

“I liked it so much, I stayed on it for two years,” she said.

SHARING THE GIFT In 2008, tragedy struck. Forgione was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, precipitating a year-and-a-half-long battle through radiation and chemotherapy before beating the cancer into remission.

But she came out the other side with a sense of purpose and a strengthened conviction to keep herself healthy.

“I knew I did not want to live my life like that,” she said, pointing to the picture of herself overweight. “There was a bigger purpose in my life.”

She’d taken a three-year hiatus from dance to get her health back in order, but after she and her husband settled into their new home in Haywood County — they

Get moving Patricia Forgione regularly offers classes in dance and aerial silks in Haywood County.

• Mighty Mountain Dancers for Christ, open to kids 2 and up, meets from 12:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. every other Sunday at New Covenant Church in Clyde. $5 covers class, which begins at 1:45 p.m., as well as lunch. Scholarships available.

• Flight of Faith offers classes in aerial silks at 3:30 p.m. on Saturdays at The Fitness Connection in Waynesville. $12.

Classes are open to people with special needs. Patricia Forgione, 828.550.9203.

arrived in 2009 — she found herself drawn back to it.

“I saw some kids throwing some rocks at some window and I thought, ‘You know, it’s my duty to help them and find them something to do,’” Forgione said.

So, she started teaching dance lessons on her back porch, feeding the kids a meal as part of the deal. The endeavor grew to the bi-weekly dance class she now teaches at New Covenant Church in Clyde.

“I don’t do this for the money,” she said. “I do it because I love sharing my gift with others.”

Every other Sunday, Forgione and the volunteers who help her meet with about 20 to 30 kids to share an hour of lunch and an hour-and-a-half of dance. They learn all kinds of different dance moves, but the afternoons also include lessons about life. Forgione talks about everything from bullying to body image to self-confidence with the youngsters who circle around her.

“It’s not just a dance class or an aerial class. It’s more to me. It’s more of a ministry,” she said.

She knows all too well that not every kid gets that feeling of being celebrated and important at home, so she tries to make that happen during dance.

“Growing up I never got that chance, and that’s the reason I want to give back,” she said. “Even though I missed that I would love to see that for a child. I don’t ever want them to feel what I felt.”

Dance and aerial are a way to build confidence for kids who might be struggling. And besides, it’s fun.

It’s also a metaphor, at least to Forgione. She sees dance and aerial as gateways to joining mental, spiritual and physical health together into one seamless unit, and as reminders of the God who’s gotten her through all the challenges life’s thrown her way.

“Regardless of age or your background or disability, with God all things are possible, and there’s nothing you can’t do whether it be dance, whether it be a life situation,” she said. “You can go through life knowing God’s got your back.”

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Fitness by the numbers at 9Round

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER Enjoy working out like a fighter but hate getting punched in the face? Then a new fitness franchise concept in Clyde might just be the thing for you.

“9Round is a franchise that’s been around since 2009, based out of Greenville, South Carolina,” said Scot Worley, co-owner of the Clyde location.

“Basically, it’s is a 30-minute full-body kickboxing workout. The concept is that there’s no class time, so you can come in any time the store is open.”

Based on the popular and effective circuit-training model of fitness training, 9Round offers a fast-paced workout that continues throughout the day, allowing almost anyone to jump right in, every three minutes — without actually having to fight anyone.

“There’s no sparring here, but you do train like a fighter,” he said. “The guy that founded this, Shannon Hudson, won an international title in kickboxing and made it into a fitness type of workout.”

One thing that does take a blow right to the jaw is boredom.

“The workout changes every single day,” Worley said. “In fact you’d have to come here every single day for six months

Owner Scot Worley (center) with students at 9Round Fitness in Clyde. Cory Vaillancourt photo

More info 9Round Fitness is located at 289 Paragon Parkway in Clyde. For more information, call 828.246.9855 or visit www.9round.com. to repeat a workout. And there’s always a trainer, either myself or my wife here to help coach and demonstrate and motivate for every workout.”

As with most combat-based training, the focus isn’t on heavy weights or showy exercises like the bench press or squats.

“Our heaviest weights in here is are 20-

pound dumbbell and a 16-pound medicine ball, so we don’t focus on a lot of heavy weights here, just a lot of repetitions of lighter weights,” he said. “So no one feels intimidated when they come in here. We’ve got four bags, heavy bags, and they’re providing the resistance.”

The lack of 45-pound weight bars and thick iron plates can be deceptive, cautions Worley; just because customers aren’t pumping out reps with heavy weights doesn’t mean that 9Round’s results are nonexistent. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.

“When you go and hit those bags, that

is your strength training,” he said. “And you don’t realize that until after a workout, maybe the next day your chest may be sore, your biceps, your shoulders, from working just the speed bag. As opposed to putting plates on a bar and doing a bench press or a squat with those weights you can see, this kind of disguises it.”

What isn’t hidden in any way is the heart-healthy results of an extended regimen of circuit training of the type offered at 9Round.

“We have a heart rate training system here, so we do provide heart rate training,” Worley said, pointing to a large flat screen mounted in the back of the space. “That shows your heart rate throughout your training. It helps guide you and your intensity level. It helps try to keep you in the right heart rate zone to maximize your effort.”

Worley says that by the time you’re done with a workout and pulling out of the parking lot, you’ll have received an email summary of your workout, telling you how long you’ve been in each heart rate zone, the total number of calories you’ve burned, your average heart rate, and your maximum heart rate.

“A lot of people like numbers and statistics,” he said. “They’re able to see that over the course of days and weeks, they can look on a piece of paper and see their progression and see how their heart has improved with this workout.”

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Grant focuses on building love of outdoors for Cherokee youth The Nantahala Kids Club is a sixweek similar program offered twice a year to get kids active and in the water with introductory paddles ports. After completing the spring program for Cherokee youth, Gaughan hopes some of the participates will come back on the fall so they can continue to grow their passion for outdoor watersports.

“We get about 30 youth involved in kayaking that have no experience to little experience on the river,” he said. “From that program we allow them to grow into some other programs we offer like the After School Kayaking Club. It’s a nice progression and we hope to continue to

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Gaughan said the Cherokee youth program is hopefully just the beginning of a longlasting relationship with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. NRC’s goal is to normalize these types of sports for Cherokee youth not only so they can live a healthy and active lifestyle but also so they can pass it on to their children.

“If we can build a community among that age group, they can create lifelong friendships and make it a sport that is accepted by the tribe, and then it will be a lot easier for us to convince these children’s children to participate.”

Gaughan said it’s great as an instructor to see the kids go from being timid in the water to being competitive with one another and pushing each other to improve. They motivate each other and the older kids then teach the younger ones new skills — they become leaders without even realizing it.

Youth that participate in the Nantahala Kids Club will gain the knowledge needed to be able to earn their American Canoe Instructor certification when they are older as well as wilderness training and first aid certifications.

For more information about the club and its programs, visit www.nantahalaracingclub.com or call 828.488.7285.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR The Nantahala Racing Club is all about ensuring future generations have a love and appreciation for whitewater recreation, and a new grant will allow the nonprofit to fulfill that mission for youth living on the Qualla Boundary.

NRC recently received a $16,000 grant from the Cherokee Preservation Foundation that will be used to develop a youth leadership program for children and teens in Cherokee while also giving them an opportunity to adopt a healthy and active outdoor lifestyle.

Sam Gaughan, NRC executive director, said the club was working closely with Cherokee Choices — a diabetes prevention program — to identify youth to participate in the program next spring.

“It’s definitely beneficial for everyone to be active, but these are kids who may not be participating in organized team sports,” he said. “Our hope is to get them out and active on the water. We want them to build a lifelong passion for it and stay active in the future.”

Early next spring, NRC instructors will begin the program for Cherokee kids by introducing them to kayaking. With a few sessions in a pool — which will definitely be warmer than the river that time of year — participants will get familiar using the kayak and become comfortable with their instructors.

“Then when it warms up in late spring we can spend more time moving down the river because they’ve already gained those basic skills,” Gaughan said.

As the program moves into the summer months, the kids will be introduced to paddling lessons before getting to go on an overnight canoe trip on the Tuckasegee River. At some point during the trip, Gaughan said a tribal leader would come teach participants about Cherokee history with canoeing and the tribe’s cultural interaction with the local waterways.

“We want to draw kids back to their roots so they can understand why canoeing is important and why they need to help preserve it in the future.”

And this type of program doesn’t have to be a one-time thing for the Cherokee youth. NRC offers a multitude of youth programs with an eye toward creating the next generation of Olympic athletes.

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Commit to be fit Franklin Health & Fitness helps community stay healthy

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR Franklin Health & Fitness has invested a lot in its community, and in return, the community has been able to invest in its health.

The fitness club offers a full-range of workout equipment, classes and programs to give its members every opportunity to maintain a healthy lifestyle — with the added bonus of having a network of support and encouragement along the way.

“It’s easy to get lazy and stop exercising but one thing we do well is we have programs that help to keep people motivated,” said Rodney Morris, owner of Franklin Health & Fitness.

While other gyms may only focus on one specialty, Franklin Health & Fitness offers it all. With 70 available classes each week, the health club has Crossfit, dance, yoga, Zumba, boot camp, Tai Chi, STEP, water aerobics and much more. Personal trainers, massage therapists and registered dieticians are also on staff to provide support services. All those classes are available with a monthly membership.

The wide variety of options available at Franklin Health & Fitness seems to be working — the business now has about 2,200 members.

“Membership has grown steadily along with the population of Macon County,” Morris said. “And people more than ever are becoming health conscience.”

Morris’ parents opened the fitness center in 1988 with the help of several local investors. He grew up in the family-run business but ventured out on his own after graduating Western Carolina University with a degree in entrepreneurship. After being gone for six years, Morris returned home to Franklin in 2008 and began managing the fitness center for his parents. He then purchased it in 2012.

Morris has been focused on offering the best programs, services and facilities to keep members coming back. He has completed two major renovations and

expansions of the building since taking over in 2012, including new locker rooms, a kids zone, free weights room and entry way that includes a smoothie and healthy snack bar.

The equipment in the gym is new and stateof-the-art technology from cardio equipment like elliptical machines and treadmills, and a host of strength training machines. The club is also home to a 25-yard heated indoor saltwater pool, a whirlpool and a sauna.

For busy parents who still want to find time to take care of their health, the health club offers free child-care services in its new daycare room.

One new initiative that has proved effective for members is the 20/30 fast track weight-loss program. More than 300 people have participated in the program than allows people to lose 20 pounds in 30 days and keep it off.

“People have seen incredible results,” Morris said.

Tiffany Tippett, director of Members interested in participating in the the 20/30 fast track proprogram can attend a free seminar at 5:30 p.m. gram at Franklin Health & Mondays to learn more about the program before Fitness, said more than they decide whether they want to sign up for it.

Tiffany Tippett has been directing the 20/30 300 people have particiweight loss program since the health club began pated in the weight-loss using it 10 months ago. She has seen members program. Jessi Stone photo have quick results from the program. Through a low calorie eating plan and balancing seven key and is now down 40 pounds total. He said he particularly hormones, the 20/30 fast track can help anyone get appreciated that the 20/30 program isn’t a fad diet — it’s weight off in a safe and fast way. an eating plan and a lifestyle change. Corbin, owner of “Trust the system — if you follow the plan, it works,” Corbin Insurance in Franklin, signed his entire staff up Tippett said. “Overall, the system is about balancing horfor the program and they’ve all had great success in dropmones and reducing stress more than anything.” ping pounds and feeling better.

Once the first month is over, the program continues “The program has been fairly easy I’ll have to say if through coaching and maintaining a healthy lifestyle and you’re motivated to increase your health benefits and to eating habits. lose weight, which I was motivated both ways,” Corbin Many members have shared their weight-loss testisaid in his testimonial video. “With that weight loss, it’s monies on the health club’s website and Facebook. given me more energy … I just wish this would have come Macon County Commissioner Kevin Corbin said he was along a few years ago.” able to lose 21 pounds in 21 days thanks to the program

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Many gyms rope people into paying for a long-term membership fee, but Franklin Health & Fitness does month-tomonth membership fees and recently introduced a weekly payment option.

“We want people to be here but we’re not trying to lock people into long-term memberships,” Morris said.

Members continue to come to Franklin Health & Fitness because they get support and encouragement from the staff. The fitness center employs 50 people, including 12 full-time staff members. Members also

Yanet Rangel makes a healthy smoothie at Franklin Health & Fitness’s juice and snack bar. Jessi Stone photo

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support each other and make quick friendships while getting in shape.

“Sometimes it can be hard to find social opportunities in a small town, but a lot of members develop relationships here with others,” said Matt Bateman, director of marketing and membership. “It’s just another added benefit here.”

Morris said it’s much easier for people to keep coming back when they have friends to encourage them and also hold them accountable. Staying healthy is a team effort at times. Even during the Thanksgiving and Christmas season when people are tempted to overeat, Franklin Health & Fitness holds special games and contests to keep people engaged and motivated. Morris’ advice for those just starting out is to make exercise fun.

“The first step is to come in and start developing that habit,” he said. “We’re here to help them every step of the way.”

To show members how much their support means to the business, Franklin Health & Fitness is holding a member appreciation day from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 24, with live music, prizes, food and drinks and even a dunking booth. For $5, members and their guests can have three tries at dunking Morris in ice-cold water.

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Maggie Valley Wellness Finding balance with a healthy mind and body

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR As a yoga instructor and a massage therapist, Candra Smith knows that staying healthy requires a sound mind and body, which is why her business — Maggie Valley Wellness Center — provides services for both.

Situated conveniently right across the street from the Maggie Valley Club off Moody Farm Road, the wellness center offers yoga classes or private sessions, skin care products and facials, a variety of massages, acupuncture, and recently added a nail salon.

Whether someone hurt their back playing golf across the street or a couple wants to enjoy a relaxing spa day before their wedding ceremony, Maggie Valley Wellness has them covered. Smith said the spa’s array of services as well as the calm environment is what sets it apart from others.

“The selection of services but also the beauty of this space makes us different,” she said. “I think just being on the creek and having that connection to nature sets us apart as well — you can just open the window during a massage and hear the creek flowing.”

With the sound of Jonathan Creek flowing right behind the wellness center and a serene atmosphere inside the spa, stress quickly starts to melt away as soon

as you walk through the door. Outside life is hectic, but inside things are quiet and your mind is able to slow down — and that’s how Smith wants her clients to feel.

The medical benefits of massage include stress reduction, improved postural alignment, flushing of the lymphatic system and a boosted immunity, but Smith says there is so much more to massage, yoga and the other services her spa provides.

In addition to Swedish, deep tissue and hot stone massages, Maggie Valley Wellness now offers medical massage for a host of conditions — from prenatal massage to oncology massage to help cancer patients.

“Most people aim for the body, but they forget the

body is connected to the mind and soul as well,” she said.

“Giving your mind an opportunity to rest has so many benefits.”

Yoga also allows people to improve alignment, flexibility, strength and breathing while also relieving stress.

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Candra Smith Donated photo practice of meditation because it requires a high level of focus to perform the variety of poses. She said meditation helps people to connect with their inner being.

“The level of concentration is unique to most physical activity,” she said. “It helps the mind focus and leads to improved meditation practices.”

Smith, who has a degree in exercise science from University of North Carolina–Wilmington, opened Maggie Valley Wellness about 10 years ago. She also became a certified personal trainer at the Asheville School of Massage and completed her 500-hour certification as a yoga instructor at the North Carolina School of Yoga. Smith since has studied reflexology, craniosacral therapy and advanced deep tissue techniques. She integrates several techniques into her sessions. She typically begins with long fluid strokes to help warm the tissue and moves into deeper techniques to help “undo” chronic muscle tension.

She employs equally talented and experienced practitioners at the spa — including cosmetologist Karen Reilly, massage and physical therapist Elaine Dohms, licensed nail technician Lindsay Bowen and massage therapist and yoga instructor Annie Kim. Maggie Valley Wellness Center does offer a special introductory discount for locals and special packages for massage, yoga and facials. Bridal parties can select from a host of package deals to unwind before the big day. Smith also offers yoga classes twice a week at the Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center in Clyde — a beginner class at 9 a.m. Wednesdays and a level one and two class at 5:30 p.m. Thursdays.

Smith encourages people to put aside their fears or preconceived notions of yoga and give it a try.

“Don’t be afraid — the list of benefits is really long,” she said. “Yoga can be for anyone.”

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Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER The Gracie family is well known to martial arts enthusiasts across the world; as perhaps the only martial arts practitioners as recognizable as Bruce Lee, the Gracies practically invented the modern form of Jiu Jitsu, known as Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

“As the story goes, at the turn of the 20th century, a traveler named Mitsuyo Maeda was a martial artist who needed someone to help establish a Japanese colony in Brazil,” said Armando Basulto, who with his wife Christine owns Waynesville’s Basulto Academy of Defense.

“It was one of the Gracie family who helped him. So in return he offered to teach his him and his sons Jiu Jitsu.

My teacher’s father Helio Gracie was one of them.”

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu teaches that a person who may be physically outmatched can still defend against bigger, stronger, opponents through proper technique, the productive use of leverage, and, most importantly, grounding — forcing an opponent to the ground and utilizing chokes and joint-locks to end the altercation.

Basulto’s experience training under Rickson Gracie gives him a direct link to the most influential and soughtafter masters of this relatively modern martial art that’s been increasing in popularity since the mixed martial arts craze first hit the United States in the mid-1990s.

Born in Miami but raised in the New York City area, Basulto has studied martial arts from a very young age.

“Our neighborhood’s police athletic league ran things to keep kids out of trouble, and I was one of those kids,” he laughed. “So I was put in Judo, and later on boxing. I did Judo from about age 6 until 13, boxed from age 10 to 14 and then did kickboxing.”

One of his oldest memories, he said, was going to kung-fu movies on 42nd street in New York; he spent his

youth making nunchuks out of broomsticks in the basement of his apartment building, and his room was covered — floor to ceiling — in Bruce Lee posters.

“I lived, ate, slept and drank training, all the time.

Training with friends — I don’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t training,” he said.

Later in life, Basulto fought amateur muy Thai kickboxing in Thailand, and also spent time fighting in Spain and France, where he met his wife.

“I met Armando on a train in France,” she said. “I was studying overseas though Virginia Tech and he was traveling and living abroad,” she said. “And then we just — literally right out of a storybook — fell in love. I came back, finished school, moved up to New York and got a job teaching in the Bronx.”

It was there that they became pregnant with twins about 12 years ago.

“We had an academy outside Manhattan in North Bergen, New Jersey, and when we found out we were going to have twins, we knew we wouldn’t have much support there,” he said. “I made a very conscious decision that I did not want to raise my children in that environment.”

Despite being raised in South Florida and the D.C. area, Christine and her family had connections in the Waynesville area, and the two left the big city for a quiet mountain town; Armando began teaching classes twice a week, building up to three or four days a week.

“We were having lots of classes at the Waynesville rec center and as the academy grew, we kind of outgrew the space,” he said. “So we said, ‘Let’s open another academy’ and we found this space.”

At the Basulto Academy of Defense, Armando and his wife bring years of fitness and self-defense experience, all centered around Jiu Jitsu.

“Gracie Jiu Jitsu is the lynchpin of everything we do,” he said. “I feel that it is the base, the foundation to build all other skill sets on top of; I try to offer lots of things. I like people to train in Jiu Jitsu, and we don’t make it a hard fast prerequisite but we like people to have six

months training in Jiu Jitsu, just so they have a foundation and know how to work with other people, how to work with a partner without hurting each other.”

The training at Basulto Academy is mostly about the repetition and perfection of technique.

“What that creates is an environment where you have to actually exert yourself,” he said. “You have to work.

There’s the technology — the technique — and the delivery system — your body. Your body has to train itself to do all of the techniques, and there’s no lying about it. You can’t fake it, because somebody else is trying to smash you.”

The result of Basulto’s style of training results is increased flexibility, stamina, strength and confidence, but also a greater degree of self-awareness and reflection.

“On the days you’re going to train, for example, you’re thinking, ‘What did I eat today? I better remember to eat well,’” he said. “People think about staying out late — I have people who have stopped drinking, not because I proselytize, but you feel like such crap that all of a sudden it’s, ‘I haven’t drank in weeks, because I can’t find the time. I’m too tired.’”

Basulto’s training also holds another benefit, especially for women.

“To me, as a woman, being able to defend myself while standing is a huge aspect of not being a victim,” Christine said. “The reality is I may try to be thrown on the ground — that’s a reality of attacks against women.”

What Jiu Jitsu does is, in essence, level the playing field.

“I’ve heard as much as 80 percent of altercations end up on the ground, even just from tripping. People get into a scuffle and end up on the ground,” she said. “The great thing about BJJ is I know how to orient myself really really quickly and get myself in a position where I can defend, and then after I’m safe I can be offensive and create a situation where I can get out.”

The Basulto Academy of Defense is located at 218 Branner Ave. in Waynesville. For more information, call 828.230.5056 or visit www.wncbjj.com.

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Big city fitness in the heart of Waynesville

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER While motivating oneself to wake up early and hit the gym may be a constant struggle for some, whenever that nagging desire to roll over and go back to bed strikes, just think of Lewis Langston.

Langtson, a fitness instructor at the Waynesville Recreation Center, teaches more than a dozen fitness classes each week, beginning at 6 a.m.

And, he’s 83.

A former high-level aide to three Illinois governors in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Chicago native worked on job development programs in the city’s blighted underbelly until moving to Waynesville with his wife more than 20 years ago.

“I was looking for an area that offered a living in terms of good healthy living. I looked at a book called Sunbelt Retirement, and it talked about the health of the mountains and the type of place it was,” Langston said. “This was a community that offered what my wife and I looked to as a place to retire.”

Langston’s been a lifelong fitness enthusiast, and learned the lessons of his hometown well.

“In the city of Chicago, on the south side of Chicago, fitness was something they did not only to keep people off the streets, but at the same time it was a health situation as well,” he said. “It kept kids busy but it also was helpful for them physically.”

Upon moving to Waynesville, Langston began train-

ing individuals, expanding into group fitness as the class grew by word of mouth alone. The reason, he thinks, is because of the unique nature of his training.

“I learned core fitness at the Lawson YMCA in Chicago, with the Chicago Bears and Chicago Bulls. That’s where they were taught. Mike Ditka and guys like that had

quality of life.

“I think the most important thing for me is that if you do not have good range of motion, even the quality of life can be interfered with,” he said. “So it doesn’t matter what your age is, because people have sleeping problems because of the inability of movement, and my feeling is that if you’re not active, you’re not going to be able to do much.”

“My philosophy is, without a core, you can’t do much of anything,” he said. “It doesn’t matter what your sport is, my emphasis has always that you get a strong core, it’s good for basketball, it’s good for football, it’s good for track.”

— Lewis Langston, instructor at the Waynesville Recreational Center

been doing this years ago, so when I started here, that’s what I emphasized — core fitness; 20 years ago, people didn’t know anything about the core.”

Langston says that he concentrates on core training through isometrics and calisthenics.

“My philosophy is, without a core, you can’t do much of anything,” he said. “It doesn’t matter what your sport is, my emphasis has always that you get a strong core, it’s good for basketball, it’s good for football, it’s good for track.”

Such training, he says, also enhances and enriches

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Langston teaches classes Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Waynesville Recreation Center, and for those who can’t manage to get out of bed by 6 a.m. like 83-year-old Lewis Langston has been doing for years, there are alternatives.

“Elite athletes we try to have early in the morning, and that’s 6 o’clock, and you’ll have your triathletes, your more advanced fitness people,” he said. “The 7 o’clock class, I call it a mid-class, and then we have an 8 o’ clock class that’s not as tough as the 6 o’clock.”

For more information on Langston’s classes or the other offerings at the Waynesville Recreation Center, call 828.456.2030 or visit www.waynesvillenc.gov.

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The Changing Face of the Food/Ingredient “Villain” appeared in inglesnutrition@blogspot.com It’s become common for some people to see themselves as a victim and blame one food (or sometimes a whole food group), beverage or ingredient for their weight or health issues and eliminate it from their diet. I've been a registered dietitian for 20 years and have seen fingers pointed at many supposed "villains" of weight and health issues.

Here are a few of the foods & ingredients that have come under fire over the years:

-Fat -Sugar -Red Meat -Eggs -Trans fat (partially hydrogenated oils) -Butter -Cholesterol -Salt/Sodium -"GMO's" -Soda -Artificial dyes -Artificial sweeteners -(HFCS) High fructose corn syrups -Bread -Gluten -Wheat -Carbs (carbohydrates)

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You’ll notice that some of these former “villains” have had a transformation and may now actually wear a “health halo” of sorts. This should tell you something…..times change, tastes change and new research and science may also affect the medical community and public’s perception of a food.

The problems is, when we try and isolate one "villain" for our health or weight issues and eliminate it from our diet; it's seldom accurate or science based and ignores the fact that we don’t just eat one food all of the time. Hopefully our diet is much more varied!

Let's take obesity and sodas for example. We all probably know that regularly drinking sugar or corn syrup sweetened sodas (whether they’re from a national brand or a local artisan company) is not the best choice...but is it the sole reason for obesity? Sodas have certainly become a popular villain...or are they a scapegoat? I'm not encouraging people to drink sodas, just pointing out that it's a lot easier for us to single out one thing rather than to address other possible reasons why children and adults are obese:

1. Eating out more and larger portions at restaurants 2. Less activity and exercise and a more sedentary lifestyle with more time in front of the screen (TV, computer or smart phone).

3. Constant snacking or grazing rather than eating 3 meals per day.

4. Drinking other high calorie beverages like energy drinks and coffee drinks.

5. Eating more high calorie snacks & desserts.

6. Mindless eating, i.e. not paying attention to what and how much we're eating because we eat in front of the TV or computer.

7. Lack of education about the calories in sodas.

Health news State health officials continue to encourage North Carolinians to take preventive measures against mosquito bites and to stay informed of the risk of Zika virus infection before traveling to areas with local, active transmission, now including Miami, Florida.

Zika virus is primarily transmitted through the bite of an infectious Aedes aegypti mosquito. This mosquito, to date, has not been identified in North Carolina, according to a statewide survey of mosquito populations being conducted in conjunction with researchers at East Carolina University, North Carolina State University, Western Carolina University and experts at local health departments. Currently, 33 travel-related cases of Zika virus have been confirmed in North Carolina.

Symptoms of Zika virus include rash and red eyes.

Less common symptoms include fever, joint pains and muscle aches. Only about one in five people infected with Zika virus will show symptoms. Sexual transmission of Zika virus is possible, and is of particular concern during pregnancy. www.cdc.gov/zika.

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A free tired leg/ varicose vein educational program will be offered at 5 p.m. Thursday Aug. 25, at the Vein Center at Haywood Regional Medical Center on the 2nd floor.

The event is aimed at educating anyone who may be suffering from aching, cramping or burning pain in the legs, varicose veins, restless legs, discoloration or skin changes, numbness, tingling or pain in their legs after activities such as grocery shopping or a short walk up the stairs.

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Pratt will join Dr. Billy Noell and Eric Reitz in providing expert surgical care to the region.

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Details on Mission Hospital for Advanced Medicine The public got its first detailed look at the Mission Hospital for Advanced Medicine when Mission Health unveiled a new website with renderings, real-time webcams, key stats and other information for the more than $400 million replacement project.

The new 12-story patient tower in Asheville will combine the older St. Joseph and Memorial facilities, consolidate the two Asheville campuses, and create 220 patient rooms, a significantly expanded state-of-the-art emergency department with 97 beds, consolidated operating, pre-op and recovery space along with interventional cardiology and radiology space that allows for true multidisciplinary, team-based interventional care with the very latest technology.

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SMN: So when did you finally become a city manager?

RH: My first job as a city manager was in a little town called Pittsboro, which is south of Chapel Hill by about 15 minutes. While there in Pittsboro, I was approached by a private development company in Greensboro.

SMN: Another distinctive community.

How did your previous experience prepare you for that situation?

RH: Watching council members, and their art of diplomatic language, that helped me out because Lumberton’s really unique, a tri-racial community.

SMN: Yes, you took a six-year foray into the private sector. Was that related to your experience in government?

RH: I helped them with their site plans, rezoning requests, and their interactions with government as they developed properties.

They built shopping centers and apartment complexes and things like that, so I quit local government and I went with them. I became a real estate broker and a general contractor, so I learned the private sector development side, and as a contractor, I physically built buildings. I made presentations for councils, for developments, and even managed the sales force.

So I learned real estate development, construction, marketing, and retail leasing. And while I didn’t stay in that profession, it helps me to this day because cities build so much.

Learning real estate marketing helps me with the economic development, and retail leasing helps me understand what commercial realtors need. Also, when developers or people are looking at locating a businesses, I kind of understand how their deal will be structured on the private market. So that’s always helped me.

SMN: And how did that change the ruling dynamic from somewhere like Durham?

RH: Robeson County is one-third Native American, one-third Black, and one-third white. For the first time in my career, I was in a community that had three races and that actually worked really well.

The reason is because to get anything done, two of the races had to compromise; 80 percent of the time, our votes on the city council were 9-0, no problems. On occasion when there was a split, somebody had to compromise with somebody else either to defeat it or pass it.

And they were floating coalitions. One of my council members used to say, “We hate each other equally.”

It was just a fascinating thing to see the whites and Native Americans vote down something that was being done purely for racial reasons, and then turn around and the very next thing on the agenda the Blacks and the Native Americans vote down the whites. Having a three way split probably worked better for politics than anything I ever saw.

Town manager hopes to bring Waynesville to new heights

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER aynesville’s new town manager won’t take the helm until Aug. 22, but The Smoky Mountain News was recently able to speak at length with Rob Hites, 64, to learn more about who he is, where he’s been, and what he hopes to accomplish in Waynesville.

His father, a WWII veteran and military psychologist born in Nebraska but raised in Iowa and Colorado, found himself stationed in the high Sierras during the Korean War. Hites was born there, in Reno, in 1952, shortly before the family relocated to Alabama, where as a young man he witnessed firsthand the civil rights movement from its epicenter in Birmingham.

When he was 13, Hites’ family again moved because his father decided to leave Birmingham-Southern College to become a professor of psychology at Greensboro College in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was there that Hites attended high school and graduated from UNC-Greensboro.

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Confederate South — the fissure ran right through Durham. Durham changed, and I’m certain it probably still has some of the vestiges of that, but Durham’s made incredible progress, and you can tell when you drive through it. They’ve finally mended most of their political fences.

culturally, economically and geographically.

What was that like?

RH: It’s south of Wilmington at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. I really liked Southport. I still love Southport. I love the people, I loved the board. I really enjoyed it. I met my wife there. She was a planner with the city of Wilmington. Any time you meet your wife somewhere, you know it’s a special place.

It’s just a phenomenally beautiful city. But frankly, my goal was to run a larger government than Southport — they had about 50 employees.

Because I had some ambitions beyond Southport, I applied for and got the manager’s job in Lumberton.

Smoky Mountain News: So how did you end up getting into municipal government?

Rob Hites: Completely by accident. I was a history major at the time looking towards law school, and I got placed out of an anthropology course which was an elective. So I went to my advisor and said, “I need a kind of easy course,” and he said, “Well, go take an urban government course. They have a new professor there, he’s bound to be easy.”

So I took this introduction to local government course and while my professor was teaching it, he invited the mayor of Greensboro (Jim Melvin), who was my former Sunday school teacher, to the class.

Mayor Melvin saw me and said, “Do you like this kind of thing? I need an intern, and we pay $2.50 an hour.” That was about twice as much as I’d ever made in my life, so I became the mayor’s intern. I thought that city government and the management of city government was fascinating, so I changed majors to political science and urban government and worked for the city of Greensboro.

SMN: And where did that lead you?

RH: I went to a little town called Gibsonville, and they had their first manager, so I wrote their first zoning ordinance and subdivision ordinance and stuff like that. At the end of that, I went to grad school at American University in Washington, D.C., and worked full time for the General Accounting Office and then helped set up the Federal Election Commission. I was one of their first 16 employees.

That’s how I worked my way through grad school, and I was working for the federal government until I got a job as an assis22 tant to the manager of Durham, so I came

back to North Carolina and worked there for a couple of years.

SMN: Durham’s similar but different, as compared to Waynesville — both have come a long way, but Durham’s much more diverse.

What did you learn there?

RH: What I learned about Durham is that in order to progress in a diverse community, you have to compromise, and when compromise is made great things can happen.

When compromise doesn’t happen, the community permanently fractures into dif-

Rob Hites will become Waynesville’s new town manager on Aug. 22. Donated photo

“My attitude is — the building codes are there, the zoning ordinances are there, and there’s nothing the staff can do about the ordinances, but we can help you work your way through them.” ferent groups and they essentially stare at each other, kind of like daring each other to do something. What I found is that Durham had a 13-member city council, and 13 members is too many people to run a city. When the council would get together on a project, Durham could really get its act together. But when the community split, it was just ugly.

We used to say that Durham in the late 70s was a little like the fissure between the liberal pro-integration South and the old

SMN: Sounds a lot more fun and a lot more creative than managing a town. Why did that end?

RH: When Reagan changed the tax laws, he changed a very important law involving what’s called ACIR — Advanced Cost Investment Return. It allowed people to depreciate real estate in five years rather than 30.

We had a lot of limited partnerships with doctors and other wealthy people that we used as our money to build apartments and stuff. So when the Reagan administration did away with ACIR, all our money dried up, so they rounded us all up and fired us and did away with the construction division of the company. I found myself unemployed and I went back into local government and became manager of Southport.

SMN: Southport’s about as far as one can get in North Carolina from Waynesville —

SMN: But then you left Lumberton for Statesville, your most recent permanent position as a manager, and you were there for a long time, so it obviously will have a lot of influence on your work in Waynesville. How do you think what happened there will contribute to what’s going to happen here?

RH: I left Lumberton in 1998 to go to Statesville, and we did a tremendous amount of urban revitalization. The year after I left Statesville, they finished a $9 million downtown renovation, which made the downtown a newer version of what you’ve already got in Waynesville.

SMN: True. A lot of the heavy lifting in Waynesville has been done over the past 30 years by the Downtown Waynesville Association. Where does a “revitalized” downtown go from here?

RH: There’s some talk about revitalizing some of the areas in and around Waynesville now that the down-

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER hen hiring a new employee in any profession, the focus is first and foremost on professional qualifications, as it obviously should be.

However, to paraphrase Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, “You are not your job. You are not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive.”

New Waynesville Town Manager Rob Hites is not just a manager, but also a man; he’s a married father of two (14 and 17) who no longer enjoys golf due to a back injury, but still has interests, hobbies, and passions just like anyone else.

Although his real estate broker’s license lapsed years ago, he still has his general contractor’s license; accordingly, one of his stress relievers is renovation.

“My main hobby is physically working with my hands, and renovating houses. I can do almost everything except heavy electrical work,” he said. “I just finished building a deck outside, a back porch and enclosing a 200 square-foot screen porch and made it into a sunroom. I don’t do it to make money.”

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SMN: So how did you find Waynesville?

RH: Waynesville came up by accident. I had interviewed to be interim manager. The board and I hit it off. I really was excited about Waynesville. I spent some time before my interview driving around especially downtown, and here it was January, and the

SMN: The search for a permanent town manager seemed to be proceeding nicely, and was down to two candidates. But you weren’t one of them.

RH: I understand the council interviewed a couple and they just hadn’t clicked, and they remembered me from my interview, so they asked me would I be interested in interviewing again, and we clicked even better. And so they offered me the job a couple Fridays ago.

SMN: And what was appealing about that offer?

RH: I’d been approached by a number of other towns to manage them, but the school systems just didn’t measure up. The reputation of Tuscola and what they are teaching is one of the reasons we were interested in Waynesville, where we weren’t interested in other cities. It’s a really phenomenal educational program there.

Aside from the physical beauty of the city and the incredible spirit of the city — you can feel the incredible energy of the city when you walk through it — and that’s exciting.

SMN: Exciting, for sure. How do you plan to manage all the excitement? What’s your style?

SMN: Town managers here in the past have had, let’s say, an interesting time managing staff.

RH: I work very hard at staff development. I don’t believe the manager is there to micromanage the department. You don’t hire highly trained department heads only to have the manager do their job for them. It’s insulting.

SMN: So how do you foresee yourself encouraging them to do their own thing while still being part of a team?

RH: One of my other big jobs is to work with council and structure a program of work that meets their long-term and short-term policy goals, and to ensure the staff orients their program of work to the council’s program of work.

One of the criticisms of professional staff sometimes is that they get into their own professional niches so that it almost appears that the council is working for the staff, and not vice versa. So I always have to make sure that staff members understand that the council sets the program of work and the tone.

SMN: What sort of objectives do you have for your first year in Waynesville?

RH: My goal in the first year is to try to learn the first names of every employee.

And that’s hard because I don’t remember

“I want the citizens and employees to know I’m not sitting with a locked office with a do not disturb sign on my door.” names well. That’s one of my big failures — it’s embarrassing because I see people I should know in the office and I’m tonguetied. I try to go out and catch the police department when they’re changing shifts, walk through the fire department and the public works department before they get away in the morning and meet all the employees.

At night what I’ll do is read the city’s code of ordinances, the charter, and the zoning ordinance because if a citizen comes to you on your second day, they’re not going to want you to say, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

SMN: What are you looking forward to on your first day of work? Or first week?

RH: In the first few days, I look forward to getting to spend time with the mayor and the board, getting to know the departments and the directors of the area NGOs, the economic development folks, people in the community. That first week is exciting, but there’s also a lot of anxiety in it because you try to touch so many people so quickly that the first week usually leaves you pretty tired.

But usually what I try to do is sit down with the mayor and say, “What should I do out in the community?” Because I know what to do with the staff — this is my fifth or sixth city. So I meet with the department heads let them know my name is not Mr. Hites, and that I’m just an employee. I’m their mentor and their friend, as well as their manager.

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SMN: When you start your job in Waynesville on Aug. 22, you’re not coming straight from there, though. What have you been up to for the past 4 or so years?

RH: Probably foolishly, when I reached 60 I decided I was going to retire. So I retired and went in to the local government retirement system, and I guess within a few months of retiring, I got contacted by the city of Monroe and asked to be their interim city manager. I retired too young. I got bored, like a dog on a chain.

I was the interim in Monroe for 10 months. I enjoyed it thoroughly. After Monroe, I thought it was time to find another city.

place was mobbed! And I just couldn’t believe it. It was stunningly beautiful. And while I didn’t get the job, the council asked me to apply for the permanent job.

SMN: And as you went through the interview process in Waynesville, did you get a sense of — perhaps by the questions they asked — a sense of what they were looking for in a town manager?

RH: They were looking for a manager that was very customer-friendly, and worked very well with department heads and staff. I’m a very informal guy, I have an open door policy, where a department head needs to see me, they don’t have to make an appointment two days in advance. I feel like my job is to make sure that all my staff members are served before I do my own personal work.

Any time a council member needs to see me that takes precedence, but I want the citizens and employees to know I’m not sitting with a locked office with a do not disturb sign on my door.

You might be — and this has nothing to do with Waynesville — hypothetically an electrical engineer working for the electrical department and there’s a new toy coming out, and if you’re the engineer and become completely focused on that toy, the city council may not want to spend $2 million on an automatic meter reading system. But you’ve got to have it because that’s what all your colleagues have.

My job is to say, “Well I think the AMR is a wonderful toy, but council’s not focused on spending $2 million on it. Get over it right now. They want to build a fire station or they want to do something else.” So you sometimes have to let the staff member know that once they’ve made their pitch to council about a new program or new something, and council doesn’t want to do it, put it aside. It’s not your job to tell the council what they’re doing.

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town’s taken off; I also did a lot of economic development work with our director of economic development in Statesville. We were the number one micropolitan community in the nation for recruiting industry for a number of years, so I did a number of deals, and we set up small business and business parks and outfitted some buildings and stuff like that.

RH: Very informal, for one thing. I deliberately try to keep the organization malleable and upbeat with a little bit of a sense of humor, so that the citizens feel like the service they’re getting is being provided by somebody who likes their job and enjoys their work and is bending over backwards to help out.

We in government get the reputation of only saying no, and we do have to say no on occasion but what I try to do is instill in the employees that their attitude ought to be, “I understand what you’re doing, let me help you do it. There’s certain things you can’t do because there are ordinances against it, but rather than tell you no, let me help you succeed.”

And especially with economic development and stuff like that, there’s kind of an attitude that when you come in and want to do something the only thing that’s going to happen is the government’s going to tell you what you can’t do. Well my attitude is — the building codes are there, the zoning ordinances are there, and there’s nothing the staff can do about the ordinances, but we can help you work your way through them.

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Something of an outdoorsman, Hites also enjoys fly fishing and spin casting, as well as a variety of team sports.

“My wife graduated from Duke, so we watch a lot of Duke basketball,” he said, almost apologetically. “But I never forgot my allegiance to the Crimson Tide. I grew up in the shadow of Legion Field where Alabama played their home games while I was growing up, so I can’t help it. I follow the Panthers in pro ball, but I’m too short to follow pro basketball. I played high school and college soccer, and I absolutely love soccer. I’ve coached soccer.”

Hites also spends his time volunteering with a number of spiritual and non-profit organizations. He’s a junior warden in the Episcopal Church, and has served as treasurer of The Partnership for Children — which works with daycare licensing — for 14 years.

Musically, he’s clearly a child of the 70s.

“I enjoy classical music,” he said, “but also Led Zeppelin. I probably know every Simon and Garfunkel song, because you always enjoy the music from when you were a teenager and in college. I enjoy Alice Cooper — he’s a fascinating guy. He was crazy in high school, but he was making straight A’s, and he had this crazy band but he was also on the football team, and had long hair and was playing this crazy music. After his performances he takes his makeup off and goes out and talks to the kids about keeping their life straight and staying off drugs and stuff. He just reminds them that what he does is an act, not a lifestyle.”

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Fly fishing museum moves to Bryson City

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ust one year after setting up shop in Cherokee, the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians will be moving to Bryson City.

Swain County leaders are ecstatic the ode to angling history is coming to their downtown, and the museum is looking forward to settling into its new home.

But the circumstances that led to the exodus from Cherokee have Alen Baker, the driving force behind the museum, scratching his head. He was just up in Cherokee for a routine visit to the museum — Baker lives in Charlotte — when he got word that the tribal government had been talking about cancelling the lease.

“I was shocked,” Baker said. “It was not something I expected.”

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DISCUSSING THE LEASE The museum had gotten a green light from Tribal Council — with support from then-Principal Chief Michell Hicks — in April 2014, when the body voted to lease the tribally owned building to the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce for $1 per year for 25 years. The idea was that the museum would share space with the chamber, allowing it to tell the story of fly-fishing heritage in the mountains, bolster Cherokee’s place as a tourism destination and raise revenue to support chamber, which is a nonprofit.

At the time, the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce told Tribal Council that it operates on about $80,000 per year but takes in only $30,000 in membership fees — once established, the museum could help offset that deficit, the thinking went.

Two years later, much has changed in

Cherokee, with an election in 2015 delivering substantial turnover in the tribe’s elected offices. On July 12, councilmembers on the tribe’s Business Committee got to talking about the museum, with a suggestion surfacing that the committee consider canceling that 25-year lease and replacing the chamber/museum combo with something more lucrative for the tribe.

Principal Chief Patrick Lambert, who sits on the committee, appeared to agree with that point of view in his July report.

“I support cancellation because the ‘Fly Fishing’ museum is seldom, if ever, used and does not bring one red cent into the Tribe,” he wrote.

However, said Lambert’s chief of staff Sage Dunston, “our position on this is that we don’t really have a position.” The idea of can-

“I don’t know what else to do but to reestablish the museum around a community that really wants it. That’s all we’ve really wanted to do.”

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celling the lease came from a pair of councilmembers serving on the committee, he said, and Lambert wasn’t pushing for the pendulum to swing either way.

“The chief did not cancel anybody’s lease,” Dunston said. “He did not run anybody off. He doesn’t have the authority to cancel a lease.”

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The Cherokee Chamber of Commerce was granted a 25-year lease in its current location in 2014, but that agreement is now in jeopardy. Holly Kays photo threw Chamber Director Amy Parker for a loop, spurring her to send out a July 26 letter to chamber members asking for their support.

“This is causing mass confusion for us,” Parker wrote. “We feel as though we only provide a service for the community and ask for very little in return.”

Since opening in June 2015, she wrote, more than 5,700 people have visited the museum. The chamber website draws more than 20,000 hits per month and the organization distributes more than 40,000 travel guides every year promoting Cherokee, the letter said.

The committee has not yet made a final decision on the lease, but Baker opted not to

wait. The Swain County Chamber of Commerce reached out with an offer of space, and he took them up on it. The museum is already gone from Cherokee and reassembling in its new home.

“Just the discussion that they might revoke the lease means we can’t trust the situation,” Baker said. “So we had no choice but to start looking for an opportunity to relocate.”

He takes issue with Lambert’s assertion that the museum hasn’t contributed “one red cent” to the tribe, pointing out that the chamber has received donations for museum admission and helps contribute to Cherokee’s overall diversity of tourism attractions. The chamber did not

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The Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians will hold a grand reopening at its new home in the Swain County Chamber of Commerce building in Bryson City on Saturday, Sept. 24, coinciding with the induction of the first-ever honorees in the Museum Hall of Fame.

Inductees will include: • Jim Casada, a Swain County native who now resides in South Carolina, in the “Communications” category. Casada is an avid fly fisherman, has authored numerous outdoors books and shares his lifetime of knowledge and experience as a seminar speaker.

• Walter Cary, of Virginia, in the “Crafts” category. Cary spent decades creating

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ing save the drift boat exhibit, which will go in a glass case to be installed out front. And because Bryson City is a Mountain Heritage Trout Water City, it will be easy for the museum to incorporate hands-on fishing events right downtown — the Tuckasegee River flows by not a block from the chamber building.

“Our county and region is very much on the national radar when it comes to fly fishing, and we would have been foolish honestly not to invite them in,” said Karen Wilmot, Swain County chamber director. “It’s an excellent attraction and we’re happy to have it.”

“I think we’re the winner of this, very definitely,” agreed County Commissioner Ben Bushyhead. “Anytime we can bring something that’s stable, and a fishing museum can definitely be a stabilizing factor in a town

“I support cancellation because the ‘Fly Fishing’ museum is seldom, if ever, used and does not bring one red cent into the Tribe.”

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where tourism is extremely important.”

Bushyhead wants to see Bryson City become a town that gets people coming for an entire vacation rather than just for a day visit while they’re hanging out in Cherokee or in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The more places you’ve got for visitors to investigate, the more attractive you become as a destination.

“The fishing museum only adds to that, and I think it’s a great thing,” he said.

Baker said he’s grateful to the tribe for giving the museum its start — Cherokee is where the museum got its feet under it and transformed concept to a reality that Bryson City is excited to host.

“I always had confidence that it’s a good product that we’ve done so far,” he said.

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For his part, Baker is a bit taken aback by the apparent change of heart from Cherokee’s leadership and looking forward to settling into Bryson City.

“I don’t know what else to do but to reestablish the museum around a community that really wants it,” he said. “That’s all we’ve really wanted to do.”

The museum’s new home will be in the Swain County Chamber of Commerce building on Main Street, which happens to be just around the corner from the Swain County Heritage Museum.

“I’m glad to see it come down here,” said Swain County Commissioner David Monteith, who spearheaded the Heritage Museum project. “It’s going to be a win-win situation for the county.”

The new space will be “a little cozy,” Baker said, but there will be room for everything that’s already displayed in the Cherokee build-

The inductees will be celebrated with a ceremony and dinner. Space is limited and reservations are available at 828.488.3681. $35.

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respond to a request asking for the revenue gained from the museum since it opened.

There’s another way to look at that question of monetary contribution, Dunston said.

Tribal businesses are required to pay a tribal flevy — analogous to a sales tax — whose proceeds are then put back into tribal programs.

The museum didn’t contribute anything to the levy until July of this year. For the month of July, they paid $76.60.

“I think that the community would say to you what benefit has the fly fishing museum given to the tribe,” Dunston said. “The tribe invested over $100,000 in refurbishing and rewiring and all kinds of work in that museum.”

From that standpoint, he pointed out, there’s an argument that a lease payment of $1 per year doesn’t make sense when the levy garnered from one of the heaviest tourism months of the year is less than $100. Lambert is focusing on other methods of diversifying Cherokee’s economy, Dunston said, pushing Tribal Council to pursue initiatives such as a water park, downtown revitalization and additions to Harrah’s Cherokee facilities in Cherokee and Murphy.

poppers that pan fish and bass can’t resist, and teaching novice anglers, kids and veterans how to fish and tie flies.

• Wanda Taylor, of Georgia, in the “Recreation” category. She’s spent her career as a professional guide, casting instructor and volunteer with Casting Carolinas, Casting for Confidence and Casting for Recovery.

• Phil Bracewell, of South Carolina, posthumously in the “Conservation” category. Bracewell was a founding member of the N.C. Chapter of Trout Unlimited and longtime volunteer Trout Unlimited national director.

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Board brings early end to MSD exodus

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER haron and James Earley had sought unsuccessfully for almost two years to have their property removed from Waynesville’s downtown taxing district, until a recently passed law gave them new hope that their wish would finally be granted.

Although the outcome didn’t change, the first vigorous vetting of the cost and benefit to property owners of the taxing district — formally known as the Municipal Service District — did leave some important philosophical questions unanswered.

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The Waynesville Board of Aldermen held the required public hearing on the Earleys’ request for removal from the MSD at its Aug. 9 meeting.

Property owners within the MSD pay an extra 20 cents per $100 property valuation on top of Waynesville’s 48.57-cent rate. That revenue is managed by the Downtown Waynesville Association and is used, largely, for downtown revitalization and marketing.

The Earleys have argued that their property at 180 Legion Drive, which does not have

frontage on Main Street and is home to Ferguson Plumbing Supply, does not benefit from the “services, facilities or functions” of the MSD. The public hearing saw a number of speakers — all of whom were interested parties and none of whom were in support of the Earleys’ request.

But that didn’t stop the board from hearing out both sides of the issue and carefully weighing the arguments. John Keith, a Realtor, downtown property owner and President of the DWA, was first to speak.

“The success of our district, of course, is reliant on the cumulative tax fund balance to market and advertise the district to benefit all of us,” he told them.

Buffy Phillips, executive director of the DWA, reminded the board that property owners had decided to tax themselves “to help bring their home town back, and to not let it die … and it worked.”

Local artist, longtime downtown property owner and DWA Executive Board Member Teresa Pennington echoed both Keith and Phillips, and in doing so established their “Pandora’s box” argument — namely, that once one property owner was allowed to leave the district, it would be hard to deny others

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the same right.

By omission, the Pandora’s box argument laid out by the three seemed to acknowledge that there were property owners who do not benefit from the MSD — including the Earleys.

However, the argument asserts that allowing the Earleys to leave would encourage others to leave (Phillips), which would reduce DWA revenue to the point of it being unable to succeed at its mission (Keith), which would result in the decline of downtown Waynesville (Phillips).

On the town board, Alderman Julia Boyd Freeman said that although she sympathized

Thus the opposition to the Earleys request was twofold — Pandora’s box and direct versus indirect benefit.

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Sharon Earley remained steadfast in her argument that in return for the extra taxes she and her husband had been paying on the property for years, they expected direct benefit — which, by acclimation, they have not and may never receive.

“What can the Downtown Waynesville Association do for Legion Drive?” she asked.

“The same thing it has done for the past 18

James Earley (left) addresses the Waynesville town board Aug. 9. Cory Vaillancourt photo with the Earleys, she did recognize Penningtion’s “Pandora’s box.”

Alderman Jon Feichter — himself a DWA board member and Main Street property owner — also seemed to acknowledge this when he said that he agreed with the Earleys.

“They do not directly benefit from the services, facilities, or function of the MSD. As I thought about this over the past few days, I realized that I’m in the same boat as the Earleys,” he told fellow board members. “My business does not benefit from many, many of the activities the Downtown Waynesville Association provides.”

Feichter then pivoted with what he called “a pretty big but.”

“I benefit in a multitude of ways indirectly,” he said, citing statistics claiming that in 2014 each of the 35,087 Haywood County households would have had to pay $549 more in state and local taxes to replace the taxes generated by the $161.5 million in direct tourism spending and $33 million in worker’s paychecks attributable to the activities of the MSD and the DWA. “So in my mind, although I agree with the Earleys that they don’t benefit directly, they ultimately do benefit indirectly, and we all benefit indirectly by virtue of the spending that is generated directly as a result of the activities that the Downtown Waynesville Association provides us,” he said. “So, I stand opposed.”

Alderman Dr. LeRoy Roberson, himself a downtown property owner, agreed.

“If we start with this, any business could say, ‘Well, we don’t get any direct benefit from this. So have us removed,’” he said.

“Wells Funeral Services — they don’t have any tourists coming in saying ‘I want to buy one of your caskets’ or ‘I need your services right now.’”

years — nothing.”

Alderman Gary Caldwell was first to voice support for the “direct benefit” argument put forth by the Earleys when he said to Feichter and Roberson, “You guys get the sidewalks, the decorations, the nice street lights — these guys they don’t get that.”

Feichter shot back with Pandora’s box.

“I agree with Gary,” he said. “The Earleys don’t receive that. They are on Legion Drive, off the beaten path. But I do stand by my statement that they indirectly benefit, and that leads us to the question of if we say ‘yes’ to the Earleys how can we say ‘no’ to anybody else?”

Mayor Gavin Brown took the opportunity to analyze the 1986 ordinance that created the MSD, and said he didn’t believe the Earleys benefited from the services, facilities, or functions of the MSD, but that the town could re-annex into the MSD any piece of property it wanted — meaning if the plumbing supply store was sold and became something that could benefit from the MSD, it could be re-included.

James Earley, who had been silent except for the letter sent to town officials requesting removal from the district weeks ago, was recognized by Brown and took the podium.

“Tell Teresa (Pennington) and Buffy (Phillips) to go down there and weed eat that place,” he said, again buttressing his “direct benefit” argument.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Earley,” Brown said. “I’m not sure what you’re referring to.”

“I spend over $1,500 a year maintaining that building, just for the surroundings,” Earley clarified. “How many times has Teresa and Buffy picked up a weed eater on Main Street? Buffy can run up town and drink coffee on Main Street with her ‘loyal’ downtown people — Teresa and

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At that point, Brown cautioned Earley to not get personal.

“It’s getting personal,” he said. “Where’s that money they spend on Legion Drive? You can buy a whole lot of coffee with that $700 a year we pay. That’s the first thing she wanted to do with my wife — ‘Oh, we need to go have a cup of coffee.’”

Earley did go on to apologize while indicating his frustration, but when Brown finally called for a vote, the result left Earley even more so.

“I’ll see you in court,” he said to Phillips on his way out of the meeting after Brown and Caldwell voted to allow them leave the MSD, saving them $692.20 per year in taxes.

Freeman, Feichter and Roberson voted no.

“I’m disappointed to see that the board members are still allowing the Downtown Waynesville Association to control this town,” Sharon Earley said after the meeting. “We have legislation on the books that would fit a situation like my husband and I are in. We are not on Main Street, but yet there are still some members on the board who are controlled by the Downtown Waynesville Association.”

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Although the issue with the Earleys has been settled for now, the way in which both sides argued their respective positions leaves more than a few loose ends.

Section 4 of N.C. General Statute 160A538.1 reads, “A property owner may submit a written request to the city council to remove the owner’s tract or parcel of land from a service district. The owner shall specify the tract or parcel, state with particularity the reasons why the tract or parcel is not in need of the services, facilities, or functions of the proposed district to a demonstrably greater extent than the remainder of the city, and provide any other additional information the owner deems relevant.”

The Earleys did so, but still weren’t allowed to have their property removed from the MSD, which raises the questions about what burden of proof property owners will labor under in future requests — or, if there will even be any future requests, based on the results of the board’s actions in the Earley instance.

Furthermore, James Earley’s comments directed at Phillips and Pennington also allude to the fact that there may be a schism developing between MSD owners in Waynesville’s downtown Main Street core and those on the periphery — a “haves” versus “have nots” situation.

The statute says nothing about the detrimental effects MSDs may encounter when allowing certain property owners to leave, nor does it address the benefit — direct or indirect — the property owners do or do not receive from the “services, facilities or functions” of the MSD. But if any credence is to be given the arguments of Feichter, Pennington and Roberson, if everyone in the county benefits from the activities of the DWA and the MSD, how can anyone ever be allowed to leave it?

Conversely, if everyone benefits, then why, in the words of Sharon Easley July 26, “aren’t all paying that extra 20 cents?”

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR ollowing a May 5 decision by the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors to ban all houseboats on Fontana Lake after 30 years, TVA promised to spend the next six months talking to stakeholders in an effort to mitigate the negative economic impact.

TVA staff made good on that promise last week by making the rounds in Graham and Swain counties to listen to concerns, but many houseboat owners still feel like the TVA is only providing lip service to placate their frustrations over the ruling.

“I feel like anything we say to y’all falls on deaf ears,” houseboat owner William Duncan said to TVA staff during a meeting at Alarka Boat Dock last Wednesday. “Is the TVA board going to listen?”

TVA staff members assured the houseboat owners that they were taking note of all their comments and would report back to the board before its next meeting on Aug. 25

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Woody Farrell, a land-use specialist with the TVA, said the entire point of the community meetings was to hear concerns from stakeholders and get their feedback on the TVA’s future rules that will govern the 1,800plus houseboats on TVA lakes until they have to be removed in 30 years.

Until those rules are established, Farrell said no new houseboats should be constructed and no new permits would be granted.

Some houseboat owners have a pre-1978 TVA issued permit, which means they were grandfathered in when the TVA ruled that no more houseboats would be allowed on its reservoirs.

Other houseboats are not permitted at all and some are permitted through the state but not the TVA. TVA admits enforcement has been lax, which is why so many more houseboats have popped up since 1978, but now they want to take corrective action.

“If you have a (TVA) permit and are in compliance, you can continue to operate the

“If you have a (TVA) permit and are in compliance, you can continue to operate the structure under the current rules. But if you have no permit, you’ll have to apply for one under the new rules and get approved.”

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More than 20 people attended an informal meeting with Tennessee Valley Authority staff at Alarka Boat Dock to discuss the future of houseboats. Jessi Stone photo All houseboats will have to meet minimum standards for things like electrical safety, proper floatation and wastewater removal. All

structure under the current rules,” Farrell said. “But if you have no permit, you’ll have to apply for one under the new rules and get approved.”

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houseboats will be subject to annual fees, but no amount has been finalized. Farrell said TVA suggested a 50-cent per square foot cost, but that could change depending on public feedback. Farrell said they were also discussing whether docks on the houseboats should be included in that square-foot price or whether that was a step too far.

“The whole thing is too far — I’ve been here for years and years and my houseboat is supposed to be grandfathered-in,” Duncan replied.

Bill Rank and his wife Diane were equally as frustrated over the new policy since they sunk most of their retirement money into purchasing a floating house last July.

After making every effort to get properly permitted under the current rules, Rank said it wasn’t fair that so many people would lose their investment in 30 years.

“Someone should have some responsibility in us getting screwed around,” he said.

Farrell said he understood people’s frustration over the sunset clause but the new TVA policy still stands and it will be enforced.

One reason TVA passed the new rules was to keep private ownership off of the public waters, but some houseboat owners find that hypocritical given that TVA is using the public waters to make money through selling electricity. “(TVA Director Bill) Johnson said it wasn’t right for me to use public water for private use, but the TVA is doing the same thing by using the water to make millions,” said houseboat owner George Radford.

To make up for removing houseboats, Farrell said the TVA was looking at ways to increase public accessibility by adding more boat ramps and beach areas — though Fontana’s steep banks would make those kinds of projects difficult.

Even though the TVA is still deadset on keeping the sunset clause, houseboat owners haven’t given up on the chance of getting the decision reversed. They have the support of North Carolina’s U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-Cashiers, and Sen. Richard Burr, R-Winston Salem; who have both written letters to the TVA strongly opposing the sunset provision.

When TVA’s proposed rules are finalized, the public will have a 60-day comment period before the TVA votes on whether to adopt them. The new houseboat policy is now posted on the TVA website and any proposed rules will also be available online.

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orth Carolinians can debate whether a few of the controversial laws enacted by the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly and supported by Gov. Pat McCrory are unconstitutional or not, but it seems the courts are leaning toward striking them down.

More importantly, perhaps, are that the legal challenges keep landing Democratic gubernatorial candidate and state Attorney General Roy Cooper on the front pages of many of the state’s Editor newspapers. Indeed, the controversy over these laws may just help Cooper unseat McCrory from the governor’s office, which would be a positive step for North Carolina.

Gov. McCrory has been a major disappointment. As many have pointed out, he came to Raleigh in 2012 with a reputation as a moderate Charlotte mayor who was more pragmatic than ideological. His tenure in the Queen City coincided with an unprecedented era of growth and a spirit of cooperation between local government and business interests that helped transform the entire Charlotte metro area.

Unfortunately, he just hasn’t mustered the backbone to stand up to the conservative General Assembly leadership, and instead has buckled under as they have re-branded North Carolina as one of the South’s most socially conservative states.

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Trickle-down economics just doesn’t work To the Editor You may have noticed that we have an election coming up. With that, one hot topic will be taxes. Based on their stubborn belief in trickle-down economics, most Republican politicians will continue to tell you that tax cuts are the solution to most of your problems.

The story goes that if you cut taxes on higher income groups, investors will have more money to invest which will provide money to companies to build more facilities which will hire more people who will pay more in taxes and result in increased government revenue.

We have been testing this theory for over 30 years and the results are in. It doesn’t work!

The Reagan tax cuts resulted in unprecedented increases in the deficit during his eight years in office. The tax cuts and relaxed financial oversight during Bush2 led to the next great increase in national debt, middle-class bankruptcies and an international financial crisis. Only recently has the increase in annual deficit spending been reversed as we slowly emerge from the Bush Recession.

At the state level, Kansas and Louisiana have become the poster children for aggressive implementation of trickle-down. Both are economic train wrecks. The deep-red Kansas legislature even debated whether to ignore a valid ruling from their own Supreme Court regarding education funding rather than deal with the real cause of their budget disaster. Kansans threw out many of their trickle-down legisla-

In the last few months, North Carolina Republicans —Gov. McCrory included — have been complaining about Cooper’s lackadaisical defense of some of their most outrageous actions.

I’m talking, of course, about the strict 2013 voter ID law and the controversial HB2.

In July, an Appeals Court unanimously overturned the voting law that included the photo ID mandate and several other restrictions, including shortening of the early voting period, prohibiting same-day registration and out-of-precinct voting, and eliminating pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds.

After the ruling, Cooper made headlines when he said the Appeals Court was right, that he agreed with their reasoning, and that his office would not participate in an appeal to a higher court.

“I think this is what we’re going to have,” Cooper told the Raleigh News & Observer. “The Board of Elections needs to work on expanding the early voting hours, making sure that same-day registration is re-instituted, and obviously the voter ID portion would not be allowed any more.”

He added: “The courts keep striking down these laws passed by the legislature and signed by the governor. When are they going to learn that you just can’t run roughshod over the Constitution? That you have to pass laws that are within the framework of the state and federal constitutions? We need to start doing that in North Carolina.”

Just this week, Gov. McCrory formally asked Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to stay the Appeals Court rul-

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. tors in the recent primary.

So why hasn’t this worked? Nationally, we now have a concentration of wealth in the upper 1 percent that has not been seen since before the Great Depression of the 1930s. The last 20 years have seen the greatest transfer of wealth in U.S. history. Large corporations are sitting on record amounts of cash and buying other companies — not investing in new production capacity that would create jobs.

Why is this? We are a consumer economy and the vast majority of consumers — the middle and lower economic classes — don’t have extra money to spend after paying for food and shelter. Companies will not invest in new production and employees if they don’t see an expanding market for their products.

That market has been eliminated by implementation of trickle-down tax policies.

The problem is made worse when legislatures use increased sales taxes to balance budgets. Sales taxes hit middle- and lower-income citizens worse than the wealthy. In North Carolina the vast majority of us pay more of

ing until after this election, saying there is not enough time to make all the changes before November.

Back in March, Cooper said he would not defend the state against legal challenges from the U.S. Justice Department over House Bill 2. House Bill 2 blocks local anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBT people. The law requires people in government facilities to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding with the gender on their birth certificates, rather than their gender identity.

“Our office will not represent the governor and the legislature in defending lawsuits dealing with the constitutionality of this law …. The governor and the legislature should repeal this law,” Cooper said at the time.

So as Cooper reaps the benefits — a la Donald Trump — of free media coverage because of the state’s outrageous actions, his polling numbers are going up. A new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll released last week shows him leading McCrory 51 percent to 44 percent. Polling has showed this race to be close all summer, but some suggest Trump’s loose cannon campaign may be helping Democratic candidates like Cooper.

Both the Voter ID and HB2 laws fit into the category of “solutions in search of problems.” Both do more harm than good, but in the end they may help us oust an ineffective governor who is simply not providing the brand of leadership North Carolina needs.

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

our income in taxes (income and sales) than we did before Gov. Pat McCrory and Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, took charge.

The trickle-down theory has been tested for over 30 years and has been found to be false and dangerous. It’s time to move on and develop policies that invest in the 99 percent of citizens. Trickle down just doesn’t work.

John Gladden Franklin

Trip to Trump Tower teaches powerful lesson To the Editor:

Glittering gold and gleaming glass Dominating the miserable humans Huddled in the shadows Of the Trump Tower.

This is Donald Trump’s vision, as revealed to me in the summer of 1984.

I was 20 years old and I will never forget it.

I grew up in Franklin and, by the blessing of a college scholarship, I was working as a summer intern with the Hartford Police Department. I had the opportunity to explore New York one weekend. The Trump Tower had opened just the year before, and I could hardly believe that someone could build a tower of gold. I had to see it for myself.

Before I could get to the tower, however, I had to pass by a gauntlet of homeless, desperate human beings who lay desolate before the gleaming tower. The poor will always be

among us, but I was struck deeply by the contrast of immense apparent wealth and the desperation of those who clung to its periphery.

I could not escape the question: if you can build a tower of gold, what can you do to alleviate suffering? I could not escape Trump’s apparent answer: nothing.

When I drew closer to the tower, I realized that it was not really gold. By all accounts, it appears golden in color, but on closer inspection, it is built of brass, glass and mirrors. I took the interior escalator up several flights, and was amazed at the high-end boutiques. I could not afford anything offered, so I left empty-handed. But, not alone.

My friend, Andy was with me. He saw what I saw. He is now a physician. He heals people and supports missionaries.

To all who will hear, please know that our choices matter. Lives can be blessed, or they can be ignored. I know what I saw. And, now he wants to govern us all. I cannot be silent.

Leave Trump to his tower and America will be greater than ever. We are only as strong as our weakest link. But they, like most of us, live outside the Trump Tower.

Fred H. Jones Franklin

More wilderness areas not a good idea To the Editor: I want to commend the U.S. Forest Service and district ranger staffs for an excellent job in producing a very thorough analysis of what

And, no, there will be no vast clear-cuts, there will be no polluted streams, there will not be a vast network of logging roads slashed through the forest. The national forest will look a lot like it looks today with the addition of a mosaic of areas where timber has been cut, trees are regrowing, old growth forest will be very common, wilderness will exist as it does today and the forest will become a healthy mix of trees of all ages AND a healthy abundant mix of wildlife species that prefer all those types of habitat.

Jim Gray Franklin

Build greenway bridge, and they will come

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To the Editor: I was very happy to read the article, “Greenway use rising in Jackson County” in The Smoky Mountain News last week. The article stated that recent use of the greenway doubled and had increased five-fold since last fall. Congratulations to all who brought this project to fruition in spite of unforeseen challenges. With the Tuckasegee River running through the heart of Jackson County, the riverside greenway and other recreational amenities are good for both residents and visitors.

Founded in 2007, Cullowhee Revitalization Endeavor (CuRvE) is a community organization whose mission is to help revitalization the historic center of Cullowhee. Our focus area begins at the Cullowhee dam and flows downstream to Locust Creek, just below the new footbridge.

Right now, much of the area is torn up with construction of a new bridge on Old Cullowhee Road. CuRvE has been actively working with DOT to ensure that the bridge will become a centerpiece of the historic town.

Significantly, a grant from Blue Ridge Natural Heritage Partners in 2012 allowed CuRvE to commission an economic impact study to measure the effect that improved river access would have on our county.

Completed by Asheville-based Syneva Economics, a family river park beside the new bridge would bring $1.2 million in new spending dollars to Jackson County every year. That money would support 16 jobs and generate $145,000 in annual tax revenues.

Surely, such investments in county services are a good thing for citizens and the growing use of the greenway supports that idea.

Anna Fariello Cullowhee

August 17-23, 2016

alternatives should be considered for additional wilderness designation in the Nantahala & Pisgah National Forests new management plan (see story page 50). If you want to read the analysis of each area that was considered for wilderness recommendation go to http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOC UMENTS/fseprd511839.pdf. Here you can read the analysis of each of the 54 areas that were considered and why it was recommended or not recommended.

The Forest Service formed a Stakeholders Forum for input and guidance on the new management plan. This Forum has met monthly for almost a year. I am a member of the Forum. The Forum also included members from the Sierra Club, MountainTrue, Southern Environmental Law Center, Wilderness Society, recreational interests, timber interests, Ruffed Grouse Society, Fish & Wildlife Conservation Council, N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission (who provided excellent science and hard data) and numerous others.

All interests had ample opportunity to provide their input and to solicit input from their members. The one group that was not included in the Forum was the counties that have national forest lands within their borders — and 12 of those counties have passed resolutions opposing additional wilderness in their county. The county commissions are our elected representatives and they needed to be heard on an issue this important.

Wilderness advocates have a vision of what the Appalachian forests looked like when Europeans first arrived in North America and they want to go back to that imaginary state. It is essentially a very flawed vision. If you want to read some excellent research of what our mountains looked like then (and had looked like for thousands of years) read chapter 12 of Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation, by Cathryn S. Greenberg (USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station – Asheville) and Beverly S. Collins (Western Carolina University).

We have lots of wilderness in Western North Carolina in the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests (over 93,000 acres) and in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (over 500,000 acres). That wilderness is protected by federal statute. What we need is attention to our local economies, restoration of desirable native forest species and management of wildlife habitat. Those are the things that were not managed properly in the current management plan, and we have the opportunity to get back on the right track.

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tasteTHEmountains Taste the Mountains is an ever-evolving paid section of places to dine in Western North Carolina. If you would like to be included in the listing please contact our advertising department at 828.452.4251

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.

APPLE ANDY'S RESTAURANT 3483 Soco Road, Maggie Valley located in Market Square. 828.944.0626. Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; closed Wednesday and Thursday.

Serving the freshest homemade sandwiches, wraps, and entrees such as country fried steak and grilled flounder. Full salad bar and made from scratch sides like potato salad, pinto beans and macaroni and cheese. www.appleandys.com

BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Lunch served 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dinner nightly from 5 p.m. Closed on Sunday. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks, fresh fish, and other classic American comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available. We also feature a great selection of craft beers from local artisan brewers, and of course an extensive selection of small batch bourbons and whiskey. The Barrel is a friendly and casual neighborhood dining experience where our guests enjoy a great meal without breaking the bank.

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 am to 9:30 am – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes, and always all-you-can-eat. Lunch every day from 12:00 till 2 pm. Evening cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays, 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 6 pm, and dinner is served starting at 7 pm. So join us for mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view.

Please call for reservations.

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

CHURCH STREET DEPOT 34 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

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

BLOSSOM ON MAIN 128 N. Main Street, Waynesville.

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

Forget the myth that all Thai food is spicy.

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

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 Wednesday and Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.; closed Monday and 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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

Open nightly for dinner at 4 p.m.; Friday through Sunday 12 to 4 p.m. for lunch.

Daily luncheon special at $6.99. Worldfamous prime rib, steaks, fresh seafood, gorgonzola cheese and salads. All ABC permits and open year-round. Children always welcome. Take-out menu. Excellent service and hospitality. Reservations appreciated.

JOEY'S PANCAKE HOUSE 4309 Soco Rd Maggie Valley.

828.926.0212. Open daily 7 a.m. to 12 p.m., closed Thursdays. Joey’s is a family style restaurant that has been serving breakfast to the locals and visitors of Western North Carolina since 1966.

Featuring a large variety of tempting pancakes, golden waffles, country style cured ham and seasonal specials spiked with flavor, Joey's is sure to please all appetites.

Join us for what has become a tradition in these parts, breakfast at Joey’s.

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.

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.

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

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SMOKEY SHADOWS LODGE 323 Smoky Shadows Lane, Maggie Valley 828.926.0001. Check Facebook page for hours, which vary. Call early when serving because restaurant fills up fast. Remember when families joined each other at the table for a delicious homemade meal and shared stories about their day? That time is now at Smokey Shadows. The menus are customizable for your special event. Group of eight or more can schedule their own dinner.

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

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

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

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

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

THE HEALTHY WAY 284 A North Haywood Street, Waynesville.

828.246.9691. Open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Monday through Friday. Welcome to the healthy way! Shake it to lose it!! Protein shakes, protein bars, teas and much more.

Our shakes and protein bars are meal replacements.

VITO’S PIZZA 607 Highlands Rd., Franklin.

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

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Will be closed August 20th in order to host our 50th Anniversary Picnic for Past & Present Employees Call Joey’s for info

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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.

SAGEBRUSH STEAKHOUSE 1941 Champion Drive. Canton 828-6463750 Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Carry out available. Sagebrush features hand carved steaks, chicken and award winning BBQ ribs. We have fresh salads, seasonal vegetables and scrumptious deserts. Extensive selection of local craft beers and a full bar. Catering special events is one of our specialties.

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

828.586.3555. Open Monday through Wednesday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Handtossed 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.

‘Animal House’ & ‘Angry Birds’

and beer selection. Casual atmosphere, dine indoors, outside on the patio or at the bar. Reservations appreciated.

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

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Pouring passion Andrews welcomes second brewery

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER urning onto 2nd Street from the hectic U.S. 19/74 highway, you find yourself cruising through downtown Andrews. It’s Saturday afternoon, and for most small towns in America, it is no surprise the center of a community is busy.

But, for Andrews, this is a sight to behold. For a mountain town that’s been eerily quiet for many years, bordering on abandoned, the downtown is now abuzz with folks strolling the sidewalks, cars parked up and down the street. A sense of “well, hey, check this out” crosses the minds of those who used to only stop in this part of Cherokee County to refuel as a halfway point to their final destinations, which seemingly could be in any direction.

And within a stones throw of the 2nd and Chestnut Street intersection resides Hoppy Trout, a craft brewery that’s headlong into its first full year of operation.

“To be honest, I really wanted to do something to bring the town back, because the community has really been struggling to have anything happen,” said Tom Rodeck, Hoppy Trout co-owner and brewmaster. “We want to try and be the catalyst for others to get the town moving again. In the last year or so, we’ve already had two new restaurants open in downtown — things are changing.”

There’s about one-square-foot of space inside Hoppy Trout Brewing Company for every resident in the town of Andrews. And that’s not saying much seeing as the town is home to around 1,780 residents. But, for Hoppy Trout, that just means you’d better get there early enough to grab a seat, a place within a business dearly needed and already greatly beloved in downtown Andrews.

“When we opened on New Year’s Eve this year, there were people lined out the door,” Rodeck recalled with a smile. “And like anywhere in the mountains, it was slower in the late winter and early spring, but we survived to where now you can’t find a place to sit on Friday and Saturday nights.”

Born in Indiana, Rodeck and his family relocated to Andrews when he was 5 years old. His father, Tom Sr., started Accent Awnings, a company he and Tom Jr. still run to this day in Andrews. With that business and analytical foundation, the younger Tom headed off to North Carolina State University, where he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering.

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And it was in Raleigh when Tom began to discover craft beer. Whereas most of the usual collegiate endeavors revolve around domestic brands (ie: Budweiser, Coors, etc.), he soon transitioned into more exotic flavors, with a curiosity about homebrewing not too far down the line for him.

“Once you try these flavorful craft beers, it’s really hard to go back to the domestics,”

there’s also a lot of creative ones, too.”

Right around 2014, the idea bubbled up that Rodeck open a brewery in his hometown.

He was apprehensive, at first, but with the encouragement from his family and his wife, Kristin Spradling, he decided to launch Hoppy Trout.

“This place had been a pencil and paper thing for almost a year in planning,” Rodeck said. “It was nerve-wracking that first day being open, but we stayed calm. I rememTom Rodeck ber putting the last $150 I had into the register for change [laughs].”

Now eight months old, Hoppy Trout is find-

ing solid ground in its dream-turned-reality. As the Andrews Brewing Company is also right down the road, the town is truly embracing the notion of being a craft beer destination on the ever-growing map (and interest) in Western North Carolina. With Andrews Brewing already hosting weekly concerts and tastings, Hoppy Trout hopes to ideally complement, and build upon, those first steps taken to ensure the future of the community.

“Growing up, Main Street was dead after 5 o’clock, and now we’re open and people are coming out, being part of their community,” Rodeck said. “Craft brewing is an art form, and we look forward to showing people the craft, and what it is we’re doing here — it’s a great feeling to be able to put our efforts back into the town.”

“We look forward to showing people the craft, and what it is we’re doing here — it’s a great feeling to be able to put our efforts back into the town.”

— Tom Rodeck

Rodeck said. “Everywhere I go these days, I find the local breweries and try what they’re creating. It’s a really great way to get to know a community and what they’re about.”

After returning to Andrews, Rodeck befriended Jake Wentzek. The two found a common bond for craft beer, with the duo spending every weekend homebrewing, always experimenting with different flavors and ingredients, tweaking recipes and slowly honing their chops. It was also a fun way for Rodeck to apply his engineering skills into a whole new realm of possibility.

“You see a lot of engineering backgrounds in the craft beer industry, and that’s because it’s the perfect mesh between science and art,” he said. “There’s a lot of technical aspects to brewing beer and perfecting recipes, and

The second brewery to open in Andrews, Hoppy Trout Brewing Company rotates around 25 different flavors of craft beer on tap, specializing in India Pales Ales, limited time seasonals, and more. Left: Located on 2nd Street in downtown Andrews, Hoppy Trout currently employees 14 people from around the community. Garret K. Woodward photos

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It took me a couple seconds to realize where I was.

As I awoke in The Smoky Mountain News office in downtown Sylva one recent morning, The Waynesville Craft Beer Faire will be held I was in that momentary space from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the between your dreams and reactAmerican Legion Post 47 in Waynesville. ing to your current reality. Part Rising country/rock star Joe Lasher Jr. will of me was a little bummed that perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, on the girl I was chasing was back outdoor stage at Lazy Hiker Brewing in Franklin. there, somewhere in my subconscious, and who knew if I’d ever The “Concerts on the Creek” series will host track her down again? But, the Porch 40 (rock/funk) at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, other part of me was happy to at the Bridge Park Pavilion in Sylva. see blue skies and mountaintops from outside the big bay winThe Haywood County Fair will return Aug. 23dows of the office.

29 at the fairgrounds in Lake Junaluska.

The night prior, I had a few too many drinks across the street Americana/folk act Lorraine Conard & Friends at The Cut Cocktail Lounge, an will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at old basement barbershop turned The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. craft liquor emporium. My friends had just performed during Concerts on the Creek, and me to where I stand today. You know, when I to celebrate the occasion, we hoisted some awoke on the office couch, there was a split adult beverages high. Knowing I shouldn’t second where I thought to myself, “What if drive, I decided to crash on the office couch. my younger self awoke here right now, what “Well, that’s pretty convenient, just havwould he think or say about being here in ing to walk across the street,” my friend said. Western North Carolina?”

“Yeah, but I’d rather be going home to a I find it funny — more so surreal, almost good woman than once again just hitting the in awe — when I think back on the decisions hay on the office couch,” I replied, pointing made that led to the here and now. As in, to my friend’s girlfriend and the good forhow easily I threw the dart of chance at the tune of the relationship they possess. board of opportunity that is my life. I’ve Even though that statement casually fell always kept looking ahead, pushing further out of my mouth, it still caught me offinto whatever ground felt the most comfortguard, seeing as it was such a “matter of able and tempting enough to mine in search fact” sentiment I felt sincere enough in of not only truth, but also myself. immediately blurting out. And with that, I’ve And so, what the hell am I doing with my been retracing the steps of past that have led life? It’s a feeling I’ve been kicking around

of the West, especially the song “Life Being What It Is.” I can’t help but hit repeat when her words echo from the speakers, “You would do anything, you’d give up everything for God knows why/I just can’t stay till you’re gone, I won’t wish you well/I won’t see you off, I won’t try to call if I see you in my mind/I’ll say to you it’s not your fault …”

I thought I’d find what I was looking for in Idaho, whatever that means. And, apparently I didn’t, seeing as I ended up just packing the truck again, with a few more items in tow, and headed east with the rising sun.

And I thought I’d give that “search and rescue” operation of my true self another go, hence my repeated action of packing up and heading in some godforsaken direction.

And for the past four years, this region I call home. I’m not sure if I made anymore ground in my quest, spiritually at least, as that famous line from the film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” rings like a bell hanging on the walls of my being, “You call yourself a free spirit, a ‘wild thing,’ and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”

The clock keeps ticking away. My feet keep moving along. I find the searching is more soothing than the actual discovery, but maybe that’s because I never stumbled upon the true treasure of my nature, and that of a counterparts. Who knows, eh?

Life is beautiful, grasp for it, y’all.

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recently, something that usually bubbles up from the depths of my soul around the anniversary of my coming to the Smokies.

Four years down, and how many more to go, I wonder?

Lately, I’ve been thinking back on my time out in Eastern Idaho, on the backside of the Grand Teton Mountains, a landscape of vast prairie and endless sunsets. I was 22 years old and starting my first writing gig at a tiny newspaper, with barely any knowledge of journalism, let alone being on my own some 2,300 miles from home.

There’s many-a-night I’ll just be sitting back in my old recliner, staring out the window onto the silence of downtown Waynesville, all the while playing back in my head the trials and tribulations, the friendships and beauty I came across out there. I feel part of my soul is still back there, and I won’t ever get it back until I cross the Mighty Mississippi heading west.

But, as I sink my heart deeper into the rich soils of Southern Appalachia, my restless body shakes, rattles and rolls around, legs stuck in the cement of fate, always yelling at me, “You fool, didn’t we agree to never get attached to a place, to keep moving like a fast-paced, anonymous car under a twilight moon?”

When I packed up and left for Teton County, Idaho, in December 2007, Kaki King’s album “Dreaming of Revenge” found its way into my hands. It became the soundtrack of my nine months out yonder. And like most music burned in your mind by time and place, whenever I put it on, I think

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‘An Appalachian Evening’ welcomes Jeff Little

The Jeff Little Trio.

Celebrating its 17th season, “An Appalachian Evening,” a weekly bluegrass/Americana summer concert series, will return with The Jeff Little Trio at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center in Robbinsville.

The 2016 series will also include Solivan & Dirty Kitchen (Aug. 27). For more information or to purchase tickets, click on www.stecoahvalleycenter.com or 828.479.3364.

August 17-23, 2016

Lasher brings country, rock to Lazy Hiker

Rising country/rock star Joe Lasher Jr. will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, on the outdoor stage at Lazy Hiker Brewing in Franklin.

A dynamic new southern country and rock artist, songwriter and performer, Lasher’s songs, style and performances appeal to a broad spectrum of music lovers.

Lasher captivates an audience with a com-

Joe Lasher Jr. will play Aug. 20 in Franklin.

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Popular blues/folk singer Heidi Holton will perform at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at the Nantahala Outdoor Center. She will also play at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, at the Andrews Brewing Company.

Holton began young, leaving Murphy to play in rock bands in Athens and New Orleans before the blues came a-calling. She studied under the great Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane) and then disappeared to Alaska’s arctic interior to perfect her craft.

She has recently moved back to Murphy and is touring around the Southeast. www.heidiholton.com.

manding presence and unique vocals while moving them with a powerful and heartfelt delivery of original music and lyrics.

Having shared the stage with the likes of Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and Thomas Rhett, Lasher is proving to be one of the hottest new talents in music.

The show is free and open to the public. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

On the beat

• BearWaters Brewing Company (Waynesville) will have live music at 6 p.m.

Aug. 18 and 25, and Daphne & The Mystery Machines (rock) 7 p.m. Aug. 26.

828.246.0602 or www.bwbrewing.com.

• The Bryson City Train Depot concert series will host Larry Barnett & Friends (bluegrass) Aug. 20. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

CONARD TO PLAY LIBRARY FUNDRAISER Americana/folk act Lorraine Conard & Friends will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. The show will be a fundraiser for the expansion of the Haywood County Public Library. Tickets are $18. www.38main.com.

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Americana at ‘Groovin’ on the Green’

Johnson, Brew-B-Que at Harrah’s

f Outlaw country star Jamey Johnson and the inaugural Brew-B-Que will take place on Saturday, Aug. 27, at Harrah’s Cherokee.

The Brew-B-Que will be held from noon to 7 p.m. The iconic styles of North Carolina BBQ compete in the ultimate throw down.

• The Cut Cocktail Lounge (Sylva) will host Honky Tonk Fridays at 8 p.m. on Saturdays in August. They will also be celebrating

• The “Friday Night Live” concert series at the Town Square in Highlands will host Randy Flack (singersongwriter) Aug. 19 and The Johnny Webb Band (country) Aug. 26. Both shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

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• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Jimi McKenzie (singer-songwriter) Aug. 19 and Brother Bluebird Aug. 26. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 828.454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Heinzelmannchen Brewery (Sylva) will host Henry Wong (acoustic/folk) at 6 p.m.

Aug. 25. www.yourgnometownbrewery.com.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Aug. 17 and 24, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Aug. 18 and 25, Redleg Husky (Americana/folk) Aug. 20 and Momma Molasses Aug. 27. All events begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

You can also sample regional craft beers, enjoy local entertainment, and more throughout the day. Johnson will take the stage at 8 p.m.

Tickets can be found at www.harrahscherokee.com.

Marianna showcases Americana The Summer Music Series will conclude with an evening of acoustic music by local Americana singer-songwriter team Liz & AJ Nance at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

This program is free and open to area residents and visitors. Weather permitting the program will be presented on the front porch of the library, otherwise it will be moved to the library auditorium. Snacks and refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the Marianna Black Library.

828.488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

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The “Groovin’ on the Green” concert series will host Julie Gribble (Americana) at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at The Village Green in Cashiers.

Other performs include: Rockell Scott (pop/piano) Aug. 26 and Hurricane Creek (rock/blues) Sept. 2. All shows are free and open to the public. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will host Joe Cruz (piano/pop) Aug. 19 and 26, The Jazz Cats Aug. 20 and Jacob Johnson Aug. 27 (pop/folk). All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

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

828.488.8898.

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Outlaw Americana singersongwriter Scott Low & Southern Bouillon will be performing at 9 p.m. Aug. 19 at The Cut Cocktail Lounge in Sylva and at 10 p.m. Aug. 20 at The Lost Hiker in Highlands. Low will return as a solo act to The Lost Hiker at 10 p.m. Aug. 25.

• The Canton Public Library will host The Coffee Branch Band (bluegrass/country) at 3 p.m. Aug. 21. Free.

their “1st Birthday Bash” starting at 2 p.m. Aug. 21 with bands, barbecue, and more. 828.631.4795.

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• Andrews Brewing Company will host 12th Fret (Americana) 6 p.m. Aug. 19, The Harmed Brothers (Americana) 7 p.m. Aug. 20, Heidi Holton (blues/folk) 6 p.m. Aug. 26 and Rye Baby (Americana/bluegrass) 7 p.m. Aug. 27. All shows are free. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

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IBMA stars to play Franklin

Porch 40 will play Aug. 19 in Sylva.

‘Concerts on the Creek’ gets funky

as Rhonda Vincent, Brandon Heath, Carl Jackson, Larry Cordle, Jerry Salley, and Tony Rice. In addition to many stage shows, The Church Sisters have also appeared on the popular RFD T.V shows “The Joey and Rory Show,” “Larry’s Country Diner” and “Country’s Family Reunion.”

Tickets start at $20.

866.273.4615 or www.greatmountainmusic.com.

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The seventh annual “Concerts on the Creek” series will host Porch 40 (rock/funk) at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at the Bridge Park Pavilion in Sylva.

Other shows are as follows: a surprise band on Aug. 26, and Erica Nicole (country) Sept. 2. Concerts are free, with donations accepted. Chairs and blankets are allowed. www.mountainlovers.com or 828.586.2155.

International Russell Moore Bluegrass Music & IIIrd Tyme Out. Association winner Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out and The Church Sisters will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out has endured. In the process, they've managed to climb to the top not just once, but twice, winning a slew of IBMA vocal awards, including two “Male Vocalist of the Year” honors, in the mid and late 1990s, then persevering through rough times to see Moore recapturing the “Male Vocalist” trophy for the past three years.

The Church Sisters, Sarah and Savannah Church, began their musical career in March of 2007 after winning the WAKG Rising Stars talent competition. The pair have met and performed with prestigious names such

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• Mad Anthony’s Bottle Shop & Beer Garden (Waynesville) will host Fritz Beer & The Crooked Beats (Americana/rock) Aug. 27. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 828.246.9249.

• The Maggie Valley Fairgounds will host “The Highway Legends” at 11 a.m. Aug. 27. The daylong event will feature a musical tribute to Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash. Admission is $20 or $25 day-of-show. www.maggievalleyrallys.com or 336.580.1638.

• Marianna Black Library (Bryson City) will host a community music jam from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 18. 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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• Nantahala Brewing Company (Bryson City) will host If Birds Could Fly (Americana) Aug. 19 and Jamie Kent Aug. 20. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• No Name Sports Pub (Sylva) will host The Harmed Brothers (Americana) Aug. 18, Jeff County Boys (outlaw country) Aug. 19, Gold Rose (Americana/folk) Aug. 20, Outlaw Ritual and Matt Heckler & Dead Cat (country/folk) Aug. 26 and Log Noggins (Americana/rock) Aug. 27. All shows are free and begin at 9:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nonamesportspub.com.

• The “Pickin’ On The Square” (Franklin) concert series will continue with Michael Reno Harrell (singer-songwriter) Aug. 20 and Tugelo Holler (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 27.

All shows are free and begin at 7:30 p.m. A community jam begins at 6:30 p.m. www.franklinnc.com or 828.524.2516.

• Pub 319 (Waynesville) will host Family Portrait Aug. 19 and Ashli Rose (singersongwriter) Aug. 26. All shows begin at 9 p.m. 828.456.3040.

• The Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub (Franklin) will Gary Carter (singer-song-

• Salty Dog’s (Maggie Valley) will have Karaoke with Jason Wyatt on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with Mile High (rock) at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. Andrew Rickman (rock/acoustic) will also perform on Saturdays. All events begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

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August 23rd-29th, 2016 Haywood County Fairgrounds TUESDAY, AUGUST 23 10 a.m-6 p.m.

Fair Exhibits Accepted Vendor/Booth Set-Up

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Sapphire Mountain Brewing Company (Sapphire) will host a jazz brunch with Tyler Kittle & Friends from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Sundays. 828.743.0220.

• Satulah Mountain Brewing (Highlands) will host “Hoppy Hour” and an open mic with Jimandi at 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays, “Funky Friday” with Bud Davis at 7 p.m. on Fridays and Isaish Breedlove (Americana) at 7 p.m. on Saturdays. 828.482.9794 or www.satulahmountainbrewing.com.

• The “Saturday’s on the Pine” concert series at Kelsey Hutchinson Park in Highlands will host Grandpa’s Cough Medicine (outlaw bluegrass) Aug. 20 and Porch (funk/rock) Aug. 27. Shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• Sneak E Squirrel Brewing (Sylva) will host Contra Dancing on the Patio 7 p.m. Aug. 19, Heidi Holton (blues/folk) 8 p.m. Aug. 20 and John Morgan (country) 8 p.m. Aug. 27. There will also be a “Funk to What?” open jam at 8 p.m. every Thursday. 828.586.6440.

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

828.926.1288.

• Soul Infusion Tea House & Bistro (Sylva) will host Chris Williams (singer-songwriter) Aug. 22 and The Colby Deitz Band (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 27. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 828.586.1717 or www.soulinfusion.com.

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Cashiers) will host a “Bluegrass Mix-Up” night at 7 p.m. on Thursdays. 828.743.3000.

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Highlands) will host a weekly Appalachian music night from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Wednesdays with Nitrograss.

828.526.8364 or www.theuglydogpub.com.

• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host Gold Rose (Americana/folk) Aug. 19, The Jeff County Boys (Americana) Aug. 20, PMA (reggae/jam) Aug. 26 and The Andrew Rickman Duo (rock/acoustic) Aug. 27. All shows begin at 9 p.m.

Fair SATURDAY, AUGUST 27 9 a.m.-10p.m.

9a.m.-10p.m.

Open to the Public, Animal Viewing Zoo Carnival Rides Open

APPLE ORCHARD EVENT CENTER

Closed for judging of all exhibits except livestock 5:00 p.m.

Carnival Rides Open 5 p.m.-10 p.m. Open to the Public 5:30 p.m.

Meal - Folkmoot Int’l 6:00 p.m.

Opening Ceremonies and Community Concert 6:00 p.m.

Animal Viewing Zoo

10:00 a.m. “Family Fun Day at the Fair” (for kids) 1:00 p.m. Pumpkin Decorating Contest 1:00 p.m. Natural Beauty Pageant 2:00 p.m. Ice Cream Eating Contest 3:00 p.m. Pisgah High FFA Alumni BBQ 3:00 p.m. Youth Talent Show 5:00 p.m. Heritage Hoedown

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25

9:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

1:30 p.m.-5 7:00 p.m.

4 p.m.-10p.m.

Open to the Public, Animal Viewing Zoo 9 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Senior Citizens Day 4:00 p.m.

Military Appreciation Day 5:00 p.m.

Carnival Rides Open 5:00 p.m.

Fish Fry 5:00 p.m.

Variety Show 6:00 p.m.

Firemen’s Competition 7:00 p.m.

Bingo

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 9a.m.-2p.m.

4 p.m.-10p.m.

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5:00 p.m.

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School Day for 4th Graders Open to the Public, Animal Viewing Zoo Spaghetti Dinner kids under 6 eat free Carnival Rides Open New Generation Jamboree Special Persons Showmanship Livestock Show

6:00 p.m.

6:30 p.m.

K-9 Demo Sheep Show

GREAT SMOKIES ARENA Tractor Pull Registration Tractor Pull (Smart Farms) Horseshoes (1st and 2nd Prizes) Horse Show

BURLEY LIVESTOCK BARN 9:00 a.m.

Goat Show 11:00 a.m.

Feeder Calves Pen-of-Three 12:00 p.m.

Beef Show Conclusion of Beef Show-Costume Class 4:00 p.m.

Dairy Show

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28 8:30 a.m.-5 Open to the Public, Animal Viewing Zoo 9:00 a.m.

Sunday Brunch 10:00 a.m. Cowboy Church Gospel Singing 1:00 p.m.

Carnival Rides Open 1:00 p.m.

Truck Pull-followed by Ugly Pick-Up Truck Contest 1:30 p.m.-5 Smoky Mountain Jubilee emceed by Joe Sam Queen 2:00 p.m.

Swine Show

MONDAY, AUGUST 29 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Pick-Up and Take Down

OTHER ATTRACTIONS Wednesday-Sunday-Animal Viewing Zoo (Burley Livestock Barn)

Subject to change Call 828.456.3575 for information www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org

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• The Oconaluftee Visitor Center (Cherokee) will host a back porch old-time music jam from 1 to 3 p.m. Aug. 20. All are welcome to come play or simply sit and listen.

• Sagebrush Steakhouse (Canton) will host Kim Smith (singer-songwriter) Aug. 23 and Ben Phan (singer-songwriter) Aug. 30. All shows begin at 7 p.m. 828.646.3750.

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• The Nantahala Outdoor Center (Bryson City) will host Heidi Holton (blues/folk) Aug. 19, The Pioneer Chicken Stand Band (folk/rock) Aug. 20 and Brushfire Stankgrass (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 26. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.noc.com.

H A Y WO O D • C O U N T Y writer) Aug. 20 and Scott James Stambaugh (singer-songwriter) Aug. 26. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.rathskellerfranklin.com.

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• The Macon County Public Library (Franklin) will host Karen “Sugar” Barnes & Dave Magill (Americana/blues) at 7 p.m. Aug. 11 and “Music with Country Memories” at 6 p.m. Aug. 18.

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August 17-23, 2016

Dillsboro’s ‘Summer Arts & Crafts Market’ The “Summer Arts & Crafts Market” will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 20, on the streets of downtown Dillsboro.

On Front Street by the railroad tracks, over 40 local vendors will be displaying and demonstrating their arts and crafts. The market offers fused glass and copper, rustic and refinished furniture, needlecraft, jewelry of all kinds, pastel, watercolors and oil painting, basket and chair weaving, wood working, stone carving, photography, gourds, authentic Cherokee art, and so much more.

Live entertainment will claim the stage

Franklin kicks up its heels The “Boots and Bling” benefit will be held by the Zonta Club at 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 27, at Bloemsma Farm Barn in Franklin.

Boots and Bling, the annual fundraiser for Zonta of Franklin, will benefit REACH of Macon and Jackson counties. Live music by the Hurricane Creek Band. Specialty foods provided by area restaurants, with a silent auction to also take place.

Individual tickets ($50) for Boots and Bling are available from any Zonta member, and also at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. Table sponsorships are available ($500).

828.349.9194.

Cataloochee ‘Way Back When’ dinner

The “Way Back When” trout dinner will continue at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, 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 42 wagon ride across the ranch property amid

the whole day, beginning at 11 a.m. with Twelfth Fret, a husband and wife team featuring an acoustic duo with Craig Neidlinger on guitar and Kim Neidlinger on upright bass. At 1:30 p.m., the J. Creek Cloggers, a high-energy dance team, will present the old mountain tradition of clogging on the street. Then, at 2:30 p.m., Karen “Sugar” Barnes and Dave Magill will entertain, featuring folk, blues and country. Closing out the day at 3:15 p.m. will be Kim Shuler, who specializes in vintage music, songs scanning decades from the ‘30s to the early ‘90s.

This year Summertime Arts and Crafts Market has expanded it’s offerings for children’s activities and festival foods, so much so that Church Street will be lined with booths. There will be “design your own candle,” “fishing” opportunities with prizes, hands on with a pottery wheel, and many avenues for coloring.

Another great offering for children and parents is the new vendor, Heavenly soft Pretzels. The pretzels will be made on the spot, with a fun opportunity to watch the pretzel made right before your eyes. Other festival foods offered are funnel cakes, sandwich wraps, kettle corn and barbecue.

828.586.3511 or www.visitdillsboro.org.

the authentic re-creation of Mr. Tom and Miss Judy Alexander’s first fishing camp.

Cost is $39.95 per person, plus tax and gratuity. The dinner will also be held Sept. 2 and 16.

To RSVP, call 828.926.1401 or 800.868.1401 or www.cataloocheeranch.com.

BearWaters moves to Canton

The former NAPA Auto Parts store in Canton. Travis J. Bumgardner photo After operating in Waynesville for the past four years, BearWaters Brewing will be making a big move to downtown Canton.

While it may be sad news for craft beer fans in Waynesville, the town of Canton will be getting its first brewery and taking one more step toward downtown revitalization.

BearWaters’ current location on Frazier Street off Russ Avenue will stay open until the new location is up and running. The new facility — the former NAPA Auto Parts store, will give BearWaters 11,000 square feet of taproom and manufacturing space.

Sandefur said the new space will allow him to install a 15-barrel brewing system, and they hope to be up and open for business by the end of the year. The space will also be able to host corporate and private events.

He said purchasing the new building

wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, Rep. Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville and Rep. Brian Turner, D-Asheville, who helped him secure funding through a government loan program.

BearWaters had to begin looking for a new location a few months ago when they received word that their current space was being sold. Sandefur is thrilled to finally have a permanent space where the business can grow. Closing on the building is scheduled for Aug. 30.

“It’s been a real long time coming and we’re turning a corner,” Sandefur said. “This is the next chapter of our business and we’re excited to see where BearWaters will go from here.”

The Smoky Mountain News will be doing a full feature article about the project in the coming months.

Mountain Cooking Club Chef Ricardo Fernandez will be hosting a Mountain Cooking Club class from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the Wildcat Ridge Farm in Clyde.

Fernandez was the former coowner/head chef of Lomo Grill. The classes celebrate local ingredients and seasonal fare. His classes combine his native Argentine cuisine with influences from Spain and Italy, the home of his parents.

The menu for this class will include seared eggplant stuffed with goat cheese, sundried tomatoes and basil; ultimate quiche lorraine; and fresh peach melba.

Class fee is $65 plus a $1 Mountain Cooking Club 2016 membership fee. To reserve your space, please mail a check (payable to Ricardo Fernandez) to Suzanne Fernandez at 3553 Panther Creek Road, Clyde, North Carolina 28721. Reservations confirmed upon receipt of payment.

828.246.7465 or chefricardos@gmail.com.

Craft beer fest returns to Waynesville The Waynesville Craft Beer Faire will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the American Legion Post 47 in Waynesville. VIP ticketholders are allowed in at noon.

The event will feature an array of craft beer vendors from around the region, live music and food vendors. Breweries included this year will be Waynesville’s own BearWaters, Boojum, Frog Level and Tipping Point, as well as Sierra Nevada, Blowing Rock, Beaverdam Homebrew, River Rat, The Sneak E Squirrel, Lazy Hiker, Catawba, Boondocks, Bold Rock Hard Cider, Foothills, Stooges Beer Club, Bhramari, Highland, and Nantahala. Live music will also be provided by International Bluegrass Music Association

award winner Darren Nicholson (of Balsam Range) and his band.

Tickets are $35 per person, with $45 VIP passes available.

Proceeds will go to the American Legion, a nonprofit veteran organization that is committed to youth mentoring and promoting wholesome community projects.

The event is strictly for ages 21 and over. State identification is required for entry. The faire will be held rain or shine. www.waynesvillebeer.com.

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Featuring an array of events and activities, the Haywood County Fair will return Aug. 23-29 at the fairgrounds in Lake Junaluska.

• Tuesday, Aug. 23: All Fair exhibits other than livestock will be received. In addition, all vendor and booth set-ups will be completed.

• Wednesday, Aug. 24: Judging of all exhibits except livestock will take place. The Fair will open to the public at 6 p.m. with Opening Ceremonies followed by a Community concert. Carnival rides also open at 5 p.m. An expanded Animal Viewing Zoo will be available with a wide variety of farm and other animals in the Lions Club Barn.

• Thursday, Aug. 25: Citizens Day beginning at 9 a.m. Also scheduled for this day are a Military Appreciation Day event at 4 p.m., a musical variety show, Firemen's Competition in the Arena, and the County Fair Bingo Game which begins at 7 p.m. A Fish Fry Dinner will be served by the Pigeon Community Center beginning at 5 p.m.

• Friday, Aug. 26: School Day for all fourth-graders in the county beginning at 9 a.m. Other activities include a Spaghetti Supper with children under 6 eating free, the New Generation Music Jamboree, Special Persons Livestock Show, a K-9 Demonstration, and the Sheep Show.

• Saturday, Aug. 27: “Family Fun Day at the Fair” for children, Pumpkin Decorating Contest, Natural Beauty Pageant, ice cream eating contest, Haywood County FFA Barbecue, Youth Talent Show, and the Heritage Hoedown, all in the Apple Orchard Event Center. Horseshoe Pitching will take place in the Arena beginning at 1:30 p.m.

The Smart Farms Tractor Pull beginning at 10 a.m. and the Annual Horse Show at 7 p.m. will both take place in the Arena. In addition, the goat show, feeder calves, beef show and dairy show will all occur in the Burley Livestock Barn.

• Sunday, Aug. 28: A morning worship service beginning at 10 a.m. will be conducted by Gene Blankenship of Cowboy Church.

The service will include music by Gospel Quartets. The County Fair Truck Pull will take place in the Arena at 1 p.m. followed by the Ugly Pick-Up Truck Contest. The Smoky Mountain Jubilee emceed by Joe Sam Queen will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Apple Orchard Center. The swine show begins at 2 p.m.

For a complete daily schedule or for any other information, call the Cooperative Extension Office 828.456.3575, consult the 2016 Haywood County Fair Guide, or see the Haywood County Fairgrounds website at www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

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There will be a LEGO Club meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

The library will provide Legos and Duplos for ages 3 and up, the only thing area children need to bring is their imagination. All area children are invited join in and let your creativity shine.

828.488.3030.

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• The ceremonial Cherokee bonfires will run from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday through Oct. 1 Spend an evening with the Cherokee people by a roaring fire. Listen as Cherokee storytellers in period dress from the 17th century spin tales of days gone by, myths and mysteries passed down through the ages and talk of the history. Learn Cherokee survival skills and experience the dance.

Your hosts will provide light refreshments, which include marshmallows for roasting and drinks. Guests sit by the fire near the Oconaluftee riverside enjoying a unique and entertaining experience. The events are free and open to the public. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

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• The High Mountain Squares will host their “Vacation Time Dance” from 6:15 to 8:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Macon County Community Building in Franklin.

Richard Smith will be the caller. Western Style Square Dancing, mainstream and plus levels. All skill levels welcomed.

828.342.1560 or www.highmountainsquares.com.

• A bingo night will run at 5:45 p.m. on Thursdays through Sept. 1 at the Maggie Valley Pavilion. Cash prizes and concessions by Moonshine Grill. Sponsored by the Maggie Valley Civic Association.

828.926.7630.

• A wine tasting will be held from 2 to 5 p.m.

Aug. 20 and 27 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. $5 per person. www.papouswineshop.com or 828.586.6300.

• A free wine tasting will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Aug. 20 and 27 at Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville. www.waynesvillewine.com or 828.452.0120.

• A wine tasting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m.

Aug. 20 and 27 at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. Free with dinner ($15 minimum). 828.452.6000.

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

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• Paint Nite Waynesville will be held at 7 p.m. on Fridays at the Panacea Coffeehouse, with the next installment being Aug. 26. Grab a cup of coffee, glass of wine or pint of craft beer and get creative. $20 per person. Group rates available. Sign up at Panacea or call host Robin Smathers at 828.400.9560. paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

• The “Summer Arts & Crafts Market” will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, on the streets of downtown Dillsboro.

Dozens of local vendors will be displaying and demonstrating their arts and crafts.

There will also be live music and dancing throughout the day. Food will also be available atop the local restaurants nearby. www.visitdillsboro.org or 828.586.3511.

• Local artist and crafter Junetta Pell will be teaching a Chair Seat Weaving and Caning

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• “Art Beats for Kids” will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18 and 25, at the Charles Heath Gallery in Bryson City. A new project every week. $20 per child, with includes lesson, materials and snack. To register, call 828.538.2054.

• The Haywood County Arts Council’s “Gallery & Gifts” (formerly Gallery 86) is hosting its annual ArtShare exhibit through Aug. 27 in downtown Waynesville. ArtShare is a fundraising exhibit of fine works of art, both

original and prints, which have been donated, or consigned with the Haywood County Arts Council for the purpose of financially underwriting the ongoing operating costs of the nonprofit organization. www.haywoodarts.org.

• Fine art photographer Brian Hannum will be the special guest at the upcoming “Meet the Artist” event from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, at Gallery Zella in Bryson City. Live music, hors d’ouevres, wine, newly unveiled art, and more. $25 per couple.

• The “Photography of Bayard Wootten” exhibit will be on display through Nov. 23 in the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Wootten was a female pioneer in the field of photography from the early 1900s to 1950s, when men dominated the field. All 35 photographs in this exhibition are of North Carolina subjects, which are on loan through from North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC-Chapel Hill.

• Laurey-Faye Dean will be the featured

artist with a live demonstration and discussion at “The Potter’s Wheel” series from noon to 5 p.m. Aug. 27 at The Wild Fern in Bryson City.

• The Adult Coloring Group will meet at 2 p.m. on Fridays in the Living Room of the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. An afternoon of creativity and camaraderie. Supplies are provided, or bring your own. Beginners are welcome as well as those who already enjoy this new trend. kmoe@fontanalib.org or 828.524.3600.

• “Stitch,” the community gathering of those interested in crochet, knit and needlepoint, meet at 2:30 p.m. every first Sunday of the month at the Canton Public Library. All ages and skill levels welcome. www.haywoodlibrary.org.

• Mad Batter Food & Film (Sylva) will screen “Animal House” (Aug. 18) and “The Angry Birds” (Aug. 19-20). Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Fridays; and 2 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.

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• There will be a “Raku Beadmaking” workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 25-26 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 27 at Riverwood Pottery in Dillsboro. Cost is $120 per person.

828.586.3601 or www.riverwoodpottery.com.

class from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 18-19 at the Jackson County Extension Office in Sylva. Learn how to weave the diagonal/herringbone pattern using flat reed or cane. Participants can purchase stools and supplies from the instructor or bring their own chairs that are in good repair and refinished, if needed, before the class. Cost for this workshop depends on project with some projects beginning at $11. Call the Extension Office at 828.586.4009 to register and for supply list.

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The Open Air Indian Art Market will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual in Cherokee.

With dozens of authentic Cherokee artisans, the event offers traditional food and crafts, which includes beadwork, basket weaving, sculpture and woodworking. Artwork at the market and inside the gallery will be available for purchase. Artisans will also be demonstrating and practicing the hundreds of years old techniques, as well as answering questions attendees may have about their craft.

Free to attend. There will also be a traditional Cherokee meal made by the North American Indian Women’s Association available for $10 per person.

828.497.3103 or www.quallaartsandcrafts.com.

The new budget signed by Gov. Pat McCrory will allow the North Carolina Arts Council to support an extensive arts infrastructure across North Carolina, including arts programs in all 100 counties funded through the Grassroots Arts Program, with more than $7.1 million in grants.

“This funding will further support the arts, which are a catalyst for economic development, tourism and overall quality of life in North Carolina,” McCrory said. “The work of local arts councils helps make North Carolina global destination where people want to live, work and visit.”

In fiscal year 2016-17, N.C. Arts Council grants will support more than 340 arts organizations, individuals, schools and other nonprofit groups that sponsor arts programs or arts-driven economic development projects.

Grant funds come from both legislative appropriation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

“Arts have sparked economic development across the state,” said Natural and Cultural Resources Secretary Susan Kluttz.

“These grants mean more jobs and a better quality of life.”

The budget invests an additional $500,000 in the Grassroots Arts Program.

Nationally recognized for its per capita distribution formula that allows local decision-

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making on arts programming, the Grassroots funds support the sustainability of a network of local arts councils across the state.

The N.C. Arts Council will continue to invest in the SmART Initiative, a program that uses the arts to transform downtowns and fuel economic development.

“The SmART Initiative influences business development, inspires downtown revitalization and historic preservation, builds community pride of place and stimulates the growth of more creative businesses,” said Kluttz.

“Government and the private sector work together in communities large and small to ensure that North Carolina continues to be a place where businesses want to be, people want to live and visitors want to explore.”

Funds that support rural communities include several arts in education programs, such as the popular Traditional Arts Programs for Students and Junior Appalachian Musicians, an afterschool program where students receive music instruction taught by traditional string band musicians, Seagrove potters, or African American jazz musicians. cARTwheels, a performing arts touring and residency program that provides in-depth exposure to arts, will take place in 15 venues.

Grant awards are recommended by panels of civic leaders and arts experts based on artistic merit, benefit of the project to the state’s citizens, and the applicant’s organizational strength and capacity.

Recommendations are reviewed by the North Carolina Arts Council Board and forwarded to Secretary Susan Kluttz for final approval. www.ncarts.org.

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The folks at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre didn’t plan on opening the new Daniel & Belle Fangmeyer Theater with a fundraiser. The projections earlier this year had completion of the new $1.2 million dollar building by May. Opening events for donors and the community were planned for June, and then again in July.

HART has raised over $1 million toward the new theater. However, with nearly $200,000 still needed, the HART fundraising committee began planning an event to address the potential debt.

As fate would have it, the new theater was not ready for the earlier events, but will be completed just prior to the fundraising event “Cirque du HART.” Kicking off at 6

p.m. Aug. 27, this will be a memorable evening featuring the eight-piece band Sirius B, and the high in the air performances by Asheville Aerial Arts.

Tickets are $125 each. Amid a mélange of divine cuisine, there will be a full cash bar, special Cirque du HART signature drinks, and attendees are invited to dress in circus attire if they desire. Attendance is limited, so anyone wishing to be a part of HART for this amazing night should call the box office at 828.456.6322.

HART plans to have a formal open house with tours of the new facility a bit later, once all the bells and whistles are in place in what promises to be one of the most impressive venues in Western North Carolina.

Comedy to hit Highlands stage

when suddenly the unwanted ex-boyfriend shows up on the doorstep and sends the house into chaos and hilarity.

For tickets, call 828.456.6322 or visit www.harttheatre.org.

The Highlands Cashiers Players will present “Don’t Dress for Dinner,” Aug. 25-28 and Sept. 1-4 at the Performing Arts Center in Highlands.

This wildly funny comedy by Marc Camoletti (Boeing-Boeing) was nominated for two Tony Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. In the play, Jacqueline’s husband, Bernard, has invited his mistress to their home when he thinks that his wife, Jacqueline will be gone. The fun starts when Jacqueline decides to stay home.

For tickets, call 828.526.8084 or visit www.highlandspac.net.

Lewis Black play at HART Written by famed comedian Lewis Black, the production of “One Slight Hitch” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 26, Sept. 1-3, 8-10, and at 2 p.m. Aug. 27-28 and Sept. 4 and 11 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

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• “Steel Magnolias” will be performed through Aug. 20 at the Highlands Playhouse. Tickets are $38 per person, $15 for children up to age 12. For complete show times and ticket information, click on www.highlandsplayhouse.org.

• The Unto These Hills outdoor drama will run at 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday through Aug. 13 at the Mountainside Theater in Cherokee. The acclaimed outdoor drama traces the Cherokee people through the eons, through the zenith of their power, through the heartbreak of the Trail of Tears, finally ending, appropriately, in the present day, where the Cherokee people, much like their newly re-scripted drama, continue to rewrite their place in the world. General admission tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children ages 6-12 and free for children under age 5. Reserved tickets also available.

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Lane presents latest novel John Lane will discuss his latest book, Coyote Settles the South, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Acclaimed writer Ron Rash, author of Serena, says “Lane takes readers into the heart of nature as well as into the nature of the heart, and he writes with wonder, wisdom, and profound attentiveness.”

Coyote Settles the South is about Lane’s journey through the Southeast, as he visits coyote territories, meets and observes those who interact with the animals, and gains insight on the migration of the American coyote, an animal that, in the end, surprises him with its intelligence, resilience, and amazing adaptability.

Lane is a professor of English and environmental studies at Wofford College. He has published several volumes of poetry, essays, and a novel, as well as a selection of his online columns, The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph.

To reserve copies of Coyote Settles the South, call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

• The works of storyteller Donald Davis will be discussed during the next book club meeting at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Canton Public Library. All are welcome to attend.

Refreshments provided. 828.648.2924.

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Know the real pit bull story The Jackson County Public Library and City Lights Bookstore are partnering in a presentation and book signing with Bronwen Dickey at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, at the library in Sylva.

Dickey will discuss her book, Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon, which examines the history and myths of the breed. Hal Herzog, Western Carolina University professor, and author Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, said about Pit Bull, “This is one of best dog books you will ever read. But, it is also about the big stuff — the moral status of animals, the science of nature and nurture, the role of race in our culture…”

To reserve copies of Pit Bull, call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

Kendrick releases first collection Robert Kendrick will be presenting his first collection of poetry, Winter Skin, at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at City Lights Bookstore.

Renowned writer Ron Rash commented, “Kendrick’s poems transport the reader into the deep, dark souls of his narrators, but the elegance of his language gives the poems a rough, hard-earned grace. Winter Skin marks the debut of a very talented poet.”

Kendrick grew up in Illinois and Iowa, but found a home in South Carolina. He now lives in Clemson with his wife and their dogs. His poems appear in The Louisiana Literature, South Carolina Review, Kestrel, The James Dickey Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, The Main Street Rag, and more.

To reserve copies of Winter Skin, call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

I’ll say it: Epstein is the greatest living American essayist ost of us like lists: “The 100 Greatest Novels of the Twentieth Century,” “The Ten Best Movies of All Time,” “The Top Five Barbeque Eateries in North Carolina,” and so on. We peruse such lists, mentally congratulating the choices we approve, shaking our heads over those we don’t, and bemoaning certain personal favorites that never even made the cut.

Were I to comply a list of the 10 greatest living American essayists, I would immediately encounter difficulty. I just looked up one such list online and Writer found that only three of the 10 writers were familiar to me. I write essays, I read them and teach them, but obviously there are too many writers in this genre for me to track.

So I am going out on a limb here when I declare Joseph Epstein the greatest living American essayist.

Since 1974, Epstein has written more than 25 books, most of them collections of essays. He has covered a wide variety of topics: his personal life, the lives and works of dozens of authors, sketches in memoriam of colleagues and friends, social critique. His prose is as graceful as a gull’s flight, his wit abundant on every page, his humor wry.

In his latest collection, Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays (Axios Press, 2016, 608 pages, $24), Epstein delivers well over a hundred essays, all of them between 800 and 900 words. In his “Introduction,” Epstein points out that magazines now want shorter pieces than they did 20 and 30 years ago. With a slightly rueful tone, he writes “Less is not necessarily more, but less is distinctly what is wanted.”

As Epstein notes in the “Introduction,” he composed many of the pieces in Wind Sprints for the Weekly Standard “under the rubric of Casual.” That rubric describes perfectly both the tone and the approach of these essays, addressing as they do matters as varied as cell phones, Chinese food, orchids, profanity, the death of his postman, Fred. Every essay, every paragraph contains the patent Epstein hallmarks: a keen eye for observation, a sympathy for the human condition coupled with an inability to “suffer fools gladly,” wit and humor.

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The best way to experience Epstein is not to read about him, but to read him.

Here is an extract from his essay “HMS Punafor,” in which he blends the words pun and metaphor, and shows us how, as he says, “a really dopey metaphor can light up the sky:”

has shown readers that language truly is a gas, a groove, the first wonder of the world. As for miscommunication, Epstein may be right, but you won’t find that miscommunication in any of his essays.

So Wind Sprints I highly recommend.

If you’re already a fan of Epstein, then you are in for a treasure box of delights. If you’re a newcomer, this book with its short and amusing pieces is the ideal place to shake hands with him.

••• For years in my reading, most recently when revisiting Pat Conroy’s My Reading Life, I have encountered references to Anthony Powell’s 12 novel magnum opus, A Dance to the Music of Time. Daunted by the sheer size of this Alpine project — the novels together run to about 3,000 pages — I resisted attempting the climb, certain that I would either fail or else become so hooked that I would be reading the same author for months on end.

A rereading of parts of the Conroy book with its descriptions of A Dance — Conroy read and discussed parts of the book to a dying friend over the phone — took me to the public library.

Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays by Joseph Epstein.

A Dance is broken into four Axios Press, 2016. 608 pages. movements, that is to say, four volumes, each containing three novels. Volume One had gone missing, and since I assumed, correctly, that I should be “Food is another fine field for punafors. able to read any of the novels individually, ‘The butcher, in giving us this chili recipe,’ someone once said in my presence, ‘didn’t give I began with Volume Two and having completed that, have now gone back to Volume us a bum steer.’ At a restaurant that served One. especially large portions, I heard a novelist I These novels offer a prose style — know say, ‘They certainly don’t spare the horsclean, elegant, sharp — rarely seen these es here,’ to which his companion, quite propdays. Thankfully the first-person protagoerly, rejoined, ‘Let’s hope they do.’ A supernist, a writer named Jenkins, frequently market in my neighborhood ran an ad in the reminds us of the identity of those around local press that announced, ‘We want your him, for the cast of characters numbers in feedback.’ (Would it, if we returned it, give us the hundreds — I keep meaning to print back our money?) A friend not long ago said out an online guide. The social mores of that she ‘could eat salad till the cows come the 1930s — the concern of Volume Two home.’ As a carnivore, I felt called upon to — surprised me as Jenkins recounts many reply that ‘I on the other hand could eat cows divorces and strange love affairs. till the salad comes home.’

Family distractions and work have “Ain’t language a gas, a groove, the very slowed my pace, but I am now nearing the first wonder of the world? No on, surely, is end of the first novel in Volume One. Ora ever likely to develop a more efficient form of pro nobis, dear reader. miscommunication, no way.”

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

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completed by March 2016. The current timeline anticipates releasing a draft plan in spring 2017 and approving a final by the end of that year.

“It’s been a challenging and at times frustrating process,” said Ben Prater, director for the regional Defenders of Wildlife office in Asheville and a member of the stakeholders forum. “I think there are a number of us that are really trying our best to find common ground, and I think a lot of us are starting to recognize and understand other people’s values and points of view.”

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he cadre of groups helping the U.S. Forest Service work toward a new management plan for the Pisgah-Nantahala National Forest recently got a first peek at one of the most controversial aspects of the planning process — the proposals for new wilderness designation.

“This is the first real concrete opportunity we’ve had to see what the Forest Service is thinking,” said Richard Mode of the N.C. Wildlife Federation. “I’m thrilled to have an opportunity to look at them.”

Wilderness has been a hot-button topic since the planning process first took off in 2014, with some groups pushing for tens of thousands of additional acres and others declaring that adding any wilderness at all would harm the forest more than help it.

“We know this is an issue that is probably the most polarizing, difficult issue, and so we wanted to put something out here to start a conversation,” said James Melonas, deputy forest supervisor for North Carolina’s national forests.

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THE PROCESS In fall 2015, the Forest Service released a list of 52 areas it would draw from to eventually develop recommendations for Congressional wilderness designation, with two other areas added later to bring the total to 54. The public was invited to comment and look at the areas on an interactive map, with the Forest Service taking that feedback into account when arriving at this — wilderness evaluations, the next step in the wilderness recommendation process.

The evaluation process required the Forest Service to take each of those areas and describe how it does or doesn’t meet the criteria to be designated as wilderness. For example, wilderness areas should look natural and basically unaltered by man. They should provide opportunity for solitude and primitive recreation like hiking and camping.

The evaluation the Forest Service released this summer includes a separate write-up on each of the areas, discussing those qualifications. Along with the evaluation, the Forest Service released a document outlining some draft alternatives. Basically, the alternatives are different bundles of areas the Forest Service could choose to ask Congress to designate as wilderness. In the draft, there’s an alternative that says no new wilderness at all, one that lists various areas that should be recommended and a couple in the middle.

There is one step yet to go between evalua-

INITIAL FEEDBACK

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Opinions wanted The U.S. Forest Service is seeking input on the wilderness evaluations and draft management alternatives it’s released, looking for feedback that will point out any specific oversight or error to be considered before a formal draft is published.

■ Read the documents. The wilderness inventory, draft alternatives, an interactive map of the areas and background on what wilderness designation means are available at http://bit.ly/1lgmxaI. ■ Consider your feedback. The Forest Service is not looking for opinions on whether people do or don’t like their conclusions. Rather, they’re seeking input as to specific characteristics of specific areas that will help them develop a stronger final document.

■ Submit comments. Comments will be most helpful when received before Oct. 1 and should be sent to NCplanrevision@fs.fed.us with the subject line “Summer building blocks” or mailed to Attn: Plan Revision Team Leader; National Forests in North Carolina; 160 Zillicoa St. Suite A; Asheville, N.C. 28801.

Wilderness is far from being the only issue under consideration for the new management plan. Since the beginning of the year, the Forest Service has released draft planning documents covering a range of topics, with links available at http://bit.ly/1TI6AEz.

tion and recommendation, however. Areas that progress from the evaluation phase will have to be analyzed to show how the wilderness designation would impact recreation, current management, resource condition and other parameters. The Forest Service will base its final recommendations on that analysis.

“We use as much data and information as we have, but ultimately it’s not a hard science,” Melonas explained. “We don’t put this into a computer and it pops out an answer.

There’s a certain amount of judgment that comes into this, and that’s where we want to hear from folks.”

That’s not a request with which the Forest Service is likely to have much trouble.

Throughout the process, a large number of people and groups has been involved, with the diversity of opinion among them rivaling that of the species inhabiting the 1 million acres of forest they’re hoping to protect.

In fact, by last spring opinion had become so heated that the Forest Service wound up slowing down its planning timeline to give divergent groups a chance to come together and talk things out. The result was the Stakeholders Forum for the Nantahala and Pisgah Forest Plan Revision, a 28-member group organized by the nonprofit National Forests Foundation to discuss issues related to the plan and deliver consensus-based recommendations to the Forest Service.

At the beginning of the planning process, the Forest Service had aimed to have a plan

By and large, the divergent groups had good things to say about the Forest Service’s general process, and particularly about the fact that the evaluations — and management alternatives that could result in the information contained in them — are being released now, months ahead of when any kind of formal draft will be issued.

“They’re not behind the curtains doing things,” said David Whitmire, a member of the stakeholders forum and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Council, said of the Forest Service. “They’re being very open about the process.”

“I’m glad that they released these draft alternatives and the wilderness evaluations and gave folks a chance to look at them,” agreed stakeholders forum member Josh Kelly of MountainTrue in Asheville. “I continue to think it’s a good move by the Forest Service to release things early.”

However, the cohesion ends when it comes to opinion on the meat of the documents, and that divide points to the split that’s pervaded the entire planning process. Some groups tend to prioritize management that bolsters game animal populations and are hesitant to endorse any new wilderness, while others believe that wilderness designation is the key to ecological preservation and want as much new acreage designated as possible.

“We’re definitely dissatisfied with the evaluation,” said Hugh Irwin, landscape conservation planner for The Wilderness Society’s Sylva office, which supports increased wilderness. “We feel like it has a lot of mistakes in it and also it doesn’t really follow the planning directive.”

AREAS IN QUESTION For one thing, Irwin believes that several important areas were axed from further consideration as wilderness or downsized significantly.

The Overflow Creek area in Macon County is one of those. Congress made it a Wilderness Study Area in 1984, but a final decision on designation was never made. The Wilderness Society has declared

However, not everyone agrees with those criticisms.

“We trust the Forest Service in their evaluations of these areas,” Mode said.

“They have some awfully good people working on that and if they left an area out it was for cause and we trust that.”

Besides, Mode said, when it comes to wildlife, wilderness designation is of minimal benefit anyway. Federal law limits what can happen in a wilderness area. For instance, no mechanical tools are allowed, making it nearly impossible to manage for the young forest habitat that game wildlife like deer, turkey and grouse need to thrive.

It’s harder to respond to crises like invasive pests and wildfires.

“We feel the land is more unprotected when you set it aside and can’t do work on it,” Whitmire said.

Kelly and Irwin, meanwhile, maintain that wilderness — aside from being valuable from a recreation standpoint — is vital for a world that’s increasingly defined by human intervention. Wilderness provides a control

Created under the Wilderness Act of 1964, wilderness areas require Congressional designation and are intended to be places where “the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”

Certain restrictions apply to wilderness areas. No mechanical or motorized equipment — the definition covers everything from bicycles to chainsaws to automobiles — is allowed. Structures cannot be built, nor can temporary roads. Aircraft cannot be landed.

area of sorts in which people can see what nature does when it’s left to its own devices.

“As a culture we seem to have the desire to control as much of the earth as we can,” Kelly said. “I think that is a dangerous ideology and I think wilderness is a place where people show restraint and humility and respect for nature. I think we need that.”

JUST A STARTING POINT The Forest Service itself isn’t saying there aren’t any mistakes or oversights in the documents. That is why they’re releasing them months and months before any kind of formal document is published.

“We’re hoping to know if we missed something and we’re hoping for folks to share their comments with us,” Aldridge said.

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Get started with birding at The Pisgah Center Build the basics of birding by ear with a beginners’ class offered 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 27, at The Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education.

Participants will learn how to identify common backyard birds by their calls and songs, starting out with a classroom session including listening quizzes before moving outside to put those new skills to the test.

The morning will include some light hiking.

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Different groups involved in the forest plan revision have different takes on the value of wilderness and its place in the emerging forest plan.

The final plan will cover many other issues besides wilderness, and wilderness is not the sole focus of all the groups quoted in this story.

However, generally speaking The Wilderness Society, MountainTrue and Defenders of Wildlife see the value of additional wilderness designations to preserve the natural processes of nature and protect habitat for non-game wildlife species that need older forest habitat. The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Council and the N.C. Wildlife Federation don’t see wilderness designation as valuable to boosting wildlife populations.

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Irwin, meanwhile, believes the Forest Service shouldn’t have gone as far as it did with this latest document release before breaking for public comment.

“The public should have had a chance to comment on the evaluation before they put out alternatives and went forward,” Irwin said. “The Forest Service is saying that they’ll take comments on the evaluation, but putting out the alternatives before the public really had a chance to comment on them is premature.”

Kelly agrees with Irwin’s opinion that the evaluation gets too close to the job of the analysis. The document makes calls that shouldn’t have been made until the analysis stage, he said, weighing conflicts with existing recreation use and management techniques.

However, he said he doesn’t have a problem with the Forest Service’s decision to release its draft alternatives at the same time as the evaluation.

“I’m glad the Forest Service released the draft information if it really is draft,” Kelly said. “That’s the whole point, that they can get feedback and get to a better final product. I don’t have a problem with that unless it’s hardening people’s decision.”

That’s exactly what the document is, Melonas said — a draft.

“Really the spirit of what we’re doing here is to provide our early thinking and our best first shot at this, and we want to hear from folks and work on getting that right,” he said. “That’s why we’re doing it months ahead of when the formal draft comes out.”

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can say at this stage, ‘Well, we’re not going to analyze further,’” Kelly said. “But for the areas that the public are asking for, I think it’s incumbent on the Forest Service to analyze those areas if they have a reasonable amount of wildness.”

The draft alternatives, Kelly said, don’t really reflect the full spectrum of opinion out there — it would behoove the Forest Service to revise them to include an alternative that more fully represents the wishes of the pro-wilderness folks.

Many of the debated areas were excluded at least partially because of impacts from the “sights and sounds” of nearby development — views that include towns and roads, and the roar of motors from area byways, for example. Irwin takes issue with that rationale. Wilderness legislation says that these sights and sounds can’t be “pervasive” but doesn’t stipulate that they have to be nonexistent, he said. And the 1975 Eastern Wilderness Act acknowledges that the standard for solitude will have to be different in the more populated Eastern U.S. than in the West.

Kelly agrees with that criticism and also sees a good deal of inconsistency in how the areas are evaluated.

For example, he said, “The way the trail systems are stated is very inconsistent. In some areas the trail system is seen as a plus for solitude. In some areas it’s seen as a minus.”

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the area a “Mountain Treasure” and pushed for designation, crying out when Overflow was accidently left off the original inventory list released in fall 2015. The Forest Service later added Overflow to the list.

“A number of groups have it as a priority, including The Wilderness Society, but also the Chattooga Conservancy and the Bartram Trail Society,” Irwin said.

However, the Forest Service evaluation decided that “the Overflow Creek area does not have wilderness characteristics across most of its area.” At 3,901 acres, the evaluation reads, it’s too small to really provide solitude and is bisected by a Forest Service road that “adversely affects manageability and opportunities for unconfined recreation.” “Highly developed trail structures and maintained wildlife openings detract from apparent naturalness,” and the sights and sounds of surrounding development impact the area, the evaluation says.

It’s worth noting, said forest planner Michelle Aldridge, that Overflow Creek didn’t get recommended during the Forest Service’s last planning process either.

But that’s not the only spot that Irwin and others in the conservation community feel got the shaft.

The Tusquitee Bald area, for instance, was drastically reduced in area, as was the Mackey Mountain area in the Grandfather Ranger District. The Nantahala Hiking Club had wanted the Wesser Bald area to get recommended, Kelly said, and he feels the area should have made it to the next stage of the planning process due to the fact that there’s not much out there except wildness anyway.

“For areas that no one in the public is asking for and that don’t have wilderness characteristics, I think the Forest Service

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A full weekend of outdoor adventure, cultural exploration and environmental learning will mark the Great Smoky Mountains Association’s upcoming membership weekend Sept. 15-18 in Cherokee.

The weekend will kick off with a volunteer work day to tidy up the Mountain Farm Museum at Oconaluftee Visitor Center on Sept. 15, and the following day a reception will honor those the GSMA recently recognized as the 100 most influential people in the park’s history.

Come Saturday and Sunday, attendees will have their pick of programs, with offerings including a fly fishing seminar at Tuckasegee Fly Shop, medicinal plant walks, museum tours and a variety of hikes — including a 7-mile excursion along Noland Divide with Smokies Superintendent Cassius Cash and Backcountry Specialist Christine Hoyer.

The event is open to GSMA members only, but new members are always welcome with memberships starting at $15. $80, with registration open through Sept. 2. Entries for a lottery to hike with Cash will close Aug. 25. www.smokiesinformation.org/info/annual-membership-weekend.

Mountain Farm Museum at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center.

Mountain Trails Festival A festival celebrating all things trail-related will debut 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, at The Settlement at Thomas Divide in Bryson City.

In addition to food, drinks, music and both a live and silent auction, the Mountain Trails Festival will include a variety of games and demonstrations.

Fly casting, horse shoeing, pack horses and mountain biking will all be displayed, and attendees will get to show off all-important skills in a stick horse race, horse poop bingo and corn hole. A chain saw artist will give a show and an air gun and BB gun range will be open. $25 in advance, $30 at the door; $10 for youth 15 and under. Cost of food and beverage included with ticket price, with additional drinks available for purchase.

Proceeds from the event will go to the Western North Carolina Backcountry Horsemen of America, with donations given to the Southern Off Road Bicycling Association and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.

Contact Amanda at 828.586.3080 or bchofwnc@gmail.com.

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National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway will be offered at 3 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 23, at the Albert Carlton Cashiers Community Library.

Tim Barnwell, an author and photographer originally from Swain County, will present the talk in honor of the National Park System’s centennial year. The afternoon will also include discussion of the mountain peak identifications he completed for his photography-based books Blue Ridge Parkway Vistas and Great Smoky Mountain Vistas. A book signing will follow.

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Time travel is on tap for 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 25, at the Highlands Nature Center, when Jose Santamaria of the Tellus Science Museum will tell the history of the Appalachians from the perspective of geologic time.

The story begins more than 300 million years ago when lush, humid forests thrived in swamps at the western edge of the evolving mountains. The forests eventually transformed into coal deposits, which in turn produced a diversity of plant fossils revealing the environment in which they once flourished.

Santamaria, who was born in Cuba and

grew up in Atlanta, has spent the past 20 years collecting and classifying these specimens.

Free and sponsored by Jennie Stowers and Dick and Anne Goodsell. Part of the

Jose Santamaria will tell the story of how landscapes such as this view of Whiteside Mountain have developed over time. Alyssa Fuller photo Zahner Conservation Lecture Series. www.highlandsbiological.org/foundation or 828.526.2221.

Gather ‘round for conservation The spotlight will shine on Western North Carolina’s natural heritage — and its future — at the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership’s annual Gather ‘Round the Blue Ridge meeting, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at Double Tree Hotel in Asheville.

The gathering will honor the National Parks, N.C. State Parks and the Pisgah National Forest, which are all celebrating centennial years, and feature a keynote talk by Chase Pickering, a fifthgeneration family owner of the Biltmore Estate who has been involved in conservation efforts from an early age. As a board member for Friends of the Smokies and Muddy Sneakers, Pickering focuses on innovative strategies to connect kids with nature. $50, with breakfast and lunch included. Registration opens at 9:30 a.m. and is also available at www.blueridgeheritage.com/partners/2016-gather-round-the-blue-ridge or 828.298.5330.

A celebration of the National Park Service’s creation 100 years ago will be held 10-11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23, atop

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The view from Waterrock Knob.

Waterrock Knob on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Starting off at the Waterrock Knob Visitor Center in Jackson County, the morning will begin with a speaking program immediately followed by an optional hike up the half-mile trail to Waterrock Knob’s 6,293-foot summit.

The event will be hosted by The Conservation Fund and the National Park Service. The organizations are attempting to make the acreage of conserved land in the area even larger with a 5,000-acre purchase in the Plott Balsam Mountains to be eventually passed to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. A variety of other organizations and donors have collaborated in the effort.

Legislation creating the National Park Service was officially signed into law on Aug. 25, 1916.

RSVP by Friday, Aug. 19, to ccooney@conservationfund.org or 703.797.2503.

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Wish the Park Service a happy 100th

Call the plant doctor Any plant-related question is fair game at the Haywood County Plant Clinic, which is open every business day at the Haywood County Extension Center in Waynesville.

Master Gardeners staff the clinic, fielding queries about lawns, vegetables, fertilizers, pest problems and everything in between.

The office is located on 589 Raccoon Road. Stop by or call 828.456.3575.

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It’s fair time in Haywood County The Haywood County Fair is just around the corner — Aug. 23-29 at the Haywood County Fairgrounds — so whether you’re planning to enter a competition or just want to come out for a good time, there’s plenty new this year to know.

■ Kids will learn about North Carolina agriculture through a new farm simulator, to be

running all day Saturday, Aug. 27. They’ll get to ride in the cab of an actual combine, play with the controls and steering wheel, and “harvest” a variety of crops.

■ Poultry exhibits are back on for 2016, following a 2015 fair devoid of fowl due to state regulations resulting from avian flu outbreaks.

Poultry exhibits can be submitted between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23, at the Burley Livestock Barn.

■ Prizes of up to $30 will be awarded to the winners of this year’s honey competition, thanks to a donation from the Haywood Beekeepers Club. Categories include chunk light, chunk dark, extracted light and extracted dark. Exhibits will be received 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 23.

■ The baked goods competition will see several changes this year in an effort to boost participation. Sponsors will be secured to provide prizes, the list of categories will be downsized and the competition will move to the Dogwood Event Center. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

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Kids will get a chance to learn the basics of angling with a fishing day held Saturday, Aug. 20, at Ralph J. Andrews Campground in Glenville.

Rods and bait will be provided for catch-and-release fishing. $5. For ages 5-15 and organized by Jackson County Parks and Recreation. Register through Aug. 19 at Jackson County recreation center, 828.293.3053 or 818.631.2020.

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Locals succeed in Lake Logan races Nearly 1,000 athletes converged on Lake Logan this month, pushing for a finish in challenging half-ironman and triathlon competitions at the 11th annual Lake Logan Multisport Festival.

Coming from all over the Southeast and beyond, athleticism was on full display during the Aug. 6-7 races in Haywood County, but plenty of locals entered the races too. A

couple of them rose to come out on top in the final standings.

■ Sarah Beth Lee, 28, of Waynesville, placed third in the international triathlon with a time of 2:22:21.

■ Rob Stamper, 37, of Cherokee, placed fifth in the sprint triathlon, with a time of 1:15:37. www.gloryhoundevents.com/event/lake -logan-multisport-festival.

Run to beat the heat An evening run in Highlands will provide an outlet for exercise, music and glow sticks.

The Highlands Twilight 5K, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Highlands, will begin at 6 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 20, at Kelsey Hutchinson Park. The undulating course will challenge faster runners but also welcome beginners and walkers. When the race finishes, a concert by Tea 4 Three — Highlands’ own rock band — will take the stage through 10 p.m.

All finishers will get a beer from The Ugly Dog Pub, with under 21s receiving glow sticks.

Awards will be presented. $30 online registration or $35 day of. $10 for children ages 5-9 and free for children under 5 free. The race is part of the Black Bag Race Series and the course is USATF-certified. www.highlandstwilight5k.com.

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Swimmers take off to complete their route through Lake Logan. Joe Shrader photo

From Hwy. 19/23 take Exit 104 towards Lake Junaluska; continue 1/2 mile to Haywood Medical Park on the left.

A whitewater release at Glenville Dam in Jackson County will make for roaring water at High Falls — located along N.C. 107 — on Saturday, Aug. 20.

Experienced kayakers will launch at the base for a wild ride down the West Fork of the Tuckasegee River, making for a good show. But hikers and anglers should take the release into account when planning outings that day.

The upper reaches of the Tuck don’t usually have enough water for whitewater runs except following major rains, but Duke Energy’s agreement for the federal permits Whitewater release. required to run its hydropower Jackson County TDA photo dams dictates that it periodically release water from dams on the upper Tuck and upper Nantahala for paddlers to enjoy.

Swing a wooden bat A wooden bat softball league is forming in Jackson County, with registration open through Aug. 26.

Games will be played Thursday nights at Mark Watson Park in Sylva. Registration is limited to the first eight teams to pay the $375 fee.

Organized by Jackson County Parks and Recreation. Register at the Cullowhee Recreation Center, 828.293.3053.

WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Summer Reading Wrap is from 2-3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17 at the Canton Library. Turn in Summer Reading Challenge Bingo cards; pizza served.

648.2924.

• Summer Reading Finale is at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Waynesville Library. Wet and wild water fun. 356.2512.

• Marianna Black Library (Bryson City) will host a community music jam from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 18. 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.

• The Glenville Historical Museum will have an opening weekend event from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Aug. 19-20 at 4735 Highway 107 North next to Signal Ridge Marina. historicalsocietyglenvillearea@yahoo.com or 743.1658.

• The Great Smoky Mountains Association is set to launch its third album of traditional American music featuring artists of today recreating songs performed by Smoky Mountain residents at the time of the development of a national park. The North Carolina launch event is set for Saturday, Aug. 20, at Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee. The public is invited free of charge to this 3 p.m. launch event, which will immediately follow OVC’s 1 to 3 p.m. Back Porch Old-Time Music Jam, during which area musicians are invited to bring acoustic instrument and join in. www.smokiesinformation.org.

• This year’s Haywood County Fair is from Aug. 23-29 in Waynesville. Livestock judging, animal viewing zoo (Wednesday); Senior Citizens Day and Military Appreciation (Thursday); School Day for fourth graders (Friday); Pumpkin Decorating Contest, Natural Beauty Pageant, Ice-cream eating contest, Tractor Pull and more (Saturday); truck pull, ugly pick-up truck contest, swine show (Sunday). 456.3575. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• An event to welcome Jackson County manager Don Adams is scheduled for 3:30-5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, in the Historic Jackson County Courthouse Library Atrium. Light refreshments will be served.

• Macon County Fair Sept. 14-17. Macon.ces.ncsu.edu.

• Cruise in Maggie Valley event is held from 1-5 p.m. every Sunday at 2771 Soco Road. Vendors: $10 per space. Cruising@MaggieValleyAntiques.com.

• The ceremonial Cherokee bonfires will run from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday through Oct. 1. At Oconaluftee Island Park in Cherokee. The events are free and open to the public. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

• Oconaluftee Indian Village is now opened for the 2016 season through November, located next to the Oconaluftee Visitors Center in Cherokee. The village is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

• Qualla Boundary Historical Society meets at 6:30 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Everyone is welcome.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • One-on-one computer lessons are offered weekly at the Waynesville and Canton branches of the Haywood County Public Library. Lesson slots are available from 10 a.m.-noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Canton and from 3-5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Waynesville Library. Sign up at the front desk of either library or call 356.2507 for the Waynesville Library or 648.2924 for the Canton Library.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

• Hunter Safety courses will be offered by Haywood Community College and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission from 6-9 p.m. on Sept. 19-20, Oct. 17-18 and Nov. 14-15 at HCC’s Campus, Building 3300, Room 3322, in Clyde. Pre-registration required: www.ncwildlife.org.

• R.J. Mitte, co-star of AMC’s “Breaking Bad” and an equality and diversity activist is the featured speaker at Western Carolina University’s New Student Convocation at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 19, in Cullowhee.

227.3017.

• A computer class entitled “Excel I” is at 6 p.m. on Aug. 23 at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

Register: 524.3600 or visit the Reference Desk.

• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will offer an “Intro to Business Finance/ Introduccion a Las Finanzas del Negocio” course from 6-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at the Pigeon Community Development Center in Waynesville. Part of a Hispanic Latino Business Start-Up series. Register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• A computer class entitled “Excel I” is at 6 p.m. on Aug. 23 at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

Register: 524.3600 or visit the Reference Desk.

• The Jackson County Public Library will host a 90minute class on the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint at 5:55 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 24. 586.2016.

• A computer class entitled “Excel II” is at 6 p.m. on Aug. 30 at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

Register: 524.3600 or visit the Reference Desk.

• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a “Business Marketing Essentials/Los Basicos del Mercadeo del Negocio” course from 6-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the Pigeon Community Development Center in Waynesville. Part of a Hispanic Latino Business Start-Up series. Register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • The Haywood County Arts Council’s “Gallery & Gifts” (formerly Gallery 86) is hosting their annual ArtShare exhibit through Aug. 27 in downtown Waynesville. www.haywoodarts.org.

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on Saturday, Aug. 20, in Waynesville. Tickets are $22 per person; proceeds support a local non-profit organization to be decided by the Episcopal Women’s Group.

456.6029.

• Haywood County Tourism Development Authority is now offering smaller, single replicas quilt trail blocks for purchase. A portion of the cost of each block will go to the Friends of the Haywood County Animal Shelter to construct a new, much needed animal shelter. The 16x16 inch blocks will feature either a cat or dog will be available in four background colors — blue, purple, brown, and green. The blocks are priced at $65 each with 85 percent of the proceeds being donated to raise funds to build the new Haywood County Animal Shelter.

944.0761 or stop by 1110 Soco Road in Maggie Valley.

• REACH will be the beneficiary of this year’s “Boots & Bling” event, presented by the Zonta Club of Franklin on Aug. 27. Food, drinks, live music, silent auction and more.

• Rummage sale will be held from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27, at First United Methodist Church of Sylva. Gently used clothing, furniture, household items and more. Proceeds go to the church’s mission work and building fund. 586.2358.

• An Open Door Meal & Sing featuring the Carolina Crossmen is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 31, at First United Methodist Church of Sylva.

586.2358.

• Tickets are on sale for the Haywood Community College Foundation’s Shine & Dine Gala, which is from 6-8:30 p.m. on Sept. 16 at the Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville. Event includes buffet dinner, jazz music by Juan Benavides, student Timbersports demonstration and a silent auction. Sponsorships range from $250-$5,000. Tickets are $75 per person. Sponsorship info: pahardin@haywood.edu or 627.4544. Tickets: 627.4522 or stop by the HCC Foundation Office.

HEALTH MATTERS • Acupuncture clinics for veterans are scheduled for 10 a.m. on Aug. 20 and 7:14 p.m. on Aug. 31 at Blue Ridge Natural Health in Waynesville. First come, first served.

539.0440 or www.blueridgenaturalhealth.com.

• A program on ADD/ADHD (Attention Deficit/Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) will be presented by NAMI Appalachian South at 7 p.m. on Aug. 18 at Memorial United Methodist Church in Franklin. Robert Dobes, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Atlanta, will be the speaker. 369.7385.

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Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: ■ Complete listings of local music scene ■ Regional festivals ■ Art gallery events and openings ■ Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings • An advance directives program will be offered from 14 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. Register: 356.2800 or stop by the center.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • The High Mountain Squares will host their “Vacation Time Dance” from 6:15 to 8:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Macon County Community Building in Franklin.

Richard Smith will be the caller. Western Style Square Dancing, mainstream and plus levels. All skill levels welcomed. 828.342.1560 or www.highmountainsquares.com.

• A Ballroom Dance is scheduled for 8-10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 19, at Angie’s Dance Academy in Clyde. $10. 734.8726.

• Registration is underway for a dodgeball tournament, which is Aug. 20 at the Macon County Parks & Recreation Building. Youth division (ages 8-12) starts at 10 a.m.; Adults (13+) starts at 1 p.m. www.facebook.com/events/994223864027174. Adults: $150 per team; Youth: $125 per team.

• Haywood County Fair BINGO Night is at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 25, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds in Waynesville. Tickets: $20 and include 22 games. All money raised supports the fair. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• Fabulous fit Friday program is at 11 a.m. on Aug. 26 at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

524.3600.

• Sign-ups are underway through Sept. 2 for a church volleyball league that will play on Tuesday nights at the Cullowhee Recreation Center. $175. Sign up at the rec center.

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• PAWS is accepting donations for their upcoming slient aution to be held at their 13th Annual Wine Tasting fundraiser on Sept. 3. pawsbrysoncity@yahoo.com or 488.0418.

• Emotional Intelligence Workshop is at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at the Waynesville Library. Presented

by Dr. Dean Russell, professional business coach.

• Swain County Democratic Party Whittier-Cherokee Precinct meets at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at Birdtown Gym in Cherokee.

• Submissions are being accepted through Sept. 2 for the inaugural Cat Photo Contest, which is a fundraiser for Feline Urgent Rescue. $10 fee per entry. A “Catty Arty Party” will feature the cat photo contest and other items from 5-8 p.m. on Sept. 23.

• A workshop entitled “Emotional Intelligence: Learn to Understand and Control Your Emotions” will be offered at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at the Waynesville Library. Led by Dr. Dean Russell, a professional business coach. Sign-up required: 356.2507. Refreshments provided by Friends of the Library.

• Haywood County Democrat Women will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Democrat Headquarters in Waynesville. Guest speaker is Camille Vin, N.C. Coordinated Campaign director for Haywood County. 452.9607.

• A Dine & Donate to Duke’s Animal Haven fundraiser is scheduled for 5-10 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17, at Zaxby’s in Waynesville. www.dukesanimalhaven.org or 734.0267.

• Holistic Allergy Treatments program is at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, at the Waynesville Library. Led by Naturopath Michelle Sanderbeck. 356.2507.

• The North Jackson County Republican Party meets at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 22, at the headquarters office at 60 West Sylva Shopping Center between Sylva and Dillsboro. 743.6491 or jacksonctygop@yahoo.com.

• A program on treating allergies the natural way is scheduled for 1-2 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, at the Waynesville Library. Presented by Dr. Michelle Sanderbeck of Be Well Western Carolina. 356.2507.

• The South Jackson County Republican Party meets at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at the headquarters office at 71 Commons Drive in Cashiers. 743.6491 or jacksonctygop@yahoo.com.

• A Divine Healing Conference is scheduled for Aug. 2528 in Cherokee. angehern@nc-cherokee.com or 359.6473.

• The Libertarian Party of Haywood County meets on the second Tuesday of each month at Bearwaters Brewing in Waynesville. chair@haywood.lpnc.org.

• A flu shot clinic will be offered from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. Bring insurance cards.

• The first meeting of the Libertarian Party of Macon County will be held at 6 p.m. on Aug. 24 at the Lazy Hiker in Franklin. wmckinney@lpnc.org.

• The Maggie Valley Lions Club will be holding its 8th Annual 4-Person Captain’s Choice Scramble at Maggie Valley Club on Thursday, Aug. 18. The cost is $65.00 per person, which includes coffee and rolls before, Lunch, and a Door Prize worth at least $25.00. All proceeds from this event go to Sight, Hearing and Community programs in and around Maggie Valley.

452.1905 or colf828@hotmail.com.

• Grace Episcopal Church in the Mountains will host its annual Tablescapes Luncheon from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

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• A lunch-and-discussion group will be held by the League of Women Voters at noon on the second Thursday of each month at Tartan Hall of the First Presbyterian Church in Franklin. RSVP for lunch: lwvmacon@wild-dog-mountain.info or 524.8369.

• Highlands Mayor Patrick Taylor has coffee and an open public discussion with Highlands residents from 11 a.m.-noon on the last Friday of each month at Hudson Library in Highlands. www.fontanalib.org or 526.3031.

THE SPIRITUAL SIDE • Mountain Synagogue’s annual Scholar-in-Residence Luncheon to honor the memory of Doctor Judy Greene, spiritual leader and educator, is scheduled for noon on Wednesday, Aug. 17, at the Methodist Church in Highlands. Reservation deadline is Aug. 10. $20 donation. 506.0991 or 526.1816.

• Fines Creek United Methodist Church will celebrate more than 150 years of worship and service to the community with its annual homecoming service at 11 a.m. on Aug. 21. Singing during the worship and after service will be provided by the trio Subject 2 Change.

• A women’s conference entitled “Joy Unspeakable” will be offered for women of all ages from 6-9 p.m. on Aug. 26 and from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. on Aug. 27 at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. Special speaker is WNC native Janice Drum, whose husband Hampton Drum is pastor at Langston Baptist Church in Conway, S.C. RSVP: 648.4106.

• Bishop Richard C. Looney will be the guest preacher for Homecoming at Clyde Central United Methodist Church at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 28. 627.2287.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS

August 17-23, 2016

• The Theme Team Book Club will be presented by the Waynesville Library from 2-4 p.m. on the first Friday of

each month. Pick any book from a chosen them; each participant gets a chance to discuss his/her book.

Sign-up required: 356.2507 or kolsen@haywoodnc.net.

• Canton Book Club meets at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18. Book title and more info: 648.2924.

• Cashiers Favorite Poems Night is at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18, and is organized by Friends of the Cashiers Library. Submissions deadline is Aug. 12.

Forms available at the library.

• The works of storyteller Donald Davis will be discussed during the next book club meeting at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Canton Public Library.

All are welcome to attend. Refreshments provided.

648.2924.

• John Lane will discuss his latest book, Coyote Settles the South, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. To reserve copies of Coyote Settles the South please call City Lights Bookstore at 586.9499.

• Robert Kendrick will be presenting his first collection of poetry, Winter Skin, at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at City Lights Bookstore. To reserve copies of Winter Skin please call City Lights Bookstore at 586.9499.

• Bronwen Dickey will present her book “Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 25, in the Community Room of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Presented by the library (586.2016) and City Lights Bookstore (586.9499).

Aug. 17, at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center.

• A birthday party for all 80+ year-olds will be held from 2-3 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville.

• An iPhone/iPad user group meets from 2-4:30 p.m. on Aug. 30, Sept. 6 and Sept. 20 at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800 or haywoodseniors.org.

KIDS & FAMILIES • The Mountain Youth Talent Contest to be held at the 12th Annual Franklin Area Folk Festival on Aug. 20 at Cowee School, Arts & Heritage Center. All youth ages 518 who perform traditional mountain music, dance, or storytelling are invited to participate in this year’s Mountain Youth Talent Contest. jackson4-h.blogspot.com or 586-4009 or kerri_rayburn@ncsu.edu.

• Summer Reading Pizza Wrap Party is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Aug. 17 at Canton Library. 648.2924 or kpunch@haywoodnc.net.

• Kids Fishing Day for ages 5-15 is scheduled for Aug. 20 through the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department. Catch and release only. $5. Register by Aug. 19: 293.3053, 631.2020 or www.facebook.com/jacksonrecreationandparks.

• A “Jump Back to School” event is scheduled for 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Aug. 20 at Jump Factory in Franklin.

Games, contests and more. Four jumpers win free jumping for a month. JumpFactoryFranklin.com or 349.8888.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES • The Library and Senior Resource Center Book Club meets at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17, at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2507 or kolsen@haywoodnc.net.

• Bingo is scheduled for 10 a.m.-noon on Wednesday,

KIDS MOVIES • A family movie will be shown at 10:30 a.m. every Friday at Hudson Library in Highlands.

• Mad Batter Food & Film (Sylva) will screen “The Angry Birds” (Aug. 19-20). 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Fridays; and 2 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturdays. www.madbatterfoodfilm.com.

• A children’s movie about a Native American young lady, Rated G, will be shown at 1 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 22, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. 524.3600.

• A family movie about fifth-grade outcasts and rivals who become friends will be shown at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. 488.3030.

• A children’s movie about surfing penguins will be shown at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. 524.3600.

• A family movie will be shown 1 p.m. on Mondays during the summer at Jackson County Public Library.

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• Family story time for ages zero to six years old is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. each Tuesday at the Canton Library. 648.2924.

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A&E FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS • The 12th annual Franklin Area Folk Festival “A Celebration of Appalachian Heritage” will be held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Aug. 20 at a new location: The historic Cowee School, Arts & Heritage Center in Franklin. Live heritage demonstrations, Appalachian Crafts, old-time mountain music, Civil War re-enactors and more. www.folkheritageassociation.org and www.coweeschool.org.

• Mountain Trails Festival is Aug. 27. Tickets available at Bryson City Bicycles, which is sponsoring the event. www.brysoncitybicycles.com.

FOOD & DRINK • The next “Way Back When” trout dinner will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, 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. $39.95 per person, plus tax and gratuity. The dinner will also be held Sept. 2 and 16. To RSVP, call 828.926.1401 or 800.868.1401 or www.cataloocheeranch.com.

• ASAP will offer its Local Food Experience from 5:308:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Highland Brewing Company Event Center in Asheville. Tickets: $20; $10 for children 12 and under. Highland beer sold separately. www.asapconnections.org. More than a dozen area farms and partners will serve everything from barbecue to ice cream.

• Boojum Brewing will release three small-batch beers on Friday, Aug. 19, to benefit the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation’s celebration of the National Park Service’s 100-year anniversary. $1 from each pint sold goes to the Foundation. www.boojumbrewing.com.

• Chef Ricardo Fernandez will be hosting a Mountain Cooking Club class from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 20, at the Wildcat Ridge Farm in Clyde.

Reservations at 246.7465 or chefricardos@gmail.com.

• Innovation Brewing will release Black Balsam Porter, named for the area at milepost 420.2 of the Blue Ridge Parkway, on Sunday, Aug. 21, to benefit the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation’s celebration of the National Park Service’s 100-year anniversary. www.innovation-brewing.com.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Music with “Country Memories” is at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18, in the Macon County Public Library Living Room.

• “Steel Magnolias” will be performed through Aug. 20 at the Highlands Playhouse. Tickets are $38 per person, $15 for children up to age 12. For complete show times and ticket information, click on www.highlandsplayhouse.org.

• Arthur Miller’s drama “All My Sons” is on stage at HART in Waynesville. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 18-20 and at 2 p.m. on Aug. 21. Reservations: 456.6322 or www.harttheatre.org.

• Rising country/rock star Joe Lasher Jr. will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the Lazy Hiker. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• Americana/folk act Lorraine Conard & Friends will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. The show will be a fundraiser for the expansion of the Haywood County Public Library. Tickets are $18. www.38main.com.

• Comedian/musician Tim Hawkins will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets start at $32 per person. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• Friends of the Library Concert Series featuring the Coffee Branch Band (country/bluegrass) is at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 21, at the Canton Library.

• The Canton Public Library will host The Coffee Branch Band (bluegrass/country) at 3 p.m. Aug. 21.

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• The 2016-17 Galaxy of Stars Series begins with a performance of “Tarocco: A Soldier’s Tale” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 25, at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Series subscriptions for all six shows

are $100 for WCU faculty and staff; $125 for others. $45 for students and children. www.bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or 227.2479.

• “Don’t Dress For Dinner” opens Aug. 25. It will be presented by Highlands Cashiers Players. http://www.highlandscashiersplayers.org.

• The Bryson City Train Depot concert series will host Larry Barnett & Friends (bluegrass) Aug. 20. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com

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• The production of “One Slight Hitch” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 26, Sept. 1-3, 8-10, and at 2 p.m. Aug. 27-28 and Sept. 4 and 11 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville. For tickets, call 456.6322 or click on www.harttheatre.org.

• A Scarecrow Workshop for making colorful tabletop decorations will be offered by Dogwood Crafters from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17, at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge. $12. Register by Aug. 10: 586.2435 or junettapell@hotmail.com.

• Outlaw country star Jamey Johnson and the inaugural Brew-B-Que will take place on Saturday, Aug. 27, at Harrah’s Cherokee. The Brew-B-Que will be held from noon to 7 p.m. The iconic styles of North Carolina BBQ compete in the ultimate throw down. You can also sample regional craft beers, enjoy local entertainment, and more throughout the day. Johnson will take the stage at 8 p.m. www.harrahscherokee.com.

• A handmade seed embedded gift card class will be offered at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. Register: 356.2800 or stop by the center.

• The Maggie Valley Fairgounds will host “The Highway Legends” at 11 a.m. Aug. 27. The daylong event will feature a musical tribute performance to Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.

Admission is $20 or $25 day-of-show. www.maggievalleyrallys.com or 336.580.1638.

• Tickets are on sale for the CIRQUE du HART fundraiser that will inaugurate the Fangmeyer Theater on Aug. 27 in Waynesville. Featuring the eight-piece band Sirius B and performance by Asheville Aerial Arts. Tickets: $125 each. Includes cuisine. 456.6322.

• International Bluegrass Music Association winner Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out and The Church Sisters will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets start at $20.

866.273.4615 or www.greatmountainmusic.com.

• The “Groovin’ on the Green” concert series will host Julie Gribble (Americana) at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 19 and Rockell Scott (pop/piano) Aug. 26 and Hurricane Creek (rock/blues) Sept. 2. at The Village Green in Cashiers.

All show are free and open to the public. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

• The “Friday Night Live” concert series at the Town Square in Highlands will host Randy Flack (singersongwriter) Aug. 19 and The Johnny Webb Band (country) Aug. 26.. Both shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• The “Saturday’s on the Pine” concert series at Kelsey Hutchinson Park in Highlands will host Grandpa’s Cough Medicine (outlaw bluegrass) Aug. 20 and Porch (funk/rock) Aug. 27. Shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• The “Pickin’ On The Square” (Franklin) concert series will continue with Michael Reno Harrell (singersongwriter) Aug. 20 and Tugelo Holler (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 27. All shows are free and begin at 7:30 p.m. A community jam begins at 6:30 p.m. www.franklinnc.com or 828.524.2516.

• The Jeff Little Trio performs at 6 p.m. on Aug. 20

• Dillsboro’s Summer Arts & Crafts Market is from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20. More than 40 local vendors displaying and demonstrating arts and crafts.

Food includes offerings from Haywood Smokehouse and Dillsboro’s Chocolate Factory. 586.3511 or www.visitdillsboro.org.

• There will be a “Viking Axe Making” blacksmithing course taught by Brock Martin from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Aug. 20-21 at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Class fee is $275, with materials included. For more information of this workshop, the JCGEP, and more, click on www.jcgep.org.

• The Highlands Village Square Art & Craft Show is from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Aug. 20-21 at Highlands (Bryson’s) Plaza on Highway 106. Regional arts, crafts and live music. Sponsored by Macon County Art Association. 787.2021.

• The Highlands Village Square Art & Craft Show is Aug. 20-21 at Highlands Plaza (lower level) on Dillard Road. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. 787.2021.

• There will be a “Raku Beadmaking” workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 25-26 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 27 at Riverwood Pottery in Dillsboro. Cost is $120 per person. 828.586.3601 or www.riverwoodpottery.com.

• The annual Cruso Quilt Show is Aug. 26-27 in Cruso.

• A baked goods competition will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Haywood County Fair in Waynesville. Entries should be delivered between 10:30-11 a.m. on Aug. 27. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• The Qualla Arts & Crafts Open Air Indian Market is scheduled for Aug. 27 in Cherokee. angehern@nccherokee.com or 359.6473.

• Cookin’ the Books program is scheduled for noon on Wednesday, Aug. 31, at the Waynesville Library. Book club focused on cookbooks. 356.2507.

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • Fine art photographer Brian Hannum will be the special guest at the upcoming “Meet the Artist” event from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, at Gallery Zella in Bryson City. Live music, hors d’ouevres, wine, newly unveiled art, and more. $25 per couple.

• Laurey-Faye Dean will be the featured artist with a live demonstration and discussion at “The Potter’s Wheel” series from noon to 5 p.m. Aug. 27 at The Wild Fern in Bryson City.

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• The Nantahala Outdoor Center (Bryson City) will host Heidi Holton (blues/folk) Aug. 19, The Pioneer Chicken Stand Band (folk/rock) Aug. 20 and Brushfire Stankgrass (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 26. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.noc.com.

• Local artist and crafter Junetta Pell will be teaching a Chair Seat Weaving and Caning class from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 18-19 at the Jackson County Extension Office in Sylva. Learn how to weave the diagonal/herringbone pattern using flat reed or cane.

Please call the Extension Office at 586.4009 to register and for supply list.

August 17-23, 2016

OUTDOOR MUSIC • The 7th annual “Concerts on the Creek” series will host Porch 40 (rock/funk) at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 19 and a surprise band on Aug. 26, and Erica Nicole (country) Sept. 2.at the Bridge Park Pavilion in Sylva. Concerts are free, with donations accepted. www.mountainlovers.com or 586.2155.

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• Liz and AJ Nance will perform acoustic music at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 25, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. It’s the conclusion of the Summer Music Series. 488.3030.

and Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen on Aug. 27 at Stecoah Valley Center as part of the Appalachian Evening series. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com/performance.html.

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• A touring exhibition of work by artist Wendy Maruyama is on display at the Penland Gallery in Penland. www.penland.org.

• Acrylic paintings by 94-year-old Denise McCullough and photographs by Helen Geltman are on display through August at the Canton Library’s Visual Arts Exhibit. www.haywoodarts.org.

• The “Photography of Bayard Wootten” exhibit is on display through Nov. 23 in the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.

• An exhibition entitled “This is a Photograph: Exploring Contemporary Applications of Photographic Chemistry” is on display at Penland School of Crafts near Spruce Pine. 765.6211 or penland.org/gallery.

• New artist and medium will be featured every month at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

FILM & SCREEN • Mad Batter Food & Film (Sylva) will screen “Animal House” (Aug. 18) at 7:30 p.m. www.madbatterfoodfilm.com.

• Adult movie time, 6:30 p.m. Mondays at Jackson County Public Library. Call for title of movie. 586.2016.

Outdoors August 17-23, 2016

• A bird walk along the greenway is scheduled for 8 a.m. on Aug. 17 in Franklin. Meet at Salali Lane.

Sponsored by Franklin Bird Club. Franklinbirdclub.com or 524.5234.

• The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership’s annual “Gather ‘Round the Blue Ridge” Meeting is set for 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18, at Double Tree Hotel in Asheville. The gathering honors the National Parks, N.C. State Parks and the Pisgah National Forest. $50; breakfast and lunch included. www.blueridgeheritage.com/partners/2016-Gather-Round-the-BlueRidge or 298.5330.

• The National Rifle Association meets Aug. 20 in Cherokee. 359.6473 or angehern@nc-cherokee.com.

• Poultry exhibits will be accepted at the Haywood County Fair from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Aug. 23 at the Haywood County Fairgrounds in Waynesville. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• Regional author and photographer Tim Barnwell will speak about the history of the Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National Park at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at the Albert Carlton Library in Cashiers. 743.0215.

• A Hunter Education Course will be offered for all ages from 6-9 p.m. on Aug. 23-24 at Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/EducationCenters/Pi sgah/EventRegistration.aspx.

• The Sylva Pool will be in operation through August 21. 586.3565 or 631.2022.

• A whitewater release is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 20, at Glenville Dam in Jackson County. Roaring water at High Falls; experienced kayakers will launch at the base for a wild ride. Hikers and anglers should take the release into account when planning outings.

• A Zahner Lecture on “Ancient Plants: How They Continue to Impact the World” is scheduled for 6:307:30 p.m. on Aug. 25 at the Highlands Biological Station. $3 per person. www.highlandsbiological.org.

• A “Leader Building” program will be offered to ages 12-up from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Aug. 26 at Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/EducationCenters/Pi sgah/EventRegistration.aspx.

• A “Casting for Beginners: Level II” course will be offered for ages 12-up from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Aug. 19 at Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard.

Registration required: http://www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/EducationCenters/Pi sgah/EventRegistration.aspx.

• A Zahner Lecture on “Ancient Plants: How They Continue to Impact the World” will be presented by Jose Santamaria, director of Tellus Science Museum, at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 26 at the Highlands Nature Center in Highlands. www.highlandsbiological.org/foundation or 526.2221.

• Highlands Plateau Greenway will conduct monthly workday on the trail from 9 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Aug. 20. highlandsgreenway@nctv.com or 482.1451.

• A festival celebrating all things trail-related will debut 4-9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, at The Settlement at Thomas Divide in Bryson City. Food, drinks, music, silent and live auctions, games and demonstrations. $25 in advance; $30 at the door; $10 for youth 15 and under. Food and beverage included. 586.3080 or bchofwnc@gmail.com.

• A KOA Mid-Fall Fishing Tournament is scheduled for Aug. 20 in Cherokee. 359.6473 or angehern@nc-cherokee.com.

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• A Kebari (Japanese fly-tying) program is scheduled for 8 a.m.-noon on Aug. 27 for ages 14-up at Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/EducationCenters/Pi sgah/EventRegistration.aspx • A “Backyard Birding By Ear: For Beginners” program will be offered from 9 a.m.-noon on Aug. 27 for ages 14-up at Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/EducationCenters/Pi sgah/EventRegistration.aspx • A Turtle Conservation program will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 at Hudson Library in Highlands following a mixer at 7 p.m. Highlands Plateau Audubon Society president Russ Regnery will lead the conversation.

• An Introduction to Fly Fishing: Lake Fishing program will be offered from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on Aug. 30 for ages 12-up at Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/EducationCenters/Pi sgah/EventRegistration.aspx.

• A bird walk along the greenway is scheduled for 8 a.m. on Aug. 31 in Franklin. Meet at Salali Lane.

Sponsored by Franklin Bird Club. Franklinbirdclub.com or 524.5234.

• A bird walk along the greenway is scheduled for 8 a.m. on Aug. 31 in Franklin. Meet at Big Bear Shelter parking area. Sponsored by Franklin Bird Club.

Franklinbirdclub.com or 524.5234.

FARM AND GARDEN • Tale of Two Tomatoes program will be presented at noon on Monday, Aug. 29, at the Waynesville Library.

Tomato tasting and potluck. Sign up: 356.2507.

FARMERS MARKET • A community tailgate market for local growers is open from 3-7 p.m. every Wednesday at The Village Green Commons in Cashiers. 734.3434, • Haywood Historic Farmers Market is held from 8 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the parking lot of HART Theatre in Waynesville. 280.1381 or haywoodfarmersmarket@gmail.com or waynesvillefarmersmarket.com • The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 171 Legion Drive in Waynesville (behind Bogart’s). 456.1830 or vrogers12@att.net.

• The Jackson County Farmers Market will be on Saturdays from 9 a.m.-noon at Bridge Park located in Sylva. Info: 393.5236.

• The ‘Whee Farmer’s Market is open from 4 p.m. to dusk 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.

• Franklin Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.-noon every Saturday at 203 E. Palmer Street in Franklin. Info: collins230@frontier.com.

• The Cashiers Tailgate market is open from 1 p.m.- 5 p.m. on Wednesdays at the United Community Bank on N.C. 107 South. 226.9988 or blueridgefarmers@gmail.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.

• Cowee Farmers Market is open from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays starting May 24 at Old Cowee School located at 51 Cowee School Drive. ediescookies@mail.com or www.coweefarmersmarket.com • Swain County Farmers Market will be open from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Fridays through Oct. at the barn on Island Street in Bryson City. 488.3848 or Christine_bredenkamp@ncsu.edu.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • The Highlands Twilight 5K, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Highlands, is set for 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20, at Kelsey Hutchinson Park. Following the race, Tea 4 Three (rock) will perform. $30 online registration or $35 on race day. $10 for kids 5-9; free for children under five. Part of the Black Bag Race Series. www.highlandstwilight5k.com.

• The Path to the Breakaway, a group for women 18 and older, meets regularly in preparation for the Blue Ridge Breakaway on Saturday, Aug. 20. Offered by BicycleHaywoodNC. www.blueridgebreakaway.com or bobclarklaw@gmail.com.

• The seventh annual Blue Ridge Breakaway cycling event, featuring a variety of routes for riders of all skill levels, is Aug. 20. www.LakeJunaluska.com/breakaway, 800.222.4930 or 456.3021. Presented by Haywood Regional Medical Center: A Duke Lifepoint Hospital.

• A “Couch to 5K” program is held at 6 p.m. every Thursday to help prepare runners for their first 5K (3.1mile) race: the Power of Pink 5K on Sept. 24. 452.8080 or www.MyHaywoodRegional.com/c25K.

HIKING CLUBS • Carolina Mountain Club will have a nine-mile hike with a 1,700-foot elevation gain on Aug. 17 from Mount Pisgah to Beaver Dam Overlook. For info and reservations, contact leader Bruce Bente at 692.0116, 699.6296 or bbente@bellsouth.net.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take an eight-mile, moderate-to-strenuous hike on Saturday, Aug. 20, from Devil’s Courthouse on the Blue Ridge Parkway to Sam Knob. Elevation change of 1,300 feet. Reservations and info: 524.5298.

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ESTATE SALE - FRANKLIN NC For info and photos of items: http://estatesales.org/s/914851 3761 Bryson City Road, 8/25 1pm - 6pm; 8/26 9am 6pm; 8/27 9am - 1pm.

Furniture, Large & Small Appliances, Shop Tools, Collectible Pocket Knives, Belt Buckles, Vintage Glassware, Horse Drawn Equipment and Much More!

I AM TRYING TO GET IN CONTACT With Denise Kelly, Lived in the town of Commerce and went to High School there, Mother’s name was Betty. Please contact Donnie Daniel with any info, 706.335.6496

Classified Advertising: Scott Collier, phone 828.452.4251; fax 828.452.3585 classads@smokymountainnews.com

SHADY GROVE UMC PRESENTS Christmas in August - Craft Fair & Bake Sale. Aug. 27. Handcrafted gifts, Christmas ornaments, carved bears, lots homemade goodies, pickles, jams & jellies; jewelry, etc. Light lunch 11 - 1pm 3570 Jonathan Valley Rd. (Hwy 276), Waynesville, NC.

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TRUCKLOAD MATTRESS SALE 50-80% Off Retail, ALL NEW & NC MADE, Financing & Delivery Available.

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LAND AUCTION 160+/-ACRES, With Three DUCK IMPOUNDMENTS, Hyde County, Abundant Bear, Deer & Turkey, Private Land located inside Wildlife Refuge, OnLine Bidding ENDS August 11. www.HouseAuctionCompany.com 252.729.1162 NCAL#7889

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REAL ESTATE AUCTION. Aug. 17, 2 PM. 25,742+/- SF office building on 3.92+/- ac. located 3 blocks from downtown Burlington and Amtrak. The building, constructed in 1942, has been renovated. Two outparcels for potential development. Approximately 50% leased for annual income of $88,500. Property is one block from Rt. 87 and 3 mi. from I-40/85. Will be sold for highest bid over $525,000. Inspections: Wed., Aug. 3 and 10, Noon - 2 PM. Address: 236 N. Mebane St, Burlington, NC 27217. 5% buyer's premium added to high bid. For information, contact Woltz & Associates, Inc. (NC #7560) Real Estate Brokers & Auctioneers, 800.551.3588, or visit www.woltz.com PUBLIC AUCTION Saturday, August 20, 10am 201 S. Central Ave. Locust, NC Tax Seizures & bank Repo, Harley Motorcycle, Cars, Pick-ups, Mowers, Guns Jet Skis, Auto Repair Shop Equipment, Tools, more. See Website.

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EMPLOYMENT B.H. GRANING LANDSCAPES, INC Now hiring for the position of crew member - the grass is growing and so is our business come join our team. Full-time year round work, competitive wages, good work environment.

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EMPLOYMENT ADVERTISE YOUR Job Opening, Event, Items For Sale, Auction etc. in this newspaper plus 100 other newspapers across the state for only $375. For more information, contact the classified department of this newspaper or call NCPS 919.516.8018, email: ads@ncpress.com HIGH-TECH CAREER With U.S. Navy. Elite tech training w/great pay, benefits, vacation, $ for school. HS grads ages 17-34.

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FURNITURE COMPARE QUALITY & PRICE Shop Tupelo’s, 828.926.8778.

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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 BORING/CARPENTER BEE TRAPS No Chemicals, Poisons or Anything to Harm the Environment.

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PUBLISHER’S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18 This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All dwellings advertised on an equal opportunity basis.

3.5 ACRES ON THE SOUTH’S Best Trout Fishing River. $14,900!

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LAND AUCTION 160+/-ACRES, with Three DUCK IMPOUNDMENTS, Hyde County, Abundant Bear, Deer & Turkey, Private Land located inside Wildlife Refuge, OnLine Bidding ENDS August 11. www.HouseAuctionCompany.com 252.729.1162 NCAL#7889

BRUCE MCGOVERN A Full Service Realtor, Locally Owned and Operated mcgovernpropertymgt@gmail.com McGovern Property Management 828.283.2112.

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FOR SALE: Women’s Clothing in Sizes Large and XL. Lots of Sheets & Pillow Cases. Call for more information 828.550.3763

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25Cultural values 89Magazine devoted to 26Film’s name, e.g. razor sharpeners?

27Actress Wray 94Weather map line 28Winning tic-tac-toe 98‘80s sitcom line 99Name of 13 popes 29Sans — (carefree) 100Broad valley 30Ancient Aegean region 101Thorough way to 31Jazz band’s job steal someone’s milk 32Lowers a lady again shake? while tangoing?

105Hostile dog 35Yule libations 106Clingy wrap 36Election winners 107Like wet weather 37Took a load off 108Bruins’ Bobby 38Alarm clocks, when 109Lass going off 110Months before Octs.

39Fashions articles out 111Make amends (for) of yarn incessantly?

112What makes thin 45Osaka cash sheets stick together?

46Partner of parks, 117Calculus pioneer briefly Leonhard 47City grid: Abbr.

118Reciprocal 48Sac fly stat 119German 49“Of course, amigo!” 120Lechers’ looks 53Spicy Korean cabbage 121Get garbed 55Data about unstimu- 122Devours greedily lating java?

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5Missouri city 6Film critic James 7Strong java 8Home aquarium inhabitant 9Comply with 10Make a hole 11Self-love 12Endured 13“Ditto” 14Fable figure 15Saint-Saens cello piece 16Won back 17Bury 18Nissan Leaf, for one 19Ingredients in plastics 24Witch 30Like pen smudges 31Small Italian dumplings 32Fans’ shouts 33Ordinal ending 34Fin. neighbor 36Bit of news 37P.D. rank 40Mumbai Mr. 41Hoops Hall of Famer — Thomas 42Poet’s “before” 43“Castle” airer 44By way of 49Bully’s retort 50Twenty: Prefix 51Houston baseball team, briefly 52“— a Letter to My Love” (1981 drama) 53Krispy — (doughnut shops) 54Boiling 55Slicer site 56Store suffix with “two”

57Extra charge 58Replay mode 59Bone of the lower leg 60— -garde 62Chinwags 63“Smarter planet” co.

66Pa 67Financial paper, briefly 68“— then ...”

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96Yankee rival 97Pennant 102Nick of films 103Like comics 104Knight wear 105GoPro, e.g.

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Furniture, Large & Small Appliances, Shop Tools, Collectible Pocket Knives, Belt Buckles, Vintage Glassware, Horse Drawn Equipment and Much More!

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Sullivan’s Isle, SC as a Category 4 storm.

Before daybreak the 100-plus mph winds had wiped out half of Francis Marion’s RCWO population and destroyed 90 percent of the cavity trees in the forest.

This was catastrophic because it generally takes RCWOs between one and three years to create a nesting cavity. Biologists knew there was no way the population could recover on its own.

But there was a silver lining. Researchers had been studying the use of man-made cavities as a means of enhancing RCWO populations. Though there had been no largescale trials of the protocol, researchers began installing the artificial cavities across the forest. The woodpeckers responded positively. Today, the Francis Marion population of RCWOs is once again naturally increasing and numbers exceed pre-Hugo levels and the protocol of using artificial cavities is helping to expand the population.

According to Jestin Clark, biologist at Francis Marion, the Forest Service and partners are currently reintroducing RCWOs to the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto (ACE) Basin in coastal South Carolina. More than 10 pairs of birds have been relocated to the ACE Basin.

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist.

He can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.)

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August 17-23, 2016

he red-cockaded woodpecker (RCWO) is a small – cardinal-sized – woodpecker native to eastern pine forests. It once ranged from New Jersey southward to Florida and westward to eastern Texas and portions of Oklahoma and Missouri. The RCWO is dependant upon old growth pine forests, especially longleaf pine.

Early European settlers saw the great forests of eastern North America first as an impediment to settlement and shortly thereafter as a resource and began to methodically clear those forests. The Industrial Revolution of the mid-1800s, with its steamgenerated power and locomotives to move logs to mill and market, increased the rate of deforestation across the East, greatly reducing RCWO habitat.

Even as the timber industry (in the early 1900s) began to come around to Gifford Pinchot’s idea of a “conservation ethic,” the RCWO still found itself the odd man out.

While forestry had certainly changed for the better with a more sustainable outlook, profitability and the perception of forests as simply commodities still reigned supreme.

The devil-in-the-details is a fungus known as Phellinus pini. This fungus leads to a disease known as red-heart disease in southern pines. From a timbering standpoint red-heart does not become an issue until pines reach a ripe old age — around 75 to 80-plus years. The solution for foresters is pretty straightforward and simple — harvest pines on a rotational basis before they reach that 80-year mark.

However, for the RCWO that is still a death knell. What foresters and the timber industry perceive as a devastating disease, Ma Nature sees as simply another niche.

RCWOs are the only woodpeckers to make their nesting cavities in living trees. There is a caveat — they primarily nest in old growth pines (particularly longleaf pines) infected with red-heart disease, which softens the heartwood making cavity construction possible. The elimination of red-heart and/or pines with red-heart means the elimination of the RCWO. The RCWO graced the eastern forests along with the passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet and the ivory-billed woodpecker and prior to being listed as Federally Endangered in October 1970, this small woodpecker was poised to follow its avian compatriots into the abyss of extinction.

The listing afforded the RCWO some protection, gave it some breathing room and protected small remnant populations across the Southeast.

Francis Marion National Forest in the coastal plain of South Carolina was one of the strongholds for the endangered RCWO.

By the mid-1980s, Francis Marion was home to the second largest and densest population of RCWOs in the country. The Francis Marion birds were also, at the time, the only naturally increasing population of RCWOs in the U.S. Then around midnight on Sept.

22, 1989, Hurricane Hugo bowled into

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Smoky Mountain News August 17-23, 2016