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Sylva election results up in the air Provisional ballots will decide outcome

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he General Election has been over for a week, but in Sylva the results won’t be certain until provisional ballots are counted on Friday, Nov. 15.

Three seats on the Sylva Board of Commissioners were up for election this year, and while incumbent David Nestler was farand-away the top vote-getter with 155 votes, any of three candidates could end up occupying the two other seats.

“I was surprised. I thought all the candidates were really good choices,” Nestler said of the results. “I think what weighed heaviest was the (N.C. 107) road project obviously, and I think I gave people confidence that the town was willing to work with our business owners and DOT on the compromise. I had already worked with some businesses on 107 to solve some issues, so I think that helped a lot.

Overall, there were a lot of good choices on there. I had trouble deciding who to vote for.”

According to unofficial totals, incumbent Greg McPherson came in second place with 110 votes, and challengers Carrie McBane and Ben Guiney tied for third with 106 votes.

But with nine provisional ballots in play, those rankings are far from solid.

“I had a great time doing it and felt really good about the votes I got,” said Guiney. “I felt like they were all from me talking to people or putting up signs.”

McBane said she was pleasantly surprised by her high rank in the election results.

“I really did my best to connect with the community, so even though I was kind of surprised that I tied, I felt like that’s kind of the place that I should have ended up in,” she said.

Provisional ballots are offered to voters when there is a question about the voter’s eligibility to vote. In these cases, citizens are allowed to cast a ballot that is held aside until research can be conducted to resolve the issue. Findings are presented to members of the county’s board of elections. The Jackson County Board of Elections will meet at 11

These preliminary results do not include provisional ballots, which have the potential to change the rankings in the Sylva election. The Jackson County Board of Elections will certify final results on Friday, Nov. 15.

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Jackson County municipal election unofficial results

Write-ins decide Forest Hills election Write-in candidates overwhelmed the ballot in the Village of Forest Hills, receiving 72.38 percent of votes cast.

Two council seats were up for election this year, and the only people to file were incumbent Jonathan Brooks and political newcomer Timothy Eckard. However, Eckard drew only 26 votes in the General Election, with Brooks earning 24. a.m. Nov. 15 to vote on provisional ballots and certify election results.

If there is still a tie after provisional ballots are accounted for, the winner will be decided with a coin toss. McBane said she takes issue with that approach.

“Because 107 is the biggest divisive issue so far among Sylva, I think that’s a very unfair way to possibly decide people’s livelihoods,” she said. “To me, it’s just not a respectful way to view that, and no matter what happens people will be impacted by the decision that we make. To me what’s appropriate is a runoff.”

State election law directs boards of elections to decide tied votes by lot — meaning, by some random method such as a coin toss or drawing straws. Some municipalities do use runoffs as part of their typical election method, but that is not how Sylva is set up.

And even for cities using the election and runoff election method, second runoffs are not allowed — in the event of a tie in the runoff

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Meanwhile, write-in candidates Nilofer Couture and Marcia Almond received 61 votes and 56 votes, respectively, making them the top vote-getters.

In the mayor’s race, James Wallace, the sole candidate on the ballot, received 83.16 percent of the vote, with the 13 write-in votes cast in that race comprising the remaining 16.84 percent.

The results represent a significant uptick in participation from the 2015 election, when only 26 people voted. This year, that number nearly quadrupled to 96. election, winners are to be decided by lot.

Deciding an election with a coin toss is not unheard of in Sylva. In 2015, McPherson earned his seat after winning a coin toss against candidate Charlie Schmidt, with whom he’d tied for third with 112 votes. Eight provisional ballots were cast in that election, with four approved as part of the final vote count.

This year’s ballot featured a similar number of candidates to 2015 — six candidates this year as opposed to five candidates then — but a pair of last-minute write-in campaigns impacted the vote totals as well.

Natalie Newman registered as a write-in candidate on Oct. 16, and Charlie Beam did the same on Oct. 18. Both hinged their decision to enter the race on opposition to the N.C. 107 project.

Of the six candidates who registered during the filing period, McBane was the only one to express blanket opposition to the plan as proposed. Neither Newman nor Beam drew enough votes to rank high in the totals

Sylva council member (three seats) • David Nestler, 155 votes (22.4 percent) • Greg McPherson, 110 (15.9) • Benjamin Guiney, 106 (15.32) • Carrie McBane, 106 (15.32) • Luther Jones, 70 (10.12) • Danny Allen, 65 (9.39) • Natalie Newman (write-in), 40 (5.78) • Charlie Beam (write-in), 35 (5.06) • Other write-in, 5 (0.72) Village of Forest Hills mayor (one seat) • James Wallace, 79 (83.16) • Write-in, 13 (16.84) Village of Forest Hills council member (two seats) • Nilofer Couture (write-in), 61 (33.7) • Marcia Almond (write-in), 56 (30.94) • Timothy Eckard, 26 (14.36) • Jonathan Brooks, 24 (13.26) • Other write-in, 14 (7.73) Webster commissioner (two seats) • Kelly Donaldson, 21 (58.33) • L. Allen Davis, 15 (41.67)

— 40 people voted for Newman and 35 for Beam — but their entrance in the race may have siphoned votes that would have otherwise gone to different candidates.

The N.C. 107 project was a pivotal issue for many voters, but the high attendance to town and community meetings the project has spurred over the past year did not translate to the polls. Only 257 of Sylva’s 1,521 registered voters cast ballots this year — a turnout rate of 16.8 percent — compared to 283 ballots cast in the 2015 town election.

Sylva-specific turnout numbers are not available for 2015, but countywide turnout that year was 16.57 percent.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR The town of Bryson City didn’t have any contested races this year, which means no big surprises on election night.

Mayor Tom Sutton claimed a third term in office with only 69 votes.

Incumbent Alderman Heidi RamseyWoodard ran unopposed for a second term and received 67 votes and newcomer Chad Smith will join the board with 68 votes.

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Mayor (Two-year term) • Bob Scott..........................322 ...59.63% • Barbara McRae ................213 ...39.44%

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Town Council (Four-year terms) • Mike Lewis........................301 ...20.48% • Joe Collins ........................300 ...20.41% • Jack Horton.......................284 ...19.32% • Brandon McMahan...........258 ...17.55% • Peter Mosco......................155 ...10.54% • T.J. Wright..........................69 .....4.69% • Daniel Coates....................54 .....3.67% • Kevin Klatt.........................44 .....2.99% Town Council (Two-year unexpired term) • Dinah Roper Mashburn ....413 ...95.82% • Write-In (Miscellaneous)...18 .....4.18% That’s about a 24 percent turnout, but it represents a 50 percent increase in voter turnout over the last municipal election. In 2017, Franklin’s turnout was only about 12 percent.

In 2015, voter turnout was at 16 percent.

Scott said he thinks it might be the largest municipal election turnout Franklin has had in a very long time. He attributes the increase to a couple of factors — the controversial Nikwasi Mound deed transfer issue and the large list of candidates. Scott and McRae found themselves at odds over the Nikwasi Mound vote with McRae wanting to transfer the deed to Nikwasi Initiative and Scott opposed. He said he’s ready to put the issue behind them and go back to their cooperative and collaborative relationship on the board.

“I’m hoping the board will make Barbara vice mayor again — she’s got a lot of good ideas and I hate that we got crossed over the mound,” Scott said. “I have the greatest respect for her and I’m looking forward to serving with her again. for re-election this year.

Voter turnout was pretty abysmal at 7.6 percent with no contested races, but that hasn’t always been the case in Bryson City.

Voter turnout during the 2017 election was 23 percent with five candidates running for two seats on the board. In 2015, turnout was at 22 percent with six candidates running for two seats on the board.

While there were a few controversial issues facing downtown businesses during those election years, the board and the community have made a lot of progress — the local tourism economy has been booming and the town board has been focused on improving its streets and water and sewer infrastructure.

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Franklin municipal election results

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR he town of Franklin will keep its incumbent mayor while welcoming two new faces to the town board.

Bob Scott will serve a fourth term as mayor after receiving about 60 percent of the vote. His challenger, current Town Council Member Barbara McRae, only garnered 213 votes to Scott’s 322, but she will be able to keep her seat on the board until her term expires next year.

The Town Council had a total of four seats open — three were for four-year terms while the fourth was for a Bob Scott two-year unexpired term left vacant by the passing of Councilmember Billy Mashburn in 2017.

Political newcomer Mike Lewis was the top vote-getter with 301 votes and incumbent Joe Collins was one vote behind with 300 votes. Jack Horton, who has served as county manager for both Macon and Haywood counties before retiring, was the third-highest vote-getter with 284 votes. All three men will serve a four-year term on the board.

A surprise to many was that incumbent Town Councilmember Brandon McMahan came in fourth with 258 votes, losing his seat. McMahan, 33 at the time, was the top vote-getter in the 2015 election with 230 votes and represented a younger voice in town politics. The elementary school teacher was disappointed by the loss but said he did plan to run again in the future.

Dinah Mashburn was the only candidate running for the two-year unexpired term left open by the death of her husband. Dinah was appointed to the seat by the board at the beginning of 2018, but had to run for the seat to keep it for another two years.

Only 873 out of 3,579 registered voters in Franklin voted during the municipal election.

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Waynesville mayor, board reshuffled

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER n Election Day, Waynesville voters could have chosen to send almost every single incumbent back to their seats, but when the new board is sworn in on Dec. 10, only two of the five will return to their previous positions.

“I’m very, very excited,” said Alderman Gary Caldwell, the only incumbent not seeking re-election to their seat. Caldwell instead ran for mayor against longtime incumbent Gavin Brown, and defeated him handily.

“I felt good about myself all along, and that’s not like bragging or nothing like that,” Caldwell said. “I didn’t have no idea I’d win by that margin. I thought it’d be a little closer than that, but I was really pleased.”

Caldwell took 57 percent of the vote against Brown, alongside whom he’s served for decades now, and admits replacing the professorial Brown will be no easy task.

“I’ll never say I could fill the shoes of an attorney. I mean, he’s awesome,” Caldwell said of Brown. “He’s got a photographic memory, and sometimes it made my day when he would ask me, ‘Gary, didn’t we do this years ago?’ I think both of us carry the past, and that helps when you move forward.”

Moving forward for Caldwell includes helping to school two brand new board members.

“We’ve got an excellent board coming back and I think it’s just a good selection of different ideas from each person,” he said.

“It’s going to be awesome, you know, with the new guys, Anthony Sutton and his Biltmore Farms experience, and then Chuck Dickson.”

With more than 1,300 votes, local attorney Chuck Dickson led the ticket; although considered a viable candidate with a good chance of victory prior to the election, many were shocked to see how well he actually performed at the polls.

“It’s hard to say exactly why the voters voted the way they did,” Dickson said. “But I think a large part of it was that I got out and talked to, and mainly listened to, citizens from all over the town. I think I probably traveled to every street in town and I knocked on over a thousand doors.”

Dickson said he learned “an awful lot” about Waynesville, and the extensive groundwork prepared him to represent citizens from diverse geographic and philosophical backgrounds.

“I just feel like he’s been there,” Caldwell said. “He’ll fit in probably quicker than maybe Anthony Sutton, because he has all that knowledge from being Maggie Valley’s town attorney and from being Clyde’s town attorney.”

Sutton’s no slouch, though — he’s spent several years on the town’s planning board and as such is familiar with how municipal boards operate, and with the issues facing the one he’s just been elected to.

“I think we’ve already started,” Sutton said. “We’re already starting to receive communications from the town, so I believe that

The new board will definitely skew younger than the previous board, a doubleedged sword — losing Brown and Alderman LeRoy Roberson, who finished last, means decades of institutional knowledge will also vanish from the board.

Retired DEA Agent Joey Reece finished just one vote ahead of Roberson, even though both pulled strong totals that would have kept them in the hunt for a seat in the 2015 election.

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hen asked about his first priority once he’s sworn in, mayor-elect Caldwell had an immediate answer.

“That’s easy,” he said. “I want to start a task force.”

The issue of homelessness has gained increasing prominence in Waynesville of late, especially in the Frog Level district, home to soup kitchen The Open Door. In the weeks before the election, homelessness emerged as probably the number one issue in the minds of many voters, especially after local businessman Clark Williams called for a community forum to address the problem.

All six aldermanic candidates were in attendance at Williams’ forum, as were both mayoral candidates, all of whom told a packed house their impression of the problem, and their ideas on solving it. Caldwell wants to continue the momentum from that forum.

“I’ve already spoken with [retired Waynesville Police Chief] Bill Hollingsed, and also I’ve talked to Sheriff [Greg] Christopher already and told him what I was doing,” he said.

Waynesville’s Assistant Town Manager Amie Owens will likely be tasked with filling the rest of the task force, according to Caldwell, who wasn’t yet sure if the task force would be Waynesville-only, or a countywide effort.

“I’d like to pull some folks from the soup kitchen, and from Long’s Chapel, and from Pathways, but honestly, I think the problem is in Waynesville,” he said. “I really do. It seems like everything is right here.”

Sutton supports the idea, but wants what he calls a task/action force to be as broadly constituted as possible.

“Homelessness doesn’t stop at the city limits,” said Sutton. “I definitely think that we should be countywide, and then we should also work with other homeless shelters and other task forces in the area, because I believe it is a county and a regional issue.

Having it that way, you can get the best practices from other regions and areas to bring into Waynesville. Also, I would love it if Joey Reece was a part of that.”

Reece, a public safety-minded candidate, saw his “tough on crime” message gain a lot of traction during the election.

Dickson, too, seems to be on the same page as Caldwell and Sutton with the task force idea.

“It needs to be made up of all the stakeholders,” Dickson said. “Certainly, the people who are now helping homeless folks need to

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we’ll be able to hit the ground running, right away.”

In 2015 Sutton ran for alderman but finished a disappointing sixth of seven with 590 votes, but this time around, he almost doubled that total.

“Anthony, all I see in him is a big ol’ heart,” Caldwell said. “I saw it when we had that forum down in Frog Level, that brought it out of him, and he just exploded down there. I think he means really, really well for the citizens of Waynesville. And that’s key, bringing that to the table.”

Joining Sutton and Dickson on the board and Caldwell in his new position are two familiar faces; returning for her third term will be Alderman Julia Boyd Freeman, and for his second term, Alderman Jon Feichter.

Feichter finished just behind Dickson, and was followed by Freeman.

“John and Julia, they’re tops,” said Caldwell. “I am so happy for Julia because I feel like it’s great to have a woman on the board, and both of them are younger and they’re really energetic.”

Election 2019 results Waynesville mayor, 2019 • Gary Caldwell .................1,067..57.86% • Gavin A. Brown ................743 ...40.29% • Write-In (Miscellaneous)...34......1.84% • Total:...............................1,844 Waynesville alderman, 2019 • Clarence (Chuck) Dickson..1,364..20.86% • Jon Feichter ....................1,261..19.29% • Julia Boyd Freeman ........1,030..15.75% • Anthony Sutton.................999 ...15.28% • Joel K. Reece ....................930 ...14.22% • LeRoy S. Roberson............929 ...14.21% • Total:...............................6,513 ••• Waynesville mayor, 2015 • Gavin A. Brown...............1,394..82.24% • Jonnie Maree Cure............216 ...12.74% • Lynn Bradley......................79......4.66% • Total:...............................1,689 Waynesville alderman, 2015 • Gary Caldwell .................1,161..19.01% • Jon Feichter ....................1,030..16.87% • LeRoy S. Roberson ..........1,026..16.80% • Julia Boyd Freeman..........997 ...16.33% • Kenny Mull .......................879 ...14.39% • Anthony Sutton.................590.....9.66% • Phillip Gibbs ....................417.....6.83% • Total:...............................6,100

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The district attorney’s office. Law enforcement of course needs to be a big part of it, and hopefully the new [Waynesville Police Department] chief will, when they are selected, be a big part of that.”

But Caldwell also wants regular citizens to be involved, to give the task force more credibility in the minds of residents — something Dickson also supports.

“We should ask for volunteers,” Dickson said. “It would be really great to get a healthy sample of the entire community, certainly some of the folks in Frog Level who indicated an interest in working on this problem. I think that there are plenty of people that would like to do something. We just need to be engaged and make it possible for as many people as possible to participate in this. This task force needs to be almost a multidisciplinary unit. You know, everybody needs to be at the table. So I’m really glad to hear that Gary wants to do that. I think that’s a great idea.”

Other priorities expressed by Caldwell include moving along on a proposed park off Craven Street, in Waynesville’s historically African-American district, and communicating better with resi-

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Mike,” Tammy said of her and her husband’s preference for Eveland. “I’ve worked with Mike on the Tourism Development Authority board, so, we have a good rapport and I’m looking forward to working with him.”

She credits Eveland’s accessibility as one of the major reasons he was elected.

“I think Mike is just very well perceived,” she said. “He talks to a lot of people in the community. I know it was a good race between the two of them, and I think he’ll do a great job.”

Eveland’s victory means he won’t be able to finish his aldermanic term, so the board will soon begin accepting applications and evenTammy Wight tually appoint someone to fill the last two years of his term.

“That is something that I think that as a board we need to discuss, but I definitely want someone who loves Maggie Valley as much as we do and and wants the best for the Valley and looks out for the residents and the businesses alike,” said Wight.

Banks told The Smoky Mountain News Oct. 30 that if she lost, she wouldn’t apply for the vacant board seat, and instead hoped to head up the 50th birthday party for the town, which was incorporated in 1974.

Once that’s settled, Wight said she’s eager to get to work on what was not only a major campaign issue but a longstanding community debate over traffic calming measures proposed for Maggie Valley’s main thoroughfare.

“Probably the first thing I would like to tackle and see something get done would be Highway 19,” she said. “The pedestrian crossings are a huge issue for our community and I would like to see that taken care of.”

The new mayor and board will be sworn in on Monday, Dec. 2 at 6 p.m. at Town Hall, but before that happens, Wight wants voters to know that she appreciates their trust.

“I would like to just Philip Wight say that it has been a great honor to be trusted to serve the public,” said Wight. “Going into this, I know there were a few people who had some concerns and I just want them to know that I am mindful of the trust that has been bestowed upon me and I just really want the public to know that I’m gonna strive to make Maggie Valley the best place that I can to live, work, visit and raise a family. I’d like to say thank you to the voters for the opportunity to serve and I look forward to serving along with our new mayor and the other board members.”

Mayor Gavin Brown (right) joins other Waynesville candidates at a forum Oct. 29 in Frog Level. Jessi Stone photo said of the search process that will identify suitable candidates to fill the substantial shoes left empty by now-retired Chief Hollingsed. “I haven’t been questioning [Town Manager] Rob [Hites] too much about that, because I don’t want to think him to think that I’m stepping on his toes. Honestly, that’s his job to find someone.”

A search firm contracted by the town earlier this year will help narrow that field, with candidates eventually being put before the town board for final approval. Whoever ends up with the job, they’ll end up in the middle of the fight over the town’s homeless population — and in the middle of Caldwell’s task force — pretty quickly.

“There’s no way I would try to leave out the new chief,” he said. “They will definitely need to get their feet wet on that issue.”

••• Maggie Valley mayor, 2015 • Saralyn Price (Write-In)....233 ...67.73% • Justin Phillips ...................84.....24.42% • Jasay (Jessie) Ketchum .....27......7.85% • Total: ................................344 Maggie Valley alderman, 2017 • Mike Eveland....................125 ...40.06% • Clayton Davis...................111 ...35.58% • Jasay (Jessie) Ketchum .....28......8.97% • Allen Alsbrooks..................23......7.37% • Brooke H. Powell ...............23......7.37% • Write-In (Miscellaneous)....2.......0.64% • Total: ................................312

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These children are picked from each school in the county with assistance from social workers and then cross referenced by law enforcement to ensure that children are not on multiple lists around the county. Stop by Ameriprise Financial office at 1200 S. Main Street in Waynesville to donate toys and toiletries or call 828.452.0494 and ask what items

are needed for the children that Cops and Kids is sponsoring this year. Checks are payable to NCFOP Lodge 16 and put Cops and Kids in the memo field. Cash donations can be made directly at the Haywood County Sheriff ’s Department located at 1620 Brown Ave. in Waynesville.

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dents who want to know what’s happening in town government, and when projects like Craven Street will begin and end.

“Showing citizens that you’re actually going to do something, and that it’s not getting swept under the rug — I see that so much, and I feel that part of my leadership is to make these things happen,” he said.

“We’ve been getting hammered on when we’re going to do this and when we’re going to do that, and it just frustrates me that sometimes we don’t have an answer.”

With plans for replacing the town’s aging sewer plant well underway, there’s really just one more unresolved issue from Alderman Caldwell’s current board that will need to be addressed by Mayor Caldwell’s soon-to-be board.

“They should be down to five,” Caldwell

Martin M. Sohovich, financial advisor with Ameriprise Financial, will once again be helping children in Haywood County at Christmas time.

For 13 years, he has been involved with Toys for Tots of Western North Carolina and/or Cops and Kids of Haywood County.

Over the last eight years more effort has focused on the Cops and Kids program because Sohovich saw an increased need to the children in the county.

Cops will shop with a less fortunate child in Haywood County at Wal-Mart and clothe each child from head to toe. The children also get an opportunity to pick out a Christmas gift while shopping.

“My role has been to help with additional toys, clothes and badly needed toiletries for the children that Cops and Kids sponsor each year. This year the Cops and Kids program is sponsoring 60 children,” he said. “I love the Cops and Kids program because it helps break the stereotype that our law enforcement officers are ‘the bad guys’ in the eyes of some of these children.”

Maggie Valley alderman, 2019 • Tammy Wight ...................199 ...32.95% • Phillip Wight ....................196 ...32.45% • Allen Alsbrooks.................150 ...24.83% • Write-In (Miscellaneous)...59......9.77% • Total: ................................604

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Maggie Valley mayor, 2019 • Mike Eveland....................191 ...56.34% • Janet M. Banks ................145 ...42.77% • Write-In (Miscellaneous)....3.......0.88% • Total: ................................339

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER lthough the race between two incumbent alderman for the Maggie Valley mayor’s gavel was an important one, the bigger story on Election Day was the performance of Tammy Wight.

“I was surprised,” said Wight, who ran for alderman. “I was not expecting to lead the ticket.”

Wight won both the Ivy Hill and Jonathan Creek precincts, outpacing fellow candidates Allen Alsbrooks and her husband, longtime incumbent Alderman Phillip Wight.

“We were both surMike Eveland prised and we were both excited that the voters chose to go with both of us,” she said. “We really didn’t know what to expect. There were a few people who questioned having a husband and wife on the team, but for the most part, the people responded to us well and we appreciate them and the trust that they’ve bestowed in us.”

Voters also put their trust in Alderman Mike Eveland, who defeated fellow alderman and Mayor Pro Tem Janet Banks.

“We had both endorsed Mike and I’m personally looking forward to working with

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Mountain Projects tackles housing crisis Half a million needed for start-up capital

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Housing is said to be affordable when its costs are 30 percent or less of household income. lords have the upper hand in the market right now. In Jackson County, 261 families faced an eviction filing this year. That’s 10.3 percent of all cost burdened renters.

“We have some great Section 8 landlords, but we also have a few that will kick them out if we complain,” Davis said.

McCowan added that other factors impacting affordability include a lack of highpaying jobs, a strong regional real estate market that has driven up local housing prices, the large percentage of second home ownership and vacation rentals, and a lack of easy to develop land and attendant high construction costs.

Davis said the SMHP would require pulling together every resource Mountain

Mountain Projects' new division Smoky Mountain Homes Partnership is working to develop 35 new homes in Jonathan Creek. File photo Projects can find to become a “one-stop shop” for those seeking help. The SMHP center will work in partnership with municipalities along with nonprofit housing providers, banks and credit unions, and state and governmental housing finance entities to provide opportunities, advice and counseling, it will also be counting on private donations and grant funding.

In order to provide start-up capital for SMHP, the Mountain Projects Auxiliary has initiated a fundraising campaign to raise $500,000. Seven families have pledged legacy gifts totaling $155,000 to support the effort and the auxiliary has made a legacy donation of $25,000.

Davis said a total of $200,000 has been raised to date toward the $230,000 goal for contributions from “individuals and family foundations” with the remainder to come from foundations, municipalities and businesses.

Mountain Projects has developed plans to build 35 new homes for workforce housing at its Bethel Village development located in Jonathan Creek in Haywood County.

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Housing project moving ahead in Sylva

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ive working families in Jackson County will have the chance to move into brand new homes once a project currently underway by Mountain Projects reaches its conclusion.

The nonprofit hopes to close soon on a 1.2-acre lot located at the end of Second Avenue in Sylva, where it plans to build five houses through a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The program will be open to families making 80 to 100 percent of the area median income, and participants will be required to put “sweat equity” into the project by completing 65 percent of the labor involved in home construction. Families accepted to the program will work together to build all five homes with the help of a construction supervisor.

After construction, the homes will fall under a traditional mortgage, though with an interest rate below market

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“When they walk into these homes, they will have instant equity,” Mountain Projects Executive Director Patsy Davis told the Jackson County Commissioners Oct. 15.

Davis addressed commissioners as part of a request that the county contribute $30,000 toward the homebuilding effort. The USDA will fund a maximum cost of only $45,000 per lot, but the property that Mountain Projects currently has under contract clocks in at $51,000 per lot, creating a cumulative deficit of $30,000. Without additional funding to close that gap, the project would not be able to happen. However, commissioners were favorable to the request and voted unanimously to allocate the $30,000.

As a result, the USDA gave its approval for the plan, and Mountain Projects is now moving forward with the next step — selecting qualified applicants to participate.

Construction will begin once the nonprofit has at least four

To make a donation to the Smoky Mountain Housing Partnership, send a check to Mountain Projects, 2177 Asheville Rd., Waynesville, NC 28786, or visit mountainprojects.org.

Now under Mountain Projects’ ownership, Bethel Village was started by Richard Bates’ nonprofit organization, Camp Bethel, in 2012. The 50-acre tract already has several small affordable homes and the projects relied on volunteer labor and donated projects to keep the cost of the homes down for the residents.

SMHP hopes to complete the 40-lot development. The workforce housing will be targeted for policemen and policewomen, firefighters, teachers, and EMS employees.

Plans are also being developed for building five units of workforce housing on Second Avenue in Sylva.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR ocial services Agency Mountain Projects continues to be at the forefront of solving the affordable housing crisis in Haywood and Jackson counties.

While Mountain Projects has worked with the USDA in the past to develop affordable housing communities, it’s efforts have been taken a step further with the creation of the Smoky Mountain Housing Partnership.

The mission of SMHP will be to improve the quality of life for families living in the communities it serves by advocating for and creating workforce housing opportunities and providing home purchasing, financial literacy, down payment, rental assistance and credit counseling assistance to residents.

Davis said she was blessed to have dedicated volunteers and supporters who started an auxiliary committee for Mountain Projects. With the auxiliary Chairman Don McGowan’s experience and knowledge in the finance industry, she said the committee was willing to establish SMHP to try to move housing efforts down the road.

“I’ve talked about the housing problems and have seen people paying $800 to $900 a month for rent and some of these places don’t even have floors,” Davis said. “The big goal here is to make it easier for people to become homeowners. Right now people are working 2.5 jobs to pay fair market rent in Haywood County. They could qualify for a mortgage but they don’t have the time or energy to achieve that or they don’t have enough for a down payment.”

Housing is said to be affordable when its costs are 30 percent or less of household

income. When a family pays more than 30 percent of household income, they are considered to be “cost burdened.” In Haywood County, over half of all renters and 35 percent of homeowners are considered to be “housing cost burdened.” In Jackson County, 52 percent of renters and 21 percent of homeowners are “housing cost burdened.”

“Every day, families in Haywood and Jackson County are sacrificing basic needs like food and health care just to keep up with the rising cost of housing,” McGowan said.

Mountain Projects also administers the Section 8 Housing program, which still has a long waiting list. Davis said there are still problems with people being kicked out by certain landlords when they are pushed to do repairs and upgrades to the units, showing that land-

such applicants, with the end date dependent upon a variety of factors, including weather.

To qualify for the program, applicants must be unable to obtain a loan from other resources on terms that they can be “reasonably expected to meet”; agree to occupy the property as a primary residence; have the legal capacity to take on a loan; meet citizenship or eligible noncitizen requirements; and not be suspended or debarred from participating in federal programs. Applicants must also meet income limits of $44,900 for a family of one to four and $59,250 for a family of five to eight.

“I like to think of this program as preserving the American dream, and it’s preserving the American dream for working folks in this county,” Davis told commissioners.

This initial project is limited to five homes, but Davis hopes that the development proves to be only the first of many similar efforts in Jackson County.

“I hope when we get these five done we can find suitable property and keep building,” she said.

For more information about applying to the program, contact Heather Boyd at 828.450.3747.

Public, private projects needed to improve housing shortage

housing plans, SMHP is exploring the idea of a tiny home demonstration project. SMHP will work with Western Carolina University and the Tiny Home Development Center to design and build a tiny home development of five to 10 homes that will be available at affordable rents. Target populations will include seniors and military veterans in need.

The development will include a community garden, tenant gathering area and edible landscaping.

“We’re exploring tiny houses as a concept.

I wasn’t a fan of tiny houses at first but after attending an affordable housing conference in Atlanta and seeing them firsthand I think they’re great and could work here,” Davis said.

She also visited a tiny home village in Greensboro and met people who had worked

their way from prison to owning his own business thanks to a tiny house.

“Tiny houses could be a solution for Pathways and people that are on the road to recovery,” Davis said. “But also, I had an elderly couple contact me and specifically wanted a tiny house because they didn’t want a big house to take care of. There’s so much opportunity there.”

Mountain Projects has been a long-time player in the region’s affordable housing effort. It manages the section 8 voucher program, rehabilitates housing and has developed more than 50 new affordable housing units. Haywood Habitat for Humanity is the only other nonprofit agency in the county that has produced just as many affordable houses for those who qualify.

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Smith, corporate sponsorships, private donations, volunteer hours and revenue from the Habitat ReStore.

A second 10-unit development is now in the planning stages for Chesnut Park, just behind the Frog Level District. Habitat was able to purchase the 3 acres on Sylvan Street for $140,000 and is looking to raise about $1 million over the next few years to complete the project. The Chestnut Park property is an ideal spot for more affordable housing because it will place residents within walking or biking distance from main hubs like Frog Level, downtown Waynesville and Russ Avenue.

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come here that are not from Haywood, but they come here because of the Balsam Center for substance use disorder. It’s Maslow’s hierarchy — without food, housing or shelter people won’t survive and they definitely won’t thrive,” they said.

The lack of housing, and affordable housing specifically, has been at the forefront of many countywide discussions in the last several years. An Affordable Housing Task Force was formed in 2016 after Patsy Davis, executive director of Mountain Projects, gave the Haywood County Board of Commissioners a presentation on the crisis going on in the county.

An initial study showed that by 2020, less than 25 percent of the 37,756 homes in Haywood County will be valued at less than $150,000, and minimum wage workers currently need to work 86 hours each week to afford a two-bedroom home.

The task force then developed a strategic plan to address the issue in 2017, proposing the goal of developing 400 affordable housing units by 2028. The plan would require the passage of a general obligation bond and the establishment of a land trust in order to meet that goal. Now that the task force has completed its work, it’s up to public and private entities to work together to make it happen — and progress is being made.

The Waynesville Board of Aldermen designated itself as a redevelopment authority in

ket is too tight right now and if some of those units are freed up for low- to medium-wage earners that has to help,” Davis said.

Haywood Habitat for Humanity is also working toward its second subdivision in Waynesville. The first subdivision — Walton Woods off Davis Cove Road — is nearing completion with eight families that now own their own home. The affordable development was made possible by a land donation from Sarah Jane League and her husband Gary

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR he issue of homelessness has been a growing concern among Haywood County residents, businesses, law enforcement and government officials for the last several years.

Candidates running for the Waynesville Board of Aldermen recently attempted to address some of the concerns during a community forum held at Frog Level Brewing, but at the end of the night it was clear the forum was merely a starting point for a much bigger conversation about how all the different groups need to work together to solve the multifaceted problem.

As pointed out during the public forum, l homelessness is just a symptom of a larger problem. Haywood County is experiencing a housing shortage, high rates of substance abuse and a lack of mental health and addiction recovery resources for low-income residents.

“The problem is there is no housing whether you have means or not,” said JesseLee Dunlap at the forum.

Dunlap works with the N.C. Harm Reduction Coalition in Haywood County and sees firsthand the hurdles many people face when trying to overcome addiction and finding housing.

“There is a huge resource gap between here and Murphy, which means people will

January 2019 and the authority’s first action was to designate an area on North Main Street as a “blighted community” that needed to be redeveloped. The advantage of doing so was to give Haywood County a better shot at being approved for state tax credits through the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency.

The tax credits would allow Atlanta-based developer Landmark Asset Services to redevelop the old hospital building on the corner of North Main and East Marshall Street into 54 affordable units for seniors and veterans.

After three attempts at qualifying for the credits, Haywood got the final approval in August. Though the project could take another year to be completed, it’s coming.

In the private sector, two large apartment complexes are being developed in Waynesville — one will be a 200-unit apartment complex off Plott Creek Road and the other will be a 210-unit complex at the former BI-LO shopping center on Russ Avenue. Those developments will not be considered “affordable” but will be considered “workforce” housing with rent prices above $800 a month.

Still, these multi-million dollar developments will mean more property tax revenue for the town of Waynesville, and town and nonprofit leaders hope the additional housing options will take some pressure off the market and free up more affordable units for people working lower wage jobs.

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Mudslides prompt concern over construction

One of the 12 houses at Catamount Homes has been condemned following an Oct. 31 landslide resulting from construction at the WCU Millennial Apartments project. Holly Kays photo

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER The mud problems at Catamount Homes began early on Thursday, Oct. 31.

By 7 a.m., property owner Sherri Deitz had already submitted her first complaint to the Jackson County Permitting and Code Enforcement Department, alleging that runoff from the Western Carolina University Millennial Apartments construction site was washing into the 12 small houses she owns at the base of the slope. At 11 a.m., heavy rain spurred Deitz to file a second com-

plaint, but neither the rain nor the mud let up. That afternoon, a piece of earth detached from the slope and slid downhill to knock into one of the houses, with Jackson County 911 receiving a call from the property at 2:47 p.m.

“The house just got knocked off the foundation,” the male caller says on the tape.

“There’s electricity still hooked into it. I’m not sure if the kids are here or not. There’s a mudslide that happened here.”

“I was scared to death,” said Deitz. “I was yelling. I thought my tenants were in that place, and I was scared to death that they were injured.”

It turned out that nobody was home — it was the middle of the day, and most of the residents were at class or work or some other activity.

“No one was here, but this was from two days’ worth of rain, so this could have been at night and all of us could have been here,” said a 21-year-old junior who lives in the development. “What makes me nervous is we got a lot of rain here, so if that happened with two days of rain, what could happen with three or four days of rain?”

In the aftermath of the landslide, the house that got knocked from its foundation was condemned, and five additional buildings were evacuated. Deitz, who has owned the buildings for about 40 years, said that thus far she’s borne all the cost of dealing with the runoff issues herself and doesn’t know how much it may ultimately cost her.

“Right now the real concern is getting these kids back in and getting them settled and making them feel like they’re safe,” she said.

AN ONGOING PROBLEM While the landslide was frightening, it wasn’t necessarily surprising. Deitz said she’d been dealing with erosion issues since April, with the official record prior to Oct. 31 beginning June 5 and containing three notices of violation from the state, two complaints from Deitz and eight calls or emails from the county to the state reporting sediment issues. In fact, another, smaller landslide had occurred on the property less than two weeks earlier, Oct. 21.

The construction is taking place on property owned by the WCU Endowment Fund, but it’s not a WCU project per say. The planned development, which will result in a 500-bed student housing complex, is being built by Wilmington-based Zimmer Development Company as part of a publicprivate partnership to increase student

housing inventory. Zimmer is building the housing and will operate it through a longterm ground lease — 40 years, with the option to renew for another 10 years.

Because the project is being built on WCU property, permitting and inspections are handled mainly by the state, not the county.

“We had a large event that overwhelmed our system and caused some issues downslope, and we’ve been working really hard to correct those,” said Adam Tucker, Zimmer’s director of development. “We’ve been shoring up our measures and adding measures and making sure it doesn’t happen again. It’s been unfortunate, but we’re truly doing everything we can.”

Based on comments made at a specialcalled meeting Nov. 7 to discuss the issue, it’s likely that some county commissioners would be skeptical of such promises.

“I get tired of hearing that there are these plans made for a 100-year event and a 50year event,” said Commissioner Gayle Woody. “We live in the mountains. In 1940, that event took out all the bridges in Jackson County but one. We have got to look at what possibly could happen and how do we protect our land, water and citizens in Jackson County. And I don’t want to hear these excuses — ‘Oh, it was a big rain event.’ I’m 67 years old. I can tell you about lots of big rain events, and it’s not fair to our citizens and our water and our soil to not make plans that will address the most severe.”

Zimmer received its first notice of violation on June 17 from the state’s land quality division, with another notice from the water quality division sent June 19. The land quality violation was lifted on July 12, though the water quality violation remained in place — water violations typi-

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to filter it. A row of mulch was added afterward to aid the effort and the slope was seeded to establish permanent stabilization, with coir baffles installed as well. However, Zimmer said, the amount of rain received over the weekend of Oct. 19 served only to wash away the seeds. Once again, runoff from the site overwhelmed the silt fences to reach the houses below.

“In order to mitigate this from occurring again, the site contractor has retrenched the diversion ditch and increased its capacity,” the email reads.

However, the issue did occur again, less than two weeks later.

“There are a lot of questions in regards to the state, what they have done, not done,” said Adams. “If there are any questions to the state, my recommended next steps for the county would be to ask the state those questions.”

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2020, WCU could find itself in a bind where housing is concerned. The university plans to demolish the existing Scott and Walker residence halls beginning in May, taking 1,150 student beds out of commission until new dormitories can be built in their place.

The 500-bed Zimmer project, together with a newly completed 600-bed residence hall, would replace most of that capacity, but a delay in completing the Zimmer project could complicate matters.

“The whole problem comes down to how we’re going to stop what’s been done.

How are we going to take care of those who have been injured?” said Commissioner Boyce Deitz. “And hopefully this development can go on and make something we can all be proud of.”

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The county does have some capacity to act, though, and it is certainly looking to do so.

On Oct. 24, three days after Deitz’ Oct. 21 complaint, Permitting and Code Enforcement Director Tony Elders wrote the contractor a letter stating that the county’s recently passed Unified Development Ordinance grants it the ability to suspend building permits and inspections due to continued sediment issues.

“As you know, your site located off of Dr. Killian Rd. in Cullowhee and identified as the WCU Millennial Apartments has had repeated instances of off-site sedimentation coming from your grading activities,” Elders wrote. “This is to inform you that continued instances of off-site sedimentation from your project may result in suspension of all building inspections on the site until the sediment damage has been remediated and the cause of the problem is remedied.”

Elders made good on that promise with a Nov. 4 letter stating that building inspections would be suspended until the evacuation order at Catamount Homes and any notices of violation were lifted.

In response to concerns from the Jackson County Planning Board, the county’s planning department has been combing through its subdivision ordinance, under

which the Zimmer development falls. Staff has issued a notice of violation involving sections of the ordinance pertaining to requirements for adequate aboveground drainage and prevention of off-site sedimentation. Until the issues are addressed, the notice says, approval of the project is suspended, and a revised erosion control plan with installation of associated erosion control measures are required.

“If the violations aren’t corrected, there’s civil fines, there’s potential criminal penalties, and there’s also revocation of the subdivision approval, which effectively would stop all work on the site,” said Planning Director Michael Poston.

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cally take longer to remedy than land violations. However, the project attracted a new notice of violation from the water division on July 31. The notice letter stated that Zimmer had violated the state’s turbidity standard, which is set at 50 nephelometric turbidity units. Of the 11 samples taken during the state’s inspection, only three fell under the limit, with the highest measurement coming in at 1,000 NTUs — 20 times the limit.

Following the Oct. 31 landslide, the water quality division issued yet another notice of violation. Turbidity levels continued to violate the state standard, and sediment as deep as 9 inches had settled in Long Branch, the notice said. According to Christy Simmons of the Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources, staff inspected the construction site on Friday, Nov. 1, and found it to be out of compliance with both the Sediment Pollution Control Act of 1973 and its construction stormwater permit. The results of that inspection are still being compiled into written form, said Simmons.

“It appears that water quality has repeatedly issued notices of violation over the course of the last several months,” said Chairman Brian McMahan. “It’s land quality that has been dragging their feet as far as issuing violations, so I would be interested in reaching out to the state for an explanation.”

In answer to questions from commissioners about why the actions Zimmer took to address these earlier erosion problems didn’t prevent the Oct. 31 landslide, County Manager Don Adams said there could be a variety of explanations.

“It could be the design. It could be it wasn’t installed correctly,” he said.

“Whatever the new design is, we would hope it gets installed correctly and that would hopefully ensure it does what’s designed to do.”

According to comments from Zimmer relayed by WCU Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance Mike Byers in an Oct. 22 email to Woody, silt fencing had been in place since the project began, with additional rows installed after the violation issued in June. In August, the company wrote, a large volume of water ran over the top of the silt fence due to the fact that the water flowed faster than the fence’s ability

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As of Nov. 7, four houses at Catamount Homes in addition to the condemned building were under evacuation orders. The Millennial Apartments site is visible above the horizon. Holly Kays photo

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Cherokee considers Tennessee resort investment

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER herokee leaders are hoping to establish a lucrative business on a portion of the 300-plus acres of Interstate 40 frontage the tribe purchased in Tennessee earlier this year while also advancing plans for an adventure park on the Qualla Boundary, but first Tribal Council must sign off on the venture.

Principal Chief Richard Sneed submitted a resolution during the Oct. 31 Annual Council session requesting authority to coordinate with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Investment Committee and Kituwah LLC to conduct due diligence on the deal.

Should the committee and the LLC agree that it’s a good idea, Sneed would have the authority to give an initial $2.5 million toward the business venture and could contribute up to $30 million as the project moves forward.

“What the resolution will do is it will authorize a collaborative review and investment opportunity in a family destination resort project that will be the first of its kind, a new concept for a themed resort with a local and national presence that diversifies our business investment,” said Sneed.

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In order for the tribe to invest the full $30 million, five requirements would have to be met, he said: there would have to be a satisfactory analysis by the tribe and Kituwah LLC with third-party reviews, the tribe would have to retain 40 to 45 percent ownership of the company, the tribe would have to close on the lands it’s under contract for in Sevier County, the company would have to secure its total equity — which must include financing from other partners— and the company’s board would have to include a seat appointed by the tribe and a seat appointed by the LLC. “This is a shared risk,” said Sneed. “There will be much due diligence on the front end.

If we are able to close on the property we are currently under contract with at Exit 407, this would be the anchor project and anchor property on that parcel of land.”

The tribe voted in February to buy 122 acres along Interstate 40 in Sevier County, entering into a contract for $7.5 million.

Then in July Tribal Council voted unanimously to purchase an additional 197.62 acres on the opposite side of the highway for $13.5 million — the resort would be built on the back portion of this property. Both purchases are still in the due diligence phase.

While the resolution itself did not name the company that the tribe is in talks with, during the course of the discussion it was revealed that the tribe hopes to work with Ancient Lore Village at Boyd Hollow. The $40 million endeavor, launched by Tennessee businessman Tom Boyd, was announced in January 2019. A site in southern Knoxville is to house a 40-acre resort including more than 150 period homes and treehouses, a 150-seat restaurant, a 500-person meeting and event center, and a 1,000-seat outdoor amphithe12 ater, according to a press release. Boyd said

Kituwah LLC and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ executive office are hoping to get the go-ahead from Tribal Council to invest in a planned resort in Tennessee. File photo

the resort will be based on his debut fantasy novel The Bobbins — Outcast to the Inner Earth.

The project is expected to open in 2020, but Sneed and Kituwah LLC are hoping to sway Boyd to relocate it to the tribe’s property in Sevier County.

“Initial projections on the return are strong — double-digit return over the first year,” said Secretary of Finance Cory Blankenship. “Over the long term what we’re looking at is ownership of a company that is looking to develop six resorts over the next five years in multiple markets, which checks the box for the tribe about diversification and entry into other marketplaces to establish a presence.”

Under the tribe’s preconditions for investing, the second of those six resorts would be built in Cherokee.

“This would be a replacement for the adventure park project that we could accomplish for about half of the cost that was allocated for the original adventure park,” said Blankenship.

In 2012, Tribal Council green-lighted a $92 million adventure park concept featuring water slides, rock climbing, zip-lining, splash pads and indoor amenities such as a 302room hotel, restaurants, retail shops and an arcade. The project got sidelined in favor of priorities such as the Valley River Casino and Hotel in Murphy and the new Cherokee Indian Hospital. It came back on the floor for discussion in 2016, but no adventure park was ever built, largely due to the estimated 350 full-time employees needed to run it.

“We simply don’t have the workforce currently or the infrastructure to support a project of that size,” said Blankenship. “We can support a much smaller project.”

If all went as planned, Boyd’s company would build a resort in Cherokee after concluding the Tennessee project, with the EBCI

“This is a shared risk.

There will be much due diligence on the front end.

If we are able to close on the property we are currently under contract with at Exit 407, this would be the anchor project and anchor property on that parcel of land.”

— Principal Chief Richard Sneed

investing only that initial $30 million and sharing the profits in proportion to its ownership.

REACTION FROM COUNCIL Blankenship and Sneed both spoke strongly in support of the proposal, but councilmembers were hesitant, ultimately voting to table the resolution.

“We really don’t know if it is going to work out or not,” said Councilmember Bo Crowe, of Wolfetown. “I don’t think in my opinion it would be smart to invest in a company that we have no idea if it’s going to work.”

“Why can’t they build in Knoxville and we see how they take off, and then if they want our money, then we’ll invest?” added Councilmember Tom Wahnetah, of Yellowhill.

Councilmember Albert Rose, of Birdtown, said he wanted to see more development options for the site rather than biting at the first proposal.

“I think that anything that goes on that

property is going to make money,” he said.

“This is the first thing that’s come across that wants to go there, and I know it’s not going to be the only option.”

Councilmember Chelsea Saunooke, of Wolfetown, objected to the lack of background information attached to the resolution council was being asked to approve.

“With something major like this I’d like to see some attachments with it come through here, rather than just a front and back sheet of paper,” she said.

“We bought that property over there to develop, and it’s going to have to be developed one way or another or we’re losing every day,” added Vice Chairman David Wolfe, of Yellowhill. “I’m interested in the project, but I need more information.”

Councilmember Boyd Owle, of Birdtown, was the only one to speak in support of immediate passage.

“If we don’t accept and they build in Knoxville and then we go in and say, ‘We want 45 percent in this,’ it’s forget it, you had an opportunity,” said Owle. “I want to give it a try.”

Owle offered a move to pass, but two moves were already on the floor — one to table and another to kill. The move to table prevailed, with Chairman Adam Wachacha, Councilmember Richard French, Councilmember Bucky Brown, Chelsea Saunooke, Rose, Owle and Wolfe in favor.

Opposed were Councilmembers Tommye Saunooke, Dike Sneed, Crowe and Wahnetah.

Councilmember Perry Shell was absent.

The move to table came with a request that Council meet with all parties to discuss the opportunity further.

“That meeting has not been scheduled,” Blankenship said in an email. “We are still on track to meet the development timetable should the opportunity advance beyond the due diligence phase.”

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Swain County Genealogical and Historical Society (SCGHS) is asking area businesses and individuals for help. The annual Holiday Shopping Auction is scheduled for Dec. 5 and donated items are needed for the silent auction.

This is an evening of live music, fun and frivolity and an opportunity to do holiday shopping by purchasing unique gifts. The auction is silent with individuals making bids on paper during the event; at the end of the evening the highest bidder takes home the purchase. The event is open to everyone and there is no charge to attend.

Donated items may include handmade crafts, artwork, subscriptions, sports equipment, tickets to area attractions, gift cards, gift baskets, and much more. All items donated should be new or of a quality that you would be willing to give to someone as a gift. The SCGHS is a nonprofit, so donated auction items are tax deductible.

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Macon commissioner hopes to succeed Rep. Corbin

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER lthough Franklin Republican Rep. Kevin Corbin has decided to run for the state Senate in 2020, Western North Carolina Republicans are intent on keeping his House seat out of Democratic hands.

“We’re very strong here in Macon County,” said Carla Miller, chair of the Macon County Republican Party. “We have a three-to-one edge with our voters, we’re very conservative and we will definitely re-elect our president.”

They’ll also likely send another Republican to Raleigh to represent the 120th District, which consists of Cherokee, Clay, Graham and Macon counties, and they already have someone lined up for the job.

“He has an outstanding track record, he’s a great businessman, and he’s with the right team,” Miller said of freshman Macon County Commissioner Karl Gillespie. Last Saturday, Gillespie became the first GOP candidate to announce a run for Corbin’s District 120 seat, and launched his campaign with a slogan created by his wife Janet — “Let’s go to the House!”

A fifth-generation resident of Macon County, Gillespie was born and raised in the area but left for almost two decades to work across the globe in the communications industry. He returned in 1999, and with his wife founded National Communications, a

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“I think he’ll make a strong candidate.

It’s very easy for folks down in Raleigh and in the eastern part of the state to forget about where we are. To them, we’re a piece of North Carolina that Rand McNally cuts

off and sticks under Charlotte,” said Corbin.

“I have gone down to Raleigh with a passion for Western North Carolina and pushed for these counties. It’s not about politics. Forget about the R’s and the D’s. It’s about our district, our people and getting the resources we need from the state, whether that be education money or internet. Those are two

areas I’ve worked hard on, and I think Karl will continue that fight.”

In September, Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, announced that after a decade as a Macon County commissioner and a decade as North Carolina’s westernmost senator, he’d retire from public service.

Davis’ announcement was followed immediately by one from Corbin, who after two decades on the Macon County School Board, six years on the Macon County commission and four years in the House will seek Davis’ Senate seat, with Davis’ endorsement.

Gillespie, in turn, will finish his first term on the Macon County commission right about the time he hopes to follow Corbin to the state legislature.

Corbin said that as an elected official he couldn’t formally endorse Gillespie — other Republican candidates may emerge, and parties are supposed to remain neutral in the primaries — but he did say that he supports Gillespie’s effort to succeed him, and would donate $10,000 to the House Republican Caucus for use in races as they see fit.

If successful, Gillespie would further bolster the reputation of the Macon County Commission as consistent cultivators of influential Raleigh Republicans.

“I think that’s because of the talent pool that’s here,” said

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER or the tenth time in his long history of public service, Waynesville Democrat Joe Sam Queen announced his intent to represent his home county of Haywood in the North Carolina General Assembly.

“Joe Sam Queen is a fierce advocate for the people of Western North Carolina,” said Buncombe County Democratic Sen. Terry Van Duyn, who introduced Queen at the Balsam-Willets-Ochre Hill Volunteer Fire Department in Jackson County on Nov. 9.

“Especially on health care, especially on education, especially on the things that we care about. He is in the trenches every day. I

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who helped break a veto-proof Republican supermajority in the N.C. House.

“Our strategy was to break the House supermajority in 2018 and then continue that momentum with the majority in 2020,” said Myrna Campbell, chair of the Haywood County Democratic Party. “We also unexpectedly broke the supermajority in the Senate, which we weren’t expected to do, so there was a lot more momentum there than what we really thought.”

Last week, voters in so-called “off year” states cast further doubt on the approval of Republican candidates under a Republican president now embroiled in an impeachment inquiry. For the first time in 26 years,

“Our strategy was to break the House supermajority in 2018 and then continue that momentum with the majority in 2020.”

— Myrna Campbell, chair of the Haywood County Democratic Party

Davis. “We have excellent talent in the other counties as well, so I don’t want to denigrate them at all, but we just have really good people out here in the west who are interested in state government, and that’s a good thing.”

Like the moderate Corbin, Gillespie isn’t afraid to buck members of his own party with his support for Medicaid expansion.

“Yes, I’ll be following Rep. Corbin on that,” said Gillespie. “I think that that there’s a middle ground that we can strike in that regard, because we’ve got to get off dead center and move forward with that.”

Also like Corbin, Gillespie understands the effect of high-speed internet — or, rather, the lack thereof — on his rural district’s economy.

“One of the biggest issues that we have, in my mind, is lack of broadband,” he said.

“That’s kind of my background. I understand it very well, so I have a particular interest in that. You will see me being very active, or as active as I can be, in regards to broadband expansion.”

Corbin has the distinction of winning every District 120 race he’s entered, including primaries, with at least 72 percent of the vote. In 2016, Corbin’s counties supported President Donald Trump with more than 75 percent of the vote, and in 2018, they supported Asheville Republican Congressman Mark Meadows with more than 82 percent.

No Democrat has yet announced a bid to oppose Gillespie, but one name frequently mentioned — Franklin High School teacher and football coach Bobby Kuppers, who lost to Davis by 20 points in 2018 — said he wasn’t planning on it.

Democrat with the state and Republican with the presidential races. I think for this election, definitely there’s some momentum within the Democratic Party. We’re working to make sure that we do the same thing that we did in 2018 — have a Democratic candidate running for every seat in the North Carolina General Assembly.”

Campbell said Democrats haven’t yet identified a candidate to oppose Burnsville Republican Rep. Michele Presnell’s presumed re-election, nor have they found one to contest Rep. Kevin Corbin’s bid to

replace fellow Franklin Republican Jim Davis in the Senate, so keeping Queen in the House remains critical for western Democrats.

“It matters,” Queen said. “For the citizens of North Carolina to have a quality education, expand Medicaid for 7,000 or 8,000 in my district to have health care, it matters. To protect our environment, our waters, our beautiful mountain landscape, for jobs in broadband, it matters. That’s why I’m running, because you got to work to get this done.”

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Democrats in Virginia took full control of the legislature under a Democratic governor, and Kentucky Democrats appear to have unseated their Republican governor.

“I am feeling really good about 2020,” said Van Duyn, who will forego re-election to the Senate in order to run for lieutenant governor.

A recent court-mandated redraw of some state legislative districts didn’t affect Queen’s 119th District, but it does favor Democrats somewhat — so the question on many minds in Democratic circles is now whether swing state North Carolina will skew left in 2020, like Virginia just did.

“Well, I think it’s possible,” Campbell said. “But from what I’ve read recently, Trump is still polling fairly well in North Carolina and we have a tradition of going

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love him dearly and I’m going to do everything I can to help him get re-elected.”

For the fifth election in a row, Queen will face Bryson City Republican Mike Clampitt. Since 2012, the two men have carried on Western North Carolina’s longest running political feud.

Queen defeated Clampitt in 2012 and then again in 2014, but in 2016 Clampitt prevailed as part of the conservative surge that helped propel President Donald Trump to victory.

In 2018, Republicans suffered defeats across the nation and across North Carolina.

That election was viewed as the first real test of Trump’s electoral influence since taking office in 2017 and saw his party lose its majority in the U.S. House. Clampitt was also swept out of office that year by Queen,

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NAACP North Carolina President Rev. Dr. Anthony Spearman will be speaking in Waynesville at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 20 at the Folkmoot Friendship Center auditorium on Virginia Avenue in Hazelwood.

Spearman will speak on “How We Got Here: Why We Can’t Be Ahistorical.” The rest of the day the Haywood NAACP chapter will be hosting a number of workshops specifically for teachers, each one will be repeated twice so that small groups can participate.

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Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte and Associate Superintendent Jill Barker will be bringing 40 teachers from all schools in Haywood County.

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Haywood County Health and Human Services Agency has approximately 110 foster children’s names and their wish lists for this holiday season. If you wish to assist and participate, contact Valorie Diienno at 828.356.2427 or come by HHSA. She can assist you by providing additional information and assist in arranging for you to select the child or children you would like to help.

These gifts would need to be returned to the Agency no later than Monday, Dec. 2 so they can be distributed.

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KARE will host its 10th annual Festival of Trees dinner and auction on Thursday, Nov. 21, at Laurel Ridge Country Club.

The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a cocktail hour. Dinner will be served with a live auction to follow. Local artists, merchants, and creative folk will contribute ornately decorated trees, centrepieces, and other handmade creations for both the live and silent auctions.

Tickets are limited and the event sold beyond capacity last year. Tickets are available at www.karehouse.org.

KARE is Haywood County’s only Child Advocacy Center and provides services to child victims of abuse and their families through its Victim Advocacy Program. KARE also offers parenting classes through the Positive Parenting Program, along with community abuse prevention trainings and awareness programs.

For more information, contact Savannah Clark at 828.456.8995.

tions each year, and young people account for half,” said Bucky Dann, SCC Sociology Instructor. “By avoiding conversation on the sexual and emotional health of our young people, we are not protecting them. We are leaving them vulnerable. We hope this event will provide useful information and assistance for achieving healthier lives.”

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Why Corbin should not be our senator To the Editor: In the stifling summer humidity of Philadelphia a couple of centuries ago, a group of men put their John Hancocks (one of them literally) on a document that many Americans claim to hold dear. Those brave and principled men pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor when they declared war against King George III. The Declaration of Independence lists charges and specifications against the King’s government. In one of those counts of the indictment, the Declaration enumerates the right of the people to representation in the legislature. They described that right to be “inestimable to the people and formidable to tyrants only.” They charged the King specifically with denying that right to large groups of colonists by doing things like not notifying delegates of times and places for meetings and votes on important issues.

Fast forward to September 2019. The North Carolina General Assembly, which should have come home in early July from

bringing me back down to earth.

That same day I had a meeting with the priest at St. Margaret’s Catholic Church in Maggie Valley. A whole new sort of cycle will begin this June, when my sister gets married.

We are trying hard for her to be able to be married in the church we grew up in, to retain a piece of her roots and her home as she moves forward with my new brother to create her own family.

After that meeting I went for a run.

On a brisk, colorful fall day, thoughts of each of my grandparents who have passed crossed my mind. Betty Jean in the dream. Lee Ann, as my father carried her limp body out of her own kitchen. That sunny morning after Guest Columnist breakfast, a childhood friend of my mom and aunt had come over to the house so everyone could meet his newborn baby. My mother’s mom held him as we sat around her small kitchen table and cooed over him. The same table that had brought family together my whole life. Suddenly my grandma began to cough and the father took the baby safely back into his arms. She kept on and kept on coughing until it had gone on a moment too long. The air of the room changed to distress in an instant as she began to cough blood and choke on it, only making the coughing worse. Panic took hold of everyone, even the newborn as he began to cry and scream.

Eventually my father scooped her frail body into his arms and whisked her to the car. Later he said that she never made it to the car. I’ve always wondered at that. On the walkway beneath the trees, the sunlight, and the birds, to feel a mother die in your arms. Did she become heavier, lighter? Did the connection we feel between two live bodies making contact suddenly dissipate? Did the sun stop, for just an instant, filtering through the heavy foliage of early August above? Did the birds go quiet? I would never ask him. Feelings like that can

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s fall draws to a close, and the leaves turn brown to pile up on the sidewalk instead of in the trees, the cycles existing all around us become more obvious, more visible.

My personal stressors in life are those everyone young person faces: finding employment, making enough money, trying to figure out what I will do with my life. A few nights ago, I had a dream about my grandmother, my father’s mother. She was young again in my dream (and alive) and had long, beautiful, curling blonde hair. The rest of the dream is a blur, but I remember being in awe of her beauty. As I woke up, I relished the opportunity to have been with her for a few moments.

Thinking about her in real life took my mind full circle back to my stressors, but in a more positive way. I remember Betty Jean as one of the happiest people I’ve ever encountered.

When I was a shy, unsure young girl, her energy always took me by surprise. But if I know one thing about her for sure it is that she was full to the brim as long as she could sit, smoke a cigarette, enjoy a drink and talk with the people she loved.

Her family and closest friends. As I’ve grown, I find myself to value the exact same thing. It seemed like every time we went to her house in Fayetteville, the schedule was the same. She would feed us a hearty and delicious meal as soon as we walked in the door, Aunt Wanda (my grandmother’s best friend) would arrive soon after, and then we would stay there at the dinner table, drinking and talking and laughing for hours. The grownups even longer after the kids went to bed.

So in the middle of the job hunt, stressing about money, and what to do with my life, I lay in bed that morning, reminded of her joy at the things that really mattered in life. A woman who came from a dirt poor background, went through three marriages and raised three boys as she remained mostly rooted in the class from which she came — this woman reminded me that while I am (and probably should be) stressing about things like work and money, the more important parts are already in place. The ones that make a person truly happy. Even though her earth cycle is complete, she is still

LETTERS their 2019 work, remained in session as Republicans in the House and the Senate did not have the votes to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the state budget. The leadership (Sen. Phil Berger and Rep. Tim Moore) had rejected overtures from the governor to negotiate on Medicaid expansion, teacher and state employee pay raises, and other items important to the people of our state.

But House Speaker Moore had a clever plan. He told his Democrat counterparts in the House there would be no vote on the morning of September 11, allowing members to attend 9/11 commemoration events. Then the House Republicans met anyway, called for the vote, and overrode the governor’s veto.

What does that have to do with the Declaration of Independence? Well, Rep. Kevin Corbin (R-Macon) was an eager participant in the shenanigans on September 11 that denied the citizens of the 119th House District (Haywood, Jackson, and Swain) our right of representation in the legislature. And now Mr. Corbin is seeking to represent the 50th Senate District, which includes all of House District 119.

scarcely be put into words.

And I thought of James Cajero. A man who made his way from Spain to the United States alone at just 14 years old. The man who served as a Green Beret in Vietnam, and that Betty Jean would eventually marry. His earth cycle was completed exactly one year ago today. I remember that my mother was his absolute favorite person in his later life, especially after my grandmother died.

His speech and mobility were failing due to the effects of Agent Orange and strokes. She was one of the few who would still sit and talk with him even when she couldn’t understand him. She would take him out in his wheelchair for a walk around the neighborhood, to be in the sun and hear the earth for at least a few moments. Despite his severe diabetes she would bring him treats and cook him meals to stock his freezer for weeks. When it seemed like all we could do was protect him from his failing body she made sure that he was happy, that he could truly enjoy the rest of his time here.

These cycles are all around us. Long and short. We intercept those of others at different times, in different ways.

Sometimes only for an instant, to experience love or learn something we otherwise could have missed. And sometimes for longer, sometimes forever.

One of the many gifts we receive from these ancient mountains is the constant reminder that cycles are natural, continual, and all around us. People come and go, from our own lives, and from this earth. Fall, Betty Jean, Lee Ann, James, Megan’s upcoming wedding — these are the cycles at this moment reminding me to hold onto the ones we love. That this is what truly matters in life. It isn’t only about what you can accomplish, the money you can make, the house you can build. It’s also about the connections we make, getting to sit down with the people you love, relish in good conversation, and if you’re lucky enough, good food and good wine.

(Hannah McLeod is regular contributor to The Smoky Mountain News who lives in Haywood County. mcleodh828@gmail.com)

Mr. Corbin, please explain why you want to be our senator, after denying us our right to be represented in the N.C. House on September 11, 2019. I’m sure you’ll say that what you and Speaker Moore did on September 11 was perfectly legal within the rules of the House. But We the People see your House rules the same way those delegates in Philadelphia saw King George III’s house rules. And we know exactly what you think of the residents of House District 119.

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Words matter, and this is extortion To the Editor: We need to be clear that the impeachment inquiry is about extortion and not quid pro quo. Quid pro quo (one thing for another) refers to a mutually desired transaction. Both parties get something they want for mutual benefit. A bribe is quid pro quo because each party gets what each wants. A political donor giving a million dollars in exchange for get-

ting a prized ambassadorship is quid pro quo.

On the other hand, extortion is where a vulnerable individual is required to pay or do something they do not want to pay or do. The classic example is requiring a payment from a shopkeeper to keep a business safe from vandalism. If a woman needs a loan to replace her car and the bank executive says he will only give her the loan if she sleeps with him, this is also extortion. Extortion does not have to be successful to be a crime. Many people are in prison for attempted murder or attempted whatever.

The last example is analogous to the Ukrainian extortion. Ukraine desperately needed the arms aid to protect itself from Russian aggression. But instead of providing the assistance authorized by Congress, Trump held up the delivery so that he could extort the Ukrainian president to make up a bogus investigation of Biden and his son. This is extortion, not quid pro quo, and we should use the correct word — extortion.

We know that Trump was not interested in general corruption because the company on which Hunter Biden was a board member was explicitly named in the now infamous phone call. However, the name

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ushrooms. I needed mushrooms, and mushrooms were all I needed. It was my night to cook, and I wanted to make spaghetti because we’ve eaten chicken approximately 11 consecutive nights at my house. We’ve done that because the members of my family have developed “dietary restrictions” over the years to the extent that we are down to approximately three dishes that we can agree on, one of those being chicken prepared about a dozen different ways.

My spouse gave up Columnist beef years ago and will only rarely eat pork, while my son will not eat any kind of fish other than fish sticks. I am not entirely without blame, since I have never been able to stand any kind of cheese other than cheesecake. And I can’t stand tomatoes. The comedian, George Carlin, once observed that there is something wrong with the inside of a tomato, and that’s exactly how I feel anytime I see someone slice one open to put on a sandwich. It just doesn’t look fully formed. So, cheese out, tomatoes out.

One of the few things left we can agree on is spaghetti — yes, you can make it with chicken. I like to make the sauce with portobella or shiitake mushrooms and knew we didn’t have either, so I’d have to run by Food Lion, just a quick in-and-out to grab one measly container of mushrooms.

I figured the whole shebang would take about five minutes, but when I arrived, I was stunned to see the newly paved parking lot at near capacity, with cars lined up all the way up the hill. Was I stopping by a local grocery store to pick up shiitake mushrooms on a random Monday evening, or had I somehow entered a time warp and landed in line for a Beatles concert?

My general rule of thumb about big crowds is that I despise them. But now that I was in this impossibly long line, which was very slowly grinding up the hill toward the entrance like a rollercoaster at Six Flags, I thought I might as well follow through. We were out of mushrooms, fish sticks, and those big cans of chicken noodle soup. I wasn’t sure about our cereal situation.

Maybe I’d get some seedless grapes, too, or some Bosc pears. Maybe a bottle of wine. Or two. It looked like I’d have time to drink one of them while trying to navigate the throttled aisles and then waiting in one of the serpentine lines at the checkout registers. My five-minute pit stop was shaping up as an hour-long odyssey.

I finally made my way into the parking lot — or at least a “fringe area” —finding a spot approximately three miles from the entrance to the store. I could probably have walked home from where I was parked faster than walking to the store. Whatever, as my daughter would say. I could use the exercise, and by now, the procurement of these mushrooms had become a hero’s journey. I wasn’t buying mushrooms — I was on

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Inside, there were very few shopping carts left.

Shoppers swarmed in every direction, playing chicken with each other, jockeying for position among the picked-over produce, trying to exercise patience and remain polite when some frazzled lady was taking 15 minutes to decide which jar of pickles would be best for her tuna salad.

I was almost to the mushrooms when I heard somebody say it, the magic words that unlocked the mystery of why Food Lion should be stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey on a random Monday night.

“Calling for snow tonight,” a man said to a woman, apparently a neighbor who was taking advantage of a sale on Hamburger Helper by shoveling box after box into her cart. “Probably won’t amount to much, but the kids are excited, hoping for a two-hour delay at least.”

That’s what I was experiencing now — a twohour delay, or close to it. But at least I knew why.

The first forecast for snow, even flurries, every year sends the county’s residents scrambling to grocery stores to stock up on milk and bread, the two most essential building blocks of any snowstorm survival kit. I’m more of a Pinot Noir and bag of Dove’s chocolates guy myself, but to each their own.

I knew my son would already be armed with a fully-informed, excruciatingly detailed forecast the moment I walked in the door. Name a human being with a more intense interest in the weather than a public school student. Let the weather turn cold, and suddenly they’re transformed from recalcitrant little rogues into newlyminted meteorologists, almost chipper if the forecast is for treacherous weather.

When I got home, my son nearly pounced on me like a jungle cat. He was brandishing his phone, that fount of all things, great and small.

“Well, dad,” he began. “I hate to inform you that the National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for Haywood County.

According to the most recent weather models, a steady rain will turn over to snow sometime around 5 a.m., continuing until 8 a.m. I would say the cancellation of school tomorrow is inevitable, wouldn’t you?”

Because I’m his dad, I am required by the laws of nature to temper his expectations, and to tease him to the point of exasperation.

“Maybe a couple of little flurries flying around when you wake up,” I said. “I wouldn’t count on having a day to drink hot chocolate and play video games just yet, old buddy.”

“Come on, old man,” he said, really frustrated by my reluctance to get on board with his enthusiasm. “You haven’t seen the forecast and I have. I saw a few minutes before you got here that almost all the stores in this area are already out of bread and milk. By the way, did you get fish sticks?”

“No, but I got the mushrooms for the spaghetti sauce,” I said.

“Dad, you know I hate mushrooms, right?”

(Chris Cox is a writer and teacher. jchriscox@live.com)

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To the Editor: In the 1930s FDR’s administration passed the New Deal. The centerpiece of this legislation was Social Security.

Republicans branded this “communism,” a danger to our capitalist system.

In the 1940s the courts, responding to lawsuits by the NAACP, began handing down decisions eventually leading to the end of segregation in America.

In 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear bomb.

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Trump echoes Joseph McCarthy

These events, and others, helped to create an atmosphere of anxiety and fear among many Americans who viewed these developments as threats to our way of life.

In 1950, Joseph McCarthy, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, took advantage of public unease to launch a crusade against communism. He exercised a powerful influence on our government and the American public. He frightened government officials by charging that communists existed in their departments. He suggested there were almost 60 communists in the State Department, although he never supplied a single name. He silenced the Senate with insults and intimidation. In early 1954, one national poll indicated that three out of five Americans supported his activities.

Parallels exist between the McCarthy Era and Donald Trump’s presidency. Both men gained influence by stoking fears of an American culture under siege. McCarthy blamed communists. Trump blames immigrants and minorities. Both men pushed the myth that our economic system based on capitalism is endangered. McCarthy blamed communism. Trump and the Republicans view government-sponsored healthcare as the enemy by branding it socialism. Trump, like McCarthy before him, employs insults and lies to intimidate his critics. Trump’s tactics have effectively silenced Republicans in both the U.S. Senate and House.

My father, a college professor, along with some of his colleagues, spoke out against McCarthyism in the relatively isolated environment of a large university. I was not so lucky. As a child in public elementary school I was bullied by some classmates and called a communist — a young victim of McCarthy’s fear mongering. Today, Trump incites crowds with bogus fears of dangers to American culture from immigrants and minorities. His rhetoric has accelerated into acts of deadly violence.

Televised hearings in 1954 brought McCarthy’s downfall. His attack on the U.S. military led to overwhelming condemnation by the Senate as reflected in this famous quote, “Have you no shame?”

Hopefully, televised testimony from patriotic Americans who have served our country as civil servants or in military service, or both, will hasten Trump’s downfall, as well.

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of the company was deleted from the transcript Trump released. Likewise, Rudy Giuliani was on Fox News waving around papers and his cell phone saying he had dirt on Joe Biden. He did not say he had evidence of general corruption. The evidence from the testimony of multiple individuals confirms that Trump was engaged in extortion of a vulnerable government to get personal benefits. This is illegal under U.S. law and likely to be the first article of impeachment (the charge for the trial in the Senate).

A likely second likely article of impeachment is obstruction of justice and objection of Congress. Trump has publicly ordered people to ignore lawful subpoenas to testify and ignored lawful subpoenas for documents in legal proceedings. There is no question that obstruction has occurred. It is in plain sight.

A third prospect has emerged with Roger Stone. There are indications that Trump’s under oath written testimony to the Mueller inquiry may not be in line with evidence found in the prosecution of Stone. Trump may have been more involved with or had knowledge of the stolen Democratic emails that he denied. If that pans out it means that Trump committed perjury. Clinton was impeached for perjury in denying having sex with a woman. Here we have possible lies under oath of a more serious nature.

So to recap reality, we have extortion and obstruction of justice as clearly indicated by the available evidence. We might also have perjury, but that remains to be seen. What we do not have is a simple quid pro quo.

What we have is extortion and Democrats and the media need to name it as such.

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

CHEF’S TABLE 30 Church St., Waynesville.

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

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

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

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HAZELWOOD FARMACY & SODA FOUNTAIN 429 Hazelwood Avenue, Waynesville.

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

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

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inspired restaurant serving simply prepared, fresh food sourced from top purveyors.

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

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FERRARA PIZZA & PASTA 243 Paragon Parkway, Clyde.

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

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

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Folkmoot ‘Mountain Memories’ series

William Ritter (left). Bobby McMillon (top right); Bob Plott (bottom right).

olkmoot is proud to partner with the Mountain Memories organization and Waynesville’s own Bob Plott to launch the Mountain Memories performance series at historic Queen Auditorium on the Folkmoot campus.

The series opens with “Mountain Memories No. 1: A Hazelwood Gathering” at Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. Doors open at 6 p.m. with food and beverages available in the cafeteria. The “Mountain Memories” show starts at 7 p.m. in the auditorium.

In the spirit of radio variety shows of years past, each “Mountain Memories” performance follows a loose theme, but together they promote traditional Southern Appalachian culture in an accurate and positive way through music, dance and storytelling.

“Mountain Memories No. 1: A Hazelwood Gathering,” features a focus on the history of the town and historic Hazelwood School, along with a “passing the torch” theme of sharing traditional culture from generation to generation.

The evening begins with a guest presentation by local historian Alex McKay. Heavy hors d’oeuvres are included in the ticket price in the center’s dining hall, during which McKay will speak about the history of the town.

The event then shifts to Queen Auditorium, just down the hall, where Waynesville’s Bob

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Plott will serve as Master of Ceremonies. The Plott family has deep roots in Haywood County, and Bob is an award-winning historian, author and educator, as well as a breeder of Plott Hounds.

He’ll guide guests through a program that includes a talented lineup of mountain artists: • North Carolina Folk Heritage Award recipient Bobby McMillon has performed broadly as a singer and storyteller. He’s appeared at the Smithsonian’s Festival of American Folklife, the A. P. Carter Memorial Festival, national storytelling conferences, and the Festival for the Eno, where the stories and music of his family members from Cocke County, Tennessee, and Yancey County found broad appeal. McMillon will present traditional ballads, stories and string tunes.

• Bakersville native and Western Carolina University graduate William Ritter plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and other “stringed things.” With interests that lie in the direction of old apple trees and mountain humor, Ritter will share the stage with McMillon for traditional ballads.

• Aaron Ratcliffe is a native of Haywood County’s Big Stomp Mountain. A champion flatfoot dancer, superb singer, guitar player and fiddler, he now teaches at Appalachian State University. Ratcliffe will perform traditional music and dances of Haywood County,

In the spirit of radio variety shows of years past, each “Mountain Memories” performance follows a loose theme, but together they promote traditional Southern Appalachian culture in an accurate and positive way through music, dance and storytelling. sometimes accompanied by Ritter.

• Cherokee storyteller and musician Matthew Tooni, a native of Painttown community on the Qualla Boundary, is an award-winning recording artist and a member of the Medicine Lake Traditional Dancers, a heritage dance group descended from the Raven Rock Dancers, founded in the 1980s by Walker Calhoun.

• As a teller of Cherokee stories for more than 30 years, Kathi Littlejohn is reaching a new audience with her YouTube video series “Cherokee History & Stories: What Happened Here,” in which she visits important sites from

Cherokee history whose significance is in danger of being lost to time.

“My biggest hope is to tell the stories and protect those sites,” Littlejohn said. “We literally go past them every day. I wish that people would visit the sites, feel what happened there, and then use the stories in their own lives. I think that anybody that realizes something happened right there gives them a deeper understanding of things that are happening now.”

Parking is available in front and behind the historic Hazelwood School for all Folkmoot events. Tickets are $20 and available for both events at www.folkmoot.org.

Folkmoot’s year-round programs are supported by Vincintus Haywood, Town of Waynesville, the Mountaineer, VisitNCSmokies.org, The Smoky Mountain News, the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, Blue Ridge National Heritage Area and the Mast General Store.

Folkmoot is a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating many cultures in one community. The Folkmoot Friendship Center is located in the Historic Hazelwood School at 112 Virginia Avenue in Waynesville. Staff can be reached by phone at 828.452.2997 or by email at info@folkmoot.org.

A second Mountain Memories show, “A Mountain Christmas” is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 14 at Queen Auditorium.

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Brandon Boyd, lead singer of Incubus, onstage in Asheville. (photo: Connor Burchett)

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ith over 2,000 folks Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host piling into the Kentucky act Nick Dittmeier & The Sawdusters Thomas Wolfe (alt-country/rock) at 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16.

Auditorium in downtown Acclaimed potter Elise Delfield of Pincu Pottery Asheville for Incubus on will guide students in a hands-on workshop from Thursday evening, those in 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at the attendance walked away from Cowee Pottery School in Franklin. the gathering with way more than simply “hearing the “Kids at HART,” the youth drama group at the hits.”

Haywood Arts Regional Theatre (HART), will Celebrating the 20th present “Seussical the Musical Jr.” at 2 p.m. anniversary release of the Nov. 16-17, 23-24 at the theatre in Waynesville.

California rock act’s breakNantahala Brewing (Sylva) will host Brett Bass through album, “Make & Melted Plectrum (Americana) 8 p.m. Friday, Yourself,” the performance Nov. 22. unfolded with a retrospective film being projected on the The program “It Happened in the Graveyard… large backdrop behind the Beginnings of a Women’s History Trail” will be drum kit, the entire audience held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, at the Cowee on its feet cheering along.

School Arts and Heritage Center in Franklin.

The short documentary was a collage of old footage youth, Incubus never once came across as a taken by the band members backstage and nostalgia act. They were clearly not going on tour in the late 1990s for “Make through the motions — this was a living, Yourself.” This was mirrored with a recent interview of the entire ensemble reminiscing breathing and thirsty rock band.

Even when these songs were brand new a just what that life-changing recording meant generation ago, there was a mature vibration — to them and, ultimately, to the fans, too. to each tune, this thought-provoking lyrical The film ended with a huge “Thank You” aptitude and innovative sonic approach, across the screen, the band immediately which is something that has only translated waltzing onstage and launching into to deeper meanings and intrinsic truths as “Privilege,” the first track on “Make time has gone along.

Yourself.” Throughout the next hour or so, Diving into the album itself, “Make Incubus rolled through the entire 13-song Yourself ” would still be a hit record today.

LP, and in the exact order of the tracks.

Although one might have just approached The same could easily be said about the this anniversary showcase as a way to see and other radio hits the group radiated over the crowd further into the gig (“Warning,” experience a piece of your lost and forgotten

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“Anna Molly,” “Wish You Were Here”).

Incubus has always proudly worn its influences on its sleeve, never once shying away from its seamless blend of rock, hip-hop and folk stylings.

And don’t forget to take into account the stats on Incubus following the release of “Make Yourself.” Since 2001, the band has six Top 5 Billboard albums (and one #6), including three #2 and one #1. Singlewise? Since 2000, they have racked up 14 Top 10 rock singles, with 11 Top 5 tracks and four #1. In terms of record sales and radio play in the modern era, there aren’t many mainstream rock acts with those kinds of numbers.

But, what was more awe-inspiring was the mere fact that Incubus came along at a time when mainstream rock bands were few and far between. With the 1999 release of “Make Yourself,” most of what was popular on TV and the radio were boy bands and sugary pop singers (or cheesy, cookie cutter emo/punk groups).

Twenty years ago, it was a pretty special thing to have a real rock band play real instruments in music videos on MTV’s Total Request Live (TRL) and on pop radio. And yet, 20 years later, it’s still a special thing to have a rock band playing real instruments, especially in a modern era of electronica DJs, hip-hop, pop and country music.

Each of those songs on “Make Yourself ” remain emblazoned on the walls of your heart and soul. These were melodies you had echoing from your bedroom stereo while making out with your girlfriend or boyfriend, the door opened a few feet to appease your parents. And now, the songs are safe havens to soak into amid physical places and mental spaces when the world maybe is a little to real and heavy to cope with.

It was pretty surreal to think and feel all these things during the Asheville tour stop.

Lead singer Brandon Boyd’s golden tone and carefree attitude remains completely intact, with his mesmerizing presence fully in command of the stage and the listener’s attention. The same goes for the sheer power of guitarist Michael Einziger and Chris Kilmore on (the sincere lost art that is) the turntables.

But, it was also just as much about being genuinely present at the concert and “in the now” of the musical moment — as once the “new youth,” onward into the realm of aging millennials. We’ve all grown up, and on both sides of the microphone.

Looking around the auditorium, it was a sea of well-earned wrinkles and emerging gray hair (or no hair), bills and responsibilities, growing families and lifelong friends, wives (and ex-wives), and yet we’re all still here celebrating this music that brought us together — and in solidarity — some two decades ago.

Incubus was never about cherishing youth or being forever young, which can happen with bands one might adore as a teenager or adolescent. Incubus was, and remains, about being aware of fleeting time with friends and family (and within your own cosmic being) — of attaining and pursuing lifelong spiritual growth, and never losing that childlike wonder you came into this world with.

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On the beat • Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host the “Lounge Series” at its Calaboose location with Robert Ferguson Nov. 15, Kaleb Garrett 6:30 p.m. Nov. 16, Alma & Friends 4 p.m. Nov. 17, Scott Stambaugh Nov. 22, Donnie & The Dry Heavers Nov. 23 and Wollybooger 4 p.m. Nov. 24. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

• Blue Ridge Beer Hub (Waynesville) will host an acoustic jam with Main St. NoTones from 6 to 9 p.m. Nov. 14 and 21. Free and open to the public. www.blueridgebeerhub.com.

• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host a bluegrass open mic every Wednesday, an all-genres open mic every Thursday and Nick Dittmeier & The Sawdusters (altcountry/rock) Nov. 16 ($5 cover at door). All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.boojumbrewing.com.

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• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Scott Stambaugh Nov. 15, Alma Russ 3 p.m.

Nov. 17, Nikky Talley Duo Nov. 22 and The Mixx Nov. 23. All shows begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Nov. 13 and 20, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Nov. 14 and 21. There will also be performances by Seth Brand 7 p.m. Nov. 16 and Neil Gregory Johnson 3 p.m. Nov. 17. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Isis Music Hall (West Asheville) will host Chris Frisina & Earleine (folk/acoustic) 7 p.m. Nov. 13, Sawyer Fredericks w/Beth Bombara (folk) 8:30 p.m. Nov. 13, Tracy Grammer (folk) 7 p.m. Nov. 14, Roman Street (jazz/world) 8:30 p.m. Nov. 14, Escaping Pavement 7 p.m. Nov. 15, Free Planet Radio (jazz/world) 8:30 p.m. Nov. 15, Roger Street Friedman (Americana/folk) 7 p.m. Nov. 16, Eliot Bronson & Sarah Peacock (Americana/folk) 8:30 p.m. Nov. 16, Julie McConnell Quintet (jazz) 6 p.m. Nov. 17, Red Clay Strings (blues/country) 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17, Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions w/ClayBank 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19 and Sylvia Rose Novak (rock) 7 p.m. Nov. 20. For more information about the performances and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.isisasheville.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday, Gopher Broke Nov. 16, Heidi Holton (blues/folk) Nov. 22 and The Upbeats Nov. 23. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

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

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• Mad Anthony’s Taproom & Restaurant (Waynesville) will host The Dusty Travellers 7 p.m. Nov. 16. All shows are free and open to the public. 828.246.9249.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host the “Stone Soup” open mic night every Tuesday, Aly Jordan Nov. 15, Wyatt Espalin Nov. 16, Shayler’s Kitchen Nov. 22 and Somebody’s Child (Americana) Nov. 23. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

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• Nantahala Brewing (Sylva) will host Geoff & Scott 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16, Brett Bass & Melted Plectrum (Americana) Nov. 22 and Hustle Souls 7:30 p.m. Nov. 23. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• Pub 319 (Waynesville) will host an open mic night from 8 to 11 p.m. every Wednesday.

Free and open to the public. www.pub319socialhouse.com.

• Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub (Franklin) will host Angela Faye Martin Nov. 15, Eric Hendrix & Friends Nov. 16, Twelfth Fret Nov. 22 and Shawn Gibson & Lance Parker Nov. 23. Shows begin at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public. www.rathskellerfranklin.com.

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

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

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

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

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Highlands) will host Bluegrass w/Nitrograss Wednesdays at 7 p.m., Geoff & Scott 8 p.m. Nov. 15 and STIG 9:30 p.m. Nov. 22.

• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host an “Open Mic Night” on Mondays, karaoke on Thursdays and semi-regular music on Fridays and Saturdays. All events at 9:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

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• Whiteside Brewing (Cashiers) will host Doug Ramsay Nov. 15 and 22. Shows are at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.743.6000 or www.whitesidebrewing.com.

Nick Dittmeier & The Sawdusters.

Beloved Kentucky Americana honkytonk act Nick Dittmeier & The Sawdusters will perform at 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, in The Gem downstairs taproom at Boojum Brewing in Waynesville.

Hailing from Louisville, it’s hard to pinpoint just what The Sawdusters sound is.

They’re not outlaw country, not rock-n-roll or Americana either. They’re something else, and it’s that something else that truly sets them apart from anyone else.

This wild ensemble ricochets up and down the highways and back roads of Southern Appalachia and the Midwest, where legions of new fans and golden

WCU Wind Ensemble concert The Western Carolina University Wind Ensemble will hold a performance of diverse, satirical and perhaps even revolutionary music at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee.

The ensemble, under the direction of Margaret Underwood, WCU director of bands and associate professor of music, will open the program with Charles Ives’ “Country Band March.” Also featured will be “Little Threepenny Music” by Kurt Weill; “Summerland” by William Grant.

Still, considered the first African American to have a work premiered by a

opportunities are hard earned, and usually only granted just when all seems lost.

“I get a lot of inspiration from my hometown and the area we’re from. It’s a unique place with a lot of history. Louisville is regarded either as the northernmost southern city or the southernmost Midwestern city,” Dittmeier told The Smoky Mountain News. “I also like to take small almost mundane things and try to make them much larger. With my music, I feel I rarely try to tell people what to think. Instead, I try to hold a mirror up to a subject.”

The show is $5 at the door. Ages 21 and over. www.nickdittmeier.com. major symphony orchestra; and “Peace Dancer” by Jodie Blackshaw, who was inspired by a Native American story to remind people to love and respect. The concert will close with Erika Svanoe’s “Steampunk Suite,” with four vignettes on notable and sometimes notorious historical figures.

In addition to being the final performance of the semester for the ensemble, it will be the final performance as students for the soon-to-graduate seniors Hudson Moore, Mickey McCabe, Anna Waters, Ben Grochowsky, Mary Freeman, Westley Springthorpe, Tom Shoemaker and Brett Farris.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the School of Music at 828.227.7242.

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Fines Creek Dance Night Featuring live music from Running Wolfe and the Renegades, the Fines Creek Dance Night will be held Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Fines Creek Community Center.

Dance will be from 7 to 10 p.m. ($5 admission), with dinner ($7 a plate) beginning at 6 p.m. Chicken and dumplings, green beans, corn, dessert and a drink. Cake walk and 50/50 raffle.

The music will be traditional country and rock, with live clogging, line dancing, twostep, swing and mountain dancing.

All proceeds go to FCCA in supporting scholarships, community needs, and the Manna Foodbank. For more information, visit www.fb.me/finescreekorg.

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‘Cultural Crash Course: A Refugee’s Journey’

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‘Where We Live’ series continues

The next installment of the “Cultural Crash Course” series will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville.

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

While immigration is currently at the center of policy debates, little attention has been given as to how and why refugees flee their home countries and make the journey into the unknown.

From Syria to El Salvador, Dr. Cyndy Caravelis, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Western Carolina University, will discuss the formal and informal processes of a refugee’s journey towards resettlement.

Content will be presented as a 45minute community lecture followed by questions, answers and discussion.

Cultural Crash Courses are sponsored by Western Carolina University and the Town of Waynesville.

Tickets for Cultural Crash Courses are $10. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the lecture begins at 6 p.m.

Limited seating is available. Purchase Cultural Crash Course tickets in advance

by calling 828.452.2997 or purchasing electronically at www.folkmoot.org.

Parking is available in the back of the Folkmoot building for year-round events.

Folkmoot’s year-round programming initiatives have been made possible by the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina and the Cherokee Preservation Foundation.

Folkmoot is a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating many cultures in one community.

Sylva Garden Club fundraiser The Sylva Garden Club will be hosting a fundraiser “Christmas Tea & Crafts” from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at the First Presbyterian Church of Sylva.

Suggested donation is $15 per ticket.

Tickets are available from SGC members and at the door. In addition to tasty treats and fellowship, pecans and Christmas décor will be available for purchase. All proceeds go directly to fund SGC beautification projects.

Email nballiot@gmail.com for further information.

• The “Polar Express” will depart on select times through Dec. 31 from the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad depot. For more information, visit www.gsmr.com.

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The “Where We Live: History, Nature, and Culture” program series will present “It Happened in the Graveyard…

Beginnings of a Women’s History Trail” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, at the Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center in Franklin.

Marty Greeble, vice president of the Folk Heritage Association and a co-leader of the Women’s History Trail project will present the story of the WHT from the graveyard to the river.

The audience will be introduced to such notable women of the 1800s as Mary Bell, Margaret Young Love, Elizabeth Siler McDowell, Margaret Ogilvie, Alice Siler Robinson, Harriet Timoxena Siler Sloan,

Rebecca Morris, Sally and many other Macon County women who have contributed to the stories along the trail.

The surprise end of the current trail and exciting beginning of a new path at the river will pique your interest in what the WHT will be up to next as they sow the seeds of the future.

The lecture series is scheduled every third Monday of the month, with the exception of December, when there will be no program. Check out the many festive holiday activities at the school at www.coweeschool.org.

On Jan. 20, Stacy Guffey will speak on “Mountain Talk: A Serious Look at Our Local English.”

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Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville will host an array of wine tastings and small plates throughout the week.

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

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

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

• Saturdays: Champagne cocktails from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Secret Wine Bar will be open for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

There will also be a free wine tasting from 1 to 5 p.m.

Dog friendly patio and front garden open, weather permitting. For more information and/or to RSVP for ticketed events, call 828.452.0120 or email info@waynesvillewine.com.

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A wide array of tastings and events will soon take place at the Bryson City Wine Market.

• “Wehrloom Honey Mead Tasting” event will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14. An unforgettable line-up of well crafted locally made meads. Try a warm pumpkin mead as well! This is a free event, so bring your clan and fill your stein.

• “Yoga and Mimosas” with yogi Susan King will be held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, Nov. 16. Come sip and stretch the morning away. Cost is $10 per person.

• “Cheers to bubbles” will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21. From Champagne to Prosecco and Cremant to Cava. Raise a glass, as we explore the many styles and tastes of sparkling wine. To RSVP, email bcwinemarket@gmail.com.

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Cowee ‘Master Potter Series’ Acclaimed potter Elise Delfield of Pincu Pottery will guide students in a hands-on workshop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Cowee Pottery School in Franklin.

The workshop, “Brushwork: Mark Making to Enliven Your Surfaces,” will explore the use of a brush with ceramic stains, underglazes and glazes to decorate ceramic surfaces.

Students will learn and practice brushwork techniques, which brushes to use, how to organize the three-dimensional space for surface design, color choice and more.

Delfield will demonstrate and discuss her process, show a brief presentation of other brush-decorated ceramic art and guide students in their own decorating process.

Students should bring leather hard, bone dry and bisqueware to the workshop to be decorated, along with a variety of watercolor

• Haywood Community College professional crafts fiber student Miranda Heidler and graduates Mitsu Shimabukuro and Hannah Watson currently work in the “Of Threads, On Place” exhibition at the Asheville Area Arts Council. This selection of historical and contemporary textiles will run through Nov. 29 and is located at The Refinery Creator Space at 207 Coxe Avenue in Asheville. The event is open to the public and free of charge. www.ashevillearts.com.

• Stonehouse Pottery (Waynesville) will be doing an Open Studio Tour and Sale the first Sunday of each month to help support our local nonprofits. Each month highlights a different artist and that artists chooses his or her nonprofit. Stonehouse Pottery and the artist then give a portion of the proceeds as a donation to that nonprofit. For the month of November, artist David Stone has chosen Memory Care, Haywood Clinic, as his nonprofit. Stone has early onset Alzheimer’s and has shown significant improvement in his disease through the rehabilitation process of working in clay.

• The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center is pleased to present, “Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment.” This exhibition will be on display through Dec. 6. It features soundbased artwork that encourages visitors to listen more closely to the natural world and to think about how sound is being used in a

A work by Elise Delfield.

brushes and slip trailing equipment.

Delfield has been making pottery since 1999 and is a member of the prestigious Southern Highland Craft Guild and the Carolina Designer Craftsmen. Her work is in collections around the world and has been featured in Pottery Making Illustrated and several books.

Currently, Delfield teaches pottery at

Southwestern Community College and has taught at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Warren Wilson College and Haywood Community College, as well as workshops throughout the Southeast.

The cost of the class is $50 per student.

Class limit is 20. For more information on the class, the full supply list or to register for the workshop, visit www.coweepotteryschool.org.

time of environmental crisis. To learn more, visit bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

• The Weekly Open Studio art classes will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville, Instructor will be Betina Morgan. Open to all artists, at any stage of development, and in the medium of your choice.

Cost is $25 per class.

There will also be a Youth Art Class from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. on Wednesdays. Cost is $15 per class. Contact Morgan at 828.550.6190 or email bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

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• The Museum of the Cherokee Indian’s exhibit, “People of the Clay: Contemporary Cherokee Potters,” features more than 60 potters from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee Nation, and more than one hundred works from 1900 to the present.

The exhibit will run through April.

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

WOODARD PAINTINGS AT LIBRARY Acrylic painter Jason Woodard will have works of his showing in the auditorium of the Waynesville branch library through January 2020. The showcase is provided by the Haywood County Arts Council/Haywood County Public Library through the collaborative “Art Works @ The Library” program.

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Renowned Knoxville photographer, teacher, and workshop leader Colby McLemore will present “Commanding Composition” during the next meeting of the Waynesville Photography Club at 7 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 18, in the second floor classroom of Haywood Regional Health and Fitness Center in Clyde.

Photography as an art form has so many aspects — impact, presentation, technical skills, storytelling, and many others.

McLemore has found that composition is the most straightforward aspect to learn and improve our photography quickly.

Composition uses various “rules” to control the viewer’s experience within the frame and to increase visual interest. McLemore will teach you many basic and advanced “rules” such as the rule of thirds, perspective, leading lines, depth, framing, how the eye moves through the image, and more.

The public is always welcome to attend these free special programs. The Waynesville Photography Club exists for the enjoyment of photography and the improvement of your skills.

The club welcomes photographers of all skill levels to share ideas and images at the

monthly meetings. They engage our members through speakers, field shoots, exhibitions, and instructional workshops. Meetings are the third Monday of each month on the second floor of Haywood Regional Health and Fitness Center.

For more information on the club, call Donald Raff at 828.399.9138 or email donaldkraff@gmail.com.

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‘It’s a Small, Small Work’ exhibit The Haywood County Arts Council annual show, “It’s a Small, Small Work,” will be held through Jan. 4 in HCAC Gallery & Gifts in Waynesville.

The 2019 exhibit will feature 60 artists and almost 240 individual works of art for sale. The show provides a unique opportunity for budding artists to exhibit their work, as well as the opportunity for more seasoned artists to test their boundaries.

All pieces submitted are exactly 12” or smaller in every dimension, including base, matting, and frame. All art work is for sale, priced at $300 or less, and must have been created in the last two years. Commission will be the gallery’s usual 60 percent (artist) to 40 percent (HCAC) split.

For more information, www.haywoodarts.org or 828.452.0593.

Acrylic and watercolor painter Linda Blount will have works of his showing in the auditorium of the Waynesville branch library through January 2020. The showcase is provided by the Haywood County Arts Council/Haywood County Public Library through the collaborative “Art Works @ The Library” program.

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“Kids at HART,” the youth drama group at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre (HART), will present “Seussical the musical Jr.” at 2 p.m. Nov. 16-17, 23-24 at the theatre in Waynesville.

The show features a large cast under the direction of Shelia Sumpter. “Seussical” is a sung-through musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, based on the children’s stories of Dr. Seuss, with most of its plot being based on Horton Hears a Who! while incorporating many other stories.

Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat and all of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters spring to life onstage in “Seussical JR.,” a fantastical musical.

Transporting audiences from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus, the Cat in the Hat narrates the story of Horton the Elephant, who discovers a speck of dust containing tiny people called the Whos.

Horton must protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, and he must also guard an abandoned egg that’s been left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird.

Although Horton faces ridicule, danger and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant.

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

‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’

through the dramatic presentation of dance.

Petra Ballet Company is a professional nonprofit Christian ballet company from Springfield, Missouri. All dancers are professionally trained and have a desire to use their gift of dance to bring glory to the Lord. They are taught from a Christian perspective in a wholesome and safe environment to learn, be challenged, and grow.

Instructors strive to provide technical excellence and teaching styles, as well as impart a passion for worship to the students.

With a strong background in classical ballet technique, Petra Ballet Company has a contemporary flare and uses all forms of dance in their performances. Their mission is to exalt the name of Jesus through dance, revive hearts through worship, and make Him known through excellence in the arts.

Adult tickets are $14 and student tickets are $10 each. To purchase tickets, visit www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 828.273.4615.

Presented by the Overlook Theatre Company, a production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: The Musical” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15-16 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

From the Academy Award-winning team of Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz comes a lushly scored retelling of Victor Hugo’s epic story of love, acceptance and what it means to be a hero.

Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney animated feature, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” showcases the film’s Academy Award-nominated score, as well as new songs by Menken and Schwartz.

A full two-act live stage show. Tickets are $17 for adults, $12 for students. To purchase tickets, call 866.273.4615 or visit www.greatmountainmusic.com.

Petra Ballet Company in Franklin The holiday show season will kickoff with the Petra Ballet Company at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

The group will present their signature Christmas dance piece, "Reborn," which tells The Christmas Story from Mary’s perspective

• There is free comedy improv class from 7 to 9 p.m. every Thursday at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. No experience necessary, just come to watch or join in the fun. Improv teacher Wayne Porter studied at Sak Comedy Lab in Orlando, Florida, and performed improvisation with several groups. Join Improv WNC on Facebook or call 828.316.8761.

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f you have school-age children, by now they are two months or more into their routine of classes, books, extracurricular activities, and homework. Perhaps they love their teachers, excel in their academic studies, are popular among their peers, and look forward every morning to whatever new challenges may come their way.

But what if the opposite is true?

What if 10-year-old Jimmy arrives home Writer every day worn-out and discouraged, telling you he feels stupid because he’s lagging behind in math? What if the teacher sends a note home with 8-year-old Sally explaining that she seems disconnected from the class, staring out the window while the other kids are copying out words for spelling or drawing pictures of flowers during arithmetic? What if you pick up 6-year-old Elizabeth from school and find her in tears for receiving demerits in class for talking, when she doesn’t even know what a demerit is?

“What’s wrong with my kid?” you ask yourself aloud.

But what if it’s not the kid?

Susan Wise Bauer raises that question in Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education (W.W. Norton & Company, 2018). For 15 years, Bauer taught at William & Mary, is the author of such books as The Well-Trained Mind and the History of the World Series, and has worked with many parents and their children on difficulties vis-àvis school. In this latest book, she offers wise counsel to parents on how to “flex” the K-12 system, making, as much as possible, school fit the child rather than the child the school.

Bauer’s first point regarding our schools in general is crucial and rarely addressed. She shows us that our K-12 education follows a one size fits all approach to learning, a sort of factory producing a widget, the “modern product of market forces.” The educational environment, particularly in public schools, is

perfectionism.

In “The Toxic Classroom,” Bauer addresses such issues as bullying by classmates or teachers who “sometimes take a dislike to a child.” For parents who find themselves trying to help a child in these situations, Bauer’s advice is both specific and invaluable. She has a long list of questions to help the parent get to the root of the problem.

Here are some samples from this list a parent might ask a discouraged child: •“If you could send anyone in the whole school to live in a colony on Mars, who would it be?” (Whoever gets exiled to Mars might be causing a problem.)

•“When were you happiest today?”

• “If your teacher suddenly turned into an animal, what animal would it be?”

Lions and boa constrictors suggest that the child doesn’t feel safe.

dler sister; he boards a bus; bells govern his day; he sits in classes, eats lunch, and plays outside, all with children his own age; he boards the bus and returns to his family with another hour or more of homework.

Bauer then examines the struggles of students in such a system, looking first at those with learning disabilities, some of which are real, some of which come about because the student’s style of learning doesn’t match the demands of the classroom, followed by a chapter on gifted students, particularly how to help them work past a tendency toward

If we feel our child is mistreated at school, Bauer instructs us to “Document, document, document” and “Go up the chain of command properly.”

Write out specific incidents, for example, when a bully has taken money from your child, and then “always start with the teacher.” Present your case to her, and if she fails to help, then take your complaint to the administration.

“Part III: Taking Control” is the heart of Rethinking School, especially for parents whose children are enrolled in formal institutions of learning. Here again Bauer gives excellent practical advice on how to flex the system, ways to make it work to the benefit of

Ricketson, Carter poetry reading ‘Coffee with the Poets & Writers’ Mary Ricketson will read poems from Mississippi, The Story of Luck and Marian at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Ricketson will be joined by Cathrine Carter, author of Larvae of the Nearest Stars. Carter will open up with a few poems of her own and then introduce Ricketson.

Mississippi, The Story of Luke and Marian, relates Ricketson’s family story in mostly narrative poems, from the perspective of racial tensions in troubled Mississippi, 1948-1969, and the parents who found a way through these tedious times.

To reserve a copy, call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

The next installment of “Coffee with the Poets & Writers” (CWPW) will feature poet Mary Ricketson and writer James F. Davis at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, at the Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville.

The event is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the presentations. Bring a poem or a short prose piece to participate. CWPW is sponsored by North Carolina Writers’ Network-West (NCWN-W) which also includes writers in Towns, Union, Fannin, and Rabun Counties in Georgia.

For more information, contact Glenda Beall at glendabeall@msn.com.

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the student. She begins by suggesting that whenever possible parents should involve themselves in the classroom, offering the teacher services ranging from chaperoning a class trip to donating supplies. She next tutors parents on how they can control the standardized tests required of their children, how to make those tests more compatible to the student’s abilities or how to opt out of them altogether.

Many parents know the stress that homework brings to their children, and here again Bauer offers sage advice. She first explains that study after study have shown homework “is ineffective for elementary students,” that for middle-school students “homework is helpful … only in much smaller amounts than is usually assigned,” and that for those in high school “productivity plateaus at two hours per night.”

To ease the homework burden, Bauer again gives parents practical advice. She encourages them to keep an accurate count of time spent on homework over two or more weeks, and then average out that time. If Sally is spending too much time on homework, she suggests contacting the teacher with that specific data and explaining that the schoolwork at home is eating into your family time. In many cases, the teacher will be happy to make adjustments. If not, and if your child is in elementary school or even middle school, you can simply limit the amount of homework yourself.

Here Bauer makes an important point often forgotten by parents: the grades received through 8th grade have no bearing on an application for college. They will not appear on the high school transcript.

Bauer also addresses such topics as acceleration (skipping a grade), developing your child’s sense of self-awareness, and a section on homeschooling for those parents who cannot flex a formal classroom.

Rethinking School is a timely reminder that the parent is the principal and chief educator of the child.

Two thumbs up on this one.

(Jeff Minick is a writer and teacher. minick0301@gmail.com.)

• The John C. Campbell Folk School and NC Writers’ NetworkWest (NCWN-West) will sponsor “The Literary Hour,” which will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, at the Keith House’s Community Room on the JCCFS campus in Brasstown. This event is

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• Monthly Poetry Reading at Panacea Coffeehouse in Waynesville. Last Saturdays every month at 2 p.m. Bring your poetry, essays and writings to share. Be sure to order drinks and snacks and tip the staff of Panacea. For more information, contact Morella Poe at poevampyre@gmail.com.

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The Joe and Sue Morrow Teaching Forest includes a diversity of species and plant communities for students to explore. Holly Kays photos

Legacy for education Waynesville couple donates land for natural resource education

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER aywood County has seen its share of change over the past century, and nobody knows that better than Joe Morrow.

Morrow, 86, grew up on 107 acres of steep mountain land that today is located just down the road and across from the Haywood County Fairgrounds. It’s been in the family since his grandparents were farming, but he and his wife Sue have now placed 53 acres in a conservation easement that allowed it to become Haywood Community College’s newest teaching forest.

“I believe in education. I believe in helping kids and anything we can do to help them,” said Morrow, who is retired from a long career in education. “I felt like if they needed a laboratory, you can’t learn sitting in a classroom. If you get out in the field, you get some actual experience hands-on, and a two-hour class can put in one-and-a-half hours here easily and be back in time.”

It takes less than 10 minutes to drive from HCC’s campus to the Joe and Sue Morrow Teaching Forest. A gravel road extends about

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halfway up the mountain, with a trail splitting off to wind around the slope from there. HCC has other teaching forests, but they’re all a much further drive than the 53 acres now available off Crabtree Road.

“One of our forests, it takes a good two hours just to get to the top of the hill,” said Alex Storm, a natural resources instructor at the college. “The way this property is set up, we have very easy access. The roads are great.

We can get all over the place very quickly in

Joe and Sue Morrow live at the bottom of the mountain they recently gave for Haywood Community College’s use as a teaching forest.

there. We’ve already used it on a few occasions just in the short time it’s been available to us.”

When the new semester begins in January, instructors will likely start using it even more frequently.

“It is wonderful that Joe and Sue Morrow will leave behind such a legacy through this gift,” said HCC President Dr. Barbara Parker. “The forest will significantly impact our students and the community forever. We sincerely thank them.”

The property is protected by a conservation easement held by the Haywood County Soil and Water Conservation District. The easement prevents the land from succumbing to development but offers plenty of latitude

for students to experience the kind of handson education the Morrows wanted to give.

If the students are learning about how to fight invasive species, they can actually perform the treatments needed to get rid of the undesirable plants. If they’re learning about how to promote the growth of oaks or maintain meadow and edge habitats, they can perform the plantings or cuttings needed to achieve that goal.

“We can manipulate the conditions to make the trees that we want to be growing grow there, and then we can follow those trees,” said Storm. “The students who are doing that work can have that legacy and maybe go back there in 10 or 15 years and see what the result was of their hard work.”

It’s not just forestry students who will benefit from the teaching forest. Ornithology classes can travel there to practice their bird identification skills. Wildlife students can write and carry out wildlife management plans there.

The possibilities are many, especially due to the property’s diversity. It includes old stands of oaks, young forests growing on top of old cattle pasture, coves fostering stands of poplar and dry ridges home to a whole different type of plant community. The land also features several species that aren’t often found growing naturally in Western North Carolina, such as black walnut and red cedar.

These trees prefer alkaline soils instead of the acidic ones that more often occur in the mountains.

Of the 53 acres included in the teaching forest, about 40 have never been cut, or at least not in Morrow’s memory. However, the remaining 10 to 15 were once cleared of trees, all the way up to the top of the mountain.

“Of course we tried to farm it,” said Morrow. “Kind of scratched out a living on it — a partial living.”

The Morrows pastured cattle on the land, and steep as it was they grew corn as well.

Back in the 1930s and ‘40s, they worked the land with horses, not tractors. After World War II, Morrow said, he begged his dad to get a tractor, but no tractor appeared until after Morrow left home.

“When I went to school he finally found out he needed a tractor,” Morrow recalled.

“I’d had the hillside plowed with horses and doing all of it.”

The new technology didn’t come easily to his dad, however. Morrow remembers the immediate aftermath of the tractor purchase, and how his father almost gave up on the machine.

“I came in, he had the tractor stuck out there in the barn,” said Morrow. “He didn’t know how to drive it. He was about fit to be tied.”

The horses were up near the top of the mountain, grazing. Morrow’s dad told him to get up there and bring the horses down to do the work, saying that he wouldn’t trade two good horses for a field full of tractors.

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school system, eventually retiring as assistant superintendent of Cherokee County.

Despite living scores of miles away in Andrews, he and Sue, herself a Waynesville native, kept a close connection to the family land. Together with Morrow’s brother and two sisters, they sold off 40 acres of the original 107 to be subdivided for residential development.

“It is wonderful that Joe and Sue Around that time, they made the move back to Haywood Morrow will leave behind such a County, where they still live in a legacy through this gift.” house located at the bottom of the family land.

— Dr. Barbara Parker, HCC President “We of course still had the mountain 53 acres up there, and I didn’t want any more houses on that want to continue the tradition. Morrow mountain,” said Morrow. “We’ve got himself was gone. He graduated from high enough houses on our mountains around school in 1951 and joined the U.S. Marine here now.”

Corps in 1953, uprooting himself from So, Morrow bought out his siblings’ Haywood County for what would turn out share and set about figuring out just what to be decades. should be done with the land. HCC proved After leaving the Marines, Morrow a good fit, and with the easement now in launched a career in education. He spent place, the mountain will remain free from about eight years as a community college houses. Meanwhile, the land will get the teacher, mostly in Andrews, and then got care it needs to remain healthy and resilient into administration. After about 9.5 years of against the changes and challenges in store that, Morrow decided that he missed workfor the century to come. ing with kids and moved to the K-12 public up and just backed it out,” said Morrow.

“Boy, I thought he was going to kill me then. He said, ‘I told you to get up there and get those horses.’ I said, ‘I got the tractor out.’”

Eventually, though, Morrow’s dad got too old for farming, and his brother didn’t

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Grant awards support water quality projects Beaverdam Creek dam removal project in Canton. n Haywood Waterways Association received a total of $67,655 split into two separate grants. Of that amount, $50,000 will go toward continued coordinated community efforts to address water quality issues, implement the Haywood Watershed Action Plan and increase public appreciation of water resources through educational programs and publications. The remaining $17,655 will help repair failing septic systems for low-income homeowners identified by the Haywood County Health Department. n The N.C. Arboretum Society received $22,000 to complete the transformation of a sediment catch basin into an innovative stormwater wetland complex by converting part of a parking lot to permeable pavers. n Asheville GreenWorks received $25,000 to decrease the amount of litter, pollution and erosive material flowing into area waterways and to increase awareness about protecting resources, mainly through support to the Youth Environmental Leadership Program.

n The Environmental Quality Institute received $40,000 to help fund its VWIN and SMIE programs, as well as its AmeriCorps Project Conserve position, all of which support volunteer stream monitoring throughout the Pigeon and French Broad River basins. n Mountain Valleys Resource Conservation & Development Council received $52,000 split between two separate grants. Of the total, $40,000 will fund projects including continued work with the Ivy River Partnership, youth education programs and the purchase and installation of a Trash Trout Junior to collect litter in a local stream. The remaining $12,000 will be used to decommission the package sewage treatment plant behind Laurel Elementary School located on Shelton Laurel Creek in Madison County.

Since 1996, the Pigeon River Fund has distributed more than $7.6 million in grants. The money comes from Duke Energy in exchange for the company’s damming the Pigeon River for hydropower.

The fund is managed by the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina.

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Environmental groups working for the benefit of waterways and watersheds in Haywood, Buncombe and Madison counties were awarded $262,000 in the most recent round of grants from the Pigeon River Fund of The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina. n The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy received $25,000 for survey costs in an effort to purchase 448 acres in eastern Haywood County. Earlier this year, the organization landed a $1.2 million grant from the Clean Water Management Trust Fund to help purchase the property, now called the Chestnut Mountain Park property and formerly known as the Canton Motorsports property. SAHC hopes to acquire the land and make it available for public recreation, permanently protecting designated trout waters and 9 miles of stream. It is currently exploring options with the Town of Canton and Haywood County to see if the land would make a good natural resource protective public park. n American Rivers received $30,500 to support the second and final phase of design, engineering and permitting of the

Grant funds Smokies bear cable repairs A grant from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy will allow Friends of the Smokies to improve bear safety infrastructure at A.T. campsites in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The $4,000 grant will support repairs to food storage cables at these campsites and shelters. Park biologists estimate there are more than 1,500 bears in the park, equal to about two bears per square mile. Since 2006, more than 60 percent of A.T. shelters in the Smokies have experienced some form of human-bear conflict annually. Thanks in part to this ATC funding, every A.T. campsite in the Smokies has food storage cables, reducing the chances of such conflicts.

The grant is funded by the ATC’s specialty license plate sales in North Carolina. It also supports seasonal staff and two wildlife interns who assist with cable repair, as well as other bear management and monitoring.

Get involved with WATR The Watershed Association of the Tuckasegee River will hold a meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, at The Community Table in Sylva.

The group will discuss the importance of getting to know watershed partners, leaders and members in order to continue protecting, educating and monitoring the Tuck’s watershed for generations to come. Team signups, board nominations and 2020 board election dates will be discussed as well. info@WATRnc.org.

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Hike Charlies Bunion outdoors

A rewarding but strenuous hike to Charlies Bunion in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will set off at 7 a.m.

Monday, Nov. 18, from the Waynesville Recreation Center.

The 8-mile roundtrip hike follows the Appalachian Trail to a rocky outcrop featuring a stunning view, with 1,600 feet of elevation change along the way.

The hike is offered as part of Base Camp Waynesville through the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department.

Cost is $8. Sign up with Tim Petrea at tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov or 828.456.2030.

Witness winter greenery

Burns planned in Cades Cove Prescribed burns on about 660 acres of fields in Cades Cove are planned for this fall, with operations occurring on three separate days through Friday, Dec. 20.

Over the last 20 years, managers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have conducted these burns in the spring and fall to reduce fuels, restore meadow habitats and maintain Cades Cove’s historic landscape.

Staff closely monitor fire weather conditions to conduct burns when it will be safe

and effective to do so. Burns boost native plant species that provide high-quality cover and foraging opportunities for a diversity of wildlife, including deer, turkeys and ground-nesting birds.

Visitors should expect to see firefighters and equipment along Hyatt Lane and the western end of the Cades Cove Loop Road.

The area will remain open, but brief delays and temporary closures may occur. Motorists should reduce speed in work zones and refrain from stopping in roadways.

Come take a gander at the Highlands Biological Foundation’s year-round greenery with a talk and botanical garden exploration from 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Highlands Nature Center in Highlands.

Paige Engelbrektsson, the center’s education specialist, will lead the program, which will be held rain or shine. Topics will include common evergreen plants and how these species survive the harsh winter conditions.

Free, and open to all ages. 828.526.2523.

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It’s hunting season in Western North Carolina, and non-hunters are encouraged to be proactive about ensuring their safety while in the woods.

Wear bright-colored clothing, such as neon or hunter orange, to make yourself more visible, and avoid neutral colors. Dogs should also wear a bright-colored vest or bandana. n Make noise to alert hunters of your pres-

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ence. Talk, whistle or sing, and if you hear shooting, raise your voice to let hunters know you’re around. n Know your own comfort level — if hunting makes you uneasy, do some research to find out where it’s not allowed and hike there instead.

Fees from hunting licenses go to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, which helps maintain wildlife habitat and many roads in the national forests. Seasons and regulations are posted at www.ncwildlife.org/hunting/hunting-in-north-carolina.

Staff conduct a prescribed burn in the Cades Cove area. NPS photo

Panthertown selected for recreation impact intervention Panthertown Valley is one of 14 locations nationwide to be selected as a 2020 Leave No Trace Hot Spot.

Hot Spots identify areas suffering from severe recreational impacts that can thrive again with Leave No Trace solutions. Each location receives a unique, site-specific blend of programs aimed at healthy and sustainable recovery. Since 2012, Leave No Trace has carried out just under 100 Hot Spots in 35 states, with 14 more coming in 2020.

Located in the Nantahala National Forest near Cashiers, Panthertown Valley has 30 miles of public trails. Friends of Panthertown is an official member and partner of the Leave No Trace Center for

Outdoor Ethics, and the organization has a Leave No Trace Master Educator on staff to educate community members on the seven principles of Leave No Trace. Those principles are: plan ahead and prepare, travel and camp on durable surfaces, dispose of waste properly, leave what you find, minimize campfire impacts, respect wildlife and be considerate of other visitors. friends@panthertown.org.

Gobble toward the finish line Registration is open for the Gobble on the Green Thanksgiving Day 5K Run/Walk slated for 9 a.m.

Thursday, Nov. 28, at The Village Green Commons in Cashiers.

The 5K will start at 9 a.m., with a kid-friendly 1-mile Fun Run starting at 10:30 a.m. Last year’s inaugural event drew more than 500 participants from 27 states.

Registration is $30, with Fun Run participation free for children ages 5 to 10. Pre-race packet pickup will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27, at The Village Green Commons. Register at www.villagegreencashiersnc.com or call 828.743.3434.

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Newly Reshaped Greens

Dale Stanton-Hoyle and his mother, Barbara Stanton, share a joyous embrace upon entering the newly renovated greenhouse. Bill Graham photo

Lake J greenhouse renovated or whatever was growing,” said Stanton.

The greenhouse renovation included new plastic and a new water heater, an improved airflow system, strengthened support beams and other equipment updates.

The renovations will improve energy efficiency and allow the more than 8,000 plants grown there annually to become better and healthier than they would otherwise, said landscape manager Melissa Tinsley. Lake Junaluska held celebrated the improvements during a ceremony in late August. www.lakejunaluska.com.

Mainspring purchases lot next to Franklin office Mainspring Conservation Trust has expanded its physical presence in the Franklin river district by purchasing half of an acre adjacent to its current office building on East Main Street.

The property includes 112 feet of Little Tennessee River frontage, in addition to two buildings.

Mainspring Deputy Director Ben Laseter says those assets contributed to the nonprofit’s interest in the lot. The nonprofit will use one building to store equipment and supplies currently held off-site and lease out the second, larger building for commercial purposes. Additional plantings planned near the river will complement Carlson Woodland Park, existing office green space created in 2015. www.mainspringconserves.org.

The 14th annual Brook and Beast Feast will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds.

The event will feature a menu of pulled pork, fried fish and more, as well as door prize drawings, a live and silent auction and live music. Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door.

Formerly known as the Wild Game Dinner, the event is a fundraiser for Haywood Community College students in the fish and wildlife management technology program. Proceeds will help students attend the Annual Southeastern Wildlife Conclave, support a scholarship and pro-

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Lake Junaluska’s greenhouse is heading into the winter fully renovated, thanks to a charitable gift Dale Stanton-Hoyle made in honor of his mother, Barbara Stanton.

Stanton has volunteered with gardening and landscaping initiatives at the lake for 20 years, tracing her love of gardening back to 1941, when she was 7 years old and the family planted a garden so they would have food to eat during World War II. “After I was married and the kids were little, whenever we came back home, we would go see the garden, and eat tomatoes, turnips

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vide opportunities for students to learn from and network with natural resource professionals at various conferences.

Purchase tickets through Chris Caldwell at the fairgrounds, 828.400.1704, or visit the HCC Natural Resources office.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department will host a planning meeting for the Haywood County Special Olympics Spring Games at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at the Waynesville Recreation Center. Info and reservations: tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov or 456.2030.

• A fair housing awareness session is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Nov. 14 in the Jackson County Department on Aging – Heritage Room. An HUD representative will give a presentation on fair housing and be available for Q&A. 631.2283.

• Canton First Baptist Church will honor veterans with “Celebrate Freedom, Canton” featuring King’s Cadence at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16, in Canton.

Contemporary gospel quartet. Featured speaker is Rev. Eric Hill, former Army Sergeant. 648.2367.

• Western Carolina University will host an Open House for prospective students and their families starting at 8:15 a.m. on Nov. 23 in Cullowhee. Preregistration: 227.7317, 877.928.4968 or openhouse.wcu.edu. Info: visit.wcu.edu.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a series of seminars for existing and aspiring business owners in November at the Jackson Campus in Sylva and the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. Registration required. Full listing, details and sign-ups: http://bit.ly/2ncPnyf.

• The Small Business Center at Haywood Community College will offer an Agribusiness webinar series from 3-4:15 p.m. on Tuesdays, through Nov. 19, designed with the specific needs of current and prospective agribusinesses in mind. Info and registration: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• A Cultural Crash Course: “A Refugee’s Journey” will be presented from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Nov. 13 at Folkmoot in Waynesville. Dr. Cyndy Caravelis, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Western Carolina University, will present a 45-minute community lecture followed by questions, answers and discussion. Tickets: $10.

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• Registration is underway for the spring semester at Haywood Community College in Clyde. www.haywood.edu, hcc-advising@haywood.edu or 627.2821.

• The Small Business Center at Haywood Community College will offer a free Agribusiness webinar series from 3-4:15 p.m. on Tuesdays through Nov. 19.

Designed with the needs of current and prospective agribusinesses in mind. Info and registration: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• NAACP North Carolina President, Dr. Anthony Spearman, will speak at 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 20, at the Folkmoot Center Auditorium in Waynesville. Topic is “Why We Can’t Be Ahistorical.” Following his talk, multiple workshops will be offered on topics like culturally responsive teaching, unpacking implicit bias, nonviolent communication and more. 400.5475.

• The Small Business Center at Haywood Community College will offer a webinar on “Working with Angry Customer Behaviors in Your Small Business” from 9-10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Info and reservations: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Registration is underway for a workshop focusing on “Building Cultural Competency and Diversity within Nonprofits” that will be offered through Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

Enrichment from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Can be taken as a standalone or as part of the Certified Nonprofit Professional Program. Registration: $89 for the workshop or $300 for the CNP course fee. pdp.wcu.edu, jcthompson@wcu.edu or 227.3070.

• Registration is underway for Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment’s workshop entitled: “Proactive Strategies for Preventing Employee Hiccups During the Holidays,” which will be offered from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Instructor is Jon Yarbrough of Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLC. Early-bird registration is $85 by Nov. 30. After, it’s $99.

For info and to register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Registration is underway for a “Better Communication Through Creative Play for Marketing and Sales Professionals” workshop offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 13, at WCU’s Biltmore Park location in Asheville. $99. Info or to register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • A Chili Cookoff will be held at 5 p.m. on Nov. 13 at HomeBase, 82 Central Dr., in Cullowhee. Competition for the best chili at Western Carolina University; conversation about food insecurity in the region. Guest speakers include Smoky Mountain News journalist Cory Vaillancourt and Carolina Public Press managing editor Frank Taylor $5 per bowl and chili sampling. Proceeds go to HomeBase and SPJ. • Jackson County Bands are holding a citrus sale fundraiser through Nov. 14 for the bands of Jackson County Public Schools. https://tinyurl.com/y62cnj2l.

• Stonehouse Pottery (Waynesville) will be doing an Open Studio Tour and Sale the first Sunday of each month to help support our local nonprofits. Each month highlights a different artist and that artists chooses his or her nonprofit. Stonehouse Pottery and the artist then give a portion of the proceeds as a donation to that nonprofit. For the month of November, artist David Stone has chosen Memory Care, Haywood Clinic, as his nonprofit. Stone has early onset Alzheimer's and has shown significant improvement in his disease through the rehabilitation process of working in clay.

• Tickets are on sale now for the Festival of Trees, which is set for 5:30-9 p.m. on Nov. 21, at Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville. Presented by Kids Advocacy Resource Effort. Tickets are $75 per person or $550 for a table of eight. Tickets available at www.KareHouse.org or 456.8995.

• The 14th annual Brook and Beast Feast is set for 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22, at the Haywood County Fairgrounds in Waynesville. Formerly known as the Wild Game Dinner, it’s a fundraiser for the HCC fish and wildlife management technology students. Pulled pork, fried fish and more. Drawings, silent auction and live music. Tickets: $10 in advance or $15 at the door.

Advance tickets: 400.1704 or drop by the HCC Natural Resources Office. Info: 627.4560 or srabby@haywood.edu.

• Swain County Genealogical and Historical Society is seeking items for its annual Holiday Shopping Auction that is scheduled for Dec. 5. Handmade crafts, artwork, subscriptions, sports equipment, tickets to area attractions, gift baskets, gift cards and more accepted.

Proceeds will upgrade equipment and resources in the

genealogy library. Items accepted until 4 p.m. on Dec. 3 in the Heritage Museum, 200 Main Street, next to the Fly Fishing Museum on the square in Bryson City.

• The Sylva Garden Club will be hosting a fundraiser “Christmas Tea & Crafts” from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at the First Presbyterian Church of Sylva.

Suggested donation is $15 per ticket. Tickets are available from SGC members and at the door. In addition to tasty treats and fellowship, pecans and Christmas décor will be available for purchase. All proceeds go directly to fund SGC beautification projects. nballiot@gmail.com.

HEALTH MATTERS • Al-Anon, a confidential support group for friends and family members of alcoholics, meets at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesdays at Grace Episcopal Church in Waynesville.

440.724.5994.

• The Macon County Cancer Support Group meets at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14, in the cafeteria of Angel Medical Center, Riverview St., in Franklin. Guest speaker is Kathy Moffitt, a nearly two-year survivor of lung cancer.

• Haywood County Health & Human Services Agency will hold a monthly night clinic from 4:30-6 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month at 157 Paragon Parkway in Clyde next to Tractor Supply. Annual exams, birth control, child health, lab testing, immunizations, STI/STD exams and counseling. Appointments: 452.6675.

• Parkinson’s Support in the Mountains meets at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Heritage Room of the Jackson County Department on Aging, 100 County Services Park in Sylva. Dr. Emory Prescott, a speechlanguage pathologist, will speak on enhancing brain health with natural botanicals.

• Southwestern Community College will host “Your Body, Your Mind” - a campus-wide mental health and sexual wellness event - from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20, in the Burrell Building on the Jackson Campus in Sylva. Presentations, education, testing and more. www.southwesterncc.edu.

• Co-Dependents Anonymous, a support group for those wishing to create more fulfilling relationships with themselves and others, will meet from 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Fridays at the Friendship House, 566 S. Haywood St., in Waynesville. http://coda.org.

• The Haywood Chapter of Survivors of Suicide Loss meets from 6:30-8 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at the Fellowship Hall of Hazelwood Presbyterian Church in Waynesville. Info: 910.528.0169.

• The WNC Ostomy Support Group will meet from 6-7 p.m. every second Monday at the Jackson County Center Cooperative Extension’s Meeting Room, 876 Skyland Dr., Suite 6, in Sylva. Group is for people living with a urostomy, ileostomy, colostomy or a continent diversion.

Facilitated by Certified Ostomy Nurses.

• An Essential Oil class will be offered at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City at 4 pm on Nov. 13.

Presentation on personalized health care through the addition of essential oils. Call or text Wende Goode at 246.2256 to reserve your space at class and receive a free trial sample of oil tailored to your personalized health need. Lacking sleep, digestive issues, mood imbalance, pain. Limit of 12 participants. Call even if you are unable to attend class but still interested in learning more and receiving a sample.

• Grace Church in the Mountains will present “Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope” at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 13, in Waynesville. A onehour documentary on the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences and the birth of a new movement to treat

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• An Essential Oil class will be offered at Lazy Hiker/Mad Batter Kitchen in Sylva at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 13. Lacking sleep, digestive issues, mood imbalance, in pain. Call or text Wende Goode at 246.2256 to reserve your space at class and receive a free trial sample of oil tailored to your personalized health need.

Limit of 12 participants. Call even if you are unable to attend class but still interested in learning more and receiving a sample.

• “Breastfeeding A-Z” class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. on Nov. 14 at Haywood Regional Medical Center in Waynesville. Focusing on techniques for proper latching and comfortable positions for a baby and mom to get started. Pre-registration required: MyHaywoodRegional.com/ParentClasses or 452.8440.

• A pair of lectures on Creating a Medicinal Kitchen Garden will be held from 2-4 p.m. on Nov. 15, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Presented by Kate Bailey, RN and owner of Lost Cove Herbs. Adults only.

• The International Essential Tremor Foundation support group meets at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at the Jackson County Senior Center, Room 135, in Sylva.

Learn coping skills and available products to help. Info: 736.3165 or teddyk1942@gmail.com.

• Gentle Yoga for Cancer is offered from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Fridays at the Haywood Breast Center in Waynesville.

Info: myhaywoodregional.com/yogaforcancer.

• On the third weekend of each month, Maggie Valley Wellness Center hosts donation-based acupuncture appointments. $35-55. 944.0288 or maggievalleywellness.com.

• “Nourishing You” – an introductory “Yoga for Cancer” class, is offered from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Fridays at the Haywood Breast Center in Waynesville. Taught by Kim Mulholland, Mindful Yoga for Cancer Duke Integrative Medicine Trainer. Info: 452.8691 or MyHaywoodRegional.com/YogaforCancer.

• A Community Acupuncture Clinic is held on the third weekend of each month at 461 Moody Farm Road in Maggie Valley. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday and 1-4 p.m. on Sunday. Sliding scale cost is $35-$55.

Offered by Barbara Dennis, a Licensed Acupuncturist and Registered Nurse.

• Jackson County Department of Public Health is offering diabetes self-management education as well as medical nutrition therapy. Info: 587.8240 or http://health.jacksonnc.org/wic.

• The Haywood County Senior Resource Center holds a dementia caregivers support group from 4:30-6 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday each month in Waynesville.

356.2800 or www.haywoodseniors.org.

• “Riding the Waves of Cancer” meets from 2:30-4 p.m. on Thursdays at the Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center. Physician referral from an oncologist or cancer doctor is required: Myhaywoodregional.com/yogaforcancer. 452.8691.

• The Jackson County Senior Center will offer a Caregiver Education Class at 10 a.m. on the third Monday of every month in the Board Room of the Department of Aging in Sylva. 586.5494.

• Angel Medical Center’s diabetes support group meets at 4 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month in the AMC dining room. 369.4166.

• A free weekly grief support group is open to the public from 12:30-2 p.m. on Thursdays at SECU Hospice House in Franklin. Hosted by Four Seasons Compassion for Life Bereavement Team. 692.6178 or mlee@fourseasonscfl.org.

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• The American Red Cross has an urgent need for blood donors due to an emergency shortage. App, visit RedCrossBlood.org or call 800.RED.CROSS (800.733.2767).

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• Codependents Anonymous (CoDA) meets at 5:30 p.m. on Fridays at the Friendship House on Academy Street, behind and adjoining the First United Methodist Church of Waynesville. Group of persons desiring healthy and fulfilling relationships. 775.2782 or www.coda.org.

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• A free, weekly grief support group will meet from 12:30-2 p.m. on Thursdays at the SECU Hospice House in Franklin. 692.6178 or mlee@fourseasonscfl.org.

• “ECA on the Move!” – a walking program organized

by Jackson County Extension and Community Association – meets from 9-10 a.m. on Mondays through Thursdays. It’s an effort to meet the American Heart Association’s recommendation of 10,000 steps per day. 586.4009.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • Sons of the American Legion will present a Turkey Shoot at 9 a.m. every Saturday through April at 171 Legion Dr. in Waynesville. $2 per round; refreshments provided. Weather permitting. 456.8691.

• The High Mountain Squares will host their “Harvest Dance” from 6:15-8:45 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building on Highway 441 South in Franklin. Western-style square dancing, mainstream and levels. 787.2324, 332.0001, 727.599.1440, 706.746.5426 or visit the group’s page on Facebook.

• Yoga Nidra, a six-week series of guided meditation for the deepest relaxation, is set for 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Saturdays, through Nov. 16, at Sylva Yoga studio in downtown Sylva. Cost: $15 per class. Register on Facebook or www.sylvayoga.com.

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• Buti Yoga + Bubbles will be offered from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, at the Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $15. Info and registration: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• The Sacred Self: An evening of Breathwork will be offered from 6-7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $15. Info and registration: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Sunrise Flow + Ground will be offered from 7-8:15 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 18, at the Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $15. Info and registration: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Yoga for Back Care will be offered from noon-1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Waynesville Yoga Center.

Cost: $15. Info and registration: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

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• Creating Yoga Practices for Children will be offered from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 17, at the Waynesville Yoga Center. Cost: $35 in advance or $40 day of. Info and registration: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Waynesville Yoga Center will offer PostThanksgiving Slow Flow + Yin from 9-10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 29. Cost: $15. Info and reservations: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

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• An hour yoga class is offered at 9 a.m. on Wednesdays at the Maggie Valley Wellness Center. $15 for a single class, or $55 for a package of four classes. 944.0288 or maggievalleywellness.com.

• Dance Tonight Haywood offers weekly evening classes at 61 ½ Main Street in Canton. For times, prices and to RSVP, call 316.1344.

• ZUMBA is offered at First United Methodist Church in Waynesville on Thursdays at 6 p.m. with Patti Burke. Check Facebook page Patti Burke Zumba Students for additional information such as holiday or weather related cancelations. $5 per class.

• Yoga classes designed specifically for those who have experienced trauma are being offered at the Fitness Connection in Waynesville. www.sonshineyoga.com.

of the Smokies” at 6 p.m. on Nov. 21, at Folkmoot, 112 Virginia Ave., in Waynesville. Part of the Southern Storytellers Series. Hear about women who possessed the tenacity and perseverance to survive in the remote Smokies of days past. Tickets: $18 in advance.

Folkmoot.org or 452.2997.

• A Knee-High Naturalists program will be offered to ages 3-5 from 10-11 a.m. on Fridays, through Nov. 22, at the Highlands Nature Center. Led by Paige Engelbrektsson, the nature center’s education specialist. Stories, walks and activities. Location is at 930 Horse Cove Road in Highlands. 526.2623.

• A poetry reading is held at 2 p.m. on the last Saturday of each month at Panacea in Waynesville. Bring poetry, essays and writings. poevampyre@gmail.com.

• The “Polar Express” will depart on select times through Dec. 31 from the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad depot. www.gsmr.com.

⦁ The North Carolina Writers' Network-West will sponsor The Literary Hour at 7 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month. at the Keith House on the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown. This reading is free of charge and open to the public.

• Mother Goose On the Loose early childhood curriculum will be featured in a Reading Adventures Storytime program that’s offered at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Blends rhyming with movement, storytelling, simple songs, music and sensory play. 488.3030.

• Canton Book Club meets at 3:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month, at the Canton Library.

648.2924.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES SPIRITUAL • Registration is underway for an Interfaith Peace Conference that will be held Nov. 21-24 at Lake Junaluska. Theme is “The Arts of Peace” featuring an exploration of the arts of the Abrahamic faiths. Syrian violinist Mariela Shaker, Jonathan Homrighausen, Laurie Wohl and others will guide the conversations.

Lakejunaluska.com/peace or 800.222.4930.

POLITICAL • The Jackson County Republican Party Headquarters Grand Opening will be held at 6 p.m. on Nov. 18 at 52 Front Street in Dillsboro. Barbecue and fixins. NC Senate and local representatives as well as candidates are expected guests. 813.817.7318.

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• The Jackson County Democratic Party will hold its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at party headquarters at 500 Mill St. in Sylva.

• Jackson County Planning Board: 6 p.m. on Nov. 21 in the Jackson County Public Library Community Room. 631.2261.

• Jackson County Commissioners will hold a regular meeting at 3 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 25, at the Justice Center in Sylva.

• The Jackson County NAACP meets at 10 a.m. on the third Saturday each month at Liberty Baptist Church in Sylva. ⦁ Down Home Haywood holds its monthly community meetings at 2:30 p.m. on the third Saturday of each month at Canton Presbyterian Church. Tackling issues like healthcare, wages, housing and more. chelsea@downhomenc.org.

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• Courtney Lix will share stories of the women featured in her book “No Place for the Weary Kind: Women

• The Mexican Train Dominoes Group seeks new players to join games at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• Book Club is held at 2 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800 • A Hand & Foot card game is held at 1 p.m. on Thursdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• Senior Sale Day is on the third Friday of every month at the Friends of the Library Used Bookstore. Patrons 60 and older get 20 percent off all purchases.

Proceeds benefit the Sylva Library.

• Mountain Wildlife offers wildlife education programs for schools and organizations in Western North Carolina, free of charge. If you are interested in having them visit your group contact them at blackbears66@gmail.com, 743.9648 or visit the website at www.mountainwildlifedays.com.

KIDS FILMS • The Highlands Biological Foundation will offer a series of nature-themed films and documentaries shown at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Thursday of March in Highlands. For info on each show, call 526.2221.

• A family movie will be shown at 10:30 a.m. every Friday at Hudson Library in Highlands.

• Pinochle game is played at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• Mah Jongg is played at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays at Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

• A Parkinson’s Support Group is held at 2 p.m. on the last Wednesday of each month at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

KIDS & FAMILIES • STEAM Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 19, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. Hands-on program to engage elementary and middle school students in the sciences, evolving technology and more.

488.3030, ext. 130.

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A&E HOLIDAY • Operation Christmas Child’s National Collection Week is Nov. 18-Nov. 25. Residents can drop off their shoebox gifts at First Baptist Church in Waynesville, Bethel Baptist Church in Canton, First United Methodist Church in Sylva, Holly Springs Baptist Church in Franklin, First Baptist Church in Highlands and First Baptist Church in Bryson City.

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• Winter Lights open at the N.C. Arboretum on Friday, Nov. 22, in Asheville. Open from 6-10 p.m. through Jan. 4. Tickets must be purchased in advance: $18

• First Presbyterian Church will hold a community Thanksgiving service at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 24, in downtown Sylva. Reverends and pastors from First Presbyterian Church, First Baptist Church and First United Methodist Church will conduct the service.

Reception with food, fellowship will follow the service.

• Reservations are being accepted for a Thanksgiving meal at Lake Junaluska. Thanksgiving at Lake Junaluska is Nov. 27-29. Lakejunaluska.com/thanksgiving or 800.22.4930.

• Reservations are being accepted for “Appalachian Christmas,” which is Dec. 12-15 at Lake Junaluska.

Festivities include Handel’s Messiah, featuring the Lake Junaluska Singers, other musical entertainment and a craft show. Lakejunaluska.com/Christmas or 800.222.4930.

• Chimney Rock State Park will host family friendly, Christmas-themed events on Dec. 7 and Dec. 14.

Photos with Santa, and local poet Eddie Cabbage will type out kids’ Christmas wish lists on his vintage typewriter and parchment paper. ChimneyRockPark.com.

FOOD & DRINK • A “Wehrloom Honey Mead Tasting Event” will be offered from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14, at Bryson City Wine Market, 1161 Main Street in Bryson City. 538.0420 or bcwinemarket@gmail.com.

• “Yoga and Mimosa’s” will be offered from 9:3010:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16, at Bryson City Wine Market, 1161 Main Street in Bryson City. Sip and stretch. 538.0420 or bcwinemarket@gmail.com.

• “Cheers to Bubbles” is from 6-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21, at Bryson City Wine Market, 1161 Main Street in Bryson City. 538.0420. Explore the many styles and tastes of sparkling wines. RSVP to bcwinemarket@gmail.com and save $5. Classes are $30 per person at the door. Finger foods provided by McKinley Edwards Inn. • The “Uncorked: Wine & Rail Pairing Experience” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec 31 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City.

Full service all-adult first-class car. Wine pairings with a meal and more. 800.872.4681 or www.gsmr.com.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Overlook Theatre Company, a production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: The Musical” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15-16 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets are $17 for adults, $12 for students. 866.273.4615 or www.greatmountainmusic.com.

• The Western Carolina University Wind Ensemble will hold a performance of diverse, satirical and perhaps

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• An “Extended Care Planning Educational Seminar” is set for 1-2 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Waynesville Library, 678 S. Haywood St., in Waynesville. Led by Tim Vannoy, CLU, ChFC, CFP; regional sales director for OneAmerica. Light lunch provided. Registration required: Kathleen.olsen@haywoodcountync.gov.

• Waynesville Art School offers the Young Artist Program in the afternoons for 5-6 year old, 7-8 year old, 9-12 year old. Intro to Printmaking and Evening studies in arts is offered for 13-19 year old.

Waynesville Art School is located at 303 N. Haywood Street. Info: 246.9869, info@waynesvilleartschool.com or visit WaynesvilleArtSchool.com for schedule and to register.

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• Friends of the Canton Area Historical Museum will meet at 11 a.m. every third Tuesday at the museum, 36 Park Street in Canton.

• “Kids at HART,” the youth drama group at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre (HART), will present “Seussical the musical Jr.” at 2 p.m. Nov. 16-17, 2324 at the theatre in Waynesville.

• Encouraging art classes for beginning through advanced adults are offered by the Inspired Art Ministry at the following times and dates: Drawing classes from 1-4 p.m. on Mondays; painting classes from 1-4 p.m. on Tuesdays. Info: 456.9197, charspaintings@msn.com or www.iamclasses.wbs.com.

• Kentucky Americana honky-tonk act Nick Dittmeier & The Sawdusters will perform at 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, in The Gem downstairs taproom at Boojum Brewing in Waynesville. The show is $5 at the door.

Ages 21 and over. www.nickdittmeier.com.

• The “Where We Live: History, Nature, and Culture” program series will present “It Happened in the Graveyard…Beginnings of a Women’s History Trail” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, at the Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center in Franklin.

• Tickets are available now for a performance of “A Christmas Carol,” which will be on stage at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 3, in the University Center Theater at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Tickets: $5 for WCU students, $10 for non-WCU students and WCU faculty and staff and $15 for general admission.

Available at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or 227.2479.

• Tickets are available now for Holidays at the University Center, which will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 4-5, in the University Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.

Tickets: $5 for WCU students, $10 for non-WCU students and WCU faculty and staff and $15 for general admission. Available at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or 227.2479.

• Tickets are on sale now for the Balsam Range Art of Music Festival, which is Dec. 6-8 at Lake Junaluska.

The award-winning bluegrass group will perform alongside other top bluegrass and acoustic musicians. Lakejunaluska.com/balsamrange or 800.222.4930.

• Tickets are on sale now for the opening of the Mountain Memories Performance Series, which kicks off with “A Hazelwood Gathering” at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16, at Folkmoot in Waynesville. A focus on the history of the town and historic Hazelwood School. Presentation by local historian Alex McKay, heavy hors d’oeuvres. Storytelling, music and dance.

Tickets: $20; available at Folkmoot.org.

• Acclaimed potter Elise Delfield of Pincu Pottery will guide students in a hands-on workshop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Cowee Pottery School in Franklin.

• The Jackson County Historic Preservation Commission will meet at 5:15 p.m. on Nov. 19 in Room 114 of the McKee Building at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. The commission meets on the third Tuesday of each month. www.planning.jacksonnc.org or 631.2261.

• Reservations are being accepted for the annual Master Gardener Wreath-Making Event, which is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Cooperative Extension Office, 589 Raccoon Road, Suite 118, in Waynesville. Sessions are from 9:30 a.m.-noon and 13:30 p.m. Cost: $25 for one 16-inch wreath (materials included). Additional wreaths are $20 each. To reserve your spot, send a $25 check to Extension-Wreath Workshop, 589 Raccoon Road, Suite 118, Waynesville, NC 28786. Questions: mgarticles@charter.net or 456.3575.

required: 631.0271. Info: www.JCGEP.org.

• Open Studio Wednesdays are from 6-10 p.m. at Waynesville Art School, 303 N. Haywood Street. $15 per session. Embrace your creativity while making art alongside other artists. Registration required: 246.9869 or WaynesvilleArtSchool.com.

• Indoor Flea Market is set for 7 a.m.-2 p.m. every third Saturday at the Old Armory in Waynesville.

456.9207.

• A variety of dance classes ranging from foxtrot and waltz to rumba and cha cha – as well as East Coast Swing and Salsa – are taught at multiple times and days weekly at Folkmoot Center and Waynesville Wellness. $10 per activity per person. No partner or experience necessary. For dates and times, and to RSVP, 316.1344 or dancetonightwaynesville@gmail.com.

• Watercolor classes are set for 1:30 p.m. every third Saturday at the Creative Thought Center on Pigeon Street in Waynesville. Cost: $25 or $20 if you bring your own equipment. theHouseArtist@gmail.com.

• The Dave Drake Studio Barn offers a variety of ceramic and raku classes by appointment as well as weekly drawing, writers and community knitters groups. Info: 787.2865.

• Acrylic and watercolor painter Linda Blount and acrylic painter Jason Woodard will have their works showing in the auditorium of the Waynesville branch library through January 2020. The showcase is provided by the Haywood County Arts Council/Haywood County Public Library through the collaborative “Art Works @ The Library” program.

• The Haywood County Arts Council annual show, “It’s a Small, Small Work,” will be held through Jan. 4 in HCAC Gallery & Gifts in Waynesville. The 2019 exhibit will feature 60 artists and almost 240 individual works of art for sale. www.haywoodarts.org or 452.0593.

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⦁ “Terminator: Dark Fate”, is showing through Nov. 14 at Smoky Mountain Cinema in Waynesville Plaza. Visit fandango.com or http://smokymountaincinema.com/ for showtimes, pricing & tickets. Info. on Facebook or 246.0588. ⦁ “Doctor Sleep”, is showing through Nov. 21 at Smoky Mountain Cinema in Waynesville Plaza. Visit www.fandango.com or http://smokymountaincinema.com/ for showtimes, pricing & tickets. Info. on Facebook or 246.0588. ⦁ “Last Christmas”, is showing through Nov. 21 at Smoky Mountain Cinema in Waynesville Plaza. Visit www.fandango.com or http://smokymountaincinema.com/ for showtimes, pricing & tickets. Info. on Facebook or 246.0588. ⦁ “Doctor Sleep”, is showing at The Strand on Main through Nov. 21 in Waynesville. 38main.com.

⦁ The Haywood County Public Library is offering online lifelong learning courses in over 30 subject areas, many of which offer continuing education units, through Universal Class. Free for library cardholders. www.haywoodlibrary.org or 452.5169.

⦁ “Ford v Ferrari”, is showing Nov. 15-21 at Smoky Mountain Cinema in Waynesville Plaza. Visit www.fandango.com or http://smokymountaincinema.com/ for showtimes, pricing & tickets. Info. on Facebook or 246.0588.

• A “Beginner Step-By-Step” painting class will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursdays at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Cost is $25 with all supplies provided.

For more information on paint dates and/or to RSVP, contact Robin Arramae at 400.9560 or paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

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• A comedy improvisation class will be offered from 7-9 p.m. on Tuesdays at Frog Level Brewing in Haywood County. Led by improv teacher Wayne Porter, who studied at Sak Comedy Lab in Orlando and performed improv with several groups. To RSVP and get directions, call 316.8761.

• The Old Armory will host an indoor flea market from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. on every third Saturday. Booths are $10 each for selling items. 456.9207.

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • Haywood Community College professional crafts fiber student Miranda Heidler and graduates Mitsu Shimabukuro and Hannah Watson currently work in the “Of Threads, On Place” exhibition at the Asheville Area Arts Council. This selection of historical and contemporary textiles will run through Nov. 29 and is located at The Refinery Creator Space at 207 Coxe Avenue in Asheville. www.ashevillearts.com.

• A celebration of life for Aurelia Turpin Kennedy, cofounder of the Nantahala Outdoor Center, will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16, at NOC near Bryson City. RSVP: www.aureliakennedy.app.rsvpify.com.

Donations in her memory accepted at nccf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate or N.C. Community Foundation, 3737 Glenwood Ave., Suite 460, Raleigh, NC 27612.

• A “Winter Greens” program will be offered from 1-2 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Highlands Nature Center in Highlands. Led by Paige Engelbrektsson, Nature Center Education Specialist. 526.2623.

• RSVPs are being accepted for the Haywood Waterways Association annual membership meeting, which is set for 6-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at Lambuth Inn, 55 Lambuth Dr., in Lake Junaluska.

Holiday buffet dinner is $15 per person, collected at the door. RSVP deadline is Tuesday, Nov. 26: Christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 476.4667.

• The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission Hatchery Supported Trout Waters is open from 7 a.m. until onehalf-hour after sunset until last day of February. Info: https://tinyurl.com/yae8ffqn.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • The “Gobble on the Green” 5K turkey trot and onemile kids fun run is set for 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., respectively, on Thursday, Nov. 28, at the Village Green Commons in Cashiers. Cost: $30. Pre-race packet pick-up is from 4-6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 27, also at the Village Green. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com, 743.3434 or director@cashiersgreen.com.

FARM AND GARDEN • Garden workdays are held from 3 p.m. until dusk every Wednesday at Cullowhee Community Garden, 65 S. Painter Road. Weeding, mulching, general garden maintenance. 587.8212.

• The Haywood County Plant Clinic is open every business day at the Haywood County Extension Center on Raccoon Road in Waynesville. Master Gardeners are available to answer questions about lawns, vegetables, flowers, trees and more. Info: 456.3575.

• The Macon County Poultry Club of Franklin meets at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month at the Cooperative Extension Office on Thomas Heights Rd, Open to the public. 369.3916.

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• Watershed Association of the Tuckasegee River will hold a meeting from 6-8 p.m. on Nov. 14 at the Sylva Community Table in Sylva. Team sign ups, board nominations and dates for the 2020 board elections will be discussed.

• The Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host a stargazing event at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, at the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center. Led by the Astronomy Club of Asheville. Reservations: https://tinyurl.com/y3o3cpuk.

• The Cataloochee Chapter of Trout Unlimited will hold its last trout stocking event of the fall season at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, on the West Fork of the Pigeon River. Bring a five-gallon bucket and waders.

Meet at the parking lot past Lake Logan and before Sunburst Campground off N.C. 215.

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• The Highlands Plateau Greenway will conduct its

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate four-mile hike on Saturday, Nov. 16, to William’s Pulpit on the NC Bartram Trail. Info and reservations: 369.1565.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take an easy, fourmile hike with an elevation change of 300 feet on Sunday, Nov. 17, to Park Creek in the Standing Indian Recreation Area. Info and reservations: 369.7352.

• Waynesville Recreation Center is organizing an eight-mile, strenuous hike to Charles Bunion in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park leaving at 7 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 18, from the Waynesville Recreation Center. Cost: $8. Sign up: tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov or 456.2030.

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• The Weekly Open Studio art classes will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville, Instructor will be Betina Morgan. Open to all artists, at any stage of development, and in the medium of your choice. Cost is $25 per class. There will also be a Youth Art Class from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. on Wednesdays. Cost is $15 per class. Contact Morgan at 550.6190 or email bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

• Uptown Gallery will offer free open studio times from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Thursdays at 30 E. Main Street in Franklin.

349.4607, franklinuptowngallery@gmail.com or www.franklinuptowngallery.com.

• The next SADC pop-up gallery, titled “The Blending of Tradition and Modernity in Culture Groups,” will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, at Viva Arts Studio in Sylva. The exhibition will feature artists of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, who offer perspectives on the blending of tradition, culture and modernity from a wide variety of contexts and experiences.

monthly work day on the Greenway Trail from 9 a.m.noon on Saturday, Nov. 16, in Highlands. Bring work gloves and bottled water.

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CLASSES AND PROGRAMS

• Waynesville Art School offers “The Joy of Drawing”, Still Life in Color: Acrylic & Pastel and “Relief Printmaking” classes for adults at 303 N. Haywood Street. Info: 246.9869, info@waynesvilleartschool.com or WaynesvilleArtSchool.com.

• The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center is pleased to present, “Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment.” This exhibition will be on display through Dec. 6.

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even revolutionary music at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee. 227.7242.

• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a moderate four-mile hike on Saturday, Nov. 23, to Rabun Bald.

Elevation change of 700 feet. Info and reservations: 524.5298.

• The Nantahala Hiking club will take an easy threemile hike with a 300-foot elevation gain on Sunday, Nov. 24, around Gibson Bottom. Info and reservations: 41 524.5234.

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The naturalist’s corner

BY DON H ENDERSHOT

Louisiana solitude recently made a semi-regular sojourn to the northeast Louisiana Delta, a stone’s throw from where I grew up. Friends get together twice a year (spring and fall) for a cookout at a beautiful spot along the Ouachita River. It is hard for me to tear away in the spring so I usually shoot for fall.

I don’t make all of them, but I make as many as I can. It’s so good to see old friends and make new ones in such a relaxed atmosphere. This trip provided an extra bonus as I got to share a reading from A Year from the Naturalist’s Corner Volume I at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge’s visitor center. Thanks to Friends of Black Bayou and BBLNWR staff for making that happen.

This year also provided another bonus — I got to stay and extra day. The usual scenario is drive all day (10-11 hours) Friday to get there, visit Friday evening and Saturday then drive all day Sunday home. But the extra day gave me a chance to exhale. I didn’t schedule any more visits, instead I carved out time for a little solitude.

When I arrived at the camp — camp is a bit of a stretch for the one-room shack that sits on the property — my old Mer Rouge

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friend Gil White was there doing final preparations. Gil is one of the hosts of the cookouts. We visited a while and Gil headed home leaving me and the river. I added some more wood to the fire pit and pulled up a camp chair. I was content, taking in the sights and sounds when I got the feeling someone was watching me. I turned slightly in my chair and about 20 yards away, along the river a curious chaoui (shaow-wee, Cajun name for raccoon) was standing on its hind legs peering over a log at me. I hit the sack pretty early Friday, tired from the drive and preparing for a full Saturday. I don’t know if Friday night was especially quiet or if was especially sleepy, but nothing roused me till morning light started to hit the river.

And while Saturday was going to be full and busy, Saturday morning was time for more Louisiana solitude. Now, in nature, solitude doesn’t mean you have to be all alone. White-throated sparrows began softly singing bits and pieces of song as the sun rose higher over the levee. Another Louisiana winter resident, a yellow-bellied sapsucker, began making soft mewing calls as it looked for the perfect place to drill for sap. Other birds like chickadees, titmice, cardinals and towhees began to join the morn-

Solitude on the river.

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ing chorus. The sky was full of chattering grackles leaving the roost, striking out for a day of foraging and the occasional squealer (wood duck) would squeal from along the river. Solitude is good.

By mid-morning I had traded in my solitude hat and was in the throes of helping prepare for the cookout and preparing for my book signing. I had the pleasure of sharing anecdotes and reading from the book with old friends and family from Mer Rouge plus finally meeting Facebook friends in the flesh that afternoon, then heading back to the river and joining the celebration of

friendship around the fire pit. Bedtime came a bit later that night but that was OK because I was still awake when the coyotes began to yip and howl. They were soon joined by a pair of barred owls having an engaging conversation. Solitude is good.

Sunday morning I took a turn around BBLNWR, once again bathed in solitude. I neither heard nor saw anything rare or out of the ordinary, but hearing the pied-billed grebes on the water; the golden-crowned kinglets in the trees; and the two-syllable call from a small flock of speckle-bellies (greater white-fronted geese for those non native Loosiana speakers) passing overhead, made the morning both full and quiet. I made a pot of red beans and rice back at the camp and had lunch with another old friend, Bill Meade. We ate, caught up and watched the river. Later that evening I visited, with Mike and Beth Nelson, old friends Melvyn and Dianne McCoy at their beautiful spot where Bayou Desiard empties into the Ouachita River. Then returned to Mike and Beth’s for dinner and headed back to the camp for my last night.

On the drive back to the river I found myself longing to be serenaded once again; and I wasn’t disappointed. Barred owls and coyotes were back for another performance and I lay in bed in the inky black — me and the river and the owls and the coyotes.

Solitude is good.

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist.

His book, A Year From the Naturalist’s Corner, Vol. 1, is available at regional bookstores or by contacting Don at ddihen1@bellsouth.net)

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