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On the Cover: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians face a unique set of challenges when it comes to achieving a free press and while protecting its sovereign nation from outside criticism. The issue has been a hot-button topic among Tribal Council members and citizens as the election draws nearer. (Page 6)

News Elk shot for eating corn in Macon ..........................................................................4 Budget proposes another raise for Tribal Council ............................................9 WCU navigates sexual assault regulations ......................................................10 Jackson passes revised cell tower ordinance ..................................................13 Shining Rock keeps site options open .............................................................. 14 Jackson opts to pay for landslide mapping ......................................................15 HCC training center approved despite higher costs ....................................16 Maggie Valley alderwoman to run for mayor ....................................................19 Shining Rock students settle in at Lake Junaluska ........................................ 20

Opinion This is one ride I’m not gonna miss ....................................................................24

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Wandering elk in Nantahala falls victim to wildlife ‘stand your ground’ rule

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER property owner in the remote Nantahala area of Macon County shot an elk that was eating his corn, upsetting neighbors who liked having an elk among them.

“It is not right for one person to deprive everybody else the natural beauty of these animals,” said Shirlan Haney, who lives on Nantahala Lake.

The elk had wandered far from the established elk herds in Haywood County and Cherokee, but it’s not uncommon, especially for young male elk, to roam. This one — which Haney and her neighbor named National Velvet for the velvet on his young antlers — had found quite a fan base in his adopted home.

Sid May said the elk caused a traffic pileup in front of his house one day, albeit only three cars, but a traffic jam by Briartown standards.

“It reminded me of a movie star just standing there for the camera,” May said. “I have heard a couple people say ‘Well, hey, if it was destroying all his corn I don’t blame that guy for killing it.’ But the majority said it is really a shame they killed that one. It could have destroyed all my corn and I wouldn’t have killed it. For most of the people in my community, that is their feeling, too.”

It took several days for word of the elk shooting on Aug. 15 to spread outside the isolated Nantahala community and circulate through the county, eventually get tipped to media outlets, which in turn started asking questions of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.

The top thing those who’d become fond of the Nantahala elk wanted to know: was it legal for the property owner to shoot it?

“If an animal is caught in the act of depredation it can be shot and killed and the land owner exercised that right,” explained Justin McVey, a wildlife biologist with the wildlife commission who covers the western counties, and frequently deals with elk management issues.

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An elk in the Nantahala area in Macon County captured by Shirlan Haney, who was delighted to have the stately intruder grace her yard. Donated photo The wildlife commission so far won’t release the identity of the person who shot it. It happened in the Tellico area of Nantahala.

Two elk have been shot in recent years by a dairy farmer in Haywood County, where reports of nuisance elk have mounted as the initial herd introduced in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park there has expanded onto private land.

While McVey said it’s legal under state statute for property owners to shoot wildlife caught in the act of property damage, it is

frowned upon. McVey’s first advice to landowners with elk run-ins: haze them with pepper spray or run a couple strands of electric fence.

Elk are considered a species of special concern, and if landowners are too hasty in hauling off and shooting one for merely nibbling their ivy, they could run afoul with the law.

The wildlife commission’s website tells landowners to get a depredation permit before dispatching species of special concern, first providing evidence the animal has

Elk were first reintroduced in the Cataloochee area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Haywood County 15 years. They multiplied substantially — from 50 initial elk to somewhere between 200 and 300. More than half now reside outside the park, primarily in Haywood County, but also in Cherokee.

Despite occasional elk sightings further afield — from Glenville in Jackson County to Shooting Creek in Clay County — the N.C. Wildlife Commission doesn’t believe that the lone elk sightings in Nantahala are a sign of a herd establishing there.

The elk that was shot in Macon County was a two-year-old male elk. Younger male elks are particularly prone to wander, particularly during summer, but often regroup with their home herd in Cherokee or Haywood County when the mating season — known as the rut — gets under way in early fall.

“I have seen them disperse and go out during the summer, then come back,” said McVey. It’s unlikely the elk sightings in Nantahala are a harbinger of a permanent elk herd there.

“There are still a lot of places to eat and hang out between Haywood

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caused property damage.

The Macon County landowner had talked to wildlife officers about the elk, but didn’t get a depredation permit before shooting it.

While it’s preferred, it’s not necessary under state statute.

“No depredation permit or any license is needed…to take wildlife while committing depredations upon the property,” state statute reads. One benefit to getting a depredation permit first is being able to keep the meat.

The wildlife commission’s law enforcement branch is reviewing the Macon elk case to determine whether the shooting was warranted under the law, according to Geoff Cantrell, spokesperson for the wildlife commission in Raleigh.

McVey said there were obvious signs of damage to the corn, and a necropsy of the elk carcass proved what the elk had been up to.

“His stomach was full of corn,” McVey said.

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When elk were first introduced to the Smokies, the national park rounded up wayward elk and brought them back to Cataloochee.

But as the elk population grew, more and more pushed beyond the borders of the national park, and keeping them contained became impossible.

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To sightseers, the elk are stately and placid creatures.

But to those who’ve had elk take up residence in their yards, cow pastures and crop fields, elk are a nuisance.

And to farmers, they eat into their living — literally.

Since the park reintroduction, elk management has been foisted on the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission by default.

Residents in the Nantahala area have questioned whether the wildlife commission has an adequate or clear policy on how nuisance elk should be handled by property owners.

But the wildlife commission has no control over the state law that allows property owners to shoot wildlife for damaging property, and can only encourage and recommend other approaches.

“Aversive strategies often resolve conflicts negating the need for lethal removal,” according to Cantrell, spokesman for the wildlife commission.

The elk shooting in Macon County isn’t the first time farmers have retaliated against the elk.

Early during the elk introduction, a dairy farmer in Haywood County shot an elk that kept coming onto his dairy farm.

A few years later, two depredation permits were granted by the wildlife commission to farmers in Haywood County — one was the same dairy farmer who’d had problems before and one was a crop farmer who had his pumpkin patch repeatedly smashed and trampled by an elk.

Aversive conditioning carried out with help from the wildlife commission — namely staking out the pumpkin patch and firing a loud flare gun at the elk — scared it enough not to come back, so he never had to pull the trigger on the depredation permit.

McVey said the Macon County property owner was offered strategies to keep the elk at bay. His best bet would have been an electric fence known as “polytape” — which has electric wires encased in a 2-inch-wide white ribbon. It can be tacked to stakes or fence posts without the need for a full-blown fence, McVey said.

The wide, white strips of polytape are more visible to elk than traditional electric fence wires. After being shocked once, the elk are more likely to recognize the polytape as something not to go near again.

“It has been pretty effective it seems like,” said McVey. “It is a fence that won’t necessarily break the bank but will persuade the elk to go the other way. A lot of it is just a psychological barrier.”

Another option for deterring nuisance elk is “aversive conditioning.” Pepper spray is the main do-it-yourself option, McVey said.

All this begs the question, however: why should farmers bear the added headache to keep these newcomers away from their crops? The farmers were here first, and are now dealing with a nuisance species they didn’t ask for.

“That is a valid point and tough question to answer,” McVey said. “It is what it is.

There is no point in arguing about why they were reintroduced. They are here. They are part of the landscape now and we have to deal with it.”

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County and Nantahala,” McVey said.

Residents in the Nantahala area of Macon County believe there were at least two, maybe three, elk living among them, based on different pictures and videos people have captured.

Shirlan Haney said she didn’t believe her neighbors at first when they told her they’d seen an elk.

“I didn’t know what to make of it. I said ‘You probably saw a great big deer,’” Haney recounted. Until one morning in July, she was sitting on her deck looking out at the lake and she saw it.

“It was one of the most gorgeous pictures I had ever seen in my life. It was like something from National Geographic. I thought ‘oh my goodness I live in paradise,’” recounted Haney.

A fisherman was in a boat on the lake, and she wanted to tell him about the elk, but didn’t want to scare it away. So she started jumping up and down to get the fisherman’s attention, holding her arms up over her head like antlers and pointing to the elk.

“I was whispering ‘there’s an elk!’ like he could read my lips down there on the lake,” Haney said.

Next, she ran to her neighbor’s house, who was brushing her teeth at the time, and told her to put down the toothbrush and grab her camera.

The elk didn’t seem the least bit afraid of them as it wandered around her yard, and passed within feet of them, sniffing her barrel of mint as it came up the driveway.

“With God as my witness I could have put a saddle on that elk and rode it. I respected it as being a wild animal but I had no fear of this animal whatsoever,” Haney said.

A few weeks later, Sid May got a glimpse of the elk over in Briartown when it came to sample the wares of his apple trees one afternoon.

“It just walked up and stretched its big long neck out.

It made a good dinner out of them,” May recalled.

May watched it for about 15 minutes before it ate its fill and wandered off.

Around dusk that same day, May had what he calls a “bout with a black bear.”

A bear with four cubs came up on his porch, apparently after a 40-pound tub of birdseed.

“It wanted to take that container, but I yelled at it and it made all kind of noise and it growled at me,” May said. “While all this commotion is going on with me and my bear, there were three cars stopped on the road in front of my house. The bear got scared and it took off, ran across the road right in front of these three vehicles and this lady says to me ‘Sid, Sid, look down the road’ and there’s that elk.”

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The pen is mightier Native American journalists face unique issues when it comes to free press

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER oe Martin had never worked for a newspaper or owned a handgun when he took the reins of the tribally owned Cherokee One Feather in 1995.

But when the first changed, so did the second. Then a 26-year-old whose only job experience since graduation from college was as a cage cashier at the casino, Martin found himself fast-tracked to a steep, steep learning curve.

“I’ve gotten death threats here and there,” he said. “I don’t know how many times I’ve had somebody say they were going to go to the chief or council and make sure that I got fired.”

Eventually, he did get fired. Martin hasn’t worked for The One Feather since 2007.

He started to stir up controversy well before then, however. An Auburn University grad in public relations and journalism, Martin was hired by former Principal Chief Joyce Dugan with strict instructions to act like a journalist. Soon after his hire, he drew criticism for a piece he wrote about a former chief ’s lawsuit against the tribe. Then, Martin wrote an editorial that he characterizes as “in the vein of Jonathan Swift,” which satirically suggested solving a controversy surrounding Harley rallies by kicking out the bikes. That angered a good many business owners. Then there was the “routine” cops and courts reporting that becomes more complicated in a close-knit community where ties of blood and friendship are thick.

“I heard from plenty who felt I should not be printing things like their sons raping an 11-year-old girl,” Martin said.

But the stage for the events that led to Martin’s termination wasn’t really set until 2003, when the newly elected Principal Chief Michell Hicks reorganized the newspaper to become part of the marketing and promotions department. That’s when a new column called Rants and Raves appeared in the paper — a development that Martin said was the suggestion of his boss, the marketing and promotions director at the time. The column printed tribal members’ anonymous comments on whatever was happening around Cherokee, and it became immensely popular.

Martin says he wasn’t a fan of the idea, because he believes that if someone wants to publicize an opinion they should be willing to sign their name to it. However, in retrospect he can see that Rants and Raves turned out to be incredibly valuable.

“It turned out to be probably the best thing that ever happened to that paper, because for one it got people to comment,” Martin said. “People were afraid to criticize Tribal Council and the chief because they feared retaliation, and all of a sudden there’s 6 this forum where they can do that.”

While it might not be hard to believe that a person about whom less-than-flattering words are being written would want to keep undesirable press at bay, what’s harder to understand is exactly how a journalist at a newspaper in North Carolina could be fired for doing what any newspaper editor in any state in this nation would be perfectly within his rights to do.

The question is complicated by the fact that, while Cherokee is geographically located in North Carolina, it’s not actually part of the state.

Like all other federally recognized Native American tribes, The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is a sovereign nation. That means that it makes and enforces its own laws, so the fact that the Constitution of the United States of America

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As it turned out, many of the called-in comments were less-than-favorable toward Hicks, who in September of 2007 was elected to a second term. After the election, he issued an executive order to end the Rants and Raves column.

The final straw came when Martin criticized Hicks’ action in the Asheville CitizenTimes.

“Following that column coming out, I get this notice that I’m going to be transferred out of the paper to this job that looked like it was just made up on the spot,” Martin recalled.

The job was manager of Dora Reed Children’s Center, the tribal daycare. Martin had no work experience in that field. At the

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time, he wasn’t even a father.

“I knew what it was,” Martin said. “I talked to my lawyer, and he said basically to make them fire me.”

Martin filed a wrongful termination suit against the tribe, eventually settling. He cited lack of confidence in getting a fair trial as reason for not going through the whole process.

Martin tried starting an independent paper soon after things fell apart at The One Feather, but the timing was all wrong — it was 2008, and his start-up publication was just one of many victims of the recession.

Since then, he’s done some other newspaper work and for a time reported for The Cherokee Scout, but today, he’s a stay-athome father of one — with a second on the way — enjoying a quieter life than he had as editor of The One Feather.

“Kids give you enough gray hair,” he joked.

guarantees all citizens the right to a free press and free speech doesn’t have any bearing on how things work on the Qualla Boundary.

All that would explain why Martin’s story was able to play out like it did if not for the fact that Cherokee does, in fact, have laws on the books that mirror the language in the First Amendment.

The Free Press Act of 2006 — notably, the year before Martin left The One Feather — states that it is “imperative” to ensure that “tribal publications have the autonomy and independence to report honestly and objectively.” It references the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ adoption of the Federal Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, which states that no Indian tribe shall make laws that, among other things, “abridge the freedom of speech, or of the press.” It establishes The One Feather as the tribe’s newspaper and asserts

that Cherokee’s press should be “independent from any undue influence and free of any particular political interest.” The press should “report without bias the activities of the tribe, the tribal government, and any and all news of interest to have informed citizens.”

All of that sounds pretty black-and-white.

It would be unheard of for a reporter at any American newspaper protected by the identical First Amendment right to free speech to be fired or kicked out of a meeting or denied access to records just because somebody in the government didn’t like what they were reporting.

So why are things different in Cherokee?

And how does the situation there compare with that of the hundreds of other federally recognized tribes in the United States?

THE SOURCE OF CONFLICT

In the world of media, newspapers covering Native American lands are curious creatures. They exist to serve a population of people, usually in a low-population-density area, united by their heritage as much as by their mailing address. The result is a rather limited pool of readers, and it’s often difficult or impossible for a newspaper serving such a population to stay afloat through the traditional means of subscriptions and advertising.

“Most of the time it’s actually the tribe itself — the government — that is subsidizing the operation of the newspaper,” explained Bryan Pollard, vice president of the Native American Journalists Association and editor of The Cherokee Phoenix in Oklahoma. “You can see the inherent conflict there.”

In this situation, the tribe recognizes the value of having a community newspaper but realizes that such a business would fold pretty quickly if left to market forces. So, the tribe foots the bill for the publication, ensuring financial stability but creating a situation in which the very organization the newspaper is tasked with watchdogging is the one cutting its employees’ checks and holding ultimate sway over hire/fire decisions.

“If you have a government that’s funding the media, then many times you will have elected officials that believe that they should have a say in what is and is not published,” Pollard said.

There are ways to guard against that. A common tactic is to establish an editorial board that acts as a buffer between the newspaper’s employees and tribal executives. This board should have the power to set editorial policies and hold hire-fire power over the newspaper editor; in effect, the board should do the job that a publisher would do at a typical newspaper.

That’s close to how things are set up in Oklahoma’s Cherokee Nation, which Pollard’s newspaper — the first Native Americanowned paper in the country, which was first published in north Georgia in 1828 — covers.

The five-member editorial board is made up mainly of appointees of the chief and tribal council, three of whom must have experience

bers to have journalistic experience, would it even be possible to fill all the seats?

“I think it would be a stretch to find a tribal member who would also be a journalist and serve on it,” said Martin.

There are other options, though, Pollard pointed out. What if all board members weren’t enrolled in the Eastern Band?

“I think if they’re going to have a serious, independent board, then having someone with a strong sense of ethics is more important than necessarily having a citizen,” he said. “They could just open it up to all Cherokees, because there’s three Cherokee tribes and between the three tribes there’s plenty of experienced journalists.”

So who is on The One Feather’s editorial board now?

The answer to that question points to another one of Pollard’s major concerns with the Eastern Band’s free press law. The editorial board is simply made up of The One Feather staff members and the tribe’s director of marketing and communications — that person is the editor’s boss.

“That seems like a very obvious conflict to me, because then you have people who may fear for their jobs also setting the editorial direction of the paper,” Pollard said. “To me, that’s just asking for political influence.”

Where they stand As the highest executive, the principal chief has the most influence over freedom of the press — and innumerable other issues — in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The three candidates for the office have expressed their feelings on the issue, whether in interviews with The Smoky Mountain News or on stage at a debate recently hosted by The Cherokee One Feather.

By the end of the day Sept. 3, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will have a new chief, vice chief and Tribal Council.

Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., with in-office absentee voting available through 4:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28, at the Ginger Lynne Welch Complex on Acquoni Road.

EBCI Board of Elections, 828.359.6361. was because “I knew if I had a tribal newspaper I’d never be able to write some of the strong editorials and be critical of the tribal government as I have for the past 34 years,” he said.

So why, even with legislation in place guaranteeing freedom of the press and without the inherent conflict of interest that arises when the watchdog of the government is owned by the government, did Giago face so many challenges as a journalist?

“It all comes down to leadership,” he said.

During the decades he’s worked in journalism, Giago’s dealt with chiefs who were hostile to free press and opposed him at every turn. He’s also worked with leaders who recognized its value. After his building was firebombed in the 1980s, for example, the tribal president at the time called a special meeting of Tribal Council to

• Patrick Lambert: “I don’t think someone should be intimidated by writing a hard-hitting story that is truthful about their boss.” Lambert says he believes in the value of a free press and would want to reorganize The One Feather to be a separate entity, similar to the set-up of The Cherokee Boys Club or The Museum of the Cherokee Indian, to protect it from political influence.

• Tunney Crowe: “I would like to see it set up to where enrolled members were the only ones that had access to our Tribal Council meetings.” Crowe said he believes in

When it comes to free press — giving the newspaper license to print whatever it wants — that power structure can cause issues.

“You’re asking them to relinquish that control,” Pollard said. “I could sincerely understand a reluctance to do that, and I think that’s when it really becomes incumbent upon the people of the tribe to express their desire to their elected officials to take real action when it comes to enacting a free press.”

“When a group of citizens organizes and they represent a certain number of people, a funny thing happens,” Pollard continued.

“Elected officials suddenly start paying attention. Regardless of what laws are currently on the books, if the Eastern Band citizens do not feel like they have a free press, then they need to make their voice heard through action.

They need to push the issue. They need to make it clear to elected officials that’s something that they value.”

Giago is a bit less optimistic about the likelihood that leaders used to complete power would give up that privilege. He sees the next generation as the greatest hope for developing a free press and advocates for an increased emphasis on educating children about the importance of a free press and involved citizenry. Some of those children, he reasons, will then grow up to become leaders who value free press and citizens who demand it.

“That’s the only way things are going to change,” he said.

Pollard disagrees, arguing that there’s room for things to change now if people speak out and demand that their leaders honor those First Amendment-style rights.

“I wouldn’t go so far as to say you give up on us old guys,” he said. “There are a lot of mature journalists in Indian country. We want to do good, independent reporting and we understand the value of it, but we’re not all in the same situation. Some of us, like me, have more freedom, but there are others who — they just don’t.”

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free press and agrees that tribal members should have access to any information they want. However, he fears that allowing information about budgets and projects out into the non-enrolled community would harm the tribe’s interests.

• Mary Crowe (write-in): “We have a constitutional right of freedom of expression, and we have a constitutional right to freedom of the press.” Crowe said she would want to look at any policies and procedures relating to free press and consider what changes should be made to make it a reality.

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AN OLD STORY It would be hard to find somebody with more stories to tell about life as a Native American journalist than Tim Giago. A member of the Oglala Lakota tribe in South Dakota,

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in publications, while the other two must have business management experience. The board sets policies surrounding editorial content and advertising, and if the editor’s job becomes open — editors can be fired only for cause — it recommends a replacement for the principal chief to approve.

“For the most part I have felt free to publish whatever stories we feel like we needed to publish, including stories that are critical of the government, and we have done that,” said Pollard, who has held his post for nearly nine years.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians also has an editorial board, and much of the language in the ordinance establishing it is identical to that in the Cherokee Nation ordinance. But differences exist, and the differences are significant.

For instance, the Eastern Band ordinance doesn’t stipulate qualifications for editorial board members. Pollard believes it’s vital that board members be required to have some kind of experience managing a newspaper.

“If you have an editorial board and you put your brother Jeff on it who doesn’t have a lick of journalistic experience, well guess what?

You’re probably not going to get real strong independence out of him,” Pollard said.

But in choosing a board, the Cherokee Nation has a lot more people to choose from than the Eastern Band. About 100,000 enrolled Cherokee Nation members live in Oklahoma, with about 330,000 enrolled members total. Compare that to somewhere around 15,000 enrolled members of the Eastern Band. Which begets the question: if the law were changed to require board mem-

declare that any attack on Giago’s paper would be considered an attack on the tribe.

Each tribe is unique in its governmental structure, its network of laws and policies, but in nearly all cases it’s true that the tribal leadership has tremendous influence over how business is carried out, which laws are enforced and which laws are ignored.

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Joe Martin, former editor of The Cherokee One Feather, flips through a stack of more recent One Feathers. Holly Kays photo

Giago got his start with the Rapid City Journal before leaving to launch his own paper, The Lakota Times, to cover his native Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. His professional accomplishments have been many, among them founding the Native American Journalists Association, on whose board Pollard serves.

Upon hearing about The Smoky Mountain News’ troubles gaining access to Cherokee Tribal Council meetings — SMN is required to request approval each time it attends a meeting and has been kicked out of two of them, once with a police escort — he just laughed.

“That sounds like an old story to me,” Giago said. “I’ve been thrown out of Tribal Council meetings many times too.”

That’s not the most formidable challenge that the 81-year-old faced in his decades as a journalist.

“I had my windows shot out three times.

The newspaper was firebombed in December of ’82,” Giago, now retired, recalled from his home in South Dakota. “I came out of my car to go to work one evening and they shot a bullet right through my windshield and just past my head. So yeah, we had some hazardous times back in those days.”

All that, and Giago’s newspaper wasn’t even tribally owned. The whole reason he’d started it

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In Cherokee, laws are passed by the elected Tribal Council. They are carried out by the principal and vice chiefs, also elected. But disputes are adjudicated by the Cherokee Tribal Court, whose judges are appointed by the principal chief with confirmation by Tribal Council. The principal chief also has ultimate hire/fire power over all other tribal employees, the tribal government being by far the biggest employer on the Qualla Boundary.

Fear of conflict of interest on the judge’s part, Martin said, was a significant factor in his decision to settle on his wrongful termination case after he left The One Feather. He said he didn’t feel like Chief Hicks would have allowed the judge to make a fair decision.

Bill Boyum, Tribal Supreme Court Chief Justice, didn’t work for Cherokee’s court system when Martin’s case was filed and said he hasn’t dealt with a freedom of the press suit before in Cherokee. But he believes that the court system now has a much deeper bench of experienced judges — some of whom live in the community and some of whom do not, allowing for a more detached decision when conflict of interest is a concern — and is of at least equal in quality to the state court.

“The number of years of experience is four times what it was eight years ago,” he said.

However, he concedes that Tribal Court is still working to overcome a sometimes negative perception.

“In reality, perception overshadows reality sometimes,” he said.

There’s another issue, too — tribal immunity. If someone felt like the State of North Carolina, for example, had violated her rights in some way, that person would be able to sue the state. Not so in Cherokee. Though it can choose to waive that right, by default the Eastern Band is immune from lawsuit. So, even if a tribal member felt like her government was not honoring the law as written, she would not necessarily be able to sue the government she believed to be violating her rights.

“The tribe can always amend its laws and waive sovereignty that the Cherokees have to a small degree,” said Rob Saunooke, the attorney who represented Martin during his lawsuit.

But as far as a wholesale waiver that would allow someone to file a lawsuit whenever they felt the urge? That’s a bit trickier, said Saunooke, an enrolled member who now lives in Florida.

“The fear is if we waive sovereign immunity, Indians will benefit from it but so will nonIndians,” he said.

FAMILY, COMMUNITY AND THE NEWS

Indian tribes are different from other newspaper coverage areas in that they’re not just another county, another town, separated from the neighbors by arbitrarily drawn political lines. Indian tribes are their own nations, pockets of culture thousands of years old. On the Qualla Boundary, for example, everybody who’s enrolled traces ancestry back to someone whose name is on the 1924 Baker Roll, a 8 census of the Eastern Band of Cherokee people

alive at the time. Many enrolled members are related to each other through some tie of marriage or birth from the last 100 years — it’s a community of blood, as well as geography.

That can further complicate things when it comes to reporting the news.

“Me and my brother grew up and we beat each other up every single day, but don’t you dare let someone else jump on him,” said Councilmember Brandon Jones by way of explaining the dynamic.

“We can fuss and fight and not get along, but then when something happens and there’s an outside opinion versus the Eastern Band, we all come together.”

On the one hand, people deserve to know what their government is up to. But would

When Tribal Council passed itself a hefty raise last year — effective immediately, though many pointed to a section of the tribe’s Charter and Governing Document that states raises for council can’t go into effect until after the next election — no headline popped up in The One Feather. Not when the budget containing the raises was adopted in October, or when the issue prompted lengthy debate in council chambers during the November and December meetings, or when a coalition of tribal members threatened councilmembers with a lawsuit in April.

However, it’s perhaps not fair to say that The One Feather isn’t making an effort. For example, during the 2011 chiefs election, not one front page in the month leading up to the

The Eastern Band’s legislative body convenes monthly for an all-day public session, but it retains the right to ask media to leave and to turn off the camera that broadcasts the meeting online and on cable at any time. Holly Kays photo

Work toward independence The Native American Journalists Association has put together a list of ways that Indian tribes can improve their newspapers’ independence. The list is available at www.naja.com/sites/naja/uploads/images/11_essential_tools_for_independent_tribal_press.pdf. you want to publish your family secrets for anyone to read? For many in Cherokee, that’s a hangup when it comes to endorsing a free press — does giving media free rein equate to exposing what is the equivalent of family business for public consumption?

“We all have to live in the same community,” Jones said. “We live together, we work together. It’s a tough lifestyle. It’s different than most communities for a lot of cultural reasons.”

But by the same token, when there’s something to talk about, people will talk. In lieu of a newspaper able to do investigative reporting, some tribal members have turned to Facebook as a forum to voice their opinions. Pages like Cherokee Rants and Raves and the closed group Tsa-La-Gi Voice have provided a place for Cherokee people to swap rumors, share thoughts, post government documents and generally connect on the issues they care about.

One chorus that’s resounding in these forums is overall dissatisfaction with The One Feather. It’s accused of being a voicebox for the chief, a happy-news-only paper. Read through the opinion pages, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a letter to the editor whose headline doesn’t contain the words “thank you” or an editorial that wrangles with some recent decision of Tribal Council or action of a tribal executive.

election mentioned the race, unless you count a reminder on the Sept. 1 cover to go vote.

Contrast that with this year’s Aug. 13 cover, which features a large headline about the chief and vice chief debates The One Feather hosted with the Junaluska Leadership Council — the questions asked there could not be classified as softball — and an article detailing Tribal Council candidates’ platforms and summaries of the most recent Tribal Council and budget council sessions.

MOVING ON Recent issues aside, Cherokee’s overall track record with regard to free press is anything but a cautionary tale. Cherokee is the only Native American language to have a written language, and the Cherokee Phoenix, of which Pollard is editor, was the first newspaper in the United States to be published by Native Americans.

“Cherokee history will reflect that journalism is important to our people,” Councilmember Teresa McCoy said during the Aug. 6 Tribal Council meeting as councilmembers debated whether to allow The Smoky Mountain News to sit in the council chambers. “Knowledge and education and

the right for us to inform ourselves about our government have existed for millennia.”

McCoy, who sponsored the Eastern Band’s Free Press Act of 2006, has long been a supporter of a free press and allowing nontribal media access to government affairs.

“Free press is what it is,” she said at the same meeting. “It can be the best friend or the worst nightmare to an elected person. But people deserve to get the news, decide what they think and move on.”

For Pollard, the moving on is key. His newspaper writes about the government, sometimes critically, but that’s not all the Phoenix does. The paper includes stories about Cherokee artists, entrepreneurs, culture, language — the kinds of stories that readers have expressed a desire to read.

Because the newspaper isn’t focused so much on the tug-of-war between government desires and journalistic ethics, Pollard said, staff can focus more energy on stories that show the soul of the Cherokee people.

“One of the greatest misdeeds of a tribal press that’s being controlled by the government is that it forces the members of that tribal media to turn their ear only to the elected officials, and they turn it away from their people,” Pollard said. “When you’re free to report in a way that is truly independent, then you naturally turn your ear toward your people, toward your leaders. You are able to listen to what they want, the stories that they would like to see, and that guides your reporting.”

When a newspaper is free to practice journalism, another thing happens, as well, Giago said. That newspaper gains respect in the wider community and can advocate for the tribe it covers.

“You have to have a newspaper that can stand up for something, and a lot of the tribal newspapers don’t,” he said. Instead, they’re just concerned about where the line is, if they’re about to cross it and what might happen to their job if they do.

One of Giago’s proudest accomplishments is convincing the state of South Dakota to get rid of Columbus Day, an October holiday honoring the Italian explorer who stumbled upon Central America in his quest for India — enslaving and killing many Native Americans along the way.

“My newspaper challenged the government of South Dakota to do away with Columbus Day and replace it with Native American Day,” he said. “It went before the legislators, and now South Dakota is the only state in the nation that celebrates Native American Day. And it was my little newspaper that did it.”

The road to free press is an evolution. There have to be people who demand it, a leadership that will allow it to take hold and the growth of expectation among readers — tribal members — that access to information is a right.

That happens one voice at a time, one word at a time, one ballot at a time.

“People have much more power than they give themselves credit for,” Pollard said.

(Current One Feather editor Robert Jumper expressed interest in commenting on this story, but a request for permission to interview that he submitted to his superior more than a week before deadline was not returned. A request for interview sent to Principal Chief Michell Hicks’ office was not returned.)

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BY HOLLY KAYS planning to do so, the group’s attorney STAFF WRITER Meghann Burke told The Smoky Mountain ith elections a week away and threat News last month. of a lawsuit still hanging, the According to Jones, the argument preCherokee Tribal Council is considersented for this year’s increase is that, if the ing a proposed budget that includes a pay tribe is now going to abide by the 2004 resoraise of nearly 5 percent for its members. lution saying that Tribal Council should The budget, prepared by outgoing receive raises in keeping with those given Principal Chief Michell Hicks, suggests raistribal employees, its members should coning the pay for councilmembers from tinue to receive incremental raises. $80,800 to $84,511, with the proposed salary However, the proposed raises for council for the chair and vice chair reaching $90,547 amount to a 4.8 percent hike for the chair and $87,529, respectively. The raises would and vice chair and 4.9 percent for other go into effect when the new council is seated. council members. Meanwhile, according to “I’m opposed to any kind of increase, and Council Member Bo Crowe, of Wolfetown, I know there’s several others that are the proposed cost of living increase for tribal opposed to it,” said Councilmember employees is 3 percent.

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“I don’t agree with it, and I won’t support The Tribal Council came under fire just the budget for that reason,” Wolfe said. last year for a similar decision, when the Council had a lengthy discussion about council adopted a budget that included raises the proposed budget last week, talking of $10,600 to $11,400 and up to $33,000 in behind closed doors for more than an hour back pay, effective immediately. All councilmembers voted in favor of the budget, save Bo Crowe, who voted against it, and Brandon Jones and Teresa McCoy, who were not present and later expressed their disapproval. Albert Rose, who initially voted for the budget in its entirety, later came out against the raises.

Opponents of the raises pointed Solomon ‘Slick’ Saunooke, who introduced the 2004 ordinance being out that the tribe’s used as justification for council pay raises, takes issue with Interim Charter and Attorney General Hannah Smith’s legal interpretation last year. EBCI photo Governing Document states that any raises given councilmembers can’t Aug. 18. They were set to make a final decitake effect until after an election is conductsion on the budget Monday (Aug. 24), but ed and a new council seated. Meanwhile, council adjourned soon after it convened. supporters said that the raises weren’t raises They will not likely revisit the issue this at all — instead, they were “pay adjustweek, as joint events with visiting represenments,” aimed at bringing the tribe into tatives of the Cherokee Nation and the compliance with a 2004 ordinance that said United Keetoowah of Cherokees are planned pay raises for councilmembers should be the throughout the week. same as those given tribal employees. The According to Jones, several of the counback pay, then, was simply a check for the cilmembers are opposed to the raise, while amount council members should have some support it. With all 12 council seats up received all along had they been given incre- for election Sept. 3, it’s getting down to the mental raises in keeping with the ordinance. wire. The existing council could vote to pass Many tribal members did not buy that the budget as presented, pass an amended explanation, forming a group calling itself version or just pass a resolution to continue EBCI for Justice and Accountability. The funding tribal operations but defer creation group retained a lawyer and had a demand of a new budget until after the new council is letter sent to each of the 12 Tribal Council seated at the beginning of October. members and Interim Attorney General However, Jones is hopeful of preventing Hannah Smith, claiming they would file suit the pay raises from going through. in Cherokee Tribal Court if council did not “I think we’ve got enough support this rescind the raises and return the money. No year to hold the entire process until we can suit has yet been filed, but the group is still find a solution,” Jones said.

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BY KATIE R EEDER SMN I NTERN ith evolving regulations and a complicated system of reporting, there is no end in sight for the work university officials are doing to put a stop to sexual violence on campus.

“There is no start, and there is no finish.

It’s continual,” said Ernie Hudson, chief of police at Western Carolina University.

Just this year, the chancellor’s office created a new position – chief compliance officer – in part to help ensure the university is meeting the requirements of Title IX – which prohibits sex-based discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding.

gate the maze of higher education laws and regulations.

Chancey noted the recognition happening nationwide in higher education that campuses need some sort of centralized oversight to help ensure they are keeping within the lines of the rules and regulations that reach far beyond sexual assault and campus safety.

“We didn’t go down the compliance road because of Title IX or sexual assault,” Lochner said. “We went down the compliance road to be proactive and address the regulatory burdens in higher education.

Higher education has got to be the most regulated industry in the country.”

“Honestly, I don’t know how anybody keeps up if they don’t have a centralized compliance function,” she said. “It’s getting harder and harder and harder.”

Still, Chancey’s focus now is Title IX and the multitude of other laws governing sexual assault.

“There’s been a lot of attention on this issue in the media – with that the new regulations, and it’s an area of law that’s developing,” he said. “So it’s naturally going to require the attention of a compliance officer.”

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Title IX is just one of the many laws and regulations governing how universities respond to sexual violence. Under the Clery Act, higher-education institutions receiving federal funding must issue an annual security report detailing the types of crimes occurring on and near campus, whom the crime was reported to and when it happened.

Although the Clery Act is four pages long, the Department of Education’s interpretation of how it should be implemented is more than 300 pages and includes what Hudson estimated to be 118 obligations of the school.

At the beginning of the 2014-15 school year, WCU created a position for someone to oversee compliance with the Clery Act. The position was created at the recommendation of a report on campus security issued by the University of North Carolina. The report included 36 recommendations for the institutions in the UNC system.

Tom Shanahan, general counsel for the UNC system, said this report was one the system conducts every few years to monitor campus security and safety. He also noted the increased regulatory activity around laws

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such as Title IX and the Clery Act in recent years and said certain recommendations were based on helping institutions ensure they were keeping up with those regulations.

Other regulations come straight from the U.S. Department of Education. In 2011, the department’s Office for Civil Rights issued a 19-page Dear Colleague Letter to colleges and universities to provide guidance and clarify the roles of these institutions in handling reports of sexual violence.

In addition to specifically mandated requirements, WCU has also taken cues from settlements involving how other colleges have handled sexual assault, said Mary Ann Lochner, WCU’s general counsel.

Though many of the cases the OCR deals with involve specific colleges and cases, the outcomes give guiding principles that are applicable to how all institutions handle sex-

Beginning the conversation about sexual assault “It’s not what everyone wants to talk about, but the conversations need to happen because that’s where preventing sexual assault begins,” said WCU student Adam Hampton.

Hampton transferred and finished his first year at WCU this spring. He served as the Red Zone committee chair for student government and emphasized the importance of starting campus conversations about assault – even if it makes people uncomfortable.

“It’s something that people know goes on,” he said. “It’s more of a taboo that people don’t want to talk about openly because it’s such a personal subject.”

Hampton said one of his goals with Red Zone this year was to enhance community relationships “because it’s a community issue.” He emphasized the need to bring the topic of sexual assault to the front of the minds of everyone on campus instead

ual assault.

In May of 2014, the Department of Education released the names of the institutions with open Title IX investigations related to sexual violence. An updated list from the OCR shows there are 130 sexual violence cases under investigation at 117 institutions as of June 10.

“All of that goes into our policy,” Lochner said.

She said it can be difficult to reconcile the school’s responsibilities under the different laws, as those laws are coming from different agencies and offices — and from people who may not necessarily be in communication with each other.

Wes Chancey was hired this year as chief compliance officer. The decision to create the position came from the chancellor and Board of Trustees to help the university navi-

of treating it as an issue that shouldn’t be talked about.

He achieved part of this goal through the “It’s On Us” campaign, which originally came from the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. The idea behind the campaign is that the responsibility of preventing sexual assault falls on everyone in the community and that it’s not just a problem for the victims.

“It really is on the school to have a stance on it and be supportive for victims and let people know they can speak,” he said.

Still, Hampton said there seems to be a breakdown between awareness and action. He estimated that 75 to 85 percent of the campus knows about Red Zone while the entire student body is required to complete online training about how to prevent sexual assault.

“I think there is a little bit of a mismatch between those students that are aware of it and those students who would act on it,” Hampton said. “People slide through, and they think it might not actually be happening.”

Much of the confusion surrounding how campuses should handle reports of sexual violence comes from the fact that there are two avenues campus officials must pursue, Lochner said. The university is required to investigate the allegation to see if the accused party violated the student code while campus police investigate the allegation as a criminal activity.

“It’s two separate ways of distributing justice,” Chancey said.

The results of each process have different motivations, Lochner said. The university is primarily an educational institution while the police have an obligation to find out if a crime was committed and whether or not the perpetrator of the crime can be determined, Hudson said.

“I’m trying to put people in jail and hold them accountable to the legal system,” he said. “The university is trying to hold people accountable to the

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There seems to be a difference between awareness that sexual assault is a real issue and thinking about in the moments when it could happen. Hampton said in party settings, people may not be consciously aware of the possibility, and events can slip under the radar.

“By the time it’s happened, it’s too late,” he said.

That’s why Red Zone seeks to make people actively aware and equip them so that they do know how to respond if they see dangerous situations unfolding. Hampton noted the difficulty of stepping into these situations and said one of the program’s components is working with students on how to confront peers who may be engaging in unacceptable behavior.

He’s hopeful that by having these conversations and keeping this issue at the forefront of people’s minds, that they can combat sexual violence on campus.

“If we as a community really instill those habits in people, then I think it can dramatically reduce the incidents of sexual assault,” he said.

Terms to know

Clery Act — Named after Jeanne Clery, a student who was raped and murdered in her dorm, the law took effect in 1990. It requires colleges and universities receiving federal funding to issue annual campus security reports detailing information about crimes that happened on or near campus.

Source: www.cleryact.info/clery-act.html

Violence Against Women Act —The law was originally passed in 1994, but President Obama signed an updated version of the bill in 2013.

Although it reaches beyond college campuses, the law requires colleges and universities to provide information about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.

This includes reporting the number of crimes as well as publishing policies educating students and staff about resources for victims.

Source: www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/v awa_improvements_1_pager.pdf

Although the UNC Campus Security Initiative covered more than issues of sexual assault, some of its priority recommendations were in regard to cases of sexual violence. Shanahan said campuses were in agreement about the urgency of such issues and that there has been no resistance to implementing these recommendations.

However, he said a general challenge they are encountering is finding the necessary funding for new positions and programs.

“There was widespread agreement that these were very good steps to take,” he said.

“You want to have the most qualified people handling sexual assault cases… In order to do that, you’ve got to pay them the market rate, but that requires money.”

Bill Studenc with the office of communications said WCU has prioritized funding that would help them meet these requirements.

“At this point, all federal regulatory mandates and UNC policy changes have come without any additional funding for implementation, which means that the individual institutions have had to absorb these costs,” he said in an email.

Shanahan said the UNC Board of Governors recently approved a student fee

PREVENTION Chancey said meeting educational requirements is one of the most challenging pieces of the laws and regulations. He said a big part of this is simply making sure employees know what they are required to do should someone report allegations of sexual violence to them.

Students and faculty are also required to complete training that helps them understand how they can help prevent sexual violence and respond to victims. Employees are required to report any allegations they are informed of.

Students must complete online training.

If they fail to do so, they cannot register for classes.

WCU also sponsors the Red Zone – a joint initiative by departments across the university. The “red zone” refers to the early part of the year in student’s first and second years of college when they are at a higher risk for unwanted sexual experiences.

The program seeks to raise awareness and encourage students to speak up when they see any such behavior happening. Students, staff and faculty can also take a pledge to learn more about sexual violence and be an advocate for those who have experienced it.

“One of these is too much,” Chancey said. “That’s why we focus on it as much as we do.”

THE NUMBERS According to a 2015 poll by the Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation, 20 percent of women and 5 percent of men reported they had experienced sexual assault. The poll surveyed 1,053 men and women between the ages of 17 and 26 who had attended a fouryear college anytime since 2011.

A compilation of forcible sex offenses on campus by the Washington Post, indicates that WCU had 0.42 offenses reported for every 1,000 students in 2012. The University of North Carolina system school with the lowest ratio was UNCGreensboro, which received no reports in 2012. The highest ratio belonged to UNCChapel Hill, which received 0.72 reports for every 1,000 students.

WCU’s 2014 Annual Fire Safety and Security Report shows three cases of rape in 2011, five in 2012 and four in 2013. The report operates on the calendar year rather than the academic year, and Hudson said the report with 2014 statistics will be available in October.

Hudson said the numbers have remained steady over the years, but uni-

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Office for Civil Rights — The OCR of the U.S. Department of Education is the division that enforces civil rights laws pertaining to discrimination in educational settings. Students wishing to lodge a complaint against their college or university about its handling of sexual assault would contact the OCR. Dear Colleague Letter — In 2011, the OCR issued a 19-page letter to institutions to provide guidance and clarify the roles of these institutions in handling reports of sexual violence. It has issued several versions of these letters — in matters besides sexual violence — which serve as reminders to institutions about how they should be implementing various regulations. The most recent letter came on April 24, reminding institutions that they are required to have a Title IX coordinator and detailing the functions of that position.

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Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act — The Campus SaVE Act is a 2013 amendment to the Clery Act that broadened the scope of what institutions must report in regard to interpersonal violence. Besides sexual assault, they must also report domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. The act also requires institutions to implement prevention and awareness programs about sexual violence, gives guidance for writing policies on disciplinary proceedings and victims’ rights.

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versity officials expect them to increase as students are encouraged to report their cases. “(An increase) means education is working,” Browning said.

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A host of laws and regulations govern how colleges and universities handle reports of sexual assault.

Title IX — As part of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title IX prohibits sexbased discrimination in federally funded education programs or activities, so it applies to K-12 schools as well as colleges and universities.

Institutions are required to investigate all allegations of sexual assault and must make sure the act does not create a hostile environment or keep the victim from participating in or benefitting from educational activities and programs.

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university system.”

Part of WCU’s policy is that police present every case to the district attorney.

Hudson said this decision came about three years ago after noticing a perception throughout the country that campus police were not objective in handling reports of sexual assault. He said they then decided it would be a best practice to have a pair of outside eyes look at all cases.

“That way there’s no misconception that we have let some bias scare off our investigation,” Hudson said.

Both the university and legal systems are working simultaneously – often a difficult process for victims, as it requires them to retell their stories multiple times.

“It does breed lots of negativity,” said Shea Browning, WCU’s Title IX coordinator.

The university has taken steps to try to be sensitive to the victim’s needs.

Lochner said there is a certified victim advocate who explains the process to victims so they can better anticipate what is coming next.

“We are sensitive to re-victimization,” Lochner said. “… We want to minimize trauma.”

Regardless of whether or not a victim chooses to press criminal charges, Browning said he must investigate as far as he can before hitting a dead end. This mandate also stands regardless of whether or not a victim wants to contribute to the investigation. The victim may choose not to do anything besides report the allegations, but Browning still must investigate whatever evidence is there. He said it is about being diligent with the available evidence.

“The bare minimum is as far as you can get with the information you have,” he said.

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

Carnival Rides Open 5 p.m.-10 p.m. Open to the Public 6:00 p.m.

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

Animal Viewing Zoo 7:00 p.m.

Ugly Pick-up Truck Contest

APPLE ORCHARD EVENT CENTER 9 a.m Cake Entries 10:00 a.m.

Cake Walk/Auction 11:00 a.m.

Gospel Singing Pumpkin Decorating Contest 1:00 p.m.

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Natural Beauty Pageant 2 :00p.m.

Ice Cream Eating Contest 3:00 p.m.

Haywood County FFA BBQ 3:00 p.m.

Youth Talent Show 5:00 p.m.

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Mission Health will celebrate the opening its new 30,000-square foot medical office building in Haywood County from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31, at 360 Hospital Drive in Clyde.

Health care is moving rapidly away from the hospital toward ambulatory and home health settings, and Haywood County is an area in need of access to basic primary care and specialty services.

At the Haywood County facility, Mission Health will be able to offer primary care, imaging, lab and rotating specialty services, which include: woundcare, orthopedics, and physical therapy. Mission Health also expects more to come with a retail pharmacy and other specialty services.

WCU commentator predicts best leaf season in years Fall leaf color in the mountains of Western North Carolina should be the best it has been in a number of years because of generally drier-than-normal conditions during 2015.

That’s the word from Western Carolina University’s autumnal season sage Kathy Mathews in her annual prediction of how foliage around the region will perform as the sunlight of summer wanes and days become frosty. She believes that the formation of higher levels of pigments in the leaves correlates with dry weather throughout the year, but especially as fall comes around the bend.

“This fall could be one of the best leaf color seasons in Western North Carolina in recent memory,” Mathews said. “Three words explain it – unusually dry weather.”

Leaf-peepers always want to know when the “peak color” will happen, but the timing of the color change is highly dependent on the decreasing amount of sunlight that comes with the passing days, plus the elevation of a particular location, she said.

“The peak of fall color often arrives during the first and second week of October in the highest elevations, above 4,000 feet, and during the third week of October in the mid-elevations, 2,500 to 3,500 feet,” Mathews said.

HCC’s very own Collegiate National Champion, Ben Kniceley, as well as a flag raising ceremony to honor HCC alumni.

Dickey’s BBQ of Canton will be catering the event and HCC’s very own Waynesville Soda Jerks will be serving up their local, handcrafted artisan beverages.

Regular registration for the 5K through Aug. 31 is $25. Late registration is $30 from Sept. 1 through Sept. 19. Registration for the Fun Run is $15. Register at www.haywood.edu.

Blue plate special fundraiser to benefit Community Table

A Blue Plate Special fundraiser will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26, to benefit The Community Table in Sylva.

Choose between Jarrett House Chicken & Dumplings or Tomato Basil Pie prepared by Table volunteers. Shelton Farms donated tomatoes and Heinzelmannchen Brewery Root Beer will be on tap. Both entrees will be served with wedge salad and brownies. Dinein or carryout. $5 minimum donation. All proceeds benefit the organization’s mission to feed neighbors in need in a welcoming environment.

Call 828.586.6782 to place your carryout orders.

Ag Options grants available for farmers

Farmers in Western North Carolina who are diversifying or expanding their businesses can now apply for grants through WNC Agricultural Options.

With funding from the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission, WNC AgOptions is distributing a total of $178,000 to western North Carolina farmers in 2016. WNC AgOptions helps offset farmers' risk of trying new ventures with $3,000 and $6,000 grants.

The application deadline is Nov. 13.

Macon County Applicants should contact Alan Durden at Macon County Cooperative Extension by Oct. 16 to set up an appointment to discuss their projects.

828.349.2046 or www.wncagoptions.org or www.ces.ncsu.edu or www.tobaccotrustfund.org or www.wnccommunities.org.

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HCC to hold free 50th Medicare seminar anniversary celebration offered at senior center Celebrate 50 years with Haywood Community College in Clyde beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, with the Freedlander 5K and Fun Run and continuing with many activities throughout the day.

Following the 5K, there will be live music beginning at 10 a.m., headlined by Joe Lasher Jr. and the Jeff Santiago Band, a classic car show, bounce houses, putt-putt, creative arts activities for adults and children, a photo booth, and a fishing tournament with cash prizes at the Millpond.

Adding to the festivities, the event will host a Timbersports demonstration featuring

Medicare 101, an informational seminar, will be offered at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept.

1, at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center.

This program will give valuable information on the basics of what you need to know about your insurance options and coverage before you turn 65 — Medicare basics, supplements and prescription plans.

John Chicoine, certified SHIIP (Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program) counselor, will lead the program.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER wo years after the planning board first began reviewing the document, Jackson County has adopted a revised ordinance governing cell tower placement.

“I know exactly how (Commissioner) Boyce (Dietz) was feeling when he said, ‘I’m tired of listening to four lawyers quibbling about definitions,’” County Attorney Jay Coward told commissioners at a work session before the final vote. “I really feel like we’ve given this the best possible review we can give it.”

The ordinance is designed to make the approval process easier to understand and also to guide development so that cell coverage can continue to improve in Western North Carolina while impacting the view&shed as little as possible. The ordinance aims to achieve that by encouraging antenna from multiple companies to share the same tower and encouraging companies to use existing towers and facilities to provide service.

The document went through a total of eight reviews before its passage, the last of which resulted in two additional changes before the vote. For one, the ordinance no longer automatically allows companies extra height in exchange for concessions such as camouflaging the tower or allowing multiple antennae to locate there. The tower height is instead capped at 100 feet with the understanding that the planning board can grant a

comment from four people, with in-depth suggestions offered in writing from others who did not attend the in-person hearing. All those offering their suggestions were either lawyers, were personally involved in a past cell tower application, or both.

Commissioners delayed the vote in order to more thoroughly consider the comments.

“This final product is a really good product,” Craig Pendergrast told commissioners.

Tower height is capped at 100 feet with the understanding that the planning board can grant a waiver for additional height if it feels the request is justified.

As cell service becomes more widely used and expected, Jackson County hopes its newly revised ordinance will allow improved wireless service while minimizing the number of new towers that must be built. Donated photo waiver for additional height if it feels the request is justified.

The final version also tightened up the requirements for companies to prove they’ve considered alternative sites for the tower and that the proposed site is the best one.

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A public hearing on the ordinance in July, when commissioners were originally scheduled to vote on it, drew enthusiastic public

Pendergrast, an Atlanta attorney who had argued against a proposed tower near the property line of his land in the Cashiers area, had commented during the formal public hearing.

Commissioners unanimously approved the ordinance, thanking the public for their input through the process.

“We have received tremendous guidance each time we’ve had a work session or a public hearing,” said Commissioner Mark Jones.

“That’s how we get these ordinances to where they’re functional and practical.”

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Shining Rock charter school keeping site options open

The Waynesville Planning Board listens as residents of the Francis Cove community speak in opposition to Shining Rock Classical Academy receiving a special-use permit to locate a school in their neighborhood. Becky Johnson photo

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER hining Rock Classical Academy, a new charter school in Haywood County, has not given up on the idea of building a school in the Francis Cove area of Waynesville, despite a groundswell of opposition from residents in the community.

While the charter school is keeping the Francis Cove site in the wings as an option, it is going to be looking at other sites as well.

“We are considering multiple sites and we will find a site that will be our home,” Shining Rock Board Chair Tara Keilberg said in an email.

The school was denied a special use permit by the Waynesville Planning Board last week, on the grounds it wasn’t in keeping with the community’s character and would cause too many traffic issues. However, the charter school could attempt to fix those things and reapply for the permit in the future.

The Shining Rock board was hoping to buy a 32-acre site in Francis Cove for $1.1 million. The initial contract allowed for a 75-day due diligence period, but the Shining Rock board voted this week to extend the due diligence window with the land owner until August 2016.

Shining Rock had not only met permit hurdles, but was stymied from doing site testing within the initial 75-day window. The due diligence extension affords more time to work through those obstacles, but other sites could be considered in the meantime, according to a Facebook post by Keilberg saying the school could end up at Francis Cove “or perhaps another location.”

In a follow-up conversation Tuesday, Keilberg said the Folkmoot Friendship Center on Virginia Avenue in Hazelwood is one option being examined, but there are many factors to consider, including traffic congestion.

Since the county gifted the building to Folkmoot last year, the organization has been open to leasing space in the building to help pay for the improvements going into the building, including a new roof, an upgraded cafeteria, auditorium and bathrooms.

The Shining Rock board also voted this week to ask for site selection and site planning assistance from its parent charter school network, the Challenge Foundation. It has a

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Keilberg said the board needed someone with “fresh eyes” to take on looking for other potential locations.

“That’s what Challenge Foundation Properties does. They identify locations,” said Tim Foley, a Shining Rock board member from New Jersey who’s a liaison between the local school and the larger Challenge Foundation network. “I think it would really help us get something done to bring them in.”

Shining Rock’s first proposed location for the school was derailed by opposition, cost over-runs and site suitability issues earlier this year.

It’s second proposed location at Francis Cove ran into trouble when a contractor surveying the site in advance of soil core testing mowed down swaths of corn being grown on the site, which in turn prompted a dispute with a farmer who has an active lease to grow silage for his cattle on the property. The farmer said he would charge the school with trespassing if they came back into the field without permission before his lease is up next May. With the clock ticking on the start of the school year, the charter school landed a shortterm lease for a spare building on the campus of Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. The lease only runs through December, however, as Shining Rock hoped to have another site bought and outfitted with modular buildings by then.

The timetable to go from cornfield to school campus in five months has now proven unrealistic, and the Shining Rock board has not shared publicly what its options might be for the second half of the current school year.

It is unclear whether Lake Junaluska would offer the school an extension on the lease beyond December.

“The school year will not be disrupted,” Keilberg said in an email.

Even if the school can extend its lease at the lake for a few months, it could not finish out the year there, as conferences already booked for the spring need the space.

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possible information in hand, he debated steep slope ordinance, concluded, the chances of a repeat which will go to a final public disaster should go down. hearing Sept. 22 before commisThe commissioners’ vote sioners vote on it. One of the most ensures that the maps will get significant changes to the prodone, but what happens to them posed revised ordinance is a shift after they’re complete is still up in in when the rules kick in. Now a the air. The county could post slope must have a 35 percent them on its website, fully endorsgrade, rather than a 30 percent, ing the results and making them for the rules to apply. easy to find. Or it could opt to “My concern in these accountcontract to host them elsewhere, ings is that we don’t know that 35 meaning that the information percent is the right number for will be available to anyone who Jackson County,” said planning needs it but won’t be explicitly board member Tom Rodgers in advertised on the county site. the last meeting of his term. “A Both Macon and Haywood coun(landslide) study has not been ties have chosen the latter option, completed for all of Jackson citing concern about liability County. I remain a strong advoissues if the maps were hosted on cate for doing so, so we know the county site. what the right number is.”

“I think this landslide inforSlope is an important factor in mation is just one more piece of determining landslide risk, but it’s information that will help a propnot the only one. Soil type, water erty buyer make an informed flow and development, for decision,” said Commissioner instance, can all play a part. The Vickie Greene. “Whether we hope is that having a professional adopt it (the maps) or not I don’t set of maps will help developers care as long as the information is make better decisions about available to the public.” where to site future construction It’s something commissioners and give owners of existing homes will continue to talk about, a heads-up if they live somewhere McMahan said, but the importhat, after a heavy rainstorm, tant thing is that the maps exist. could prove dangerous.

“If anything we will contract In the steep-sloped and rainy Jennifer Bauer, a geologist for Appalachian Landslide Consultants, mountains of Western North assesses landslide risk on a mountain tract. File photo to provide the service, provide the maps,” he said.

Carolina, that’s a real fear, as Commissioners approved the contract “Was it predictable? Could it have been proven by a 2004 landslide in the Peeks Creek area of Macon County brought on by the something that could have been possibly unanimously, to be paid for out of continheavy rains of Hurricane Ivan. The disaster avoided?” said McMahan. “That’s something gency funds. The work will likely begin during the current fiscal year and continue left three people dead and properties in the we’ll never know.”

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ackson became the first North Carolina county to take landslide mapping into its own hands when the board of commissioners voted unanimously to fund the $143,000 project last week.

“It’s something that I think is needed,” Commission Chairman Brian McMahan said at a work session before the vote.

Four counties in the state got their landslide mapping done between 2005 and 2011, back when the state was funding the effort.

After the Legislature cut funding, some of the mountain counties made efforts to continue the work. In Haywood County, a group of environmental organizations pooled money to pay for the project, and in Jackson grant funding paid to map a small portion of the county, the Wayehutta Creek watershed.

Those post-state funding projects were completed by Appalachian Landslide Consultants, a company formed by two geologists — Jennifer Bauer and Stephen Fuemmeler — who had previously worked on the state-funded mapping.

Finishing the mapping in Jackson County is expected to take one-and-a-half years, so the price tag will be split between two fiscal years. The project will involve lots of time on the computer working with various geographic and elevation models, field verification of landslide-prone areas and creation of maps showing where landslides would be likely to start and where the debris would likely flow. The contract also stipulates ALC’s involvement in educational outreach efforts, stakeholder meetings and creation of a users guide and educational brochure.

The issue of landslide mapping surfaced during a planning board meeting earlier this month as members considered the much-

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Drilling down: construction cost balloons for HCC’s fire and rescue training center

legions of volunteer firefighters and rescue workers in the county, as well as law enforcement officers, who put their own safety on the line and give up time away from their jobs and families to serve the community.

“We have an opportunity to make an impression on not only the community but to the firefighters, to the rescue volunteer, to the medics, to the law enforcement officers in this county, to show once again that we support them by giving them a facility to train in and reward them for taking care of the citizens of this county,” Haynes said.

HCC isn’t the only one who’s seeing bids from contractors come back more than anticipated lately.

“We have been seeing a lot higher prices statewide,” said Latif Kaid, assistant director of the N.C. State Construction Office. “It is just the market and the contractors’ availability, and also material cost has been going up this summer.”

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER he construction cost for a new fire and rescue training center at Haywood Community College has clocked in more than $1 million higher than expected, prompting soul searching among college leaders and county commissioners over whether to go ahead with the project as planned.

The fire and rescue training center has been talked about for more than a decade, with planning beginning in earnest three years ago.

“We do not want to see the momentum go away,” HCC board chairman Richard Lanning said during a meeting between the college and county leaders last week. “We are teaching people to save lives.”

The center will host required certification and training courses for firefighters, rescue workers, law enforcement, SWAT teams, emergency medical technicians and prison guards, with sets and props for acting out simulated scenarios.

“I don’t think there is any question that there’s considerable worth in the public safety arena for a facility like this,” Commissioner Mark Swanger replied. “And I understand it is going to cost money.”

The cost of the new training center was initially projected at $4 million, based on estimates from the contracted architect firm. But when 16 bids came in from contractors last month, the

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Features of the proposed training center • The crown-jewel of the HCC fire and rescue training center is a burn tower where firefighters can battle simulated fires complete with smoke, explosions and dummies that need saving. The tower can also be used for SWAT scenarios, whether it’s sweeping a building for a rouge gunman or rappelling into windows to rescue hostages.

• There’s also a mock-up of a jail cell, a space to act-out attic fire drills and an extraction pad built into a hillside to allow rescue workers to practice pulling bodies from wrecked vehicles on a steep slope.

• There will also be classroom space, garage bays for rescue vehicles and a training floor for medical technicians.

lowest one put the project at $5.4 million.

“Unfortunately, we received quite a surprise. They of course are concerned it has come in significantly over budget,” HCC President Dr. Barbara Sue Parker said.

Commissioner Bill Upton asked whether options for cost savings had already been explored.

“Can you build it any cheaper?” Upton asked.

Parker said the plan was carefully vetted by a design committee, including a cross-section of fire, rescue and law enforcement representatives in the county. The committee had already pared down elements of the project as it is, and paring it down more would compromise its purpose and intent, according to Waynesville Fire Chief Joey Webb, who was on the committee.

“We come in and cut away and cut away to what we felt like we absolutely had to have,” Webb said. “We tried to look at this thing and make it marketable to draw firefighters in from around the state.”

One of the most moving soliloquies of the hour-long discussion at the commissioner’s meeting was delivered by Chief Deputy Jeff Haynes with the Haywood County Sheriff ’s Office, who took an impromptu turn at the mic to put the import of the project in focus.

“For 20 years this issue has been on the table. We have watched it ebb and flow. We have watched it start. We’ve watched it stop.

At some point it is time to step forward,” Haynes said. “This is a step we can take to improve quality of life for the people of Haywood County and do the right thing.”

Haynes cited the sacrifices made by

When Parker shared the conundrum at the county commissioners meeting last week, the HCC board of trustees hadn’t yet voted on whether to bite the bullet and do the project anyway, despite the cost.

They were leaning toward it, but had a question to ask commissioners first: would the county help with the additional operation expenses of the training center in the future?

Parker said with the higher construction cost of eating up more money, HCC would be stretched too thin to also come up with the higher maintenance and staffing expenses out of its own pocket.

“One of the concerns expressed by our board was the yearly operations and maintenance,” Parker said.

It will cost about $126,000 a year to run the fire and rescue training center — primarily due to the specialized burn tower, which would get a beating from gas-fueled pyrotechnics, smoke machines and a regular dousing with water and fire retardants.

The college will have to hire a full-time staff person to run the burn tower, due to its specialized nature. It would also come with the additional upkeep, maintenance and cleaning.

“If I understand correctly, if you don’t operate this thing properly, you burn up your burn facility and you don’t have it anymore,” Commissioner Kirk Kirkpatrick said.

The college wanted a pledge that the county would increase HCC’s budget accordingly to help cover the added operational costs. But that wouldn’t be needed until 2017, and a commissioners’ election would occur between now and then.

Swanger said the commissioners today couldn’t make a definitive promise to HCC whether future commissioners would increase the college’s budget for operations.

“You can’t bind another board into the future,” Swanger said.

Commissioner Mike Sorrells asked whether the college would likely see an increase in the number of agencies from around the state coming to train at the facility, and thus be able to bring in more money to cover the added cost.

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Parker replied that by law they can’t charge fire, rescue and law enforcement officers for the trainings. Although every hour of training adds to their total student count, which in turn means more state per pupil dollars, it is nominal — only enough to cover the cost of paying instructors and general overhead.

“What you are saying is we have no way to cover this additional expense and there is no way to charge most of these folks so you don’t have any income to offset these expenses,” Kirkpatrick summed up.

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Money to build the fire and rescue training center will come out of a special quarter-cent sales tax specific to Haywood County. Haywood voters approved the quarter-cent sales tax several years ago, on the understanding it would be dedicated for community college building projects.

The new higher price tag for the project would eat up every bit of the sales tax for the next decade.

“That is my biggest concern,” said Upton. “You are still going to have needs at the college.”

Commissioners wanted to know what projects might be compromised down the road by committing more money to the fire and rescue training center today.

“What is the next big project that potentially needs to be done or that you would like to have done?” Sorrells asked.

Parker said HCC wants to renovate the space that houses the nursing program and build a new general classroom building.

Swanger then brought up a sore point among commissioners: the $11 million creative arts building HCC undertook several years ago.

Commissioners were at bitter odds with HCC leaders at the time over the cost of that project. The county attempted to send the college back to the drawing board, claiming the building design was too extravagant, but college leaders countered that the project couldn’t be cut without compromising the flagship nature of the building, including its many eco features.

Swanger said if anything could be blamed for eating up the quarter-cent sales tax pot, it’s the big price tag on the creative arts building — not the law enforcement training center.

“I would hate for a public safety training facility to be blamed for preventing future projects when we all remember the creative arts building. That’s where the problem occurred. It is not this facility, so I want to put that out there,” Swanger said.

The creative arts building houses students earning degrees in jewelry-making, pottery, woodworking and other craft enterprises. Parker noted that the creative arts program does draw students from outside the area to HCC more so than any other field.

Kirkpatrick said he supports the fire and rescue training center. But that doesn’t change the reality that there’s only so much money available through the quarter-cent sales tax, piling onto the thread that the creative arts building was the real culprit, however.

“I am not trying to be negative toward the college board now at all, because it wasn’t this board that made those decisions,” Kirkpatrick said. “What we want to be careful of is supporting this project and then later on being asked for additional funds

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TRAINING, CONTINUED FROM 17 because the community college doesn’t have the funds to improve the nursing facility.”

Parker agreed.

“We have had the very same conversations. There is only so much money and a bunch of needs,” Parker said.

There’s nothing to say the county has to cap building projects at HCC to the pot of money generated by the quarter-cent sales tax. Few counties have a dedicated pot of money for community college facilities, and simply dredge up the money from their normal county coffers. The commissioners could always add to what’s generated from the quarter-cent sales tax if they chose.

Likewise, there’s nothing binding county commissioners to actually set the quartercent sales tax aside for the college. Legally, strings can’t be attached to it.

But that was the pitch to voters, and commissioners thus far have allowed the community college to use the quarter-cent sales tax revenue on the building projects of their choosing.

Swanger said the fire, rescue and law enforcement community came out in support of the quarter-cent sales tax when it was on the ballot, based on promises that this training center would eventually come to fruition using that pot of money.

“I don’t know how you go back on that. I just don’t know how you do that,” Swanger said.

“This is something that has been promised to the community,” Kirkpatrick agreed.

“The tough questions don’t indicate where our heart is,” Upton assured.

In the end, HCC leaders got the modicum of assurance they needed — both that the commissioners were philosophically behind them and that the county would look favorably on a budget increase in the future to help cover the operations of the burn tower.

The community college board met last week following the discussion with commissioners and unanimously voted to award the construction to Brantley Construction of Canton, which came in with the lowest bid.

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Haywood voters approved the quarter-cent sales tax on the understanding it would be dedicated for community college building projects. The new higher price tag for the project would eat up every bit of the sales tax for the next decade.

one that will dramatically impact the safety and well-being of our entire community,” Lanning said. “While the project will require a large portion of our capital funding for a number of years, its level of importance in relation to the safety of Haywood County is why we’re committed to moving forward.”

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The sheriff hopes the new ordinance will encourage part-time residents to update their security systems to prevent this problem in the future. Cochran assured commissioners his deputies would use common sense when enforcing the ordinance and take into consideration the elderly who may have problems working their systems. While he said warnings would be the first step, violators could be issued a $50 fine if deputies respond to a false alarm call at their home.

Residents can appeal a citation to the county manager and commissioners.

“About 150 letters have been sent out to people we know have these alarm systems — the same ones who have been called before,” said County Manager Kevin King.

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Beginning Sept. 1, Swain County Sheriff ’s Office will have the authority to issue citations and fines for residents who have faulty alarm and security systems.

Swain County commissioners approved a False Alarm ordinance several months go to address the timely and costly problem of responding to vacant houses when a security alarm is set off. Sheriff Curtis Cochran told commissioners the excessive false alarms were a burden on the sheriff ’s department’s limited resources. The department responded to more than 1,000 security alarm calls in 2014 and a majority of them were the result of faulty alarm systems.

“Over the past two years the board has been working in harmony trying to better Maggie Valley and I want to see continued improvements for businesses and residents alike.”

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campaigns and will provide detailed background information as well as goals, objectives and vision for continued positive improvements for Maggie Valley and the surrounding community.

She said being a write-in candidate definitely has its challenges, but her name recognition and experience may help her overcome those difficulties. She plans on printing flyers to explain to voters how they can cast their vote for her because they will actually have to type her name in on the electronic voting machines.

Price was last elected for a four-year term on the board in 2013. She will not have to vacate her board position to run for mayor.

Also up for re-election this year in Maggie Valley are Alderman Phillip Wight and Alderwoman Janet Banks.

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Swain County to get rid of parking lot potholes

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR fter hearing numerous complaints about the enormous potholes plaguing the county administrative building parking lot, Swain County commissioners agreed it was time to repave it.

County Manager Kevin King told commissioners that the building and grounds department suggested using concrete instead of asphalt for the repaving project.

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grounds wants to use concrete because it will last longer,” he said.

He said it wasn’t that long ago that the county paid $78,000 to have the entire parking lot repaved but it hasn’t lasted. There are several deep potholes and lose pieces of asphalt in the parking lot, which gets heavy regular use.

King said the project would cost a total of $45,000 to repave the public parking areas of the lot and $15,000 of the cost would be covered by grant money.

“All the potholes will be gone,” King said.

Commissioners unanimously approved a budget amendment to spend $45,000 to repave the parking lot.

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“I’m a native of Maggie Valley — I love Maggie Valley, I work here, I live here — I just really felt like I needed to do this,” she said. “I want to carry out the goals Ron had and the goals the board has.”

Price said that within the next 10 days she will comply with state laws regarding

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR month after the sudden death of Maggie Valley Mayor Ron DeSimone, longtime alderwoman Saralyn Price has decided to seek the mayor’s seat as a write-in candidate in the fall election.

DeSimone had signed up to run for a second term as the valley’s mayor but he died in a construction accident on July 17. The deadline had just passed for new candidates to sign up to run, which left the race with two other challengers — Jasay Ketchum and Justin Phillips.

While it was too late to add a new name to Saralyn Price the ballot, Maggie Valley Board of Aldermen have no doubt been pondering who would be the best person to run as a write-in and keep DeSimone’s vision — the current board’s vision — moving forward.

Price is the likely choice as she has served three terms on the town board spent 30 years in local law enforcement and her family’s roots run deep in Haywood County.

“Due to the untimely death of Mayor Ron DeSimone, and since I love and believe in Maggie Valley, I felt that it was necessary for me to seek this office,” Price said in a press release. “Over the past two years the board has been working in harmony trying to better Maggie Valley and I want to see continued improvements for businesses and residents alike.”

Price said the upcoming election could derail the progress being made by the current board depending on who gets elected as aldermen and mayor. Her goal is to continue down the current path, which has been cooperative and productive.

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Shining Rock students settle in

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR ith only three days of school under their belts, students attending Shining Rock Classical Academy were already settling into their routine on Monday morning.

They donned the new charter school’s colors and logo while also incorporating their own uniqueness into their uniforms.

For most students it’s just another school year, but for the school’s founding members, seeing students filling up desks is a victory that has been three years in the making.

“It’s just exceeded every expectation I had,” said Nancy East, a Shining Rock founding board member, as she held the door open for students arriving to school Monday. “You just never know what to expect and you build it up in your head for so long — but the positive energy has been incredible — it feels like a family already and that’s exactly what we we’re hoping to accomplish.”

Katie Gerstel, a first-year third-grade teacher at Shining Rock, said she sent out an email update to all of her classroom parents on Friday and received great feedback saying that their students were happy at school.

“I think our kids are fantastic and the teachers are already a family — I feel very supported by everybody here,” she said.

The final months leading up to the first day of school have been tumultuous for Shining Rock leaders. Between trying to navigate the new regulations governing charter schools and dealing with controversy surrounding its search for a permanent location, leaders haven’t had a moment to stop for a moment and appreciate how far they’ve come.

They were finally able to step back — If just for a moment — to reflect on their efforts as they watched more than 200 students enter The Wilson Children's Complex at Lake Junaluska for the first day of class.

“Of course it's gratifying to hear that kids and parents are happy,” said Tara Keilberg, Shining Rock board chairwoman.

“We still have much work to do. Let me quote a little Churchill: ‘Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.’”

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Haywood County Sheriff ’s deputies directed traffic from 7:30 to 7:50 a.m. but drop off went smoothly with little delay and no wait for others driving through Lake Junaluska. Keilberg said keeping traffic flowing was important to the school because Shining Rock didn’t want to be a burden on 20 lake residents.

Fourth-grade teacher Sara Jenkins (above) first-grade teacher Amber Fischer (below) address their classes on the first day of school at Shining Rock Classical Academy. Jessi Stone photo

ways for office space and the music and art teachers use a mobile cart to take their lessons to each classroom throughout the day.

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“We want to be a good neighbor — we don’t want to be in the way,” she said Monday morning.

While parents currently have to drop off and pick up their kids at the charter school, Shining Rock is working on getting two buses up and running in order to provide east and west routes from the Jackson County line to the Buncombe County line. One bus has been purchased but the school doesn’t yet have a title. There are also plans for the students to decorate the bus to make it their own.

In the meantime, athletic director Jerimy Rinker has been tasked with purchasing a second used bus for the school. Once the buses are up and running, they will not make house-to-house stops but will have a number of central pick-up locations.

FACILITIES The Wilson Children’s Complex seemed to be a ready made location for the new charter school, but it’s easy to see the work teach-

ers put in before the first dya to make their students feel right at home. It’s a little different than what many are used to, but they didn’t seem to mind.

The three kindergarten classes are located in one large room with partitions dividing it out into three smaller spaces. While the partitions allow teachers to break into smaller groups for instruction, they also allow the opportunity for larger group activities and team teaching on certain lessons or projects.

On Monday morning, all the kindergartners were joyfully singing along with a song that teaches them the days of the week.

“We’ve got everything we could possibly need here,” said Gerstel.

Gerstel and Christina White share classroom space for their two third-grade classes.

The two teachers enjoy the flexibility they have to teach alongside each other or put up the partition to offer two different lessons.

Limited space in the center forces staff to be a little creative when it comes to utilizing space. There are partitioned areas in the hall-

Kindergartner Rhiannon Connolly was all smiles as her mom Jenny Hall of Clyde dropped her off at school Monday morning.

When looking at where she should send her shy daughter — who has never been to daycare or pre-K, Hall said she has been following the charter school’s progress for a year or more.

“I didn’t know much about charter schools until I started researching school systems a year ago,” she said. While she also heard good things about the elementary school in her neighborhood, she felt Shining Rock was the best fit for her daughter.

“I like that there is a strong academic focus and a lot of hands-on learning,” Hall said. “And I really like the fact that they will learn a lot outside of the classroom.”

Hall is referring to Shining Rock’s commitment to experiential learning with field trips and full days of educational activities outdoors. The first of many of these days will be Sept. 8 at Lake Logan. On Sept. 10, Shining Rock has scheduled a half-day clean up around Lake Junaluska.

School director Ben Butler said several classes have already gotten out of the classroom for nature hikes and writing assignments on the Lake Junaluska campus. Trips are being scheduled each week so that all grades would be in a quarterly rotation.

“It's a work in progress, but already we're getting very positive responses from our students and parents,” he said.

“Education is always better when students can see real world applications. Getting students out of the classroom to learn gives more meaning to the content they learn in the classroom.”

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Knowledge curriculum integrates all subjects into a single lesson. For example, White said her class isn’t just going to read a book. They are going to look at maps to help them associate where the author of the book grew up to provide context.

“It creates a basis for what they’re learning and why it’s important,” White said.

Music teacher Daniel Mull and art teacher Kirby Phillips said they are both enjoying their first year of teaching at the charter school. As she wheeled her cart to the next classroom, she stopped for a moment to talk about the students’ upcoming projects.

Kindergartners and first-graders will be learning lines and color concepts by doing some sculpting while second- through sixthgraders will be creating their own sketchbooks to keep with them through the year for other projects.

Mull rolled his keyboard into a third-grade class and taught them about musical staffs using a game of musical staff hopscotch.

“I love being part of a new school — it’s amazing what they’ve been able to accomplish here,” he said. “I’m looking forward to building my own music program — where else would you be able to do that?”

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Several other parents said the outdoor learning was a main factor in deciding to enroll their child in the charter school.

Laura Arrington of Waynesville said her first-grader Daniel was “all boy” and had too much energy to be stuck behind a desk during school.

“I felt this was a better fit for him because of more hands-on activities,” she said. “He hated school last year so it was hard to send him, but now he loves it.”

John and Leah Stover decided to enroll their third-grader at Shining Rock because of the emphasis on outdoor education.

Previously homeschooled, they said their daughter is accustomed to being outdoors more.

“She doesn’t need to be behind a desk for seven hours a day,” Leah said.

Experiential learning is part of Shining Rock’s curriculum — Core Knowledge Sequence — developed by E. D. Hirsch Jr. The rigorous content is supposed to be taught to students in multiple stages, allowing for a solid foundation of math, science, English and history to be built early on before adding layer and context to the material from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Gerstel and fellow third-grade teacher Christina White said the Common

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER hile most kids are just getting their new backpacks stocked or suffering through the first days of shift from summertime sleep schedules, students at Blue Ridge School in Cashiers are in the midst of their third week of the new school year.

The first day of school for the little 370student campus was Aug. 10, a good two weeks earlier than the bulk of Jackson County Schools, but the school’s start date isn’t the only unusual thing about it. For starters, Blue Ridge is technically two schools, not one, with Blue Ridge School serving children in kindergarten through sixth grade and Blue Ridge Early College going through grade 13. The early college is the reason for the early start date, said BREC principal Adam Holt. Partnering with Southwestern Community College to offer college classes to its teenage students, the school has to start at the same time college classes start. Because high schoolers and kindergartners all ride the same buses, the college schedule trickles down to affect the elementary grades, too.

“One of the challenges is blending two schools into one campus, because the expectations are so different K-6 than they are 7 to 13,” said Teri Walawender, principal of the elementary school.

Over in the elementary wing, kids are certainly aware of the older kids’ presence.

They eat in the same cafeteria, ride the same buses and use the same gym. High schoolers make it to their classrooms as tutors, mentors and guest teachers, as when the high school’s German class came over to teach the younger students facts about Germany.

But stepping into Wanda Crisp’s kindergarten classroom left no doubt that the space was part of an elementary school.

Kindergartners sat, crisscross applesauce, on a bright-colored carpet, eyes glued to a Smartboard that showed pictures of facial expressions to go with various emotions and the words to describe them. They enthusiastically mimicked their teacher in copying the faces shown, looking for the right expression to display as their “learning face.”

“Is it this one?” Crisp asked, showing a slide featuring a disgusted face.

“No!” the class chorused.

“What about this one?” This time the board showed a collection of sad faces.

Finally, up came a slide showing happy faces, a perfect representation of the joy of learning. The students gladly replicated the face for their visitor from The Smoky Mountain News and were quick to talk about the exciting things they’d done so far this year — namely, watch a sheep get sheered and touch the fleece. A little boy named Dominik trotted over to point out the bag of fleece — holding his nose the

pair of combined-grade classes — one for whole time, because that stuff is stinky. first and second graders, the other for third Over in the high school building, the scene is a little bit different. Blue Ridge offers and fourth graders.

“This year’s a new approach,” a traditional high school curriculum, but it’s also an early college, integrating SCC courses Walawender said. “Traditionally in a combined class you would put kids who are selfinto the curriculum through in-person motivated, that you can give them direct instruction from Southwestern Community instruction, and they can work independentCollege professors, online classes and attenly while you work with another group.” dance at the Webster SCC campus. Students Instead, the combined classes are an interat the end of their 13th year can find themvention, providing a place for students who selves in possession of an associates degree, are struggling in a given subject to learn in a transfer credits to enter as a junior at a fourflexible environment, benefiting from a smallyear institution or a certificate in a trade er class size and high number of teachers. such as mechanics or cosmetology — all Sarah Cline, a second-year teacher who’s without paying any extra tuition.

“It’s pretty fantastic,” Walawender said.

But this particular Friday morning, the study carrels in the online learning room were empty of students, though still full of textbooks and taped-up photos of smiling teenagers on the particleboard dividers.

The students were instead gathered in one of nine classrooms, participating in one of a variety of club offerings.

A darkened classroom held the 21st-century film club, currently watching “Memoirs of a Geisha,” which they would discuss later. Over in the row of temporary buildings the glee club worked on a version of Lorde’s song “Royals,” Kindergartners in Wanda Crisp’s class at Blue Ridge School in Cashiers display their happiest learning faces and next door a cluster to celebrate the new school year. Holly Kays photo of guitar-clutching teenagers strummed the gospel tune “Unclouded Day.” “They look up to the older kids. They see that those kids The 40-minute club block is offered two Fridays each month, with the remaining are working hard, doing college classes, and decide they Fridays including blocks for advisory club want to do that one day, too.”

— kind of like a mentorship group in which small groups of students meet with a desig— Sarah Cline, first/second grade science teacher nated teacher — and skills day, which covers topics like plagiarism, note taking and worked at Blue Ridge for both years, teaches budgeting. proportionate number are located in Blue Ridge’s small size — most grade lev- the first/second grade science class, where Western North Carolina. she, a teaching assistant and a student tutor els have somewhere between 25 and 35 stuBlue Ridge has its challenges — it can be dents — allows it to be a bit more flexible, to work with a group of about 15 students. hard to attract teachers, because few of them “We kind of just look through what first try new approaches and respond to percan afford to live in Cashiers and therefore graders need to know in science and what ceived gaps in the system. That’s what drove must commute. At the moment, the school second graders need,” Cline said. Then, she the formation of skills day, new this year. is dealing with a staffing shortage. And as teaches the parts of the two curricula that “My staff got together over the summer with all small schools, the economy of scale are the same and differentiates based on the and decided that there were a few skills that can be an issue when it comes to offerings student’s grade and comprehension to drive we felt our students needed by the time they such as music, sports and elective classes. home the rest. graduated from high school,” Holt But in the same way, the school’s “It’s not difficult to do,” she said of comexplained. “Through the process we decided strength is in its size. It’s a school home that bining the grades. to try a different Friday schedule where stukids know from the time they learn to read Having the student tutors to lean on — dents attend three different opportunities: until they’re filling out college applications. high school kids who have some free time clubs, advisory groups and a skills day.”

Classmates become siblings, and siblings from their SCC classes — also makes The elementary school is similarly become classmates. things easier. responsive to needs, this year launching a “It is like family,” Walawender said.

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“They look up to the older kids,” Cline said of her students. They see that those kids are working hard, doing college classes, and decide they want to do that one day, too.

“Even though we’re two schools on paper, we’re using this campus together and sharing it for the benefit of all students,” Holt added.

Walawender’s also of the opinion that the shared campus means fewer behavioral issues among the high schoolers.

“They’re typical kids, but I feel like they just are aware,” she said. “When the little guys are around, they’re not as rambunctious as they would be at a regular high school.”

It’s an interesting dynamic, different than that encountered at the vast majority of public high schools in North Carolina. There are very few K-12 schools in the state, and a dis-

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Trump may be best choice for president To the Editor: Traditionally, Americans have sent lawyers to congressional offices in Washington. The assumption was that they would be able to make laws and regulations. What they actually did is cut deals and trade agreements that are killing American businesses and jobs.

While you know me as the pistol instructor, my background is stronger in business, having run several major- and medium-sized corporations. Over the years I’ve written many times that we need to send experienced businessmen/women to Washington. The government of the U.S. is one of the largest businesses in the world. Why would you send an inexperienced attorney, with no business experience to run it? A man who have never held a job, never punched a clock, never supervised people, never managed people, never created business plans, budgets or negotiated business deals?

What Donald Trump is finally revealing is what I have written about for years. Fair trade laws that Washington negotiated served to send large parts of American business overseas. It has created severe economic results in the U.S. Our companies are not doing well, there are not enough jobs for Americans! It is difficult to achieve a middle-class position.

— even hot, most days — but cooler weather is moving in fast. Pretty soon, the flowers will shiver in their pots and we’ll be tempted to throw on a sweater or a hoodie before trudging up to the bus stop to wait on old 27 to round the bend past the Williamses.

Once the fair packs up and we sneak a peck on the cheek from Labor Day, it is just a short sprint to bearing up against the first frost, to exchanging the chenille bedspread for the heavy down comforter, to firing up Columnist the furnace and warming our feet on the vents, to reveling in the annual blast of color across these mountains, tourists choking the highways to get a glimpse and snap pictures from overpasses and wider places in the road.

And then the holidays, the vise-grip of winter. Hot chocolate and snow days. Hauling out the sleds and trying to find gloves that match in the bottom of the closet.

It goes so fast, this carousel.

Yesterday, I waved at my daughter as she whirled around in one of those bumble bees.

“Our baby,” my wife said, her arm around my waist, pulling me closer. “She’s big enough to ride by herself, daddy.”

Now she is in high school. Next summer, she’ll be driving a car. She’s as tall as her mother, and as beautiful.

Yesterday, we wedged Jack between us on the Tilt-a-Whirl so his little body wouldn’t be tossed like a tennis ball from one side of the car to the other. Both of us had an arm

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ome of them arrive four or five days early, packed up and just sitting there on the Haywood County Fairgrounds like gigantic metal suitcases that won’t quite close all the way. The rest come later. The Scrambler, the Flying Bumblebees, the Pirate Boat, the rickety little coaster that somebody has to snap together like Legos. The booths that house impossible games, rows of cheaply sewn stuffed animals, the biggest the size of couch cushions.

Overinflated basketballs and rims the size of pie tins that are never quite level. Five thousand plastic toys made in China, none of them bigger than a candy bar. Three throws, five bucks, everyone’s a winner.

“You want that big Scooby?” the barker says, leaning in.

“Just five more dollars. Come on, dad, show her how it’s done. No? Maybe next time. Here’s a lizard, kid.”

There is something about the fair that dips me like an apple into the sweet, bright syrup of nostalgia. Every day, I drive by on my way to work and glance at the rides and booths and tents all just sitting there in the early morning mist, silent and waiting, maybe a curious groundhog or rabbit peering in on this new and temporary little township, and I feel the years wash over me, the flotsam and jetsam of memories floating by in the current, barely out of reach. A raccoon I won throwing darts when I was 12. My son, many years later, racing down a big red slide on a burlap sack, legs akimbo, mouth agape.

Schools are already back in session, but it is the fair that is like a bridge between summer and fall, between the reckless, shapeless, lazy days of summer and the routines, rituals, and requirements of the school year. It is still warm out

Trump is validly pointing out that other countries are stealing from us, bad deals have been negotiated, and it is killing our economy.

General Motors has now announced that it is going to build a new factory in Mexico. This is a company that the U.S. government had to bail out with taxpayer financial aid.

Mitsubishi is closing its Illinois production factory, their only one in the U.S. If you tour the industrial parks in Mexico you will find thousands of U.S. companies that have facilities and jobs there.

From a business point of view, GM is forced to go outside the U.S. It is the UAW that has almost put our auto companies out of business with $60 to $70 per hour salaries for production line workers. Toyota and Volkswagen have taken over our market.

Trump has finally opened Pandora’s Box and has brought the truths to the surface. Now, we all know he is a jerk, but one hell of a businessman. He is leading the polls not because of who he is, but what he knows. We missed one huge opportunity with Mitt Romney. He had the business skills to turn this country around.

Americans seem inclined now to want a woman in the highest office. Regardless of political party, there are many qualified women who head up major corporations who would make an excellent leader for our country. I am searching for a bumper sticker that says ANYBODY BUT HILLARY! She doesn’t

Schools are already back in session, but it is the fair that is like a bridge between summer and fall, between the reckless, shapeless, lazy days of summer and the routines, rituals, and requirements of the school year.

around him, just in case, to keep him safe and secure.

Now he is so big that I can comfortably wear his flip flops when I take the dog out for a walk. We ask him how he likes his new teacher and he says, “She’s funny, on occasion.”

As a writer, I’m all too aware of these carnival clichés.

The carousel. The rollercoaster. Growing up too fast, what a ride. But what else can we do? We bought our tickets years ago and we’re strapped in.

Enjoy it while you can, friends. It may be a temporary township, but it’s bright and colorful and there are quite a few thrills and laughs to be had along the way.

Finally, if you are lucky enough to see your daughter on that bumble bee, wave at her as long as you can. Act a damn fool if you have to, as long as she sees you’re watching her.

She’s going to be driving soon, you know.

(Chris Cox is a writer and teacher. His more recent book, The Way We Say Good-bye, is available in bookstores and at Amazon. He can be reached at jchriscos@live.com.)

have the business qualifications and is just a crafty politician. We need to send business people to Washington who wake up every day with these thoughts: • What can we do to strengthen American businesses today?

• What laws and regulations can we get rid of today?

• How can we lower the national debt today?

If your child came to you and asked you to cosign for a credit card, and he/she said they were going to charge half of everything they spend, would you cosign for the credit card?

You bet your bippy you wouldn’t! Then, why did you let the U.S. government do this over the past few years? That’s why the national debt has skyrocketed. Over 50 percent of the money they spent was borrowed! We need to wake up folks!

Jim Sottile Franklin jimmyshot@frontier.com

You can choose your own worldview To the Editor: I am a human being, a member of a family, an American, and a Democrat, in that order.

Notice what I didn’t list.

I could have been born in Asia, Africa, or

LOOKING FOR OPINIONS The Smoky Mountain News encourages readers to express their opinions through letters to the editor or guest columns. All viewpoints are welcome. Send to Scott McLeod at info@smokymountainnews.com., fax to 828.452.3585, or mail to PO Box 629, Waynesville, NC, 28786.

Palestine, on a reservation, in Harlem, or in Mexico. I could have been born looking much different than I do, and treated accordingly by society, but I wasn’t. I could have been born a girl, or gay, or differently abled, but I wasn’t. I could have been raised Buddhist, Muslim, Anglican, Jewish, atheist or animist, but I wasn’t. I could have been taught only Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Swahili, or Arabic. I could have been raised only by my mother, my grandmother, or adopted, but I wasn’t. I could have been born in a different time in history, in any situation. I had no choice in the matter. In some ways I won the lottery, in other ways, I lost. Imagine that. In some ways I lost.

Perhaps you believe that God has a plan for you, but then God has a plan for each of us, and God has us born into these very different situations around the world. Given that,

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to 8:30 p.m. Home to an extensive build your own sandwich menu as well as specialty salads, soups burgers and more. With local ingredients and made-from-scratch recipes using a variety of good-for-you ingredients Apple Creek Cafe is sure to become your favorite spot.

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

AMMONS DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT & DAIRY BAR 1451 Dellwwod Rd., Waynesville.

828.926.0734. Open 7 days a week 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Celebrating over 25 years.

Enjoy world famous hot dogs as well as burgers, seafood, hushpuppies, hot wings and chicken. Be sure to save room for dessert.

The cobbler, pie and cake selections are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.

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

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

APPLE ANDY'S RESTAURANT 3843 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.944.0626. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Wednesday and Thursday. 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Friday and Saturday. Serving the freshest homemade sandwiches, wraps, and entrees such as country fried steak and grilled flounder. Full salad bar and made from scratch sides like potato salad, pinto beans and macaroni and cheese. www.appleandys.com APPLE CREEK CAFE 32 Felmet St., Waynesville. 828.456.9888.

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

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

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to 3 p.m. Saturaday & Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Chef owned and operated. Our salads are made in house using local seasonal vegetables. Fresh roasted ham, turkey and roast beef used in our hoagies. We hand make our own eggplant and chicken parmesan, pork meatballs and hamburgers. We use 1st quality fresh not pre-prepared products to make sure you get the best food for a reasonable price. We make vegetarian, gluten free and sugar free items. Call or go to Facebook (Breaking Bread Café NC) to find out what our specials are.

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

Open Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday brunch 9 a.m. to 3p.m., Full Menu 3 to 9 p.m. Serving fresh and delicious weekday morning lite fare, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Freshly prepared menu offerings range from house-made soups & salads, lite fare & tapas, crepes, specialty sandwiches and burgers. Be sure not to miss the bold flavors and creative combinations that make up the daily Chef Supper Specials starting at 5pm every day.

Followed by a tempting selection of desserts prepared daily by our chefs and other local bakers. Enjoy craft beers on tap, as well as our full bar and eclectic wine list.

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal,

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To the Editor: Thank you Macon County. It was truly humbling to see the community turnout for the Homeless Symposium. The interest, support and concern was evident in the questions, comments, and suggestions.

We discussed the need to rebuild a homeless person’s support network by addressing the themes of prevention, crisis sheltering and transitioning to a home. The threads that bind all of our efforts in these areas are prayer, volunteers and funding. Our vision is to see the homeless become fruit bearing members of our community.

In order to rise to the homeless challenge, as a community, the next steps will be to encourage and equip prayer warriors to seek out and edify volunteers, and develop funding sources. Our foundation is on THE ROCK, we should now begin “raising the building”.

Please join us in our community’s efforts to address homelessness. For more information contact Macon New Beginnings, Inc. at 828.202.3103; www.maconnewbeginnings.org, like us on Facebook; and/or contact your church, civic, business or political leaders.

Again, thank Macon County.

Robert Bourke Macon New Beginnings

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how do we treat our brothers and sisters in our neighborhood, in our nation, and across the globe? Do we treat them as equal human beings, with the respect they deserve? Do we listen to each other in our vast array of experiences, or yell at each other? In this country, do we truly afford all God’s children the equal opportunities that we espouse as Americans?

This is the great challenge of this world, now more than ever.

As a member of the human race, are you a person of good will? Do you strive toward respect, fairness, and peace?

Or do you give into fear, anger, hatred, and false division? Do you give into arrogance or greed?

This is your choice. For the sake of your soul, for the sake of the world, for the sake of the billions of your brothers and sisters alive today and for all our descendants, please choose wisely.

Dan Kowal Franklin

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

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

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

CITY BAKERY 18 N. Main St. Waynesville 828.452.3881.

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

Breakfast is made to order daily: Gourmet cheddar & scallion biscuits served with bacon, sausage and eggs; smoked trout bagel plate; quiche and fresh fruit parfait. We bake a wide variety of breads daily, specializing in

traditional french breads. All of our breads are hand shaped. Lunch: Fresh salads, panini sandwiches. Enjoy outdoor dinning on the deck. Private room available for meetings.

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

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

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

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

THE CLASSIC WINESELLER 20 Church Street, Waynesville.

828.452.6000. Underground retail wine and craft beer shop, restaurant, and intimate live music venue. Kitchen opens at 4 p.m.

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

CORK & CLEAVER 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

828.456.7179. Reservations recommended.

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

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Come take a wagon ride with us, back to the beginnings of the Ranch. In celebration of our 82nd season, we’ll be serving up “Way Back When” dinners in an authentic re-creation of Mr. Tom and Miss Judy’s first primitive fishing camp. Just call us for reservations, then come join us on August 28 for mountain trout and mountain music. And Cataloochee Ranch enjoy old-fashioned hospitality a mile high.

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

828.926.1820 Open Daily 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., closed Tuesday. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet. Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service.

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

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

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

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JOEY'S PANCAKE HOUSE 4309 Soco Rd Maggie Valley.

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

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

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

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

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

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

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

ORGANIC BEANS COFFEE COMPANY 1110 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

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

Bakery offerings include cakes, muffins,

PATIO BISTRO 30 Church Street, Waynesville.

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

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

SMOKY MOUNTAIN SUB SHOP 29 Miller Street Waynesville 828.456.3400. Open from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. A Waynesville tradition, the Smoky Mountain Sub Shop has been serving great food for over 20 years. Come in and enjoy the relaxed, casual atmosphere. Sub breads are baked fresh every morning in Waynesville. Using only the freshest ingredients in home-made soups, salads and sandwiches. Come in and see for yourself why Smoky Mountain Sub Shop was voted # 1 in Haywood County. Locally owned and operated.

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TWIN MAPLES FARMHOUSE 63 North Hill Street, Waynesville.

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

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

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

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

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NEWFOUND LODGE RESTAURANT 1303 Tsali Blvd, Cherokee (Located on 441 North at entrance to GSMNP).

828.497.4590. Open 7 a.m. daily.

Established in 1946 and serving breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. Family style dining for adults and children.

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

Classic Italian dishes, exceptional steaks and seafood (available in full and lighter sizes), thin crust pizza, homemade soups, salads hand tossed at your table. Fine wine and beer selection. Casual atmosphere, dine indoors, outside on the patio or at the bar. Reservations appreciated.

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

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

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

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

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

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The 45th annual Smoky Mountain Folk Festival

Acclaimed group Whitewater Bluegrass Company (left) will perform during the Smoky Mountain Folk Festival Sept. 4-5 in Lake Junaluska. WBC will take the stage Saturday.

Renowned banjoist Laura Boosinger (right) will play Friday with The Midnight Plowboys. Garret K. Woodward photos ountain music, dancing and tradition will be on display once again as the 45th annual Smoky Mountain Folk Festival celebrates the culture and heritage of Western North Carolina Sept. 4-5 on the shores of Lake Junaluska.

As in years past, spectators will be treated to performances by over 200 mountain dancers and musicians in the 2,000 seat historic Stuart Auditorium on the grounds of Lake Junaluska. Each night will feature open tent shows on the lawn beginning at 5 p.m., with main stage performances at 6:30 p.m. The entertainment will continue will into the night with the last shows ending around 11 p.m.

The festival is one of the longest running and most authentic folk festivals in the South and offers spectators the change to experience a wide variety of the region’s finest traditional performers. Scores of the region’s finest fiddlers, banjo players, string bands, ballad singers, buck dancers and square dancers will be in attendance. Visitors will also be treated to the unique regional sounds of the dulcimer, harmonica, Native American flute, bagpipes and spoons, even a bowed carpenter’s saw.

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thousands of people who attend, it also serves as a venue to preserve the mountains’ legacy of traditional music and inspire a new generation of artists as they swap tunes and licks, songs and stories under the open tents on the lakeshore.

“Our Appalachian heritage with its music, stories, song and dance is something we can be proud of and must share with others to keep it alive. It is that heritage that enriches all who experience it,” said Joe Sam Queen, festival director.

Now a tradition with over 40 years of history, the festival has established itself as a family and community gathering with performers returning each year to see old friends and make new ones. Families return each year with new generations to enjoy what is one of the richest cultural events of the year.

Main show tickets are $12 at the door, $10 in advance, with children under 12 admitted free.

Advance tickets can be purchased at the Haywood County Arts Council at 86 North Main Street in Waynesville or at the Administration Building at Lake Junaluska. For more information, call 828.452.1688 or 800.334.9036. For a full list of performers and times, click on

spectators filling the modest gymnasium to get a taste of the best of mountain culture.

However, as the crowds steadily grew (numbering over 1,500 a night), it became clear a new venue was needed.

“About 24 years ago, we had the opportunity to move the festival to “We have been genuinely blessed its current location at the Stuart Auditorium. It was a big improvewith talent. This is a performer’s ment acoustically and also gave us both indoor and outdoor venues festival. They put it on. It is a that could accommodate everyone celebration of their heritage.” comfortably,” Queen said.

While the festival has grown in — Joe Sam Queen, festival director size and scope, it has remained true to its original spirit of celebrating family sought to celebrate the music and danc- traditional mountain culture and heritage.

Many of the original performers still make ing his grandfather had loved so much.

“My grandfather Sam Queen made moun- appearances decades later and traditions such tain music and dancing was such a big part of as providing a cool slice of complimentary this community’s life, we wanted to carry on watermelon for visitors is still practiced.

“I think it truly has become one of the most this family tradition and share it with the comauthentic, established and prestigious folk fesmunity just as he had done,” Queen said.

The early years of the festival found itself in tivals of this region. We have been genuinely the high school gymnasium of what is now the blessed with talent. This is a performer’s festiWaynesville Middle School. It has continued val. They put it on. It is a celebration of their on over the years as it began, with crowds of heritage,” Queen said. www.smokymountainfolkfestival.com.

The festival began 44 years ago as collaboration between Queen and master fiddler Earnest Hodges. Queen’s grandfather had passed away shortly before and Queen and his

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Ireland, my outlook was no longer just seen from my childhood backyard — it gazed beyond any mountain range or horizon I once thought impossiLegendary rock act The Steve Miller Band ble to overtake. will perform at 8 p.m. Sept. 3 at Harrah’s Ten years ago this week. A Cherokee. decade since I left for the inevitable, which was my soul The Seven Clans Rodeo will be held finally connecting with the world Sept. 4-5 at the intersection of U.S. 19/441 around me, in ways unknown to in Cherokee. me until I was ready to possess The 14th annual RailFest will be held them. I think back often on how Sept. 5-6 at the Great Smoky Mountain that period of my life created the Railroad depot in Bryson City. trajectory I’m currently still on.

My reality was cracked, flawed, and shook up, like a snow globe shaken by a curious toddler. through my body. Out of nowhere, I realBut, just like the snow globe, when set ized, after years of cluelessness, exactly what down on a firm foundation, the flurry subI wanted to do with my life — be a writer. sides and clarity is once again attained. The The light switch not only went on, the bulb line in the sand was drawn by my big toe, itself only grew brighter and brighter as the eager to see if the rest of my body would step summer rolled along. across it. You see, the thing is, as you cross For the next month or so, I readied myself for an upcoming fall semester abroad the threshold, the winds of time wash away any trace of that line. in Ireland. Never having been to Europe, I And when that happens, the cosmos was anxious and a tad apprehensive as to once again draw another line further down what this trek would mean to not only my the path to conquer. The challenges aren’t purpose, but also to my relationship, which the same as the date on the calendar would now become long distance and across changes, but who you are deep down, and an ocean. how you react, remains full of a childlike I spent my last month in the states with wonder and lifelong determination to see her in the Pocono Mountains. We wandered just what happens when you tempt the the region, going hiking or swimming, anycuriosity of your intent. thing to spend quality time with each other.

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During the summer of 2005, I left one existence and embraced another. In a threemonth span, I weaved through tragedy, heartbreak, and foreign countries, all the while striking the depths of my soul as the epiphany of my fate revealed itself.

With my sophomore year of college coming to a rollicking close in Connecticut, I dropped off my girlfriend in her native Pennsylvania before shooting back up to my hometown in New York.

That night, as I pulled into the driveway after hours on the road, I tiptoed to my room only to hear my mother say my name in a distressed voice. I inquired about why she looked like she was crying. She informed me that my childhood best friend had been killed that day in a motorcycle wreck.

The news hit me in the gut like a bowling ball. Though he and I had lost touch in recent years, our time together as kids was as often as it was cherished. He was only 19 years old when he left us that May. At the funeral, as high school chums and family members shed innumerable tears, I leaned down and kissed his casket before it was lowered. I said under my breath, “I’m going to live a life for the two of us.” From that moment on, I knew each day I awoke was one more than he was able to. It sparked a wild streak within my being, where I constantly am in a race against time and place, and what it means to provoke the chaos of possibility and chance.

And with that mindset I took off for the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee a couple weeks later. My girlfriend was unable to join me, so I found myself on my first solo road trip, one heading to a melodic zoo in Southern Appalachia. One morning, before anyone took the stage, I was reading Kerouac’s “On The Road” when a bolt of excitement shot

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And yet, as I packed my bags and headed for the airport the last week of August, I received the call — she wanted out. She pulled the plug on us before my airplane even left the tarmac, where it’d be easier to just call it a day than go through months of anguish and uncertainty thousands of miles apart, physically and emotionally.

Thus, I settled into my seat, buckled in for Europe, with pieces of my heart scattered somewhere back there, in New York, in Pennsylvania, and in the now past.

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Balsam Range, Porch 40 to play Canton Labor Day The 109th Canton Labor Day Festival will be held Sept 5-7 at Sorrells Street Park in downtown.

The three-day event will host 20 bands, with 2014 International Bluegrass Music Association “Entertainer of the Year” Balsam Range headlining. Popular regional acts like Porch 40 and Soldier’s Heart will also hit the stage.

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Saturday, Sept. 5 “WNC Country, Rock & Roots Experience” • 3 p.m. — Aaron Burdett • 4:30 p.m. — Josh Noren • 6 p.m. — Soldier’s Heart (Americana/rock) • 7:30 p.m. — Joe Lasher Jr. (country/rock) • 9 p.m. — Porch 40 (rock/funk) Sunday, Sept. 6 “Papertown Bluegrass Jamboree” • 1 p.m. — Danielle Bishop • 4 p.m. — Locust Honey String Band • 5:30 p.m. — Mangas Colorado • 7 p.m. — The Snyder Family Band • 8:30 p.m. — Balsam Range

Also on Sunday, there will be a “Mountain Gospel Experience” from 1 to 6 p.m. with His Mercies, Land of Sky Boys and Ila Knight The “Canton Heritage Homecoming” will be held from 1 to 10 p.m. Monday, Sept. 7, at the recreation park. Performers include Vintage Grey Wolfe, Cold Mountain Bluegrass, Mile High, Mathew Curry Band, Renegades and Running Wolf.

There will also be vendors and an array of activities. The festival is free and open to the public. For a full list of events, click on www.cantonlaborday.com.

STEVE MILLER BAND TO PLAY CHEROKEE Legendary rock act The Steve Miller Band will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, at Harrah’s Cherokee. Known for his smash hits ‘The Joker,’ ‘Fly Like an Eagle,’ ‘Jungle Love,’ and more, Miller has been a rock staple for decades.

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Faculty Showcase Recital at WCU Western Carolina University’s School of Music begins its 2015-16 recital series with the Faculty Showcase Recital at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 1, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building.

Faculty members participating include Ian Jeffress on saxophone performing with Lyn Burkett on piano in Baljinder Sekhon’s “Gradient”; Mario Gaetano on vibraphone performing “Three Pieces for Vibraphone” by Gitta Steiner and “With a Mazy Motion” by Tim Huesgen; and Eldred Spell on flute with Lillian Pearson on piano performing Phillippe

Gaubert’s “Nocturne et Allegro Scherzando.”

Also performing will be the Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet playing “Vuelta del Fuega” by Kevin McKee; Lillian Pearson on solo piano performing “Nocturne No. 6” by Gabriel Faure; Travis Bennett on horn performing J.S. Bach’s “Suite 5” and a faculty trio of Will Peebles on bassoon, Shannon Thompson on clarinet and Burkett on piano playing Beethoven’s “Trio in Bb Major, Op. 11.”

John West, director of the School of Music, will present two awards at intermission — the Distinguished Service award presented to Robert Holquist, and the Distinguished Alumni award to Janis Bryant.

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• BearWaters Brewing Company (Waynesville) will have SmokeRise at 7 p.m. Sept. 12. www.bwbrewing.com.

The Cockman Family will perform at RailFest on Sept. 5. Donated photo

RailFest rolls into Bryson City The 14th annual RailFest will be held Sept. 5-6 at the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad depot in Bryson City.

Activities include live craft and railroad demonstrations, train rides, live Appalachian music and dance, storytelling, railroad food, and more. Music will be pro-

vided on Saturday by the Mountain Youth Talent Contest (10 a.m.), The Cockman Family (1 p.m.), J. Creek Cloggers (2:30 p.m.) and Dusk Weaver (3:45 p.m). Sunday will feature The Boys From Tuskasegee (noon), Dakota Waddell (1:30 p.m.), Betty Brown (2:45 p.m.) and Highway 74 (3:30 p.m.)

The event is produced by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia, a nonprofit organization. For more information, visit www.gsmr.com.

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• Bogart’s (Waynesville) will have live bluegrass/string music with Eddie Rose & Highway 40 Aug. 27 and Sept. 3. All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m.

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• Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will have Sheila Gordon (piano/Bonnie Raitt tribute) Aug. 28, Joe Cruz (piano/pop) Aug. 29 and Sept. 5, and The Blue Ribbon Healers (gypsy jazz/swanky-tonk) Sept. 4. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• The Concerts on the Creek (Sylva) series at Bridge Park Pavilion will have Unspoken Tradition (Americana/bluegrass) at 7 p.m.

Aug. 28. Free. www.mountainlovers.com.

• Derailed Bar & Lounge will have Frank Lee (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 27 and 29. All shows begin at 7 p.m. 828.488.8898.

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• Evolution Wine Kitchen (Sylva) will have Karen “Sugar” Barnes & Dave McGill (Americana/blues) Aug. 29. Free.

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• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will have an open mic night at 8:30 p.m. on Mondays in their downtown taproom.

Free and open to the public.

828.246.0350 or www.boojumbrewing.com.

• Friday Night Live (Highlands) summer concert series will have Macon Grass Band (bluegrass) Aug. 28 and Southern Highlands (Americana/bluegrass) Sept. 4.

All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• The Bryson City Train Depot “Music in the Mountains” concert series will have Lois Hornbostel & Ehukai Teves (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 29 and The Caribbean Cowboys (rock/reggae) Sept. 5.

All shows are free and begin at 6:30 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will have Ginny McFee (Americana/folk) Aug. 29, Steve Goldman & Ed Kelley (Americana/folk) Sept. 4 and The Maggie Valley Band (Americana/folk) 8 p.m.

Sept. 5. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

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• Canton Recreation Park will have “Pickin’

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Acclaimed Christian musician Steven Curtis Chapman will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Chapman is recognized as one of the most prolific singers in the genre, releasing over 20 albums. Chapman has also won five Grammy awards and 58 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, more than any other artist in history. Tickets start at $25. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615. www.facebook.com/stevencurtischapman

• Big Wesser BBQ (Nantahala Outdoor Center) will have Natti Love Joys (reggae/roots) Aug. 28, The Whiskey Sticks (rock) Aug. 29, Max Gross Weight Sept. 4 and Dr. Paul Constantine 1 p.m. Sept. 5.

All shows at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.noc.com.

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• Andrews Brewing Company will have Troy Underwood (Americana, free) 6 p.m. Aug. 28, The Travers Brothership (rock/soul, $5) 7 p.m. Aug. 29 and Mangas Colorado (Americana/bluegrass, $5) 7 p.m. Sept. 5. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

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On the beat Best album earns IBMA nod Great Smoky Mountains Association’s “Carroll Best and the White Oak String Band” has been named among the best of the year by earning an award nomination in the International Bluegrass Music Association’s annual competition.

GSMA’s compilation of old-time Smoky Mountain music, first recorded more than 60 years ago just outside the national park, has been nominated along with four other projects for the high quality of its liner notes, which were written by Ted Olson, professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University. IBMA voters will choose the overall “Best Liner Notes” winner based on the quality and professionalism of the liner notes, their contribution to the field of writing, and their ability to foster bluegrass music’s image.

“Carroll Best and the White Oak String Band” grew out of the recent discovery of recordings of Haywood County musicians made nearly 60 years ago. In 1956, linguist and song catcher Joseph Hall made one of many trips to the Smoky Mountains. This time he traveled to his friend Teague Williams’ house in the White Oak community of Haywood County (near the Cataloochee entrance to the park), toting a heavy reel-to-reel tape recorder.

Gathered in Williams’ living room that July evening was a loose confederation of musicians, most of them relatives or close friends, calling themselves, spontaneously, the White Oak String Band.

Among them was Best, age 25, destined to become one of the most acclaimed and influential banjo players of his generation.

Master contemporary banjo player Tony Trischka has called Best “one of the greatest banjoists to ever live,” yet until the release of GSMA’s album very little information had been published about Best’s early life and career, and none of Best’s early recordings had been released. The other musicians Hall recorded that evening in 1956 and during a follow-up visit a couple of weeks later included S.T. Swanger, Louise Best (Carroll’s wife), and Don Brooks. When Hall returned three years later to make additional recordings at Williams’ house, the White Oak String Band included Carroll Best, Raymond Setzer, Billy Kirkpatrick and French Kirkpatrick.

Awards are voted on by the professional membership of the IBMA, with results of the balloting slated to be revealed at the International Bluegrass Music Awards on Thursday, Oct. 1, at the World of Bluegrass event in Raleigh.

For more information about the album, click on www.smokiesinformation.org.

On the beat

• Haywood County Arts Council (Waynesville) will host the Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) during Art After Dark at 6 p.m.

Sept. 4. Free.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Aug. 26 and Sept. 2, a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Aug. 27 and Sept. 3. All events begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• The “Music on the River” concert series (Cherokee) will have David Lambert Aug. 28 and Sept. 4, A36 Band Aug. 29, Amazing Grace Ministries Sept. 5 (noon to 6 p.m.) and Sept. 6, and An Evening with Elvis Sept. 5.

All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 800.438.1601 or 828.359.6490.

• Nantahala Brewing Company (Bryson City) will have Shane Meade & The Sound (Americana/soul) Aug. 28, Plank Eye Peggy (rock) Aug. 29, Ogya (soul/Caribbean) Sept.

4, The Dirty Soul Revival (rock/blues) Sept. 5 and Shannon Wurst (Americana/folk) Sept. 6.

All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

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• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will have Frogtown Four (Americana) at 8 p.m. Aug. 28.

828.369.5299 or www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

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

• Marianna Black Library (Bryson City) will hold community music jam from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 3. 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

• No Name Sports Pub (Sylva) will have S.S. Web (roots) Aug. 28, Sugar Lime Blue (roots/rock) Aug. 29 and Chris Williams (singer-songwriter) Aug. 31. All shows are free and begin at 9 p.m. 828.586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

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

Sept. 5. All skill levels welcomed. www.greatsmokies.com.

• O’Malley’s Pub & Grill will have karaoke with Chris Aug. 28 and Heidi Holton (Americana/blues) 2 p.m. Aug. 30. All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.facebook.com/omalleysofsylva or 828.631.0554.

• Papertown Country Music & Dance Parlor (Canton) will have live music and dancing from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturdays. Admission is $8. 828.736.8925.

• The Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) summer concert series will have Tugelo Holler (bluegrass) Aug. 29 and New Bridge (bluegrass) Sept. 5. Both shows begin at 7:30 p.m. An open mic starts at 6:30 p.m. Free. www.franklinnc.com.

• Pub 319 (Waynesville) will have Through the Hills (Americana/bluegrass) Aug. 28 and Heidi Holton (Americana/blues) Aug. 29. All shows begin at 9 p.m. www.pub319.com.

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

• Saturdays On Pine (Highlands) will host The Charles Walker Band at 6 p.m. Sept. 5 in

Kelsey-Hutchinson Park. Free. www.highlandschamber.org.

• Stecoah Valley Center (Robbinsville) will have The Kruger Brothers (Americana/bluegrass, $25 for adults, $10 for grades K-12) 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29. Dinner served at 6 p.m. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

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

828.926.1288.

• The Strand at 38 Main (Waynesville) will host Jacob Johnson (folk/funk) at 8 p.m.

Sept. 4. Tickets start at $8. www.38main.com.

• Tipping Point Brewing (Waynesville) will have ‘Round the Fire (Grateful Dead tribute) 8:30 p.m. Aug. 28. Free. 828.246.9230 or www.tippingpointtavern.com.

• Tuck’s Tap & Grill (Cullowhee) will have DJ X 10 p.m. Aug. 27 and Sept. 3, The Travers Brothership (rock) 9 p.m. Aug. 29 and Hunter Grigg (Americana/folk) 11 a.m. Aug. 30.

• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will have Sugar Lime Blue (roots/rock) Aug. 28 and Dirty Soul Revival (blues/rock) Aug. 29. All shows begin at 9 p.m.

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On the street There will be a wine pairing dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, at Evolution Wine Kitchen in Sylva.

Wendy Dunn from Mutual Wine will be on hand to educate and serve while the kitchen will pair their favorite menu items.

You’ll taste eight different wines paired with five of our small plates. $27.50 per person. www.evolutionwinekitchen.com.

• The PAWS wine tasting and silent auction will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, at Land’s Creek Cabins in Bryson City. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. They can be purchased at the PAWS thrift store or at www.pawsbrysoncity.org.

• Coach’s Bistro will have its grand opening from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 3 in Dillsboro. The restaurant and lounge is adjacent to The Jarrett House.

• There will be a farm-to-table dinner at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, at the Hidden Valley Farm in Clyde. There will also be live music.

Tickets are $50 per person. 828.450.2232 or www.hiddenvalleyfarmnc.com.

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There will be a special presentation by Charles Coburn from the Scottish Tartans Museum at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at the historic Rickman Store in Franklin.

Continuing with the series on “Secrets Gems in Cowee” as part of the 90th Anniversary of the store, the Friends of the Rickman Store are sharing with visitors the many gifts and talents of members of our community. Coburn will share stories and answer the frequently asked questions: How did the Scots come to North Carolina?

Why do we have a Scottish Museum in Franklin? Are there really many folks here of Scottish descendants?

The store is located on 259 Cowee Creek Road, next to the Macon County Heritage Center, where visitors can find additional parking. Refreshments and musical entertainment will follow the presentation.

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The Haywood County Fair will be held through Aug. 31 at the Haywood County Fairground in Lake Junaluska.

Featured events include: • The Ugly Pick Up Contest will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26, in the Great Smokies Arena. Entries must be a genuine pick up truck, which must be driven to and from the Arena at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. The truck must have a valid current license plate. Registration for the contest will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the arena.

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• The Fireman’s Competition will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, in the Apple Orchard Event Center.

• Bingo will take place at 7 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 27, in the Apple Orchard Event Center. Just a few of the door prizes include restaurant and automotive gift certificates, pottery, jewelry, crafts, and silk flower arrangements. All proceeds raised will go back into the Haywood County Fairgrounds maintenance and up-keep.

828.712.3458.

• The Spaghetti Supper will begin at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28. Plates are $7 per person, with proceeds going to the operating funds of the fairgrounds.

• Gospel singing will be from 11 a.m. to

12:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, in the Apple Orchard Building. Free.

• Reality stars from the hit show “Lizard Lick Towing Company” will be onsite from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29. A VIP reception will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. For tickets and VIP packages, click on http://haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org/liza rd_lick_2015.html or call 828.400.1704.

• The Youth Talent Show will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29.

There will also be an array of children’s activities, carnival rides, live music, horseshoes, truck/tractor pulls, Smoky Mountain Jubilee, agricultural and animal events/demonstrations, and more.

For a complete schedule, click on www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org or 828.456.3575.

All aboard the wine and cheese train

The Seven Clans Rodeo will be held Sept. 4-5 at the intersection of U.S. 19/441 in Cherokee. Gates open at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Rodeos begin at 8 p.m.

Between the broncos that will be busted, the bulls that will be bucking, and the rodeo clowns looking to avoid getting stomped in the head, there will be all sorts of skills competitions and top-name riders in this SRA-sanctioned event. All performances are included in the price of the ticket Single day tickets are $12 for adults ($15 at gate), $6 for children ($8 at gate).

For more information, tickets and a full schedule, click on www.showclix.com. www.visitcherokeenc.com or 800.438.1601.

The Rail Line Wine Experience “MacNeill Uncorked” will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 5 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in the Bryson City Train Depot.

The event is a specialty train experience featuring wines selected

by French Broad Vignerons to pair with your meal. Full service alladult first class ride in the MacNeill car. A narrator will be onboard to discuss the six wines selected to accompany an exclusive sampling of local cheeses, a freshly made entree and a chef-selected dessert. All passengers receive souvenir stemless wine glass and tote bag. The Cottage Craftsman, located across from the depot will have all of the sampled wines available for purchase. Age 21 and over only.

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

• The second annual Fire & Rescue Day will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, at Riverfront Park in Bryson City.

828.736.1859.

• The Flea Market at the Fairgrounds will be from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 5 at the Haywood County Fairgrounds in Lake Junaluska. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org or 828.400.1704.

• The LakeALooza Labor Day celebration will be Sept. 4-6 at Fontana Village Resort. Live music, dancing, cookouts, family activities, and more. 800.498.2258 or www.fontanavillage.com.

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• The “End of the Summer Dive In” will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 4 at the Sylva Pool and Sept. 5 at the Cashiers Community Pool.

Open swim followed by a PG or G film at 8:30 p.m. $5 gets the whole family in, $3 for individuals. Concession stand will other pizza, drinks, candy, and more.

828.293.3053.

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• The “Way Back When” trout dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 28 and Sept. 4 at the Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley. The dinner showcases a recreation meal, music, storytelling and atmosphere of a 1930s Appalachian trout camp. Enjoy a wagon ride across the ranch property amid the authentic re-creation of Mr. Tom and Miss Judy Alexander’s first fishing camp. Tickets for the event also includes food and beverage.

828.926.1401 or 800.868.1401 or 35 www.cataloocheeranch.com.

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On the wall Art After Dark in Waynesville Art After Dark will continue from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, in downtown Waynesville.

Enjoy a stroll through working studios and galleries on Main Street and Depot Street. Festive Art After Dark flags denote participating galleries. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

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Open Air Indian Art Market The Open Air Indian Art Market will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual in Cherokee.

With dozens of authentic Cherokee artisans, the event offers traditional food and crafts, which includes beadwork, basket weaving, sculpture and woodworking.

Artwork at the market and inside the gallery will be available for purchase.

Artisans will also be demonstrating and practicing the hundreds of years old techniques, as well as answering questions attendees may have about their craft.

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

828.497.3103 or www.quallaartsandcrafts.com.

• The Labor Day Craft Show will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 5-6 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Artisan vendors of all mediums. live demonstrations and more. www.maggievalley.org or 828.926.1686.

• The Cashiers Annual Bowl-A-Rama will be held from 10 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Sept. 5 at the Zachary Tolbert House in Cashiers.

Come and make clay bowls for Cashiers Empty Bowls Soup Event in October. Cost is $10. Pre-registration required. www.thebascom.org.

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• A program on dating and preserving old

photographs will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sept.

3 at the Swain County Genealogical & Historical Society Library in Bryson City.

Hosted by the SCGHS, the presenter will be Edith Garrett. Networking and refreshments after the presentation.

• The Grassroots Arts Program Subgrant deadline for local artists and organizations will be 5 p.m. Aug. 31. The grants must be for programs taking place from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. For more information and applications, click on www.haywoodarts.org/ grants-funding. Applications are submitted to the Haywood County Arts Council at director@haywoodarts.org.

Griffin photography exhibit at WCU An exhibition of works by photographer Cathryn Griffin will be on display through Friday, Sept. 25, in the Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University.

A professor of photography at WCU, Griffin’s works have been featured in literary

• The Highlands Village Square Art & Craft Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Aug. 29-30 in Kelsey-Hutchinson Park on Pine Street. Regional artisans and live music. Sponsored by the Macon County Art Association. Free. 828.787.2021.

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• The films “The Breakfast Club” (Aug. 27), “Little Boy” (Aug. 28-29), “Citizenfour” (Aug. 28-29), “Mad Max: Fury Road” (Sept.

3-5) and “Little Boy” (Sept. 5) will be screened at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Showtimes are 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.

Thursday through Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee also on Saturday. Free. For a full schedule of dates and times, click on www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

• The “Come Paint with Charles Kidz Program” will be at 4 p.m. Aug. 27 at the Charles Heath Gallery in Bryson City. $20 per child. Materials and snacks included.

828.538.2054.

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

Aug. 26-27 at The Strand at 38 Main in Waynesville. “Far From The Madding Crowd” will be at 7 p.m. Aug. 28 and 2 and 4 p.m. Aug. 30. Tickets are $6.50, with a $3.25 matinee pass for 2 and 4 p.m. showings. There will also be a free showing of “E.T.” at 9:30 p.m. Aug. 28. A free showing of “Spongebob: Sponge Out of Water” will be at noon and 2 p.m. Aug. 29. www.38main.com or call 828.283.0079.

Clay activities at Cowee

The Cowee Pottery School in Franklin, an emerging nonprofit outlet for people of all ages wanting to play in clay, has announced its September pottery options.

Students are given an opportunity to learn to create beautiful objects, both functional and nonfunctional, in an atmosphere of both fun and productivity.

• Lydia Patillo will teach on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., from Sept. 1-29. Students will learn to center, throw, trim and glaze a variety of forms.

• Doug Hubbs will also teach a daytime wheel class on Friday mornings from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. from Sept. 11-Oct. 2. Students will start out with salsa bowls, move to salad 36 bowls and finish their throwing experience with at least one

A collection of photography by Cathryn Griffin is currently being showcased at WCU. Donated photo

and art magazines, in solo and group exhibitions all over the country and in the permanent collections of art museums and galleries from Massachusetts to California.

Some works currently appear on the websites of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Appalachian Photographers Project. She is also a winner of the National Exposures Best of Show Award and a recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation and other benefactors.

A discussion of Griffin’s work will take place at 5 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 3, in the Fine Art Museum, followed by a reception. The museum is open to the public Monday through Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursdays 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Admission is free. www.fineartmuseum.wcu.edu or 828.227.3591.

Photography, pottery at The Bascom There will be an array of upcoming classes held at The Bascom in Highlands.

• After School Art Adventure — 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. every Wednesday starting Sept. 2. A wide variety of art genres and collaborative projects for children. For ages 5 to 9. Cost is $20 for a four-class package.

• Kids’ Creation Station — 10 a.m. to noon every Saturday starting Sept. 5. Wake up and create art. Array of artistic genres for children to experiment in. For ages 5 to 10.

Cost is $5 per class.

• Empty Bowls — Create pottery bowls for local food pantries Aug. 26-28. Cost is $50 members, $100 non-members.

• Photography A to Z with Greg Newington — “Into the Wild” landscape and animal photography, Aug. 31-Sept.1; “The Real World” freelance photography and marketing, Sept.

4-5. Cost is $175 members, $225 non-members.

• Muddy Mondays Wine and Wheel Throwing — 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 31, wine sipping and wheel throwing. Cost is $36 members, $40 non-members. www.thebascom.org.

serving bowl. They will then glaze all their bowls.

• Hank Shuler is scheduled to teach three hand building classes in September. These include a Sunday afternoon class called Advanced Doowhockers, which means a variety of thingy-ma-bobs. No experience is required to design and complete a number of projects on lazy Sunday afternoons from 1 to 5 p.m. Sept. 13-27. On Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 2-30 (skipping Sept. 9), Shuler will teach a ceramic box class. Salt boxes, key boxes, earring boxes, boxes for all occasions. Students will hand build a variety of boxes for several uses. On Thursday afternoons, Shuler teaches Hand Building for Gifts. The emphasis will be on student selected projects and functional items to be passed on as gifts.

• Maria Greene will teach a class designed to bring parents, grandparents and aunts together with a child or children

to participate in a class where everyone enjoys the pleasure of working with clay. This Wednesday evening class will meet from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. from Sept. 2-30 (skipping Sept. 23).

• On Monday evenings, Molly Suminski will teach a multi-generational class as well entitled Kids Play for All Ages. Both the children and their accompanying adults will have a blast in this hand building class. The class meets from 4 to 5:30 p.m., Sept. 5-26.

The registration fee for each class is $7 per meeting hour per student plus the cost of clay at $17 per 25 pounds.

Included in the clay cost is glazes and multiple kiln firings.

Class registration fees range from $42 for 6 hours to $84 for 12 hours. www.coweepotteryschool.org or 828.524.7690 or info@coweepotteryschool.org.

On the wall

Landscape painter Jack Stern will host an oil painting demonstration of techniques at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, at the Swain County Center for the Arts in Bryson City.

Stern will discuss the medium of oil painting and how to develop the painting from concept to finished artwork as he completes a painting. He specializes in oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings of the Smoky Mountains and the Rocky Mountains done in a realistic/impressionistic style that captures the sense of the place. For more than 40 years, Stern has combined his love of art with his love of nature and the outdoors to earn his living with his brush.

Sponsored by Swain County Center for the Arts and Swain County Schools, anyone who is interested is invited to attend the demonstration free of charge.

828.488.7843 or www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta.

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Arts, crafts show in Cashiers

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The Cashiers Rotary Arts and Crafts Fair will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 5-6 at the Village Green in Cashiers.

With dozens of artisans from which to choose, there will be pottery, artworks, furniture, quilts, jewelry and clothing. Expect to see mountain and nature themes in many of the crafts, from bear sculptures and paintings to handcrafted bowls, ceramics and more.

The Rotary Club of Cashiers Valley will also run a concessions stand. The arts and crafts show is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Cashiers Valley.

Admission is free, with donations accepted. www.cashiersrotary.org.

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The Tony Award winning musical “Company” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 28-29 and Sept. 4-5 and at 3 p.m.

Aug. 30 and Sept. 6 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

Based on the book by George Furth, the Stephen Sondheim production centers on Bobbie, a young man unable to commit to any relationship, let alone marriage, and his friends, five couples who are all married. This witty, wise, and sophisticated musical has become a classic, with one of Sondheim's best scores.

Tickets are $26 adults, $22 seniors, $13 students, with a $9 matinee. Add a pre-show meal for $15. www.harttheater.org.

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Interesting book draws some unusual conclusions

Jeff Minick

We Americans are noted for our ignorance of world geography.

Few of us, I imagine, could distinguish Iraq from Iran on a map of the Middle East.

Few of us could inform some inquisitive soul of the terrain of Afghanistan, though we have now spent years fighting wars there. Most of us, one would hope, could locate Mexico on a map, but what about Ecuador or Bolivia?

This is unfortunate —and I include myself among the Writer unfortunate — for geography shapes the destiny of nations. Two thousand years ago, the Helvetians, a people in what is today Switzerland, feeling hemmed in by mountains and lakes, tried to migrate into Gaul, ran afoul of Julius Caesar, and so started the wars that brought what are now France, England, and Belgium France into the Roman sphere for four centuries, changing the history of that region forever.

The state slogan of West Virginia — “Montani semper liberi,” which is Latin for “Mountaineers are always free” — explains the history of places like Switzerland and Afghanistan. The great rivers of the world, providing both agricultural irrigation and ease of transportation, gave rise to thriving cities and in some cases, enormous kingdoms.

In her novel The Leaves Are Falling (Ignatius Press, 314 pages, 2014), English author and scholar Lucy Beckett takes us on a grim tour of geopolitical dangers — in this case, those of the Eastern Europeans who were caught between the monstrous war machines of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Using some of the characters from her previous novel, Postcards From The Volcano, a tale of Nazi Germany and Eastern Europe in the 1930s, Beckett shows us the agony and suffering of those in Poland and Western Russia when caught between the armies of fascism and communism.

the war and finds himself an emigrant to England. Here he works first on an English farm as a trainer and caretaker of horses, with some of his fellow workers being Nazi prisoners of war.

After the war, he loses that position, but finds work in a second-hand bookstore in London specializing in music and German texts.

The second part of the novel follows Joseph’s father, the physician Jacob Halperin. He is in Poland’s military reserves and a prisoner of the Russians following the division of Poland between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Because of his profession, he is labeled by the Soviets as a “Polish lord,” in company with other army officers, university professors, prominent attorneys, and some Catholic priests.

Here Beckett shows us what it meant to be in such a camp: the continual brainwashing, the torture, the out-ofhand executions, The Leaves Are Falling by Lucy Beckett. Ignatius Press 2014. 314 pages. the horrific living conditions. After much suffering, Halperin and his comrades destroyed by war and tyranny. After escaping are promised their freedom and loaded onto a near capture and certain death, Halpern joins train. But that journey ends not with home a Jewish resistance movement, fighting both and family, but in Katyn Forest, where the Nazis and Russians. Eventually, he survives Beckett tells two stories in The Leaves Are Falling. In the first story, we meet Joseph Halpern, a Jewish boy whose family is

Soviets murdered thousands of Polish leaders and then tried, with some success for many years, to blame their atrocities on Hitler and his Nazis.

At the end of The Falling Of Leaves, Beckett reunites us with Joseph Halpern. He is an old man, slowly dying but still cognizant of all he has witnessed. Here, through Joseph Halpern, Beckett issues a series of warnings regarding the condition of our world today.

Halpern declares the European Union “complicated but also good.” Those in England who oppose it are “fascist.” Putin of Russia has tried to erase history by declaring hundreds of thousands of war dead “Russians” rather than Jews, Belorussians, or Ukrainians.

American wars of the last 20 years are “stupid and cruel.”

Most interesting, however, is Beckett’s take on Israel, again delivered by the Jewish Halpern. He calls Israel “a nightmare,” “a colonizing monster of the nineteenth century,” and labels its people bullies. Halpern then states: “America, the great, the wonderful, the socalled land of the free, is the example here, is it not? You take the best and the worst of Europeans. You put them in a new-found land.

You pretend that it is empty land. And what happens? The worst, in the name of the best, shoot and kill, and say they are bringing civilization. In the desert of the South Hebron now Jews with guns drive away the old Arab people of the desert as if the Arabs are Red Indians in a cowboy film.

Hitler loved cowboy films, you know. He would chase the Slavs, the Jews, from his Wild East.”

Here some readers might step back and wonder about Joseph Halpern’s conclusions, which are also the conclusions of the novel.

Somehow, to lump America, Israel, and the Nazi Germans together makes a mess of history. Yes, each country has a tortured history, and yes, each country intimidated and killed others, but to equate them this way is a perversion of both history and common sense.

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

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A bird’s-eye view Photographer publishes aerial views of WNC’s highest peaks

The Blue Ridge Parkway winds to the Yellow Face Overlook at milepost 450. Garrett Fisher photo Garrett Fisher and his plane, a Piper PA-11 Cub Special. (below) Donated photo

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER f Garrett Fisher had his way, he’d live on the side of a mountain with a glacier as his next-door neighbor.

Some people might consider his Wyoming home, located at 5,633 feet above sea level, to be close enough, but Fisher craves more elevation than that. So, he satisfies his thirst for altitude with aviation.

Namely, a little Piper PA-11 Cub Special that putters along at 75 miles per hour.

Fisher’s not a joyrider, though. A freelance financial consultant by trade and the author of eight books — seven of photography and one on economics — it’s safe to say he’s a driven person, and when he’s behind the controls of a plane, he likes to have a purpose behind the trip. For the past few years, that purpose has been aerial photography, and he’s showcased the results in a series of five books.

His two most recent publications, Appalachian Altitude: Flying the Highest Peaks of the South and Flying the Blue Ridge Parkway, venture east to show off a slew of

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vistas dear to anyone who’s ever explored Western North Carolina.

“Part of what drove me,” Fisher said, “was the fact that a lot of the Carolina mountains, as beautiful as they are, you’re sitting in the forest at the top of the mountains, which is very disappointing to me because the purpose of climbing a mountain is to look at something.”

Though he currently resides in Wyoming, Fisher’s lived in Charlotte off and on for a total of 10 years. During those years, he’d

How it’s done Aerial photography comes a lot easier to pilot Garrett Fisher now than when he first began experimenting in 2010, but “photo-ing,” as he calls it, is still an art that involves doing two things at once.

“Basically, one hand’s always on the stick, my feet are always on the rudder anyway, so I’m still flying the plane,” he said.

To prepare for a photo, Fisher will first check that there’s no other air traffic around, and then he’ll point the plane away from any obstacles, such as mountains, that might be in the vicinity. He

make it a point to get out in the woods of WNC as much as possible. One of those years was 2010, the year he inherited the plane that reignited his love of flying.

He’d been warned to stay away from the mountains, told that mountains and airplanes

picks up the camera — equipped with a polarizing filter and wideangle lens — and snaps a series of photos. The whole thing takes about 10 seconds.

“It’s gotten to be completely instinctive,” he said.

Sometimes he’ll circle around to get few different takes of the same area, but mostly he just lets the plane meander, taking photos along the way and seeing what he’s got when he’s back on the ground. The plane can go for about three hours before refueling, but he often stays out longer than that. When shooting his Parkway and Appalachian books, the longest day was a nine-hour excursion from Charlotte to Shenandoah National Park and back.

don’t mix well. So naturally, he started to “putz around” the Smokies and the Balsams, snapping photos out of the window for fun.

At that point, though, he didn’t have anything close to a book in mind, and before long he’d moved way out to Colorado, where 14,000-foot peaks tantalized him as he stood in the airport. Nobody seemed to know much about flying the mountains, but Fisher was OK with the learn-as-you-go approach. He soon seized on a project: photographing all 58 of Colorado’s mountains over 14,000 feet.

He finished the project and published a book. Soon afterward, he found himself living in Charlotte for six months and figured that, by comparison, photographing the southeast’s 40 peaks over 6,000 feet should be pretty easy.

“I was like, ‘I’m here, I already did the 14ers,’” he recalled. “‘Seriously. How hard could doing the 40 over six be?”

Famous last words. As it turns out, flying the Appalachians is a lot harder than flying the much-higher Rockies. There are trees everywhere, meaning few

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“When I get home, it’s kind of a glorious mix of exhaustion and complete satisfaction,” he said.

The plane itself is a lot different than the commercial airliners that blast along at speeds of 600 miles per hour. Usually, Fisher’s flying at about 75 miles per hour somewhere between 1,000 and 1,500 feet above the ground — an altitude most commercial jets exceed in their first 9 seconds of flight.

“People would basically crap themselves,” Fisher said, if their commercial flight flew like his plane, but for him it’s a good setup.

“Slowness translates to a margin of error and time to deal with a crises.”

Four new members will join the 18member board of Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, a Franklin-based nonprofit focused on land and water conservation.

■ Dave Ackerman is a Boy Scout Leader, board member for Cherokee County Schools and owner of Andrews Veterinary Clinic.

■ Joyce Dugan was the first female chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and is a retired educator.

■ Tom Hahn is a managing member of Hahn properties and lives in Franklin.

■ Rita Salain is a Macon County native and principal in Georgia-based Health Management Consultants.

Share your favorite image from the MST A photo contest seeking the best of sights along the Mountains-to-Sea Trail is open through Oct. 31.

Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail is hosting the contest, which will award prizes in three categories: view from the trail, people on the trail and youth photographer 17 and under. Prizes run the gamut from cash to outdoor gear, and the chance to have a photo published.

The Mountains-to-Sea Trail stretches nearly 1,000 miles through North Carolina, starting at Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and ending at Jockey’s Ridge in the Outer Banks.

Enter at www.ncmst.org/get-involved/photo-contest.

A fundraising dinner and auction for Friends of the Greenway, a group that supports the Little Tennessee Greenway in Franklin, will be held at 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 29, at Tartan Hall at First Presbyterian Church in Franklin.

Tickets are $40 and available at FROG Quarters, 475 East Main Street.

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done and others that might never get started.

“I’m looking for things that have not been done and are unconventional, and everything has to be pretty,” he said. “I won’t touch it if it’s not pretty.”

He sees his books as utilitarian, as well.

Fisher recalls his frustration as a hiker at not knowing what views the trees obscured and his inability to attach individual names to the sea of blue-green peaks greeting him at overlooks. He hopes his books will act as an addendum to traditional hiking guides, a way for adventurers to put names with the views they see and experience an angle that’s impossible to get from the ground.

“I try to make things useful and beautiful,” he said.

For instance, he said, one of the projects in his ever-lengthening docket is a book cataloguing the path of the Appalachian Trail, a much-revered route that’s largely covered with trees. It would be a hard project to complete, he admits, as it’s easy to lose track of the trail when following it from the air. And he’s got plenty else to be getting on with — current projects include aerial shots of the New River in West Virginia and Virginia and a catalogue of glaciers in Wyoming and Montana.

“Some days I wonder what the hell’s wrong with me,” Fisher laughs.

But then the plane takes off, mountains pierce the blue sky and the question answers itself.

Haywood Community College recently got word that its fish and wildlife management technology program has received five more years of accreditation from the North American Wildlife Technology Association.

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safe places to land in case of emergency.

The air holds more moisture, and judging the suitability of weather conditions requires more finesse.

“I was more petrified flying in the Carolinas than in Colorado, just because of the weather, the clouds,” Fisher said. “If the engine quit, it really would have sucked.”

Luckily for him, that didn’t happen, so while there were some scary moments — once when flying on the Blue Ridge Escarpment, which is only 3,000 feet above sea level, fast and turbulent winds actually flipped his plane in midair — there were many more beautiful, tranquil ones. The pinnacle was on a flight near Marion during a calm, mostly cloudy day.

“I circled up through a hole in the clouds, and there was just this sea of beautiful light everywhere. Oh, it was just stunning,” he recalled.

There’s an air of discovery to the flying, a quest for places that would take days to access on the ground but can be reached in a matter of hours from the air. The views are sweeping, serene — but for Fisher, it’s not enough to get in a plane just for the sake of the flight. Having a finished product to chase is crucial.

“I’m kind of driven in that respect,” he said.

Now, with five aerial photography books published — and seven photography books total — he’s got a total of 15 different projects in the works, some of which are mostly

Wildlife program at HCC earns five-year reaccreditation

The only such associate degree program in North Carolina, the program earned praise from NAWTA’s executive director Jim Westerhold.

“You truly have an outstanding program at the college and should be commended for it,” Westerhold wrote in a letter to the college.

Accreditation assures students they’re entering into a quality program and gives graduates an edge in the job market.

The fish and wildlife program focuses on conservation and management of wilderness areas; management of wildlife reservations; and management of zoos and aquariums. It’s a hands-on curriculum that allows students to practice the skills they learn in the classroom and interact with professionals in the field.

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History lovers needed for mill volunteer force An orientation for volunteers who’d like to tell visitors about the history of Mingus Mill in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cherokee will be held 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 31, at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center.

The mill offers visitors a look at the inner workings of the turbine-wheeloperated mill, which churns out customground cornmeal in a fraction of the time of other mill types.

Volunteers work at least one four-hour shift per week from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. during the peak season of May through the end of November.

Register with Florie Mingus Mill. NPS photo Takaki, 828.497.1906 or florie_takaki@nps.gov.

Smokies telethon a success

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Hundreds of callers, online donors and private sponsors teamed up to raise $202,351 for work in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park through the Friends the Smokies’ 21st annual telethon last week. It was the second year in a row telethon donations topped $200,000.

“It was heartwarming to see the support pledged by so many individuals during Friends of the Smokies’ telethon. Their gifts will have a lasting impact on the Smokies and we are truly thankful,” said Cassius Cash, superintendent of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The television program is over, but park supporters can still donate to the telethon online at www.friendsofthesmokies.org/donate. The money will help fund more than $800,000 of park needs this year, including black bears management, programs for school children and preservation of historic buildings.

Put your garden on stage Summer’s still here, but Haywood County Master Gardeners are already looking for volunteers to show their gardens in the June 2016 Haywood County Garden Tour. To get your garden in the running, contact Sarah Scott at 828.456.3575.

Hydro-ize your garden A workshop showing how to bring water elements into your garden landscape will be offered at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 28, at Dovecote Porch & Gardens in Cashiers.

The workshop will feature a tour of water elements around Cashiers with Bob Dews.

Free. RSVP to 828.743.0307 or mpdargan@dargan.com.

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Grants to help famers offset the risk of trying something new are available through the WNC Agricultural Options program, which will distribute $178,000 in the 2016 grant cycle.

A series of informational meetings across the region includes: ■ 2-3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, at the Swain County Extension Center in Bryson City.

■ 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, at the Jackson County Extension Center in Sylva.

An October meeting will also be scheduled in Murphy. Since 2004, WNC Agricultural Options — funded by the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission — has awarded nearly $2 million to farmers in the 21 western counties, through mini-grants of

$3,000 and $6,000.

“The WNC AgOptions program is an excellent example of grant funds providing direct support to those who need it most,” said Ross Young, Madison County Extension Director and WNC AgOptions steering committee leader. “Our farmers are arguably the most important people in our society.”

Previous projects have run the gamut from helping farmers get started raising broiler turkeys to pick-your own berry operations to new grazing techniques.

The nonprofit WNC Communities administers the grant. Applicants should set up an appointment with the Cooperative Extension office in their county by Oct. 16.

Applications are at www.wncagoptions.org.

The public comment period for a 1,000page study of the effects of hydraulic fracturing — known as “fracking” — on drinking water is open through Aug. 28.

The Environmental Protection Agency study concludes that fracking can affect drinking water, through either aboveground mechanisms such as spills and inadequate treatment of waste, or below-ground mechanisms such as substances moving into drinking water through the production well. However, the number of cases when fracking impacted water resources is small relative to the number of the fracked wells, the study concludes. That could be because

Energy audit earns WCU students top prize

Monarch migration takes center stage A talk on the migration of monarch butterflies at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, at the Highlands Nature Center will close out

Monarch butterfly.

Charles Johnson photo

Mexico in multiple generations. They lay eggs on milkweed plants, those eggs hatch into caterpillars, then transform into butterflies who press onward further north — repeating the cycle until the year’s final hatch flies 2,000 miles back to Mexico to spend the winter.

Migratory monarchs have been decreasing, however, with the lowest number ever recorded in 2014. Alfonso Alonso, director of field programs for the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, will discuss the reasons for the decline and elaborate on the actions that must be taken to maintain the migration.

828.526.2623.

A program on the monarch butterfly and their plight will also be held on at 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 15, at the Canton library in Haywood County by a Haywood Master Gardener, including a tour of the Monarch Waystation, part of the Giving Garden located on the library grounds. Stay tuned for more details as the program draws nearer.

A small study on Satulah Mountain near Highlands hopes to shed light on what might be responsible for poor reproduction in a pair of rare species.

A few years ago, an intern with the HighlandsCashiers Land Trust found that only a small fraction of ground junipers on Satulah were reproducing.

Experts with the N.C. Plant Conservation Program and Natural Heritage Program suggested that creating clearings could improve conditions for the juniper, but also for another species found there, Hartweg’s locust.

Over the past nine months, volunteers from the land trust have cleared a small area where junipers and locusts were already growing to see if this would improve their growth and reproduction.

All other species of trees and shrubs were

cleared out, the area was raked to remove pine needles and exposed stumps were cut.

Then the cut trees and laurels were turned into a fence to block people from tram-

Ground juniper. Donated photo pling the study area.

In 2016, the land trust hopes to have another intern look at the species’ growth and reproduction to see if those in the clearing are doing better than ones growing elsewhere. hitrust@earthlink.net or 828.526.1111.

August 29th, 2015 10am Start

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Brave The Mud The Canton Lions Club is excited to announce the muddiest Building Bridges Mud Run ever on August 29, 2015. The course is approximately 2.5 miles and encompasses creeks, hills, mud and plenty of sweat inducing obstacles! 100% of the funds raised will go to benefit the Lions Club projects both locally and internationally.

A portion of the funds will also go to local charities in Haywood County.

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the Zahner Conservation Lecture Series in Highlands for the year.

Every year, monarchs work their way north from their wintering grounds in

“The research took about a year to complete,” said Julia Robinson, one of the project presenters. “We began it as a sustainability audit of WCU’s campus and then during the spring semester, we expanded on the research where we focused mainly on the indirect energy consumption occurring on our campus.”

Another WCU team also presented at the summit, examining the challenges of converting solar power to usable form.

The summit, part of the University of North Carolina Energy Leadership Challenge, has convened annually at Appalachian State University for the past four years. This year projects from 80 students, including 15 out-of-state colleges and universities, were presented under the theme “A New State of Energy.”

Making way for rare juniper and locust species

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A student-conducted energy audit of Western Carolina University won first place at the Appalachian Energy Summit in Boone, marking the third year in a row WCU students took the top prize.

The team included 18 students, who undertook the project as their environmental science capstone project. The submission, “Evaluating Sustainability of Purchasing Practices at Western Carolina University,” measured and evaluated energy costs — both direct and indirect — of buying and using resources such as water, electricity, office supplies, electronics and fuel.

it’s rare for fracking to affect water or due to other factors, such as insufficient pre- and post-fracking water quality data.

“We did not find evidence that these mechanisms have led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States,” the report says.

Frack Free N.C., a group opposed to hydraulic fracturing, takes issue with that conclusion.

“There is far too little known by EPA and scientists to say that there aren’t ‘widespread, systemic impacts,’” the group said in a press release.

The report is online at cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/hfstudy/recordisplay.cf m?deid=244651.

Comments can be sent to docket_oei@epa.gov with Docket number EPA-HQ-OA-2015-0245” in the subject line.

The deadline is Aug. 28.

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Location: Starts at the Waynesville Recreation Center at 10AM Registration: You can register your 2 or 4 person teams at www.buildingbridgesmudrun.com

Fee: $45 per person We will be updating our site via active.com with sponsor information and a course map in the coming weeks.

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Take fly tying to the next level Budding fly tyers looking to get beyond the basics may enjoy a second-level fly-tying class at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, offered 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 29 at the center.

Experienced flytyers will teach a few advanced patterns and techniques, with all equipment and materials provided.

Ages 12 and up.

The Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education is located at 1401 Fish Hatchery Road in Pisgah Forest, about 32 miles from Waynesville.

An aspiring fly-tyer works during the grand opening event at the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians in Cherokee.

Bob Nanney photo

Register online at www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/Education Centers/pisgah.aspx. 828.877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org

Grape juice demo planned at Cowee market

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A juicing demonstration will highlight the Cowee Farmers Market in Franklin, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1.

Dorothy Mitchell of Mitchell Farms will demonstrate how to make fresh grape juice, as well as some vegetable recipes.

The market is held weekly 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays at the Cowee Heritage Center on N.C. 28, 8 miles north of Franklin. New vendors welcome.

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Get dirty with Waynesville mud run A muddy 3-mile run and obstacle course will keep things messy in Waynesville this Saturday, Aug. 29, and it’s not too late to join the fun.

The Building Bridges Mud Run, a fundraiser for the Canton Lions Club and Lions Club International, will begin at 10 a.m. from the Waynesville Recreation Center, with day-of registration held 8 to 9 a.m. The course will traverse Richland Creek and navigate hills, mud pits and a surprise slippery finish.

Over 21s with an ID can enjoy a beer at the finish line, and prizes will be awarded to fastest teams and individuals. $50 per person, with individual and team signups available.

Stocking will resume in N.C. trout waters Stocking will resume in North Carolina’s hatchery-supported trout waters now that testing for whirling disease in fish raised at Marion and Brevard fish hatcheries has come back negative.

Stocking had halted after the disease was confirmed in rainbow trout collected from the Watauga River near Foscoe in late July — the first occurrence of whirling disease in North Carolina. Caused by a parasite, whirling disease is often fatal to juvenile fish and can severely impact adult fish’s chance of competitive success in the envi-

www.buildingbridgesmudrun.com Ryan Jacobson, rjacobson05@gmail.com.

Get wild at the Red Wolf Run An easy 5K on Saturday, Sept. 26, will raise money for Haywood Christian Academy’s senior class mission trip to Costa Rica — but with a twist.

The debut 5K Red Wolf Run/Walk will feature participants completing the mostly flat course through Clyde in their best original wolf costumes. Awards will be given to top finishers as well as competitors with the best costumes. $25 or $10 for children 10 and under. Tshirts guaranteed through Aug. 26. Register online at www.active.com.

ronment, but it does not affect people or pets.

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will resume stocking but will not retroactively stock locations that did not receive fish during the testing period, due to drought conditions and concerns of high water temperature there.

Biologists will continue to test waters in the Watauga River basin to determine the extent of the disease’s spread, with results expected within two weeks.

Report observations of fish with deformities or strange swimming behaviors, as well as fish with rice-like gill lice attached to their gills, to whirlingdisease@ncwildlife.org.

WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Haywood County Fair is scheduled for Aug. 25-31.

456.3575. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• Applications for the “Heritage Alive! Mountain Youth Talent contest” are due by Aug. 26. It’s part of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Railfest, and it will take place from 10 a.m.-noon on Sept. 5 in Bryson City. Entry forms are available at http://jackson.ces.ncsu.edu. Mail to Jackson County 4-H, 538 Scotts Creek Rd., Suite 204, Sylva, NC 28779; fax to 586.5509 or send to kerri_rayburn@ncsu.edu. For info, contact Heather Gordon at 586.4009 or heather_gordon@ncsu.edu.

• The Haywood County Fair Spaghetti Supper is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. Fundraiser for the fairgrounds. For info, call Nanci Davis at 734.3184 or the Haywood County Cooperative Extension Office at 456.3575.

• The Balsam-Willets-Ochre Hill Volunteer Fire Department will host an open house, barbecue dinner and free concert featuring Trinity River Band and Balsam Range starting at 3 p.m. on Aug. 29 at 36 Mount Pleasant Church Rd in Sylva. $10 includes dinner, dessert and drinks; kids 12 and under cost $6.

Music starts at 6 p.m.

• A Cake Walk will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Haywood County Fair in Waynesville. $1 per walk. All proceeds benefit the Haywood County Fairgrounds. For info, contact Gwilli Gericheck at 627.0919 or Julie Sawyer at 456.3575.

• Friends of the Rickman Store will host a presentation

by Charles Coburn from the Scottish Tartans Museum at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at the historic Rickman Store next to the Macon County Heritage Center. Coburn will share stories and answer frequently asked questions such as how the Scots came to North Carolina and why there’s a Scottish Museum in Franklin.

• LakeALooza is Sept. 4 at Fontana Village Resort at Lake Fontana. 800.498.2258 or fontanavillage.com/calendar-of-events.html.

• An “End-of-Summer Dive In” will be presented by the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department on Sept. 4 at the Sylva Pool and Sept. 5 at the Cashiers Community Pool. Both evenings will feature an open swim from 7-8:30 p.m. followed by a PG or G-rated movie with popcorn starting at 8:30 p.m. $5 for the family or $3 for an individual. Concessions also available. 293.3053.

• Canton’s Labor Day Festival is Sept. 5-7 at the Canton Recreation Park and downtown area.

Cantonnc.com or 648.2363.

• The second-annual Fire & Rescue Day is from 8 a.m.5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, at Riverfront Park in Bryson City. 736.1859.

• Old Time Community Jam will be at the Waynesville First Baptist Church Ministry Activity Center September 6 from 3 PM - 5 PM. Beginners and advanced acoustic musicians, singers and listeners welcome. • Qualla Boundary Historical Society meets at 6:30 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Everyone is welcome.

• Winter Lights tickets are on sale now at the Arboretum in Asheville. www.ncarboretum.org.

Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: ■ Complete listings of local music scene ■ Regional festivals ■ Art gallery events and openings ■ Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings • “Brown Bag at the Depot” – an opportunity to gather with neighbors – is at noon every Friday at Sylva’s newest park at the corner of Spring and Mill Street along Railroad Ave. For info, contact Paige Dowling at townmanager@townofsylva.org.

• Bingo will be held at 5:45 p.m. every Thursday through Sept. 3 in the pavilion next to Maggie Valley Town Hall. $50 coverall prize each week. Sponsored by the Maggie Valley Civic Association. For info, call Beverly Stone at 926.7630.

• Oconaluftee Indian Village, which replicates 18thcentury Cherokee Life, is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Monday through Saturday through Oct. 17 in Cherokee.

More info at visitcherokeenc.com.

• Graceann’s Amazing Breakfast is 8-10 a.m. every Tuesday in the Sapphire Room at the Sapphire Valley Community Center. $8.50 for adults; $5 for children.

Includes coffee and orange juice. 743.7663.

• There will be a free tasting and cooking demonstration from 5-7 p.m. every Saturday at Country Traditions in Dillsboro. Try a wide variety of wines while a gourmet chef prepares delicious treats that are available for purchase. Free. www.dillsborowineandgourmet.net.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Successful Entrepreneurship Series will be offered from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesdays through Nov. 17 at Western Carolina University’s Biltmore Campus in South Asheville. Free. 712.5918, wendy@cmtcoatings.com or 712.5918.

• A free, 90-minute class on Microsoft Publisher will be taught at 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 26, at Jackson County Public Library. Cynthia Gallinger will be the facilitator; she’ll be assisted by Laura Chapman. Sign up by calling 586.2016.

• A Device Workshop for parents and students preparing for school will be presented by U.S. Cellular at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at 225 Town Center Loop in Waynesville. There will be a chance to win one of four iPad Mini 3 devices that are awarded each month across the country. 452.3739.

• Mission Health Center Haywood will hold an open house from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 31, in Clyde.

• A Business Startup Series presented by Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will begin with a session on “How to Price Your Product or Service” from 6-9 p.m. on Sept. 1 in the 1500 Student Center Auditorium at HCC in Clyde. SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• “Artshare 2015” formally opens to the public for the month of August at the Haywood County Arts Council’s “Gallery & Gifts” (formerly known as “Gallery 86”). hcacartshare@yahoo.com.

• Lecture by Sarah Sneed on “Federal Indian Health Policy and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians” will be held Sept. 2 at 6:30 p.m. at Western Carolina University in room 204 of WCU’s Health and Human Sciences Building. 227.2164 or llefler@wcu.edu

• Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville now has a used book section and is accepting books in exchange for credit on other used books, and a free book is available from the giveaway cart for anyone who buys three or more.

• Western Carolina University’s Board of Trustees holds its quarterly meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 4, in the board room of the H.F. Robinson Administration Building in Cullowhee. Committee meetings and discus-

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sions begin at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3, on the fifth floor of the Robinson Building.

• A Wilderness First Responder medical course is scheduled for Sept. 5-13 in Cullowhee. It’s the national standard for outdoor trip leaders. 293.5384 or main.landmarklearning.edu.

• A seminar entitled “How to Start a Business” for early stage entrepreneurs will be offered by the Haywood Community College Small Business Center from 6-9 p.m. on Sept. 8 in the 1500 Student Center Auditorium in Clyde. Online registration is encouraged: sbc.haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Applications are being accepted for the Leadership Haywood Class of 2015-16, which begins Sept. 16.

Daylong programs are scheduled the third Wednesday of each month through May. Tuition is $650 for Haywood Chamber members and $750 for nonmembers.

456.3021 or info@haywoodchamber.com.

• Reservations are being accepted for the fall banquet of Western Carolina University’s accountancy program, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18, at the Waynesville Inn. Billy Moore, the chief financial officer of Grant Thornton, will be the featured speaker. WCU master of accountancy students and members of the WCU chapter of Beta Alpha Psi attend for free. Cost for others is $35. For reservations, contact Liz Jones at 227.3567 or lizjones@wcu.edu by Friday, Sept. 11.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Friends of the Greenway’s major fundraising event for the year, “FROG Hop” is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, in Tartan Hall of the First Presbyterian Church in Franklin. Silent auction and dinner. Tickets are $40 and are available at FROG Quarters.

• Tickets are now available for the 12th-annual Wine/Beer Tasting and Silent Auction, which benefits Swain County’s P.A.W.S. Animal Shelter and is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, at Lands Creek Log Cabins’ Harmony Hall. Advance tickets are $20 and available at P.A.W.S Thrift Store; tickets at the door on the event date are $25. Directions at www.landscreek.com. Info: 333.4267 or pawsbrysoncity@yahoo.com.

• A fundraiser for the Arboretum with the theme of “Big Hug Super Saturday” is scheduled for 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sept. 5 at Loretta’s Café at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. Info: http://tinyurl.com/p94c3fd.

HEALTH MATTERS • Al-Anon, a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who believe their lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking, meets at 10 a.m. on Saturdays at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from noon-5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 26, at Hinds University Center Grand Room at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• A health talk about “The Brain” and all the various ways to keep it young and maintain cognitive health will be offered on Aug. 27 at the Open Door Center for Spiritual Living, which is located off of 107 in Sylva.

447.4380.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 3-8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. www.redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28, at Lowe’s in Sylva. Redcrossblood.org or 800.733.2767.

• A Medicare 101 informational seminar is scheduled

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All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted. for 10 a.m. on Sept. 1 at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. Free. Medicare basics, supplements and prescription plans will be covered. Certified Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program counselor John Chicoine will lead the program. To register, call 356.2800 or stop by the center.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 1:30-6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1, at Maggie Valley United Methodist Church. Info or appointments: 386.956.7718.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at the SCC Macon Campus and Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

For info or to schedule an appointment, call Sandy McMahan at 524.3600.

• The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 800.733.2767 or www.redcrossblood.org.

• “Health on Wheels” road ride, a relaxing social ride supporting physical and mental recovery from illness or injury – as well as anyone who hasn’t ridden in awhile – starts at 10:30 a.m. every Thursday at Canton Rec Park. For info, contact Michelle Trantham at mttrantham@hotmail.com or Melissa Rockett at mrockett@mountainwise.com/ • A Tuesday Meditation Group meets at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Franklin.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • Registration is open for the Haywood County Recreation & Parks Department’s Fall Open Adult Soccer League. $260 per team. 7 vs. 7. Games are Aug. 30Oct. 4 at Allen’s Creek Park. For info or placement on a team, call 452.6789 or write drtaylor@haywoodnc.net.

Info also available at www.haywoodnc.net.

• An organizational meeting for a fall adult co-ed volleyball league in Haywood County is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at the Waynesville Recreation Center. League is open to all players who are 18 and older as of Sept. 1. Games are Wednesdays from Sept.

23-Dec. 16. 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

• A high-impact fitness class entitled “Pump It Up” will be held from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. High energy, quick pace. Fee is daily admission or membership. 456.2030 or tplowman@waynesvillenc.gov.

• A high-impact fitness class entitled “FIT 25” will be held from 5-5:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. Core-concentration exercise. Fee is daily admission or membership. 456.2030 or tplowman@waynesvillenc.gov.

• A 25-minute, full-body workout class is held at 5 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Waynesville Recreation Center. Cost is daily admission or membership. For info, call 456.2030.

• A new lunchtime fitness class will be held from noon1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Waynesville Recreation Center. Melissa Tinsley is the instructor.

456.2030.

POLITICAL CORNER • Swain County Democrats are invited to a breakfast on Saturday August 29 from 9 to 11 am at the Swain County Senior Center. 736.3043

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• A Gospel Singing will be held from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, during the Haywood County Fair in Waynesville. Featured musicians include Old Friends, Faith Under Fire and The Inmans. Free.

• First United Methodist Church of Sylva will hold a combined worship service and brunch beginning at 10:20 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30. It’s the last in the sermon series on “Call Stories.” Sunday School starts at 9:30 a.m. Service is set up in coffee-house style.

586.2358.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS • Author James Plair, Sr., will guide readers through an understanding of what the 1787 Constitution means to 21st century citizens at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

• J. Ringo will present “Investment in Murder” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES •A weekly manipulation card game group is forming through the Haywood County Senior Resource Center. If interested, contact Michelle Claytor at mclaytor@mountainprojects.org or 356.2813.

• Senior croquet for ages 55 and older is offered from 9-11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Vance Street Park in front of Waynesville Recreation Center.

• An iPhone/iPad user group meets from 2-3 p.m. on Tuesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2813.

• A Cribbage group will meet at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• Senior Sale Day is on the third Friday of every month at the Friends of the Library Used Bookstore. Patrons 60 and older get 20 percent off all purchases.

Proceeds benefit the Sylva Library.

KIDS & FAMILIES • The 2015 Haywood County Fair Youth Talent Show is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29. Youth of all ages are eligible. For info, contact Erin Hightower at 456.3575.

on clay projects from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays throughout September, skipping Sept. 23, at Cowee Pottery School five miles north of Franklin on NC 28.

Registration fee is $7 per class meeting per student plus the cost of clay at $17 per 25 pounds. 524-7690, info@CoweePotterySchool.org or www.coweepotteryschool.org.

• Sign-ups are underway for the Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) after-school program, which provides young people with instruction and performance opportunities in Mountain Heritage Music on traditional Appalachian instruments. Such as the fiddle, guitar, mandolin and string band. Open to all Jackson County Students. $95. Class meets after school on Thursdays at Cullowhee Valley School. For info, contact Dusk Weaver (984.999.0594 or weaverdusk@gmail.com) or Heather Gordon (586.4009 or heather_gordon@ncsu.edu).

• “Nature Nuts: Turtles,” a program organized by Pisgah Center for Wildlife

• Registration is open for Haywood County Youth Recreation Basketball League. Age divisions range from 5-6 through 13-14. Age cut-off is Aug. 31.

Registration fee is $60 for the first child, and $55 per sibling. Games are Nov. 14-Jan. 23 on Saturdays.

Register at the HCRP Office in Waynesville from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Monday through Friday; Canton Rec Park Shelter from 4-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 8; Bethel United Methodist Church parking lot from 3-6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10; from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12 at Allens Creek Park. 452.6789, drtaylor@haywoodnc.net or www.haywoodnc.net.

Education, is scheduled for 9-11 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 26, in Pisgah Forest. Learn all about turtles.

Story, crafts, game and turtle hunt. For ages 4-7.

877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• Fun Factory is presenting a Fall Family Fun Night from 3-8 p.m. every Tuesday from Sept. 8-Nov. 17 in Franklin. Double your bonus, and $5 pizza buffet.

349.8888 or thefactory.bz.

• Teen Coffeehouse meets Wednesday, Sept. 2 at 4:30 p.m. at Jackson County Public Library. 586-2016.

• Maria Greene will teach a class for parents, grandparents, aunts and other family to work with a child

• Children’s Storytime is Aug. 28 and Aug. 29 at 11 a.m. at Jackson County Public Library. 586-2016.

• Just Write for children age 8-12 meets Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 4 p.m. at Jackson County Public Library.

586-2016.

• Rock and Read is Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 11 a.m. at Jackson County Public Library. 586-2016.

• A “Nature Nuts” program on raccoons is scheduled for 9-11 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 2, at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Pisgah Forest. Story time, craft and game. For ages 4-7. 877.4423 or

lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• An “Eco Explorers” program on archery will be held from 1-3 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 2 and Friday, Sept. 25 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Pisgah Forest. Topics to be covered include safety and styles of bows and arrows; and there will be time for target practice. For ages 8-13. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

• A “Nature Nuts” program on raccoons is scheduled for 9-11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 25 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Pisgah Forest. Story time, craft and game. For ages 4-7. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

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• Bethel Missionary Baptist Church will hold its 14th annual Women’s Conference on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 28-29, in Canton. Guest speaker is Janice Drum from Langston Baptist Church in Conway, S.C. Conference is from 6-9 p.m. on Friday and from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday. 648.4106.

Free. For info, contact Donald Hummel at 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

KIDS MOVIES • A free kids movie, “Spongebob: Sponge Out of Water” will be shown at noon and 2 p.m. every Saturday in August at The Strand in Waynesville.

• A children’s comedy movie about supernatural events and characters that awaken in the evening hours at a museum will be shown at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. PG; 98 minutes.

• A computer animated adventure for the whole family will be shown for free at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept.

1, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. An adventure-seeking Belgian reporter and surly Captain Haddock race to recover a treasure lost at sea four centuries ago. 488.3030.

• Children’s movie time, 1 p.m. Mondays at Jackson County Public Library. Call for title of movie.

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• Family movie time Thursdays, 3:45 p.m. at Albert Carlton, Cashiers Community Library. Free with popcorn. Call for title. 743.0215.

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The Family Care Center a new medical clinic

Open to the public as a primary care provider

A&E FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS • “Way Back When” trout dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m. Friday Aug. 28, at the Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley. Featuring food and storytelling of a 1930’s Appalachian trout camp. Purchase tickets at 926.1401 or 800.868.1401 or www.cataloocheeranch.com. Other dates for the dinner are: Sept. 4 and 25.

• The Qualla Arts and Crafts Open Air Indian Art Market is scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Aug. 29 at the Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual. http: http://cherokeespecialevents.com/events/detail/qualla-artscrafts-open-air-indian-art-market/.

All insurance plans • Medicare • Medicaid • Private Pay The Family Care Center is located adjacent to the Immediate Care Clinic on Highway 19 in Cherokee near Harrah’s Cherokee Casino.

77 Painttown Rd., Cherokee NC To schedule an appointment or for questions please call

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• The Highlands Village Square Art & Craft Show is scheduled for 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Aug. 29-30 in K-H Founders Park on Pine Street. Regional artists, crafters, demonstrations, music and food. Free.

Sponsored by Macon County Art Association.

787.2021.

• Great Smoky Mountain Railroad’s 14th annual RAILFEST, featuring mountain music, is scheduled for Sept. 5-6 in Bryson City. Produced by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia, a non-profit organization. Featured entertainment on Sept. 5 includes a youth talent contest, the Cockman Family, the J. Creek Cloggers and Dusk Weaver. On Sept. 6, featured acts are The Boys from Tuckasegee, Dakota Waddell, Betty Brown and Highway 74. 631.4587.

• Art After Dark is from 6-9 p.m. on the first Friday of every month in Downtown Waynesville and Historic Frog Level. Stroll through participating galleries.

Waynesvillegalleryassociation.com.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • The musical “Company” will be presented by HART through Sept. 6 at HART in Waynesville. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 21, 22, 28, 29 and Sept. 4-5; and at 3 p.m. on Aug. 16, 23, 30 and Sept. 6. Tickets are $26 for adults, $22 for seniors and $13 for students. 456.6322 or harttheatre.org.

• Tokens Group will perform “grass-kicking, genrebending” music at 7 p.m. on Aug. 26 at Stuart Auditorium at Lake Junaluska. $5 tickets available at Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center.

800.222.4930.

• Mandy Barnett will perform an acoustic concert on Saturday, Aug. 29, at The Strand in Waynesville.

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• Tickets are now on sale for the Steve Miller Band’s upcoming performance at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. The show is at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3. For tickets, visit ticketmaster.com.

• A Faculty Showcase Recital at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building will kick off Western Carolina University’s recital series in Cullowhee. Free; reception will follow. 227.7242• Jacob Johnson (acoustic folk funk) performs at 8 p.m. on Sept. 4 at The Strand in Waynesville. Tickets: $815.

• Christian music star Steven Curtis Chapman performs at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, at Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Tickets range from $25-35. 866.273.4615 or www.greatmountainmusic.com.

• A Patriotic Concert will be presented by the Cherokee Community Chorus at 6 p.m. on Sept. 7 in downtown Cherokee. Public is invited. 788.1196, 497.3671 or 736.1256.

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• The Arts and Cultural Events Performance Series opens with a performance by the Golden Dragon Acrobats at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9, in

Western Carolina University’s John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for all others.

• Western Carolina University’s Mainstage season tickets are now available. The season opens with “Pop! Who Shot Andy Warhol?” – a musical comedy running Oct. 1-3. Season tickets for two musicals and two drams are $50 for adults, $40 for senior citizens, faculty and staff and $20 for students – a 30-percent savings on individual event prices. Info: 227.7491.

Tickets: 227.2479 or bardoarscenter.wcu.edu.

OUTDOOR MUSIC • Pickin’ in the Park is from 7-10 p.m. on Fridays at the Canton Rec Park. Free. Cantonnc.com or 648.2363.

• “Music on the River” concert series will feature David Lambert from 7-9 p.m. on Aug. 28, in the riverside area of downtown Cherokee. Free. 800.438.1601, 359.6490 or travel@nc-cherokee.com.

• Unspoken Traditon (bluegrass) will perform at the last concert of Concerts on the Creek from 7-9 p.m. on Aug. 28 at Bridge Park in Sylva. 800.962.1911.

• Rockelle Scott and Friends (jazz) will preform as the last concert of the Groovin’ On the Green in Cashiers at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 28, at Village Commons in Cashiers. Free. Family friendly. visitcashiersvalley.com.

• “Music on the River” concert series will feature A36 Band from 7-9 p.m. on Aug. 29, in the riverside area of downtown Cherokee. Free. 800.438.1601, 359.6490 or travel@nc-cherokee.com.

• Lois Hornbostel & Ehukai Teves (unique dulcimer & ukulele duo) will perform from 6:30-8 p.m. on Aug. 29 at the Depot in Bryson City. Part of the Music in the Mountains free concert series. www.greatsmokies.com.

• The Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) summer concert series will have Tugelo Holler (bluegrass) Aug. 29 at 7:30 p.m. Free. An open mic jam session begins at 6:30 p.m. www.franklinnc.com/pickin.html • “Music on the River” concert series will feature David Lambert from 7-9 p.m. on Sept. 4, in the riverside area of downtown Cherokee. Free. 800.438.1601, 359.6490 or travel@nc-cherokee.com; or contact Frieda Huskey at 359.6492.

• The Caribbean Cowboys (Reggae, calypso, and rock’nroll) will perform from 6:30-8 p.m. on Sept. 5 at the Depot in Bryson City. Part of the Music in the Mountains free concert series. www.greatsmokies.com.

• “Music on the River” concert series will feature Amazing Grace Ministries from 12-6 and An Evening with Elvis at 7-9 p.m. on Sept. 5, in the riverside area of downtown Cherokee. Free. 800.438.1601, 359.6490 or travel@nc-cherokee.com; or contact Frieda Huskey at 359.6492 or friehusk@nc-cherokee.com.

• The Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) summer concert series will have New Bridge (Bluegrass) on Sept. 5 at 7:30 p.m. Free. An open mic jam session begins at 6:30 p.m. www.franklinnc.com/pickin.html • “Music on the River” concert series will feature Amazing Grace Ministries 7-9 p.m. on Sept. 6, in the riverside area of downtown Cherokee. Free.

800.438.1601, 359.6490 or travel@nc-cherokee.com; or contact Frieda Huskey at 359.6492.

NIGHTLIFE • Sheila Gordon (vocalist, piano) and Chris Minick (multi-instrumentalist, vocalist) perform a musical tribute to Bonnie Raitt at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28, at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. 452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• Joe Cruz (piano, vocals) performs music of the

Beatles, Elton John, James Taylor and Simon and Garfunkel at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. 452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • An Intermediate digital photography class will be taught from 3-4:50 p.m. on Tuesdays, till Sept. 15 (but not on Aug. 25) at Jackson County Department of Aging, Senior Center, in Sylva. Must be at least 50. $50. For info, contact Tony Wu at 226.3840 or tonywuphotos@hotmail.com.

• The Swain County Genealogical & Historical Society will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 3 at the SCGHS Library in Bryson City. Presentation will be on dating and preserving old photographs.

• Cowee Pottery School will offer a class on centering, throwing, trimming and glazing a variety of forms from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Tuesdays from Sept. 1-29 five miles north of Franklin on NC 28. Instructor is Lydia Patillo. Registration fee is $7 per class meeting per student plus the cost of clay at $17 per 25 pounds.

524-7690, info@CoweePotterySchool.org or www.coweepotteryschool.org.

• A hand-building class will be taught by Hank Shuler from 6-9 p.m. on Wednesdays throughout September, skipping Sept. 9 at Cowee Pottery School five miles north of Franklin on NC 28. Registration fee is $7 per class meeting per student plus the cost of clay at $17 per 25 pounds. 524-7690, info@CoweePotterySchool.org or www.coweepotteryschool.org.

• The Fall Arts & Crafts Fair, presented by the Rotary Club of Cashiers Valley, is scheduled for Sept. 5-6 at the Village Green in Cashiers. More than 70 exhibiting artisans will be featured. Admission is free; donations are accepted. For info, contact Mary Alice Grant at 743.8350 or artsandcrafts@cashiersrotary.org.

• “The Wolfpack” will be shown at 7 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 26-27, at The Strand in Waynesville.

• The Haywood County Truck Pull is at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org.

• “Far From the Madding Crowd” will be shown at 7 p.m. nightly from Aug. 28-Sept. 3, except for Sunday, at The Strand in Waynesville. Afternoon matinees are on Saturday and Sunday.

• A paddle tour is being offered to the public at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30, at Lake Junaluska.

Sponsored by Haywood Waterways Association, Lake Junaluska Assembly and Waynesville Recreation Center. Boats, paddles and PFDs will be provided.

Free. RSVP by Thursday, Aug. 27, to Christine O’Brien at Christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 476.4667.

• Adult movie time, 6:30 p.m. Mondays at Jackson County Public Library. Call for title of movie.

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• A new movie directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Tilda Winton, Tom Hiddleston and Mia Waskowska will be shown at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 26, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room.

It’s the love story of two fragile and sensitive vampires. Rated R; 2:03.524.3600 • A classic romantic drama starring Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard will be shown at 2 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room. A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter’s piano teacher. 1:10.

524.3600.

• A new biographical drama starring David Oyelowo and Carmen Ejogo will be shown at 2 and 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3, in the Meeting Room of the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. The movie chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., led a campaign to secure equal voting rights. PG-13; 2:08. Film is being shown in collaboration with the League of Women Voters of Franklin’s “NC Voter’s Rights Forum,” which is from 6:30-8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10, at the Franklin Town Hall.

• A classic drama starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham will be shown at 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 4, in the Meeting Room of the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Based on Harper Lee’s 1961 book about a lawyer in a racially divided fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. 2:09.

• The Maggie Valley Labor Day Weekend Arts and Crafts Show is set for Sept. 5-6 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Event is from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. both days. Free. 926.1686 or www.maggievalley.org.

• A multi-generational, hand-building pottery class entitled “Play for All Ages” will be taught by Molly Suminski from 4-5:30 p.m. on Mondays from Sept. 526, at Cowee Pottery School five miles north of Franklin on NC 28. Registration fee is $7 per class meeting per student plus the cost of clay at $17 per 25 pounds. 524-7690, info@CoweePotterySchool.org or www.coweepotteryschool.org.

GALLERIES • A display by Haywood Community College’s Creative Arts Quilting and Upholstery classes entitled “A Conversation Piece” is on exhibition through Sept. 24 at HCC’s Creative Arts Department. A closing reception with light refreshments is scheduled for 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24.

• Savage Gardens is on display through Sept. 7 at the Arboretum in Asheville. www.ncarboretum.org.

• Orchids and Irises in the Garden: The Works of Jamie Kirkell will be on display through Oct. 4 at the Arboretum in Asheville. www.ncarboretum.org.

• Second Glance: The Quilt Art of Janice Maddox is on display through Oct. 4 at the Arboretum in Asheville. www.ncarboretum.org.

• Volunteers are being sought by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to provide visitors with historic information at Mingus Mill, located one-half mile north of the Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee.

Volunteers must attend an orientation and training from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 31, at the Oconaluftee Administration Building. Shifts are from May through November. To reserve a spot in training or get more info, contact Florie Takaki at 497.1906 or florie_takaki@nps.gov.

• Volunteers are being sought for a restoration of the East Street Park in Waynesville. Volunteers will cut a track for a nature trail and place stones and plants from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Sept. 1-2. Water and snacks provided. 452.2388.

• A beginner’s walk is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 5, meeting at the 5th Street side of Kelsey Hutchinson Founders Park in Highlands. No experience necessary; Russ Regnery will lead.

• Haywood Community College’s Department of Arts, Sciences, and Natural Resources and the North

COMPETITIVE EDGE • SuMMit CrossFit, in partnership with Unbroken Series, announces a call for individual to participate in “Battle to the SuMMit” – an individual CrossFit competition with multiple divisions. $90 registration fee. Event is Sept. 5 at SuMMit CrossFit in Asheville. www.unbrokenseries.com/battle. Volunteers needed; write summitcrossfit@gmail.com to volunteer or for more info.

• Registration is underway for a long-distance (25K and 50K routes) trail race that’s scheduled for Oct. 10 in Franklin. Early registration is $65 for the 25K and $80 for the 50K through Aug. 28. Proceeds benefit the North Carolina Bartram Trail Society to assist with trail maintenance and promotion. Register at Outdoor 76 in Franklin or at www.active.com. info@outdoor76.com.

• Sign-ups are underway for Haywood Community College’s Freedlander 5K, which is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 19. The race will celebrate HCC’s 50th anniversary and is named for the college’s founder. A half-mile fun run for kids is also on tap. Registration fees are $25 through Aug. 31 and $30 afterward for the 5K; $15 for the fun run. www.haywood.edu/freedlander-5k.

• Sign-ups are underway for the Red Wolf Run, a 5K fundraiser for Haywood Christian Academy’s senior class mission trip to Costa Rica. Participants will complete the mostly flat course through Clyde on Sept.

26 in original wolf costumes. Awards available for top finishers and best costumes. $25 entry fee or $10 for ages 10-under. www.active.com.

Outdoors • Rocky Cove Railroad tours the Arboretum from noon4 p.m. every sunny Saturday and Sunday in Asheville.

665.2492.

• The Highlands Plateau Greenway will conduct its monthly work day from 9 a.m.-noon on Sept. 19. To participate, email Ran Shaffner at highlandsgreenway@nctv.com or call 526.5622. Working on the new trail that connects Bowery Road to the Coker Rhododendron Trail and the Sled Run / Oak Street trail. Other work days are Oct. 17 and Nov. 21.

• “Though Small, We Pack Quite a Wallop: The Saga of Small Mammals and the Environment” is the topic of a presentation by Dr. Edward Pivorun, Clemson University professor, on Aug. 27 at the Nature Center at the Highlands Biological Station. Learn about unusual critters like wild shrews, voles and more.

526.2221 or www.highlandsbiological.org.

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• The Haywood County Fair Stock Tractor Pull is at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. 456.3575 or 246.5167.

Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission will offer Hunter Safety courses from 6-9:30 p.m. on Sept. 1415 in Building 3300, Room 3322, at HCC in Clyde.

Participants must attend two consecutive evenings to receive their certification.

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• A demo of oil painting techniques in a landscape will be held at 6:15 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3, at Swain County Center for the Arts in Bryson City. Stern will discuss the medium of oil painting. Free.

Sponsored by Swain County Center for the Arts and Swain County Schools. 488.7843.

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Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. 646.9432, 712.8969 or www.haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org

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• Karen “Sugar” Barnes and Dave MaGill perform live on Aug. 29 at Evolution Wine Kitchen in Sylva.

• Western North Carolina pottery pieces on loan from the collection of Rodney Leftwich are on display from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Tuesdays through Saturdays at the Shelton House in Waynesville. www.sheltonhouse.org.

• Fly-Tying: Level II is scheduled for 9 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Aug. 29, in Pisgah Forest. Equipment and materials provided. For ages 12 and up. 877.4423 or lee.sherrill@ncwildlife.org.

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FARM & GARDEN • A free garden workshop on “Water Elements in Your Landscape Design” is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 28, at Dovecote Porch & Gardens in Cashiers. To reserve a seat, contact Mary Palmer Dargan at 743.0307 or mpdargan@dargan.com.

• A plant clinic for anyone with gardening questions is available by calling the Haywood County Extension Master Gardners at 456.3575 from 9 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays through September.

FARMERS MARKET • Haywood Historic Farmers Market is held from 8 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the parking lot of HART Theatre in Waynesville. 280.1381 or haywoodfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

• The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.-noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 171 Legion Drive in Waynesville (behind Bogart’s).

456.1830 or vrogers12@att.net.

• The Jackson County Farmers Market will be on Saturdays from 9 a.m.-noon on at its Bridge Park location in Sylva.

Info:jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com or website jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org.

• The ‘Whee Farmer’s Market is open from 4-7 p.m. every Tuesday at the corner of the N. Country Club Drive and Stadium View Drive in Cullowhee, behind the entrance to the Village of Forest Hills off Highway 107 across from Western Carolina University.

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• The Cashiers Tailgate market is open from 9 a.m.-noon on Saturdays at the United Community Bank on N.C. 107 South. 226.9988 or blueridgefarmers@gmail.com.

• Cowee Farmers Market is from 3:30-6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays through Oct. 28 at the Old Cowee School in Franklin. info@coweefarmersmarket.com , 524.8369 or www.coweefarmersmarket.com. Special demo by Dorothy Mitchell from Mitchell Farms on Sept.

1 about making fresh grape juice and other vegetable recipes.

• The Franklin Farmers Tailgate Market is from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturdays on East Palmer Street across from Drake Software in Franklin. 349.2049 or alan_durden@ncsu.edu.

• Swain County Farmers Market will be open from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Fridays at the barn on Island Street in Bryson City. Special Tuesday hours from 5 to 8 p.m. during peak months through Sept. 15. 488.3848 or Christine_bredenkamp@ncsu.edu.

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• Cherokee Farmers Market is from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Fridays through Oct. 30 at 876 Acquoni Road next to the Easter Band of Cherokee Indians Cooperative Extension Office. For info, contact Sarah McClellan at 359.6935 or saramccl@nc-cherokee.com.

• The Farmstand at Cherokee Indian Hospital is open from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Thursdays till Sept. 24. For info, contact Nilofer Couture at nilofer.couture@cherokeehospital.org.

HIKING CLUBS • Carolina Mountain Club will have an 8.5-mile hike with a 3,100-foot elevation gain on Aug. 26. For info, contact Leader Brenda Worley at 684.8656, 606.7297 or bjdworley@gmail.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will hold an all-day, 10-mile hike with a 2,900-foot elevation gain on Aug. 29 at Yellow Mountain. For info, contact leader Brenda Worley at 684.8656, 606.7297 or bjdworley@gmail.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will hold a half-day, 5.3m,ile hike with a 960-foot ascent on Aug. 30 at Slate Rock Creek – Pilot Cove. For info, contact leader Lee Belknap at 693.2635, 674.3631 or rivergypsy@sprintmail.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will hold a 5.7-mile hike of John Rock Loop on Sept. 2. For more info, contact leader Keiko Merl at 231.2126 or kekomerl@att.net.

• A guided hike to the summit of Mt. LeConte is scheduled for Sept. 4-5. Includes an evening sunset program at CliffTops as well as breakfast and lunch. $275 per person. heather@dlia.org.

• Carolina Mountain Club will hold an all-day, 8.2mile hike with a 1,700-foot ascent on Sept. 6. For info, contact leader Ashok Kidva at 696.7119 or 674.1374.

• Carolina Mountain Club will hold a half-day, 4.4mile hike from Big Ridge Overlook to Elk Pasture Gap on Sept. 6. Elevation gain is 750 feet. For info, contact leader Dennis Bass at 367.8619 or dbass3607@gmail.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will hold a nine-mile hike of Buckeye Gap – Haywood Gap with a 1,500-foot ascent on Sept. 9. For info, contact leader Laura Frisbie at 337.5845 or laurafrisbie@gmail.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will hold a half-day, fivemile hike with a 1,000-foot ascent on Sept. 13. For info, contact leader Karin Eckert at 593.8453 or karingarden@yahoo.com.

MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDES • Weekly Women’s Mountain Bike Rides: Every Tuesday at 6pm during Daylight Savings Time. Rides start at 6pm and alternate weekly between Tsali and the WCU Trails. For Tsali rides, meet in Tsali parking lot. For WCU rides meet in parking lot at Picnic Area near softball fields. nantahala.area.sorba@gmail.com or 488.1988.

• Weekly Group Mountain Bike Ride at Tsali: Every Wednesday at 6pm during Daylight Savings Time.

Meet in Tsali parking lot and be ready to ride at 6pm.

Open to everyone. nantahala.area.sorba@gmail.com or 488.1988.

• Kidney Smart Classes are held from 4:30-6 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month in the third-floor video conference room at Angel Medical Center in Franklin. 369.9474.

• Kidney Smart Classes are held from 7:30-9 a.m. on the third Thursday of each month at DaVita Sylva Dialysis Center. Call Sue (631.0430) for more info.

• Kidney Smart Classes are held from 3-4:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at EBCI Health and Medical in Cherokee. For info, call Sue at 361.0430.

• Kidney Smart Classes are held from 2:30-4:30 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month at DaVita Waynesville Dialysis Center. For info, call Clark at 627.2907.

• A pro bono clinic will provide physical therapy services to underserved and underinsured populations of Western North Carolina from 6-8:30 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of every month on the first floor of the Health and Human Sciences Building in Cullowhee. For information, contact the clinic at 227.3527 or MAPPTClinic@wcu.edu.

• Ladies Night Out, 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month in the cafeteria at Angel Medical Center. 349.2426.

• Free dental clinic for low-income patients, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays by appointment at Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project Dental Clinic on the upper level of Laurel Terrace in Cashiers. 743.3393.

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 • Teen Prepared Childbirth Classes are offered at Angel Medical Center. 369.4421.

KIDS & FAMILIES • Homework Help, 3 to 5 p.m. Mondays for students in grades 2 through 6, Canton Branch Library. Former schoolteacher turned Youth Services Librarian Katy Punch offers homework help on a first-come, firstserved basis. Katy, 648.2924.

• Young Warrior Jiu Jitsu Classes, 5-5:45 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Basulto Academy of Defense in Waynesville. Classes are open to boys and girls ages 6 and older. For more information on these or other classes contact 230.5056 or www.wncbjj.com.

• A community breastfeeding information and support group is held from 10:30-noon on the first Saturday of each month in the main lobby of the Smoky Mountain OB/GYN office in Sylva. Free. Brandi Nations at 587.8214.

• Homeschool PE classes have started at the Recreation Center in Cullowhee on Thursdays for ages 5-9 and 10-14. $20. 293.3053.

• The Community Care Clinic of Highlands-Cashiers, 5 to 9 p.m. Thursdays, provides free care to uninsured patients who meet financial need requirements and live or work in Highlands and Cashiers. $10 donation suggested. The clinic is in the Macon County Recreation and Health Building off Buck Creek Road.

526.1991.

• HealthTracks, the wellness and healthy lifestyle program at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital, offers a toning class from 3 to 4 p.m. every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday on the lower level of the Jane Woodruff Medical Building at the rear of the hospital campus. $8 per session. 526.1348 or www.hchospital.org.

• Heart Healthy Exercise Group meets at 8:30 a.m.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Highlands Civic Center. $15 per month. 526.3556.

• Outpatient Diabetes Classes are offered from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. bimonthly at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva, and from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. monthly at Swain County Hospital in Bryson City.

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HEALTH MATTERS • A health-centered lunch and learn will be held on the third Thursday of every other month starting with the noon event on Aug. 20 at Swain Medical Park. Free light lunch will be served. Presented by Swain County Hospital and Swain County Health Department.

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■ $5 — Residential yard sale ads, ■ $5 — Non-business items that sell for less than $150.

■ $15 — Classified ads that are 50 words or less; each additional line is $2.

If your ad is 10 words or less, it will be displayed with a larger type.

■ $3 — Border around ad and $5 — Picture with ad or colored background.

■ $50 — Non-business items, 25 words or less. 3 month or till sold.

■ $300 — Statewide classifieds run in 117 participating newspapers with 1.6 million circulation. Up to 25 words.

■ All classified ads must be pre-paid.

CITY OF CHARLOTTE Mecklenburg Co. Surplus Rolling Stock Auction-Sept. 26, 10am.

5550 Wilkinson Blvd. Bldg A, Charlotte, NC. Rogers Auction Group. 336.789.2926.

RogersAuctionGroup.com.

5% Min Fee. NCAL#685

Classified Advertising: Scott Collier, phone 828.452.4251; fax 828.452.3585 classads@smokymountainnews.com

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FORMER ESTATE LIQUIDATIONLate Model Aggregate & Construction, Aerials & Telescopics, Support, Attachments, Real Sharp Equipment! (Low-houred) Wednesday, Sept. 2 @ 4pm. York, SC (Near Charlotte, NC). Address: 6247 Campbell Road York, SC 29745. 3 SCREENING PLANTS: 2012 Powerscreen Warrior 1800, 2012-2011 McCloskey R155, 3 CONVEYORS & STACKERS: (2) 2012 Telestack TC421, 2012 McCloskey 80x36, 10 Excavators: 2014-2012 Demo Cat 320EL, Unused Cat 312EL, Unused Cat 312EL, (2) 2011 Doosan DX350LC, 2011 Doosan DX140BLC, 2012 Doosan DX80R, Tool Carrier: Cat IT28G, Loaders: 2012 Cat 908H, 2012 Cat 906H, 3 Crawler Tractors: 2012 Case 850LWT, 2011 Case 650LWT, Vibratory Rollers: (2) Unused Dynapac CA2500D, 4 BACKHOES: (3) 2012-2010 Case 580 Super N (4x4), Rollers, 5 Skid Steers: 2012 Cat 252C, Forklift, 3 Air Compressors, Attachments, New Support Equipment. Site Phone: 262.903.6269. SC Auctioneer License: Jack Lyon # AUC.4070, SC Auction Firm: #AF3799.

HOME IMPROVEMENT AUCTION Saturday, August 29 @ 10am, 201 S. Central Ave., Locust, NC. Cabinet Sets, Doors, Carpet, Tile, Hardwood, Bath Vanities, Windows, Lighting, Patio Sets, Name Brand Tools. NC Sales Tax applies. www.ClassicAuctions.com 704.507.1449.

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Owner/Builder: Dave Donaldson.

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Applications Will be Taken at Mountain Projects, 2251 Old Balsam Rd., or 25 Schulman St,. or You May Go to Our Web Site: www.mountainprojects.org and Fill Out an Application on line. Pre-Employment Drug Testing is Required.

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AVIATION GRADS Work With Jetblue, Boeing, Delta, And Others- Start Here With Hands-On Training For FAA Certification. Financial Aid If Qualified.

Call Aviation Institute Of Maintenance 1.866.724.5403 SAPA BEST OF WNC WINNER 2015 Mad Batter Food & Film, Located in Beautiful Downtown Sylva is Hiring for Line Cooks, Servers & Food Truck Operators. Join our Growing Team. Call or Come by Between 2 - 4, Mon. - Sat. 828.586.3555.

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FTCC Fayetteville Technical Community College is now accepting applications for the following positions: Coordinator for Military Business Center. Grounds Technician.

Medical Office Administration Instructor. Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Health Programs.

For detailed information and to apply, please visit our employment portal at: https://faytechcc.peopleadmin.com/. Human Resources Office. Phone: 910.678.8378 Internet: http://www.faytechcc.edu. An Equal Opportunity Employer MANAGER - THRIFT STORE: Outgoing energetic individual to manage day to day activities including staffing, inventory, stocking and donations. Must be customer oriented, a self-starter, dependable, and able to lift 60lbs. Competitive salary with benefits. Please send resume and cover letter to, Disability Partners, 525 Mineral Springs Dr., Sylva, NC 28779 or phone 828.631.1167 and ask for Barbara or Gale.

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SHE DOES HAVE A SMALL "SPECIAL NEED", WHICH IS FOR A 2-3 TIMES DAY APPLICATION OF EYE DROPS FOR "DRY EYE". NOT EXPENSIVE AND NO BIG DEAL. SHE IS WELL WORTH THE TROUBLE!

FINANCIAL BEWARE OF LOAN FRAUD. Please check with the Better Business Bureau or Consumer Protection Agency before sending any money to any loan company.

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Section 8 Accepted - Handicapped Accessible Units When Available

MOUNTAIN REALTY 828.734.4864

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18 This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All dwellings advertised on an equal opportunity basis.

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Must be able to work a flexible schedule. Some benefits apply.

Applications will be taken at Mountain Projects, 2251 Old Balsam Rd., Waynesville, NC 28786 or 25 Schulman St., Sylva, NC 28779. You may also go to our website: www.mountainprojects.org and fill out an application on line. Pre-employment drug testing is required.

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REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCEMENT 67 ACRES IN CULLOWHEE Near WCU. Includes 2/BR 2/BA, 1600 sq. ft. House with Separate Workshop. Very Private, Long Range Views, Ideal for Family Compound, Several Potential House Sites. Priced to Sell $360,000. Brokers Welcome 2% Commission. For more info www.918gapbranch.blogspot.com or Call 828.586.0165 LAKE LURE, NC. New log cabin on 3.03 wooded acres w/lg. creek, $159,900. Huge screened back porch, 2bed/2bath, vaulted ceilings. 828.286.2981.

LEASE TO OWN 1/2 Acre Lots with Mobile Homes & Empty 1/2 Acre + Lots!

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For More Information Please Call 828.506.0578

HOMES FOR RENT UNFURNISHED WAYNESVILLE - UNFURNISHED: 2-Story House, 2/BR 1/BA, Walking Distance to Town and Shopping. Available 9-1-15.

Wood Floors, W/D Hookup, Wood Burning Stove, Deck on Large Corner Lot. $725 + Util., First & Sec. Dep., No Pets. Suitable for 1-2 Adults. Call 828.508.7155 or 340.473.8617 for Appointment.

HOMES FOR SALE BRUCE MCGOVERN A Full Service Realtor, Locally Owned and Operated mcgovernpropertymgt@gmail.com McGovern Property Management 828.283.2112.

MOBILE HOMES FOR SALE PARK MODEL - DOGWOOD LAKES J-Creek Area, Resident Owned Park 2/BR, 1.5/BA, Laundry Room, All Electric, Large Porch with Nice Mountain View. For Appointment Call Roland Chugg 828.550.3298

VACATION RENTALS

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CLIMATE CONTROLLED STORAGE UNITS FOR RENT 1 Month Free with 12 Month Rental. Maggie Valley, Hwy. 19, 1106 Soco Rd. For more information call Torry

828.734.6500, 828.734.6700 maggievalleyselfstorage.com

FURNITURE COMPARE QUALITY & PRICE Shop Tupelo’s, 828.926.8778.

LAWN & GARDEN HEMLOCK HEALERS, INC. Dedicated to Saving Our Hemlocks. Owner/Operator Frank Varvoutis, NC Pesticide Applicator’s License #22864. 48 Spruce St. Maggie Valley, NC 828.734.7819 828.926.7883, Email: hemlockhealers@yahoo.com

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Prevent Unwanted Litters!

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Hours:

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McGovern Real Estate & Property Management

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YOUR AD COULD REACH 1.6 MILLION HOMES ACROSS NC! Your classified ad could be reaching over 1.6 Million Homes across North Carolina! Place your ad with The Smoky Mountain News on the NC Statewide Classified Ad Network- 118 NC newspapers for a low cost of $330 for 25-word ad to appear in each paper! Additional words are $10 each. The whole state at your fingertips! It's a smart advertising buy! Call Scott Collier at 828.452.4251 or for more information visit the N.C. Press Association's website at www.ncpress.com

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HAYWOOD BEDDING, INC. The best bedding at the best price!

533 Hazelwood Ave. Waynesville 828.456.4240

FOR SALE

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STORAGE SPACE FOR RENT

JAMISON’S KENNEL BEAGLE CLUB Training Hunting Dogs. Will start pups at 6 months old, $50 Sign up per dog. Will Run big dogs at $5 an hour per dog. For more info 828.508.9727. For Sale- Male & Female AKC Registered Beagles Good Running Dogs! $200 each.

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building rock 72 Corrosive cleaner ACROSS 73 Sobieski of “Max” 1 On - with (equivalent 76 Beach locale to) 77 In ciphertext 5 Viking letters 80 Scandalous company 10 South American of 2001 plains 81 Senator, e.g.

16 Cap for a Scot 82 “- shame!”

19 “Us” or “them” 85 La Scala show 20 Prefix with structure 86 Uproar over a disput21 Lacking scruples ed matter 22 - culpa 91 Kennel noise 23 Place for test tubes 94 “... friend who never 26 Bruins great Bobby made -”: Tennyson 27 Lemonade alterna95 Laundry cycle tive 96 Lion’s place 28 Diving ideal 97 Brussels site 29 Zero 99 Suffix with racket 30 Blind as 100 Up ‘til 31 “Can it!”

102 Many run Windows 32 Warehouse or silo, 105 Winner’s loot e.g.

109 “Ave -” 37 Prom suit 111 Medium gait 38 Antique auto 112 Refrain syllable 39 Chum 113 Former Egypt-Syr. 40 Noisy turkey alliance 41 Hearth residue 114 Twofold nature 43 Title giver 116 Lend support 46 Lord’s lady 117 Obsolete hypothesis 47 Koch and Bradley about the universe’s ori48 Saying “Yay me!,” gin say 121 British verb suffix 54 Oldsmobile’s last 122 Wounded model 123 Serving a purpose 55 “Strange - may seem 124 Rock group Mtley ...”

125 Springfield’s 56 - out a living Flanders 57 “You are not!” retort 126 Have a fixation (on) 61 Is a sign of 127 Repasts 63 It parallels the fibula 128 Give lip to?

66 Pago Pago inhabitant 67 VCR tape displacer DOWN 68 Place for excavating 1 Give a hand

2 Machu - (site of Incan ruins) 3 Farewells, in France 4 Oboe’s pair 5 Starchy grain 6 Antsy feeling 7 Falcons’ org.

8 Bard’s Muse 9 Cavalry sword 10 Ford product 11 Blown away 12 Recurring subject 13 Spread, as ideas 14 Rowboat propeller 15 Furtive 16 Big name in cell service 17 Made bubbly, in a way 18 They suffer for believing 24 To the - degree 25 Via wagering 30 Balkan Peninsula repub.

33 Salad bar tool 34 Wise adviser 35 “Hot Diggity” singer Perry 36 Two-nation peninsula 38 Letter before sigma 41 Bushy ‘60s do 42 Fife resident 44 Jackie O’s Onassis 45 Kathy of country 46 Capital of Senegal 48 Wrangler’s seat 49 An hour before noon 50 Shylock, e.g.

51 Publisher Cond 52 Starship princess 53 Holiday tuber 58 Crumble into particles

59 Bears Hall of Famer Gale 60 Eventually 62 Suffix with Peking 64 High figs. for brains 65 Shirt fastener 66 Thesaurus word: Abbr.

69 Christmas carol opener 70 Court plea, in brief 71 Be a parent to 74 “NCIS: - Angeles” 75 Involve by necessity 78 Shore nook 79 Unrestricted 81 Advocates 83 Seat holders 84 Have the helm 87 “That makes two -!”

88 Liberated, in German 89 Big-top event 90 Poem variety 91 Not partake 92 Musical echo 93 Inundated 98 “Skedaddle!”

99 Dodges 101 High school in “Grease” 102 A - (deductively) 103 Lemon, e.g.

104 Agree (to) 106 Draw up 107 Hollywood’s O’Neal 108 Preach, say 109 - -jongg (tile game) 110 Smart - (wise guy) 115 Plains tribe 117 HBO rival 118 Indenting key 119 NFL gains 120 Aunt, to Ins

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YARD SALES ESTATE SALE Fri. & Sat., Sept. 4th & 5th, at 495 Pulsifer, Maggie Valley. Near Catoloochee Ranch. Last named Rd. on the Right before Ranch. Glassware Pictures, Furniture, Kitchen Items & More. 828.926.1357 MOVING/GARAGE SALE Tables, Chairs, Glassware, Crystal, Men & Women’s Winter & Summer Clothes, Office Supplies, Desks & Electronics. Saturday at 1294 Buckeye Cove Rd., Canton.

For directions call 828.280.1279

WEEKLY SUDOKU Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

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Seed dispersal is a science unto itself

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George Ellison

he distribution of seeds is, in the long run, what the hustle-and-bustle of germination, flowering and pollination of a given plant is all about.

Seed-bearing structures appear in a variety of forms with a range of evocative names: pomes (apples), follicles (milkweed pods), loments (beggarlice), pods (honey locust), silicles (shepard’s purse), akenes (sunflowers), siliques (mustard), burs (chestnut), samaras Columnist (maples), berries (grapes), false berries (gooseberries), schizocarps (parsley family), nuts (beech), acorns (oak) and more.

Fleshy fruits are contrived to induce a variety of birds and mammals to devour them and scatter seed.

Non-fleshy fruits are constructed so as to utilize wind or water for dispersal.

Others — like witch hazel, touch-me-not and Virginia jumpseed — have evolved explosive seed-dispersal mechanisms that literally “shoot” seeds some distance from the parent plant.

Vines enable plants to climb upon or

BACK THEN above surrounding vegetation so as to gain a dispersal advantage.

Some plants are more showy when fruiting than when in flower. Doll’s-eyes, a common plant in rich upland coves, are fairly inconspicuous plants when their clusters of white flowers appear in April or May. But from August into October the white berries that appear on thick fleshy red stalks are unmistakable. The red stalks (or pedicels) and white berries with their vivid black pupil-like spot (which account for the apt common name) are no doubt designed to attract small mammals.

Strawberry bush (locally called “hearts-abustin”), mountain ash, ginseng, staghorn sumac, wild yam, pawpaw, blue cohosh, pokeberry, sassafras, jimson weed, speckled wood lily and others are every bit as distinctive during late-season fruiting phases as in earlier ones.

To that list you can add virgin’s bower (Clematis virginiana), the showy vine familiar to home gardeners and wildflower enthusiasts alike.

The white sweet-smelling flowers, which appear from July into late August, are followed by dense clusters of plumed seeds that catch the wind.

Along woodland borders, stream banks,

fence rows, and hedgerows — or on trellises — the angled stems of virgin’s bower can extend up to 20 feet utilizing a touch-sensitive strategy that has been labeled “thigmotropism.”

Let’s give the final word in this rambling disquisition on fall fruits and seed dispersal to Western Carolina University biologist Jim Costa, who also serves as the director of the Highlands Biological Station. In his Highlands Botanical Garden: A Naturalist’s Guide (2013), Costa provided this explanation of “thigmotropism”: “Clematis was one of many climbers of great interest to Charles Darwin. In Climbing

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