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CONTENTS On the Cover: Even though new WCU Chancellor Kelli Brown did not take the traditional route to the upper echelons of academia, she believes her journey was preparing her for this opportunity at this moment. (Page 6) WCU photo

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Cullowhee Dam removal decision could take years WCU to make interim repairs while additional studies are conducted

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER t’s been two years since discussions began about the possibility of removing the Cullowhee Dam, and it could take years more to complete the additional studies needed to make a decision about removal and to raise the funds necessary to actually do it.

But the dam might not have years of life left in its present condition.

“We think the horizon is far enough out that we are going to go ahead and conduct some remedial repairs to the dam that we think are the most pressing,” Mike Byers, vice chancellor for administration and finance for dam owner Western Carolina University, said at a Tuckaseigee Water and Sewer Authority meeting July 16.

While WCU owns the dam, both WCU and TWSA have water intake structures in the pool the dam creates. A grant-funded study is currently underway to look at the feasibility of merging the two water systems, which could then result in a decision to replace the two intake structures above the dam with a single structure.

A 2017 study assessing the aging dam’s condition revealed multiple structural issues, including an undercut beneath the dam that could eventually result in a portion of the dam sliding or turning over, and erosion at the right wall that could eventually cause the slope and a portion of Wayehutta Road to wash away. Similarly, a 2005 study found that the dam showed evidence of “severe deterioration” and that its failure would pose “a significant threat to life safety” and a “significant economic and operational loss” to WCU. The 2017 study said that repairing the dam to address safety and maintenance concerns would cost about $900,000, with Byers at the time saying WCU would spread the repairs over two to four fiscal years so as to fund them from its existing repair and renovation fund. However, when the nonprofit American Rivers approached WCU wishing

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to examine the removal option more closely, the university said it would be willing to put a pause on the repairs while removal was investigated. The study had estimated the cost of removal at $5 to $7 million.

American Rivers published its study exploring the removal option in March.

While the study, conducted by Ashevillebased McGill Associates, concludes that there is enough water in the Tuckasegee River to supply WCU’s and TWSA’s water systems without the pool created by the dam, and that removing the dam would prove beneficial to the environment and community, comments from WCU and TWSA attached to the document questioned those findings.

“We all recognize that the current report is limited in scope,” TWSA and WCU wrote in a joint letter attached to American Rivers’ final report. “Because of this limited scope of

A 2017 study assessing the aging dam’s condition revealed multiple structural issues, including an undercut beneath the dam that could eventually result in a portion of the dam sliding or turning over. work, it contains assumptions and outcomes identified as likely that must be validated. It is understood that confirmation of these will require substantial follow-up advanced planning efforts with a significantly expanded scope of work.”

In a July 23 meeting that included elected leaders from Jackson County and all the municipalities within it, TWSA Executive Director Dan Harbaugh said that it will take at least two years to get all the questions answered and nail down funding, should WCU and TWSA decide to pursue dam removal.

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The Cullowhee Dam creates a pool from which both the TWSA and WCU water systems draw. File photo end,” Harbaug said. “It’s really at its second beginning, I guess I would classify it. We now have enough information to know what additional questions need to be asked.”

WCU and TWSA say more information is needed as to what impact the dam removal might have on the availability of water for their customers, on the ecosystem and on community benefits. Right now, Harbaugh said during the July 16 TWSA meeting, TWSA is taking the lead to determine what regulatory requirements would apply should the dam be removed, and American Rivers is reaching out to faculty at WCU who might be able to complete some of the additional studies needed, such as gauging the stream at the location in question and examining the basin to determine what that part of the river might eventually look like were the dam removed.

“Once the dam comes out it can’t go back

in,” Harbaugh said July 23. “We can only make this decision one time.”

In the meantime, WCU is pondering what it should do to ensure that the dam remains stable while these decisions are made.

“We’ll buy however much time we need to look at this the right way,” Byers said July 16.

WCU is still assessing which interim repairs it should complete and how much those repairs might cost. It’s possible, Byers said in an email, that the university will end up needing to do very little to ensure the dam’s stability for the next couple years.

“I made that statement at TWSA because I can see that the consideration over the future of the dam will take years, not months,” he wrote. “So, WCU needs to ensure that the dam continues to provide the reliable pool of water for the campus and the region during that time.”

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motes accountability,” Morgan said. “You have shown light on the fact that there were procedures that needed to be installed and we fully intend to do that. We’re not functioning as a board until they are in place.”

As a consequence of that scrutiny, Shining Rock has cancelled its previously scheduled Aug. 21 regular board meeting and also decided to suspend all other board meetings — except in case of absolute necessity or emergency — until after a Sept. 15 retreat in which the proper functions of a public body’s governing board will be discussed.

“That is agenda item number one, because it has to be right,” Morgan said.

“There’s no need to do business before we get into that, but that’s agenda item number one, is get this training to our board to, to our stakeholders, because it has to be right.”

Hostettler admitted the school had made some errors, among them not taking accurate meeting notes.

“That’s why we’ve taken the step that we’ve taken over the past couple of weeks,” said Morgan. “We’ve suspended what we do as a board until we are properly trained on this topic, open meetings and how that needs to work and how that disclosure of scheduling needs to work and how committee meetings need to work.”

A public records request filed by SMN on Aug. 7 asked for meeting minutes and financial documents related to the building project, as well as the particulars of Hostettler’s compensation agreement.

That request was acknowledged on Aug. 12 with the caveat that no documents would be produced until fees were paid for their production, despite state statute prohibiting such fees in almost all instances of public record production.

SMN requested a copy of the board’s document production policy as well as a fee schedule, but like the documents themselves, that still hasn’t been delivered as of press time on Aug. 20.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER hining Rock Classical Academy has a history of transparency problems, but after an Aug. 19 meeting with representatives of local media, it looks like the taxpayer-funded school’s unelected board is y finally going to do something about it.

“It’s just, I think, honestly just time for a t little bit of a reset on some things to be quite s honest,” said Shining Rock Head of School Joshua Morgan.

Morgan was speaking in an on-therecord meeting with Smoky Mountain News m Publisher Scott McLeod, Mountaineer h Publisher Jonathan Key and Mountaineer s Editor Vicki Hyatt. Shining Rock’s attorney d David Hostettler was also present, as was e North Carolina Press Association attorney Mike Tadych via FaceTime. Shining Rock e School Board Chairman Michelle Haynes e was also present. t Shining Rock has faced withering public criticism after stories from both outlets e detailed a laundry list of improper board e procedures – from holding illegal meetings, violating public notice requirements and abusing closed-session statutes to ignoring interview requests, stonewalling public records requests and threatening to charge for public records in violation of state law.

The school — and some of its supporters — have called the presentation of these facts examples of “media bias,” as well as the reporting of the school’s poor academic performance scores and revolving door in the head of school position.

The most recent of those stories involves a communications policy that didn’t meet Shining Rock’s own board policies and an illfated building project that came after absolutely no public mention in any prior meeting, but violations at the school go back to before it even opened its doors to students in 2015.

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Leading Catamount Nation WCU’s new chancellor discusses her path to Cullowhee and vision for the university

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER estern Carolina University’s newest chancellor is fairly certain that, of the teachers and students she knew years ago while pursuing her undergraduate degree, none would have guessed that she’d one day end up leading a thriving campus of 11,000 students.

Like the university itself, Kelli Brown’s educational journey got off to a humble start.

Her first post-secondary pursuit was an associate’s degree in dental hygiene, a program that landed her a job at a dentist’s office in Toledo, Ohio.

“It’s an unusual background I think, in many ways,” she said during an interview in her new fifth-floor office overlooking campus and the mountains beyond.

Brown, who now holds a Ph.D. in education, didn’t set out in search of a career in academia. Rather, the career found her, thanks to a series of bosses and teachers who believed in her and pushed her toward the next step, then the next, and the next. First it was night school classes toward her bachelor’s degree, which she took while working full-time. Then it was a faculty member who recommended she go for a master’s degree, offering her the chance for an assistantship. And then the pivotal moment, when the dentists she worked for proved more than willing to adjust her work schedule in support of her academic aspirations.

“They said, ‘You can work part-time. We want you to get your master’s degree,’” said Brown. “That’s an example, I think, of the kinds of nudging and support and nurturing that we provide here at Western — when someone says, ‘We can make this work, and we’re going to open up this door for you.’ If they had said no, I’ll tell you, I have no idea where I’d be today.”

Today, and since July 1, Brown is the 12th permanent chancellor of WCU and the first female to hold the title at Western, a university of more than 11,000 students that offers 40-plus graduate degrees and certificates and is rated in the top five nationally for undergraduate research. But, like Brown’s, WCU’s story started off simply. It began in 1888 when a group of families in the Cullowhee Valley banded together to create a school for their children. The teacher they hired, Robert Lee Madison, had a vision — to train competent teachers for rural classrooms. He obtained state funding to support a teacher training department at Cullowhee Academy, and by 1918 the institution was offering a sixyear program that culminated with a junior college degree.

In 1925, the school became a junior college teacher training institution called the Cullowhee State Normal School, and in 1929 it was renamed yet again to Western Carolina Teachers College, reflecting its new status as a 6 four-year college offering additional majors.

Chancellor Kelli Brown, pictured in her new office at Western Carolina University, has been on the job since July 1.

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The school continued to grow, with enrollment reaching 610 by 1950. It changed it’s name to Western Carolina College in 1953 and Western Carolina University in 1967, adding programs and growing enrollment all along.

That history has shaped WCU’s focus on small class sizes and outreach to students who come from rural areas and might be the first in their families to attend to college. The idea of seeing and nurturing potential in places you might not expect to find it appeals to Brown, whose husband of 30 years, Dennis, is himself a first-generation college graduate.

“My guess is looking back, nobody ever thought in that undergraduate bachelor’s program I was in, taking classes at night, that I would someday be chancellor of a university. I’m 100 percent certain of that,” said Brown. “You can never assume anything about the folks you have in your classrooms, because they all have potential.”

‘I NEVER TURNED BACK’ That master’s program changed Brown’s life in more ways than one. The experience showed her that she was meant to be a teacher. The only problem was that she lacked the Ph.D. necessary to teach at the college level, so she got one — a doctorate in education from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

“Ever since then, I have never turned back,” said Brown, who is now 60. “I have loved every minute of it.”

She secured her first teaching position at Western Illinois University, where she worked from 1987 to 1994. Again, her pursuit of a higher goal stemmed from the encouragement she received from those around her.

“From there I had folks again who kind of tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘We think you have some leadership abilities,’” said Brown.

Brown rose through the ranks at WIU to become the graduate program coordinator in the Department of Health Sciences and ultimately assistant to the dean in the College of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.

She then chaired the Department of Health Sciences at Illinois State University, where she worked two years before joining the faculty at University of South Florida’s College of Public Health in 1996.

From there, Brown took on a series of increasingly responsible leadership roles. She was the interim dean of USF’s graduate school from 2003 to 2006 and then went to the University of Florida, where she was the associate dean for academic affairs from 2007 to 2012 and interim dean and professor for the College of Health and Human Performance from 2012 to 2013.

In 2013, Brown joined Georgia College as

a professor in the School of Health and Human Services and — but for a six-month stint as interim president at Valdosta State University from July 2016 to January 2017 — remained there until leaving to take the job at WCU. By the time she left, she was serving as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, with achievements including revitalizing a Center for Student Success, centralizing academic advising and increasing the four-year graduation rate by 25 percent.

In late fall 2018, Brown said, she was notified that somebody had nominated her for consideration as WCU’s next chancellor. She was “quite flattered” by the nomination and submitted her application in January.

“I knew a lot about Western, because Western just has such a great reputation,” she said. “They are known to be solid faculty, great teaching innovators, very well-known in the undergraduate research world.”

The more she started looking into Western, the more it looked like a place where she wanted to be. The students who go there, she said, truly want to be there. They feel like it’s home, and they have faculty and staff to nurture them along the way. Hard numbers underscore the anecdotal evidence — Western’s graduation and retention rates exceed national averages.

All of that led up to Brown’s first day of work in Cullowhee on July 1. She and her hus-

ore than 300 people crowded Innovation Station in Dillsboro on Monday, Aug. 19, to sip a beer and shake hands with WCU’s new chancellor, Kelli Brown, who holds a Ph.D. in education.

The mass of purple and gold included elected officials; county and town employees; and staff, faculty, students and alumni from Western; and a variety of community members. About halfway through the two-hour event, Brown took to the podium to deliver a few remarks, but she kept her speech to less than 10 minutes.

“I think it’s important that I spend time hearing from you rather than talking to you,” she said. “This event, as well as others on my calendar, is important to help me get to know people like yourselves, the Catamount family. I am here to listen and to learn.”

Brown began her speech with a tribute to the previous chancellor, David O. Belcher, who passed away in 2018 following a twoyear battle with brain cancer.

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lowing the more-than-successful wrap-up of its Lead the Way Campaign, an initiative started by the Belcher administration that aimed to raise $50 million for scholarships by December 2021 and instead ended up with $61.9 million at the final tally in May. That money, donated by 12,368 people, will fund 176 endowed scholarships and 24 annual scholarships.

Brown wants her administration to continue that forward momentum by focusing on three major goals — emphasizing the quality and excellence of the overall university experience, expanding diversity and inclusion efforts and sharpening the focus on regional economic development.

“Universities like Western Carolina University, regional public comprehensive universities, they are known for being very focused in certain areas,” said Brown. “We want to maintain our excellence among that group of universities, so how do we continue

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to be better all the time at what we do, and being regionally engaged, student-focused and innovative?”

Doing that well will require care. When N.C. Promise arrived, the value of Western’s existing assets of natural beauty, academic opportunity and teaching-oriented faculty compounded and began drawing larger numbers of students. The challenge will be to use that heightened interest to further strengthen the school while also continuing to serve the rural region where Western makes its home.

“It will be a balance,” she said. “I think what we’ll continue to do is we’ll continue to work to make sure we continue those small class sizes that we’re very much known for.

That is a hallmark of Western — those small class sizes, the engagement with faculty and students. So we’ll continue to do that.”

It’s important to understand, she added, that Western was growing for years before N.C. Promise was even “a gleam in a legislator’s eye.” The tuition-reduction program simply makes the assets that were already drawing students to Western available to a wider demographic.

“This growth is because of success. We are good at what we do,” said Brown. “We are good at educating students. We are good at providing degrees for students, so that success breeds students that want to come here as their first choice, and students that may never have thought that they could come here can come here because of N.C. Promise.”

WCU stands alone among UNC System schools in that it is the only one located in an unincorporated community rather than in a town or city. As Western has grown, so has Cullowhee, an area that until 2015 had no zoning rules at all. In recent years an increasing number of student housing developments has popped up in the otherwise rural area,

and the resulting traffic has caused problems on roads that weren’t built to handle the load associated with a bustling campus community. The N.C. 107 project currently under discussion in Sylva was brought about partly due to traffic related to the comings and goings of students, faculty and staff at the university.

Brown acknowledges that WCU does not and cannot operate in a vacuum and said that, as chancellor, she’ll seek to be involved in the larger community outside of campus.

“We’re going to grow, and we’re going to do things here with community input,” she said. “It wouldn’t behoove us nor anyone else to grow without input from and understanding of what this would mean for the community.”

The university’s community focus is part of its very mission as a regional comprehensive university, she said.

“What that means in definition is that we are embedded in communities and we work very closely with the communities,” she said.

“That is one of the hallmarks of being a public regional institution.”

Brown will keep that focus in mind as the university continues to plan development of its Millennial Campus — whatever goes on that land, she said, should be planned with the regional economy in mind.

MAYOR OF CULLOWHEE Leadership of a university is often compared to leadership of a business — seen as a job of managing budgets and productivity, organizing the labor force and ensuring the whole operation stays afloat.

“Really, it’s more like a small town, and I’m like the mayor,” said Brown.

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Brown’s taking the reins of a school that in many ways has entered its prime of life.

Western has seen record enrollment for three straight years, and this fall the university expects to exceed 12,000 students for the first time ever. In 2018, 80 percent of the previous year’s first-time, full-time freshmen returned as sophomores — a staggering accomplishment in light of the fact that as recently as 2007 the figure was down to 67 percent. At WCU, 6 out of 10 students graduate in within six years.

Applications are up, and average GPAs and SATs of incoming freshmen are on the rise. Earlier this month, Kiplinger ranked WCU among the nation’s 100 “best public college values” in its annual review of nearly 1,200 public and private four-year schools, placing WCU in 62nd place in value for instate students and 66th for out-of-state students. That high value has a lot to do with the advent of N.C. Promise, a state tuition-reduction program deployed at WCU and two other University of North Carolina System schools in fall 2018 that slashes undergraduate tuition to $500 per semester for in-state students and $2,500 for out-of-state students.

In addition to the lower cost of attendance, Western has more ability than ever to help students bridge the gap financially fol-

“Four years later, [students] walk across that stage, and they have self-confidence, they have leadership skills, they look different. You can just see in them they exude the ability to go out there and do whatever it is they came here to learn to do.”

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band, who is retired from his career as an engineer, had uprooted their lives and possessions so she could take the job. But it didn’t take long to know they’d made the right decision.

“I walked in, and it just felt so right,” she said. “I really do believe my 30-plus years in higher education has prepared me to be here at Western Carolina University, in this role, at this time.”

“I want to acknowledge the fact that I am here tonight following the footsteps of a beloved leader, Chancellor David Belcher,” she said. “His impact on this university is immeasurable, and he will remain my inspiration and guiding light as I take on this mantle of leadership here.”

Brown told the crowd that she wants to be known as a collaborative and transparent leader, saying that this event and others like it included on her planned “Welcome Tour” will help shape the priorities of her new administration.

“Several people have asked me about my vision for the university and any new strategic direction that I may have,” she said. “I have some early ideas, but I dare not come into this role thinking that I have all the answers.

That’s why I am here, to listen to you.”

Brown will hold additional “Welcome Tour” events 5:30 to 7:30 Thursday, Aug. 22, at Selu Garden Café within Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort in Cherokee; 6 to 8

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WCU has its own steam plant, its own water system, its own police force. Workers range from accountants to lawyers to maintenance workers to tenured professors. There’s a lot going on, and it’s impossible for one person, even a chancellor, to be the expert in everything.

That’s why Brown is grateful to find herself at an institution where good leadership is already in place. Her management philosophy, she said, is to give staff a task and then let them carry it out how they see fit.

But all those tasks should funnel toward one big goal.

Brown’s predecessor David Belcher was driven by one oft-repeated mantra: “We’re in the business of changing lives.”

In her short time at WCU, Brown has already taken that mission on as her own.

“David Belcher had it right,” she said to a crowd of more than 300 people during an event held Aug. 19 at Innovation Station in Dillsboro.

“We are in the business of changing lives, and in my role as chancellor I’m rolling up my sleeves and getting down to the hard work of promoting and advocating on behalf of our university, Western Carolina University, and I need your help to make that happen.”

Having first graduated with a technical degree, rather than with a bachelor’s degree that includes general education components like history and English and math, Brown has perhaps a better perspective than most on the value of a well-rounded education that extends beyond the technical boundaries of any one particular field — and on the lifechanging potential of such an education.

“We want students to be able to go out and understand “You can never authors. We want them to see assume anything through different lenses,” she said. “We don’t want them to about the folks you just be trained as I was as a have in your dental hygienist.”

The liberal arts education classrooms, because gives a well roundedness that allows graduates to hold a they all have potential.” conversation with and under— Chancellor Kelli Brown stand the world of countless different types of people. But beyond that, said Brown, it builds a foundation for success in the workforce that extends beyond the nuts-and-bolts skills of a given field.

“I would argue that you have to have a liberal arts understanding to be a good nurse, to be a good engineer, to be a good accountant,” said Brown. “Because without those basic understandings all you have is being a teacher (for example). And at the same time, remember a lot of those things that are oftentimes referred to as ‘soft skills’ are the skills that make you a better leader. So if you’re going in and you’re a teacher, you now become a leader in that school. If you go in and you’re an engineer, you now become a leader within that.”

Brown’s seen that transformation — from timid student to fearless leader — happen before her eyes countless times during her years in academia, and it’s what inspires her to continue centering her life around the college campus.

She spoke to The Smoky Mountains News while still anticipating the Aug. 16 new student convocation planned at Western — it would draw nearly 2,000 freshman students, wide-eyed and just a little overwhelmed by this new chapter in their young lives.

“Four years later, they walk across that stage, and they have self-confidence, they have leadership skills, they look different,” she said. “You can just see in them they exude the ability to go out there and do whatever it is they came here to learn to do.”

When those students leave to go do that thing they are so excited to try, they’ll be forever changing their own lives and the lives of their families and spouses and children. Couple with that the power of a university like WCU to work for the good of the community it serves, and you have powerful combination.

“Hopefully when people ask me about my legacy, they’ll look back and say we’re continuing to change lives, but at the same time we’re not only changing the lives of their families,” she said. “But even better than that we’re changing the communities, because we’re able to help bring about this idea of economic development, this economic engine for the region.”

It’s a big job, but Brown believes she’s up to it.

“If everybody could have this job and have as much fun as I do in it, they would all be beating down the doors,” she said.

said Delmas Copeland, the 2018 Chief Junaluska Award recipient, in presenting the honor to the Rankins.

The Rankins accepted the 2019 Chief Junaluska Award with a reminder to potential volunteers that it was just a few months to Christmas and with humble gratitude.

“There are so many here at the lake who do so much — more than we do, but we thank you for the honor and for thinking of us,” said Don Rankin.

Associates Weekend is an annual gathering of supporters of Lake Junaluska and a celebration of the mission and ministry accomplished through their generosity. Events in 2019 included concerts by the Lake Junaluska Singers and Paul Saik, a brick dedication ceremony, a golf tournament, special meals, worship, a storytelling gathering and more.

In addition, over $25,000 was raised during the weekend to support family ministry initiatives at Lake Junaluska.

“We are excited that the amount raised exceeded our goal for the weekend,” said Bernie Brown, Associates Council Chair.

“Family is so important. We are thankful for generous donors who support Lake Junaluska’s efforts to strengthen family relationships, provide meaningful inter-generational experiences and nourish spiritual formation.”

Ken Howle, executive director of Lake Junaluska, said Associates Weekend is truly a celebration weekend — a chance to celebrate the generosity of those who love this sacred place.

“I am so very thankful for this unique community that includes people like Don and Pat Rankin who live out our mission of Christian hospitality every day by giving of

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“The support and love for Lake Junaluska shown by our Associates over the years and continuing today makes a difference,” said Howle. “Together, they make it possible for Lake Junaluska to live more fully into our mission of being a place of Christian hospitality where lives are transformed through renewal of soul, mind and body.”

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states. Upon her retirement, Hipps earned a master’s degree in nursing from Vanderbilt University and became a certified pediatric nurse practitioner.

In addition to serving on the board of the NC Justice Center, Hipps was an active member of the Haywood County Democratic Party, serving as President of the Haywood County Democratic Women, Region One Director and as a member of the State Executive Committee of the NC Democratic Women.

The NC Justice Center honored Hipps at the home of Julia Buckner in Waynesville on Sunday, Aug. 18. A native of North Carolina, Hipps lived in Waynesville from 1968 until she passed away in February 2019.

“We are pleased to recognize Jane Hipps for her tremendous community advocacy work on behalf of Western North Carolina and the entire state,” said Rick Glazier, Executive Director of the NC Justice Center.

“When Jane ran for state Senate she was described as a ‘leader from the West, for the West.’ She put the needs of her community first, always. She represents the very core of the N.C. Justice Center’s values and it was an honor to work with her.”

he N.C. Justice Center will posthumously bestow a Champion of Justice Award on former board member and community advocate Jane Hipps for her lifetime of service to her community and the state of North Carolina.

The N.C. Justice Center bestows Champion of Justice awards on individuals who have made a generational difference in the lives of North Carolinians. These awardees exemplify the mission of the organization, as they work to eliminate poverty in North Carolina and create an equal playing field for all.

Hipps, who resided in Waynesille, spent her career working in public education as a counselor, psychologist, and teacher, later starting her own business as a national science and math consultant, working with schools in more than 35

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their time and resources in service to others,” said Howle.

Lake Junaluska Associates are individuals or households who make an annual charitable gift of $250 or more towards the mission and ministry of Lake Junaluska. Since 1968, Associates have given more than $4.5 million to Lake Junaluska.

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ake Junaluska residents Pat and Don Rankin are the 2019 recipients of the Chief Junaluska Award, an honor bestowed annually during Associates Weekend at Lake Junaluska.

The award honors outstanding service, community involvement and financial support of Lake Junaluska.

Don Rankin, a retired United Methodist pastor and district superintendent, and his wife, Pat, moved to Lake Junaluska from Louisville, Kentucky, in 2008 to be closer to family and to live in a community with a strong culture of service.

“This is a helping, healing place where we can be involved in the mission of Lake Junaluska,” said Pat Rankin.

An active United Methodist Women’s circle member, Pat Rankin is a past president of the Junaluska Woman’s Club, an organization committed to improving the overall experience of life at Lake Junaluska. She also has been in charge of the club’s annual craft show.

Don Rankin has served as president of the Friends of the World Methodist Museum and of the Lake Junaluska Assembly Property Owners Organization. He also served on the election committee of the Junaluska Community Council. In addition, he organizes and participates in Lake Junaluska’s country music jam sessions and is one of the tour guides for the historic boat tours at Lake Junaluska.

The couple also leads more than four dozen volunteers in the annual decorating of Lake Junaluska for Christmas.

“They are in charge of Christmas decorations around the lake, which is actually a year-round duty and involves purchasing decorations and keeping them in good repair,”

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Haywood Schools consolidation plan moves forward

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER proposal to consolidate several aging Haywood County Schools administrative buildings into a single multi-million dollar state-of-the-art facility first discussed months ago has suddenly taken on an unanticipated but not unwelcome urgency.

Back in February, Haywood County Schools Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte presented commissioners with his assessment of HCS’ long-term facility needs in a county budget workshop. The price? $39.1 million down the road, or $12.6 million soon.

“This is not a budget request for this year. Unless you want to,” Nolte joked at the time.

Now, barely a week after it was learned that the Historic Haywood Hospital — current home of HCS’ administrative offices — had after three previous attempts qualified for tax credits that will now make private redevelopment imminent, Nolte and Associate Superintendent Dr. Trevor Putnam are again hanging the ambitious pitch before Haywood County Commissioners.

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“We knew at some point in time there would be an opportunity for us to move, and it looks like that’s going to happen two Decembers from now,” Nolte told the board Aug. 19. “Our plan is not really about two Decembers from now, but from an infrastructure standpoint, what’s the most efficient way not only in terms of cost but in terms of operations, to work on old failing 10 infrastructure?”

The proposal, Nolte said, isn’t centered on finding a new home for HCS administration because even in a best-case scenario the proposed facility wouldn’t be ready in two Decembers, but one available option for HCS administration looks like it will no longer be viable at all.

Recent trends, per Putnam, suggest that the shuttered Central Elementary School will likely be needed as an elementary school again soon, thanks to a number of apartment complexes in the works, a new classroom size rule and declining enrollment at the county’s public charter school, Shining Rock Classical Academy.

The $12.6 million proposal would pay for a 42,750-square-foot building called the Educational Support Center, which includes 9,000 square feet of meeting space, 10,000 square feet of IT space, 8,750 square feet for

support services, 1,000 square feet for child nutrition as well as 9,000 square feet for dry storage, a cooler and a freezer, and 5,000 square feet for exceptional child support staff.

It would also preserve Central Elementary for instructional use, free up instructional space in several other buildings and open up several school-owned properties for disposal.

Consolidation, according to Putnam’s presentation, would lower upkeep costs, enhance the efficiency of training sessions and serve as a recruiting and retention tool for teachers without really increasing the square footage of existing, far-flung buildings.

During both the most recent and the February presentations, Nolte said he had no preconceived notions as to where the ECS

might eventually be located, but said it would probably take about 5 or 6 usable acres, and it should be centrally located in the county, near major roadways and/or Interstate 40.

Another need on the distant horizon — but not included in the ECS proposal to commissioners — is a 40,000-square-foot maintenance and transportation facility that would also require 5 or 6 acres.

Haywood County purchased a 10-acre tract adjacent to Tuscola High School last December.

With many of the perceived pieces already in place and the financial and human capital efficiencies clearly outlined in the proposal, the real questions now are what, if anything, commissioners are willing to pay for such a facility, and how they might do it.

As of the February presentation, the county’s annual budget was on the order of $90 million a year, and county debt was at $46 million and declining. Commissioners on the first-ever Republican-majority Haywood County Board pressed for a tax cut in this year’s budget but couldn’t quite get there, though they may soon.

For the next three years through fiscal year 2023, the county will pay an average of $5.36 million a year towards debt.

Over the next three years, though 2026, that figure drops to an average of $4.03 million.

The next three years after that, through 2029, those payments drop to an average of $970,000 a year.

At that pace, the county would be totally debt-free in 2030, so long as it incurs no further debt along the way.

There’s also the estimated $80,000 a year the county no longer has to spend on maintaining the Historic Haywood Hospital — expected to become affordable housing for veterans and the elderly — as well as any revenue realized if the other surplus buildings are indeed sold and then rejoin the ad valorem tax rolls.

The Crabtree property is two separate parcels totaling 5.9 acres, assessed at $1.19 million, although much of that value is in the 1937 former schoolhouse that would likely need extensive renovations or demolition and therefore command a lower market price.

The Hazelwood property is one large parcel that surrounds the Folkmoot Friendship Center to the north, west and south and encompasses nine acres, including several buildings used by HCS. It’s valued at $1.02 million, but has several different buildings valued at $750,000 which, again, could command a lower market price.

The Central Haywood High School Gym was demolished after structural deficiencies were noted in 2018, but the 12.2-acre parcel it shares with the high school is valued at more than $3 million. The former site of the gym is the bulk of the acreage, but if separated from the school wouldn’t be the bulk of the value, by far.

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Five current school properties could drastically change after a $12.6 million Educational Support Center was proposed by Haywood County Schools on Aug. 19.

Historic Haywood Hospital • Home to HCS administration since 1980, lease expires in December, 2020.

• Private developers expected to exercise their option on the property by Sept. 15 after qualifying for redevelopment tax credits earlier this month.

Central Haywood High School • • • • •

Convert the current boardroom to gym.

Move instructional technology center (ITC) to proposed Educational Support Center (ESC).

Move adult learning center to vacated ITC space at Central Haywood.

Move two training rooms to ESC. Possibly dispose of demolished gym parcel.

Crabtree property • Move child nutrition to ESC. • Vacate and possibly dispose of property.

Former Hazelwood Elementary (adjacent to Folkmoot) • • • •

Move adult learning center to Central Haywood.

Move large training room to ESC. Move 14 exceptional child support staff to ESC. Vacate and possibly dispose of property.

Central Elementary • Maintain as an elementary school option for anticipated growth in student population.

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Commissioners responded to Putnam’s presentation with less reticence than in February, but with more vigilance, peppering Putnam and Nolte with questions based largely on cost.

Democratic Commissioner Kirk Kirkpatrick, who voted against the $3.2 million county animal shelter in 2016 — it passed anyway — noted that although ridding the county of Crabtree, Hazelwood and the old hospital would certainly save in operating costs and maintenance, the new building’s operating costs and maintenance would eat into that savings to an undetermined degree.

Kirkpatrick also wanted to know how much teacher support existed for the project.

Commissioner Mark Pless was silent, but in February raised serious questions about the total cost.

Likewise Commissioner Tommy Long asked if the $294 per square foot cost of the building was a solid number, or mutable.

Commissioner Brandon Rogers wanted clarification on HCS’ $39.1 million in eventual needs if the $12.6 million ESC plan isn’t pursued.

To answer these questions and others, Commission Chair and Republican Kevin Ensley — who voted for the animal shelter — suggested County Manager Bryant Morehead establish an ad-hoc committee to study the issue.

“This is a big project,” said Morehead in response. “We’re probably going to need to get together with school staff fairly quickly to start talking about the logistics of site selection and alternative buildings, things

like that.”

Joining Morehead in the study group will be Development Services Director Kris Boyd, Nolte, Putnam and representatives from the county’s finance office, who would all start brainstorming about possibilities.

After the meeting, Nolte said he was encouraged by the commissioners’ responses and looks forward, at the very least, to figuring out what to do with central administration two Decembers from now.

“It’s less expensive and much more efficient to do it the right way now then to fix it piecemeal over the next decade,” he said. “It does cost money and those are big numbers and I’m a taxpayer and I understand it, but it will save us more money over the next 10 to 15 years.”

HCS Board Chair Chuck Francis — who was joined by almost the entire elected school board at the meeting in a show of support for the plan — had just one message for taxpayers who will be called upon to weigh in on such a project, should it proceed any further.

“The efficiency of the whole school system is going to improve with this facility,” said Francis. “Teacher retention, professional development, staff training, all of it.”

Data released in September 2018 showed that Haywood County Schools slipped slightly in state rankings during the 2017-18 school year, dropping to the 14thbest public school system of the state’s 115 districts. The previous two school years, 2015-16 and 2016-17, HCS was 11th out of 115, earning a place in the top ten percent of all N.C. districts. Data for the 2018-19 school year is expected in the coming weeks.

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Jackson TDA to reveal strategic plan Over the last year, the Jackson County Tourism Development Authority completed an extensive Visitor Research Project and its first three-year Strategic Plan.

The JCDTA invites the community to hear the research and plan during two upcoming community listening sessions — 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 3 at Jackson County Public Library Community Room in Sylva and at 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 4 at Albert Carlton Public Library Community Room in Cashiers.

Each session will last about an hour with time allotted for a Q&A session. No RSVP is required, and interested residents, business owners, accommodation owners, and stakeholders are all encouraged to attend for a better understanding of the area’s visitor profile, trends, and insights about visitation, and for a look at the JCTDA’s strategic plan.

The TDA is the destination management/marketing organization for Jackson County, charged with marketing the destination to potential visitors. “The results of our efforts help to provide local job opportunities, grow the community and support small businesses,” JCTDA Director Nick Breedlove said.

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Macon Opco LLC and Macon Propco LLC have filed a certificate of need application with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to develop The Landings of Franklin, a new 70-bed adult care home in Franklin.

The project is expected to cost $6.2 million and would be completed in September 2024. A public hearing for this project will be held at 9 a.m. Sept. 19 at the Macon County

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Blue Ridge Public Radio and National Public Radio will host a community conver-

sation to tackle one of the most important components of journalism — trust — at 7 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts in Asheville.

“Public Media: Building Trust in an Age of Mistrust” will offer an evening of candid discussion and behind-the-scenes glimpses into the role of ethics and rigorous journalism standards in one of our country’s most respected newsrooms. Elizabeth Jensen, NPR’s Public Editor, and Mark Memmott, NPR’s Senior Editor for Standards and Practices, will join BPR’s News Director Matt Bush, and local reporters and editors from news outlets across WNC, including the Asheville Citizen-Times, Mountain Xpress, and The Mountain News.

Tickets to the event are $20 and can be purchased on the Wortham Center website: https://tinyurl.com/yyqnnjk9 or by calling the Wortham Center box office at 828.257.4530.

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Sign up for financial literacy class The Rotary Club of Haywood County is planning financial literacy classes and a savings incentive program for individuals working or living in the Bethel, Clyde and Canton area. Participants will complete mandatory financial classes and one-on-one appointments offered by Mountain Credit Union to create a personalized budget and build an emergency savings fund. Upon completion of mandatory classes, appointments, and monthly deposits into a savings account, the Rotary Club of Haywood County will match $2 for every $1 participants save over a six-month period, not to exceed a total match of $600.

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Glenville Historical Society to meet Glenville Area Historical Society members, neighbors, friends and history lovers will gather at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, at the Glenville Community Center for the Society’s annual meeting. The event begins with light refreshments and an opportunity for attendees hailing from every corner of the Glenville area and Hamburg Township to meet and greet. The meeting agenda includes a brief business meeting to elect directors and hear a review of the 2018-19 year. However it is the historical topic program that generally attracts an overflow crowd. This year’s topic, a humorous look at Vanishing American Architecture: The Inside Story of the Outhouse, recognizes that this subject is not only a fascination but a matter of history throughout the United States.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER hen Election Day arrives in Cherokee Sept. 5, all 12 Tribal Council seats will be up for grabs, as well as the offices of principal chief and vice chief and three school board seats.

The Smoky Mountain News has sent each of the 24 candidates for Tribal Council and the two for vice chief a series of questions about various issues facing the tribe.

So far, four Tribal Council candidates have responded, with the latest submission printed here.

Previously printed responses from Tribal Council candidates are available at https://bit.ly/2Z3Dtd8, and a story written following sit-down interviews with the two candidates for principal chief is online at https://bit.ly/2ZeHP0f.

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land and housing, needs that the tribe has the ability and responsibility to fulfill.

Increased housing is also necessary for nonenrolled tribal and casino employees — expanding housing opportunities for these workers will make life better for them while also providing additional revenue for the tribe.

Economic diversification: The tribe should expand bingo gaming outside of Cherokee while also partnering with ecotourism and cultural businesses to capital-

Sherry Smoker, Snowbird/Cherokee County candidate Smoker, 57, has been involved with community and tribal functions throughout her life and is looking forward to being further involved with the tribe has a whole. She is proposing the “Pay it Forward Initiative.”

Reason to run: “We must prepare and educate our generations to come on how to carry our communities and the tribe forward. We must begin to heal our Sherry Smoker. past and continue on to the great Donated photo things to come, and I feel that I can help lead that progress in the right direction.” ize on those opportunities. Expanded interTop three issues: Smoker wants to see net access would help lure new businesses continued work toward economic diversifiand allow established operations to thrive, cation, given the possibility of future while also enhancing educational and occuregional gaming competition and of a pational opportunities for people currently broader economic downturn; improved without access. quality of and access to health care; and Catawba casino: Allowing the Catawba expanded access to housing, renewable to build a casino in North Carolina would energy and broadband internet. set a dangerous national precedent, and Opinion on tribe’s current Cherokee should pursue every legal avenue direction: Things are trending in a better available to thwart that effort. However, direction than in the not-too-distant past, were the Catawba to build on their own but there is still plenty of room for further land in South Carolina, it would make sense growth. for Cherokee to work with them for the Transparency and the media: More benefit of both tribes. transparency is needed as it relates to elecOpioid epidemic: The new rehab center tions, and Tribal Council should have fewer is a big leap forward in the tribe’s efforts to closed sessions. Smoker would need to tackle the problem, but the origin of the review the specifics of the current media epidemic is big pharmaceutical companies policy before voting on a change but that make billions by pumping unnecessary believes that having a free press is imporpills into vulnerable areas like Western tant to keeping people honest. If sessions North Carolina. Additional regulations are will be recorded and broadcast anyway, needed to govern what can be prescribed, why not let non-tribal outlets in too? in what quantities and by whom. Hopefully Housing: Many tribal members need the tribe will continue to develop more

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Voters will choose two Tribal Council candidates to represent their community as well as a candidate for the chief and vice chief offices. Polls will be open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5, and early voting will be held 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Monday, Aug. 26, at the Board of Elections office, located in the Ginger Lynn Welch Complex on Acquoni Road. Early voting dates include Saturday, Aug. 24, but not Sunday, Aug. 25. Absentee voting ends Aug. 30.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER or years, the town of Canton’s municipal wastewater has been treated, free of charge, by the various operators of the town’s iconic paper mill, but a grant application to be filed by the town wants to study the feasibility of sending that waste to Waynesville’s new treatment plant, once it’s constructed.

“The overall reason is to look at the options are available in terms of wastewater treatment, not only in the town of Canton but from a regional perspective and look at each individual municipality that may be a part of this,” said Canton Town Manager Jason Burrell. “There are needs that each individual community has, and the feasibility study would look at all of those collectively as well as individually.”

Waynesville’s new plant, which will come online in the next year or two, is being built to handle 8 million gallons of flow per day.

Waynesville already treats the town of Clyde’s wastewater, but the feasibility study that would be funded if the grant application is successful would explore the possibility of incorporating Canton’s million-gallon average into that.

No, there’s nothing amiss at the mill, and no real rush to stop utilizing its 25-milliongallon capacity plant; both Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers and Burrell emphasized that they’ve heard no rumors of trouble at the 100plus year old facility.

Anything could happen, though — floods, fires or other service interruptions aren’t out of the question, and if something did happen to the mill, the wastewater treatment plant there couldn’t be effectively scaled down to handle Canton’s measly million gallons of daily wastewater.

“There was a previous plan looked at Haywood County with regard to countywide or even regional wastewater treatment, and this is basically just an update to options available to each of us and how maybe an interconnect would work, as well as everyone looking at their own sustainability for wastewater treatment options,” said Burrell.

And if something did happen to Canton’s wastewater treatment system, that would be far too late to engage in a feasibility study, commission a project and construct it while wastewater goes untreated.

Waynesville Town Manager Rob Hites, in his comments to the Board of Aldermen Aug. 13, called the study “a great tool.”

“Having Waynesville treat Clyde and Canton’s wastewater provides considerable economies of scale for everyone involved.

Operating costs would be spread among more users and a single discharge point on the Pigeon River is ecologically sound,” Hites said. “Neither Canton nor Clyde expect Waynesville to bear the cost of the outfall or expansion of the plant unless Waynesville needs additional capacity.”

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school, and parents and guardians are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the celebration policy at their child’s school at the beginning of each school year.

The board of education also recommends that half of the food and beverages provided for celebrations comply with the federal “Smart Snacks in School” nutrition standards — all fresh fruits, vegetables, and canned fruits packed in juice.

Pre-packaged options for grains and wheat bread are also widely available.

As a result of the dramatic increase in food allergies and the risk of foodborne illnesses, the school board prohibits home-produced items from being used for school-based parties. Parents and community members may provide commercially prepared or packaged food and beverages for prapproved celebrations. This also includes food and beverages available through the school nutrition program.

For more information about the smart snack standards and school wellness policy, visit the School Nutrition page of the Jackson County Public Schools website at www.jcpsnc.org/nutrition.

HCC program ranked in Top 10 According to Medicalassistantadvice.com, Haywood Community College’s Medical Assisting program has been ranked number 10 in North Carolina for the year 2019.

The ranking was based on the following criteria: total number of students enrolled in the program, graduation rate, Niche.com ratings and reviews fulltime retention rate, admissions rate, average net price and student to faculty ratio.

HCC’s medical assisting program prepares graduates to be a key component in keeping busy medical offices and clinics running smoothly. Perhaps the most versatile of all allied health professionals, medical assistants have a great amount of variety in their job duties and are cross-trained to perform administrative, clinical and laboratory duties.

Registration for fall semester is underway now. For more information, visit haywood.edu or email hcc-advising@haywood.edu.

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and more. Parents are encouraged to participate with their child whenever possible.

For more information, 828.488.3030.

School is back in session and that means that STEAM Club is back at 5:15 p.m. the last Thursday of the month at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

This is a hands-on program that will engage elementary aged students in the sciences, evolving technologies, proactive engineering, the creativity of the arts, and life applicable mathematics. Monthly resources and materials will be varied. This month’s STEAM Club meeting on Aug. 29 students will explore a Bee-Bot Shape Building activity.

STEAM Club is meant to engage elementary aged students with a focus on the sciences, the use of technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics through different tools such as: binary code, Bee-Bots, Makers Space materials,

WNC students receive scholarships The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina recently approved scholarships totaling $587,000 to 99 students in 57 schools in 22 counties in Western North Carolina.

Linda Hopson of Jackson County Early College, Kendall Wike of Smoky Mountain High School and River Trent who was homeschooled were awarded.

Allison Merrell of Montreat College and Jennifer McHenry of Tuscola High School were also awarded.

“It is a privilege to work with students, counselors and volunteers from all over Western North Carolina,” said Scholarship Officer Lezette Parks.

Cherokee students attend Judaculla Camp Fifteen high school students from across the region who are members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians had an opportunity to experience college life first-hand as the second annual Judaculla Camp was held June 17-21 at Western Carolina University.

WCU’s Cherokee Center and the tribal education Summer Youth Program partner to offer the camp, which exposes the youth to educational opportunities and involves them in activities such as archeological digs, scavenger hunts, natural art projects, climbing on the university’s indoor wall and rafting.

Student participants included Cameron Nelson, Connor McCoy, Dante Davis, Eeayannah Catolster, Joryn Walker, Kayman Feagnans, Nola Pina, Phoebe Rattler, Rhyan Girty, Rosa Reyes, Cadence Long, Malaki Littlejohn, Kaelin Jones, McKenna Smith-Sneed and Makala McGaha.

For more information, contact Sampson at snsampson@wcu.edu or 828.497.7920.

“I would not be able to do my job well without their help. Working together, we awarded a record high of $587,000 to very deserving students this year. These awards are an investment in the future.”

The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina works with families, businesses and nonprofits to strengthen communities through the creation of charitable funds and strategic grantmaking. Learn more at www.cfwnc.org.

Healthy snacks at Jackson schools Special events such as birthdays and holidays can be cause for regular celebrations at school, but Jackson County Schools wants to encourage healthy eating habits on those occasions.

Jackson County Board of Education recommends four designated celebrations per year at each

The Jackson County Public Schools School Nutrition Program is excited to welcome students back for the 2019-20 school year. Meal prices remain unchanged this year despite a significant loss of federal funding that will result in a deficit of nearly $130,000 for the program.

JCPS families are strongly encouraged to complete the online application for free and reducedprice meals. Even families who do not believe they qualify for free or reduced-price meals are asked to complete the form because the rate of participation directly affects the funding for several other critical JCPS programs and services. Visit www.LunchApplication.com to access the simple and secure application.

The School Nutrition Program also provides an easy way to pay for school meals through a confidential online payment system. Set up automatic weekly or monthly transfers into a child’s account.

To get started, families are asked to visit www.LunchPrepay.com and set up their account.

For more information, contact Laura Cabe at 828.586.2311 Ext. 1936 or email lcabe@jcpsmail.org.

Reduce risky behavior for teens The Jackson County Department of Public Health partners with the Jackson County Public Schools to offer a multi-week program called Making Proud Choices.

This curriculum teaches students how to reduce their risk of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, and pregnancy by abstaining from sex or using condoms if they choose to have sex. Additionally, the program builds the skills and confidence of the students to navigate risky behaviors and situations.

Making Proud Choices will be offered to Smoky Mountain High School, Blue Ridge Early College, and the School of Alternatives during Fall 2019. To answer questions about the program, Health Educators Katie Hutchinson and Curt Collins will be available for Parents Night from 6 to 7 p.m. Aug. 22 at Smoky Mountain High School.

Classes begin Aug. 26 at Smoky Mountain High School and Aug. 28 at the Blue Ridge Early College.

For more information, call 828.587.8292.

WCU to offer online German course

August 21-27, 2019

Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment will be offering a six-week online beginning German language course Sept. 4 through Oct. 15.

“This is a self-contained, conversationbased beginning German course designed for adults and built around high-quality, original electronic materials,” said instructor Dr. Will Lehman, associate professor of German at WCU. Students will typically practice grammar individually through the online system, but there will also be optional bi-weekly opportunities for conversation practice with Lehman and other students through live video technology.

The cost for registration is $79. For more information and to register, visit learn.wcu.edu or call 828.227.7397.

Dillard family endows scholarship Smoky Mountain News

Without William B. Dillard, the institution known today as Southwestern Community College would not have been established 55 years ago.

Dillard saw the need, gained the necessary political support and donated money, resources and material for constructing the first building on what is now a bustling, vibrant community college on Webster Road.

Though Dillard passed away 37 years ago, his legacy of helping SCC students remains alive through a scholarship that bears his name.

Awarded annually since 1982, the scholarship recently exceeded the $15,000 threshold for becoming endowed while simultaneously adding the name of Dillard’s wife, Catherine, to the title.

To learn more, call 828.339.4241 or b_woods@southwesterncc.edu.

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Trump’s bigotry can’t be denied To the Editor: Lindsay Graham had it right. In 2015, he described Donald Trump as “a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” MerriamWebster defines bigot as: a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices. That definition clearly encompasses racism and perfectly describes Mr. Trump.

Think about it. His opening salvo was to describe the “rapists and murderers” pouring across the southern border. His theme has persisted throughout his term and been expanded to include Moslems and others.

This approach is the similar to that developed in Germany in the 1930’s. At the time Germany was experiencing severe economic distress. The key for Hitler was to enhance the nativist tribalism and find someone to blame for Germany’s troubles. For Hitler, it was the Jews and gypsies — and anyone else who was not Aryan. The key here was to find someone to blame for your personal and national troubles.

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stop asking you to read “The Cat in the Hat.” One day, they don’t really care about going to the county fair anymore. One day, it’s really all right if you don’t sing the bedtime song, but thanks anyway. One day, they start locking their bedroom doors.

Some of these changes pass by with little fanfare, others pass by without registering at all, at least until much later, when you finally realize that the children in your home have been replaced — completely without your permission — by young adults, who are dealing with problems you are ill-equipped to help them solve. There Columnist is no bad dream song that will chase away the inexplicable horrors of advanced algebra, the godawful havoc of puberty, or the incomprehensible mystery of someone who loves you, but not like THAT, more like a brother or sister, you know? Because you’re great. Wait, are you crying? There is no spray for that.

Then, one day you are teaching them to drive, and you can’t believe it. Is it possible that this child is old enough to operate a motor vehicle? The very idea of them merging onto I-40. Then, they are shopping for dresses for the prom. Then, they are visiting colleges and filling out FAFSA forms. Finally, they choose a path and plans are hatched for their great escape.

In some ways, parenthood is just as cruel as it is rewarding. The first few years after your child is born convince you that it will be a long, long, such a long time before your kids are grown. You aren’t sleeping much. You’d give anything for a night out. You are on high alert at all times, even when you are on vacation. Your children must be watched and attended

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can hear her up there in her room moving those enormous, orange storage bins around. They make a scraping noise that nearly drowns out her sing-a-long with the Dixie Chicks. “Wide Open Spaces.” It’s about a girl who’s leaving.

Like our girl is.

There are six of those storage bins, each of which she is filling to the brim with clothes, towels, make-up kits, bathroom accessories, school supplies, assorted decorations, prized possessions from her friends, her family, and her childhood. Duckie is in there, a bedtime companion since she was 4 years old. She would clutch Duckie under one arm each night when I came in to sing the bedtime song I wrote for her to chase the demons out of her closet and out of her head.

“Bad dreams go away, You can’t come here today, Frody will bite your butt, Like two little coconuts.

He’ll chase you down the street, He’ll bite you on your feet, He’ll bite you on your toes, And your nose and your elbows.”

In the beginning, the singing of this song — an incantation, really — was accompanied by the spraying of “bad dream mist” into all four corners of her room, around the windows, in the closet, and under the bed, with our miniature dachshund, Frody, not even a year old, chasing me around the room, doing his best to bark and to sound menacing, but mostly emitting adorable little squeaks that cracked us all up. Only after these nightly theatrics could she relax and get some sleep.

I don’t remember when exactly that I stopped singing this song. That’s how your children grow up, it turns out. Things change suddenly without your realizing exactly when, why, or how. One day, you’ve changed your last diaper. One day, they

masterfully to blame everyone other than native born, white Americans for any problems that you are personally experiencing.

So what qualifies him as a bigot? He is convinced that the Russians have not interfered with our elections. Vladimir told him so.

His own FBI and national security professionals told him otherwise. He has not challenged Saudi Arabia on the murder and dismemberment of a resident American journalist.

Mohammad bin Salman told him that the Saudis were not involved, disputing clear evidence to the contrary. His buddy in North Korea told him that he had stopped his nuclear development program, counter to what U.S. intelligence agency professionals concluded. Additionally, North Korea has resumed missile testing. Trump is convinced that his own beliefs and judgement are superior to that of trained professionals who spend their lives making these determinations.

That’s the definition of a bigot.

Is Donald Trump a racist? His history says yes. To understand what he really is, however, look at the people he admires and defers to.

At the top of the list is Vladimir Putin. Second is probably Mohammad bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Kim Jong Un of North Korea and Xi Jinping, the President of China.

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Time crawls by on its hands and knees, exhausted, begging for mercy. You fantasize about that glorious day when you won’t have to panic about every little cough, or what grandma might feed them, or whether the teenage babysitter is as responsible as people say. You dream of getting one tiny sliver of your life back — just a little taste, even a whiff of it.

It’s going to take forever though. Forever.

And then it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t, the rest of it is like trying to watch a movie on fast forward. Now, time flies by laughing, mocking you. You couldn’t pick it out of a lineup. It all happened so fast, officer. You savor everything you can and document everything you can, but it’s already over by the time you’ve clicked the picture.

She’s done packing, and it’s time to pull out some old family chestnuts. Everybody is feeling a little sentimental. We watch an episode of “The Andy Griffith Show” during dinner.

We give her a Dr. Seuss book, Oh, The Places You’ll Go, with messages inside from all three of us: mom, dad, and little brother.

We all crawl into our king-sized bed and share some of our favorite family memories. Then we file into the living room and put on the B-52s “Rock Lobster,” an old favorite from years of family dance nights, and pogo around the room, with Frody, now graying around the jowls and sporting a jagged scar down his back from a bout with cancer, still giving chase as best he can, just as he always has.

The next day, we got up, packed two cars, and took her to her new home on the campus of UNC-Charlotte. We are going to miss our girl so much. She was so hard to let go, but way too much to keep all to ourselves.

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

LETTERS What unifies these leaders is the effective dictatorship and ruthless control of their countries. That’s what Mr. Trump really wants to be — dictator of the United States of America.

The other thing that unites these leaders is their wealth. Regardless of their ethnicity or race, Mr. Trump values wealth. If you aren’t wealthy, you really don’t matter — except on the first Tuesday in November 2020 — Election Day. John Gladden Franklin

Newspapers have beat up Shining Rock To the Editor: Regularly, for four years, both the Mountaineer and The Smoky Mountain News have published articles lambasting the Shining Rock Classical Academy’s records and activities. So, why is it a surprise that enrollment is down, which will in turn keep them from building a high school? Ostensibly, this was the plan all along of those engaged in public education in Haywood County. Well

done. I see that the Haywood County Schools Foundation has on its board the editor of the Mountaineer, an employee of The Smoky Mountain News, and several people with strong ties to Haywood public schools.

Actually, half the board. How convenient.

News articles always mention that Shining Rock is “publicly funded,” which gives you the right to report in an unbiased manner, but if that is so, why are the shortcomings of the other public schools never mentioned? I have personally heard public school teachers saying, “If that school wasn’t there, we could do lots with that money.” Granted, the foundation does much to support local schools — minus Shining Rock. Why are they not included? The goal is the same: educating our children, and this would certainly incentivize the people at SRCA. Of scholarships, only three students other than Tuscola or Pisgah were awarded. You betray your own prejudice.

There have been rocks in the road to establishment of SRCA. The fiasco with the three mothers was reported gleefully by you, but when Mr. Morgan was cleared, there was only cursory mention. He is now headmaster and is doing a great job, but you are not interested in that — it doesn't meet your agenda.

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To the Editor: All of us are heartbroken with the recent reports of mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Texas of all places! The state where we are told everyone would be safer if they had a gun. I’d be shocked if most shoppers in the El Paso Walmart weren’t packin’!

Where was the in-store response to the shooting? It failed, along with the bogus notion that more guns means a safer community. Actually, the opposite is true.

Since arming everyone so they can attack a shooter doesn’t seem to work, here is an idea that might: Make guns less available to potential shooters. After all, that’s the major reason for these shootings — easy access to guns. My proposal is: stop all current legislative activities in the U.S. House and Senate and refuse to restart them until meaningful gun control legislation is written and sent to the President, including all of the following: • Halt all sales of military-style assault weapons to the public.

• Recall all military-style weapons from private hands for a $500 rebate on each piece.

• Halt sales of high capacity magazines and ammunition to fit them.

• Anyone still owning a military-style weapon after (date) will be fined $2,000 per weapon.

• Refuse sales of pistols to anyone under 21.

• All gun sales will be through authorized dealers that can provide thorough background checks. No gun show, internet or private sales.

Will this action stop mass shootings immediately? No. If not, then when? Maybe 25-plus years. Hard to say. What if this legislation had been enacted when mass shootings started after the University of Texas and Columbine shootings in the 1990s?

Will this action be difficult to pursue?

Yes, but not for legislators who believe that something drastic must be done now, and that saving innocent lives is more important than winning the next election. Polls show the public is overwhelmingly behind them. Piecemeal legislation to increase mental health checks or limit violent video games is a waste of time.

Legislators opposing gun control should be called on the carpet. Publicize their names and call them forward to defend themselves before the voters. This action does not infringe on gun rights. It takes non-sporting, military-style weapons designed for mass killing out of the hands of people who now have easy access to them. That’s all it is. It doesn’t stop legal gun ownership, hunting or sport shooting.

And it is non-partisan.

Jim Froyd Swain County

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To the Editor: As a nurse practitioner who treats opioid addiction, I am appreciative of The Smoky Mountain News’ coverage of the opioid crisis. Our community benefits from increased visibility of the opioid crisis.

Increased visibility leads to decreased stigmatization of addiction as well as increased empathy for those suffering from it, which, in turn, increases access to care.

I do, however, have some concerns about how suboxone is presented in the recent article, “Forced to Fight, Addicts long for the life beyond Heroin.” A recent Smoky Mountain News article details an addict “shooting up” Suboxone.

Suboxone is a sublingual (meaning taken under the tongue) medication and should never be injected intravenously. This would be a serious misuse of the drug and would certainly get a patient discharged from any prudent medical practice. It could also send a patient into immediate withdrawal.

Suboxone is made up of two medications: buprenorphine and naloxone.

Buprenorphine is a synthetic partial opioid agonist that prevents patients from experiencing withdrawal symptoms and cravings for opioids. Naloxone, better known as narcan, is the opioid reversal drug that is used in opioid overdose. When taken correctly under the tongue, the naloxone in suboxone is very poorly absorbed.

However, when injected, the naloxone has a much higher bioavailability. For this reason injecting suboxone could send a patient into immediate withdrawal as the better-absorbed naloxone reverses the effects of the buprenorphine that is keeping the patient out of withdrawal. I don’t want my patients, or anyone who takes suboxone from another provider or from “the street,” to think that this is an acceptable way to administer their medication. It could be very dangerous for someone to inject suboxone intravenously.

When taken correctly, suboxone is a lifesaving medication that is evidence-based and the “gold standard” of care for opioid addiction. If you are prescribed suboxone and have any questions about how to administer your medication, please talk to your health care provider. If you or a loved one is battling opioid addiction, please talk to your health care provider or visit

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Sarah Lipham, MS(N), APRN, FNP-C Waynesville

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Crow is hard to chew. Our children will go to Shining Rock as long as it is there, and, should it fail, we will home school them or find other avenues to see that they get a well-rounded education. Their education focuses on six core values: integrity; respect; compassion; responsibility; wisdom and leadership, and we believe they are accomplishing those goals. Haywood schools have had 200 years to get it right and still they have shortcomings, and it has nothing to do with funding for Shining Rock.

David A. Williams Waynesville

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BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Lunch daily 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; dinner nightly at 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Wine Down Wednesday’s: ½ off wine by the bottle. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks from local farms, incredible burgers, and other classic american comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available.

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

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

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RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 70 Soco Road, Maggie Valley 828.926.0201 Home of the Maggie Valley Pizzeria. We deliver after 4 p.m. daily to all of Maggie Valley, J-Creek area, and Lake Junaluska.

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

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Casual family friendly atmosphere. Craft beer and interesting wine. Free movies Thursday through Saturday. Visit madbatterfoodfilm.com for this week’s shows & events.

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

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

MAGGIE VALLEY RESTAURANT 2804 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.926.0425. 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Daily specials including soups, sandwiches and southern dishes along with featured dishes such as fresh fried chicken, rainbow trout, country ham, pork chops and more.

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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.

VITO’S PIZZA 607 Highlands Rd., Franklin.

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828.246.0927. Open Monday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday noon to 9 p.m.; closed Tuesdays. Opened in May 2016, The Waynesville Pizza Company has earned a reputation for having the best hand-tossed pizza in the area. Featuring a custom bar with more than 20 beers and a rustic, family friendly dining room. Menu includes salads, burgers, wraps, hot and cold sandwiches, gourmet pizza, homemade desserts, and a loaded salad bar. The Cuban sandwich is considered by most to be the best in town.

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WHERE THE SOUL NEVER DIES Richard Sterban of The Oak Ridge Boys

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER It’s one of the most recognizable voices in all of American music.

When Richard Sterban famously coined the “oom-pa-pa-oom-pa-pa-mow-mow” bass solo during The Oak Ridge Boy’s crossover 1981 smash hit “Elvira,” he not only forever solidified his tone in the halls of country music, he also became a lifelong pop culture icon in the process.

And since he joined the legendary vocal quartet in 1972, Sterban, now 76, has stood alongside William Lee Golden, Duane Allen and Joe Bonsall for the better part of a half-century. In that time, the group has released 31 studio albums and 56 singles, including 14 top 10 country records and 17 number one songs.

But, what most folks may not realize is that the history of The Oak Ridge Boys goes way beyond its beloved Nashville roots. Initially called Wally Fowler & The Georgia Clodhoppers, the traveling gospel act performed in and around Knoxville, Tennessee, in the early 1940s.

During World War II, that original ensemble would be brought into the nuclear research plant in nearby Oak Ridge to perform for government staff (working on the development of the atomic bomb) and their families, hence the eventual name change.

Yet, it wasn’t until the 1970s incarnation of The Oak Ridge Boys (Sterban, Golden, Allen and Bonsall) transitioned from gospel to country that the foursome found, and continue to find, immense success — onstage and on the airwaves.

Smoky Mountain News: So, how does a someone like yourself who’s from New Jersey end up with The Oak Ridge Boys in Nashville?

Richard Sterban: Well, that’s a good question. [Laughs]. I organized a group in college in New Jersey called the Keystone Quartet. It was a gospel group and we’d mainly sing in churches and revivals in the northeast.

One day, I got a phone call from the son-inlaw of [bass singer] J.D. Sumner, who has Guinness Book of World Records title of “World’s Lowest Bass Singer,” and he wanted to hire a young bass singer to replace [J.D.].

So, I moved to Nashville right near the end of 1969 and joined J.D. Sumner & The Stamps Quartet. I was there six months when J.D. got a call from [his friend and collaborator] Elvis [Presley]. The Stamps got hired by Elvis and, all of a sudden, I find myself singing backup for the “King of Rock and Roll.”

While I was singing with Elvis, I got a phone call from William Lee Golden, the long

“I think country music fans are very loyal. They will stick with you through thick and thin. And you know, we’ve been doing this for almost 50 years now.”

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beard and long hair of The Oak Ridge Boys.

But, back then, he was “Mr. GQ.” He said their bass singer was going to leave the group and if I would be interested in taking the job. I really believed in what The Oak Ridge Boys were doing and I made the decision in 1972 to leave Elvis and be in The Oak Ridge Boys. I think time and history has proven I made a pretty good decision.

SMN: And when you look around you onstage, it’s still the four of you …

RS: There’s no question it’s a very special group. You could go out on the street and you could pick any four guys, but to try and put a group together — it wouldn’t be The Oak Ridge Boys.

Each man brings something different to the table, so to speak. But, I think that’s part of our appeal. Over the years, we’ve learned to respect those differences and we’ve really become the best of friends. We all realized a long time ago

that we need each other, you know, so we pulled together as a true team. We’re a true brotherhood. And I think that that’s a major factor in our longevity.

SMN: What is it about the country sound that still speaks to you? What about that genre sets it apart from other music?

RS: I think country music fans are very loyal. They will stick with you through thick and thin. And you know, we’ve been doing this for almost 50 years now. We just played New Mexico and Colorado this past weekend and we know some of our [longtime] fans are there — they always show up. They buy our tickets, our records and our merchandise.

It’s music that has touched peoples’ lives.

And the fans are the ones that really do keep us going.

Editor’s Note: To listen to entire audio stream of this conversation, go to YouTube and search: “Richard Sterban Garret K. Woodward.”

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The 113th annual Canton Labor Day Festival will take place Sept. 1-2 in Sorrells Street Park in downtown Canton. The parade will be held from 10 to 11:30 p.m. Sept. 2.

Aside from a full schedule of events, including a handcraft expo, food trucks, classic car show, kid’s village, and more, the live music at Sorrells Street Park schedule is follows: Sunday, Sept. 1 ($10 at gate, $8 in advance) • 2 p.m. Keil Nathan Smith • 3:30 p.m. The Blackout Band • 5 p.m. McKayla Reece • 6:30 p.m. Joe Lasher • 8 p.m. The Oak Ridge Boys Monday, Sept. 2 (free to the public) • 12:45 p.m. Super 60s Band • 2:15 p.m. Jackie Lunsford & The Carolina Band • 3:45 p.m. Ol’ Dirty Bathtub • 5:30 p.m. Ryan Perry Band • 7:30 p.m. Balsam Range www.cantonlaborday.com.

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The Marianna Black Library will present an evening with Fingerstyle Guitar Champion and Grammy Award winner Bill Mize at 7 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 29, at the library in Bryson City.

It was 50 years ago this The Broadway hit “Mamma Mia!” will hit the past weekend that Max stage at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 23, 30-31, Sept. 5-7, 12Yasgur, a 49-year-old conser14, and 2 p.m. Aug. 24-25, Sept. 1, 8 and 15 at vative Upstate New York the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville. farmer, stood onstage at Woodstock in front of The “An Appalachian Evening” summer concert 400,000 youthful faces of the series will continue with The Kruger Brothers at counterculture and simply 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at the Stecoah proclaimed, “You’ve proven to Valley Center in Robbinsville. the world that a half million The 10th season of the Concerts on the Creek young people can get together summer music series continues with Troy and have three days of fun and Underwood (Americana/folk) at 7 p.m. Friday, music and have nothing but fun Aug. 23, at Bridge Park in Sylva. and music …”

The pinnacle cultural There will be a barbecue and craft beer tasting moment of the Baby Boomer with Hoppy Trout Brewing from 7 to 9 p.m. generation, the gathering — Saturday, Aug. 24, on the Great Smoky onstage and off — known as Mountains Railroad, departing from Bryson City. the Woodstock Music & Art Fair remains at the core of my old soul being. mander-in-chief was shot down on a sunny The son of a 1960s flower child activist November morning in Dallas. mother (she still is), I was raised on not only As the decade forged ahead, we then had the ideals of the ‘60s counterculture, but also the escalation and madness in Vietnam, a war the music. The damn music, of which it all that became a touchstone for anger and politwas the catalyst for a deep, personal lifelong ical change throughout the decade — a conpassion for those acts, that scene, and writflict found to be unjust as the American body ing about it all as a journalist. count rose dramatically on the battlefields.

At the beginning of the 1960s, you had Not to mention the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy state during his Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and inauguration speech, “My fellow Americans: Malcolm X. And who could forget the vioask not what your country can do for you — ask lence and bloodshed between protesters and what you can do for your country.” And it was law enforcement during the 1968 Democratic just about three years later when our comNational Convention in Chicago?

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But, alongside the confusion and injustice was also a thick thread of compassion and change — the counterculture. Kicked off by the arrival of The Beatles in 1963 on our shores from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the Fab Four were the catalyst that set a young generation ablaze.

Soon, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed and then the women’s movement took flight, pushing aside stale social norms in hopes of a new day for equality and personal freedoms. Sadly, both are battles being fought in the 21st century — each a march of passion and pride already so far down an even longer road.

And yet, even when some point to Woodstock and say, “Well, actually, that was the end of the ‘60s,” I tend to disagree. Sure, it may seem as if we’re just going in circles every presidential election. But, I stand tall and point towards all of the changes made in our society in the name of racial equality, social acceptance and environmental conservation.

Obviously, we can (and will) do much more in those three realms, but the ball was let go to roll towards progress just about a half-century ago, when an entire generation of this country came together and stood up for what they believed was the right thing to do — help your brothers and sisters in their time of need.

The people in attendance and the music presented at Woodstock was about compassion and taking care of one another, that “we” could create a better tomorrow than what was presented before us today. And, for that, I’m an eternal optimist when it comes to the power of the human spirit for real, positive and tangible change in our society — I really believe it.

Aside from the 50th anniversary of the beloved festival recently appearing on the calendar, I’d also like to think the milestone is a moment for all of us to stop and reflect on what it is we’re trying to do (and be, and are) as we’re currently navigating choppy waters in dark, uncertain times.

Right now, there’s a brand-new PBS documentary about Woodstock. I highly recommend any and all who read this column to track it down and dive deep. Regardless of age, the timeless message of hope and change remains as vibrant today (and tomorrow) as it did in that massive field in rural Upstate New York.

I’ve watched the original 1970 Woodstock documentary film dozens of times over the years, and I’m always so mesmerized by it: the live shows, the backstage banter, the beautiful people in the crowd and on the stage.

And it makes my heart ache and explode with such love and admiration for what a single person can ignite in our world: one spark that can start a wildfire of hope and change.

As iconic singer-songwriter Graham Nash once told me, “It’s that peace is better than war and love is better than hate.” Music is the universal language by which all understanding and change is possible. The ripple effect of Woodstock forever echoes outward into the universe, touching the hearts, minds and souls of any and all within its wake.

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

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‘An Appalachian Evening’ in Stecoah

The Kruger Brothers.

The “An Appalachian Evening” summer concert series will continue with The Kruger Brothers at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at the Stecoah Valley Center in Robbinsville.

Other acts in the series will conclude with Wayne Henderson & Helen White (Aug. 31). As well, the Fall Harvest Festival will feature bluegrass legends The Gibson Brothers at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Stecoah Valley Center.

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

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As part of its “Summer Music Series,” the Marianna Black Library will present an evening with Fingerstyle Guitar Champion and Grammy Award winner Bill Mize at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, at the library in Bryson City.

Mize is a son of Tennessee, and a fitting representative of his state’s rich musical heritage. His critically lauded fingerstyle compositions are fluid and intricate, and their delivery masterful.

He received a Grammy Award for his collaboration with musician and storyteller David Holt on the recording “Stellaluna.” He’s also a past winner of the National Fingerstyle Guitar Competition at The Walnut Valley Festival, which Guitar Player Magazine has labeled this event the “U.S. Open of guitar competitions.” In 2009, Mize’s music appeared in the Ken Burns documentary “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.”

This program is free and open to the public. Snacks and refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the Marianna Black Library.

Call 828.488.3030 or visit www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

Bill Mize.

Christian music legend in Franklin

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The most awarded female vocalist in contemporary Christian music history, Sandi Patty will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. She is known for her wide vocal range, flexibility, and emotional expression. Her performances are both powerful and inspirational.

In 1979, Patty signed her first recording contact. Less than 10 years later, she was recognized as the highest-paid singer in the Christian music industry, largely due to massive touring and public appearances. She has released more than 30 solo albums and participated in many other compilation albums.

Patty has earned five Grammy Awards, 40 Dove Awards, and four Billboard Music Awards. She is also a recipient of the Gospel Music Association’s Music in the Rockies Summit Award and an inductee into the

The Groovin’ on the Green summer concert series will host Andrew Beam (classic country) at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at The Village Green in Cashiers.

The series will conclude with Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’Blues (blues) on Aug. 31.

Coolers are welcome but food and beverage vendors will be on site as well. Dogs must be on a leash and under the control of their owners at all times.

A new policy is in place this year with setting up for Groovin’ On the Green concerts.

Tents must be set up next to the path at the very back of the event lawn. Chairs may be set up in the lawn anytime the day of the concert, however no chairs may be set up within the wings of the Commons until after 4:30 p.m.

For a full concert schedule visit the concerts page on The Village Green website, www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

Sandi Patty.

Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Some of her hits include, “Hand on My Shoulder,” “For All the World,” and “Another Time, Another Place.”

Tickets start at $25 per person with priority seating available. To purchase tickets, visit www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

On the beat

A community jam will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

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. The jam is facilitated by Larry Barnett of the Sawmill Creek Porch Band.

This program received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment of the Arts.

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The Haywood County Arts Council’s Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program will hold student registration on the following dates and times: • 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at First United Methodist Church, located at 566 South Haywood Street in Waynesville.

• 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Haywood County Public Library in Waynesville.

JAM offers old-time mountain music to children in fourth grade and older. Lessons are $95 for the September through December session. Fees must be paid in advance. Classes meet from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays beginning Sept. 10 through May 2020 at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. Sibling discounted fee is $50.

JAM instructors will be on hand to assist beginning students with their choice of instrument study. Instruments are available for rental from Strains of Music in Waynesville.

Beginning its 19th year in Haywood County, the JAM program will teach students banjo, fiddle, or guitar in the traditional way mountain music has been taught for generations.

A string band class is offered to advanced students by instructor referral only. JAM instructors are Cary Fridley, guitar; Robby Robertson, string band; Travis Stuart, banjo; Bob Willoughby, fiddle; and, Maddie Mullany, advanced fiddle.

The JAM lesson schedule follows the Haywood County School System calendar.

JAM classes do not meet on early out days, school holidays, or if school is cancelled due to dangerous weather conditions. Public, private, and home schooled students are encouraged to join the JAM program.

For enrollment questions, contact Cary Fridley at caryfridley@gmail.com or by calling the Haywood County Arts Council at 828.452.0593.

Visit www.haywoodarts.org or www.facebook.com/haywoodarts.

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On the beat • Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host the “Lounge Series” at its Calaboose location with Mike Bonham Aug. 22, Robert Ferguson Aug. 23, Alma Russ Aug. 24, Wyatt Espalin Aug. 25, George Ausman Aug. 29, Hope Griffin Aug. 30, The Harmed Brothers 7 p.m. Aug. 31 and The Two Armadillos 4 p.m.

Sept. 1. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

• Blue Ridge Beer Hub (Waynesville) will host an acoustic jam with Main St. NoTones from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 22 and 29. Free and open to the public. www.blueridgebeerhub.com.

• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host a bluegrass open mic every Wednesday, an all-genres open mic every Thursday, A Loss for Words (jam/soul) Aug. 24 and Sanctum Sully (rock/jam) Aug. 31. All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.boojumbrewing.com.

• Cullowhee United Methodist Church will host the Ubuntu of the Blue Ridge and One Heart (formerly Franklin Ubuntu) 3 p.m. Aug. 25. The event is a benefit concert for Clean Slate. The concert is free, but donations will be accepted for Clean Slate. graham@email.wcu.edu.

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• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Darren Nicholson Band (Americana/classic

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• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Aug. 21 and 28, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Aug. 22 and 29. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

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• Isis Music Hall (West Asheville) will host Lawn Series w/Rahm & Friends (indie/world) 6 p.m. Aug. 21, Austin MacRae & John Shakespear (Americana/indie) 7 p.m. Aug. 21, Karyn Oliver (Americana/folk) 7 p.m. Aug. 22, Third Nature album release (jam/soul) 8:30 p.m. Aug. 23, Molly Stevens (alt-country) 7 p.m. Aug. 24, The Currys & Highbeams (folk/rock) 9 p.m. Aug. 24, Blue Yonder w/Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches (Americana/western) 6 p.m. Aug. 25, Takenobu (classical/indie) 7:30 p.m. Aug. 25, Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions w/Holly Hill Ramblers 7:30 p.m. Aug. 25, Lawn Series w/Whistlepig (honky-tonk) 6 p.m. Aug. 28 and Shel (Americana) 7 p.m. Aug. 28. www.isisasheville.com.

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Concerts on the Creek The 10th season of the Concerts on the Creek summer music series continues with Troy Underwood (Americana/folk) at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at Bridge Park in Sylva.

The Town of Sylva, Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department and Jackson County Chamber of Commerce team up to produce the Concerts on the Creek series at the Bridge Park gazebo in Sylva from 7 to 9 p.m. every Friday from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Concerts on the Creek events are free and open to the public with donations encouraged. Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy the show. Occasionally, these events will feature food truck vendors as well.

The series will conclude with The Maggie Valley Band (Americana) on Aug. 30.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday, George Reeves Aug. 23, April B. & The Cool Aug. 24 and Tea 4 Three Aug. 31. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• Legends Sports Grill (Maggie Valley) will host music semi-regularly on weekends.

828.926.9464 or www.facebook.com/ legendssportsgrillmaggievalley.

• Marianna Black Library (Bryson City) will host Frank & Allie (Americana/old-time) 7 p.m. Aug. 22. Free and open to the public. 828.488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host the “Stone Soup” open mic night every Tuesday, Shayler’s Kitchen Aug. 23 and 30, Frank & Allie (old-time/Americana) Aug. 24 and Bird in Hand Aug. 31. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

• Nantahala Brewing (Bryson City) will host Sugah & The Cubes Aug. 23, Wyatt Espalin Aug. 30 and Miller & The Hunks Aug. 31. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• Nantahala Brewing (Sylva) will host April B. & The Cool Aug. 23 and The Smoky Mountaineers Aug. 30. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

An abstract of Troy Underwood.

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

• Pub 319 (Waynesville) will host an open mic night from 8 to 11 p.m. every Wednesday.

Free and open to the public. www.pub319socialhouse.com.

• Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub (Franklin) will host Alma Russ Aug. 23, Arnold Hill Aug. 24, Gary Carter Aug. 30 and Tom Johnson Aug. 31. Shows begin at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public. www.rathskellerfranklin.com.

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

• Satulah Mountain Brewing (Highlands) will host “Hoppy Hour” and an open mic at 6 p.m. on Thursdays and live music on Friday evenings. 828.482.9794 or www.satulahmountainbrewing.com.

• The Strand at 38 Main (Waynesville) will host an “Open Mic” night from 7 to 9 p.m. on Saturdays. 828.283.0079 or www.38main.com.

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Cashiers) will host Bluegrass Thursdays w/Benny Queen at 6:30 p.m.

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Highlands) will host Bluegrass w/Nitrograss Wednesdays at 7 p.m.

• Nantahala Outdoor Center (Nantahala Gorge) will host Pioneer Chicken Stand 6:30 p.m. Aug. 31 and Noah Proudfoot & The Botanicals 6 p.m. Sept. 1. All shows are free and open to the public. www.noc.com.

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

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• Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) will host Caribbean Cowboys (oldies/surf) Aug. 24 and Kasey Clark (Americana/country) Aug. 31. 7 p.m. www.townoffranklinnc.com.

• Whiteside Brewing (Cashiers) will host Seth Brand 6 p.m. Sept. 28. Free and open to the public. 828.743.6000 or www.whitesidebrewing.com.

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The Fines Creek Heritage Fair & Music Festival will be held Sept. 6-8 at the Fines Creek Community Center.

The fair will open at 11 a.m. Friday and end at 5 p.m. Sunday. Live music starts at 3 p.m. Saturday with several local and regional acts that will take the stage throughout the day.

Food from 4 p.m. onward. Poor man’s supper on Saturday. There will also be exhibits and several vendors onsite selling homemade goods and more.

Vendor spots are available for $25.

Admission is $2 per person Friday and Sunday, and $10 for Saturday.

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The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes to improve N.C. 107 from Shook Cove Road (S.R. 1135) to Lake Tuckasegee and from Lake Tuckaseg gee to Hanging Rock Road in Cullowhee. The primary purpose to modernize the geometry of existing N.C. 107.

A public meeting will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Tuesd day, August 27 at Jackson County Recreation Complex located at 88 Cullowhee Mountain Road d in Cullowhee.

The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the project and gather input on the proposed design. As information becomes available, it may y be viewed online at the NCDOT public meeting webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings or the project website: https://Publicinput.co om/NC107-Cullowhee The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours, as no formal presentation will be made. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer a questions and receive comments. The comments and information received will be taken intto consideration as work on the project develops.

The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided p at the meeting or can be done by phone, email, or mail by September 10, 2019.

For additional information, please contact NCDOT Division D Highway 14 Assistant Design Construction Engineer Kenneth McDowell, at 253 Webster Road, Sylva, NC 28779, (828) 488-0902 or kjmcdowell@ncdot.gov.

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• Free cooking demonstrations will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturdays at Country Traditions in Dillsboro.

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• A free wine tasting will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Aug. 24 and 31 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. www.papouswineshop.com or 828.631.3075.

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There will be a barbecue and craft beer tasting with Hoppy Trout Brewing from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, departing from Bryson City.

Board the GSMR and enjoy a steam train ride along with craft beer tastings, and your own basket of Southern-style barbeque goodness with hand-pulled pork slider, a couple pork ribs, and chicken drumstick accompanied by baked beans, house-made coleslaw, and apple cobbler.

Tickets start at $79 and include a souvenir tasting glass for three samples of finely crafted beer selections. Adults-only and family friendly seating.

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Exhibition explores environmental issues through sound The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center is pleased to present, “Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment.”

This exhibition will be on display through Dec. 6. There will be a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22.

“Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment” highlights contemporary artists who use sound to engage with environmental issues. Co-curated by Carolyn Grosch, Curator of Collections & Exhibitions at the WCU Fine Art Museum, and Tyler Kinnear, Adjunct Instructor in the WCU School of Music, the exhibition features sound-based artwork that encourages visitors to listen more closely to the natural world and to think about how sound is being used in a time of environmental crisis.

The works in the exhibition, which range from a large-scale video installation to more intimate encounters with sound, ask us to consider humanity’s place in the natural world, aspects of environmental change, and the current conditions that shape our planet.

Featured artists include Cheryl Leonard, Raven Chacon, Andrea Polli, Lee Weisert, Matthew Burtner, and others.

One notable work in the exhibition is a three-channel video installation entitled

Gauge. Created by Raven Chacon, a Navajo Nation artist, and six other collaborators, Gauge is an immersive gallery experience that combines sound and image.

The time-lapse video component of Gauge captures dramatic imagery of an ice mural, created by the artists on Baffin Island, as it rises and falls with the tide.

Paired with Chacon’s field recordings of crunching snow, human tools, wind, and wildlife in the Canadian Artic landscape, this multisensory experience prompts reflection on human presence in the landscape, the cycles of nature, issues of climate change, and notions of geologic time.

Raven Chacon will visit Western Carolina University or a visiting artist reception and gallery talk from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 5. A special day-time drum performance across campus is currently in development, more details about the exhibition and associated events at arts.wcu.edu/sonicart.

The WCU Fine Art Museum has a long history of collaboration and continues to serve as a site for interdisciplinary exchange.

This exhibition is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the WCU Fine Art Museum and School of Music.

This exhibition is part of a series of WCU events and programs that dovetail with the

‘Gauge, 2013-2015,’ three-channel sound and video installation.

University’s 2019-2020 campus theme “Environment and Sustainability.”

Exhibitions, receptions, and associated programming at the museum are free and open to the public.

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On the wall The “Wheel, Slab and Sculpture Techniques” class with with Judy Brater will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Cowee Pottery School in Franklin.

Brater is a regularly invited pottery instructor at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown. Come explore wheel thrown and drape mold forms with surface decoration and carving. Coils will be rolled out to form a collar. Creative embellishments will be encouraged.

Brater will talk about the glazes and methods she uses. Wheel and hand-building will be done at this workshop. Students should bring any favorite carving or stamping tools, along with their basic pottery tool kit. All other materials will be supplied.

Cost is $50 per person. Class is limited to 20 participants. For more information and/or to register, visit www.coweepotteryschool.org.

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• There will be an artist member show through Aug. 24 at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville. For more information, call 828.452.0593, email info@haywoodarts.org or visit www.haywoodarts.org.

• The Weekly Open Studio art classes will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville, Instructor will be Betina Morgan. Open to all artists, at any stage of development, and in the medium of your choice. Cost is $20 per

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Waynesville art walk, live music “Art After Dark” will continue from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, in Waynesville.

Each first Friday of the month (MayDecember), Main Street transforms into an evening of art, music, finger foods, beverages and shopping as artisan studios and galleries keep their doors open later for local residents and visitors.

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class. There will also be a Youth Art Class from 4 to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. Cost is $10 per class. Contact Morgan at 828.550.6190 or email bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

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

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

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

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• Fiber Sunday will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, at Cowee Textiles in Room 104 at The Cowee School Heritage Center in Franklin. Bring a textile project you are working on from spinning, knitting, weaving, rug hooking, baskets, etc. If you have any questions, call or email Teresa Bouchonnet at 828.349.3878 or bouchonnet@coweetextiles.com.

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The Haywood County Arts Council (HCAC) invites interested artists to submit applications for inclusion in monthly gallery exhibits or retail spaces.

Organizations may submit applications for monthly gallery exhibits as well. All materials are available at www.haywoodarts.org under “Artists: Call for Work” or paper copies may be picked up in the gallery at 86 North Main Street in Waynesville during business hours.

Applications are due by 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6. The jury will convene and make selections in October for several exhibits in 2020 as well as retail artists. Applicants will be notified of their status in late October.

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HART to present ‘Mamma Mia!’ The 1970s are going to come roaring back with the opening of the smash Broadway hit “Mamma Mia!” at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 23, 30-31, Sept. 5-7, 12-14, and 2 p.m. Aug. 24-25, Sept.

1, 8 and 15 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

“Mamma Mia!” by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson is filled with the music of ABBA, the legendary 1970s musical group.

The show premiered in London’s West End in 1999 and on Broadway a year later where it ran for 14 years, making it the ninth longest running show in Broadway history. The show continues to run in London.

The story: a young woman’s search for her birth father. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother’s past back to the sunny Greek Island they last visited 20 years ago.

This slim story line provides the framework for songs such as “Dancing Queen,” “Take a Chance on Me” and “Super Trouper.”

The end of the show, once the plot is resolved,

turns into a concert that often leaves the audience dancing in the aisles.

“Mamma Mia!” is being directed by Mark Jones and features Alexa Edelman, Kristen Hedberg, Valerie Tissue, Michael Scott Thomas, Adam Lentini, Leif Brodersen, Georgia Reichard, Kiran Bursenos, Emily Warren McCurry, Caroline Ryan, Cody Benfield, Dillon Giles, Chris Martin, Evan McCurry, Maria Frost, Sarah Corbitt, Grizel Gonzalez-Jeuck, Jessica Garland, Mandy Wildman, Turner Henline, Riley Beaulieu, Larson Kapitan, Mia Sander, Noelle Frost, Kikiana Jones, Morgan Allen, Sabine Kapitan, Jenny Reading Winchester, Drake Frost, Ella Ledford and Chelcy Frost.

Harmons’ Den Bistro at HART is open for dining before all performances, featuring a Greek inspired buffet in keeping with the show’s setting. Reservations can be made for the show and the bistro by calling the HART Box Office from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday at 828.456.6322 or by going online to www.harttheatre.org.

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Through these private audiences, we see glimpses of the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch.

Tickets are available online at www.highlandspac.org or at the door.

An encore performance of the National Theatre of London’s live via satellite production of “The Audience” starring Helen Mirren will be screened at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at the Highlands Performing Arts Center.

For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II has met with each of her 12 Prime Ministers in a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as “The Audience.” No one knows what they discuss, not even their spouses.

From the old warrior Winston Churchill, to the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair right up to today’s meetings with the incumbent David Cameron, the Queen advises her Prime Ministers on all matters

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

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

Join Improv WNC on Facebook or just call 828.316.8761.

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Book has important lessons, links to bygone era n Ancient Rome, the Senate awarded a general who had won a great victory with a triumph, a parade that included the loot, captives, and slaves won for Rome. During this celebration a slave stood in the chariot behind the victorious general, holding a gold crown above his head and whispering throughout the event, “Remember, thou too are mortal.”

Some saints once kept a skull on their writing tables, or a piece of paper inscribed with the Writer words memento mori, objects serving as a reminder that someday they would die.

On Ash Wednesday, the priest who marks the foreheads of Catholics with an ashen cross whispers, “Remember that thou art dust and to dust thou shall return.”

Sometimes we forget that the great majority of today’s celebrities, the actors and musicians, the writers, the public figures who think themselves demigods and daily makes the news will one day be forgotten. Like Rome’s Marcus Claudius Marcellus, they will be known only to a few scholars, dust to dust, as the priests say, and dust in mankind’s memory. Such is the fickle nature of time and fame.

In the 1940s and 1950s, one of the most famous American writers was a North Carolinian, Robert Ruark (1915-1965). Reared in Wilmington, Ruark entered the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill at age 15. Like Ernest Hemingway, whom he admired, Ruark later fought in a war, became a well-known journalist, hunted big game in Africa, wrote books about hunting and several actionpacked novels, and frequently lived outside of the United States. Like Hemingway, he also indulged in drink, which led to his untimely death of cirrhosis.

Today Ruark’s books, several of which were best sellers and applauded by the critics, are little read and largely forgotten.

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In 1953, Ruark began publishing columns of autobiographical fiction in Field and Stream magazine under the title “The Old Man and the Boy.” These articles were later collected into a book by the same name, fol-

coastal North Carolina before World War II, and the adventures of a boy with his grandfather.

Ruark appropriately dedicates The Old Man and the Boy to his grandfathers, his father, and “all the honorary uncles, black and white, who took me to raise,” for in these pages we follow a boy who not only hunts the fields and fishes the waters around Wilmington and Southport, but also learns about life from the many men, particularly The Old Man, who serve as his mentors.

The opening paragraph of The Old Man and the Boy reads as follows: The Old Man knows pretty near close to everything. And mostly he ain’t painful with it. What I mean is that he went to Africa once when he was a kid, and he shot a tiger or two way out in India, or so he says, and he was in a whole mess of wars here and yonder. But he can still tell you why quail sleep at night in a tight circle or why turkeys always fly uphill.

lowed by The Old Man’s Boy Grows Older, which blends stories about the Old Man with Ruark’s later adventures in Africa.

Both of these fine books are still in print and should appeal to anyone interested in hunting, fishing, roaming the outdoors,

New Appalachian writers collection Featuring Editor Jessica Cory and contributing writers Wayne Caldwell, Ellen Perry and Gene Hyde, a reading and signing of Mountains Piled Upon Mountains will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

The collection features nearly 50 writers from across Appalachia sharing their place-based fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry.

Moving beyond the tradition of transcendental nature writing, much of the work collected here engages current issues facing the region and the planet.

Here Ruark sets the tone for the rest of the book. As we read his tales of his time with The Old Man, we experience the weather of Eastern North Carolina, the color of the sky before a storm, the faces of neighbors, the taste of coffee boiled at dawn over a fire, the feel of a turkey shoot before sunup, all delivered through the eyes of a boy from the Low

This book includes a mix of new and recent creative work by established and emerging authors. In the pages of Mountains Piled upon Mountains are celebration, mourning, confusion, loneliness, admiration, and other emotions and experiences rooted in place but transcending Appalachia’s boundaries.

For more information, call 828.586.9499 or click on www.citylightsnc.com.

Book on legendary Folk School Anna Fariello will present her book Craft & Community: John C. Campbell Folk School 1925-1945 at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

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Ruark also offers us a chance to travel back to a simpler era, to grow up with The Boy in a time without cell phones or video games and in a place where men fished and hunted, drank whiskey in the evenings, told tall tales, and instructed younger men in the ways of the world. Less than a century has passed since that time, but given the pace of our world today, Ruark’s tales of boyhood seem as ancient as Byzantium.

Finally, both books remind us of a link once regarded as vital by all civilizations, the bond between the young and the old, the passing on of wisdom and experience from one generation to the next, the need for mentors in the lives of boys and young men.

The Old Man, in his vast wisdom, never worried about what would happen to my moral character so long as I was under the care of one of the hairy townsmen. The Old Man once said, “A boy has got to grow up to be a man some day. You can delay the process, but you can’t protect the boy from manhood forever. The best and easiest way is to expose the boy to people who are already men, good and bad, drunk and sober, lazy and industrious. It is really, after all, up to the boy, when all is said and done, and there are a lot of boys who never get to be men, and a lot of men who never quit being boys.”

Let me use myself as a personal example to show you the entertainment you’ll find in these books, particularly The Old Man and the Boy. I haven’t hunted in 50 years, the few times I’ve gone fishing left me seasick and fishless, and I’m not fond of dogs, though for whatever reason they are fond of me.

And yet The Old Man and the Boy, with all its tales of hunting, fishing, and dogs, delights me on every visit. The Huckleberry Finn voice, the humor, the Old Man’s wisdom, and the love of The Boy for his grandfather … it’s like coming into a parlor in February and finding a cheery fire in the hearth, whiskey on the side table, and good friends already swapping stories.

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

The John C. Campbell Folk School is a thriving educational institution in the southwestern corner of North Carolina that serves thousands of students from all over the world who sign up for classes in folk arts, writing, and local lore.

This book features the first 20 years when those who created and sustained the Folk School now appear quite larger than life. It features ten individuals who affected its future and provides an overview of how it came into being.

Fariello is a research associate professor at Western Carolina University’s Hunter Library. She has curated over 30 exhibitions, and authored three books on Cherokee crafts.

To reserve copies of Craft & Community, please call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

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In a photo taken between 1890 and 1903, an African-American family sits on a front porch in the Great Smokies region.

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The untold story Smokies seeks to showcase history of African-Americans in the park

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER any plotlines weave through the story of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but if the park were a book, some of those plotlines be written in bold, with others buried in small type.

“We probably go overboard in telling the story of the white Appalachian settlers to this area,” said Susan Sachs, the park’s acting chief of resource education. “We do a better job of telling the stories of the Cherokee, but there’s still a lot of room for improvement. But then when it comes to the African-American story, we know that we are failing there.”

Sachs spoke during a public meeting held Aug. 5 at the Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center in Waynesville as part of a concerted effort by the park to correct that failing. The park held two open houses this month — one in Tennessee and one in North Carolina — to educate those communities about the history of African-Americans in the park and to gather input from people who have personal experiences or family stories to share. The events were part of a research effort funded by the Great Smoky Mountains Association aiming to better understand the African-American experience in Southern Appalachia, with the goal of then incorporating that knowledge into the park’s interpretive materials and educational programs. GSMA donated $24,000 to the effort in both 2018 and 2019, with the

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park requesting $20,000 for 2020.

“The National Park Service is charged to preserve all the many voices of our past,” said Smokies Superintendent Cassius Cash, who is the first African-American to hold that position. “In learning about our past, we open the doors to our future. We hope that even more people will see themselves included and connected to the Smokies through this effort.”

It’s an important project, not only from the perspective of better understanding history but also from the perspective of making the national park a welcoming space for all people, agreed Adam McNeil, who is leading the research project.

“I remember the first time I walked into one of the exhibits and I was like, ‘I’m trying to find myself,’ right?” he told the audience. “I worked across the country in different Park Service spaces. In Kansas, Kentucky, Virginia, Massachusetts twice. There would be some times where I wouldn’t see any AfricanAmericans there. What I ended up finding out was a lot of times folks didn’t come (to the parks) because they didn’t find a connection to the space.”

CONNECTING TO A PLACE McNeil, himself an African-American, is a Ph.D. student in history at Rutgers University whose love affair with the outdoors began in the Smokies when, as an undergraduate student, he found himself on a one-week spring

break excursion there through a program of the Student Conservation Association called NPS Academy. Ever since then, it’s seemed like there’s always been one reason or another — a job, a trip, an academic research project — to return.

But when he would try to find himself in the faces of the people posed in old-timey photographs, displayed at visitor centers and roadside exhibits, he’d come up short. The reason, he was led to understand, was that black people just didn’t have much history in the mountains.

“Then I started to peel back the layers historically,” he said. “I’m a scholar of slavery.

I’m a scholar of the 18th and 19th century. I felt like people kept saying that there were no enslaved people here, there were no black folks here during that particular time. It would have been a post-Civil War phenomenon. I was like, I don’t think so.”

That curiosity blossomed into a three-year research project aiming to deliver a more accurate picture of African-American presence in the Great Smoky Mountains. McNeil’s now in year two of that project, spending his time looking at oral histories, interviews and primary source documents like wills and deeds.

What he found is that, while slavery was not practiced at nearly the scale in the mountains as it was in the flatter lands down east, it was definitely practiced. According to the 1860 slave census schedule, he said, in Jackson County 348 people were enslaved by 47 enslavers and in Haywood County 317 slaves were held by 67 people. But despite that fact, many people today — AfricanAmerican or not — are under the impression that slavery didn’t really impact the mountains.

“If your family was one of the 348 or if your family was one of the 317 and you didn’t have the full will of your personal freedom and your economic freedom, it’s hard for me to be complimentary of that particular sentiment,” said McNeil.

Understanding that history changes the lens through which you see the present, he said. Many of the big slave-owning families were also the big land-owning families, the families whose names are today displayed on buildings and bridges and roads.

“That’s why to me this project is so important personally and professionally, because it not only allows me to feel better connected to

Tell your story The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is working to collect family stories from across the region that will help the park better represent the history of African-Americans in the area in its interpretive materials.

Regardless of race, people with family stories or personal experiences on this topic are encouraged to contact Resource Education Park Ranger Rhonda Wise at rhonda_wise@nps.gov.

a space, but also because it helps me to see as I’m driving, as I’m traveling, as I’m listening, so when I hear someone’s name and they say, ‘My last name is Love,’ and they’re black, that tells me a little something,” he said.

It’s likely that person would be descended from someone who was enslaved by the family whose name they now bear. But the mountains’ black residents from the 1700s and 1800s by and large didn’t have their names recorded on birth certificates or headstones or personal diaries. They were considered

Adam McNeil speaks during an Aug. 5 meeting in Waynesville. Holly Kays photo property, each individual life more often represented as a tick mark in a white man’s inventory than as a unique identity. For McNeil, wills have proven the best source of actual names for enslaved people, though it’s a chilling form of research. The documents will typically name specific enslaved people, directing that this one go to the owner’s daughter, that one to his son, and so on.

“That’s an example of actual enslaved people being traded as a commodity, as if they are chattel. As if they’re our cars,” said McNeil, reading an example from the will of James Robert Love.

Nevertheless, it’s hard to find documents containing the kind of specific information about day-to-day life and individual families needed to tell a full-bodied story — hence the need for the current effort to gather family stories from across the region. While the goal is to provide interpretation about the lives of African-Americans in the park itself, right now the Smokies is working to collect stories from the region as a whole.

“When you don’t have a whole lot of information on something very specific, you have to branch out,” said McNeil.

STORIES IN CEMETERIES That project is supported by the Great Smoky Mountains Association, but the park’s other nonprofit partner, Friends of the Smokies, funded a companion project to learn more about enslaved people buried in the Cataloochee area of the park. The nonprofit provided $10,500 for a

Comment sought on log fumigation emissions

recently completed ground-penetrating radar study at the O.E. Kerr African American cemetery. The radar study used radio waves to detect objects underground without having to disturb the soil or any potential remains.

“Basically, the purpose of this study for this part of the project was to determine the accuracy and the extent of the grave markers and the number of individuals interred at the site,” explained park archeologist Allison Harvey.

Anecdotal stories held that slaves from the O.E. Kerr family were buried there, pos-

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The Seed Lending Library of Waynesville, now in its fifth year, is seeking seed donations for the 2020 growing season.

This past year, the library checked out nearly 1,000 seed packets to local gardeners, but in order to remain self-sustaining seeds must be returned. People who checked out seeds in 2019 are asked to give a little back, and people who didn’t check seeds out are welcome to donate as well.

Seeds can be turned in at the front desk in any sort of container but must be clearly marked with variety, as well as the donor’s name and contact information. Open-pollinat-

Preserve summer’s bounty Learn the secrets of canning garden produce during a hands-on session at 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 28, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

Author, artist and gardener Brent Martin will lead this workshop, helping to can some of the bounty grown in the Plot Thickens Library Garden this year. Martin will also bring some of his Ball jar paintings to display.

828.524.3600.

It’s fair time!

The Haywood County Fair will be held Thursday, Aug. 22, through Sunday, Aug. 25, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds.

The event will include days of fun for all ages, including truck and tractor pulls, a cornhole tournament, bingo, a horse show and a variety of livestock shows, exhibits, kids events and food.

For a full schedule, visit www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

12th Annual

Youth Arts Festival at the Jackson County

Saturday September 21 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Volunteers & artists are always welcome to join us for this event!

What To Expect: Artists Demonstrations in Glass, Metal, Ceramics, Paint, Printmaking, etc.

Activities

in weaving, hand-building with clay, wheel thrown clay etc.

Music & Dance performances

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sibly three individuals. The slaves were eventually freed but stayed to work for the Kerrs until their death, the story went. But there had also been rumor that a traveling pastor was buried in the cemetery as well, having passed away while in the area.

The results of the study, which was carried out June 6 by the Southeast Archeological Center, appear to support those stories. It identified the remains of two people, with possibly a third in a row between them, and then the remains of a third person nearby. Each of the confirmed remains had both a headstone and a footstone. The middle grave with the inconclusive results had a headstone but no footstone. The markers were pretty close to the actual remains, each only a foot or two off, said Harvey.

“The main goal of this is so that we can have a better understanding of the number of individuals at the location for preserva-

ed varieties only. With questions, contact Kathy Olsen at 828.356.2507 or kathleen.olsen@haywoodcountync.gov.

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Two young African-American women sit on a rail between two small trees in a photo taken between 1890 and 1903.

tion and so we can have a better grasp of how to plan a management plan for how best to preserve those sites,” she said. “That is the main goal.”

The O.E. Kerr site is far from being the only African-American cemetery in the park. Though Harvey does not currently have funding to investigate any other sites, the long-range plan is to continue studying such cemeteries. But the best course of action, said McNeil, is to record the stories before those who lived them are put in the ground. When you bury someone, he said, “you’re not only burying an individual — you’re burying all the stories in that person as well.”

While African-Americans represented a smaller slice of the park’s historic population than whites or Native Americans, they still played an important role. The open house in Maryville, Tennessee, brought forward one man who said his father was the butler to a white family in Elkmont. The black family would arrive each year one week before the white family to open up the house, and as a result the man developed a deep connection with both the park and the natural world. He went on to become one of the first African-Americans to graduate from Haywood Community College’s forestry department, back in the 1960s.

Black people weren’t just servants and slaves and butlers. They were, for instance, the creators of what has become perhaps the most iconic musical instrument of Appalachia — the banjo, an instrument with roots that stretch back to Africa.

They were soldiers, too, with at least 12 African-American soldiers from what is now Jackson and Haywood counties fighting with the Union in the Civil War, often traveling long distances to enlist. One of McNeil’s favorite stories is that of Richard B. Boone, who enlisted in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Unit — the sister unit to the 54th Massachusetts immortalized in the 1989 film “Glory” — on June 5, 1963, and ended up surviving the war and moving to Ohio.

These stories — and others relating the lesser-known chapters of African-American history — resonated with area resident Amanda Bryson, who told McNeil she’s been working to teach her own son about black history.

“If we only knew this growing up, what braver people we could have been,” she said.

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The public comment period on proposed air quality rule changes to regulate emissions of methyl bromide at log fumigation operations has been extended through Aug. 30.

The N.C. Division of Air Quality proposes to establish an acceptable ambient level of methyl bromide because the lack of specific federal or state regulatory measures for the use of this hazardous air pollutant creates a potential public health risk, according to a DAQ press release. The proposed rule establishes emission

control requirements for hazardous air pollutants and toxic air pollutants from log fumigation operations, with a proposed amendment stating a limit of 0.005 milligrams per cubic meter within a 24-hour averaging time. Public comment is requested on a range from 0.005 to 0.078 milligrams per cubit meter.

Submit comments via email to daq.publiccomments@ncdenr.gov with the subject line “log fumigation,” or mail them to Patrick Knowlson, Division of Air Quality, 1641 Mail Service Center Raleigh, N.C. 27699-1641. The proposed rule is online at deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/air-quality/air-quality-rules/rules-hearing-process.

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For more information on how to get involved: 828.631.0271 or chelseamiller@jacksonnc.org

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Help out Panthertown A pair of trail work days is coming up in Panthertown Valley near Cashiers.

Both events will be held 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., with participants meeting at Salt Rock Gap. Dates are Monday, Aug. 26, and Saturday, Aug. 31.

The group will work on trail corridor clearing and trail tread and drainage while hiking in Panthertown.

Tools and safety equipment will be provided, but volunteers should bring water and a lunch, and wear long pants with sturdy shoes. RSVP to friends@panthertown.org or 828.269.4453.

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See the Southern Appalachians through the eyes of famed 18th-century explorer William Bartram with a lecture offered at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, at the Highlands Nature Center in Highlands.

Brent Martin, director of the N.C. Bartram Trail Society, will give a talk titled “’Sublimely Awful Scenes’: William Bartram’s Travels Through the Upper Little Tennessee River Valley in 1775.” Batram’s travels through Western North Carolina and northeastern Georgia in May 1775 provide a rare glimpse into the area’s ecological and cultural features at that time. His 1791 publication Travels describes plant and tree species unknown to western science at the time, Cherokee villages and their inhabitants, and the landscape’s mountains and valleys. It is still an invaluable resource for 18th-century American botany and Native American history.

In addition to his work with the N.C. Bartram Trail Society, Martin is the co-owner/operator of Alarka Institute, LLC, a Macon County business offering workshops and field trips on a wide variety of cultural and natural history subjects.

The lecture is part of the Zahner Conservation Lecture Series, which offers free talks on a variety of conservationrelated topics, weekly at 6 p.m. on Thursdays through Sept.

12. Martin’s lecture is sponsored by Martha and Michael Dupuis. For a full schedule, visit www.highlandsbiological.org or call 828.526.2221.

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Become a mushroom hunter Mushroom expert James Pader will lead a foray in search of edible ‘shrooms 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at Cliffside Lake Pavilion near Highlands.

The program will offer a chance to hunt mushrooms with fellow enthusiasts and teach participants how to identify common species. The program is free, with donations requested. Text 828.342.0873 to register.

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Blue Ridge Parkway rangers will lead a hike to the East Fork of the Pigeon River at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 23, starting from Looking Glass Rock Overlook on milepost 417 of the Parkway.

The moderate, 2.5-mile round-trip hike will pass through hardwood forest on its way to the river, with rangers discussing water resources and how human influences affect the Parkway environment. Participants should bring water, good walking shoes and clothing for changeable weather.

828.298.5330, ext. 304.

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Tennis clinic seeks volunteers

Volleyball league forming in Waynesville An organizational meeting for a fall adult volleyball league will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, at the Waynesville Recreation Center.

The league is open to volleyball players 18 and older as of Oct. 1. The season will run from Oct. 9 through Dec. 18. Teams will have four to 10 players, with the entry fee due Oct. 2 based on the number of

A new program aiming to give people with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to participate in tennis clinics in Waynesville is looking for volunteers, with an interest meeting scheduled for 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, at the Waynesville Recreation Center.

The program, being offered by the Abilities Tennis Association of North Carolina, will take place at the Waynesville Recreation Park. Volunteers should plan on participating in a Saturday morning training session Sept. 21 and then assisting with conducting the first clinic. Subsequent clinics will be held Sept. 28, Oct. 5, Oct. 12, Oct. 19 and Oct. 26, all Saturdays.

Contact Tim Petrea, tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov or 828.456.2030.

Waynesville rec facilities to close temporarily

Nat Geo explorer to speak at WCU Renowned explorer Mike Libecki, National Geographic’s 2013 “Adventurer of the Year,” will visit Western Carolina University on Thursday, Aug. 22, to deliver a presentation and take part in a panel discussion.

The presentation will begin at 7 p.m. in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center and be followed by the discussion featuring Libecki and five current and former members of the university’s faculty and staff.

Both events will center on the topic “Wilderness and its Connection to Wellness” and are part of the WCU Outdoor Adventure Speaker Series. It will kick off the new “Wilderness as Wellness” programming series, which will offer outings across the mountains this fall for students, faculty and staff.

A native of Clovis, California, Libecki

began learning to climb at age 17 in nearby Yosemite National Park. Over the years, he climbed big rock walls and alpine summits with multiple first ascents while successfully completing more than 80 expeditions across the globe. In 2012, he led a National Geographic-sponsored trip to Antarctica’s Queen Maud Land, where he and his partners battled extreme cold in an epic 10-day climb to the summit of then-untouched Bertha’s Tower. Libecki’s 16-year-old daughter Lilliana has been his partner in adventure in many of these expeditions, accompanying him to 25 countries on all seven continents, and the father and daughter have joined together to start a nonprofit organization that works on conservation and humanitarian efforts around the globe.

Excursions through the “Wilderness as Wellness” series will include: a yoga and mindfulness summit hike to Sams Knob Saturday, Sept. 28; optimizing physical wellness and fueling the body for performance outdoors in Panthertown Valley Sunday, Nov. 3; and a finals week de-stressor hike on the university trail system Wednesday, Dec. 4.

Jeremiah Haas, jhaas@wcu.edu or 828.227.8805.

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Several upcoming closures will affect the Waynesville Recreation Center and the Old Armory. n On Thursday, Aug. 29, both facilities will be closed 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. for a departmental meeting. n The entire rec center will close for annual maintenance Sept. 26 to Oct. 4. However, the gym will be closed Sept. 8 to Oct. 5 and the pool will close from Sept. 26 to Oct. 19.

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Mike Libecki checks his rock equipment during an expedition on Socotra Island in Yemen. Josh Helling photo

Tuckasegee Blue Trail to launch in Dillsboro A community celebration of the launch of the Tuckasegee River Blue Trail will feature a litter pickup and social time over beer beginning at noon Sunday, Aug. 25.

Participants will meet at noon at Innovation Station in Dillsboro to help clean up Scotts Creek, and the Blue Trail Launch Social will be held at the same location from 3 to 5 p.m. The event will offer opportunity to hear about the latest and greatest happenings along the Tuck and to take home a copy of the Tuckasegee River Blue Trail Map. The Tuckasegee River Blue Trail meanders for nearly 60 miles, from the headwaters in Panthertown Valley through Cullowhee, Dillsboro and Bryson City before joining the Little Tennessee River. Blue Trails are stretches of river that enjoy special clean water safeguards and are destinations for fishing, boating and other recreation. Just as hiking trails help people explore the land, Blue Trails help people explore rivers.

RSVP for the litter cleanup at www.americanrivers.org/scottscreek, or explore the Tuck Blue Trail online at www.americanrivers.org/tuckstorymap.

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Students check out their aquatic discoveries. File photo

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Jump in with Kids in the Creek Volunteers are needed to help out with the 20th annual Kids in the Creek program, this year scheduled for Sept. 9 through Sept. 12 at Canton Recreation Park.

Every September, all Haywood County eighth graders go on a field trip, organized by Haywood Waterways Association, to learn about the county’s water resources. Students learn about watershed hydrology and chem-

istry, and collect fish and aquatic bugs.

Hours will be 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Sept. 9-11 and 8:30 to 11:45 p.m. Sept. 12.

Volunteers can help out for a half day or whole day, with help especially needed Sept. 11-12. No experience is necessary.

RSVP by Sept. 5 to Christine O’Brien at 828.476.4667, ext. 11, or christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com.

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Kids in Parks to celebrate 10 years

Fair

August 22-25, 2019 Haywood County Fairgrounds Explore fair exhibits, vendor booths, chainsaw artist crafter demonstrations, farm animal viewing zoo, livestock shows, and more…

Entries accepted Tuesday, August 20

WEDNESDAY, 5-7PM

SATURDAY, 9AM-10PM

Fair isn’t officially open but the midway carnival and rides will be open with no parking fee!

9am-11pm Midway Rides Open 10am Tractor Pull 10am-10pm Climbing Wall 10:30am Baking Contest and Auction 1pm Icecream Eating Contest 1:30pm Cornhole Tournament 10am/Noon/3pm Dinosaur Show 3:30 pm Watermelon Eating Contest 1-6pm Caricature Artist 5-8pm Heritage Hoedown

THURSDAY, 4-10PM 4pm K9 Skills Demonstration 5:30pm Opening Ceremonies 6pm Hola Community Arts dance troupe 7pm Bingo Night

FRIDAY, 4-10PM 4-9pm 5-9pm 5-8pm 5-10pm 7pm

Ms Arty Pants Creation Station New Generation Jamboree Piano Juggler Stage Show Midway rides open Horse Show

SUNDAY, 9AM-5PM 10am 11am-5pm 1-5pm 1pm 1-4pm 1:30-5pm

Smokey Mountain Cowboy Church Climbing Wall Midway Rides Open Truck Pull Caricature Artist Smoky Mountain Jubilee

Call 828.400.1704 for information Schedule subject to change

www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org

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The inaugural National TRACK Trails Day will offer a variety of guided hikes and animal encounters for kids and families on Saturday, Aug. 24, in a regional event celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Kids in Parks program.

Activities will include: n An ecoEXPLORE Herpetology Season Summit, 10 a.m. at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. Families can meet a herpetologist and live animals, and help track wild box turtles. Children must complete ecoEXPLORE activities to participate. www.ecoexplore.net. n A ranger-led adventure at Rumbling Bald, 11 a.m. at Chimney Rock State Park in Lake Lure. A ranger will lead a TRACK Trail adventure at the Rumbling Bald climbing access. A shuttle bus from the Chimney Rock access will be available at 10:30 a.m. n A family hike on the Great Woodland

Adventure Trail, 12:30 p.m. at Chimney Rock State Park in Lake Lure. Park staff will lead this hike inside the Chimney Rock access. An entry fee is required. n Family Animal Encounters, 2 p.m. at Chimney Rock State Park in Lake Lure. A ranger will provide an informal program with live animals inside the Chimney Rock access. Entry fee required.

All year long, free brochures at TRACK Trail locations nationwide encourage children to engage with the outdoors and offer prizes as a bonus for participating. Kids in Parks works to encourage children and parents to improve wellness by venturing outdoors and “unplugging” from the distractions of modern life. It began with the installation of a TRACK Trail on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville in 2009, and was developed by the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation in partnership with the National Park Service and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation. www.kidsinparks.com.

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August 21-27, 2019

A paving project now underway on Little River Road in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will cause single-lane closures and traffic delays through its planned completion Sept. 20.

The work involves applying a thin pavement overlay to the entire length of the roadway between Sugarlands Visitor Center and the Townsend Wye, along with associated pull-offs and parking lots, and Elkmont Road leading to the campground.

Single-lane closures will be permitted between 7 p.m. Sundays and 5 p.m. Fridays, managed with flagging operations. Parking area and pull-offs will be closed intermittently. No lane closures will be allowed on weekends, holidays or during the Fall Rod Run Sept. 15.

The Federal Highway Administration awarded the $6.5 million paving contract to GC Works, Inc. For more information about temporary road closures, visit www.nps.gov/grsm or follow SmokiesRoadsNPS on Twitter.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Bingo Night is at 6 p.m. on the second Saturday at the Fines Creek Community Center. 25 cents per game.

Info: www.fb.me/finescreekorg or 593.7042.

• The Haywood County Fair is set for Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 22-25, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. Truck and tractor pulls, cornhole tournament, bingo, horse show and variety of livestock shows, exhibits, kids events and food. Full schedule: www.HaywoodCountyFairgrounds.org.

• The annual decoration for the Lower Coward Cemetery is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25, at 2842 Caney Fork Road in Cullowhee.

• The N.C. Division of Air Quality is extending the public comment period to Aug. 30 on the proposed air quality rule changes to regulate emissions of methyl bromide at log fumigation operations. Proposed rule, amendment and fiscal note: https://tinyurl.com/y57bsnmp.

Comments may be submitted to: daq.publiccomments@ncdenr.gov or by mail: Patrick Knowlson, Division of Air Quality, 1641 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1641.

• The Jackson County Tourism Development Authority will present its Visitor Research Project and first threeyear strategic plan twice in the first week of September: at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 3 at the Jackson County Public Library Community Room in Sylva and at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 4 at the Albert Carlton Public Library Community Room in Cashiers.

• Tickets are on sale now for the N.C. Mountain State Fair, which is Sept. 6-15, at the WNC Agricultural Center in Fletcher. Advance tickets: $8 for adults; $4 for ages 6-12 and 65-up. Advance tickets also available at Ingles. Ride tickets are $12 in advance for 21 tickets, a savings of $8. Tickets and info: www.mountainfair.org.

• No Barriers will hold its eighth annual Outdoor Classic on Sept. 9-10 at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove in Asheville. Hike, tennis and 18-hole scramble golf tournament – as well as red-carpet reception and gala. No Barriers helps people break through barriers, find their inner purpose and contribute their best to the world. https://tinyurl.com/y6om43vv or 713.4179.

• Blue Ridge Public Radio and National Public Radio will host a community conversation to tackle the topic of trust in journalism at 7 p.m. on Sept. 10 at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts in Asheville.

Featuring Elizabeth Jensen, NPR’s Public Editor; Mark Memmott, NPR’s Senior Editor for Standards and Practices; Matt Bush, BPR’s News Director; and local reporters and editors from news outlets across WNC. Tickets: $20; available at tinyurl.com/yyqnnjk9 or 257.4530.

• Jackson County Arts Council is accepting applications for Grassroots subgrants through Aug. 30. Application info: www.jacksoncountyarts.org or info@jacksoncountyarts.org. Info: 507.9820.

• Cullowhee Planning council will meet at 6 p.m. on Sept. 9 in Conference Room 101A of the Cordelia Camp Building on Western Carolina University’s campus in Cullowhee. (Rescheduled from regular monthly meeting date of Sept. 2 due to Labor Day holiday.

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

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

cy technicians. Registration: $1,099 (includes all materials). Go.wcu.edu/pharm-tech or 227.7397.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Haywood Community College will offer boating safety courses from 6-9 p.m. on Aug. 28-29 on the campus of HCC, Building 3300, Room 3322. Must attend consecutive evenings. Future offering is Sept. 18-19.

Preregistration required: www.ncwildlife.org.

• Registration is underway for offer a business writing workshop entitled “Professional Business Writing from the Basics to Audience Engagement” that will be offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichmen from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 29, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Cost: $139 by Aug. 1; $169 after.

Pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for a series of financial literacy classes and a savings incentive program for residents of Bethel, Clyde and Canton. Applications due by Aug. 30. Call: 354.0067.

• Registration is underway for a six-week online beginning German language course that will be offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from Sept. 4-Oct. 15 in Cullowhee. Cost: $79. Register or get more info: learn.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will host a seminar on “Succession Planning for Small Businesses” from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5, in the College’s Regional High Technology Center auditorium. SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a social media & tourism marketing series from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5, at the College’s Regional High Technology Center in Waynesville. Led by Brindley Faile, Haywood County Tourism Development Authority digital marketing and public relations manager. 627.4512 or SBC.Haywood.edu.

• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will hold a seminar on “How to Write a Business Plan from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the College’s Regional High Technology Center, Room 3021, in Waynesville. SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Registration is underway for a “Lean Thinking” workshop that will be offered from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 13, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Focus is on improving customer experience while reducing unnecessary clutter and process steps. Cost: $249 by Aug. 30; $279 after. For info and to register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for a High Impact Leadership Certificate Program that will be offered through Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from Sept. 16-20 at WCU’s Biltmore Park instructional site in Asheville.

Registration Fee: $849; nonprofit rate is $649.

Pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for a Digital Marketing and Public Relations Certificate program that will be offered from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Fridays from Sept. 27-Nov. 8 at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Registration: $640 for the full program or $119 for each individual workshop.

Pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for a Pharmacy Technician Program with a Clinical Externship that will be offered

by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from 6-8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Oct. 8-Nov. 26, in room 143 of the Cordelia Camp Building on WCU’s Cullowhee Campus.

50-hour program prepares students to work as pharma-

• Ubuntu of the Blue Ridge and One Heart will perform a benefit concert for Clean Slate at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25, at Cullowhee United Methodist Church. graham@email.wcu.edu.

• Donors and sponsorships are being accepted now for the PAWS 16th annual Wine Tasting and Silent Auction.

Event is Aug. 31; proceeds benefit PAWS of Bryson City. www.pawsbrysoncity.org.

• Tickets are on sale now for Southwestern Community’s “Boots, Blue Jeans & Bling” gala, which is set for Sept.

7 at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. Fundraiser supporting student scholarships. Musical entertainment by Steve Johannessen (classics) and Crocodile Smile (variety of danceable music). Dinner, silent auction, wine pull, cornhole, best-dressed contest and more. www.southwesterncc.edu/gala, 339.4227 or k_posey@southwesterncc.edu.

• Tickets for Haywood Community College Foundation’s fourth annual Shine & Dine Gala are on sale. The event is from 6-8:30 p.m. on Sept. 13, at Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville; theme is “Simple as Black and White.” Buffet dinner, music and opportunity to support HCC through a wine pull and auction.

Sponsorship levels from $250-$5,000. Individual tickets: $75. Hccgalaevents.com or 627.4522. Sponsorship info: 627.4544 or pahardin@haywood.edu.

VOLUNTEERS & VENDORS • Haywood Waterways is seeking volunteers to help plant native shrubs and plants to help filter and reduce runoff from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. on Aug. 24 at Elevated Park, 3732 Soco Rd., in Maggie Valley.

• Volunteers are being sought for Special Needs Clinics through the Waynesville Recreational Department.

Interest meeting is at 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 27, at the Waynesville Recreation Center. tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov or 456.2030.

• Tables are available to rent for the Jackson County Senior Center’s upcoming Yard Sales and Craft Shows, which are from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturdays, Sept. 14 and Oct. 13, at the Department on Aging building in Sylva. Cost: $10 for one table or two for $15. Info: 586.5494.

• The Jackson County Green Energy Park is seeking artists to join the 12th annual Youth Arts Festival, which is from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, in Dillsboro. Sign up: 631.0271 or chelseamiller@jcgep.org. www.JCGEP.org.

HEALTH MATTERS • Shaking the Mountains for those affected by Essential Tremor meets at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 21, at the Jackson County Senior Center Room No. 135. 736.3165 or teddyk1942@gmail.com.

• Yoga Basics 5 Week Series, Level 2, is scheduled for 6:45-7:45 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, at Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $70 or $65 if completed YB1 or YBCC1. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• An Ayurvedic Discussion is set for noon-1 p.m. on Aug. 22 at the Maggie Valley Wellness Center, 461 Moody Farm Road in Maggie Valley. Learn how Ayurveda can help improve your health. 944.0288.

• Buti, Hoops + Bubbles is scheduled for 6-7:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 23, at Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $25. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

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 • Five Prana Ayurvedic Skincare Workshop is set for 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24, at Waynesville Yoga Center.

Cost: $50. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Honoring Your Spirit: Sound Healing and Meditation is set for 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25, at Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $20. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• A Diabetes Prevention Program will begin with a class session from noon-1 p.m. on Sept. 5 at the Haywood County HHSA. Lifestyle change program dedicated to preventing type 2 diabetes through a series of 24 onehour group classes. Classes will meet on Thursdays.

• Swain Community Hospital and Harris Regional Hospital will observe national suicide prevention awareness month at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5, in the Easton Conference room at Harris Regional Hospital.

488.4027 or 800.273.8255.

• Buti Glow will be offered from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6, at Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $14.

Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Hot + Cold Stone Restorative with Gentle Yin is set for noon-1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7, at Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $20. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Sunset Yoga at Waterrock Knob will be offered by Waynesville Yoga Center from 6:40-7:40 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 8. Cost: $14. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• A Medicare 101 info session will be offered from 2-3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium.

• A “Preparation for Childbirth” class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday from Oct. 3-24 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville. Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

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

Info: MyHaywoodRegional.com/YogaforCancer or 452.8691.

• “Your Amazing Newborn” class will be offered from 79 p.m. on Sept. 5 and Nov. 7 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville. Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

• “Breastfeeding A-Z” class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. on Sept. 12 and Nov. 14 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville. Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

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

• “Nourishing You” – an introductory “Yoga for Cancer” class, is offered from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Fridays at the Haywood Breast Center in Waynesville. 452.8691 or MyHaywoodRegional.com/YogaforCancer.

• Jackson County Department of Public Health is offer-

ing diabetes self-management education as well as medical nutrition therapy. Info: 587.8240 or http://health.jacksonnc.org/wic.

• “Riding the Waves of Cancer” meets from 2:30-4 p.m. on Thursdays at the Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center. Physician referral from an oncologist or cancer doctor is required: Myhaywoodregional.com/yogaforcancer. 452.8691.

• Codependents Anonymous (CoDA) meets at 5:30 p.m. on Fridays at the Friendship House on Academy Street, behind and adjoining the First United Methodist Church of Waynesville. Group of persons desiring healthy and fulfilling relationships. 775.2782 or www.coda.org.

• The Haywood County Dementia Caregivers' Support Group has change the location of its meetings. The group will meet at the Haywood Senior Resource Center (81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville). The meetings are scheduled from 4:30 PM until 6:00 PM on the fourth Tuesday. 926.0018.

• Nutrition counseling and diabetes education are offered through Macon County Public Health in Franklin. 349.2455.

• Western Carolina University’s student-run, Mountain Area Pro Bono Physical Therapy Clinic will be open from 6-8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays of each month.

227.3527.

• HIV and syphilis testing will is offered during normal business hours at Jackson County Health Department.

• “Laughing Balsam Sangha,” a meeting for Mindfullness in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, meets will meet from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Mondays at 318 Skyland Drive in Sylva. Included are sitting and walking meditation, and Dharma discussion. Free admission. 335.8210, and “Like” them on Facebook.

• The Jackson County Department of Public Health will offer a general clinic from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 587.8225.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • Lake Junaluska is extending its outdoor hours further into the season. The pool will be open weekends through September and offer boat rentals on weekends through the end of October. Info and prices: 452.2881 or lakejunaluska.com/pool.

• An hour yoga class is offered at 9 a.m. on Wednesdays at the Maggie Valley Wellness Center. $15 for a single class, or $55 for a package of four classes. 944.0288 or maggievalleywellness.com.

SPIRITUAL • An opportunity to obtain unfiltered information from qualified teachers about what the Catholic Church believes and how members are called to live out their faith will be offered starting at 6 p.m. on Aug. 22 at Saint John the Evangelist Church in Waynesville.

456.6707.

• The Friends of the World Methodist Museum’s 35th

• An “Eco Explorers: Monarchs” program will be offered to ages 8-13 from 1-3 p.m. on Aug. 31 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard.

Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• An information session on “Planning for College (for Parents)” from 6-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 3, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. 356.2507 or Kathleen.olsen@haywoodcountync.gov.

• The Swain County Democratic Party will hold its Whittier/Cherokee Precinct Meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, at the Chestnut Tree Inn in Cherokee. 497.9498.

• “Nature Nuts: Life Cycles” will be presented to ages 4-7 from 9-11 a.m. on Sept. 4 and 19 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• The Haywood County NAACP meets at 2 p.m. on Aug. 31 at Harris Chapel AME Zion, 26 Prospect St., in Canton.

• Kids in the Creek is set for Sept. 9-12 at Canton Recreation Park. Learn about watershed hydrology, water resources in Haywood County, water chemistry and more. Collect fish and aquatic bugs. Hours are 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Sept. 9-11 and 8:30-11:45 a.m. on Sept. 12. RSVP by Sept. 5: 476.4667, ext. 11 or Christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS • Anna Fariello will be presenting her book Craft & Community at book signing and reception at 6:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 23, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

• Author Bill Jacobs will present his book “Whence These Special Places? The Geology of Cashiers, Highlands & Panthertown Valley” from 6:30-8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6, at the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library in Cashiers. Panthertown.org or 743.1638.

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

• A family movie will be shown at 10:30 a.m. every Friday at Hudson Library in Highlands.

• Registration is underway for the fall PGA Jr. League golf team at Lake Junaluska golf Course. League runs from September through October. Registration fee: $190. Register: www.pgajrleague.com/sign-up. Info: 456.5777 or ctcarswell@lakejunaluska.com.

KIDS FILMS “The Lion King”, will be shown at Smoky Mountain Cinema in Waynesville Plaza. Shown at 1:30, 4:30 & 7:15 p.m. on Aug. 21-22. Visit www.fandango.com for pricing & tickets. Info. on Facebook or 246.0588.

• The Highlands Biological Foundation will offer a series of nature-themed films and documentaries shown at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth

A&E SPECIAL EVENTS & FESTIVALS • The Nikwasi Initiative will host a “Honoring Nikwasi” celebration at 10 a.m. on Aug. 24 at the big Bear shelter on the Little Tennessee River Greenway in Franklin. Observing the return of the Nikwasi Mound by the Town of Franklin to the Nikwasi Initiative, comprised of citizens from the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians. Speakers, storytellers and food truck. www.nikwasi-initiative.org or nikwasi.initiative@gmail.com.

• Tickets are available for the 49th Smoky Mountain Folk Festival, which is scheduled for Aug. 30-31 at Lake Junaluska. Info and tickets: lakejunaluska.com/sm-folk-festival or 800.222.4930.

• The Fines Creek Heritage Fair & Music Festival is set for Sept. 6-8 at the Fines Creek Community Center.

Watch crafts being made, hear about area history and listen to music. Fair starts at 11 a.m. Friday and ends at 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission: $2 per person on Friday and Sunday; $10 on Saturday. Vendor spots are $25. Info: www.fb.me/finescreekorg, 246.3366 or 400.4433.

• Tickets are on sale now for “Thunder in the Smokies” motorcycle rally, which is Sept. 6-8 in

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

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

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

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

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

• A Parkinson’s Support Group is held at 2 p.m. on the last Wednesdays of each month at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

KIDS & FAMILIES • The Jackson County Department of Public Health and the Jackson County Public Schools will offer a program about the link between health and academics starting with a Q&A session available to parents from 6-7 p.m. on Aug. 22 at Smoky Mountain High School in Sylva. Classes start Aug. 26 at Smoky Mountain and Aug. 29 at Blue Ridge Early College.

587.8292 or 587.8252.

• Online registration is underway for the 2019-20 Young Artists Program, which is set for Aug. 28-30 at Waynesville Art School. For ages 5-19. Info: 246.9869 or www.WaynesvilleArtSchool.com.

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• A Fall Adult Volleyball League will be offered through the Waynesville Parks & Recreation Department with an organizational meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 4, at the Waynesville Recreation Center. Must be 18 as of Oct. 1. Season is Oct. 9-Dec. 18. Entry fee will be based on number of teams at organizational meeting. 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

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• A “Walk With A Doc” program is scheduled for 10 a.m. each Saturday at the Lake Junaluska Kern Center or Canton Rec Park.

MyHaywoodRegional.com/WalkwithaDoc.

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

• A “Nature Nuts: Monarchs” program will be offered to ages 4-7 from 9-11 a.m. on Aug. 31 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

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• The Haywood County Senior Resource Center holds a dementia caregivers support group from 4:30-6 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday each month in Waynesville.

356.2800 or www.haywoodseniors.org.

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• Tickets are on sale now for the Fall Harvest Festival, which will feature bluegrass legends The Gibson Brothers at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Stecoah Valley Center. Info and tickets: www.stecoahvalleycenter.com. All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. in the air-conditioned Lynn L. Shields Auditorium.

FOOD & DRINK • The “Uncorked: Wine & Rail Pairing Experience” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

7, 21 & 22, Nov. 2 and Dec 31 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. Full service alladult first-class car. Wine pairings with a meal and more. 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com.

• Bryson City Wine Market will offer “Destination Italy” – a tour of Italian wines – from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22 at 1161 Main Street in Bryson City.

Cost: $30. RSVP: 538.0420.

• Bryson City Wine Market will offer “California Dreamin’” – tastes off Napa, Sonoma and beyond – from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5, at 1161 Main Street in Bryson City. Cost: $30. RSVP: 538.0420.

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• The Kruger Brothers perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24 at the Stecoah Valley Center in Robbinsville. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

• The Marianna Black Library will present an evening with Fingerstyle Guitar Champion and Grammy Award winner Bill Mize at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, at the library in Bryson City.

• Wayne Henderson and Helen White perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 31 at the Stecoah Valley Center in Robbinsville. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

• Sandi Patty will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets start at $25 per person with priority seating available. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • The “Travels and Tall Tales” lecture series will continue with Alan French at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

• The Concerts on the Creek will host Troy Underwood (Americna/folk) at 7 p.m. on Aug. 23 at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. Free and open to the public.

• Bingo will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 22 at the Maggie Valley Pavilion next to town hall. 956.7630.

• The Concerts on the Creek will wrap up for the year with The Maggie Valley Band (Americana) at 7 p.m. on Aug. 30 at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. Free and open to the public. www.mountainlovers.com

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• An encore performance of the National Theatre of London’s live via satellite production of “The Audience” starring Helen Mirren will be screened at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at the Highlands Performing Arts Center. www.highlandspac.org.

• Groovin’ on the Green will feature Andrew Beam (classic country) at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 23 at the Village Green in Cashiers. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com

• Pickin’ on the Square in Franklin will host Caribbean Cowboys (oldies/surf) Aug. 24 at 7 p.m. www.townoffranklinnc.com.

• Pickin’ on the Square in Franklin will host Kasey Clark (Americana/country) Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. www.townoffranklinnc.com.

• Groovin’ on the Green will conclude with Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’Blues (blues) at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 31 at the Village Green in Cashiers. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com • Nantahala Outdoor Center (Nantahala Gorge) will host Pioneer Chicken Stand 6:30 p.m. Aug. 31 and Noah Proudfoot & The Botanicals 6 p.m. Sept. 1. All shows are free and open to the public. www.noc.com.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Marianna Black Library in Bryson City will host Frank & Allie (Americana/old-time) 7 p.m. Aug. 22.

Free and open to the public. 488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

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• The smash Broadway hit “Mamma Mia!” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 23, 30-31, Sept. 5-7, 12-14, and 2 p.m. Aug. 24-25, Sept. 1, 8 and 15 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

• Dogwood Crafters Co-Op will offer a Fabric Scarecrow workshop from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge. Cost: $11.

Register by Aug. 15 by calling: 586.2248.

• Registration is underway for a Blacksmithing Fundamentals Class that will be offered from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 24-25, at the Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Cost: $275(includes materials). Preregistration required: 631.0271. Info: www.JCGEP.org.

• NCWN-West and the Jackson County Regional Public Library will host “A Day for Writers” on Saturday, Aug. 24, at the library in Sylva. Keynote speaker is C. Hope Clark, author of two mystery series. Other presenters include poet Joseph Bathanti, novelist David Joy, writer/editor Carol Crawford and Karen Paul Holmes. $65 for NCWN members; $78 for nonmembers or $35 for students. www.netwestwriters.blogspot.com.

Register online: www.ncwriters.org. Info: gcbmountaingirl@gmail.com.

• Fiber Sunday is set for 2-5 p.m. on Aug. 25 in Room 104 of the Cowee School Heritage Center, 51 Cowee School Dr. in Franklin. Bring a project on which you are working. 349.3878 or bouchonnet@coweetextiles.com.

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• The Haywood Choral Society (formerly “Haywood Community Chorus”) will open its fall season with registration and rehearsal on Monday, Sept. 2, at the Wilson Children’s complex at Lake Junaluska.

Preparations for annual concert, scheduled for 7 p.m. on Dec. 1 at First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. Haywoodchoralsociety.org, 557.9187 or 973.224.1022.

• Registration is underway for an Intermediate Bladesmithing Class, which will be offered from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 7-8, at Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Led by Brock Martin of WarFire Forge. Produce a blade of high-carbon steel with more attention on fit and finish. Advance registration required: 631.0271 or www.JCGEP.org.

• Applications are being accepted for the Jackson County Citizens Academy, which begins at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 12. Opportunity for county residents to get an in-depth look at the functions of county government.

For info or to request and application: 631.2207 or jcfitzgerald@jacksonnc.org.

• Open Studio Wednesdays are from 6-10 p.m. at Waynesville Art School, 303 N. Haywood Street. $15 per session. Embrace your creativity while making art alongside other artists. Registration required: 246.9869 or WaynesvilleArtSchool.com.

• Jackson County Public Library in Sylva is hosting craft therapy. This get-together will be the first Tuesday of each month from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. It will take place in the Atrium at the library. Craft therapy is an evening of up-cycle crafting at the library. Drop in for the whole session or as long as you would like.

Each month will have a different theme the library will supply tools and materials that you may need to create something within that theme. If you have anything craft/art related to donate, please bring it by the library or call them at 586.2016, dduffy@fontanalib.org and www.fontanalib.org.

• A variety of dance classes ranging from foxtrot and waltz to rumba and cha cha – as well as East Coast Swing and Salsa – are taught at multiple times and days weekly at Folkmoot Center and Waynesville Wellness. $10 per activity per person. No partner or experience necessary. For dates and times, and to RSVP, 316.1344 or dancetonightwaynesville@gmail.com.

• The Dave Drake Studio Barn offers a variety of ceramic and raku classes by appointment as well as weekly drawing, writers and community knitters groups. Info: 787.2865.

• The Fines Creek Flea Market is scheduled for 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturdays, Sept. 14 and 28, at the Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road in Clyde. 550.6842 or 593.7042. Info: www.fb.me/finescreekorg.

The Haywood County Public Library is offering online lifelong learning courses in over 30 subject areas, many of which offer continuing education units, through Universal Class. Free for library cardholders. www.haywoodlibrary.org or 452.5169.

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

• A comedy improvisation class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. on Tuesdays at Frog Level Brewing in Haywood County. Led by improv teacher Wayne Porter, who studied at Sak Comedy Lab in Orlando and performed improv with several groups. To RSVP and get directions, call 316.8761.

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

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

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

Contact Morgan at 550.6190 or bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

• Uptown Gallery will offer free open studio times from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and from 11 a.m.-3

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • Applications are being accepted for artists who want their work included in monthly gallery exhibits or retail spaces through the Haywood County Arts Council. HaywoodArts.org or GalleryGifts@HaywoodArts.org.

• The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center is pleased to present, “Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment.” This exhibition will be on display through Dec. 6. There will be a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22. bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

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• “Plants-For-Live” – a Plant Pure Nation pod meeting – is set for 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, above the Sassy Girl shop in Dillsboro. Topics: healthy lunchbox meals and treats, secrets of the Blue Zones for health and longevity. Free.

• A two-hour paddle trip will be offered by Alarka Expeditions on Thursday, Aug. 22, from Cullasaja to Currahee in Macon County. Cost: $30 if you have your own boat or $55 to borrow one. www.alarkaexpeditions.com.

• Mike Libecki, National Geographic’s 2013 “Adventurer of the Year” will be at Western Carolina University at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center. jhaas@wcu.edu or 227.8805.

• Blue Ridge Parkway Rangers will lead a 2.5-mile roundtrip hike at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 23, through a hardwood forest down to the East Fork of the Pigeon River. Meet at the Glass Rock Overlook at Milepost 417. Bring water, good walking shoes and clothing for changeable weather. Info: 298.5330, ext. 304.

• An ecoExplore Herpetology Season Summit is set for 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24, at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. Meet a herpetologist and live animals and help track wild box turtles. www.ecoexplore.net. www.kidsinparks.com.

• Mushroom expert James Pader will lead a summer foray in search of edible mushrooms from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24, at Cliffside Lake Pavilion near Highlands. 342.0873.

• The Smoky Mountain Field School will offer a class entitled “Historic Cataloochee Valley, Smoky Mountain Elk and More” on Saturday, Aug. 24, in Cataloochee.

Taught by Esther Blakely. Explore the area’s history.

Cost: $69. Register: aceweb.outreach.utk.edu.

• A Ranger will lead a TRACK Trail adventure at the Rumbling Bald Climbing access at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24, at Chimney Rock State Park in Lake Lure. www.ecoexplore.net. www.kidsinparks.com.

• Trail work days are scheduled for 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Monday and Saturday, Aug. 26 and 31, in Panthertown Valley near Cashiers. Meet at Salt Rock Gap. RSVP: friends@panthertown.org or 269.4453.

• Tuckasegee Blue River Trail Launch and Scotts Creek Litter Cleanup is set for noon-5 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25. Volunteers meet at noon at Innovation Station, 40 Depot Street in Dillsboro; social is from 35 p.m. at Innovation Station. Sign up: www.americanrivers.org/scottscreek.

• The Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the Greenway at 8 a.m. on Aug. 28. Park off Fox Ridge Road, south of Franklin Flea Market on Highlands Road. FranklinBirdClub.com or 524.5234.

• A “ForestHer NC” workshop for women is scheduled for Aug. 29 at the Burke County Center, 130 Ammons Drive in Morganton. Designed to provide women who are forest landowners with tools and trainings to manager their lands and become more engaged in forest stewardship. Register: https://aug29fhnc.eventbrite.com • A Zahner Lecture on “William Bartram’s Travels through the Upper Little Tennessee River Valley in 1775” will be presented at 6 p.m. on Aug. 29 at the Highlands Nature Center. Led by Brent Martin, Director

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

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

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

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

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Sponsors, cyclists and runners are invited to participate in the 27th annual Tour de Cashiers Mountain Cycling and 5K run on Saturday, Sept. 7, in Cashiers.

Contributions support the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce’s community and economic development efforts. Deadline to sponsor is Aug. 16. Bike race entry: $50. 5K entry: $25 (Prices increase after Aug. 4). Sign up: www.bikesignup.com or www.cashiersareachamber.com.

FARM AND GARDEN • A Zahner Lecture on “The Plant-Pollinator Love Affair That Keeps Our Planet Humming” will be offered at 6 p.m. on Aug. 22 at the Highlands Nature Center.

Part of the Zahner Lecture Series. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2221.

• A native plant sale is scheduled for 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 23, at the Southern Highlands Reserve in Lake Toxaway.

• A canning workshop will be offered at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting room. Canning From The Plot Thickens Library Garden. Led by Brent Martin. 524.3600.

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

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

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

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

• The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon at 171 Legion Drive in Waynesville.

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• A Tackle Rigging class will be offered from 9 a.m.noon on Aug. 26 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• A Zahner Lecture on coyotes will be offered at 6 p.m. on Sept. 5 at the Highlands Nature Center. Part of the Zahner Lecture Series. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2221.

August 21-27, 2019

• A park naturalist will lead an informal program with live animals at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24, at Chimney Rock State Park in Lake Lure. www.ecoexplore.net. www.kidsinparks.com.

• The Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the Greenway at 8 a.m. on Sept. 4. Meet at the Macon County Public Library parking area.

FranklinBirdClub.com or 524.5234.

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The naturalist’s corner

BY DON H ENDERSHOT

Could the environment be, once again, a game changer? ran into a fellow at Ingles just the other day. Regrettably, I don’t remember his name, but I run into him occasionally around town and have for years. And I definitely should remember his name because he is a loyal follower of the “Naturalist’s Corner” and he is crazy bout his birds. Every time I see him he has some encouraging words regarding a recent column and/or a recent bird-related anecdote to share.

He sidled up near me in Ingles and said, almost in a whisper, “I know what this column is going to be.” I just kinda looked at him because I wasn’t even 100 percent sure what this column was going to be. “The Endangered Species Act,” he said, with a knowing wink.

I got the feeling from our brief encounter that he was a pretty solid Trump supporter.

“I agree with a lot of things,” he said, “but not this. Every animal deserves a chance.”

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in the 1970s; Three Mile Island, also 1970s; the time when bald eagles and peregrine falcons were absent from most of the southern landscape; the time when brown haze hung thick and close over the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and cities like Birmingham; if these people can join with 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg and progressive millennials and Gen-Zers in once again placing the environment and the fate of spaceship Earth prominent rather than the filling of corporate coffers — if they can join with my friend who believes, “Every animal deserves a chance,” maybe we still have a chance to right this spaceship, which is beginning to careen out of control.

It’s no secret the “environment” has become a partisan issue today. Recent numbers from the Pew Research Centers show 74 percent of Democrats believe the environment should be a priority vs. 31 percent of Republicans. What’s lost is the fact the environment (clean air, clean water, public lands, etc.) was once a pretty non-partisan issue, a place where people regardless of their party affiliation felt strongly about protecting the planet for generations to come.

In fact many landmark environmental laws

Bald eagles, recovered from likely extinction by the Endangered Species Act, nested successfully at Lake Junaluska in 2019 for the first time in recorded history. Don Hendershot photo came to fruition under Republican administrations — the Endangered Species Act, Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act (all under attack by the current Republican administration) all came to fruition during the Nixon administration; in fact, the EPA was created under a Nixon executive order.

How the Republican Party went from Roosevelt (chief-hunter) to Trump (chief climate denier) is probably a library full of conundrums and intrigue. The cliff notes, however, point to Regan and the ultra-conservative movement and money flowing

from those corporate coffers.

But — yeah I know, it’s a big but — but if enough Trump supporters like my friend decide this planet and the animals on it are more important than some CEO’s portfolio and decide to vote on it, perhaps we can focus, once again, on a shared American dream of environmental protections and enhancements in perpetuity.

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist.

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

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