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News Publisher carves out niche with children’s science books ..............................4 Abandoned sawmill building at HCC burns ........................................................5 Election Day lines faster than early voting in many precincts ..........................8 Maggie Valley seeks business input on town’s future ......................................9 Cowee School supporters hope to fill community need ................................11 Swain girl finishes football career with injury ....................................................12 Swain begins planning for new library ................................................................13 Weight-loss program focuses on lifestyle changes ..........................................14 Cherokee veteran’s family finally receives long-lost medals ..........................16

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The science of children’s books

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Waynesville publisher hopes to capitalize on niche market

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER overing everything from bugs’ butts and food for animals to animal tongues and eyes, EarlyLight Books has found a special section of the book world to occupy — science books for toddlers.

The Waynesville-based publishing company is the brainchild of Dawn Cusick, a science teacher at Haywood Community College.

While studying biology at Western Carolina University, Cusick said she realized that there were no high- quality science books for children.

The books either lacked enough substance or were too word-heavy and not kid-friendly.

“I thought there was a niche — there was a certain type of kids’ book that wasn’t being done,” Cusick said.

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Already having a background in writing and publishing — she got a bachelor’s degree in English from University of North Carolina in Asheville — Cusick decided to start EarlyLight Books in 2008 and print children’s books that were engaging, but also educated kids in the area of science.

Finding a good balance of entertainment and knowledge can be difficult, Cusick said, adding that sometimes explaining things in a Dawn Cusick non-scientific way is Gary Albrecht photo more roundabout and wordy.

“It’s really hard,” Cusick said. “You want to put everything in, but you can’t.”

Another challenge was also making the books interesting for the parents who read them to their children. When her children were young, Cusick used to read to them.

From that, Cusick said she realized kids’ books

Cusick had not been intrigued by and saved a photo of a frog with its mouth agape. From that one photo, Cusick started collecting more animal mouth photos until there was enough for a book.

“That one only came about because I was looking for photos for something else,” Cusick said.

One of EarlyLight Books, Animal Colors, is also available in two other languages — Spanish and Cherokee. Cusick said she worked with WCU’s Cherokee language program to translate the book so children in Cherokee immersion programs can have something at their learning level to read.

EarlyLight books can be purchased at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville and City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

could appeal to people of all ages.

“There were books that I would read with them that helped me learn too,” Cusick said. “I understood the power of children’s books to share information and shape information.”

Cusick said she receives many good ideas for kids’ books that fit her particular class but is forced to turn many of them down.

“I can only do eight to 10 (books) a year,” Cusick said. “It’s unfortunate.”

The main reason that EarlyLight publishes only a handful of books each year is money. The small business can only afford so much. As a publishing company, EarlyLight fronts the cost of printing each book with the expectation that it will sell.

“You invest in a book a year and a half before you see any revenue from it,” said Cusick, who is the company’s only employee.

When needed, Cusick hires freelance copy editors and graphic designers to help ready a book for publication.

Although Cusick has written some of the books, most are penned by authors who approach her, people she meets at trade shows or, occasionally, someone she discovered on the Internet.

One of EarlyLight’s Animal Colors has been printed in three languages — English, upcoming books came about Spanish, and Cherokee (pictured above). Donated photo because Cusick started reading a blog kept by a math and science teacher from Charlotte. She asked him “There were books that I if he had any good ideas, and he returned with book about animal geometry, which will go to would read with [my press in a couple of months.

Part of the children’s book writing children] that helped me process is finding pictures to go along with learn too. I understood the words. Although graphic designers help find photos, Cusick said she enjoys looking the power of children’s for photos herself because they can somebooks to share times lead to book ideas.

“Save photos and snippets of information, information and shape and sometimes, you come up with enough,” Cusick said. information.”

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were unreturned as of press time.

“I don’t know that I can answer that,” Aiken said. “(Arson) is something we are concerned about.”

HCC closed its campus Tuesday, and as of press time officials were not 100 percent sure the campus would open on Wednesday.

“The biggest issue is power and water,” Aiken said, noting that the areas of campus surrounding the old sawmill are currently without both.

Aiken said student safety was one of the college’s primary concerns when it decided to cancel classes. It will also give sheriff ’s deputies a chance to start looking into the incident. The State Bureau of Investigation will arrive Thursday to join the investigation.

The building and the equipment were valued at $1.5 million, but it is unclear how

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The college had held an auction in late September to sell the equipment inside the old sawmill, and officials estimate that auction winners had already claimed more then 80 percent of the machinery. But some was yet to be collected.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER he remnants of Haywood Community College’s old sawmill were still smoldering Tuesday after a fire the night before destroyed most of the building.

Piles of wood and metal littered the property where the sawmill once stood, with only the tall support beams left to trace the outline of the old building. A utility pole nearby still stood erect, but it and its transformers were completely scorched.

Windows of the Campus Services Building next door were cracked from the heat that had emanated out from the fire.

Emergency personnel received a call 9:40 p.m.

Monday from one of HCC’s neighbors reporting the blaze. Interim HCC President William Aiken arrived not long after and said that within two hours, the Haywood County sheriff ’s office, Clyde Fire Department and other responders had gotten the fire under control.

No people were injured. However, people had been in and out of the building during the day Monday.

Because of the rains and work by emergency officials, the fire was contained only to the old sawmill and did not spread to the surrounding forest or building.

HCC officials would not comment on how the fire started or whether investigators suspected arson, and calls to the sheriff ’s office

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Internet exploits All-day Wi-Fi users a problem for some coffee shops

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER owadays, coffee and wireless Internet go hand-in-hand; you can’t really have one without the other.

It is an expected amenity at coffee shops and bakeries. With the purchase of a coffee, tea or cinnamon bun, the customer is permitted to use the business’ Internet. It is so common that it has almost become a right — like free speech or the ability to vote.

However, like other rights, it can be abused. Although there are no set parameters on how much Internet time a cup of coffee buys, most can agree that a singular purchase does not validate someone occupying a café table from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“They are using your place as an office,” said Heidi Dunkelberg, a co-owner of Coffee Cup Café in Clyde. “It is a problem, and you don’t know how to approach it. You don’t want to be rude.”

Coffee shops and cafés everywhere have struggled with how to balance the enjoyment of being a gathering place for consumers and the feeling of being taken advantage of.

“They will buy a coffee, and they stay here from open to close,” said Jo Gilley, co-owner of Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

“Everybody’s having an issue with it.”

When asked if people camp out all day at Blue Ridge Books, Gilley let out a huge sigh and a “yes.” Sales people would come with a large rolling briefcase full of work paraphernalia and loudly make calls to clients. Gilley said workers simply ask them to keep their voices down, adding that they don’t mind people spending some quality time at the store as long as they buy something.

“We just keep our fingers crossed that they will like their experience and buy a book,” Gilley said.

The real nuisance for Blue Ridge Books is parking. There are only about five spots right outside the shop’s door. Occasionally, someone will sit outside the store in his or her car and use the Internet rather than coming in.

That keeps elderly patrons who might struggle to walk from having a short and straight jaunt to the bookstore’s doors. The parking issue is the problem that gets Gilley’s goat —

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not so much people occupying its booths or comfy chairs.

For Blue Ridge Books, the solution was to institute a password. Unlike some places that keep the same password, which would allow people to log onto the Internet during later visits without making a purchase, the combination coffee shop and bookstore changes its password daily. Only the workers know what it is on a given day. Blue Ridge Books started requiring the password a little less than a year ago and has not received flack for doing so.

“Most people are very nice about it,” Gilley said.

Although the bookstore has problems all its own, Dunkelberg said the Coffee Cup Café was in a very particular quandary when it came to long-staying guests.

The Clyde-based café not only acts like a coffee shop but also a popular lunch venue.

“We had one guy who used to come in here and take up a booth all day.

That ended when we quit supplying the Wi-Fi.” — Heidi Dunkelberg, co-owner of Coffee Cup Café

The eatery sits right near MedWestHaywood, making it an easy stop for hospital workers or patients. But, it was also a hangout for people who needed Internet access.

People would spend $1 on coffee and claim a table for hours, leaving customers who planned to spend more without a seat.

“We had one guy who used to come in

here and take up a booth all day,” Dunkelberg said. But, “That ended when we quit supplying the Wi-Fi.” Coffee Cup Café shut off its wireless Internet from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. — its hectic rush hours. People who were there only to use the Wi-Fi were out of luck. That left the tables for paying customers.

“It would make them mad, but you know, I had somebody who just spent $15 on lunch, and they don’t have a seat,” Dunkelberg said.

And on some occasions, people would come to the café at 4:30 p.m. — 30 minutes before it closed. Eventually, workers would have to ask them to leave. Some were nicer about it than others, Dunkelberg said.

“It gets to the point you have to run them out,” she said.

What was particularly distressing to Dunkelberg from a safety standpoint was when she would drive

“We just keep our fingers crossed that they will like their experience and buy a book.”

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past her business and see people sitting on the porch after hours using the Internet.

“It is just very unsettling and very imposing,” Dunkelberg said.

When the Internet became more trouble than it was worth, Coffee Cup Café got rid of it altogether, an act which Dunkelberg doesn’t regret.

“We don’t miss it at all,” Dunkelberg said.

The lack of Internet access does not keep people away.

“People still come here and have little meetings,” Dunkelberg said. “They know up front they have no Wi-Fi.”

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Dunlap is by no means the only person to use Blue Ridge Books as a workplace. Just that day, a man sat a couple booths ahead of her with his headphones in, typing on his computer. Another man sat in the booth next to her with his computer, suitcase and Bluetooth headset.

Nor is Dunlap the only writer to find comfort inside a coffee shop.

“We have definitely had people write books here, which is cool,” said Courtney

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covered its outlets to prevent people from spending all their time parked at a table. The chain said that such drastic meas“I don’t know ures were only used at if I have a select, highly trafficked stores in big cities like common take New York. on this. I love Unlike Starbucks, one Sylva coffee shop owner having people actually enjoys when people stay all day. sit around.”

“I don’t know if I have — John Bubacz, a common take on this,” Signature Brew said John Bubacz of Coffee Company Signature Brew Coffee Company. “I love having people sit around.”

As long as they purchase something, Bubacz Hall, manager of Panacea said he is happy to have Coffee Shop in people linger — even if Waynesville. they only add a couple The coffee shop has not bucks to his bottom line. had many problems with Signature Brew Coffee people posting up resiCompany is a small shotdence all day, but it is in a gun-shaped building with bit of a different situation its main collection of given its size. Panacea is at seating at the front and a least twice the size of most row of small tables lining coffee shops and cafés in the wall opposite the cofthe area. fee bar. Bubacz said the During the recession, people would gather at Signature Brew Coffee Company to limited seating promotes “I think that we have enough space that it’s not use its Wi-Fi and apply for jobs. Andrew Kasper photo more interaction among that big of a deal,” Hall said. his customers and creates Most of the people who use the Internet selves over Panacea’s only three power out- a friendly, community atmosphere. In fact, there are regulars who would be customers lets, Hall said, but it is not a major issue. he often sees strangers sharing a table if the Panacea does not have many power out- coffee shop is particularly full. no matter what, she said. However, the Internet service can be finicky at Panacea, lets simply because of the age of the building, During the recession, Bubacz actually and Hall said they used to have people who but at least one major coffee shop chain has called the row of tables “unemployment would become rude if the wireless went out. actually limited the number of outlets it has row.” People would spend entire days there But, she said those individuals don’t visit to prevent customers from overstaying their applying for various jobs. welcome.

Panacea anymore.

“I don’t know how many people I have Last year, Starbucks in some locations seen get jobs here,” Bubacz said.

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Coffee shops and cafés are unique in that few other businesses are expected to give something away for free or for the cost of a cup of coffee. They provide a valuable service to individuals who might not have access to Internet otherwise or simply those who want to escape the confines of their house where they spend a large portion of their day.

An escape is exactly what Jess Dunlap looks for each time she packs up her iPad, leaves her house and heads to Blue Ridge Books. The 31-year-old recently moved to town from York, S.C., to spend her days toiling away on a novel or screenplay.

“It’s kind of structured here,” Dunlap said. “There are a lot of distractions, but at the same time, it’s a lot less distracting than home.”

It can be trying for anyone but the strongwilled to work at home. There are so many distractions — furniture needs dusting, floors need sweeping and dishes need washing. Even silence can be distracting, said Dunlap, who requires some form of white noise in order to focus — making the dull noise of a coffee shop preferable.

“My house is just super quiet,” Dunlap said. “And, there is caffeine.”

Dunlap said she liked Blue Ridge Books’ atmosphere, which leads to more productivity.

Unlike the horror-story customers who park themselves in a booth or at a table for the entire business day and buy only a cup of coffee and talk loudly on their phone, Dunlap spends about four hours at Blue Ridge Books most days and feels self-conscious about only purchasing the minimum.

“I try to buy two or three cups, and I park down the street,” Dunlap said, adding that she recently bought two copies of a devotional as stocking stuffers for Christmas.

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Rural precincts needed as easy voting option

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER uring early voting this year, some voters in Haywood County found themselves waiting up to an hour to cast their ballot. But when Election Day rolled around, many walked right into their precinct without delay.

Haywood County has two early voting sites — the senior resources center and the Canton library. Meanwhile, it has 29 voting precincts that are open on Election Day — begging the question: why so many, and are they still needed, particularly when some only see a few hundred voters during busy presidential election years?

Of Haywood’s more than two dozen precincts, Big Creek is both the largest and smallest. The precinct covers a large swath of rural Haywood County but only has 27 registered voters. The next smallest precincts — Fines Creek 2, White Oak and Cecil — have 200 to 400 registered voters each.

Those precincts are minuscule compared to high population precincts at East Fork, Cecil and Allens Creek, which have more than 2,500 registered voters each.

The precinct boundaries were drawn long ago, when many people didn’t own cars and were generally much less mobile. It is much easier and quicker to get around the county now, but it can still take residents in remote portions of the mountainous county 20 or 30 minutes to drive into town.

“Our topography is a lot different here in Haywood,” said Robert Inman, director of Haywood County’s Board of Elections.

Consolidating smaller precincts like Big Creek and White Oak “would create an undue hardship.”

If anything, the Board of Elections’ main purpose is to make voting easy, Inman said.

“This is how our country decides who our leader is, and that is of the highest import,” Inman said.

When compared to Macon and Jackson counties, having 29 precincts doesn’t seem like an exorbitant amount. Macon and Jackson each have 15 precincts and a little more than half the registered voters that Haywood has.

However, Rutherford County — which has about the same amount of registered voters as Haywood — only has 17 precincts.

and Fines Creek precincts — some of its smallest — for instance, the Board of Elections would need to find a facility that could handle 1,200 registered voters and is also centrally located. Consolidating precincts without having adequate sites could result in long lines.

“We would be in the same shape as some nightmare scenarios in other states,” Inman said, citing reports that voters waited three or more hours in Ohio and Florida to vote this year.

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EARLY VOTING TIPS BALANCE

As early voting continues to gain popularity, more early voting sites are not out of the realm of possibility. Early voting gives people a little more than two weeks to stop by the polls and avoid what has traditionally been an Election Day rush. As the practice of early voting becomes more common, Election Day has become less hectic.

In the future, Inman said, counties might open more early voting sites and have fewer Election Day locations. However, early voting would have to become the primary way people cast their ballot, he said.

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VOTING STILL BUSY Voters turned out in masses to vote early at the senior resources center in Waynesville. About 60 percent of voters casted their ballot before Election Day this year in Haywood County. Andrew Kasper photo

“If everybody were to vote (early), then we would change everything. It is our responsibility to provide and ensure that the other half who do not vote early still have a voting place.”

— Robert Inman, Haywood County Board of Elections director

Carolina in the 1990s as a way to make voting more convenient for the masses.

Although its popularity has increased by nearly 100 percent with each presidential election year, 2008 was the first year that early voting numbers eclipsed Election Day voting totals. “(Early voting) is something that is going to continue to grow over time,” Inman said, adding that he expects it to increase “at an incredible, astounding rate.”

This year, early voting did not increase nearly as much and accounted for about 60 percent of the total votes in the county.

That still means 40 percent of voters waited until Election Day, Inman said, and those voters are just as important.

“If everybody were to vote (early), then we would change everything,” Inman said.

“It is our responsibility to provide and ensure that the other half who do not vote early still have a voting place.”

But, more early voting sites also mean more expenses. It costs between $2,000 and $5,000 per extra early voting site.

“We don’t open more due to cost,” said O.L. Yates, chairman of the Board of Elections. “A lot of it comes down to trying to save the taxpayer money.”

Even if Haywood County could afford it, the county would need to find facilities large enough to accommodate early voters.

The largest usable building in the county

Poll numbers The number of registered voters in each precinct varies wildly. Some have fewer than 300 while others exceed 2,000. The following are the smallest and largest precincts in Haywood County:

LARGEST 1. East Fork – 3,553 registered voters 2. Cecil – 3,103 registered voters 3. Allens Creek – 2,518 registered voters 4. Pigeon – 2,344 registered voters 5. Pigeon Center – 2,188 registered voters

SMALLEST 1. Big Creek – 27 registered voters 2. Fines Creek-1 – 186 registered voters 3. White Oak – 274 registered voters 4. Fines Creek-2 – 386 registered voters 5. Ivy Hill – 712 registered voters

is the senior resources center, which the Board of Elections already uses. It is the same building that saw long waits during early voting this year.

“The county doesn’t own any larger than those we currently use,” Inman said.

Building size is also a factor in deciding whether to close smaller precincts. If the county combined its White Oak, Big Creek

Although some might argue that fewer precincts would save money and that early voting is making so many Election Day locations unnecessary, the Board of Elections’ foot soldiers have not noticed a big difference when it comes to Election Day traffic. “(Election Day turnout) seemed to be more than normal,” said Jerry McElroy, a poll worker who shuffled between the Pigeon, Pigeon Center, East Fork and Cecil precincts on Election Day. “They were extremely high, especially Cecil.”

Despite a majority of voters casting their ballots early this year and inclement weather conditions on Nov. 6, McElroy said Election Day numbers were positive.

“There was still a good, heavy turnout,” McElroy said.

Veteran poll worker Mary Feichter said she and her fellow volunteer kept busy at the senior resources center during early voting.

“We were busy every day. It was nice to see so many voters coming out,” said Feichter, who has worked the polls for 25 years.

However, Feichter said this year’s Election Day turnout at the South Waynesville 1 precinct was slower than she expected.

“I think it definitely declined. It’s just too convenient [to vote early],” Feichter said.

She added her approval of the idea of increasing the number of early voting sites in Haywood County.

“That would be wonderful. It really would be,” Feichter said. “You want to give the people a chance to vote anyway they can.”

But, Feichter said she understands the financial reality of trying to add early voting sites.

“It is very expense for the county,” Feichter said. “For our size county, I think having two is wonderful.”

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Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Resort’s HERO (Harrah’s Employee’s Reaching Out) program enlisted volunteers to help Haywood County’s Habitat for Humanity put the finishing touches on a home for a local family.

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Free military funeral honors in Haywood The Haywood County Honor Guard offers free military funeral honors for deceased veterans, if requested by the family. As a minimum, military honors include the folding and presenting of the U.S. Flag to the next of kin and the playing of Taps.

The local Honor Guard is comprised of volunteers from Waynesville VFW Post 5202 and American Legion Post 47.

Any family wanting military honors in Haywood County should make the request through the funeral home. If a funeral home is not involved, then the family can make a request through the post.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER Thursday meeting with Maggie Valley business owners and area leaders will Maggie Valley business owners are invited serve as the first test to see if the valley to a meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, at can successfully come together for the town’s the town hall to kickoff the creation of a common good. collaborative business plan for the valley.

All business owners in the valley are encouraged to attend at a kick-off meeting Nov. 15 for the creation of a business plan to The town, using a $20,000 grant from drive Maggie Valley’s actions. Mayor Ron the N.C. Rural Center, hired consultant DeSimone said he wants the plan to act a Craig Madison, the former president and blueprint for decision-making — something CEO of the Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa. various groups including the board of alder- Madison will help facilitate the creation of men can refer to when reviewing zoning laws, a plan. figuring out what type of events to host at the Madison and DeSimone have traveled festival grounds or deciding what unique from business to business talking about their aspects of Maggie to advertise. hopes for the planning process and asking “You start shaping everything you do to fit people to attend the meeting and offer their that,” DeSimone said. individual perspective.

Like so many towns, the tourism-centric Many business owners live outside the Maggie Valley limped along during the reces- town’s corporate limits and don’t have as sion as fewer people found the time or money for a Even before the recession, the valley vacation. But, even before struggled as one of its main draws, 2007, the valley struggled as one of its main draws, the the amusement park Ghost Town in amusement park Ghost Town in the Sky, was the Sky, was plagued with ride plagued with ride closures closures and diminishing visitation. and diminishing visitation.

Now that the economy seems to be on the uptick, Maggie Valley lead- much sway as a resident might DeSimone ers and business owners are trying to figure said. out how to bring tourists back to the valley — “Here is their chance. They have a say in hence the proposed plan. this,” DeSimone said.

Unlike attempts in the past, DeSimone Because of past experiences with so-called said the new plan would be completely busi- business plans, “everyone was a little bit skepness-driven. It will not be crafted by the tical,” DeSimone said. But, after one-on-one town board but rather by business owners in discussions, the mayor said he thinks the the valley. meeting will have a good turnout.

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Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation will sponsor its Home for the Holidays event Nov. 21 through Dec. 31 to enable people to adopt dogs and cats from the Haywood County Animal Services at a reduced rate.

The organization will pay a portion of the adoption fee so dogs during this time will be available for $60; while male cats can be adopted for $28 and females for $38. The fee includes the cost of spay or neuter and a rabies vaccination. The Haywood County Animal Shelter is located at 245 Hemlock Street in Waynesville.

Also, Dec. 2 through Dec. 24, Sarge’s volunteers will be wrapping holiday gifts at Mast General Store in downtown. There is no charge for the complimentary wrapping but a donation to Sarge’s is requested. www.sargeandfriends.org or 828.246.9050.

ing to have the home ready for move-in day.

“It was very rewarding knowing that the Habitat staff of volunteers really appreciated our contribution as the house would not have been ready for the opening ceremony without our assistance. Our team of HERO volunteers were amazing and pitched in to conquer the tasks assigned without hesitation and did an excellent job,” said Lumpy Lambert, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort’s Assistant General Manager.

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Otto school, which has a similar design as the Cowee school and was abandoned for similar reasons, was sold to a private company.

Simply maintaining public grounds and facilities has hidden costs. It’s easy, without constant upkeep, for these buildings to slip into disrepair and become a money drain.

Already there are leaks in the Cowee school that need fixing. And the price of keeping it comfortable for potential visitors is even higher. One of the largest drains is heating the facility — by means of an expen-

the Cowee Cherokee mound dated to 600 A.D. — many hope the 1943, art-deco school will add to the list of destinations in Cowee.

The community was once an epicenter of Cherokee and pioneer activity in the region, attracting traders and merchants from all over.

“We would like for this to be a destination for heritage and history tourism,” said Guffey. “Cowee was once famous as far away as Charleston.”

Stacey Guffey with his son in the deserted Cowee School near Franklin.

sive, oil-fired steam furnace.

Guffey said he and others in the county are trying to make sure that it stays in the public realm. Residents have been meeting since 2005 — in anticipation of the day when the school would be phased out and the building abandoned — to make transition plans. A meeting in 2010 drew close to 100 people who came to discuss the future of the building.

Nonetheless, the project’s opposition doesn’t stop Guffey and those community members from dreaming big.

With the building’s close proximity to other historic landmarks — such as the Rickman General Store built in 1895, a famous 1920s African-American church and

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The Cowee vision The following is an abbreviated list of the rooms in the Cowee school and some of their proposed uses in a community center setting: ■ Principal’s Office — retail space and reception area ■ Gymnasium and stage — performances, dances, and fitness classes ■ Lounge — administration and workroom ■ Library — community meeting room ■ Cafeteria — shared-use kitchen, events and gatherings ■ Classrooms — historical exhibits, pottery, quilting, crafts and meeting areas

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the contract expires in June 2013 and plead his case for more support.

Yet now his funding has one less ally on the board. Paul Higdon, a conservative who has already vocalized his distaste for using county funds in such a manner, replaced Democrat Bobby Kuppers, a proponent of the project in the Nov. 6 election.

Higdon said he does not support the county funding to turn the old Cowee school into a cultural heritage center. For Higdon, his opposition goes all the way back to the decision to close the old Cowee school in the first place.

“I thought personally saving all these community schools is better than consolidating,” Higdon said in an interview for a campaign story that ran before the election. Higdon pointed to other schools that were closed during consolidation, like Iotla school, that were not kept by the county.

“Where is it fair to destroy the community center of one community and use taxpayer dollars to fund the preservation of another school?”

Furthermore, Ron Haven, the lone commissioner to vote against the contract, vows he will oppose granting more county funds to Guffey in the future as well. Haven is uncomfortable with Guffey’s association with the conservation organization Land Trust for the Little Tennessee and doesn’t feel it’s prudent to hand over taxpayer funds to what he calls a specialinterest group.

He said his philosophy applies to any special-interest group.

“I’ll do anything I can for that community,” said Haven. “But I’m responsible for making sure I get the very best out of tax dollars, and I don’t see donating money to special-interest groups as being the best way of spending of that money.”

He said he would like to see the Cowee school, and other historic ones like it, be used by the community. However, he disagrees with how the initiative is being funded.

However, according to Guffey, without public funds, the building will most likely have to be sold to a private entity. Nearby

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER ow that the children are gone, and art projects sit abandoned next to overturned desks and emptied cupboards, community members have a vision to bring life back into the old Cowee school outside of Franklin. But the community’s path to reclaiming the schoolhouse is facing growing opposition in the Macon County government as to how the initiative should be funded.

This year marks the first school session in which the students have been bused to a newly built school nearby, leaving the stone schoolhouse, once the site of a bustling Civilian Conservation Corps camp, deserted.

The school has amenities that could serve varied purposes. It contains a gymnasium that can seat about 250 people, rows of former classrooms equipped with storage cabinets and hardwood floors, as well as a commercial kitchen and cafeteria. Outside are baseball diamonds and a playground.

If all goes as planned, soon the building will be filled again with people shuffling in and out to attend quilting classes, see a Cherokee historical exhibit or enjoy a musical performance in the gymnasium. There are also talks of a local farmer’s market and community garden on the grounds.

It’s location, only a 10-minute drive from Franklin, offers the potential to attract people from the population center to the small historic district off the beaten path.

“Publicly, the idea has been very popular,” said Stacey Guffey, a consultant working with Macon County revitalize the school.

“Although the community in Cowee got the ball rolling, the idea is for it to serve the entire county.”

Yet, the future of the project is uncertain.

On Tuesday, Macon County Commissioners voted on whether to accept the property, for free, from the school district. Commissioners had already approved a contract with Guffey to contribute nearly $70,000 to the organization and renovation of building.

Guffey estimates the Cowee school will need about three years of financial support from the county before it can function on its own from grants, contributions and other fees it collects.

But to reach the three-year mark, Guffey will have to stand again before the county commissioners at least one more time before

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Breaking barriers Female Swain student wishes injury had not kept her from participating

BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER s the Swain County high school football team marches towards another state championship, amid the fanatic cheers of the hometown fans who live to see the hard-hitting Maroon Devil boys take the field, there is another story unfolding.

It’s about a girl who wants to play a boy’s sport.

Sitting on the sidelines at the Maroon Devil’s 40-10 blowout against the West Wilkes Blackhawks on Nov. 9 was Rachel Burdick-Hanks. The 18-year-old has been playing football ever since she was old enough to get her hands on one. It’s her first and last season with Swain County. And yes, she’s a girl.

“Ever since I was a little baby, I loved it,” said Burdick-Hanks, recounting an infancy of nerf footballs and catch.

She has every making of a blue-collar, small town football player — all except the y-chromosome.

She comes from a military family: her grandfather was a Marine drill sergeant killed in Vietnam. She plays with a cause: her older brother was born with a brain tumor that left him unable to walk, so Burdick-Hanks plays for him. And, she’s the first family member, male or female, to make varsity; so she plays with pride.

But this season, which is the high school senior’s last year of organized ball, BurdickHanks witnessed the culmination of all her hard work, dedication and practice — dating back to third grade peewee league — fizzle before her eyes. She was injured in practice in late September, tearing cartilage in her knee and bulging a disc in her back while working on special teams.

It happened the week just after head coach Neil Blankenship had given her a shot playing in a live game, and the very practice when he decided to give her a shot to expand her role from defensive line to the special teams squad.

So as her team notched another victory last Friday night, bringing their winning streak to 24-0 and advancing to the next round of the playoffs, for her, it was bittersweet. She said she cried at the start of the game.

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“I don’t get to play anymore,” she said. “I can’t believe this is the last time.”

Injuries aside, however, being a female in a male-dominated sport has never been particularly easy. And in a small, Western North Carolina town dominated by prep football, one can imagine it’s not any easier. Although some teams are more accepting than others, there is usually some level of misunderstanding, said Burdick-Hanks.

her teammates they would lose because they had a girl playing with them. But, that wasn’t the case. Her team went undefeated except for one game and won the peewee super bowl. She stuck with the sport for each season afterward.

There were also moments that were comical, being a girl in the sport. While playing for a high school in New York, BurdickHanks would paint her nails the team colors

Burdick-Hanks, being the new girl in the new town, and also the new girl in town who played football, made school life difficult.

Burdick-Hanks’ mother, Renee Kocher, talked about how difficult it was to see her daughter returning home every night crying after practice. She said she was frequently bullied at school.

“It’s still a boys’ sport in a lot of people’s minds,” Kocher said “The older generation doesn’t think girls should be playing, and they pass those beliefs on to the children.”

Kocher discouraged her daughter from quitting, and instead, the following semester, Burdick-Hanks transferred to Swain and went out for the football team for the 2012 season.

One of the first things Burdick-Hanks noticed at Swain was how hard the practices were. She ended each one sore and covered in blisters. But, again, the most difficult challenge in Swain ended up not being footballrelated at all, but instead the politics sur-

Rachel Burdick-Hanks as a peewee football player. (left) Rachel Burdick-Hanks sporting her Swain County Football varsity jacket.

“There will always be somebody there that doesn’t want you there,” she said. “I want other girls to know they can still do it, but it won’t be easy.”

She begged her parents to let her play at a young age, and they were supportive.

However, even her first season of peewee football when she was 8-years-old, children already had the notion, perhaps passed down from their parents, that a girl wasn’t supposed to be playing; that it wasn’t right.

She recalls every opposing team telling

“She’s not going to be as strong as them; and not going to be as fast as them; but she has just as much heart as they do and just as much determination and, in my opinion, more courage.”

—Renee Kocher, about her daughter playing football

before every game. One time, while lining up for the snap, she assumed the three-point position, knees bent and fingers stuck in the turf. The opposing team’s center noticed something strange right away.

“Dude, your nails are painted,” he said, before one of Burdick-Hanks’ teammates could explain that “he” was a she.

The culture in her New York high school was generally accepting of a girl football player. She said there was only one incident during her single season on the junior varsity team in which she was taunted. And the coach dealt with it swiftly, threatening to cut any player who discriminated based on sex, religion or for any other reason. She played every game for her team in New York as a dependable second-string defensive linewoman.

Transferring to WNC was not so easy.

She started out at Cherokee High School as a junior in 2011, and according to

rounding the game and the preconceptions about who should be playing it.

Swain’s coach would not comment for the story, and neither would a spokesman for the school, citing an ongoing, internal investigation into certain incidents surrounding Burdick-Hanks involvement with the team.

Burdick-Hanks and her mother said they didn’t want to go into detail about some of the events and confrontations that have unfolded while she has played for Swain this season. Instead, they wanted to allow the team, which Burdick-Hanks still feels very much a part of, to focus on its next state title. Burdick-Hanks wanted to send a message to any girl who was thinking about playing football.

“Don’t let anyone tell you, you can’t do something,” she said. “Life’s going to knock you down — but it’s about how much you can take and get back up.”

itself, which is why the library plans to hold a fund-raising drive.

“We are sensitive to the budget constraints that our county is facing right now,” Bartlett said, adding that a fund-raising campaign for a new library will likely begin after the first of the year.

As for when Swain residents can expect a new library, with added and expanded service, no one has set a deadline for completion of the project.

“I don’t know that we can set a timeline because there are some variables that are out of our control,” said Gail Findlay, a member of the committee, president of the Friends of the Marianna Black Library and the retired director of the Fontana Regional Library System. “I would have loved to have it done last year or the year before.”

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Final round of GroWNC community meetings The GroWNC Consortium will host a final series of community meetings in the region to gather community input and provide an update on the progress of local development initiatives. The meeting in Haywood County will be Nov. 29 from 1-3 p.m. and 4-6 p.m at the USDA Center.

Community members are invited to evalu-

SCC to train students for work at casino Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort is partnering with Southwestern Community College to offer hands-on technical training and education for dealing live games.

In August 2012, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians began to offer live gaming, including Black Jack, Craps, Roulette and other games, at their 200,000 square-foot casino in Cherokee.

To accommodate, the casino hired approximately 500 people, though many recruits from the surrounding area were new to the gaming industry, spurring a need for training.

“This is a truly win-win situation. The college is very pleased to serve as a link between the members of the community, who are seeking employment, and the employers seeking qualified applicants,” said Sonja Haynes, Southwestern Community College’s Dean of Workforce and Economic Development. www.southwesterncc.edu or call 828.339.4426.

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Not much is for certain as of yet, excepting for the fact that a new library is needed.

The report, conducted by Dubberly Associates in 2010, found that library patrons were left wanting for a long list of amenities: reliable wireless Internet, more parking, more books, a cozy place to read, larger meeting rooms and just more space in general.

“The thing you hear the most is there is not enough parking; there is not enough computers; there is not enough room in the children’s area,” Findlay said.

The building, which sits at the corners of Academy and Rector streets, is about 9,291 square feet, whereas Dubberly Associates’ report suggests that the library be about 24,600 square feet —enough room, the report says, to accommodate Swain County’s growing population.

The Marianna Black Library will be the last of the three in the Fontana Regional Library System to replace its aging building.

Last year, Jackson County spent $8 million to upgrade its library and renovate the old courthouse in Sylva where it is located.

The Jackson County Friends of the Library raised $1.8 million to outfit and furnish the new library, while the county itself put in $7.4 million.

And, a few years prior to that, Macon County spent nearly $4.6 million on a new library. The county carried the majority of the cost.

Dubberly Associates had consulted on both of those projects as well and, similar to Swain, deemed them unfit to fulfill the counties’ future needs.

In some ways, Swain County will benefit from being last to upgrade. The committee for the new library has communicated with Jackson and Macon officials about how the process of building a new library unfolded.

“We don’t want to reinvent the wheel here,” Bartlett said.

The Town of Highlands and Lupoli Construction have won a top award from the state for Highlands town square renovation and revitalization project. The N.C. Main Street Program has recognized Lupoli’s town square project for its design and will officially honor the work on Jan. 31 at its annual conference in Salisbury.

The new town square in Highlands features more than 21,500 square feet of retail, office, and restaurant space, in addition to a courtyard area and public restrooms. It has already become the popular site of the Friday Night Concerts.

“We are very proud of this addition to Highlands’ Main Street,” said Town Planner David Clabo. “And we are pleased that the judges recognize the investment and design improvements to our town’s business district and have bestowed this Award of Merit on Lupoli.”

ate scenarios that can shape the future of the region. The GroWNC initiative focuses on growth and economic development in the five regional counties.

Workgroups have been collaborating since January to develop goals, recommendations, and initial findings focused on these core study areas: housing, transportation, land use, economic development, natural resources, cultural resources, energy, and public health. www.gro-wnc.org.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER Bryson City town leaders have given a verbal OK to the idea of building a new library — but the when, where and how are all still unknown.

“The library is an essential service for the community,” said Chester Bartlett, chairman of Marianna Black Library’s Board of Trustees and leader of a committee charged with taking the lead on the new library. “We feel there is a huge need for this.”

The library is currently located just a short walk from Bryson City’s downtown business district, making it convenient for most residents to visit while traveling into town for work, to visit the grocery store or run other errands.

However, the building opened in 1970 and is far from adequate given the county’s population and the services taxpayers want, according to a report by Dubberly Associates, a library consulting and research firm in Savannah, Ga. The report found that the old library doesn’t have the space or amenities that are commonplace for modern libraries.

“It definitely has supporting evidence for the need to have something substantially larger than we do now,” Bartlett said of the report.

A small committee of individuals, including Bartlett, has met with the county to discuss possible locations for the new library. The short list of properties are located on Lakeview Drive, or “the road to nowhere,” near Swain County High School, near the Ingles off U.S. 19 and adjacent to the Sleep Inn on Veterans Boulevard.

Or, there is property already owned by the county near its newly opened business training and education center on East Ridge Road.

“That is one of the ones that is at the top of the list,” Bartlett said, adding that all the options are within a reasonable distance from downtown Bryson City.

Not including the land purchase, constructing a new library could mean an expense of $2.5 million or $3 million — money that neither the county nor the town has readily available, said Swain County Manager Kevin King.

“It is a big outlay for our county,” said King, especially given its current budget situation.

Last month, an independent auditor hired by the county warned the board of commissioners that if next year’s budget mirrors this year’s, then money could be tight. He advised the board that the future could hold a property tax increase or budget cuts for the county to balance its revenues and expenditures.

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER n its first year, popular weight-loss competition is bucking the trend of mounting obesity in the United States, especially the South, and giving participants a reason to slim down. But with the holiday gorge-fest on the horizon, participants in the third, and final, weight-loss round of 2012 may have the most difficult row to hoe.

The program, Lighten Up 4 Life, is a free, online team weight-loss competition sponsored by Angel Medical Center in Franklin.

Contestants weigh themselves periodically and record it online.

At the end of each four-month period, teams, with names like “Mission Slimpossible” and the “Featherweights,” square off to see who slimmed down the most. The winners get prizes like a Kindle Fire or a free fitness club membership.

In the first session, from January to April, about 600 contestants dropped a combined total of about 2,500 pounds — that’s about the weight of a hardtop Mini Cooper. One contestant lost more than 50 pounds alone.

“We were shocked,” said Bonnie Peggs, director of marketing and public relations at the medical center. Peggs even decided to enter herself into the competition with other staff members from Angel Medical Center.

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August, Peggs team is in 12th place out of several hundred other teams. But, she worries about the daunting statistic that says many people gain between five and seven pounds during the holidays.

“Maintain, don’t gain,” is Peggs’ mantra with Thanksgiving around the corner. She also has vowed in spite of cooling tempera-

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A group of participants in the Lighten Up 4 Life weight loss competition.

Holiday eating tips ■ Don’t skip breakfast or lunch before a big dinner. It may actually cause you to overeat.

■ Eat until you are satisfied, not stuffed.

■ Select small portions of a variety of colorful food like vegetables and fruits.

■ If you drink, select light wines and beers, rather than mixed drinks.

■ Stand away from the buffet tables and food trays to avoid the urge to nibble.

■ Talk more, eat less. Take the time at gatherings to focus on the people, not the food.

■ It’s OK to say “no,” and refuse food, even to persistent hosts.

pressure on each other,” said Teresa Breedlove, a licensed dietician at Angel. “It helps having a buddy.”

But the more discouraging aspect is that once the excitement has ended, many people find it hard to keep the weight off and quickly get fatter. Breedlove routinely works with the ugly side of obesity. She gives dietary consultations to patients with heart problems, diabetes and high blood pressure — often a result of extra poundage.

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tures to continue to park her car far away from the hospital’s door to get some added steps.

Although the competition is good and fun, it also has proven to be effective, confronting a serious issue with a touch of weight-loss psychology.

“That top team is really going to put the

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The Mast General Store is hosting its eighth annual Share the Warmth coat, sweater and blanket collection campaign from now until Nov. 30.

While the economy is in recovery, many of our neighbors are still finding it hard to make ends meet. Winter is on the horizon, and there is still a need to share the warmth to help others fend off the cold.

The Mast General Store, along with Columbia Sportswear, asks people to donate their clean, gently worn coats, jackets, sweaters, gloves, hats and even blankets. Items can be dropped off at Mast General Store in Waynesville, and they will be given to the Open Door and Haywood County Schools.

The Open Door is a mission of Long’s Chapel United Methodist Church of Lake Junaluska whose purpose to feed the hungry and otherwise assist those in need. Teachers and staff at Haywood County Schools will also discreetly distribute the coats to students they know could use extra layers for warmth this winter. www.MastStore.com or www.opendoor-waynesville.org.

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are obese in Macon County; in neighboring Jackson County, about one in three adults are obese.

Although Western North Carolina fares better than other parts of the state, which in turn fares better than other states like Mississippi, the South remains one of the fattest regions of the country.

“The South in general likes — fried okra, fried squash, fried catfish, fried chicken — fried foods,” Breedlove said.

But diet is only part of the equation.

Stress, sleep deprivation and lack of exercise

are also tied to weight gain, she said. And for many people, making changes in all those aspects of personal life constitutes a huge change.

That’s why staff members at the Angel Medical Center are reaching out to as many people in the community as possible to attract them the Lighten Up 4 Life challenge, in the hopes the seemingly inconsequential game will have widespread consequences.

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Bethel Elementary School won the National Title I Distinguished School Award for sustained student achievement. The award is given to schools with high academic performance in with high poverty rates. During the last three years, Bethel’s free and reduce lunch rate has been more than 50 percent.

During the same time period students passed state and federally mandated tests at a rate more than 90 percent.

“We are so proud of Bethel,” said Superintendent Anne Garrett. “This is a hallmark achievement. This award places Bethel

Starting Monday, Nov. 5, the nonprofit Good Samaritan Clinic will occupy space provided by MedWest-Harris in a building on Hospital Road that formerly housed Sylva Medical Center. It is moving from its space at the Community Services Building on Scotts Creek Drive, where the Jackson County Department of Public Health is located.

The clinic is volunteer-based and provides primary care for free at its facility. It targets uninsured adults from Jackson and neighboring counties who are 18 to 65 years old, are low income but ineligible for Medicaid.

The clinic’s phone number will be 828.631.8711.

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Smoky Mountain OB/GYN Associates raised $2,000 for the New Generations Family Birthing Center through their Boo-ti-ful Babies Benefit.

This event, which is one of many, helped raise proceeds to benefit the MedWest-Harris and Swain Foundation in its plans for construction of the birthing center set to begin in the second half of 2013.

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

In efforts to continue raising money, the MedWest-Harris & Swain Foundation is now selling Curly the Bear stuffed animals, which are a two-foot-tall stuffed teddy bears priced at $20 each. www.medwesthealth.org or 828.631.8924.

Elementary School among the best schools in the nation.”

There are 1,250 Title I schools in North Carolina. But as North Carolina’s winner of the award, Bethel Elementary School is among the top one percent of schools in the nation.

Bethel Elementary School will represent North Carolina at the National Title I Conference in January in Nashville.

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N.Y. boys’ sleuthing leads to return of Cherokee veteran’s medals

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER ore than 50 years after Cherokee veteran Charles George died in the Korean War, military medals belonging to the private first class were finally welcomed home Monday — and along with them, the two young boys responsible for their return.

In April, Michael Mazzariello, 11, and his brother Mario, 8, entered a pawn shop in Newburgh, N.Y., with their father in search of old G.I. Joe action figures but instead found a box of military medals that piqued their interest. Sifting through the bunch, the boys found a Bronze Star, a Good Conduct Medal and a Purple Heart — all three with the name Charles J. George inscribed on the back.

“I thought it was wrong that they were in a shop,” Michael said. “They are one of our nation’s highest honors.”

The three medals were for sale for $450, but after the boys’ father talked with the storeowner, the Mazzariellos were allowed to take the medals home for free and start their search for their rightful owner.

“We walked in looking for G.I. Joe, and we came out with a real American hero,” Michael said.

The precocious boys began working feverishly. Their first stop was the Internet, specifically The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor website, which lists all Purple

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medals ended up in New York. And, as far as anyone can tell, there has never been another Charles J. George in the military.

A LONG WAY HOME Although no one knows how the medals got lost, Dupree has a theory.

George’s parents had lived and stayed around Cherokee throughout their lives and were not used to the fast pace of a big city. In fact, his mother’s primary language was Cherokee, though both spoke English.

When George’s parents traveled to New York City in 1954 to honor their son, they were still grieving.

“If you can, imagine what is going on in their minds,” Dupree said. Not to mention the shock of visiting a metropolis, “the noise, the chatter, the madness,” he said.

Dupree postulated that George’s parents forgot some of the medals when they left their New York hotel to travel back home.

And, during those times, communication was slow, and finding a stranger hundreds of miles away in North Carolina would have been difficult.

Fast-forward nearly 60 years, the medals

Mario, 8, and Michael Mazzariello, 11 presented Charles George’s long-lost medals to his family Monday.

“We were taught at an early age to respect all things military.”

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Heart recipients. The only name that popped up was a Swain County man who served in Korea — but no other information was available.

Although they were closer, the boys were still not 100 percent sure that the medals belonged to the Charles George listed on the website and still didn’t know who to contact.

The boys wrote U.S. Sen. William Larkin (RNew York), Veterans Affairs officials and even the White House looking for help.

Larkin was able to put the boys in touch with the executive director of The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor. But, the big break came when Michael and Mario found a YouTube video about the Asheville Veteran Affairs hospital being named after Charles George.

From there, they made contact with Warren Dupree, service officer for Steve Youngdeer Post 143 in Cherokee.

“I just got a really interesting email one day. Just out of the blue,” said Dupree, who was making arrangements for the traveling 16 Vietnam Memorial Wall, which stopped in

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Cherokee last month.

After talking with the boys and their parents, Dupree began an investigation of his own to confirm the medals belonged to Charles George, the Korean veteran and enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

Like all things in the military, the inquiry needed to be done by the book. The local American Legion and the tribe could not just take possession of the medals and represent them as George’s without proof.

“We had to confirm,” Dupree said. “You can’t just say, ‘These are his.’”

After getting permission from George’s family to open up his military records, Dupree thought verifying that the medals belonged to George was only a short step away. A quick search through the army records in St. Louis, and they would have their answer.

“That would have been too easy,” Dupree said.

Unfortunately for their search, all the army personnel records from 1912 to 1957 disintegrated in a fire and could not be reconstructed.

“It was really disheartening,” Dupree

said. “Every door that we opened, very gently closed.”

Dupree and the Mazzariello spoke with dozens of people in an attempt to crack the case, but to no avail. People who had served with George were either deceased or in their 80s and had faded memories.

But, a couple key facts allowed them to use the process of elimination. First of all, George’s father was named Jacob. When soldiers did not have middle names, the army used their father’s first name as the son’s middle name — hence Charles J. George.

Also, George’s mother and father traveled from Cherokee to New York City in 1954 to accept medals on behalf of their son, offering a possible explanation for how the

were finally brought home. To celebrate their return and the Michael and Mario’s efforts, the Cherokee chapter of the American Legion honored the two boys at its Veterans Day ceremony Monday.

Prior to taking the stage at the Cherokee Fairgrounds Exhibition Hall, Mario remained silent, holding onto an original box containing a 1980s G.I. Joe and allowing his big brother to speak for the both of them. Only when questioned about the action figure did he excitedly interject his thoughts.

But, once taking the stage, both Michael and Mario sounded like they had given speeches for crowds since they could talk, taking the appropriate pauses and raising

Who was Charles J. George?

Charles George was an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians from Birdtown and a private first class in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. At the age of 18, George enlisted in the army while the country was in the midst of the Korean War. Following basic training, George began his tour of duty in September 1951 as a member of Company C, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division.

George was part of a raiding party tasked with engaging the enemy and capturing people for interrogation. One day, George and two other soldiers continued to secure an area while their fellow troops fell back to camp. A grenade was launched at the three, and George was able to warn one soldier and pushing the other out of the way before throwing himself onto the explosive.

George died later that day from his injuries near Songnae-dong, Korea in November 1952, more than a year after his tour started.

their voices to incite excitement into the crowd similar to a politician right before Election Day. “We were taught at an early age to respect all things military,” Mario started.

The boys said their parents had taught them that whenever they see a serviceman or woman to walk right up, shake their hand and thank them for their service.

“They are fighting for our freedom,” Michael said.

As Michael and Mario grew up, the family made a conscious effort to travel to various landmarks and museums learning about American history.

During his moment on the stage, Mario appealed to other young children to do the same.

“Hear this,” Mario said in as serious and booming of a voice as an 8-year-old can muster. “Please take the time to learn your history.”

Mario told his peers to set aside video games and educate themselves on the realities of war, not what video games teach them.

“It’s real. It’s not a video game,” Mario said.

Also at the event were three of George’s nieces who accepted the medals on behalf of their family.

“It means a lot,” said Patty Buchanan, one of George’s nieces. “It’s a lot of closure.”

Buchanan said that the family knew the medals were missing all those years and was elated to hear someone had found them.

Michael assured the relatives that his family would not forget Charles J. George.

“We were in awe at his heroic actions,” Michael said. “We came to know him; we came to love him.”

After the speeches and many thanks, the Mazzariellos and the Georges gathered on the stage for a photo together with the returned medals.

“What a wonderful way to end a wonderful story,” Dupree said.

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Speaking too loudly sometimes belittles the message M Scott McLeod

y father is retired Navy, and I lived on military bases until I was 10. My stepfather is retired Army Special Forces with several tours of Vietnam under his belt. My wife’s dad served in the Army and did duty in Vietnam and elsewhere. My brother served and has spent his career working as a civilian on a military base. I have a nephew in the Navy and my own son, 14 years old, right now says he wants to go into one of the military academies.

Editor The U.S. military has been a part of my life since I can remember. Every Veteran’s Day and every Memorial Day that passes drags up some strong emotions, especially since my father passed away a few years ago.

That said, the almost party-like public fawning toward those who have served that we are subjected to these days seems somehow hypocritical. It happens all year, but sometimes it seems that everyone is trying to “out-patriot” everyone else come Veterans’ Day. Whether it’s politicians, television news anchors or local businesses trying to scare up business, too many today want

Get ready for onslaught of new taxes

To the Editor: During the campaign, Barack Obama let it be known that he believes in redistribution of your income … this means giving government entitlements to the takers from the makers.

We do know a little about how redistribution of income will be accomplished.

Though it is entirely possible, given the “ruler” mentality of the Obama administration, I don’t expect brown or black shirts at my door to physically require me to hand over my earnings in cash. No, the taking will be more subtle through all manner of taxation.

This is what is in store for us in the next four years of Barack Obama’s presidency.

If a Democrat Senate allows the Bush tax cuts allowed to all taxpayers to expire in January 2013, 100 million Americans will be affected (including those in the lowest tax brackets). The average U.S household will see an average increase of $3,700 in taxes.

The child tax credit will be reduced from $1,000 per child to $500 per child. The amount of college tuition that can be deducted will be drastically decreased.

Dependent care credit for families with children in day care will be reduced. The return of the “marriage penalty” will increase taxes for the lowest two tax brackets of married couples.

Obamacare taxes are supposedly levied on small businesses, insurers and manufacturers, but the ultimate payer is the con-

to wear their support for the armed forces on their sleeves some who preach that they know which political candidate is and proclaim it a little too loudly. more Christian and will tell you who to vote for. Please.

It hasn’t always been like this. Ask almost any vet older I’m OK with treating today’s volunteer soldiers as heroes. than 35, and they’ll have stories of being ignored for jobs, They have each pledged their own life if the call should treated disrespectfully by neighbors or strangers, getting litcome. There’s nothing more honorable. tle or no help with stress disorders related to combat, or havBut I’m also very sensitive to the mostly somber and stoic ing been subjected to some other kind of prejudicial behavioral because of their military past — especially in the immediate aftermath of What sticks in my craw is that many seem Vietnam. It’s only been in the last two decades that the public that is in no way connected to the to think that wearing a flag pin on your lapel military has taken up the incessant drumbeat to should win you some kind of brownie points deem every soldier a national hero.

Perhaps today’s over-the-top celebrations are for patriotism. It doesn’t work like that. a reaction to the despicable way we treated veterans just a few years ago. Maybe the nation’s collective guilt has led to beating the patriotism drum really loud and really often. Perhaps. soldiers I’ve spent time around, especially when it comes to What sticks in my craw is that many seem to think that public accolades. It’s a terrible task they do, taking human wearing a flag pin on your lapel should win you some kind of life, and they do it to protect some very valuable freedoms. brownie points for patriotism. It doesn’t work like that. Too Perhaps we should all remember to treat that commitment many of today’s so-called patriots are like those who call our with the dignity it deserves.

(Scott McLeod can be reached at info@smokymountainnewspaper during the holidays to get publicity about their news.com.) act of charity. Is that really what charity is about? Or like

sumer. Here are some of the Obamacare taxes: individual mandate excise tax; employer mandate tax; surtax on investment income; excise tax on comprehensive health insurance plans; medicine cabinet tax; health savings account withdrawal tax hike; flexible spending account cap – aka, “special needs kids tax; tax on medical device manufacturers; reduced medical itemized deduction from 7.5% to 10% of adjusted dross income; tax on indoor tanning services; Blue Cross/Blue Shield tax hike; excise tax on charitable hospitals; tax on innovator drug companies; tax on health insurers; and a tax hike on a type of bio-fuel.

You can expect more control from the IRS that will allow the IRS to disallow completely legal tax deductions and other legal tax-minimizing plans just because the IRS deems that the action lacks “substance” and is merely intended to reduce taxes owed.

Add these disallowed deductions, increased tax rates and all other taxes imposed by government and we will find these increased taxes will impact all hardworking families.

Shirley Slaughter Cashiers

Tax the rich and we all pay more To the Editor: Harry Reid, the leader of the Democrat Senate in Washington says, “Tax the rich.”

Is Harry a fool or does he think we are?

All tax hikes are passed on to the cus-

LOOKING FOR OPINIONS The Smoky Mountain News encourages readers to express their opinions through letters to the editor or guest columns. All viewpoints are welcome. Send to Scott McLeod at info@smokymountainnews.com., fax to 828.452.3585, or mail to PO Box 629, Waynesville, NC, 28786.

tomer. We all know that when we get to the cash register the taxes are added on to the bill. The same thing happens when the “rich” make an iPad or a cell phone and then sells it to us — the tax is added on to the price we pay.

Look at the price of gas. If the rich pay higher taxes on the gasoline, then we pay a higher price at the pump. They add the tax into the cost of everything we buy. Same thing happens to the price of food. When the farmers and rich grocery store owners are charged more tax, then the price of food goes up.

Who does Harry think he is fooling? We are all in this together. When Harry says tax the rich, we will all pay more for everything.

That is a foolish idea.

Call Sen. Kay Hagan, she works for Harry: 202.224.6342. Tell her we are no fools. We cannot afford Harry’s tax hike and higher prices on everything we buy.

Lynda Bennett Maggie Valley

GOP should control House for years

To the Editor: The 2012 Election results are in and it gives me hope. Tip O’Neill, the former distinguished Democratic Speaker of the House, said “All politics is local.” The sweeping Republican victory in Macon County tells us that we are on the right track. No matter what the presidential results, Macon County and the State of North Carolina are moving forward, and that is reason for hope and change.

The Democrat’s dominance of the past is fading. The leadership of the Democratic Party is out of sync with the citizens. We look forward on the local, regional and state level to reduced debt, reduced regulation, educational reform, economic reform and reduced unemployment. Thank you Jim Davis, Paul Higdon, Mark Meadows, Pat McCrory, Melissa Evans and God Bless Macon County and the State of North Carolina!!

Sarah Binder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said Republicans could now be situated to hold their majority in the House for quite some time. She spoke of a “structural advantage” the party holds “because of the way Republican voters are spread out over the country … with strength in suburban and rural areas.”

A footnote to this is in Chicago, where the headline on Yahoo News reads “Absentee Illinois Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. re-elected.” Thank God we do not live in Chicago.

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“ ... It’s about hooking up with history. If you look at some of the images of statues from the Renaissance, it’s unbelievable. It’s very intense, and you when you finish it, you know you’ve been through something.”

— Marya Roland, associate professor of art at WCU

Heating up history

WCU students practice ancient metalsmithing techniques

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER What sounded like a jet engine echoed out of the building tucked away on the hill.

Peering into the large bay doors of the metal studio at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro, the booming noise is coming from a foundry in the corner that was used to turn metals into molten liquid for casting.

And this past Monday, students from the art department at Western Carolina University took part in casting bronze and aluminum with

their recently constructed plaster molds.

“It’s surprising how thin the molten metal gets,” said Timm Muth, director of the Jackson County Green Energy Park. “It pours out like Kool-Aid when I was expecting it to be like honey. It comes out quick and makes it a little scary.”

Fueled by methane from a closed landfill next door, the foundry is known as the only one of its kind in the world to run entirely on the sustainable gas. The highly flammable product produces a large flame that shoots out of the small opening at the top of the barrel.

With temperatures hovering around 2,200 degrees, the high level of heat is needed to properly melt down the bronze (melting point of 1,742 degrees) and aluminum (melting point of 1,220 degrees).

Partnering with the school for the last few years, the park offers the WCU students a stateof-the-art facility that can be accessed for a nominal fee. The cooperation also benefits the Green Energy Park, says Muth.

“It gives them a place to go off campus to focus on what they’re doing,” he said “They can actually make it part of their curriculum without having to make their own facility, and we have the safety taken care of here.”

Led by Marya Roland, associate professor of art at WCU, a dozen students have spent the last two weeks constructing their molds.

“I think they’re really excited,” she said. “The ones that have had experience doing this kind of know what to expect. The others won’t really understand the process until you do it. You don’t understand what the wax/metal casting process is all about until you do it.

There are so many different levels.”

The class starts by shaping wax into whatever design the students have in mind, which ranges from a fishing hook to figurines to a part for a screen door. After they carve out their shape, they surround the wax with plaster and sand. Once the plaster hardens, they melt out the wax until just the mold

remains. From there, they take the molten metal and pour it gently into the mold, wait for it to solidify, crack open the plaster and expose their finished piece to the world.

“It’s like Christmas because you have wait to crack open the molds,” Roland said. “If you open it before then, it’s like a cake and will fall down. It’s as much work as it’s fun.”

Roland pointed out that the steps involved have to be choreographed beforehand to ensure precision and care is given to the process.

“You can read about it online or in art history, but I don’t think you’ll really understand it until you participate,” she said. “It’s very complex, and each step has to be technically perfect or you’ll fail at the end.”

A technique thousands of years old, casting metal is at the very foundation of what has led to the achievements of a 21st century society.

Though the process has remained largely unchanged for centuries, its importance and relevance to the innovation of mankind can never be understated.

“If there’s no metal work, there’s no modern technology,” Muth said.

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Left: Timm Muth, director of the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro, places blocks of bronze into a methane foundry, which melts down metal. Reaching temperatures of 2,200 degrees, the foundry is fueled by methane gas from a nearby closed landfill. Right: WCU professor Marya Roland (right) instructs her art students on the steps that must be taken to properly pour the molten metal into plaster molds. Inset: Molten bronze being poured. Garret K. Woodward photos

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direction. Her mold is of three connected figurines and she’s eager to crack open the plaster.

“It’s not as scary as it seems, but it’s hot.

Bronze is quite a bit hotter than aluminum and it’s very heavy,” she said. “I just love getting my hands dirty and I love bronze, so the outcome is worth it for me.”

Helping move the lid on the barrel, senior studio art major Ian Michaels appreciates the benefits of using green energy as fuel to create projects that normally would use toxic materials.

“This is a great example of recycling what we have and applying it in a positive direction,” he said. “I like the adapting of a methane heating system. It’s very progressive, something I can take part in and encourage.”

With the molten metal spending the next several hours solidifying, the class will be smashing open the plaster in the coming days. They’re all looking forward to it, especially Roland, who after years of being involved in the process is still taken back by the aura and grandeur of casting.

“For me, and I think for the students, it’s about hooking up with history,” she said. “If you look at some of the images of statues from the Renaissance, it’s unbelievable. It’s very intense, and you when you finish it, you know you’ve been through something.”

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barrel, take the crucible (containing the molten metal) out of the barrel, place the crucible down gently and hoist it up to pour slowly into the molds, Muth carefully instructs the students with a couple of trial runs. Once they get the concept, they strap on steel-toed boots, leather chaps and protective face/body gear to take proper precautions and avoid injury.

“It needs to be well coordinated because you’re dealing with some pretty dangerous stuff here. You can’t just set things down anywhere,” he said. “It’s got to be set down in a special position, picked up and moved around with certain tools. That’s one of the things we can do at the park because it’s inside of this building and you can control what goes on.”

Carefully lifting up the molten liquid up and over the molds, the students help each other out, making sure those pouring are level, in line, and are tipping the crucible at the ideal pace.

Once each mold is filled and the crucible lowered back into the foundry, there is a momentary silence. Muth gives the signal that all is well.

The crew claps and cheers at their success.

One of the students in charge of pouring, senior Amanda Humes is finishing up a degree in sculpture. She has aspirations to make her passion into a career, and being part of the process today is another small step in that

Most artwork is priced between $20 and $80.

No work is priced over $300. Artwork is sold off the wall in a “pay and walk away” style.

The show changes a little each week with new pieces displayed where ones were sold.

Artists hail from the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, which encompasses the 25 westernmost counties in North Carolina. The show challenges artists to create works smaller than 12 inches in every dimension, including base, matting and frame, etc. www.haywoodarts.org.

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Haywood County Arts Council’s Gallery 86 announces its annual small works show, “It’s a Small, Small Work 2012,” from Wednesday, Nov. 14 through Saturday, Dec. 29.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Artist receptions will be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18, in conjunction with Downtown Waynesville’s Holiday Open House and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 7, during Art After Dark.

The show provides a unique opportunity to purchase original art at modest prices.

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Classes offered in Stecoah There will be a handful of crafting classes offered at the Stecoah Valley Center in Robbinsville.

“Knitted Fingerless Gloves with Beads” will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 14-15. Tuition is $40 per person. Kit fee is $30 without beads, $36.50 with beads. Attendees will make a pair of fingerless gloves while learning to knit using the magic loop technique.

“Create a Handmade Journal” will be from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17. Tuition is $35 per person (includes materials). Instructor is Phyllis Jarvinen.

Minimum of four students, with a maximum of eight. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com/classes.

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Works on the program will include “Vuelta del Fuego (Ride of Fire)” by Kevin McKee, “Colchester Fantasy” by Eric Ewazen, “Indiana” arranged by Paul Nagle, “Centone V” arranged

by Verne Reynolds, “Mini Overture” by Witold Lutoslawski and “Bluesette” by Jean “Toots” Theilmans, as arranged by Rob Roy McGregor. www.smbq.org or 828.227.3274.

Waynesville artist’s co-op to hold fundraiser Mainstreet Artist’s Co-op will host its first annual open house charity event from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18, at their location in downtown Waynesville.

Patrons will enjoy food, refreshments and live music while browsing. A percentage of the proceeds from the co-op sales will be directed to the Waynesville Open Door Soup Kitchen and the Haywood County Arts Council. macannualcharityevent.eventbrite.com.

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Woodworker Bob Luciene is one of many artists showing at the co-op. Hannah McLeod photo

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Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet will perform its fall recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University.

WCU quintet-in-residence consists of P. Bradley Ulrich and David Ginn (trumpets), Travis Bennett (horn), Dan Cherry (trombone) and Michael Schallock (tuba).

A free Aikido class taught by Timm Muth will be offered at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva.

Aikido is a traditional Japanese martial art. It’s considered a “soft” art that utilizes a variety of throws, pins and off-balancing techniques to defend against an attack without necessarily harming the attacker.

Class size is limited to the first 10 people, ages 16 and over to sign up.

Participants should wear comfortable clothing.

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A community music jam will be held from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 15, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer, or anything unplugged, are invited to join. Singers are also welcomed to join in or you can just stop by and listen. The jam is facilitated by Larry Barnett of Grampa’s Music in Bryson City. Normally, Larry starts by calling out a tune and its key signature and the group plays it together. Then, everyone in the circle gets a chance to choose a song for the group to play together.

The community jams offer a chance for musicians of all ages and levels of ability to share music they have learned over the years or learn

old-time mountain songs. The music jams are offered to the public each first and third Thursday of the month.

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Pickin’ in Hazelwood World-class bluegrass pickers will gather at Smoky Mountain Roasters in Hazelwood at 7 p.m. on Nov. 15 for a fundraising concert series to benefit Head Start of Haywood County.

The show will include Eddie Rose with special guests Darren Nicholson, Steve Sutton and Kevin Sluder.

Smoky Mountain Roasters is located at 444 Hazelwood Avenue.

Donations will be accepted for admission.

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Groovy Movie Club will show the film “The Way” on Friday, Nov. 16, in Waynesville.

A mostly organic potluck dinner will precede the screening at 6:15 p.m. The mission of the Groovy Movie Club is to show excellent films, both feature and documentary, with a message. A discussion will follow for all who wish to participate. The screening will take place at Buffy Queen’s green, solarpowered home in Dellwood. This event is free and open to the public and it meets the second or third Friday of every month.

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Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department will offer a senior trip to have breakfast at Paula Deen’s Kitchen on Monday, Dec. 10.

The trip will leave the Waynesville Recreation Center at 8 a.m. and return by 11 a.m. The cost is $23 per person for members of the Waynesville Recreation Center or $25 per person for non-members.

828.456.2030 or recprograms@townofwaynesville.org.

Join the Clyde ballroom dance class

Haywood Ballroom Dancers monthly dance will be held from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, at Angie’s Dance Academy in Clyde.

Recorded music will be played.

Refreshments are free. Admission is $10 per person.

828.734.8726 or 828.734.8063 or www.haywoodballroomdancers.com.

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The next installment of family movie night will be shown at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

A drama based on a short story by Louisa May Alcott, struggling widow Mary Bassett (Helene Joy) is trying to support three children, but money is so tight that they can’t even afford a Thanksgiving turkey. An unexpected visit from her estranged — and moneyed — mother (Jacqueline Bisset) means Mary can prepare a proper holiday meal.

However, it will take more than a feast to heal this family’s emotional wounds.

Movies are free to the public and projected onto an 8-by-10 foot screen, with a theater sound system. Popcorn, provided by the Friends of the Marianna Black Library, will be served in the library auditorium starting at 3:20 p.m.

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Hear about the life of a special agent A former FBI agent and terrorist hunter will discuss his new book at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Hinds University Center theater at Western Carolina University.

In the book, Special Agent Man: My Life in the FBI as a Terrorist Hunter, Helicopter Pilot, and Certified Sniper (Chicago Review Press, August 2012), author and former FBI agent Steve Moore strips away the glamour, fantasy and politics of the G-Man lifestyle and reveals the day-to-day thrills, struggles and triumphs of the grind as one of America’s unsung heroes.

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Storyteller Lloyd Arneach is a Liar’s Bench regular.

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Liars Bench to perform Carden drama Nov. 15 The Liars Bench will present “Birdell” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, at the Western Carolina University Mountain Heritage Center.

“Birdell,” a dramatic monologue by famed Appalachian storyteller Gary Carden, starring

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Western Carolina University student Kaleb Ticknor (right) was one of 17 students across the state chosen to receive the 2012 Community Impact Award on Nov. 3 at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Given by North Carolina Campus Compact, the award recognizes college students who make significant, innovative efforts to address local community needs. A freshman, Ticknor was an active leader in the WCU on-campus voter registration, education and engagement initiatives. Ticknor also received a Certificate of Appreciation from N.C. Governor Bev Perdue. WCU photo

“Hard Candy Christmas” Fine Art and Craft Show will celebrate 25 years from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 23-24, at the Ramsey Center Arena at Western Carolina University.

The show, which gets its name from a simpler era when folks enjoyed the season with stockings of hard candy and gifts made by hand, will present a selection of arts and crafts from the southern Appalachians. The two-day show features a variety of items from basket weavers, potters, wood carvers, quilters, furniDebra Parker Romero is the featured artist at this year’s ture makers, blacksmiths, glass “Hard Candy Christmas” show. blowers, doll makers and more. ments. Her work is currently on display at Holiday items available include candles, ornaments, trees, wreaths and peanut brittle. the Biltmore House.

Admission is $4 per person, with chilThis year’s featured artist is Debra dren under age 12 admitted free. There is no Parker Romero of Buford, Ga. A sculptor charge for parking. and owner of Old World St. Nicks, Romero 828.524.3405, 800.962.1911 or specializes in creating an original handmade www.MountainArtisans.net.

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Bobbie Curtis in a story of a defiant mountain woman forced off her land by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and because of the rising waters of Fontana Lake. Regular cast members include Carden, Lloyd Arneach, Paul Iarussi, William Ritter, the Boys From Tuckaseegee, Barabra Duncan, Karen Barnes and the show’s mascot Bodine. The Liars Bench recognizes established regional artists and performers and also encourages new talent. Carden has said the show will be a benefit for the organization.

Admission is $10. Tickets will be available at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva and at the door the night of the show. www.theliarsbenchgazette.blogspot.com or www.facebook.com/theliarsbench.

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Tickets available for ‘Tarzan’ Western Carolina University has announced its 2013 line-up of “golden age of radio” re-creations.

Director Steve Carlisle, music director Bruce Frazier and writer/producer Don Connelly have started work on “Tarzan of the Apes.” The show will be performed before a live audience at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. Tickets go on sale Monday, Nov. 12, and are $10. Proceeds will be used to fund scholarships in participating academic departments. This is the centennial year for “Tarzan of the Apes,” and the group feels honored to be allowed to adapt the original materials and create a new radio adventure for the jungle hero.

828.227.2479 or bardoartscenter.wcu.edu or 828.227.3851 or email dconnelly@wcu.edu.

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Sandi Patty and Jason Crabb will bring “A Celebration of the Christmas Season” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25, at the Smoky Mountain Center of the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Sandi Patty has performed in sold out arenas across the nation. She’s a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, has received five Grammy awards, four Billboard Music Awards and 40 Dove Awards. Patty is the most awarded female vocalist in contemporary Christian music history.

Jason Crabb is also a Grammy award winner and has received nearly a dozen Dove Awards. For many years, he was the powerhouse lead vocal for The Crabb Family. His soulful, unforgettable voice has earned him the honor of performing for Rev. Billy Graham’s farewell crusade in New York City and a “fan favorite” spot at the Grand Ole Opry.

Tickets are $26 per person. www.GreatMountainMusic.com or 866.273.4615.

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Laughter Yoga Club will meet from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, at the Senior Resource Center in Waynesville.

Lead by certified laughter yoga leader Suzanne Hendrix, the class follows a series of simple yet structured laughter and yogic breathing techniques, combined with simple stretching. These exercises bring more oxygen to the body, thus improving health, as well as happiness. No special equipment

is needed. No prior yoga experience is necessary, and a willingness to laugh is all you need. Wear comfortable clothes and bring your own giddy vocalizations.

Laughing for no reason at all, no jokes, humor or comedy, is a tool that can be recalled instantly. Laughter yoga effectively decreases stress, strengthens the immune system, increases endorphins (the “feel good” chemicals in the brain), decreases and controls blood pressure, decreases heart rate and fights depression. Using facial exercises decreases wrinkles.

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Diversity within unity — a book for the ages rom the foothills of the Southern Appalachians, and in the tradition of such spiritual classics as Gurdjieff ’s Meetings With Remarkable Men, comes Carolyn Toben’s Recovering a Sense of the Sacred: Conversations with Thomas Berry at a time that is not only propitious, but providential.

Maybe once every hundred years someone emerges from the shuddering mass of humanity who speaks to us with a kind of clarity and wisdom that is universally profound.

Father Thomas Berry is such a figure. He was born and raised in a lush and verdant part of the country where nature and Writer beauty trumped progress and development. In this place and in a special meadow near his boyhood home near Greensboro, the seeds of a universal vision for the earth and humanity were cultivated and nurtured — seeds which grew eventually to become a vision that is biblical in its insights, wisdom and compassion.

We know from our literary canons and our mythologies of the meeting of great minds.

But what about the meeting of great souls?

Western spirituality and philosophy have not documented many, if any, of these kinds of conversations. But here, in the North Carolina hill country, a meeting took place and an indepth conversation was born — lasting more than a decade — that has produced a document that may be as profoundly and dynamically consciousness-raising as it is rare.

In the tradition of the call-and-response of the old Southern African-American spirituals, we find in these pages a call-and-response between a man and a woman who have given

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come at a more critical time in the human-earth drama, when the lack of our ability to see things wholistically has brought human civilization to the brink of its own demise. In times like these, new metaphors, new ideas, new commitments need to be made in order to bridge the necessary transition to a more harmonious and sustainable future.

But this is not a book filled with gloom and doom. In fact, it is the opposite. This conversation between Thomas Berry and Carolyn Toben is a bridge, a crossing I believe, that many people have been looking for in the world and within themselves. With her questions and personal responses born of a lifetime of teaching and of spiritual seeking and practice, Toben not Recovering a Sense of the Sacred: Conversations with Thomas Berry only provides one of

by Carolyn Toben. Timberlake Earth Sanctuary Press, 2012. 152 pages. the great sages of our century a divine over their lives to “the greater good.” This platform from which to speak to humanity at conversation and this book couldn’t have this most precious and precipitous of historic

moments, but then adds her own distilled and intimate reflections to further ferment, sweeten and make palatable Thomas Berry’s “wine.”

So richly simple are Berry’s responses to Carolyn’s calling out for much-needed wisdom, that any young person can intuitively grasp and understand them. In fact, Berry reaches out here, specifically, to children and young adults, and he addresses the years ahead that they will be facing and what their mission will be. Hence the genius of this book, which is a manual for interdependence, transformation and communion. In reading these pages one finds one’s self singing “the hymn of praise that is existence,” as Berry called it.

I knew Berry for the last 20 years of his life and met Toben about the same time that I met him. The two of them walked parallel paths which kept synchronistically crossing my own.

At those intersections we shared “an intimate communion of thought,” as Berry would have said. And it was just this kind of communion that led Toben to humbly write “Let the universe in all its marvelous differentiation teach me to celebrate differences in all the relationships of my life.”

This focus on diversity within unity and this kind of sacred context are exactly at the heart of Berry’s message for the ages, leading us, as he himself did over the course of his own lifetime, to continually seek and to increasingly see. His ideas (which are expanded in his books, The Dream of the Earth, The Great Work, and The Universe Story), here distilled, are now accessible and available to us all. This is “required reading” for our time.

I firmly believe that those who read this book will come away forever changed.

(Thomas Crowe is the author of the award-winning book of non-fiction Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods. He lives in the Tuckasegee community of Jackson County and can be reached at newnativepress@hotmail.com.)

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Joe Cobb Crawford will discuss his new novel at 1 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 11, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Crawford is the author of The Poetry Company, a memoir about life lessons learned while working with and attempting to gain the acceptance of crude-talking poultry workers during the early 1960s.

He has also written a novel (When the Chickens Come Home to Roost) about a woman from New York adjusting to her new life in North Georgia during the 1960s, solving two mysterious deaths along the way.

828.586.9499.

The book launch of the book of essays, My Bookstore, and the paperback release of Ron Rash’s novel, The Cove at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 13.

My Bookstore, edited by Ronald Rice with an introduction by Richard Russo, is an anthology of essays by 84 writers sharing their passion for their favorite local bookshop. Ron Rash is included with a piece about City Lights Bookstore.

In addition, Rash may discuss his upcoming book of short stories Nothing Gold Can Stay.

828.586.9499.

Two authors will be presenting their latest works at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

Amy Willoughby-Burle will read from her first story collection at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17. One of the short stories recently won first Prize in the Press 53 Open Awards for Flash Fiction.

Eric S. Brown will be reading from his newest book, Boggy Creek: The Legend is True, at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 29. Brown is nationally known for zombie novels and horror fiction. www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER They stood in a line, trigger fingers poised, eyes fixated on the target.

It was early morning, and the predawn sun had not yet peaked over the tops of the eastern range. An antlered male elk had his head down, buried in the tall, dew-covered grass, oblivious to the stakeout at the far edge of the meadow.

The line waited, growing impatient.

“Hold it like a gun,” whispered Bob Grytten, the leader of the group, to an inexperienced member. The young man switched his grip until Grytten was satisfied. “You always must be ready to shoot.”

Finally, the target lifted his head above the grass.

“That’s your shot,” he said.

The line began to fire, shooting in rapid succession.

The elk turned toward the group for a moment then began to lumber west toward the edge of the woods. The click-click-clicks from the cameras increased in frequency as the elk walked.

“Take a lot of shots to get on photo when his knees are bent,” offered Grytten. “That will give the appearance of movement. It changes the whole feel.”

Then the elk lowered his head and began eating more grass. The line of photographers became impatient again; their prime shooting opportunity had ended for the moment.

Cataloochee Valley, home of the Great Smoky Mountains elk herd, is one of Grytten’s favorite sites for on-location photo outings. As a photography instructor based in nearby Waynesville, Cataloochee frequently plays a starring role in his line-up of field outings and workshops, and how could it not?

The idyllic high-elevation valley sports not only stately elk but historic farm houses, misty meadows and mountain peaks.

Grytten is a guru of light, and consequently it is the biggest take-away for any photographer who comes up through the ranks of his field outings.

“It’s all about light; nothing about the subject,” he said. Grytten went on to explain the reasoning behind a morning shoot as opposed to a midday one: the colors are warmer and the yellows and reds are more brilliant. He called it the sweet light. By midday, the sun

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illuminates the water particles in the air, and the world becomes bluer.

Also in the morning, there are features like mist in the air that make a photograph appear more natural.

Grytten pointed out that there are distinctive advantages to shooting photographs in

the Appalachian Mountains as opposed to Florida, for example, where he lived for 30 years prior to moving here. The topography of the mountains extend the morning and the evening time, and even in midday, it’s possible to steal a good shot because there are more options of either shade or the sun.

Get your cameras and go Outdoor photography excursions and indoor editing workshops are periodically offered by photographer Bob Grytten and his group the Lens Luggers. The classes are geared toward all experience levels and typically include carpooling to photgenic destinations, and one-on-one feedback from Grytten.

A list of planned events is available at the Lens Lugger website, www.lensluggerworld.com, and the all-day programs can cost around $50, including food and transport. Many of the outings meet near Waynseville. For more information contact Grytten at Bobgry@aol.com or 828-497.3598.

“When the sun comes up in Florida, there aren’t many options at all,” Grytten said.

Grytten has traveled all around the world taking pictures, and when he mentions any of them, he remembers what the light was like there.

In southern France the light paints the world in pastels; in Utah, the rocks and the world are red; and in Cataloochee Valley when the sun strikes just right, it turns the mist to gold.

Although Grytten is a professional with several of his photographs published, most of the members attracted to his outings are accomplished and knowledgeable photographers themselves. Several sign up for

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Shots taken in the Cataloochee Valley with Bob Grytten.

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Venus and moon dance in front of the sun

Seniors see waterfalls on state park trip The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department will offer a trip for seniors to DuPont State Forest on Wednesday, Nov. 28. The park touts the top three of what some consider the 20 best waterfalls in Western North Carolina.

The trip will leave from the Waynesville Recreation Center at 10:30 a.m. and return by 4 p.m. In addition, participants are asked to bring a snack and money to purchase lunch as lunch will not be until 2 p.m. The cost is $10 per person for members of the Waynesville Recreation Center or $13 per person for non-members.

To register 828.456.2030 or recprograms@townofwaynesville.org

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Forest Service prepares for fires in Nantahala The U.S. Forest Service plans to conduct four prescribed burns in the Nantahala Ranger District in the Nantahala National Forest this fall.

The burning is contingent on weather conditions. The goal of the burns is to open the forest understory and possibly thin the woods to improve wildlife habitat and remove vegetation that could be hazardous during a wildfire.

Three of the burn areas are in the vicinity of Cowee Bald, west of Sylva. The areas include: 574 acres at Wolf Knob, 697 acres at Alarka Laurel and 280 acres at Shepherd Bald. The Forest Service will also conduct a 510-acre prescribed burn southeast of Cashiers in conjunction with a burn on private land.

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Venus. Mercury will join Saturn and Venus in the dawn sky on Nov. 30. And from conjunction to juxtaposition – on Nov. 28, as the almost full moon rises, Jupiter will be less than one degree away.

The Astronomy Club of Asheville has some great PDF downloads regarding the happenings in the November night sky. You can find them at www.astroasheville.org.

You can also find info there about the club’s next star gaze, happening on Nov. 16. This event will be held at a private site – the Grassland Mountain Observatory in Madison County, but directions will be available at the website.

(Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist. He can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.)

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Early mornings kind of go with the territory around here. With work, kids and the never-ending list of chores, every homeowner know the wee hours are often the only time one has to exhale. But I’m a crepuscular creature, and that suits me just fine.

Last Sunday morning (Nov. 11), I took my coffee out on the deck just as the southeastern sky was beginning to turn rosy around the peaks of the mountains. Sitting in the not dark but not light, just out of the sun’s grasp, was a crescent sliver of light clinging to the bottom of a dark round shadow moon. And beside this waning crescent moon was shimmering blue Venus. The two danced together teasingly just ahead of Sol as he lumbered over the mountains to start the day.

This celestial dance is a reminder that as we turn away from Sol to face winter, the heavens are in transition. The bull, Taurus, rules the November nights, rising around 8 p.m. and standing overhead by midnight.

There are four clues to help even novice star-watchers like me see Taurus. The bull’s face is formed by a triangle of stars. Now, Taurus is romping upside down in our night so the triangle is tilted upwards. The orange star Aldebaran shines brightly along the bottom (to us) of this triangle. And to our left of Aldebaran is the bright planet Jupiter. And almost directly above Aldebaran are the “Seven Sisters” or “Pleiades” that distinctive little dippershaped cluster of stars. Orion, the hunter, is also climbing into the evening sky and will become more prominent as November rolls on.

And November wouldn’t be November

without the Leonids, caused as we fly through the dust of comet Temple-Tuttle.

The Leonids can sometimes offer spectacular meteor showers, but this year’s show will be somewhat subdued with perhaps 10-12 “shooting stars” per hour from midnight til dawn on Nov. 16 and 17. That’s still a meteor every 6-7 minutes and the kicker is – the new moon will not hide the show.

Other cool things to look for in the November night, according to the Astronomy Club of Asheville’s website, include Mars near that waxing new moon on Nov. 15 through 17. A cool planetary conjunction will occur in the dawn sky on Nov. 26 and 27, as Saturn will appear within one degree of the bright morning star –

Knoxville travel writer Katy Koontz has written a guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park that can be accessed by smart phone.

The application is called Smoky Mountain Travel Guide and contains more than 200 entries, including sights, picnic areas, hiking and horseback riding trails and other activities in the park. It also includes attractions, restaurants, accommodations and shopping in the surrounding communities of Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, Townsend and Cherokee.

The app includes not-so-obvious destination suggestions, such as mom-and-pop eateries and out-of-the-way attractions and annual events. Pictures are included with the entries.

“The app is fun because it’s interactive,” Koontz explained. “It gives turn-byturn GPS directions and offers one-tap calling and links to websites and videos. Users can mark entries as favorites for easy reference, as well as leave comments and ask

questions that I answer as soon as possible — often the same day.”

The cost to download is $2.99, and the application can be used on the iPod Touch, iPad, and iPhone as well as Android.

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AT license plate money available to fund trail projects The Appalachian Trail Conservancy is accepting applications for the 2013 Appalachian Trail License Plate Grant Program, which awards a total of $35,000 for a broad range of projects in North Carolina.

The organization is looking for applications from trail clubs, schools, researchers, conservation groups and civic organizations.

Projects can be related to the physical trail and its facilities; trail clubs’ long-term management; natural heritage and environmental monitoring; education and outreach; Appalachian Trail Community partnerships; and major public-service projects.

The grant funds are generated from the sales and renewals of the state’s AT specialty license plates. The deadline for applications is Jan. 7, 2013. To view the grant guidelines or to obtain an application, visit www.appalachiantrail.org/plates.

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Boyd Mountain Tree Farm in Waynesville will open its Christmas tree farm Nov. 16 for choose-and-cut tree enthusiasts, a Boyd Tree Farm tradition since 1995.

“Many families come to Boyd Mountain as part of their holiday tradition,” said Lynn Collins, director of the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority. “People are already inquiring about overnight accommodations and checking our website to tie in other holiday festivities while they are in the area.”

Hours are 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. each day.

Free refreshments such as hot apple cider, hot chocolate, roast coffee, spring water, and holiday cookies will be provided.

The farm is located on Hemphill Road just off N.C. 276, Jonathan Creek Road, Exit 20 off U.S. 40. www.visitncsmokies.com.

Community asked to weigh in on regional bike plan The Land-of-Sky Regional Council will host a round of community input meetings Nov. 5 through Dec. 6 to gather input for a regional bicycling plan.

The organization was awarded a grant from N.C. Department of Transportation in August 2011 to undertake a regional bike plan study for seven counties in Western North Carolina, including Jackson, Swain and Haywood.

The study will continue through June 2013, and the ultimate goal is to develop a regional bicycle plan that will help guide future local transportation investment. Residents can attend the meetings and provide comments and suggestions on where and what type of facilities they would like to see in the region.

The initiative is called the Blue Ridge Bike Plan.

Land-of-Sky Regional Council is a multi-county, local government planning and development organization in North Carolina. It is one of 17 such organizations in the state and serves Region B, which includes the counties of Buncombe, Henderson, Madison and Transylvania. Land-of-Sky Regional Council is made up of local representatives who meet monthly to plan programs and set policies and goals to for the region. The meetings are open to the public and refreshBike to work day in Waynesville. ments will be provided.

■ Nov. 19, 12-2 p.m., Western Carolina University Center multi-purpose room on second floor.

■ Nov. 28, 4-6 p.m., Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance Street.

■ Dec. 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Marianna Black Public Library, 33 Fryemont Street, Bryson City.

Cherokee 5k to benefit cancer support group The annual Cherokee Choices 5k Run, Walk or Roll will be held at noon on Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Expo Center on Acquoni Road, also known as the old high school.

All ages and moving style are invited to participate in the event, including those rolling strollers and wheelchairs. The event’s purpose is to promote a healthy lifestyle for residents and raise funds for the Cherokee Cancer Support Group.

Registration on race day begins at 11 a.m. and cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12. To pre-register call 828.497.1976.

Medals and a T-shirt will be given to first 100 registered.

Permits available for downed trees

Discussion focuses on climate change and the Appalachians

Permits are available from the U.S. Forest Service allowing local residents to harvest up to four cords of wood from downed trees in the national forests.

Residents can purchase firewood permits from local ranger district offices. The permit costs $20 for approximately four cords of firewood. Firewood may not be harvested in wilderness areas, active timber sale areas, campgrounds or day-use areas.

Permit holders are limited to harvesting dead and down trees; standing trees may not be cut. It is also illegal to resell that firewood.

Approximately 2,500 cords of wood are harvested from the four national forests in North Carolina annually. Penalties for poaching wood may include a fine up to $5,000 as well as a six-month sentence in federal prison. www.fs.usda.gov/nfsnc

A discussion about the local effects of climate change and development will be held at the historic Rickman Store near Franklin from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov. 17.

The Coweeta Listening Project will host the community conversation and provide an opportunity for local residents to share experiences, observations and concerns about climate change and to learn regional researchers are studying these topics.

The conversation will include a short presentation by John Maerz, an ecologist at the University of Georgia and the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research Program.

Maerz’s research examines how climate change, invasive species and the conversion of forests to farms and housing developments will affect Southern Appalachian reptiles, amphibians, forests and streams.

In one recent study, he tested how eight different climate scenarios would affect salamander habitats in the Appalachian Highlands. All scenarios would lead to significant habitat loss, with strong possibilities for population decline and extinction.

Another recent study examined how salamander behavior changes as a result of streamside development.

The discussion will focus what these Charles Johnson photo changes mean for regional forests and streams and what residents can do to conserve and manage the local environment.

Attendees are encouraged to bring lunch. The discussion will be followed by live music. The Rickman Store is located at 259 Cowee Creek Road in the Cowee-West

Mill historic district, just off N.C. 28. bjburke@uga.edu or 706.542.1240 or 706.461.2713.

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LTLT highlights activities in annual report The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (LTLT) has released its 2012 annual report, The Land Steward. The report contains photos and details of LTLT’s conservation work throughout Western North Carolina and recognizes LTLT’s members and partners.

The projects highlighted in this year’s report focus on land, water, and cultural conservation in WNC. Major projects include: repurposing the Cowee School into a heritage center; the sale of the Hall Mountain Tract to the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians; and educating landowners on stream health.

The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee is based in Franklin.

To request copies of the report 828.524.2711 or www.ltlt.org

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A discussion about the local effects of climate change and development will be held at the historic Rickman Store near Franklin from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov. 17.

The Coweeta Listening Project will host the community conversation and provide an opportunity for local residents to share experiences, observations, and concerns about climate change and to learn from regional researchers studying these topics.

The conversation will include a short presentation by John Maerz, an ecologist at the University of Georgia and the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research Program.

Maerz’s research examines how climate change, invasive species, and the conver-

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sion of forests to farms and housing developments will affect Southern Appalachian reptiles, amphibians, forests, and streams.

In one recent study he tested how eight different climate scenarios would affect salamander habitats in the Appalachian Highlands. All scenarios would lead to significant habitat loss, with strong possibilities for population decline and extinction.

Another recent study examined how salamander behavior changes as a result of streamside development.

The discussion will focus what these changes mean for regional forests and streams and what residents can do to conserve and manage the local environment.

Attendees are encouraged to bring lunch. The discussion will be followed by live music. The Rickman Store is located at 259 Cowee Creek Road in the Cowee-West

Two environmentalists were honored by the Franklin-based Land Trust for the Little Tennessee at its annual celebration Nov. 3 in Macon County.

Tom Hatley, who runs a land planning consultation firm in Asheville, received the 2012 Robert and Virginia Ramsey Brunner Land Conservationist of the Year Award. LTLT highlighted Hatley’s work in founding the LTLT’s sustainable forestry program as well as protecting special places in Macon County, such as the Needmore Tract and the Cowee Mound.

The Brunner Award was established in 2004 to honor one of the founders of LTLT. Hatley has more than 30 years of experience working in environmental protection, justice and leadership. He is also an author and former professor at Western Carolina University.

John Gladden was also honored for his work with the 2012 Volunteer of the Year Award. Gladden has volunteered with the LTLT’s aquatic biomonitoring and land stewardship programs and assisted with youth education activities. Gladden is a retired research and development manager at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina. He now lives with his wife Sandy in southern Macon County after moving to Western North Carolina two years ago.

LTLT is an organization with the goal of conserving the waters, forests, farms, and

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worm, Grytten became fond of nature macro photography — zoomed in pictures of bugs, frogs and whatever else he encountered. He snapped a majority of his photos with a 300 millimeter fixed focal length lens.

He explained his philosophy on photography was to get close to show people the detail they wouldn’t ordinarily see.

“A picture of a bird’s foot instead of a picture of the bird,” he said. “It takes it to a different dimension.”

After settling in Western North Carolina 12 years ago, Grytten began teaching photography to supplement his career.

One of the photographers on the Cataloochee outing last weekend, Duke Miller, has been going on field shoots and workshop with Grytten on and off for five years.

Miller had studied photojournalism in college but didn’t get enthusiastic again about photography until the digital age.

Now, he’s retired and enjoys the outings and classes put on by Grytten. Grytten calls the group of photographers who take his classes the Lens Luggers, a club of sorts since some return more than once for his programs.

One reason some sign up for Grytten’s Lens Luggers workshops time and again: it motivates you to get out there and shoot, especially when it comes to that coveted predawn camera work. Knowing a van full of other photographers are expecting you at the appointed rendezvous spot helps keep you accountable to your craft.

On any given excursion, a group of five people in the same area will each come away with unique pictures.

“The good thing about Lens Luggers is everyone has different skills and interests than yourself, and you learn from them,” Miller said.

The Lens Luggers outings are followed up by critiquing sessions of each other’s pictures after they have been edited by computer software and touched up. But, as Grytten explained, no editing software can make up for not getting good shots in the field.

“Garbage in — garbage out,” Grytten said. “When you catch a moment in time, that’s the difference between the voice in an image and just a documentary shot.

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Grytten’s sessions and workshops season after season, enjoying the camaraderie of the other photographers almost as much as the instruction.

One woman, Debbie Rotolante, who was out with Grytten for the first time that day, admitted to having more than 50,000 pictures saved on her computer. She has a house in Maggie Valley and sells school uniforms for a living, but photography is her passion.

“I’ve never sold a picture,” she said. “But then it would be work.”

Once, on a two-week trip to Costa Rica, she snapped more than 4,000 photographs.

By the time she returned to the United States, she had neck pains from tilting back and pointing the camera at birds, monkeys and other critters in the canopy.

She takes photography classes and trips as a chance to learn and meet other people interested in the same pursuit.

The small group of participants on the outing that day scattered up and down the road that winds through Cataloochee Valley, each pursuing their own particular shot. Grytten chased down each of them, offering advice and wisdom.

“The more you look; the more you see; the more you shoot,” he said.

To another, he explained why it was important to take pictures of objects in odd numbers — threes and fives — so as not to confuse the eye.

He instructed another to take a picture of the light as it was just peaking over the mountaintops.

“It’s smashing,” he exclaimed.

Several decades of photography have given Grytten an inexhaustible wealth of knowledge.

In 1987, Grytten was looking for a career path. To guide him in his choice, he took an aptitude test. The result indicated he would be fit for a job in the sciences or photography. Not wanting to return to school, he chose photography and became a photoillustrator.

Three months later, he published his first work.

During the years, he developed his own style as well. After photographing an inch

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Novice outdoor adventurers can learn the basics of wilderness excursion at a 45minute workshop beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Jackson County Recreation Center in Cullowhee.

Participants will learn about how to pack a backpack; proper attire to wear in the wilderness; what food to eat; and water purification systems. The class will also focus on trail and waterfall safety.

The class is free and intended for ages 8 and up. Attendance is limited to the first 10 to register and participants should bring their own gear.

828.293.3053 or www.jacksonnc.org/parks-and-recreation.

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BUSINESS & EDUCATION • CareerWorks, informative Q&A sessions with local employers, 10 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 14, Haywood Community College West Waynesville campus. Networking event from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, Nov. 15. Rachael Clark, 564.5093.

• The Spanish Club at Southwestern Community College will watch “A Better Life” from 6 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 5, in room 110-111 at the Macon Campus.

• Information sessions for parents and students interested in Jackson County Early College High School, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5; and Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, lobby of the JCEC Building, next to the Holt Library at Southwestern Community College Sylva’s campus.

339.4468.

• Free 90-minute basic internet class, 5:45 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 14, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. Limited to first 15 people. Register at 586.2016.

• Haywood County Women in Business Luncheon, “Professional Entertaining for the Holidays” 11:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 14, Gateway Club, Church St., Waynesville. Speaker is Kathryn Greeley of Kathryn Greeley Designs. $25, chamber members; $30 , non – members.

• Three-hour Micro-Soft Word class, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14 and 21, One Dozen Who Care (ODWC) 245 Sloan Road, west of the K-Mart Shopping Center, just off the 4-lane, Franklin. $20 for each 3hour class. All ODWC Small Business Center classes free to U.S. Military Veterans Registration required; 369.2273 or 361.1941. Leave message with your name and contact number. You will receive a callback to confirm.

•Free 90-minute session on how to buy a digital camera, 1:30 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14 and 21, One Dozen Who Care (ODWC) 245 Sloan Road, west of the KMart Shopping Center, just off the 4-lane, Franklin. $20 for each 3-hour class. Registration required; 369.2273 or 361.1941. Leave message with your name and contact number. You will receive a callback to confirm.

• Job Fair, 9 am. to noon Thursday , Nov. 15, Southwestern Community College Macon Campus.

Fairley Pollock, 306.7017.

• Computer Class: Editing Digital Photos Online, 5:45 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. Limited to 15 people. Register at 586.2016.

• 2012 AdvantageWest Economic Summit, 5:30 p.m. reception, 7 p.m. program, Monday, Nov. 19, The Western North Carolina Innovation Ecosystem: What’s Missing? Pack Place and Diana Wortham Theatre, Asheville. $50, includes heavy hors d’oeuvres, beverages and admittance to the panel discussion. 687.7234 www.advantagewest.com.

COMMUNITY & EVENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS • Public input meeting to help shape the creation of a Jackson County Master Recreation Plan, 6 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 15, Jackson County Justice Center, room 220.

• Kids Advocacy Resource Effort, KARE, 3rd annual Festival of Trees fundraiser and live auction, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 15, Laurel Ridge Country Club.

Entertainment by Marc Pruett of Balsam Range and his wife Anita. entertainment by local musicians, Marc and Anita Pruett and Voices in the Laurel. All proceeds to KARE. Tickets can be purchased by calling the KARE House at 456.8995 or via PayPal on KARE’s website: www.karehouse.org.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

• Steve Moore, author, activist and former FBI agent, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in the theater of Western Carolina University’s A.K. Hinds University Center.

Christopher Pedo at copedo@wcu.edu or 227.7494 or 227.2557.

• Foster Pet Adoption, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation’s Adoption Center, 256 Industrial Park Drive, Waynesville.

Additional pet adoption at Petsmart, Exit 98 on Hwy 74 in Walmart Shopping Center, Waynesville. www.sargeandfriends.org or www.petfinder.com. 246.9050.

• Open House, 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, Life’s Bounty Event Center, 28 E. Main St. Franklin, band, dancing and Thanksgiving dinner. Donations accepted for Shop With A Cop. • Swain County / Golden LEAF Community Assistance Initiative – Community Forum, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, in the Mountain View Room at the Business Training Center, 45 East Ridge Road, Bryson City.

Pat Cabe by e-mail at pcabe@goldenleaf.org or 888.684.8404.

• Macon County Poultry Club, 7 p.m. Nov. 20, at the NC Co-operative Extension’s Macon County Center, Thomas Heights Road, Franklin. Free. For anyone interested in raising chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, or turkeys.

• P.A.W.S. Adoption Days first Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the front lawn at Charleston Station, Bryson City.

• Coats for Kids of Jackson County is accepting donations of good condition used and new children’s clothing and items (tops, pants, dresses, sweaters, shoes, coats, hats, gloves). Drop off locations include Cullowhee United Methodist Church and Sylva Wal-Mart.

VOLUNTEERING • Angel Medical Center Auxiliary’s Thrift Shop needs volunteers for six-hour shifts. The Thrift Shop is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Jennifer Hollifield, director of volunteer services, 349.6688.

• The Haywood Volunteer Center has many openings for volunteers. The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program: If you are over 55 years of age, you can receive a limited amount of mileage coverage and supplementary insurance while you are volunteering. 356.2833. www.hjvc.org.

• The Haywood County Meals on Wheels program is in need of volunteer drivers to deliver meals to Haywood County residents who cannot fix meals for themselves.

Drivers are needed in the following areas: Tuesdays— Route #3, Clyde; Wednesdays—Route #5, Ratcliffe Cove; Mondays—Route $10, Bethel; Tuesdays—Route #10, Bethel; Thursdays—Route #12, Lakeview; Fridays—Route #14, Hyatt Creek/Plott Creek; Thursdays—Route #19 Cruso; Thursdays—Route #20, Fines Creek. Jeanne Naber at 356.2442 or jnaber@haywoodnc.net.

• Community Care Clinic of Franklin needs volunteers for a variety of tasks including nursing/clinical, clerical and administrative and communications and marketing. The clinic will provide volunteer orientation and training for all individuals. 349.2085.

BLOOD DRIVES • American Red Cross St. Mary’s Catholic Church Blood Drive, 1:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, 22 Bartlett St., Sylva. Tony, 586.9496 or go to www.redcrossblood.org

and enter Sponsor code Saint Mary for more information or to schedule an appointment. All presenting donors will receive a holiday ornament.

• American Red Cross Southwestern Community College Blood Drive,10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, 447 College Drive, Sylva. Amanda, 339.4305, for more information or to schedule an appointment. All presenting donors will receive a holiday ornament

HEALTH MATTERS • Live and Learn program, 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, Bethea Welcome Center, Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. Speaker is Teresa Reynolds, senior vice president for operations for Medwest Haywood.

800.222.4930. option 2.

• Free shoulder screenings, 1 to 2 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15, MedWest-Harris, Sylva. 586.7235.

• Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Day, Cousins for a Cure, 5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15, downtown gazebo, Macon County. info@grititude.com.

• Flu shots, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, Home Care service building on the Haywood MedWest campus. No appointment necessary. The Home Care building is located directly behind MedWest-Haywood. $20. Home Care will accept traditional Medicare and will file the insurance for the beneficiary. Vaccines available for everyone over 18 years of age. 452.8292.

RECREATION & FITNESS • Adult Aikido class with Timm Muth, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. Limited to 10 people, ages 16 and up. Register at 586.2016.

• The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department is hiring basketball officials for upcoming adult basketball season. Games played 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Monday and Thursday nights. Must be at least 18 years of age. Previous experience desirable.

Must pass a written and/or oral exam on the rules of basketball. 456.2030 or email recathletics@townofwaynesville.org.

Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: ■ Complete listings of local music scene ■ Regional festivals ■ Art gallery events and openings ■ Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fintness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings Waynesville.

• “Senior and Fit,” a 12-week program, 11 a.m. to noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department. 456.2030.

• Happy Wanderers senior group holds several events coordinated through Haywood County Parks and Recreation. 452.6789.

• For information on resources for older adults in Haywood County, call 2-1-1, or by cell phone 1.888.892.1162; www.nc211.org or www.haywoodconnections.org. 452.2370.

KIDS & FAMILIES • Towel Animal Class, 9 to 9:45 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, Jackson County Recreation Center in Cullowhee. Learn to fold towels like animals. Members free, non-members $1 per person. Towels provided. All ages welcome.

Parents must provide supervision for children. Class limited to 25. 293.3053 to reserve. www.jacksonnc.org/parks-and-recreation.

• Traveling Trunk” program, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, Boiler Room Restaurant, Franklin. The “Traveling Trunk” program is a National Youth Education program of the Sons of the American Revolution for elementary and middle school students about how our country was formed. Tom Long, 321.3522, tomeaglenc@aol.com.

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THE SPIRITUAL SIDE • 2012 Multicultural Conference “Creating a Church for All People,” Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, 800.222.4930 or visit www.lakejunaluska.com/multicultural.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES

• Family Night. Theme: PAWS to Read, 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, 586.2016.

• Write On! Writing group (ages 8-12), 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 15, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, 586.2016.

• Book Talk with Marilyn Jody, 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, 586.2016.

• Senior trip to DuPont State Forest, Wed., Nov. 28.

Leave Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department at 10:30 a.m., return by 4 p.m. $10, Rec Center members; $13, non-members. Bring snack and lunch money.

Lunch at 2 p.m. 456.2030 or email recprograms@townofwaynesville.org.

• Children’s Story time. Theme: Gobble, Gobble. 11 a.m.

Friday, Nov. 16, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, 586.2016.

• Laughter Yoga Club, 2 to 3 p.m. Tuesdays, Senior Resource Center, 81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville.

Suzanne Hendrix, certified Laughter yoga leader. Wear comfortable clothing and bring your own giddy vocalizations. 452.2370.

• Children’s Story time with the Rotary Readers. 11 a.m.

Monday, Nov. 19, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, 586.2016.

• Health Screening 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14; Craft Show 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15-17, Senior Resource Center Brain Gym, 81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville. Players wanted for Social Bridge, Mexican Dominoes, Word and other games. Caregivers Unite, Memory Cafe and/or Parkinson/MS Support Group Monthly Meetings. 452.2370.

• Clip and Save Coupon Club, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Tuesdays, Senior Resource Center, 81 Elmwood Way,

• Story time with Miss Sally. Theme: Let’s Give Thanks.

3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, 586.2016.

• Children’s Story time. Theme: Giving Thanks, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 20, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva.

586.2016.

• Children’s Story time. Theme: The Night Before Thanksgiving, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. 586.2016.

Food & Drink • Western Carolina University’s Madrigal Dinners, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30 and Saturday, Dec. 1, Grandroom of the A.K. Hinds University Center. Tickets, $37 ($22 for

• Breakfast Buffet, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. every Saturday, American Legion Auxiliary of Waynesville, Legion Drive. $6 donation. Proceeds to veterans and community.

• Stone Soup Gathering, 5 p.m. every Sunday, Fellowship Hall, Bryson City United Methodist Church.

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ECA EVENTS • Extension and Community Association (ECA) groups meet throughout the county at various locations and times each month. NC Cooperative Extension Office, 586.4009. This month’s meetings include: • 9:30 a.m. Thursday and Friday, Nov. 15-16 – ECA Craft Club Workshop: Basket Workshop, call Extension Office to sign up.

• 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19 – Crochet Hats Workshop, Sew Easy Girls ECA, Conference Room of Community Service Center, Sylva.

• 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20 – Program Planning, Cane Creek ECA. • 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20 – Program Planning, Long Branch Baptist ECA, home of Bobbie Brooks.

SUPPORT GROUPS Haywood • Caregivers Unite support group, 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, Senior Resource Center, 81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville. 356.2816 for more information or directions to the meeting.

• The Haywood County Aphasia Support Group, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., second Monday of each month in the Haywood Regional Medical Center Fitness Center classrooms. 227.3834.

• Haywood County offers an HIV/AIDS Support Group, 4 p.m., first Tuesday of each month at the Health Department. Anonymity and confidentiality are strongly enforced. 476.0103 or haywoodhiv@yahoo.com.

• AA meetings, 7 p.m., Saturdays, Maggie Valley United Methodist Church, 4192 Soco Road. 926.8036.

• Al-Anon, a support group for families and friends of alcoholics, 8 p.m., Tuesdays, Grace Episcopal Church, 394 N. Haywood St. Use Miller St. entrance. 926.8721.

• Alzheimer’s Association, 4:30 p.m., fourth Tuesday of each month, First United Methodist Church, Waynesville and 2:30 p.m., third Thursday of each month, Silver Bluff Care Center in Canton. 254.7363.

• Diabetes Support Group, second floor classroom, MedWest Health & Fitness Center, 4 p.m. on the second Monday of each month. 452.8092 • Grandchildren/Grandparents Rights of N.C., 7 p.m., first Thursday of each month, Canton Library.

648.5205.

• HOPEful Living: Women’s Cancer Support Group, third Tuesday of each month from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Haywood Regional Medical Center, Fitness Center, Health Educ. Room, Waynesville. 627.9666 or riggs_sandi@msn.com or 627.0227.

• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) chapter, 7 p.m., third Thursday of each month, Asbury Sunday

• Recovery from Food Addiction, a 12-step recovery program for individuals suffering from food addiction, 5:45 p.m. Wednesdays, Friendship House, Academy St. beside Waynesville’s First United Methodist Church, 400.7239.

• Al-Anon meetings are held at noon every Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church at Fifth and Main in the community room in Highlands. All are welcome.

• Single Parents Networking Group, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesdays, First United Methodist Church, 566 S. Haywood St., Waynesville, free, dinner and child care provided in fun, informal setting. 456.8995 ext. 201.

• Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group meets at 1:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at the Macon Co. Department on Aging. 369.5845.

• Angel Medical Center’s Diabetes Support Group meets at 6 p.m. the fourth Monday of each month in the Center’s dining room.

• WNC Grief Support Group is for families who have lost a child. 7 p.m., third Thursday of each month, Clyde Town Hall. 565.0122 or e-mail hotstraitcountry@aol.com.

• Chronic Pain Support Group meets at 7 p.m. the fourth Monday of every month in the dining room of Angle Medical Center. 369.6717 or 369.2607.

• WNC Lupus Support Group 7 p.m., first Tuesday of each month, Home Trust Bank in Clyde. 421.8428 or countrygirl351@bellsouth.net

• Highlands-Cashiers Cancer Support Group meets at 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month at First United Methodist Church of Highlands. Meetings are confidential.

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• Miracles Happen group of Overeaters Anonymous meets at 5:30 p.m. each Thursday and 5 p.m. each Sunday in the downstairs chapel of First United Methodist Church. 349.1438.

• The Harris Monthly Grief Support Group, 3 to 4 p.m. every third Tuesday of the month, Chaplain’s Conference Room, MedWest-Harris in Sylva. 586.7979.

• Al-Anon Family Group meets every Monday evening from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., Sylva Methodist Church. A support group for family and friends whose lives are affected by someone else’s drinking.

• Breastfeeding support group, 9:30 to 11 a.m., first Monday of each month at the First United Methodist Church (park in back and use rear entrance) Sylva. smokeymtnmamas@yahoo.com or 506.1186.

• Al-Anon Meetings are held at 4 p.m. Tuesdays at Grace Community Church. The meetings bring hope for families and friends of alcoholics. 743.9814.

• Cashiers Cancer Care Group for cancer patients, survivors, spouses and caregivers offers support, encouragement, hope and understanding. 7 p.m., first Thursday of the month, Grace Community Church.

743.3158.

• Food Addicts In Recovery Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Mondays, Harris Regional Hospital in the small dining room, Sylva. 226.8324 for more info.

• Jackson County Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Mondays, Sylva First Presbyterian Church on Grindstaff Cove Road.

• Look Good, Feel Better is for women dealing with the appearance related side effects that occur with cancer treatments. A trained volunteer cosmetologist shares expertise in dealing with hair loss and skin change. 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Harris Regional Hospital. Sessions are offered bimonthly on the first Monday. RSVP required at 586.7801.

• WestCare Hospice Bereavement Support Group meets at 3:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month in the Chapel Conference Room at Harris Regional Hospital. 586.7410.

• TOPS (Take off Pounds Sensibly) support group meets 5:30 p.m. every Monday at Bethel Methodist Church. Weigh in begins at 4:30 p.m. 369.2508 or 369.5116.

• Weight Watchers meet each Tuesday at the Peggy Crosby Center in Highlands. Weigh in is at 5:30 p.m. with the meeting beginning at 6 p.m.

Swain • Women’s 12-Step Medicine Wheel Recovery Group meets Tuesdays at 5 p.m. at A-Na-Le-Ni-S-Gi in Cherokee.

• Circle of Parents, support group for any parent, meets at noon on Thursdays at the Swain Family Resource Center.

• Grief Support Group meets from 7 to 8 p.m. each Monday night at the Cherokee United Methodist Church on Soco Road. 497.4182.

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• Overeaters Anonymous meets at 5 p.m. on Sundays at First United Methodist Church at 86 Harrison Ave in Franklin. 508.2586 • NAMI Appalachian South (National Alliance on Mental Illness), the local affiliate of NAMI NC, meets on the first and third Thursdays of each month at 7 p.m. at the Community Facilities Building, Georgia Road Contact Ann Nandrea 369.7385.

• Suicide Survivors Support Group. Angel Hospice sponsors a monthly support group for those who have suffered a loss due to the suicide of a loved one. This meeting is open to everyone in our community and meets the fourth Wednesday of each month at 10:30 a.m. in the back room. 369.4417.

FESTIVALS, SPECIAL & SEASONAL EVENTS • Fall Craft Show, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15 and Friday, Nov. 16, Senior Resource Center, 81 Elmwood Way, Waynesville, 452.2370.

• Great Smoky Mountains Railroad presents the Polar Express, Nov. 9-Dec. 29, Bryson City. Tickets start at $39 for adults, $26 children ages 2-12. Children under two ride free. 872.4681. www.gsmr.com.

• 4th annual Native American Heritage Expo, 9 a.m.

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• Weight Watchers meets at 8:30 a.m. every Monday at Grace Christian Church in Cashiers. 226.1096.

Macon • Angel Medical Center Hospice offers three bereavement support groups for people who have lost loved ones. Two Women’s Support Groups both meet on the third Wednesday of each month at the Sunset Restaurant on Highway 28 at 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. A Men’s Support Group meets the first Monday of each month also at the same location at 11:30 a.m.

369.4417.

• Angel Medical Center offers a monthly Diabetes Support Group the last Monday of each month. The group meets in the Angel Medical Center dining room beginning at 4 p.m. Pre-registration is required by calling 369.4181.

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• Celebrate Recovery, 6 p.m. every Thursday, Long’s Chapel UMC, Waynesville. A Christ-centered 12-step recovery ministry open to all adults with hurts, habits, and hang-ups. Childcare available. 456.3993, ext. 32.

group meets at 7 p.m. on Fridays in the basement of Highlands United Methodist Church. 526.3433.

November 14-20, 2012

• Grief and Beyond, a grief support group, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursdays, room 210, Long’s Chapel UMC, Waynesville. Facilitated by Jan Peterson, M.S. 550.3638 or Long’s Chapel UMC, 456.3993, ext. 17, Tim McConnell.

School Room, First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. 400.1041.

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Monday, Nov. 19, and Tuesday, Nov. 20, in the Grandroom of A.K. Hinds University Center, Western Carolina University. Expo activities, call Cherokee Center, 497.7920. For finger weaving workshop, contact Office of Intercultural Affairs. 227.2276.

• 25th Hard Candy Christmas Craft Art & Show, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 23-24, Ramsey Center at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee. More than 100 regional artisans. $4 weekend pass for adults; free for children under 12. www.mountainartisans.net or Doris, 524.3405, djhunter@dnet.net.

• Entry forms are now available for the 2012 Franklin Christmas Parade set for 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25.

Entry forms can be picked up at the Chamber office at 425 Porter St. or downloaded online from www.franklin-chamber.com. Entry fees are $25 for all entries. 524.3161.

• Canton Papertown Christmas Craft Fair is now seeking vendors for the event to be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1. Booth fees are $25 and $45.

648.0101 or www.mdcairnes@att.net.

• Waynesville Christmas Parade, 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3, in downtown Waynesville. The theme is “Dreaming of a White Christmas” and all entries must use lights to participate in this evening event.

456.3517.

• Learn to play the mountain dulcimer, 2 to 5 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 30, Western Carolina University’s new instructional site at Biltmore Park Town Square, 28 Schenck Parkway, just off Interstate 26 at exit 37.

Taught by Anne Lough. $39. Loaner instruments available. Office of Continuing and Professional Education, 227.7397 or visit http://learn.wcu.edu.

November 14-20, 2012

• Art After Aftermath, Elin O’Hara Slavick, distinguished professor of art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3, room 130 of the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, Western Carolina University. Slavick, primarily a photographer, will discuss her art and her curatorial activities. Free.

• Applications for new grants from the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership are due by Dec. 14; funding will be announced in April, 2013. Grants are available for the preservation, interpretation, development, and promotion of heritage resources in agricultural heritage, Cherokee heritage, craft heritage, music heritage and natural heritage Applicants must provide at least a one-to-one match. Further details http://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/tools/ or www.blueridgeheritage.com.

• Non-perishable food will be collected at the Maggie Valley Police Department and Town Hall beginning Nov. 1 –30. Ondrea Murphy, 926.4950 or www.maggievalleypd.com.

•The Loyal Order of the Moose will host a Christmas is for Kids Poker Bike and Car Run at noon, Saturday, Nov. 17, starting at the Canton Moose Lodge.

Registration starts at 11 a.m. Five stops. Entry fee $15 a hand or 2/$25. All proceeds to Christmas for the needy Children. Diane, 734.2234 • Egg Nog-Off, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, The Bascom, 323 Franklin Road, Highlands. Kick off for Giving Trees, displayed through Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, at The Bascom, as a fundraiser for area non-profit organizations. www.thebascom.org or 526.4949.

• Food drive during Maggie Valley Christmas Parade, 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1. Haywood Christian Ministries and the Haywood Rescue Squad will collect food donations during the parade. Ondrea Murphy, 926.4950 or www.maggievalleypd.com.

HOLIDAY EVENTS • Howl for the Holidays, Saturday, Nov. 17, Full Moon Farm, Black Mountain. Not-for-profit organization for abused and refused wolfdogs. 664.9818 or email nancy@fullmoonfarm.org. www.fullmoonfarm.org.

• Tree Lighting Ceremony, 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 23, downtown Franklin. Hot cider and cookies, music, great shopping, and candlelight service.

• Highlands Chamber of Commerce Tree Lighting, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24. Window decorating contest entry forms due Wednesday, Nov. 21. Highlands Olde Mountain Christmas Parade, 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1.

Applications at Visitor Center. visitor@highlandschamber.org.

• Cookies with Santa, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, lower level of Franklin’s Town Hall on Main Street.

• Christmas Parade, 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, Maggie Valley.

• Music, Mirth & Good Cheer—-A Family Holiday Concert by the Blue Ridge Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, Colonial Theatre, 53 Park St., Canton. $15 general admission; $10 for Friends of the Blue Ridge Orchestra; $5 for students . Tickets available online www.blueridgeorchestra.org

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT LITERARY (ADULTS) • Coffee with the Poet, 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva. Western North Carolina resident Rose McLarney presents her collection, “The Always Broken Plates of Mountains.” 586.9499.

• WCU professor Marilyn Jody, Letter to Emily: A Memoir 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, Jackson County Public Library, downtown Sylva. 586.2016.

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• Joe Cobb Crawford, 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva. Crawford is the author of The Poetry Company, a memoir about life as a chicken catcher in North Georgia in the 1960s, and When the Chickens Come Home to Roost, a mystery novel.

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• Amy Willoughby-Burle, author of Out of Across Nowhere, a collection of short stories, 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Ron Rash calls this book “an astonishing debut.” 456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

• Eric S. Brown, author of Boggy Creek: The Legend is True, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Brown is nationally known for zombie novels and horror fiction. 456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

• Adult Creative Writing Group, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.

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• Strivers Row Poetry Show, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, Western Carolina University. Ages 16 and older. $5, available at the box office. 227.2479 or visit bardoartscenter.wcu.edu. For more information about the ACE series, contact Lori Davis, 227.3622 or visit ace.wcu.edu.

• August: Osage County, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16-17, HART Theatre, Waynesville. Adults $20, seniors $18, students $8 and special $6 discount tickets for students for Sunday matinees.

Contains adult language and subject matter. 456.6322 or www.sellingticket.com/HART. • “Look Back the Maytime Days: from the pages of Fred Chappell” by the Touring Theater of North Carolina, 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, Haywood Community College Auditorium. Chappell will sign books after the performance. Chappell was born in Canton and was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002.

• “Look Back the Maytime Days: From the pages of Fred Chappell” by the Touring Theater of North Carolina, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, recital hall of WCU’s Coulter Building. Chappell will sign books and participate in a question and answer session after the performance. Chappell was born in Canton and was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002.

• Birdell, 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, The Liars Bench, WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center Auditorium. $10, benefit for Mountain Heritage Center. Tickets available at City Lights Bookstore, Sylva, and at the door the night of the show. Monologue by Gary Carden; stars Bobbie Curtis.

• Western Carolina University Percussion Ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, recital hall of the Coulter Building, WCU. Free. WCU School of Music, 227.7242.

• Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker, 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, Cherokee. Tickets available at www.ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000.

• Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, recital hall of the Coulter Building, Western Carolina University. Free. www.smbq.org or contact P. Bradley Ulrich, 227.3274.

• Scotty McCreery show, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center. Open to all ages. www.ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000.

• The hour-long radio show Stories of Mountain Folk airs at 9 a.m. every Saturday on its home station, WRGC Jackson County Radio, 540 AM on the dial, broadcasting out of Sylva. Stories of Mountain Folk is an ongoing all-sound oral history program produced by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia (CSA), a western North Carolina not-for-profit, for local radio and online distribution.

ART/GALLERY EVENTS & OPENINGS • Artist receptions for It’s a Small, Small Work 2012, 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18, and 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, Haywood County Arts Council’s Gallery 86, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville. www.haywoodarts.org or 452.0593.

• Open House Charity Event, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18, Mainstreet Artists’ Coop, 90 Main St., downtown Waynesville. Percentage of proceeds go to Waynesville Open Door and Haywood Arts Council. Enjoy food, live music and more. http://macannualcharityevent.eventbrite.com/.

• Art sale, It’s a Small, Small Work 2012, Wed. Nov. 14 through Saturday, Dec. 29, Gallery 86, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Art sale of artwork 12 inches or smaller by more than 80 artists from the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area in North Carolina. Most artwork priced between $20 and $80. None over $300.

Encaustic works, painting, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, mixed media, collage, fiber, sculpture, woodworking, metal, jewelry, photography, and more. www.haywoodarts.org and on Facebook. 452.0593.

• The Waynesville Public Art Commission seeks an artist for its fourth outdoor public art project to be located in the Mini Park at the corner of Main and Depot Streets. The theme of the piece is Wildflowers of the Smokies to honor the historic connection between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Town of Waynesville. The selected artist will receive $12,500 for proposal development, fabrication and installation. www.townofwaynesville.org or call Town of Waynesville at 452.2491.

CLASSES, PROGRAMS & DEMONSTRATIONS • Make Knitted Fingerless Gloves with Beads, 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 14-15, Stecoah Valley Center, $40; kit fee $30 w/o beads, $36.50 with beads. Materials list will be provided for those who do not wish to purchase a kit. www.stecoahvalleycenter.com/artisans.html.

• Create a Handmade Journal, 12:30 to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 17, Stecoah Valley Center, $35 (includes materials). www.stecoahvalleycenter.com/artisans.html.

• Glass classes: Holiday ornament, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

45-minute time slots, Saturday, Nov. 17 and Saturday, Dec. 1, Jackson County Green Park, $30; Glass Tumbler, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 45-minute time slots, Saturday, Dec. 15, Jackson County Green Energy Park, $40. Payment due at registration. No experience necessary. Ages 1318 may participate with parent. Wear cotton clothing (no polyester) and closed shoes and long pants.

631.0271 or www.jcgep.org/classes.php.

• North Carolina Glass 2012: In Celebration of 50 Years of Studio Glass in America, exhibit through Friday, Feb. 1, Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University.

FILM & SCREEN • Watershed Film Series, “It’s Our Water,” 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 15, Fellowship Hall, Bryson City United Methodist Church. Enter through back of building.

Directions available at www.WATRnc.org.

• Family movie, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. Drama based on a short story by Louisa May Alcott. Free popcorn starting at 3:20 p.m. 488.3030.

DANCE • Haywood Ballroom Dancers, 8 to 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, Angie’s Dance Academy, 115 Glance St., Clyde.

7:30 p.m. free dance review class. Free refreshments. $10. 734.8726 or 734.8063 or haywoodballroomdancers.com.

• Beginner clogging classes, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday at the NC Cooperative Extension, 60 Almond School Road, in Bryson City, in the SCC building. No prior dance experience required. 488.3848 to register.

• Hip Hop Dance Class for grades K-12, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Waynesville Recreation Center. 456.2030 or youthprogramsupervisor@townofwaynesville.org.

• The Diamond K Dance Ranch in Maggie Valley offers live music and dance Saturdays at 8 p.m. 246.0207.

• The Diamond K Ranch in Maggie Valley offers live music Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays are ladies nights. 926.7735.

• Ballroom dance classes are offered every Thursday Night at Club 56 Fitness Inc. in Maggie Valley. No partner needed. Taught by Laura Roberts. Classes at 7 to 8 p.m. and 8 to 9 p.m. Cost is $30 for one series for an individual or $40 for both series; couples are $40 for one series or $50 for both. 734.2113.

• Social dance classes, including ballroom, Latin, country, swing and blues meets Mondays from 7 to 8 p.m. and 8 to 9 p.m. at the Old Armory Recreation Center in Waynesville. No partner needed. michael@michaelthomas.com or lauraroberts@charter.net or 734.2113.

• The Black Horse Dance Hall, 4027 Socco Road, Maggie Valley, has social dance class Thursdays, no partner needed; line dance class 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Tuesdays, $5 cover charge; line dance class, 7 to 8 p.m., open dancing, Saturdays. Doors open at 6 p.m. $5 cover. No alcohol. Wood dance floor. lauraroberts@charter.net or call/text 734.1587 or lauraprice@yahoo.com, 243.2626.

Outdoors OUTINGS, HIKES & FIELDTRIPS • Classic Hike of the Smokes, Thursday, Nov. 15, Smokemont Loop Trail. Meet at 8:30 a.m. Asheville, 9 a.m. Maggie Valley or 9:30 a.m. to carpool to trailhead at Smokemont, one of the most popular campsites in the park. 6.2-mile moderate hike, led by Danny

• Hike of the Month, Great Smoky Mountains Association, Saturday, Nov. 17, Kephart Prong Trail, North Carolina side of the park (nine miles from Newfound Gap or five miles from Smokemont Campground), easy four-mile roundtrip. Call for meeting time and place. 888.898.9102.

PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS • Regional Trails Plan public workshop, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 15, multi-purpose room, Waynesville Recreation Center, Vance St., Waynesville. Hosted by the Southwestern Commission to generate ideas for future trails in Haywood County, including greenways, mountain bike trails, equestrian trails and hiking trails.

• Pack Your Pack, 10 to 10:45 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, Jackson County Recreation Center, Cullowhee. Free for ages 8 and up. Limited space. Learn to pack a backpack, what to wear, what to eat, water purification systems, trail and waterfall safety. Bring your own gear.

293.3053 or www.jacksonnc.org/parks-and-recreation.

• Coweeta Listening Project, community conversation about the local effects of climate change and development, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, The Rickman Store, 259 Cowee Creek, off highway 28 (Bryson City Road). Short presentation by University of Georgia ecologist John Maerz. Brian Burke, Coweeta Listening Project, bjburke@uga.edu, 706.542.1240 (w), 706.461.2713 (c).

• Foraging outing with wild foods expert Alan Muskat, director of No Taste Like Home, from 2 to 5 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 18, Wolf Laurel (35 minutes north of Asheville). Learn to safely identify, harvest, and pre-

pare wild foods. $50, includes Muskat’s introductory ebook. www.NoTasteLikeHome.org or 273.8075.

members contact event leaders. www.carolinamountainclub.org

• Ski and Snowboard Lessons, registration begins Nov. 26 at the Recreation Center in Cullowhee. Lessons are 1:30 to 3 p.m. Jan. 13, 27 and Feb. 3, 10, and 24 at Cataloochee Ski Resort, Waynesville. Ages 8 and up.

Lift ticket valid from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. $170, includes lift, ski or snowboard rental and lesson; $135, includes lift and lesson; $85, season pass holder with your own equipment. 293.3053.

• High Country Hikers, based in Hendersonville, plans hikes Mondays and Thursdays weekly. Participants should bring a travel donation and gear mentioned on their website: main.nc.us/highcountryhikers. 808.2165

• WMI - Wilderness First Responder Recertification (WFR Recert), Dec. 7-9, Cullowhee. Three-day course recertifies WFR, includes adult and child CPR. Landmark Learning, 293.5384 or main@landmarklearning.org.

• WMI - Wilderness First Responder (WFR), Dec. 13-21, Cullowhee, and Jan. 5-13, 2013 in Asheville. This nineday comprehensive wilderness medical course is the national standard for outdoor trip leaders. Landmark Learning 293.5384 or main@landmarklearning.org.

• WMI Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT) Jan. 7-Feb.1, 2013 in Asheville. This 30-day course provides certification in NC EMT-basic, National EMT- Basic and Wilderness EMT. Landmark Learning, 293.5384 or main@landmarklearning.org

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Cherokee Choices 5K, in memory of Betty Dupree, 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, Acquoni Expo Center, Cherokee.

Adults, $10 minimum donation; children 12 and under, $5. All proceeds to Cherokee Cancer Support Group.

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HIKING CLUBS • Carolina Mountain Club hosts more than 150 hikes a year, including options for full days on weekends, full days on Wednesdays and half days on Sundays. Non-

• Nantahala Hiking Club based in Macon County holds weekly Saturday hikes in the Nantahala National Forest and beyond. www.nantahalahikingclub.org • Mountain High Hikers, based in Young Harris, Ga., leads several hikes per week. Guests should contact hike leader. www.mountainhighhikers.org.

• Smoky Mountain Hiking Club, located in East Tennessee, makes weekly hikes in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park as well as surrounding areas. www.smhclub.org.

• Benton MacKaye Trail Association incorporates outings for hikes, trail maintenance and other work trips.

No experience is necessary to participate. www.bmta.org.

• Diamond Brand’s Women’s Hiking Group meets on the third Saturday of every month. For more information, e-mail awilliams@diamondbrand.com or call 684.6262.

BIKE RIDES

• A weekly bike ride meets in Bryson City on Wednesdays around 6 p.m. Depart from the East Swain Elementary school in Whittier on U.S.19 off exit 69 from U.S. 23-74. All levels. 800.232.7238.

• A weekly bike ride in Sylva meets Tuesday at 6 p.m., departing from Motion Makers bike shop for a tough 25-mile ride up to the Balsam Post office via back roads and back into Sylva. 586.6925.

• A weekly bike ride in Franklin meets Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., departing from Smoky Mountain Bicycles at 179 Highlands Road. Geared for all levels. 369.2881 or www.maconcountycycling.blogspot.com.

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Bernstein. $35 donation for the guided hike to go to the Friends’ Smokies Trails Forever program, includes membership to Friends of the Smokies. Current Friends of the Smokies members hike for $10. Hikers who bring a friend hike for free. 452. 0720 or keith@friendsofthesmokies.org.

• A weekly bike ride in Franklin meets Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. at Macon Middle School on Wells Grove Road.

Ladies and Beginners’ ride. 369.2881 or www.maconcountycycling.blogspot.com.

• A weekly bike ride in Franklin meets Saturdays at 8 a.m., departing from South Macon Elementary School 369.2881, www.maconcountycycling.blogspot.com.

• A weekly bike ride in Franklin meets Sundays at 9:30 a.m., departing from the Franklin Health and Fitness Center. 369.2881, www.maconcountycycling.blogspot.com.

• Nantahala Area SORBA holds a weekly mountain bike ride at Tsali every Thursday for all levels of bikers.

Riders meet at 6 p.m. Ride starts at 6:15 p.m. Group ride for all levels. 506.0133

• A beginner’s group mountain bike ride meets the first and third Sunday of each month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Rice Pinnacle Trailhead in Bent Creek. Easy, social ride. Helmets required. Ride leader is Rick Schrader, 665.0015, rschrader56@hotmail.com. Ride canceled in case of rain.

• A weekly bike ride in Bryson City meets at 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the Tsali Recreation Area trailhead.

Bryson City Bicycles. 488.1988.

• A weekly bike ride in Waynesville meets Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. at Rolls Rite Bicycles on the Old Asheville Highway. Beginner to intermediate rides led by Bicycle Haywood advocacy group. 8 to 12-mile rides. 276.6080 or gr8smokieszeke@gmail.com.

• The Ikenobo Ikebana Society, Blue Ridge Chapter, 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, Parish Hall of St. John in the Wilderness Church, 1905 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock.

Program is “Free Style: Ikenobo Today!” Guests welcome. 696.4103.

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Havana - Just loves to be picked up and cradled in your arms. When he's ready for action, though, this cute little tabby will race about the room, seeking new adventures.

Koy - Is a beautiful, young, female redbone hound mix. Look at those eyes! Koi gets along very well with other dogs, loves to play and is very affectionate with people. She is crate trained and working on her housetraining.

DRIVERS- CLASS-A FLATBED. Home Every Weekend! Up to 37c/mi. Both ways. Full Benefits.

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HEMLOCK HEALERS, INC. Dedicated to Saving Our Hemlocks. Owner/Operator Frank Varvoutis, NC Pesticide Applicator’s License #22864. 48 Spruce St. Maggie Valley, NC 828.734.7819 828.926.7883, Email: hemlockhealers@yahoo.com

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1.800.669.9777.

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GEORGIA LAND SALE! Great investment! Relax & enjoy country lifestyle! Beautifully developed 1 Acre - 20Acre homesites.

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RASCAL - A cute terrier/corgi

mix who is 3 years old. He weighs just 16 pounds. He is neutered, housebroken, and current on all his shots. He plays well with other dogs, but he is frightened of people. His not a lapdog, nor does he like to be on a leash. He is a good porch dog; he'll sit there all day and bark to let you know if someone is coming. He doesn't run off once he is used to being at his new home. Call 226.4783.

CLARA - A 2-3 yr old "Whatizit?"

She weighs 68 lbs., is friendly, and shaggy. Call 877.273.5262.

SUSAN - Two year old great cat.

She is very affectionate, litter box trained, and is good with other cats and dogs. She is quite talkative. 828.586.5647 CUDDLES - Female, Terrier/ Hound mix. She got her name because she likes to cuddle. She is very friendly with people and gets along well with other dogs She is white with brown spots.

Cuddles is 2-3 years old and weighs 26 pounds. She is making progress on being housebroken. Call 828.226.478.

ONLINE AUCTION 39+/- Lots Nov. 20-28. 249+/Lots in FL, GA, SC, NC, TN, VA. Tranzon Fox, NCAF4953.

Tranzon.com. 804.288.7177 ABSOLUTE REAL ESTATE AUCTIONSat. Nov. 24 at 11am. Lumberton, NC. Free Lunch. 10% BP. Small & Large Lots. 110 Acres. NCLN858. see www.meekinsauction.com OWNER WILL FINANCE. Bank or seller won’t finance? We help! No qualifying. No credit! Low down. Call Today! 1.800.563.2734. kanthony@cigrealty.com

ANIMAL COMPASSION NETWORK Pet Adoption Events - Every Saturday from 11a.m. to 3p.m. at Pet Harmony, Animal Compassion Network's new pet store for rescued pets. Dozens of ACN dogs, puppies, kittens and cats will be ready to find their permanent homes. The store also offers quality pet supplies where all proceeds save more homeless animals. Come see us at 803 Fairview St. (behind Province 620 off Hendersonville Rd), visit www.animalcompassionnetwork.org, or call 828.274.DOGS.

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OAKEY - Domestic Shorthair cat – black. I was born in February 2012, so right now I’ve got a great mix of still having my kitten-y playfulness and energy, but am also developing some maturity to balance it out. I’m a very cute and loving fellow. $100 adoption fee, Animal Compassion Network 258.4820 animalcompassionnetwork.org.

BRUCE MCGOVERN A Full Service Realtor shamrock13@charter.net McGovern Property Management 828.283.2112.

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VISIT ARF ON SATURDAYS 1-3 To register for November 12th low-cost spay/neuter trip.

ARF (HUMANE SOCIETY OF JACKSON COUNTY) Holds rescued pet adoptions Saturdays from 1:00 - 3:00 (weather permitting) at 50 Railroad Avenue in Sylva. Animals are spayed/neutered and current on shots. Most cats $60, most dogs $70.

Preview available pets at www.a-r-f.org, or call foster home.

LIL HONEY - Silky Terrier Mix dog – tan/fawn. I am a cute little adult gal who is ideal for someone who wants a companion to dote on. Even though I can be shy at first, I warm up quickly and want to be in your lap or with you at all times. I am fine with cats but have a hard time sharing attention with another dog. $125 adoption fee, Animal Compassion Network 258.4820 animalcompassionnetwork.org.

MOLLY - Domestic Shorthair cat– tortoiseshell. I am about 4 years old and I’m a sweet girl who lost her owner. I readily greet new people, and love to cuddle. MOLLY'S ADOPTION FEE IS SUBSIDIZED BY A GENEROUS DONOR AT A MUCH REDUCED COST.

WESTERN NC MTN Log Cabin on 1.6 level acres. $137,900. Hdwd floors, stone fpl, 2bdrm 2ba, new appl, lg porches, add'l acreage available 828.286.2981.

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New book celebrates diversity and Biological Station

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George Ellison

n regard to floral diversity, the Southern Appalachian region is unsurpassed by any other temperate region in the world.

Whenever I’m conducting a plant identification workshop for the North Carolina Arboretum, Smoky Mountain Field School or other venue, I try to remember to mention nature gardens, plant nurseries, selfguided trails, natural history exhibits, etc., that might be of interest. At the head of my list is the Highlands Botanical Garden (HBG), which features 500 native moss, fern, grass, sedge, herbaColumnist ceous wildflower, vine, shrub, and tree species (approximately 350 of which are labeled).

Located near downtown Highlands, the HBG and adjacent Highlands Nature Center are part of the Highlands Biological Station, a research center of the University of North Carolina system administered by Western Carolina University. Founded in 1962, the HBG is free and open every day of the year from sunrise to sunset.

In addition to commonly encountered species like, say, hepatica, jewelweed, galax, etc., the easy to walk trail system provides access to numerous species that are rare or

BACK THEN uncommon like, say, millipede liverwort, swamp pink, Gray’s lily, mountain bunchflower, Cuthbert’s turtlehead, grass-of-parnassus, Fraser’s sedge, shortia, Appalachian blue monkshood, shooting star, mountain camellia, devil’s walkingstick, gorge saxifrage, pinkshell azalea, piratebush, Blue Ridge St. John’s Wort, twinleaf, clammy locust, and Blue Ridge golden banner.

Those and perhaps 170 additional species are featured in a new book: Highlands Botanical Garden: A Naturalist’s Guide (Highlands Biological Station, 2012; 155 pages; quality binding and paper; $25) — with text by James T. Costa, photographs by Ralph M. Sargent; cover, maps, pen-and-ink drawings, and book design by Leslie Costa; botanical slide databasing and GPS mapping

by Max S. Lanning; and photographic and copy editing by Lydia Sargent Maculey.

Let’s cut to the chase. Highlands Botanical Garden is just terrific ... easily one of the finest general-interest plant guides published in the 2000s (i.e., this century).

Prefaced by a “Botany in the Blue Ridge” introductory note that traces the facility’s history and a biographical note about Ralph M. Sargent, the text is divided into the four zones accessed by trails, boardwalks, and formal walkways: (1) wetlands/lake zone (fern and bog plants); (2) old growth forest

zone (with rhododendron trail); (3) woodland zone (most everything from A-Z); and demonstration zone (described as “a scavenger hunt” that incorporates “speciality gardens” for mosses, grasses, rock ledge species and plants used by the Cherokees).

At the heart of the book are the exceptional species descriptions and photographs. Being an entomologist, Jim Costa — executive director of the station and author of the recently published Harvard University Press title The Other Insect Societies — is inordinately fond of insects; and thereby, a close observer the pollination-distribution strategies of plants. In other words, he’s attuned to the shapes, colors, fragrances, and the secret lives of plants in general. And he can write. Here’s something, for instance, you probably didn’t know about violets:

“Many ‘Viola’ species scatter their seeds through what is termed ‘ballistic dispersal,’ shooting their seed as far as 15 feet away, while others rely on ants … as a rule of thumb, long-stemmed violets have ballistic dispersal (the long petiole ensuring that the flower is clear of the leaves for long-range firing), while short-stemmed violets keep their flowers close to the ground for ready access by ants.”

Ralph Sargent, an English professor and self-taught photographer, first came to

Highlands in 1931 and was a HBG founder.

His slides have been collected by the Bartram Association in Philadelphia. They have been described as “scientific — and artistic — gems.” His daughter, Lydia, and Max Lanning examined thousands as highresolution scans before selecting the ones for this book, which Leslie Costa digitally edited.

Sargent’s subtle framing techniques and sense of light were perhaps earned by trial and error. But his sense of the “inherent disposition” each species in the plant world displays was no doubt innate. Image after image you say to yourself, “Yes, that’s what it’s like to be a sly old Jack-in-the-pulpit … or that’s exactly how pink lady’s-slippers huddle together in small groups … or that’s the way a flock of pinkshell azaleas perch on bare branches each spring ...”

The perfect gift for someone else or yourself. Copies can be purchased at local bookstores or ordered online via highlandsbiological.org/highlands-botanical-gardena-naturalists-guide/ George Ellison wrote the biographical introductions for the reissues of two Appalachian classics: Horace Kephart’s Our Southern Highlanders and James Mooney’s History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees.

Readers can contact him at P.O. Box 1262, Bryson City, N.C., 28713, or at info@georgeellison.com

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