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CONTENTS On the Cover On the cover: After more than half a century in business, People’s Department Store in Franklin will close its doors. Outfitters store Outdoors 76 will fill the hole on Main Street left by People’s. (Page 4)

News North Carolina group releases bed and breakfast cookbook ..........................6 Tattoo artist must change law to open Canton parlor ........................................9 Macon trash is piling up quickly ............................................................................10 U.S. House candidates report campaign finance numbers............................11 Local candidates stake out their positions in Sylva..........................................12 Mothers-in-law team up to open new Cherokee café ......................................16 Jackson tries to restart its Economic Development Commission ................17 Unrestricted protests live on in Jackson County, for now ..............................18 Henry Dingus Way to remain Henry Dingus Way ............................................19 Nonprofit offers to buy Haywood County-owned building..............................19 Macon commissioner candidates talk budget, schools ..................................20 Auditor warns Swain commissioners about future budget pitfalls ..............22 Swain property revaluation nears an end ..........................................................22

Opinion Columnist remembers friend’s charisma, love of rock and roll ......................24

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Outfitters store thrives downtown, while department store withered

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER As People’s Department Store prepares to close its downtown Franklin store, a local outfitter has already stepped up to fill the void, somewhat softening the blow of losing a longtime retail anchor on Main Street.

Outdoor 76 will move into the building, expanding its line of outdoor gear, clothing and shoes.

Outdoor 76 will begin renovations in January and hopes to be up and running in the new location by March 1. Although the outfitters store just celebrated its two-year anniversary, partowner Cory Mccall said business has been excellent, and the expansion has been on the horizon for some time.

“We will be able to tap into other areas such as fly-fishing,” Mccall said. “We want to have an area where people come in and feel more welcome — a couch to hang out, a place for hikers to sit down talk.”

The People’s building is roughly four times larger than Outdoor 76’s current store just down Main Street. It’s probably more space than they can use, so Mccall anticipates sub-leasing part of it to a couple of other businesses.

Downtown Franklin supporters tried to recruit Mast General Store to move in to the People’s building, but Mast General Store ultimately decided the market wasn’t viable enough.

Comparing the two stores — People’s Department Store and Outdoor 76 — reveals a difference in business models between the old and the new.

Outdoor 76 sells specialized equipment and clothing that doesn’t directly compete with large chain stores.

Conversely, the generalist approach of the People’s Department Store — selling household standards from belts to bed sheets — meant duking it out with the likes of Walmart, K-Mart, and online commerce. Although People’s offered higher-end goods, the prices were higher as well.

The stores that have prospered on Main Street in Franklin, and indeed Main Streets everywhere, have been able to carve out a niche for themselves and offer something not readily available from other outlets, said Linda Schlott, executive director of the nonprofit Main Street Franklin Program.

Stores selling wares like hand-crafted goods and serving local food seem to be the most successful, she said.

Although People’s Department Store has been a staple in Franklin for more than 55 years, Schlott wasn’t worried it would stay vacant for long.

“We do not have any empty stores on Main Street and have not had any empty stores on Main Street for a long time,” Schlott said. “We usually have more people who want to come downtown than we have space for.”

The move by Outdoor 76 will also open up three additional spaces — the one it is leaving and two more it will sub-lease from its new location — 4 for potential businesses.

‘Last of the Main Street merchants’ Hometown department store owner calls it quits at 93

J.C. Jacobs in his People’s Department Store in Franklin during its final sale before closure.

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER is name is James C. Jacobs. His friends call him J.C., “but not like Penney,” he insists. For more than 55 years, Jacobs has owned a department store in downtown Franklin, its racks and shelves lined with standard housewares and wardrobe staples.

But, like so many Main Street stores in small town America, People’s Department Store will soon fold-up shop.

Last Saturday afternoon, with the clearance sale in full swing, patrons poured in the door. They zigzagged about checking prices, trying on shoes and unfolding buttondown shirts that store clerks later re-folded.

The chatter and foot traffic made it easy to imagine the store in its heyday, when People’s Department Store was the one-stop shop for everything a person living in a little town, or the countryside nearby, needed.

But the busyness at the store during the clearance sale that Saturday begged the question: where did all the customers go during the last decade or so?

“To Walmart,” Jacobs offered. “Tractor Supply, Peebles, K-mart, Burke’s, Lowe’s and Big Lots. All those big stores moved here, and they’re the ones who do the business today.”

He accuses those big-box stores, which not only dwarf Jacob’s store in size but all of downtown Franklin for that matter, of causing the shuttering of more than

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“This was always the place to go for the brands you know.”

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500,000 mom-and-pop shops in small town America. All because they carry cheaper merchandise, Jacobs said.

His brand of business, the People’s brand, was no longer what customers were looking for, or could afford. He recalled a day when a friend who came into his store with a $4 T-shirt from a noname clothing line he had bought at Walmart. Jacobs pinched the fabric of his own ironed, oxford shirt and moved it between his fingers.

“This is a Pendleton — a hundred bucks,” he said, in reference to one of the name brands he carries at his store. “This

was always the place to go for the brands you know.”

In the store, Pendleton shirts sit next to the likes of $140 organic cotton and bamboo sheet sets; $295 suits and $250 Red Wing work boots.

The downhill slide for the store started about six years ago, Jacobs said. And hasn’t stopped since.

The store will be closed by January at the latest or when all the merchandise has been sold — whichever comes first.

Another store, a high-end outfitter, will be moving in to fill the space.

But, Jacobs said the closure is also due to changes within his own family. At 93 years old, he has officially been retired since 70.

(Before then, he was in the store every day.)

Since then, his two daughters have managed the store for him. Now, one is following her husband to Asheville and the other will work as a full-time minister, leaving the family store short of the necessary family to run it.

But, Jacobs does have regrets.

There was a long streak in his business history when his franchise seemed unstoppable. His flagship store in Franklin had once expanded and bought out its neighbors. There were years when it did $2 million in sales and Jacobs owned several other small shops on Main Street, including a bridal shop and a gift store.

In the 1980s and into the

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Dan Forest, Republican candidate for Lt. Governor, will be at a meet and greet at noon Oct. 29 at Shoney’s on Paragon Parkway in Waynesville. The event is open to the public.

Forest is on a tour of more than 70 counties, meeting with economic developers, business leaders and small business owners.

Forest is the founder and current president of the Triangle Leadership Forum and the former chairman of the board of Wake Forest Pregnancy Support Services.

828.550.2434. employees, once hired, didn’t leave until they hit retirement age, staying for 10, 20, 30 years or longer.

While sitting at People’s Department Store with his wife, customers file in looking for a discount deal and perhaps pay homage to an old Franklin landmark. The couple solicits a never-ending string of “hello’s” and salutations.

People come in and talk about how their mothers used to buy their school clothes at the People’s Department Store. They’re acquaintances Jacobs has accumulated during a lifetime of being a salesman and a family man in Franklin.

The macular degeneration in Jacob’s eyes makes it hard for him to recognize people by their faces. When approached Jacobs listens until he recognizes the person’s voice, then his face lights up with that $1,000 salesman smile.

Jacobs will turn 94 this month, if he makes it, he jokes. He claims to have the longest running store on Main Street in Franklin and be one of the last men alive to have owned one.

“It’s been a long journey,” Jacobs said.

“I’m the last of the Main Street merchants.”

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1990s, Jacobs had opened People’s Department Stores in Highlands, Sylva and Clayton, Ga. He had plans to open another one in Murphy but didn’t. Then he began closing his other stores.

He said it became too much for him to manage, and he didn’t hire the right personnel. He had to downsize to keep the work manageable.

“That was a mistake,” he said. “I would have done it differently, but that’s hindsight.”

He wonders if he had hired experienced people to work for him, that perhaps he could be one of those big chains himself rather than being squeezed out of the marketplace.

But for Jacobs, the thoughts seem more like the musings of an old man who has witnessed his business open, burgeon, blossom and close all in his lifetime — more so than actual business regrets. During the clearance sale, he spent more time bragging about his booming closing business than being remorseful.

Jacobs recalled a story about when he first opened the People’s store and gave away free corn brooms to the first 100 women through the door. They were lined up for more than block. He is proud of how many of his

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Barefoot Ridge in Clyde was recognized as one of the best affordable housing communities in North Carolina. Barefoot Ridge is an 43-home community in Clyde that provided new housing for flood victims in the wake of two tropical storms that flooded homes along the Pigeon River.

Sponsored by the N.C. Housing Finance Agency, the award recognizes outstanding affordable housing that can serve as models for other communities. The winners were selected for affordability, design, contribution to the community, sustainability as affordable housing, and features such as services for residents and creative partnerships.

The development was led by Mountain Projects Community Action Agency of Waynesville in partnership with Haywood County and the Town of Clyde.

To raise money for its New Generations Birthing Center, Smoky Mountain OB/GYN Associates will host the first “Bootiful Babies Benefit” from 2-7:30 p.m. outside their Sylva office at 64 Eastgate Drive.

There will be a wide selection of activities for families including face painting, pumpkin decorating and belly casting.

The New Generations Birthing Center is a $3 million renovation project of the mother and baby section on the hospital’s third floor. Plans for the Birthing Center include increasing the number of available labor and delivery rooms, implementing new technology and offering a specific operating room for Caesarean sections.

The MedWest-Harris and Swain Foundation has already raised more than $50,000.

Admission and participation are free.

Donations are greatly appreciated. There will be live entertainment at the event and homemade chili will be available. www.mysmoga.com.

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Chaske Spencer, who plays Sam Uley, the leader of the Wolfpack in the “Twilight” saga, will speak at from 6-8 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Chief Joyce Dugan Cultural Arts Center.

Spencer is a member of the Lakota Sioux tribe and was raised on reservations in Montana and Idaho. He’ll be speaking about his project “Be The Shift,” in which he urges Native Americans to create sustainable, prosperous communities and promote dignity, justice, unity and accountability.

Tickets are $11 and can be purchased at the door or online. The cultural arts center is located at 86 Elk Crossing Lane off Big Cove Road in Cherokee. www.visitcherokeenc.com.

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Guests at The Yellow House in Waynesville enjoyed a breakfast of coffee, juice and apple bake french toast.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER eople rent hotel rooms because they need a place to shower and lay their weary heads. But, people check into bed and breakfasts because they want a place that feels like home.

“I think it is the personal treatment. They feel so pampered,” said Betty Fain, innkeeper at the Inn at Iris Meadows in Waynesville.

Breakfast, not surprisingly, is a critical ingredient in the bed and breakfast model — a good home-cooked breakfast. Sweets and cookies lying around and a fridge stocked with drinks and snacks are icing on the cake.

The North Carolina Bed and Breakfasts and Inns Association recently released a cookbook profiling recipes, particularly signature breakfast meals, from more than 50 bed and breakfasts in the state.

Five bed and breakfasts in Waynesville were featured in the cookbook: Andon-Reid Inn, Brookside Mountainside Mist Inn, Herren House, Inn at Iris Meadows and The Yellow House. Waynesville has more B&Bs featured in the book than almost any other locale.

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Time at bed and breakfasts revolve around food and drink. As soon as guests arrive, they are ushered around the house and encouraged to grab treats.

“You always want to make it feel like they are at their home,” said Shawn Bresnahan,

“You always want to make it feel like they are at their home. A hotel is just so antiseptic, or at least you hope it’s antiseptic.”

— Shawn Bresnahan, innkeeper at The Yellow House

innkeeper at The Yellow House, adding that guests will often come downstairs in their robes for tea or a snack. “A hotel is just so antiseptic, or at least you hope it’s antiseptic.”

Some bed and breakfasts have small, stocked refrigerators in each room, and others have a public kitchen for all to share.

When rising for the morning, the temporary residents gather around a single table to eat breakfast and talk about their plans for the day, often swapping advice for where to visit.

“The guests are the best tour directors for other guests,” Bresnahan said, estimating that 10 or 12 people visited Cataloochee Valley to see the elk recently after another guest gave it good reviews.

To the guests, everything seems relaxed and flows easily.

But, when George and Betty Fain first became innkeepers, Betty Fain joked that they were like the three stooges milling around the kitchen before breakfast. She recalled one morning when she set eggs by the stove. All the eggs slowly rolled off the counter and splattered across the floor.

Now, however, they have found a rhythm.

The Inn at Iris Meadows grows some of its own ingredients — tomatoes, chives, basil and other herbs — in a small garden on their property and uses them in their kitchen.

“We use all of our own in the summer months,” Betty Fain said.

After a full day of activities, some customers return to the inns for a nap or to relax before going out to dinner. During that time, snacks are a must. And, once everyone returns to the bed and

The Inn at Iris Meadows in Waynesville is featured on the cover of the North Carolina Bed and Breakfasts and Inns Association’s cookbook, which is filled with recipes from bed and breakfasts across the state. Recipes include: Outrageous French Toast from The Yellow House, Brookside Mountain Mist Inn’s cinnamon chip scones, strawberry French toast from Herren House, Chalet Inn’s Apfelkuchen (apple cake), Mexican Frittata from Andon-Reid Inn and buttermilk pancakes with Caramelized bananas from the Inn at Iris Meadows.

breakfast for the night, guests often sit in a common living room space with others to once again talk about their days and nurse some port wine.

“They feel like they are visiting friends,” Bresnahan said.

The Yellow House has three recipes in the bed and breakfast cookbook. There is a mixture of recipes brought to the inn by Bresnahan and those that were favorites of former innkeepers.

“It’s kind of a conglomeration,” Bresnahan said.

For Bresnahan, it was simple to pick which recipe to display as its signature dish for the authors.

“It’s usually one that the guests have loved over the years,” Bresnahan said.

Although its “Outrageous French Toast” was listed with strawberries in the cookbook, the recipe can be tweaked to include other fruits. This time of year, it is filled with apples.

“It’s really easy to make. It’s like a soufflé that doesn’t fall on you,” Bresnahan said.

The Inn at Iris Meadows has five recipes in the cookbook — its signature dish is the “Mountain Mornings Granola Parfait” with the bed and breakfast’s own granola mixture.

“We have had people who never liked granola,” but request it every time they stay, Betty Fain said.

One of its other breakfast meals included is a banana bread recipe.

Betty Fain confessed that one of the recipes is from an old Southern Living cookbook and chuckled when saying she once served the favorite dish to a former editor of Southern Living who stayed at the inn.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER ruso native Nathan Poston wants to open a tattoo parlor in Canton — the first in that town since at least the 1980s — but first must convince town fathers to change the law.

Since 1984, tattooing in Canton has been outlawed. The Canton Board of Aldermen

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Canton’s aldermen are now poised to reconsider the nearly 30-year-old ordinance banning tattoo parlors.

“We are not opposed to changing the law to allow his business,” said Alderman Kenneth Holland. “He is going to operate a very upscale business.”

That seems to be one reason why the aldermen are not leery of Poston’s proposi-

tion when he addressed to the town board last week. In otherwords, Poston did not present himself as a ruffian or hoodlum.

“He came in, and he was well-dressed, well-groomed, spoke well,” Underwood said.

“He’d done his homework.”

Poston presented a business plan to the board of aldermen detailing exactly what he hoped to do. In addition to acting as a tattoo parlor, the business, called Images for the Blind, will feature art, furniture and other merchandise. Poston, 25, described it as more of an art gallery.

Items displayed for sale at the parlor will include sculptures, paintings, jewelry, Tshirts, mugs, hats and posters. Poston will not do piercings.

Poston has painted and sculpted since he was young and fairly recently began crafting jewelry from recycled metal but never had a penchant for tattooing until he moved to

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back then not only made operating a tattoo parlor within town limits illegal but also the act of performing tattoos.

Current alderman Jimmy Flynn was the town clerk at the time but does not recall any specific reason for the ordinance.

“The board simply decided they didn’t want to do that,” Flynn said. “Best memory, it was just something they did.”

But, today, society is more accepting of body art as tattoos have become increasingly common.

“Some of the older people will probably be critical of it, but it’s a younger thing now,” said Alderman Ed Underwood. “They are everywhere now.”

Despite spending time in the armed forces, Underwood said he never got a tattoo because it just wasn’t something he wanted.

However, he added, his son and daughter-inlaw both have tattoos.

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Nathan Poston of Cruso has worked as a tattoo artist for four years. He creates some of his own designs and often practices on willing friends.

New York about four years ago.

“I never really wanted to do tattoos when growing up. I wanted to be more of a fine artist,” Poston said.

But, after tattooing for the past four years, Poston said he sees how tattoos have slowly become accepted as a form of art.

When Poston moved back to his hometown last winter, he decided he wanted to open up the gallery.

Before asking the board of alderman to change the ordinance, Poston worked with the North Carolina Rural Center and the Small Business Center at Haywood Community College to create his business plan and learn more about what it takes to be an entrepreneur.

“They really have pushed me forward,” Poston said. “They got me to the right people.”

Although he doesn’t have a specific location in mind to set up his shop, Poston hopes to be environmentally friendly by harnessing power from solar panels he plans to install on the roof. His stepfather is an electrician and will help oversee the project, Poston stated in his plan. If all goes well, he said he wants to be open by early next year.

However, he must still wait and see if the town board of aldermen repeals the current ordinance banning tattooing. The board has sent the matter onto its planning board to see what zoning regulations a tattoo parlor would fall under.

“The tattoo parlor itself, as long as it meets all the health department standards, I would not have a problem with it in certain zones,” Flynn said.

Once it hears back from the planning board, the town will host a public hearing and then the board will vote on whether to undo the tattoo ban. However, the vote seems to be a mere formality at this point with the alderman already expressing support for the new business.

“He is not going to let it be a hang out for bad people and all that,” Underwood said.

“Hopefully, it will be another successful business in town.”

Holland said he did not think people would be outraged if a tattoo parlor like the one Poston has proposed moved into town.

“Most people who live in Canton like myself are happy to see any business coming into the downtown area,” Holland said. “I want to see Canton come back the way it was.”

The aldermen said while there are some types of business that would be a bad fit for Canton, but did not see a reason to keep Poston’s out.

The likely repeal of the current ban on tattooing had Underwood reminiscing about the time before residents could buy beer in Canton.

“Times are changing,” Underwood said.

“I was surprised Canton ever got beer in the stores.”

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Macon faces five-year countdown to ready more landfill space

BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER he trash keeps piling up, and if Macon County doesn’t do something soon, its landfill could be overflowing.

By conservative estimates, the section of the Macon County dump now in use will be full in less than five years. Each day, about 125 tons of trash from county and town residents are brought to the facility.

Five years may seem like a sufficient amount of time to dig another hole and open a new section, but it’s not that simple. The landfill construction and permitting process through the state can be arduous, time consuming and wrought with delays — not to mention costly. Expanding the landfill could cost as much as $4 million.

Macon County Solid Waste Director Chris Stahl said even though the county will start the process for opening a new section in January 2013, it could take more than 4.5 years to get it done — leaving only a sixmonth cushion before the current section reaches its limit.

“We’ve got about six months of buffer,” Stahl said. “A rainy season, a delay with the state in permitting, a lot of things can stretch that timeline out.”

The county has $2.4 million in its landfill fund, but it is unknown how much of that could be tapped for the expansion. Enough must be kept in reserve to pay for equipment and machinery, plus the cost of closing out

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the landfill when it reaches the end of its lifespan.

One of the most time-consuming parts of the process is a year-long monitoring stage.

The county must conduct studies at the future dump site to determine the depth of the groundwater table and the quality of the groundwater — which can be used as a baseline if there is contamination in the future.

The studies will also determine what type of rock and soil the section is made of to guide construction plans.

The new section will not just be a hole in the ground either — a modern landfill costs around $250,000 per acre to build. The new section will be about 16-acres on the surface.

Its floor will be lined with an impermeable clay and plastic membrane, equipped with drainage system that pumps contaminated water to a nearby wastewater treatment plant.

The current section, known as cell II, is a 12-acre plot. It has been in use for 15 years so far, with another five to go before it is full.

Stahl hopes the new cell will have a 30 year lifespan.

Once that’s full, however, the county could face the ever-difficult task of finding a new landfill site altogether.

“It’s not easy now,” Stahl said. “And it won’t be any easier in the future.”

Since 1998, the amount of waste dumped in the Macon County landfill on a yearly basis has increased by more than one-third, from 21,000 tons in 1998 to 29,000 tons in 2011. In

“We’ve got about six months of buffer. A rainy season, a delay with the state in permitting, a lot of things can stretch that timeline out.”

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2015, the amount of trash is expected to nearly reach 31,000 tons.

Many local governments no longer have their own dumpsites and chose to export trash to large commercial landfills, often in South Carolina or Georgia. After the new section fills

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up, all that will remain of the current landfill is a four-acre plot that may not be worth the investment to develop it into a lined cell.

But one advantage the county does have in its race against an overflowing trash problem is technology. Since 2003, the county’s Solid Waste Department has been able to increase the compaction rate of trash going into the landfill from 1,100 pounds per cubic yard to 1,600.

In layman’s terms, Stahl said that means is now they can fit more trash in the same size hole.

Stahl was hopeful that in the near future the county may be able to utilize some sort of process, or increase recycling, to even further extend the life of the landfill. But, he didn’t know what exactly.

“We don’t know what waste will look like in 30 years,” Stahl said. “There are a lot of technologies being developed.”

For example, Pigeon Forge composts its trash, which allows about half of its volume to decompose before taking up space in a landfill. Stahl said the “touristy” nature of the Pigeon Forge’s trash, consisting of a lot of restaurant trash and organic matter, makes this a viable option for Pigeon Forge but maybe not for Macon County.

Other methods of disposal incinerate the trash and burn the resulting gases as forms of energy. But, many of these technologies are still being developed and may not prove fruitful for Macon County, Stahl said.

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Western Carolina University’s Department of Political Science and Public Affairs and the Public Policy Institute will host a debate between the two candidates for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District.

The debate will begin at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 and will feature Republican Mark Meadows, a businessman and entrepreneur, and Democrat Hayden Rogers, former chief of staff for current U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler. It will be held in the theater located on the third floor of the A.K. Hinds University Center.

The following amounts come from federal election finance reports filed by the candidates in October and go through the third quarter.

Hayden Rogers for Congress Raised..............................................$690,936 Spent................................................$481,564 Cash on hand..................................$209,372 Mark Meadows for Congress Raised..............................................$647,381 Loaned or donated from candidate’s personal funds.................................$265,598 Spent................................................$727,423 Cash on hand..................................$202,925 He raised $418,909 in the third quarter.

“We were obviously having to play catch up with Hayden,” Meadows said. “We were having to do the best we could to raise money.”

The previous quarter, Rogers brought in twice as much money as Meadows. However, this quarter, Rogers collected $198,344 — only about $20,000 more than he raised the prior quarter.

“We are humbled by the overwhelming grassroots support our campaign has continued to receive from people across Western North Carolina,” said Whitney Mitchell, spokeswoman for Rogers’campaign, in an email. Rogers is a conservative Democrat from Robbinsville who spent six years as U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler’s chief of staff.

Rogers’ campaign did not specifically say how they planned to boost fund-raising efforts as the election heads into the home stretch, but said they would keep working to get Rogers’ platform out to the electorate.

“We are going to continue doing what we’ve done all along — focus on meeting as many people as possible and getting our message out across the 11th District,” Mitchell said in the email.

Russ Bowen, news anchor and reporter for Asheville-based television stations WLOS-TV and WMYA (My40), will serve as debate moderator.

The debate is open to the public, but seating is limited. Those interested in attending should reserve a seat by email ppi@email.wcu.edu by 5 p.m. Oct. 22.

There is a limit of two tickets per request.

Ticket holders should be seated by 6:50 p.m. By 6:55 p.m., any remaining seats in the theater will be released on a first-come, first-served basis to people who show up without tickets. Anyone not seated by 6:50 p.m. cannot be guaranteed a seat in the theater.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER epublican Mark Meadows has out fundraised his competitor 2-to-1 this quarter, but the two candidates for the U.S. Congress are almost neck and neck in the overall money race.

Not counting candidate contributions to their own campaigns, Meadows and Democrat Hayden Rogers have raised about the same amount since fthe beginning of their campaigns — however, Rogers still leads by several thousand dollars.

Rogers’ to-date total is $690,936, while f Meadows has raised $647,381.

Meadows was signifiHayden Rogers cantly behind going in to the third quarter of fthe year; however, during the past three months he has been able to turn his fund-raising around. f “We are very, very grateful,” Meadows said.

Meadows, a real estate developer from Mark Meadows Cashiers, started out the campaign with eight challengers in the May primary. He was then subject to a second primary, or run-off election, against one of the Republican runner-ups in July. The Republican Party could not officially throw its weigh behind Meadows until July 17 when he won the second primary.

“Once you are the nominee, it comes a little bit easier,” Meadows said.

Third-quarter fund-raising reports were released Monday by the Federal Elections Commission.

After raising less than $90,000 the second quarter, Meadows said he planned to make bigger strides in the money race and since has held a number of fund-raisers to boost his numbers — a strategy he hopes to continue.

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Forum attracts diverse audience, engaged candidates

BY ANDREW KASPER & B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITERS early 200 people came out for a candidate forum in Jackson County Monday (Oct. 15) to listen to a slate of candidates spar over local, state, federal — and sometimes existential — issues facing Western North Carolinians today.

The crowd in the old Sylva courthouse that night was surprisingly cordial, considering the range of beliefs represented at the political forum — from the far right, conservative crowd to the liberal, leftist types.

It’s rare to see, at the same political function where no shouting or name calling is involved, a woman sporting a NORML Tshirt, which stands for National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law, sitting in close proximity to another person sporting a shirt reading: “I’m the God-fearing, gun-toting, flag-waving conservative liberals warned you about.”

People no doubt had opinions on the opposing party’s supporters, but they largely kept them to themselves.

One woman in the crowd, Barbara Bell from Sylva, came out to support N.C. House candidate Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville, and other Democratic candidates. She said she had her mind made up already for the election, but regardless wanted to hear some of the ridiculous things the Republicans had to say.

“I wouldn’t vote for a Republican even if he kissed my face,” she said. “But we think it’s important to hear both sides.”

Other people in the crowd seemed equally entrenched and not likely to be swayed. A large contingent wore red shirts to express their conservative affiliation, including a bloc arriving in a caravan from neighboring Macon County to support hometown politician N.C. Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin. Many in the group were sporting the red, Davis T-shirts with bumper stickers for N.C. House candidate Mike Clampitt stuck on their backs.

“We gotta support Davis,” said Linda Herman, from Franklin. “We know him and know what he stands for — good Christian values.”

Despite promises of hissing and boos from the politically devout before the forum, there were virtually no incidences or heckling during the proceedings. At its worst over the twohour event, polite groans and laughs sparsely marked the silence. At one point a man from the crowd yelled out “time” when N.C. Senate candidate John Snow, D-Murphy, went over his allotted speaking time.

More so, the attendees appeared interested to hear the reactions from the candidates vying for a range of political posts — from Jackson County commissioner candidates to the N.C. Senate.

And the questions lobbed at the six-member candidate forum kept the proceedings interesting. They ran the gamut — from food labeling requirements for genetically-modified foods to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling to local library funding.

Many elicited interesting and crafted 12 responses from the candidates, but some

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Candidates for state and local level offices participated in a forum in Sylva Oct. 15. Pictured (from left) are N.C. Senate candidate John Snow, D-Murphy; N.C. Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin; State House candidate Mike Clampitt, R-Bryson City; Jackson County Commission candidate Marty Jones, a Republican; state House candidate Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville; and Jackson County Commissioner Mark Jones, a Democrat.

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landed a bit wonky. Especially when Jackson County Commission candidates Marty Jones and Mark Jones had to reply to issues far outside of any local commissioner’s political realm, such as global warming or Obamacare.

But, a question posed by an audience member became one of the few points of agreement between Snow and Davis. The question, specifically targeted for the state senate candidates, asked if they would support labels for food with genetically modified ingredients in North Carolina. California is currently in a statewide debate over such labeling.

“We all eat genetically modified food and I have been for years, and I’m still living,”

Davis said. “I think we have so many other things to worry about, that that is way down on my list.”

Snow’s response was quick.

“I agree with him,” he said, pointing to Davis, who sat shoulder to shoulder with him behind the crowded candidates’ table. The crowd followed with laughter.

One attendee from Cashiers, Nick Chambers, a conservative, said he felt the questions were somewhat liberally slanted.

Questions included the growing gap in income disparity, Obamacare and global warming.

Two sponsors of the forum were largely

from entities considered liberal leaning, including the Western North Carolina Occupy movemen and the clean air advocacy group the Canary Coalition.

The Macon County League of Women Voters and The Smoky Mountain News also sponsored the event.

“The questions were biased toward the liberal persuasion,” Chambers said. “But our guys handled it well.”

According to Carol Adams, communications chair of the Jackson County Republican Party, a conservative organization should have been included in the line-up for fairness.

She offered the Jackson County Patriots, for example, as a nonpartisan yet conservative-minded group that could have offered balance.

However, Adams said the forum, all in all, was well-orchestrated and the Republican candidates managed to get in their talking points on pertinent issues during the twohour venue.

Both sides of the ballot did little to step beyond party boundaries.

Adams doubted that anyone who attended was surprised by the responses or had their opinion changed by the forum.

“You pretty much knew what the Democrat and Republican answers were going to be,” Adams said. “It didn’t change anybody’s mind.”

That point was apparent at the opening question, when The Smoky Mountain News publisher Scott McLeod asked the candidates to give two examples of specific areas where

Meditation class looks to resolve conflict news

Sylva and Western Carolina University will raise awareness of conflict mediation as an alternative to litigation and to settle personal disputes on Oct. 23-24.

On Oct. 23, a panel of lawyers and certified mediators from Mountain Mediation Services will discuss the advantages of mediation as an alternative to the often costly and time-consuming process of bringing a civil case to court. The event will be held at the Jackson County Justice Center from 12:30-2 p.m. On Oct. 24, members of WCU’s Campus Mediation Society will stage a mediation followed by a question-and-answer session at WCU in Multipurpose Room B in A.K. Hinds University Center from 56:45 p.m. The presentation will feature student mediators who recently qualified for the 2012 National Mediation competition sponsored by the American Bar Association.

Both events are free and open to the public. They are supported by WCU’s College of Business and Campus Mediation Society, Mountain Mediation Services, North Carolina Agricultural Mediation Program and by a grant from the American Bar Association.

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they would be willing to reach across the aisle to support measures their own political party would not traditionally support.

True examples were scarce, and most of the candidates instead mentioned instances in which the other party should compromise.

N.C. Senate candidate John Snow, D-Murphy, cited his views in support of Corridor K as one issue where he might differ with his party. The highway through rural Graham County is needed to bring economic development to the region but is being held up by environmentalists.

“People might say it is those Democrats and those tree huggers causing the problem,” Snow said. “It is time to look at a situation where we can look at common sense rules to allow this road to happen.”

But Snow said he sides with Democrats and environmentalists on other issues, such as his opposition to fracking.

Snow’s opponent, N.C. Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, agreed that compromise was needed on environmental regulations, but put the burden back on Democrats to do the compromising. Current environmental regulations are hurting industry, he said.

N.C. House Candidate Mike Clampitt, R-Bryson City, also cited two instances where he would like the opposing party to compromise instead of when he would compromise.

Health care was one, and government regulation was another.

“Our government regulations have gotten out of control in North Carolina. We are stifling businesses,” Clampitt said.

His opponent, Joe Sam Queen, D-Waynesville, said he would be willing to compromise with the other party on tax reform.

“It takes both parties to work on tax policy,” Queen said.

Queen’s second example was more dodgy, suggesting compromise was needed on education. But his answer sounded more like the traditional Democratic talking points on strong support for education than anything else.

“North Carolina has a history of innovating in education,” Queen said. “Education is absolutely essential.”

Forum moderator Marsha Crites said the candidates were caught off-guard at times but in general she thought the questions forced answers that formed clear distinctions between the candidates. A goal of the forum was to present a wide spectrum of issues for politicians to weigh in on and none of the questions were given to the politicians ahead of time, she said.

She also remarked on the cordial atmosphere present at the forum, between the candidates and the crowd.

“When it gets this close to election time people get tired of the ugly partisanship,” Crites said. “It was good to see a room of people respectfully listening.”

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Paul Loeb, a writer who has spent more than 30 years researching citizen responsibility and empowerment, will deliver a lecture at 6 p.m. Oct. 24 in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center at Western Carolina University. The event is free and open to the public.

Loeb is the author of “Soul of a Citizen” and “The Impossible Will Take a Little While” and coauthor of the essay “My Vote Doesn’t Matter.”

In 2008, he created and coordinated the Campus Election Engagement Paul Loeb Project, a nonpartisan effort to encourage college and university students to vote and participate in the election. Loeb is running the project again for 2012. laneperry@wcu.edu or 828.227.2643.

Sylva Rotary Club will host its twiceannual pancake breakfast from 7:30-10 a.m. on Oct. 26 at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Sylva.

Proceeds will go to the local Neighbors in Need organization and the international Polio Plus program.

There is a suggested $5 donation, but no tickets are needed to attend the event. All you can eat pancakes, sausage and hot and cold beverages will be served. Take out for businesses will be available. www.sylvarotaryclub.org or 828.586.2221 or 848.452-2820.

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Kids Against Hunger in Franklin is looking for people to help package meals at 8 a.m. Nov. 3 at the First Christian Church of Franklin.

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The Sylva library will host a class on building a website at 5:45 p.m. Oct. 22 and another course on how to sell items on Craigslist.com at 5:45 p.m. Oct. 24 The classes are the first of a new series of Monday evening computer skills courses that the library is hosting. Each class is a 90minute stand-alone session dealing with a different topic.

For both of these classes, participants must have basic computer skills including: keyboarding, the ability to cut and paste text, and the ability to open and close active computer windows. An email account is also required.

The Build Your Own Website class will teach students how to create their own website using WordPress.com, a free hosting service.

The Oct. 24 class on Craigslist will focus on how to upload photos to the site, how to enter and edit the description, and how to respond to offers and inquiries. Attendees are encouraged to bring an electronic photo of the item they wish to sell. During class, they will write and post the ad.

The classes will be held in the Library’s Computer Lab and is limited to 15 people.

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Mothers-in-laws shatter stereotype in joint restaurant venture

So, about a year ago, the duo began considering opening a restaurant together. At the time, both worked at Four Seasons Christmas Store just a few doors away from their new café and would pack their own homemade lunches and bring in different recipes for the other to try.

But, really, it begins years before that. Their children, Zeke and Krysta, are high school sweethearts and dated for eight years before getting married. They will celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary later this year.

When Zeke would eat at Buchanan’s house, he would brag about the food he ate there. When Krysta would have dinner at Cooper’s house, she would do the same.

Both women had cooked and baked with Sassy Sunflower is open their own mothfrom 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., ers, but joked Monday thru Saturday, that they really and is located at 1655 learned to cook Acquoni Road in Cherokee, after tying the near U.S. 441. In addition knot themto serving lunch, coffee selves. and bakery items, Sassy “We got Sunflower also caters. married. That’s www.sassysunflowers.com how we did it,” or 828.497.2539.

Cooper quipped.

“I had this man who wanted to eat,” Buchanan added.

Because of their similarities, opening the business together was easy as pie, Buchanan said.

“We do have a lot of the same common likes and dislikes, and the way we see things is pretty much the same,” Buchanan said.

Last winter, when a former restaurant building went up for sale, they jumped on it.

After a few months of remodeling and painting, they opened for business, selling soups, salads and sandwiches as well as bakery goodies — and have relished it.

“To me, it’s been enjoyable getting to know the local people here, and they come and support us at lunch,” Buchanan said.

While Cooper and Buchanan have enjoyed working together, talking and laughing and poking fun with each other, their children looked at them like they were mad when they brought up the idea of the Sassy Sunflower, the pair said.

“Our kids, they thought that we were crazy,” Buchanan said.

“My son just said, ‘Behave yourself, mom,’” Cooper recalled.

But, so far, the pair of mothers-in-law has enjoyed owning the café, both flipping back and forth between claiming the titles of sassy and sunflower.

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Baked goods at the Sassy Sunflower include decorations and ingredients that represent the fall season. Below: Ann Cooper (right) and Kim Buchanan pose for a picture below the menu of their new bakery-café, Sassy Sunflower.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER itting in their bakery-café last week, Ann Cooper and Kim Buchanan were constantly intervening to expound on the other’s comments or completing each other’s thoughts.

More like sisters or longtime friends than mothers-in-law, they laughed as they debated who inspired the name of their restaurant — Sassy Sunflower.

“She’s so sassy,” Cooper said.

“No, she’s so sassy,” Buchanan countered.

To settle the faux dispute, the pair tells people who ask about the name to decide for themselves who is sassy and who is sunflower.

The two mothers-in-laws combat the idea that they must be mortal enemies, locked in a constant faux battle of who’s the best.

“Why is that?” Cooper said. “Your children must be somewhat like you, so if they get along then why shouldn’t you?”

Cooper and Buchanan opened Sassy Sunflower in Cherokee in March after complaining about a lack of healthy food options on the reservation.

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“We have talked for a long time about needing a place to eat,” Buchanan said.

Although there are some quality eateries in Cherokee, they’re sit-down restaurants, which people don’t always have time for. For

Free baby gear during SIDS awareness month MedWest-Haywood and the North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation (NCHSF) will partner to distribute onesies, nightlights and parent checklists to new parents during October, in conjunction with National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month.

The front side of the onesies have the message, “This side up when sleeping” in English and Spanish, indicating that the

something quick, people must often resort to unhealthy fast food joints like McDonald’s or Arby’s.

Cooper said they wanted “a place to eat that’s not fried and not fast food.”

infant should be placed on his or her back to sleep. The nightlight has the ABC’s of infant safe sleep: “Babies sleep safest Alone, on their Backs, in a Crib.” Also included are English and Spanish checklists for parents to use which detail the proper ways to keep babies safe while sleeping.

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Children-focused consignment sale in Waynesville Duck Duck Goose is hold a consignment sale from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 18-20 and Oct. 22, just off Russ Avenue on Walnut Street in Waynesville.

The sale will include children’s clothing and other kids’ items, all being sold at cut-rate prices. www.dkdkgoose.com.

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Business poll sets the stage for new day in Jackson economic strategy

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Associates, a public relations and consulting firm. A majority of the cost was footed by federal and private grants. A similar survey targeting businesses in Cashiers was also conducted, and its results were released a week before the countywide survey.

The results of both surveys will be incorporated into a larger economic report put together by the county’s unofficial economic committee.

The report should be ready in November, Wooten said, and include more in-depth statistics and recommendations to re-establish an official economic development board and perhaps hire a director.

The most recent board fell into oblivion about four years ago. At the time, the EDC director resigned, calling the county’s entire EDC setup dysfunctional and lacking vision. Several EDC board members also resigned, and what was left of the board simply ceased meeting.

Wooten espoused the many sectors in the county that could stand to benefit from guidance of an economic development plan.

The list included expanding the airport to cater to Harrah’s Casino visitors; emphasizing Jackson County as a premier tourism destination; increasing train-oriented tourism; and attracting companies with the county’s educational assets such as Southwestern Community College and Western Carolina University.

Although, after a history of disappointments with the former economic development boards and directors, if the board is reassembled, Wooten said he may suggest a name change.

“Maybe we’ll call it Jackson Tomorrow,” Wooten said.

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER fter several stumbling blocks, disbanded boards and departed directors, proponents of a Jackson County economic development program hope to soon be back on course.

The county has been without a functioning economic development commission or director for several years. An attempt to jumpstart an official county-sponsored economic development program four years ago barely got off the ground before it fizzled out, however. Its fate was blamed on a dysfunctional structure and lack of vision.

In the latest effort, the county has hired a consultant for $30,000 to develop an economic development strategy and recommendations. A survey of local business owners and government employees was intended to play a key role in the strategic plan, but the response was low. The results of that survey were released last week.

Jackson County Commissioner Doug Cody hopes the report will lead to a re-grouping of a new economic development board.

“We’ve been sitting dead in the water for five years in terms of aggressively pursuing economic development, while our neighbors have been taking advantage of the situation,” Cody said.

But even the survey had its hiccups.

The results were announced at a public meeting last week before several local business leaders and county officials. Of more than 400 surveys sent out, about 80 people responded, but nearly 20 of those worked for government agencies. County Manager Chuck Wooten admitted the response rate wasn’t great.

“The tendency is unless you can be encouraged then eight out of 10 people hit the delete button — that’s the sad part,” Wooten said. “We could probably go back, start a campaign and increase results, but it’s hard to have a single survey that addresses the concerns of every business.”

Of the 80 who responded, about a quarter were not businesses at all, with respondents ranging from the county planning director and the mayor of Sylva to the Sylva Garden Club and Western Carolina University. Even the consultant hired to do the study filled out a survey.

Though not comprehensive, Wooten said the results nonetheless offered insight into what local business owners need from the county to succeed.

The greatest gripes on the survey were related to taxes and spending.

Ironically, another common suggestion on the survey was for the county to provide more services, promote local tourism and businesses, and further develop infrastructure — endeavors that would undoubtedly require more government spending.

The call for lower taxes from some of the local businesses caught at least one Jackson County Commissioner off guard. Cody brought up the fact that Jackson County has one of the lowest tax rates in the state and said maybe the county was more of an innocent bystander, catching some flack for state taxes.

“As far as lower taxes, if you asked 100 people, 99 will say they want lower taxes – that’s a standard answer,” Cody said. “If you asked people if they would not like to pay any taxes at all, they would probably agree with that, too.”

Another complaint identified in the survey results, mainly voiced by local building companies, was the permitting process and what they identified as overly burdensome regulations, including construction.

Cody said the planning department is already moving toward a more efficient onestep permitting process. Meanwhile, a county ordinance regulating construction on slopes is under revision with the planning board and has been a constant point of contention between the building industry and county officials.

The survey was sent out through the membership of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, although the study was not affiliated with the chamber.

But even Chamber of Commerce Board Chairwoman Heather Baker said some of the information taken from the survey may be taken out of context, for example the question about whether a business owner had plans for expansion.

The results of the questionnaire showed 61 percent of respondents had no plans for expansion or were not certain about current expansion plans.

Baker, who works with a law firm but also as a self-employed Avon representative, said the question would never apply to her, nor perhaps a town board member taking the survey, but the results could be construed to demonstrate a stagnate business climate in the county.

“There’s no way I would ever expand because it’s just me,” Baker said. “But seeing how the results were displayed, I see that my answers are probably taken in a different way.”

The survey showed that a slight majority of the entities surveyed in Jackson County employ between one and five people — affirming the small business make-up of the county’s economy.

About 20 percent of the businesses who responded were hospitality and leisure businesses and nearly 40 percent classified their businesses as “other,” which tended to be local government, real estate and miscellaneous business services.

Many of the larger corporations and chain businesses present in Jackson County did not participate.

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Jackson County Commissioner Doug Cody (right) and County Manager Chuck Wooten listen to the presentation. Andrew Kasper photo

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Commissioners quietly opt not to rein in protestors ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER The ordinance was discussed and drafted; Jackson County’s legal counsel had reviewed it; and it had the stamp of approval from the county manager.

Once it got passed, the county would be able to corral and rein in protestors.

The commissioners were poised to vote on the “Public Assembly” ordinance at its meeting Monday meeting. But it seems they got cold feet.

Impromptu speeches by two residents in the public comment period might be what

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“We’re citizens; we have a right,” Stanton said. “You have a duty to listen to us, to see us, to be glad we are coming to tell you something, not to try to make us not be seen.”

She said many other people in the community were concerned about the ordinance but had other obligations the night of the meeting such as soccer games and writing a paper.

“But they do care,” Stanton said. “And they will vote.”

Later during the meeting, when the ordinance was put before the commissioners for a vote, the room fell silent. No commissioner made the motion to bring it to a vote.

“If I have no motion… moving along,” said Chairman Jack Jackson County Commissioners sit and Debnam. discuss an assembly ordinance with After the County Attorney Jay Coward. meeting, Debnam said it was good for derailed the ordinance. It had garnered virthe commissioners to hear from the public tually no public discourse otherwise, despite before taking a vote but didn’t rule out revisone or two of the county commissioners ing the ordinance and bringing it before the questioning whether it was truly needed. commissioners again.

The ordinance would have required any “If the people are concerned about it,” group of 10 or more to get a permit from the Debnam said, “maybe we do need to take county manager to assemble on county another look at it. That’s what the public property. They would also be restricted to hearing is for.” grassy areas and barred from sidewalks and County Manager Chuck Wooten had first building entrances. It included other guideproffered the idea of a protest ordinance to lines about signs and allowable forms of commissioners. The idea was prompted foldemonstration as well. lowing a sit-in in the lobby of the Jackson One of the speakers took issue with need- Sheriff ’s Office weeks earlier, in which immiing a permit to protest. grant rights activists on their way to the “All it is, is a roadblock in your way,” said Democratic Convention in Charlotte had Clark Lipkin a local surveyor who also sits on clogged the lobby and hallway, beating on the county’s planning board. “The burden drums and demanding to see Sheriff Jimmy shouldn’t be on the public to prove why they Ashe. deserve the right to protest but rather on the Ashe has come under fire in the immigovernment to prove why they shouldn’t.” grant community for road checkpoints that Another issue was the proposal to limit allegedly targeted communities where illegal protests to grassy areas only. The fountain at immigrants live. the base of the old courthouse in Sylva is a Shortly after the demonstration, the ordipopular site for protest and rallies, but it is nance was drafted based on one recently not grassy. passed in Catawba County. The ordinance Another speaker against the protest ordi- passed through at least one county commisnance said she had come to the county meet- sioner work session and awaited a final vote ing expecting to be just one of a hundred by commissioners where it ultimately fell out people in opposition of the ordinance, so of favor.

Elizabeth Stanton said she hadn’t prepared a Wooten had said some sort of measure speech. was needed to maintain order when protesBut when she found only one other ally tors blocked public access to the county willing to speak out, she stepped up to the buildings or right of ways.

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would not have voted for the road name change. Ensley, a surveyor, has named two roads in Haywood County after now deceased family members and understands the family’s view.

However, none of the family members ever stepped before the commissioners to speak out against the change, while those for changing the road name showed up to each of the meetings where it was discussed.

Because of that, the effort that the individuals had put in to gathering all the ‘yay’ and ‘nay’ votes and the fact that the county has only denied one other road name change in the past, Kirkpatrick asked his fellow commissioners to approve the request.

“I certainly think the petitioners have made a great deal of effort,” Kirkpatrick said.

He had previously stated that he thinks the county’s rules for road name changes need to be stricter.

His fellow commissioners agreed that the ordinance should be reviewed but did not feel there was a good enough reason to change the road’s name.

“I just didn’t feel a compelling reason was presented for wanting to change it was presented,” said Chairman Mark Swanger.

Commissioners Bill Upton and Mike Sorrells both felt strongly about not changing roads named after someone.

The handful of property owners who attended the meeting Monday left in a huff, disappointed not to see the road name changed after months of work.

“We feel very strongly that we followed the rules,” said Thomas Benoit, president of the Campbell Woods Property Owner’s Association, before the commissioners’ decision. “We are the residents, the taxpayers and the voters in Maggie Valley and Haywood County.”

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER omeowners on Henry Dingus Way in Maggie Valley who don’t like their street name have struck out in their quest to get it changed.

The Campbell Woods Property Owner’s Association have been trying since spring to change the name of Henry Dingus Way to Ridgeway Trail. However, the Haywood County Board of Commissioners denied their request this week.

They had only one lone supporter on the county board. While Commissioner Kirk Kirkpatrick made a motion to grant the name change, no other board members seconded his motion, and the request died, meaning Henry Dingus Way will remain on their street signs. Commissioner Kevin Ensley recused himself because of personal ties to the matter.

Property owners seeking a new street name must get at least 65 percent of the people along the street and adjoining streets to agree, according to the county’s road naming ordinance.

If 100 percent of property owners agree, the road is automatically changed. If it is more than 65 percent, but something less than 100 percent, it goes before the county commissioners for a decision.

In the case of Henry Dingus Way, the residents spearheading the change got only 72 percent of property owners to agree.

Only five property owners were against the change — at least two of who were relatives of Henry Dingus, the father of the developer of Campbell Wood’s subdivision.

Henry Dingus had also been a developer in Haywood County and has since passed away.

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Haywood gets offer for vacant office building erty.

It’s one of four buildings on the Old Asheville Highway the county has recently moved out of and is now trying to sell. It was the smallest of the four and the least expensive.

The others include the old Department of Social Services, the old health department, and the old planning department and election office. The various departments were moved into a single building, the old Walmart on Paragon Parkway, earlier this year as a cost saving measure.

LIFESPAN is headquartered in Charlotte but has operations around the state, including Waynesville and Sylva.

It will relocate its Waynesville office from North Main Street to the Old Asheville Highway location.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER A nonprofit in Waynesville has made an offer to buy a vacant building from Haywood County.

LIFESPAN, which offers programs and services for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, has offered $145,000 for a small building next door to the former county health department.

“It is our recommendation that we accept this offer,” County Manager Marty Stamey advised the county board of commissioners at their meeting Monday.

The commissioners voted unanimously to do so. Other interested parties will have 10 days to outbid LIFESPAN, but they would be required to bid at least $152,300 on the prop-

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Macon commissioner candidates talk budget matters, schools and slope regulations

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER espite having three Macon County commissioner seats on the ballot this fall, only one has any competition.

In the conservative leaning county, two sitting Republican commissioners will stroll back on the board after no Democratic candidates stepped up to run against them.

While Commissioners Jim Tate and Kevin Corbin had to fend off challenges from other Republicans in the May primary, both won and are now enjoying a leisurely campaign season given the lack of Democratic opposition.

The third seat up for election is held by Commissioner Bobby Kuppers, a Democrat, who faces opposition from Republican challenger Paul Higdon.

“I would like to see five conservative members on that board,” Higdon said of his bid against Kuppers. “We are a conservative county.”

Indeed, Macon has more registered Republican voters than Democrats — 9,900 Republicans to 7,900 Democrats. But two of the five county commissioner seats are held

by Democrats, so the political climate isn’t quite as hostile toward Democrats as it may seem, if judging solely from voter statistics.

Kuppers said party affiliation doesn’t matter at the local level. County commissioners check their “D” and their “R” at the door when they walk in to county meetings, he said.

“There is no place for parties in the commissioners’ board room. Your constituents are not interested in whether you are Democrat or Republican. They are interested in whether you will work together to solve problems for our community,” Kuppers said.

Higdon said he wants to bring another conservative voice to the “board’s decision making process,” however.

Kuppers knows first-hand how hard it is to recruit Democrats to run in Macon County. Kuppers was that guy four years ago. As a teacher and football coach at Franklin High, Kuppers’ students in civics class hounded him to run, pointing out there were no other Democrats on the ballot.

Kuppers eventually relented and said he would do it if no one else emerged. He called everyone he knew, but finding no takers, he found himself on the ballot.

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Higdon’s platform centers around the classic conservative issues of the day: lower taxes and checks on spending.

Kuppers countered that the county has done an excellent job managing the econom20 ic storm during the past four years. It kept

Bobby Kuppers, 58, teacher and football coach at Franklin High School. Kuppers also spent 25 years in the Navy, including as the commanding officer of a submarine and training facility. File photo

Kuppers said. The county has a “tremenThe price tag wasn’t the only factor drivdous” relationship with the school board. ing opposition. Many were against the plan But Higdon questioned whether better to close older, smaller community schools planning could have averted the need for a and consolidate them into new ones. potential rescue package from the county.

“The taxpayers voted against consolida“Those of us in the private sector had to tion, and they built them anyway,” Higdon make adjustments five or six years ago to said. deal with lower revenues,” Higdon said.

Higdon said the new schools so far Kuppers said he couldn’t pass judghaven’t seemed to improve education, citing ment on how the schools got into such a declining test scores. bind. Part of it has to do with the loss of “If our test scores are not improving, so federal stimulus money for local schools, what is the problem?” Higdon said. “The and part of it stems from an 11th-hour public education system has got to perform pay raise for teachers ordered by the state better.” this year.

Higdon disagrees with a 1.5-cent proper“I am not sure you can blame the schools ty tax hike in 2010 — something Kuppers for allowing that to happen,” Kuppers said. voted for — to pay for new school construcWhen asked if the county would “bail tion. He said the county had ample money in out” the school system, Kuppers said that’s savings to pay for the construction without not the term he would use. raising taxes.

“The county will work with the school Although Macon County’s property tax system and come with a solution to the rate is the lowest in the state, Higdon problem. It seems they are in a constant batbelieves it could be lower, pointing to the county’s robust cash reserves, which stand at tle to patch it together,” Kuppers said of the school’s budget. “Let’s get a grip on it, get it around $23 million. back to where we can predict it.”

While Macon County leaders often tout their comfortable cash reserves as a bragging point, Higdon believes the county is sitting on more than it really needs. Macon’s fund balance is more than five times the While Macon County commissioner seats are divvied up minimum recommended by by geographic districts, all voters countywide can vote in N.C. Local Government all the races. Districts merely determine where the candiCommission for a county of date must hail from.

Macon’s size.

Only one of the three seats has any opposition, with The county should refund Commissioner Bobby Kuppers, a Democrat, facing chalsome of it in the form of lenger Paul Higdon, a Republican. lower taxes, Higdon said.

“That fund balance is made up of property taxes.

That is money that comes straight out of households,” Higdon said. “It is my opinion ROPERTY VALUES we should lower this fund to the appropriate One of the biggest challenges that could level to save people some money.” be facing the next board of commissioners is Kuppers said the fund balance proved a a countywide property revaluation. Property valuable safety net during the recession, values will be recalculated for every home, however. While the county did cut its worklot and tract of land in the county. force, it was spared the type of widespread The stakes are high since property values layoffs and furloughs seen elsewhere. in turn determine how much people pay in “Really, to be able to do that goes all the property taxes. way back to several boards before us — to Property values have declined, however, maintain our fund balance and maintain our and that means each penny on the tax rate fiscal discipline,” Kuppers said. might not bring in as much as it use to. need to be talking about this now, CHOOL BUDGET SHORTFALL and“We we need to be planning a strategy,” Macon County Schools recently revealed Higdon said. “If property values go up, great, it is facing an immediate $550,000 budget we are back in the game. If they remain the shortfall. Kuppers said the county can’t leave same or go lower, what is our approach to the school system hanging and must take an that? I think we need to be discussing it now. active role to help fix the financial situation.

What are our options?”

“We are going to link arms with the The county would face two choices if school board and find a way through it. I property values indeed go down: have great confidence in our school board,” raise the tax rate to keep bringing

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Paul Higdon, 63, residential and municipal water and sewer contractor, owner of Sewer Solutions. Becky Johnson photo the property tax rate low but also kept budget cuts to a minimum.

“This board has done a great job working together and maintaining fiscal discipline,” Kuppers said. “We have the lowest tax rate in the state while still being able to do things to invest in our kids and youth.”

Despite the recession, the county has carried on with a master plan for school construction. During the past several years, two new schools were built and five others got needed renovations and upgrades, Kuppers said.

Higdon, however, pointed out that Macon County voters rejected a bond measure in 2007 to fund new school construction, yet commissioners seemed to ignore voters’ wishes and proceeded with the school construction plan.

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“This board has done a great job working together and maintaining fiscal discipline. We have the lowest tax rate in the state while still being able to do things to invest in our kids and youth.”

— Bobby Kuppers, Macon commissioner candidate

realistic idea of what property values are.”

Higdon equated the balancing act between the tax rate and property values to a “shell game.”

Macon County can brag about having a low property tax rate, but that’s only been possible because of high real estate values. The higher the values are on homes and land, the more each penny on the tax rate brings in.

“If you have the highest property values, you can have a low tax rate,” Higdon said.

MOUNTAINSIDE DEVELOPMENT No election in recent history has come and gone in Macon County without candidates being asked to weigh in on development regulations. The upshot is the same: do regulations infringe on private property rights or protect the interests of the greater good?

The hot-button issue the past two years has centered on steep slope construction.

Higdon opposes steep slope regulations.

The fear mongering over landslides from unsafe slope construction is “junk science,” Higdon said.

“I love these mountains and I want to protect them. I think we have done a great job developing them,” said Higdon, who has worked as an excavator in the past.

The Macon County Planning Board spent two years devising steep-slope construction standards, but they’ve gone nowhere. The steep slope regulations were embarked on under a previous board of commissioners and have been indefinitely tabled by the current board.

Higdon does not support the regulations.

“I think the people on the ground have the best knowledge of that and not some government agency,” Higdon said.

Kuppers has served as the county’s liaison to the planning board when the regulations were being crafted and in the past has been supportive of the idea.

But he would not weigh in on the specific steep slope construction standards. He doesn’t believe they will remain tabled forever,.

Conversely, the county likewise has no “immediate” plans to take up the issue.

Until then, Kuppers said he couldn’t offer an opinion.

an important advisory role for the county.

“I am a strong believer in the planning board process. I am a strong believer in letting the Planning Board grapple with tough controversial issues,” Kuppers said. “I am a fan of having adults sitting around a table as adults and working through the issues. They come to us with a recommendation, and we will do what we need to do.”

Higdon believes there is a concerted effort to undermine the American values of capitalism, stemming from a United Nations doctrine known as Agenda 21. In short, Agenda 21 was launched by the U.N. more

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in the same amount of money or cut the budget to make up the difference.

Higdon said if property values go down, he would like to avoid raising the tax rate to make up the difference. But commissioners haven’t yet publicly broached those “whatif ” scenarios, Higdon said.

Kuppers said he is optimistic that it won’t be an issue. He believes the real estate market will rebound by then, making it a moot point.

But if property values do in fact go down, he doesn’t think the county can make up the difference by cutting. Instead, Kuppers would consider increasing the tax rate.

“I know how cut down we are already,” Kuppers said.

A revaluation was initially on the books for last year, but fearing a dramatic decline in the county’s property tax base, the current board of commissioners postponed it until 2015, hoping the real estate market would improve by then. In the meantime, however, people are paying taxes based on property values that are inflated.

Higdon said he doesn’t agree with that decision.

“We kicked the can down the road. The thing that concerns me right now is people are paying taxes on values that aren’t accurate. I don’t think that is fair,” Higdon said.

But Kuppers said the real estate market was in too much flux to go forward with a revaluation.

“We don’t have an accurate picture of where we are,” Kuppers said. “We felt like we would wait as long as we could to have a more

“If property values go up, great, we are back in the game. If they remain the same or go lower, what is our approach to that? I think we need to be discussing it now. What are our options?”

— Paul Higdon, Macon commissioner candidate

“We have not discussed them, so I am hesitant to comment on them until we have discussed them,” Kuppers said. “We have to make sure they fit with the economic climate we are in and do they make sense at this time.”

Macon County’s planning board has come under fire during the past year.

Opponents to steep slope regulations called for the planning board to be reined in and in some cases disbanded.

But Kuppers said the planning board plays

than two decades ago to work toward global sustainability. Conservatives have grown increasingly leery of Agenda 21 and now fear it is being covertly pushed on American society by operatives.

Agenda 21 is aimed at limiting the private accumulation of wealth, and steep slope regulations are part of that movement, Higdon said.

“They are designed to limit the rights and freedoms of private property owners,” Higdon said.

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Swain property owners will soon find out where they fall on real estate roller coaster

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER ust after the New Year, property owners in Swain County will find out just how well — or how poorly — their property weathered the real estate downturn.

Swain County is wrapping up a countywide property revaluation, where every home, lot, business and tract of land is appraised with an up-to-date real estate value. Property values in turn dictate how much someone pays in property taxes.

The county hired the Raleigh-based Assessment Solutions to conduct the revaluation. The company is close to completing the revaluation and will send out letters to property owners in mid-January with their new property values.

The new property values will take effect in 2013.

In total — if you add up all the property in Swain County — values have gone down since 2005, the year of the last revaluation, according to by Tim Cain, president of Assessment Solutions. Cain did a presentation for Swain County commissioners at their meeting last week.

But there’s obviously a spectrum, with some property going up in value, some holding steady and some declining.

What Cain considers an “average house” in Swain County falls in the holding-steady category. Cain’s definition of an average house in Swain County is 1,600-square-feet, three bedrooms, two bathrooms and one story.

Cain used the “average home” as a benchmark, or central starting point, for their reassessment of property values.

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The Swain County Commissioners meet last week to hear presentations about its property values and audit. Caitlin Bowling photo “That is the approach that we take. I think that is the right way to go,” Cain said, adding that everything has a central tendency.

But this is the mountains, a land of million-dollar vacation homes and single-wide trailer parks. Each property has unique factors: is it on Lake Fontana, is it beside a creek waterfall, are the roads paved or gravel? The real kicker: How good is the view?

“View is everything,” Cain said. “The properties that are in the view shed are selling faster than others. If you are at the mountaintop, you are at a premium. If you are at the valley by the creek, you are at a premium.”

County commissioners took time during the meeting last week to ask Cain about hypothetical homes and even their own homes, trying to get a better idea of what

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Swain fund balance once again teetering on the brink

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER wain County might have to raise taxes or make budget cuts to keep its cash reserves from falling into unhealthy territory.

Swain County’s cash reserves are hovering around $1.6 million, barely above the state-recommended minimum.

Independent auditor Eric Bowman recently warned the county that one capital project or one hiccup could quickly drop Swain County’s fund balance too low.

“It doesn’t take anything,” Bowman said.

The Local Government Commission in North Carolina suggests counties maintain a cash reserve equal to 8 percent of its annual budget — enough money to cover one month of operating expenses in case of a cash flow crunch. Swain County’s fund balance hovers around 8.8 percent, according 22 to its latest annual audit.

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dollar mountain properties have fallen in from their inflated real estate heyday values.

Swain County has nearly 7.5 years worth of housing inventory, meaning it would take more than seven years to sell all the houses currently on the market.

“There are so few sales out there,” Cain said.

Haywood County enacted a revaluation last year. Jackson has one coming down the pike for 2016 and Macon County for 2015.

Increasing the tax rate is never popular, but lower property values would offset the impact of a higher tax rate. Budget-wise, the county would remain socalled “revenue neutral.” type of property saw increases versus decreases.

“These are the questions we are going to have to answer,” said Commissioner David Monteith, after asking about his and fellow commissioner Donnie Dixon’s homes.

It was difficult for Cain to generalize.

One notable trend, however, was that high-

Balancing its funds The Local Government Commission recommends that counties across the state maintain a minimum cash reserve, known as a fund balance, equal to 8 percent of its annual budget. The 8 percent level ensures enough cash on hand to pay all its operating expenses for at least one month in the event of a cash flow crunch.

During the past four fiscal years, Swain County’s fund balances have varied greatly.

2012..................................................................................8.8% 2011 ...............................................................................11.8% 2010 ...............................................................................13.5% 2009..................................................................................6.7% Although it is just a recommendation, dipping below that benchmark triggers financial oversight by the N.C. Department of Revenue until the problem is remedied.

That’s exactly what happened to Swain County three years ago when its fund balance dropped to 6.7 percent, triggering layoffs and furloughs for county workers.

Bowman told county commissioners at a meeting last week that next year’s budget, if similar to this year’s budget, is

Swain County’s current property tax rate is 33 cents per $100 of property value. But, that tax rate could go up following this year’s revaluation.

If property values as a whole go down, the county would have to increase the tax rate to bring in the same amount of money.

Increasing the tax rate is never popular, but lower property values would off-set the ( impact of a higher tax rate. Budget-wise, the b county would remain so-called “revenue o neutral.”

“I think that is what the board will shoot c for,” said County Manager Kevin King. “I know they want to remain neutral, but it i depends on expenses.”

A low fund balance may force their hand o to raise the tax rate beyond the revenue neu- c tral level (see related article). This year, the county brought in about $4.2 million in S property tax revenue. c Swain County actually conducted a reval- e uation four years ago but tossed it out for o being inaccurate. That revaluation had been J based on real estate values at the height of 2 the housing market boom.

But when the market crashed, commis- a sioners felt it wasn’t fair to enact a revalua- l tion based on inflated values that were no t longer applicable.

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b w going to be tight and advised the county that it might need tot raise property taxes or make cuts in the future.

“It is going to get awfully tight,” Bowman said. i Property taxes are the only stream of revenue the countyo has any control over and thus is the only option at its disposalm other than budget cuts to right the county’s financial course. f County Manager Kevin King in part blamed the county’s financial situation on state budget cuts that trickled down orl the county being forced to pick up the tab for programs. b “You are where the rubber meets the road,” King saids about county services. “They (the state) just see numbers onL the page.” b Counties are working with less money to provide moreK services — some of which could suffer in Swain County if itt can’t up its revenue. c Commissioner David Monteith immediately spoke outc against a property tax increase.

“We are going to have to look at getting money anothert way,” Monteith said. s However, if the county cuts services and employees, thata won’t look good either, he said. s “We look like the bad guy,” Monteith said.

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(Monteith) opposes a tax increase, then the best solution is to cut jobs,” Moon pointed out.

Monteith replied that he doesn’t want county employees to lose their jobs.

Commissioner Robert White said a tax increase might be necessary in that case.

“We don’t need to cut off our nose to spite our face,” White said. “If it comes to that, it comes to that.”

Property taxes have not increased in Swain County for more than a decade. The county’s tax rate is 33 cents per $100 of property value — which is higher than only six other counties in North Carolina. Macon and Jackson counties have two of the lowest at 27.9 cents and 28 cents, respectively.

Even in 2009 when the county’s fund balance dropped to 6.7 percent, Swain County leaders did not raise taxes — going against their auditor’s recommendation to do that.

Instead, county leaders cut the budget.

“We had a lot of savings that year. We basically pinched pennies,” King said. “We were very fortunate” not to have to raise taxes.

That year the county cut eight jobs — five in the sheriff ’s office and jail and three from other departments. It also froze overtime and mandated that its nearly 200 employees take five furlough days.

All in all, Swain County had to cut $1 million from its budget that year to get its fund balance up. Meanwhile, it was required to send monthly financial statements to the Local Government Commission until its fund balance got back over the 8 percent mark.

King drew some criticism for not sounding the alarm earlier in 2009 and allowing the county’s fund balance to drop below 8 percent before taking action.

Although Swain County is barely above the recommended 8 percent mark now, King said he is not concerned, adding that the auditor has told the county for years that something will need to change in the future — and eventually it will.

“I think we are going to be fine,” King said. “Just some point in the future, they are going to have to look for a more sustainable revenue source.”

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Property taxes have not increased in Swain County for more than a decade. The county’s tax rate is 33 cents per $100 of property value — which is higher than only eight other counties in North Carolina. Macon and Jackson Counties have two of the lowest at 27.9 cents and 28 cents, respectively.

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n any given Saturday morning for the past 20 years, I would roll out of bed, crank up the coffee machine and some Rolling Stones, throw on some running shorts and a tank top, and head out to the gym, eating a chalky protein bar on the way, the Clash or Elvis Costello urging me on along Highway 209. For a certain species of human being, the gym is like that old television sitcom “Cheers,” a place where everybody knows your name and they’re always glad you came. Just think of treadmills as barstools and protein shakes as draft beer, and you’ll get the picture.

Year after year, the same people show up, and over time, a community is formed, a community of sweaty, obsessive, slightly deranged folks who regard the gym as a second home.

In our particular community, Mark Parris was the mayor.

Mark was one of the very first people I met when I moved to Waynesville. He approached me in the gym one day, asking me what I did and where I was from, and about half an hour later we were still talking on subjects ranging from politics to college basketball to the tenuous state of rock and roll music in the age of hip hop. Could Led Zeppelin find an audience in a world sucking on Vanilla Ice? We had our doubts, and the very idea had us shaking our heads in mutual disbelief. What had the world come to? We didn’t know, but as long as we still had our stereos, our old records, and the gym, all was not lost.

Soon enough, I found that I looked forward to seeing Mark in the gym to continue our conversation, to hear about his family, to tell him about mine, to catch up on the latest crazy thing or ponder the fortune of the Tar Heel basketball team. Within a year or two, Mark not only knew how many brothers and sisters I had, he knew their names and what they did for a living.

Unlike so many people you meet, he had a genuine interest in other people and a sincere curiosity about their lives. In all of these years and during our countless conversations, I never

Davis’ gain is public education’s loss

To the Editor: At the county and state government levels budgets are about choices, and those choices have moral implications, not just economic ones. Since he has participated at both government levels, you would think Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, would appreciate that principle, but he doesn’t.

At a time when Sen. Davis and Republican lawmakers were making dramatic cuts in the state’s education budget, they created a tax loophole putting up to $3,500 into the pockets of wealthy business owners.

Though heralded by Republican leaders as a $50,000 tax exemption for small business, no cap was placed on the size of business that could claim this benefit. As a result, this loophole now applies to roughly 480,000 corporations and business owners such as lawyers, doctors, and even orthodontist like Davis.

This means that these business owners will be able to avoid paying taxes on their first $50,000 of income, providing them approximately $3,500 in savings.

As reported by The Raleigh News and Observer, this tax loophole will ultimately cost the state $336 million each year. This would

once had the impression that Mark was simply waiting for his turn to speak or in any particular hurry to get the conversation over with so he could get back to his bicep curls or the treadmill. He was one of the few people I have ever met who was fully and truly present in each moment I spent with him, a quality so rare that it takes some getting used to. When much of what passes for conversation these days is so rote that it might as well be automated, it is refreshing, even addictive, to talk with someone who is actually interested — and interesting. Mark was both.

Of course, as mayor of “gym-town,” Columnist Mark needed to be physically fit, and was he ever fit. Most people limp or lumber into their sixties.

Mark sprinted by it, thumbing his nose like a schoolboy getting away with something as he passed by. He was always wearing out a treadmill or a StairMaster, drenched in sweat, smiling and shining like a jack-o-lantern, somehow easy and furious at the same time as he chased whatever ghosts that the residents of gym-town are compelled to chase away, perhaps the ghosts of advancing years that whisper rocking chairs and acting our age to our bewildered ears.

Everything about Mark was a rebuke to the ravages of aging. The years piled up like dish plates, and Mark just ran faster, lifted harder. He was a physical specimen, a poster boy for vitality, Exhibit A of what it is possible to look like and feel like, even in your sixties.

And then cancer came calling. As Emily Dickinson said, “Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me.”

Just three weeks ago, we heard that Mark was in Johns

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roughly equal the salaries and benefits of the 6,400 employees who lost their jobs last year.

Approximately 900 of these employees were teachers — even though state’s student population increased by more than 10,750.

It makes no sense and it is certainly not good government to provide tax breaks to those who don’t need it — while cutting teachers and increasing class sizes.

However, Sen. Davis and Republican lawmakers have once again required school systems across North Carolina to return to the state a significant percentage of their allocated operational resources, better known as discretionary funds. Since 80 percent of education dollars are in people, this means that once again our school systems will have to cut teachers, assistant principals and support staff.

This year, Macon County is required to return $1,064,424 on top of the $1.25 million sent back to Raleigh last year. Jackson County must return $875,734 and Clay County $322,195. These are the very funds that assist in paying for teachers, state/federal mandated programs, supplies, equipment and student transportation.

If it had not been for the Obama stimulus package and the wise judgment of county commissioners and school boards to place funds into reserve last year, the impact of

Hopkins and was being treated for cancer. By the time we got the details last week, it was too late to say “goodbye.” We sent him a message of love and support on Facebook Wednesday night, but just a few hours later he was gone. When a man with that kind of presence is suddenly gone, the resulting absence is so profound that it shakes your faith in the very ground beneath you. It’s as if he left an invisible hole that any of us might fall into at any time.

How is it possible that we will not see him in the gym again? Who else is going to sing “Layla,” seemingly unaware that the rest of us are not wearing headphones and that all we can hear is him, singing off key, but no less passionate for that?

How will we ever get used to driving again in downtown Waynesville without hoping to get a glimpse of Mark walking his big dogs, the pack of them jerking him this way and that, a roiling sea of fur and lolling tongues, Mark barking orders that the dogs blissfully ignore?

I will miss so many things about Mark: his wit, his intelligence, his warmth, his genuine love and concern for others, his slight touch of goofiness, his refusal to yield to stereotypes or trends, Father Time, or even traditional ways of saying so long once the jig is up. Let other people settle for standard organ music and the usual hymns at their funeral service. Mark’s family was ushered in to the beautiful, ethereal Led Zeppelin classic, “Over the Hills and Far Away,” and just a few moments after they were seated, when the band came crashing in on top of the acoustic guitar with power chords and drums, I saw his son pump both fists. Rock and roll. It was a perfect moment, a perfect service, and I could easily imagine Mark smiling through it all, singing along, slightly off key and loving it anyway, in the moment as always.

(Chris Cox is a writer and teacher who lives in Haywood County. He can be reacched at jchriscox@live.com.)

these cuts would have been dramatic. But the stimulus money and the reserve funds have been depleted, and this year even more cuts of classroom teachers will have to be made.

Budgets are about choices, and those choices have moral as well as economic implications. In our selection of who will represent us in the state Senate next year, it is important that we select one who truly understands and acknowledges that principle with every vote they cast. Regretfully, Sen. Jim Davis doesn’t.

Ben J. Utley Franklin

Is Romney really the person you want?

To the Editor: After listening to Mitt Romney’s excuses over the last several months for what he has and is saying, I have a question I hope will resonate with all voters: Are we really ready to have a president who “flip-flops” every time he gets caught by registered non-GOP voters (many of us in the 47 percent that he’s not concerned about). Oh wait, that’s something else he said and got caught on tape.

Is this the person you want in the White House representing you to world leaders and having his finger on the red button for nuclear

war? I know I certainly don’t! We have been in enough wars, have lost more than enough of our younger adult generation and reached the brink of bankruptcy due to Republican “leadership.”

Please take this information to heart and make your decision to vote for our current president, who has taken action to help many factions of our country’s population.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services Report on Sept. 11, his Affordable Care Act has saved consumers an estimated $2.1 billion on health insurance premiums. That certainly has helped many families in middle- and low-income populations.

I used to be a conservative registered Republican, but after the Bush dynasty I couldn’t in good faith to my country and fellow voters stay on their registered voters list.

Now I am registered as an Independent voter.

Think back on the mistakes, poor judgment and actions the last few Republican presidents have made and we will understand why the current candidate is not using either of them to speak for his candidacy. Protect your Social Security and Medicare funds that you worked for your entire life and have earned. Vote the Democratic slate in

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LETTERS, CONTINUED FROM P. 24 tNovember, to help yourself and your loved ones.

It’s your choice, so stand up for your future financial benefits, or lose them to a party who is threatening to severely reduce or eliminate many of the entitlements we earned and need.

Valerie Harrison Dillsboro

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Obama just hasn’t gotten the job done To the Editor: This will be the election of my lifetime. I was born before WWII. I have seen my country survive many serious problems. But this year we have a man running for re-election who has had almost four years to prove his mettle. Millions voted for his “hope and change” slogan hoping he was going to revive our economy in some way. He had absolutely no experience that would suggest he had the ability to do that.

We now know he did not. Instead he decided to tackle health care. The best kind of health care insurance I ever had came with the job I had. In January 2009 the worst part of the recession had already passed by.

Instead of focusing like a laser on the job market — which would have put people back to work with health care — Obama spent the next two years trying to pass a health care bill. Since then our national debt has gone up almost $5 trillion and millions of Americans are still out of work without healthcare and many have lost their homes.

Last Oct. 3, more than 67 million Americans watched President Obama try to defend his record for the past four years against Gov. Mitt Romney. When confronted by Romney regarding his poor performance as the president, Obama had no answers. He looked down at the lectern doing something.

His supporters were dismayed by his performance. The country has waited almost four years for Obama to help our employed workers. Do we want to wait any longer?

Our country cannot afford to keep millions of Americans on food stamps and welfare checks. Gov. Romney has the business experience to get our country moving again.

Which of these two men looked like the president? Over 67 percent said it was Romney. That is the man I will vote to elect on Nov. 6.

Jim Mueller Glenville

The environment is key in this election

To the Editor: Bottom line: our economy, our health and quality of life are all dependent on how we treat our environment.

The American people are the least healthy in the developed world. We spend 26 more money per individual than any other

Bear euthanasia was not first option

BY GORDON M EYERS G UEST COLUMNIST letter was recently circulated regarding the euthanizing of a black bear in the Mountain Aire community in Western North Carolina. That letter apparently spawned a letter to the editor published in The Smoky Mountain News on Oct. 10 under the heading “Giving bears a second chance.”

This correspondence sets the record straight regarding the original letter. The original letter draws attention to several issues related to feeding and habituating bears to humans and human food. The letter also implies that reasonable alternatives existed regarding the disposition of this bear; and further that North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) staff were unresponsive to the community and simply suggested killing the bear as the simplest way to address nuisance situations. The account presented in the letter is not an accurate depiction of events as they actually occurred.

The letter states that the bear emerged from its winter den and soon discovered human food, perhaps implying that the bear accidentally came across human foods. In reality, the bear was fed intentionally by construction workers in the Mountain Aire community, despite the community’s “bear aware” program and other ongoing efforts to coexist with bears.

Bears quickly become habituated to humans under these conditions and this bear was no exception. Having lost its fear of humans, the bear returned regularly and broke into several cars during May 2012. The NCWRC was contacted by community leaders about the bear and began working directly with them to harass the bear and attempt to discourage it from remaining in the community. The community leaders also addressed the feeding

issue with the construction workers.

Those efforts appeared successful at first as the bear disappeared from the community for several weeks. Unfortunately, the bear returned in late June and the NCWRC received a report on June 28 that the bear had damaged the roof of a convertible sports car, reportedly enticed by a pack of gum inside the car.

Community leaders stressed that concern among residents was increasing.

On July 30, the NCWRC was informed that the bear had increased its interactions with humans, having entered homes at least four times and entered or damaged several vehicles. Community leaders and other residents expressed heightened concern and desire for action beyond harassment.

NCWRC staff informed the community that the bear had developed behavior that was inconsistent with normal bear behavior and recommended that the community increase harassment activities and offered assistance to trap and aggressively harass the bear in a final attempt to stop the bear’s behavior.

On Aug. 2, the community reported that the bear had entered another residence, removed two pies from the kitchen counter and re-entered the house that night. It was also reported that the bear entered the bedroom while the owners were sleeping. Subsequently, community leaders requested authorization to pursue other options, including euthanasia, as they felt the harassment techniques were not effective.

Several residents in the community began investigating the idea of trapping the bear and placing it in captivity as an alternative to euthanasia. The residents investigated a location in Georgia and indicated that arrangements were in place to take the bear to that location. NCWRC staff contacted officials in Georgia to

assess feasibility of this option. We determined that this was not a viable option because neither a transportation permit nor a license to possess the bear would be granted by the State of Georgia. NCWRC staff informed the community that while we did not support trapping a wild bear and placing it in confinement, we did investigate the proposal as requested by the community. Subsequently, NCWRC staff authorized the community to take action as appropriate should the bear return and pose a threat to persons or property.

On Aug. 9, NCWRC staff discussed with the community specific actions to be implemented should the bear return.

The community natural resources director indicated that most residents wanted the bear removed immediately as they viewed it to be a threat. It was also noted that a group of residents had begun to explore the possibility of moving the bear to a pen at Grandfather Mountain.

While this option was being examined, the bear returned to the community.

Specifically, the bear appeared near a child’s playground and then approached a condominium on the following day (Aug. 10). The property owner reported the bear to the community leadership and employees of the community humanely euthanized the bear.

The NCWRC supports the actions of the community as this bear clearly demonstrated threats to persons and property. State law provides private landowners the right to protect their property and their person from damage caused by wildlife. It is unfortunate that human habituation of wildlife often results in the animal’s demise.

Gordon Myers is Executive Director of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.

country to cure our numerous maladies. But besides jobs and taxes and the sorry state of the economy, what are we crying over day after day? It’s not environmental degradation, it’s medical assistance!

No amount of money spent on drugs, operations, Medicare, Medicaid or various therapies will solve the catastrophic health condition of our nation until we slam the door on environmental pollution.

The political dialogue is getting boring.

There is no such thing as clean coal, Mr. Romney. And all jobs are not created equal.

Some jobs ruin the health of workers. Many ruin the quality of our water, air, soil and food by adding poisons that cause diseases that never should have occurred and cost millions of dollars to treat. Cut down on the cause and you save money. That’s basic arithmetic and something we simply haven’t heard from Republican candidates.

President Obama is the first executive in my memory to actively make it a priority

tosupport clean, renewable energy, green businesses and jobs, demand his cabinet departments and EPA set regulations on poisons, and clean up the past dumping of toxic wastes which end up in the food chain.

Not enough, but President Obama has shown courage and intelligence to tie the environmental dilemma to economic and health policy. Mitt Romney would run the government like a business — efficient, but without long-term solutions to real problems. We need to move fast before the burdens of taking care of sick people start to bankrupt our economy.

Start with the basic problem — our view of the environment. How many people do you know that have an environmental illness? Yes, cancer is one. We’ll pay and pay and find cures for one disease, only to have it come back or come to someone else, or yet another illness surfacing from a new toxin introduced in the environment, unless we eliminate causes.

At least elected representatives use the word “environment” occasionally. They’re on the right track, even economically, although they may not know it.

Debby Boots Franklin

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We need specifics from Romney To the Editor: The first presidential debate underscored one thing — what does Romney intend to do when campaign rhetoric must be turned into policy? He certainly gave us no clues. We all know that the economy has severely suffered since 2008 when the reckless practices of the financial industry drove us to the cliff of another depression. We all know that our health care system is broken. We all know that the tax code needs reform. We all know that tax cuts for the wealthy and the gall of

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George W. Bush to fight two wars on the national credit card have created unsustainable deficits.

But what we don’t know is what Mr. Romney will do about these problems beyond the heavily rehearsed rhetoric he spun out before the American people.

If Mitt Romney really cares about the middle class, why won’t he tell us how he is going to narrow the gap between the haves and the have nots beyond the fairy tale of “trickle down economics” that proved unsuccessful under both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush? How is he going to make health care accessible and affordable to most Americans without the mechanism he put in place when he was governor of Massachusetts? What loopholes in the tax code are going to be closed to miraculously create a balanced budget? And do those loopholes include closing some of the more

glaring examples of corporate welfare? Is he really going to pursue $2 trillion more money for the Pentagon to maintain an army based on the strategy of the Cold War that ended in 1989?

The list goes on. How is he going to strengthen American education by cutting the teachers, prepare for future energy demands while concentrating solely on fossil fuels? How is he going to create all those promised jobs by giving us nothing more specific than the specious argument that he is a businessman who knows how to manage a business. Mr. Romney, the global economy is a much more complex organism than a business bought out by Bain Capital.

This is a crucial election in American history. As citizens we are going to have to live with the results. We need specifics.

Suzanne Thomas Franklin

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documentation — since none exists — for outside money funding his campaign.

(However, voters scrutinizing Rapp’s reports for themselves will find two contributions from me. Speaking of accuracy, one of Presnell’s own flyers misspells her name as Presenell.)

More facts: Ray Rapp voted for the North Carolina law that restricts marriage to a union between a man and a woman. That is still his firm position. He opposed Amendment 1 because it was unnecessary and created a lawyer’s relief act of potential litigation.

Equality NC, which opposed the law, has endorsed other candidates but not Rapp, Snow or former Sen. Joe Sam Queen, who is running for the House.

Conveniently for Presnell, the Mountain Xpress article that supposedly supports her lies is not available on the Internet, but the newspaper kindly e-mailed me a copy. In the article, Rapp explained why he opposed Amendment 1 when it cropped up in the legislature: “It is an unsubtle effort on the part (of ) the GOP to get out the vote in the next election, but the sad truth is that it unleashes another cultural war in the state that is bad for business and disruptive to our communities,” said Rapp in response to an Xpress inquiry about the changing amendment identify (sic). (Republican Rep. Tim Moffitt did not respond to the inquiry.) “This is a sad state of affairs when we have flood victims in Eastern North Carolina, high unemployment and our education system sinking under the weight of budget slashes ... and the issue that we are called to Raleigh to debate is the ban on gay marriage,” Rapp said.

Although the Republicans’ gutter propaganda sheds no light on any genuine issue, it is useful in one way. It tells all that the voters should need to know about the character and fitness for office of those who depend on such tactics.

Martin A. Dyckman Waynesville

a.m. to 4 p.m. Offering a wide selection of traditional hickory smoked BBQ, pork, chicken, beef and ribs. All complimented by homemade sides and desserts. Full service catering for special events.

October 17-23, 2012

To the editor: The world’s first political consultants were ancient Greeks known as Sophists who taught debating skills and boasted that they could make the weaker argument sound stronger. Sophistry, which the dictionary defines as “subtly deceptive reasoning or argument,” is a sad staple of modern politics as well.

But even the Sophists would be ashamed of much of what goes on now. Both parties have been guilty, but I have seen nothing so vile as the torrent of Republican smears against former State Sen. John Snow, DMurphy, who is running to reclaim the seat he narrowly lost two years ago. Now they’re cranking up the garbage factory against Rep. Ray Rapp, D-Mars Hill.

These Republican flyers (rhymes with liars) should go straight from the mailbox to the trash can. None of them offers any enlightening explanation of such hyperbole as the charge that Snow “racked up record deficits just like Obama.” A fine print footnote on that one referred to four appropriations bills — each one a tremendously complicated issue — as if Snow had voted for them all. In fact, he voted against one of them — as Snow’s opponent, Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, acknowledged after I called his attention to it. Two subsequent mailings repeated the falsehood. Another flyer, misrepresenting Snow’s remarks on the Planned Parenthood funding dispute, prompted the Macon County News to document how the Republicans had taken a quote out of context from one of its articles.

One of challenger Michele Presnell’s mailings against Rapp bears two of the most execrable lies I’ve seen in one paragraph. It accuses Rapp of opposing traditional marriage and says that “extreme left-wing special interest groups” are “bankrolling his campaign.” She pretends to document the first lie with a footnote to a Sept. 12, 2011, Mountain Xpress article that in fact says nothing about any organizations. There’s no

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BRIDGET’S BISTRO AT THE HERREN HOUSE 94 East St., Waynesville. 828.452.7837 Lunch Tuesday through Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday Brunch 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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BRYSON CITY BAKERY AND PASTRY SHOPPE 191 Everett St., Bryson City. 828.488.5390 Offering a full line of fresh baked goods like Grandma used to make. Large variety to choose from including cakes, pies, donuts, breads, cinn-buns and much more. Also serving Hershey Ice Cream. Open seven days a week, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Join us for cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays (weather permitting) and family-style dinners on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Social hour starts at 6 p.m., with dinner at 7 p.m.

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

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

CITY 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.

COPPER LEAF CAFÉ & COFFEE 3232 Dellwood Rd., Waynesville.

828.926.4486. Open Monday thru Saturday 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Enjoy the atmosphere and charm of the Copper Leaf Café’s signature sandwiches and salads featuring Boar’s Head meats & cheeses. Home-made soups served daily as well as “made from scratch” desserts. Full service Espresso Bar and a unique selection of gifts. Located next to High Country Furniture and Design.

CORK AND BEAN 16 Everett St., Bryson City. 828.488.1934.

Open Monday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy organic, fair-trade, gourmet espresso and coffees, a select, eclectic list of wines, and locally prepared treats to go with every thing. Come by early and enjoy a breakfast crepe with a latte, grab a grilled chicken pesto crepe for lunch, or wind down with a nice glass of red wine. Visit us on Facebook!

CORK & CLEAVER 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

828.456.7179. Reservations recommended.

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

CORNERSTONE CAFÉ 1092 N. Main Street, Waynesville.

828.452.4252. Open Monday through Friday 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fresh meats purchased daily, great homemade breakfast, burgers made to order.

Comfortable and friendly atmosphere, with curb service available. Make lunch easy and call ahead for to go orders.

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

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

EL TORITO 2840 Old Cullowhee Road, Cullowhee.

828.293.9333. Monday-Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Offering authentic Mexican fare featuring wild mushrooms, flowers and herbs, epazote and many oreganos and chilies. A full menu of traditional Mexican foods. Take-out orders available.

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

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

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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.

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

Lunch Sunday noon to 2:30 p.m., dinner nightly starting at 4:30 p.m. World-famous prime rib, steaks, fresh seafood, gorgonzola cheese and salads. All ABC permits and open year-round. Children always welcome.

Take-out menu. Excellent service and hospitality. Reservations appreciated.

JOEY'S PANCAKE HOUSE 4309 Soco Rd Maggie Valley.

828.926.0212.

Winter hours; Friday through Sunday and Mondays, 7 a.m. to noon. Joey’s is a family style restaurant that has been serving breakfast to the locals and visitors of Western North Carolina since 1966. Featuring a large variety of tempting pancakes, golden waffles, country style cured ham and seasonal specials spiked with flavor, Joey's is sure to please all appetites. Joey & Brenda O’Keefe invite you to join what has become a tradition in these parts, breakfast at Joey’s.

JUKEBOX JUNCTION U.S. 276 and N.C. 110 intersection, Bethel.

828.648.4193. 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner. The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era.

LOS AMIGOS 366 Russ Ave. in the Bi-Lo Plaza.

828.456.7870. Open from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for lunch and 5 to 10 p.m. for dinner Monday through Friday and 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Enjoy the lunch prices Monday through Sunday, also enjoy our outdoor patio.

LUCIO'S RESTAURANT 313 Highlands Road, Franklin.

828.369.6670. Serving Macon County since 1984. Closed Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

Lunch Wednesday-Friday 11:30 a.m. until.Dinner Wednesday-Saturday 5 p.m. until. Owned and operated by Tanya and Dorothy Gamboni. Serving authentic Italian and continental cuisine including appetizers, pastas, poultry, veal, seafood, steaks and homemade deserts. Selection of wine and beer. Lunch and Dinner menus. Wednesday and Thursday nights only. 1 appetizer and 2 selected entrées with unlimited salad and Lucio’s famous garlic rolls for $24.95.

Winter Special: half-off house wines, Friday and Saturday only. luciosnc.com MAD BATTER BAKERY & CAFÉ Located on the WCU Campus in Cullowhee.

828.293.3096. Open Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Earth-friendly foods at people-friendly prices.

Daily specials, wraps, salads, pastries, breads, soups and more. Unique fare, friendly service, casual atmosphere and wireless Internet. Organic ingredients, local produce, gourmet fair trade and organic coffees.

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

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Saturday at 5 p.m. Full service restaurant serving steaks, prime rib, seafood and dinner specials. Live music Thursday, Friday and Saturday. TIki Bar open (weather permitting) Friday, Saturday & Sunday beginning April.

SOUL INFUSION TEA HOUSE & BISTRO 628 E. Main St. (between Sylva Tire & UPS). 828.586.1717. Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday noon -until.

Scrumptious, natural, fresh soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps and desserts. 60+ teas served hot or cold, black, chai, herbal.

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

THE SWAG COUNTRY INN Hemphill Road off of Hwy 276.

828.926.0430. Serving a 4-course gourmet dinner seven nights a week at 7:00, with a social hour and hors d'oeuvres on the dog trot beginning at 6. Also offering the chef's gourmet picnic at noon every Wednesdays on Gooseberry Knob, BBQ Cookout every Thursday night and Sunday brunch each week. Daily backpack lunches are also available for hiking. Bring your own wine and spirits. Reservations required.

THE TIKI HOUSE SEAFOOD & OYSTER BAR 2723 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.944.0445. Fresh seafood made to order. Oysters raw, steamed, or fried. Handcut steaks. Live music, cocktails, petfriendly patio dining with a nice fountain.

Friday patio music starts at 7 p.m. and Saturday night after dinner. Live bands and a dance floor.

THE WINE BAR 20 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

828.452.6000. Underground cellar for wine and beer, served by the glass all day.

Cheese and tapas served Wednesday through Saturday 4 p.m.-9 p.m. or later. info@classicwineseller.com. Also on facebook and twitter.

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PASQUALE’S 1863 South Main Street, Waynesville. Off exit 98, 828.454.5002. Opend for lunch and dinner seven day a week. Classic Italian dishes, exceptional steaks and seafood (available in full and lighter sizes), thin crust pizza, homemade soups, salads hand tossed at your table. Fine wine and beer selection. Casual atmosphere, dine indoor, outside on the patio or at the bar.

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828.456.3333. Classic fireside dining in an historic mountain lodge with cozy, intimate bar. Dinner served nightly except Sunday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Signature dinner choices include our 8oz. filet of beef in a brandied peppercorn sauce and a garlic and herb crusted lamb rack. Carefully selected fine wines and beers plus full bar available. Open year round. Call for reservations.

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

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

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

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Serving lunch and dinner. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Noon to 4 p.m.

Sunday. Pizza, pasta, outstanding homemade desserts, plus full lunch and dinner menus. All ABC permits. Take-out menus available.

MOONSHINE GRILL 2550 Soco Road, Maggie Valley loacted in the Smoky Falls Lodge. 828.926.7440.

Open Wednesday through Sunday, 4:30 to 9 p.m.; lunch Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and Sunday buffet 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Cooking up mouth-watering, woodfired Angus steaks, prime rib and scrumptious fresh seafood dishes. The wood-fired grill gives amazing flavor to every meal that comes off of it. Enjoy creative dishes made using moonshine. Stop by and simmer for a while and soak up the atmosphere. The best kept secret in Maggie Valley. themoonshinegrill.com

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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER liding into the parking lot of the Cold Mountain Corn Maze, the smell of campfire and old, fallen leaves fills the nostrils.

Soon, the sounds of screaming fill the ears.

Coming into their eighth year, the Canton maze once again provides Haywood County with a safe and affordable atmosphere for children, teenagers and adults to congregate, socialize and partake in some of the finest activities fall has to offer, which includes pumpkin painting, hayrides, apple treats, an inflatable bouncing space and a haunted house. All proceeds raised throughout the season benefits The Good Samaritan Clinic of Haywood County.

“It’s a very comforting place,” said Kim Russell, who co-owns the maze with her husband Skipper. “This is something that people of all ages can relate to because everyone is together and having fun. You can have a kind of farm experience without actually being on a farm.”

But, that doesn’t mean some patrons won’t walk away a tad stunned and weary.

Covering around five acres of pristine farmland, the maze proves the old adage “don’t judge a book by its cover.” Yes, it’s a field. Yes, you can navigate it (if done properly). But, don’t get too big for your britches when approaching it. For that sentiment ultimately leads to the mental demise of any who enter the hallowed grounds.

“It’s tricky,” said Josh Laws, manager at Cold Mountain. “You definitely can get scared and start running when it gets dark. You can get turned around real quick.”

The late afternoon haze soon gives way to early evening. Paths careening through innumerable rows of corn become dim. Voices, real of perhaps imagined, ricochet from positions unknown. Wandering down the wellworn dirt routes, one starts to think the maze is pretty simple. You’ve got this, right?

Wrong.

That exact drifting into confident thought has zoned your mind out, forgetting key geographical reference points. Your last left was mistaken for a right, while what was thought to be straight ahead was actually the incorrect way back. Now stuck, you’re in an ocean of corn, with the only comfort of civilization being the sound of a passing car on N.C. 110, which borders the maze on one side.

A breath of relief overcomes you when one of the lookout bridges appears. These bridges, which can stand several feet above the maze, provide the wanderer with a spot to reconfigure their current location. High above the field, patrons get a bird’s eye view of other manically searching for an exit in the field, moving around the different corners of the

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COLD MOUNTAIN CORN MAZE Open through Nov. 1, the maze will run from 4-9 p.m. on Wednesday through Friday and 1-9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. It will also be open from 4-9 p.m. Oct. 29-31. Ages 4 and over is $8 per person, with 3 and under for free. Hayrides are $2 and season passes are available for $50.

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Tuscola High School student Vickie Rogers (right) hangs out on a lookout bridge with her friends at the Cold Mountain Corn Maze in Canton. The maze will remain open through Nov. 1. Garret K. Woodward photo

DARNELL FARMS CORN MAZE Open through Nov. 1, the maze runs seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The October Haunted Maze will be open later hours.

2300 Governors Island, Bryson City.

828.488.2376.

OCONOALUFTEE HAUNTED VILLAGE Running from Oct. 26 to Oct. 31, there will be a haunted trail at the Oconaluftee Indian Village, which will also include a Mountainside Theatre ghost walk. Tickets are $10 a person per attraction. Children 12 and under must have adult supervision. Both packages may be purchased at a discount of $18. Doors open each night at 7 p.m.

218 Drama Road, Cherokee. www.CherokeeAdventure.com/OconalufteeHaunted-Trail PINHEAD’S GRAVEYARD An outdoor haunted house and self-guided walk through the woods, patrons will witness horror movie characters. Taking place now through Nov. 3, shows are 10 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, with a tour at midnight on Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $15.

2099 Asheville Highway, Canton. www.PinheadsGraveyard.com

“It’s tricky. You definitely can get scared and start running when it gets dark. You can get turned around real quick.”

— Josh Laws, maze manager

property like ants marching toward some destination.

“A couple people have gotten stuck up on the tower,” Laws said, pointing in the distance to the wooden structures. “That’s as far as they could make it. They’d get up there and start waving for us to get them or call us with their cell phone to tell us where they were in the maze.”

The workers know the field like the back of their hand, and Russell said each is welltrained to get in and retrieve anyone who

simply can’t find their way back to their car.

“We’ve had a few start screaming from the tower for us,” she chuckled.

Locating one of the towers, several local teenagers lay claim to the platform. They sit perched on them, legs dangling, eyes aimed forward, yelling to others on another bridge across the field or pointing to all the different groups below. Teenager couples mill about the paths, sporting their letter jackets and holding hands, as if straight out of a John Mellencamp melody.

“Everybody just runs around,” said Vickie Rogers, a student at Tuscola High School. “It gives you something to do because there’s nothing to do around here. You get to hang-

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North Hominy Apple Festival is Oct. 20 The North Hominy Apple Festival will take place from 7 a.m. until closing Oct. 20 at the North Hominy Community Center on Newfound Road in Canton.

The festival will feature a variety of apple pies, butter and jellies. There will be craft vendors onsite and a country breakfast at $7 per person.

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This is a juried art and craft show with a warm and festive atmosphere. There will be paintings, photography, pottery, baskets, soaps and lotions, stained glass, wood turnings, furniture, dog clothing and accessories, heirloom crochet, quilts, stunning jewelry, candles, gourd art, clocks, knives, whimsical dolls, Indian clothing, florals and Christmas ornaments.

Admission is free for Oct. 19-20, but donations are kindly accepted. Admission for Oct. 2627 is $2, which also gains you admission to the Chamber’s 24th Annual Leaf Lookers Gemboree next door at the community building.

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A harvest festival will take place Oct.19-21 at the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center on the grounds of the Stecoah School.

Friday evening begins with a campfire and storytelling with Civil War-era soldiers on patrol.

Saturday starts at 8 a.m. with a 5K race and a “One Mile Fun Run.” From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. the grounds will be filled with the sounds of mountain music and dancing feet. Music acts include the Stecoah JAM Kids, Britthaven Band, Valley River Gospel Trio, Vance Trull & Friends, The Dixie Darlin’s Cloggers, The Oktoberfest Square Dancers, The Leftovers Band and The Welch Family. At 7:30 p.m. The Dismembered Tennesseans will perform on the grand old stage, with adult tickets being $15 and students (K-12th grade) are $5 for that performance.

On Sunday, there will be free gospel singing in the auditorium from 2:30-5 p.m. featuring The Wilson Family, Shining Pathway, Valleytown Trio and Marble Springs Singing Men. Saturday festival admission is just $3 per adult and free for K-12th grade and younger.

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The Haywood County Apple Harvest Festival will be held 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 20 in downtown Waynesville. The annual festival, which celebrates the beauty of the harvest season in Haywood County, features handmade arts and crafts, locally grown apples and apple products for sale. In addition, the festival will feature food vendors of all types, educational and information booths, authentic mountain music, dance groups and a children’s fun area.

Scheduled performers for this year’s festival include the Bobby & Blue Ridge Tradition, Simple Folk and the Appalachian Fire. Adult and youth clogging groups will also perform throughout the day providing entertainment from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Returning to the festival is the Haywood County Apple Harvest Festival Natural Beauty Pageant preHaywood County Apple Harvest Festival will be held sented by Naturally Breathtaking.

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Pageant-goers can join in the exciteEvergreen Packaging, First Citizens Bank, ment and enter to be crowned a Haywood Select Homes, Barium Springs, State Farm County Apple Harvest Queen or King. The pageant will be held in front of the Haywood Insurance Lee Starnes, Mountain Trace, New Meridian Technology, Clear Channel County Courthouse.

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Writers/artists wanted for publication

HCC STUDENT WINS COSMETOLOGY COMPETITION

Submissions are now being taken for the 2012-13 edition of “Milestone,” the biennial art and literary review published

by Southwestern Community College.

“Milestone” is a publication that showcases the creative expressions of local writers and visual artists.

All residents of Jackson, Macon and Swain counties and the Qualla Boundary, as well as SCC students and alumni, are eligible. Only unpublished work may be submitted. Prose should not exceed 2,000 words and poems should be limited to two pages in length.

Writers may submit more than one work. All writing must be double-spaced and submitted in paper format or via email. In addition, each page must be numbered, and the author’s name, address, telephone number and email address should be included on the last page of each submission.

Visual artists and photographers may submit only black and white copies of original artwork and must also include name, address, telephone number, email address, title of work and photo caption (if applicable) on the back of each submission. Artists and photographers may also submit more than one work. First and second place cash prizes will be awarded in three categories: poetry, prose (short story or nonfiction works) and visual arts, including photography.

In addition, one cash prize will be awarded for cover art.

Literary submissions must be postmarked by Dec. 3 and sent to SCC Milestone; Attn. Owen Gibby or Toni Knott; 447 College Drive, Sylva, N.C. 28779 or oweng@southwesterncc.edu or tknott@southwesterncc.edu.

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

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Haywood Community College recently hosted a regional cosmetology competition on the Clyde campus. HCC students competed against A-B Technical Community College and Tri-County Community College. HCC student Tammy Putnam was the overall student winner, while the fantasy team took first place in their category. The winning entry for the fantasy team was (from left) HCC students Andrea Jones, model for the event, Mandy Henderson and Shay Summey.

Children’s costume ball to be held in Sylva A costume character ball will be held during family night at 6 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Children are invited to come dressed as their favorite story character. There will be snacks, crafts and activities like bowling, twister, beanbag toss and more.

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Library to host community jam The next community music jam at the Marianna Black Library will be from 6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in downtown Bryson City.

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

The jam is facilitated by Larry Barnett of Grampa’s Music in Bryson City. Barnett starts by calling out a tune and its key signature and the group plays it together. Then, everyone in the circle gets a chance to choose a song for the group to play together. 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-

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Western North Carolina Encouragement Beer and pottery auction Jubilee will be held at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21 through Oct. 24 in the Beall Auditorium at to support nonprofit Haywood Community College in Clyde.

The Community Table in Sylva has two fundraising events coming up. The Community Table is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing nutritious meals to neighbors in need in a welcoming environment.

• You can bid from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on items generously donated by festival artists to benefit The Community Table at the 8th Annual WNC Pottery Festival & Silent Auction in Dillsboro. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 3 and features 40 potters from 13 states.

• The Headliner, a benefit for The Community Table, will be from 6:30-9 p.m. on Nov. 3. Headliner Beer, generously donated by Sierra Nevada and Heinzelmsannchen Brewery of Sylva, will be for sale. $10 for a pint and plate of bratwurst, sauerkraut using Heinzelmannchen’s own recipe or $5 a pint,

WNC Encouragement Jubilee begins Sunday evening with a gospel music concert featuring The Browns from Lemars, La. Monday’s guest speaker will be David Horton, president of Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute in Hendersonville and Interim Pastor of Encouraging Word Baptist Church in Waynesville. Dr. Jim Henry, former pastor of First Baptist Church Orlando, Fla., and Past President of the Southern Baptist Convention will preach on Tuesday evening.

Wednesday evening features Dr. Don Wilton, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church, Spartanburg, S.C., and founder of the Encouraging Word, a national televisionj ministry.

The public is invited to attend. WNC Encouragement Jubilee is a ministry of Encouraging Word Baptist Church, Waynesville.

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out with people, get scared and get lost.”

Rogers has been coming to the maze since she was a little kid. She said she once got lost for almost an hour in one of the corners. When asked how old she was when the incident happened, Rogers took a moment to respond.

“This was just the other day,” she blushed.

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You eventually locate the exit. A small group of Pisgah High School students are just beginning their quest. Within the group, Amber Williams has been “scaring” for the last three years, which is someone who dresses up in costume and jumps out at people who enter the field at night.

“I made a kid pee herself once,” she laughed. “I think more people need to start coming here because it’s really fun.”

Reemerging back into society, a wave of relief washes over those who safely, and someone successfully, negotiated their way out. Perhaps a candy reward or warm-up near the campfire is in order.

“Where’s the bathroom?” a bewildered kid asks, zooming out the exit towards the porta-potty.

Car engines rumble and proceed to head home. Waiting to pull back onto N.C. 110, another scream is heard in the distance.

Another victim has fallen to the Cold Mountain Corn Maze.

“People are always amazed at how we do it,” Russell said. “It’s a lot of work and there’s a lot of upkeep for having a place like this, but it’s worth it.”

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• Approximately one billion dollars in cuts • 3040 teachers and teacher aid jobs lost • $32 million pre-k (more at four) cut (4000 at risk students denied services) • $72 million smart start cut • Teaching fellows, teachers academy & dropout prevention programs cut out • $92 million cut from textbooks

Jim Davis cut funds to community colleges (workforce development).

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Jim Davis cut funds to NC Universities.

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Jim Davis is directly responsible for giving a $336 million tax break to 460,000 wealthy business owners.

Jim Davis received $47,616 on 6/11/12 from the Carolina Business Coalition Education Fund Super PAC. Senate District 50 has had, and continues to have, the highest unemployment rates in NC. Unemployment in WNC has risen since 2010.

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Christie mystery to be screened Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19-22 at the Smoky Mountain Community Theatre in Bryson City.

The film portrays a snowstorm that traps boarders at Monkswell Manor Guest House with a murderer on the loose. All is well until one guest is murdered. Everyone is a suspect.

Everyone has a secret. Who is the murderer?

Find out in Agatha Christie’s longest running mystery.

Box Office opens at 6:30 p.m. Ticket prices are $8 for adults and $5 for children.

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An outdoor drama titled “The Legend of Tommy Hodges“ will be presented at 6:30 p.m., 7:45 p.m. and 9 p.m. Oct. 19-20 at the Cradle of Forestry in Brevard.

During the outdoor performance, visitors will hear the story of Tommy Hodges, a student of the Biltmore Forest School, who disappeared Halloween night 1907. A guide will lead the audience around the paved Biltmore Campus Trail at the Cradle of Forestry to find out what happened that night. The

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show is a mile long, meaning the audience walks one mile to see the entire play. It’s most suitable for ages 6 and up.

Audience members are asked to dress warmly, wear comfortable walking shoes and bring a flashlight. Hot cider and cookies will be served after each show. Ponchos and other raingear are welcome if the weather is showery, but please leave umbrellas at home.

Admission is $6 for ages 16 and up, $3 for ages 15 and under and holders of America the Beautiful and Golden Age Passports. Diamond Brand Outdoors is sponsoring the event.

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Liars Bench presents scary stories As part of the Liars Bench, Dr. Gary Carden will be performing “Appalachian Spook Tales” at WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center on Oct. 18. Garret K. Woodward photo

Free potluck and a movie The Groovy Movie Club will show the film “Hunger Games” at 7 p.m. Oct. 19 at Buffy Queen’s solar-powered home in Waynesville.

A mostly potluck dinner will precede the screening at 6:15 p.m., with a discussion to follow for all who wish to participate. The event is free and open to the public. The club meets the second of third Friday of every month. The mission of the organization is to show films, feature and documentary, with a message.

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The Liars Bench will present “Appalachian Spook Tales” at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center auditorium.

Regular cast members include Gary Carden, Lloyd Arneach, Paul Iarussi, the Tuckaseegee Boys and the show’s mascot Bodine. The Liars Bench recognizes established regional artists and performers and encourages new talent also. The Liars Bench was created in the early summer of 2010 by

Dr. Gary Carden to promote Southern Appalachian storytelling, music, poetry, drama and folk arts.

The next presentation of The Liars Bench at WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 15 with a presentation of one of Dr. Carden’s plays, “Birdell,” the story of a defiant mountain woman forced off her land by the rising waters of Fontana lake. www.theliarsbenchgazette.blogspot.com or 828.227.7129.

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The Bryson City Chamber Chili Cook-off will take place 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Depot.

Sample chili ranging from mild to wild and in red, white and vegetarian recipes. Enjoy a festival atmosphere with decorated booths, live music, handcrafted arts and homemade desserts. The coveted People’s Choice Award will be awarded at the end of the day.

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A one-day “Introduction to Cherokee Language” class will be offered from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 19 in Western Carolina University’s Cordelia Camp Building.

Thomas Belt and Hartwell Francis from WCU’s Cherokee language program will begin the class by introducing the Cherokee syllabify. Students will then move on to holding brief conversations in Cherokee. Sound files on CD, a syllabify chart and reference sheets will be provided for review and further study. The event costs $59, with lunch included, and is sponsored by Western Carolina University’s Office of Continuing Education. www.learn.wcu.edu or 828.227.7397.

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scholar Anna Fariello will host a program entitled “From the Hands of our Elders: Cherokee Traditions” at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 in the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

This program will expand upon the themes of the WCU public history student exhibit, “Weaving a Way: A Story of Cultural Preservation,” which is on display at the library, just inside the doors leading from the atrium. The exhibit “Cherokee Traditions” is part of the larger “Journey Stories” project, which includes a Smithsonian exhibit on view at the Mountain Heritage Center at WCU, now

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REACH of Haywood County will be putting on a “barn dance” at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at a new barn nestled in the Camp Branch area.

Music will be performed by The Stuart Brothers with caller Barbara Groh, dancing and a live auction. Dancing style will be country, circles, squares and line dancing.

Tickets are available at the REACH office, 1085 North Main Street, Waynesville.

Tickets are $75 and include a BBQ dinner.

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Clean Slate Coalition has launched a fundraising campaign called “Sew Crafty” that will create a funding stream to help women leaving jail or prison by recycling and selling sewing and craft items that can be repurposed by local crafters.

Clean Slate operates a local transitional housing program for women in transition.

Located in Sylva, the program serves up to eight women at a time.

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Author to read memoir Judy Goldman will read from and discuss her new memoir, Losing My Sister, at 1 p.m.

Oct. 20 at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Losing My Sister tells of Goldman’s relationship with her sister, the struggles they face, either apart or united. Whether it is long hidden family secrets, cancer or the failing health of their parents, the two sisters manage to bridge the distance between them and re-forge a relationship that had been strong since childhood.

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Film series to screen adult documentary Western Carolina University Sociology Club’s “A New Lens Film Series” will continue at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 with a screening of “The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships” in Room 130 of the John W. Bardo Arts Center.

The film examines the role commercial pornography occupies in U.S. popular culture.

The next film in the series, on Nov. 1, will be “Miss Representation,” which offers a look at how mainstream media contribute to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power in America. Except for the Oct. 23 event, all screenings in the series will begin at 7 p.m. in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center.

The screening is co-sponsored by Women’s Studies and the Feminists on Campus. mchamber@wcu.edu or 828.227.3839.

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Elin O’Hara Slavick, distinguished Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give a public talk titled “Art after Aftermath” at 4 p.m. Oct. 29 in Room 130 of the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University.

Slavick, primarily a photographer whose work is based on issues and ideas, will discuss her art and her curatorial activities. Most recently, she has focused on the aftermath of the atomic bomb. In her presentation, she will include photos of atomic bomb artifacts and images from her book Bomb after Bomb: A Violent Cartography. While at WCU, Slavick also will meet with and have critiques with graduate and undergraduate students.

Her visit is supported by the School of Art and Design’s Visiting Scholar Funds. The event is free and open to the public.

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Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker will be performed at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Nov. 24 at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center. Celebrating its 19th year, it’s the largest Russian ballet tour in North America.

Averaging 100 performances during November and December, this coast-to-coast attraction combines the highest caliber Russian ballet, cutting-edge production values and the traditional appeal that consistently fills theaters. With larger-than-life puppets, nine handpainted backdrops with 3-D effect, and hundreds of exquisite costumes, the Great Russian Nutcracker is a spectacular holiday celebration.

A portion of the proceeds from each ticket sold will be donated to a local hospital within the Children’s Miracle Network. Tickets are currently on sale. www.Ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000.

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MacDonald may be innocent after all always thought he was guilty. Any doubts that I might have felt vanished after I read Joe McGinniss’ Fatal Vision. Jeffery MacDonald had murdered his wife and two daughters, stabbing and bludgeoning them to death in their apartment at Fort Bragg. I did not believe his story about the “hippies” who broke into his house at 3:30 in the morning chanting “Acid is groovy” and “Death to the Pigs.” In essence, I guess I agreed with the military police, the FBI and the Fayetteville Police Department that it sounded like an unconvincing, Writer “copycat” version of the Manson murders some six months before (the word “Pig” written in blood was also at the murder scene).

My convictions were further validated by the movie in which lovable, decent Karl Maulden pursued Jeff Macdonald like an avenging angel (You can watch the entire movie on Youtube now!). When Macdonald was eliminated as a suspect in 1970 and moved to California where he quickly adapted a playboy lifestyle, I, like his father-in-law was indignant. Ah, but then, 1979, the playboy doctor was arrested and returned to North Carolina where he was tried and convicted. “Good!” I said, and I have been pleased to note that he is still in prison where he undoubtedly belongs.

Well, Errol Morris says I am wrong, and he is not a man to be dismissed lightly. His documentary film, “The Thin Blue Line,” saved Randall Adams, a death-row inmate in Texas, by proving that Adams was the victim of a corrupt judicial system (1988). Morris is not a crusader but an extremely talented filmmaker with a penchant for exhaustive research. Now, almost 25 years after “The Thin Blue Line,” Morris has announced that several decades of

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research strongly suggest that Jeffery MacDonald is not guilty.

This is not snap judgment either. A Wilderness of Error contains painstakingly developed research and conclusions based on the reevaluation of hundreds of details — details that reveal an investigation and a series of trials that are riddled with incompetence, prejudice and a willful withholding of evidence. I am having second thoughts. Could he be innocent?

Throughout A Wilderness of Error, Morris frequently comments on the resemblance of the “Green Beret Murders” to the classic Japanese film, “Rashomon” in which four people gave evidence about a brutal crime, but each account bears no resemblance to the other three.

Indeed, MacDonald’s “mistakes” are the reason that who father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, launched a campaign to prove Macdonald guilty. Freddy’s pursuit of Jeffery became obsessive, and at times bordered on criminal conduct. Morris quickly discovered that Freddy Kassab bore little resemblance to the character created by Karl Maulden in the film, “Fatal Vision.” His tireless campaign (enthusiastically supported by his wife) becomes a mission for revenge (he became famous for repeatedly saying, “If the legal system does not punish this man, then I will do it myself.”). Following MacDonald’s release in

Joe McGinniss. Initially designed to prove MacDonald’s innocence, the book gradually became an accusation. At first, the author was Jeffery’s staunch defender as McGinnis built a staggering file of interviews, letters and tapes — all purportedly demonstrating his “friend’s” innocence. Morris uncovers extensive proof that McGinniss — in order to assure the fact that not only would Fatal Vision prove to be a blockbuster book but would also produce a highly lucrative film contract — decided to change sides. Morris believes McGinnis decided that a book about a murderer would be more successful than a book about a man who had been “rail-roaded.” It was, said Jeffery, “an act of betrayal,” and Errol Morris agrees. Fatal Vision engendered a series of lawsuits and counter suits regarding royalties from the book and the movie.

However, the history of legal misconduct in Jeffery MacDonald’s trials goes much deeper than I have indicated so far. Morris literally lists hundreds of instances that suggest MacDonald did not get a fair trial. Consider the following: • The crime scene’s “integrity” was destroyed during the first few hours of investigation by the military police that moved objects and destroyed evidence such as fingerprints and footprints. MacDonald’s billfold was stolen by an ambulance driver.

• The highly publicized “witness,” Helena Stoeckley, the “hippie A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffery Macdonald in the floppy hat,” was not allowed to

by Earl Morris. The Penguin Press, 2012. 524 pages. testify for months. Although mentally unstable and a drug addict, Helena 1970, Kassab wet on countless talk shows and was intimidated by the prosecution and wrote hundreds of letters to anyone and threatened repeatedly as a murder suspect. everyone who might help him put MacDonald • The presiding Judge Franklin Dupree, a back in prison, included senators, radio and well-known racist, demonstrated an obvious TV personalities, and an extensive network of dislike for MacDonald and his lawyers. He military officers. It finally paid off. repeatedly denied requests to admit testimoPerhaps the greatest blow to MacDonald’s ny that would have suggested that defense was Fatal Vision, the book written by MacDonald was innocent. He was also instru-

Author to speak about citizen empowerment Paul Loeb, a writer who has spent more than 30 years researching citizen responsibility and empowerment, will deliver a lecture at 6 p.m. Oct. 24 in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center at Western Carolina University.

Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen, The Impossible Will Take a Little While and co-author of the essay “My Vote Doesn’t Matter.” In 2008, he created and coordinated the Campus Election Engagement Project, a nonpartisan effort to encourage college and university students to vote and participate in the election. Loeb is running the project again for 2012. laneperry@wcu.edu or 828.227.2643.

Watkins to discuss Goll’s translation Jackson County writer (author of the heralded travel memoir East Toward Dawn) and translator Nan Watkins will be giving a reading and discussion of Yvan Goll’s Dreamweed as part of the “Coffee with the Poet” series at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 18 at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva and 3:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at

mental in suppressing evidence. Since the prosecution controlled access to “stored evidence” and repeatedly denied access to this material, the defense was never able to use the evidence effectively.

• A confession of murder by Helena Stoeckley’s boyfriend was never admitted as evidence.

• MacDonald’s apartment was kept sealed by the military from 1970 until 1984, and the military destroyed all furnishings and personal effects in 1984.

• A phone call, which was made to MacDonald’s apartment during the time that the murders were committed (Helena answered the phone, laughed hysterically and hung up) was later verified by a caller who was trying to locate “a doctor MacDonald.”

The caller, who made a series of calls in an attempt to locate a Dr. MacDonald (not Jeffery), later told of the phone being answered by a woman who laughed and then hung up. This incident could prove MacDonald’s innocence, if the “laughing woman was, indeed, Helena Stoeckley.

This list goes on. Lost records. DNA evidence ignored. Witnesses who saw and heard crucial evidence (and now dead). even a strange message painted on a wall in a drug treatment center by Randy Phillips, Helena’s boyfriend. The message read “I KILLED MACDONALD’S WIFE AND CHILDREN.” A week after the event, someone painted over the wall.

Jeffery MacDonald is now 68 years old. He has been in prison since for 33 years. DNA testing, which is currently pending, could prove his innocence. The testing period is usually two to four months. The DNA samples were submitted four years ago. Most of the significant witnesses, including, Helena, her boyfriend, the Kassabs, Judge Dupree, and the key lawyers in both the defense and the prosecution, are now dead. Could it be that someone still wants Jeffery MacDonald to stay in prison for the rest of his life?

Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

This is Goll’s great last work, masterfully translated and brought to life in modern English by Watkins, who will present a conversation on the art of translation and process of translating. Formatted as a roundtable discussion, this reading/discussion gives the audience a special opportunity to delve into the work along with the translator, considering questions and contemplating this collection of poems. www.CityLightsNC.com.

Adult writing group to meet A creative writing group for adults age 18 and over will be held at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

This group is open to any adult who is interested in creative writing of any kind. Genres will include non-fiction as well as fiction, poetry, plays and just about any other type of writing. All levels of writers are encouraged to attend. The group will meet twice monthly, on Tuesdays, through December. Similar groups for children and teens are also sponsored by the library and meet separately.

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER It was the golden age of camping.

It was absent of Gore-Tex, Smart Wool, Nalgene water bottles or light-weight Titanium cookware. Instead the men and women wore scratchy wool underwear and sharpened their knives around the campfire.

A loose-knit group of historians, naturalists and educators, bound by their love of old-style camping convened to relive those lost methods at the Cradle of Forestry in the Pisgah National Forest last weekend. They call themselves the Acorn group. Because, as Michael Eldridge, put it: “We’re nuts.”

Eldridge was deftly sharpening a collection of knives and axes, which, when paired with a saw, was called the woodsman’s trilogy in the golden age. It’s a far cry from the modern woodsman’s trilogy, which is more along the lines of Budweiser, hot dogs and an air mattress.

Eldridge and his fellow camping re-enactors put themselves on display near the Cradle of Forestry visitor center, where visitors could stop by, ask questions and see the demonstrations.

It was a nod to history, but many in the group also claim to prefer sleeping in a canvas tent and wearing allleather boots and suspenders.

“In the 1960s and 1970s, I squirmed around in a tiny little backpacking tent,” said Steve Watts, one of the group’s organizers, who wandered around camp puffing on a pipe. “And now I just appreciate being able to stand up in my big canvas tent and put my pants on like a human being.”

The event, billed as “Camping in the Old Style,” was put on by re-enactors affiliated with the Traditional Outdoor Skills Program through the Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia. They were true to form — dressed in era garb, crafting hatchet sheaths out of leather and splitting wood in checkered flannel.

“This is called woodcraft,” Watts said. “Not like building bookshelves.”

CAMPING’S GOLDEN ERA short on gadgets, but flush with style Michael Eldredge shows off a hatchet he sharpened at a 1920s camping reenactment in the Pisgah National Forest.

THE RISE OF RECREATIONAL CAMPING

This golden age they speak dates to the late 1800s, in the epoch of industrialization. When America’s largely agrarian society began to flock to cities for paying jobs in the urban factories, many still longed for a taste of the countryside they once knew.

It was at this time that workers in America, now with actual salaries and time off, began camping for leisure. It was a very different kind of camping than the labor-oriented tent villages that sprung up around logging, mining and railroad work sites that defined earlier decades.

The explosion of the Ford Model T propelled the recreational camping movement, giving city folks a means to actually travel to the countryside for short periods of time. It was said that Henry Ford was a recreational camper himself and would give away a grill and charcoal with the purchase of a car to encourage the practice among his customers.

In the 1920s, at the peak of leisure camping, a larger percentage of the country’s population went on camping trips than they do today, according to Watts. He also posed the question: Does what most people consider camping today even qualify?

There are definite similarities between modern-day car camping and the re-enactors set-up, but with a twist.

Today, a neighboring camper may keep you up all night, blaring classic rock tunes on a battery-powered radio. Decades ago, a camper’s arm would get sore turning the crank on the Victrola all night to produce the

suave tune “Old Pal, Why Don’t You Answer Me.” And the needles need to be changed every few songs.

For Jennifer Mancke, the old gramophone at the reenactment is just perfect for a night under the stars.

“I get a signal everywhere I take it. I never lose power; and with just a few cranks I can get people dancing and entertain the whole camp,” Mancke said.

Her other pastimes on display at camp were her journal and drawings — two more examples of forgotten entertainment that take a little bit more engagement than the flip of a television switch or the press of a smart phone button.

Mancke and her husband Tom were staying together on cots in the largest

tent in camp — a double-wide canvas you might call it. (they were the only married couple in the group) — or rather the only ones who could convince their spouse to also attend.

And although the outing is a retreat for the couple from Columbia, S.C., the values spill over into the rest of their lives. Jennifer Mancke teaches at a small, alternative private school and insists her students sharpen their pencils with a knife. She also makes them light candles each morning. She said many children today should be taught the skills children in the 1920s learned.

“Back then kids carried knives and could make fires,” Mancke said. “Now they are all discouraged from being around fire and knives.”

“In the 1960s and 1970s I squirmed around in a tiny little backpacking tent. And now I just appreciate being able to stand up in my big canvas tent and put my pants on like a human being.”

— Steve Watts

Yet, the chamber pot sitting outside the door of the tent and the banner Mancke wore across her chest championing women’s suffrage, acted as reminders of the aspects of antiquity we perhaps should be grateful to have left behind.

But one thing is for certain: building a good campfire is a practiced skill.

Certain types of wood are ideal for a fast boil, while others make excellent coals for baking. Some wood can even be hazardous, popping and spewing sparks when set afire ablaze.

But, for the experienced camp cook, proper food cooked over a fire would make any freeze-dried or dehydrated camp food of today’s lightweight backpacking world look pitiful.

“Food never tasted so good, and you never felt so healthy as cooking over a fire,” camp cook Suzanne Simmons said.

Simmons wasn’t intimidated by a weekend in the 1920s, cooking over the fire. In fact, as an educator at the Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia,

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For you the bells toll

Richard King Mellon Foundation and dozens of other groups, organizations and individuals. But, these 43,000 acres help connect the Mountain Bridge Wilderness to the east and national forest lands to the west creating close to 200,000 acres of contiguous wilderness.

Oconee bells, Shortia galacifolia, a graceful beautiful spring ephemeral has become the floral poster-child of the Gorges. This gorgeous breath of white that graces the “blue wall” of the Blue Ridge Escarpment was lost in Paris for the better part of a century. French botanist Andre Michaux had collected a specimen back in 1788 and placed it in his herbarium in Paris

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where it went unnoticed for 50 years or so until American botanist Asa Gray, nosing through the herbarium discovered the specimen. Botanists searched to no avail, but in 1877, a teenager named George Hyams walked upon a colony of Oconee bells along the Catawba River in North Carolina.

Oconee bells were almost lost again when this rediscovery site was flooded by Duke Energy as they damned the river for electricity production and created Lake Jocassee.

Oconee bells is a biogeographic relic meaning it is part of a once widespread taxa that is now restricted to a small geographic area. The closest relative to Oconee bells is found in China and Japan. Another rare, disjunct species known from Jocassee gorges is Turnbridge film-fern. This fern’s closest relatives are found in the West Indies.

But don’t worry. If you travel to the Gorges and fail to discover either of these rare plants, just sit down at the base of one of the many waterfalls, gaze into the mist and you will realize you are, indeed, in one of the last great places on the planet.

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist.

He can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.)

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Waiting in the ubiquitous checkout line, I spied a National Geographic special publication, “50 of the World’s last great places – Destinations of a Lifetime.” Thumbing through, right between Bialowieza (remnants of ancient European forests on the border of Poland and Belarus) and Canada’s oldest national park, Banff, was our own Jocassee Gorges.

The fecund Gorges, bathed in nearly 100 inches of rainfall annually, extend from Lake Jocassee near where North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia meet, northward and eastward to Caesar’s Head State Park in South Carolina.

The Whitewater, Horsepasture, Estatoe and other rivers plus countless streams, springs and seeps combine to create a magical land of waterfalls, spray communities and nonpareil flora and fauna diversity. There are more than 60 species of rare and/or threatened plant species, some of which are endemic to the Gorges. It is home to black bears, bobcats, whitetail deer, turkey, ruffed grouse, myriad Neotropical migrants and perhaps the greatest salamander diversity in the world.

The name Jocassee is from the Cherokee and supposedly means “Place of the Lost One.” Cherokee lore has it that rival tribes — the “Brown Vipers” and the “Green Birds” inhabited the Gorges and as legends go, a young warrior of the Brown Vipers broke his leg while hunting in the domain of the Green Birds. Jocassee, a Green Bird maiden, came to the warrior’s (Nagoochee) rescue and nursed him back to health. The two subsequently fell in love, but during a battle between the two tribes, Nagoochee was killed. Heartbroken, Jocassee entered the water, but rather than sinking, walked across the surface to be embraced by and disappear with Nagoochee’s ghost.

Almost as diverse as the geology, topography, flora and fauna of Jocassee Gorges are the partnerships and cooperation that went into preserving this incredible wilderness. “The” Gorges themselves comprise about 43,000 acres and were preserved through a partnership with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Duke Energy, the Conservation Fund, the U.S. Forest Service, National Wild Turkey Federation, The Nature Conservancy, the

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A journey through the Smokies’ timber era past Hikers are invited to see the how the changes of time have affected the Great Smoky Mountains National Park during a history-oriented walk at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 20 departing from the Smokemont

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Smokemont was home to a major logging camp and timber operation in the The area was once the site of a major timber operation, logging camp and company town. Park Volunteer Dick Sellers will talk about how it was transformed from a forested haven to a barren wasteland and back again. The hike will begin at the Smokemont Church at and will last for two hours. Smokemont is located on U.S. 441, 3 miles past the Oconaluftee Visitor Center at the N.C. entrance to the park outside Cherokee.

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A 5-mile trail run will be held on the single-track trails of Nantahala Outdoor Center Saturday, Oct. 27.

The Flint Ridge Fall 5-Miler will start at the Flint Ridge trailhead at the top of NOC’s campus in the Nantahala Gorge, traversing approximately 4.75 trail miles and finishing riverside by the Nantahala after a quick downhill. This trail offers great scenic images of the fall foliage in the Nantahala Gorge, with awesome views of the river. The run is part of a larger event at NOC called NOCtoberfest.

The event is sponsored by Salomon and will help support MedicForce, an independent non-profit that utilizes first aid and medical professionals to provide free first aid training and care to remote communities throughout the world.

Late registration will begin at 8 a.m. and the race will start at 9 a.m. www.noc.com.

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The 13-mile Conquer the Mountain Half Marathon will take place on the Little Tennessee Greenway in Franklin Saturday, Nov. 3. The race is a benefit for the Macon County REACH, a domestic violence and rape crisis center headquartered in Franklin. The acronym REACH stands for resources, assistance, counseling, housing.

The race begins at 9 a.m. with race-day registration starting at 8 a.m. Pre-race registration before October 31 is $30 while race-day registration is $40. Awards will be given to top female and male finishers. The first 100 registered participants will receive a t-shirt. www.active.com/running/franklin-nc.

Turkey shoot-out golf tournament The annual Turkey Shoot-Out Golf tournament will be held November 10 and 11 at the Maggie Valley Club. The tournament is a 36-hole three-player team scramble for people feeling cooped up from the cold weather.

Entries must be submitted no later than Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 5 p.m. The field is limited to the first 30 paid teams. The tournament provides a first come, first serve registration. Telephone entries will not be accepted. www.maggievalleyclub.com 828.926.6013.

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The Power of Pink 5K and Memory Walk to raise money for mammograms for underserved women will be held in Haywood County on Saturday, Oct. 27.

The annual race is sponsored by Haywood Regional Medical Center Foundation, in partnership with the Haywood County Health Department and MedWestHaywood.

The 5K race will start from the MedWest Health and Fitness Center and follow a new route on Jones Cove Road, with the walk being held on hospital grounds. Registration begins

at 7:30 a.m. on the day of the event, followed by the walk at 8:45 a.m. and the 5K at 9:30 a.m.

Community sponsors, supporters, and volunteers came together each year to raise funds which help underserved women in Haywood County receive breast care. Since 2007, funds from the event have provided 741 mammograms and follow-up procedures for almost 500 women through the Haywood County Health Department.

Power of Pink is also an awareness event, and sponsors encourage women of all ages to have regular mammograms and breast exams for breast cancer prevention and early detection. According to Jennifer Jacobson, HRMC board member and cochairman of the event, 98 percent of women who suffer from breast cancer survive when the cancer is detected early.

There are five levels of sponsorship for the event. www.medwesthealth.org or 828.452.8343.

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You know, fun for the whole family.

October 17-23, 2012

It’s the Haunted Village in Cherokee, NC. Admission: $10 per person. Not recommended for children under 10.

More than just a lone haunted house, this is an entire Haunted Village. And it’s populated by the same twisted assortment of psychopaths that occupy your nightmares. Navigate the village without becoming a “trophy” or a permanent member of our collection.

Whatever you do, don’t slow down. And don’t look back.

If you survive, try the Mountainside Theater Ghost Walk, too. Tickets are also $10, but combo tickets for the Ghost Walk and Haunted Village are just $18. Special guest Tony Todd, “The Candyman,” will be appearing on Halloween night. Meet and greet from 7PM to 10PM. Visit CherokeeAdventure.com for more info.

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Bears pilfer food Weigh in on from campsites in policies impacting Pisgah National Forest locally-grown food Six bear encounters have been reported in the Pisgah District of the Pisgah National Forest over the past two weeks.

All the incidents involved bears taking food from campsites. While no injuries were reported, visitors’ tents and packs were damaged.

The U.S. Forest Service is encouraging campers and visitors to the national forests in North Carolina to practice black bear safety while visiting. Black bear attacks on people are rare, but such attacks have resulted in human fatalities.

Visitors are strongly encouraged to prevent bear interactions by practicing the following safety tips: do not store food in tents; properly store food by hanging it in a tree or in hard-sided secure container; clean up food or garbage around fire rings, grills or other areas of your campsite; and do not leave food unattended. www.fs.usda.gov/nfsnc.

Farmers are invited to a listening session on regulations that could hamper or help local food production and markets, being held from 4 to 6 p.m., Oct. 22, at Western Carolina University.

The listening session is one of several statewide aimed at creating a list of policies and regulations to address barriers and obstacles to stronger, healthier local food economies.

WNC farmers can meet with experts from North Carolina’s agricultural and regulatory community to share issues, ask questions and advocate for new policies that affect agriculture in the region.

It is sponsored by the Western North Carolina Food Policy Council and the N.C. Sustainable Local Foods Advisory Council.

Held in Blue Ridge Hall conference room A. Space limited, so RSVP is encouraged. emelders@wcu.edu or 828.227.3898.

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Federal court upholds closure of the Tellico trails A federal judge has upheld the U.S. Forest Service and conservation groups’ efforts to close the Tellico Off-Road Vehicle Area to protect brook trout in the Tellico River watershed.

Heavy usage of the Tellico ORV trails system damaged trout habitat in the Nantahala National Forest.

The Forest Service closed it — as required by law — and ORV enthusiasts subsequently sued.

The Southern Environmental Law Center intervened in the lawsuit to defend the Forest Service’s decision on behalf of Trout Unlimited, Wild South and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

The court decision brings to a close a decade-long process that began when Trout

Unlimited and other groups held annual meetings with the Forest Service and ORV enthusiasts about erosion from the Tellico ORV area. When years of discussion failed

to prompt action, conservation groups threatened to sue the Forest Service in 2007 because muddy runoff from the ORV area was devastating one of the last, strongholds for brook trout.

dried cherries and pecans, cooked over the fire with a touch of butter and ginger.

Golden age campers would typically bring Simmons takes herself all the way back to certain staples, but also buy fresh, seasonal the 1700s for most of her re-enactments. products on their trip.

When the filling was ready, she would add an egg, transfer the contents to a Dutch oven placed on the coals, and bake it into a pie.

She called the recipe Kephart’s pie — named after Appalachian legend Horace Kephart — because it uses whatever ingredients are at hand.

However, as the other campers began Jennifer Mancke plays her Victrola at an old time camping eyeing the food in demonstration. Andrew Kasper photo the pot, she said it was a distinct possibility that the meal would never reach “So, here I’m in the new ages,” she pie form. joked.

“We may put it in a pie,” Simmons said, But, the proof is in the pot. Simmons “or just eat it like it is because it’s so darn was busy that evening preparing a seasonal good.” dish of fresh butternut squash, apples,

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Students lend a helping held to bald restoration

Highlands Nature Center will host the Halloween “Enchanted Forest” Nature Trail Oct. 30 for a trick-or-treating experience in nature.

Group tours will leave every 15 minutes from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Visitors should bring a flashlight to go trick-or-treating along the Botanical Garden trails, where they will encounter friendly forest creatures (portrayed by students of the UNC Institute for the Environment) and learn interesting nature facts about each one. The event will be fun and educational for all ages. Cost is only $1 per person. 828.526.2623.

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WCU student have been holding a workday each fall for the past six years to help maintain the trail that extends down the Plott Balsam ridgeline from Waterrock Knob

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dreds of points of interest along the Parkway, historical information, lodging and camping options, major hiking trail descriptions, and visitor services on the Parkway and in nearby communities.

Dozens of adjacent communities are included in this app.

Parkway Superintendent Phil Francis said this technology was developed to address some feedback received by visitors expressing their desires for real time information for navigating through the region.

New mobile technologies provide the perfect solution for meeting these needs.

There is no charge to download the “Blue Ridge Parkway — Travel Planner” and it’s available on both Android and iPhone platforms. www.blueridgeparkway.org/mobileapp.

Lens Luggers of Western North Carolina is hosting an all-day photography outing Oct. 27 to suit even the novice recreationalist.

The group will have photographers to help all levels of skill.

Participants will carpool to photoworthy places and learn how to make eye popping pictures.

The group will be led by award winning photographer Bob Grytten and leave from the Tuckaseege RV Resort along U.S. 74 in Whittier.

The price is $50, which includes a guided instructional shoot in the morning, picnic lunch and afternoon review and critiques. bobgry@aol.com or 828.497.3598.

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Just in time for fall leaf season, a free new mobile app for the Blue Ridge Parkway and surrounding regions has been launched, called the “Blue Ridge Parkway — Travel Planner.”

The app includes GPS mapping capabilities for hun-

to Black Rock, a peak overlooking the town of Sylva. That trail passes across the Yellow Face summit.

828.227.3914 or bates@wcu.edu.

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A group of Western Carolina University students lent a hand to help restore the open balds on the summit of Yellow Face, a peak off the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Plott Balsams.

The once open, grassy summit has become overgrown with trees and vegetation — succumbing to a similar fate as many other balds throughout the Southern Appalachians.

The students, who are studying Natural Resource Conservation and Management, joined an effort led by The Nature Conservancy.

The Yellow Face summit, which rises to 6,032 feet in the vicinity of Waterrock Knob, has now grown up in high-elevation blackberry and fire cherries. The area is part of a 1,595-acre tract purchased by The Nature Conservancy in 1997, protecting views along a two-mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

“The work was focused on reopening the bald and reclaiming that area,” said Megan Sutton, stewardship manager for the Nature Conservancy’s Asheville office. “Our hope is to clear a larger area every year.”

The Nature Conservancy will probably not try to restore the entire bald, but just enough of it to retain the view-shed and to maintain some early successional habitat, she said.

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BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Free 90-minute class on the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint, 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, Jackson County Public Library. Limited to the first 15 people who register by calling the library at 586.2016.

•2012 Economic Forum for Haywood County, 5 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 18, Maggie Valley Club and Resort, 1819 Country Club Drive, Maggie Valley. Seating limited.

456.3006 or info@oldtownbanking.com.

• Free 90-minute computer class: How to Sell on Craigslist.com., 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. Required registration.

586.2016.

• Free 90-minute computer class on building a website using WordPress.com, 5:45 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. Required registration. 586.2016.

• Pharmacy technician course from 6 to 9:30 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 23, and continuing through Thursday, Dec. 13, in Western Carolina University’s Cordelia Camp Building. Cost of the 50-hour program is $999, including materials.

Register at http://learn.wcu.edu and click on Professional Development Programs or call 227.7397.

• Free seminar, Quickbooks for Small Business Training, 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Oct. 23, 30 and Nov. 6, Macon Campus of SCC, Small Business Computer Lab Room 108, Tommy Dennison, 306.7019.

• Free seminar on business lending through the NC Rural Center Microenterprise program, 6 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Student Center at Haywood Community College. Mary Cox, program coordinator for the Microenterprise Loan Program, is the presenter.

Small Business Center, 627.4512.

• Business After Hours Pig Pickin’ for Sylva Chamber members and or perspective members, 5 to 6 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 25, Balsam West FiberNet, 52 Colonial Square, Sylva, 586.2155, www.mountainlovers.com.

COMMUNITY & EVENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS • Morning Star Community Cemetery Association, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, fellowship hall of the Morning Star United Methodist Church, 2535 Dutch Cove Road, Canton. Clarence Burrell, 648.2988 • Mountain Credit Union Member Appreciation Day barbecue lunch, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, at each of its seven branch locations – Cherokee, Franklin, Sylva, Waynesville, Asheville, Candler and Fletcher.

• Barn Dance to raise money for REACH, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 20, private barn in Camp Branch area, Waynesville. Tickets $75 and include a BBQ dinner, music by The Stuart Brothers, caller Barbara Groh, dancing and a live auction. Tickets available at REACH office, 1085 N. Main St., Waynesville. Directions to barn will be given at time of purchase.

• Maggie Valley Women’s Club bake sale, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 21, at Haywood County band concert, at the Pavilion in Maggie Valley. All bake sale profits to The Wounded Warrior Program. Marian Hamel, 926.8974.

• Conflict Mediation events, Tuesday, Oct. 23 and Wednesday, Oct. 24, in Sylva and at WCU to raise awareness of conflict mediation as an alternative to litigation and to settle personal disputes. For details, call Jayne Zanglein, 227.7191 or send an email towcucampusmediation@hotmail.com.

• Paul Loeb, a writer who has spent more than 30 years researching citizen responsibility and empowerment, will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, in the theater

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted. of the A.K. Hinds University Center at Western Carolina University. Lane Perry, at laneperry@wcu.edu or 227.2643.

• Actor Chaske Spencer (Sam Uley, leader of the Wolf Pack in the Twilight saga movies “New Moon” and “Eclipse”) will speak from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Chief Joyce Dugan Cultural Arts Center, 86 Elk Crossing Lane, off Big Cove Road, Cherokee.

Autograph session to follow. $11, available in advance online at www.visitcherokeenc.com and at the door.

• The Sylva Rotary Club bi-annual Pancake Breakfast, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 26, First United Methodist Church, downtown Sylva. Proceeds to local Neighbors in Need and the international Polio Plus program. $5 donation, but no tickets are needed to attend the event. All you can eat pancakes, sausage, and hot and cold beverages. Take out for businesses available. www.sylvarotaryclub.org.

• Art After Aftermath, Elin O’Hara Slavick, distinguished professor of art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, room 130 of the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, Western Carolina University. Slavick, primarily a photographer, will discuss her art and her curatorial activities. Free.

• Free Hunter Safety courses, 6 to 9:30 p.m. Nov. 5-7, in rooms 309 and 310 on the Haywood Community College. Must attend three consecutive evenings to receive certification. No age limits. Pre-registration is required. Course registration may be completed at www.ncwildlife.org.

• Members of the Silas McDowell Chapter, North Carolina Society of Sons of the American Revolution, are collecting items for homeless veterans in the region. Items may be dropped in the box at the Sylva Wal-Mart or the Highlands Chamber of Commerce through Oct. 31. Don Connelly 507.2351 or Tom Long 557.0162.

• Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation Adoptions, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays, new adoption center at the Waynesville Industrial Park, off Old Asheville Highway.

Pet photos available online at www.sargeandfriends.org or www.petfinder.com or 246.9050.

• P.A.W.S. Adoption Days first Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the front lawn at Charleston Station, Bryson City.

• Coats for Kids of Jackson County is accepting donations of good condition used and new children’s clothing and items (tops, pants, dresses, sweaters, shoes, coats, hats, gloves). Drop off locations include Cullowhee United Methodist Church and Sylva WalMart.

BLOOD DRIVES Jackson • American Red Cross St Mary’s Catholic Church Blood Drive, 1:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22, 22 Bartlett St., Sylva. Tony Tiller, 586.9496.

Haywood • American Red Cross MedWest Haywood Blood Drive, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, 75 Leroy George Road, Clyde. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a $1,000 gift card. Kathy Keogh, 452.8089 .

• American Red Cross Haywood County Clerk of Court Blood Drive, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, 285 N. Main St., Waynesville. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a $1,000 gift card. Melissa, 454.6342.

• American Red Cross Hazelwood Elementary School Blood Drive, 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1111 Plott Creek Road, Hazelwood. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a $1,000 gift card. 456.2406.

• American Red Cross Haywood Community College Blood Drive, 12:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, 185 Freedlander Drive, Clyde. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a $1,000 gift card. Angie Uhl-kalev, 627.4504.

HEALTH MATTERS • Bootiful Babies Benefit, 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, Smoky Mountain OB/GYN, 64 Eastgate Drive, Sylva.

Music, games, family activities. Proceeds and donations to fund the new Family Birth Center.

• Free Lunch and Learn session Pain to Performance with orthopedic surgeon Gerald King, MD from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Monday, Oct.22, MedWest Health & Fitness Center on the MedWest-Haywood campus in Clyde.

Advance reservations required, 631.8893 or e-mail medwest@westcare.org.

• MedWest-Harris Rehabilitation Services will host free neck screenings from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18; and knee screenings from 11 a.m. to noon, Friday, Oct. 26, all at MedWest-Harris Rehabilitation Services in Sylva.

586.7235.

• Flu shots, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, Home Care service building on the Haywood MedWest campus. No appointment necessary. The Home Care building is located directly behind MedWest-Haywood. $20. Home Care will accept traditional Medicare and will file the insurance for the beneficiary. Vaccines available for everyone over 18 years of age. 452.8292.

RECREATION & FITNESS • Youth and adult swim classes, Oct. 22-24 and 29-31, Western Carolina University. Youth classes, 6:25 to 7:15 p.m. and adult classes, 7:25 to 8:15 p.m. $59. http://learn.wcu.edu or call 227.7397.

• The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department is hiring basketball officials for upcoming adult basketball season. Games played 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Monday and Thursday nights. Must be at least 18 years of age. Previous experience desirable.

Must pass a written and/or oral exam on the rules of basketball. 456.2030 or email recathletics@townofwaynesville.org.

• Smoky Mountain Sk8way is looking for a naming rights partner to rename the soon-to-be expanded Smoky Mountain Sk8way Sports and Entertainment Arena in exchange for revenue to help expand.

Proposals deadline Oct. 31. JoLynn Bryant, 246.9124, or email info@SmokyMountainSk8way.com.

• The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department has hired tennis pro Bunnie Allare to teach new lessons and programs at Recreation Park in Waynesville. For rates, program information or to sign up for lessons go to bunnieallare@gmail.com, text 513.608.9621, recathletics@townofwaynesville.org or 456.2030.

• Aqua fitness class, 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday until Thursday, Dec. 6, in the Reid Gymnasium pool, Western Carolina University. Registration is ongoing. 227.7397 or go online to http://learn.wcu.edu and click on Conferences and Community Classes.

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 fintness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings

THE SPIRITUAL SIDE • Family bonfire, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, Rehoboth Baptist Church, 205 West Brook Drive, Waynesville. Hot dogs, s’mores, hayrides, music and door prizes. www.rehobothnc.org.

• Dale Allen Hoffman, leading authority on the direct, practical application of the ancient Aramaic teachings of Jesus, 10:30 a.m. guided meditation; 11 a.m. service, Sunday, Oct. 21, The Creative Thought Center, 449-D Pigeon St., Waynesville. Love offering. Rev. Frank Kish, 256.2794.

• Western North Carolina Encouragement Jubilee, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21-24, Beall Auditorium at Haywood Community College in Clyde. Gospel music and speakers. 454.5933.

• Join Moms in Prayer at 9 a.m. Friday mornings at 160 Main St., in the Community Room at Blue Mountain Studios in Bryson City to pray for children and their schools. Open to all moms who have a burden for their children and schools. 736.0857.

• Four Winds Daoist Center in Whittier holds meditation sessions on various days. 40 minutes meditation followed by a brief Daoist reading and discussion of that reading. Free. 788.6730 or fourwindsdaoism@yahoo.com.

• The Sylvan Hearth Pagan Temple welcomes fellow pagans who are seeking community to join in celebrating the Sabbats. 331.8688 or liannacostantino@yahoo.com.

• A prayer shawl ministry meets at 6 p.m. every other Friday at High Street Baptist Church, Canton. Shawls are made as donations for those who need encouragement and to share the word of God. Members will teach those who want to learn. 648.5830.

• A prayer walking group meets at 6 a.m. Wednesdays in Canton. Group prayer during warm up then walk at your own pace. Meet at the big parking lot in front of the Sandwich Shop on Park Street. zekencintia@gmail.com.

• An interdenominational bible study group for women meets at 11:30 a.m. every Tuesday at First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. Childcare provided by reservation. 452.1124 or 508.8649.

• The Creative Thought Center of Waynesville offers a combination of a half hour Chakra Balancing meditation followed by an hour of Oneness Blessing, also known as Deeksha on Mondays at 5:30 p.m. and Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. at the Center. Love offering.

456.9697 or waynesvillectc@aol.com.

• Ladies Bible Fellowship meets at 1 p.m. Monday in the fellowship hall of the Cashiers United Methodist Church on Hwy. 107 South. Interdenominational Bible study. 743.9337.

• Missionary Circle #1 at Liberty Baptist Church meets at 7:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at the church. 226.4526.

• The Lakeview Church of the Nazarene holds Caravan at 6 p.m. on Saturdays. The kids club is dedicated to

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the physical, social, mental and spiritual growth of children. 926.9210.

• Unitarian Universalist of Franklin is sponsoring Wednesday night study sessions called Wednesday Night Chautauquas on the third week of each month.

An optional $5 soup supper starts at 5:30 p.m.

Discussions begin at 6:30 p.m. 524.6777

KIDS & FAMILIES • Celebrate Teen Read Week Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. Meet at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in the library auditorium to plan the upcoming Haunted Clockwork Carnival.

• Duck-Duck-Goose children’s consignment sale, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Oct. 18-20 and Oct. 22; former Dalton’s Christian Bookstore/Sports Zone building , 331 Walnut St., Waynesville. www.dkdkgoose.com.

• New Kindermusik Baby Classes called Cock-a-Doodle Moo for children newborn to 18 months, weekly in Cullowhee, Waynesville and Cashiers. Day and evening times available. 293.5600 or www.themusicvillagenc.com.

• Claymates Pottery will host kids night from 6 to 8 p.m. the first Friday of every month. Create art, eat pizza and play games. 631.3133.

• The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department offers after school opportunities for kids from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. Free to members or $12 per student per week for nonmembers.

Registration required. 456.2030 or youthprogramsupervisor@townofwaynesville.org.

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• The Macon County Public Library family story times, 10 a.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays; 7 p.m. Wednesdays.

Kids are invited to wear PJs and bring stuffed animals during the Wednesday evening programs. Home School Book Talk is held from 1 to 2 p.m. on Wednesdays.

524.3600.

• Love and Logic is a seven-week class for parents with children of any age. The class topics include discipline, bickering and fighting, power struggles, how to have fun and feel relaxed as a parent, plus any topics that parents bring. Amber Clayton, program coordinator, 586.2845 ext. 25.

• Young Warrior Jiu Jitsu Classes, 5 to 5:45 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays at Basulto Academy of Defense in Waynesville. Classes are open to boys and girls ages 6 and older. 230.5056 or BasultoBJJ@yahoo.com.

• Avril Bowens presents “perfect pushing class” for moms-to-be. 342.8128 or www.healyourdiastasis.com

and younger, 10:30 a.m., Mondays, Blue Ridge Books, Waynesville.

Square, Waynesville. 452.9607 or www.haywooddemocrats.org

Food & Drink

• The Jackson County Democratic Party meets the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at Democratic Headquarters, 500 Mill St., Sylva. Brian McMahan, 508.1466.

• Bryson City Chili Cook-off, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 20, Bryson City Train Depot. $5, for samples. 488.3681, 800.867.9246, or email chamber@greatsmokies.com.

POLITICAL GROUP EVENTS & LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• Children’s Story time: L is for Leaf, 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 19, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva.

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• A debate between Republican Mark Meadows and Democrat Hayden Rogers will be held at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 23, in the theater on the third floor of the A.K. Hinds University Center. The candidates are running for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District seat. Debate hosted by Western Carolina University’s Department of Political Science and Public Affairs and the Public Policy Institute, and moderated by Russ Bowen of WLOS TV. Seating is limited. Reserve a seat by sending an email to the Public Policy Institute at ppi@email.wcu.edu by 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22. Limit of two tickets per request.

• Children’s Story time with Miss Sally: The Statue of Liberty, 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. 586.2016.

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• Youth Writing Group: Write On! (ages 8-12). 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, Jackson County Public Library.

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• Haywood County Democratic Executive Committee meeting, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22, Democratic Headquarters, 286 Haywood Square, Waynesville.

452.9607 or visit haywooddemocrats.org.

Literary • Children’s Story time: We all FALL Down! 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 17, Jackson County Public Library.

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• Family Night: Paws to Read, 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, 586.2016.

• Children’s Story time with the Rotary Readers: Boo!, 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 22, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, 586.2016.

• Children’s Story time: Jack-o-lanterns, 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 24, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva 586.2016.

• Book Babies, story time for children four years old

• Haywood County Democratic Party Headquarters at 286 Haywood Square, Waynesville, is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. 452.9607 or www.haywooddemocrats.org.

• The Haywood County Democratic Executive Committee meets at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Monday of each month at Democratic Headquarters, 286 Haywood

• Jackson County Democratic Party executive committee members meet at 6:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at Democratic Headquarters, 500 Mill St., Sylva. 631.1475 or jacksondems.com.

• Jackson County Democratic Women meet at 6 p.m. the third Thursday of every month at Democratic Headquarters 500 Mill St., Sylva. 631.1475 or jacksondems.com.

GOP • The North Jackson County GOP monthly meetings are held at 6:30 p.m., the fourth Monday of each month, at the Sylva headquarters, 58 D Sunrise Park, a retail complex located opposite the intersection of Highway 107 and the Asheville Highway behind Rite-Aid Drugstore. Ralph Slaughter, Jackson County GOP Chair at 743.6491 or www.jacksoncountygop.com.

• The South Jackson County GOP monthly meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month at the GOP headquarters office at Laurel Terrace on N.C. 64 east in Cashiers. Ralph Slaughter, Jackson County GOP Chair at 743.6491 or www.jacksoncountygop.com.

• The Haywood Republicans meet at 6:30 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at the GOP headquarters.

246.7921. www.haywoodncgop.org.

• Republican NC House candidate Mike Clampitt will host Mornings with Mike from 7 to 8 a.m. every Tuesday morning at the NC Victory Office, 58 D Sunrise Park Road, Sylva. Coffee and donuts provided. 421.4945 or email morningswithmike@yahoo.com.

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• The Haywood Republicans meet at 6:30 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at GOP headquarters, 303 N. Haywood St., Waynesville. 246.7921. www.haywoodncgop.org.

• Haywood Tea Party will watch and discuss 2016 Obama’s America, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.17, Haywood County Cooperative Extension, 589 Raccoon Road, Waynesville. the912er@gmail.com or visit www.912wnc.com.

• Occupy/WNC General Assembly meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday in room 220 of the Jackson County Administration and Justice Center in Sylva. 538.1644.

• The Jackson County Patriots will expand their meeting schedule for the remaining weeks before the Nov. 6 election. Meetings at 6 p.m. Oct. 18 and Nov. 1, at Ryan¹s Steak House in Sylva. The Patriots will offer voter guides, and intensive information and get-outthe-vote efforts throughout the county. Bill Adams at UBSRUB@aol.com or Ginny Jahrmarkt at Box547@aol.com.

• A TEA Party group meets at 2 p.m. the third Saturday of each month at the 441 Diner in Otto.

Mountainpatriotsteaparty.info.

• The League of Women Voters meets at noon the second Thursday of each month at Tartan Hall in Franklin.

Lunch available by reservation. Open to all. $6 for food.

524.5192.

A&E FESTIVALS, SPECIAL & SEASONAL EVENTS

• Harvest Festival, 8 a.m. Oct. 19-21, Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center on the grounds of the historic Stecoah School. 5K, food, crafts, live music and more.

479.3364 or Stecoahvalleycenter.com.

• 20th annual Smoky Mountain Fall Art & Craft Fest, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 19-20, and Oct. 26-27, Macon County Fair Grounds, Franklin. 371.0595 or lkeneipp@earthlink.net.

• 24th annual Haywood County Apple Harvest Festival, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 20, historic downtown Waynesville. 456.3021 or visit HaywoodAppleFest.com.

• North Hominy Apple Festival, 7 a.m. until close, Saturday, Oct. 20, North Hominy Community Center, Newfound Road, Canton. Apple pies, butter and jellies, and craft vendors. Country breakfast, $7 per person.

• West Canton Baptist Church fall festival and craft fair, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at 75 Lowe St. in Canton. Food, music, children’s activities and a craft fair featuring 4-in-1 dresses, jewelry and other handmade items. Fundraiser for a new church building.

648.5561.

• Cherokee Heritage Festival, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 20, Cherokee Homestead Exhibit, next to the Clay County Historical & Arts Museum, Hayesville.

• 23rd annual Leaf Lookers Gemboree, Oct. 26-28,

• Waynesville Christmas Parade, 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3, in downtown Waynesville. The theme is “Dreaming of a White Christmas” and all entries must use lights to participate in this evening event. 456.3517.

• The Liars Bench presents Appalachian Spook Tales, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center. Special guest storyteller Dot Jackson, a co-founder of the Birchwood Center for Arts and Folklife in Sunset, S.C. 227.7129.

• Western Carolina University’s 12th annual Tournament of Champions, starts 8 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 20, E.J. Whitmire Stadium, Western Carolina University. More than 20 high school marching bands from four states compete. $10, preliminary competition. $8, finals if purchased in advance or at the gate before 4 p.m., $10 after 4 p.m. Children under 12 free. www.prideofthemountains.com, 227.2259.

• Swain County Center for the Arts is the site for a Brazilian Martial arts dance group at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23. The Swain County Center for the Arts is located in Swain County High school. 488.7843 or www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta.

• Bryson City Ghost Walk, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through October. One hour tour of downtown.

Hear legends and ghost stories and the results of paranormal investigations. Meet at The Storytelling Center, 225-C Everett St., Bryson City. $10 adults, $5 students. Reservations. 704.213.4232 or boo@brysoncityghosttour.com, www.brysoncityghosttour.com.

• Nov. 1 is the deadline to apply for the Regional Artist Project grant of Western North Carolina (RAP go WNC) for 2012-2013. RAP go WNC provides financial support to developing arts professionals. Mail applications and appropriate documentation material to RAP go WNC, PO Box 2212, Cullowhee NC 28723. For application and guidelines visit www.haywoodarts.org.

• Applications for new grants from the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership are due by Dec. 14; funding will be announced in April, 2013. Grants are available for the preservation, interpretation, development, and promotion of heritage resources in agricultural heritage, Cherokee heritage, craft heritage, music heritage and natural heritage Applicants must provide at least a one-to-one match. Further details http://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/tools/ or www.blueridgeheritage.com.

• Charlotte resident and author Judy Goldman will read from and discuss her new memoir, Losing My Sister, 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, City Lights Bookstore.

• Live music, 7 p.m. Oct. 19, Liz and AJ Nance; Oct. 26, Whimsik; Oct. 27, Thea and the Green Man; and Nov. 24, The Freestylers, all at City Lights Café in Sylva.

• Creative writing group for adults age 18 and over, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. Ben Woody, 586.2016.

• Dismembered Tennesseans, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, Harvest Festival, Stecoah Valley Center. $15, adults; $5, students K-12. 479.3364 or order online at stecoahvalleycenter.com.

• Writer Faith Hunter will discuss her work at 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 24, at Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. 456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

• Johnnie Sue Meyers, author of The Gathering Place: Traditional Cherokee Dishes and Southern Appalachian Cooking, 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. 456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

• Eric S. Brown, author of Boggy Creek: The Legend is True, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St. Waynesville. Brown is nationally known for zombie novels and horror fiction. 456.6000 and www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

• Kiwanis Club of Waynesville Spelling Bee Friday, Nov. 2, at First United Methodist Church, Waynesville. 5:30 p.m. box dinner, 7 p.m. bee starts. Sponsorships and funds assist children of Haywood County with their educational, medical, nourishment and clothing needs.

Marti Peithman at 926.3678 or email at martipeithman@aol.com or call George Dixon at 452.3573 or email at is4twon8@netscape.net.

HALLOWEEN EVENTS • Halloween program, 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, Marianna Black Library auditorium, Bryson City. 4883030.

• Family Night Costume Character Ball, 6 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 25, Jackson County Public Library. Come dressed as favorite story character. Snacks, crafts and activities. 586.2016.

• The Oak Ridge Boys, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. Tickets start at $33 each. www.GreatMountainMusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• Live music at the Pourover Pub at Nantahala Outdoor Center in the Nantahala Gorge: Oct. 20 – Freight Hoppers, featuring old-time string band; Oct. 26 – Lumbar 5, featuring soul fusion; and Oct. 27 – Natti Love Joys, reggae, ska.

• The Haywood Community Band will play its final free concert of the Maggie Valley Concert Series at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, at the Maggie Valley Town Hall Pavilion, Soco Road.

• Free guest artist recital featuring saxophonist Allison Dromgold Adams with pianist Liz Ames, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 23, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University. WCU School of Music, 227.7242.

• Voices in the Laurel’s Music of the Night concert, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, First Baptist Church, Waynesville. $15, online at www.voicesinthelaurel.org or call 335.2849.

• Sylva Halloween Egg Haunt, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, Mark Watson Park. Costume contest, www.jacksonnc.org/parks- and-recreation. 293.3053.

• Cherokee After Dark, Saturday, Oct. 27, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, Cherokee, featuring celebrity DJs, Go-Go dancers and multiple bars. Headlining the event is Hip Hop superstar and producer Lil Jon. For a complete schedule, visit http://www.liljononline.com.

• Cullowhee Pumpkin Patch Trail, 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, Recreation Park in Cullowhee. $1 donation recommended, for ages 3 and up. Glow-in-the-dark necklaces will be for sale, $2. Concessions. www.jacksonnc.org/ parks-and-recreation.

• Western Carolina University’s original radio broadcast adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel “Dracula” will air at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, on WWNCAM/570. It is also is available for streaming online at www.wwnc.com

•Trick-or-treat at shops in downtown Highlands, starting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31.

• Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker, 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, Cherokee. Tickets available at www.ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • The Essence Lounge at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino has the following entertainment: 8 p.m. to midnight, Oct. 18 – karaoke; 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Oct. 19 – Michelle Lee, DJ Moto; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 – Big & Rich, 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. – My Highway, DJ Suave; 8 p.m. to midnight, Oct. 25 – karaoke; 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Oct. 26 – Taylor Moore, DJ Dizzy; 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Cherokee After Dark II, Ft. Lil Jon (DJ Set).

• Author Emily Cooper will discuss her book, Queen of the Lost, a fictionalized account of former First Lady of South Carolina Lucy Pickens, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. 586.2016.

• The Overlook Theatre Company will present “Smoke on the Mountain: A Rip-Roaring Musical Comedy Revival” at 7:30 p.m. Oct., 19 and 23, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. $15 for adults and $10 for students. For tickets, go to www.GreatMountainMusic.com or to the theatre’s box office, 1028 Georgia Road, Franklin. 866.273.4615.

• Nan Watkins, translator of Dreamweed: Posthumous Poems by Goll Yvan, Coffee with the Poet, 10:30 a.m.

Thursday, Oct. 18, City Lights Books, Sylva, and at Meet the Author, 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main. St., Waynesville. 456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com. This is the first English translation of the last poems of Yvan Goll, one of the twentieth century’s finest European poets.

• HART Theatre presents “The Light in the Piazza” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19-20, and at 3 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Performing Arts Center at the Shelton House, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. Tickets are $24 for adults, $22 for seniors, $10 for students, and special $6 discount tickets for students for Sunday matinees. Box Office hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 456.6322 or www.harttheatre.com for reservations.

LITERARY

• The Grammy Award winning Nashville Bluegrass Band, 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Highlands Performing Arts Center. NBB lead singer Pat Enright became one of the voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys, the fictional old-time trio in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? Tickets are $25 and are available online at www.highlandspac.org or by calling 526.9047.

• Scotty McCreery show, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center. Open to all ages. www.ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000.

• Styx, 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, 777 Casino Drive Cherokee. www.ticketmaster.com.

• The hour-long radio show Stories of Mountain Folk airs at 9 a.m. every Saturday on its home station, WRGC Jackson County Radio, 540 AM on the dial, broadcasting out of Sylva. Stories of Mountain Folk is an ongoing all-sound oral history program produced by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia (CSA), a western North Carolina not-for-profit, for local radio and online distribution.

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• 16th annual PumpkinFest, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, downtown Franklin. Pumpkin roll 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., screaming contest, costume parade, pumpkin pie, live music and more. www.pumpinfestfranklin.com or call Linda Schlott, 524.2516.

• Canton Papertown Christmas Craft Fair is now seeking vendors for the event to be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1. Booth fees are $25 and $45.

648.0101 or www.mdcairnes@att.net.

• Smoky Mountain Community Theatre presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19-22. Box Office opens at 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $8 for adults and $5 for children. 488.8227.

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• Great Smoky Mountains Railroad presents the Great Pumpkin Patch Express, 19-21 and 26-28 at Bryson City Depot. Friday departures at 3 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday departures at 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Adult tickets $53; children ages 24 months to 12 years old are 12 are $31, under 23 months are free.

800.872.4681 or visit www.GSMR.com.

• Entry forms are now available for the 2012 Franklin Christmas Parade set for 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25. Entry forms can be picked up at the Chamber office at 425 Porter St. or downloaded online from www.franklinchamber.com. Entry fees are $25 for all entries.

524.3161.

• Introduction to Cherokee Language, one-day class, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, Western Carolina University’s Cordelia Camp Building. $59, includes lunch. http://learn.wcu.edu or call 227.7397.

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Macon County Community Building just south of Franklin, off U.S. Highway 441. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Features gem and mineral dealers from across the country.

Admission, $2 for 12 and older; under 12 free.

524.3161 or toll free at 800.336.7829.

ART/GALLERY EVENTS & OPENINGS • Western North Carolina Pottery Festival , 1 to 5 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 2, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, Dillsboro. Admission is $3 per person, with children under the age of 12 free. 631.5100, or visit www.wncpotteryfestival.com.

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CLASSES, PROGRAMS & DEMONSTRATIONS • “From the Hands of our Elders: Cherokee Traditions” 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, Jackson Public Library, Sylva, with Cherokee basket artist Betty Maney and WCU crafts scholar Anna Fariello. Held in conjunction with Journey Stories, part of Museum on Main Street and a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the North Carolina Humanities Council. 586.2016, library. Journey Stories project or the exhibition, 227.7129, • North Carolina Glass 2012: In Celebration of 50 Years of Studio Glass in America, exhibit, Sunday, Oct. 28, through Friday, Feb. 1, Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University. Reception, 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28, with Fritz Dreisbach and Joan Falconer Byrd. Glass blowing demonstrations, 10 a.m. to noon and 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, at the Jackson County Green Energy Park, Dillsboro.

FILM & SCREEN • The Groovy Movie Club will show the film The Hunger Games at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, at Buffy Queen’s house in Dellwood. Mostly organic potluck dinner, 6:15.

926.3508 or 454.5949 to make reservations/get directions or e-mailjohnbuckleyX@gmail.com

• Free movie night, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. A 2011 horror movie about a rustic cabin. Call for title. 586.2016.

• Free movie, 3:30 p.m. Oct. 23, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City

DANCE • Ballroom Dance class, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, Angies’s Dance Academy, 115 Glance St., Clyde. Smart casual dress, free refreshments. Admission $10.

734.8063 or 734.8726.

MUSIC JAMS Haywood County • Music Jam every Thursday night from 6 to 8 p.m. at Frog Level Brewery on Commerce St.in Waynesville.

First and third Thursday are mostly Celtic; second and fourth are mostly Old Time; fifth Thursday anything goes. All acoustic instruments are welcome.

Newcomers welcome. Contact besscrider@gmail.com or aviancm@gmail.com.

• Live music on the patio from 6 to 10 p.m. every Friday at the Tiki House Seafood & Oyster Bar in Maggie Valley. Karaoke continues from 10 p.m. to close. Saturdays feature live bands and a dance floor from 9:30 p.m. to close, and Dave plays saxophone on the patio Sunday afternoons.

Parkway, Asheville, Registration required. 687.0918 or www.rei.com/event/45304/session/58956.

• Garmin GPS Basics, 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, REI Asheville, 31 Schenck Parkway, Asheville, Registration required. $30 REI members/$50 nonmembers, 687.0918 required. Register at www.rei.com/event/45454/session/59144.

Outdoors OUTINGS, HIKES & FIELDTRIPS • Classic Hike of the Smokies, Thursday, Oct. 18, Caldwell Fork Loop. $35 donation to Friends’ Smokies Trails Forever program, includes complimentary membership to Friends of the Smokies. Current Friends of the Smokies members hike for$10. Hikers who bring a friend hike for free. “Classic Hikes of the Smokies” occur monthly on the third Thursday. To register, contact keith@friendsof thesmokies.org or call 452.0720. www.friendsofthesmokies.org.

• Join Parkway rangers at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 19, for an easy to moderate 2-mile roundtrip hike on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. Start at the Chestnut Cove Overlook, milepost 398.3. Bring water, wear good walking shoes, and be prepared for changeable weather. 298.5330, ext. 304, for details.

• Guided Bradleytown Hike, 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with volunteer historian Dick Sellers. Begin at Smokemont Church, Newfound Gap Road (U.S. 441), three miles north of the Oconaluftee Visitor Center and five miles north of Cherokee. Details, call Oconaluftee Visitor Center, 497.1904.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • The Carroll Bryson/Meals on Wheels Golf Tournament, Friday, Oct. 26, Waynesville Country Club.

PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS

• The Legend of Tommy Hodges, 6:30 p.m., 7:45 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19 and Saturday, Oct.20, Cradle of Forestry, Pisgah National Forest. A guide will lead the audience around the paved Biltmore Campus Trail at the Cradle of Forestry to find out what happened that night. Dress warmly, wear comfortable walking shoes and bring a flashlight. $6 for ages 16 and up, $3 for youth 15 and under and holders of America the Beautiful and Golden Age Passports. 877.3130 if severe weather. www.cradleofforestry.org.

• Fall Photo Extravaganza, Oct. 20-21, with Bob Grytten. Meet at 6:30 a.m. at Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center, 70 Soco Road, Maggie Valley to carpool to Cataloochee Valley. All camera levels and experience welcome. For details and to register, contact Bob Grytten by e-mail at bobgry@aol.com or 627.0245 Space is limited. $75 per day or $125 for both.

• Mountain Color photography workshop with Bob Grytten, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27. All levels and cameras are welcome. Bring laptop computer or iPad if you have one, $49. Register at 497.3598. Meet at Tuckaseege RV Resort, US 74, Wittier, NC. Details, 627.0245 or e-mail: bobgry@aol.com.

• Map and Compass Navigation Basics, 6 to 8 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 22, REI Asheville, 31 Schenck Parkway, Asheville, Registration required. $30 REI members/$50 non-member. 687.0918 or www.rei.com/event/43656/session/59204.

• Wilderness Safety Presentation, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, REI Asheville, 31 Schenck Parkway, Asheville, Registration required. 687.0918 or www.rei.com/event/45249/session/58939.

• Be Bear Aware Presentation, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 24, REI Asheville, 31 Schenck

• The Cherokee Runners meets each month on the 1st and 15th of the month (if the first falls on Sunday, the group meets on the 2nd), at the Age Link Conference Room. Anyone, no matter the fitness level, is welcome to join. Group runs are being held each Tuesday and Thursday at 6 p.m. starting at the Flame. www.cherokeerunners.com.

• 6th annual Power of Pink 5K and Memory Walk, Saturday, Oct. 27, MedWest-Haywood Health and Fitness Center. Registration, 7:30 a.m.; walk, 8:45 a.m.; 5K, 9:30 a.m. Also register online at www.medwesthealth.org. www.medwesthealth.org, 452.8343 or email Marge.Stiles@haymed.org.

• Small RV Camping club is seeking additional members. We camp one weekend per month March through November. All ages are welcome. No dues, no structured activities. Just an enjoyment of the outdoors, fellowship, good conversation, pot luck dinners and a roaring campfire. Contact Lillian for more details lilnau@aol.com or 369.6669.

• Third annual Bogey Fore the Volunteer Center Golf Tournament, 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, Waynesville Inn and Golf Resort. Benefit for the Haywood Jackson Volunteer Center. Fee is $160 for a two man team with captain’s choice. John, Haywood Jackson Volunteer Center, 356.2833.

• Mountain Wild, the local chapter of the N.C. Wildlife Federation works to preserve and increase wildlife and wildlife habitat of the region. Free programs and guest speakers held periodically at the WNC Nature Center in Asheville. 338.0035.

• Registration open for Conquer The Mountain Half Marathon, Saturday, Nov. 3, Little Tennessee Greenway, Franklin. 8 a.m. race day registration. Entry Fee: individual, $30 before Oct. 31; $40 race day. Long sleeve race T-shirts to the first 100 registered racers. Register at www.active.com • A weekly bike ride in Bryson City meets at 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the Tsali Recreation Area trailhead.

Bryson City Bicycles. 488.1988.

FARM & GARDEN • Hiking Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy’s New Trails and Protected Lands Presentation, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 17, REI Asheville, 31 Schenck Parkway, Asheville, Registration required. 687.0918. www.rei.com/event/45501/session/59213.

ONGOING CLUBS • The Cherokee Riders, a new cycling club in Cherokee, seeks members for weekly group rides. Hugh Lambert 554.6810 or hughlamb@nc-cherokee.com.

• The Ikenobo Ikebana Society, Blue Ridge Chapter, will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, Parish Hall of St. John in the Wilderness Church, 1905 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock.

• The North Carolina Local Sustainable Food Advisory Council will meet with farmers, growers and economic developers for a listening session from 4 to 6 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 22, in the Blue Ridge Conference Room on the campus of Western Carolina University. Emily Elders, emelders@wcu.edu or 227.3898.

HIKING CLUBS • Carolina Mountain Club hosts more than 150 hikes a year, including options for full days on weekends, full days on Wednesdays and half days on Sundays. Nonmembers contact event leaders. www.carolinamountainclub.org

• Free Fly Fishing Classes are offered at River’s Edge Outfitters in Cherokee every week. Participants of all ages and skill levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Classes will be approximately an hour and half long. Rivers Edge Outfitters at 497.9300.

• The Jackson-Swain Master Gardeners’ Association meets at 9:30 a.m. every second Wednesday at the Jackson Community Services Building on Scotts Creek Road in Sylva. Mike Glover at 736.2768 or lmgofish@gmail.com.

• The WNC chapter of the Sierra Club meets the first Wednesday of the month at the Unitarian Church, 1 Edwin Place in Asheville. The meetings start with a half hour social gathering at 7 p.m. nc.sierraclub.org/wenoca.

• Pigeon Valley Bassmasters Club of Canton, 7 p.m., second Monday of each month at Shoney’s Restaurant off of Exit 44. 712.2846.

• WNC Sportman’s Club’s Archery and Youth Airgun Shoots, first and second Saturdays of each month.

316.1588.

• The Diamond Brand Running Group will meet Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Each running group member is given a Running Group Rewards Card for the chance to receive great discounts and free products at Diamond Brand and registration is free. For more information, contact Sarah at smerrell@diamondbrand.com.

• Group Trail Running begins at 6 p.m. every Thursday.

Start at the lobby of the YMCA in Asheville. All levels welcome. 277.5151.

• High Country Hikers, based in Hendersonville, plans hikes Mondays and Thursdays weekly. Participants should bring a travel donation and gear mentioned on their website: main.nc.us/highcountryhikers. 808.2165

• Macon County Horse Association meets at 7:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at the Macon County Fairgrounds Alumni Building. Education program and business meeting. ddoster@fs.fed.us.

• Nantahala Hiking Club based in Macon County holds weekly Saturday hikes in the Nantahala National Forest and beyond. www.nantahalahikingclub.org

• The Macon County Beekeepers Association meets at 7 p.m. the first Thursday of each month at the extension office located on Thomas Heights Road next to Jim Brown Chrysler on Highlands Road. New members welcome.

• Mountain High Hikers, based in Young Harris, Ga., leads several hikes per week. Guests should contact hike leader. www.mountainhighhikers.org.

• Smoky Mountain Hiking Club, located in East Tennessee, makes weekly hikes in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park as well as surrounding areas. www.smhclub.org.

• Benton MacKaye Trail Association incorporates outings for hikes, trail maintenance and other work trips.

No experience is necessary to participate. www.bmta.org.

• Diamond Brand’s Women’s Hiking Group meets on the third Saturday of every month. For more information, e-mail awilliams@diamondbrand.com or call 684.6262.

• Haywood Bee Keepers Association meets at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at the NC Ag center on Raccoon Road. hcbees.org.

• The Franklin Walking Club meets at 10 a.m. every Saturday (weather permitting) at the Tassee picnic shelter on the Greenway at the corner of Wells Grove Road and Ulco Drive. All fitness levels. Linda, 421.7613.

• Haywood Alliance, a local chapter of the WNC Alliance, meets at various locations each month. Get involved with protecting Haywood County’s environment, scenery and farmland from development, and encouraging politicians to take steps. Contact jeswan@gmail.com.

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• Charlie’s Beach Party, DJ, dancing and fun, 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 27, at Main Street Perks, 26 N. Main St., Waynesville. 456.8488.

• Music jam, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, Marianna Black Library auditorium, downtown Bryson City. Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle or dulcimer welcome. 488.3030.

October 17-23, 2012

• Western Carolina University Sociology Club’s A New Lens Film Series will continue at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, with a screening of “The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships” in room 130 of Bardo Arts Center. The film examines the role commercial pornography occupies in U.S. popular culture.

Marilyn Chamberlin, associate professor of sociology, atmchamber@wcu.edu or 227.3839.

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• The Waynesville Public Art Commission seeks an artist for its fourth outdoor public art project to be located in the Mini Park at the corner of Main and Depot Streets. The theme of the piece is Wildflowers of the Smokies to honor the historic connection between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Town of Waynesville. The selected artist will receive $12,500 for proposal development, fabrication and installation. www.townofwaynesville.org or call Town of Waynesville at 452.2491.

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704.791.8825. ncaf5479.

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ANTIQUE AUCTION SATURDAY AT 5:00pm Oak & walnut tables, 1800’s tall clock, sleigh bed, rock maple dresser, Larkin secretary, English oak server, oak desk/bookcase, stained glass, armoire, hall seat with storage, gingerbread clock, grandfather clock, walnut rocker, cut crystal, Murano, GE large capacity washer & dryer, china cabinet, oriental chest - seats Imari, cloisonne, oriental rug figurines and high end oriental pieces, tilt top table, ornate mirrors, selection of Victorian furniture coming in today. Preview at: www.ReminisceAntiques.com Reminisce Auction, Franklin, NC. 828.369.6999 Ron Raccioppi NCAL# 7866 $$$ WE WILL AUCTION $$$ Your Guns, Gold, Silver, Coins, Antiques, Estate or any Quality items for you. Reminisce Auction 828.369.6999.

PUBLIC AUCTION Friday, October 19 at 10am. 8421 Norcross Road, Colfax, NC. Selling 1999 Sterling Road Tractor, 1998 Drop Trailer, 953 Cat, 14 Trucks & Vans, Tools & other Equipment from Plumbing Company. www.ClassicAuctions.com.

704.791.8825. NCAF5479 ABSOLUTE REAL ESTATE AUCTION 14 Commercial & Residential Land Tracts, Yadkinville, NC, October 26th at 11am, Auction at Days Inn Yadkinville, NC, Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc. 800.997.2248.

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BUILDING MATERIALS HAYWOOD BUILDERS Garage Doors, New Installations Service & Repairs, 828.456.6051 100 Charles St. Waynesville Employee Owned.

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Licensed/Insured. 828.631.0747 or 828.508.0316 SULLIVAN HARDWOOD FLOORS Installation- Finish - Refinish 828.399.1847.

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DRIVERS NC TO MIDWEST CDL-A w/ 4yrs experience. Up to 0.41/mile & benefits. $1500 Signon Bonus. Advance Dist.

877.992.9079, ext. 200 or apply online www.advancedtw.com DRIVERS- CDL-A Experience Pays! Up to $5,000 Sign-On Bonus! Tuition reimbursement up to $6,000. New student pay AND lease program. Call or Apply Online! 877.521.5775. www.usatruck.jobs

GYPSUM EXPRESS Class A CDL Flatbed Drivers. Road & Regional Positions. Call Melissa, 866.317.6556, x6 or apply at www.gypsumexpress.com MEDICAL CAREERS BEGIN HERE Train ONLINE for Allied Health and Medical Management. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Financial Aid if qualified.

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POSITION IS IN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT. PROPERTY MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE HELPFUL. WILL CONSIDER RECENT COLLEGE GRAD WITHOUT EXPERIENCE. WILL BE SHOWING PROPERTIES, COLLECTING PAYMENTS, WRITING CONTRACTS.

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EMPLOYMENT NURSERY CARE GIVER At Grace Church in the Mountains, Waynesville. For Sunday Services 10:00 - 11:30. Candidates will undergo background check, interview and diocesan training. Pay range $12.00 - $15.00 per hour, depending on experience. Contact Church office 828.456.6029.

OTR/CDL CLASS A DRIVERS Singles, Teams, Owner Ops. Multiple Locations at Ryder Facilities in NC and SC. USA/Canada routes.

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TRUCK DRIVER/OTR $1000 Sign-On Bonus!! Competitive pay & home time, safety bonus paid quarterly, vacation & benefits. Family Environment. Applicant must possess CDL Class A. Contact Corney Transportation.

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EMPLOYMENT PART-TIME TEMPORARY CLERICAL POSITION Candidate must have High School Diploma/GED, be computer literate and have good accounting skills. Flexible work schedule 20 hours or less per week. Pre-employment drug testing required.

Applications will be taken at Mountain Projects, Inc, 2251 Old Balsam Rd, Waynesville, or 25 Schulman Street, Sylva. EOE/AA. REACH CLASSIFIED READERS Across the state or across the country with just one call! NCPS offers placement on classified and display ad networks. Affordable rates, extensive reach! For more information, call 919.789.2083 or visit www.ncpsads.com.

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Christmas Carol - A gorgeous purebred seal point Ragdoll. She's about 3 years old, a little shy at first, but quite affectionate once she's comfortable. CC's adoption fee is $100.

Dexter - The sweetest little Pom mix. He is very petite, quiet, loving and affectionate.

You don't want to miss this one -- Dexter is a wonderful little companion!

EMPLOYMENT THE SMOKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Is a looking for a part-time graphic designer to work in our Waynesville office.

Primary responsibilities would be designing advertising for a weekly newspaper as well as regional magazine-type products. Must be comfortable working in a Mac environment, and proficient with Quark XPress and Adobe Creative Suite. Also includes some office duties. Flexible but regular work schedule.

Contact: micah@smokymountainnews.com

TANKER & FLATBED Independent Contractors! Immediate placement available. Best Opportunities in the trucking business. CALL TODAY 800.277.0212 or www.primeinc.com FTCC Fayetteville Technical Community College is now accepting applications for the following positions: Part-time Developmental Mathematics Instructor. Part-time Developmental English Instructor. Open until Filled. An FTCC application, cover letter, resume, and copies of college transcripts, must be received in the Human Resources Office by 4 p.m. on the closing date to be considered. For further information and application, please visit our website.

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Fax: 910.678.0029. Internet: http://www.faytechcc.edu.

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PETS HAYWOOD SPAY/NEUTER 828.452.1329

COMPARE QUALITY & PRICE Shop Tupelo’s, 828.926.8778.

HAYWOOD BEDDING, INC. The best bedding at the best price!

533 Hazelwood Ave. Waynesville 828.456.4240 WHITE PINE FURNITURE LUMBER 4 - 2x6 - 14ft., 6 - 5/4 x 16 inches x 15ft. In storage for 12 years $190. For more info call 828.627.2342

LAWN & GARDEN HEMLOCK HEALERS, INC. Dedicated to Saving Our Hemlocks. Owner/Operator Frank Varvoutis, NC Pesticide Applicator’s License #22864. 48 Spruce St. Maggie Valley, NC 828.734.7819 828.926.7883, Email: hemlockhealers@yahoo.com MANTIS DELUXE TILLER. NEW! FastStart engine. Ships FREE.OneYear Money-Back Guarantee when you buy DIRECT. Call for the DVD and FREE Good Soil book!

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Prevent Unwanted Litters And Improve The Health Of Your Pet Low-Cost spay and neuter services Hours: Monday-Thursday, 12 Noon - 5pm 145 Wall Street

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Pet Adoption Shepherd mix. She is black and tan, weighs 40 lbs., is pretty and super sweet. She adores children and other animals. Up-to-date on shots, spayed, housebroken, electric fence trained, and she loves to play fetch. She has a lot of puppy energy so she needs a good sized yard to run in. She would do better with bigger children due to her size and energy. Call 828.508.5533.

BABY DOG - A near, purebred, Doberman. She is 2-3 years old, and weighs 49 lbs. She is spayed, up-to-date on shots, and needs lots of exercise. It is not known if she is housebroken because she stays outside during the day but is crated inside at night. She is good with kids and other dogs. She is very protective of her home and foster family. She is somewhat skiddish with men. Call 828.506.2660.

GABBY - Is a beautiful, female, Lab mix. She is four months old, happy, energetic, but is recovering from a bad chemical burn on her back. She will need a forever home as soon as she is released from her vet. She may

have a scar, but that's all. Call 828.293.5629.

NATE - is a super-nice, red Heeler (purebred) who is a bit larger than average for his breed (40-50 lbs). He gets along with everyone in his foster home, even cats, and is incredibly easy going, playful, and friendly. We had a hard time giving him his shots because he only wanted to roll over and get his belly rubbed. Nate is three years old and has never lived in a house before, but is already adapting well to being inside at his foster home. He would make a great running partner. Call 1-877ARF-JCNC. FIFI - Is a white, senior, female Poodle. She is fairly reserved, but friendly and interested in her surroundings. She weighs 15 lbs. She has plenty of life in her and would be a calm, gentle companion for the right indoor home. She will need regular grooming. Call 1-877-ARFJCNC.

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86 - Lankan 22 River of Hesse 87 Acacia’s kin 23 Composer of the 94 Spring zodiac sign opera “Prince Igor” 97 Onyx or opal 25 Hightail it 98 Certain fishing pot 26 “Z” actress Papas 99 “Yummy” pair 27 Musical reworking: 100 Locale of the Abbr.

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58 Last British letter 59 Clothing lines 63 “Well, - -di-dah!”

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George Ellison

BACK THEN Farmers used to call the bird “throat-cut” because of this vivid somewhat irregular marking.

There’s no mistaking the male redbreasted; and while his mate is less grandly marked —having brown upperparts with a striped crown and streaky underparts — she, too, has the same bustling vitality and mannerisms. There’s a certain sturdy dignity and forcefulness about this species.

They always seem to be going about their business in a workmanlike, cheerful manner.

During fall migration these birds can been seen at the lowest elevations. Females are often accompanied by both immature females and males. Sometimes, as is the instance this fall, there are mixed flocks of both males and females.

Grosbeaks rarely sing during migration.

But their call note is a very metallic “chink – chink – chink.”

George Ellison wrote the biographical introductions for the reissues of two Appalachian classics: Horace Kephart’s Our Southern Highlanders and James Mooney’s History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees.

In June 2005, a selection of his Back Then columns was published by The History Press in Charleston as Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains. Readers can contact him at P.O. Box 1262, Bryson City, N.C., 28713, or at info@georgeellison.com.

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igrating rose-breasted grosbeaks have been appearing at feeders throughout the Smokies region in recent weeks.

Those birds that migrate hundreds of miles across the Gulf of Mexico from Central and South America to nest in the United States and Canada are known as the neotropical migrants. Each spring a number of these migrants breed here in the mountains of Western North Carolina. No other bird in our avifauna is more striking in appearance.

To get to know the rose-breasted grosbeak during the breeding season, you’ll have to visit Columnist the higher elevations where — from late April into May — they locate their nests at between 3,200 and 5,000 feet. When the female is on the nest, the male will often perch nearby and sing.

Roger Tory Peterson describes the rosebreasted’s voice: “Song, rising and falling passages; resembles robin’s song, but mellower, given with more feeling (as if a robin has taken voice lessons).”

Adult males in breeding plumage have shiny black heads and throats and boldly patterned black-and-white wings, while the underparts are white. But what’ll catch your eye is the triangular carmine-red breast.

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ost women know that midwives help women deliver babies, but not everyone knows that midwives deliver many other women’s healthcare services as well.

Anne Karner, CNM has a new baby of her own and is especially interested in being with women as they transition through motherhood. She provides prenatal care, labor and birth support, and postpartum care, including breastfeeding support and contraception. Anne is available for annual exams and well woman care as well as for management of a wide variety of gynecologic needs.

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Cindy Noland, CNM considers contraception counseling an important part of her work. “Family planning and contraception are a huge part of a woman’s daily life. Many of us spend the majority of our lives trying NOT to get pregnant.” Cindy enjoys helping women choose the best birth control option for their lives, whether it be pills, rings, IUDs, or the new Implanon implant.

Betsy Swift, CNM, enjoys all aspects of women’s healthcare, from the first pelvic exam through menopause. “I like the first pelvic exam because it sets the stage for a positive attitude towards self-care… and it doesn’t have to be traumatic!” Betsy considers it a privilege to be a partner in a woman’s healthcare during the most significant times of her life- adolescence, pregnancy, birth and menopause.

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