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CONTENTS On the Cover: Now 81, Haywood County native Herbert “Cowboy” Coward may have earned his fame acting in the film “Deliverance” almost 50 years ago, but the constant phone calls and visits from fans never get old for him. (Page 6) Cowboy Coward enjoys the simple life – church, friends and his pet squirrel, Angel. Cory Vaillancourt photo

News Elections officials get look at new machines................................................................4 Mountain Projects hopes to build homes in Jackson County ................................5 DOT says it’s time to proceed with NC 107 ..............................................................8 Plans formalized to study proposed schools central office ..................................10 Demographics and a reality check for UNC system ..............................................14 Meeting notices still a problem at Shining Rock ....................................................16 Haywood commissioners decry cuts to mental health funding ..........................18

Opinion For me, the opioid crisis is personal ..........................................................................22

A&E G. Love — from Boston busker to superstar ..........................................................26

Outdoors Former astronaut calls moon landing “overwhelming” ..........................................40

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New voting machines demonstrated in Haywood

BY CORY VAILANCOURT STAFF WRITER lection officials from across the region gathered in Haywood County last week to be among the first to witness public demonstrations of new state-certified voting systems designed to bolster both the efficiency and the security of the state’s elections.

“We definitely want to assure voters that their systems are secure,” said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections. “I think the most important thing for voter confidence is to have moments like this, where they’re able to see demonstrations of the voting equipment.”

Existing equipment, made by a company called Election Systems and Software, is set to be decertified on Dec. 1. Haywood County is one of few counties that still uses touchscreen voting systems, but will soon join the rest of the state in utilizing paper ballots.

“The equipment that we’ve used for 15 years, it’s reached the end of its useful life,” said Robbie Inman, Haywood’s Board of Elections director.

That means that once this fall’s elections are over, counties may choose from one of three new systems certified by the NCSBE. State statute, though, demands that prior to making any change, elections board members must witness a demonstration of the systems.

The public demonstration held at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center on Sept. 12 was the first of five such sessions to be held across the state and as such drew county elections board members from as far as Polk and Henderson counties.

What they saw were essentially sales pitches from three companies hoping to do business with North Carolina counties — HartIntercivic, Clear Ballot and ES&S. “In the whole state of North Carolina currently the old legacy equipment they have is from ES&S, so 100 percent of the state is using our equipment,” said Will Wesley, director of business development for Omaha-based ES&S. “Now you’re going through a new sales cycle where everyone’s got to choose and that’s what this is about today. The three vendors that are here are

Haywood County is one of few counties that still uses touchscreen voting systems, but will soon join the rest of the state in utilizing paper ballots. actually going to show their equipment to the counties and then the counties can make a decision what they want to do going forward.”

Wesley’s company, though, almost wasn’t invited to the party — according to Carolina Public Press, security advocates raised concerns over the bar codes ES&S uses to tabulate votes. An Aug. 23 vote by the SBE cast aside a motion that would have implemented stricter certification requirements that would have essentially excluded ES&S. Still, ES&S has become a familiar name in the industry

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Next year, voters in Haywood County and across the state could see new machines at their polling places. Cory Vaillancourt photo

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over its 40-year history, and has sold plenty of the new machines as well.

“The express voter ballot marking device, we’ve sold over 70,000 of those to date across the country. It’s the most popular ballot marking device that there is on the market.

It’s proven,” said Wesley, former elections director for the city of Detroit. “It’s not something that we’re developing and we’re kind of putting out there to see [if it works]. It’s proven. As a matter of fact, your neighbor to the south, South Carolina, just purchased it statewide.”

Clear Ballot, by contrast, is the newest of the three companies to go through federal voting system certification.

“We’re built from the ground up since 2009, which a lot of the other systems are built off legacy platforms, so they’ve been around for a long time, and they’ve kind of struggled with the technology that they’re anchored to,” said Bill Murphy, director of sales for Boston-based Clear Ballot. “We don’t have that burden, which is nice.”

Founded in 2009 as an audit company, Clear Ballot has been in the voting system business since 2014 and currently serves about 20 percent of Florida and 70 percent of Washington and Oregon.

“We’ve actually been able to save the folks out there, in efficiency savings,” Murphy said.

“They’ve been able to pay for our system using it in like two elec-

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fight the perception of that by sidestepping it completely and providing a paper-based system that the human readable portion of that ballot is what drives the tabulation.”

Inman said that right now it takes 197 of the existing touch screen units to conduct a countywide election in Haywood, and the new systems would all require additional units, called tabulators.

The costs of the new systems vary, but two years ago, Haywood Commissioners allocated more than $800,000 towards the purchase of new voting machines, however, failures by the state to certify new systems until recently kept that can rolling on down the road.

On the security front, Inman said that although there is a chance that fraudsters could infiltrate, say, a voter registration database or theoretically engage in identity theft to influence the results of an election , if fraud occurs, it won’t be at the ballot box.

Haywood’s election systems — past, present and future — had not and would never be connected to the internet.

Haywood’s elections board members, like those in other states, will now weigh their options and make some sort of recommendation to commissioners, who’ll be on the hook for the final call, and the funding.

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tions because of the processes they had to go through with the old systems.”

The third company, Hart InterCivic, appears to mingle the best of both ES&S and f Clear Ballot.

“We have a mix of our legacy system that’s been in place since the early 2000s, and our new system, which was first federally certified in 2015,” said Sean Phillips, a sales consultant with Austin-based Hart InterCivic. “We are a pure paper-based system. We provide a ballot that is equal for all voters, whether they vote on an accessible device or by hand marking the ballot.”

While elections board members at the event were reluctant to go on the record with their impressions of the three systems, questions and conversations overheard at the demonstration largely centered around bar codes.

“The other thing that sets us apart from some of the vendors is that we do not encode voter selections into a barcode,” Phillips said.

“We always use a human-readable portion of the ballot to derive the tabulation of the votes. It has been posited that if the human readable thing that is on the piece of paper isn’t what drives the tabulation and it’s in a barcode, it could be changed. We just want to

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ive families could find themselves in a brand new home in Sylva if a planned endeavor by Mountain Projects comes to fruition.

The nonprofit landed a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help with the cost of the project, which would be open to families making 80 to 100 percent of the area median income — a maximum of $42,000. The grant does not carry any other restrictions on who can apply for the program, but Mountain Projects will encourage members of Jackson County’s law enforcement, education and emergency services community to do so.

Participants would be required to put ‘sweat equity’ into the homes’ construction, and in return they’d be able to move in free of closing costs or a down payment. The house would then fall under a traditional mortgage.

“We think it’s a great project for Jackson County,” Jackson County Planning Director Mike Poston told commissioners during a f Sept. 10 work session. “We’d like to see this l type of housing become more prominent, and we believe that for about $30,000, or $6,000 per lot, we could realize this project in Jackson County.”

Mountain Projects has previously comf pleted similar projects in Haywood County, but never in Jackson. The current effort is as f

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close as they’ve ever come to making such a project a reality there, said Poston, but there is one significant obstacle. The USDA will fund a maximum cost of only $45,000 per lot, but the property that Mountain Projects currently has under contract clocks in at $51,000 per lot, creating a deficit of $30,000.

“This project most likely would not be approved by USDA if they can’t get the site development cost down into the range,” said Poston.

If commissioners would agree to fund the difference, then development could move forward.

Mountain Projects is currently under contract for an undeveloped 1.2-acre lot located at the end of Second Avenue in Sylva, which is buffered from U.S. 23 by one parcel to the north, and from Mark Watson Park by one parcel to the east.

“These people will be required to put in personal effort in the construction of this house, and at the end of the day it will be a standard mortgage that they fall under,” said County Manager Don Adams. “What will happen is we potentially have five new houses as far as additional stock in Jackson County that are affordable houses.”

The lack of housing inventory affordable to working families has long been a topic of discussion in Jackson County, with the county establishing a housing committee in 2018 to work toward solutions. A plan to establish a housing trust fund to spur development of low-income and workforce housing is currently under development.

Commissioners expressed a willingness to help bridge the funding gap, saying they’d hope to have it on the agenda in an upcoming meeting — just as soon as Adams can formalize the exact language of the funding agreement. Under the grant terms, Mountain Projects must begin work on the project by June at the latest.

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“Deliverance” villain Cowboy Coward is not what he seems

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER he last of Fred and Moody Parker Coward’s nine children, Herbert “Cowboy” Coward, was born in rural Haywood County in August 1938. His mother died early on, so Cowboy’s father worked at a number of jobs to support his large family, including a long stint at Barber’s Orchard in nearby Waynesville.

“I did get little jobs and helped when I got big enough,” said Cowboy. “Now see, I ain’t got no education. I can write my name, and that’s about all I can do.”

That, Coward said, led to a rough early life that revolved around itinerant labor.

“I worked at everything,” he said. “I hitchhiked and went all over the United States doing little jobs, big jobs, operating heavy equipment and stuff.” While working in Raleigh in the early 1960s, Coward came home, got married and then went back to Raleigh with his bride, who became homesick shortly thereafter. He dragged his trailer back 6 up into the Smokies and contemplated the

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professional actors and theatre school kids looking for money and experience over their summer break — that roamed the park and interacted with guests in between the acting and stuntwork.

“It was rough,” he said. “In the old days when you fell off the roof, and you had to know how many times to roll to hit the ground. There wasn’t no airbags. Just solid ground down there. So you had a rough time a-doin’ it.”

Cowboy even got his teeth knocked out during one such performance; a young man who worked at the park’s horse barn really, really wanted to be a gunfighter, according to Cowboy, so one day when the actor playing the undertaker had to go home sick, they called down to the barn to give the boy his shot.

D “They put the undertaker outfit on him, f and explained what we were doing. I got shot w and when I did, there I was with my feet in the n air already set up with rigor mortis. He pushed my feet down and I come up in his face, and he m was really excited, and he pulled out his pistol and knocked my two front teeth out,” laughed Cowboy. “That was a good gunfight, I guess.” i Those gunfights grew to include some of the most popular television and movie stars of the day, who would be paid to visit the park for a few days, participate in the shows, min- p gle with visitors and sign autographs.

One of the biggest stars at the time was Dan Blocker, who played the iconic Hoss W Cartwright character in the classic TV series g Bonanza and also became fast friends with Cowboy. b

Few movie characters remain more enigmatic than the one Cowboy Coward played in the film “Deliverance.” Cory Vaillancourt photo

situation for a time, until a fateful encounter would help define the rest of his life.

“I talked to a guy from Maggie Valley named Hubert Presley,” said Cowboy. “He said if I wanted to go to work, I had a job.” orn in 1936 in Lansing, Michigan, actor Burt Reynolds bounced around the Midwest as a military brat until he and his family ended up in Riviera Beach, Florida, where his dad became chief of police.

A knee injury effectively ended Reynolds’ days as a Florida State University football star on scholarship, but while taking classes at Palm Beach Junior College (with an eye on law enforcement), Reynolds would have a fateful encounter of his own. It was with his English teacher, Watson B. Duncan, who encouraged Reynolds to read for a play he was producing.

Reynolds got the lead, and from there began working his way up the New York City theatre scene of the 1950s while spending his days as a dishwasher, a dockworker and a truck driver.

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By the late 1950s, Reynolds had finally broken into television when he was cast as one of the leads in a show called Riverboat.

After he walked out on it, mid-season, one of the country’s top-rated television shows came calling, right about the time Cowboy was pulling back into Haywood County. ubert Presley was a Virginia businessman who’d come to Haywood County, the highest east of the Mississippi, in the mid-1950s, where he soon became involved with an ambitious venture — a mountaintop amusement park.

“I was the first employee to go to work at Ghost Town,” Cowboy said of the Maggie Valley park that used to draw upwards of half a million visitors a year to the county once it opened in 1962. “I took a bulldozer up there and opened up the old road. I helped put it up, and haul the two-by-fours and everything up there.”

A colossal chairlift would take visitors from the parking lot up Buck Mountain and drop them right into the Wild West-themed park, complete with carnival rides, concessions and a small main street area lined on either side by old-timey clapboard shacks.

The long-shuttered park still features stunning views of the surrounding mountains, but in its heyday, its main attraction would quickly become the live-action “gunfights” performed every hour, on the hour.

“One day,” Cowboy said, “I pulled my hammer out like I was pulling out a gun, and they put me as a gunfighter.”

Cowboy joined the curious cast of costumed performers — comprised of locals,

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“Ol’ Burt Reynolds come up to Ghost Town one summer. He worked up there about three weeks with us. I become really good friends of him.”

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Reynolds left show in 1965 once he start- w ed landing major roles in little-noticed R movies, but by 1970, he hadn’t yet found his w breakthrough role, and his once-promising n career was in the doldrums. y “Ol’ Burt Reynolds come up to Ghost Town one summer,” Cowboy said. “He B worked up there about three weeks with us. I become really good friends of him.”

During his stay in Haywood County, Reynolds and Cowboy hung out regularly.

Cowboy described him as a nice guy who B would rather just sit and talk about movies, and about life, as opposed to going out fishin’ t or honky tonkin’.

When Reynolds left Ghost Town, he almost immediately entered into production as one of the leads in a movie that would ulti- p mately propel him to immortality.

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occasional stutter but still has a flair for the spoken word, “and take your p-p-p-p-pppppanties down.”

Cowboy’s character, listed only as “Toothless man” in the credits, is one of the villains of the story that ends up kidnapping Reynolds’ rafting party. His audition line is given in the context of a disturbing scene involving male-on-male rape that while more than uncomfortable on screens today was practically unthinkable when the film was released in 1972.

“And you thought that scene was going to end your career?” O’Brien asked Reynolds.

“I thought it was gonna be close,” Reynolds said. “I mean, those kind of pictures are … I hadn’t done anything like that.

Nobody had.”

That scene also elicited squeals from audiences when Cowboy, still missing his front teeth from that accident at Ghost Town, uttered his most famous, oft misquoted line.

“He’s got a real pretty mouth, ain’t he?”

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The softer side of Cowboy Coward

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER hile Haywood County native Herbert “Cowboy” Coward may be best known for his spine-tingling performance as a toothless mountain man in the 1972 film “Deliverance,” that was almost 50 years ago.

Since then, he’s lived a simple — if not star-studded — life as a local factory worker and nowadays is probably best known by his friends and neighbors as the guy with the squirrel.

“I’ve got the only squirrel that goes to church every Sunday, over at Long’s Chapel. He’s the only animal that does that, ain’t you boy?” Cowboy coos to Angel, who despite being fastened by a tiny leather harness, climbs all over Cowboy. “That’s’ my pleasure, that squirrel is.”

Angel isn’t Cowboy’s first pet squirrel; decades ago, an early morning encounter set Cowboy on the path of rehabilitating any of the adorable little rodents that crossed his path — a stunning juxtaposition at odds with his villainous on-screen persona.

“I went down to the mailbox, and a little squirrel come down the bank and I picked him up,” Cowboy said. “He was about starved to death when I got him.”

While handing Angel a shelled pecan — which Angel then proceeds to hide in the front pocket of Cowboy’s bib overalls — Cowboy details his motivation.

“Somebody’s got to take care of them when they get hurt,” he said. “I’ve raised a lot of them. When somebody brings me a baby, you’ve got to take a dropper and put milk in it, and if you don’t get the air out their stomach will blow up and they will die.

Then after they get a little bigger, you get to put them on the bottle. I’ve got little bottles in here. I tried to raise them on that.”

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He’s nursed several squirrels back to health several over the years — most recently a pair named Amos and Andy, who he recently turned loose because he said they were “mean.”

Angel, too, has his moments.

“You have to watch him,” Cowboy says with a sly grin. “He’ll say a bad word every once in a while. He loves me to death, but he bites me sometimes. I bite him back.”

Still, Cowboy and Angel spend lots of time together and make quite the pair.

“He’s been all over the United States, that squirrel has. New Orleans, Canada

“Everybody’s gotta die.

I just want to live a good life and go to church, try to be nice to people. That’s how people will remember you when you die, is how you treated people.”

— Herbert “Cowboy” Coward

twice, Texas and Mexico, Alabama, Tennessee, out where they got those presidents carved on that mountain,” Cowboy said. “But I get him up on Sunday morning, me and him go to church every Sunday. Disregard how bad I feel or what what’s wrong with me, we go to church.”

When Cowboy is out and about in Haywood County, sometimes it’s hard to tell who is the bigger star — Cowboy, or Angel.

“I have a lot of people, if I go to grocery store they will ask me about the movies and stuff, what I done and how I got in it, but they’ll take pictures of me and the squirrel,” he laughed. “I’ll go in the doctors office, and tomorrow I go to the doctor, and I’ll take the squirrel right along with me, because if I don’t take him they get mad at me.”

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he confluence of Hubert Presley, Dan Blocker, Burt Reynolds, James Dickey and John Boorman — along with Voight and Beatty — included Haywood County native Herbert “Cowboy” Coward for a time, and resulted in a blockbuster box office success that has since garnered as much critical acclaim as it has controversy over the portrayals of Appalachian Americans like Cowboy, or, more broadly, rural whites in general.

Cowboy thinks that’s all overblown, especially since he’s nothing like the dim, gruff, would-be rapist he portrays in the film.

“It don’t bother me at all,” he said. “It’s just part of acting, you know. It was just another character to me.”

In fact, after portraying one of the most memorable villains in a movie that garnered international notice, Cowboy faded back into the day-to-day life of a rural Western North Carolinian, working at factory jobs in and around his native Haywood County.

One thing that didn’t fade, though, was his fame.

“A lot of people call me on the phone,” he said. “They’ll be having a big party up there in New York or something, and they want me to just talk on the phone where everybody can hear it. I get a lot of that. I get hollered every day.”

Another thing that never faded were the friendships he made on the set; he said he just

Angel, Cowboy’s pet squirrel, attends church with him regularly. Cory Vaillancourt photo

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Deliverance, a dark tale about some town fellers on a rafting trip gone very, very wrong, was being filmed on the Chattooga River in nearby Rabun County, Georgia.

Reynolds was cast as the outdoorsy alpha male Lewis Medlock, and was joined by fellow Gunsmoke performer Jon Voight — fresh off an Academy Award-nominated performance in 1969 Best Picture “Midnight Cowboy” — and in his debut, a young Ned Beatty.

As the story goes, Dan Blocker told producers that Cowboy would be perfect for the part, so they wrote Cowboy’s name on a chart on the wall in the production office.

“They called the telephone operator in Waynesville and asked if she knowed how to get ahold of Cowboy Coward,” Cowboy said.

“She said, ‘Why no, I don’t know no Cowboy Coward.’ So they was going to send somebody to Haywood County to hunt me.”

Around that same time Burt Reynolds, star of the picture, happened to pass through the office.

“Burt looked up on the bulletin board and seen they had it wrote down for somebody to come here and find me,” said Cowboy. “He said, ‘What do you want to talk to him about?’ They said, ‘We want him to audition for this part. We had 75 people audition and we turned them down.’ So Burt picked up the phone and called me.”

Shortly before his death in late 2018, Reynolds appeared on Conan O’Brien’s latenight TV talk show, and recalled pitching Cowboy to “Deliverance” director John Boorman.

“I said I know a guy, he can’t read and he can’t write or anything, but I’m telling ya, if we can get him, we got something special,” Reynolds told O’Brien of his conversation with Boorman. “Let me bring him in. His name’s Cowboy, and he’ll just talk to you, and you see if you like him.”

During the audition, Reynolds introduced Boorman to Cowboy, who turned to Reynolds and asked, “Did you tell him I can’t read?”

“Yes, I told them that,” Reynolds said to Cowboy.

“Just read this first line here, Cowboy,” Boorman said.

Cowboy glared at Reynolds, who recalled thinking, “Oh, I’m gonna get the shit beat out of me.’”

“The first line,” Boorman told Cowboy, ”is, ‘Get over against that tree and take your pants down.’”

“Get over against that s-s-s-s-s-ssssssapling,” said Cowboy, who speaks with an

Still missing teeth from an accident at Ghost Town, Cowboy Coward played a character called, “Toothless man.”

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POSITION With the retirement of the current Executive Director, who successfully led the organization following the retirement of the founding director, the third ED will be a strategic leader who believes in the value of land conservation, restoration of waterways, preservation of cultural heritage and strong connections with the community. Working with an effective, capable, strong staff, the new leader will have the vision to move Mainspring forward in directions consistent with its mission, while valuing traditions, respecting the past, and nurturing new energies among staff, volunteers, board members and the conservation community.

The ED will bring fresh perspectives and proven experience to execute the strategic plan, work closely with the deputy director, staff and Board to accomplish the organization’s direction, and continue partnerships with donors, land owners, community groups, local and regional government officials, and the EBCI. The ED will be a skilled manager of staff, finances and operations, with a history of improving systems and processes. The successful candidate will be a talented, proven fundraiser who will evaluate and improve current fundraising activity and expand the discovery and cultivation of new donors to diversify and strengthen Mainspring’s donor base, while stewarding existing donors. The new leader should have experience with, and be comfortable recruiting, cultivating, and soliciting major donors, foundations and public agencies.

PROCESS Send your resume, cover letter and three work-related references in email attachments to jobs@mainspringconserves.org by October 31, 2019.

Excellent benefits. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.

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COWBOY, CONTINUED FROM 7 talked to Billy Redden, who in the movie played the “banjo boy” that engaged in the impromptu performance of “Dueling banjos” with actor Ronny Cox. Cowboy’s greatest friendship, however, still hearkens back to his roots at Ghost Town.

“Burt said he didn’t have but three friends — real friends — and I was one of them, because I never asked him for nothing,” said Cowboy. “He said, ‘That’s what you call a good friend. There’s a difference between a friend and somebody that wants something from you.’”

Reynolds paid a number of visits to Cowboy over the years, including a surprise arrival that ended up with Reynolds staying overnight at Cowboy’s place.

“He said he was out flyin’ and just decided to fly out this way,” Cowboy recalls. “Back years ago there used to be a little ol’ airport down Johnson Street, and when I lived in Hazelwood he called one morning and said, ‘Come down to the airport and get me.’ I said, ‘What airport?’ and he said, ‘I landed my plane down here on Johnson Street.’ I said, ‘There ain’t been no airport down there in several years!’

Over the next decade, even as Reynolds went on to become a huge star with movies like “The Longest Yard,” “Gator,” “Smokey and the Bandit,” “Cannonball Run” and “Boogie Nights,” he kept in regular contact with Cowboy — “He’d call me when he was on the plane a-goin places” — and always asked Cowboy about his health, and his family.

Cowboy says that Reynolds called him when his son died a few years back.

“That was about the worst thing I ever went through, losing that boy,” Cowboy said. “[Reynolds] was a really good friend to me.

It’s hard to find somebody like that that’s a real good friend to you.”

Cowboy last saw Reynolds in Pigeon Forge,

about two weeks before he passed away.

“He was pretty active, but his heart, you know, he had had heart trouble for a long time,” Cowboy said. “He didn’t let nobody know he had heart trouble, but he had a bad heart.”

At 81, Cowboy knows it won’t be too long until he sees Reynolds again; he’s incredibly

“Burt said he didn’t have but three friends — real friends — and I was one of them, because I never asked him for nothing.

He said, ‘That’s what you call a good friend.

There’s a difference between a friend and somebody that wants something from you.’”

— Herbert “Cowboy” Coward

proud of an old wooden casket sitting in his parlor and insists on showing it to visitors whenever he can.

“When you die you have to have a casket, and you better be ready to meet the Lord,” he said. “Everybody’s gotta die. I just want to live a good life and go to church, try to be nice to people. That’s how people will remember you when you die, is how you treated people. If you’re not good to people, after a year or two they don’t remember you when you’re dead and gone.”

Blue Ridge Public Radio’s Lilly Knoepp contributed to this report.

‘We have to move forward’ Shape of N.C. 107 plans set, DOT says

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“The opportunity for public information or public comment has passed. We either move forward into right-of-way and construction, or we stop completely and essentially restart the process, which in my estimation would take 10 more years.”

— N.C. Department of Transportation Division Engineer Brian Burch

DOT invites questions on road project Members of the public with questions or concerns about the N.C. 107 road project are encouraged to call the N.C. Department of Transportation office in Jackson County rather than the Town of Sylva, Division 14 Engineer Brian Burch said Sept. 12.

“Please contact us,” said Burch. “While this was a project that was vetted through the local governments and it followed the process, at this point DOT is in charge of this project.

We are the ones who will have to deliver this project, so we’re the ones that have the answers that we’ll have to provide to whoever is interested.”

The DOT can be reached at 828.586.2141.

For a town Sylva’s size, that will deal a tremendous blow to the business community and the property tax base, not to mention an inconvenience to drivers during the 3.5 years estimated for construction. The plan has sparked strong opposition from many in the community who fear that the road project will permanently cripple the town’s economy.

“I know there’s been a lot of work put into it, but I really believe that there is room for improvement,” said Patricia Purdy, one of eight people to give public comment Sept. 12. “We’re not talking about businesses. We’re talking about people’s lives and their livelihood.”

Jackson County resident Eric Myers expressed concern about the project’s rising cost. Original estimates in 2017 put the total cost of construction and right-of-way acquisition at $33.2 million, but updated figures released this summer upped the estimate to $89.7 million — judging from the final costs of other, similar projects, the project will likely end up costing more like $100 million by the time all is said and done, Burch said in July.

“NCDOT seems determined to ram this boilerplate project through without the least sensitivity to local concerns,” said Myers.

Jay Coward, an attorney and the leader of the Smart Roads Alliance, told commissioners that he’d hoped to have a spot on the agenda to discuss his ideas about the 107 project. Smart Roads recently held a meeting on the topic, with two main takeaways result-

ing from the discussion — there needs to be a survey, and there needs to be an economic impact study.

“The bottom line is that no one body, no agency, no town, no county, no interested party in this thing has actually studied the economic impact, and we felt like the economic impact of this project ought to be reviewed by a neutral third party, and that it should be comprehensive and be presented in the future to this board and to the county commissioners,” he said.

Coward is on the agenda for the Sept. 17 Jackson County Commissioners meeting, which occurred after The Smoky Mountain News’ press time. He asked town commissioners to weigh in on whether they’d support him meeting with Arthur Salido, WCU’s executive director for community and economic engagement and innovation, to discuss the possibility of an economic impact study.

“If I can get that backing from the Town of Sylva, I feel like I can proceed with Professor Salido in a way that says this is something the Town of Sylva would like to pursue,” said Coward.

Commissioners did not add Coward’s request to the agenda, which would have allowed them to take a formal vote on the matter. McPherson and Commissioner David Nestler both said they thought an economic impact study would be a good idea, but none of the board’s remaining members made a definitive statement.

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downtown economy they expected the project would cause. Eventually, the group won.

DOT axed its plans for a bypass and instead aimed to improve the existing roads — namely, N.C. 107.

But as early plans began to emerge for the N.C. 107 makeover, it became clear that approach would take a toll as well. Current plans indicate that 55 businesses and organizations, as well as five residences, are on the list for relocation. While not all of these buildings will necessarily be bulldozed in the process, the DOT will have to take enough of each property so as to render it unusable for its current purpose. A total of 186 parcels will see some degree of impact, ranging from a total taking to a tiny sliver of easement or right-of-way.

Teresa Cheek voices her disapproval of the N.C. 107 plans to town commissioners. Holly Kays photo

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he time to tweak plans for Sylva’s controversial N.C. 107 project is past, residents were told during a well-attended town meeting Thursday, Sept. 12.

More than 30 people were at the meeting to deliver public comment and hear an update from N.C. Department of Transportation Division Engineer Brian Burch.

“Essentially, we’re at the point where we have to move forward with the engineering design that we have,” he said. “The opportunity for public information or public comment has passed. We either move forward into right-of-way and construction, or we stop completely and essentially restart the process, which in my estimation would take 10 more years.”

The N.C. 107 project has funding to move forward, but if DOT were to go back to the drawing board, that money would disappear.

The next opportunity to get a project funded is more than two years away, said Burch, and DOT doesn’t have the cash available it did a few years ago, thanks to weather events such as Hurricane Florence.

“What do you think improvements to 107 would look like in 10 years as opposed to now?” asked Commissioner Greg McPherson.

Burch responded that he expects the project would look about the same, but with traffic continuing to increase in the intervening years.

“I would expect it to continue to increase, and I would expect you to continue to have the safety concerns you have today,” he said.

“I have been told that your police force works an accident every day on that stretch of highway, and I would not expect that to change.”

The DOT has been working on the current plan for three years, said Burch, and that process has included a plethora of public involvement.

“We’ve had multiple workshops, more than any that we’ve ever had on any project that I’m familiar with in Division 14,” he said.

The time has come to act, he said, and DOT will begin acquiring right-of-way in January. In fact, it has begun acquiring some property already. By the end of September, plans that show all the impacts — including those from utility placements — will be released.

Further conversation between Burch and town commissioners revealed that some land that the DOT is currently planning to take — either through easement or as a right-of-way — could potentially be used for business pur-

poses once the project is complete. State law prohibits right-of-way from being used for commercial purposes, such as parking, but such use is allowed on easements. It’s DOT policy to have 10 feet of right-of-way past the curb, but DOT could consider purchasing the right-of-way as an easement or reducing it width, though only on a case-by-case basis, said Burch.

“When the dust settles, is there going to be an opportunity for any of that property to be brought back to the community to become part of the tax base again, to build buildings again?” asked Commissioner Mary Gelbaugh.

“We will have right-of-ways, and those right-of-ways will not be, but we also may have remnant properties or surplus property,” said Burch. Those parcels could be sold into private ownership.

Talk about what to do with N.C. 107 has been going on since the 1990s. Originally, the road was built as a connector between Sylva and Cullowhee — a wide, open road with few, if any, driveways. Over time, the area became more developed, businesses located along the corridor, Western Carolina University began to grow, and a traffic issue was born.

Originally, the DOT’s concept was to build the Southern Loop, a bypass that would connect Cullowhee to U.S. 74 without funneling traffic all the way up to Sylva. In 2002 the Smart Roads Alliance formed in response to that plan, decrying the astronomical expense, environmental damage and harm to Sylva’s

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Planning to begin on proposed Haywood Schools facility

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER aywood County has taken its first formal step forward in pursuit of a proposed $13 million, 40,000-square-foot central administration facility requested by Haywood County Schools.

Back on Aug. 19, HCS Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte presented commissioners with the ambitious plan that would consolidate several existing buildings into one. Called the Educational Support Center, it comes partly of necessity and partly for efficiency.

HCS’ current central administration facility is scheduled for redevelopment into affordable housing for seniors and veterans, which means Nolte and his staff need to be out by December 2020. But other HCS functions, like food service and teacher trainings, take place at locations all over the county.

A centralized location would make more sense from a time management perspective while also allowing HCS to dispose of several aging buildings that are expensive to heat, to light and to maintain.

After that presentation, Haywood County Board of Commissioners Chairman Kevin Ensley directed County Manager Bryant Morehead to form a small study group with county staff and HCS administrators.

On Sept. 16, commissioners unanimously approved a measure to formally authorize Morehead to participate in planning for a location and/or facility.

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The authorization came at the request of the school board, which had previously passed a resolution of its own.

“We hereby direct Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte and Associate Superintendent Dr. Trevor Putnam to enter formal planning with representatives of the Haywood County Board of Commissioners for an Educational Support Services facility with a focus on long-term, efficient, effective and consolidated operations,” reads the resolution, passed

by HCS Sept. 9. “We hereby respectfully request that the Haywood County Board of County Commissioners appoint representatives to enter into formal joint planning with individuals designated by the Haywood County Board of Education for the purposes of the foregoing.”

Morehead said he’s already met twice with HCS representatives.

“We’ve talked at length about the presentation, and about how they’d like to have this consolidated campus for the efficiencies, and how they’d like to get rid of some older buildings,” said Morehead. “We’ve talked about the requirements of that. And we’ve talked about timelines.

If approved, the new facility probably wouldn’t meet the December 2020 deadline, but according to Nolte’s presentation, the longer they wait, the more expensive it will be. Morehead said they’ve gone about as far as they can in planning without formalizing the arrangement.

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“We really didn’t have authority to say, ‘Let’s go out and look at parcel A, or parcel B,’ he said. “That’s going to require debt, so we’ll have to talk to the Local Government Commission about financing. The Local Government Commission will ask what we’re working on, and where our authority comes from, so now we can show that both boards have requested this.”

Financing remains a big hurdle; the project’s price tag is substantial compared to the budgets of the county and the school system, and the LCG will be a key player in any proposed project.

“They will look at our financial health, our fund balance, our ability to pay,” said Morehead. “We will probably engage some

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A centralized location would make more sense from a time management perspective while also allowing HCS to dispose of several aging buildings that are expensive to heat, to light and to maintain.

bond counsel, depending on how we finance it. They [the LGC] will also review the bids, and handle shopping the bonds.”

Voter-approved loans are called general obligation bonds and require a successful ballot measure.

“We probably aren’t going that route, but we’ll probably look at limited obligation debt, or LOBs,” he said. “We would probably be able to get a slightly lower rate than an installment loan through a bank, but we can also get the terms that general obligation bonds would have provided.”

Chuck Francis, chair of the HCS board, said he was encouraged by the progress thus far.

“If you’re at the grocery store and people are running you down, telling you that you don’t need this and you need to slow down, well, that’s one thing,” he said. “But I hear a lot of support in the community for this.”

Francis does, however, recognize the gravity of asking for $13 million from a county that is rapidly shedding debt at present.

“The major concern is funding,” he said.

“It’s going to be challenging, as any project is, but my wish is that we can work together to make this happen. We’ve seen other county facilities being upgraded, and it’s the schools’ turn.”

The new facility, Francis said, would help the county operate in “a more effective, efficient, economical manner.”

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lue Ridge Health (BRH) has been awarded a $650,000 New Access Point grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to open a new community health center in Bryson City.

The application also proposed a School Based Health Center in the Swain County School District and dental services to be made available through a mobile dental program launched by BRH in neighboring counties in the summer of 2018. The proposal is the result of collaborative plan assembled by BRH, the Swain County Health Department (SCHD) and Swain County Schools (SCS) in response to an opportunity to strengthen and expand access to comprehensive, affordable health care in the area.

Last April, Blue Ridge Health reached out to SCHD and SCS about the funding opportunity to improve access to care. Together the three organizations worked together to prepare the NAP application, which included letters of support from community agencies including the Swain County Manager, Swain County Department of Social Services, and elected officials like Rep. Mark Meadows “A child that is not well is and state Rep. Joe Sam Queen. a child that struggles to “There is an opporlearn. Everyday a student tunity in Swain County to provide improved or teacher is absent is a access to high quality missed opportunity.” primary care, dentistry and behavioral health — Mark Sale, Superintendent services,” said Dr. for Swain Schools Richard Hudspeth, Chief Executive Officer for BRH. “We are confident in our demonstrated ability to open practices in new communities and proud of our track record of creating positive changes in health outcomes.”

Like other BRH practices, the new locations in Bryson City will provide primary care services under a patient-centered model of care for all residents of Swain County and neighboring communities. Services will include family medicine, behavioral health, dentistry, pharmacy, nutrition and educational outreach. The practices will accept all insurance plans, including Medicaid and Medicare, and no one will be turned away for an inability to pay. Patients without insurance will pay on a sliding scale based on family size and household income.

“Having a comprehensive, full-time primary care practice that provides affordable care for patients with or without insurance in Swain County represents a wonderful opportunity for our residents to improve their overall health,” said Alison Cochran, Swain County Health Director. “This will be a great resource for our community and we look forward to working with Blue Ridge Health.’

School-based health centers like the one proposed aim to keep students healthy and in school as studies show their presence improves graduation rates and helps parents miss less work.

“Every day we are in class is an opportunity for growth. Affordable health care regardless of ability to pay is a critical link we often forget when thinking about learning in the classroom,” said Mark Sale, Superintendent for Swain Schools. “A child that is not well is a child that struggles to learn. Everyday a student or teacher is absent is a missed opportunity.”

This award marks the fifth successful NAP application that BRH has had funded since 2012. With two new locations in Swain County, BRH will have over 25 practices in eight counties throughout Western North Carolina.

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Folkmoot, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, has become a Western North Carolina institution. Each summer since 1984 musicians and dancers from across the globe have visited Waynesville as part of the Folkmoot International Dance and Music Festival. More than 8,000 international performers from 200 countries have participated through the decades. Folkmoot focuses on programs and events that celebrate diversity and differences, encourage cultural conversation and inclusion, and preserve and honor worldwide cultural heritages, especially using dance and music as a tool to achieve world peace.

Year-round programs at Folkmoot include the Southern Storytellers Series, Cultural Crash Courses, Nashville Songwriters in the Round, live music performances and International Friendship Dinners. Artist’s studio spaces are also available, and the Center recently became home to the Western North Carolina Quilt Trail, hosted by the Haywood County Arts Council.

The Academy at SOAR, founded in 1977, is a North Carolina certified non-public co-educational boarding school and a branch of SOAR Inc. (Success Oriented Achievement Realized). SOAR is also accredited regionally through AdvancEd (SACS) as a fully accredited secondary school. The tuition-based school currently serves a maximum of 32 male and female students, most of whom have had difficulty succeeding in traditional educational environments.

“I just can’t believe how awesome everyone has been in Waynesville,” said Joe Geier, Head of School at SOAR. “They’ve bent over backwards to help us meet a tight timeline. We’re very thankful, our students are starting the year on a high note, and we look forward to making another home for SOAR Academy here at Folkmoot.”

The school functions as a hybrid residential boarding school on a 4-week cycle: half of the school’s 32-student enrollment are in a traditional classroom setting at any given time, while the other half are on traveling expeditions.

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aynesville arts and cultural organization Folkmoot has reached an agreement with the Academy at SOAR, a longtime boarding school in the Balsam community of Jackson County, to move its school operations on the Folkmoot Friendship Center campus.

SOAR, which serves students grades 712 diagnosed with a learning disability and/or ADHD, will occupy the original Hazelwood School building for 10 months each year, leaving two summer months for use by Folkmoot and its long-running International Festival. The structure, which dates to 1923, comprises roughly one-third of the Folkmoot Center space.

As part of the agreement between the two organizations, substantial upgrades will be made to the building, including new heating and air conditioning systems.

Folkmoot leaders say the partnership is integral to its long-term development strategy as a year-round arts and cultural center, one aspect of which is sustainable use of the entire 40,000-square-foot space. One barrier to broader use requires various rehabilitation projects within the aging structure, including heat and air.

“Folkmoot has been in the process of building year-round programming and creating opportunities for community rentals that help to sustain the costs of owning the Friendship Center,” said Folkmoot Executive Director Angie Schwab. “It’s a 40,000 square-foot structure and there is plenty of room for SOAR, Folkmoot and for new arts and cultural program expansion.”

“The SOAR School partnership will mean building B gets the care and maintenance it deserves,” said David Francis, Folkmoot Board President. “From a neighborhood perspective, Hazelwood will appreciate that the building looks nice on the outside and that SOAR students and faculty are good neighbors. From a historic preservation perspective, upgrading the building with heat and air will help to preserve the vintage building while programmatically, the HVAC upgrades will make the space more comfortable as we host international performers.”

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UNC strategizes for sustained enrollment Demographics point to future declines in prospective college students

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER t’s no secret that Western Carolina University is a growing community, with enrollment topping 12,000 for the first time this semester following an upward swing that’s seen the student body increase for eight out of the past nine years.

But that growth could falter if wider trends in population and educational attainment are any indication.

“We have a dramatic decline in fertility rates,” Andrew Kelly, senior vice president for strategy and policy at the University of North Carolina System Office, told the WCU Board of Trustees during a Sept. 5 presentation.

“People really stopped having kids in the recession as you might expect, but it actually hasn’t rebounded. It’s just been reset to a lower level.”

Kelly presented his research on demographic trends in North Carolina with a long-range view looking out to 2038, when children being born now will be in the 18-to-24 age range that makes up most of WCU’s student body.

Enrollment at WCU has been on the upswing over the past decade, but that growth is expected to moderate given demographic trends. WCU photo

increased competition for college students — is a critical one for WCU, and for the UNC system as a whole. UNC schools receive funding based on the number of credit-hours enrolled.

“If your entire funding model and discretionary model come from enrollment growth but there are fewer students to grow your enrollment, what happens to the business model of our institutions?” said Kelly. “Again,

a decade out in some respects but we should plan for it now.”

Kelly said he’s continuing to drill into the data to see what where students go when they look out-of-state for their education, and why they make that choice. But there’s already a good bit of data on how many North Carolina high school graduates go to community college versus UNC schools versus some other type of institution.

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Over that period of time, the size of the college student market in North Carolina is expected to shrink due not only to declining birth rates but also due to demographic changes and an aging population. In the next 20 years, high school graduates in North Carolina are more likely to be Hispanic, a group that is statistically less likely to go to college or have a parent with a bachelor’s degree, and more likely to be low-income.

“The storyline is we need to think a little bit about our market and our market share and how we move forward as a system,” said Kelly.

The predicted decrease in the number of high school graduates in the next 20 years extends nationwide, but the curve is softer in the southern states than in the rest of the country. The region has an overall larger number of high school graduates — roughly double that of the northeastern states, with the gap projected to grow — and that means that North Carolina needs to watch out for schools in other states, also faced with declining enrollment, looking to poach its students.

“These places have enormous higher education footprints, and they’re not going to have as many students left to enroll nearby, so they’re going to come to North Carolina and recruit ours, as they’re already doing,” said Kelly of institutions in the northeastern U.S. This whole issue — declining numbers of high school graduates, lower fertility and

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not. So thinking about that as a challenge for our system to solve, and I say ‘our system’ because not every institution is going to want to solve it,” said Kelly.

The system could also do better at attracting students from poorer counties designated as Tier 1 or 2 by the state Department of Commerce. Of the 23,439 students who graduated from high school in 2017 and met UNC’s minimum admission requirements, 17.8 percent did not enroll in any college, compared to 13 percent of the 30,804 students from Tier 3 counties. Statewide, the figure is 15 percent, more than 8,000 students.

“Given what we know about the economy and changing demand of the economy, some subset of those 8,000 would likely be well served in enrollment somewhere,” said Kelly.

Similarly, 34.7 percent of Tier 1 or 2 students attended a UNC System school compared to 46.5 percent of Tier 3 students. The Tier 1 and 2 counties saw a much greater share of students who chose to go to community college, however, at 31.6 percent compared to 21.1 percent of students from Tier 3 counties.

Kelly told trustees that the demand for workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher is likely to increase in North Carolina.

According to the Georgetown Center on Education and Workforce, 38 percent of jobs will require such a degree by 2027, but only 33 percent of workers currently have one.

A bachelor’s degree could prove a buffer against threats from automation, said Kelly.

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, nearly 40 percent of Americans are in occupational categories expected to shrink by 2030, and people with a high school diploma or less are four times more likely to hold highly automatable roles than those with a bachelor’s degree.

Rural areas are especially susceptible, according to McKinsey, with 25 cities responsible for 66 percent of job growth over the past decade while rural areas saw 360,000 fewer jobs in 2017 than in 2007.

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Data from the My Future N.C. Commission shows that of 2009-2016 high school graduates who enrolled on time, 42 percent went to a UNC school and 39 percent went to a community college. Another 10 percent went to a private, in-state school and 9 percent went to a four-year, out-of-state school.

However, those numbers shifted dramatically when students delayed their entry into post-secondary education by just two years or less. Of that group, only 10 percent went to a UNC school. A full 72 percent went to a community college in North Carolina, with 4 percent going to a private in-state school, 8 percent going to a four-year out-of-state school and 6 percent going to a two-year out-of-state school.

The share of UNC students diminished even more for students who delayed their education by more than two years — of those, just 6 percent went to a UNC school.

Another 60 percent went to a North Carolina community college, with 4 percent going to a private in-state school and 10 percent to a two-year out-of-state school. The share attending a four-year out-of-state school grew dramatically, to 20 percent.

“I think there’s an opportunity for our system to think more about people over the age of 25 who might be juggling work and family commitments, and creating more pathways into our system,” said Kelly.

More than 1 million North Carolinians ages 25 to 64 have some college credit but no degree, said Kelly. The top five four-year institutions attended by high school graduates who delayed their education by more than two years were American Public University System; Strayer University-Washington, D.C.; University of Phoenix; University of Maryland-University College; and UNC Charlotte. The first three in that list are online, for-profit schools, while UMUC is an online, nonprofit school.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER axpayer-funded Shining Rock Classical Academy’s attempt to address its long history of public transparency law violations got off to an inauspicious start when the school failed to provide proper public notice of a Sunday afternoon meeting intended to educate its unelected board – about half of whom actually showed up – on public transparency law.

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fter a meeting with publishers and editors of The Smoky Mountain News and the Waynesville Mountaineer back in mid-August, Shining Rock announced that it would suspend all board operations until it could address deficiencies in how its board announces its meetings, how its board enters into closed sessions and how its board responds to public records requests.

Via an Aug. 19 email, the board then cancelled its regular Aug. 21 meeting, and announced that an educational retreat would be held Sept. 15.

In North Carolina, there are four basic types of meetings: regular meetings, which are the most common and are held in a regular place, at a regular time per a published yearly schedule; recessed meetings, which are rare but are convened and then are “paused” until the public body reconvenes at 16 a later time; emergency meetings, which are

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also rare and require immediate consideration of an unexpected issue; and special meetings, which aren’t rare at all.

All four types of meetings have different requirements for notifying citizens of the public body’s intent to hold the meeting; given that the Sept. 15 board retreat wasn’t a regular meeting, wasn’t a recessed meeting and certainly wasn’t an emergency meeting, that means it was a special meeting.

Public notice requirements for special meetings are a three-legged stool in which the absence of any of the three “legs” constitutes a violation of state statue.

Those three legs include physically posting notice of the meeting on the building in which it will be held, publishing notice of the meeting on the public body’s website and emailing notice of the meeting to a “sunshine list” consisting of media outlets and citizens who have requested to be included on such a list.

All three of those “legs” must be in place at least 48 hours prior to the meeting.

Shining Rock Head of School Joshua Morgan

said he’d posted the notice on the school building as required, and the school had also published notice of the meeting date and time to the school’s website.

Less than 48 hours before the start of the noon Sunday meeting, a sunshine email had not been received by The Smoky Mountain News.

When contacted by SMN about the oversight, Morgan said, “You were noticed on August 19th via the public information email.”

Unfortunately, that email was not sufficient to fulfill public notice requirements.

In its entirety, the email reads, “Good afternoon, Media Partner. This message is being sent to notify you that the SRCA Board of Directors have [sic] cancelled the upcoming meeting previously scheduled for August 21, 2019. The next scheduled Board activity will take place on September 15, 2019 for the Board retreat. The Board will then meet on September 25, 2019 for its next regular monthly meeting.”

Morgan’s assertion that the email served

According to the published agenda, the board’s appointed attorney, David R. Hostetler — whose job it is to prevent Shining Rock from violating open meetings laws — led a training session on open meetings laws.

as proper public notice for the Sept. 15 meeting is missing two key elements — per North Carolina General Statue 143-318.12, titled “Public notice of official meetings,” section (b) plainly states that the public body “shall give public notice of the time and place of that meeting as provided in this subsection.”

The Aug. 19 email contained neither the place nor the time of the meeting. The school’s website noted the time of the meeting, but not the place.

Indeed, less than 48 hours before the meeting SMN had to email Morgan just to find out where it was being held.

Shortly after Morgan provided the meeting’s location, the school’s website was updated to reflect the location, but a sunshine email meeting statutory requirements was never received by SMN. This is at least the second time in 2019 the school has held an illegal meeting, and the third time in the last two years.

Regardless of its legality, the retreat signals that Morgan, head of school since early July, is serious about addressing longstanding board impropriety.

According to the published agenda, the board’s appointed attorney, David R. Hostetler — whose job it is to prevent Shining Rock from violating open meetings laws — led a training session on open meetings laws.

Additionally, Hostetler was to lead a session on the legalities of dealing with public records requests, despite the school’s recent attempt to charge SMN for public records in violation of state law.

At least a dozen records requests by SMN dating back more than five weeks have remained unfulfilled as of press time. At least one of those is for records the school delivered to the Mountaineer — Haywood County’s community newspaper — weeks ago.

Also on the meeting’s agenda was the board secretary, Melanie Norman, who led a training session on keeping accurate minutes.

According to a Mountaineer story published Aug. 5, when that newspaper requested copies of closed session minutes that all public bodies are legally mandated to record, “ … SRCA board members said they did not have anything to provide.”

The noon meeting ended up convening 10 minutes late, as the only board members present, Anna Eason, Michelle Haynes and Melanie Norman, discussed whether or not they had a quorum. Shining Rock’s board handbook defines a quorum as “more than half.”

More than half of the eight-member the board was not physically present at the meeting. Board member Jason Moody, who Haynes said was entertaining out-of-town guests, was included in the meeting by conference call, but made no comments during Hostetler’s two-hour discussion on transparency.

Near the end of Hostetler’s presentation, board member Mike Mehaffey joined the meeting via laptop. Board members Chad Carver, Travis Crisp and Larry Wilkerson were absent. No one from the public attended the meeting.

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The Cashiers Community Fund has awarded $141,000 in grants to nonprofits serving Cashiers and the surrounding region.

The recent grants include: • The Bascom was awarded $10,000 for its Cashiers Community Outreach and Education Initiative, including the scholarship program, instructors and materials.

• Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project was awarded $10,000 to increase access to free preventive dental services and dental health education for low-income residents of the Cashiers area.

• Boys & Girls Club of the Plateau was awarded $10,000 for Academic Success programming that includes homework help, supplemental academic material and tutoring.

• Cashiers Valley Preschool was awarded $10,000 to purchase supplies, toys, equipment and furnishings for a new toddler room and an awning cover for the sidewalk entrance.

• Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society was awarded $10,000 for seven weeks of Critter Camp, a new summer camp program for rising first through sixth graders.

• Community Care Clinic of HighlandsCashiers was awarded $10,000 for general operating support.

• Fishes & Loaves Food Pantry was awarded $10,000 for food purchases.

• Friends of Panthertown was awarded $10,000 to support its ongoing forest stewardship and conservation mission, promote volunteer work days and cover operating expenses necessary to coordinate volunteers.

• Hampton School was awarded $10,000 to provide high-quality childcare for children ages twelve months to twelve years in a safe and nurturing learning environment.

• Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust was awarded $6,500 to support the Kids in Nature Education Coordinator who will oversee all aspects of the program.

• Mountain Projects/Circles of Hope Cashiers was awarded $7,500 for direct service personnel, supplies, educational materials and incentives for its financial sustainability program.

• Mountain Youth Charities/Junior Appalachian Musicians-Blue Ridge was awarded $7,000 to support its afterschool community music program for children.

• Pisgah Legal Services was awarded $10,000 to expand its provision of free civil legal assistance and advocacy to low-income people who live and work in and around Cashiers.

• Summit Charter School was awarded $10,000 to implement Place-Based Learning initiatives for more than 250 Cashiers-area students.

• The Village Green was awarded $10,000 to install public Wi-Fi broadband access for the 13.2 acres of central community park space in Cashiers.

Since 1994, the Cashiers Community Fund has awarded $1,475,785 to projects serving the Cashiers community. These grants also received funding from the Lyn K. Holloway Memorial Fund.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER he need for mental health, substance use disorder and intellectual/developmental disabilities resources in North Carolina is growing, but funding is not. In fact, another massive cut is on the horizon, and Haywood’s government and non-profit communities aren’t happy about it.

“If people aren’t getting their mental health treatments and are displaced, they end up in our jail, calling our EMS, calling for social work services, the sheriff ’s calls go up, it just impacts everything,” said Bryant Morehead, Haywood County’s manager. “It touches so many things we do. To my understanding, the formula that was used last year was about a 4 percent cut. The [impending] change now represents about a 21 percent cut in that revenue stream.”

Morehead’s talking about a $9 million funding cut proposed in the North Carolina General Assembly that would dramatically affect Vaya Health, a public Local Management Entity/Managed Care Organization that is responsible for managing and overseeing publicly funded mental health/substance abuse/IDD services for more than a quarter-million residents in the 22-county Western North Carolina region alone.

“Mental health treatment — we haven’t done a good job in this country, and here’s some more cuts coming down the line, and I worry at the local level that here’s a revenue source from the state or federal government that was paying for this,” he said. “If that cut happens, does it now become an issue we have to take care of with our property tax dollars?”

Haywood County Commissioners passed a resolution to that effect Sept. 16, calling on the General Assembly to stop cutting Vaya Health’s state single-stream funding “so that such funds can be utilized to strengthen access to healthcare services … of uninsured and underinsured Haywood County citizens.”

According to the resolution, state funding for behavioral health services such as those handled by Vaya “has been inconsistent and inadequate for more than 17 years, since mental health reform legislation was passed by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2001.”

Over the past four years alone, statewide cuts have added up to more than $458 mil-

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lion — $48 million of that to Vaya. That number will grow to $57 million if the proposed $9 million cut becomes law.

In 2015, Vaya developed a reinvestment plan designed to reduce needless emergency room visits, divert people from jails and combat the opioid crisis being felt across the nation and the state. Since then, Vaya has reinvested more than $18 million in programs that include things like opioid overdose reversal kits.

“If people aren’t getting their mental health treatments and are displaced, they end up in our jail, calling our EMS, calling for social work services, the sheriff’s calls go up, it just impacts everything.”

— Bryant Morehead, Haywood County manager

If the cuts — held up in the ongoing budget veto standoff — do come, that could prevent some in Haywood County from getting the mental health services they need and exacerbate the opioid crisis.

“People will self-medicate with opioids or alcohol or something like that, because they need … I know the clinical word isn’t relief, but they will probably look for some escape from whatever they are battling, and drugs and alcohol are the ones they turn to,” said Morehead.

In late August, Vaya CEO Brian Ingraham told The Smoky Mountain News that without the $9 million, there would have to be “some kind” of reduction in services.

Meanwhile, the state currently enjoys a $900 million budget surplus. Republican leadership in the General Assembly, including Senate Leader Phil Berger, RRockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, have proposed liquidating that largesse by giving refunds of up to $125 per taxpayer.

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER assing off mass-produced tchotchkes as authentic Native American crafts could soon be illegal in Cherokee following Tribal Council’s unanimous vote to approve the Native Arts and Crafts Act last week.

The legislation, submitted by the Office of the Attorney General with support from outgoing Wolfetown Representative Jeremy Wilson, states that it will be unlawful to “offer, display for sale, or sell any good in a manner Jeremy Wilson that falsely suggests” it is made by Cherokee people or by Native Americans.

“The purpose of this is to take action on things that are being sold here on the Qualla Boundary that don’t identify who we really are, and I think if we’re going to be making the attempt to strive for more cultural appropriation for us, and our identity, then I think that actions like this

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are to be needed,” said Wilson.

It is already illegal to dishonestly represent non-Native goods as indigenous creations. The federal Indian Arts and Crafts Act prohibits such actions.

Nevertheless, the resolution accompanying the proposed ordinance stated, “these laws have not prevented inauthentic Cherokee goods and goods falsely purporting to be of other tribes from being displayed and sold.”

The ordinance was written in response to a resolution Wilson introduced in June, which Council then approved and Principal Chief Richard Sneed signed. The resolution directed the Office of the Attorney General to draft a “truth-in-advertising” law within 60 days of ratification that would prevent such misrepresentations.

The act lays out a fine of up to $1,000 and up to six months of prison for knowingly violating it. Guilty parties can have their tribal business license revoked by the Business Committee.

“I’m hoping this helps local entrepreneurs,” said Wilson.

The ordinance requires ratification from Sneed to become effective.

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Opinion To reduce overdose deaths, start in the local jail Y Smoky Mountain News

ou may have a story about Peter, while someone down the road has a similar story about Rose. Mine starts with George, my cousin who died at the age of 38 from an opioid-related overdose.

Such a tragic event will make anyone with a heart pause and reflect, but this is a special case. I am a criminologist who studies drug use in the criminal justice system, and I have thought long and hard about how George’s experience reflects our failure to implement practices designed to reduce crime, enhance public safety and strengthen our communities. We have opportunities to do a better job and change these stories.

George was arrested and booked into the Miami-Dade County Jail for drug possession on Aug. 16, 2017. He was released on bond the following day and immediately found his way to a nearby drug-treatment center. He was desperately looking for help.

Like many adults with a substance use disorder, George had his fair share of brushes with the law. He stole fishing rods off docked boats so he could sell them and get money to finance his costly drug use. He spent several short spells in South Florida jails, none of which addressed the primary cause of the crimes he committed.

The criminal justice system operates on the principle that individual will is the sole determinant of behavior. If the defendant wants to stay out of jail, avoid a probation violation or make it to the next court date, then he’ll make it happen.

This approach seems to suffice, until the gaps in the system prove otherwise.

When George arrived at the drug-treatment center, he was

turned away because the facility was full. His pleas for a bed and necessary medical care were not enough to grant him admission. With nowhere else to go, George checked in to a cheap motel to wait for a spot at the treatment center.

He was motivated to get clean, but this motivation was overwhelmed by the natural inclination to avoid the agony of opioid withdrawal.

George found himself waiting for something that may take a few days or a few weeks. He had little hope and Guest Columnist nothing to distract him from the thought that the odds were against him. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to understand why he would take the only item of value, his phone, and trade it for a bag of heroin. Put me in that situation and I’d do the same thing.

What George didn’t know was that the heroin was laced with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid analog that is 100 times more potent. He injected the mixture and experienced that euphoric sensation one last time. George was found dead on Aug. 23, not even one week after being released from jail.

The majority of adults who are booked into our local jails meet diagnostic criteria for moderate to severe substance use disorder, with methamphetamine and opioids leading the charge. To make matters worse, a significant proportion report recent injection of drugs. It’s the most dangerous form of administration, and it skyrockets the probability of an overdose.

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Time for Meadows to retire

‘Blessed be the critics of newspapers’

To the Editor: Since North Carolina’s 11th Dist.

Representative Mark Meadows, R, took office in 2013, 93,000 and counting US citizens have been killed by gun violence. Additionally, depending on the year, there have been from 15,000 to 31,000 gun-related injuries and each year nearly 22,000 suicides by guns. And equally as sad are the many thousands of families whose lives are forever changed due to gun-related violence.

A majority of registered voters nationwide say Congress needs to do more to reduce gun violence: 72 percent total including 50 percent of Republicans, 93 percent of Democrats, and 75 percent of Independents.

Rep. Meadows, who is suspected to be in the deep pockets of the pro-assault rifle NRA, has consistently voted “nay” for gun reform. It’s time to replace do-nothing Meadows with someone with the guts, gumption, and gonads to reduce this senseless carnage with common sense gun regulation.

Maj. Steve Woodsmall, USAF-Retired, for NC 11th Dist. Representative is that person.

He’ll be part of the solution; not part of the problem.

John H. Fisher Hendersonville

To the Editor: Western North Carolina’s answer to Jim Acosta — Smoky Mountain News Editor Scott McLeod in his last week’s column — frets that “never has the credibility of those of us who call ourselves journalists been under attack like we are today.”

Boo-fricken-hoo. What does the record actually show?

The Sedition Act of 1798 resulted in the arrest of the editors of the Philadelphia Aurora and the Times Piece. I wonder if they would agree with that statement.

Read Upton Sinclair’s The Brass Check, where he compares the title item — a token bought by the customer in a brothel and then given to the woman of his choice — to media owners who purchase the services of journalists.

Jefferson was instrumental in overturning the Sedition Act, but in his second term he instructed state attorney generals to prosecute newspaper editors for sedition.

Jefferson never held journalistic credibility in high esteem: “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” “I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and menda-

Think about it: the most at-risk population is also captive, at least for a short period, and we need to act quickly. The first step is to systematically conduct comprehensive assessments to determine who is eligible for treatment services.

This is rarely done, largely because of the lack of qualified personnel. The information we have gathered comes from local initiatives led by Western Carolina University researchers and has been used to implement a variety of programs, but all jails should have this as standard protocol.

Once this information is collected, adults with substance use disorders can receive information about laws regarding reporting overdoses, programs to test heroin for potentially deadly adulterants and available treatment programs with open beds, and they can make links to social services required at the time of release.

Instead of passing the time idly, detainees should be sitting at desks getting informed. Basically, the brief jail stay should be used to educate and initiate the pathway to recovery. Sure, not all will participate, but there are a lot of Georges out there, and the failure to provide help when it means the most is truly fatal.

Albert M. Kopak is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Western Carolina University. He has recently published a study on this topic for WCU’s Center for the Study of Free Enterprise, which can be found at the website enterprise.wcu.edu. In partnership with the Jackson County Community Foundation’s opioid and addiction awareness campaign, the center is hosting a town hall focused on the opioid addiction crisis Thursday, Oct. 3. For information, visit the website go.wcu.edu/townhall.

LETTERS cious spirit of those who write for them.”

“From forty years’ experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.”

Lincoln was responsible for shutting down more than 300 newspapers during the course of the Civil War. Government officials shut down The Chicago Times for excessively criticizing the Lincoln administration. Editors were arrested, papers closed, and reporters kept away from battlefields. Secretary of War Stanton approved the destruction of the DC newspaper, The Sunday Chronicle. A number of editors were sent to prison at Fort Lafayette.

How’s that for being “under attack?”

Teddy Roosevelt tried to sue newspapers for their criticism of his Panama Canal purchase.

Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1918 prohibiting printing, writing, etc. against the war effort. Under this law, Eugene Debs was prosecuted for a speech and Rose Pastor Stokes for writing to a newspaper.

Prior to WWII, Congress passed the Smith Act, the first peacetime sedition law. FDR bullied the media with threats to revoke broadcast licenses and effectively shut down Yankee Radio for criticizing his policies. The day after Pearl Harbor, FDR gave J Edgar Hoover emer-

gency authority to censor all news and control all communication in and out of the country.

Truman famously wrote: “Presidents and the members of their Cabinets and their staff members have been slandered and misrepresented since George Washington … when the press is friendly to an administration the opposition has been lied about and treated to the excrescence [sic] of paid prostitutes of the mind.” Maybe he had The Brass Check in mind.

JFK’s Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Bill Ruder admitted, “Our massive strategy was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope that the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue.” JFK tried to shift some of the blame for the Bay of Pigs fiasco unto the press. He called upon journalists to exercise more self restraint and to show support for the president as a moral responsibility in time of crisis. He attempted to pressure the media to voluntarily censor itself. Mark Watson of The Baltimore Sun wrote that Kennedy “has thrown overboard the wartime principles and practices which two world wars have justified.”

John Mitchell, Nixon’s Attorney General, sought injunctions to prevent the Pentagon Papers from being published. Nixon had his

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enemies list and had them audited. His administration tried to revoke the Washington Post’s television station.

When the Obama administration obtained the records of 20 Associated Press phone lines and reporters’ home and cell phones, the AP called the seizure a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into its news gathering activities, betraying information about its operations “that the government has no conceivable right to know.”

When Obama’s Justice Department went after James Rosen’s records, The New York Times editorial board stated, “The Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news.”

The Department of Justice published a report in 2013 of their review of their practices and policies regarding issuing subpoenas, search warrants, and court orders to obtain records from journalists.

David E. Sanger, chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times responded that the revised guidelines were “just formalizing what was

observed in past administrations. The guidelines worked pretty well until the Obama administration came in.”

Do you really expect us to believe that current “attacks” rise to these levels?

I think your op-ed is a thinly veiled attack on Trump and I think you have it backwards. The tone and severity of attacks on the administration from the press are unprecedented in modern times.

I restrict it to modern times because I am aware of the treatment of James T. Callender towards Jefferson as one of a multitude of worse assaults upon government officials by the press.

When Clark Holt, ombudsman for The New York Times left that position, he remarked on how poorly the newsroom reacted to his oversight of their work and resisted accountability. They were fine asking invasive questions, but did not like to have the tables turned and be criticized in public.

Perhaps you could consider the 1924 inaugural address of president-elect of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Paul Bellamy: “Blessed be the critics of newspapers.”

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very so often, she gets that feeling again. When she does, she scoots a little closer and begins tracing invisible lines on my forearm with her freshly polished nails, fireengine red. She nuzzles me and sighs, as if being close to me like this is the answer to all of life’s Columnist most perplexing questions, as if this closeness is the very emblem of her contentment.

That sigh. That hair. Silky, lush, and gently perfumed, but also pretty ticklish, truth be told, with one strand in my nose, one in my mouth. I suppress an urge to sneeze.

“Sweetness?” she says, burrowing deeper in. “Do you know what I’ve been thinking?”

This, of course, is a dangerous question, one that some people might call “fraught.” Those well-practiced in the mysterious art of interpersonal relationships immediately understand that there are about 10 ways of answering this question wrong to maybe one way of answering it right. Rookies will blunder ahead, making all kinds of dumb guesses, ranging from the touchingly naïve to the colossally stupid.

More experienced artisans understand the importance of finesse.

“Maybe the same thing I’ve been thinking — how lucky we are to have found each other.”

“Aw, honey,” she says. “That’s just adorable. But really. Now think about it. Do you remember what you told me last November?”

She snuggles closer somehow. Now her nails are tracing patterns on my thigh. Now one of her hairs is entangled in one of my eyelashes. I’ve got game, yes, but what am I supposed to do with this question? Last November? That was 10 months ago. Didn’t I tell her a lot of things?

“Let me think, Sugar Smack,” I say, stalling. “You know, that was a little while ago…”

“Yeah, but you never forget the really important things,” she says.

I feel like the protagonist in a classic film noir from the 1940s. I can feel the coil tightening around me. I know this is going to end badly, but I lack the insight to understand why, except that it has something to do with my compulsive attraction to this hot woman, my very own femme fatale.

“I didn’t forget.”

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That urge just won’t go away

“Then tell me what you said?”

Since I have no idea what I am supposed to say, it’s time to throw the Hail Mary. It’s time for my Robert Mitchum impression. I turn to face her, gripping her shoulders with my hands, my eyes smoldering.

“Kiss me, baby,” I say.

She looks at me for a second, briefly puzzled, then gives me a peck on the cheek like an aunt kissing you at a family reunion, dispensing with my Robert Mitchum impression like a crumpled post-it note.

“The puppy, honey,” she says, exasperated. “You said we could get a puppy after summer vacation.”

I should have known this right away.

Every few months, she gets an overwhelming urge to get a puppy. We already have three dogs — a geriatric, death-defying beagle who in dog years is as old as Moses, a middle-aged miniature dachshund who essentially runs the house, and a two-yearold chihuahua, a rescue that we ended up adopting after fostering him for a couple of months.

We got into fostering entirely as a consequence of one of these urges of hers. For the first several years after our youngest child was born, she would go through a period each year when she wanted another baby.

Then, like the seasons or a sinus infection, the feeling would eventually pass and life would return to normal, or at least our version of normal.

I can’t say exactly when the urge to have another child was replaced by the urge to get a puppy. I just know that a few years ago, I was driving home from work one day and began receiving a frenzy of texts, each containing a photo of a cute puppy face, with a location typed at the bottom.

“Norwich Terrier. Candler, NC.” “Longhaired Dachshund. Barnardsville, NC.” “Sheltie, Bristol, TN.” Every night for several weeks, she would scan the Internet for information about available puppies, finding interesting tidbits about different breeds and helpfully sharing those with me, wondering if this one or that one might be the best fit for us.

I knew if I could stall long enough, the feeling would eventually pass as the more pragmatic side of her eventually reasserted itself. Until then, we’d do a little nightly joust.

“Look at this black and tan doxy!” she would squeal, shoving her phone in my face. “He’s three months old. Just look!”

“He’s amazing,” I would say. “But I wonder if getting a puppy that young is really fair to Walter? He’s having a hard enough time with the other two.”

“He would love it,” she promised. “A new puppy would keep him young.”

“And those vet bills,” I would say, shifting tactics.

“You can’t put a price on happiness,” she would say, putting the phone back in front of me. “Look at that face!”

I only know two things. This feeling will pass, eventually. And I have a lot of work to do on my Robert Mitchum impression.

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

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Blue-plates and local fresh vegetables daily.

Brown bagging is permitted. Private parties, catering, and take-out available. Call-ahead seating available.

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

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

BOOJUM BREWING COMPANY 50 N Main Street, Waynesville.

828.246.0350. Taproom Open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday & Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Gem Bar Open Tuesday through Sunday 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. Enjoy lunch, dinner or drinks at Boojum’s Downtown Waynesville restaurant & bar.

Choose from 16 taps of our fresh, delicious & ever rotating Boojum Beer plus cider, wine & craft cocktails. The taproom features seasonal pub faire including tasty burgers, sandwiches, shareables and daily specials that pair perfectly with our beer. Cozy up inside or take in the mountain air on our back deck.”

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

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

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

CHURCH STREET DEPOT 34 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

828.246.6505. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday

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

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

828.587.2233. Open Monday-Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tasty, healthy and quick. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, espresso, beer and wine.

Come taste the savory and sweet crepes, grilled paninis, fresh, organic salads, soups and more. Outside patio seating. Free Wi-Fi, pet-friendly. Live music and lots of events.

Check the web calendar at citylightscafe.com.

THE CLASSIC WINESELLER 20 Church Street, Waynesville.

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

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

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

828.926.1820 Winter hours: Wednesday through Sunday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet.

Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service.

EVERETT HOTEL & BISTRO 16 Everett St.,Bryson City. 828.488.1934.

Open daily for dinner at 4:30 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday Brunch from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; dinner from 4:30-9:30 p.m. Serving fresh and delicious weekday morning lite fare, lunch, dinner, and brunch. Freshly prepared menu offerings range from house-made soups & salads, lite fare & tapas, crepes, specialty sandwiches and burgers. Be sure not to miss the bold flavors and creative combinations that make up the daily Chef Supper Specials. Followed by a tempting selection of desserts prepared daily by our chefs and other local bakers. Enjoy craft beers on tap, as well as our full bar and eclectic wine list.

FERRARA PIZZA & PASTA 243 Paragon Parkway, Clyde.

828.476.5058. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 12 to 8 p.m. Real New Yorkers. Real Italians. Real Pizza. A full service authentic Italian pizzeria and restaurant from New York to the Blue Ridge. Dine in, take out, and delivery. Check out our daily lunch specials plus customer appreciation nights on Monday and Tuesday 5 to 9 p.m. with large cheese pizzas for $9.95.

FIREFLY TAPS & GRILL 128 N. Main St., Waynesville 828.454.5400. Simple, delicious food. A must experience in WNC. Located in downtown Waynesville with an atmosphere that will warm your heart and your belly! Local and regional beers on tap. Full bar, vegetarian options, kids menu, and more.

Reservations accepted. Daily specials. Live

music every Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m.

Open Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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

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

Monday-Saturday. Father and son team Frank and Louis Perrone cook up dinners steeped in Italian tradition. With recipies passed down from generations gone by, the Perrones have brought a bit of Italy to Maggie Valley. frankiestrattoria.com FROGS LEAP PUBLIC HOUSE 44 Church St., Downtown Waynesville 828.456.1930 Serving dinner 5 to 9 p.m.

Tuesday through Thursday. 5 to 9:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Frogs Leap is a farm to table restaurant focused on local, sustainable, natural and organic products prepared in modern regional dishes. Seasonal menu focuses on Southern comfort foods with upscale flavors.

Reservations accepted. www.frogsleappublichouse.com.

GUADALUPE CAFÉ 606 W. Main Street, Sylva. 828.586.9877.

Open 7 days a week at 5 p.m. Located in the historic Hooper’s Drugstore, Guadalupe Café is a chef-owned and operated restaurant serving Caribbean inspired fare complimented by a quirky selection of wines and microbrews. Supporting local farmers of organic produce, livestock, hand-crafted cheese, and using sustainably harvested seafood.

HARMON’S DEN BISTRO 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville 828.456.6322. Harmon’s Den is located in the Fangmeyer Theater at HART. Open 5:309 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday (Bistro closes at 7:30 p.m. on nights when there is a show in the Fangmeyer Theater) with Sunday brunch at 11 a.m. that includes breakfast and lunch items. Harmon’s Den offers a complete menu with cocktails, wine list, and area beers on tap. Enjoy casual dining with the guarantee of making it to the performance in time, then rub shoulders with the cast afterward with post-show food and beverage service. Reservations recommended. www.harmonsden.harttheatre.org HAZELWOOD FARMACY & SODA FOUNTAIN 429 Hazelwood Avenue, Waynesville.

828.246.6996. Open six days a week, closed Wednesday. 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday brunch 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Breakfast until noon, old-fashioned luncheonette and diner comfort food.

Historic full service soda fountain.

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

Open for dinner at 4:30 Tuesday 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.

JOEY’S PANCAKE HOUSE 4309 Soco Rd Maggie Valley.

828.926.0212. Open seven days a week! 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. Joey’s is a family-friendly restaurant that has been serving breakfast to locals and visitors of Western North Carolina

tasteTHE mountains for decades. Featuring a large variety of tempting pancakes, golden waffles, country style cured ham and seasonal specials spiked with flavor, Joey’s is sure to please all appetites. Join us for what has become a tradition in these parts, breakfast at Joey’s.

KANINI’S 1196 N. Main St., Waynesville.

828.452.5187. Lunch Monday-Saturday from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., eat in or carry out. Closed Sunday. A made-from-scratch kitchen using fresh ingredients. 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. kaninis.com 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.

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

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

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

Friday/Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

Closed Tuesday

Sunday 12-9 p.m.

Sandwiches • Burgers • Wraps 32 Felmet Street (828) 246-0927

RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 70 Soco Road, Maggie Valley 828.926.0201 Home of the Maggie Valley Pizzeria. We deliver after 4 p.m. daily to all of Maggie Valley, J-Creek area, and Lake Junaluska. 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 SAGEBRUSH STEAKHOUSE 1941 Champion Drive, Canton 828.646.3750 895 Russ Ave., Waynesville 828.452.5822. Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Carry out available.

Sagebrush features hand carved steaks, chicken and award winning BBQ ribs. We have fresh salads, seasonal vegetables and scrumptious deserts. Extensive selection of local craft beers and a full bar. Catering special events is one of our specialties.

SALTY DOG’S SEAFOOD & GRILL 3567 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.926.9105. Open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday. Full service bar and restaurant located in the center of Maggie Valley.

Featuring daily $6 lunch specials and daily dinner specials such as $1 Taco Tuesdays and 45¢ Wednesday Wings.

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.

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.

WEDNESDAY 5-9 P.M.

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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.

SMOKY MOUNTAIN SUB SHOP 29 Miller Street Waynesville 828.456.3400.

Open from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. A Waynesville tradition, the Smoky Mountain Sub Shop has been serving great food for over 20 years. Come in and enjoy the relaxed, casual atmosphere. Sub breads are baked fresh every morning in Waynesville.

Using only the freshest ingredients in homemade soups, salads and sandwiches.

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MAGGIE VALLEY RESTAURANT 2804 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.926.0425. 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Daily specials including soups, sandwiches and southern dishes along with featured dishes such as fresh fried chicken, rainbow trout, country ham, pork chops and more. Breakfast all day including omelets, pancakes, biscuits & gravy. facebook.com/carversmvr; instagram @carvers_mvr.

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A conversation with G. Love

G. Love. (photo: Kaelan Barowsky)

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER or the better part of the last three decades, G. Love (aka: Garrett Dutton) and his band Special Sauce have been crisscrossing America with its signature blend of hip-hop, blues and jazz.

Coming up through the 1980s hip-hop scene in Philadelphia, G. Love soon found himself a young street busker in Boston, eventually taking his intricate rapping skills, old-time harmonica and folk guitar stylings into the studio for the group’s groundbreaking 1994 self-titled debut album.

Some 25 years later, the secret ingredient of G. Love & Special Sauce remains its mesmerizing stage show, one where the trio radiates a sincere sense of togetherness. It’s a party, and everyone is invited.

And yet, just below the surface of the rollicking good times resides a lyrical aptitude of socially conscious reflection and calls for action, where G. Love himself is the focal point with his microphone — this freewheelin’ troubadour rolling down the tracks to your town with an ongoing message of hope and compassion.

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SMN: You’re one of the few people I can honestly say was born to be onstage. Was there a moment where you knew that or was that always in you?

G. Love: I was 16. I was a good kid. I didn’t cut school a lot. But, one day, I did cut school with my little girlfriend and I remember sitting on a hill in Philadelphia, by this park, and eating my bag lunch that my mom packed me. And I was like, “All I need is this bag lunch and my guitar,” and that’s all I knew for the rest of my life.

SMN: Is that still what you think you need?

GL: Yeah, pretty much. That was always the dream, especially back in the day. This was the 1980s, so the music business was light years away [for me]. There was no chance [back then that you’d think] you’d ever be a part of it, you know?

But, my two biggest inspirations are John Hammond and Bob Dylan. And both of them were best friends when they both put out their first records in 1962 [and 1963].

So, I knew at an early age I can make a record and I can go play solo acoustic coffee shops, and that’s what I want to do. That set me on the path to be a street musician and playing coffee shops. And, of course, that led to meeting my band.

SMN: But, you must have had a conversation early on that, hell or high water, this is what you were going to do, and that everything else was a bonus.

“You can’t go out and just sing heavy, politically conscious things. It’s has to be a party, a show that connects people. You’re reflecting all these things in life.”

— G. Love

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GL: Well, yeah. I went to Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, [New York], for a year.

That was a major turning point because there’s a lot of great players at Skidmore when I pulled into town, and I was doing my thing, but I couldn’t attract [anyone to come play with me].

Everyone was into this 1970s groove rock thing and I couldn’t get my point across at Skidmore.

Then, a friend of a friend needed a roommate in Boston. So, I pulled the plug on college and wanted to be a street musician. And then summer of 1992, I played and busked the street all around Boston, Harvard Square and the “T.” And then the next winter, I met [my band].

Nine months later, we signed with Epic Records. It happened so quickly to go from street musicians being on the fringe of society to working for one of the biggest corporations in the world.

SMN: You’ve always been very socially conscious with your lyrics, but also able to combine that with a good time vibe of getting together.

GL: In the blues, the heaviest stuff can also be the most lighthearted stuff, too. It’s also the

influence of Bob Dylan to help me be a writer that can give you those heavy songs and also songs that may you really laugh out loud. You can’t just go out and sing “Good Time Charlie” shit. And you can’t go out and just sing heavy, politically conscious things. It’s has to be a party, a show that connects people. You’re reflecting all these things in life, whatever everybody is experiencing, like heavy moments, personally and in the grand scheme of things — everyday people in our lives where we all have ups and downs. So, that’s what I’ve tried to do in a song, on a record, and during the show.

SMN: Well, the irony of the blues is that it’s so heavy and dark, but, at the same time, it’s meant to uplift…

GL: Yeah. That’s the weirdest thing about it. It’s so dark, but it’s meant to pull you up again. It’s a cool thing to be able be given a microphone and you’ve got this platform to speak on whatever you want to speak on. My mission onstage every night is to make people happy and make people inspired — to connect with people.

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD

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The annual Youth Arts Festival will be held from 9 ’ve been feeling some overa.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Jackson whelming gratitude this County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. week during the premiere Country music legends Lonestar will hit the stage and continued rollout of Ken at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Smoky Burns’ 16.5-hour PBS docuMountain Center for the Performing Arts in mentary series “Country Franklin.

Music.”

I sat there in utter awe Award-winning photojournalist Martin Tucker will during the first episode on present his book Vietnam Photographs from Sunday evening, something North Carolina Veterans at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, I’ve always felt watching Sept. 24, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Burns’ films since I was a kid.

Rapidly rising bluegrass act Mile Twelve will be My entire existence is performing at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the wrapped around his influence Cowee School in Franklin. on me as a writer, journalist, storyteller, history freak, and how serendipitous this Burns’ series is, in as a human being trying to make connecterms of timing and subject matter. tions with others.

I think of hanging out with Giddens at And yet, this first episode hit me so some random fundraising party years ago in deeply, seeing as I’ve had the honor of interviewing so many of those featured (including the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Nobody really knew who she was just standBurns’ himself, who was my cover story for ing there. I did. And I knew how big her star The Smoky Mountain News last week), and would, could, and did become. to write about all these names, topics and Giddens was so kind, so generous with sounds for several years now. her time, too. We’ve interviewed a few times Watching it, I just smiled thinking about over the years, talking about music and how my encounters, conversations and articles it guides our daily lives, whether we realize it written about Rhiannon Giddens, Rodney or not.

Crowell, Marty Stuart, Ketch Secor, Ricky I think of that night in Eastern Idaho Skaggs, Del Bryant, and more. Lord knows with Crowell. My first week as a rookie who else will pop up as these episodes journalist in 2008 for a small newspaper in unfold, eh? the high desert of the Grand Teton mounThis whole spring and summer has been tains. I was 22 years old and didn’t really a truly “What does it all mean?” quest withknow who he was when he jumped onstage in my heart and soul. So, it isn’t lost on me

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Crowell and I interviewed after the show and I was immediately captivated by his presence, onstage and off. I then discovered his legend, his lore, and how vital he was and remains to singer-songwriters old and young. Exactly 10 years later, we reconnected for another interview about life approaching 70 and what it means to be a singer-songwriter in the digital age.

“What is the place of the songwriter in our modern world?” I asked Crowell.

“Depends on your own sensibilities. If you’re [only exposed to] music in the background of a restaurant or music in the background at a party, if you have that kind of loose relationship with language and song — I have no idea,” Crowell said. “But, if you’re like me, and you listen to music a lot, the role of the songwriter is more pointed and more centered than ever. In our culture and in the world, it has never been more important, never more prevalent — as is the poet, as is screenwriting, as is news reporting.”

I think of Stuart and all the times I’ve seen him set a melodic fire to hearts and minds watching from the other side of the microphone. We interviewed a few years ago in preparation for his appearance at the Balsam Range “Art of Music” festival in Lake Junaluska. To which, I ran into him backstage at the show and he said to me, “I really enjoyed that talk. You ask great questions.”

Then, this past spring, I found myself on Stuart’s tour bus in Florida, face-to-face for a Smoky Mountain Living magazine interview, simply talking about what country and bluegrass music means to American history, and to humanity. Following the chat, he let me strap on Clarence White’s iconic “B-bender” guitar.

I think of Secor and how we recently sat down to talk about his role in “Country Music,” a conversation that was published

by Rolling Stone this past Monday following the premiere.

“For me, an old person could offer a story of when native people still roamed the hills of Tennessee. For a future generation, I will be able to offer a direct link to Merle Haggard,” Secor told me. “And I’ll be able to say his voice was so smooth and when he whispered in my ear, all the hairs on my neck stood up — it was like electric hearing his voice come into my ear. And so, I’ll be able to say the same thing about Jack Clement and Jesse McReynolds. Someone’s got to be around to tell the stories.”

And it was just this past Thursday where I ran into Secor on a riverboat in downtown Nashville. Old Crow Medicine Show (which Secor fronts) was headlining the AmericanaFest gig. He remembered me and smiled when we crossed paths.

Now a few episodes into “Country Music,” I never in my life have felt so connected to a subject, so deeply moved to tears and goosebumps every few minutes as I have while watching this series unfold.

And I remain, to continue to capture these characters and stories, to share them with you and the world. Music is the universal language. It’s also the universal healer. We’re all in this together. Onward.

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

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Mile Twelve to play Cowee School Rapidly rising bluegrass act Mile Twelve will be performing at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

21, at the Cowee School in Franklin.

Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, Mile Twelve is a fresh, hard-driving young band beautifully walking the line between original and traditional bluegrass.

Fast gaining recognition for their out-

Bryson City community jam A community jam will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer, anything unplugged, are invited to join. Singers are also welcomed to join in or you can just stop by and listen. The jam is facilitated by Larry

standing performances in bluegrass and folk circles, Evan Murphy, Bronwyn KeithHynes, Nate Sabat, B.B. Bowness and David Benedict write captivating songs and daring instrumental pieces from diverse influences.

Banjo luminary Tony Trischka says, “Mile Twelve is carrying the bluegrass tradition forward with creativity and integrity.”

Tickets are $15 for adults, $7.50 for ages 6-16 and free and ages six and under. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, click on www.coweeschool.org.

Barnett of the Sawmill Creek Porch Band.

The community jams offer a chance for musicians of all ages and levels of ability to share music they have learned over the years or learn old-time mountain songs. The music jams are offered to the public each first and third Thursday of the month — year-round.

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

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Lonestar rolls into Franklin Country music legends Lonestar will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Lonestar has been performing for more than 20 years. They have released several platinum-selling albums, 10 number one singles and have sold over 10 million records.

Their debut album included their first number one hit “No News” and the Top 10 hit “Runnin’ Away with My Heart.” In 1996, they won the Academy of Country Music award for “Best Vocal Group.”

Another number one hit, “Come Cryin’ to Me” was released in 1997. In 1999, they released “Lonely Grill.” From it came crossover hit, “Amazed,” which spent eight weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Three other number one hits came from that same album: “Smile,” “What About Now” and “Tell Her.” “Lonely Grill” was certified double-platinum and “Amazed” earned the group their first Country Music Association nomination for “Single of the Year.”

“I’m Already There,” Lonestar’s fourth album, was released in 2001. Its title track spent six weeks at number one, and the album received a platinum certification. That same year, Lonestar won the CMA award for “Vocal Group of the Year.”

Tickets start at $26 each with priority seating available. To purchase tickets, click on www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

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Americana/folk act Frank & Allie Lee will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

28, at Mountain Layers Brewing Company in Bryson City. The show is free and open to the public. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

Open registration for Junior Appalachian Musicians September 18-24, 2019 Smoky Mountain News

The Haywood County Arts Council’s Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program will hold student registration at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

21, at the Haywood County Public Library in Waynesville.

JAM offers old-time mountain music to children in fourth grade and older. Lessons are $95 for the September through December session. Fees must be paid in advance. Classes meet from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Tuesdays through May 2020 at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. Sibling discounted fee is $50.

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

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

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

The JAM lesson schedule follows the Haywood County School System calendar. JAM classes do not meet on early out days, school holidays, or if school is cancelled due to dangerous weather conditions. Public, private, and home schooled students are encouraged to join the JAM program.

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

For more information about JAM, as well as other programs or events, visit the Haywood County Arts Council website at www.haywoodarts.org or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/haywoodarts.

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Bosu’s tastings, small plates

• Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host the “Lounge Series” at its Calaboose location with Mike Bonham Sept. 19, Scott Stambaugh Sept. 20, Shane Meade & The Sound Sept. 21, Chris Blaylock 4 p.m. Sept.

22, Chris West Sept. 26, The Gnarly Fingers Sept. 27, Gabe Myers 7 p.m. Sept. 28 and George Ausman 4 p.m. Sept. 29. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville will continue to host an array of wine tastings and small plates.

• Mondays: Free tastings and discounts on select styles of wine that changes weekly.

• Thursdays: Five for $5 wine tasting, with small plates available for purchase from Chef Bryan’s gourmet cuisine in The Secret Wine Bar. • Wednesday-Saturday: The Secret Wine Bar will be open for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Fridays: The Secret Wine Bar will be open for drinks and small plates from 5 to 9 p.m.

• Saturdays: Champagne cocktails from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Secret Wine Bar will be open for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will also be a free wine tasting from 1 to 5 p.m.

For more information and/or to RSVP for ticketed events, call 828.452.0120 or email info@waynesvillewine.com.

• The “Uncorked: Wine & Rail Pairing Experience” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. Full service all-adult first-class car. Wine pairings with a meal and more. For more information and/or to register, call 800.872.4681 or click on www.gsmr.com.

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• A free wine tasting will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sept. 21 and 28 at The Wine Bar & Cellar in Sylva. 828.631.3075.

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

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• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host a bluegrass open mic every Wednesday, an all-genres open mic every Thursday and 80H Project Sept. 27.

All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.boojumbrewing.com.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Eddie G. Sept. 20, Whiskey River Band Sept.

21, Stone Crazy (pop/rock) 3 p.m. Sept.

22, Hard Rocket Sept.

27 and The Blue Ridge Busketeers Sept. 28. All shows begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

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• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Sept. 18 and 25, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Sept. 19 and 26. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

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• Blue Ridge Beer Hub (Waynesville) will host an acoustic jam with Main St. NoTones from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 19 and 26. Free and open to the public. www.blueridgebeerhub.com.

• Isis Music Hall (West Asheville) will host Lawn Series w/Fwuit (retro/soul) 6 p.m.

Sept. 18, Brennen Leigh & Noel McKay (bluegrass/country) 7 p.m. Sept. 18, Lawn Series w/Rahm & Friends (world) 6 p.m.

Sept. 19, Ben Paley (Americana/world) 7 p.m. Sept. 19, The Contenders w/Jay Nash & Josh Day (Americana/folk) 8:30 p.m. Sept.

19, Swearingen & Kelli (alt-country/folk) 7 p.m. Sept. 20, Artimus Pyle Band (southern rock) 9 p.m. Sept. 20, Sally Barris & The Birmingham Boys (Americana/bluegrass) 7 p.m. Sept. 21, Jesse Barry & The Jam Dance Party (blues/funk) 9 p.m. Sept. 21, Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards (Americana/indie) 6 p.m. Sept. 22, Italian Bluegrass w/Red Wine 7:30p.m. Sept. 22, Tuesday Bluegrass Session w/Mason Via & Hot Trail Mix 6 p.m. Sept. 24, Lawn Series w/Whistlepig (honky-tonk) 6 p.m. Sept. 25 and The Talbott Brothers (folk/blues) 7 p.m.

Sept. 25. www.isisasheville.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday.

All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. For more information and a complete schedule of events, click on www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

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

828.926.9464 or www.facebook.com/ legendssportsgrillmaggievalley.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host the “Stone Soup” open mic night every Tuesday, Shayler’s Kitchen Sept. 20 and 27, Somebody’s Child (Americana) Sept. 21 and Frank & Allie Lee (Americana/folk) Sept. 28.

All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

• Nantahala Brewing (Bryson City) will host Shane Meade & The Sound Sept. 20. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• Pickin’ on the Square (Franklin) will host Curtis Blackwell & The Dixie Bluegrass Boys Sept. 21 and Blueride (gospel) Oct. 5. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.townoffranklinnc.com.

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

• Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub (Franklin) will host Mike Chaet Sept. 20, Twelfth Fret Sept. 21, Alma Russ Sept. 27 and Gary Carter Sept. 28. Shows begin at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public. www.rathskellerfranklin.com.

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

Thursdays.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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WCU’s Mountain Heritage Day Becky Buller.

Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, on the campus in Cullowhee.

The free, family oriented festival celebrates Southern Appalachian music, folk arts, dance and culture. The event includes music and dance performances, living history demonstrations, vendors and awards programs.

This year’s musical headliner will be bluegrass legend Becky Buller, who will perform at 10:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. A two-time Grammy-winning songwriter and eight-time International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) recipient, Buller has broken down musical and societal barriers.

In 2016, Buller became the first performer in the long history of the IBMAs to win in both the vocal and instrumental categories — of which, she became the first female to win “Fiddle Player of the Year.”

Apples will be the featured food for the popular “Best in the West” recipe competition. Any made-from-scratch dish with apples as the essential ingredient will be eligible for the contest, including apple pie, apple sauce, apple cobbler, apple fritters, candied apples, apple crumb cake and apple dumplings.

“The recipe does not have to be an original,” said Lois Stiles, office manager with WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center and an event organizer. “A family favorite passed down through the generations is great, but so is something shared on the web or torn from a magazine, as long as the entry is made from scratch.”

In addition to the “Best in the West” recipe contest, the festival’s traditional food competition includes categories for canned goods, baked goods and heritage foods conservation. Competition is divided into adult

and youth (16 and younger) divisions.

Ribbons will be awarded to the top three entrants in each age division, plus a grand champion will be selected in each division.

Canned goods and heritage foods entries should be brought to WCU’s Cordelia Camp Building Room 134 on Tuesday, Sept. 24, between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Baked goods and “Best in the West” apple recipe entries should be dropped off there between 7:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, with judging taking place that afternoon.

For more information or to request a copy of “A Gathering in Traditional Food Competition” booklet, contact the Mountain Heritage Center at 828.227.7129 or lstiles@wcu.edu.

The recipe and food contests are just a portion of the numerous competitions held during Mountain Heritage Day. Chainsaw and crosscut saw competition in several categories are a spectator favorite, as is a viewers’ choice car and truck show. There also is a juried selection for best arts and crafts vendors.

A popular 5K road race and fun run is held on campus the morning of the festival.

It is organized and hosted by students in WCU’s sports management program, with proceeds going toward the Sports Management Association Scholarship. The course features a combination of pavement and gravel paths, and is appropriate for both beginner and accomplished runners.

The festival goes on, rain or shine.

Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets for comfortable seating.

Dogs on leashes are allowed on the grounds.

For more information, a full schedule of events and updates, go to www.mountainheritageday.com.

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David Joy.

Storytellers series welcomes Joy Reed Environmental Writing Award and the Ragan Old North State Award.

He is the recipient of an artist fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. His latest short stories and essays have appeared in Time, The New York Times Magazine, Garden & Gun, and The Bitter Southerner.

In addition to his writing, Joy enjoys hunting, fishing, his dog and nature. Come hear more about how these traditional aspects of mountain life have influenced and found their way into his writing.

Supper will be served at 6 p.m. followed by the presentation from 7 to 8 p.m. with a question and answer session until 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and $10 for students. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, click on www.folkmoot.org or call 828.452.2997.

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Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 25 at the Oconaluftee Islands Park in The Mountain Life Festival will be held Cherokee. Sit by a bonfire, alongside a river, and lisfrom 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Mountain Farm Museum in Cherokee. ten to some of Cherokee’s best storytellers.

This is a Great Smoky Mountains National The bonfire is free and open to the public.

Park Oconaluftee Visitor Center event. Walk There will be no bonfire events in September. For more information, call 800.438.1601 around the mountain farm and enjoy demonstrations of hearth cooking, apple butter mak- or click on www.visitcherokeenc.com. ing, blacksmithing, lye soap making, food preservation, and chair bottoming. • “Travels and Tall Talesâ€? with Alan French Artifacts and historic photographs from will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. the park’s collection will be on display. The 25, at the Macon County Public Library in centerpiece of the event is the sorghum syrup Franklin. The presentation, “The Vikings on a demonstration.

Rampage,� will begin Free and open to the public. with their raid on Lindisfarne. These marauders harried Europe from the British Isles to Constantinople for three centuries, earning for themselves a terrifying reputation while leaving a legacy worthy of review. Free and The Cherokee Bonfire & Storytelling open to the public. series is from 5 to 7 p.m. on Mondays,

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Folkmoot, Blue Ridge Books and the Haywood County Public Library will present author David Joy during the next installment of the “Southern Storytellers Supper Series� at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. The event brings southern culture and regional authors and musicians together for educational evenings of discussion, food and fun.

Joy is the author of the Edgar nominated novel Where All Light Tends To Go (Putnam, 2015), as well as the novels The Weight Of This World (Putnam, 2017) and The Line That Held Us (Putnam, 2018). He is also the author of the memoir Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman’s Journey (Bright Mountain Books, 2011), which was a finalist for the

Join local experts for Folkmoot’s new series, Cultural Crash Courses, featuring lectures on a variety of current cultural issues, including global politics, race, immigration, gender, climate change, technology, and multiculturalism.

Crash Courses begin with Dr. Christina Reitz at 6 p.m. Wednesday, September 18, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville.

Content will be presented as a 45minute community lecture followed by questions, answers, and discussion. A professor at Western Carolina University, Reitz will talk about the compositional history of Jennifer Higdon’s opera Cold Mountain, a musical adaptation of Charles Frazier’s award-winning novel of the same name, which is set just outside Asheville during the civil war. The opera received its world premiere at Santa Fe Opera in 2015 and Opera Philadelphia performed it in 2016.

North Carolina Opera and Minnesota Opera followed in 2017 and 2018. Higdon has won both a Pulitzer and a Grammy for previous works. Reitz’s analysis will focus on the unique challenges of adapting the original work “from page to stage.�

Reitz received a BM in Piano Performance from the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University where she was the recipient of the Mary P. Rigo Outstanding Keyboard Major.

She earned an MM in Piano Pedagogy and a Ph.D. in historical musicology, with external cognates in women’s studies and piano performance at the University of Florida where she received the John V. D’Albora Scholarship for Excellence in Graduate Research as well as the Outstanding Student Paper Award from the College Music Society, Southern Chapter.

Tickets are $10. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Cultural Crash Courses are sponsored by VisitNCSmokies.com, The Mountaineer and the Town of Waynesville. The full schedule with topics and speakers is available online at www.folkmoot.org.

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Grants to regional artists

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September 18-24, 2019

The Haywood County Arts Council (HCAC) is now accepting applications for North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artists Project Grants (RAPG) through Sept. 30.

The RAPG workshop for interested artists will be held at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, at the Jackson County Library in Sylva.

The grants will fund artists in Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson and Macon counties at any phase of their professional development. Grants may cover equipment purchases, professional development training, marketing, and more.

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Projects must occur between Dec. 1, 2019, and June 5, 2020. The deadline for applications is Sept. 30. Grantees will be notified by Oct. 31. Final Reports will be due Friday, June 5, 2020. For application information, visit www.haywoodarts.org/regional-artist-project-grant. In the west, grant awards to artists generally range from $500 to $1,000 and follow a competitive application and review process.

The Haywood County Arts Council is supported in part by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

The Regional Artists Project program is managed through a partnership with the North Carolina Arts Council and local arts organizations throughout western North Carolina working as a consortium.

Consortium partners include the Cherokee County Arts Council, Clay County Historical & Arts Council, Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center, Haywood County Arts Council, and Jackson County Arts Council.

Since 1985, the North Carolina Arts Council has provided funds for the Regional Artists Project program to support professional artists. The regional consortium of western North Carolina arts partners matches the N.C. Arts Council to create a pool of funds for the artists.

For more information, contact Leigh Forrester at 828.452.0593 or director@haywoodarts.org.

Youth Arts Festival

The annual Youth Arts Festival will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro.

Demonstrations in glass, metal, ceramics, paint, printmaking and more. Activities in weaving, hand-building with clay, wheel thrown clay. Live music performances by local groups including The Maggie Valley Band. Food will be available for purchase from Brew Dawgz and NGN 52 Pizza For information, call 828.631.0271 or click on www.jcgep.org.

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

This exhibition will be on display through Dec. 6.

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

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

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

One notable work in the exhibition is a three-channel video installation entitled Gauge. Created by Raven Chacon, a Navajo Nation artist, and six other collaborators, Gauge is an immersive gallery experience that combines sound and image.

The time-lapse video component of Gauge captures dramatic imagery of an ice mural, created by the artists on Baffin Island, as it rises and falls with the tide. Paired with Chacon’s field recordings of crunching snow, human tools, wind, and wildlife in the Canadian Artic landscape, this multisensory experience prompts reflection on human presence in the landscape, the cycles of nature, issues of climate change, and notions of geologic time.

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

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

This exhibition is part of a series of WCU events and programs that dovetail with the University’s 2019-2020 campus theme “Environment and Sustainability.” Exhibitions, receptions, and associated programming at the museum are free and open to the public.

The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, with free parking available on site.

To learn more, please visit bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

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Dogwood Crafters Co-Op will host a “Chai Spice Sugar Scrub” workshop from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Sept. 24, at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge.

Participants can indulge their senses while creating a natural skin care product using the warming spices of cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, and more.

New Dogwood Crafter Kerri Rayburn will share information on how these favorite spices can be anti-aging agents, can sooth acne, stimulate blood flow, and much more.

All supplies are included in the $8 fee.

Register by Sept. 17. Register by calling Dogwood Crafters at 828.586.2248.

• A “Palette Knife” class with Susan Remi Dawkins will be held from 4 to 7 p.m.

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

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

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

You’re invited to a free seminar.

September 18-24, 2019

• Fiber Sunday will take place from 2 to 5 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 22, at Cowee Textiles at The Cowee School Heritage Center in Franklin. Bring a textile project you are working on from spinning, knitting, weaving, rug hooking, baskets etc. If you have any questions, contact Teresa Bouchonnet at 828.349,3878 or bouchonnet@coweetextiles.com.

• The Weekly Open Studio art classes will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville, Instructor will be Betina Morgan. Open to all artists, at any stage of development, and in the medium of your choice. Cost is $25 per class. There will also be a Youth Art Class from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. on Wednesdays. Cost is $15 per class. 828.550.6190 or email bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

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The Arthur Miller classic work “The Crucible” will come to life on the big stage at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27-28, Oct. 4-5, 10-12 and 2 p.m. Sept. 29, Oct. 6 and 13 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

The layers of this play are so varied that it opens the door for hours of conversation. On the surface, it is the story of the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a man who can save himself by simply identifying others who have practiced witchcraft. But, the backstory of this play is far more interesting.

In 1953, Arthur Miller was appalled when his longtime friend Elia Kazan went before the House Un-American Activities Committee and named names. Kazan had directed Miller’s breakout classic “Death of A Salesman” and the two had been close friends ever since.

The Committee was on its own witch hunt for suspected communists and much of what occurred in Salem was happening in America in the 1950s. People’s lives were being destroyed and Miller used the Salem trials to

take aim at the Committee. Politicians, being not too perceptive, never caught on and Miller endured no fall out for this open condemnation of what was going on.

Kazan, however, knew it was aimed at him. He responded the following year with his own version of what was right and wrong, with the film “On the Waterfront,” in which Marlon Brando finally comes out and testifies against the mob bosses that ruled the Longshoreman. After Kazan appeared before the House Committee, he and Miller never spoke to one another again.

The production is being directed by Isaac Klein and will feature: Dwight Chiles, Anna Denson, Tom Dewees, Madison Garris, Zacary Landolt, Allen T. Law, Samantha LeBrocq, Art Moore, Marshal Herrick, Hanni Muerdter, Becky Stone, Mandy Wildman, and Henry Williamson.

Dining will be available before the productions at the Harmons’ Den Bistro. www.harttheatre.org.

WCU to present ‘The Mousetrap’

to the rationale of the murderer’s pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students and children. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, call 828.227.2479.

Written by Agatha Christie, “The Mousetrap” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 26-28 and 3 p.m. Sept. 29 in the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University.

Directed by Stage and Screen BA Program Director Terry Martin, this is one of the most recognized murder mysteries in the world as the “longest running play in history” comes to WCU. A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage.

Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone.

Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives, when the jurist is killed. Two down and one to go. To get

• The STAR Ranch will hold a fundraiser with a Jeff Foxworthy and Elvis impersonators at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

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

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

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Books Humor, mystery and a wonderful menagerie of characters A the rustic cabins in repair, and building archery ranges and hiking trails. When the camps close down, Doyle “reinvents himself ” and befriends the movie crew that comes to Yonah looking for an ideal

Gary Carden

lthough migrations have become a significant and controversial aspect of our current history, there is another annual migration that has been with us for centuries. That is the annual arrival of visitors to Appalachia that has become an honored tradition.

It is customary for retired and/or wealthy families to make the annual trek to the Southern Writer Highlands. The “summer home” visitors have reshaped the Appalachian economy and a large percentage of the native work force is now engaged in building, repairing and maintaining the homes of the summer folk. In fact, many of the men and women who once farmed this land are now the employees of the summer residents: wives become cooks and housekeepers and the men develop carpentry skills. They build sun decks, kilns and fireplaces and with luck, they become “almost” a part of the summer family.

The new novel by Dale Neal — a longtime Western North Carolina journalist who is also a novelist — Appalachian Book of the Dead, takes us to the small town of Yonah (which is only an hour and a half from Asheville) where we meet a diverse cast of characters. There is Cal McAlister, a recovering alcoholic who has had a successful career on Wall Street and now plans on writing a book about his adventures in the world of pork bellies and the Trading Pit. His wife, Joy, is a potter and has spent her life attempting to create the perfect bowl. Her dream is to have her own studio and a noborigama raku-style kiln, plus the recognition of the professional craft schools like Penland.

Joy loves cats and a multitude of felines live in her studio. Since her husband despises cats and suffers from a variety of allergies, he avoids Joy’s studio. His absence secretly pleases Joy since she does not have to listen to Cal’s cynical comments about her work and his contempt for Appalachia.

Then, there is Doyle Smathers, a native of Yonah who had learned to survive by adjusting to the changes of the world around him. Doyle had become “a handyman.” When wealthy investors created a series of summer camps, calling the one at Yonah Camp Bee Tree, Doyle became a plumber and carpenter, keeping

setting for a zombie movie. The deteriorating Camp Bee Tree proved to be ideal.

Before it was over, Doyle becomes an actor and kills a dozen zombies before he is overpowered by a bloody-thirsty crew.

Now, the movie is over and he becomes a faithful worker for Joy, promising to build a kiln. In addition, he even refined his dowsing skills and launches a project to find a dependable source of water for Cal’s shower. His carpentry skills are doubtful. However, he is a survivor.

Ainsley Morse, the granddaughter of the wealthy lady who owns Camp Bee Tree and most of the surrounding land, has been at the camp since she was a child and was known to be the heir of the place.

Ainsley was, according to Doyle, a “wild child,” and lived an unsupervised life. She had been under the care of a half-dozen gurus and psychiatrists.

Her arrival is memorable. She had just survived an exploding meth lab that killed her current lover, Bernie, but she is determined to make a new start. She shaves her dreadlocks and shows up at

the “get acquainted party” with a badly scarred naked head. She discusses a plan recommended by her grandmother: tear down all the cabins and replace them with yurts. As she develops her plans, Ainsley attempts to follow the mystical and oblique daily advice of the Book of the Dead.

In addition to this cast of characters, each with an impressive number of personal problems, Neal adds a provocative element: two escaped killers, Jimmy Bray and Angel Jones, come to Yonah after murdering a boiled peanut vendor and a highway patrolman, and are reported to be in Camp Bee Tree. The presence of these criminals has a profound effect on everyone, including Cal McAlister, who begins to carry a loaded pistol.

But there is more.

Something is killing Joy’s cats, leaving their mangled and half-eaten bodies in the woods.

Suddenly, the nights are filled with the mournful howls of coyotes and there is nothing supernatural about these creatures that are now reported throughout Western North Carolina. The local law enforcement is besieged by crowds of alarmed women, all bearing the smell of patchouli, which lingers after their departure, and all have come to report missing cats and dogs.

Neal uses the theme of pottery to hold the diverse parts of Appalachian Book of the Dead together. There is also the element of suspense. When will the cynical (and horny) Cal McAlister discover “moonshine” and what will be the outcome of his lust for Ainsley? When Joy finally discovers the pottery sensation that brings recognition to her work, is it due to the facial features of Doyle Smathers, which are immortalized in her buck-toothed creation? This is a delightful novel and Dale Neal does a masterful job of combining the major characteristics of the gothic novel with a subtle touch of humor.

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

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Louise Runyon poetry reading Louise Runyon will read selections from her latest poetry collection The Passion of Older Women at 3 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 21, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Runyon is a dancer/choreographer, political activist, urban farmer, student of Italian, and a former steelworker.

The Passion of Older Women is her fourth collection of poetry.

To reserve a copy of the book, please call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

Author talk, book sale at Marianna Friends of the Marianna Black Library will host a talk

by Beverly Collins, Western Carolina University associate professor of biology, botanist and official autumn leaf color forecaster for Western North Carolina, at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, at the library in Bryson City.

Collins will discuss the science of why leaves change, how she makes her predictions and then make her 2019 fall foliage prediction. Collins has been the official fall color forecaster for several years and has been correct in her predictions.

After the presentation, the Annual Book Sale of the Friends of the Marianna Black Library will begin. Friends Members attending the event (and those that become members at the event) are welcome to have the first pick at the used book sale and their first bag of books is just $2.50.

The book sale continues from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 21. Fill a shopping bag for only $5.

Shopping bags will be provided.

For more information, call 828.488.0480.

Photography book chronicles N.C. Vietnam veterans Award-winning photojournalist Martin Tucker will present his book Vietnam Photographs from North Carolina Veterans at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

When American soldiers returned home from Vietnam, most put their memories away. Decades later, North Carolina veterans contributed thousands of dusty and faded personal photographs to what started as a class project at the Sawtooth School for Visual Art in WinstonSalem.

It evolved into a national traveling exhibition and then a permanent collection of the North Carolina Museum of History called “A Thousand Words: Photographs by Vietnam Veterans.”

For many of these men and women, this was their first opportunity to show what they couldn’t say. Photographer and Vietnam-era vet Martin Tucker presents selected glimpses of those unforgettable experiences.

Martin currently teaches photography and digital media at Summit School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

He served in the U.S. Navy from 1967 to 1969 and is a lifetime member of the Navy UDT-SEAL Museum Association.

To reserve copies of Vietnam Photographs from North Carolina Veterans, please call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

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The Apollo 16 crew captured this Earthrise with a handheld Hasselblad camera during the second revolution of the moon.

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To the moon and back Astronaut discusses the Space Age’s past and future at WCU

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER here are a few moments in history that every American alive at the time remembers in crisp detail. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The first moon landing. The terrorist attacks of September 11.

All three bore significance during astronaut Charlie Duke’s visit to Western Carolina University last week, on the 18th anniversary of the twin towers’ collapse. Two years before his death in November 1963, Kennedy changed the course of American history when he pledged during a May 1961 speech that the United States would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. NASA met that challenge with just over four months to spare when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to set foot on the lunar surface, on July 20, 1969.

Duke knows exactly where he was when that milestone in history was marked. He was in Houston, at mission control, talking to Neil Armstrong.

“I was the guy you’d hear from mission control talking to the crew, CAPCOM — a capsule communicator, that’s what it stands for,” he said in an interview preceding his talk at WCU. “It’s the only person in mission control that can actually talk to the crew.”

It was exciting, and incredibly stressful.

“We had a lot of problems on descent. We had communication problems, we had computer problems, we had trajectory problems, and that led to a fuel problem, so we get down to minimal fuel,” he told the audience, which nearly filled the 1,000-seat auditorium at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. “And I called, ‘Eagle 60 seconds,’ and he had 60 seconds to land. And then I called, ‘Eagle 30 seconds,’ and they still weren’t on the ground, but they were close. Then 13 seconds later I heard Buzz (Aldrin) saying, ‘con-

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tact engine stopped,’ and we knew they were on the ground. The tension just sort of evaporated in mission control. We actually landed on the moon.

“Neil Armstrong came back a few seconds later and says, very calmly, ‘Houston, Tranquility Base, the Eagle has landed.’ And I was so excited I couldn’t even pronounce ‘tranquility.’”

At the time, Duke didn’t know that he would one day follow the path blazed by Armstrong and Aldrin, that he would one day be taking his own small steps on the moon.

But later that year, Duke was picked to join the backup crew for Apollo 13. He wasn’t needed for that mission, but his selection put him in line to take part in Apollo 16, which blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 12:54 p.m. Sunday, April 16, 1972, catapulting Duke into the adventure of a lifetime.

START OF THE SPACE RACE That liftoff was the beginning of an 11-day trip that included three days of life-changing exploration on the moon’s surface. But Duke didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming an astronaut.

He couldn’t have, really — when Duke was born in Charlotte, in 1935, Germany had not yet invaded Poland, World War II had not yet started, the atomic bomb had not yet been dropped on Japan and the Space Race had not yet begun.

In fact, the word “astronaut” had been coined a mere seven years earlier, its first known use occurring in 1928, according to Merriam-Webster.

“If I told my momma I was going to walk on the moon, Momma would have sent me to the psychiatric hospital. It wasn’t a thought,” Duke said.

He wanted to serve his country, though, so

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he went to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he fell in love with airplanes. That love presented him with a conundrum — should he join the Air Force or go into aviation for the Navy? The decision was made for him when a Navy doctor informed him that the astigmatism in his right eye disqualified him from a spot in Navy aviation.

“So I went into the Air Force, and it was the best decision I ever made in my life,” he said.

He started flight school in 1957, the same year that the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik inaugurated the Space Age with its launch on Oct. 4. After flight school, Duke went to Germany as a fighter pilot, and that’s where he was living when Kennedy announced the moon landing goal.

“I was a young fighter pilot in Germany in 1961, and Alan Shepherd had flown 15 minutes in space, America’s first astronaut in space, and that was May 5 of 1961,” he said.

“By the end of May, Kennedy announced the Apollo program. Well, we laughed at him.

Golly. Back then it was 5-4-3-2-1 blow up, and he’s committing to the moon in eight years and a half? But the most amazing thing now looking back was that eight years and two months later I was sitting at mission control talking to Neil Armstrong.”

Duke was loving life in Germany and not really looking for a change when the Air Force suggested that he go get a graduate degree. He still thinks about what might have happened if he’d declined.

“If I’d of said no to that and stayed in Germany for another year, I never would have been to the moon,” he said. “But I took that job at MIT and met some astronauts. The astronauts were so excited, so enthusiastic about their job, I said, ‘How do I get that job?’”

Duke graduated with a master’s degree in aeronautics in 1964 and was one of 19 astronauts selected for NASA’s space program in 1966. In 1972, he became the 10th of 12 people to have ever walked on the moon’s surface.

Thirty-six years old at the time, he is the youngest person to have ever done so, and one of only four moonwalkers still living.

THE ADVENTURE He’s 83 now, but he can still recall that adventure in vivid detail.

The upward movement was slow at first as the rocket gathered acceleration, speeding up to attain the force necessary to break through the atmosphere and enter space. That entry was like being in a train wreck, said Duke, acceleration dropping to zero at the snap of a finger. The astronauts orbited earth one-anda-half times before turning the spacecraft toward the moon. As the craft turned, they caught a view of Baja California, surrounded by the blue of the ocean and the ridges of the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas.

“It was this jewel of the beauty of Earth suspended in the blackness of space,” he said.

They were on their way to the moon.

The landing almost didn’t happen. One hour out from the planned landing, Command Module Pilot Thomas Mattingly radioed over that something was wrong with the main engine, an engine that was quite necessary were the astronauts to ever leave the moon.

“If you thought your heart could hit the bottom of your boots, in zero gravity, it did,” said Duke.

The thought of having spent all that time in training, come all the way from Earth, just to fall a handful of miles short of a lunar landing was crushing.

“But mission control came through,” he said. “They couldn’t fix it, but they gave us some workarounds.”

Six hours later, Duke and Commander John Young had landed on the moon.

“The landing is very dynamic,” said Duke in the pre-event interview. “You’re coming into a landing area that you have only seen roughly in photographs. So the photographs we had, had a resolution of 45 feet. Objects smaller than 45 feet you couldn’t see in the photographs of our landing area. So as we came in, you started seeing all of these other craters and rocks and valleys and hills and stuff. And so it was very dynamic when maneuvering to land.”

They landed, and they got out, and they walked on the moon.

The emotions of that moment, said Duke, were “overwhelming.”

“It’s beautiful. I felt right at home. There was no sense of danger at this point,” he said in the interview. “Jack Schimdt, who was on the last mission to the moon, describes walking on the moon like walking on a trampoline. And that’s what it’s like because you’re one-sixth gravity and you just have this feeling of bouncing across.”

They spent three days there, or 71 hours and 14 minutes, to be exact. Every day, they would wake up, eat a meal, go through a briefing with Houston and put their spacesuits on, an endeavor that took about three hours.

Then they would go outside — the longest of the three excursions they embarked on was seven hours and 40 minutes — and return to remove their suits, put up

An evening with Kephart’s biographers

establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Appalachian Trail along the Tennessee-North Carolina border. He was also the author of seminal works such as Camping and Woodcraft and Our Southern Highlanders.

Back of Beyond is published by the Great Smoky Mountains Association, which is also sponsoring the event. Copies of the book will be available for sale. www.SmokiesInformation.org.

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The co-authors of the first-ever full-length biography of Horace Kephart will speak at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, on the main floor of the Hunter Library at Western Carolina University.

George Frizzell, former archivist at the library’s special collections, will join authors of

Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography — George Ellison and Janet McCue — for “Kephart: A Librarian’s Effort to Create a National Park.” WCU processor Mae Claxton will moderate the hour-long discussion, and afterward guests are invited to an open house in special collections to view items in the Kephart Collection.

Kephart is an icon in the Southern Appalachian region, instrumental in efforts to

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Duke collects lunar samples at Station No. 1 (left) during the mission’s first moonwalk in this photo taken by Commander John Young. NASA photo Now 83, Charles Duke is one of 12 people — four of whom are still alive — to have walked on the moon’s surface. Holly Kays photo Duke (left) was in charge of communicating with the lunar module during the first moon landing in 1969. NASA photo

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When Duke splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 27, it was after having completed a feat that only 10 people out of all the trillions who had walked the earth at that time could claim — and he’d done it while still a young man of 36.

It was an accomplishment that brought pride, but also confusion.

“I’d climbed to the top of the ladder and I was frustrated. I had no peace,” he said.

“My marriage got worse and worse.”

Duke stayed with NASA for a while. He returned from the moon knowing he wanted to go again, and he landed a backup slot on the Apollo 17 mission. But the crew stayed healthy and he didn’t go. He worked on the space shuttle program for a while, but it just wasn’t the same as the dynamic and fast-paced experience at Apollo. It was a lot of meetings and very little action, it seemed to Duke. He left NASA in 1975 but remained in the Air Force Reserve, going on to pursue various business opportunities — Duke was a beer distributor for two years, then he sold the company and went into real estate. He retired from the Air Force in 1986 with the rank of Brigadier General.

The aftermath of his lunar adventure included a spiritual reckoning alongside the professional one.

“Even though I had been into the heavens, I hadn’t found God on my moon flight,” Duke wrote in his testimony, “Walk on the Moon, Walk with the Son.” “As a matter of fact, I didn’t even find him in church. A Sunday churchian, I read the scriptures without believing a word. My thoughts about Jesus? I believed he was a great teacher, like Buddah or Muhammad.”

Duke was obsessed with his career, spending little time with his family, his wife Dorothy wrote in her testimony, “From Sadness to Joy.” In 1975, as Duke was leav-

ing NASA and entering the beer business, Dorothy became a Christian. The conversion changed her, and Duke took notice.

Two-and-a-half years later, he also gave his life to Christ. Their marriage recovered, and thus far it’s lasted 44 years. Duke and Dorothy now operate Duke Ministry for Christ and are active in prison ministry.

“I came back and I was saying, ‘You just see earth, you don’t see the cultures or the borders or nations. You just see earth.

We’re all one down here and we’ve all got to learn to get along and love one another,’” said Duke. “There was probably almost six years I was saying that, but I couldn’t even love my wife. How could I love the Africans or the Asians or whoever? Then I realized, ‘God so loved the world.’ He loves everybody. When Jesus came into my life it gave me a love for everybody.”

The conversion refocused Duke’s life, but he’s maintained a fascination with space exploration and an optimism about its future. The beginnings of the space tourism industry are exciting, he said, though NASA will continue to play a vital role.

“I think that’s going to be a big input into the future,” he said of the commercial side, “and NASA can concentrate on deep space, the moon and Mars and stuff. That’s where NASA’s expertise is.”

The next challenge, said Duke, is to develop a base on the moon where humans can survive on an ongoing basis. Once we’ve developed a system we can use with confidence, we can set our sights on Mars.

“Once you go to Mars you’re on your own. There’s no resupply, no repair from Houston or anything like that, so you’ve got to have confidence in your equipment, and you could do that on a lunar base,” said Duke.

“I think we’ll get there, not sure when.

It’s not a technical problem, really. It’s a budget.”

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their hammocks and sleep.

The space was cramped, but the activityfilled days guaranteed a solid sleep. With gravity at one-sixth the amount on Earth, walking itself required very little energy.

But the astronauts were wearing spacesuits that weighed as much as they did, and that complicated things. They wore heartbeat monitors, and when the rate went over 140 beats per minute mission control would tell them to stop and rest. For Duke, that happened several different times.

“You’re fighting the suit. You’re working inside the suit, like squeezing a rubber ball all day,” he said. “It’s bouncy and you feel the lightness about it, so it’s hard work working the suit, but the motion of walking on the moon doesn’t require much energy.”

There was only one moment where fear set in, said Duke. He and Young decided to inaugurate the lunar Olympics, crushing the records of Earth-bound athletes with the aid of reduced gravity. Duke went for the high jump but lost his balance in midair, nearly falling straight on his back.

The astronauts’ backpacks contained their life support systems and weren’t designed to take the impact of a backwards fall.

“My heart was pounding, but everything held together,” Duke told the audience. “That was the beginning and the end of the Moon Olympics.”

A major objective of the mission was to gather data on the lunar surface. Duke and Young drove more than 16 miles over the course of their three moonwalks. By the end of the mission, they’d collected 209 pounds of samples as well as an overwhelming amount of moon dust, which stuck to their suits and clung to the oils in their skin once inside the lunar module. They left the car on the moon when they departed.

“If you want an $8 million car with a dead battery, I can tell you where to go,” Duke joked.

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Youth need not be accompanied by an adult if they have completed a hunter education course. Youth Deer Hunting Day provisions apply to private and public lands.

Hunters 18 and older with a valid hunting license may use only the weapon that is legal for the type of season open in their county that day, and all hunters — even archers — must wear blaze orange. During the remainder of the season, youth are required to use only the legal weapon for the open season that applies to their area.

Youth Deer Hunting Day, which coincides with National Hunting and Fishing Day was established in 2015 to increase interest in deer hunting among youth, potentially increase their success at hunting, and highlight the need to engage youth in hunting.

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Anyone interested in pursuing a career in agriculture is invited to an event 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, at Hickory Nut Gap Farm. The evening will include a buffet of farm-raised barbeque, along with drinks and fellowship. It will begin with a guided square-dancing icebreaker, followed by live music from the Bull Moose Party and an update from the event’s cohost, National Young Farmers Coalition, on their efforts at Capitol Hill to lobby for young farmers.

“With the average age of farm owners in the U.S. approaching 60 and all of the food-related challenges ahead of us in the coming decades, it can often feel hopeless and daunting to be involved with agriculture in the 21st century,” said Hickory Nut Gap’s farm director Asher Wright. “But the truth is, there is hope, there are more and more young and beginning farmers joining our food system every day; but with such a decentralized form of production, these young farmers often don’t have many options to connect with each other, network, and feel encouraged.”

Representatives from the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, N.C. State Extension/N.C. FarmLink, Organic Growers School, and Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project will be present to show their support for new and young farmers and share what they can do to help. There will also be several guest speakers, information booths and networking opportunities throughout the evening.

Free for new farmers thanks to sponsorship from Carolina Farm Credit, N.C. Choices, Whole Foods Market, the McClure Fund and Farm Bureau. RSVP at www.hickorynutgap.com/event/youngfarmers-bbq.

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After-school program to explore the outdoors An after-school nature camp will give kids a chance to get outside, Sept. 23 to 27, at the Highlands Nature Center in Highlands.

During “Take a Child Outside Week,” children in kindergarten through fifth grade will take walks through the botanical

garden, help care for the nature center’s live animal collection and learn new and fun ways to explore the outdoors. Sessions will be held from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. each day.

Cost is $10 per child, per day. Advance registration required at 828.526.2623.

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director of community and economic engagement and innovation, who leads the initiative. “It is about fostering talent in young people from preschool through life to embolden them to think and create outside the traditional academic or professional requirements. It is about creating environments that attract those people who want to make and do things in new ways and retaining that talent to start the process over again in the next generation.”

In the last year, WCU’s involvement in boosting the region’s outdoor economy included creating two outdoor recreation industry liaison positions among its faculty to ensure that new academic programs are meeting industry needs; organizing and holding the university’s first annual Outdoor Economy Conference; and hosting a televised regional town hall examining the impact of the outdoors and natural resources on job growth. The second annual Outdoor Economy Conference is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 10.

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Jackson County residents will have a chance to get rid of their unneeded pesticides from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, at the Cullowhee Recreation Center parking lot.

Accepted pesticides include insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, fumigants, rodenticides and growth regulators. Save any portion of the product’s label to help identify the material and assist with disposal. Unknown materials cannot be accepted. Other hazardous materials, such as paint and antifreeze, will not be accepted.

Christy Bredenkamp, 828.586.4009 or 828.488.3848.

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An outdoor economy initiative at Western Carolina University has been selected as a finalist in the University Economic Development Association’s 2019 Awards of Excellence competition.

“Outdoor Recreation as an Economic and Community Engagement Catalyst in Western North Carolina” is WCU’s name for a regional collaborative designed to boost an already-thriving outdoor industry to an even higher level. The project was nominated in the innovation and talent category of the Awards of Excellence.

Award winners will be announced at the association’s annual summit, to be held in Reno-Tahoe, Nevada, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2.

“Success in our modern economy is about innovation and entrepreneurship,” said Arthur Salido, WCU’s executive

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Volunteers are wanted to help clean up Haywood County’s streams and rivers on Saturday, Sept. 21.

Haywood Waterways Association and Haywood Community College are leading this countywide cleanup, with participants meeting at the far end of the Ingles parking lot on Russ Avenue in Waynesville at 9 a.m.

Volunteers should dress for working outside, and closed-toed shoes are required.

Cleanup supplies and a picnic lunch will be provided. RSVP by Sept. 19 to Christine O’Brien at 828.476.4667, ext. 11, or christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com.

Symposium to explore Cherokee culture, environment and health issues archeology and subsistence. The day will conclude with a native food dinner served by members of the Native American Indian Women’s Association.

The second day will feature presentations including “Archaeobotanical Approaches to Native Foodways,” a session on Cherokee ethnobotany, “Conservation, Environmental Activism and the Commons,” “Climate Change and Climate Catastrophe Resilience” and a fieldtrip to Judaculla Rock. The symposium’s planners will conclude the day with an open discussion.

Registration fee is $75, or free for tribal elders and WCU students and faculty. Preregister at go.wcu.edu/RootedintheMountains or call 828.227.2164. Supported by a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

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The 10th annual Rooted in the Mountains symposium will integrate indigenous and local knowledge with health and environmental issues on Thursday, Sept. 26, and Friday, Sept. 27, at Western Carolina University.

This year’s theme, “Giduwagi — Appalachian Historical Ecology” will reflect the changing landscape and habitat of the mountains and attitudes toward the environment. Tom Belt, retired coordinator of WCU’s program in Cherokee language and noted expert in Native American heritage and culture, will be the keynote speaker.

Belt recently received the Cherokee Nation’s Community Leadership Individual Award.

Panel discussions during the first day will include “Geology and Biogeography,” “The Mountains are the Heart of the People,” and a discussion on Cherokee

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Taylor to retire from Mainspring After 18 years with Mainspring Conservation Trust and five years as its leader, Sharon Fouts Taylor will retire on Feb. 29, 2020.

“It has been an extraordinary blessing and opportunity to be part of this organization’s growth and success,” said Taylor.

“Mainspring’s conservation mission is critical — to know I’ve helped contribute to it is a joy. And, while I feel nostalgic about leaving, I am excited and confident about Mainspring’s future; it is bright and wide open.”

Taylor began her career at the nonprofit in February 2001, helping with the effort to conserve what is now the 5,000acre Needmore Game Lands, Mainspring’s flagship project. During Taylor’s tenure, Mainspring has conserved more than 28,000 acres of land and more than 36 miles of Little Tennessee River frontage.

She became the organization’s second

executive director in January 2015 and currently directs a staff of 11 with an annual operating budget of $1.5 million.

Taylor led the nonprofit’s Sharon Taylor. rebranding Donated photo from Land Trust for the Little Tennessee to Mainspring Conservation Trust and established satellite offices in Murphy and Sylva. Under her leadership, Mainspring’s annual fund now exceeds $600,000, and its internal Land Protection Fund that supports land conservation projects exceeds $2 million.

Rita Salain, treasurer for Mainspring’s board of directors, will chair the selection committee, which has already launched a national search for Taylor’s replacement.

The job posting is available at mainspringconserves.org under the “Be a Mainspring” tab.

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Admission to the Cradle of Forestry in America will be free on Saturday, Sept. 28, in recognition of National Public Lands Day, with a variety of service projects offered as well.

Projects will include erosion control, mulching and invasive species removal. Visitors can enjoy the facility’s trails, exhibit halls, documentary and café.

The Cradle of Forestry is located in the Pisgah National Forest along U.S. 276 near Brevard. To participate in a volunteer project, contact Clay Wooldridge at cradle@cfaia.org.

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Hike Blackrock Mountain A challenging hike to Blackrock Mountain in Jackson County will be offered at 8:30 a.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 25, leaving from the Waynesville Recreation Center.

The trail is 4.8 miles long. Registration fee is $8. Contact Tim Petrea, 828.456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov.

Into the Frying Pan See the sights at Frying Pan Tower with an easy-to-moderate 1.5-mile hike at 10 a.m.

Friday, Sept. 20, led by Blue Ridge Parkway rangers.

Rangers will discuss the history of fire towers as well as superstitions and tall tales of the Appalachian Mountains, all while taking in some of the best views the Parkway has to offer.

Hikers should meet at the Frying Pan Trail pullout at milepost 409.1, 1 mile south of the Pisgah Inn. Park at the gravel Forest Service road, but don’t block the gate; bring water, good walking shoes and clothing for changeable weather.

828.298.5330, ext. 304.

NOC to hold festival Nantahala Outdoor Center will say thank you to its community and customers Sept. 27-29 with a festival of gear sales, shuttles to run recreational releases, familyfriendly games and live music.

Attractions at the Guest Appreciation Festival — or GAF — include free shuttles for recreational whitewater releases on the Cascades and Upper Nantahala, giant jenga, face painting, a paddling film festival and stunningly low prices on new and used gear.

All activities are free. A full schedule is

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Saunter through salamander country Become a scientist for a day on Saturday, Sept. 28, by helping the Great Smoky Mountains National Park gather salamander population data from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Participants will take a short, moderate hike to the research plot located near the Appalachian Highland Science Learning Center at Purchase Knob. Rhonda Wise, one of the park’s experts on salamanders, will lead the

adventure, which is open to participants ages 8 and up.

This region of the Smokies has 30 salamander species and is known as the salamander capital of the world. The event is offered as part of Haywood Waterways Association’s “Get to Know your Watershed” series of outdoor hikes, lectures and paddle tours.

Sign up by Sept. 26 with Christine O’Brien, christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 828.476.4667, ext. 11. No pets. Carpooling encouraged. Bring lunch, water, good walking shoes and clothing for cool weather and rain.

The annual Big Sweep is coming! Sponsored by Haywood Waterways Association and Haywood Community College, Big Sweep is an annual County-wide stream cleanup event that removes tons of trash from local waterways.

Haywood Waterways and Haywood Community College will lead a County-wide cleanup in local waterways. We will be meeting in the far end of Ingles parking lot (201 Barber Blvd., Waynesville, NC 28786) on the left as you drive in at 9:00 am.

Dress for working outside; close-toed shoes required.

Trash bags, trash grabbers, gloves, and picnic lunch provided.

RSVP required by September 19th: 828-476-4667 ext.11 or christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com.

Sponsored by Haywood Waterways Association, Haywood Community College, Tennessee Valley Authority Reservoirs & Community Stream Cleanups Fund, Town of Waynesville and Town of Clyde.

haywoodwaterways.org info@haywoodwaterways.org | 828-476-4667 Haywood Waterways is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.

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The first-ever Smokies Cup for clay shooters will be held on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Biltmore Sporting Clays Club in Asheville.

Organized by Friends of the Smokies, the event will raise money to ensure that America’s mostvisited national park is protected for generations to come. Teams of four will compete in a clay shoot during the morning or afternoon with breakfast or lunch provided afterward. The event will also include raffle and silent auction.

Register at www.friendsofthesmokies.org/smokiescup.

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what was once an extensive array of prehisThe results of a recent archeology projtoric to historic Cherokee archaeological ect that uncovered Cherokee artifacts at sites, representing thousands of years of Western Carolina University will be presenthuman occupation along Cullowhee Creek ed during the Cherokee Archeology and the Tuckaseigee River,” said Paul Webb, Symposium, to be held Sept. 26-27 at an archaeologist and cultural resources proHarrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort in gram leader with TRC Environmental Cherokee.

Corporation, an engineering firm with WCU regularly offers summer archaeoloffices in Asheville and Chapel Hill. “Many ogy methods field schools that provide a of such sites have been destroyed by develglimpse into the valley’s past. Recent projects have taken advantage of ongoing and planned construction to do studies on campus.

One took place between Friday, July 5, and Tuesday, Aug. 6, in the grassy expanse WCU students (from left) Karen between Biggert, Kaley Kelly and Etta Farlow Norton sift through dirt for artifacts during a Residence recent archaeological dig on campus.

Hall and WCU photo Cullowhee Creek and opment, but others survive, sometimes in was led by Ben Steere, director of WCU unlikely parts of campus or beneath buildCherokee Studies Programs and associate ings and parking lots. Ben (Steere) and the professor of anthropology. The purpose was other WCU archaeologists are doing a phetwofold: to instruct students in methods nomenal job in teaching students about from archaeological mapping and excavaarchaeological field methods, as well as tion to care and documentation of artifacts, relaying the importance of these sites to the and to develop an evaluation based on findscientific and living Cherokee communiings to assist construction and future develties.” opment.

Artifacts the students found during the Construction activities resulted in four field school date to the Archaic period rectangular excavation pits dotting the (8,000-1,000 B.C.), the Pisgah phase landscape at regular intervals of some 20 (around 1,200 A.D.), the Mississippian feet. To a knowing eye, the pits revealed period (900-1500 A.D.) and the mid-to-late chapters of history, especially once below Qualla period of the 1,500-1,700s. the “plow zone,” which was the surface All archaeological work at WCU is carfrom when the area was part of a working ried out in consultation with the Eastern farm that operated until the 1960s.

Band of Cherokee Indians’ Tribal Historic Findings included postholes, indicating Preservation Office and the N.C. Office of the corners of ancient Cherokee homes, as State Archaeology. well as a large pile of stones indicating the Sign up for the symposium at likely site of an outdoor cooking oven. https://bit.ly/2kdLpFh. “The Norton Hall site is a remnant of

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • Rabies vaccines will be offered for $9 each by Haywood County Animal Services from 5-6:30 p.m. through Friday, Sept. 20, at the following locations: Wednesday at Riverbend Elementary School; Thursday at Bethel Elementary School and Friday at Waynesville Middle School. Info: 456.5338.

• Dr. Beverly Collins, WCU Associate Professor of Biology, will present her fall color prediction at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. Dr. Collins is a botanist and the official autumn leaf forecaster for Western North Carolina.

Following Dr. Collins’ presentation, the Annual Friends of the Library Membership meeting will be held with an opportunity to have first pick at a used book sale, which will be held the next day. 488.0480.

• NC MedAssist will have a Mobile Free Pharmacy Event on Sept. 21 at West Swain Elementary School. Must be at least 18, living in Swain County and need over-thecounter medications. www.medassist.org.

• A Car Safety Checkup Event will be offered from 10 a.m.-noon on Sept. 21, by nationally certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians in partnership with Safe Kids Jackson County, Walmart in Sylva and Jackson County Department of Public Health. Info: 587.8225.

• The Western Carolina University “Chancellor’s Welcome Tour” will make stops on Sept. 24 and Oct. 8 in Franklin and Murphy respectively. The Sept. 24 stop is at Lazy Hiker Brewing on 188 Main St. in Franklin, and the Oct. 8 stop is at Shoebooties Café 25 Peachtree St. in Murphy. Events introduce Kelli R. Brown, WCU’s new chief executive officer.

• A Pesticide Collection Day is scheduled for 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at the Cullowhee Recreation Center’s parking lot on 88 Cullowhee Mountain Road in Cullowhee. Bring any pesticides you no longer need or use. 586.4009 or 488.3848.

• Hickory Nut Gap Farm and the National Young Farmers Coalition will hold an event for anyone interested in pursuing a career in agriculture from 5-9 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26. Guided square dance, live music by Bull Moose Party and update from the NYFC on capitol hill lobbying. Guest speakers, info booths and networking opportunities. RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/y3ownfem.

• The Drugs in Our Midst Annual Prayer Walk is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sept. 29 on Academy Street in Waynesville.

• Southwestern Community College will offer two job fairs on Oct. 1 at the SCC Macon Campus in Franklin.

General job fair is from 1-4 p.m.; trades job and skilled-labor fair is from 6-8 p.m. Info for employers and job-seekers: m_despeaux@southwesterncc.edu or 339.4212.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Southwestern Community College will offer a High School Equivalency Boot Camp from Oct. 14-Nov. 22 at SCC’s Jackson Campus in Sylva. Complete high school credentials in just over a month. 339.4272 or d_wilson@southwesterncc.edu.

• Registration is underway for a two-part “Retirement Planning Now” course, that will be offered from 5:308:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, Oct. 8-10, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Led by Joel Kelley, CFP®, and Jacob Sadler, CFP®. Fee: $79. Register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Learn stories of the Cherokee people during a Smoky Mountain Field School Course that will be offered on Saturday, Sept. 21, in Cherokee. Four-hour course entitled “Myths and Legends of the Cherokee” will be led by

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

Ila Hatter, a Bryson City naturalist, artist, storyteller, wildcrafter and gourmet cook. Cost: $69. Register: smfs.utk.edu.

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

Pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Haywood Community College Continuing Education Department will offer a Pharmacy Technician Training Program starting October 1, 2019 through April 27, 2020. The program will prepare students to assist the pharmacist in a variety of settings through classroom, laboratory, and clinical experiences. The program is a Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) Recognized Program. 564.5128 or email vldevore@haywood.edu.

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

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

50-hour program prepares students to work as pharmacy technicians. Registration: $1,099 (includes all materials). Go.wcu.edu/pharm-tech or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for a Six-Sigma Whitebelt Training, which will be offered from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Led

by Dr. Todd Creasy, professor in WCU’s College of Business. Learn how to apply the five-step methodology of Six Sigma in product, process or service industries.

Registration: $249 (by Oct. 1) or $279 (after Oct. 1).

Info and register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for Western Carolina University’s High Impact Leadership Certificate Program that will be offered from Oct. 28-Nov. 1 at WCU’s Biltmore Park Instructional Site in Asheville. Advance registration is $759 (through Oct. 1). After Oct. 1, rate increases to $849. Nonprofit rate is $649. Info and register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Friends of the Smokies will hold the inaugural Smokies Cup – a clay shooting fundraiser tournament – on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Biltmore Sporting Clays Club in Asheville. Raffle and silent auction. Info and registration: friendsofthesmokies.org/smokiescup.

• The STAR Ranch will hold a fundraiser with a Jeff Foxworthy and Elvis impersonators at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville. Tickets are $25 per person. There will also be a live auction during the show. All proceeds go to the Star Ranch Horse Rescue.

• The Smoky Mountain Pregnancy Care Center’s Annual Fundraising Banquet at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Franklin Covenant Church, 265 Belleview Park Road in Franklin. Guest speaker is Kirk Walden, who has 30 years of experience in the pro-life arena. RSVP: 349.3200 or smpccpartners.com.

• Registration is underway for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s, which is at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept.

21, at Pack Square Park in Asheville. Register and get info: act.alz.org/Asheville. Info: www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/nature/elk.htm.

• Jackson County Genealogical Society will host its annual Cruise-In fundraiser on Sunday, Sept. 29, from 2 until 4 p.m. in Sylva at the Sav-Mor parking lot. The event, which will include classic cars and trucks, current-day muscle cars and “rat rods” as well as music, pays tribute to the old Rebel Restaurant. Participating vehicle owners will pay a $20 registration fee that enters them in raffles to win prizes donated by area auto parts stores and other merchants. A 50-50 raffle is planned, with the drawing set for 3:30 p.m. Tickets will be sold during the Cruise-In and will cost $1 each or $5 for six. Cars will parade through downtown around 4:15 p.m. jacksoncountygenealogy@gmail.com or http://www.jcgsnc.org.

• REACH of Haywood has been selected as the featured non-profit at the first Stonehouse Pottery Gallery Opening on Sunday, October 6th, 1pm to 5pm. During this event, the Stonehouse Gallery and Studios will be open for tours, and a portion of every sale will help REACH in our ongoing efforts to serve victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse. The works in the Gallery showcase many different pottery styles, and artists will be available to answer questions. Some artists may even be working in the studio! Light refreshments will also be available. Stonehouse Pottery Gallery is located 103 Cabin Flats Rd (The Balsam Post Office).

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

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

HEALTH MATTERS • “Breastfeeding A-Z” class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. on Nov. 14 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville. Focusing on techniques for proper latching and comfortable positions for a baby and mom to get started. Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

• The International Essential Tremor Foundation support group will meet at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the Jackson County Senior Center Room No. 135. Learn coping skills and available products to help. 736.3165 or teddyk1942@gmail.com.

• “PH Balance of our Body & A Health Immune System” will be presented from 6:45-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at Frog Quarters, which is at 573 E. Main St. in Franklin. Learn which foods help or worsen acid stomach issues.

• Restorative and Yoga Nidra with Beyond Bending Yoga will be offered at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. 524.3600.

• A Vision Workshop is scheduled for 1-4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Led by Donna Corso, certified Dream Builder Life Coach. Adults only. Registration required: 356.2507 or Kathleen.olsen@haywoodcountync.gov.

• The Recovery Club at Southwestern Community College will host a “Bridges” event from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, in the first floor of the Burrell Building at the SCC Jackson Campus in Sylva. Program aims to bridge gaps between people in recovery, service providers and colleges. L_clancy@southwesterncc.edu.

Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: ■ Complete listings of local music scene ■ Regional festivals ■ Art gallery events and openings ■ Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings • An “Animal CPR and First Aid Class” will be offered from 1:30-5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Haywood County Animal Shelter at 453 Jones Cove Road in Clyde. Led by certified trainer Lisa Monteith of K-9 Curriculum. $15 fee for the course book and certification. Register and find more info: www.sargeanimals.org.

• A Fall Ayurvedic Cleanse will be guided and supported

by Ayurvedic Wellness Counselors from Sept. 23-Oct. 12.

Revitalizing cleanse with a holistic wellness plan using Ayurvedic practices to reset your health. Includes a restorative yoga “Abhyanga & Nasya” class, silent hike and closing ceremony. Cost: $149. Sign up: 944.0288. maggievalleywellness.com.

• Western Carolina University will host a town hall Thursday, Oct. 3 from 8:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., in the Grandroom of A.K. Hinds University Center. The event will feature a series of discussions and sessions focused on the national opioid and addiction crisis and on identifying potential solutions. The free event is a partnership between WCU’s Center for the Study of Free Enterprise and the Jackson County Community Foundation. The event is open to the public free of charge, and lunch will be provided. Advance registration is required by Monday, Sept. 30. To register or for more information, visit the website go.wcu.edu/townhall.

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

RECREATION AND FITNESS • Buti Yoga + Bubbles will be offered from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, at Waynesville Yoga Center.

Get heart rate up, sweat then cool off with champagne or tea. Cost: $14. Register or get info: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• A Merge Yoga Workshop: Finding Freedom in Movement will be offered from 1-2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $30.

Register or get info: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• A program entitled “Fall Equinox: Sound Immersion with Crystal and Tibetan Bowls” will be offered from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 22, at Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $20. Register or get info: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Yin & Tonic will be offered from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, at Waynesville Yoga Center. Long posture holds that release stress and improve flexibility; follow with a crisp beverage and chat with classmates.

Cost: $14. Register or get info: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Contra Dance is set for 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Cowee School Arts & Heritage Center. Live music

by Blue-Eyed Girl with Charlotte Crittenden as the caller. Cost: $7 for adults; free for children. www.coweeschool.org.

• Lake Junaluska is extending its pool hours on weekends through September and offer boat rentals on weekends through the end of October. Info and prices: 452.2881 or lakejunaluska.com/pool.

• Dance Tonight Haywood offers weekly evening classes Foxtrot or Tango (Mondays 6) and Carolina Shag (Mondays 7), Salsa (Tuesdays, Beginners 7 p.m. & Advance 8 to 10 p.m.), Swing (Wednesdays, Beginners 7 p.m. & Advance 8 p.m.) and Waltz (Thursdays, Beginners 7 p.m. & Advance 8 p.m.), Open Ballroom (Fridays, 7 p.m. & practice dance from 8 to 9:30 p.m.), and Argentine Tango Practica/Tea Dance (Sundays, 2 to 5 p.m) at 61 ½ Main Street in Canton.

For times, prices and to RSVP, call 316.1344.

SPIRITUAL • Registration is underway for Guided Personal Retreat, on Oct. 21-23 at Lake Junaluska.

Lakejunaluska.com/retreats or 800.222.4930.

POLITICAL • The September Swain County Democratic Party Whittier-Cherokee precinct meeting will be Tuesday, September 24th at 6:00 p.m. at the Chestnut Tree Inn (formerly the Holiday Inn) Hwy 19 South, 37 Tsalagi Rd. Cherokee. Agenda includes voter registrations drive at the Cherokee Fair. 497.9498.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS • The “Coffee with the Poets and Writers” (CWPW) will feature Richard Montfort Cary and writer Marcia Hawley Barnes at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville. The event is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the presentation. glendabeall@msn.com.

Runyon is a dancer/choreographer, political activist, urban farmer, student of Italian, and a former steelworker. The Passion of Older Women is her fourth collection of poetry. To reserve a copy of the book, please call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

• Award-winning photojournalist Martin Tucker will present his book Vietnam Photographs from North Carolina Veterans at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

• A used book sale will be held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the library in Bryson City.

488.0480.

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

KIDS & FAMILIES • The Haywood County Arts Council’s Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program will hold student registration at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the

• The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has designated Saturday, Sept. 28, at Youth Deer Hunting Day. Ages 17-under may use any legal weapon to hunt deer of either sex and are not required to be accompanied by an adult if they have completed a hunter education course: www.ncwildlife.org/huntered or www.ncwildlife.org/hunting.

• Waynesville Art School offers the Young Artist Program in the afternoons for 5-6 year old, 7-8 year old, 9-12 year old. Intro to Printmaking and Evening studies in arts is offered for 13-19 year old.

Waynesville Art School is located at 303 N. Haywood Street. Info: 246.9869, info@waynesvilleartschool.com or visit WaynesvilleArtSchool.com for schedule and to register.

• The 10th annual Cullowhee Canoe Slalom will start at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, on a calm section of the Tuckaseigee River near the Western Carolina University campus in Cullowhee. Family-friendly paddling competition. Canoes, paddles and personal flotation devices provided. Limited number of kayaks and paddle boards. Registration is $8 per person in advance (learn.wcu.edu/canoe-slalom) or $10 on day of event. Info: 227.3845 or gdmiddleton@wcu.edu.

• A Vintage Camper Show is scheduled for 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Stonebridge Campground, 1786 Soco Road in Maggie Valley.

Tickets: $5 per person; 12-under free.

• Rapidly rising bluegrass act Mile Twelve will be performing at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Cowee School in Franklin.

• Country music legends Lonestar will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

• Mountain Wildlife offers wildlife education programs for schools and organizations in Western North Carolina, free of charge. If you are interested in having them visit your group contact them at blackbears66@gmail.com, 743.9648 or visit the website at www.mountainwildlifedays.com.

• The eighth annual Cherokee Heritage Festival is scheduled for 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Cherokee Homestead Exhibit, 805 Highway 64 Business in Hayesville. Hoop dancing, Cherokee artisans, demonstrations and more. 389.3045 or www.cccra-nc.org.

• On Sept. 28 the Great Smoky Mountain National Park Sugarlands Visitor Center and Clingmans Dome invites families to sign up to become a Volunteer-InPark (VIP) and participate in the park’s Litter Patrol Program. This is program is in celebration of the 26th annual National Public Lands Day. https://www.neefusa.org/public-lands-day.

• The 10th annual Rooted in the Mountains symposium, designed to integrate indigenous and local knowledge with health and environmental issues, is set for Thursday and Friday, Sept. 26-27, in the conference room of Blue Ridge Hall in Cullowhee.

Interdisciplinary forum with topics including ethnography, literature, art, music and more. Registration fee: $75. Tribal elders, students and WCU faculty admitted free. Preregister: 227.2164 or go.wcu.edu/RootedintheMountains. Info: 227.2893 or pjmyers@wcu.edu.

• Officer presentations on “Hidden in Plain Sight: What every parent should know about their child’s bedroom” will be offered from 5-7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 30, and Tuesday, Oct. 1, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. Presented by Renew Bryson City, the Marianna Black Library and the Bryson City Police Department.

A&E SPECIAL EVENTS & FESTIVALS • The annual Youth Arts Festival will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Demonstrations in glass, metal, ceramics, paint, printmaking and more. Activities in weaving, hand-building with clay, wheel thrown clay. Live music performances by local groups including The Maggie Valley Band. Food will be available for purchase from Brew Dawgz and NGN 52 Pizza. 631.0271 or www.jcgep.org.

• Fines Creek Dance Night is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road in Clyde. Food at 6 p.m.; dance at 7

• Nantahala Outdoor Center will hold a three-day festival of gear, family friendly games and live music from Sept. 27-29, in Nantahala. Full schedule and more info: https://tinyurl.com/y7zhmmpw.

• Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, on the campus in Cullowhee. The free, family oriented festival celebrates Southern Appalachian music, folk arts, dance and culture. The event includes music and dance performances, living history demonstrations, vendors and awards programs. For more information, a full schedule of events and updates, go to www.mountainheritageday.com.

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

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

21 & 22, Nov. 2 and Dec 31 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. Full service all-

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Pickin’ on the Square in Franklin will host Curtis Blackwell & The Dixie Bluegrass Boys on Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. www.townoffranklinnc.com.

• Bluegrass act Mile Twelve will be performing at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Cowee School in Franklin. Tickets are $15 for adults, $7.50 for ages 616 and free and ages six and under. www.coweeschool.org.

• “The Mousetrap” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 26-28 and 3 p.m. Sept. 29 in the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students and children. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, call 227.2479.

• “The Crucible” will come to life on the big stage at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27-28, Oct. 4-5, 10-12 and 2 p.m.

Sept. 29, Oct. 6 and 13 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, click on www.harttheatre.org.

• Lamberto Roque Hernandez will be featured at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, in the A.K. Hinds University Center Theater in Cullowhee.

Part of the ACE Series at Western Carolina University.

Tickets: $5 for WCU students, $10 for non-WCU students and WCU faculty and staff and $15 for general admission. Available at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or 227.2479.

• Pickin’ on the Square in Franklin will host Blueride (gospel) on Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. www.townoffranklinnc.com.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • “Beyond Beneficial: Bees and Wasps” will be presented from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Led by Brennan Basham and Jill Jacobs, owners of Spriggly’s Beescaping.

• Kudzu Fiber Explorations: From Wild Vine to Fine Fiber – a workshop – will be held on Sept. 21 at Local Cloth in Asheville. Explore using kudzu to make clothes through vine fiber processing, weaving and other fiber art applications. Info and registration: https://tinyurl.com/yyy2jqso.

• An indoor flea market is set for 7 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at The Old Armory in Waynesville.

Booths are $10 for selling items. Info: 456.9207.

• Listen to and learn about mountain music from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Glenville History Museum, which is on Highway 107 next to Signal Ridge Marina. Info: 743.1658, www.glenvilleareahistoricalsociety or historicalsocietyglenvillearea@yahoo.com.

• Fiber Sunday will take place from 2 to 5 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 22, at Cowee Textiles at The Cowee School Heritage Center in Franklin. Bring a textile project you are working on from spinning, knitting, weaving, rug hooking, baskets etc. 349,3878 or bouchonnet@coweetextiles.com.

• Western Carolina University’s chapter of the Sigma Xi scientific research society will feature Andrew Penland, assistant professor in math and computer science, for a “Science Cafe” event Tuesday, Sept. 24, at Lazy Hiker Taproom in Sylva. Penland will speak on “Groups Without Leaders” at 6 p.m. He will discuss the phenomenon known as emergence, when a group displays a collective property that comes from, but cannot be completely explained by, the actions of individual members. He also will present examples of real-world mathematical systems that exhibit complex behavior. Public event with and free. 227-2483.

• The N.C. ABC Commission will offer Responsible Alcohol Seller Server Training Classes on Sept. 24-25

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• The Southern Storytellers Supper Series will feature David Joy, author of the Edgar-nominated novel “Where All Light Tends to Go” (Putnam, 2015), from 69 p.m. on Sept. 26, at the Folkmoot Center in Waynesville. Tickets are $20 in advance, $10 for students and $23 at the door. 452.2997 or info@folkmoot.org.

• The Highlands Biological Foundation will host a “Take a Child Outside!” Week: After-School Nature Camp” from 3:30-4:30 p.m. on Sept. 23-27 at the Highlands nature Center. Cost: $10 per day per participant. Advance registration required: 526.2623.

• The Mountain Life Festival is scheduled for 10 a.m.3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Mountain Farm Museum near the Oconaluftee Visitor Center, two miles north of Cherokee. Preserves the legacy of Appalachian mountainways and serves as a tribute to families who lived on lands that later became the national park. Experience fall harvest activities including hearth cooking, apple butter making, blacksmithing, lye soap making and food preservation.

497.1904.

adult first-class car. Wine pairings with a meal and more. 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com.

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Louise Runyon will read selections from her latest poetry collection The Passion of Older Women at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

• The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department will offer a new afterschool program for Grades 1-5 starting in October at the Waynesville Recreation Center. Times are 3-6 p.m. Cost is $40 per week or $10 per day. Homework help, active play, lifetime sports and arts and crafts. Info: 456.2030 or cmiller@waynesvillenc.gov.

p.m. Costs: Dance $5, food is from $4-5 (hamburger or hot dog with chips and drink). Cake walk and 50/50 raffle. Live music featuring Running Wolfe and the Renegades (Traditional country and rock). Proceeds support scholarships, community needs and the MANNA FoodBank. Updates/info: www.fb.me/finescreekorg or 593.7042.

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

Haywood County Public Library in Waynesville. JAM offers old-time mountain music to children in 4th grade and older. Lessons are $95 for the September through December session. Fees must be paid in advance. Classes meet from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through May 2020 at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. Sibling discounted fee is $50. caryfridley@gmail.com or 452.0593. www.haywoodarts.org or www.facebook.com/haywoodarts.

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at the following times and locations: 8-10 a.m. on Sept. 24 at Anthony’s Restaurant in Bryson City; 2-4 p.m. on Sept. 24 at Nantahala Brewing Outpost in Sylva; from 9-11 a.m. on Sept. 25 at Bear Waters Brewing in Canton; and from 2-4 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Elevated Mountain Distilling Company in Maggie Valley. Register: http://abc.nc.gov/education/rasp.

Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road in Clyde.

550.6842 or 593.7042. Info: www.fb.me/finescreekorg.

• “Travels and Tall Tales” with Alan French will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. The presentation, “The Vikings on a Rampage,” will begin with their raid on Lindisfarne. These marauders harried Europe from the British Isles to Constantinople for three centuries, earning for themselves a terrifying reputation while leaving a legacy worthy of review. Free and open to the public.

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

• A “Palette Knife” class with Susan Remi Dawkins will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville. All supplies provided. Cost is $40 for HCAC members, $45 for non-members or you can bring your own supplies (cost is $20 for members, $25 for non-members). For more information and/or to register, call 452.0593.

• The results of a recent archeology project that uncovered Cherokee artifacts at Western Carolina University will be presented Sept. 26-27 during the Cherokee Archeology Symposium at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. Sign up: https://bit.ly/2kdLpFh.

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• The Jackson County Public Library is hosting Hemp in Jackson County: A Panel Discussion on Thursday September 26th at 6:30 PM in the Community Room.

This program is free of charge. The panel will be composed of Brent and Beth Hall of Country Roads Farm, Kyle Coleman of Mountain Flora Dispensary, and Christy Bredenkamp the Horticulture Agent for Jackson County. Each panelist will speak about their area of expertise in the Hemp industry. After each speaker is done, there will be an extensive Q&A period.

• “Best in the West” competition will be held during the Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Day on Saturday, Sept. 28, in Cullowhee. Apples will be the featured food for the popular “Best in the West” recipe competition. Any made-from-scratch dish with apples as the essential ingredient will be eligible for the contest, including apple pie, apple sauce, apple cobbler, apple fritters, candied apples, apple crumb cake and apple dumplings. In addition to the “Best in the West” recipe contest, the festival’s traditional food competition includes categories for canned goods, baked goods and heritage foods conservation. Competition is divided into adult and youth (16 and younger) divisions. Ribbons will be awarded to the top three entrants in each age division, plus a grand champion will be selected in each division. For more information on being a part of the contest call 227.7129 or visit www.mountainheritageday.com.

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• The Fines Creek Flea Market is scheduled for 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Fines Creek

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• Registration is underway for Choir Music Weekend, which is Oct. 18-20 at Lake Junaluska. For small and medium-sized adult choirs. Worship and specialized workshops. Lakejunaluska.com/choirmusic or 800.222.4930.

• Waynesville Art School offers “The Joy of Drawing”, Still Life in Color: Acrylic & Pastel and “Relief Printmaking” classes for adults at 303 N. Haywood Street. Info: 246.9869, info@waynesvilleartschool.com or WaynesvilleArtSchool.com.

• Indoor Flea Market is set for 7 a.m.-2 p.m. every third Saturday at the Old Armory in Waynesville.

456.9207.

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

• Art by Lynn Babiarz will be on display through the month of September at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. There will be a reception with the artist from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7. Free and open to the public.

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

FILM & SCREEN • “IT: Chapter Two”, is showing at Smoky Mountain Cinema in Waynesville Plaza at 12, 3:30, 7, and 8:15 p.m. on Sept. 18-19 & Sept. 22-26 and 1, 4:30, 8, and 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 20-21. Visit www.fandango.com for pricing & tickets. Info. on Facebook or 246.0588.

• “IT: Chapter Two”, is showing at The Strand on Main on Sept. 18-19 at 7 p.m. in Waynesville. 38main.com.

• “Hustlers”, is showing at Smoky Mountain Cinema in Waynesville Plaza at 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 20-21 and 1:30, 4:15 and 7 p.m. on Sept. 2226. Visit www.fandango.com for pricing & tickets.

Info. on Facebook or 246.0588.

• “The Peanut Butter Falcon”, is showing at The

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• David Weintraub’s documentary “Guardians of Our Troubled Waters” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, in the Terrace Auditorium at Lake Junaluska. Film is about ordinary people who did extraordinary things to protect southern rivers and streams. 246.1609.

• “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool”, is showing at The Strand on Main at 1 and 7 p.m. on Sept. 27-Oct. 3, and 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Sept. 28-29 in Waynesville.

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Outdoors

• The Smokies Skiwalking School will be offered from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Mondays through Oct. 21 at Smoky Mountain Elementary School in Whittier. Register and get more info: 586.4009 or 488.3848.

• The N.C. Department of Transportation is seeking volunteers to help clean up trash along roads during the Adopt-A-Highway Fall Litter Sweep through Sept.

28. https://tinyurl.com/yxaph58g. Contacts: Haywood County – Karen Hurd (456.5633), Jackson County – Mildred Turpin (631.5599), Macon County – Bradley Pyle (524.2517), Swain County – Allison Edwards (488.3683).

• An opportunity to clean up Haywood County’s streams and rivers is scheduled for Saturday, Sept.

21. Meet at 9 a.m. at far end of Ingles parking lot in Waynesville. RSVP by Sept. 19: Christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 476.4667, ext. 11.

• Intro to Fly-Fishing will be offered to ages 12-up from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 20 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• Blue Ridge Parkway rangers will lead an easy-tomoderate, 1.5-mile round-trip hike at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, to the Frying Pan Fire Tower. Meet at Milepost 409.6 pullout, one mile south of the Pisgah Inn and campground. 298.5330, ext. 304.

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

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

• The DuPont Trash Bash is at 9 a.m. on Sept. 21 at the High Falls Access Area in the DuPont Forest. www.dupontforest.com.

• Women’s Intro to Fly Fishing will be offered to ages

12-up from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 21 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• A Land Navigation Class will be offered at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 22, at the Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road in Clyde. Led by David Grasty, owner of WNC Bushcraft and Survival. Basic, easy-to-remember land navigation concepts.

Approximately 1-1/2-to-2 hours. Cost: $20.

Reservations: 400.5790. Updates: https://fb.me/FinesCreekOrg. • “Casting for Beginners: Level I” will be offered from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 24 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. For ages 12-up.

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

• A Hunter Education Couse will be offered from 6-9 p.m. on Sept. 24-25 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• A hike to Black Rock Mountain is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 25, through the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department. Hike is 4.8 miles. Fee is $8 per person. Info and registration: 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov. Trip leaves at 8:30 a.m. from the Waynesville Recreation Center.

• The Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the greenway at 8 a.m. on Sept. 25 in Franklin. Meet at Macon County Public Library parking area.

Franklinbirdclub.com or 524.5234.

• Hickory Nut Gap Farm and the National Young Farmers Coalition will hold an event for anyone interested in pursuing a career in agriculture from 5-9 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26. Guided square dance, live music by Bull Moose Party and update from the NYFC on capitol hill lobbying. Guest speakers, info booths and networking opportunities. RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/y3ownfem.

• “Kephart: A Librarian’s Effort to Create a National Park” will be presented by the Great Smoky Mountains Association and the Friends of Hunter Library at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26, at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Hourlong discussion moderated by WCU professor Mae Claxton.

• An opportunity to help gather salamander population data is scheduled for 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Led by Rhonda Wise, a park expert on salamanders. For ages 8-up. Sign up by Sept. 26: Christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 476.4667, ext. 11.

• A National Hunting and Fishing Day program is from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 28 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

• Friends of the Smokies is partnering with Navitat Canopy Adventures to offer one day each month through September where Navitat visitors receive a 10

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• Citizens’ Climate Lobby will hold a Climate Advocate Training for residents of Sylva and nearby communities from 1-4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 18 Jackson Street in Sylva. Climate solutions and info on climate legislation. https://citizensclimatelobby.org.

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host a variety of opportunities on Saturday, September 28 in celebration of the 26th annual National Public Lands Day. On this day, National Park Service staff and volunteers will host information stations at popular sites throughout the national park. These stations will offer information about Leave No Trace principles and provide tips on how visitors can explore and enjoy the National Park while reducing their impact on the natural environment around them. Informational stations will be in operation from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. www.Facebook.com/GreatSmokyMountainsNPS and https://www.neefusa.org/public-lands-day..

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host a volunteer Trail Maintenance Workday as part of the celebration of the 26th annual National Public Lands Day. Participants are invited to participate on a trail rehabilitation project on the Kanati Fork Trail from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 28. Minimum age of participants is 16, under 18 must be accompanied by a responsible parent or guardian. Interested participants should contact Trail and Facilities Volunteer Coordinator Adam Monroe at 497.1949 or adam_monroe@nps.gov for more information and registration.

• A “Backyard Birding By Ear: For Beginners” program is set for 9 a.m.-noon on Sept. 30 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. For ages 10up. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y53o5ddq.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Mountain Heritage Day 5 K will be held at 8 a.m. on Sept. 28 at Western Carolina Campus in Cullowhee.

Registration ends Sept. 26. $20 (non-student) and $15 (student). Register here: https://tinyurl.com/y6zy56gh

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• The Carolina’s Dahlia Society Annual Dahlia Show is Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 20-21, at the Haywood County Extension Center. The community is invited to look at the flowers — which will include small singles, pompoms and extremely large flowers — and meet the growers.

• A lecture on “Growing Native Plants at Home” will be presented at 10 a.m. on Sept. 21 at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Stan and Mary Polanski will discuss the rewards of growing natives for beauty, year-round interest and the contribution to local biodiversity.

HIKING CLUBS • The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate four-mile hike with an elevation change of 300 feet on Sunday, Sept. 22, to Kimsey Creek in the Standing

• Carolina Mountain club will have a 5.4-mile hike with a 1,300-foot ascent on Sunday, Sept. 22, at Trombatore Trail. Info and reservations: 516.721.6156 or karingarden@yahoo.com.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a strenuous eight-mile hike with an elevation change of 1,000 feet on Wednesday, Sept. 25, to Timber Ridge in the Standing Indian Recreation Area. Info and reservations: 772.263.3478.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will host an easy twomile family hike on Saturday, Sept. 28, on the Appalachian Trail to Moore Creek Camp. Reservations and info: 421.4178.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate-tostrenuous 7.5-mile hike on Saturday, Sept. 28, from Sweat Heifer to Kephart Prong in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Info and reservations: 456.8895.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate four-mile hike with an elevation change of 100 feet on Saturday, Sept. 28, to Lower Whitewater Falls. Info and reservations: 743.1079.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a strenuous nine-mile hike with an elevation change of 1,700 feet on Saturday, Sept. 28, off the Georgia Bartram Trail.

Info and reservations: 772.233.7277.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take an easy, 1.5mile hike with an elevation change of 200 feet on Saturday, Sept. 28, to view 80-foot-high Rufus Morgan Falls. Info and reservations: 526.6480.

• Carolina Mountain Club will take a 12-mile hike with a 2,800-foot ascent on Saturday, Sept. 28, from Big East Fork to Shining Creek Loop. Info and reservations: 606.3989, jqs290@gmail.com, 606.1490 or quilter290@gmail.com.

• Carolina Mountain Club will take a five-mile hike with a 900-foot elevation gain on Sunday, Sept. 29, at Sam Knob Loop. Info and reservations: 384.4870 or stuengo@comporium.net.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate four-mile hike with an elevation change of 700 feet to Rabun Bald on Saturday, Oct. 5, on the Georgia Bartram Trail. Info and reservations: 524.5298.

OUTDOOR CLUBS • The Jackson County Poultry Club will hold its regular meeting on the third Thursday of each month at the Jackson County Cooperative Extension Office. The club is for adults and children and includes a monthly meeting with a program and a support network for those raising birds. For info, call 586.4009 or write heather_gordon@ncsu.edu.

• The North Carolina Catch program, a three-phase conservation education effort focusing on aquatic environments, will be offered through May 15. The program is offered by the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department. Free for members; daily admission for non-members. 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov.

• An RV camping club, the Vagabonds, camps one weekend per month from April through November. All ages welcome. No dues or structured activities. For details, write lilnau@aol.com or call 369.6669.

• The Cataloochee Chapter of Trout Unlimited meets the second Tuesday of the month starting with a social hour at 5:30 p.m. at Rendezvous restaurant located on the corner of Jonathan Creek Road and Soco Road in Maggie Valley. Come early and eat if you like. 631.5543.

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• Dahlias of every size and color will be displayed Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 19-21, at the Waynesville Public Library, at the Waynesville Public Library in an event organized by the Waynesville Garden Club. Anyone wishing to exhibit a dahlia can bring it by from 9-10 a.m. on Sept. 19. Garden Club members will provide containers. 926.5573.

• Carolina Mountain Club will have a 13.1-mile hike with a 1,000-foot ascent on Sunday, Sept. 22, at Pink Beds, Buckhorn Gap and South Mills River Loop. Info and reservations: 606.1490, quilter290@gmail.com, 606.3989 or jqs290@gmail.com.

September 18-24, 2019

• The Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the greenway at 8 a.m. on Oct. 2 in Franklin. Meet at Big Bear Shelter parking area. Franklinbirdclub.com or 524.5234.

Indian Recreation Area. Info and reservations: 524.5298.

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percent discount, and a portion of sales will be donated to Friends of the Smokies. Next date is Saturday, Sept. 28. Navitat Asheville is located at 242 Poverty Branch Road in Barnardsville. Reservations and info: 626.3700.

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The choir rehearses the first Wednesday of each month at 6pm (September through May or June) and meets at 10am each Sunday for warm-up. The choir normally participates in Sunday worship from September through the Day of Pentecost.

Required services include our Sunday, 11am worship service, Christmas Eve at 4pm and 8pm, Holy Week services of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and the Great Vigil of Easter, and Easter Day. Other services will be arranged separately as will all weddings and funerals.

Familiarity with Episcopal liturgy is preferred but not essential if the candidate has prior experience in church music and directing a choir. Salary is negotiable based on the depth of experience the candidate brings.

We are a small congregation of disciples deeply committed loving God and loving our neighbor and we appreciate the beauty and joy of rich musical offerings during our liturgy. For more information or to submit a resume, please contact the Rev. Pattie Curtis, saintjohnssylva@gmail.com We are located at 18 Jackson St., Sylva, NC 28779.

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All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18 This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All dwellings advertised on equal opportunity basis.

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The naturalist’s corner

BY DON H ENDERSHOT

Climate change brings more challenges NC Climate Action Coalition’s screening of David Weintraub’s new documentary “Guardians of our Troubled Waters” is both a history lesson and a call to action.

The film, made in collaboration with the Wilma Dykeman Legacy Foundation, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Conserving Carolina, Mountain True, Clean Water Expected in East Tennessee, Friends of the Everglades and Haywood Waterways Association, will be aired at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Lake Junaluska Assembly Terrace Auditorium at 689 North Lakeshore Drive. There will be a panel discussion following the film. The panel will include filmmaker David Weintraub, Eric Romaniszyn of Haywood Waterways, Callie Moore of Mountain True and more.

The movie focuses on the French Broad and Pigeon Rivers in Western North Carolina and the Everglades in south Florida. It points to guardians like Wilma Dykeman, Marjory Stoneman Douglas and groups like the Dead Pigeon River Council

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who stepped up to help reclaim those rivers and waterways that had become cesspools.

But as Weintraub warns, the fight for clean water is never won.

Today’s administration appears hellbent on rolling back decades of progress regarding rules and regulations to protect today’s rivers and waterways. Dykeman and Douglas and guardians like them were the genesis for these protections, which were then expanded and fought for by “riverkeepers” and other environmental watchdogs across the country. And the timing of these rollbacks couldn’t be worse.

Despite what our climate-denier-in-chief and his corporate and political cronies say, climate change is real and really troubling.

There has been a lot of focus on sea-level rise, shrinking sea ice and glacial melting but the truth is global warming affects every drop of water on the planet. Many changes, such as sea-level rise, are gradual and people turn a blind eye because they don’t see the imminent danger. But major changes can occur in just a matter of days. During a fourday period in 2016, the meltwater from the Kaskawulsh glacier in the Yukon territory had a slight course change. This meltwater used to channel into the Slims River but the

den deluge caused multiple mudslides in the Nantahala Gorge. And these deluges are becoming more and more prominent.

Climate data notes these “heaviest” rainfall events have increased by 27 percent since 1958 and climate models show these extreme weather events continuing.

I am sincerely grateful to guardians like Dykeman and Douglas and today’s riverkeepers. But in today’s “climate” we can all be guardians.

We need to Flooding from elect public Hurricane officials who Florence. have the politwikimedia commons photo ical will and the common sense to listen to science and to put our environment and the future of our planet ahead of profit and/or special interests. The water on our planet belongs to all of us.

I encourage you to attend “Guardians of our Troubled Waters” and see how these guardians were able to enhance our waterways for all of us and attend the panel discussion and ask the panelists, “what can I do to ensure these gains aren’t lost?”

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist.

His book, A Year From the Naturalist’s Corner, Vol. 1, is available at regional bookstores or by contacting Don at ddihen1@bellsouth.net)

slight course change took the water into an ice canyon that drains into the Kaskawulsh River, sending freshwater into the Gulf of Alaska and reducing the Slims River to a trickle.

Of course, one doesn’t need to go to the land of glaciers and sea ice to see the impacts of climate change on our waterways. Sea-level rise coupled with extreme weather events have and will continue to

have grave consequences along our Carolina coast. On Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018, after Hurricane Florence, the Cape Fear River crested in Fayetteville at 61.4 feet. That’s more than 40 feet above normal. And the flood waters covering North Carolina were contaminated with coal ash, human sewage, animal waste and numerous other pollutants and/or contaminants.

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