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On the Cover: Ronnie Evans of Franklin has spent the last 12 years investigating the brutal murder of his cousin that has gone unsolved since 1963. Now he’s ready to release his book Frankie — A Life Cut Short on the 55th anniversary of her death. (Page 3)

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Bullock murder case remains unsolved after 55 years New book offers insight into investigation

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Frances Bullock pictured in the pink Bobbie Brooks casual dress she was wearing at the time of her murder. Donated photo quality, no photos were taken of the body in the place where it was found and nothing documenting the blood splatter and cast-off patterns.

“That could have been something we could use recently. Forensics experts can theorize how it took place, but without the splatter and cast-off they couldn’t draw a final conclusion,” Evans said.

PEOPLE OF INTEREST Evans said 12 people were questioned following Bullock’s murder, but ultimately there were three key people of interest in the investigation — Bullock’s estranged fiancé, her brother, who was also her part-time business partner and another man Bullock had just recently started dating.

She had ended an engagement with Gordon Forrester, an IRS agent who lived hours away in Elizabeth City. With a history of heavy drinking and domestic violence against his ex-wives, Evans said he was a prime suspect with the most motivation.

Elizabeth City police picked him up for questioning around midnight Tuesday — about 10 hours after Bullock’s body was discovered. He was cooperative at first and provided an alibi placing him in Elizabeth City over the weekend. He told authorities that Bullock was supposed to visit him that weekend for his birthday, but they’d gotten into an argument and she’d broken up with him.

Evans has a letter she wrote to Forrester that confirms the break-up story.

Law enforcement determined it was highly unlikely he would have been able to get to Franklin and back during the murder timeframe — no flight or rental car records could confirm he traveled by plane. When investigators called him in a second time for questioning, Forrester got a lawyer.

The second person of interest was Bullock’s brother Charlie Stanfield, who helped her with her antique business. Evans said the brother and sister were often at odds and Bullock had loaned him money on several occasions that he didn’t pay back.

“There was contention over the years just like there usually is with siblings — they both had bad tempers,” he said. “Turned out her brother also had a history of domestic violence in his first marriage and was discharged from the military for mental health issues, but the man I knew was easy-going and amiable.”

Stanfield’s behavior was somewhat suspicious the day Bullock’s body was found. He and his wife showed up at the crime scene to see what had happened. Investigators wanted to question him but he said he needed to go tell his mother what happened. He was supposed to meet investigators later that day but never showed up. They went and picked him up, brought him in for questioning, but Evans

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Bullock’s body was found around 1:30 p.m. Monday, July 29, inside her brick home near town. Authorities concluded she was killed some time between Friday night and Saturday. There was no forced entry. No sign of a struggle. The doors of the home were locked, which means whoever was in Bullock’s house that night was an invited guest. Evans said two chairs at the kitchen table were turned out like Bullock and her guest had just gotten up from the table when the attack occurred.

Blood trailed from the kitchen into the dining room where Bullock’s body was found.

A knife found on the kitchen counter was believed to be the murder weapon.

If the murder would have occurred in today’s world of investigating, it might have been a simple open and shut case and the murderer would have been quickly apprehended, but this was 1963 — no DNA testing or other advanced forensic techniques were available. From the beginning, Evans said the small town investigation wasn’t handled properly, which is probably why the case has eluded law enforcement agencies for so long.

“They dropped the ball quickly the day the body was discovered. The crime scene was not protected,” he said. “The new sheriff had only been in office for six months — something like this he wouldn’t have had experience in — crowd control wasn’t there.

The house was inundated with people.”

Bullock’s house was right along the main thoroughfare through town at the time and there was a shift change at the nearby Burlington Industries just as law enforcement was arriving on the scene.

“People could see patrol cars around the house and curiosity seekers stopped to see what was going on,” Evans said. “Witnesses I’ve talked to said certain people from town — like the mayor or other dignitaries — they let them in the house while trying to do finger printing. Even in 1963 they dropped the ball on that. One official called it a dog and pony show.”

Another factor that wouldn’t prove valuable until years later when crime scene investigation technology advanced was a lack of detailed photos from the house. Evans said law enforcement relied on the local newspaper photographer to document the crime scene. While the photos he’s seen are good

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR onnie Evans tries to remember his cousin as the beautiful and spunky woman pictured on the cover of his new book — the sparkle emanating from her party dress and her eyes — but the image he can’t get out of his head is the one of her lying on a cold slab following her autopsy in 1963.

“I see these beautiful photos of her and realize she’d be 95 today if she lived, but I also saw her on a slab after the autopsy was done,” he said. “That and knowing how it happened to her — to know what she was subjected to — that’s why I’ve kept searching for answers.”

At 77 years old, the Franklin man has spent the last 12 years investigating the unsolved murder of Frances “Frankie” Bullock. The 40-year-old woman was stabbed six times in her Franklin home in the summer of 1963 and the case remains unsolved after all these years.

Now Evans has put all his research into a book about Bullock’s life and the tragic circumstances surrounding her death. Frankie — A Life Cut Short is being released on the 55th anniversary of her death. It’s still a mystery that’s talked about to this day in Macon County, with many rumors propagated through the years.

“It shook Franklin to the core. It was something that had never really happened before in town,” Evans said. “It’s hard to say something is legendary, but it has become legendary in Franklin. She was known in town — she and her husband were a part of the town’s fabric. Frankie was an attractive lady and what happened to her was so brutal, but no one was ever named as a true suspect.”

Evans was only 21 at the time of Bullock’s murder. His second cousin was a regular fixture at his home since Bullock and Evans’ mother were close in age. She leaned on Evans’ family even more after her husband died in a tragic power company accident just a few years before her death. The unsolved murder was an incident that has haunted the family for a long time.

As one of few remaining relatives in the area, Evans has been determined to find answers despite the fact that all of the people of interest in the case are now deceased.

“When it happened I was stunned — the entire family was devastated. I know where I was when I was notified,” Evans recalled. “I was still a kid, still living at home and going

to school. I thought the people in charge of the investigation knew what they were doing and would see to it the murderer was found, so it bothered me for a long time.”

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news France Bullock’s home where her murder took place (left) is still standing in Franklin. After 50 years, Frances Bullock’s niece finally decided to settle on a date of death to inscribe on her grave.

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said Stanfield went into a rage whenever investigators started talking about the murder. Knowing he could just be in shock, investigators gave Stanfield some time to collect himself before trying to question him again a couple days later but once again he went into a rage. He and his wife did have an alibi — they were at the drive-thru theater watching a movie.

“The third time they questioned him the SBI advised him of his rights and still he didn’t get a lawyer,” Evans said. “They asked him and his wife if they’d take a polygraph test and they agreed. Went to the Bryson City Highway Patrol office unescorted to take the test but they both failed it.”

Even then, investigators said they didn’t have enough evidence to make Stanfield a suspect.

The third person of interest, which Evans thinks is less likely, was a man named Lewis Clayton that Bullock had just recently started dating — actually she started seeing him before she broke things off with Forrester.

Clayton was from Michigan but in Franklin on business — he was an antique finder. He took Bullock out to dinner several times and they had made plans to attend a dance in Dillard, Georgia, Saturday night — just two days before her body was found.

Clayton told authorities she never showed up for the dance. He also said he came to her house Sunday to fill some holes in the yard with dirt.

“I told her I would fix them because she might get into some insurance trouble if anyone stepped in one,” he was reported as saying at the time to The Franklin Press.

Clayton also cooperated with investigators and took a polygraph test.

Evans was most interested in Forrester’s story and researched his life extensively during his investigation. Turns out he had been married four times and was still married when he started dating Bullock. Evans tracked down the ex-wife and the son they had together in Manteo.

“She said he (Forrester) was abusive when he was drinking,” Evans recalled. “The son told me he didn’t know his father and had been adopted by his stepfather.”

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buried in a Louisiana cemetery next to his first ex-wife. Even though two of Forrester’s ex-wives later admitted to his abuse when questioned after the murder, Evans said none of them had documented the abuse or filed charges against him at the time — not uncommon in the ‘50s and ‘60s.

TECHNICIAN TURNED SLEUTH Evans worked as a radio broadcast technician most of his adult life. The role of investigator is something that he felt compelled to do but something he was fairly good at, as it turns out. Though Bullock’s death had always left a nagging feeling in the back of this head, it was his cousin Charles Davidson who had originally kept a close eye on the investigation through the years.

“He shadowed the investigators wherever they went,” Evans said. “When he passed I thought someone better pick up where he left off. I had just retired and I got all the information, clippings and letters he’d collected. It’s in my nature once I get a hold of something I’m just like a dog with a bone — I won’t let go.”

His first stop was the sheriff ’s department, which had jurisdiction over the case originally before it was turned over the State Bureau of Investigations. Evans got a hold of the SBI agent Charles Moody and they met at the Macon County Detention Center along with Chief Deputy Andy Shields. While he originally felt like the officers were questioning him about the case, Evans said his partnership with Moody would prove to be beneficial throughout his investigation.

“Moody eventually retired and went to work for the sheriff ’s office, so he became an ally in this thing,” Evans said. “I realized he had a deeper interest because he had taken the case with him to Washington, D.C., in 1991 to the FBI academy. He wanted to know more.”

The initial meeting with Moody and Shields was fruitful — Evans got to view crime scene photos and hear input from two men who had interest in the cold case.

“That meeting got me really started. I came away with a lot of information and theories they had,” he said. “The next thing that started to occupy my mind was that she was stabbed six times and had a defensive wound

Book release and signing Ronnie Evans of Franklin will be signing copies of his book Frankie — A Life Cut Short, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 1 at Books Unlimited in Franklin. All proceeds from the book will benefit REACH of Macon County, which also provides services in Jackson County.

in her hand — so what’s the evidence and where is it?”

The only evidence included the dress and undergarments Bullock had on the night of her death and the knife left at the scene, but Evans had a hard time locating it. The sheriff ’s department said they didn’t have it. The Franklin Police Department said they didn’t have it and that it was eventually given to SBI. In the meantime, Evans was also in search of the investigative report done at the time of the murder. The SBI told him the report wasn’t public record because it was still technically an open case and they had to “protect the investigation techniques of the SBI,” though Evans doubted techniques from the 1960s would mean much today.

“Meanwhile the files are archived at the SBI office. I don’t know why the family can’t

know what’s in the report — that’s where we get our closure. My mother was getting up in age and she wanted to know what happened,” he said.

He reached out to John Snow, his state senator at the time, and explained his dilemma. Snow reached out to the SBI director who agreed to a compromise. The report would have to be turned over to the SBI attorney who would have to review the file in depth and then allow the family — Evans and Bullock’s niece — to ask questions. It took a couple of months before the meeting was arranged. Evans had prepared a long and a short list of questions for the attorney, not knowing how much time they’d have with him.

“We met at the Hickory SBI quarters at 10:30 a.m. and finished around 4:30 without a lunch break or anything,” he said. “We barely finished the short list and we were all tired and hungry. We’d talked about trying to schedule a follow-up but that never happened.”

He did get to ask the attorney about the missing evidence. He told Evans that the SBI doesn’t keep evidence and that it had been sent back to the sheriff ’s department in 1963.

The sheriff ’s office once again said they didn’t have the evidence. Nearly a year after his first call to the police department, Evans decided to check again. This time it was good news. The chief found the evidence and turned it back over to the sheriff ’s office.

“That was my first win and it took over a year,” Evans said about the slow progress in the case.

After speaking with the sheriff and the district attorney, Evans was allowed to examine the evidence with certain stipulations. He wanted to have experts with him ready to make the most of the meeting.

While watching a PBS program one night about how the Sherlock Holmes tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle led to modern-day forensics, Evans got the idea to reach out to two of the people featured in the series — Karen Smith and Henry Lee. He tracked down Smith — a blood splatter and cast off expert — teaching CSI classes in Florida. She showed interest in the cold case and directed Evans to reach out to a touch DNA expert in Colorado who had worked on the JonBenet

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“Someone mentioned the word enlightenRamsey case. Evans contacted him but disment to me, and I think I’ve been enlightened covered he couldn’t afford his services.

“He said he would like to get involved but by all this. I wanted to find out what in her life his retainer was $5,000 and each sample led up to this and that’s where I started in the book,” he said. “I could have covered the murwould cost a $500 lab fee,” Evans said.

However, he also contacted Dr. Max der itself in one chapter, so that’s what I did, Noureddine, a DNA forensics expert who is and then we go back to the day she was born known for helping indigent clients and the and come forward with the things I know and wrongfully incarcerated. He and Smith were then the investigation beyond the murder.”

During that process, he also discovered willing to make the trip to Franklin in exchange for the cost of gas and a hotel stay. plenty of surprising facts about his family hisEvans and the experts met with the sheriff to tory. As with any family, some well-kept examine the evidence — the pale pink secrets were unpleasant to think about and Bobbie Brooks dress, Bullock’s Italian-made most certainly difficult to publish for the world to see. sandals, and the crime scene photos.

There were small holes cut out of the dress where Moody had more recently sent the dress to the crime lab for testing to see if any of the blood on the garment could have belonged to someone else. It was another dead end. Smith also went to great lengths to be able to test for blood underneath the oak floors of Bullock’s former house, but Evans said she wouldn’t have been able to prove how long the blood had been there after all these years. The interesting story about that process is detailed in Evans’ book and ended up being a forensics breakthrough featured in law enforcement journals.

The last option was to conduct touch DNA sampling on the dress to Ronnie Evans, Frances Bullock’s second cousin, spent 12 years identify any other fin- investigating her death and trying to find out the truth behind her gerprints, but it was unsolved murder. Jessi Stone photo another expensive long shot. The evidence had been shuffled around so much over 55 years “There’s been times I’ve felt guilty about and it would cost $500 per lab sample. putting relatives’ names in the book,” he said.

Noureddine said he’d probably need twoBut then the image of the autopsy photo dozen samples done, which obviously didn’t makes its way to the forefront of his mind fit into the sheriff or DA’s budget. again and he’s reminded that justice never “Also, the two prime suspects — Charlie prevailed in Bullock’s case. and Forrester — were around her a lot and “No one should be excused from being could have touched her at any time but it did- examined,” he said. “Even before her death n’t mean they killed her,” Evans said. “At that she’d already suffered quite a bit with the point I decided it was time to halt the investi- death of her husband and then less than two gation and wait for science to catch up.” years after Frankie died her younger sister committed suicide. Her mother outlived all children.”

INDING CLOSURE her He also discovered quite a bit of unreportFor 50 years, Bullock’s headstone at ed domestic abuse surrounding Bullock’s life Woodlawn Cemetery in Franklin didn’t have with her brother, the estranged fiancé and his a date of her death inscribed on it. They’d ex-wives. Though the crimes have gone hoped someday they’d know for sure what unsolved, Evans found a way to not let her happened and add the correct date, but that death be in vain.

“I dedicated the book to the families of the never happened. Just five years ago, Bullock’s niece Faye Wells decided it was victims of unsolved homicides who have suftime — July 26, 1963, was engraved on the fered the anguish of waiting for justice and stone she shares with her late husband closure and to those who have suffered and survived domestic violence and abuse,” he Ebion Bullock.

Evans said closure might not be the best said. “As far as this book, I plan to make no word to describe how he feels after 12 years of profit off of it — net proceeds are going to searching for answers in his cousin’s murder. REACH of Macon and Jackson counties.”

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First impressions Stamey discusses his role as a magistrate judge

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR magistrate judge is often one of the first people you’ll come into contact with when you find yourself entangled in the criminal justice system.

You’re arrested, brought to the jail to be booked and wait for your first appearance before the magistrate — the person who holds your freedom in their hands.

As a young magistrate judge in Macon County, Justin Stamey sees that initial interaction as his chance to make a difference in someone’s life — hoping to steer the person in the right direction before it’s too late instead of throwing the book at you.

“We’re in the relationship business — we see some of the same people in and out of here a lot — but with first-time offenders you can hopefully make a positive impression on them even in a negative circumstance,” he said.

Among the long list of duties that fall to magistrate judges, they are responsible for determining whether there is probable cause to arrest someone and, if there is, they are then responsible for setting the person’s bail — the conditions under which the arrested can be released from jail before their court date.

“Once probable cause is established what we go off of is a recommendation form that’s broken down from A1 to Class 3 misdemeanors and felonies. Within those classifications they have recommendations for certain amounts to use, but it’s not set in stone — it’s just a recommendation.”

Stamey said he also takes other factors into consideration before setting bail — the circumstances of the person’s charges, evidence against them, family ties in the community, employment history, financial resources, mental health conditions and prior charges and/or convictions.

The purpose of bail is to ensure the person will show up to his or her court date. Bail often includes a type of bond. Some people are released on their own recognizance, meaning they sign themselves out of jail after signing paperwork stating they understand their responsibility in showing up to court.

A custody release is when someone is released to a third party, which often occurs in juvenile cases and DWI cases. Then there are secured or unsecured money bonds. An unsecured bond means the person only has to pay the bond amount if they fail to appear or fail to comply with any post-release requirements, but a secured bond has to be paid to the court upfront before the person is released.

There are three types of secured bonds. A property bond in which the court will allow someone to post the value of real estate to be released, but it can’t be the defendant’s own property. A surety bond can be satisfied if a bondsman provides the court a contract to cover the bond amount if the defendant vio6 lates post-release requirements or fails to

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Magistrate judges in North Carolina • 674.6 magistrate full-time equivalent positions as of June 30, 2017 • Magistrates represent about 11 percent of the judicial branch workforce.

• Like other appointed and elected judicial officials, magistrates earn no leave.

• Magistrates provide an independent and impartial review of complaints brought to the magistrate by law enforcement officers or the general public.

• The judicial branch uses a workload formula to determine the appropriate number of magistrates per county, subject to a minimum quota set by the General Assembly.

• Magistrates are salaried employees who provide services 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

• For FY 2016-17, magistrates account for about $47.9 million of the judicial branch budget, representing 9.28 percent of the overall General Fund appropriations to the judicial branch.

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Then there’s the highly debated cash bond, which requires the full amount of the bond be paid in cash before the defendant can be released. The court holds the money until the disposition of someone’s case. So what happens if you don’t have the money upfront to pay? Either you stay in jail until your court date or you call a bail bondsman to bail you out and make monthly payments until the debt is paid.

Many civil rights advocacy groups have called the cash bond practice unconstitutional and want to see it abolished in the U.S. The argument is that it simply punishes poor people for being poor while allowing those with more financial resources to be released for similar charges. Organizations like the ACLU and the Pretrial Justice Institute assert that people should be released pretrial without a cash bond unless they are a flight risk or a threat to public safety.

Some states are moving away from the cash bond practice as they work on criminal

Justin Stamey is one of four a magistrate judges appointed in Macon County. Donated photo justice reform, but proponents say it’s needed to give people a financial incentive to make their court date. If used properly, Stamey said setting a bond as a condition for release can be an effective tool.

“I don’t know how’d you’d get rid of it — it’s a guarantee they’ll show up. But it doesn’t mean the bond has to be excessive — it’s recommended $500 to $1,000 for a Class 1 misdemeanor but if I feel that $250 is enough, that option is there,” he said. “Then there are three ways you can bond out — cash in full, property owned in North Carolina or go through a bondsmen. They take 15 percent nonrefundable. It’s fairly common to go through a bondsmen.”

Stamey said he tends to set unsecured bonds for first-time offenders because he believes in giving people the benefit of the doubt. He says the law allows him that discretion up to a certain point.

“If you’re arrested for a minor offense and if it’s the first time, I normally give them an unsecured bond and it’s on them to show up and take care of it,” he said. “But if they’ve had a failure to appear recently, they have to have a secured bond. Discretion goes out the window.”

Stamey also stressed the importance of people showing up to court because he’s seen a failure to appear snowball into a worse situation. If you fail to appear, a judge will issue a bench warrant and a deputy will arrest you for breaking the terms of release and you can be placed back in jail — this time with a higher secured bond. Studies show that even being in jail three days increases the likelihood of someone committing another crime.

“If you don’t show up you’re behind the eight ball already and then if you get more

THE COST OF CONFINEMENT charges down the road, you’re looking at a higher bond,” Stamey said.

Other jurisdictions have started using court reminders as a way to get people to show up to court instead of cash bonds — some have used a web-based application people have to sign up for while others have used postcards or text messages to remind people of their court date.

Haywood County Clerk of Court Hunter Plemmons said Superior Court Judge Bradley Letts is working on implementing a pretrial release program that will change the criteria used for setting bond amounts. The Smoky Mountain News will be interviewing Plemmons and Letts later this week to find out more details about the program.

QUALIFICATIONS Some states still elect magistrate judges, but in North Carolina it is an appointed position. The initial term of appointment for a magistrate is two years and subsequent terms are for a period of four years.

The Clerk of Superior Court will nominate candidates and the Superior Court Judge will consider the nominations before making the appointment. Stamey is one of four appointed magistrate judges in Macon County. He has been in the position for about five years.

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needed to work toward its other legislative goals. Members also pay annual dues that help the association continue to lobby the legislature for new laws.

“The success of the N.C. bondsmen in funding the NCBAA has hit the mark again and again each year, now with over 60 bail bond laws helping N.C. bondsmen make and save more money and protect their livelihood,” NCBAA states.

So how does the association counter the growing number of arguments against the practice of issuing bail bonds? Its stance is that the industry provides the only pretrial release program that doesn’t cost the state taxpayers.

“If the state spends approximately $65.90 per day to house an inmate, given the number of inmates released into the custody of bail agents, we save the state over $1 billion a year,” the association website claims. “No

other pretrial release system can provide these savings.”

Bondsmen also provide a court appearance system because bail agents have the authority to apprehend and arrest the people they have posted bail for and therefore offer an additional arrest force of about 1,700 people. According to the association, bail agents arrest and surrender 98 percent of their failures to appear at no cost to the taxpayer.

However, if someone is arrested for failure to appear, they return to jail until their next court date and taxpayers are again footing the bill for their stay plus the cost of medical services. Bail bond opponents claim a system of reminding people of their court dates could result in fewer failures to appear and cut down on jail costs without placing undue financial burden on people who haven’t been convicted.

A report from the Justice Policy Institute states that the for-profit bond industry is not providing an effective pretrial service because a person’s risk is only assessed by their ability to pay and not factors like prior criminal records, substance abuse history and the severity of the alleged crime.

“The industry touts its services as coming at no cost, but the system is very costly to the taxpayer and to the individuals and families who enter into the bail bond agreement. Many of those who cannot or do not purchase a bail bond will remain in jail until their trial date, sometimes as long as a year,” the report found. “This has contributed to dangerously high jail populations, with a national average of 60 percent of people in jail awaiting their day in court.”

The for-profit bail industry denies its impact on pretrial jail populations.

“The fact is that the only people in pretrial detention today who can’t afford a commercial bail bond are, one, pure transients or two, persons who are so extremely recalcitrant that they have burned every bridge with family and community. And these persons, if released, are almost certain to flee, and therefore no responsible judicial officer would allow them released in any case,” said Jerry Watson, an expert in the commercial bail bond industry.

It’s not just social and criminal justice reform organizations calling for the removal of the bail bond practice. The American Bar Association has also taken a stand against it — “Their role is neither appropriate nor necessary and the recommendation that they be abolished is without qualification.”

The full report from Justice Policy Institute can be found at justicepolicy.org/research/4388.

The Smoky Mountain News has reached out to several bail bondsmen and the NCBAA for an interview to discuss the industry but have not heard back from them. NCBAA Executive Director Melissa Seiler asked SMN to submit questions via email but never responded with answers.

If you are a bondsman in Western North Carolina and would like to offer further insight into the industry, contact Jessi Stone at 828.550.9978 or email jessi@smokymountainnews.com.

at the time and my brother called me — he’s a sheriff ’s deputy here — he said there was a magistrate position available, so I put in for it and went through the interview process,” he said.

Unlike other judicial positions, a magistrate doesn’t have to hold a law degree. In fact, there really aren’t many mandated qualifications to become a magistrate judge — something some people argue needs to change. Under North Carolina law, one can be eligible to be a magistrate if they have at least eight years experience as a clerk of court in the state or a four-year degree from an accredited university or a two-year degree

and four years of work experience in a related field like teaching, social work, law enforcement, mediation or counseling. However, a newly-appointed magistrate does have to take 40 hours of basic training for the position within six months of the appointment.

Stamey doesn’t have a law degree yet but he is considering going back to law school soon to continue his career in the criminal justice system. Even without a law degree, his undergraduate degree in political science from UNC-Charlotte has proved useful in his position.

“Having a law degree would be beneficial for this position, absolutely. You deal with

lawyers in small claims cases so knowing how they communicate and knowing the language would be helpful,” he said. “Do I think it’s absolutely necessary? Not completely — as long as you can have a strong understanding of common sense, differentiate the elements of different crimes, take testimony from law enforcement and defendants it’s not necessary.”

Stamey and other magistrate positions in Macon are considered full-time. They rotate a week on and a week off and also have to travel between offices in Franklin and Highlands. They also have to be on call on weekends during their rotation to handle

things like arrest warrants or other pressing judicial matters.

Stamey said magistrates in Western North Carolina also have to be able to take care of criminal and civil matters — that’s not the case in other parts of the state.

“In bigger cities they have both civil and criminal magistrates — but west of Asheville a lot of magistrates do both,” he said. “You have to wear multiple hats and be able to switch on a moment’s notice. We can go from one moment marrying a couple or going straight into issuing process for some one who has a warrant for arrest. It just depends on the day.”

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR ith widespread reports of abuse and fraud, the bail bonds industry in the U.S. doesn’t have the best reputation.

“Bondsmen are a lower life form — they sap money from people,” retired Alabama Sheriff Larry Amerson said at a recent criminal justice conference on the rural jail crisis.

What the industry does have going for it is a powerful PAC to protect its interests in Raleigh and Washington, D.C. Today there are about 15,000 bail bond agents working in the United States, writing bonds for about $14 billion annually, according to the Justice Policy Institute.

According to its own website, the North Carolina Bail Agents Association came about as a result of the unfair treatment bondsmen were receiving in the state, especially in regard to forfeitures. Before NCBAA forfeitures were only set aside if the defendants appearance in court was impossible or if the failure to appear wasn’t the defendants fault. As a result, bondsmen were forced to pay a lot of money out of pocket.

The Department of Insurance regulates bondsmen according to the laws on the books — the problem according to the NCBAA was that the laws were weak or outdated. Without specific language, the DOI regulated based on its opinion or policies.

“Because of the hostile bail environment at that time, there were very few bondsmen in N.C.,” the NCBAA states. “The bondsman’s fate in paying forfeitures hung on the ruling of the judge, and there was never a guarantee of a forfeiture set aside, not even if the bondsman had surrendered the defendant.”

Bondsmen were at the mercy of the court and had no statewide organization to work on their behalf — therefore the NCBAA was formed in 1992 with the mission of bettering laws for setting forfeitures aside and bettering laws to improve working conditions for all bondmen in North Carolina.

In 1994, the NCBAA was able to get laws passed requiring pre-licensing for those who wanted a bail bond license and continuing education for all bondsmen. The tuition for those classes provided NCBAA the funding it

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER any among us have been touched by the tragedy of suicide, and in the age of social media, many more of us have heard or seen behavior from family, friends or even total strangers that gives us pause.

According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, almost 45,000 people choose to end their lives each year; what’s more, for every suicide there are 25 unsuccessful suicide attempts. Roughly 1.3 out of every 10,000 people will kill themselves each year — it’s the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, and is likely the most preventable.

“My favorite story involves a young lady at Erwin High School several years ago when I was doing prevention work there,” said Bob Cummings, certified QPR peer suicide prevention trainer. “I was in Minnesota at the Hazelden Institute getting trained in another program, and I got a text about two o’clock in the morning, saying, ‘Mr. Bob, I’m thinking about killing myself.’”

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Bob Cummings has been working in mental health and ministry for about 30 years.

With a bachelor’s degree in human services, he’s a certified substance abuse prevention consultant, an EMT with a wilderness EMT designation, and has worked at Red Oak Recovery for three years.

“Red Oak Recovery is neat, it’s a family of addiction recovery programs for young adults. We have a male campus in Leicester in the Big Sandy Mush area, we have a female campus in Fairview, and we’re about to open up an adolescent program in Ellenboro, which is near Gastonia in the Forest City area,” he said. “We provide addiction recovery, typically a 90-day stay.”

A lot of what Cummings sees in his work is what’s called dual diagnosis.

“People who go through [substance abuse] treatment often have trauma or other co-occurring issues — depression, bipolar, other mental health issues — going along with the substance abuse, so we address both,” said Cummings.

Everyone at Red Oak is trained in the QPR method of peer suicide prevention.

“A lot of people coming to the program because of substance abuse, because of the mental health issues, have suicidal issues or suicidal tendencies,” he said. “They’re thinking about it, or have thought about it in the past, so all the staff are trained to deal with it.”

QPR is an acronym. The “Q” stands for “question,” the “P” stands for “persuade,” and the “R” stands for refer.

“We have this idea in America sometimes that I don’t want to talk about suicide or ask someone if they’re suicidal because if I do, I might make them suicidal, and that’s just not true,” he said. “The research shows very clearly that if someone’s dropping hints, they’re already suicidal.”

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now of the QPR Institute, shows that people who are suicidal or are thinking about suicide drop hints about a week before they make an attempt.

“They’re saying things typically in a conscious or unconscious effort to find somebody who’s going to say, ‘Hey man, what’s going on?

This isn’t like you,’” said Cummings. “They’re saying things, they’re doing things in an attempt to have someone say, ‘Let’s talk, I want to help you through this.’”

As Cummings explains, QPR isn’t an extended or drawn-out therapy or counseling method; although it is handy for people who work within the mental health, substance abuse or suicide prevention fields, it’s really for people like you and me who may nonetheless encounter those troubling red flags, or those 2 a.m. texts.

Starting with the “question” phase of QPR, much effort is spent overcoming the cultural taboo of even uttering the word “suicide.”

“If you and I are sitting here and I said something like, ‘I didn’t eat breakfast today,’ you wouldn’t say to yourself, ‘I don’t want to ask Bob if he’s hungry, I might make him hungry,’” he said. “If I’m dropping hints, I’m already hungry and I really want you to do something about it. People’s fear is, again, if I ask them if they’re suicidal, I’m going to make them that way and that’s just not true.”

The question, he said, must be asked in a bold, clear way.

“Hey listen, some of what you’re saying scares me, man. Are you thinking of suicide?

Are you thinking of killing yourself?”

Training in QPR teaches participants not to water it down with euphemisms full of ineffective weasel words like “doing something” or “hurting yourself.”

The persuasion phase of QPR might not be what you think — it’s less about painting a rosy picture of what can often be a real or imagined train wreck of personal issues, and more about convincing people to accept help.

“I’m persuading you to not kill yourself until I can get you some help like right now, which might mean I’m going to call your doctor, I’m going to call your pastor or your priest, or your family or mobile crisis and we’re going to take care of this right now,” said Cummings. “If someone is having a heart attack, I’m not going to diagnose. I’m not going to go through a protracted appointment with them. I’m going to take care of them right here and now, and I’m going to in a call a higher level of care. “ That’s where the “refer” of QPR comes in.

But again, the stigma of suicide often stops people from even popping the Q; after all, what if I’m wrong? What if they get offended because I think they’re going to kill themself and they’re contemplating nothing of the sort?

“In the context of love and respect, if you and I have a relationship and I’m seeing some things and I say something like, ‘Cory, some of the things that you’re saying kind of scare me. I love you and I’m concerned about you.

Are you thinking about suicide?’ In the context of your and my relationship, and my love and respect for you, you’re going to tend to

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not be offended,” he said. “You may say, ‘No, I’m not suicidal at all,’ and at that point I can say, ‘Well cool man, I’m glad to hear that because I care about you.’”

In his career, Cummings has had to ask the question more than a hundred times.

“I’ve never had anyone be offended or angry,” he said. “I’ve had people say ‘No, not at all.’ My experience has been, if someone is suicidal there’s almost a sigh of relief like, ‘Yeah, yeah I am.’”

There’s never been a suicide at Red Oak, but Red Oak can’t be everywhere, and not everyone can avail themselves of the programs there.

That’s why Cummings will hold a free training in the QPR method of suicide prevention at the Folkmoot Friendship Center on Sept. 10, in hopes that even one tragedy can be averted.

“We can prevent it if we’re trained in how to do it,” he said.

The training takes less than two hours and includes lecture, some exercises and a video from a man named Kevin Hines.

In 2000, Hines jumped off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge but somehow avoided becoming one of the estimated 2,000 people who have died in the frothing, frigid waters below it. Since then, he’s become a worldwide crusader speaking on suicide.

The training will also include role-play exercises designed to help non-professionals like you and me become desensitized to the “s-word.”

“I’ll give a scenario. I may say that you are a 40-year-old guy and you just lost your family, you got a DWI last week, and you suffer from depression normally,” Cummings said.

“Now, it’s really flaring up, and you’re talking to your friend, and you start dropping some hints.”

Included in those exercises are techniques to identify major red flags, including a lack of concern for the future, and what Cummings called “the smiling depressive.”

“If someone you know has been depressed recently, and has been depressed for a while, and you see them again and suddenly they’re smiling, and they almost seem at peace, that’s a red flag,” he said. “Beware of the smiling depressive, because there’s a chance that that person now has figured out, OK, on Thursday when my family’s at work and no one’s at home, I’m going to take these pills, or I’m going to shoot myself or whatever, and now they’re at peace with it.”

Getting back to what Cummings said was his “favorite story” about that two a.m. text from the high school student — undoubtedly one of many success stories due to the QPR method — he asked the question, persuaded the girl to wake her mom, made a plan, and referred her to help the very next morning.

“This was five years ago,” he said. “She completed Erwin High School, she’s in college now, we’re Facebook buddies and she texted me the other day and said, “Bob, I want to work at Red Oak Recovery with you.”

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homes on individual lots, monopole towers and the Plott Creek complex — as well as one map amendment rezoning two parcels on Broadview Road.

The gravamen of the five unanimous motions passed that day were “… due to the omission of an express reference to the board’s reasons that the board discussed in the motion to find the amendment was consistent with the land use plan …”

Without the restart, a suit could be filed against the town, and the only certain outcome of such a suit would be wasted time, and wasted money.

“A judge could say, ‘Look, I’ve read the record, you folks have done everything that the statute wanted you to, and I’m going to rule in your favor because you carried out the spirit of the law,’” Hites said. “But you could also have a judge or an appellate court say, ‘You know, I’m so sorry, you did everything you were supposed to do but the statute specifically says you didn’t,’ and we’re out $40,000 and a year.”

Public hearings have yet to be called for the text and map amendments, because all the usual paperwork and public notice requirements, including publication and signage, come first. And while that will involve some staff time as well as some money, it’s all far less than even one suit.

“What we did is legal until a judge overturns it and tells us to do something else. We don’t know whether a judge will or will not overturn it, but we believe it makes sense not to go through all that in case a judge will not side with us. This is just saving money and time,” he said. “Until that time, the former action is legal, because nobody said it’s not. So we’re not admitting in any way that anything we did was illegal, the only thing we believe is that it doesn’t follow the exact word-for-word language of that statute.”

August 29-September 4, 2018

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER he Town of Waynesville dropped the ball on a minor procedural change to how some zoning decisions are made, but at least taxpayers won’t be left holding the bag.

“I had never heard of it in my in-service training,” said Waynesville Town Manager Rob Hites. “Amie [Owens, assistant town manager] and I went to the manager’s meetings. We never heard of this statute. We didn’t catch it, our attorneys didn’t catch it.

None of us, through our professional associations, caught it.”

Development Services Director Elizabeth Teague didn’t catch the legislative change either, but regardless of who is ultimately to blame the town will now undertake a total restart on five zoning actions that occurred after Session Law 2017-10 took effect on Oct. 1, 2017.

Those decisions, which include the controversial Plott Creek apartment complex, were compliant with the spirit of existing law as had been understood by the town at the time, but weren’t strictly in compliance with the new legislation.

“You [now] have to state in the motion the rationale for a zoning amendment,” Hites said. “That can be a text amendment, it can be a change in zone from one to another, it can be dimensional changes, like we just did to some mobile homes.”

Waynesville Mayor Gavin Brown always asks aldermen for their rationale before they vote — on every issue, not just zoning matters — but now, that rationale, for or against, must be included within the motion itself.

A special meeting called for Aug. 21 took 17 minutes to restart the entire process on approving four text amendments — relating to mobile home design standards, mobile

“All local governments have — or potentially should have — changed the way they make zoning decisions,” said Ken Bowers, director of planning for the City of Raleigh.

Bowers also serves as the president of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Planners Association, and said his Raleigh office wasn’t caught off-guard.

“To my knowledge, I and everyone else in the planning community found out after it was law,” he said. “There’s a large listserv for planners across the state. It was discussed there, and it was certainly a topic of conversation at the state planning conference in Greenville in early October. We do an update for members on past legislation, and usually partner with the UNC School of Government.”

The UNC School of Government publishes a comprehensive and influential blog called “Coates’ Cannons,” named after UNC Institute of Government founder Albert Coates; there, professors regularly explain and opine on a plethora of public interest and municipal topics, like zoning.

On June 20, 2017, Gladys Hall Coates Professor of Public Law and Government David W. Oates published a 1,700-word entry titled A Statutory Modification for Plan Consistency Statements that dealt specifically with the issue.

The North Carolina Home Builders Association published a similar piece on the proposed changes long before they became law.

Situations like this demonstrate the importance of professional associations and public interest advocacy groups in spreading the word and offering advice on such matters, and that’s especially so in this case.

The provision is tucked into a 44-page bill with nearly 50 separate and unrelated items of note, including minor changes to mortgage notice requirements, private drinking water well permit requirements, privacy policies at the state’s Wildlife Resources Commission, recycling programs in local schools, definitions of antique automobiles and even the regulation of certain reptiles.

Nevertheless, other Haywood County municipalities picked up on the change.

“As with most things in Maggie Valley, it was a total team effort,” said Maggie Valley Town Manager Nathan Clark, a former planner himself. “Our town attorney, town clerk and town planner all played a valuable role in ensuring our compliance. Their knowledge comes from interaction with UNC School of Government, North Carolina League of Municipalities and each individual’s professional organization.”

Canton’s Town Manager Jason Burrell said that the town hadn’t undertaken anything since Oct. 1 that would have been affected by the change in law, but if it had, it would have been ready.

That leaves only the Town of Waynesville, which has of late seen considerably more development and zoning action than Canton or Maggie Valley has, but doesn’t have the staff or resources of a city the size of Raleigh that could keep up with rapid-fire changes in law that affect many aspects of municipal government each year.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS ON DILLARD ROAD (N.C. 106) FROM THE GEORGIA STATE LINE TO MAIN STREET (U.S. 64) IN HIGHLANDS MACON COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. R-5846

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The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed project to improve Dillard Road (N.C. 106) from the Georgia State Line to Main Street (U.S. 64) in Highlands. The meeting will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday, August 30 at Highlands Community Building, 71 Poplar Street in Highlands.

The public may drop-in at any time during the hours mentioned above. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments regarding the project. The opportunity to submit comments will also be provided at the meeting or via phone, email, or mail by September 14, 2018. Comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops. Please note that no formal presentation will be made.

Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online at www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings.

For additional information, contact J. Scott Miller, III, NCDOT Division 14 Project Manager, at 253 Webster Road, Sylva, NC 28779, 828-586-2141, or jsmiller3@ncdot.gov.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop. Anyone requiring special services should contact Tony Gallagher, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1598, by phone (919) 707-6069 or by e-mail at magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que hablan español o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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The 2019 fine’s elimination comes as a result of the failed effort to repeal Obamacare, but in essence still undermines the program substantially; when people who don’t pay into the system aren’t penalized, there’s less incentive for them to pay into the system, which then suffers diminished membership and bargaining power.

One happy consequence of the lack of choice exemption, though, is that by definition the people Gribble and other Mountain Projects navigators shepherd through the process are, by definition, without coverage.

“So many people who have not had health insurance have connected with us at Mountain Projects, but we’re trying to look at their whole health,” Gribble said. “We want to get them connected to other health care.”

The navigator program in the seven western counties is funded through a federal grant that comes through CMS and ends Sept. 12.

“We’re anxiously waiting for our funding announcement to come through on the 12th,” said Plummer, who noted that it costs about $350,000 or so for four full-time and three part-time staffers to cover the seven western counties.

In July, CMS announced that funding for the navigator program nationally would be cut from $36 million this year to $10 million next year. North Carolina’s share of that funding is expected to drop from $3.4 million to $500,000.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER ne of the key stipulations in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is that those who go without health care coverage for all or part of a year will pay a substantial fine, tied to their income tax filings.

That fine was insult to injury for those who didn’t have and couldn’t afford coverage in the first place, and left them none the richer and still without coverage.

Since its enactment, however, Obamacare has always offered so-called “hardship exemptions” that help people like the homeless, victims of domestic violence or even people who have received a utility shutoff notice avoid the fine.

Thanks to a series of actions initiated by President Donald Trump over the course of 2017, now most everyone in Haywood County and in Western North Carolina may qualify for a rebate if they paid a fine.

“What happened around this time last year was Centers for Medicaid Services released some new exemptions,” said Vicki Gribble, a health care navigator for Mountain Projects.

Paramount among them is the “lack of choice” exemption — if only one insurance company offered coverage in a county, residents can now apply for an exemption, file an amended tax return, and get their money back.

“In 2017, we only had one insurance company come out to our county, Blue Cross/Blue Shield,” she said. “People had no choice because there was a lack of competition.”

Gribble’s usual duties as a navigator include helping people sign up for health care coverage, but over the past few months, she’s been rather busy helping people file for the exemption.

Just last week, for example, Gribble filled out 114 hardship exemption applications that, if approved, would bring more than $165,000 in penalty fees back to Haywood County residents.

For 2017, the Obamacare fine was $695 per adult, or 2.5 percent of household income, whichever is greater. For children, the fine was $347.50, half the adult rate.

The maximum fine a family would pay was $2,085.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER or more than a century in the tiny Haywood County town of Canton, the sun has risen and set — literally and figuratively — on the sprawling paper mill located in the heart of town.

Founded in 1906 as the Champion Fibre Company, “the mill” — as it’s been called through several ownership changes — spawned that same year a Labor Day parade that’s billed as the South’s oldest.

Some 60 years later, it also resulted in the creation of a labor union that, despite relatively dramatic reductions in the mill’s workforce, relatively dramatic increases in overseas competition and the continuing proliferation of so-called “right to work” states — of which North Carolina is one — persists to this day.

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WORKIN’ FOR A LIVING Labor unions can trace their origins to medieval craft guilds — loose confederations of crafters like carpenters, cobblers and masons. These guilds not only established a monopoly on labor by protecting members against competing workers, but also cared for members in the event of illness, incapacitation or old age.

Members of these guilds, however, had to practice apprenticeships for half a decade or more, and then served as journeymen indefinitely until they produced the quality of work demanded by the guild, whereupon they were promoted to “master.”

Journeymen could demonstrate their proficiency by creating their “master piece,” which gave rise to the term itself.

In the United States, organized labor gained a foothold during the industrial revolution and expanded greatly after the Civil War. Through the 1930s, unions benefitted

from left-leaning policy like the National Labor Relations Act, part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Second New Deal” legislation.

Measured by percentage, union membership in the U.S. peaked around 1945, with an estimated 25 percent of workers belonging to a union. Not long after that, union organizing began in Canton.

“Champion was a privately owned deal, and they looked at going public back in the 1960s. I think that led to the folks here looking at, you know, we need to look at an avenue to protect ourselves,” said Keith Jenkins, a four-decade, third-generation employee of the mill.

Like his father before him, Jenkins is also the president of the United Steelworkers Union’s area chapter — Smoky Mountain Local 507, located in Canton.

“I sort of grew up knowing, watching him, listening to the things that he would be doing. I found that very interesting, so I chose that path as well. And I’m very proud of that,” said Jenkins. “I also have a brotherin-law that was president.”

First elected as executive vice president in 2000 and then as president in 2002, Jenkins served two terms through 2006.

“Additionally,” he said, “I was re-elected again in 2015, and I’m still here.”

Jenkins and local 507 may still be here, but many unions are not; today union membership in the U.S. hovers just above 10 percent of the workforce.

Automation and declines in American manufacturing during the 1970s and 1980s contributed to the decrease of union membership across the country — not so much in Canton, but still, the union’s seen a steady loss of members since then.

“We were actually thriving during those times,” Jenkins said. “We had a lot of people that worked here at

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“At the end of the day I do believe that most folks acknowledge the fact that they are able to say with pride and dignity, ‘I have a very good job,’ and I think a lot of that’s due to the local (union) being here.”

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the folks that matter — the politicians of the world — to see just how difficult it is to operate under that venue. It’s tough,” said Jenkins. “It’s tough, it is, because the unfortunate part is, folks can actually work here at this facility and acquire the gains, the benefits that we have the ability to bargain over, and not be a participant. That’s sad, because the theory is, the more united you are, the better off you are at the end of the day.”

Those benefits, according to Jenkins, are acquired through collective bargaining agreements with employers.

“I can’t stress enough how important it is to have the ability to bargain with the company over issues — wages, benefits, working conditions, safety. We believe strongly in all those things,” he said. “At the end of the day I do believe that most folks acknowledge the fact that they are able to say with pride and dignity, ‘I have a very good job,’ and I think a lot of that’s due to the local being here.”

Unions like Steelworkers Local 507 act as an intermediary between workers and employers, especially on issues of attendance, compensation and discipline.

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this facility [but] through the years, we’ve experienced some curtailments of that nature. As a matter fact, when I first came to work 38 years ago there was 2,300, maybe 2,400 employees. Now we are looking at right about thousand or less.”

According to a 2017 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report released in January of this year, California, New York and Illinois have the most unionized workers, with 2.5 million, 2 million and 830,000, respectively.

With 145,000 union members, North Carolina ranks No. 25 in the amount of union members, but by percentage, N.C. ranks 49th, with less than 4 percent of its workforce unionized. Only South Carolina comes in lower at 2.6 percent, with states like New York and California averaging 15 to 24 percent.

Not surprisingly, union membership in the South has always lagged behind the more heavily-industrialized North and Northeast. At least some of that is due to counter intuitively-named “right to work” laws.

The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, passed in Congress over the objections of President Harry S. Truman, repealed parts of the 1935 NLRA and gave states the ability to outlaw union-only shops.

In 27 U.S. states, statutes or constitutional amendments effectively allow non-union workers to benefit from the presence of a union without paying their fair share of dues that fund the unions.

The entire South — from Texas up through the Virginias — vast swaths of the West, and even traditional union strongholds like Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin are all right-to-work states. Not surprisingly, states without the statutes, like the entire Northeast and the west coast rank as having the most union members.

“Right to work, it’s a struggle. We continually have conversations about that very thing. I think as a country, it’s tough to get

ing up production costs for anyone who uses it, especially newspapers.

In theory, those tariffs should result in more domestic paper production, but it’s still to be seen if and when that may happen, especially as Canada has understandably retaliated by imposing tariffs on imported American paper products.

For now, Jenkins thinks both the mill — now known as Evergreen Packaging — and Steelworkers Local 507 are on solid footing.

“You can look out the door right now,” he said from the union’s downtown Canton office, just a stone’s throw from the mill.

“The company is actually spending some money. They’re upgrading some things. I think that goes a little bit in the way of, at least they have somewhat of a long-term plan for this. I think as well, labor, I think it will make a comeback at some point in time.

We currently have about a 90-some percent membership rate. In a right to work state, that’s a good thing.”

And as the sun again sets over the heart of this blue-collar mountain milltown where generations of workers have held the kind of solid manufacturing jobs that some say are a relic in today’s digital economy, there’s still considerable sentiment that the sun also rises.

“I think slowly but surely, hopefully, folks see that at the end of the day it’s about the American Dream — in a small town, in Canton, North Carolina, you can do that right here and you do that because of the local union. If you don’t have your seat at the table,” he said, “then, you’re the meal.”

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USU Local 507 President Keith Jenkins works at his desk in the downtown Canton union hall.

“Through the ability to collectively bargain with a grievance procedure, we handle issues on a day-to-day basis from that standpoint,” he said.

The parent organizations of most unions also engage in legislative advocacy on national and international issues, representing workers at the highest levels of government. In a highly competitive global concern like the paper products industry — the mill makes a variety of packaging stock, including paper for cups for Starbucks — constant vigilance is the rule, rather than the exception.

“I think a lot of the issues we have to deal with is overseas stuff, especially in the paper industry,” said Jenkins. “I’ll be glad to say as well, our international union, United Steelworkers, they do a lot of political stuff to ensure that our jobs are maintained.”

That advocacy includes fighting “dumping” of paper products from overseas — an illegal practice whereby a company floods a market with inferior products at lower or negative profit margins with the sole intent of driving competitors out of business.

“I think we’re very fortunate,” he said.

“There’s a lot of paper mills in this country that have closed down. We’re still here.

That’s a good thing. We still have the ability to make a very comfortable living right here in Canton, North Carolina. That’s huge.”

Over the past year, President Donald Trump has ventured into a protectionist trade mentality with respect to overseas competition. Tariffs imposed on a variety of products to include Canadian paper are driv-

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Town gives up rights to Fry Street After years of controversy and debate, the town of Bryson City has finally approved relinquishing its right of way to Fry Street as well as a connecting portion of Greenlee Street.

The Great Smoky Mountain Railroad and the Swain County Chamber of Commerce have requested to closure of Fry Street for several years citing pedestrian safety concerns near the train depot, but the town board has voted it down. However, this time the request came with an offer of property in exchange for the right of way.

The town purchased a 7-acre tract at 601 Bryson City Walk right along the Tuckasegee River last October for $200,000 but the train owns another 2.6 acres of adjacent property that the town could use. The train offered up the additional land if the town would approve the closure. The train will maintain a 25-foot right of way surrounding the railroad tracks that run along the Bryson Yard property.

Mayor Tom Sutton said another 2.6 acres would help the town in future growth, especially when it comes time to expand wastewater treatment capacity at its plant just across the road. For him and two other aldermen — Heidi Woodard-Ramsey and Ben King — it was a good deal for the town.

The motion to give up the right of way passed 3 to 2 with Aldermen Jim Gribble and Janine Crisp still opposed to it.

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Franklin to award economic grant to ‘Project Wayah’

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR ranklin Town Council called a special meeting for Aug. 21 to discuss a couple of mundane business items — street closures and uniform guidance policies — but the board added a closed session item to the agenda to discuss an economic development project.

The town board typically doesn’t conduct much business away from public eyes and ears, but it has recently gone into a couple of closed sessions for the purpose of economic development.

Following the Aug. 21 closed session, Town Attorney John Henning Jr. read a resolution stating the town declared its intent to offer an economic development grant in the form of a land donation. The town is offering approximately one acre of townowned property to a business only known right now by the code name “Project Wayah.”

The board passed the resolution 5 to 1 with Councilmember David Culpepper voting against it.

In exchange for the grant, Project Wayah promises to make a capital investment of $3 million in 2018 — $1.5 million will be in the form of improvements to the

Project Wayah promises to make a capital investment of $3 million in 2018 — $1.5 million will be in the form of improvements to the property and $1.5 million will be in the form of tangible real property.

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property and $1.5 million will be in the form of tangible real property.

The business also plans to make a $2 million capital investment in 2019 — $500,000 will be in the form of property improvements and $1.5 million in the form of tangible personal property.

According to Wayah’s request to the town, the business will hire an additional 23 employees in Franklin, bringing its total employment up to 105 during 2019. In 2020, it plans to add an additional 10 employees. All employees will be provided health insurance and other benefits and “All such employees will be fully employed to at least 40 hours per week at

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an average wage of $46,509 per year, and that wages for all such employees shall be above the median wage for the Town of Franklin as listed annually by the North Carolina Department of Commerce Finance Center,” the request stated. “Project Wayah shall keep all such employees fully employed to at least 40 hours per week through and including at least 2024.”

The town has not released the address of the one-acre that would be donated to the business, but stated that the property is valued at $115,878 per acre.

The resolution passed by the town council states that the town was informed that the existing business would choose to locate in another city and state if the economic development grant wasn’t approved.

During the called meeting, Culpepper said the town didn’t know for certain whether the company would relocate if the town doesn’t approve the grant.

Henning said that was an aspect he can work toward collecting more information on between now and the public hearing.

Legally, the town would have to be able to demonstrate in a court of law that the grant was needed to keep the business in town.

“It can’t just be for convenience,” he said.

Before the grant is a done deal, the town must hold a public hearing, which is scheduled for 6:05 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1, at town hall during the council’s regular monthly meeting. Members of the public will be able to comment and ask questions about the project.

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were entered into for the purpose of evading the immigration laws, and that they were therefore not legitimate,” the document said.

The non-citizen defendants were never arrested — investigators could not find them, with an earlier court document stating three of the four are believed to be in Israel — but the remaining defendants have all pled guilty.

Cucumber, Gonzalez, and Swayney all pled guilty to one count of marriage fraud and were senRuth McCoy tenced to three years of probation, a $100 assessment and a requirement to pay fees for court-appointed counsel. Littlejohn pled guilty to aiding and abetting marriage fraud and received a sentence of two years of probation, a $100 assessment and a requirement to pay fees for court-appointed counsel. Marsiano and Perez each pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States but have not yet been sentenced.

According to an 18-page memo McCoy’s attorney Sean Devereux filed prior to sentencing, probation was a more fitting sentence than incarceration. Devereux cited the obstacles McCoy had overcome in her life, starting from childhood, and argued that the FBI’s interest in the marriage fraud case was “not because of the inherent malignancy of her offense but because a political adversary had the ear of an FBI agent.”

McCoy “played a tangential role in a relatively obscure and overlooked crime,” he said, and “little or no effort has been expended to apprehend the foreign nationals who stood to benefit from the arranged marriages.”

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER fter pleading guilty to involvement in a marriage fraud scheme, Ruth Marie Sequoyah McCoy, of Cherokee, was sentenced to two years of probation and a $2,000 fine in a hearing held Aug. 23 at the Western District of North Carolina U.S. District Court in Asheville.

When she was initially arrested in June 2017, McCoy faced four criminal charges: three counts of marriage fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. The charges carried a maximum legal sentence of 20 years in prison, and McCoy was originally prepared to defend herself against all of them in a jury trial. However, days before the scheduled March 5 trial, McCoy pled guilty to the conspiracy charge with the prosecution dropping the three marriage fraud charges. The conspiracy charge carried a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

According to the factual basis document filed with McCoy’s guilty plea in March, from June 2015 to Dec. 2016, she conspired with co-defendants Golan Perez, Ofir Marsiano, Kaila Nikelle Cucumber, Jessica Marie Gonzalez, Jordan Elizabeth Littlejohn, Kevin Dean Swayney, Ilya Dostanov, Ievgenii Reint, Shaul Levy, Yana Peltz and others to commit marriage fraud.

Court documents state that Cucumber, Gonzalez, Littlejohn and Swayney — all U.S. citizens — entered into marriages with non-citizens Dostanov, Reint, Levy and Peltz in return for money. The couples had no romantic involvement; the arrangements were intended to help the non-citizens gain permanent legal resident status in the U.S. Perez solicited McCoy’s involvement, the factual basis document says, asking her to act as a financial sponsor for the immigrants participating in the marriages.

Marriage to a U.S. citizen alone isn’t enough to qualify immigrants for legal permanent resident status if the spouse doesn’t have a sufficient three-year income history.

A person with such a history must agree to be financially responsible for the immigrant if he or she becomes unable to financially support himself or herself. McCoy sponsored the applications for Levy and Peltz, knowing that “the marriages she sponsored

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Speir, Cats excited about 2018

n Sept. 1 — NEWBERRY at E.J. Whitmire Stadium / Bob Waters Field, Cullowhee 6 p.m. n Sept. 8 BYE WEEK n Sept. 15 — at Gardner-Webb, Boiling Springs, N.C. 6 p.m. n SEPT. 22 — VMI at E.J. Whitmire Stadium / Bob Waters Field, Cullowhee 3:30 p.m. n Sept. 29 — at Furman, Greenville, S.C. 2 p.m. n Oct. 6 — at Samford, Birmingham, TBA n Oct. 13 — Chattanooga at E.J. Whitmire Stadium / Bob Waters Field, Cullowhee 3:30 p.m. n Oct. 20 — at Mercer Macon, Ga. 4 p.m. n Oct. 27 — at ETSU, Johnston City, Tenn.

3:30 p.m. n Nov. 3 — The Citadel at E.J. Whitmire Stadium / Bob Waters Field, Cullowhee 3:30 p.m. n Nov. 10 — Wofford at E.J. Whitmire Stadium / Bob Waters Field, Cullowhee 3:30 p.m. n Nov. 17 — at North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. TBA

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Western Carolina University football coach Mark Speir shows his Catamount spirit coming out of the tunnel.

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BY TODD VINYARD S PECIAL TO THE S MOKY MOUNTAIN N EWS aking over a football program coming off five wins in the previous three seasons before you arrived as coach would certainly require a plan and changing the culture. Mark Speir has relied on both in his past seven years as the head coach at Western Carolina University.

From improvements in scholarship numbers to creating a positive atmosphere, Speir and his staff have relentlessly focused on making the Cats better. WCU had its third seven-win season over the past four seasons last year while being nationally ranked much of the year and in contention for a playoff spot.

“It is amazing what has been accomplished not just by our football program, but by our entire university since we’ve been here,” Speir said. “Our team is strong in academics. We led the Southern Conference in attendance last year. We had two players (Detrez Newsome with the San Diego Chargers and Keion Crossen with the New England Patriots) on NFL rosters. I’m just proud to be a part of all of it.”

Nathan Dalton, a redshirt senior offensive lineman from East Flat Rock, said it has been quite a ride to see a new culture being created for Catamount football.

“I started school in 2014 and I can really tell a difference in the program,” said Dalton, a second-team preseason AllSouthern Conference selection. “Coach Speir is so straightforward and he keeps things simple – do your job and win the next game.

We try to keep things under the microscope instead of the telescope and take it minute by minute doing the things we are supposed to do.”

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to see that happening here.”

Spier is also excited about the upcoming season that starts Sept. 1 at home with Newberry.

The Cats will return seven starters on offense while having to replace eight starters on defense.

“It will be an interesting mix with this team,” Speir said. “We’re a very heavy freshmen and sophomore team. We have a lot of players hunWCU head football coach Mark gry for competition. It Speir and University of North has been a fun preseason.

Carolina football coach Larry Fedora We do have some older pictured together on the field. guys who have been teaching players the Catamount Way. Several pieces from a unit that scored Downside with younger players is there is nothing a school-record 389 points return like experience. That is our job as coaches to grow under the leadership of redshirt junior them up. We can have a quarterback Tyrie Adams. really good football team.” a more player-driven culture, which is exactOffensively, several pieces from a unit ly what Speir and his coaches have worked that scored a school-record 389 points to created in Cullowhee. return under the leadership of redshirt jun“When we first got here it was a coachior quarterback Tyrie Adams. driven team,” Speir said. “Our first year The Cats backup quarterback Will Jones eight guys came to summer school to be adds an extra weapon to the WCU offense ready. Now everybody comes. We had to along with an experienced offensive line. teach them. At first they were just doing The wide receiver and running back units what we told them to do. Now we have a have plenty of depth. player-driven team. The players are teaching “We can be as good as we’ve ever been on young players and setting goals. All the great offense,” Speir said. teams I’ve been fortunate to be a part of On defense players like senior linebacker have been player-driven teams. It is exciting Jacquez Williams are working to make some-

thing special of a unit with a lot of new faces.

“We are young and it is a good thing to see people working so hard,” said Williams, who recorded 21 tackles and a sack in a road win at Chattanooga last year. “We are energetic and we want to come out and have a good season. We are family here and it is the truth. We care about each other.”

Speir’s work to build a family atmosphere in Cullowhee had challenges along the way, but the coach has stuck with the plan and a Bible verse, Galations 6:9 — “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

“I had to keep reminding myself of the ‘at the proper time’ part,” Spier said with a smile. “I knew how good the people here were. We’d didn’t try to build it fast, we wanted to build this for the long haul. This is where I want my last coaching job to be.

Our Athletic Director Randy Eaton and Chancellor (David) Belcher bought in to it and believed. We were all on the same page and the support has been fantastic. We know there is more to do. I have that mule collar on the wall next to my desk to remind me to keep plowing and it will come.”

Spier is glad to see that his team is hungry for more.

“Randy (Eaton) and I were talking recently about how good it was to see our players talking about how they wanted to do more this year,” Speir said. “We won seven games last year and sometimes we would have just been really happy with that. But we’ve raised the standards for our program. We’re a young football team, and we will make mistakes. But we’re a hungry football team that believes and works to get better each day.

The leadership and culture change we’ve had will be very important this year.”

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Explore history archives of Swain Michael Aday will be presenting "I Had No Idea!! Researching History in the Archives at Great Smoky Mountains National Park Collections Preservation Center" at 6:30 p.m.

Sept. 6 during the Swain County Genealogical and Historical Society meeting.

Since October 2013 Aday has been the librarian-archivist at Great Smoky Mountains National Park Archives in Townsend. The presentation will be held at the Swain County Regional

If you’re looking for a job or need help with your job search, resume writing or interviewing skills, the local N.C. Works Career Center can help between 1 and 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, at the Marianna Black Library, in Bryson City.

On the first Friday of each month Leslynn Jones, a career advisor from the Swain County NC Works Career Center, will be at the library to assist job seekers with their job search efforts.

Assistance filling out job applications, creating professional resumes, and preparing for interviews will be provided.

Assistance can be available other days at the Swain County N.C. Works Career Center, located in the County Administration Building at 101 Mitchell Street.

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Bethel to host community yard sale Bethel Rural Community Organization is sponsoring a yard sale from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 15, at Danny Heatherly’s Event Center, located on U.S. 276 in Bethel. This event will benefit BRCO and other community organizations that wish to participate.

During the past year, BRCO has given financial support to two local fire departments and the sheriff’s department’s Cops for Kids Christmas event. BRCO has provided funds for all three schools in the Bethel vicinity with food, clothing, vision, dental and children in transition projects for indigent children. The organization allows for utilities subsidy and food pantry services for families in need.

BRCO is also a major financial backer of the Buy Haywood program that supports local farms, restaurants, produce stands, markets and value-added products.

If you wish to support the work of BRCO and other community organizations that may participate, contact Richard Coltman at 828.421.0610 to offer items for sale.

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Sen. Jeff Jackson will join Senate District 50 candidate Bobby Kuppers for a meet and greet from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, at the Jackson County Library in Sylva.

Jackson is a senator from Mecklenburg County and is working to help elect Democrats across the state. He is the youngest Democratic senator in North Carolina and plans to discuss the importance of the 2018 election.

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If you’re heading to Canton’s 112th annual Labor Day Parade at 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept.

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Around 9:30 a.m., parade entrants will begin lining up on Blackwell Drive, from whence they’ll turn left, eastbound, onto New Clyde Highway. Continuing down Main Street, the parade will then turn left onto Bridge Street at the lamp factory, where it ends.

Parade entrants will continue along Bridge Street, turning left onto Champion Drive, and then turn left again onto Blackwell Drive where they’ll disband.

The best places to view the parade are at the Food Lion on New Clyde Highway, all along Main Street and at the intersection of Main and Bridge streets.

This year’s grand marshal is Evergreen Packaging.

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Time to put Meadows out to pasture To the Editor: Phillip Price, who is running for U.S. Congress from the 11th District, lists 289 “Past Events” on his “Phillip Price for Congress” Facebook page (as of August 23).

That’s almost 300 events just since he announced his candidacy. He also lists, as of the same date, 27 more “Upcoming Events.”

From these numbers alone it’s clear that Phillip Price cares about what the people of Western North Carolina think and that he’s dedicated to listening to them and interacting with them. He has made himself available to the people. I personally have seen and heard him twice in Sylva, once in Webster and once at Balsam Mountain.

Now guess how many past and upcoming events are listed at Rep. Mark Meadows for Congress Facebook page? Keep in mind that it’s less than 70 days until the election, and consider that the U.S. House has been out of

empire rebuilder and who denounces the agencies of his own government which are trying to protect us is so far from conservative as to be out of sight. So are Rep. Mark Meadows, RAsheville, and other members of the misnamed “Freedom Caucus” who are eager to help Trump cover up what Donald Trump is plainly desperate to hide. We need to hear more from Sens.

Richard Burr and Thom Tillis about how wrong this is, especially now that McCain’s voice is stilled.

An American president who interferes in his own party’s state-level priGuest Columnist maries is no conservative. Anyone who welcomes that interference is no conservative; he or she is fostering a cult of personality that would sicken any genuine conservative.

An American president who attacks the free press as “enemy of the people” repudiates the Constitution. He is no conservative.

An American president who’s bent on repealing all the environmental and consumer protection progress under eight of his predecessors is, by definition, no conservative. Nor is he anything resembling a populist.

Safire defines “populist” as someone “attuned to the needs of ‘the people.’” He illustrated that with history: the early populists — a coalition of farmers and workers — demanded regulation, even public ownership, of railroads and telephone systems, the graduated income tax, direct election of senators and cheaper money.

Our so-called “populist” president, on the other hand, relentlessly attacks regulations that protect the people from corporate greed. The only “need” he recognizes is the human appetite for scapegoats.

In the South, some professed populists were intensely racist. That’s the only respect in which Trump is a populist.

Why do so many self-described conservatives support — even applaud — him? Why has the Republican Party become a

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he two most abused and misused words in America are “conservative” and “populist.” Politicians and the media are the grossest offenders.

Safire’s Political Dictionary defines “conservative” as “a defender of the status quo who, when change becomes necessary in tested institutions or practices, prefers that it come slowly, in moderation.” It also came to stand for resistance, sometimes rational, sometimes not, to taxes and regulations.

What all American conservatives shared, however, was a healthy concern over the potential abuse of political power.

They also venerated the Constitution and all of our fundamental institutions.

None of those traits apply to a president and Congress who subject the nation to trillions of dollars in new debt for the sake of a flimflam tax bill. It is hardly a conservative president who works at undermining NATO and the World Trade Organization, institutions that we helped to build to keep the peace, improve everyone’s economy and lift the free world above the rivalries that had fed two world wars. The greatest threat to provoke a third world war, the Soviet Union, disintegrated in the face of Anglo-Canadian-American-European unity, No politician who flouts that history, whether from ignorance or something worse, can be considered conservative. No citizen who supports such reckless politics can truly claim to be conservative.

No genuine conservative can tolerate Vladimir Putin’s subversion of our last election or Washington’s indifference to the continuing danger from him. China’s economic rivalry is not as great a threat as Russia’s instinctive empire building.

The late Sen. John McCain was on the money when he called out Putin’s thirst for rebuilding the Soviet empire. In his last book, The Restless Wave, McCain noted that people who expected better of Russia after the Soviet collapse misled themselves with a “short view of Russian history.” In reality, McCain wrote, “resentment and insecurity had been powerful drivers of Russian history for centuries.”

An American president who grovels before the Russian

LETTERS session the entire month of August. They don’t reconvene until Sept. 4. Meadows has had both incentive and ample opportunity to interact publicly with his constituents. Most members of Congress who are running for re-election welcome the August recess as a time to seriously reconnect with the voters back home.

First, guess the number of “Past Events” listed. (Hint: guess a low number.) The correct answer is three. Of those three, one was in 2012, one was in 2014, and the most recent was over two years ago in June of 2016.

Now guess the number of “Upcoming Events” listed (as of August 23). The correct answer is zero. A big fat zero.

That’s right, the note under “Upcoming Events” says, “Mark Meadows for Congress does not have any upcoming events.” And remember it’s less than two months until early voting begins. It’s true that Meadows also has another (non-campaign) Facebook page, so to be fair we should include the events noted there as well. That page lists one

cult of his personality?

With some, it’s because Trump hates the people they hate.

Others rationalize that whatever he does is an acceptable price for the “conservative” Supreme Court justices who, he tells them, will repeal Roe v. Wade.

That begs the question, however, of whether Brett Kavanaugh, the nominee of the moment, is truly conservative or an extremist — a more polished one, to be sure — like Robert Bork, who dashed his Supreme Court candidacy by admitting that he did not recognize a constitutional right of privacy.

Kavanaugh believes that the Supreme Court was wrong when it forced President Nixon to surrender the voice recording that proved him guilty of obstructing justice in the Watergate scandal. While a sitting federal judge, he wrote that the court erred again when it compelled President Clinton to submit to a civil lawsuit that led to his impeachment. He has written that a sitting president should be immune from even criminal investigation — in other words, that he should be the one citizen among 300 million to be above the law and the Constitution itself.

How is that even remotely conservative?

To be so worshipful of unbridled presidential power is as distant from true conservatism as the South Pole is from the North. Kavanaugh will, no doubt, make all sorts of unctuous promises to the Senate about separating his own views from the law, but can we afford to trust him?

Every one of these issues is a litmus test of whether someone who claims to be conservative is actually something else.

An opportunist? A hypocrite? An extremist? A radical? A reactionary?

Take your pick. But let’s reserve the noble word “conservative” for the dwindling few, like the late Sen. John McCain, who still deserve it. Let’s save “populist” for people like Elizabeth Warren, who really are.

(Martin Dyckman is a former journalist and the author of several books on Florida politics. He lives in Western North Carolina and can be reached at dyckmanm@bellsouth.net.)

past event dated in August of last year, and under the “Upcoming Events” heading you will find the note “Mark Meadows does not have any upcoming events.”

The facts speak for themselves. Meadows is hiding out. He’s refusing to interact with voters on a personal level, presumably because he doesn’t really consider us as constituents that he has to answer to. In sharp contrast, Phillip Price is accessible and caring, a true man of the people.

It’s time to put Meadows out to pasture.

Bill Spencer Cullowhee

Build road but don’t ruin mountains To the Editor: I attended the Sylva Town Meeting the other week and viewed the plan for the road re-design. The room overflowed with townspeople and concerned business owners who spoke against this plan as drawn. The point

that hit home to me, a Glenville resident, was the failure of communication between DOT and the people.

Jay Coward spoke eloquently on the plan being flawed and offered excellent alternatives. I am hoping that the DOT heard the people and will work with the people now. Businesses that have been present in Sylva for decades should remain untouched and respected. Round-bouts properly constructed with nice centers would not only add charm to Sylva but would be efficient for traffic flow. The idea of having a median constructed where drivers have no access to turn into businesses without having to do u-turns is extremely dangerous. Slow down and meet with the people! People make the town.

I’ve been a resident in Jackson County since 2009 but have vacationed here since 1978 and realize I’m considered a transplant; I accept that … but I must address the expansion of N.C. 107 South issue as well.

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Friday night lights, then and now took my first baton lesson when I was 3 years old. My sister had been twirling for a while, so baton practice and competitions were the norm for our family. Four of our baton teachers were Clemson Tiger majorettes and my parents grew up in Greenville, S.C. We freColumnist quented many a football game in Death Valley wearing purple and orange and hearing “Tiger Rag.” I’m not sure if it was an expectation from my mom and baton teachers or something I actually wanted to do, but I knew from an early age I would be twirling my baton at North Buncombe High School on Friday nights.

I grew up in Weaverville, a small town north of Asheville that’s much like Waynesville. Most people who went to high school with me were children and grandchildren of other North Buncombe alumni. My sister and I were out of the ordinary because our parents grew up in S.C. and didn’t move to Buncombe County until the 1960s. Weaverville back then definitely had a village vibe. Everybody knew everybody.

In small town America, football is a big deal, and my sister and I were the ones twirling our batons during halftime as the team rested and fueled up for the second half. She and I only twirled together one year, when she was a senior and I was a freshman.

Before games, I would jet home after school, change into my baton costume, fix my hair and put on make-up. I had to wear my hear in a bun on my head because we twirled fire batons and it’s very unsafe to twirl fire with long hair swinging around everywhere, especially during the 1980s when a lot of flammable hair products were being used.

My parents and I would then ride over to the stadium early to meet the rest of the band. We performed a pregame show, sat in the stands for the first quarter, prepped and warmed up during the second quarter then after halftime, we went back in the stands to cheer on the team.

It’s hard to believe that was 20 years ago. Time really does fly.

Football doesn’t seem as big of a deal in Weaverville as it once was. I’m not sure if it’s from a shift in football

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being the main thing to soccer and other sports taking precedence or what, but I attended a game there 10 years ago for my high school reunion and it wasn’t nearly as crowded as I remembered.

Fast forward all these years to the County Clash that’s happening this weekend at Pisgah Memorial Stadium.

Restaurant signs are changing marquees to read “Go Mounties!” or “Go Bears!” Local T-shirt companies are scraping the bottom of the barrel to find more gold and red ink, and most Haywood County schools are hosting spirit weeks to rev up for the game.

We encourage the rivalry young, don’t we?

My first county clash was years ago, around 2004 or 2005. I assumed it would be a high school football game similar to North Buncombe’s, but when I walked into that stadium, it was like nothing I’d ever imagined.

Tens of thousands of people were vying for seats, helicopters were flying and TV crews were filming with all types of cameras. One side was a sea of gold and black and the other a sea of red and black. Even babies had Mountie and Bear tattoos on their cheeks.

I was in literal awe. I can’t even remember who won. For me, the “show” was more exciting than the game. But then again, I’m not one to become entranced with a football game anyway.

During my tenure as a teacher at Waynesville Middle, I had a lot of fun being part of the THS vs. PHS hoopla.

With middle school kids nearing high school, they would get very pumped up about the rivalry.

It’s been 20 years since I twirled my baton for the North Buncombe Black Hawks and once I had children, I stopped going to the Tuscola vs.

Pisgah game. I didn’t attend either school and once I stopped teaching, I lost the connection to the game. But nevertheless, this week is always fun to watch, even from afar.

I love that I live in a place where we wrap our arms around our two high schools and support the athletes no matter what color they’re wearing.

The grandiosity of this game is rare and one-of-kind, so whether you’re a Mountie or a Bear, be safe and enjoy yourself under those Friday night lights.

(Susanna Barbee is a writer, editor and digital media specialist for Smoky Mountain News, Smoky Mountain Living and Mountain South Media. susanna@mtnsouthmedia.com)

LETTERS, CONTINUED FROM 19 low the river ... the roads that are a bit narrow; it lets you know you should slow down to enjoy where you are. I am sickened by what the DOT has done on U.S. 64 East in Toxaway, tearing apart several mountains just to cut a road. I am sickened by the work on N.C. 107 South toward Cashiers too. Are we trying to just plow our way through these gorgeous mountains making it faster to go from one place to another?

Sure, the curvy roads can be dangerous if drivers are dangerous. Personal accountability again is being taken away for us. If all drive responsibly, we shouldn’t have to drill into our mountains only to try to prevent accidents of those who aren’t responsible. That’s again making laws for all because of the few, or one.

Insane.

God made our mountains for us to enjoy.

You have to slow down to see their majesty. We don’t need a wider road ... we need folks to leave a bit earlier to get to places. I want the mountains to remain as they were meant to be, mighty and respected.

Trish Chambers Glenville

Asylum seekers deserve some consideration To the Editor: The U.S. is a country of asylum seekers and their children. Every immigrant to the U.S. arrived at our borders looking to escape from either government tyranny, economic hardship or criminal violence.

U.S. law and international law requires that asylum seekers who present themselves to our immigration personnel be given the opportunity to prove their reasons for seeking asylum. A new policy recently implemented requires that asylum seekers be turned away at the border; federal agents are actually standing at the borderline at established border crossings to physically prevent an asylum seekers from stepping foot on U.S. soil. A person must be actually standing on U.S. soil in order to request asylum; preventing these people from stepping across the painted borderline means there is no opportunity for them to plea their case to an immigration judge.

These asylum seekers are not choosing to present themselves to U.S. immigration courts because they plan to live off U.S. government largess. These people are escaping from the government and gang-related torture and murder common in their country of origin. The deadly trek these asylum seekers take across thousands of miles of inhospitable landscape is a dangerous but necessary risk to take, a risk that keeps their children out of the hands of murdering gang members and corrupt government policies in their native countries.

Most Americans learned something about the history of asylum seekers coming to America. In particular, we have all seen the images of thousands of Irish, German, Polish and other European refugees, escaping starvation from crop failures and political pogroms, standing in line waiting to have their asylum request processed on Ellis Island in New York Harbor.

The people did not come to America simply to live off the largess of the American. They

came to escape the certain death awaiting them and their families if they did not flee their native lands. The asylum seekers coming from South and Central America are facing the same kinds of threats of death and unlawful imprisonment as did the European asylum seekers who came to America in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

The moral, ethical and lawful imperative to offer these modern-day asylum seekers refuge is no different than it was 100 years ago. The color of their skin and their native language may be different then that of their predecessors from Europe 100 years ago, but their plights are no less compelling. These people are no less a member of the family of man as were the asylum-seeking people who came before them.

John Barry Franklin

Children can’t look up to this president To the Editor: As a teacher for 25 years, I realize the importance of good role models for children. They look to others for cues, especially persons in authority like parents, teachers, ministers, and those in official capacities. Children want to know if our character is comprised of honest, fair-minded, consistent, compassionate actions.

Young people also appreciate a willingness to apologize and to admit failures — two components of humility.

Sadly, the one at the highest level in our nation is serving as one of the poorest role models a child could have. Our children are being cheated and deserve better. Adults who chose Donald Trump as president cannot plead ignorance as to his character. We all witnessed his behavior in the Republican primary and again in his presidential campaign.

Ideally, all of us, including children, would be able to look at our president as someone with honorable character. Naturally, humans experience occasional lapses in judgement, but when these lapses become incorporated into a public lifestyle of dishonesty, childish insults, vulgarity, arrogance and lack of grace and compassion, well, no conscientious parent wants a child to emulate that.

Corroborating this point is the fact that not one of my Republican friends has ever provided an answer to my question: what aspect of Trump’s character would you like your child to adopt?

One only has to observe the chaos and intrigue in this administration to see how necessary character is. We discount its importance at our own peril.

Larry Brown Bryson City

Where are my Republican friends?

To the Editor: I remember not so long ago when I could have a civil discussion with a friend who was a Republican. I did not think George Bush was the sharpest pencil in the box and my friend was sure Obama was totally unprepared to be President. We argued

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about deficits, how to fix health care, free trade and immigration. We were talking in a common language, and the facts were still the facts. My friend had good reasons for his positions.

Today when I question the reasons for an exploding deficit I get no such response.

Where are the Republicans who for eight years attacked President Obama because of rising deficits? They correctly argued that the increasing interest bill on our deficit will have to be paid by our children.

Apparently that no longer matters.

Back in the day, before the Affordable Care Act (ACA), everyone agreed that the old system was badly broken and something had to be done. We strongly disagreed on how to fix the skyrocketing cost of health care, but fix it we must. Where are the Republicans who had a better plan?

Today there is no plan except to drive a

stake into the heart of the ACA. Do the Republicans want to go back to the days when the leading cause of bankruptcies was health care debt?

The United States learned a hard lesson from the Great Depression. Trade barriers like tariffs are a double-edged sword. Since the end of WWII, Republicans have been advocates of free trade and the creation of the global economy. They were right. The last 70 years of global economic growth, led by the United States, have created the prosperous world we now live in. Not every trade deal was great, but on balance far more jobs were created than lost.

Where are those Republicans now that Canada and the European Union are our trading enemies? How is it that soy farmers in the Midwest and U.S. steel consumers are already in serious trouble because of a trade war we started with China?

Immigration stirs deep feeling in both political parties, but even very conservative business owners acknowledge that we need a supply of short-term labor. Literally millions of these jobs are now filled with both legal and illegal immigrants. Where are these Republicans now that there is an allout attack on every form of immigration?

How do they plan to fill those jobs that American workers traditionally will not do?

I do not understand where my Republican friends have gone. Have they been chased out of the party they created and loved? Are they waiting and hoping that the principles they once advocated for will come back in fashion? Or are they willing to live in a world of alternative facts and where loyalty to this president is all that matters?

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MMS youth programs extend beyond the criminal justice system to the middle schools of our region. Programs work to cultivate civility and civic responsibility through education in anger and conflict management. The socially destructive effects of bullying are emphasized. The guiding principal of the middle school program is to confront and deal with disruptive and socially damaging behavior before students reach high school and the early adulthood that follows.

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The mediation services of MMS are available to the Department of Social Services and the Department of Health and Human Services on request.

MMS relies heavily upon community support to maintain its services. It is a 501(c) (3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are treated like charitable contributions under the tax code. Modest fees, which may be waived if hardships exists, compose slightly more than half of all funding. The balance comes from fundraisers, in-kind donations, grants and county and municipal funding.

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BY KIRKWOOD CALLAHAN G UEST COLUMNIST rime does not pay — so most Americans have been told. However, it places enormous costs on society.

Victims and families are traumatized by the tragic loss of life and property while government at all levels bears the burden of apprehending, prosecuting and confining offenders. No region is shielded from crime’s evil effects and costs.

One example is The Smoky Mountain News’ Jessi Stone’s recent article in this newspaper which told how confinements in the jails of Western North Carolina caused great stress on county budgets. There is much evidence that our local courts are heavily burdened and prosecutors overextended. The backlogs in our courts increase the stress on law enforcement officials at the state, county and local levels.

The beginning of a new school year brings anxieties over campus safety along with the anticipation of students making new friends and learning new skills.

These are problems that will require much time and funding as officials struggle with resolving the complex social problems that have brought so many of our citizens — many young — into the criminal justice system. This is why early preemptive interventions and alternatives to the conventional criminal justice system are important.

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CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

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PIGEON RIVER GRILLE 101 Park St., Canton.

828.492.1422. Open Tuesday through Thursday 3 to 8 p.m.; Friday-Saturday noon to 9 p.m.; Sunday noon to 6 p.m. Southerninspired restaurant serving simply prepared, fresh food sourced from top purveyors.

Located riverside at Bearwaters Brewing, enjoy daily specials, sandwiches, wings, fish and chips, flatbreads, soups, salads, and more. Be sure to save room for a slice of the delicious house made cake. Relaxing inside/outside dining and spacious gathering areas for large groups.

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

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

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

Located across from the Fire Station.

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

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

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

VITO’S PIZZA 607 Highlands Rd., Franklin.

828.369.9890. Established here in in 1998. Come to Franklin and enjoy our laid back place, a place you can sit back, relax and enjoy our 62” HDTV. Our Pizza dough, sauce, meatballs, and sausage are all made from scratch by Vito. The recipes have been in the family for 50 years (don’t ask for the recipes cuz’ you won’t get it!) Each Pizza is hand tossed and made with TLC. WAYNESVILLE PIZZA COMPANY 32 Felmet Street, Waynesville.

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

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Events begin at 7:15pm unless otherwise noted.

Dinner and Music reservations at 828-452-6000.

Thursday, August 30 Italian Wine Pairing Dinner with Musica Nostra performing Italian & Mediterranean Folk Music on mandolin, guitar, vocals. Music begins at 6:30pm.

Four course dinner, wine and music, $55 per person. Taxes and gratuity extra.

Friday, August 31 Ben Wilson guitar, vocals.

Alt Country, Pop, Originals.

Saturday, September 1 Joe Cruz piano, vocals. Beatles, Elton John, James Taylor + More.

Friday, September 7 Bob Zullo guitar, vocals.

Jazz, Rock, Pop. Saturday, September 8 Joe Cruz piano, vocals. Beatles, Elton John, James Taylor + More.

Friday, September 14 Duo from Hot Club of Cullowhee guitar, hot jazz guitar. Gypsy Jazz.

Saturday, September 15 Joe Cruz piano, vocals. Beatles, Elton John, James Taylor + More.

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

828.586.3555. Open Monday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with Sunday Brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Handtossed pizza, house-ground burgers, steak sandwiches & fresh salmon all from scratch.

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

Valley, J-Creek area, and Lake Junaluska.

Monday through Wednesday: 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. country buffet and salad bar from 5 to 9 p.m. $11.95 with Steve Whiddon on piano.

Friday and Saturday: 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 to 8 p.m. 11:30 to 3 p.m. family style, fried chicken, ham, fried fish, salad bar, along with all the fixings, $11.95.

Check out our events and menu at rendezvousmaggievalley.com

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

Open for dinner at 4:30 to 9 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. 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.

program. Offering a variety of meals to go from frozen meals to be stored and cooked later to “Dinners to Go” that are made fresh and ready to enjoyed that day. We also specialize in catering any event from from corporate lunches to weddings. Menus created to fit your special event. kaninis.com

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Voicing the truths of Southern Appalachia Folkmoot series aims to bridge history through storytelling

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER n the digital age that is the 21st century, and in many aspects of this modern era, the culture and history of Western North Carolina and greater Southern Appalachia is disappearing.

Whether it be an old-timer passing down their wisdom or listening to a well-aged recording of someone long gone from this earth, or vast shelves of often forgotten books gathering dust at your local library or historical society, how one tracks down the essence of who came before us, and who will surely come after, resides in the annals of storytelling.

If face-to-face communication is a lost art these days, which it is increasingly becoming, then storytelling is rapidly vanishing from not only everyday life in these parts, but also from the consciousness of every single one of us. It’s a consciousness that needs to nurture its heritage, where an urgency resides to preserve the oral traditions of this region. Simply put, you must preserve the past to make sense of the present, and to ensure the future.

At the forefront of this urgency are the finely detailed efforts and events put forth by Folkmoot in Waynesville. Well-known for its cultural exchange of song and dance every July around Western North Carolina, the nonprofit organization is also making great strides to pay close attention to the history and culture of our own backyard — to share and perpetuate it for any and all.

With Folkmoot’s newly launched “Southern Storyteller Series,” it will host four gatherings, encompassing music, food and art — pillars of what makes this area so singular in its cultural and historical beauty. To kick things off, Buddy Melton and Milan Miller will present and evening of storytelling through music.

Lifelong friends and collaborators, Melton is the award-winning lead singer of Balsam Range, arguably one of the biggest acts in bluegrass nowadays, with Miller an acclaimed songwriter who has contributed many melodies to Balsam Range’s string of hit songs and albums. The two share a common bond of being born and raised in Haywood County, a kinship at the foundation of why it’s crucially important to never forget where you came from, and to never forget where you’re going.

“Storytelling in the Southern Appalachian area was an important way of passing down information and history to newer generations,” Melton said. “When I was younger, I didn’t always appreciate the historical significance. But, as I age, I’ve come to realize the

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Buddy Melton and Milan Miller.

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The “Southern Storytellers Series” will kick off with Buddy Melton & Milan Miller at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. Tickets for the “dinner and a show” are $25 per person.

Hosted by Chris Cox, a popular columnist for The Smoky Mountain News, the series will continue with homesteader/author and madefrom-scratch culinary expert Ashley English (Oct. 4) and Affrilachian author/artist Ann Miller Woodford (Nov. 3). Both events begin at 6 p.m. and are $15 per person.

For more information and/or to purchase tickets, click on www.folkmoot.org. importance of understanding our past. History tends to repeat itself, therefore learning from the past helps steer our future.”

“At this point [in my career], it’s become part of my occupation [as a songwriter]. I’m always looking for stories I haven’t heard, dissecting how they’re told, and listening to the language of the people who tell them. I’m

“I’m always looking for stories I haven’t heard, dissecting how they’re told, and listening to the language of the people who tell them.”

— Milan Miller

always drawn to stories about real people, their circumstances, and their lives,” Miller added. “Sometimes, something as simple as hearing a person’s name or seeing the name of a creek or stretch of land on a map can trigger song ideas and set my mind to pondering.

Keeping stories alive through songs, books, movies, and oral tradition is a perfect way of learning from our history and understanding different perspectives.”

And though the instruments (Melton on fiddle, Miller on guitar) may be the catalyst to whatever the musicians are feeling at a particular moment onstage, or simply the memories conjured with such ease through rhythm and tone, a cornerstone of bluegrass, old-time and mountain music is being able to connect the dots of people and place, explaining how a melody came about, what it means to the songwriter, and how

it will be interpreted by the listener.

“Music is supposed to be entertaining and create some type of emotional response — sometimes people laugh and clap along, and other times they may be drying their eyes,” Miller said. “A good show should provide elements of all of those emotions. Our job as entertainers is to guide the audience through that process. Every crowd is different, so it’s important to learn how to read their response and gauge how much additional information they’ll need.”

“Having the story behind a song can help provide a deeper meaning and therefore connection to the song,” Melton noted. “So, providing facts are fun, but I feel it’s important to let the song really tell the story — it’s all about making that connection and impact to whoever may be listening.”

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD

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The 49th annual Smoky Mountain Folk Festival will be held Aug. 31-Sept. 1 at the Stuart Auditorium in the Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center.

Music: Devils in Dust Food: TBA Featured Brew: Ecusta Brewing

Saturday, September 22 (Gates open at 10 am/Music at noon) Music: Kenny George Band and EZ Shakes Food: Hit the Bit BBQ Featured Brew: Frog Level Arts & Crafts Vendors

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Every-so-often, I’d look around the crowd and wonder The 112th annual Canton Labor Day Festival will if I’d have known any of these be held Sept. 2-3 in Sorrells Street Park in folks, perhaps called them dear downtown. friends, if I had stayed all those The P.A.W.S. wine tasting and silent auction will years ago. be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, Standing in the middle of at Lands Creek Log Cabins in Bryson City.

Teton Village, in the shadow of the Grand Teton Mountains, The Concerts on the Creek summer series will just outside Jackson, Wyoming, conclude with Dashboard Blue (classic hits) at 7 this past Sunday, I immersed p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, at Bridge Park in myself in the raucous sounds of downtown Sylva. rock act Futurebirds. I thought of who I was and what I wanted To conclude this year’s “Summer Music out of life when I was 23 years Series,” the Marianna Black Library is proud to old and living in this part of present The Pressley Girls at 7 p.m. Thursday, the country.

Aug. 30, in Bryson City.

This rollicking trip back to where it all began came, somevarying from 400 to 1,200 residents. what serendipitously, at the exact time I’ve From January to September 2008, I found myself at a crossroads, once again roamed the high desert prairie of this vast questioning where I’m currently at, and landscape, interacting with multitudes of what’s the next step moving forward. farmers, cattle ranchers, ski bums, and whoYou’re either a participant in the whirlever else was just like me — young and seekwind of life or you’re watching it from a safe ing their fortunes out West, hell or high distance, high atop your physical or emowater, like our ancestors before us. tional mountain, soaking in a serene silence By that fall of 2008, I grew weary of where only found in the depths of a soul at peace.

I was. Not the landscape or the people, but I lived and worked on the backside of the creative fulfillment in the early stages of the Tetons, just over the Teton Pass in the my career. That feeling of hitting your head town of Driggs, Idaho. The Teton Valley on the ceiling, where I figured I could head News. A tiny newspaper that covered all of east, maybe gain more experience, only to Teton County, Idaho, though there were circle back to my beloved Tetons. only three small towns with populations

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This must be the place

Skip ahead exactly a decade later. I’m living and working for this fine newspaper you’re holding. Six years and counting in Western North Carolina. What I’m doing day-in-and-day-out with The Smoky Mountain News would have seemed like some wild dream back in those early days in Idaho, where I was covering endless planning and zoning board meetings or snapping some photos and quotes from a retirement party for a pillar of the local business community.

Since I left the Tetons those many moons ago, I’ve always questioned my decision to leave. Not to leave that newspaper, but leaving behind all my new friends and the roots I’d spent months planting and cultivating in the West. And returning to the Tetons this week really brought a lot of those deeplyheld thoughts and emotions to the surface.

I’ve always followed my intuition. I wear my heart on my sleeve and I use it as my guiding force, though there have been lapses in judgment where I didn’t listen to it, and things seemed to fall apart. Though it all, I’ve been able to see and realize why things are and that, in the end, well, it is what it is, you know?

Thus, it was a truly full circle moment watching the Futurebirds perform in Teton Village. After I left these mountains in 2008, I came back in 2009 for a visit, just passing through, maybe even scanning for some prospects to once again come back and reignite my western intent. But, there was a girl back in New York, one who I loved, that wildly enough seemed to love me, too.

So, my heart said to go back, give it a shot and pursue something with this girl. I did. It went great, but eventually went nowhere several months later. Back to square one, back to hitting the pavement in a downward economy, trying to scrap out a meager living as a freelance writer roaming up and down the Eastern Seaboard for a few years.

There were other meaningful relationships, other people I loved and continue to love. Other journalism gigs that came and went, mostly because I was a square peg and the job was a round hole — you can’t force the creative process into spaces it won’t be able to flourish in.

But, that all changed in June 2012, when my publisher, Scott McLeod, gave an underemployed writer a shot. And yet, I’ve never forgotten how grateful I was, and remain, for this opportunity, a career footing I spent numerous sleepless nights hoping would someday emerge.

It can be fun sometimes, or cathartic, to think “What if?” when you reflect on your steps to where you’re currently standing.

The thing is, though, that after those thoughts and that simple, unanswerable, question become exhausted in your mind, it is then that you finally realize your journey is all one sweeping movement — up, down, left, right, maybe in a circle — until it reaches its final, poignant conclusion somewhere down the line.

Never question the steps taken, only seek what the heart wants. It’s a simple notion that has recently put my perspective in check, my soul at ease.

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

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On the beat Franklin welcomes Navy ensemble

6:30 to 8 p.m. in Franklin.

Text or call 409.789.8387 for details. New term starts Sept. 5.

The United States Navy Band Country Current will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

The group is the Navy’s premier countrybluegrass ensemble. This seven-member ensemble employs musicians from diverse backgrounds with extensive high-profile recording and touring experience.

All tickets are free to this event and will be available from the theatre box office only.

Tickets may be reserved in person or by phone. All tickets are general seating.

For more information, call 828.524.1598 or visit www.greatmountainmusic.com.

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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Glen Rose photo

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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band headlines Canton festival The 112th annual Canton Labor Day Festival will be held Sept. 2-3 in Sorrells Street Park in downtown.

Live music include the following: • Sunday, Sept. 2: Lyric (2 p.m.), McKayla Reece (3:30 p.m.), Canaan Cox (5 p.m.), Joe Lasher (6:30 p.m.) and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (8 p.m.). Admission is $10 at the gate or $8 in advance at Ingles Markets.

• Monday, Sept. 3: Vintage County (noon, 12:30 and 1:05 p.m.), Southern Appalachian Cloggers (12:20 p.m.), Green Valley Cloggers (12:50 p.m.), J Creek Cloggers (1:20 p.m.), Running Wolfe

Renegades (1:30 p.m.), Cold Mountain (2:30 p.m.), Keil Nathan Smith (4 p.m.), Summer Brooke & The Mountain Faith Band (5:30 p.m.) and Balsam Range (7:30 p.m.). Admission is free.

There will also be a handcraft expo and Papertown Kids Village both days. The Mountain Gospel Experience will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sept. 2 at the Colonial Theatre.

The Labor Day Parade will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Sept. 3, following by the Smoky Mountain Cruisers Classic Car Show from noon to 4 p.m.

To view a complete schedule of events, visit www.cantonlaborday.com.

Waynesville gets in the tub Popular Americana/bluegrass group Ol’ Dirty Bathtub will perform at 8 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 8, at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville.

The show is free and open to the public.

The band’s new album, “Pack Mule,” is now available for purchase. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/oldirtybathtub.

The inaugural “Summer Music Series” will take place at the Lake Logan Conference Center, just south of Canton.

• Saturday, Sept. 8: Music by Devils in Dust, food to be determined and craft beer from Ecusta Brewing.

• Saturday, Sept. 22: Music by The Kenny George Band, food from Hit the Pit and craft beer from Frog Level Brewing.

The gate opens at 3 p.m. with music starting at 5 p.m. The event is family-friendly.

Waterfront will be open. Admission is $15 per carload, $50 for a 15-passenger van, $5 for bikes. Camping and cabins available. To make reservations, call 828.646.0095. www.lakelogan.org/events.

Pickin’ on the Square The Pickin’ on the Square summer concert series will feature Hurricane Creek (variety) at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, at the Gazebo in downtown Franklin. www.townoffranklinnc.com.

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Join former members of the popular Ubuntu Choir for a short six-week term.

No auditions, no music to read, just be able to sing back, with practice, what you hear, in a non-critical environment.They sing songs in many styles from all over the world.

Performance is optional. Wednesdays from

The Groovin’ On the Green concert series will conclude for the season with The Boomers at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1, at The Village Green Commons stage and lawn. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com. You can follow The Village Green on social media @cashiersgreen.

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There will be a free open tent show starting at 5 p.m. each night. The main shows, which are ticketed, begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday on the grand stage of Stuart Auditorium overlooking beautiful Lake Junaluska.

Both nights will include a rich variety of the region's finest fiddlers, banjo players, string bands, ballad singers, buck dancers, and square dance teams as well as the marvelous sounds of dulcimer, harmonica, jew's harp, bagpipes, spoons, saws, and folk ensembles.

Tickets are $14 per person, per night, with lodging packages available.

For more information, to see the full performance schedule and/or to purchase tickets, call 828.452.0593 or visit www.lakejunaluska.com.

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BBQ BY FRIENDS OF THE FRANCIS GRIST MILL DIRECTIONS: The 131 year old mill is located at 14 Hugh Massie Road, nearby Waynesville, NC.

TICKETS: $12 ON THE DAY OF THE MUSIC $8 in advance Call 828-456-6307 for advance tickets

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The 49th annual Smoky Mountain Folk Festival will be held Aug. 31-Sept. 1 at the Stuart Auditorium in the Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center.

Two nights of the finest traditional music and dance of the Southern Appalachian region, including Whitewater Bluegrass Company, Arvil Freeman & Friends, Eddie Rose & Highway 40, Carol Rifkin, William Ritter, Lorraine Conard, Possum on a Whale, and many more.

Though he’s been performing for most of his life, Arvil Freeman also become wellregarded for his over 30 years of personal instruction, sparking the fire within thousands of fiddle players, many of whom have stood on some of the biggest stages in the world. This year, Freeman was named a recipient of the North Carolina Heritage Award, the highest honor in the state in

Music at the Mill is a celebration of our WNC heritage at the 131-year old Francis Grist Mill which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

Enjoy crafts, Mama Moody’s Fried Pies, and Milling Demonstrations. Bring your own lawn chair.

Registered service animals only please.

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On the beat • Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host the “Lounge Series” with Gabe Myers Aug. 30, George Ausman Aug. 31, The Harmed Brothers Sept. 1, The Annual Bluegrass Festival at Calaboose Cellars 1 to 8 p.m. Sept. 2, Bill Vespasian (singer-songwriter) Sept. 6, Scott Stambaugh (singersongwriter) Sept. 7 and Andrew Chastain (singer-songwriter) Sept. 8. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

• Balsam Falls Brewing (Sylva) will host Daniel Perkins Aug. 31 and Balsam Beats w/Joel Sept. 7. All shows begin at 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/balsamfallsbrewing.

• Blue Ridge Beer Hub (Waynesville) will host an acoustic jam with Main St. NoTones from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 30 and Sept. 6. Free and open to the public. www.blueridgebeerhub.com.

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• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host Scoundrel’s Lounge Sept. 1 and Sanctum Sully (rock/jam) Sept. 8. All shows are free and begin at 9 p.m. www.boojumbrewing.com.

• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will host Ben Wilson (guitar/vocals) Aug. 31, Joe Cruz (piano/vocals) Sept. 1 and 8, and Bob Zullo (guitar/vocals) Sept. 7. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• Currahee Brewing (Franklin) will host Eric Hendrix & Dr. Todd Davis (singer-songwriter) Sept. 1. All shows are free and begin at 7:30 p.m.. www.curraheebrew.com.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Blue Ridge Buskeneers 7 p.m. Aug. 31, Whiskey River Band 8 p.m. Sept. 1, Shiloh Hill 7 p.m. Sept. 7 and Ol’ Dirty Bathtub (Americana/bluegrass) 8 p.m. Sept. 8. All shows are free and open to the public. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

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• Harmon’s Den Bistro at HART (Waynesville) will host karaoke and an open mic at 8 p.m. on Saturdays. All are welcome. www.harttheatre.org.

• Highlands Town Square “Friday Night Live” series will host Silly Ridge Round Up Aug. 31. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Aug. 29 and Sept. 5, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Aug. 30 and Sept. 6, Spalding McIntosh Sept. 1 and Nick Prestia Sept. 8. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Isis Music Hall (West Asheville) will host Wyatt Easterling & Rod Abernathy 7 p.m.

Aug. 29, Ray T. Chesna 7 p.m. Aug. 30, Jack Victor & Alexa Rose 9 p.m. Aug. 30, “Lawn Show” w/Jordan Okrend Experience 6:30 p.m.

Aug. 31, Ultrafaux 7 p.m. Aug. 31, Nathan Evans Fox 7 p.m. Sept.

1, Al Petteway 8:30 p.m.

Sept. 1 and Carlos Aonzo Trio 5:30 p.m. Sept.

2, Grassfed 7:30 p.m. Sept. 4 and Grace Pettis w/Rebekah Todd & The Odyssey 7 p.m.

Sept. 5. For more information about the performances and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.isisasheville.com.

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• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday, Dirty Dave Patterson Aug. 31, Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats (rock/blues) Sept.

1, George Reeves Sept. 7 and Twist of Fate Sept. 8. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host an open mic night every Thursday and Paul Davis (singer-songwriter) Aug. 31. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

• Nantahala Brewing (Bryson City) will host Machine Kid Aug. 31, Urban Soil Sept. 2 and The Andrew Thelston Band Sept. 7. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• The Oconaluftee Visitor Center (Cherokee) will host a back porch old-time music jam

To conclude this year’s “Summer Music Series,” the Marianna Black Library is proud to present the traditional Appalachian music of The Pressley Girls at 7 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 30, in Bryson City.

The Pressley Girls (twin sisters, Katie and Corie Pressley) were born and raised in Brasstown. They are an authentic Appalachian duet that focuses on tight harmony and lyrical meaning. The duo The Pressley Girls. performs a wide range of music including folk, bluegrass, gospel and country. Admiring the Louvin Brothers, classic country singers, and traditional folk musicians, they hope to bring transcendent genuine music back to the world.

This program is free and open to area residents and visitors. The library is located in downtown Bryson City at the corner of Academy and Rector. For more information call the library at 828.488.3030 or visit www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

from 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 1 and 15. All are welcome to come play or simply sit and listen.

• Pub 319 (Waynesville) will host an open mic night from 8 to 11 p.m. on Wednesday. Free and open to the public. www.pub319socialhouse.com.

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

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

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• The “Saturdays On Pine “concert series (Highlands) will host The Kind Thieves Sept.

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• Soul Infusion Tea House & Bistro (Sylva) will host Wintervals 7 p.m. Aug. 31.

828.586.1717 or www.soulinfusion.com.

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

• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host John the Revelator (blues/rock) Aug. 31. All shows begin at 9:30 p.m.

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The Biker Down Lifted Up Motorcycle Ministry will hold the 2018 Cherokee Soul Revivers Christian Motorcycle Rally Aug. 31-Sept. 1 at the Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds.

The organization is a nonprofit and all proceeds will benefit the ministry.

BDLU-WNC provides counseling and support to injured bikers and their families. The event promises family fun, music, food, vendors, bike games, and a local ride. All motorcycle ministries, churches, clubs and organizations are welcome.

There will be a free pancake breakfast on Sunday. Featured preaching by Pastor Cotton Pate of Frontline Biker Church in Kershaw, South Carolina; Scott Creasy, International Chaplain of Heaven’s Saints Motorcycle Ministry, and Pastor Tracy Smith from Ratcliffe Cove Baptist Church in Waynesville, North Carolina. Live music will be performed by bands Selfless Sunday, the Thad Coggins Band, Last Chance Band, and Tribe Called Praise.

Admission fee for the weekend is $10 and children under 12 get in free. More

Waynesville’s ‘Spread Out District’ Alex McKay, curator of the Waynesville Archive Museum, will lead a discussion on The Historic Spread Out District at 4 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 30, at the Waynesville Library Auditorium.

This area has been cited as “a rare remnant of Waynesville's past” and is a part of Waynesville’s National Historic District. It is more than just Walnut Street, power lines, and other infrastructure; it is part of the char-

acter of the town. Its history can tied to the arrival of the railroads in Waynesville in 1883 and the eventual collection of 54 homes, one of which was said to be a Woman’s Temperance Union Temple.

The event is free and open to the public.

This program is presented by the Friends of the Library. No registration is required.

Friends of the Library is a nonprofit group that raises money for the library through memberships and the Annual Book Sale in July. Programming, furniture, equipment and materials are among the ways it supports the Haywood County Public Library.

The annual Seven Clans Rodeo will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Sept. 1-2 at the Cherokee Expo Center, 1501 Acquoni Rd., Cherokee.

Rodeo starts at 8 p.m. each night.

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 topname riders in this SRA-sanctioned event. General admission tickets and cash only.

For more information, visit www.facebook.com/sevenclansrodeo.

• The 16th annual “Thunder in the Smokies Rally” will be Sept. 79 at the Maggie Valley Fairgrounds. Live music by Cody McCarver, over 30 vendors, $1,000 bike show and bike games, and much more. For more information on the motorcycle rally, visit www.thunderinthesmokies.com.

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The 13th annual “Music at the Mill” celebration will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Francis Grist Mill in Waynesville.

Live music by Ol’ Dirty Bathtub, Hill Country Band and Possum on a Whale. A part of Western North Carolina heritage, the 131-year-old mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

There will also be craft vendors, barbecue by the Friends of the Francis Grist Mill, Mama Moody’s Fried Pies, milling demonstrations, and more. Tickets are $8 in advance, $12 at the gate.

Sponsored by the Francis Mill Preservation Society. www.francismill.org.

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Francis Grist Mill.

information on the organization and this event is at www.bikerdownliftedupwnc.com.

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On the wall Open call for art, literature review Calling all artists, writers, poets and local creatives: This is your chance to show off your craft. Submissions are now being accepted for the 2019 edition of Milestone, the biennial art and literature review published by Southwestern Community College.

Milestone is a publication that showcases the creative expressions of local writers and visual artists. The periodical is representative of the abundance of talent in the region and seeks to foster this creative potential by providing artists an opportunity to gain public awareness.

All residents of Jackson, Macon, and Swain counties and the Qualla Boundary, as well as SCC students and alumni, are eligible. Only unpublished work may be submitted. Prose should not exceed 2,000 words, and poems should be limited to two pages in length. Writers may submit more than one work. All writing must be double-spaced and submitted in paper format or via email.

Each page must be numbered, and the author’s name, address, telephone number and email address should be included on the last page of each submission.

Visual artists and photographers may submit only black and white copies of original artwork and also must include name, address, telephone number, email address,

Workshops for artists, arts businesses

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The Haywood County Arts Council has partnered with the Haywood Community College Small Business Center to provide workshops for area artists and arts-based businesses.

The workshop series, titled “Arts In Business,” will take place at the Haywood County Arts Council in downtown Waynesville.

The courses will focus on refining an arts business, including valuable information about achieving success in new digital spaces.

• “Telling Your Small Business Story” from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25. Speaker will be tenBiz. What makes your products stand out? What is it about you that connects with consumers? When you do a good job of telling your small business brand story, you become more accessible and make a better connection with your audience. No matter where you sell, communicating your story is critical for success in the marketplace and for tapping into your consumer demand for authenticity. Learn more about key compo30 nents to include in your story and work to

title of work and photo caption (if applicable) on the back of each submission. Artists and photographers also may submit more than one work.

First- and second-place cash prizes will be awarded in three categories: poetry, prose (short story or nonfiction works) and visual arts, including photography. In addition, one cash prize will be awarded for cover art.

The 2017 cover of Milestone.

Literary submissions must be postmarked by Dec. 3 and sent to SCC Milestone; Attn. Toni Knott; 447 College Drive; Sylva, NC 28779 or via email to milestone@southwesterncc.edu.

Submissions in visual art must be postmarked by the same date and sent to the same address, Attn. Bob Keeling, or via email to milestone@southwesterncc.edu.

For more information, contact Milestone Managing Editor Toni Knott at 828.339.4325.

begin crafting or further hone your story.

• “Social Media Strategies for Small Business” from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30.

Speaker will be Chisa Pennix-Brown. This seminar is designed to help you, the small business owner put the pieces together. If you have a disjointed strategy or no strategy at all, this seminar will help to navigate your current marketing plan and enhance it with proven social media strategies.

The courses are free, but registration is required. Call 828.452.0593 or email info@haywoodarts.org to register for the classes.

• A “Beginner Step-By-Step” painting class will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursdays (Aug. 30, Sept. 13, Sept. 27) at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Cost is $25 with all supplies provided. RSVP by contacting Robin Arramae at 828.400.9560 or paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

• The “Meet the Artist” reception with Brian Hannum (pianist), Drew Campbell (photographer) and Jon Houglum (painter) will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, at Gallery Zella in Bryson City. Enjoy North Carolina

‘Grids & Gradients: The Visual Systems of Vernon Pratt’ The newest exhibit in the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University, “Grids & Gradients: The Visual Systems of Vernon Pratt” will run through Nov. 9 at the Fine Art Museum Gallery C on campus in Cullowhee.

Drawn primarily from the collection of the WCU Fine Art Museum, this exhibition brings together a selection of recentlyacquired paintings by Pratt, an artist who worked at the intersection of art and mathematics. Pratt took a systematic approach to his creative process, often exploring the rich array of possibilities within a given set of parameters.

The paintings on view focus on two of Pratt’s characteristic elements—the grid and the gradient. Math activities for both college-age and middle-school students will be developed in conjunction with the exhibition to help illuminate the connections between art and math that permeate Pratt’s work.

Pratt (1940-2000) lived and worked in Durham and was passionate about the interrelationship of math, music, and art. He taught in the Art Department at Duke University for over 30 years, developing a particular form of abstraction, which he termed “systematic abstraction.”

In the late 1960s, he adopted the motto that “simple is complicated enough,” and began limiting his palette to black, white, and gray. This led him to explore the visual

Vernon Pratt. Courtesy of the Pratt Family potential of grayscale gradients in his paintings, and he developed a fascination with incremental form, using each canvas to create a series of visual transformations with colors, shapes, or words.

His work is informed by the art of the Russian Constructivists, 1960s Minimalism, and Conceptual Art, including the work of Sol LeWitt, who was one of his close friends. bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

wine, food and music. Free to attend. For more information, call 828.488.3638 or click on www.galleryzella.com.

ested in learning are invited. You can keep up with them through their Facebook group or by calling 828.276.6226.

• An exhibition for artisans Wanda DavisBrowne and Judy McManus will continue through Oct. 6 at Gallery 1 in Sylva. DavisBrowne’s photos are inspired by the diverse natural patterns and colors of nature, primarily flora. A glass artist, McManus was invited to join working artists at Jackson County’s Green Energy Park in Dillsboro in 2010. She also teaches classes and gives demonstrations at the facility and exhibits art in the GEP gallery. www.facebook.com/artinthemountains.

• There will be a “Thursday Painters Open Studio” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. at the Franklin Uptown Gallery. Bring a bag lunch, project and supplies. Free to the public. Membership not required. For information, call 828.349.4607.

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• Mad Batter Food & Film (Sylva) will host a free movie night at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. For the full schedule of screenings, visit www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

• The Waynesville Fiber Friends will meet from 10 a.m. to noon on the second Saturday of the month at the Panacea Coffee House in Waynesville. All crafters and beginners inter-

• A “Youth Art Class” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday at the Appalachian Art Farm on 22 Morris Street in Sylva. All ages welcome. $10 includes instruction, materials and snack. For more information, email appalachianartfarm@gmail.com or find them on Facebook.

• Free classes and open studio times are being offered at The Uptown Gallery in Franklin. Join others at a painting open studio session from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursdays.

For information on days open, hours and additional art classes and workshops, contact the gallery on 30 East Main Street at 828.349.4607.

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Bosu’s tastings, small plates Throughout the rest of this month, Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville will host an array of

y wine tastings and small plates from Chef Stacy's gourmet cuisine, available at The Secret

All aboard the BBQ, craft beer train There will be a barbecue and craft beer tasting from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, departing from Bryson City.

Board the GSMR and enjoy a steam train ride along with beer tastings, and your own basket of Southern-style barbecue goodness

• The P.A.W.S. wine tasting and silent auction will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 1, at Lands Creek Log Cabins in Bryson City.

Come out and support Swain County and Bryson City’s only animal shelter. This annual event is a community favorite and features a great selection of local items for auction, great

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wines, and live entertainment. For more information, call 828.33.4267.

Experience a casual, relaxing atmosphere perfect for all walks of life, from families to golf groups to ladies who lunch. We pride ourselves on using fresh ingredients from our gardens and supporting local farmers. The details are priority.

Open to the Public, 7 Days A Week!

• There will be a free wine tasting from 1 to 5 p.m. Sept. 1 and 8 at Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville. www.waynesvillewine.com or 828.452.0120.

Call 828-926-4848 for reservations.

• A free wine tasting will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sept. 1 and 8 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. www.papouswineshop.com or 828.631.3075.

• Free cooking demonstrations will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturdays at Country Traditions in Dillsboro. Eat samples and taste house wines for $3 a glass. www.countrytraditionsnc.com.

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• There will be an Italian wine tasting and food pairing at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville.

Live music by Musica Nostra starting at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $55 per person. RSVP at 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

with hand-pulled pork slider, a couple pork ribs, and chicken drumstick accompanied by baked beans, house-made coleslaw, and apple cobbler.

Tickets start at $71 and include a souvenir tasting glass for three samples of finely crafted beer selections. Adults-only and family friendly seating.

For more information and/or to purchase tickets, call 800.872.4681 or visit www.gsmr.com.

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Wine Bar within the shop. Dog friendly patio and front garden open, weather permitting.

• Aug. 29: Wines of the Iberian Peninsula Seated Tasting with Nick Demos, Advanced Sommelier, at 7 p.m. Join Bosu’s for this special seated tasting of Portuguese and Spanish wines. Light snacks served. This is a ticketed event, reservations required. $20 per person.

• Aug. 30/Sept. 6: Five for $5 Wine Tasting from 5 to 9 p.m. Come taste five magnificent wines and dine on Chef Stacy's gourmet cuisine.

• Aug. 31/Sept. 7: Secret Wine Bar Night from 5 to 9 p.m.. Gourmet food, and a great wine & beer menu.

For more information, call 828.452.0120 or visit www.waynesvillewine.com.

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premiered in London’s West End in the summer of 2011 and became an immediate hit.

To make reservations, call 828.456.6322 or visit www.harttheatre.org.

‘The Odd Couple’ in Highlands

HART presents ‘Ghost’ musical

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The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will present the hit musical “Ghost” at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 31, Sept. 1, 6-8 and at 2 p.m. Aug. Sept. 2, 9 in Waynesville.

The Broadway musical is based upon the popular 1990 romantic fantasy thriller that starred Whoopie Goldberg, Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. The film was a monster hit and featured the popular song “Unchained Melody” as its theme. The musical likewise draws heavily from that source but has a wonderful new score as well. “Ghost the Musical”

A production of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 30-Sept. 2 at the Highlands Performing Arts Center.

Felix Unger and Oscar Madison are a mismatched pair of bachelors sharing an apartment in Manhattan where they drive each other crazy.

Tickets may be purchased by calling 828.526.8084 or online at www.highlandscashiersplayers.org.

• There is free comedy improv class from 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday at Moo Mountain Bakery in Maggie Valley. No experience necessary, just come to watch or join in the fun. Improv teacher Wayne Porter studied at Sak Comedy Lab in Orlando, Florida, and performed improvisation with several groups. Join Improv WNC on Facebook or come to the bakery 2511 Soco Road.

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‘An Evening with Ruth E. Carter’ The first event in the 2018-19 Arts and Cultural Events series at Western Carolina University will be “An Evening with Ruth E. Carter.” The event will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee.

Carter, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for more than 25 years, has designed and created costumes for more than 40 stage and screen productions. Critically acclaimed for her style, Carter’s work includes the films “Serenity” (2005), Lee Daniel’s “The Butler” (2013) and “Marshall” (2017).

Carter has received two Oscar nominations, from Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” (1992) and Steven Spielberg’s “Amistad” (1997), and an Emmy for the 2016 miniseries and remake of “Roots.” Her most recent film work was designing the dress culture for the hit Marvel movie “Black Panther.”

Carter is the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award in costume design. Should she be nominated for her work on “Black Panther,” Carter would have a chance to be the first woman to win for a superhero film, as well as the first African-American woman to ever win for Best Costume Design.

During the event, Carter will discuss her

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experiences as a costume designer. Tickets are free for WCU students as a result of sponsorship by Intercultural Affairs. Tickets are $10 for all non-WCU students and WCU faculty/staff, and $15 for general admission.

For group sales, contact the Bardo Arts Center box office at 828.227.2479 or online at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

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Books Joy’s third novel rooted firmly in Jackson County Smoky Mountain News

In that moment, he knew that he was standing in the midst of something that would never be forgotten, something that he would carry from this place and bear for the rest of his life.

— The Line That Holds Us, p. 26 hen Darl Moody drew a bead on what he thought was a wild hog in a patch of ginseng, felt his rifle recoil, and saw his quarry collapse; he clamored to the ridge top to find, not a hog, but a dead man: Carol Brewer, nick-named Sissy, “a half-wit born to a family that Jesus Christ couldn’t have saved.” Both men, the Writer living and the dead, were trespassers and poachers on Coward land. The landowner was away at a family funeral.

Although the killing was an accident, there were complications. Poaching was a crime and Darl could ill afford a prison sentence, regardless of how brief it might be, as he had a family that was dependent on this young man who worked in construction (which is a lucrative business for young men in Jackson County who have the skills and an access to equipment and tools).

In addition, Sissy Brewer’s father, Red, a suicide, had a reputation for “a meanness that coursed through him that was as close to pure evil as any God-fearing man had ever known.”

Although Red was gone, his son, Dwayne, was thought to have inherited his father’s penchant for cruelty and madness. So it was that by the time that Darl found his way off the mountain and to his truck, he had decided to conceal his crime. He would need the help of his best friend, Calvin Hooper.

Thus begins David Joy’s third novel, a dark Appalachian noir that probes deep into this region’s culture and tradition. If the reader is a native of Jackson County, he/she will find that David Joy’s finely crafted narrative sparkles with the names of this region’s rivers, mountains and trout streams. Joy’s characters bear the named of the families that have farmed, fought, married, loved and died here for over 300 years, leaving their names to the

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but quickly accelerates, acquiring a reckless speed that threatens to leave the rails for a nightmare passage through forest and stone. At times, readers are likely to find Joy’s narrative a whiteknuckled ride with gritted teeth.

The major characters are memorable and each one is painstakingly etched. Doomed Darl Moody, a skilled construction worker who has a passion for hunting, spends much of his free time in a deer stand where he dreamed of a legendary old stag who “has a rocking chair of a rack.” Calvin Hooper is Darl’s best friend, a skilled rock mason and brick layer who shares Darl’s love of hunting.

Without hesitation, he agrees to share in his friend’s guilt — a decision that will alter his life.

Angie Moss, Calvin Hooper’s pregnant girlfriend, has enrolled in Southwestern The Line That Held Us by David Joy. G.P. Putman’s Sons, 2018. 256 pages Community College’s nursing program with plans to pursue additional training. Angie is mindful of our legends and our history, much of which you will find woven into the rich fab- blond and attractive, devoted to Calvin until she finds herself a pawn in a deadly game of ric of this novel. revenge.

In addition, The Line That Held Us moves Finally, there is Dwayne Brewer, Sissy’s at a pace that resembles a runaway train: one that leaves the train yard at a moderate speed, brother, who is physically imposing, perverse

coves, hollers and carved into hundreds of graveyard tombstones: Hooper, Moody, Moss, Stillwell, Cowan, McCoy. Joy has become that rare writer, one who is

Joy to present new book Hosted by Blue Ridge Books, critically acclaimed local author David Joy will hold a book reading and signing for his latest work, The Line That Held Us, at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, at Smoky Mountain Roasters in Waynesville.

When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he’s chased for years, he never expected he’d accidentally shoot a man digging ginseng. Worse yet, he’s killed a Brewer, a family notorious for vengeance and violence.

With nowhere to turn, Darl calls on the help of the only man he knows will answer, his best friend,

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and mentally unstable. It may come as a surprise to discover that this novel is, essentially, Dwayne’s story.

Dwayne’s anger and frustration is mostly due to his bitter resentment at being judged by his neighbors to be “trash.” He has grown up resenting the contemptuous laughter he hears directed at both his family and his brother, Sissy. He comes to perceive himself as “his brother’s keeper,” and views him as the epitome of innocence. Due to his contempt for his neighbors, Dwayne lives an outlaw existence, stealing chainsaws and expensive, flat-screened TVs which he sells to pawn shops and using his money to finance a classic car (Buick “2 and a quarter”) and quality groceries for Sissy and himself. So it is that Dwayne loses all restraint and acts with terrifying rage. Unable to abandon his brother, he brings his corpse home where he continues to talk to Sissy’s rotting corpse in the family root cellar.

However, there is more to The Line That Held Us, than a riveting revenge tale. Dwayne believes in the judgment of his religion, and he shares passages in his Bible with Sissy. He finds himself unwilling to accept the fact that his brother’s death was an accident. No, someone must pay. Dwayne will bring a harsh justice to anyone who contributed to his brother’s death and he readily perceives himself as God’s instrument. Could he be wrong? Dwayne admits that he has been in an “argument with God” all of his life.

Dwayne acknowledges that his argument is as old as Job, who lost everything just as Dwayne has done ... all on a whim. All of his life, he has felt that God has turned his face away from the suffering multitudes in Appalachia. Why has he allowed the rich and corrupt to flourish while the hard-working people are afflicted with sickness and hardship? Is this the question that drove his father to drive his truck off of a curve, killing himself and his wife?

The concluding pages of this novel have a surprise. It may be that the reader will find them unexpected. It may be that Dwayne Brewer and Calvin find a point in their conflict where they acknowledge “a line that held us.”

(Gary Carden is a writer and storyteller who lives in Sylva. Gcarden498@aol.com)

Calvin Hooper. But when Dwayne Brewer comes looking for his missing brother and stumbles onto a blood trail leading straight back to Darl and Calvin, a nightmare of revenge rips apart their world.

The Line That Held Us is a story of friendship and family, a tale balanced between destruction and redemption, where the only hope is to hold on tight, clenching to those you love. What will you do for the people who mean the most, and what will you grasp to when all that you have is gone? The only certainty in a place so shredded is that no one will get away unscathed.

Joy is the author of The Weight of This World and Where All Light Tends to Go, an Edgar finalist for “Best First Novel.” His stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in a number of publications, and he is the author of the memoir Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman’s Journey.

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Bones from coast to coast Black Mountain runner completes 1,175-mile run while battling cancer

The Yadkin Valley spreads out below Grandview Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway, which Kenny Capps ran past on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. Donated photo

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ost people would not see a diagnosis of incurable cancer as an invitation to run 1,175 miles. But Kenny Capps is not most people.

“It’s a cancer that requires you to say on top of it,” he said. “Moving in whatever way you can, that’s invaluable to being able to live with it. Because you can live with it. I know it’s terminal, but so is life. They don’t have a cure for that either.”

Capps, a 46-year-old Black Mountain resident, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2015. Multiple myeloma is a rare blood cancer that currently has no cure. Capps was certainly afraid when he found out he might die early,

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sad to miss the grand adventures he’d wanted to embark on and scared of what the illness might mean for his wife and three kids.

After the diagnosis, Capps, an ultramarathoner, couldn’t run at all. But in August 2015, he received a bone marrow transplant that soon had him feeling significantly stronger.

“Right at the end of 2015 they said I could start getting back into it, so I started walking.

The walking led to running and the running led to shuffling slash jogging, and from shuffling slash jogging to full-on running,” Capps said. “I ran a 10K at the end of January 2016.”

He ratcheted it up as the year wore on, completing 16 races in 2016 including three half marathons and the 18-mile, 5,500-foot

Capps encouraged people across the state to sign up to run portions of the trail with him. Donated photo

Support Throwing Bones Black Mountain resident and multiple myeloma patient Kenny Capps started the nonprofit Throwing Bones to financially support others battling the disease with travel expenses and bills.

Read the trail journal from his recent 1,175-mile run across North Carolina or donate to the organization at www.throwingbonesrun.org.

elevation gain Shut-In Ridge Trail Race. In 2017 Capps began tackling even longer runs, but that wasn’t enough.

“I decided that I wanted to do something more,” he said. “I needed to get back to doing something.”

Before the diagnosis, Capps had owned two small businesses, but he found himself unable to run them while also dealing with his medical issues. By 2017 he was managing some rental properties but not a whole lot more.

THROWING BONES So, Capps started a nonprofit.

He called it Throwing Bones, with the tagline “Blood, Sweat and Cures,” and he decided that the organization’s first project toward its goal of raising awareness and support for multiple myeloma patients should be a run across North Carolina. Capps decided that he would follow the 1,175-mile Mountains-to-Sea Trail from Jockey’s Ridge State Park to Clingmans Dome.

He ran the idea by his wife. Miraculously, he said, “She didn’t look at me like I was nuts.

She said, ‘Fine.’”

Capps started planning. His first coup was convincing Chuck Dale and Dean Hart, both experienced in organizing support logistics for long-distance athletes, to join his team.

They planned the logistics from top to bottom, and Capps began to publicize his goal of raising $117,500 — $100 for every mile he planned to run.

Then, he threw himself into training.

“It’s one thing to say I’m going to train for a 10K or a marathon or even a 100-miler,” he said. “Well, you try to put in a lot of miles and make sure you can make cut-off times. How do you prepare for 22, 23 miles a day, every day? When is your recovery time? How do you allow for recovery time?”

The answer, he discovered, is a lot of cross-

training. Capps got in the pool, on the bike and in the weight room. And finally, the big day arrived. At 7:30 a.m. on April 1, he stepped off from Jockey’s Ridge and began the long run to Clingmans Dome, which he eventually reached on May 25.

“People have asked me before did you have times when you thought, ‘I don’t know if I can make it?’ and I never did,” Capps said. “Not once.”

That’s not to say it wasn’t ever hard. The eastern portion proved surprisingly difficult, because unlike in the mountains, the trail is mostly routed on road in that region. He found himself running by people’s houses on streets that locals weren’t even aware were part of the MST. The dirt trail of the mountains provided a more secluded experience, but physically it was much more difficult. The hardest day, for sure, was the nearly 34 miles he ran in a single day, from Asheville up Shut-In and to Pisgah Inn. “I was absolutely exhausted, and the next day I had to go down into Graveyard Fields,” he said.

JUST THE BEGINNING In all, the run raised $68,000, and for Capps his jaunt across the state was only the beginning of what he wants to see Throwing Bones accomplish. The organization held a 5K in March and hopes to repeat the event in 2019, also offering a 10K. Within the next couple years, Capps wants to organize a relay run that covers the entire state — echoing the idea of his run, but using a different route to better accommodate logistical planning — as well as an ultra marathon of either 50K or 50 miles.

“Hopefully by doing that we’re going to draw in ultra-marathoners from all over the country,” he said.

Unlike many other cancer-oriented nonprofits, Capps isn’t trying to cure myeloma.

What he is trying to do is to address the gap in care that often makes the disease so difficult for patients to manage. Because it’s a rare form of cancer, there are only a handful of places in the U.S. with multiple myeloma experts, so most patients will have a local oncologist and then travel whenever they need to see their specialist. But even aside from medical costs, that’s expensive. There’s gas, hotels, food and the ever-present expense of not being able to work while undergoing treatment. That can lead to people making health care decisions based on what’s in their bank account, Capps said.

“The other side of it is a lot of myeloma patients give up because it’s hard,” he said.

“Physically, it just sucks. You hurt. And you think that if I move too much, it’s going to hurt more. Just the opposite of that is true. You need to move more in order to feel better.”

Capps knows what it’s like to hurt.

Multiple myeloma causes lesions in the bones.

Capps has two compression fractures in his back, a “decent size” hole in one hip and holes all through his sternum,

Telethon raises $210,000 for Smokies

150 acres protected in Jackson County

sapsucker and winter wrens have also been sighted.

The site is within view of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and its conservation protects the Parkway’s viewshed.

This project has been supported by funding from the Conservation Trust for North Carolina and through the Open Space Institute’s Resilient Landscapes Initiative. High Knob is the latest of over 3,000 acres permanently conserved through the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust.

Panthertown hike, cleanup is Sept. 1 Friends of Panthertown and the Longview Ridge Community are offering a free guided

Capps takes a break from running (left) to pose with two of his three children. Capps and his wife share a kiss (right) after he finishes his cross-state run at Clingmans Dome. Donated photos

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collarbone and scapulas. It’s eating him up, but he’s not giving up.

Throwing Bones, which recently received its 501c3 status, is working to finetune its application forms for the grants it will soon give out to myeloma patients. The plan is to offer patients the opportunity to apply for $500 grants up to four times a year. The money can help with any of the innumerable auxiliary expenses that come with a major illness.

Capps wants to be a conduit of information and inspiration for those battling the illness. He even hopes to see myeloma patients among the participants in the races he’s organizing.

“As soon as you stop moving,” he said, “you stop living, you start dying.”

hike and trail cleanup in Panthertown Valley on Sept. 1.

Hike participants should meet at the Salt Rock Gap trailhead at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 1. The hike is 3 to 4 miles along popular trails and should be finished by 2 p.m. and back to the parking area by 2:30 p.m.

All experience levels are welcome. Pruners, gloves and other trail maintenance tools will be available. Participants should bring lunch and snacks, plenty of water, and wear appropriate footwear.

For more information about joining the guided hikes, helping out on the trails, volunteering, or to receive updates on forest stewardship activities, visit www.panthertown.org/volunteer/ or send an email to friends@panthertown.org.

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An additional 150 acres of land in Jackson County has been conserved with HighlandsCashiers Land Trust.

High Knob, a 5,200-foot peak of climateresilient landscape, will be protected forever by a conservation easement.

This landscape is home to 6,350 linear feet of streams, rare high-elevation seep communities, rare boulder fields, a mix of oak forests and the rare high-elevation rocky summit community. Also found there are the eastern smallfooted bat, the N.C. state rare/threatened small yellow lady’s-slipper orchid and the tawny crescent butterfly. Brown creepers, yellow-bellied

ing communities. In addition to this capital campaign project, Friends of the Smokies will provide more than $1.2 million in annual support to the national park.

Since 1995, Friends of the Smokies’ telethons have raised more than $3.9 million in support of America’s Jason Boyer (from left) of WLOS, most-visited national Grace Friar and Russell Biven of WBIR park. The telethon during the 24th annual Friends Across was broadcast live the Mountains broadcast on Aug. 15. Wednesday night on Donated photo WBIR in Knoxville and WLOS in Asheville.

Smokies. The state-of-the-art radio Matching telethon donations can still be upgrades will allow rangers to respond made online at more quickly and effectively to emergency FriendsOfTheSmokies.org/donate or by situations in the park, keep more than 11 calling the North Carolina Friends of the million annual visitors safe, and communiSmokies office at 828.452.0720. cate with emergency services in surround-

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Friends of the Smokies collected $210,525 in donations during its 24th annual Friends Across the Mountains Telethon from hundreds of callers, online donations and support from sponsors Dollywood, Mast General Store, Pilot Flying J and SmartBank.

“This community has always come together to meet the needs of the national park in their own backyard, and this night was no exception,” said Cassius Cash, Superintendent of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, whose wife and daughter volunteered during the broadcast. “Our friends and neighbors on both sides of the mountains pledged their support — even my daughter’s high school teacher called in to make a donation. We are so thankful to have Friends of the Smokies in our corner.”

Donations made Wednesday night will support the organization’s 25th Anniversary Signature Project to upgrade the park’s emergency radio systems. The $2.5 million effort will leverage $1.25 million in federal funds and grants to match every donation made to Friends of the

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Public input sought on Haywood’s water Haywood Waterways is asking full and parttime residents of Haywood County to participate in a survey about the county’s rivers, streams and lakes.

The purpose is to gather information about pollution and water quality, how water is used and its importance to individuals and the community. The survey also includes questions about the effectiveness of the Haywood Waterways organization.

The survey takes about 10 to 15 minutes to finish and is completely anonymous, unless participants choose to reveal their name.

The online survey is available at www.surveymonkey.com/r/HWApublicsurvey until Sept.

20. Hard copies are available by contacting Eric Romaniszyn at 828.476.4667 or info@haywoodwaterways.org. The survey was created in partnership with students from the sociology program at Western Carolina University.

Haywood Waterways is a member-based nonprofit working to protect and improve surface water quality in Haywood County.

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A river cleanup along the Little Tennessee River in Franklin will commence 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 8, meeting at Big Bear Park.

At the rendezvous, pickup locations will be assigned with volunteers able to work in floodplain land, along the riverbanks or in the water itself with boats and canoes. Gloves, bags and a pizza lunch will be provided.

Organized by Mainspring Conservation Trust.

Sharon Burdette, 828.524.2711 or sburdette@mainspringconserves.org.

Volunteers needed for salamander data Volunteers are being sought to take part in a salamander citizen scientist event at the Appalachian Highlands Science Center in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Saturday, Sept. 22.

Participants will hike into the research plot to collect salamander population monitoring data. With an elevation of 5,086 feet, this property offers spectacular views. This region of the Great Smoky Mountains has 30 salamander species and is also known as the “Salamander Capital of the World.”

The event is free for members with a $5 donation for nonmembers. Haywood Waterways’ memberships start at $25. The group will meet at the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center at Purchase Knob at 10 a.m. and will conclude by 1 p.m. Participants should wear hiking shoes and bring lunch, water, warm clothing and rain gear. Light refreshments will be provided by Haywood Waterways. Carpooling is encouraged due to limited parking space. No pets permitted.

Space is limited to 25 individuals. Members can sign up now; non-members can register starting Sept. 6th. RSVP no later than September 20 to Christine O’Brien at christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 828.476.4667 ext. 11.

Tremont plans monarch tagging

Citizen scientists brandish their nets while helping with monarch butterfly tagging. Donated photo

Get artsy with avians Travel the world of birds with photographers Ed and Cindy Boos, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 4, at the Hudson Library in Highlands.

The couple has spent years honing their photography skills and patiently working to set up impactful shots of birds and nature the world over.

Free. Organized by the Highlands Plateau Audubon Society.

Youth Arts Festival at the Jackson County

Grow the ‘sang An upcoming round of seminars will dish the dirt on how to grow ginseng, a native plant that’s widely coveted for its medicinal properties.

Seminars will be held: n 10:15 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Sept. 4, at the Albert Carlton Cashiers Library in Cashiers. n 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Jackson County Extension Center in Sylva. n 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, at the Swain County Extension Center in Bryson City.

The course will cover state regulations for growing and hunting ginseng, plant physiology, present and historic uses and the differences between the Asian and American species. Emphasis will be placed on woodssimulated cultural practices such as site selection and preparation, sowing, harvesting, drying and seed stratification.

Free, with registration required to Christy Bredenkamp, 828.586.4009 or 828.488.3848.

NOW HIRING LIFEGUARDS!

Saturday September 15 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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

in Glass, Metal, Ceramics, Paint, Printmaking, etc.

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

Music & Dance performances Food Available for Purchase

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

www.jcgep.org

· Must be at least 16 years old · Must possess current lifeguarding certification through an accredited entity · Lifeguard courses are offered at the Waynesville Recreation Center for those seeking lifeguard certification. · First 5 applicants will receive half off certification pricing · Applications can be found online at www.waynesvillenc.gov or stop by the Waynesville Rec Center

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What To Expect: Artists Demonstrations

HIRING PART-TIME POSITIONS FOR FALL AND WINTER MONTHS

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The Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont is inviting volunteers to take part in monarch tagging in the Cades Coves area of the park.

Monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico every year for the winter.

Tremont Institute is trying to learn more about their migration and population status by tagging them.

Tremont tags monarch butterflies every September and October.

The public is invited to attend the monarch tagging free of charge.

Participants will help catch and identify butterflies and other insects.

Several dates are available. All ages are welcome.

For more information and to sign up visit gsmit.org/monarch-taggingand-butterflymoth-identification/.

Contact Laura Beth Denton by email at laurabeth@gsmit.org for questions.

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828.456.2030

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Cyclists pedal the scenic route of the Tour de Cashiers. outdoors

Stephanie Wilson photo

Tour de Cashiers set for Sept. 15

a website to take you to places where there are no websites.

August 31 & September 1, 6,* 7, 8 at 7:30 pm September 2, 9 at 2:00 pm Adults $26 Seniors $24 Students $13 *Special $16 tickets for all Adults on Thursday, September 6.

Special $8 Tickets for all Students on Thursdays & Sundays.

The Performing Arts Center at the Shelton House 250 Pigeon St. in Waynesville, NC

Log on. Plan a getaway.

Let yourself unplug.

For More Information and Tickets:

828-456-6322 | www.harttheatre.org

August 29-September 4, 2018

This project was supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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The 26th Annual Tour de Cashiers Mountain Cycling Experience, with the support of Premier Sponsor Highlands Cashiers Hospital, will be held on Saturday, September 15, across the sky-high, scenic mountain byways of Western North Carolina.

This year, runners can participate in the fun with an added 5K race in Cashiers Village. The 3.1-mile route begins at the Cashiers Glenville Recreation Center, where cyclists also will depart earlier, and follows Frank Allen, Valley and Cashiers School Roads and Mitten Lane to a turnaround at Summit Charter School and return to the recreation center.

This popular athletic event shifted its traditional spring schedule to the fall to accommodate an expanded activities schedule and take advantage of autumn weather conditions. Added activities include a pre-

Tuckasegee Trout Unlimited to meet Sept. 3 The Tuckasegee River Chapter of Trout Unlimited will meet at 6:30 p.m. on September 4 at the United Community Bank in Sylva.

A “Trout in the Classroom” discussion will be led by Shannon Messer. The program has expanded to five schools this year and volunteers are needed to help out.

Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. and cost $5, followed by a chance to win a new fly rod hand-crafted by fellow chapter member Jim Mills. The rod comes with an aluminum case.

828.736.3165

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event registration and social at Whiteside Brewing Co., the 5K run and an after-party for all participants and their families at the Baldaroo Music Festival.

Tour de Cashiers cyclists will follow one of three traditional routes — 25, 62 and 100 miles — across Jackson, Macon and Transylvania Counties. They will ride steep climbs and fast descents at 3,500 feet plus above sea level with more than 10,500 feet of elevation changes and cross through the mountain communities of Cashiers, Lake Toxaway, Sapphire, Glenville, Cullowhee, Highlands and more.

Proceeds from the tour support local community and economic development efforts by the Cashiers Area Chamber or Commerce. Registration is open online at www.TourdeCashiers.com. For more information, visit www.PeakRacingEvents.com.

The Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians Third Annual Hall of Fame Luncheon and Induction Ceremony will be held Saturday, September 8, at the Southwestern Community College Swain Center.

A ‘Meet and Greet’ will be from 11:30 a.m. to noon, when lunch is served. Beau Beasley, well-known author and angler, will emcee the induction ceremony, which will begin at 1 p.m.

Prior to the Saturday luncheon, at 10 a.m. at the museum, state Rep. Mike Clampitt will be on hand to present a proclamation that he drafted and was passed by the legislature designating Bryson City as the official home of the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians. The museum is located at

210 Main Street in Bryson City.

A Friday, September 7, pre-event evening fundraiser will be held at Nantahala Brewing Company beginning at 7 p.m. Each inductee will select a beer to rename after them during the event, and Nantahala Brewing will donate $1 per renamed beer sold during the evening. The event will honor the inductees and raise funds for Casting Carolinas, a non-profit organization that utilizes fly-fishing as a means of helping patients deal with and recover from various cancers.

The 2018 Hall of Fame inductees are Jim Dean, Sandy Schenck, Kevin Howell, Joyce Shepherd and Curtis Fleming.

The SCC Swain Center is located at 60 Almond School Road, which is 7 miles west of Bryson City, on U.S. 19/74. Reservations are required and may be made by e-mailing info@greatsmokies.com or calling 828.488.3681. $35 per person.

WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Overdose Awareness Day will be observed at 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 31 at the Old Armory in Waynesville.

Second-Line March at 4:30 p.m. Focus is on reducing the harm of the overdose crisis.

• Yappy Hour at Woofgang’s Bakery is from 2-5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 31, at 11 Pillar Drive in Cashiers. Adoption event. 743.9663.

• The annual Seven Clans Rodeo will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Sept. 1-2 across from the Cherokee Islands Park. Rodeo starts at 8 p.m. each night. General admission tickets and cash only. www.facebook.com/sevenclansrodeo.

• Sign-ups are underway for Jackson County’s “Citizens Academy” – an eight-week course focused on services provided by the county – starting at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Info and applications: 631.2295 or jcfitzgerald@jacksonnc.org.

• Nominations are being sought for the Mountain Heritage Awards that will be presented on Saturday, Sept. 29, on Western Carolina University’s campus in Cullowhee. Awards go to individual and organization for contributions to or playing a prominent role in research, preservation and curation of Southern Appalachian history, culture and folklore. Nominations can be sent to pameister@wcu.edu, Mountain Heritage Center, 1 University Drive, Cullowhee N.C. 28723, or drop off in person at Room 240 of WCU’s Hunter Library.

• The Village Green will offer an opportunity for public participation in “Growing a Vision for Cashiers” at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 5 and Tuesday, Sept. 25.

VillageGreenCashiersNC.com, info@villagegreencashiersnc.com or 743.3434.

• Registration is underway for Marriage Enrichment Retreats that will be offered four times over the next year at Lake Junaluska. Led by Ned Martin, an expert in marriage counseling. Price is $699 per couple. Dates are Sept. 30-Oct 2; March 10-12, Aug. 18-20 of 2019 and Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in 2019. Registration and info: www.lakejunaluska.com/marriage or 800.222.4930.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • A discussion on “The Historic Spread Out District” is scheduled for 4-5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 30, at the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Led by Alex McKay, curator of the Waynesville Archive Museum.

• Registration is underway for a workshop on hiring effective nonprofit leaders, which will be offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 30, at WCU’s instructional site at Biltmore Park in Asheville. For info or to register: pdp.wcu.edu.

• A presentation on the Incremental Development Alliance, a nonprofit, will be offered from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Sept. 11 at the US Cellular Center in downtown Waynesville. The organization aims to teach wannabe developers of small-scale rentals how to plan, design, finance and manage projects. Presented by Jim Kumon. www.incrementaldevelopment.org.

• A luncheon entitled “Getting Started with email Marketing” will be offered through Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. Speaker is Aaron Means.

Registration required: www.southwesterncc.edu/sbc or 339.4211.

• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a seminar entitled “Financing Your Business” from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, at the

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

College’s Regional High Tech Center, Room 3021, in Waynesville. For info or to register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Registration is underway for a “Better Communication Through Creative Play” workshop that will be offered through Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21, at WCU’s Biltmore Park location in Asheville. Led by Neela Munoz. Early bird registration: $99 through Sept. 1; rises to $125 after Sept. 1. Pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for “A Guide to Selling on Etsy for Small Business-Livestream,” which will be offered through Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, at the college’s Regional High Tech Center Auditorium in Clyde. SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• The Free Enterprise Speaker Series will feature Siri Terjesen of the Center for Innovation at American University from 5-6:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, at the A.K. Hinds University Center Theater in Cullowhee.

Terjesen, who is also a professor at the Norwegian School of Economics, will offer a presentation on social entrepreneurship.

• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a seminar entitled “Basics of Bookkeeping” from 6-9 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the College’s Regional High Tech Center, Room 3021, in Waynesville.

For info or to register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a “HUBZone/Federal Certification Opportunities” seminar from 10 a.m.-noon on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. HUBZone is “Historically Underutilized Business Zone.” Seminar led

by Aregnaz Mooradian of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Topics: How the HUBZone Program works, benefits, eligibility and more. Preregistration required: www.southwesterncc.edu/sbc or 339.4211. Info: t_henry@southwesterncc.edu or 339.4426.

• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a seminar entitled “Marketing Your Small Business on Google” from 9 a.m.-noon on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce. For info or to register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Haywood Community College will offer hunter safety courses from 6-9 p.m. on Sept. 17-18, Oct. 8-9 and Nov. 5-6 in Clyde. Preregistration required: www.ncwildlife.org.

• Registration is underway for the Inaugural Outdoor Economy Conference that’s coming to Western Carolina University on Oct. 5. Topics include product development, workforce development, marketing, financing and stewardship of natural resources. Early registration: $99 through Aug. 31; $159 after. Outdoor.wcu.edu, 227.2587 or salido@wcu.edu.

• An all-day workshop organized by the Incremental Development Alliance, a nonprofit, will be offered on Oct. 11 at the US Cellular Center in downtown Waynesville. Cost: $200. The organization aims to teach wannabe developers of small-scale rentals how to plan, design, finance and manage projects. Presented by Jim Kumon. www.incrementaldevelopment.org.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Biker Down Lifted Up Motorcycle Ministry will hold its Cherokee Soul Revivers Christian Motorcycle Rally from

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Aug. 31-Sept. 1 at the Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds in Cherokee. Music, food, vendors, bike games and local ride. Admission fee for the weekend: $10. Children under 12 free. www.bikerdownliftedupwnc.com.

• The P.A.W.S. wine tasting and silent auction will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, at Lands Creek Log Cabins in Bryson City. Come out and support Swain County and Bryson City’s only animal shelter.

This annual event is a community favorite and features a great selection of local items for auction, great wines, and live entertainment. www.pawsbrysoncity.org • Bethel Rural Community Organization will hold a yard sale from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, at Danny Heatherly’s Event Center in Bethel. Benefits BRCO and other community organizations. 421.0610.

• Habitat for Humanity will have a “Raise the Roof” fundraiser at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, at the River Walk at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. Food, beverages, DJ, hammering contest, prizes and more. tinyurl.com/yd28md98, 452.7960 or visit Jeweler’s Workbench in Waynesville.

VOLUNTEERS & VENDORS • The Juvenile Crime Prevention Council of Jackson County will meet at noon on Sept. 13 in Room A227 of the Jackson County Justice Center in Sylva.

• A Guardian ad Litem training class will be held in September through the Cherokee County GAL office. The N.C. Guardian ad Litem program recruits, trains and supervises volunteer advocates to represent and promote the best interests of abused, neglected and dependent children in the state court system. Info: www.ncgal.org or www.facebook.com/ncGuardianAdLitem. 837.8003.

HEALTH MATTERS • The Haywood County Senior Resource Center holds a dementia caregivers support group from 4:30-6 p.m. on Tuesdays in Waynesville. 452.6761 or www.haywoodseniors.org.

• “Breathing Techniques for Health,” an introductory class, will be offered from 1:15-1:45 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Waynesville Yoga Center. Register: 246.6570 or waynesvilleyogacenter.com.

• Registration is underway for an eating disorder workshop with Linda Bacon, Ph.D. the workshop is scheduled for 12:30-5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Folk Art Center Auditorium in Asheville. Title is: “Nurturing Body Respect: The Facts, Fictions and Clinical Path” – an evidence based alternative to weight-focused care.

Advance tickets only; no on-site tickets. 298.7928. info@crcfored.com, . https://tinyurl.com/ya9qtvhh or 337.4685.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • The High Mountain Squares will host their “Back to School Dance” from 6:15-8:45 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 31, at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building in Franklin. Bring school supplies to help Macon County Schools. Western-style square dancing, mainstream and levels. 787.2324, 332.0001, 706.746.5426 or www.highmountainsquares.com.

SPIRITUAL • Registration is underway for Personal Spiritual Retreats that will be offered at Lake Junaluska in the coming months. Experienced spiritual directors and clergy guide you through a group centering session, evening prayer service and an individual spiritual direction session, while leaving you ample time for personal

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Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: ■ Complete listings of local music scene ■ Regional festivals ■ Art gallery events and openings ■ Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings reflection and renewal. $297 for two nights lodging in Lambuth Inn, program and retreat booklet. Dates are Sept. 3-5, Oct. 1-3 and Nov. 5-7. www.lakejunaluska.com/retreats.

• Registration is underway for a Self-Directed Retreats that will be offered at Lake Junaluska in the coming months. Spend time walking the trails, meditating in gardens, in private devotions, journaling, reflecting and more. Lake Junaluska will also provide a booklet with optional agendas, resources and ideas for structuring your retreat. $97 per person, per night, including lodging in Lambuth Inn, breakfast and retreat booklet. Other dates are available, pricing varies. Dates are Sept. 912, Sept. 17-18, Oct. 17-18, Oct. 29-Nov. 1 and Nov. 19-21. www.lakejunaluska.com/retreats.

POLITICAL • N.C. Rep. Mike Clampitt has scheduled a 911 Remembrance Ceremony for 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9, at the Swain County Administration Building Parking Lot in Bryson City. Cookout for emergency medical technicians, fire fighters, law enforcement officers and veterans. Games, face painting, bounce houses. 736.6222.

• The Jackson County Republican Party will have a meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Cashiers/Glenville Rec Center. Guest speaker is Doug Farmer, candidate for Jackson County Sheriff. 743.6491.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS • An evening with author David Joy is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 30, at Smoky Mountain Roasters in Waynesville. His latest novel is “The Line That Held Us.” • Author Holly Kays will share her novel “Shadows of Flowers” at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 31, at the Albert Carlton Cashiers Community Library in Cashiers. Debut novel about love, loss and the power of place. www.facebook.com/shadowsofflowers or www.paypal.me/hollykays.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES • Registration is underway for “Mind the Music! Piano Lessons” that will be offered to ages 55-up starting the week of Sept. 24 and running through the week of Oct. 22. $60 plus a materials fee of less than $20. Led by Susan Huckaby. director@haywoodarts.org, 452.0593 or HaywoodArts.org.

KIDS & FAMILIES • Reservations are being accepted for a “Parents Night Out” program for kids ages 3-12 on Monday evenings throughout September at Waynesville Recreation Center.

Cost is free for members or $20 for the month for nonmembers. 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov.

• Registration is open for the fall semester of Jackson County Junior Appalachian Musician’s program, which runs from Sept. 11-Dec. 18. Classes meet from 3:15-

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4:45 p.m. on Tuesdays in the north hall of Cullowhee Valley School. $95. Info and registration: 507.9820, 293.1028 or jcncjam@gmail.com.

• Registration is open for the Haywood County Arts Council’s Junior Appalachian Musicians classes, which are held from 3:30-5 p.m. on Sept. 11-May 14. For fourth-grade and up. Learn banjo, fiddle or guitar in the traditional way mountain music has been taught for generations. Register by Aug. 31. $150 per student for the school year; siblings are charged $50. Register: 452.0593 or director@haywoodarts.org. Info: www.haywoodarts.org.

• “Smoky Mountain Elk”– a Great Smoky Mountains National Park Summer Junior Ranger program – is at 5:30 p.m. on Saturdays, Sept. 8 & 22 at the Palmer House in Cataloochee Valley.

• Registration is underway for fall acting classes through Kids at HART program. Classes run from Sept.

10-Nov. 26. $120 for acting classes or $110 for voice classes. www.harttheatre.org.

ONGOING KIDS ACTIVITIES AND CLUBS • A “Youth Art Class” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday at the Appalachian Art Farm on 22 Morris Street in Sylva. All ages welcome. $10 includes instruction, materials and snack. For more information, email appalachianartfarm@gmail.com or find them on Facebook.

• The Canton Library offers a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics) program each month. At 4 p.m. on third Tuesday. Children ages 6-12 are welcome to attend. Please call 648-2924 for more information.

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• “Art Beats for Kids” will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. on Thursdays at the Charles Heath Gallery in Bryson City. A new project every week. $20 per child, with includes lesson, materials and snack. To register, call 538.2054.

• A program called “Imagine,” an art program for children 8-12 meets at 2 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Jackson County Public Library. Program contains art, writing, and drama. 586.2016.

• Rompin’ Stompin’, an hourlong storytime with music, movement and books, is held at 11 a.m. on Fridays at the Canton Library. For ages zero to six. 648.2924.

• Crafternoons are at 2:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of every month at Hudson Library in Highlands.

• Library Olympics will be held at 2 p.m. on Fridays at Jackson County Public Library. Children age 5 and up get active through relay races, bingo, mini golf.

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• Family Story Time is held on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. at the Canton Public Library. Ages 0-6. Stories, songs, dance and crafting. 648.2924.

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• Storytimes are held at 10 and 10:40 a.m. every Thursday at Hudson Library in Highlands.

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• After-School Art Adventure will be on from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. on Tuesdays at The Bascom in Highlands. For ages 5 to 10, Art Adventure is a class that explores the creative process of drawing, painting, printmaking, clay, sculpture, fiber art, and crafts by utilizing a variety of media. The students will investigate some of the most popular techniques and theories in art history and will be exposed to contemporary as well as folk art traditions. Tuition is $40 for a four-class package. www.thebascom.org.

• Wednesdays in the Stacks, “WITS”, a new program for children in grades 3-6, on the third Wednesdays of the month from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Macon County Library. WITS will include lots of fun games, prizes, and hands-on activities. This club replaces book club previous held on the third Thursdays of the month. 526.3600.

• Fun Friday, everything science, is held at 4 p.m. on Fridays at Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Teen Coffeehouse is at 4:30 p.m. on the first, third, and fourth Tuesday at Jackson County Public Library.

Spend time with other teens talking and sharing. 12 and up. 586.2016.

• Rock and Read is at 11 a.m. on Tuesdays at Jackson County Public Library. 586-2016.

• WNC Martial Arts will hold karate classes from 67:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at the Old Armory in Waynesville. For more info, contact Margaret Williams at 301.0649 or mvwilliams39@gmail.com.

• Story time and kids can make their own piece of art from 10 a.m.-noon every Saturday during the Family Art event sponsored by the Jackson County Arts Council at the Jackson County Farmers Market located at the Community Table, downtown Sylva. On the first Saturday of each month, there is a scavenger hunt with prizes. 399.0290 or www.jacksoncountyfarmermarket.org.

• Michael’s Kids Club will be held for ages 3-and-up from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturdays at Michael’s in Waynesville. $2 per child for 30 minutes of creative crafts. 452.7680.

• A Lowe’s Build and Grow session for ages 3-and-up is scheduled from 10-11 a.m. on Saturdays at the Sylva (586.1170) and Waynesville (456.9999) Lowe’s stores. Free.

• Art classes are available for kids 10 and older from 4:15-5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Bascom in Highlands. $15 per class. 787.2865 or www.thebascom.org.

from the Jim McRae Endowment for the Visual Arts. To register, contact Bonnie Abbott at 743.0200.

•A Lego club will meet at 4 p.m. every fourth Thursday of the month, at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Library provides Legos and Duplos for ages 3 and up.

Free. 488.3030.

•A community breastfeeding information and support group meets from 10:30 am.-noon on the first Saturday of each month in the main lobby of the Smoky Mountain OB/GYN Office in Sylva. Free; refreshments provided. For information, contact Brandi Nations (770.519.2903), Stephanie Faulkner (506.1185 or www.birthnaturalwnc), or Teresa Bryant (587-8223).

• Science Club is held at 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month for grades K-6 at the Macon County Public Library. 524.3600.

• Macon County 4-H Needlers club, a group of youth learning the art and expression of knitting and crochet crafts, meets on the second Tuesday of each month.

For information, call 349.2046.

• A Franklin Kids’ Creation Station is held from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturdays at uptown Gallery in Franklin.

Snacks provided. $20 tuition. 743.0200.

• SafeKids USA Blue Dragon Tae Kwon Do School offers defense training with after-school classes Monday through Friday and Saturday mornings. 627.3949 or www.bluedragontkd.net.

• A Lego Club meets on the third Tuesday of each month from 3:30-5 p.m. at Waynesville Library.

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• A Lego Club meets the fourth Thursday of the month at 4 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. at the Macon County Public Library. 526.3600.

• A Lego Club meets the fourth Thursday of the month at 4:30 p.m. at Jackson County Public Library. 5862016.

• A Lego Club meet the second Wednesday of the month at 5 p.m. at Cashiers Community Library.

743.0215.

• A Lego Club meets at 4 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of the month at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Legos and Duplos provided for ages three and up.

488.3030.

• Teen time 3:30-4:30 p.m. Thursdays at Waynesville Library. A program for teens and tweens held each week. Each week is different, snacks provided. 356.2511.

• Art Adventure classes are taught for ages 5-10 from 3:30-4:45 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Bascom in Highlands. Theme: metal. Instructor: Bonnie Abbott. $20 per month. 787.2865.

• The American Girls Club meets at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. The club meets one Saturday a month, call for details. Club is based on a book series about historical women. Club members read and do activities. Free. 586.9499.

• Free, weekly, after-school enrichment classes are offered by the Bascom and MCAA from 3-5 p.m. on Thursdays at Macon Middle School through a grant

• Crazy 8 Math Adventure Club on Tuesdays 3:30 p.m.

- 4:15 p.m. for grades K-2 at the Macon County Public Library. 524.3600.

• Culture Club on the second Wednesday of the month, 1 to 2 p.m. for K-6 graders. Guest speakers, books, photos, crafts and food from different countries and cultures. Macon County Public Library. 524.3600.

• Children’s craft time, fourth Wednesday, 3:45 p.m. at Cashiers Community Library. 743.0215 • The Wee Naturalist program, which is for children ages 2-5 (with a parent or guardian), is held from 1011:30 a.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays at the North Carolina Arboretum. Age-appropriate activities such as nature walks, garden exploration, stories, crafts and visits from classroom animals $7 cost per child; $3 more for each additional child in a family. Register at: www.ncarboretum.org/education-programs/youth-family-programs/wee-naturalist

KIDS FILMS • “Christopher Robin” is showing at 1 p.m. & 7 p.m. on Aug. 29-30 at The Strand On Main. See www.38main.com for tickets.

• The Highlands Biological Foundation will offer a series of nature-themed films and documentaries shown at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Thursday of March in Highlands. For info on each show, call 526.2221.

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

KIDS STORY TIMES HAYWOOD • Mother Goose Time, a story time for babies and toddlers (5 months to 2 years) and their parents/caregivers, is held at 11 a.m. on Tuesdays at the Waynesville Library. 452.5169 • Family Story Time, 11 a.m. Wednesdays at the Waynesville Public Library. Stories, songs, crafts.

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• Movers and Shakers story time is at 11 a.m. every Thursday at the Waynesville Library. For all ages.

Movement, books, songs and more. 452.5169.

• Family storytime with crafts, second Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. at the Waynesville library. 4525169.

• Family story time for ages zero to six years old is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. each Tuesday at the Canton Library. 648.2924.

JACKSON • Baby Storytime is at 11 a.m. on Thursdays at the Jackson County Public Library. Songs, fingerplays and stories for infants through toddlers. 586.2016 • Kid’s story time Saturdays, 11 a.m., all ages at City Lights in Sylva 586.9449.

• Kids story time, Fridays 11 a.m., Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. at Jackson County Public Library. Story time

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includes books, puppets, finger plays, songs and crafts. 586.2016.

SWAIN • Preschool Story time, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m., Marianna Black Library. After a book or two is read, the children participate in games, songs, finger plays, puppet play and make a craft to take home.

488.3030.

MACON • Paws 4 Reading, a family story time, will be held from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. second Thursday of the month at Macon County Public Library. Children can read to a therapy dog. (grades K-6). 524.3600.

• Toddlers Rock, Mondays, 10 a.m., Macon Public Library. Music, movement and instruments (Designed for children 0-24 months, but all ages are welcome).

• Family Story Time is held at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

524.3600.

• Family Story Time for ages 0 to 7 years is held at 10 a.m. on Thursdays at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. 524.3600.

• Paws 4 Reading, a family story time, will be held from 3:30-5:30 p.m. every Tuesday at Hudson Library in Highlands. Children (grades K-6) practice early reading skills by reading to a canine companion. Info: www.fontanalib.org, www.readingpaws.org or 526.3031.

FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS • The “Art After Dark” in downtown Waynesville is hosted on the first Friday of the month (MayDecember), Main Street transforms into an evening of art, music, finger foods, beverages and shopping as artisan studios and galleries keep their doors open later for local residents and visitors. www.waynesvillegalleryassociation.com.

• Registration is underway for the 48th Smoky Mountain Folk Festival, featuring traditional music and dance of the Southern Appalachian Region. The festival is Aug. 31-Sept. 1 at Lake Junaluska. https://tinyurl.com/y9a6jpug, 800.222.4930 or communications@lakejunaluska.com.

• Thunder in the Smokies Rally is scheduled for Sept.

7-9 in Maggie Valley. www.ThunderInTheSmokies.com.

• The 13th annual “Music at the Mill” celebration will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Francis Grist Mill in Waynesville. Live music by Ol’ Dirty Bathtub, Hill Country Band and Possum on a Whale. A part of Western North Carolina heritage, the 131-year-old mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. There will also be craft vendors, barbecue by the Friends of the Francis Grist Mill, Mama Moody’s Fried Pies, milling demonstrations, and more. Tickets are $8 in advance, $12 at the gate. www.francismill.org.

• There will be a barbecue and craft beer tasting from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, departing from Bryson City.

Tickets start at $71 and include a souvenir tasting glass for three samples of finely crafted beer selections. Adults-only and family friendly seating.

800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Subscriptions are on sale now for the Bardo Arts Center’s Sunday Cinema Series, which presents encore live performances from the National Theatre in London in Cullowhee. Arts.wcu.cinema or 828.227.ARTS. Tickets start at $65 per person. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• Highlands Cashiers Players will present Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple” from Aug. 30-Sept. 2 in Cashiers.

Directed by Tanj Marshall. 526.8084 or highlandscashiersplayers.org.

• The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will present the hit musical “Ghost” at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 31, Sept. 1, 6-8 and at 2 p.m. Sept. 2, 9 in Waynesville. 456.6322 or www.harttheatre.org.

• The United States Navy Band Country Current will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

All tickets are free to this event and will be available from the theatre box office only. 524.1598 or www.greatmountainmusic.com.

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• To conclude this year’s “Summer Music Series,” the Marianna Black Library is proud to present the traditional Appalachian music of The Pressley Girls at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, in Bryson City. 488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

• A male vocal band quartet that blends open-harmonic jazz arrangements with big band vocal sounds, The Four Freshmen will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 1, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets start at $20 each. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• Haywood Community Chorus (HCC), directed by Kathy Geyer McNeil will begin fall rehearsals on Monday, Sept. 3. Registration will be at 6:30 p.m., followed by a full chorus rehearsal from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Rehearsals continue each Monday evening for 12 weeks, culminating in the annual Christmas concert, scheduled for 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. Membership dues are $30, which covers the cost of music and hiring musicians for concert performances. 18 and up are encouraged and welcome to join; auditions are not required. Please note that rehearsals are held in the Wilson Children’s Complex at Lake Junaluska.

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• The Town of Canton 112th Labor Day Festival – “A Celebration of All Things Made in Western North Carolina.” Will be on Sept. 2-3 in downtown Canton.

Music Sept 2 from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., admission $10 or $8 in advance at Ingles. Sept. 3, parade at 10 a.m. followed all day fun. See Cantonlaborday.com for more details.

• There will be an Italian wine tasting and food pairing at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. Live music by Musica Nostra starting at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $55 per person.

RSVP at 452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

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• Throughout the rest of this month, Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville will host an array of wine tastings and small plates from Chef Stacy’s gourmet cuisine, available at The Secret Wine Bar within the shop. Dog friendly patio and front garden open, weather permitting. Aug. 30: Five for $5 Wine Tasting from 5 to 9 p.m.

Come taste five magnificent wines and dine on Chef Stacy’s gourmet cuisine. Aug. 31: Secret Wine Bar Night from 5 to 9 p.m.. Gourmet food, and a great wine & beer menu. Aug. 29: Wines of the Iberian Peninsula Seated Tasting with Nick Demos, Advanced Sommelier, at 7 p.m. Join Bosu’s for this special seated tasting of Portuguese and Spanish wines. Light snacks served.

This is a ticketed event, reservations required. $20 per person. 452.0120 or www.waynesvillewine.com.

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• Rock and Read storytime, 11 a.m. on Tuesdays at the Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016

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• Pre-school story time, second Wednesday, 11 a.m. at Cashiers Community Library. 743.0215.

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• Tickets are on sale now for a Southern Storyteller Supper Series event featuring Buddy Melton, who plays fiddle in Balsam Range, and Milan Miller, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and recording artist, on Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. Tickets: $25. Folkmoot.org.

• Tickets are on sale now for a concert featuring Jim Witter’s “Time in a Bottle” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept.

16, at Western Carolina University’s Bardo Arts Center in Cullowhee. Fundraiser for WCU Friends of the Arts. $25 per ticket. Foa.wcu.edu or 227.ARTS. • Tickets are on sale now for “Choir Music Weekend,” which is Oct. 19-21 at Lake Junaluska. Learn and perform eight anthems, attend workshops and celebrate autumn colors. 800.222.4930, communications@lakejunaluska.com or www.lakejunaluska.com/events/worship/choirmusic.

SUMMER MUSIC • Cold Mountain Music Series will host Devils in Dust at 5 p.m. on Sept. 8. Gates open at 3 p.m. Admission is $15 for a car, $50 for 15-passenger van and $5 for bikes. Craft beer offered by Ecusta Brewing. 646.0095 and www.lakelogan.com/events..

• To conclude this year’s “Summer Music Series,” the Marianna Black Library is proud to present the traditional Appalachian music of The Pressley Girls at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, in Bryson City.

• Highlands Town Square “Friday Night Live” series will host Silly Ridge Round Up Aug. 31. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

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• The Concerts on the Creek will conclude their summer series with have Dashboard Blue (classic hits) at 7 p.m. Aug. 31 at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. Free and open to the public. There will also be food trucks onsite. 586.2155 or www.mountainlovers.com.

• The “Groovin’ on the Green” concert series at The Village Green in Cashiers will conclude their season by hosting The Boomers at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 1. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

• The Pickin’ on the Square summer concert series will feature Hurricane Creek (variety) at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, at the Gazebo in downtown Franklin. Food vendors will also be available. www.townoffranklinnc.com.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • The Gem & Mineral Society of Franklin will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 30, at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building in Franklin. Guest speaker is Kim Cochran of the Georgia Mineral Society.

• A “Beginner Step-By-Step” painting class will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursdays (Aug. 30, Sept. 13, Sept.

27) at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Cost is $25 with all supplies provided. RSVP by contacting Robin Arramae at 828.400.9560 or paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

• “Art for a Cause” is scheduled for 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sept. 1-2 at Cashiers Village Green. Hand-crafted philanthropy featuring arts and local crafts from throughout the Southeast. Pottery, woodworking, textiles, basketry and more.

• Ubuntu, an opportunity to sing, will start a six-week term on Sept. 5. Meet from 6:30-8 p.m. on Wednesdays in Franklin. No auditions and no music to read; just sing back, with practice, what you here in a non-critical environment. 409.789.8387.

• The monthly Creating Community Workshop will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, in the Atrium of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Weaver Susan Morgan Leveille’s will be sharing with participants her many years of weaving expertise. All supplies will be provided. The workshop is limited to 10 participants. Please call the library to register. FREE. 586.2016. (www.fontanalib.org).

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• Quilters are invited to participate in “A Heavenly

Quilt Walk,” which will be held Sept. 21-22 at downtown churches in Franklin. www.smokymtnquilters.org.

• Registration is underway for a retreat featuring artists Judith Kruger and Chris Liberti from Oct. 22-27 at Lake Logan Conference Center in Haywood County.

Kruger’s workshop is “Abstract Alchemy” while Liberti’s is “Strengthening the Foundation: Color, Value, Composition and Surface.” www.cullowheemountainarts.org or 342.7899.

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • The “Meet the Artist” reception with Brian Hannum (pianist), Drew Campbell (photographer) and Jon Houglum (painter) will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, at Gallery Zella in Bryson City. Enjoy North Carolina wine, food and music. Free to attend. 488.3638 or www.galleryzella.com.

• “RBG”, Ruth Barter Ginsburg documentary will be shown at 7p.m. on Sept. 1 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. 586.3555

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• Volunteers are being sought to help re-pot native azaleas from 9 a.m.-noon on Tuesdays through Thursdays at the Southern Highlands Reserve in Lake Toxaway. For info, and to schedule a shift: anorton@southernhighlandsreserve.org.

• “The Mushroom Matrix” - part of the Zahner Lecture Series – will be presented at 6 p.m. on Aug. 30 at the Nature Center at the Highlands Biological Station. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2221.

• The Haywood County Arts Council will hold a new showcase featuring local artist Bee Sieberg & Students exhibiting their work Aug. 31-Sept. 29 at the gallery in downtown Waynesville. www.haywoodarts.org.

• Registration is underway for the Qualla Country Trout Tournament, which is scheduled for Friday through Sunday, Aug. 31-Sept. 2, in Cherokee. 359.6110 or paprice@nc-cherokee.com.

• A new exhibit exploring the artistry, history and science behind the fragrance industry is open through Sept. 3 at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville Lecture by Dr. Richard Stamelman on the mysterious allure behind fragrances and the plants.

• The Tuckaseigee River Chapter No. 373 of Trout Unlimited will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at the United Community Bank in Sylva. $5 for dinner.

Discussion led by Shannon Messer.

• Photographers Ed and Cindy Boos will present their nature photography from around the world at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at Hudson Library in Highlands.

• Bee Sieburg will demonstration oil painting with canvas and board from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at Haywood County Arts Council Gallery & Gifts in Waynesville. HaywoodArts.org.

• “An Evening with Ruth E. Carter” is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee. Carter has designed and created costumes for more than 40 stage and screen productions, and she’s a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Tickets: Free for WCU students, $10 for all non-WCU students and $15 for general admission. 227.2479 or bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

• An exhibit on photographer William A. Barnhill is on display through Sept. 14 at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center in Cullowhee.

Barnhill documented 20th century regional craftsmanship. 227.7129.

• An exhibition for artisans Wanda Davis-Browne and Judy McManus will continue through Oct. 6 at Gallery 1 in Sylva. Davis-Browne’s photos are inspired by the diverse natural patterns and colors of nature, primarily flora. A glass artist, McManus was invited to join working artists at Jackson County’s Green Energy Park in Dillsboro in 2010. She also teaches classes and gives demonstrations at the facility and exhibits art in the GEP gallery. www.facebook.com/artinthemountains.

• The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at the Bardo Arts Center is pleased to announce the opening of its newest exhibition “Glass Catalyst: Littleton’s Legacy in Contemporary Sculpture,” which will run through Dec. 7. Littleton’s work and other glass artist will be on display. A key work in the exhibition will be a new acquisition to the Museum’s collection: a glass sculpture by Harvey Littleton entitled “Terracotta Arc.” Regular museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and Thursdays until 7 p.m. For information, call 828.227.ARTS or visit bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

FILM & SCREEN • “Book Club” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 30 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. 586.3555 • “BlacKkKlansman” is showing at 7 p.m. on Aug. 31Sept. 6 at The Strand On Main. See www.38main.com for tickets.

• Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the greenway at 8 a.m. on Sept. 5. Meet at Big Bear Shelter parking area. Franklinbirdclub.com.

• “Cherokee Culture” - part of the Zahner Lecture Series – will be presented at 6 p.m. on Sept. 6 at the Nature Center at the Highlands Biological Station. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2221.

• Reservations are being accepted for the 2018 Fly Fishing Hall of Fame ceremony, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7, at Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City. Induction and ceremony are set for 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. on Sept. 8. Cost: $35. RSVP: info@greatsmokies.com or 488.3681.

• A river cleanup of the Little Tennessee is scheduled for 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at Big Bear Park in Franklin. 524.2711 or sburdette@mainspringconserves.org.

• Boating Safety course will be offered from 6-9 p.m. on Sept. 10-11 at Haywood Community College in Clyde. Must attend both meetings. Pre-registration required: www.ncwildlife.org.

• The Franklin Appalachian Trail Community Council will meet at noon on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the Franklin Town Hall. facebook.com/FranklinATCommunity or appalachiantrail.org/home/conservation/a-t-community-program.

• Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the greenway at 8 a.m. on Sept. 12. Meet at Salali Lane.

Franklinbirdclub.com.

• Registration is underway for The Great Smoky Mountains Association’s 2018 Members Appreciation Weekend, which is scheduled for Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 13-16, at Fontana Village. Learn about Eagle and Hazel Creek communities, guided tours and more. $109. Register: https://conta.cc/2lHoLSI. • “Fall Migration Bird Walk” – a moderate Chimney Rock Naturalist Niche Hike – is scheduled for 7:30-10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, at Chimney Rock State Park. $23 adults; $8 for annual passholder; $13 youth (ages 5-15) and $6 per Rockin’ Discovery Passholder.

Visit an area typically not open to the public. Advance registration required: chimneyrockpark.com.

• “Poetry and the Nonhuman” - part of the Zahner Lecture Series – will be presented at 6 p.m. on Sept.

13 at the Nature Center at the Highlands Biological Station. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2221.

• Registration is underway for a “Cherokee Heritage Adventure,” which will be offered by Smoky Mountain Field School on Saturday, Sept. 22, in Haywood County.

Explore the culture of the Cherokee people; students

hear Cherokee legends at the story circle, play traditional games and take a nature walk. Cost: $69.

Register: smfs.utk.edu.

• An opportunity to fly in one off World War II’s most vital Aircraft, EAA’s B-17G “Aluminum Overcast,” will be offered from Nov. 2-4 at the Macon County Airport in Franklin. Flights from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $435 for EAA members; $475 for nonmembers. Ground tours available from 2-5 p.m. Cost: $10 for 8-under; $20 for all others except veterans and active military, which get ground tours for free. B17.org or 800.359.6217.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Registration is underway for the Tour de Cashiers, which is Saturday, Sept. 15. Options include 25-mile, 62-mile and 100-mile for cyclists and 5K for runners. $30-$50 through Aug. 26; prices rise afterward. www.tourdecashiers.com.

• Registration is underway for the 12th annual Power of Pink 5K run/Walk/Dog Walk that will be held on Saturday, Sept. 29, in Waynesville. Proceeds support prevention of breast cancer. Advance registration: $25 (by Aug. 31). Regular registration: $30 (after Aug. 31).

Dog registration is $10 per pet. Register at www.gloryhoundevents.com/event/power-of-pink. Info: 452.8343.

FARM AND GARDEN • An upcoming round of seminars will show participants how to grow ginseng. Seminars are scheduled for 10:15 a.m.-noon on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at Albert Carlton Cashiers Library; 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept.

13, at the Jackson County Extension Center in Sylva and 6-8 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 17, at the Swain County Extension Center in Bryson City. Registration required: 586.4009 or 488.3848.

• “What’s in Season and How Do I Prepare It?” – a cooking demonstration and tasting with John Patterson – is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Registration required: 356.2507 or kolsen@haywoodnc.net.

FARMERS MARKETS • “Locally Grown on the Green,” the Cashiers farm stand market for local growers, will be held from 3-6 p.m. every Wednesday at the Village Green Commons in Cashiers. info@villagegreencashiersnc.com or 743.3434.

• The Swain County Farmer’s Market is held from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Friday through October on Island Street in downtown Bryson City. 488.3681 or chamber@greatsmokies.com.

• Jackson County Farmers Market runs from 9 to noon on Saturdays at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva.

• Waynesville Historic Farmers Market runs from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays 8 a.m. to noon at the HART Theater parking lot. waynesvillefarmersmarket.com • Franklin Farmers Tailgate Market runs from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturdays through the end of October, on East Palmer Street across from Drake Software. 349.2049 or www.facebook.com/franklinncfarmersmarket.

• The ‘Whee Farmers Market, Cullowhee runs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays through the end of October, at the University Inn on 563 North Country Club Drive in Cullowhee. 476.0334 or www.facebook.com/CullowheeFarmersMarket.

• The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market runs from 8 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays through the end of October at 171 Legion Drive in Waynesville.

456.1830 or vrogers12@att.net.

HIKING CLUBS • Carolina Mountain Club will have a 10-mile hike with a 1,900-foot ascent on Sunday, Sept. 2, at Canebrake Trail. Info and reservations: 676.0255, 699.8857 or Isbernhardt50@gmail.com.

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LEGAL NOTICES SKANSKA USA BUILDING INC. Invites you to bid on Western Carolina University’s new Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (“STEM”) Building in Cullowhee, NC. The project consists of initial building demolition, construction of a five-story, 181,000 square foot building followed by additional demolition of a further existing building. The project will be procured in a phased bidding fashion and this invitation is for the second phase of bidding.

The above scope will be procured via the following bid packages: GROUP 1: (RE-BID) • Bids Due: September 6, 2018 at 2p.m. EST • BP 14.0 – Elevators (RE-BID) • Pre-Bid Meeting: N/A • RFI Cut Off: N/A • Bid Drop Off/Opening: September 6, 2018 at 2p.m. EST WCU Cullowhee Facilities Planning, D+C 3476 Old Cullowhee Road Cullowhee, NC 28723

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GROUP 2: • Bids Due: September 12, 2018 at 2p.m. EST • BP 04.0 – Masonry, BP 05.1 – Misc. Metals & Fall Protection, BP 07.0 – Roofing, BP 07.1 – Fireproofing, BP 07.5 – Firestopping, Air Barrier, Sealants, Waterproofing, BP 08.0 – Doors, Frames & Hardware, BP 08.4 – Curtainwall & Windows, BP 09.1 – Tile/Terrazzo, BP 09.2 – Resilient Floor, Carpet & Moisture Control, BP 12.3 – Lab Casework • Pre-Bid Meeting: August 29, 2018 at 2p.m. EST • RFI Cut Off: August 30, 2018 at 5p.m. EST • Bid Drop Off/Opening: September 12, 2018 at 2p.m. EST WCU Asheville 28 Schenck Parkway #100 Asheville, NC 28803 Room #336

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GROUP 3: • Bids Due: September 19, 2018 at 2p.m. EST • BP 01.0 – Site Services / GRs, BP 01.1 – Buck Hoist, BP 07.8 – Metal Wall Panels, BP 07.9 – Slate Shingles, BP 08.1 – Overhead & Coiling Doors, BP 11.1 – Lab Equipment, BP 12.1 – Window Treatment, BP 21.0 – Fire Sprinklers, BP 22.0 – Plumbing, BP 23.0 – HVAC, BP 26.0 – Electrical / Low Voltage • Pre-Bid Meeting: September 6, 2018 at 2p.m. EST • RFI Cut Off: September 7, 2018 at 5p.m. EST • Bid Drop Off/Opening: September 19, 2018 at 2p.m. EST WCU Asheville 28 Schenck Parkway #100 Asheville, NC 28803 Room #346 GROUP 4: • Bids Due: September 26, 2018 at 2p.m. EST • BP 02.1 – Demolition (NSB), BP 03.1 – Polished Concrete, BP 06.1 – Architectural Casework, BP 08.5 – Interior Glazing, BP 09.0 – GWB Assemblies, BP 09.4 Resinous Flooring, BP 09.5 – Painting, BP 10.1 – Signage, BP 10.2 – Fixed Specialties, BP 10.3 – Greenhouse, BP 31.2 - Landscaping • Pre-Bid Meeting: September 12, 2018 at 2p.m. EST • RFI Cut Off: September 13, 2018 at 5p.m. EST • Bid Drop Off/Opening: September 26, 2018 at 2p.m. EST WCU Asheville 28 Schenck Parkway #100 Asheville, NC 28803 Room #336

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THE JACKSON CO. DEPARTMENT Of Social Services is recruiting for an Adult Services Social Worker. This position investigates reports of adult abuse and neglect, provides case management for at-risk adults, and certifies and monitors clients receiving Special Assistance In-home services. This position also provides ongoing case management for guardianships, payeeships, individual and family adjustments, in-home aide services, and case management of substantiated adult protective service cases. Other duties include general intake and community outreach services.

Requires limited availability after hours and on weekends on an as-needed-basis. Starting pay is $35,656.23 depending on education and experience.

Minimum qualifications include a four year degree in a Human Service field. Preference will be given to applicants with a Master's or Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and experience providing Social Work services.

Applicants should complete a PD-107 state application form and submit it to Jackson County Department of Social Services 15 Griffin Street Sylva, NC 28779 or the Sylva branch of the NCWorks Career Center. Applications will be accepted until September 14, 2018.

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Equal Housing Opportunity

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Climate Control Only pre-qualified firms are allowed to bid. A list of prequalified first tier bidders can be made available on request to all interested second and third tier bidders. To request that list, please e-mail Christian Edwards at: christian.edwards@skanska.com.

Documents can be made available via an iSqFt invitation link. Addenda will be posted and you will continue to be notified of changes utilizing this on-line service.

For further information and questions please contact: Christian Edwards at: christian.edwards@skanska.com / (919) 422-8916 or Sandy Gray at: sandy.gray@skanska.com / (919) 406-4451.

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REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCEMENT 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 in this newspaper are on an equal opportunity basis.

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Cape May warbler in fall plumage - Ridge Junction September 2017.

The naturalist’s corner

Don Hendershot photo

BY DON H ENDERSHOT

The skies are beginning to fill round 70 percent of the birds that nest in the Eastern U.S. are neotropical migrants — they nest here (U.S. and Canada) and overwinter in Mexico and/or Central and South America. There are around 200 species of neotropical migrants and many make extensive journeys.

Shorebirds nesting in the arctic tundra and northern Canada have the longest migration. Species like red knots and whiterumped sandpipers may travel 10,000 miles between nesting and wintering grounds.

Long distance migrants that nest in our area include red-eyed vireos, barn swallows, cerulean warblers, scarlet tanagers and more.

Most passerine (songbird) species migrate at night. Conditions are more favorable at night; temps are cooler, the air is usually calmer and there are fewer predators.

Neotropical migrants that migrate during the day (diurnal migrants) are hawks and vultures — birds that soar. These soaring birds migrate by finding thermals (rising currents of warm air) where they can hitch a

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ride while conserving energy. Most swallows and swifts are also diurnal migrants because they feed on flying insects that are active during the day.

Weather conditions often dictate the altitude of migrating birds. Most raptors stick pretty close to terra firma because that’s where the thermals are. However if they catch a good thermal they could rise more than a mile high. Nocturnal migrants with a good tailwind migrate at higher altitudes because the wind is stronger at higher altitudes.

Conversely, if they have to buck a headwind they migrate at lower altitudes. Most passerines migrate at altitudes between 500 and 2,000 feet. The highest known migrant was a Ruppell’s griffon vulture recorded at 37,000 feet, and the North American record holder is a mallard that, unfortunately, collided with an airplane at 21,000 feet.

Birds use a variety of factors to navigate.

Some navigating tools include stars, the earth’s magnetic field, topographic features (coastlines, mountain ranges, etc.) the location of the setting sun and prevailing wind patterns.

And one thing birders know about migrating songbirds — a “fall out” can be

dizzying. Many different species often flock together during migration, and after a long night of flying they’re pretty hungry in the morning. These mixed flocks can be found foraging together in the trees and understory. Trying to pick out individual birds to I.D. when there may be 20 in your field of vision all fluttering and/or hopping about requires a little practice and patience.

Identifying fall migrants adds another challenge too. Fall plumage can be quite different from breeding plumage, and during

migration there will be individuals in different stages of molt. Some may still be in breeding plumage, while others may be already sporting winter plumage and many will be somewhere in between.

And now for some unadulterated pandering. I will be leading a trip for Alarka Expeditions, along with Brent and Angela Faye Martin, to Ridge Junction Overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway at the entrance to Mount Mitchell State Park on Saturday, September 29. Ridge Junction is unique because, much like a hawk watch, you can bring a chair and get comfy at the overlook and wait for migrants to come through the pass up and over the Parkway. For details about the trip contact Brent or Angela at alarkaexpeditions@gmail.com or call 828.524.7400.

(Don Hendershot is a naturalist and a writer who lives in Haywood County. He can be reached at ddihen1@bellsouth.net)

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