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The 12th annual Railfest will bring a taste of railroad food, memorabilia, storytelling, Appalachian music and dance, and special train excursions to downtown Bryson City Sept. 13-15. This year’s Railfest coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, which organizes the festival and hosts it at the train depot. The craft fair starts up at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. The Heritage Alive Mountain
Youth Talent Contest will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, followed by the Ammons Sisters, J.Creek Cloggers and the Ross Brothers, Lonesome Sound and Dusk Weaver with youth bluegrass musicians. Sunday’s music line-up starts at 11 a.m. with Children of Zion followed by The Queen Family and Lonesome Sound again. Special train excursions include a Friday night “Wet Your Whistle” invitational train excursion. Special excursions will be offered on a steam engine Saturday and Sunday. Returning again will be a special collection of motorcars that will be brought by their owner to Bryson City. These track cars were formerly used on railroads to inspect track and carry track gangs and their tools out to work zones. The cars are now privately owned and used to ride on short line railroads nationwide. Various rides on these unique motorcars will be available during the festival. For a full schedule of events, click on www.gsmr.com or 800.872.4681.
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• The Dazzling Dahlia Festival will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Highlands Recreation Park and Civic Center. The event, benefiting the Highlands Historical Society, will showcase local enthusiasts’ prize-winning dahlias. Exhibitors can enter as many as six categories for a small entrance fee. 828.526.9418 or www.highlandshistory.com.
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• The WNC Open Badminton Tournament will be Sept. 13-15 at the Mountain View
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Intermediate School in Franklin. 828.524.1100 or wncopen@angelfeatherinc.com. • The Pisgah Promenaders Square Dance Club will host its Black and White Costume dance from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Old Armory Recreation Center in Waynesville. Ken Perkins will be the caller for the plus and mainstream dancing. A workshop begins at 6:15 p.m. 828.586.8416 (Jackson County) or 828.507.7270 (Haywood County).
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MedWest-Haywood is asking the community to step up to the plate and do their best rendition of the ‘Pink Glove Dance’ on Monday, Sept. 16. The ‘Pink Glove Dance’ has become a national hit to raise awareness of breast cancer. There will be two sessions: at noon in front of the hospital and at 6 p.m. in the gym at the Health & Fitness Center. Pink surgical gloves will be provided and dance participants should try to wear one pink item, such as a shirt, scarf or hat. People of all ages and all levels of mobility
are invited to join in. No experience is necessary, but be forewarned, the dances will be taped and a video submitted as part of a national Pink Glove Dance contest. The winning videos receive cash prizes donated to breast cancer charities of their choice. Over the course of the week, videos of the Pink Glove Dance will also be captured in doctors’ practices, by nurses on the floors of the hospital, and even in the administration wing. The first Pink Glove Dance video was created in 2009 by Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Ore. It went viral and the national media spotlight prompted hospitals all over the world to do their own version. www.medwesthealth.org/PinkGlove.
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